In fact, the people who came to arrest Empress Lu were not sent by Xiang Yu, but the people below made their own decisions, and even Luo Xin was a little wrong, just like Luo's thousand-year-old glory, good family style, many things will not be done.

Xiang Yu is the same, what a proud person he is.

grew up listening to Xiang Yan and Xiang Liang tell him family stories since he was a child, eight hundred years of glory, and heroic ancestors.

He was a person who worshiped his ancestors very much, and these ancestors did not allow Xiang Yu to do such a thing.

Moreover, he is the Son of Heaven, above board, with the sharp blade in his hand, with the support of countless Chu people, in front of the princes of the world, by virtue of saving the world and destroying the tyrannical Qin, this indisputable merit, obtained the position of the Son of Heaven.

A person's character is created by nature and environment, all of Xiang Yu's actions will be bound by family and education, his failure to become a holy king is his wisdom limitation and sexual pattern limitation, he is not merciful to the world, this is his nature.

But he extended his love for the Xiang clan to the children of Jiangdong, and this was the influence of the family on him.

Besides, Xiang Yu is anxious in Qidi, where is the time to pay attention to Liu Bang's family, Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, is really strong, on the one hand, he fights a civil war with the nobles, and on the other hand, he stubbornly defends the city and does not surrender.

When Xiang Yu came to Linzi City, he found that Lu Cheng was simply a turtle with a shrunken head, no matter how he scolded, he didn't go out of the city, he just wanted to defend Linzi.

Faced with this situation, Xiang Yu's first thought was to intimidate the nobles in the city and make them surrender to the city, otherwise they would kill all the nobles in the city after the city was broken.

This method is really easy to use, there is a saying that if you defend it for a long time, you will lose, and the biggest pressure on the defending side is not on the outside, but on the internal unevenness.

No one knows if the others will be the first to surrender, sell the others for a good price, and exchange the lives of others for their own glory and wealth.

In later generations there was a word used specifically to describe this situation, called the prisoner's dilemma.

And Xiang Yu did what he said, he didn't have the courage to slaughter the entire city, but he still had the courage to kill all the nobles and heroes.

But the information sent back by the spies made Xiang Yu's whole body numb, "King, the nobles in Linzi City ......"

Seeing this, Xiang Yu said curiously: "What, could it be that the group of soft-boned nobles of the Qi Kingdom are willing to live and die with the Qi King City?" The widow prefers to believe that the Qin Dynasty will come back from the dead. ”

After speaking, Xiang Yu laughed directly, no nobleman was willing to die when the Qi State was destroyed, it was really unprecedented and unheard of.

The spy said: "Great King, it is the King of Qi who has killed all the nobles in Linzi City, and there is no nobleman in the entire Linzi City who is willing to open the city and surrender for our army. ”

Quiet!

Deathly silence!

In the entire Chu army's big tent, not only Xiang Yu, but all the generals and ministers did not hold back, and their direct expression management was out of control.

Xiang Yu opened his mouth and wanted to angrily reprimand the spies for talking nonsense, how could there be such a thing, such a thing as killing all the nobles, he, the son of heaven, would not dare to do it, how could the King of Qi dare?

But when he thought of it, the reason why he crusaded against Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, was because he wiped out all the high-ranking nobles, even including the marquis he feuded.

Xiang Yu had to believe that this was true, and couldn't help muttering: "What a madman!" ”

The nobles of the Chu State woke up like a dream, they really had a long insight, and there were such monarchs, but thinking about the old nobles of the Qi State, the nobles of the Chu State couldn't help but secretly say to themselves, it's really a good death.

Although the nobles of the Chu State also fought to the death with the royal family in order to protect their own interests, when the Chu State was destroyed, they still had the courage to accompany the Chu State to finish playing.

Not to mention Xiang Yu, when he heard that Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, had killed all the nobles in Qi, he was stunned at first, and then he smiled directly: "King Qi has really helped the widow, and when he captures Qidi, he won't have to do it himself." ”

If the nobles of the Qi Kingdom who had died under Lu Cheng's hands before knew that Xiang Yu also wanted to kill them, I really didn't know how they would feel.

No one will like the second ministers, even if they use them to get the world, they will still belittle them after all, which is determined by the monarch's eternal pursuit of loyal ministers.

"King, no one has opened the city to surrender, do you want to directly organize the siege?"

Hearing the suggestion of his subordinates, Xiang Yu was a little hesitant, in fact, a big city like Linzi is rarely taken directly by attacking the city, especially one by one, no matter how many troops can't resist such consumption.

Xiang Yu thought for a while and said: "Surround Linzi City first, don't attack the city directly, Lu Cheng has killed all the nobles in Linzi City, then Qi Di will be in chaos, where are these nobles so easy to kill, cut off the grain road of Linzi City, and see what Lu Cheng is going to do." ”

He sighed in his heart, it would be good if Luoling was here, just like when Qin was destroyed in the past, the wind was fierce, if it could be like the ancient Su King, it would attract wind, rain, thunder and lightning, and Linzi City would be broken overnight.

In Linzi City, Lu Cheng personally led the Qi army to guard Linzi City, and as for the other cities of Qi State, he relied on his cronies to deal with them.

It is true that there are many nobles who directly rebel, but Lu Cheng doesn't care, these two or five boys, if they don't rebel now, they will rebel when Xiang Yu comes.

