Chapter 22: Xiang Yu's Seizure of Power (Part II)



"The most important thing in marching and fighting, the most important thing is morale, for the generals, they must be able to share the joys and sorrows with the soldiers, share the weal and woe, sympathize with the army, and fight in all directions for the overall situation, so that they can win all battles, and Song Yi, with 100,000 armor, but he is in Anyang, refusing to go north to Julu, and the military food supply is difficult, but he ignores it, feasts and drinks with his henchmen every day, regardless of the hardships of the soldiers of the three armies, how can such people last long," Fan Zeng stared at Xiang Yu and said slowly,

After listening to Fan Zeng's words, Xiang Yu didn't understand Fan Zeng's words at first, but soon, the bright color in Xiang Yu's eyes turned into excitement.

Thinking of this, Xiang Yu looked at Fan Zeng with a little worry, and sighed: "When I went north, I had already killed Song Yi in the name of killing Song Yi and talked to the generals, but no one responded, and now the old thing is brought up, I'm afraid it will be ......."

Xiang Yu was so timid, which made Fan Zeng really unhappy, the first person to oppose it was himself, thinking of this, Fan Zeng replied: "Don't you hear the young general, this time, that time,"

After speaking, Fan Zeng raised his head and laughed, and said: "I objected at the beginning, because Song Yi had just come out of the division, the army was stable, and the generals served their lives, but now, the giant deer is fighting, Song Yi has been delayed again and again, winter is coming, the soldiers have no winter clothes, the grain and grass are difficult to transport, and in a few days, I am afraid that I will have to dig wild vegetables to eat, in this situation, Song Yi does not know the inspection, and is still drinking the generals, isn't this the opportunity for the general?"

"Opportunity," Xiang Yu said to himself, but soon, Xiang Yu realized Fan Zeng's meaning, and he couldn't help but look up and laugh: "Song Yi Pifu, I swear to kill him,"

At this moment, a personal attendant walked in quickly and arched his hand: "Two generals, the Chinese army has sent an order, and General Song invited the two to the Chinese army for a banquet,"

After the report was completed, he turned around and left, at this time, Xiang Yu and Fan Zeng glanced at each other, and they both smiled knowingly,

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At this time, the big tent of the Chinese army, all the generals and above, are all seated,

His son Song Xiang is about to travel far away and go to Qi to serve as a minister, although the name is good, it is Qi Xiang, but Song Yi knows that this is a false position set up by Tian Xian in order to win over the relationship between the two countries, and he does not have much power, but Song Yi doesn't care about this, he can find a stable position for his son, and he can win over the relationship between Qi and Chu, why not,

The wine and food have been served one after another, and those who can sit here and drink are all Song Yi's henchmen and favorite generals, and it is precisely because of this that Song Yi will invite Xiang Yu to come to the banquet, wanting to use this banquet to give him a dismount, so that Xiang Yu does not dare to underestimate himself, and also let those old departments of Xiang Liang know that they are now in power, not Xiang Liang, so that everyone is loyal to him.

The messenger has been gone for half an hour, but Xiang Yu still hasn't come, Song Yi was a little unhappy at this time, he looked at the banquet on the table, and called out to the relatives outside the tent, and asked, "Why hasn't Xiang Yu come yet?"

"General, I've already gone to invite, it should be on the way," the personal repertoire replied very uncertainly, Song Yi had to wave his hand and rebuke the pro-entourage,

The big tent was silent, everyone was staring at Song Yi, Song Yi saw that the atmosphere was a little dignified, and couldn't help but smile dryly: "Don't wait, let's have a banquet,"

Several soldiers in charge of the banquet immediately came up and filled everyone's cups with wine, at this time, Song Yi raised his glass and smiled: "For my son to go to Qi country, this cup of wine, I thank everyone for coming,"

Everyone raised their glasses and drank them all, and at this time, a general put down his glass and said hatefully: "Xiang Yu has not come for so long, it is clearly a score, general, I think you should severely punish such fanatics,"

The general's words aroused the dissatisfaction of many people, and they blamed Xiang Yu one after another, but Song Yi pretended to laugh and replied indifferently: "The courage of the horseman, why be afraid, don't mention him,"

Seeing that Song Yi didn't react, everyone didn't say anything more, and raised their glasses one after another to toast to Song Xiang.

