Chapter 45 1. The death of Li Shiqi

Autumn, July.Next to Uranus, the star Porpoise appeared.According to ancient astronomers, a meteor with a tail whose light is shorter than that of a comet is an ominous omen, and it will only appear when the king commits a lot of evil. The gods have the final say on matters in the sky; people have the final say on earthly matters.After Xiang Yu captured Chenggao, he rushed to Liu Bang's base—Guanzhong. westward route. August, mid-autumn.Liu Bang's vitality recovered, and he led his troops across the south of the Yellow River to garrison Xiaoxiuwu City (now the east city of Huojia County, Henan Province).More than a month ago, he rose up here alone to win the commander. Today, he is preparing to feast the soldiers and attack from here to fight Xiang Yu to the death.

A decisive battle is the career that every man desires! However, when Liu Bang was preparing for a big battle, Zheng Zhong, a doctor who had never heard of his name, suddenly came out to lobby. He suggested to Liu Bang that the Han army had just recovered and lacked confidence. Don't rush in and out.The best way now is: build high walls, accumulate food widely, and fight urgently. It's a good idea to build a high wall and accumulate food, so let's not play at halftime.But Liu Bang's refusal to fight does not mean that Peng Yue does not fight. Peng Yue and Yingbo's style of work is simply poured out of the same mold. He likes to attack head-on, and he prefers to attack from the side. Although Peng Yue was severely taught by Xiang Yu, he made a comeback , Continue to destroy Xiang Yu's grain road.

Peng Yue, you are such a difficult evil mouse! Liu Bang couldn't help being happy to see Peng Yue so busy in the east.Good job brother, what I appreciate is your courage, a dead pig, who is not afraid of boiling water. If you mess with you, I will also send someone to join in the fun with you. So, Liu Bang sent 20,000 infantry and hundreds of cavalry to help the battle, led by Liu Jia, Liu Bang's cousin, and Lu Wan, who grew up wearing the same underpants with Liu Bang when he was young.Liu Jia and Lu Wan led a large team across the Yellow River from Baimajin, and stabbed Chu's abdomen like a sharp knife.In fact, Liu Jia is both a sharp knife and a torch. He and Peng Yue echoed each other, burning Xiang Yu's granary, destroying the grain transportation pipeline, and cutting off the grain supply in front of Xiang Yu at once.

The Chu army stationed on the mainland of Western Chu did not eat for free. They chased and bit Liu Jia everywhere like crazy dogs, and Liu Jia did not eat for nothing. When the Chu soldiers arrived, he would not run away or fight, but stationed down. Can't get out of the wall.If there is a brother, there must be a brother. Liu Jia is also an old fritter. No matter what the soldiers of Chu call war, he just doesn’t send troops. If you want to ask why, please write a letter and ask our family Liu San. The soldiers of Chu really have no other way, they can't be chased away, they can't be beaten, what's wrong with this?

Peng Yue and Liu Jia had a tacit understanding, Liu Jia was pretending not to fight on one side, but Peng Yue took the opportunity from the other side to catch the Chu army by surprise, and captured 17 cities in Wei, including Suiyang and Waihuang, in one go.Seventeen cities, for Xiang Yu, who fights for every inch of land, doesn't that mean killing half of his life? Xiang Yu, who was far away in Chenggao, went crazy again, the food road was cut off, and the city fell, which really made people anxious and heartbroken.Peng Yue, if you think hitting you once is not enough, then let's break you up once.

In September, Xiang Yu said to Cao Jiu, his chief of staff: I entrust you to guard Cheng Gao now!You must remember that no matter how provocative Liu Bang is, you should not go out of the city to fight. Once he swings his troops to the east, just stop him for me!Within fifteen days, I will definitely kill Peng Yue, and then I will return to help you! After fighting for so many years, I only saw Xiang Yu provoking others, but never saw him avoiding Liu Bang. It was the war that taught him to think independently, and also allowed him to find a way to deal with the old fritter Liu Bang.As mentioned above, this method is called treating the person in the same way as the person.Liu Bang, come on, this time it's your turn to ask me to call, so I won't call you.

Xiang Yu's prediction was correct, as soon as he left Chenggao, the evil dragon Liu Bang would come back again.But one thing that Xiang Yu didn't expect was that Liu Bang himself didn't intend to attack Chenggao, but instead wanted to abandon Chenggao and retreat to Gong County and Luoyang, keeping a certain distance from the Chu army so that there was room for advance and retreat.However, Liu Bang's stupid idea was immediately denied by one person. He was Li Shiqi, a scholar who had been scolded by Liu Bang for less than a year. Li Shiqi told Liu Bang decisively that Cheng Gao must not give up.When marching and fighting, food is the first lifeline. There is a granary Ao Cang near Chenggao. Abandoning Chenggao means giving up Ao Cang. Giving up Ao Cang means giving up food. Without food, how can we continue to fight Xiang Yu?The most urgent task is not to retreat, but to take advantage of Xiang Yu's main force to return to the east, quickly capture Xingyang and Chenggao, occupy Ao Cang, and defend Baimajin, and form a separate situation with Xiang Yu, then you will not be afraid that no one in the world will belong to you.

