Chapter 47 3. Challenge

Like all plays, to reach a climax, there must be a prologue, a beginning, and a development.The people all over the world waited to see the climax of the great drama of the struggle between Chu and Han, how much blood and tears were shed, how many wars and horses and turmoil they survived, and how many wives and children were separated.Now, they seem to have heard the rush of horseshoes and the urgent sound of war drums. Yes, this is the sound before the climax, this sound is called challenge. Having endured enough days of hard walls and clear fields, Liu Bang is finally about to come out.Sure enough, as Xiang Yu expected, once he leaves Chenggao, the weasel will wish the chicken a new year.That's right, Liu Bang is the weasel, and Cao Jiu is the chicken he wants to bite.

As mentioned earlier, before Xiang Yu left, he had closed the chicken coop and told the chickens to get ready, no matter how the weasel lured them, they would not get out of the cage easily.But Xiang Yu forgot that Cao Jiu was not an obedient rooster, but a vigorous fighting cock.If Liu Bang wants to lure chickens out of the cage, he doesn't use rice, grain, let alone bran, but fights! Under the city of Chenggao, the Han soldiers shouted to the city, Brother Cao Jiu, why are you hiding in the city for the Chinese New Year? Come out for a walk! No one in the city responded. Cao Jiu, if you are a man, you can use your hands when you come out, don't hide from others like a grandson!

There was still no one in the city to respond. Cao Jiu, are you fucking human? As soon as Cao Jiu heard what the Han soldiers said, he immediately became angry.You Liu San rogue soldier, it is enough for you to scold me, why scold my mother, I have tolerated you for five or six days, and the fighting cock does not show its power, you think it is a plague chicken, if you dare to pick, I will dare to fight! fight! Cao Jiu was furious and ready to go out of the city to fight, but he was immediately stopped by a man, we are not familiar with this man, he is Sima Xin, King of Sai.Sima Xin warned Cao Jiu: Don't be impulsive, King Xiang told us not to go out of the city, we will be fooled by Liu Bang once we leave the city.

Cao Jiu immediately retorted to Sima Xin: It's not your mother who Liu San scolded, of course you are not impulsive.I don't care so much, if you are afraid of death, stay in the city and see how I deal with him! Cockfighting is not scary, but what is scary is that it does not know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, but Cao Jiu is a person who does not know the heights of the sky and the earth. He has a pair of wings and wants to fly to the sky, has a pair of sharp claws and wants to fight wolves, and has a piece of animal skin and wants to use it to bluff people! Cao Jiu ordered Chen Bing to prepare to attack!

Outside Chenggao City, Liu Bang was ready.Come on, Cao Jiu, as soon as you leave the city, I'll beat you up!By the way, Cao Jiu, the water for removing chicken feathers has been boiled for you, and that is the Sishui River outside Chenggao City. The winding Sishui flowed heavily through Chenggao City.Water is soft and silent, but softness does not mean weakness, and silence does not mean depression.Since the anti-Qin period, there have been many famous wars that have nothing to do with water.Water, let Xiang Yu sink his boat to intimidate the princes; water, let Han Xin fight against the water to achieve fame; water, let Zhang Han become a wimpy water ghost; water, let Chen Yu say goodbye to the world.

Today, Liu Bang will hold high the banner of "Sun Tzu's Art of War" and ask Sishui to turn Cao Jiu into the second Chen Yu! Anyone who has read "Sun Tzu's Art of War" knows a sentence: make half-strikes and strike them.This means that when the opponent's army is halfway across the river and in a dilemma, the attack wins.Strike halfway, this is a profound summary of the art of war, and it is a tactic that thousands of great military strategists have to guard against. However, Cao Jiu, Xiang Yu's chief of staff, seemed to have been utterly stunned by Liu Bang's scolding. He opened the city gate and rushed towards the Han army on the other side without even having time to observe the front, back, left, and right sides!

Cao Jiu, you are doomed! Cao Jiu rushed out, Sima Xin had no choice but to follow him.When the Chu army had only crossed half of the Si River, it was time for Liu Bang to practice his great art of war. The gongs and drums shook the sky, and the Han army rushed towards Cao Jiu, while the other Han army lying in ambush under the city of Chenggao was like a god. The mouse came out of the hole, and cooperated with the brothers on the other side to form a forward and backward attack on Cao Jiu! Flank!Hair removal!Mingjin closes the stall! Practice is the only criterion for testing the art of war. In this challenge, Cao Jiu became a historical negative teaching material to prove "Sun Tzu's Art of War".The Han army defeated the Chu army, Cao Jiu, Sima Xin, and Dong Yi all committed suicide, Liu Bang took control of Chenggao City again, Xiang Yu's gold, silver and jewels became his possessions, and more importantly, Ao Cang's grain was all taken by him. Possessed.

