Chapter 79 8. Who is the traitor

Thanks to Zhang Liang's reminder, Liu Bang came to his senses and avoided letting his ideas kill him.While panting, he suddenly saw the handsome Chen Ping next to him, and immediately became angry: "Chen Ping, do you have to be so handsome? Can handsome be eaten?" Chen Ping: "Boss, who messed with you again?" Liu Bang: "Stop talking nonsense, tell me clearly, you are so handsome, can you restore stability to the turbulent world?" Chen Ping: "I'm handsome... But the turmoil in this world is not caused by my handsomeness." Liu Bang: "Whether the turmoil in the world is caused by your handsomeness, we will talk about it later. But since you are so handsome, you should let the people of the world also benefit from it, right?"

"Let the people of the world be blessed... Majesty, do you want me to think of a way to kill Xiang Yu quickly?" Chen Ping asked. Liu Bang: "Then do you have any idea?" Chen Ping: "What can I do... By the way, my lord, I recall that your current situation is very similar to that of Qin Shihuang back then. When Qin Shihuang defeated the Six Kingdoms, he faced a stronger opponent than Xiang Yu. There is a famous general in the state, Li Mu, and Lord Xinling, who is well-received in the state of Wei. Either of these two people is capable of stopping the expansion of the Qin state. But Qin Shihuang still thought of a good way to settle them easily."

Liu Bang: "Quickly tell me, how did you settle it?" Chen Ping: "For those who are capable, they are not afraid of open guns, but hidden arrows. The method Qin Shihuang used back then was to send spies with gold and jewels to sneak into Zhao State and Wei State, looking for the shameless villain who hated Li Mu and Lord Xinling the most. , give them a lot of money, and then let them frame Li Mu and Lord Xinling for rebellion. As a result, Li Mu was killed by King Zhao, and Lord Xinling was taken away from power by King Wei, and died in depression. It was because Qin Shihuang's divorce plan worked, so The Six Kingdoms killed themselves and fulfilled Qin Shihuang's achievements."

Liu Bang: "...that's a really good idea." Chen Ping: "Look, my lord, the people under Xiang Yu who are really capable are just a few people like his father Fan Zeng, his confidant Zhong Limei, Long Qi and Zhou Yin. If you are willing to give me tens of thousands of gold, my lord, I will recruit people." , Infiltrated into the state of Chu, spread rumors, and said that these people had opinions on Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu is an extremely egotistical person who likes to be suspicious of others. If I give him some eye drops, they will definitely fall into cannibalism among themselves. When you, my lord, take the opportunity to attack, Xiang Yu will surely be defeated."

Liu Bang: "I'll give you 40,000 gold, and you don't have to report it, and no one will check your account. How to use it and who to use it for is up to you. But there is one thing, you have to get things done for me." Liu Bang repeated the old trick of Qin Shihuang, sending people to sneak into Chu State with gold, silver and jewels, and spread rumors. These damage moves are very effective, but Xiang Yu plays more ruthlessly.He had already made enough preparations to force Liu Bang to fight him decisively. The Chu army surged up like a tide and surrounded Xingyang City like an iron bucket without leaking water.

The situation was critical, so Liu Bang urgently called Zhang Liang and Chen Ping to a meeting: "It feels a little bad, you two said, are we going to die this time?" Zhang Liang: "That's right. Although our side keeps making tricks and losing tricks, we can't stand it on the frontal battlefield. If we break the city this time, Xiang Yu won't end with us. For the present plan, there is only one way ,Surrender?" Liu Bang: "Surrender?" Zhang Liang: "To put it nicely, it's called a peace call. To put it bluntly, it's surrender. I think it's written in the document we asked for peace, asking for the land west of Xingyang to be given to Han. You see how?"

Liu Bang: "Aren't you taking Xiang Yu for a fool? ... By the way, it's all at this point. We don't want to think about escaping, so why don't we continue to trick people?" Zhang Liang: "Why not? Xiang Yu can't understand harming people at this time. So we can't let go of this good opportunity." Liu Bang: "Then which one shall we harm this time?" Zhang Liang: "I solemnly recommend my father, Fan Zeng. He is so old and doesn't know how to love himself. He is running around behind the young Xiang Yu's ass. He must be taught a lesson."

Liu Bang: "Okay, I approve this plan." So Liu Bang sent envoys out of the city to find Xiang Yu and ask for peace talks.Of course Xiang Yu didn't want to talk about it, but he still had to send envoys to Xingyang, otherwise he would be said by the princes that he didn't understand etiquette and was uneducated. When the envoy of Chu arrived, Chen Ping, the most beautiful man in the world, was in charge of receiving him.I saw chicken, duck and fish, all kinds of delicious food, brought to the table like flowing water.The envoy was overjoyed, picked up his chopsticks and was about to eat, when Chen Ping came in: "Hey, why did the envoy change? What about the envoys that Yafu sent several times before? Why didn't they come this time?"

"Yafu?" The envoy of Chu was very surprised, "I am not the envoy of Yafu Fan Zeng, I was sent by King Xiang Yu of Chu." "What? You weren't sent by Yafu?" Chen Ping was very surprised, "I made a mistake, I'm really sorry for making a mistake, come here, quickly remove these drinks and dishes." The waiter came forward and brought the delicious drinks and dishes Take it all down.He heard Chen Ping's order again: "Serve the food again." The waiter brought in new dishes, but they were all unpalatable rough tea and rice. Seeing the amazed and astonished face of the envoy, Chen Ping asked with a smile: "Xiang Yu asked you to come, what's the matter?"

"No... nothing!" The envoy was furious, stood up and left.Back at Chuying, he went to complain to Xiang Yu.Xiang Yu's face changed drastically when he heard that, Fan Zeng came over just at this time, and asked Xiang Yu to immediately organize a siege, break Xingyang, capture and kill Liu Bang, and end this long battle early.But Xiang Yu asked: "Father Ya, you have no contact with Liu Bang, right?" Fan Zeng said no, Xiang Yu was even more suspicious.He has a problem, once he becomes suspicious, he won't believe anything you say, but suspects that you have some kind of conspiracy.He recognized that Yafu's persuasion to capture and kill Liu Bang was a big conspiracy, and he became more and more unwilling to attack the city.

Realizing that Xiang Yu was actually doubting himself, Fan Zeng suddenly felt sad, and said: "The general situation is over, Xiang Yu, you can play slowly here, please allow me to retire and return home." Disappointed, Fan Zeng left Xiang Yu and died of grief on the way back to Pengcheng. But Xiang Yu can't be blamed for this.Obviously, Xiang Yu has sensed that there is a mole in his camp, and it is a big mole.He doubted this, doubted that, but he didn't suspect the real traitor Xiang Bo.Uncle Xiang can be said to be the successful originator of the Chinese secret service industry - he has nothing to be proud of as the originator, but he secretly deceived his relatives, which is really beyond the capabilities of normal people. With a series of tricks and getting rid of Fan Zeng, this is Liu Bang's third intelligence war and information war in a short period of time.In three cases, Liu Bang and Zhang Liang even had a perfect information warfare formula repeated.