This is a good policy that cannot be rejected. Liu Bang can no longer call Li Shiqi a Confucianist.Liu Bang accepted Li Shiqi's opinion and prepared to attack Cheng Gao.However, at this time Li Qiliang made another request beyond ordinary people. He said to Liu Bang: Yan Guo and Zhao Guo have been pacified, but Qi State has not yet been settled.The Tian family of Qi State is powerful. Although you have sent Han Xin tens of thousands of troops to attack Qi State, I think it will be difficult to take Qi State in a short time. Please allow me to go to Qi State as an envoy and lobby Qi State to make it belong to Your Majesty!

Li Shiqi is really a bold person, even the army can't handle it, so he just wants to use his three-inch tongue to settle it.This unusual request is reminiscent of whether Li Shiqi wants to revisit Su Qin's classic about retreating a million heroes, or wants to completely clean up Liu Bangguanzhi's reputation as a Confucianist, or wants to compete with Master Zhang Liang again. Compete? Where is Qi State?Who are the Tian family?From Tian Dan, the first king of Qi, to Tian Rong later, to Tian Heng, who is now in power, they are not idlers.Since the anti-Qin period, Tian's kingship has never yielded to any of the princes. Xiang Liang couldn't handle him, and Xiang Yu couldn't handle him. Done.But now Li Shiqi wanted to do something that so many people failed to do with just one mouth, can he do it?

Li Shiqi's answer was that it would definitely work. And the facts also prove that Li Shiqi is really good at it, but like Song Yi, he can't do it, because he was screwed up by another person, that person is also his fellow-Kuai Che (also known as Kuai Tong). Before watching the two strategists fighting wits, let's take a look at how Li Shiqi managed the Qi State.After Li Shiqi arrived in Qi State, he found Tian Guang, the new leader. They didn't have too many polite words. When Li Shiqi met, he asked Tian Guang: Does Your Majesty know who will unify the world? Tian Guang smiled and deliberately asked: I don't know, do you know?