Looking back at this challenge, if Cao Jiu is undefeated, then it is simply unacceptable.Overlord Xiang Yu knew how powerful Liu Bang was, but thanks to Cao Jiu being the great Sima, he still lost control of himself. If this kind of person hadn't saved Xiang Liang in his early years, Xiang Yu would have sent him back to Jiangdong to farm long ago. If you lose, you lose. It's useless to say anything.When encountering this kind of thing, the saddest should not be us, but Comrade Xiang Yu.When Xiang Yu had just taken back all the seventeen cities that Peng Yue had robbed, he heard the news of Cao Jiu's defeat, and there was only one feeling in his heart, pain, pain, pain!

Kill me too! Xiang Yu's greatest heartache was not because of the suicide of Cao Jiu Sima Xin and his like, but the fall of Chenggao City.Chenggao City hid so much of the property he plundered along the way, and once Chenggao City was lost, it would lose Ao Cang, the place to occupy food, and then the Chu army's food supply would be in great trouble. That's right, Xiang Yu will soon taste the serious consequences of losing Cheng Gao! Xiang Yu could only hold his painful heart, and at the same time immediately mobilized his troops to rush towards Cheng Gao!At this time, Liu Bang and another army were besieging the Chu army general Zhong Limei in the east of Xingyang. When they heard that Xiang Yu had returned to the army, they retreated one after another, retreated to the dangerous area and stationed there to act as spectators to watch Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yu rushed to Guangwu.Guangwu, the name of the mountain, is connected to Xingze in the east and Sishui in the west. The situation is dangerous. There is a broken stream in the mountain, which divides two peaks. Difficult to pounce on Liu Bang, his only way is to build a fortress on the east side of Guangwu to resist the Han army. This confrontation, dozens of days passed. Fighting a protracted war is what Liu Bang is most willing to see.He has rice in the pot, even if it will be consumed until next year, he is not afraid, but Xiang Yu is different. The army is short of food, and the morale of the army is shaken. The food problem has never threatened the Chu army so seriously!

