At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 212, Changing the Court and Xiang Yu’s Dilemma

Although Xu Fan stopped the fight between the two sides on the surface, secretly the two sides were extremely busy and wanted to win over some allies, thereby influencing the King of Han and gaining strength for their own side.

Tian Jie found Wei Wang Jiu and Zhao Wang Xie that night.

"His Xiang clan has always been the generals of the Chu Kingdom, but now they occupy the Qi Kingdom, especially since the Xiang clan is not a royal family at all, but they proclaim themselves kings of Qi. King Wei, King Zhao, and people like Xiang Yu, we will not stop them His random behavior puts us in danger. If someone in Zhao or Wei declares himself king, do we have to admit it?" Tian Jie said angrily.

King Zhao Xie smiled bitterly and said: "It's useless for you to ask us about this matter. Now I, the King of Zhao, only have the city of Handan left. How long I, the King of Zhao, can sit still depends on the face of the King of Han."

Tian Jie said in astonishment: "How could this happen? Wasn't Meng Tian defeated by the coalition forces?"

Zhang Er said helplessly: "But it was the army of the King of Han that recovered the Zhao Kingdom. Whether the King of Han recovered the lost territory from the Qin Kingdom has nothing to do with our Zhao Kingdom. What can we do?"

Tian Jie was shocked in his heart. This was not the same situation as when they were on the ground. Could it be that the King of Han would side with Xiang Yu?

Wei Wangjiu said: "When you go back, you should persuade Prime Minister Tian Heng to accept the reality. I am worried that if he continues to compete with Xiang Yu, even Jiaodong County will not be protected, and then the Tian family's foundation will be really over."

He is not optimistic about the fight between Tian Heng and Xiang Yu at all. You have great influence and wide connections, but there are still many people who cannot fight. Xiang Yu is obviously more than 10 times stronger than Tian Heng.

Then he said to Chen Xiao: "But Yu'er still needs your support. Tian Heng is not worth mentioning. Yu'er was willing to hand over the position of Prime Minister of Qi to him, but he doesn't know how to praise him and must fight against us. The attitude of the King of Han is the most important, as long as the King of Han does not object, Yu'er, the King of Qi, will be stable, and the only people who can influence the attitude of the King of Han are you, my own family."

Chen Xiao smiled and said: "We are all one family, of course we have to help our cousin."

Chen Xiao and others joined the Han army very early. In addition to Chen Xiao, the Xiang family also has two captains and more than ten Qianshi officers and officials. In the Han Dynasty, it is not unreasonable to say that the Xiang family is the largest powerful family. However, the King of Han definitely did not treat the Xiang family badly.

The other juniors of the Xiang clan also looked at Uncle Xiang with expectation. Most of them were just civil servants or military commanders in the Han army. They were neither above nor below, neither big nor small. It would be difficult for them to go further. situation, when they learned that Xiang Yu became King of Qi, they felt that they would have better development by changing to another track.

Xiang Shu, who had been working as a civil servant in the Han army, smiled bitterly and said: "Brother, you are now a general in the army. From now on, you will be in charge of the Taiwei Mansion. From now on, you will be the third prince of the Han Kingdom. Your future in the Han Kingdom will be natural." There is no need to worry, but even if we stay in the Han Kingdom, we will reach our peak if we can become captains, and after the Qin Dynasty is destroyed, the Han army will definitely be cut off, and our future will be even more bleak."

Chen Xiao could understand the thoughts of these relatives, but he still felt that the future of King Han was better.

Having these people join Xiang Yu's political group can greatly enhance the cohesion of Xiang Yu's group and his control over the country. Now Xiang Yu does not trust the powerful nobles of Qi State. They are inextricably linked to the Tian family and are difficult to trust. However, Xiang Yu does not have many of his own people around him, so he has to reuse the original powerful nobles of Qi State.

But it is obvious that those descendants of the Xiang family who have not yet made their mark also want to make progress. The competition here in Han is fierce, and they can have better development by changing their track to Qi.

Xiang Bo smiled and said: "After our army captured Linzi, the people of Qi supported Yu'er as the king of Qi. From now on, our Xiang family will also be a royal family."

But he still persuaded his relatives: "Now the King of Han is about to lead his troops into Guanzhong. After destroying the violent Qin Dynasty, the King of Han will be the common ruler of the world. If you leave the Han army at this time, your hard work in the past few years will be in vain. The identity of the founding hero is gone. You must know that this kind of opportunity is almost impossible to come by."

