Luoyang, upper study.

Since Xiang Zheng's army moved Li Zuoche's army away with a radical strategy, and since Pi's successful crossing of the river, Xiang Zhuang's mood has been completely mobilized, and in the past few days, he has been eating and sleeping with Xiang He, Xiang Tuo, Bai Lixian and others in the study, discussing the military situation on the map, while waiting for the good news of Xiang Zheng's army.

However, the first thing that came was the mediocre defeat report.

After reading the Tang newspaper, Xiang Zhuang and Bai Lixian were quite calm, but Xiang He and Xiang Tuo jumped up angrily.

"Borrowing a knife to kill someone, Bi Shu is clearly borrowing a knife to kill someone!" Xiang Tuo said angrily, "He knew that Bai Mo was not easy to follow, why did he let the two old generals Huan Chu and Ji Bu chase after him?" chased and chased, why did you only let the two old generals bring 5,000 armor soldiers? Shangyong has an army of 200,000, why is Bishu only given to 5,000 people? ”

Xiang He and Bai Lixian looked at each other, Xiang Tuo really dared to say it.

"Zi Yan said carefully." Xiang Zhuang frowned and reprimanded, "The general is not that kind of person. ”

"What the king said is extremely true, the general sent Huan and Ji two old generals to lead troops to chase, it is also a common practice, the enemy army is defeated and does not chase, and the soldiers do not take it, as for only ordering the two old generals to lead the army of 5,000, it is really helpless, because the Han army abandoned the baggage and left, and the march was extremely fast, so only a small number of elite soldiers could catch up." Bai Lixian said this on his lips, but he never thought so in his heart.

Bai Lixian knew Bi Shu's thoughts very well, and Bi Shu's move had three major intentions: first, to take the opportunity to get rid of Huan Chu and Ji Bu, weaken the power of Xiang Yu or Xiang Zhi for the king, and further consolidate the royal power; second, through this defeat, he discredited himself, eliminated the influence of his undefeated military god, especially the doubts in the king's heart; Third, he deliberately created a contradiction with Xiang Zhi's system to lay the groundwork for one day to take up his post.

However, Bai Lixian knows better that Bi Shu's self-stigma is okay, but it is difficult to eliminate the doubts in the king's heart, you need to know that the king is also a person with excellent minds, how can he not guess Bi Shu's thoughts?

Xiang Tuowu's anger has not subsided. said angrily: "King, even if Bishu is not suspected of killing people with a knife, he has lost the battle this time, and he must be punished severely, at least he will be cut off from the title of Duke of Wu!" ”

Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said, "This matter will be talked about after the battle of Pinghan is over...... When Xiang Zheng appeared in front of the gate of Weiyang Palace surrounded by Gao Lang and hundreds of personal soldiers, he saw that the black and suppressed Chu army armor soldiers had surrounded the entire palace. Ladders, crashes and other equipment were transferred from outside the city, and teams of archers lined up on the periphery, apparently preparing to storm Weiyang Palace.

On the palace wall of Weiyang Palace, there are also Han army royal forests running back and forth, shouting.

From time to time, sparse arrows fell from the palace wall, but they were blocked by the heavy armor of the Chu army in the front team with a turret shield and a large shield.

It's all at this point, and everyone knows that Weiyang Palace can't hold it at all.

Liu Heng, the king of the Han Dynasty, stood on the archway of the palace under the support of the old general Mei Kai and the uncle and grandson of the right middle general of the imperial forest. Looking at the black and oppressive Chujia Wang Yang under the archway, his heart was gloomy, and Xianyang finally defended it. The Great Han Kingdom finally perished, and the inheritance handed over to him by his father was finally going to fall.

At this time, a loud voice suddenly came from the Chu army array outside the palace gate: "The prince of my Great Chu Kingdom has something to say, and Liu Heng, the king of Han, stepped forward to answer!" ”

When Liu Heng, Mei Kai and Uncle Sun Yan looked down, they saw that Chu Jia outside the palace gate had moved to both sides, and more than a dozen Chu generals walked out of the middle.

"The King. The last general will shoot this guy! Uncle Sun Yan said that he was about to draw his bow. …,

Liu Heng held down his uncle and grandson's hands holding the bow, shook his head at the old general Mei Kai, and then walked slowly to the archway, and said proudly to Xiang Zheng, the prince of Chu in front of the palace gate downstairs: "The widow is here, if you have something to say, just say it." ”

Xiang Zheng looked at the Han army archers holding bows and arrows on the archway. smiled indifferently and said: "King Han, there is no need for this prince to say more about the current situation, if you surrender by edict, it can save the soldiers and maids in the palace from death, and also save the people of Xianyang from the disaster of swords." If you insist on going your own way and resisting to the end, the entire Xianyang will be full of blood and corpses. ”

"Xiang Zhengxiao'er, we don't have a coward in the Han Kingdom!" Uncle Sun Yan said angrily, "If there is a kind of siege, if you can't kill you, this general will not be surnamed Uncle Sun." ”

Xiang Zheng's expression suddenly turned cold, and he asked, "King Han, is this really your reply?" ”

Liu Heng's face changed again and again, and finally he sighed, turned his head and instructed his uncle and grandson: "General uncle and grandson, open the palace gate to welcome the Chu army in." ”

After a while, the door of Weiyang Palace slowly opened.

