Chapter 5: The Secret Escape of the Great Army
Fan Hao echoed: "Brother, when you enter Xianyang, you can't do what you want, didn't you listen to what the letter said, Ziying's kid still has to prepare, do you think you are going to hide those beautiful palace laves." ”
"Where can he hide, Xianyang City is so big, he can't fly to the sky."
Zhang Liang thought for a while and came out to remind: "Pei Gong, be careful of deception, maybe the baby will run, we have to guard against it." ”
"Where can you run, the Qin State is gone, he will die wherever he goes, if it falls into the hands of Xiang Yu, the death will be even worse, you, don't worry too much, for the sake of him calling me uncle, I will give him 10 days of grace."
"Of course, the premise is that the Qin army at the head of the city will really retreat."
"That's it, what the eldest brother said is right, you cultural people, you just love to think blindly!"
After Fan Hao finished shouting, he reminded Liu Bang: "Brother, you are about to enter Xianyang City to be the king of Hanzhong, and your sister-in-law is still staying in Pei County, when will you pick her up." ”
"Hey, I'm not in a hurry, what are you anxious about, just go back and let Wang Suo and Xue Ou go and pick them up, let's enjoy the happiness here first, and when Ejiao comes, it's time to take care of me again."
"Haha, I understand, I understand!" The generals laughed, but Zhang Liang was the only one who couldn't fit into the cheerful atmosphere.
He always felt that something was wrong, and he picked up the letter and looked at it, but he didn't find anything wrong.
Thinking that Ziying really had no way out except to surrender, he no longer had any objections, but just proposed: "Let Li Shiqi and Han Fu go to Bashang together tomorrow to let Su Du withdraw his troops, and by the way, let's find out the truth." ”
Liu Bang waved his hand: "Listen to you, listen to you." ”
Ba Shang Shuaifu, Han Fu and Li Shiqi had already come, and took out the holy decree of the Great Qin Emperor ordering the retreat to show them, and after they left, Bai Zhan took out the tricks that Li Feng gave him to show Su Du.
There is a map inside, and a red dot is marked on the map, and the red dot arrow extends out with a sentence written: "The whole army gave up the big camp and turned here to open the road to Shuzhong." ”
Su Du was very puzzled and looked at Bai Zhan: "How could Your Majesty give such an order?" ”
"Your Majesty's order must not be disobeyed, let's withdraw."
"Okay then."
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Liu Bang was very happy when he saw that the Qin army really retreated.
Under the attack of vanity, in order to demonstrate the wind of benevolence and righteousness, he really ordered the army to rest on the spot and no longer march, and rewarded Han Fu with a big prize, and made a promise that after entering Xianyang and becoming the queen of Guanzhong, Han Fu was promoted to three levels.
This guy was overjoyed, and after he went back, he trumpeted Liu Bang's benevolence, and the officials of Xianyang were even more excited.
Li Feng's moral kidnapping is Liu Bang's vanity of flaunting benevolence and righteousness, in other words, this kind of vanity is the limitation of the times, except for Li Feng himself, almost everyone here is a little bit.
They like to abide by loyalty, gentlemen, and so on, isn't this a weakness?
There are relatively few of them who really have them, but those high-level strategists, and they are not tired of deceit.
Li Feng bet that Liu Bang at this time cared about this false name very much, and if he won the bet, he would get a lot of time to retreat.
Lost the bet.........
Well, you won't lose, you won't.
Now, his cronies have quietly evacuated to the meeting place, everything is going on at a fast pace, and there will be a glimmer of life no matter what.
Naturally, such a big action could not be completely concealed, and some people with a heart discovered the strangeness in Xianyang City and wanted to sneak out of the city to report the news, but they all died at the gate of the city and disappeared completely the next day.
Five days later, looking at Xianyang City, which had not changed much, in fact, many officials' mansions had been emptied, and even the Empress Dowager Li Ji had been evacuated.
As for those clans that could not be counted on, they were left behind by Li Feng.
No wonder Li Feng is ruthless, it is really these people, it has no effect on it, but it may cause chaos, for Li Feng, their value is far less than that of 100 catties of hybrid rice seeds.
Leaving these people in Xianyang can confuse Liu Bang, and secondly, it can also play a role in encouraging the soldiers.
After all, His Majesty the Emperor can even give up his own relatives, what else do they have to say about these little soldiers giving up some relatives and friends.
Soon, it was Li Feng's turn to evacuate by himself, and Wang Chong led the Praetorian Guards to follow him.
"Your Majesty, let's go."
"Have you arranged to leave the dead guard behind the break?"
"It's been arranged, they're all the minister's henchmen, and they can be trusted."
"Okay, order them, once Liu Bang enters the city, immediately hide on the spot, no longer have to carry out the task of killing, if there are unfortunate war dead, after arriving in Bashu, they will be given a clothed tomb and their families will be supported for life."
"No, the last will understand."
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A new day of court will come, overnight, the emperor disappeared, all the palace guards were transferred, and the early court hall was completely deterred by force, but everyone did not feel the slightest joy.
Thinking of all the strange things in the past few days, several officials led by the prime minister immediately figured out the relationship, and hurriedly sent people to investigate, and then found that many ministers' families had disappeared.
The two main forces of Xianyang City, the Guards Army and the Lieutenant Army, also did not know where they went.
Everyone suddenly felt bad, and they suddenly realized that they had been abandoned.
In a fit of rage, he hurriedly sent his servants out of the city to report to Pei Gong Liu Bang, but how could the servants be the opponents of Wang Chong's secret sentinels, and they were often shot and killed as soon as they arrived at the city gate.
Liu Bang and the others did not know the situation in Xianyang City, he had already entered the camp of Bashang and kept the 10-day appointment.
And Li Feng and others have integrated the troops, a total of 20,000, together with the families of the army, a total of more than 80,000 people rushed to Bashu.
Li Feng divided the 20,000 men into three teams, and Meng Rui and Bai Zhan rendezvous, leading the 10,000 vanguard troops to open roads in the mountains, build bridges in rivers, overcome thorns and thorns, and open up roads for the army.
Wang Chong and Su Du led 5,000 troops to maintain order, so as to prevent anyone from taking advantage of the chaos to do illegal things.
Li Feng personally took the remaining 5,000 people and officials to break off with the county guards of Bashu and Shu to ensure the safety of the troops. After the emperor personally broke off, he ate and lived with them, and greeted them like brothers, easy-going and humble, and moved these people not to be wanted.
"It is said outside that the Emperor of Great Qin is cruel and violent, but now His Majesty the Emperor can be courteous and virtuous, and enjoy with the people, as a courtier, what else can he say?"
The two county guards and several leaders of the army in Bashu were very moved, and their originally restless thoughts were gradually convinced.
The difficulty of Shu Road is difficult to go to the blue sky, this is the verse of the poet Li Bai in later generations.
In the Qin Dynasty, the roads were even more underdeveloped, and there was only one entrance and exit of the Shu Road as everyone knows, which was even more difficult. Along the way, the army was attritional, and at this time only more than 10,000 people remained.