Pei Gong sent away Zhao Gao's envoy in Wancheng, and then discussed with the generals: "Zhao Gao sent someone to contact him so quickly, which shows that he really has the intention of killing the second world." "People think it's a possibility. Xiao He said: "In this way, Pei Gong should sit in front and discuss the matter of capturing Wuguan, and this rebellion in the rear should be pacified by me." Pei Gong was very surprised, so he asked him how many soldiers and horses he needed. Xiao He said: "As long as Mr. Li accompanies him, and sends another general, three or five thousand soldiers and horses are enough, and I promise to calm down the chaos within ten days." Pei Gong said yes again and again, and asked Fan Xu to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to help Xiao He go to quell the rebellion. Pei Gong then sat in Wancheng and calmly discussed with Mr. Zifang about the capture of Wuguan.

Xiao He received the general's order and set off. After walking a short distance, someone suddenly came to report, saying that Mr. Li had left without saying goodbye and had disappeared. When Fan Xu heard this, he laughed and said, "This old guy must have run home to live a comfortable life because he was too hard in the army!" Xiao He smiled and didn't answer. There have long been horses reported to Huyang City. When Mei Wei heard that Xiao He and Fan Hao were leading 5,000 men to suppress it, she laughed and said, "It's just too unserious!" "Immediately discuss the battle with the subordinate general Gengsheng.

It turns out that this Mei Kai is not an idle person, and he is still a descendant of King Goujian of Yue. In 355 B.C., after the defeat and killing of the Yue King Wujiang, the Yue people fled from then on, and many children of the family fled to live in the coastal area south of the Yangtze River. Later, in order to avoid the Chu people, a group of Yue people came to Gao Township in Wuxi, Jiangsu, because this place is rich in plum blossoms, they changed their surname to Mei and became the ancestor of Mei. By the end of the Warring States Period, one of these people formed Meiman (Meishanman), which was active in Qimen (now Qimen County, Huangshan City, Anhui) and the Anhui and Jiangxi regions around Guganyue. Later, Mei Hong's father moved to Yugan Anle Township (now Yugan Meigang Township) to settle down, and Mei Hong was born in Meigang Village, Meigang Township.

Mei Li has been burly and handsome since he was a child, and his arm strength is outstanding. After the unification of the Qin State, he led a group of men and horses to follow the then King of Yue to Nanhai (present-day Guangdong) through Liling, Hunan, and lived in Tailing (after Mei Hong's death, later generations changed the name of Tailing to Meiling), and then recruited people, played soldiers, and moved with cameras. There is a local righteous man named Yu Sheng, the brothers have thousands of people according to the mountain as the king, because of the admiration of the name of Mei Kai, they attract the people to belong. Mei Kai was overjoyed, and worshiped Yu Sheng brothers as deputy generals, respectively according to the two mountains of Tailing, and the descendants called these two mountains respectively Da Yu Ling (Yu Sheng is guarded) and Xiao Yu Ling (Yu Sheng is guarded), and the strong men in the Lingnan area have thrown themselves into Mei Kai's subordinates, and there were 6,000 soldiers at that time. There is a river named Zhenshui at the foot of Tailing Mountain, which flows into Nanxiong in Guangdong in the south, and then flows into the Beijiang River through Shaoguan, flows to Guangzhou and joins the Pearl River, and flows directly into the sea. Due to this geographical situation, Tailing became a military fortress. Mei Hong inspected the terrain, and built a city on the water, supported the troops to defend, the momentum was great, and the name was "Mei Hong City". Later, Fanyang of the Qin State ordered Wu Rui to come to subdue Mei Hong, because Wu Rui's mother, Mrs. Mei, was Mei Hong's aunt and grandmother, and Wu Rui's local prestige was extremely high, so Mei Li defected to Wu Rui as a senior general.