The words are divided into two parts.

Of course, the King of Han is more powerful than the King of Han, but Qi State belongs to their Xiang clan. They can become Qi clan clansmen after passing there, but in Han State, they have to compete with the talents of the whole world, and they are more attractive there. Metaphor.

Tian Jie said unwillingly: "My Tian family has the support of all the heroes of Qi. There is no way that the Xiang family can be our opponent."

Chen Xiao's relative who wanted to leave shook his head and said: "The Han army can come and go freely. As long as the reason is explained to the King of Han, and it is not a too core position, the King of Han will generally not stop it."

Xiang Yan was a little excited and said: "My cousin has become the king of Qi. Is there a lack of help from my family in Qi? I want to take refuge with my cousin. I wonder if my cousin needs it?"

These nephews of his were either middle-level officers of the Han army, or civil servants who stayed with the King of Han and joined the army. With the tempering of the Han army over the years, Xiang Bo did not have to worry about their abilities.

Wei Jiu couldn't say anything when he saw Tian Jie being so stubborn. After all, they were trying to regain their homeland, but he still said: "You just stay with the coalition forces, and then hang around the King of Han twice, so that the King of Han knows that the Tian family belongs to him." Allies, this way the King of Han will at least put a stop to Xiang's excessive behavior."

But he quickly looked at Chen Xiao and said, "The King of Han won't blame him, right?"

Xiang Bo was a little surprised and said: "Now Yu'er lacks trustworthy family members like you. As long as you go to Qi State, I can't guarantee that there will be more, but I can still be a captain."

"Cousin, is he really the king of Qi?" Chen Xiao was still a little unbelievable. His Xiang family actually became a royal family. Later, when he thought about it more deeply, he found that although his uncle Xiang Liang said he wanted to fight the Qin army, he actually went all the way to the north. Only then did he suddenly realize that his uncle had been eyeing Qi from the beginning.

Xiang Bo then found Chen Xiao and other Xiang descendants who were in the Han army.

Chen Xiao said helplessly: "You make your own decisions and bear the consequences yourself."

His interests are inseparable from those of the Han State, and he will not leave the Han State. Even if he becomes the prime minister of the Qi State, he may not be as powerful as the Taiwei of the Han State.

The next day, Chen Xiao went to Xu Fan and said, "Several members of the family heard that their cousin became the King of Qi and wanted to go to Qi."

Xu Fan said: "Bring them to see me."

Xiang Shu and other ten descendants of the Xiang family came to the big tent.

Xu Fan looked at them and smiled and said: "Even if you go to Qi, you must maintain the true character of our Han army. Don't embarrass me and let Xiang Yu say that our talents from Han are useless."

Xiang Shu felt a little ashamed when he saw Xu Fan being so generous and said, "King of Han!" They felt a little sorry for the King of Han.

Xu Fan patted them on the shoulders and said: "Don't be ashamed. You have done your best in the Han army. You have not failed the Han country or me. You are just pursuing better development. This is human nature. I wish you all the best together." The country has a better future."

For Xu Fan, this was just a job change, and he was helping a relative of his own family. It was not a big deal at all. It was even a good thing for the Han Dynasty. The Xiang family, which was originally large in numbers, suddenly lost a backbone. This made Han's internal political system more balanced.

October 37, the th year of the First Emperor's reign. Xiang Shu and others left the coalition forces and rushed to Qi State, intending to join Xiang Yu and make contributions.

After the coalition forces learned that the Qin army in Qi had been annihilated, good news soon came from Yingbu in Sanchuan County. The First Emperor died in Guanzhong, and now the First Emperor's eighteenth son Hu Hai ascended the throne and became the second emperor of Qin.

After learning that the First Emperor had passed away, the entire coalition was in a state of joy. The evil dragon, the First Emperor, had finally passed away, and their biggest enemy was dead. The coalition finally did not care about it at this time, thinking that the time had finally come for the Qin Dynasty to perish. .

On the one hand, Xu Fan ordered Lu Chen's troops stationed in Xindu to go north to wipe out the remnants of the Qin army in Yan. Regarding Lu Chen's military operations, Xu Fan only sent one sentence, which was to recruit the Qin army as the main part, with seven parts surrendering and three parts military. Try to occupy the territory of Yandi as much as possible.

