Under the city of Julu, Wang Li did not give up the siege at all, he commanded the Qin army to attack many times, but has not captured the city, one day to organize a death squad to attack the city, and also posted a notice in the camp saying: 'Whoever can kill Zhao Xie's head will be rewarded with 500 taels of gold, and those who can win Zhang Er's head will be rewarded with 10,000 taels of gold. When the generals read the notice, they asked Wang Li in confusion, "Why did the general turn the bounty upside down?" Wang Li asked how to turn it upside down. The generals said: "Zhang Er is a minister, Zhao Xie is a king, why is the courtier's bounty more than the master's?" Wang Li smiled: "The thieves have been able to maintain until today because of Zhang Er." When the first emperor was alive, he didn't dare to despise this thief, and once offered a reward of 10,000 gold for his head in Daliang City, not to mention now! Although Zhao Xie is the master, he is just an incompetent person, and once he leaves Zhang Er and the others, he will be easily caught. The generals all agreed.

The Qin army besieged the city for almost three months, and during these three months, the Zhao army in the city paid a heavy price: they wanted to resist the Qin army, and when the arrows were fired, they splashed the besieging Qin army with millet porridge. When the grain was finished, it was sprinkled with boiling water, and in any case stubbornly resisted, and later slaughtered the cattle to satisfy their hunger, and forced the people to pay the grain. The people fed on the bark of trees without food, and all the bark in the city was eaten up, and then there was a phenomenon of cannibalism. But in this situation, the Zhao army still insisted on fighting, and they repelled the Qin army's attacks again and again with a fearless spirit. To this day, hundreds of Zhao troops have died in battle and starved to death.

King Zhao and Zhang Er were panicked all day because Chen Yu did not come to relieve the siege. Recently, I heard that the coalition forces have come to Julu, but they dare not fight with Wang Li, the Qin army still besieges the city like an iron bucket, and I also heard that the Chu army has also crossed the Zhanghe River, but I can't expect them to attack the Great Wall army? Could it be that Chu Jun is also afraid of Wang Li? If even the Chu army didn't dare to attack Wang Li, then who else would dare to come and fight the Qin army? In the past three months, Zhang Er and Zhao Wang were much haggard because of the high level of tension and panic. Especially Zhang Er, because of excessive anxiety every day, his hair is gray. One day, he couldn't hold on anymore, so he crawled on a few cases and fell asleep groggyly.

"Report! Prime Minister, the Qin army is attacking the city again! Zhang Er was suddenly awakened, so he ran out of the gate of the mansion in a panic, came to the city to watch, and found that a Qin army was attacking the city, Zhang Er immediately ordered the sergeant to light a fire and boil water. After a while, the Qin army set up a ladder and began to attack the city, and the Zhao army splashed it with boiling water, and the Qin army was so scalded that the ghost cried wolf, and the battle ended after half an hour. At dusk, the Qin army launched a new offensive, this time more fierce than during the day. Zhang Er continued to command the battle, and there was not much time, and Sima Mao ran in a panic to report that someone was privately talking about surrendering the Qin army. Zhang Er was shocked when he heard this, so he and Sima Mao came to the city to inspect, and sure enough, they found that someone took the lead in coaxing, and said something to give up resistance and confuse the army. Zhang Er was furious, and ordered Sima Mao to behead the heckler immediately. Zhang Er was afraid of provoking a military mutiny, so he said sternly: "Chu General Xiang Yu has come to Julu and is preparing to attack the Great Wall Army, it is a matter of time before the siege is lifted, you must hold on!" If Zhao is saved, I will write down your merits for generations to pass on to the descendants of Zhao for generations to come, and the people will definitely remember you! But if anyone demotes the Qin army and falls into infamy, your parents will suffer with it, it's not worth it! These words really worked, and they temporarily stabilized the morale of the army. The soldiers shouted in unison: "Swear to defend Zhao to the death, never surrender!" Zhang Er asked everyone to add a few more big woks to the city, and continued to light the fire and boil the water, the black smoke billowed and the morale was greatly increased. The soldiers continued to splash the besieging Qin army with a big scoop of boiling water, and the Qin army's death squad could not attack the city, and the battle did not stop until dark.

