Carelessly, it was the beginning of August, on the galloping road north of Deng County, more than 100 carriages came slowly surrounded by more than 1,000 cavalry, and the first cavalryman, wearing a white short shirt, with a copper sword across his waist, was Zhang Ping, who asked for his life to march eastward.

Since out of Wuguan, there is a peaceful place, there is no more Qin-Chu dispute when the dilapidation, Wuguan at this time is also repaired extremely tightly, which makes Zhang Ping very satisfied, and from this road to the south, there are thirty miles of road, is Deng County.

After Deng County, Zhang Ping's team needs to ferry across the Han River, and then go south to reach Jiangling, the capital of Gongao, visiting Gongao is the first stop of Zhang Ping's eastward journey, he needs Gongao's recommendation to see Xiangzhuang, otherwise, Yongguomao rashly went to Dongchu, Zhang Ping was very worried that he would eat closed-door soup, besides, if you want to learn the iron-smelting technology of Dongchu, it is not that Zhang Ping will take some money and say some good things will be taught, and you must take some sincerity to worry-free.

Thinking so, Zhang Ping looked into the distance on the horse, he was a little impatient, he was very worried that his father would cause the Han army to overwhelm the border because of his underestimation of Liu Bang, although Zhang Han had fought countless battles in his life, and no one could stop him from crossing Shandong back then, but he was now old, and he was no longer the Zhang Han of the past, besides, the Han soldiers had an advantage in terms of numbers and weapons, if the Yong army and the Han army encountered, it was difficult to predict who would win and who would lose.

With a little worry and expectation, Zhang Ping ordered the army to speed up, and soon, the army gradually got closer and closer to Deng County, at this time, a group of cavalry galloped from a distance, and the first lieutenant immediately stopped Zhang Ping's team: "Where are you?" ”

Immediately, the commander saw the Yongguo flag in the team, and he couldn't help but scold nervously: "This is the land of Linjiang Country, you are not allowed to enter without permission!" ”

The captain waved his hand, and more than 500 cavalry behind him immediately drew their bows and arrows, and some drew their long swords and glared at Zhang Ping, who saw that the other party had misunderstood, and immediately took out the envoy and the visiting documents, and raised his voice to the school captain: "I am sent to your country on the order of the king, please tell the king of Linjiang, in the next Zhangping." ”

The lieutenant still didn't take off his guard, he looked Zhang Ping up and down, and then rode his horse to Zhang Ping, took the envoy, and said, "Please wait here, I will inform the county lieutenant." ”

The captain led ten cavalry to leave, leaving a large group of men and horses to monitor Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping also knew that he could not get a reply in a short time, so he ordered the army to camp on the spot, and then, Zhang Ping took a few relatives to walk around, this is the land of the south of the Yangtze River, the scenery is beautiful, and it is worthy of being the land of fish and rice.

There is a distance, Zhang Ping left the monitoring range of the Linjiang Army, he rode his horse to Gaofu, although he was dissatisfied with the Linjiang Army's close monitoring, but the Linjiang Army governed the army strictly, or Zhang Ping admired, which can also be seen that the Linjiang Army continued the foundation of Xiang Zhuang's army, just when Zhang Ping was thinking nonsense, he suddenly saw not far away, it can be said that it is the lower reaches of the Han River, a team of conscripts are busy, they are transporting stones, and the water level of the Han River here is very low, it seems that they are building a bridge.

Zhang Ping was surprised, since ancient times, the Han River has been the barrier of Nanjun, and it is also an important defense point between the north and the south, but why did Linjiang build a bridge?

With doubts, Zhang Ping rode his horse straight to the Han River.

From Zhang Ping's position to the downstream of the Han generals is not close, there are more than ten miles of road, although Zhang Ping can vaguely see the conscripts in Gaofu are busy, but after all, he is too far away, and he does not see very clearly, until Zhang parallel nearly half an hour, only to ride a horse to the vicinity of the Han River, where the bridge is indeed being built, and, about three miles away from the construction site, a large military camp stands proudly here.

Zhang Ping ignored the surrounding rangers, he rode his horse to the busy place of the conscripts, but not far away, a group of cavalry galloped over, and the leader of the tun shouted: "Who is so bold as to trespass on this place? ”

When the tun chief came closer, he saw that Zhang Ping was dressed gorgeously, and he expected that Zhang Ping had an extraordinary background, so he didn't dare to provoke too much, so he had to give up his hand and say: "The king of Linjiang has an order, outsiders are forbidden to break in here, and please leave as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Ping looked at the tun chief, arched his hand and smiled: "I am the prince of Yong, I was ordered to send an envoy to your country, only because the envoy needs some time, I will come here to wander, I don't want to enter the forbidden place by mistake, please bear with me." ”

When the tun chief heard that he was the envoy of the Yongguo Kingdom and the prince, he arched his hand and smiled back: "It turned out to be the prince of Yong, and he was offended." ”

Zhang Ping smiled inclusively, pointed to the bridge in the distance and said, "You are building a bridge here, aren't you afraid that the enemy army will go south through the bridge?" ”

When the tun chief saw Zhang Ping asking, he was a little embarrassed, this kind of military secrets cannot be leaked, but he was unwilling to fight Zhang Ping's interest, after a little thought, he arched his hand and said: "This kind of thing is not clear to us soldiers at all, we are also acting on orders to build bridges here, if the prince has any questions, please go to Jiangling and ask the king of my family in person." ”

Seeing that the other party deliberately avoided the topic, Zhang Ping smiled and didn't ask anymore, at this time, a personal soldier beside him pointed to the distance and said in surprise: "General, look there, is that person Qianchang Han Ping?" ”

Hearing the soldiers mention Han Ping, Zhang Ping said unhappily: "What are you crazy about?" In the first battle of Julu back then, the Qin army had already ......"

