Chen Ping returned home and secretly called a few of his henchmen to infiltrate the Chu camp, and distributed some gold to the low-level soldiers, asking them to spread rumors: "Zhong Liwu and Long He have been with King Xiang for a long time, and they can't be crowned king after many military exploits, so they have resentment and secretly destroy the Chu State with the Han Alliance." The news reached King Xiang's ears, and King Xiang really suspected Zhong Liwu and the others. Chen Ping also sent someone to falsely claim that Fan Zeng often sent envoys to see the king of Han, and King Xiang thought to himself: "Father Ya persuaded me to kill the king of Han several times, and persuaded me to attack Han." He and the king of Han have become enemies, how can they oppose and reason? So he refused to believe it.

Chen Ping couldn't think about it, and one day he suddenly reported the arrival of King Xiang's envoy. Chen Ping was overjoyed, and hurriedly whispered to the King of Han: So so. King Han nodded. When the king of Han saw the envoy of Chu, he sent someone to accompany him and stayed in the pavilion for dinner. The Chu envoy went to the pavilion to rest for a while, and suddenly saw that everyone outside the door was carrying more than ten tributes to the entrance. In the tribute, countless delicacies from the mountains and seas, cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks, and all kinds of fine wines, plus cups, plates, and spoons, each piece is exquisite. The envoy of Chu thought to himself: "This banquet must be set up for me, because I am the envoy of King Xiang." The Chu envoy was thinking happily, when he suddenly saw the officials carrying everything out in a panic, and another table of food arrived. Chu used his eyes to glance and saw that the dishes were all greens, radish, and tofu, and the rice was also extremely rough, and the fish was missing, which was a world of difference compared to the previous banquet. Chu Envoy couldn't help but rush up angrily. I wanted to refuse not to eat it, but I was hungry, so I had to eat a little indiscriminately. Unexpectedly, the vegetables smelled stinky, the wine was sour, and the rice was rotten. The official showed a look of embarrassment, and then said hesitantly: "We thought you were the envoy of the father, but who knew that it was the envoy of King Xiang, and the king of Han knew that he invited you to a banquet, and he didn't scold us to death?" As soon as the Chu envoy heard this, he put down his cup and chopstick, and strode out of the inn, and the guards in the city did not stop him from leaving. He ran back to the Chu camp in one breath, reported to King Xiang in 1510, and said: "It turns out that Yafu and the King of Han communicate privately, and Yafu will definitely send the information of the Chu army to the King of Han, so his envoy is treated preferentially. However, the king's envoy is not treated as a human being, and the food he eats is not as good as pig food, so the king must pay attention to it in the future. King Xiang said angrily: "I heard about it the day before yesterday, and I also said that he is old and reliable, how do I know that he really has a collaborator with the enemy!" This old puppet is tired of life! As he spoke, he wanted to summon Fan Zeng to reprimand him face to face. Left and right, please don't be in a hurry, and wait for real evidence to add the crime, so King Xiang temporarily forbears. And Fan Zeng didn't know it at all, and he wholeheartedly wanted to seize the world for King Xiang.

One day, Fan Zeng saw Xiang Wang and said: "The king of Han is now trapped in the besieged city, there is no rescue soldiers outside, and there is no food inside, and it is the time to perish." The king should encourage the soldiers to attack the city bravely, and sooner or later break through Xingyang and capture the king of Han, don't miss this opportunity. At this time, King Xiang had fallen for Chen Ping's plan, and seeing that Fan Zeng was anxious to attack the city, he suspected that he had ulterior motives and refused to listen. Seeing that he was silent, Fan Zeng said hurriedly: "The ancients said: When you are constantly interrupted, you will suffer from it. In the past, during the Hongmen banquet, the minister persuaded the king to kill Liu Ji quickly, but the king did not obey the minister's words, so he raised carbuncles and suffered to this day, and regained the God-given opportunity to trap him in Xingyang. King Xiang was scolded by him, and couldn't help but sulk and said: "You told me to attack Xingyang quickly, but I'm afraid that Xingyang may not be captured, and my life will be sent away by you!"