After Chen Sheng's uprising, Wu Rui first raised the banner of anti-Qin, and also actively encouraged Mei Kai to respond to the uprising. According to the record of "Zhili Nanxiongzhou Chronicle", "Baiyue rebelled against Qin, pushed Xiongjie as the long, and everyone was virtuous, which was long." Mei Kai came to Baiyue on the order of Wu Rui, recruited troops, and actively prepared for war. Later, Mei Wei heard that Wu Rui supported Yingbu to join the anti-Qin team and follow Xiang Yu to fight, so he left Yu Sheng's brothers to garrison Tailing, and personally came to discuss major matters with Wu Rui. When Wu Rui heard that Mei Kai was coming, she was very happy and went ten miles out of the city to greet her. Wu Rui and Mei Li met very happily and talked very speculatively. Wu Rui financed Mei Kai's money, food, weapons, and men and horses, and told him to go north to attack Qin. Mei Kai then returned to Tailing to gather soldiers and horses, and obtained 30,000 Cantonese troops. When everything was ready, he waved his army north and came to Nanyang. At this time, Pei Gong had already captured the entire territory of Nanyang and was preparing to enter the customs. In order to attract Pei Gong's attention, Mei Kai raised the banner of rebellion, and after capturing Huyang, he threatened to attack Wancheng. For a while, Nanyang was very shaken.

Xiao He is a shrewd person, he has collected this information, and he came to Huyang with Fan Xu. Mei Kai stationed 5,000 soldiers in the city, and stationed 25,000 soldiers outside the city, which looked very large. Fan Hao said: "Where are there so many bird soldiers? Xiao He smiled: "Are you afraid?" Fan Xu said: "I'm not afraid of Yang Xiong, am I still afraid of him?" I'm going to cut off his dog's head right now! "Let's go ahead and challenge it immediately. Mei Li heard that Fan Hao was challenging outside the camp, so he killed him. Xiao He saw Mei Li dressed up very chic: his golden crown was inlaid with pearls from the South China Sea, his winged silver armor was inlaid with a flying colorful phoenix, the splendid robe was embroidered with dazzling vermilion birds with colored threads, the chain armor was shining with golden light, the dark clouds were black and translucent, the beast was red and yellow, the red-maned horse was fat and strong, and the bronze halberd was dancing in the sun, and the whole person looked really extraordinary, invincible. Xiao He exclaimed: "Baiyue also has such a romantic character!" Fan Hao was different, and scolded and said, "Hey, little Nanban! I think you are a yang virgin father alive, and you just have a façade. Mei Li said angrily: "Bold villager, I am a descendant of Goujian, the king of Yue, how dare you say this? Fan Xu also said angrily: "Nameless rats! Pretending to be a famous family, I really ate the heart of a leopard and a bear, and dared to copy my brother's back road? Mei Wei said: "Let Liu Bang come in person, you are not my opponent!" Fan was furious and immediately stepped forward to fight. Mei Kai and Fan Hao fought each other, and the two of them fought back and forth, killing fifty rounds in front of the battle, regardless of winning or losing. Xiao He saw that Mei Kai was strong in martial arts, so he hurriedly ordered Ming Jin. When Mei Kai saw the Chu army withdrawing his troops, he couldn't stop laughing.

Fan Xu returned to the army and said to Xiao He: "Why did my brother withdraw the troops?" If I had a few more rounds, I'd have caught it. Xiao He said: "I think Mei Kai's martial arts are not under you, so don't be impatient." When the battle is coming tomorrow, I will persuade him to surrender first, if he can surrender to us, won't Pei Gong have another general? ”

The next day, Xiao He and Fan Hao once again led the army to challenge in front of Mei Kai's camp. Mei Kai saw that the Chu army was coming again, so he beat the drum to meet the battle and killed out of the camp. Xiao He stepped forward and said: "I heard that General Mei seized South Vietnam, and he is also a hero. Now that all the heroes in the world have risen up against Qin, why don't you destroy Qin but help Qin? Mei Hong smiled and said: "I was ordered by Lord Wu Rui to serve the Qin State loyally, unlike you, who used to be Qin officials, but now they all betray the Qin State, and they are not faithful people!" Xiao He said: "The Qin State seized the world with violence, how many grudges did it have with the Six Kingdoms, and now it is implementing X politics, which has made the people's grievances boiling, but you are serving the tyrannical state, isn't it helping the abuse?" Mei Wei said: "No matter how much the king is not the king, he is the master, and no matter how reasonable the minister is, he is a servant." Since ancient times, the following are reversed, and the ruler is spurned by people, don't you understand this truth? Xiao He said: "Didn't the general hear about Shang Tang and King Wu?" Besides, I heard that Mr. Wu Rui had already rebelled in response to the Chu State, but why did you stick to the rules? Treat righteousness as dung? Mei Hong smiled: "That's just what you said, but I can't listen to it!" Fan Hao said angrily: "Brother don't talk to him!" Don't he know what kind of ball the second is? If you insist on going your own way now, it means that this bastard is blind. Mei Li was furious and said: "You are all Sishang Diao people, if you want to enter the martial arts, you must pass my pass first!" Fan Xu said angrily: "I'll fight you for another hundred rounds!" Mei Kai also said angrily: "As long as you win the guy in my hand, I will enter the customs with you!" Fan said: "Don't treat your speech as a fart!" If I don't catch you today, Lao Fan will be disarmed and returned to the field! Fan Hao said that he would kill again. Mei Kai also did not show weakness and greeted him with a halberd. The two fought fiercely in front of the battle, and the two sides fought until dark, and then they each withdrew their troops.