In Julu City, there was already a scene of disastrous, those soldiers who were wounded by the crossbowmen of the Qin army were bandaged and wailing in pain, and the uninjured sergeants were also lying on the head of the city exhausted and gasping for breath, looking really tired. At this time, the time for dinner had long passed, and the king of Zhao and his ministers had eaten only some dregs and soybeans, and then came to inspect the city. When King Zhao saw that the crippled and sick soldiers were eagerly eating the corpse of a dead sergeant, he retched a few times, and then hurried back to the palace in fright. Zhang Er was the only one left in the city, and he was very sad when he saw these tragic scenes. He had sent people many times to urge Chen Yu to come and relieve the siege, but Chen Yu did not take any action, and Zhang Er was worried that if Wang Li launched another attack, the city would fall, and both he and King Zhao might die. Zhang Er thought of this, and saw the black Qin army under the city, so he was so nervous that he stood there motionless like a puppet.

I don't know how long it took, but suddenly someone came to report that King Zhao had invited him to discuss the matter. Zhang Er came to the palace. But this time King Zhao's attitude was very bad, and when he saw Zhang Er, he said angrily: "Prime Minister, Prime Minister, what is the relationship between you and Chen Yu?" Other countries don't save them when they see death, because we have no favor for them, but Chen Yu and you are friends with each other? You used to be friends in life and death, and it is really unreasonable that he has not come to relieve the siege for a long time? Let's just say that he didn't come to save the orphan, didn't he come to save you, the prime minister? When Zhang Er heard King Zhao's reproach, he was ashamed and said, "What the king said is that it is the minister who is wrong. I will send someone to take advantage of Chen Yuxiao now and order him to come and relieve the siege immediately. If he doesn't come this time, I'd rather cut off his kindness with him! Zhang Er said very simply, so he immediately wrote a letter, sent the deputy generals Zhang Huang and Chen Ze to take the letter, and then went out of the city to ask Chen Yu for help. The two accepted the task with great righteousness. So he was neatly draped, Tigo got on his horse, and then opened the city and struggled to break through. The two of them shook the ground, fought hard, and finally stained their blood-stained clothes, broke out of the encirclement, and then galloped straight towards Chen Yu's camp. At this time, Chen Yu was writing letters to the generals of various countries in the Zhao camp, preparing for the battle tomorrow morning, when he suddenly saw the two of them coming to the camp, he was surprised and happy, and asked how they broke through. Zhang Huang and Chen Ze talked about the situation in the city and the breakthrough process, and then took out Zhang Er's letter for Chen Yu to see. Chen Yu hurriedly opened the blood book and saw that it read:

I was close friends with the general, and I vowed to live and die together and share weal and woe. Now that King Zhao and I are trapped together, it has been almost three months, and the city will be breached at any time, not to mention that the city has long been out of food, and the king and I only eat some dregs and soybeans to satisfy our hunger, and we are really living like a year. In order to save food for the soldiers, the people gnawed up all the bark. The soldiers are desperately defending the city, and they are already grabbing and eating the dead corpses, and the actual situation has exceeded people's imagination. Now that the king and I have pinned all our hopes on the general, if you still remember the old alliance, please lead your army tonight to relieve the siege. Tonight is not coming, I am willing to cut off the favor with the general, and never entangle, please think twice!

After Chen Yu read the letter, he cried bitterly: "It's not that I forgot my old vow!" It's not that I didn't go to save the king and the prime minister, but it was because of the lack of troops! If you use your current strength to break the siege, it's like hitting a stone with an egg, driving a sheep and feeding a tiger, what's the point? Zhang Huang and Chen Ze said anxiously: "According to the general's opinion, the king and the prime minister will definitely die?" Chen Yu said: "That's not the case. The army of the state of Chu has reached Julu, and their general has agreed with me to attack the Qin army tomorrow to relieve the siege of Julu, and asked me to contact the generals of various countries tonight and assemble in Thorn Plains tomorrow. The purpose is to clamp down on Zhang Han first, and then attack Wang Li. Please believe me, if the Chu army wins, the siege of Julu will be solved, so I can't die tonight, this is also carrying out the orders of the general of Chu, please understand!"

