Thousand-year-old family: its rise began with Shang Yang’s reforms

Chapter 236 A successful battle [Please subscribe]

Xiao He fell into deep thought.

Attack Peijun at this time? Is Chen Sheng's brain broken?
But on second thought, attacking Peijun at this time seemed to be the best choice for Chen Sheng.

Although the world is still in a state of divided feudal lords, there are faint signs of aggregation. The largest princes are frantically annexing the remaining smaller princes.

Everything is as it was before the unification of Qin.

But now, for the Zhang Chu regime, Liu Bang is the only prince left who can not only establish his authority, but also make profits, and can defeat him.

He stood up, exhaled a long breath, with a determined look on his face: "Pei Gong, the only solution for now is to fight!"

Xiao He turned his head and looked at Liu Bang with a very calm expression: "Retreating at this time has no effect. Chen Sheng is determined to annex us, and this is our best opportunity."

His eyes shone with calculation: "Didn't Pei Gong say a few days ago that the number of county governors and county magistrates who came to seek refuge was decreasing?"

"This is precisely because our strength has not been proven."

Capital City

After a long time, he finally smiled: "Okay."

ready?

He looked at Xiang Yu: "According to the current situation, shouldn't the king make more preparations?"

"In the end, only iron blood and war can end all doubts!"

Xiao He's words fell in Liu Bang's ears, and he also sat there and fell into deep thinking for a long time.

He looked at Fan Zeng and said with a smile: "Do you think, sir, that I will lose to a winner who has already lost both sides in the war?"

What Ziying is sorting out is not only the government affairs within the current jurisdiction of the Qin State, but also the affairs of those counties that are not currently part of the Qin State. He is sorting it out so that those who come after him can treat the head of Guizhou and the people better.

The corner of his mouth was full of sarcasm: "I can kill it without preparation!"

"Zhang Chu is just a defeated general, and Liu Bang is just a wild dog surviving under Qin."

He looked calmly in the distance with a smile on his face.

Meng Yi sat next to him with a worried look on his face: "Your Majesty, why is this necessary?"

"Only by winning a battle can we prove our strength to the world. Only in this way can we expand our power again and prove to the world that we can unify the world!"

But in Fan Zeng's eyes, this is not confidence and pride, but arrogance.
He closed his eyes, with countless fatigue in his heart. Perhaps his initial decision was wrong, and he should not have pinned his hope of final victory on the Overlord.

Liu Bang's tone and expression were relatively calm, and there was no problem at all. He just said silently: "If Chen Sheng wants to annex me, we have to see if he has the strength!"

Wu Lie for three years.

Xiang Yu had a look of disdain on his face: "Is there anything I need to prepare?"

"Isn't it good that those two guys Chen Sheng and Liu Bang fought to death and let me get the advantage in the end?"

But he was a little reluctant to give up after all. After all, Xiang Yu treated him sincerely, and he would not betray Xiang Yu until the last step.

If he could win a battle and destroy Zhang Chu's regime, then Liu Bang would be able to swallow up more than half of Zhang Chu's territory, if not all of it.

Meng Yi looked at Ziying and knew that the emperor did not have such thoughts.

He just simply wanted to do something for the leaders of Guizhou.

Zhang Chu's regime announced its attack on Liu Bang. At this time, Liu Bang's regime did not even have a name, because he was still a "prefecture guard" of the Qin State for the time being and could only be called "Pei Gong".

"Then let's fight."

"Qualifications are never stated, and benevolence can only temporarily deceive some people's eyes."

Qin Xianyang City
Zhangtai Palace

And after that, I'm afraid there will only be two Big Macs left in the world.

Xiang Yu patted his thigh, with a look of pride on his face: "If you don't underestimate the enemy, even if both of them are intact now, what can they do to me?"

Fan Zeng on the side sighed quietly.

And similarly, when Zhang Chu's regime was preparing to make a desperate move, Liu Bang's regime also had such plans. He also wanted to make a desperate move.

Xiang Yu raised his eyebrows slightly, with a questioning look on his face: "What do you mean, Father? Are you saying that I shouldn't indulge in pleasure again?"

Ziying is still in the mood to tease: "Although I have no hope of becoming the final winner, what if? What if the final winner is still Qin?"