Fan Zeng was puzzled, and saw that King Xiang was staring at him, so he couldn't help but say to King Xiang: "The world has been decided, may the king do it himself, don't fall into the enemy's cunning, the minister is old and wise and can't make up for it, and beg the bones to return to the rest of the year." "After that, I turned around and walked out. King Xiang did not stay, and Fan Zeng returned to the camp. Fan Zeng was desperate at this time, so he sealed all the seals and gifts that King Xiang had sealed before and after, sent people back to King Xiang, and then left the Chu camp angrily.

Fan Zeng had nowhere to vent his anger, and he was too old to be old, and his anger and blood were stagnant. After a few days, a scab suddenly appeared on his back. Fan Zeng thought to himself: "The state of Chu is about to die, it is better to die early, so as not to embarrass the king of Han Dezhi with me." So he refused to delay the medical treatment, urged the car and horse to move quickly, hoping to rush to the house to see his family and die. Who knew that the back was getting bigger, and before he arrived in Pengcheng, he felt that he couldn't support it, so he stayed in the hostel for a while. Doctors were invited to come to the left and right, but the poison gas was too deep to treat. A few days later, Fan Zeng died in the hostel.

Later generations are sorry for Fan Zeng, but in fact, Fan Zeng is not very smart. If Fan Zeng is wiser, since he has already seen that Liu Bang is not an ordinary person, and Xiang Yu is not a material that can be made, then why doesn't he abandon the dark and turn to the light?

There was also Liu Bang and Xiang Yu confronting each other near Henan, while Peng Yue specifically disrupted his rear and led tens of thousands of people to capture more than a dozen places in Anhui, Jiangsu. Xiang Yu was very angry and asked the general to continue to confront Liu Bang. Attack Peng Yue by himself. He hit Waihuang for a long time, and he never beat it down. After a few days, Wai Huang surrendered on his own. He felt that he was very shameless, so he wanted to slaughter Wai Huang. At this time, the son of the Waihuang Sheren was only sixteen years old, and he went to see Xiang Yu and said, "King, you still want to continue to attack the remaining dozen cities, if you slaughter the city now, you will only let other cities hold on to it." Xiang Yu thought it was right, so he accepted Waihuang's surrender very much, and the other cities took the initiative to surrender after hearing about it, and it didn't take long to recapture all the cities, and Peng Yue had to run back to the swamp to hide.

Since a sixteen-year-old child can convince Xiang Yu, why can't Fan Zeng? In the end, even his own life was accompanied. So he's not very smart.

King Xiang also felt sad when he heard that Fan Zeng died on the way, and he couldn't help but feel remorse. Thinking about Fan Zeng, I have no evil intentions for a few years, it must be the Han King who designed to frame me, and now I swear not to stand with Liu Ji, and I will definitely step on this city to vent my hatred. So he summoned Zhong Liwu and other kind words to comfort him, and asked him to attack the city and make meritorious service to wait for the reward. Zhong Liwu also fought hard to attack, besieging Xingyang City like an iron bucket. The king of Han wanted to escape, but there was nothing he could do. When he was worried, he suddenly reported that General Ji Xin came to see him. Ping retreated and said: "Now that the Chu army is in full swing, the siege of the city is very urgent, and the soldiers in the city are few and exhausted, and Xingyang can't be conservative. But the loss of Xingyang is still a trivial matter, and the body of the king is very important. If the generals are ordered to protect and rush out, even if they have to get rid of the soldiers, there will be many casualties, and King Xiang will set up a large army to chase after him. The minister now thinks of a plan, it must be like this, so that the Chu army is not guarded, and the king can take the opportunity to escape. ”

King Han was very moved when he heard this. He thanked him: "The general's loyalty and righteousness can move ghosts and gods, I hope that God will bless and protect this, and the world will be peaceful and share wealth and wealth in the future, and never lose each other!" Ji Xin said: "The king uses his ministers' tactics, and it is better to do things as soon as possible." King Han asked, "Does the general have parents?" The letter said, "There is a mother." The king said: "The mother of the general is the mother of Liu Bang, and I am the one who does it." Then he asked, "Does the general have a wife?" The letter said, "I have a wife." The king said: "The general's wife is Liu Bang's sister, and I raise her." Then he asked, "Does the general have children?" The letter said: "I have a son, who is still young." The king said, "The son of the general is also the son of the state, and I will raise him." General worry-free! Ji Xin kowtowed and said, "The minister died as he deserved." ”