The 30 allied troops in Handan led nearly 20 Qin prisoners towards Luoyang City, to their destination Guanzhong, and dealt the final blow to the violent Qin.

On the Handan Chi Road, the soldiers of the Qin Army confiscated their weapons and armor, and marched in line one by one. For every 1000 Qin soldiers, there was a group of soldiers from the Allied Army guarding them. This procession was so majestic that the end could not be seen at a glance. As long as the soldiers of the Qin army move slower, the whips guarding the soldiers will be beaten down.

"Pa!" A blood mark appeared on the stone.

Tu Gen said angrily: "Aren't you Han soldiers soldiers of benevolence and righteousness? Why are you beating people randomly?"

Shitou immediately grabbed hold of Tugen and said, "Tugen, don't talk nonsense. It's the little man who walks slowly and the child who is ignorant. Please forgive me."

The soldier ignored Shitou's apology and whipped Tugen hard.

"Pah!" Tugen felt a burning headache from the top of his head to his chest.

The soldier snorted coldly: "The Han army is naturally a force of benevolence and righteousness, but the object of benevolence and righteousness is not you. It doesn't matter if Naigong whips you now. How many of Naigong's villagers did you capture to do corvee work back then? How many of you killed them? If it weren't for the benevolence and righteousness of the King of Han, even the whip would be considered an advantage to you."

After saying this, the soldier left here.

Tugen said angrily: "It is said that the Han army is the army of benevolence and righteousness, but now it seems that it is all lies."

Tugen felt that the behavior of the Han soldiers was completely different from what he had heard, and he felt that he had been deceived.

The stone blocked Tugen's hand and said, "Stop talking nonsense! Look behind him."

"Papa papa!" A soldier kept whipping a prisoner of the Qin Army. Even though the prisoner kept begging for mercy, the soldier did not stop. Instead, he kept whipping the whip hard.

He said with hatred: "Now I know it hurts. When you killed my parents, my wife and my children, why didn't you think of showing mercy? My son was only five years old, and he didn't know anything, so he died in the hands of your Qin people." , your pain is nothing, the guild will use your lives to bury them with your loved ones."

There were many soldiers around who saw this scene, but instead of stopping them, they all cheered. The Qin soldiers in custody shrank their heads and did not dare to watch this scene. They were worried that they would also end up like this. .

This can be regarded as tit-for-tat. A large part of the Han army who guarded the prisoners of the Qin army were soldiers from Qi and Zhao. Most of these people went to the frontiers to serve as corvees and built the Great Wall, Chidao, and palaces for the First Emperor. At that time, the Qin people as rulers were very unfriendly and even cruel to the working people of the six countries. Now in the thirty years of Hedong and in the thirty years of Hexi, these soldiers are now guarding the prisoners of the Qin army. Naturally, they will think of the hatred back then. Then he took revenge.

Since entering the Central Plains, the Han army has absorbed a large number of soldiers from Zhao, Qi, and Wei. Unlike Xu Fan's initial Han army, they have experienced a long period of education, and their victory over the Qin army has allowed them to be like A victor came to see the Qin prisoners, and the Han army also had a large number of Qin prisoners at the beginning. These factors combined led to the initial Han army rarely mistreating the Qin prisoners. After all, they also knew these prisoners. Soldiers will become their comrades.

Tu Gen sweated coldly when he saw a beaten soldier whose skin was torn.

Shitou whispered: "Now I understand, the Han troops guarding us are quite good. If we are caught by those Qi Di Han troops, our life or death will be uncertain."

They have done too many evil things in Qi State, and the people of Qi will not let them go if they catch them. That is to say, the Han army has strict military discipline now, and these soldiers dare not kill them openly.

Then Shitou sighed and looked in the direction of his hometown. Although his hometown was getting closer, he didn't know if he could go home alive. The road home was too difficult.

When Shitou and Tugen escaped from Jimo, they were quickly captured by the people of Qi State because they were members of the Qin Army. At that time, the people of Qi State hated the Qin Army. After the local people caught the two people, they wanted to disembowel them. Broken belly.

Fortunately, Shitou managed to cut the rope and escaped. Then the two pretended to be beggars, not even daring to say a word, and then fled back to Linzi City, where they were taken in by Meng Yi, and then followed Meng Yi to the territory of the Han army. , surrendered to the Han army.

