Chapter 19 4. Zhang Han rebelled against Qin

After Xiang Yu killed Wang Li, he rested his army and confronted Zhang Han without fighting for the time being.However, the news of Wang Li's defeat had reached the imperial court. The dog emperor Qin II was furious when he heard that the Qin army was defeated. No, what on earth are you eating? Zhang Han became depressed when he heard it, he was really not afraid of backache while standing and talking.Your emperor spends all day drinking and picking up girls in the harem, without knowing the actual situation. Wars are not like street fights. You can't win with a large number of people.Back then when I defeated Zhou Zhang, Chen Sheng and Xiang Liang, you didn't even give me a certificate of merit, and when you lost a battle, you cursed and scolded everything. What's the point?

Zhang Han was full of complaints, but there was nothing he could do.There's no way, that's how it is for part-time workers. The leaders always don't see your good things, but they always see your bad things.It's better to do well than to do well. Zhao Gao was promoted in the palace with just one tongue, but I was always scolded for working hard outside. It's really different. Practice has proved that complaining cannot solve practical problems.No one in the world knows that Ying Huhai is a person who only likes to hear good news and not bad news. If Zhang Han doesn't work hard, he will be the next one to be beheaded.

In order to let Qin II understand the particularity of the frontline battle situation, Zhang Han had no choice but to send Secretary-General Sima Xin back to the court to report on his work.Sima Xin, an official of the Qin Dynasty, other than that, many things are unknown.At the beginning, Qin II sent two government officials to assist Zhang Han in attacking Chen Sheng. Sima Xin was one of them, and Dong Yi was the other. Counting it, it has been a year and a half since Sima Xin left Xianyang City.For more than a year, he only knew how to work hard on the front line, and he didn't know that earth-shaking changes had already taken place in the Qin Palace.First of all, after Zhao Gao teamed up with Li Si to kill the Meng Tian brothers, Li Si's family was ruined by Zhao Gao, and the three clans were slaughtered.Secondly, with a springy tongue, Zhao Gao made the student Ying Huhai obedient and obedient, as the saying goes, one person is under one person, and ten thousand people are above it.

To Sima Xin, it didn't seem to matter who was punishing anyone in the court, the important thing was not to involve him, so as to keep his job and his life.So his only concern now is to meet Zhao Gao himself as soon as possible so that he can inform him about the situation in the north.So Sima Xin went to Qin Palace and told the gatekeeper that he wanted to see Prime Minister Zhao.However, the gatekeeper ran for a while and came back to tell Sima Xin: Please wait a moment, Prime Minister Zhao is very busy in the palace. Sima Xin had no choice but to wait outside the palace, but three days passed after waiting.

This is very strange, I, Sima Xin, did not come back to visit relatives, let alone to offer and accept bribes.The northern battlefield is changing rapidly. Even if you, Prime Minister Zhao, have something big to do, you still have to make time to discuss it. Otherwise, when someone invades Xianyang City, everyone will have to drink the northwest wind. So, Zhao Gao didn't see any guests for a long time, which made Sima Xin suddenly suspicious.After all, Sima Xin had been in Xianyang City before, relying on his experience in the officialdom and survival instinct, he seemed to smell an ominous breath.So he sent people to spy everywhere, and after inquiring, he found out that Zhao Gao was planning to murder Sima Xin.

Zhao Gao's move is called killing and silence, shirk responsibility.This is mainly because Ying Huhai doesn't like to hear bad news. Every time he hears about a defeat, he either cuts off the defeated general's head or blames the prime minister.From Zhao Gao's point of view, if you want to keep the position of prime minister, you can only report good news, not bad news. Since Sima Xin came here to report bad news, if you don't die, do you want Zhao Gao to die? It would be too late if he didn't escape, Sima Xin ran out of the city, and fled north immediately with the entourage waiting outside the city.Sure enough, as soon as Sima Xin fled in front, Zhao Gao sent someone to chase after him, but he still managed to escape Zhao Gao's pursuit.

The reason why Sima Xin was able to escape was not because he ran fast, but because he kept an extra mind and chose another way to escape. It's really dangerous, fortunately I learned two more self-defense techniques, otherwise it would have become Zhao Gao's dish.As soon as Sima Xin returned to Zhang Han, he cried to Zhang Han: If I hadn't escaped quickly, I would have become Zhao Gao's ghost.Now that the imperial court is controlled by Zhao Gao, he alone has the final say. If we win today, he must be jealous of you; if we lose, he will definitely die.Fighting is death or not fighting is death, general, you have to think carefully.

Zhang Han looked at Sima Xin, unable to say a word for a long time.There seemed to be a thousand layers of waves surging in his chest, Zhao Gao really made him feel chilled, the eunuch of the dog day, I fought the battle, and you took the credit, now I made a mistake, you just want to take me Surge, what exactly did I, Zhang Han, do to you? If one thing is not settled, another one will come.At this time, Zhang Han received an unexpected surrender letter, the letter was not Xiang Yu, but the laid-off general Chen Yu.After Chen Yu was fired by Zhang Er, he did not look for another job, but wandered around the rivers and lakes with a group of brothers to fish for a living. As the saying goes, people care about princes in the rivers and lakes, so he wrote this letter to Zhang Han.

