"Oh, pity me, Brother Ji. He is cruel and talks too much, but in the end he still has to go to Hanzhong and go to jail!" On the other side, the updates of the Chu-Han War are still continuing, with three chapters a day, so Liu Bang is already heading there On the way to Hanzhong.
In fact, according to the timetable Xiang Yu gave Liu Bang, Liu Bang could definitely postpone going to Hanzhong until April. But in fact, at the end of January, Liu Bang led his army directly to Hanzhong.
Before Liu Bang left, he secretly met Zhang Liang once. It is said that it was Zhang Liang who advised Liu Bang to set off early this time.
Zhang Liang told Liu Bang that although Xiang Yu let Liu Bang go for a while, he also understood that Liu Bang was his biggest opponent. Once Xiang Yu reacted, he would definitely try his best to kill Liu Bang.
And if Liu Bang delays his departure until April, he will first give Xiang Yu a lot of time to react.
Secondly, if Liu Bang doesn't leave, the Three Qin Dynasty will be unstable, and Xiang Yu will have to stay in Guanzhong to monitor Liu Bang. Over time, Xiang Yu will definitely be extremely dissatisfied with Liu Bang.
But now Liu Bang slaps his butt and leaves directly, which means that he attaches great importance to Xiang Yu's orders and treats Xiang Yu as his lord, which will undoubtedly greatly satisfy Xiang Yu's vanity and reduce Xiang Yu's murderous intention.
Of course, the most important thing is that once Liu Bang begins his journey to Hanzhong, no matter how strong Xiang Yu's army is, there will be nothing he can do in the face of the narrow plank road, and his huge military strength will not be able to be used.
In addition to asking Liu Bang to leave immediately, Zhang Liang also offered Liu Bang another strategy, which was to ask Liu Bang to completely burn down all the plank roads before leaving.
Before the Qin State, only the desired forest mountain road could pass between Guanzhong and Sichuan. A small number of people might be able to break through, but a large army would never be able to pass this dangerous road.
It was not until the Qin State destroyed Ba and Shu that it spent a huge amount of national power to build a plank road on the cliff. That is to say, it found a way to nail huge wood into the cliff wall, and then lay narrow wooden boards on the wood. This allows people to advance directly on the cliff.
In this way, the speed of continuous advancement becomes extremely fast, and there is no need to worry about getting lost in the jungle, or simply being infected with various diseases in the forest, or facing attacks from wild beasts, etc.
And once the plank road that Qin State spent hundreds of years building was burned down, it would return to a situation where it could only be accessed through forest trails.
It's like there were thousands of kilometers of highways between the two cities, but Liu Bang dug up all the roads on the highway as he walked, so that others could only take the country roads.
The journey that originally took two days may now take a month or even two months, and vehicles may break down on the roadside at any time, completely cutting off the access on both sides.
And Zhang Liang told Liu Bang that the purpose of this strategy was also very simple, which was to further paralyze Xiang Yu and make Xiang Yu firmly believe that Liu Bang would not be able to come back from Hanzhong in a short time. It also cut off Xiang Yu's path to pursue Liu Bang, thus making Xiang Yu paralyzed. Go back to Chu State and don't stay in Guanzhong.
"Zifang!" After listening to the strategy Zhang Liang left for him, Liu Bang was silent for a while, and suddenly stopped Zhang Liang and said, "Zifang is a good strategy, but I just want to know, if I burn the plank road, what will happen to me in the future?" How to get out?"
"This is something that Pei Gong's general should be concerned about, not something that I should be concerned about!" Zhang Liang said with a ruthless face, "Pei Gong only needs to understand that with my strategy, Pei Gong will have another chance to set foot in the Three Qin Dynasty. If I didn't use my strategy, Pei Gong might not even have a chance to reach Hanzhong."
At this time, the biggest difference between Liu Bang and Xiang Yu appears. If Xiang Yu heard Zhang Liang's plan, he would not be able to implement it clearly, but he would definitely have to think it over with his own brain first, and then sort it out with his own sense of honor. Once again, one last time to see if it was worthy of his reputation as King of Chu, and then finally decided whether to implement this strategy.
Liu Bang directly announced to all his men and troops on the second day that he would set off for Hanzhong three days later.
This order immediately set off a huge storm within the Han army, and then there was a crazy wave of fleeing. More than 50,000 people fled the Han army camp in one day.
As mentioned before, Liu Bang has an army of 100,000 men, but the composition of these armies is complicated. The men who actually followed Liu Bang all the way from Peixian County currently have less than a thousand people left, who are the backbone of the army.
Most of the remaining troops were gathered during the smooth battles along the way to Hedong. Their hometown is just outside the pass. As a result, Liu Bang now wants to go to Hanzhong to become the king. Naturally, these troops cannot follow Liu Bang and abandon their families and children. , and as a result, half of the army was gone in just one day. Even if Liu Bang had been mentally prepared, he couldn't help but feel extremely irritable when he saw this result.
But it is not without good news. For example, Liu Bang's core Peixian group is basically there, especially those heroes who followed Liu Bang all the way. None of them left Liu Bang. This made Liu Bang very happy, even if he left again the next day 20,000 people were killed, and only 30,000 people were left with Liu Bang.
But what Liu Bang never expected was that on the last day before departure, which was the third day, the number of people in the team did not decrease on this day.
This is not to say that no one fled today. On the contrary, there were five to six thousand people who fled before and after, but five to six thousand people actually entered the military camp and expressed their willingness to surrender to Liu Bang at this time.
This result was extremely puzzling to many people at the time. After all, this behavior seemed as bizarre, nonsense and brainless as joining the national army in 1949.
And among the five or six thousand people who came here to seek refuge, more than 1,000 of them were scholars, literati, or famous heroes in Guanzhong. These people all hated Xiang Yu and despised Zhang Han. This sinner who betrayed 200,000 compatriots had an obvious purpose of joining Liu Bang. They believed that Liu Bang was the only one in the world who had the chance to defeat Xiang Yu and avenge them, so they wanted to join Liu Bang.
But there were more than 3,000 soldiers from various princes, and most of them were corps commanders in the army, and even middle and low-level officers such as captains. They all abandoned their original armies and positions and went to Liu Bang. I am looking for a job here just to join Liu Bang's army.
This made Liu Bang very confused, so he asked Xiao He why these people couldn't think clearly, and then Xiao He said excitedly, "Pei Gong, these are the foundation for us to conquer the world in the future."
"Everyone in the world thinks that Xiang Yu has pacified the world. Those who are still in the armies of the princes are looking forward to living a peaceful life in the future. These people are just idiots!"
"On the contrary, those heroes who have pride in their hearts and hope to achieve greater achievements need a wise master who can lead them to great success and become nobles."
"They are the smartest and most powerful people in the world, and the army composed of these people, especially better than an army of 100,000, will definitely be able to sweep Liuhe for Pei Gong and defeat Xiang Yu."
Xiao He's words may sound a little incomprehensible, but the meaning is very simple, that is, these people can still come to Liu Bang when it seems that the world is about to stabilize.
After all, they are all ambitious and very resourceful people. Only such people would abandon their original stable positions and choose to join Liu Bang's army. If Liu Bang gets the service of such a person, it will be better than an army of 100,000.
Among the people who came to seek refuge with Liu Bang here, there was one named Han Xin.
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