Shitou expected that as long as he could survive, he would suffer such torture as being beaten by the Han army. However, he never expected that he would fall into the hands of the Qi people. With what they did in Qi, It's really hard to die if you fall into Qi Ren's hands.

On October 37, the th year of the First Emperor's reign, Xiuwu County.

The treatment of the prisoners of the Qin army is getting worse and worse, and now even their porridge has begun to become sparse. With the example of the Qi soldiers, the number of prisoners whipped is increasing, and their actions are becoming more and more excessive. Prisoners of the Qin Army fell every day, and the Qin Army soldiers turned from fear at the beginning to hatred.

It has become normal to abuse prisoners of the Qin army. Even if the soldiers of the other six countries find out about this, they will pretend not to see it. In the past, the Qin army was powerful and bullied them, but now they are captured, and they are bullied by them. It should be true. If the King of Han had not stopped them and the Han army had strict military discipline, they would have only acted more brutally.

But Qin soldiers cannot tolerate such morale. These prisoners are their fellow citizens. If they are abusing Qin prisoners now, will they extend to bullying Qin soldiers and officers in the future? Even for their own benefit, they will not let such things continue. happened, otherwise their status in the Han Kingdom would definitely not be guaranteed.

You must know that a large part of the Han army is the Qin army. At first, Wang Li's 2 soldiers were absorbed by Xu Fan, and later Li You's tens of thousands of soldiers were absorbed. It is said that the Qin army is the core component of the Han army. It is not an exaggeration to say that their influence in the Han army is not small. To bully the Guanzhong soldiers like this is to treat them as dead people.

So an officer from the Qin Army found Xu Dong, the captain of the allied army. After Xu Dong learned about this, he went to Xu Fan in a rage and told Xu Fan that the prisoners of the Qin Army had been mistreated.

Xu Fan sent Ji Xin to check and found that 300 prisoners of the Qin army had been tortured to death during this period, and countless others were injured.

Xu Fan immediately sent Guanzhong soldiers headed by Xu Dong to replace the Qi and Zhao soldiers to guard the prisoners, and at the same time asked Chen Xiu to lead a medical battalion to treat the injured Qin prisoners.

Xu Fan summoned all the senior officers of the Han army and above, and said angrily to them: "Deng Zong, how do you manage the army as the general of the supervisory army? You, the supervisor, do not know how to mistreat the prisoners like this. Chen Xiao, how did you train your troops? Did you teach them the military discipline of our Han army? When did our Han army mistreat prisoners? When word spread, how did we make the enemy surrender? Do you also miss me, a big man? All the enemies were defeated."

This is the first time Xu Fan has been so angry. This is the first time such a large-scale violation of discipline has occurred since the establishment of the Han Army. For Xu Fan, who has always been a model for future armies, launching such a situation is no less than a severe beating. He slapped himself and felt that he was completely humiliated.

Such large-scale abuse of prisoners was something that the Han army had never seen before. This made Xu Fan understand that the expansion was too fast and the organization was declining too fast.

Deng Zong said with guilt: "King Han, I will finally live up to your expectations."

Deng Zong asked Peng Yue's soldiers to guard the prisoners, but he did not think that most of Peng Yue's men were Qi people. They had a bloody feud with the Qin army, and this situation occurred.

Xu Fan said coldly: "Apologizing is useless, the key is to solve the problem."

The Han army mistreated prisoners. This kind of thing was unacceptable to Xu Fan. This kind of thing would only increase the rifts within the Han army, because the Han army was originally composed of people from the seven countries. If they still flaunted their own country, Identity, the country of Han will be torn apart. Treating everyone equally is the best way to replace the national label on them with their class.

Moreover, Xu Fan still wanted to capture Guanzhong, so it was impossible to make the entire Guanzhong hate him. These 20 captives represented 20 families and affected millions of people.

Xiang Yu's lesson was still in front of Xu Fan. He massacred 20 Qin troops. This was revenge and also revealed the evil spirit of the Xiang family.

But he lost the hearts of the people in Guanzhong, so that even if he occupied Guanzhong, the richest place in the world, it could not become his base. In the end, Xiang Yu lost the whole world and it had a lot to do with his massacre of 20 Qin army prisoners.

Otherwise, if he had subdued these 20 Qin soldiers, he would still be afraid that Guanzhong would not surrender to him. How could Xiang Yu lose the world in Guanzhong? So in many cases morality is not useless, but very useful. When you need it, the price you pay will be more than you can bear.

(End of this chapter)