I have to say that Chen Yu's persuasion letter is so talented that even Zhang Han has to give him three points, so I put it here for the readers: Brother Zhang, do you know that the current situation is extremely unfavorable to you.During the Warring States period, Bai Qi, the general of the Qin State, fought in the north and south, and the 400,000 soldiers of the Zhao State were beaten to the ground by him, and he never dared to challenge the Qin State.However, a person with such high merits such as Bai Qi was given to death later.There are also General Mengtian brothers who attacked the Xiongnu in the north, opened mountains and filled valleys, and built the Great Wall, but they were hacked and killed alive.

Do you know why Bai Qi and Meng Tian fell to such a cruel situation?That's because they made too much contribution and the emperor couldn't reward them, so he had to find an excuse to kill them.You have been a general for almost three years now, and more than one hundred thousand soldiers have died in your hands in the past three years.But haven't you noticed that there are more and more princes fighting against Qin, aren't you doing useless work? If you look back and think about it, Zhao Gao was promoted to the position of prime minister by flattering him. Now he finds that you can't stand it anymore, and he is afraid that Qin Ershi will kill him, so he wants to kill you and replace him with a new general, so as to shirk responsibility.And you have been fighting abroad for a long time, but you don't know that the imperial court is already in crisis, so now you end up in the embarrassment of being killed for meritorious deeds, and killed for ineffective ones.

Everyone on the earth knows that the Qin Dynasty will fall sooner or later, but you are still working hard for the court alone, don't you feel sad?Why don't you fight back and form an alliance with the princes to fight back to Xianyang and kill Zhao Gao, so that you can not only take revenge, but also be named king.Tell yourself, what would be better than you being cut in half and your wife killed on the chopping block? After Zhang Han finished reading, he couldn't help but feel respect for Chen Yu.Rather than saying that this is a letter of persuasion, it is more of a life-saving letter. Chen Yu is capable. He analyzes the problem in a reasonable manner, and understands the pros and cons, which is all admirable. Zhang Han began to waver.I turn my heart to the bright moon, but the bright moon faces the ditch.Majesty Huhai, I'm sorry, it was your teacher Zhao who forced me to rebel, so I have to rebel. So Zhang Han sent someone to secretly negotiate with Xiang Yu. Guess what Xiang Yu did?Negotiations are possible, but the battle will continue.Hitting you is to make you unforgettable, hitting you is to make you stop asking for prices, hitting you is to tell you what is beyond the sky, and there are people beyond people. Xiang Yu's troops were divided into two groups, one led by General Pu to cross the Yellow River day and night, attacking from the side, and the other with Xiang Yu as the main force chasing and attacking from the front.This beating really made Zhang Han feel so miserable that he couldn't tell what the hell was going on, I obviously gave up and you still want to fight. Zhang Han had to send someone to tell Xiang Yu again, I begged you for mercy, please don't fight anymore, okay? Xiang Yu sneered, when you killed my uncle Xiang Liang, you didn't even blink your eyes, and if you didn't hit you to teach me how to get out of my heart, you beat you bastard, even if you begged for mercy. This scene was like a movie: Zhang Han kept begging for mercy, and Xiang Yu kept beating him.I'll beat you until you cry like ghosts and howl like wolves, until your six relatives don't recognize you, and I won't stop until I beat your face like the scene of a car accident. In this battle, Xiang Yu was too relieved. Not only did he completely beat Zhang Han to the ground, but he also made his original prestige stronger.In the end, Xiang Yu was tired from fighting and relieved his hatred, so let's call a truce.So Xiang Yu held a military meeting, and he said to the advisers: We are running out of food, we can't fight any more, why not accept Zhang Han's surrender. The general had already spoken, and if there was anything else to say, all the soldiers said in unison: "Okay, I will do as you said." In June of the summer of 207 BC, Xiang Yu chose a day to hold a surrender ceremony on the south bank of Huanshui (now Anyang River).After the oath was held, Zhang Han cried bitterly when he saw Xiang Yu. Xiang Yu looked at Zhang Han strangely, "I won't beat you anymore, you're still crying." Zhang Han told the story of Zhao Gao's persecution of him with snot and tears, and said that it was Zhao Gao who ordered him to lead the army out to fight the princes, so you can blame your uncle Xiang Liang for his death in battle The eunuch Zhao Gao. Xiang Yu sighed, "Okay, I see." The war finally calmed down temporarily.If it is said that Xiang Yu beat Zhang Han in the end, he played up to the level, then Zhang Han finally cried to Xiang Yu, and he also cried up to the level. Xiang Yu not only forgave him for killing Xiang Liang, but even named him King Yong.But Zhang Han could only stay in the army, and his military power was also deprived. The 200,000 captive soldiers of the Qin army were handed over to Sima Xin, who took him as the vanguard and led them to attack Xianyang. Xianyang, a huge historical storm is about to sweep!