Fan Hao came back and said, "Brother, this thing seems to have eaten pig iron, and it has some strength in its hands!" I didn't catch it today, what should I do? Xiao He said: "Don't worry, don't worry, I'll wait for one more person." Fan Hao asked who he was waiting for. Xiao He said: "Mr. Li. Fan Xu said very contemptuously: "He has already slept with his mother-in-law in his arms, what are you waiting for him to do?" Besides, what is the use of him coming? This war is a work of strength, and it is not a scolding of people? Even if he can scold, can he scold others to death? Xiao He said with a smile: "Brother Xian, don't talk nonsense, Mr. Li went to carry out my mission and didn't go home." Fan Hao didn't know what Xiao He asked Li Shiqi to do, and when he saw that Xiao He didn't say anything, he didn't ask any more.

On the second day, Fan Xu led the military horses to the front of the camp to challenge. Mei Kai couldn't hold on. Fan Xu insulted him in every way under the city. Suddenly, the door of the camp opened, and thousands of armor soldiers poured out from inside, forming a rectangular battle formation in the dark, but the leaders were Yu Sheng and his younger brother Yu Pang. Mei Kai said loudly: "Fan Xu, if you can break my formation today, you will win?" Fan said: "Look at Fan Ye to give you a mess!" Xiao He stopped: "No, you can't break through." Fan said, "What should I do then?" Otherwise, you quickly send someone to Wancheng to transfer soldiers again. Xiao He said: "That's not necessary. Fan said hurriedly: "You only promised the eldest brother ten days?" This thing has a big posture, how can you accept it if you don't let it out? Xiao He said: "Don't worry, the person who surrendered him will definitely arrive today!" He said to Mei Kai: "General Mei, your formation is really powerful, let's go back and discuss it for the time being, and break the formation tomorrow, do you think it's okay?" Mei Li couldn't stop laughing. Fan Xu also felt inexplicable. So they gathered their troops and returned to their camps.

That night, Fan Xu was complaining, and suddenly a sergeant came to report, saying that the old military master Li had led a military master. Xiao He was overjoyed and said: "The people who surrendered General Mei are finally here!" He and Fan Hao hurried out to greet him. It turned out that Li Shiqi invited Master Wu Rui of Fanyang Ling. This person has always loved the people, has a very high prestige in the south, once supported his son-in-law Yingbu against Qin, and was Mei Kai's uncle, so when Xiao He left Wancheng, he secretly sent Li Shiqi to Fanyang to invite Lord Wu Rui.

This Wu Rui is not an ordinary person, now on the fourth floor of Tengwang Pavilion in Nanchang City, there is a huge painting of historical celebrities, which is Wu Rui, speaking of which he is still a descendant of Wu Wangfucha. In 473 B.C., the state of Wu was destroyed by the Yue Kingdom, and the king of Yue, Goujian, killed his husband, and his descendants scattered and took refuge. In 248 B.C., Wu Rui's father, Wu Shen, was demoted to Fanyang (now Poyang) and settled, and later moved to the southern foot of Longshan (now Shegeng Township), Shanxiang, Yugan County, where Wu Rui was born. Wu Rui has been very smart since he was a child, and when he was young, he liked to study the art of war. At the age of eighteen, he commanded more than 17,000 soldiers and horses, distributed in Poyang, Yugan, and Fuliang roads, and his troops were strictly disciplined and very popular with the people. Wu Rui's mother, Mei, was a virtuous and wise person, and suggested that the army should be hidden among the people, and agriculture and commerce should be prospered, so Wu Rui's troops developed rapidly, and its sphere of influence reached Qimen in Anhui in the north, the border of Jiangxi and Zhejiang in the east, Fujian in the south, and Duchang and Poyang in the west. Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries, and the Qin State was set up in Fanyang County, Jiangxi, and Wu Rui was recommended by the villagers as a county commander.