What to do, if we continue to suffer like this, I am afraid that this battle will not be fought, and hunger alone is enough to defeat the Chu army! The Emperor and I are not afraid, but they are dragged down by hunger for no reason. Of course, that is not what Xiang Yu wants to see.No matter how difficult the life is and how exhausted the wisdom is, we must come up with a clever plan! But Xiang Yu's wisdom has been exhausted, his only clever strategy is to threaten and challenge! In modern warfare, the most powerful threat is the nuclear threat, but in that era of cold weapons, Xiang Yu had no nuclear weapons, no aircraft or artillery, and horses could not jump over ditches. He believed that the most serious threat to Liu Bang was-hostages, this The hostages are Liu Bang's father Liu Taigong and his wife Aunt Lu Zhi. Kidnapping and blackmailing are the most common scenes in our modern underworld movies. The reason why the underworld has become a trend of kidnapping is of course not influenced by Xiang Yu, but because it has mastered the weaknesses in human nature. Marx said that man is the product of social relations.In other words, human beings absolutely cannot exist in a vacuum without getting rid of social relations.But no matter how many social relationships humans have, in the hearts of individual human beings, there is no social relationship that can influence their feelings more than blood relationship. That's right, family love is of course the most painful thing that can hurt the human heart, just like Wang Li's grandfather Wang Jian killed Xiang Yu's grandfather Xiang Yan, and like Xiang Yu cooked Wang Ling's mother, making Wang Ling's life worse than death generally. Xiang Yu set up a huge chopping board on the east side of the ditch, put Liu Taigong and Lu Zhi out, and then shouted at Xigou, Liu San, you surrender quickly, or don't blame me for cooking your father! Xiang Yu had an innocent smile on his face. He believed that Liu Bang would definitely show infinite timidity and fear towards his great pioneering work.The loss of love for father and love for wife will always make human beings maintain an inexplicable fear and respect for birth, old age, sickness and death. Xiang Yu is like this, and he thinks Liu Bang will do the same. But he soon discovered that he was wrong, and very wrong. Xiang Yu overlooked one point, his opponent was not Wang Ling, but the rascal and rascal Liu San.Liu Bang and Liu Taigong are father and son, isn't he and Liu Ying not father and son?At the beginning, when Liu San defeated Pengcheng and was hunted down by Chu soldiers, he even kicked his children out of the car in order to escape for his life. He was afraid that Xiang Yu would cook his father, who are you scaring! Facing Xiang Yu's naivety and ignorance, Liu Bang is really ridiculous and exasperating.Boy, play hooligan with me, you are still young.So, he responded to Xiang Yu with a pair of unscrupulous official words: Comrade Xiang Yu, I used to serve Emperor Yi with you, and we are about brothers. My father is also your father. If you cook your father, brother Xiang, can you give me a bowl of human meat soup to taste? I've seen rogues, but never such a rogue.Xiang Yu was so angry that he jumped up and down, who is your brother? Why is your father my father? I have an unknown father, how shameless are you! I don't even want to die, what face do I need?Comrade Xiang Yu, hurry up and cook. We have been fighting for so many years, and food is scarce. We haven’t smelled meat for many years. It just so happens that you want to share a cup of broth with me. Thank you in advance. Heh, do you think I'm scaring you, okay, I'll cook it for you.Since you want to drink human broth, I will give you the whole pot! Xiang Yu was furious, ready to cook Liu Taigong to death. However, it was too late to say it, and then soon, someone jumped out to persuade Xiang Yu. He was Mr. Xiang Bo, Liu Bang's so-called in-law.Xiang Bo was born to be Liu Bang's protector. In the history of the struggle between Chu and Han, as long as Xiang Bo played, something must have happened to Liu Bang, and every time Xiang Bo rescued him, Liu Bang would always save the day! This time is no exception.Xiang Bo said to Xiang Yu: People who have always cared about the world have never cared about their families.People like Liu Bang are the most typical. Even if you kill their whole family, it will be of no benefit to you! When Xiang Yu heard this, he immediately froze.God, what the hell is going on here, to send me a rogue opponent. Comrade Xiang Yu, blaming others will never solve problems. Please raise your head, correct your attitude, face reality, and challenge bravely. The future will belong to you. Yes, the brave can win a place in the world only by challenging.Xiang Yu's heart brightened again, yes, since threats are not enough, then challenge! Since ancient times, there have been many kinds of challenges.There are heads-up and gang fights.Head-to-head is divided into many categories, including boxing, fencing, sumo and judo, with various varieties and graceful appearances.This kind of challenge can also be compared in rounds, one round, two rounds, three rounds, if both parties are willing, it can be played regardless of rounds, venues, or time. One party lay down on the ground and called the other party to beg for mercy! Group fights are different, there are not many varieties, but there are also various forms, such as formal group fights and informal group fights.Formal gang fights are called warfare; informal gang fights are called weapon fighting! To challenge, Xiang Yu has to come up with some innovative moves. It would be too boring if he scolded Cao Jiu for fighting like Liu Bang's gang of rascals.His challenge is not a group fight, but a one-on-one.As long as Liu San is willing to accept the challenge, whether it's swordsmanship, boxing, or sumo wrestling, he can choose all of them, regardless of the venue, time, or round. What's more, he can make the first move, or let him take two or three moves first. It doesn't matter if you punch or something. So, Xiang Yu once again said something to Liu Bang: Liu San, the world has suffered for so many years, and it is not because of the two of us fighting to the death.Since it's our matter, let's solve it alone, and solve it once, so as not to hurt the people again, okay? Talented, so talented, Liu Bang couldn't help laughing when he heard it.Comrade Xiang Yu, war is a very serious matter, how can you make such an ignorant joke? Do you think that I, Liu San, want to drink human broth because I am not serious?I solemnly declare now that I, Liu San, only fight wits with you, not bravery.If you want to fight bravely, find a game cock to fight with you! What a rascal!Xiang Yu lost his patience completely. He summoned several so-called strong men and ordered: You go out to challenge me every day. If you can’t do it once, you can do it twice. good idea!This is the real Xiang Yu. The previous scene was so badly acted that the audience would burst out laughing!That's how it should be, pick him a rascal, pick him a rogue, pick him deaf, blind, and insane, hurry up and fuck me!