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The big tent of the Chinese army, drinking and singing, a laughter, but the battalions of the Chu army are miserable, the grain and grass of the Chu army are insufficient, and some of the soldiers can only gnaw a piece of bread and drink a bowl of vegetable soup, and the life is unspeakably miserable, but Song Yi is not sympathetic to the suffering of the soldiers, and only cares about his own plan of 'watching the fire from the other side', waiting for the big war between Qin and Zhao,

At this time, it is the time for the soldiers of each battalion to eat, and many people have already complained that the food is too poor, winter is coming, and the winter in Hebei is unusually cold, do you want everyone to freeze to death here?

Time passed day by day, the complaints increased day by day, people's minds returned, and the morale of the Chu army also plummeted, just today, a few people gnawed cakes, drank clear soup, and complained endlessly, a team of cavalry rushed into the camp, holding tokens, and shouted: "Song Yi has no way, has conspired with the Qi State, the troops are here, just to reach an agreement with the Qi State, return to the Qi State, we are the soldiers of the Chu State, eat Junlu, how can we turn our backs on the Chu State, now, General Xiang Yu has been Huai Wang Mi Edict, kill Song Yi, regain military power, have supporters, pick up weapons, Come with me,"

The person who came was Yu Zi period, he had been ordered by Xiang Yu to gather the soldiers of each battalion, the Chu army was mostly Xiang Liang's old department and Xiang Yu's old department, as soon as he heard Song Yi's rebellion, Xiang Yu was edicted to beg the thief, and they threw away the cake in their hands, the soup in the bowl, picked up the weapon from the side, and shouted: "I am willing to listen to General Xiang Yu's orders,"

"I am willing to listen to General Xiang Yu's orders......" The battalions rose one after another, picked up their weapons, responded to Xiang Yu's call, and rushed to the Chinese army.

It was almost dusk, nearly 70,000 Chu troops marched to the Chinese army under the call of Xiang Yu, galloping war horses like thunder in the sky, the earth trembled, spearmen, Ge soldiers, shield soldiers, halberd soldiers, crossbow soldiers, archers followed the chariots, and advanced rapidly towards the Chinese army, an unprecedented mutiny was coming, at the front of the team, Xiang Yu wore a helmet and armor, holding a halberd, majestic, beside him, Fan Zeng looked at the front with a cold face, he could not see any expression on his face, a contemptuous smile flashed in Fan Zeng's eyes, perhaps, he was laughing at Song Yi unwise, Perhaps, he is laughing at himself, not knowing whether the path he chose is right or not.

In the camp of the Chinese army, Song Yi had just sent Song Xiang away and returned under the escort of several confidants.

The banquet has dispersed, until Song Xiang left, Xiang Yu did not appear, Song Yi was extremely resentful, Xiang Yu would never avoid himself because of a banquet, the only possibility is that Xiang Yu no longer cares about himself as the main general,

Thinking of Xiang Yu's arrogance, Song Yi hated it, drew a long sword from his waist, and slashed at the table with hatred, with a muffled sound, the table was divided into two...... General, Xiang Yu rebelled,"

"What," Song Yi was shocked, the sword in his hand "clanged" and fell to the ground, at this time, the feather arrow was still about to speak, a feather arrow had leaked out of the chest of the follower, and the blood flowed down the arrow shaft, and the follower fell to the ground uncontrollably, twitching // twitching for a moment, and whimpered,