After Chen Sheng's uprising, heroes from all over the country defected to him, such as Wuzhu, the king of Minyue, and the king of the East China Sea, all of whom were descendants of Goujian, the king of Yue, and all of them led troops to Wu Rui, including LinkedIn, the leader of the Huainan Rebel Army. At that time, Yingbu already had a team of thousands of people, and Wu Rui married his daughter to him and sent him to attack Qin. Later, he instigated Mei Kai to help Chu attack Qin. But after Li Shiqi's arrival, Wu Rui knew that Mei Li not only did not help Chu but attacked Chu, and he didn't know what the reason was, so he immediately followed Li Shiqi to Nanyang.

At that moment, Xiao He saluted when he saw Wu Rui and said: "The old hero has come thousands of miles away, it's really hard!" Wu Rui said: "I heard in Fanyang that Peigong's soldiers and horses are about to reach Wuguan, and I am really happy." But Mr. Li came, and he said that Mei Kai had rebelled in Huyang, and the old man came immediately. General May is the grandson of his mother's family, and I think he must have something unspeakable. Xiao He listened to Wu Rui's words, and prepared to set up a banquet to entertain him. Wu Rui said: "Alas, the old man has really read a lot of successes and failures in half his life!" Now that the world has been suffering for a long time, I can't wait to see the people have a good life as soon as possible! If you don't have the heart to drink, now go and get down to business. "After that, I have to go to Mei Kai's military camp immediately. Xiao He said: "The old hero is so worried about the country and the people, I really admire. Wu Rui said with a smile: "It is precisely because of my old age that I have a lot of regrets, Lord Xiao is now assisting Liu Peigong to fight Qin, which is like Jiang Ziya assisting King Wu of Zhou to fight Qin!" He immediately got up and went to persuade Mei Kai to return to the Chu State.

Wu Rui came to Mei Kai's camp alone and shouted to open the door. Most of the sergeants guarding the gate knew General Wu, so they hurriedly reported to Mei Kai. Mei Hong heard that it was the old lord Lord Wu who arrived, so she hurriedly came out to greet her. Wu Rui entered the city and saw Mei Kai, and said: "Virtuous nephew, the Qin State has been cruel to the world for too long, and the righteous people in Shandong have all risen up against Qin. Now that Pei Gong is going to enter the customs, why are you stopping him? Mei Wei said very ashamedly: "Uncle Cousin blames me, I really want to attract Pei Gong's attention." In the past few days, I have been fighting with Fan Xu, just to attract Pei Gong to come, and I don't want to alarm you, I am really ashamed! Wu Rui said bitterly: "Virtuous nephew, now Pei Gong is under the order of King Chu Huai, hanging the people and killing the crime, and his ambition is in Guanzhong." Now that he has pacified the entire territory of Nanyang, he is about to attack Wuguan. Now you hurry up to him, and then hand over all the men and horses to Pei Gong's command, which will be a great time for you to build up your career in your life. If Pei Gong enters the customs and achieves great things, all your followers will be able to achieve fame and wealth for many generations, this is simply an unearthly strategy, why do you hesitate? Mei Wei said: "I originally wanted to meet General Liu, but now the leader is Xiao He, he is just a strategist!" Wu Rui laughed and said, "Do you know what kind of person this Xiao He is?" Mei said she didn't know. Wu Rui said seriously: "Young, you are still too young!" Mei Kai sincerely asked. Wu Rui said: "Liu Bang has two outstanding big men, one is the famous Zhang Liang, Zhang Zifang, the world knows him; The other one is Xiao He! I heard that when Liu Bang first raised the army, it was Xiao He who first proposed it. He was once recommended by the court officials to go to the Qin State to assist the First Emperor, but Xiao He had a unique vision and resolutely did not go to the Qin State to be an official. Later, he also told his friend Cao Shen that the Qin State would not last long. A few years have passed, Chen Wei was the first to attack, and then the people of the six countries rose up to rebel, and his words really came true, which shows that he does have a far-sighted vision! He and Zhang Liang are known as Liu Bang's left and right shares, the two go hand in hand, and now they are assisting Liu Bang, just like Fan Li and Wen Chong, who assisted Yue Wang Goujian in the past, their master and servant will succeed in a great cause! When Mei Li heard this, he suddenly realized: "My nephew is really eye-catching, and I immediately welcomed Xiao He into the city." Wu Rui was overjoyed.