Ziying was sitting in Zhangtai Palace, his expression full of exhaustion.

Fan Zeng shook his head: "That's not what I want to say today."

Fan Zeng began to think about his own retreat.

In the luxurious palace, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Eastern Chu, was sitting in the main hall, holding a wine barley in his hand to drink, with a look of enjoyment on his face, and holding a graceful beauty in his arms.

"No matter who the final winner is, won't they have to do these things?"

The silence between the two lasted for a long time before Ziying spoke again: "Meng Qing, who do you think will be the final winner?"

Chen Sheng, the king of Zhang Chu, led an army of 100,000 to attack Pei County, hoping to win the battle.

Eastern Chu State

This is the confidence and pride of an overlord.

Ziying didn't say which war it was. According to the conversation between the two of them, it should have been about the final winner, but for some reason Meng Yi always felt that Ziying was talking about the war between Zhang Chu and Liu Bang.

After pondering for a moment, he looked at Ziying and said, "Your Majesty, if we talk about the war between Zhang Chu and Peijun, the winner will probably be Liu Bang."

Meng Yi said sharply: "After Chen Sheng killed "Wu Guang" who revolted with him, Chen Sheng no longer had any hope of winning the final victory."

"No one will be willing to sincerely follow this person who doesn't care about old feelings, or who can't even "share wealth"."

"Chen Sheng is not a real king either."

"A real king can accommodate the people standing next to him, just like Chen Ye, the king of An, who was next to Duke Xiao and King Huiwen, and the Chen family later."

"Even now, the Chen family is still standing next to the Qin State. Neither His Majesty nor the late emperor has any doubts about the Chen family."

"This is the true king."

Ziying smiled faintly: "Actually, suspicion is also the instinct of kings and emperors, but Chen Sheng's mistake is that he can't restrain it."

"Didn't our ancestors doubt the Chen family for hundreds of years?"

"Of course I have."

"But the ancestors were able to restrain their suspicions. No matter how much they wanted to carve up the rights in Chen's hands, they never thought of killing Chen."

"Even if they actually have countless opportunities."

This is quite true.

Ordinary people can only see the suspicion and even rejection of the Chen family by the Qin kings for hundreds of years, but they fail to see that if the Qin kings were willing, the Chen family would never be able to develop to where it is now.

It can even decide whether the world will stay or go. This is the kind of restraint that belongs to the "king and emperor".

Ziying shook his head and chuckled: "If Liu Bang wins in the end, how about I allow him to become king?"

A flash of surprise flashed in Meng Yi's eyes, and he whispered: "Your Majesty, the winner you are more optimistic about is Liu Bang?"

Ziying nodded slightly: "Not bad."

Meng Yi recalled Liu Bang in his heart, with a look of disapproval on his face: "Your Majesty, Liu Bang is just a ruffian, how can he have the spirit of an emperor?"

Ziying smiled and said, "Meng Qing, what kind of person do you think is worthy of becoming an emperor?"

The two chatted lightly, but Meng Yi was not as serious as before in the court: "As an emperor, he should at least have the charm of the First Emperor, right?"

"At worst, you have to have one-third of the charm of Emperor Wen."

Yes.

In Meng Yi's heart, an emperor like the First Emperor is the real emperor.

But Ziying had a different answer. He just walked under the moonlight and smiled softly: "Actually, just like people are always different, emperors are also different."

"Compared to the First Emperor and Emperor Wen, I think someone like Liu Bang is more suitable to be emperor."

"Maybe he doesn't look like a nobleman, nor does he look like a high-ranking emperor. He looks more like a low-level leader of Guizhou. But precisely because he looks like a low-level leader of Guizhou, when he becomes the emperor, he may be able to Let the Guizhou leaders live a better life."

Ziying said calmly: "I don't want to choose an emperor who is more like my ancestors, but I want to choose a successor who can make the world's Guizhou leaders live a better life."

"Of course."

He smiled slightly: "If this successor cannot defeat me, I will not hand over the world to him."

"Let's see—"

In the third year of Wu Lie, winter.

In the heavy snow all over the sky, the war finally broke out.

Chen Sheng's choice of time was actually very wrong, but he had no choice but to do it because Chen Sheng discovered something. His soldiers had begun to slack off, and some even began to think of betrayal.