Zhang Ping was touched, the past is unbearable, Xiang Yukeng killed 200,000 troops, and Han Ping is also one of the 200,000 pro-soldiers, he worships thousands of officials, and is one of the few fierce generals under his father Zhang Han, being mentioned by his pro-soldiers like this, how can he not be angry, just when Zhang Ping wanted to turn around and scold, the pro-soldiers pointed to the distance again, and said with great joy: "General, he is indeed Han Ping." ”

The soldiers mentioned Han Ping twice, which made Zhang Ping have to look into the distance in confusion, in the crowd, a burly middle-aged man carrying a rolling log, was walking in the direction of the pontoon bridge, Zhang Ping set up his eyes on the horse, carefully identified for a while, and sure enough, it was Han Ping.

Zhang Ping could no longer contain the joy in his heart, he arched his hand to the tun chief on the side, and said with great joy: "There is an old friend of mine in front, please be accommodating and let me catch up with him." ”

Zhang Ping gave the soldiers a look, and the soldiers understood, and immediately took out a bag of copper coins from his arms, handed them to the tun chief, and instructed: "My general will only talk to him, and he won't cause you trouble." ”

Tun Chang took the money bag, checked it, and the weight of the hand was very heavy, and he couldn't help but ask with a smile: "Which one does the prince want to see?" I'll bring it to you. ”

"Okay, that's the person, do you see that?" Zhang Ping pointed into the distance with the horsewhip, and the tun chief looked at the horse whip, and after several identifications, the tun chief smiled and arched his hand, and rode the horse towards the construction site.

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Zhang Ping ordered people to find a clean and refreshing place to spread it with a military blanket, and put on the wine and food, after everything was busy, Zhang Ping invited Han Ping to sit opposite each other, Han Ping did not see Zhang Ping for a long time, he was already crying excitedly, and he was reunited after a long absence, as if he had met his old acquaintance in another country, this kind of lovesickness could not be expressed.

And Zhang Ping was also full of tears with excitement, he looked at Han Ping, holding a wine glass in his hand, for a long time, for a long time, Zhang Ping forgot to persuade Han Ping to take a sip of wine.

In the battle of Julu that year, the Qin army was defeated, and Zhang Han was finally forced to surrender to Chu, but he didn't want to, Xiang Yu had a murderous intention because of the large number of Qin troops, and overnight, 200,000 Qin troops disappeared out of thin air, which had to make Zhang Han and others think that 200,000 Qin troops had been killed, besides, not long after, there were rumors in the army that Xiang Yu killed 200,000 soldiers.

Zhang Han always thought that he was ashamed of these 200,000 soldiers, and Zhang Ping also felt sorry for this, but he didn't want to, and met Han Ping here, one of the 200,000 Qin troops that year, which made Zhang Ping feel not only shocked, but more puzzled and confused.

Knowing that the pro-soldiers on the side reminded Zhang Ping, Zhang Ping woke up from his contemplation, he looked at Han Ping with tears on his face, sighed lightly, and choked up: "General Han, don't say anything else, I'll toast you." ”

Han Ping also hurriedly picked up the wine glass, touched it to Zhang Ping, drank it all, Zhang Ping also drank the wine in the cup, and then sighed: "When the army marched to Xin'an, overnight, the 200,000 army disappeared, and then there was bad news in the army, Xiang Yu killed the 200,000 Qin army, I thought that I would never have the chance to reunite with you again in this life, but I don't want to, I can see you here, God really has eyes, but I want to know, what happened that night?" ”

Han Ping was touched by Zhang Ping's past, he lowered his head and recalled for a while, sighing one after another, after a long time, Han Ping sighed: "That night, Xiang Yu did want to kill us, he had someone in the camp rebelled as a reason, drove us to the valley, shot arrows, lit fires, transported soil to bury us, when we were powerless to resist, thinking that we would die, Xiang Zhuang, the king of Eastern Chu, led the army to arrive, and he and the generals such as Duo Bu tore their faces, so that we had to be saved, but there were still many brothers who died in that massacre. ”

After Han Ping finished speaking, Zhang Ping was almost speechless in surprise, Xiang Zhuang saved the Qin army? He couldn't believe it, since Xiang Zhuang had saved the Qin army, why didn't he reveal the news?

As if seeing Zhang Ping's doubts, Han Ping sighed: "General Xiang Zhuang was afraid that we would be jealous of Xiang Yu again, and he would kill us again, so he quietly transferred us to Hengshan and detained us there until the fall of the Qin State, General Xiang Zhuang issued a decree that as long as we serve for two years, we can clear our status as slaves, establish our own families in the Chu State, marry wives and have children, and prolong our children." ”

Speaking of this, Han Ping continued with a hint of yearning: "I have been here for almost a year, and in another year, I can leave here." ”

"Have you ever thought about going back to Guanzhong? We are still Qin. Zhang Ping asked tentatively, but Han Ping shook his head: "It's impossible, the Qin State has perished, the world is no longer a winner, I also figured it out, my life was given by Xiang Zhuang, I want to go to Dongchu, I want to follow Lord Ming." ”

Han Ping's attitude was very clear, Zhang Ping knew that there was no need to persuade him anymore, he sighed helplessly, about the construction of the bridge, he had no intention of asking again, at this time Zhang Ping had only one goal in mind, he wanted to visit Xiang Zhuang to see what kind of magic power this person could impress the extremely brave commander of the Qin State back then?

After being silent for a while, Zhang Ping took a money bag from his hand and handed it to Han Ping, and said comfortingly: "No matter what happens in the future, come to me if you have any difficulties." ”

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