As for the battle letter sent by Xiang Yu, it was directly thrown into the brazier by Lu Cheng.

He also smiled at his close ministers and said, "All of Xiang Yu's applications for invitations to battle have been rejected.

People are valuable in self-knowledge, although the widow dares to resist Xiang Yu, but the ability of the widow on the battlefield is indeed inferior to Xiang Yu.

Especially in the field war, Zhang Han's 400,000 army was defeated by Xiang Yu that year, and the widow saw with his own eyes how invincible Xiang Yu was on the battlefield, and he would only go to fight with Xiang Yu when he was sick.

The more he urged, the more the widow did not move, just guarding here, the grain and grass in Linzi City were enough to eat for three years, and there was no problem with the water source, no matter how strong Xiang Yu was, could he still directly collapse the city wall? ”

After speaking, he laughed directly, and his tone was quite proud, he didn't rebel against Xiang Yu as soon as his brain was hot, and he had a thorough understanding of Xiang Yu's advantages and disadvantages.

Xiang Yu cherishes the Chu people from Jiangdong under his command, and is absolutely reluctant to let these people come to attack the city and consume, "At most three months, Xiang Yu will either bypass Linzi City and go north, or his letter of persuasion will be sent, and you will wait and see." ”

Sure enough, as Lu Cheng expected, Xiang Yu only organized one siege, and the casualties of thousands of people made Xiang Yu directly rest the heart of the siege.

Xiang Yu's subordinates, whether they were generals or advisers, advised him, "King, where are the immortals in the war, and it is the most important thing to capture Linzi City now, otherwise the Qi State has always been behind him, which is a great harm to the Chu State." ”

But Xiang Yu just shook his head and said: "The widow you are talking about knows it, but no, the Xiang family has been in Jiangdong for hundreds of years, and the Jiangdong father and elder handed over these sons and daughters to the hands of the widow, if there are heavy casualties, will the widow still have the face to return to the ancestral land?"

If it is like the battle of Handan in the past, even if it is a battle, it is also a glory, but now that he is dying in the siege, he has suffered so many casualties without even seeing the face of the Qi people, if he really wants to capture this city, how many Jiangdong children will die?

Five thousand or ten thousand?

The ten lives of the Qi people are not as good as the one of the Chu people, so immediately go and arrest the Qi people and let them attack the city. ”

Xiang Yu had nothing to do in the face of Lu Cheng, he could only go north to collect the Qi army on the one hand, catch them and prepare to let these people be cannon fodder to attack the city, and then on the other hand, he stepped up his efforts to urge the kings to come to the Qi country, as an auxiliary attack, in fact, it was a consumable, and first consumed the Qi people's defense tools.

Then he sent a letter of persuasion to Lu Cheng, the king of Qi.

Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, proudly showed the ministers, "Look, as the widow expected, Xiang Yu sent a letter of persuasion to the widow. ”

Xiang Yu was not ready to kill the King of Qi, in Xiang Yu's eyes, the King of Qi was not bad, qualified to be his subordinate, he was ready to defeat the King of Qi completely, and then seal a virtual king like the King of Linzi.

Therefore, the letter of persuasion was written with sincerity, and analyzed the current situation for Lu Cheng, the king of Qi.

"You now own Linzi City, how strong Linzi City is, if you want to conquer it, I'm afraid you will have to pay tens of thousands of casualties.

Out of pity for the lives of the Qi and Chu people, he didn't want both sides to cause so many casualties, so he was unwilling to attack the city.

You're safe enough in the city, but you're still worried.

You have killed so many nobles, is there still anyone in the entire Qi land willing to obey you?

No one wants to obey you, and with the Chu army surrounding Linzi City, you won't get new food.

You must have enough food in your city to last three or even five years, but even if it doesn't go bad, what about three or five years later?

Can you stay in Linzi City for the rest of your life? This is for your concern.

I am willing to give you the throne of the king of Linzi, if you can make a great contribution, and then hand over the position of the king of Qi to you, I hope you can think about it. ”

Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, looked at the letter and knew that what Xiang Yu said was no problem, the Chu army could really be surrounded for several years, and the Chu State was behind him, and there was no pressure on logistics at all.

But Lu Cheng, the king of Qi, did not agree, he recalled his previous days in Zhaocheng, and then looked to the west, and secretly said in his heart: "Will that Han king be willing?" The widow does not believe it. ”

Xiang Yu didn't react when he was rejected, he thought that Qi King Lu Cheng was just not very sober in his brain, as long as it took a while, he would agree to recognize the reality.

So Xiang Yu stumbled in Qidi in vain, he had no idea that Liu Bang had solved Guanzhong at a very fast speed.

The general trend of the world has changed unexpectedly.

It wasn't until Liu Bang began to contact the princes who were dissatisfied with him and wanted to jointly crusade against him that he got the news.

Xiang Yu was naturally shocked and angry, completely unaware of why the two kings he had divided in Qin Land would be defeated so quickly.

This completely disrupted his arrangement, and before Kanto could be resolved, Guanzhong had already been unified!

"Liu Ji!"

Xiang Yu roared angrily, and then glanced at Linzi City with some unwillingness, "Withdraw!" ”

Qi State can't take care of it now, anyway, now that Qi State is in chaos, it is not easy for Lu Cheng to solve it, and it is the top priority to solve Liu Bang now.

(End of chapter)