Before this happened, he would tie them into a chariot and tell these people with a bloody victory that he, Chen Sheng, was still the aloof "King Zhang Chu".

At the same time, Chen Sheng also wanted to tell Liu Bang something.

The reason why he failed back then was not because his talents were inferior to Liu Bang, but because Liu Bang had many people and high status.

Now, the situation of the two of them was reversed. He became the superior and strong one, while Liu Bang became the weaker one.

He wanted Liu Bang to know what cruelty is.

The war that lasted for three years did not last long. When the smoke of war filled the world, and when everyone in the world began to know about this war, the war was actually over.

The winner was someone who exceeded some people's expectations and was within the expectations of others.

The winner is Pei Gong.

There are not many records about this war, and only one or two sentences are mentioned in the books of Qin and Han. However, the impact of this war was not small, and even determined the fate of the subsequent Chu-Han conflict.

It also allowed Liu Bang to finally stand in front of Qin, wave the blade of fate, and establish the Han Dynasty.

"In the winter of the third year of Wu Lie, Chen Sheng attacked Pei Gong. It snowed heavily at that time, and it was God's destiny for Pei Gong. He went out to fight, and he was successful in one battle. Dozens of the victorious ministers all surrendered to Pei Gong, which was their destiny. ——"Book of Qin·The Chronicles of Emperor Zhaolie"

"In the winter of the third year of Wu Lie, Gaozu fought against Yu Pei, the king of Zhang Chu, and it snowed heavily. - "Book of Han·The Chronicles of Gaozu""

This is the only record in history about this war.

After Wu Lie's three-year war, the situation in the world changed again.

King Chen Sheng of Zhang Chu fled after his defeat and wanted to return to the capital to plot a comeback. However, his ministers who stayed in the capital could no longer bear Chen Sheng's oppression.

Some of them took refuge in Xiang Yu, and some took refuge in Liu Bang.

The remaining people are not really loyal to Chen Sheng, but they have a bigger conspiracy.

They want revenge.

In the fourth year of Wu Lie, spring.

The defeated Chen Sheng returned to the only remaining city with the remaining defeated generals, but what he saw was not the respectful ministers who greeted him, but all the troops in the city.

Countless soldiers swarmed him the moment he entered the city and pushed him to the ground. The soldiers who followed him also had fear and confusion on their faces.

Chen Sheng struggled to raise his head and looked at the man standing in front of those people.

The man's face was calm, and he looked like he was still young. There was a slight coldness in his armor.

"Wu Yong?"

Chen Sheng's face was ferocious. He looked at Wu Yong and gritted his teeth and said, "I spared your life that day. I never thought that I would die in your hands today!"

"You ungrateful thing!"

But Wu Yong just smiled and walked up to Chen Sheng. The next moment, he kicked him without any mercy.

"Ungrateful?"

"You are the one who is ungrateful!"

There was a look of sadness on Wu Yong's face: "In the past, my father conspired with you and helped you a lot. How can I be embarrassed?"

"After becoming king, because I doubted my father, I found an excuse to kill him!"

"You only kept me here because you were afraid that your subordinates would rebel after killing them all!"

He sneered: "Today you fall into my hands, that's when I want to avenge my father! This is the opportunity God gave me!"

After saying this, Wu Yong directly stabbed Chen Sheng's body with the long sword in his hand without any hesitation.

Chen Sheng's face was ferocious and his eyes could not be closed.

Chen Sheng, a generational hero, died miserably in the hands of Wu Yong.

It can be regarded as the reincarnation of cause and effect, and the destiny is final.

沛郡
When the news of Pei Gong's victory over King Zhang Chu came out, and even on the day after Liu Bang defeated King Zhang Chu, the number of county guards who took refuge in him increased again.

Some county guards who felt that they had no hope of victory all began their own journey of "weeds on the wall".

The princes of the world are not stupid.

Of course it is a wonderful thing to be your own king, but what if you don’t have this ability?

Then who should be the county guard?
"call--"

Liu Bang exhaled softly. He looked at Xiao He beside him and asked in a low voice: "Sir, is it time that I can claim the title of king?"

(End of this chapter)