So Zhang Liang and Chen Ping immediately wrote a letter of surrender and sent someone out of the city to report to King Xiang and said: "The king of Han is surrounded in a hurry, and he is willing to surrender to meet the overlord, but I hope that His Majesty will not punish him." King Xiang opened the book and watched, and the book said:

Liu Bangton, the king of the Han Dynasty, wrote to His Majesty the Overlord: The ministers were sealed and guarded in Hanzhong, and they were not satisfied with the water and soil, so they thought of returning to the east. Unexpectedly, Suishui was defeated and lost his courage, and now he is relying on Xingyang to save his life. Han Xin's expedition to the east is all his own doing, and he can't recruit him, and he can't go away, and he is not a state. Now that His Majesty's soldiers are coming to the city, it will be broken soon, and if the king remembers the old feelings of the king's covenant, he will pardon the death penalty and rebuild it. Willing to face bound and surrender. I hope Your Majesty has mercy on you! Undeclared.

The overlord felt pitiful even after reading the book. So he asked the Han envoy: "When will Liu Bang go out of the city and surrender?" The Han envoy said, "I will surrender tonight." King Xiang was overjoyed and immediately allowed and sent a messenger to return. The armies were ordered to stop the offensive.

Nearly dusk, Liu Bang first went out of the city with 2,000 women from the east gate. When the Chu army saw the women going out of the city, they all came to watch. Or someone reported to the overlord and said: "The king of Han has thousands of women's lines that are not finished." The overlord smiled and said: "Liu Bang is a drunkard who covets so many women, how can it be enough to achieve great things?" Fan Zeng is also worried! ”

In the evening, Liu Bang ordered the Duke of Fang and Zhou Ke to guard Xingyang, and he and the civil and military soldiers rode fast horses to Chenggao. However, Ji Xin wore a dragon robe and a crown, and rode in the royal car of the King of Han to line up the guard of honor, and flocked out in front of the back. Ji Xinduan sat in the car, and when he arrived at Chuying, he openly did not obey the courtesy of the monarch and ministers, and he did not see the intention of surrendering. King Xiang said angrily: "Liu Bang must be drunk and killed in the car!" I didn't get out of the car to see me. Holding torches left and right and looking at the car, I saw Ji Xin sitting upright and silent, and urgently reported to the king of Chu left and right: "The car is not the king of Han, but the Hanchen Ji Xinye." The king of Chu sighed: "It is very easy for Liu Bang to escape, it is really difficult for Ji Xin to replace him, and this loyal minister is also!" Urgently called Ji Bu and said: "You can say that Ji Xin descended to me, and I really love it." Ji Bu shouted forward: "Ji Xin went out of the siege on behalf of Liu Bang, he can be described as a loyal minister, the overlord is merciful and can't bear to kill, Erdang feels that Wang Daen got off the car and surrendered, and he was still crowned with a heavy knight, and you can't bear the king's order." Ji Xin scolded and said: "Mu Monkey is ignorant and delusional! The husband is loyal to the master, although this head is broken, the gold and stone are not grinding! The minister was born as a Han and died as a Han ghost, the will of the martyrs, how can you say yes? "The king of Chu knew that he would not fall, so he ordered someone to raise a fire to burn the car, but when he saw the flames, Ji Xin scolded endlessly, and the flames must be extinguished, and the car and people were turned into ashes! Later generations have a poem that sighs:

Forget yourself Savior,

I can't bear to be a prisoner of Chu.

There is no wheat rice in the Han Bed,

The general's temple food is still a thousand years.

Ji Xin Gan sacrificed his life on behalf of the Han King and was the first loyal minister of the Han family. Liu Bang remembered Ji Xin's merits at the celebration party, and said to the Manchu Dynasty Minister of Civil and Military Affairs: "Ji Xin's merits are high and virtuous, without his advice, there would be no Liu Bang today." I named him the Governor of the City, renamed his hometown as my previous title - Hanwang Township, sent his ashes to his hometown for burial, and built a temple statue to enjoy the incense forever. Later, Liu Bang also ordered the construction of city god temples in all counties across the country. Therefore, later generations called Ji Xin Temple "City God Temple", and Ji Xin statue was "City God Lord". That's an afterword.