Zhang Huang cried bitterly: "Zhao Guo is in danger, if Wang Li attacks the city again tonight, Zhao Guo will be finished, how can he wait until tomorrow?" Please go to the rescue of the king and the prime minister tonight, I would rather be the vanguard! Chen Yu said: "Don't force me, as the saying goes, 'if you can't bear it, you will make a big plan', we all died in battle tonight, there is no meaning?" The two repeatedly begged Chen Yu to send troops. Chen Yu just didn't agree. Chen Ze said angrily: "In this case, please allocate some soldiers and horses to the two of us, and we will go to save the prime minister and the king, even if we are fighting to the death, we must also rescue them!" Chen Yu said: "It's okay to divide the troops, but if the two of them die in the first place, what credit is there?" The two of them said righteously: "Don't ask for credit, just want to die without regrets!" Chen Yu was full of shame, and only divided 5,000 soldiers, and let the two go to die.

When Wang Li saw Chen Ze and Zhang Huang breaking out, he hurriedly transferred Meng Fang, Han Zhang, Li Yu, Zhou Xiong, Wang Guan and other fierce generals and said: "General Zhao must have gone to move troops, we are waiting here, and we can't let them enter the city in a majestic manner." The crowd said yes. Wang Li withdrew half of the Qin camp and ambushed the soldiers and horses on the periphery of the camp. In less than half an hour, Chen Ze and Zhang Huang really led the troops back. Wang Li deliberately put them into the camp and then slaughtered them from all sides. In the end, there was a big battle between the two sides, poor Zhang Huang and Chen Ze were loyal, but because they were encircled, they fought for a long time, and they failed to defeat the Qin army, nor could they enter the city, and finally all the 5,000 soldiers were buried in the Qin camp and died heroically. The Qin army won a great victory, and Wang Li led them to happily return to the camp to celebrate. There are poems sighing for the two generals, Zhang Huang and Chen Ze:

The husband sees death as if he were at home, and the righteousness is awe-inspiring.

Although the pebbles did not touch, Chen Yu should be ashamed.

Chen Yu was very sad when he learned that Zhang Huang, Chen Ze and the 5,000 Zhao troops were all killed in the Zhao camp, and cried a lot, and then came to the coalition army camp with Zhang Er's son Zhang Ao to convey Xiang Yu's orders respectively.

Zhang Er climbed the city tower and looked at the east carefully, hoping that Chen Yu would come to his rescue. In the middle of the night, I heard a shout of killing from the northeast, and concluded that Chen Yu had sent troops to rescue, so he said to the left and right: "I know that General Chen Yu will not sit idly by and not help, and now it's finally here!" After speaking, he and King Zhao went up to the city to watch. But after looking at it for a long time, there was no sound, and the Qin army still surrounded the city like an iron bucket. Zhang Er's heart went up and down, and he didn't know what the reason was. King Zhao said angrily: "This must be Chen Yu who withdrew the sergeant again." Zhang Er was furious in his heart, so he said to King Zhao: "Chen Yu didn't save him when he saw death, he was actually an ungrateful person." The minister will never meet that kid again, if he wants to meet, he will meet with a sword! ”

Wang Li was chatting and laughing with the soldiers in the camp, when someone suddenly came to report that Xiang Yu, the deputy general of the Chu State, had killed the general Song Yi and had crossed the Zhanghe River, and had robbed the army rations when it was dark. Wang Li was thinking about revenge because he was defeated by Pei Gong and Peng Yue in Juyeze, and now he heard that the Chu army had robbed the military rations, so he said angrily: "What is Xiang Yu? How dare you get so fat? There was a civil servant named Shi Hua, who was very knowledgeable, so he said to Wang Li: "Xiang Yu is the grandson of Xiang Yan, the former Chu general, and the nephew of Xiang Liang. A month ago, the shepherd boy King Chu Huai had worshiped Song Yi as a general, and Xiang Yu as a deputy general to prepare to rescue Zhao, but Song Yi did not dare to come to Hebei, so he parked his army in Anyangyi, Chengwu County, Dongjun County, for 46 days. didn't want Xiang Yu to be eager to fight, so he killed Song Yi in a fit of anger, and came to rescue Zhao as a general. Wang Li laughed and said: "Before an army like this rises, the army that is in internal chaos must be the pawn of the collapse, how can it fight against my tiger and wolf army?" I didn't expect Xiang Yu to be Xiang Yan's grandson, Xiang Yan was killed by my ancestors, and now his grandson is here to be slaughtered again? It seems that the descendants of their old Xiang family are all going to die at the hands of our old Wang family. Hahaha! Wang Li's laughter also caused a loud laugh from the soldiers of the Qin army.