Mei Kai opened the city gate to welcome the Chu army into the city, and then met Xiao He Dao: "Lord Xiao's name is shocking, and he is an outstanding contemporary talent, the villain is really blind, how offended!" Xiao He said: "General Mei returned to the Chu army, and my family Pei Gong has one more general, and I have to count on General Mei to enter the customs!" Mei Kai said: "Lord Domeng lifts up, and the last general is willing to serve the work of dogs and horses!" "Xiao He is overjoyed. Mei Kai beckoned everyone to feast and celebrate. During the banquet, Xiao He sincerely toasted Wu Rui and invited him to follow Pei Gong into the customs together. Wu Rui said: "I'm old, my body is not good, although I have the ambition to eliminate violence and peace, but I don't have the power of Lu Yang, it depends on your virtuous nephews to destroy the Qin State!" On the same day, he said goodbye to Xiao He. Xiao He didn't keep it, so he let him go back to Fanyang.

After Wu Rui left, Xiao He did not dare to delay, and immediately ordered the troops to march towards Nanyang. When everyone came to Wancheng, it was exactly ten days. Pei Gong listened to Xiao He's report, and saw that he had a general like Mei Kai and 30,000 sergeants, and he really didn't know how happy he was. At that moment, seeing that Nanyang had been completely pacified, he discussed with everyone about entering Wuguan. Suddenly, a sergeant came to report that a messenger had arrived. The ovary gave Pei Gong a look, and then walked out. Pei Gong sent a messenger to him. After a while, the envoy walked in, and he saw Pei Gong and said: "Your envoy, Mr. Ning Chang, is in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and the Prime Minister has already made a big plan to help the general enter the Guanzhong, and now he is just worried that the general will not carry out the agreement after entering the Guanzhong, so he specially ordered me to come and agree with the general to divide the specific matters in the Guanzhong equally." Pei Gongdao: "As long as the prime minister establishes great merit first, I will definitely give up half of the land to Prime Minister Zhao after entering the customs, so that he will always be rich and noble!" "The envoy must insist that Pei Gong divide the territory concretely, and he must swear to the heavens in order to rest assured. Pei Gong listened to the words of the envoy and said angrily: "What are you, dare to swear an oath with me!" "I drank the order and pushed it out left and right. The messenger was so frightened that he was pushed out by the armor.

The ovary was already waiting outside, and when he saw that the armor had pushed the messenger out, he stopped and said to the messenger, "Do you know why Pei Gong killed you?" The messenger was very frightened and said he did not know. The ovary said: "We have long known that the second emperor is dead, but you are lying here, so Pei Gong is angry. Now to tell the truth, has the prime minister killed the second emperor? Where is Lord Ningchang now? If you tell the truth, Pei Gong will be the first to give you an official rank after entering the customs! The envoy was shocked: "The Second Emperor is indeed dead, and Lord Ningchang is in the Prime Minister's Mansion." The envoy told him how the Huns invaded, and how Zhao Gao was in a hurry to kill the second. When the ovary heard this, he laughed and said: "If you go back now and tell your prime minister, just say that he has made meritorious contributions to the faint king, and Pei Gong will definitely not treat him badly after entering the customs." The messenger did not dare to say anything, and hurried away with his head in his arms.

The ovary came to see Pei Gong and told everyone what the messenger had said. When everyone heard the words of the ovary, they were all shocked, so they praised the ovary and said, "Mr. is really a god, as you expected!" "It turned out that Mr. Zifang watched the dry elephant a few days ago and saw the emperor star suddenly fall in the crape myrtle wall, so he concluded that the second was dead; Seeing that the entry and exit of Chenxing is always uncertain, this indicates that there is a war in the north, and it is concluded that the Huns have also invaded Qin; He also saw the False Arrow Meteor flying to the west, and concluded that the army of the princes would definitely conquer the Qin State. Seeing that the Qin State was in danger, it was a good time to enter the customs, so he persuaded Pei Gong to send troops quickly and capture Wuguan.