However, it was said that Xiang Wang suddenly received an urgent report from the horse, saying that Wei Xiangguo Peng Yue crossed Suishui, broke the Chu army stationed in Xiapi, and killed the Chu general Xue Gong, which was very powerful. King Xiang said angrily: "I hate Peng Yue for being so wild, I will kill him first, and then come to capture Liu Bang." So saying, he pulled out the camp and went east.

Peng Yue was appointed as the king of Han as the Xiangguo of Wei. King Xiang attacked Xingyang, Peng Yue traveled back and forth to intercept Chu's grain road, and this time he beheaded Chu generals, so how could Xiang Yu not be angry? So he doubled the road to the east, and when he encountered the Yue soldiers, he was similar to the jackal and the tiger and beat his head. Peng Yue couldn't resist the enemy, so he had to retreat across Suishui and go north. King Xiang couldn't catch up, and led his troops to the west to attack Xingyang.

However, it was said that Wei Bao died because of the death of the king of Han, so he lived in Xingyang. Seeing that the overlord could not attack the city, he led the people to the city and said to Zhou Cao and Fang Gong: "The king of Han abandoned the city and left, and Xingyang is a wasteland!" The second prince insisted on not surrendering and suffering himself. If the city is broken, can the second duke be the enemy of King Xiang? Fang Gong and Zhou Cao were furious and said, "You are a villain repeatedly, and the dog is not as good as a dog, but you dare to talk recklessly to confuse the army!" And the king of Han is about to pay the two of us with Xingyang, and the two of us are enough to hold on. Today, he opened the door and surrendered in a few days, seeking wealth and wealth without compassion for justice, bearing the favor of the king and the people's prestige, can he serve the country loyally? Our heads can be broken, and our will cannot be moved! Leave you to be the trouble. "After that, he grabbed Wei Bao's hair and slashed him in the city. Poor Wei Bao's wife and concubine were robbed by Liu Bang, and now their lives have been given away!

Zhou Cao sent someone to invite Han Wangxin (non-crotch husband Han Xin). Han Wangxin suddenly saw Wei Bao killed on the ground, and his face was so frightened that his face was pale.

Han Wangxin suspected Zhou Cao of betraying Han and killing Wei Bao. Zhou Cao hurriedly stepped forward to explain the matter, and said: "This move is out of necessity. Han Wangxin knew that Wei Bao had died unjustly, but he had to listen to it. So the three of them defended the city with one heart. Who knew that after King Xiang defeated Peng Yue, he immediately returned to the army, and attacked Xingyang day and night, and Zhou Ke, Fang Gong and Han Wangxin were all captured by Chu soldiers.

Xiang Wang's army entered the city to reward the soldiers, and he embraced Zhou Ke left and right, and knelt down with the order to drink, and Zhou Ke stood upright and unyielding. King Xiang knew that Zhou Cao was deeply familiar with Tao Strategy, and he could support the lonely city for a long time, and saw that he was a man of great talent, and he felt cherished in his heart, so he said: "Since you have been obtained by me today, if you are willing to obey, I should worship as a general, seal 30,000 households, and treat it more thickly than the King of Han, I don't know what you mean?" Zhou Ke opened his eyes when he heard this, and scolded sharply: "If you want to persuade me to surrender, it is better for you to surrender yourself!" If you are not an opponent of the King of Han, you will soon be captured by the King of Han, how can you persuade me? ”

When King Xiang heard this, he was furious and said, "I kindly told you to submit, but you are so rude!" So he pushed Zhou Ke into the soup kettle and cooked it. Zhou Ke was not afraid, and let him strip his clothes and throw them into the wok, which melted into a pot of human flesh soup. Zhou Ke died, and King Xiang ordered the fir to look at Ding Wok, and the fang said fairly: "I am guarding Xingyang with Zhou Kao, Zhou Kao was cooked to death, how can I bear to be alone!" He is willing to die, and is at the mercy of the king. "King Xiang didn't cook it, but ordered it to be beheaded. The sword flashed, the soul left the shell, and returned to Taixu with the imperial historian Zhou Cao. King Xiang left Han Wangxin alone to be imprisoned in the rear army to wait for the fall, and then led troops to attack Chenggao.