At this time, a sergeant came in and said, "Report to the general, there is a strange man who says that he has something important to see you." Wang Li let him in and speak. After a while, the sergeant led a man in. Everyone looked carefully, and saw that this person was indeed strange: curly hair with a beard, deep eyes and a high nose, yellow and ochre skin, and a red robe wrapped around his thin body. When he saw Wang Li, he said: "I heard that Xiang Yu has learned the skills of ten thousand invincibles, some time ago in the Dong'e War, he once defeated Zhang Han, this person should not be underestimated!" Wang Li didn't take Xiang Yu in his eyes, but now when he saw this person talking like this, he said angrily: "Who are you who are the demons, who dare to come here to disturb the hearts of our army?" The man talked eloquently: "I am not a demon, I am a monk of Tianzhu Kingdom, who came to your country to preach at the order of my Ashoka, and has traveled the world in a poor way, often eliminating disasters for others, and educating the world for more than ten years. Seeing that the general was in a catastrophe, he came to his rescue, and if the general could listen to my advice, he would definitely stay away from the scourge of death. Wang Li asked, "What advice does the gentleman have, please tell me about it?" Sri Fang said: "The poor way only talks about cause and effect. Wang Li asked what cause and effect were. Sri Rifang said: "This cause and effect means that there is a cause and there must be an effect, for example, if you plant a melon and get a melon, you will not get a bean." It means that whatever cause is created in every world, it will reap the result. Ordinary people who do evil will be rewarded, and those who sow good will be blessed. And so on, those who kill too heavily will have ominous! The king said, "What does this cause and effect have to do with me?" Sri Rifang said: "I heard that you have an old Chinese saying, 'Those who are generals will be defeated when they reach the third generation'. Counting from the general's grandfather, it has been three generations to the general. Why? It is because of the fact that as generals, they often suffer ominous because of excessive killing. That's why I'm worried about the retribution of the general's death! Wang Li sneered: "Are you cursing me?" Sri said, "No, I'm here to save you." Wang Li asked, "What should I do?" Sri Fang said, "If you can put down the butcher's knife, you can become a Buddha immediately!" Wang Li asked what the Buddha was. Sri said, "A Buddha is a person who understands the truth of the world. Wang Li said: "My ancestors have been generals for generations, and they all know the principle of loyalty to the country, I just understand people, and I am also a Buddha." Sri Fang said: "The general understands small truths, not big ones. My great truth can make you transcend life and death, have no troubles, and regard fame and fortune as a passing cloud! Wang Li smiled: "You mean to let me give up the battle and travel the world with you?" Sri Fang said: "Stop killing, but save your life, I am indeed here to save you, listen or not, it depends on fate." Wang Li laughed and said: "How unreasonable, I was born and died for the country, but you said such irrelevant things, what a foreign madman!" So he ordered the sergeant to imprison the man, and see what he had to say.

After a while, the sergeant came running to report that the strange man had crossed the camp through the wall and walked away as if he were walking on the ground. Wang Li was so shocked that he wanted to send someone to arrest him. Shi Hua hurriedly said: "General, no." I heard that this man had indeed been to Xianyang, and he also lobbied the First Emperor for this remark, and the First Emperor regarded him as a heretic and imprisoned him in a cell. But that night, a golden-armored god smashed the prison door and rescued all 18 of them. When the First Emperor saw that they were all strange people, he treated them with courtesy, and gave them money and goods, and let them travel far away. There are so many things in the world, and there are all kinds of things, so why should we be serious? But we are soldiers, and soldiers should take their lives to defend their families and the country, even if they die, what regrets do they have? Wang Li thought so, and did not send anyone to chase after the Tianzhu monks.

At this time, another sergeant came to report, saying that Zhang Han had personally gone to repair the Yongdao, and he also asked the general to guard against Xiang Yu's night attack. Wang Li laughed and said: "I, Wang Li, led a large army, galloped across the desert, and how many Rong chiefs and generals have been killed. This Xiang Yu is just a little Nanban, what's so scary? When he comes, I'll tear him apart!" Rest well, and tomorrow morning, launch an attack on the giant deer! ”