Song Yi was stunned by everything in front of him, he was originally a civil official, no force, at this time suddenly encountered a mutiny, Song Yi's only thought was to kill out, back to Pengcheng to do calculations, thinking of this, Song Yi leaned over and picked up the iron sword, wanted to rush out to kill, suddenly, a Biao army and horse surrounded the big tent, only to hear Xiang Yu's cruel laughter outside: "Song Yi Pifu, I serve the secret edict of King Huai, kill Er, etc., acquaintances, come out by yourself, otherwise, I will burn the camp,"

"Xiang Yu, you don't want to fool everyone here, King Huai didn't give you a secret edict at all," Song Yi roared outside the camp, but in exchange for the shouts of the soldiers of the three armies: "Punish Song Yi, kill the traitor and ......."

"Punish Song Yi, kill the traitorous ......"

The shouts of the crowd completely defeated Song Yi's bottom line, he suddenly knelt on the ground, looking at the iron sword in his hand weakly, when he went north, with Xiang Yu, it was the biggest mistake, thinking of this, Song Yi raised his head and shouted: "How stupid I am ......"

With a shout, Song Yisheng burst into tears, at this moment, his intestines were about to repent, and he didn't know what he was wrong with.

Watching the fire from the other side, waiting for Qin and Zhao to fight, he waited for the opportunity to move, he could pacify Zhao Di when he entered, and he could destroy Zhang Han when he retreated, and he went straight to Guanzhong, isn't this the best strategy to strengthen the Chu State, why, these soldiers want to obey Xiang Yu's orders, is it because Xiang Liang's residual power is still there?

"No," a voice in his heart vetoed Song Yi, it was his inconsiderate attitude towards the soldiers and his failure to plot the way back as soon as possible, which would lead to today's changes.

"That's it, that's it," Song Yi shouted a few words to himself, he put the iron sword across his neck, beside him, several henchmen wanted to step forward to dissuade him, Song Yi had closed his eyes, gritted his teeth, the iron sword slashed, blood burst out, and soon, Song Yi fell in a pool of blood,

Several henchmen saw that Song Yi was loyal, and he had no way to retreat, Xiang Yu would not spare everyone, but drew his sword one after another and killed himself.

Outside, Xiang Yu rode on a horse, seeing that no one came out of the tent for a long time, he had no patience to wait any longer, he raised his right hand, waved forward, more than 100 archers stretched their bows and arrows, the arrows were coated with lamp oil, several soldiers with torches immediately lit the arrows, and a captain shouted loudly: "Release,"

More than 100 feather arrows were shot // into the big tent, and soon, Song Yi's big tent was swallowed up by fire,

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On the official road of Fanyang County, a team of more than 100 people is slowly moving forward, led by a young man, he is the son of Song Yi, Song Xiang, at this time, he is rushing to the Yellow River crossing, preparing to cross the Yellow River, and march towards the Qi State,

Parting, Song Yi told Song Xiang many times that Song Xiang must maintain the harmony between Qi and Chu, so that the two countries can help each other, so that the Chu State can become strong in the future war.

Just when Song Xiang pondered his father's words and was reluctant to give up, suddenly, a cavalry team of more than 1,000 people galloped over, and the first general shouted: "General Song Xiang stops, I have something to hand over to you on the order of the general,"

Song Xiang faintly heard someone shouting his name, he looked back, a Chu army was running towards him, soon, he heard the Chu general shouting himself, and said that there was something to send, Song Xiang Nailer stopped fighting horses and waited in place,

Soon, this Chu army came to the front, was the first general, and arched his hand: "Please General Song Xiang come out to answer,"

"What do you have for me," Song Xiang rode out on horseback, and at this time, the Chu general came to Song Xiang and sneered: "The thing is here,"

He drew a long sword from his waist and slashed it away, Song Xiang screamed and fell off the horse, and his relatives behind him wanted to guard, but they were hugged by the Chu army, and Song Xiang's relatives were scattered, at this time, the Chu general jumped off the horse, took out a dagger, chopped off Song Xiang's head, and then turned over on the horse, turned the horse's head, and rushed to Anyang,

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