Gao Lang swarmed in with the iron armor of the Chu army, only to see that all the royal forest guards and inner servants in the palace had gathered in the courtyard of the front hall, and the middle aisle was full of weapons thrown by the Han army.

After the safety in the palace was confirmed, Xiang Zheng brought his own soldiers into the palace.

Walking to the Wende Palace, Liu Heng, the king of Han, was already kneeling under the steps of the palace, holding the seal letter in both hands, and a large group of concubines and palace maids were kneeling behind him.

"King Han, please get up." Xiang Zheng stepped forward to take the letter and helped Liu Heng up.

When Xiang Zheng's gaze inadvertently swept over the face of Dou Yifang, who was kneeling behind Liu Heng, he couldn't help but pause slightly, and asked Liu Heng: "King Han, this is ......?"

Liu Heng's heart was bitter, and he said astringently: "It's the widow queen Dou clan." ”

"It turned out to be the queen." Xiang Zheng nodded at Dou Yifang, then turned back and instructed Gao Lang, "General Gao Lang, send more ironclad soldiers to strictly protect Weiyang Palace, especially to protect the safety of King Han and the harem concubines." ”

"Whoa!" Gao Lang responded violently, and responded to the order to the personal soldiers accompanying him, saying, "Pass the order to go down, seal the forbidden palace, without the order of the prince and the general, no one is allowed to enter and leave without permission, and those who violate the order will ...... Chop...... As soon as the surrender edict of Liu Heng, the king of Han, was issued, and the Han troops stationed at the gates of Xianyang surrendered one after another.

More than 5,000 Qiang soldiers who were responsible for attacking the west gate of Xianyang swarmed into the city, and after slaughtering dozens of barbarian tribes along the way, these Qiang soldiers had already become a murderous demon.

Almost from the moment of entering the city, the Qiang soldiers began to burn and loot frantically, for a while, the entire Xianyang Xicheng killing sound shook the sky, groups of Qiang soldiers with swords, guns and halberds, smashed open the door, climbed over the courtyard wall, they saw people to kill, saw things to rob, a little beautiful young lady is even more tragic on the street......

Pang Zheng was shocked and angry, and hurriedly found Xiang Zhi and said: "Shizi, we must stop these Qiang soldiers as soon as possible, and if we let them be slaughtered like this, the people of the entire Xianyang City will be killed by them!" ”

Xiang Zhi waved his hand and said disapprerovitically: "It's just some untouchables of the enemy country, and if you kill them, you will kill them." ”

"The son of the world is wrong in what he said!" Pang Zheng hurriedly said, "The king of Han has fallen, the Han kingdom has been destroyed, and these people are now the people of the Great Chu State, and they are no longer untouchables of the enemy country." ”

"Okay, Pang Zheng, you don't have to say more." Xiang Zhi frowned and said unhappily, "This son knows it in his heart. ”…,

When Pang Zheng wanted to persuade again, Xiang Zhi had already beaten his horse impatiently and left, and the dozen or so Qiang generals who accompanied him behind him turned their heads to look at Pang Zheng with unkind expressions, although Pang Zheng was the captain of the Qiang Guard, this Qiang soldier was nominally controlled by him, but along the way, Pang Zheng always advocated restraining the Qiang soldiers, while Xiang Zhi advocated indulging the Qiang soldiers, so the Qiang soldiers had already only obeyed Xiang Zhi's orders and abandoned Pang Zheng, the nominal commander of the Qiang soldiers...... As soon as Xiang Zheng turned out of Weiyang Palace, he met a bloody Sima from other departments.

"Prince, something happened!" Sima Chong Xiang Zheng of the other department waved his head and said urgently, "The Qiang soldiers who entered the city from the West Gate are wantonly burning and plundering in the West City of Xianyang, and the prince has even entered the Changle Palace with hundreds of people!" ”

"What? The second brother is just messing around! Xiang Zheng frowned, pointed to the blood stains on Sima Zhan's robe from other departments, and asked, "You were fine just now, what's going on?" ”

Sima of the other department said miserably: "Just now the last general tried to stop the Qiang soldiers from committing the murder, but these Qiang soldiers were fierce, and they launched an attack on the last general without saying anything, and dozens of soldiers who went with the last general were all killed, although the last general escaped by luck, but they were also cut by them more than a dozen times. ”

"How can this be true? It just doesn't make sense! Xiang Zheng was furious when he heard this, and immediately instructed Sima Dao of the other department, "You will gather a large army and give Xicheng to the prince to control, and if the Qiang soldiers dare to kill innocents indiscriminately, they will be destroyed on the spot!" ”

"Whoa!" Sima of the other department responded violently and went murderously.

Xiang Zheng shouted at the few Sima and military marquis who accompanied him: "You guys, go to Changle Palace with this prince!" ”

Changle Palace was originally the palace built by Xiao He for Liu Bang, and later Weiyang Palace was completed, Liu Bang moved to Weiyang Palace, Changle Palace became the east palace of the prince Liu Ying, and later Liu Heng ascended the throne, and there was no prince for the time being, Changle Palace became the dormitory of the Queen Mother Bo Ji, in addition to Bo Ji, there are hundreds of Liu Bang's concubines living in Changle Palace.

When Xiang Zheng led the troops to the Changle Palace in a hurry, he saw that the palace door was wide open, and there were several attendants lying on the steps, with blood stains on their bodies, and they had been angry for a long time. rq