Li Shiqi said confidently: Of course I know that the world will definitely be unified by Han Wang Liu Bang. Tian Guang smiled again: Sir, where did you get that? Li Shiqi patted his chest and said, "I got it from here." What Li Shiqi said is right, the secret of heaven is hidden in the chest of a person, and a foolish person will never see it.But Li Shiqi came here to beg, not to scold, so he could only understand his interests and move him with emotion.So Li Shiqi explained a lot of truths to Tian Guang, but there were only two in conclusion: First, Xiang Yu's character was problematic.Second, Xiang Yu is about to die. Reality is the only criterion for testing truth, and everything Li Shiqi said makes sense.Xiang Yu won't tolerate the princes of the world, and it's time for him to be tolerated by the princes of the world. It's like selling vegetables in a vegetable market. He will only buy and sell by force. It's time for customers to join forces to resist. Tian Guang was immediately persuaded by Li Shiqi and agreed to return to Han. Previously, Tian Guang heard that Han Xin was coming to beat him. He had already sent two generals to lead heavy troops to wait for Han Xin at the front line.So Tian Guang asked people to withdraw the heavy troops stationed on the front line, and then held a big feast, talking with Li Shiqi every day, pointing out the country, and getting drunk! As the saying goes, blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, people have no permanent blessings and no permanent misfortunes. When Li Shiqi was drinking happily, the god of death floated towards him like a black cloud in a sunny day. This black cloud is Han Xin.When Han Xin brought tens of thousands of troops, he rushed day and night and finally arrived at the state of Qi, but he heard that Li Shiqi had killed the king of Qi with only a few drops of saliva, so he had to stop marching.There's really no way, the trip was for nothing, who told Li Qishi to be one step faster, this credit can only be taken by him. When Han Xin was about to make another plan, Kuai Tong appeared again.Kuai Tong said to Han Xin: General, you were ordered by the king of Han to attack Qi. Although the king of Han alone sent envoys to persuade the king of Qi, he did not give you an order to stop Qi's attack. How dare you stand still on your own initiative?Li Shiqi took over 70 cities in Qi State overnight with just a rotten tongue, and the general led an army of tens of thousands, and it took him a long time to take down 50 cities in Zhao State. You have been a general for so long, have you? Would it be worse than a Confucianist? This is the sowing of dissension in the legend. Every word of Kuai Tong was like an invisible knife, severely scratching Han Xin's self-confidence and poking at the pain in his heart. That's right, you Hanwang came to Zhao to seize my seal without saying hello to me, and this time you didn't say hello to stop attacking Qi, why should I think about you?Besides, I managed to run the Zhao country with great difficulty, and the foundation has not yet been firmly established. You let me lose the ground for a moment. The Qi country is a huge fertile land. Why can't I take it down and manage it as my own territory? Kuai Tong's words made Han Xin suddenly enlightened, okay, let's do this, first cut and then play, cross the Yellow River, break into Qi, and then continue to play tricks with the King of Han slowly. In October, in winter, ghost winds blew in all directions and blew toward Qi.Han Xin was the ghost wind. He took advantage of Qi State to relax his vigilance, and suddenly attacked Lixia (now Jinan City, Shandong Province), approaching Linzi City, the capital of Qi State.Tian Guang was confused, since they had already talked about it, why did they still fight?After a while, Tian Guang suddenly realized that Li Shiqi had colluded with Han Xin. Tian Guang is going crazy, Li Shiqi, you liar, I was kind enough to spend time with you, but you betrayed me, I want you to die! At that time, if you wanted to kill a person, you had to cook him. Comrade Xiang Yu tried this trick time and again, so Tian Guang immediately asked someone to set fire to the pot, and prepared to cook Li Shiqi to worship the heavens. In fact, Tian Guangzhen misunderstood Li Shiqi. This was the fault of Han Xin and Kuai Tong, not Li Shiqi. Who is wrong and who is right, only Li Shiqi knows it well, after the city is taken down, the documents are also sent out, I really don't know why Han Xin is so crazy that he wants to attack Qi, doesn't it make Li Shiqi ugly? .Han Xin, you just said it clearly for grabbing merit, why do you have to use knives and guns, and finally let me suffer the death penalty alone! When death is imminent, it is useless to say anything. At that time, there were no telephones or mobile phones. Otherwise, you can immediately make a call or send a text message to confront.Of course, Li Shiqi can also write a letter to ask for clarification, but Tian Guang has completely lost confidence in him. Han Xin's soldiers have all fought outside the capital city, and the ghost still believes you Li Shiqi's confrontation, maybe it will come again A combination of inside and outside, that dies faster. Li Shiqi, you should die. If you have any grievances, please complain to King Yama.Therefore, the angry Tian Guang didn't ask Li Shiqi to take any remedial measures, and threw Li Sheng into the pot to cook with a bang. The rivalry between the same sect and the same faction has always been the evil head of Guiguzi's disciples, such as Sun Bin against Pang Juan, Zhang Yi against Su Qin, all of them were cultivated by Guiguzi.These two pairs of deadly rivals, together with the legalist Li Si and Han Feizi, we have reason to believe that these life and death enemies must have been killed so hard in the previous life that they met in this life to make a complete end. However, Kuai Tong and Li Shiqi were not classmates, but belonged to the school of strategists. Li Shiqi's death further proved an undeniable truth through the ages: the market does not believe in tears.Their struggle is not fate, not accidental, but the inevitable result of market competition. Although the world is big, it can't compare with the ambition of surpassing others.Whether it is military strategists, legalists, or political strategists, if they form a pattern of dividing up the market, the struggle will only be fierce and will not ease.In their hearts, who doesn't want to make the business bigger and stronger, and who doesn't want to make the business a monopoly of only one brand in the world? Monopoly is the internal driving force of the struggle. Pang Juan wanted to monopolize Wei's military affairs, so his good friend Sun Bin became an enemy; Li Si wanted to monopolize the position of Qin's prime minister, so Han Feizi could only go one step ahead; Tong, of course, did not allow him to enjoy the results alone, and asked him to make Han Xin's funeral objects first. Fighting and fighting, talking and talking, in the final analysis, there is only one word: profit.Lee, the left is the grain, the right is the knife, and the grain can never escape the cutting of the knife.This is the true human nature. The prosperity of the world is all for profit, and the world is full of hustle and bustle for profit. Benefits come and go, when is the end of kindness and resentment; the small building was windy again yesterday, and the old man can't bear to look back in the moonlight.Yes, fame and fortune are but a fleeting cloud, life is like a fleeting moment, life and death, wealth and honor are all dreams, only the green hills never grow old, and the long rivers of autumn flow together! Rest in peace, Li Shiqi, there is a Buddha way in heaven, I wish you all the best!