Kui Xun was sent to Luoyang to be a proton by Kui Huan, but because of his misdeeds against Yin Lihua, he was sentenced to palace punishment, and he has been under house arrest since then.

Now he was summoned to Hanyang by Liu Xiu, thinking that he finally had a chance to get out of the sea of suffering and return to his father's side, but what he didn't expect was that this time, he stepped into the ghost gate.

After Kui arrived in Hanyang, Liu Xiu met him in the barracks. After Kui Sui saw Liu Xiu, his face turned pale, and he hurriedly knelt on his knees, kowtowed forward, and stammered: "Weiwei Chen greets Your Majesty!" ”

Liu Xiu looked down at Kui Xian, and did not speak immediately, before, he may have had a good impression of Kui Sui, since that incident, Liu Xiu didn't want to see this person at any more glance.

After waiting for a while, he said slowly: "Kui Xun, now that your father is colluding with Gongsun Shu and making enemies of the Han family, what do you have to say?" ”

Kui was shocked, and hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, my father must have been bewitched by a traitor to make such a rebellious act, and I hope that Your Majesty can open the net and spare my father." ”

As the eldest son of Kui Huan, Kui Sui back then, that was also a handsome and noble son, cynical and high-minded son.

And now, where there is still a little bit of what he was back then, it looks like he has to age one or twenty years old, and the whole person is unhealthy and thin, with sunken cheeks and no look. Liu Xiu said: "Whether Kui Huan is dead or alive, whether you are dead or alive, it depends on you now." If you can convince Kui Huan to give up resistance, disarm and surrender, Kui Huan can live, and you can live; If you can't convince Kui, he's still obsessed

If you don't realize, you will die, and you won't be able to live. ”

Kui Xun gasped and hurriedly kowtowed forward again, his body trembling.

Liu Xiu said: "Now, it depends on how much weight you have in Kui Huan's mind. ”

"......" Kui didn't dare to answer, his head was on the ground, and he didn't dare to lift it.

On the same day, Liu Xiu led the army to Xicheng.

Upon hearing the news of Liu Xiu's arrival, Wu Han and Cen Peng, who were fighting here in the west, led their troops to greet them.

After entering the Han army camp, Liu Xiu asked, "Ziyan, Junran, how is the war on this side of Xicheng now?" ”

Wu Han and Cen Peng glanced at each other and lowered their heads. During this time, their battle did not go well.

The Long army in Xicheng City has a tenacious fighting spirit and fierce resistance, and the acropolis of Xicheng Rongqiu is also extremely difficult to fight. In the past few days, the Han army has continuously stormed Xicheng and Rongqiu, and there have been many casualties, but no progress has been made.

Seeing that neither of them squeaked, Liu Xiu nodded and said, "I went to Xicheng this time, and I also brought Kui Yi by the way." ”

Hearing this, Wu Han and Cen Peng were stunned at first, and then their eyes lit up. Kui Xun is the eldest son of Kui Huan, and he is the most important son of Kui Huan.

Wu Han was overjoyed and said: "Your Majesty, we can bring Kui Sui to the front of the two armies tomorrow, and use Kui to threaten Kui Hu and surrender the city!" ”

Soldiers are treacherous, no matter whether the means are despicable or not, as long as they can win, as long as they can reduce the casualties of their own soldiers, then no matter how despicable the means are, they are good tactics.

Cen Peng also nodded again and again, agreeing: "Tiger poison does not eat children!" Now that Kui is in the hands of our army, Kui Huan has to worry about something. ”

Liu Xiu also thinks so. He nodded and said, "Tomorrow, I'll meet you in the city!" ”

"This ......" Wu Han and Cen Peng looked at each other, and said with solemn faces: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you don't dare to go out of the city!" ”

Liu Xiu smiled indifferently and said: "As the commander of the whole army, as the dignified 'King of Shuoning', if Kui Huan doesn't even have this bit of courage, how can he convince the public?" ”

Wu Han and Cen Peng thought about it, and it was the same reason, the two nodded together, and Zhengse reminded: "Your Majesty wants to make an appointment to meet Kui Huan, you also need to be more careful!" ”

Following. Liu Xiu, accompanied by Wu Han and Cen Peng, came to the front of Xicheng City with the Han army's brigade. When he arrived in Xicheng, Liu Xiu raised his eyes and watched.

There is no moat in the west city, but outside the city wall, a wide circle of ditches was dug, and the inside of the ditch was full of large and small bamboo sticks and sharp wooden stakes, and if people fell into it, they would be penetrated in an instant.

The role of this trench is basically to meet the moat, and it is even more threatening than the moat, creating huge problems for the Han army's siege.

Liu Xiu squinted his eyes, and slammed the horse's belly with both feet, urging the horse to walk out of his camp.

Wu Han, Cen Peng, Cho Period, Sai Zun, and the generals of Lai She, followed one after another, and around them, there were more than a thousand carefully selected elite people, each of whom carried a long heavy shield more than half a person high in his hand.

When Liu Xiu and the others were slowly approaching in front of Xicheng City, the heavy shield soldiers formed a large shield array in front of them to prevent the enemy troops on the city from releasing arrows.

When he was still eighty steps away from Xicheng, Liu Xiuyi pulled the reins of his war horse, stopped, and said to the left and right: "Go to the front of the city and shout, let Kui Huan come out to see me." ”

A soldier intervened, urging his horse out of the column and heading straight for the city wall. When he was still thirty or forty paces away from the wall, an arrow suddenly flew down from above the city's head, and nailed it to the ground in front of him.

The Han soldier stopped his horse, raised his eyes to look at the city, and shouted loudly: "Your Majesty is here, see you out of the city!" ”

He shouted three times in a row before an echo came from the city: "Wait—"

The defenders at the head of the city did not dare to delay, and sent people to the palace to report the news to Kui.

These days, Kui Huan has not gotten out of bed, and his body has deteriorated, and he has reached the point where he has run out of oil and dried up, and he is completely relying on the elixir of Jindan to hang his life.

Hearing that Liu Xiu wanted to see him, Kui Huan slowly sat up from the bed with the support of the attendant.

His eyes were scattered, his arm stiffly picked up a bamboo slip from his side, his voice was weak, and he said weakly: "Wang Yuan sent a letter, saying that he was going to Shu to ask Gongsun for help, and he ...... Have you arrived in Chengdu yet? ”

Everyone present looked at each other, but no one spoke. The king is confused! Wang Yuan sent a letter to ask the king to approve him to go to Chengdu for help, but the king's approval has not yet been given, how dare Wang Yuan leave Jicheng without permission?

No one dared to speak. It was Jin Dan who took a step forward, approached Kui Huan, and whispered: "King, General Wang is still in Jicheng!" ”

"He's back from Chengdu?"

He ...... General Wang has not yet gone to Chengdu. ”

"Why not?"

"The king hasn't allowed him to go to Chengdu yet!"

Kui's faint and godless old eyes slowly looked at Jin Dan, and after a while, he said, "Let him go!" As he spoke, he slowly put down the bamboo slip, then supported his body with his hands, and made a gesture to get out of bed.

"Your ......, King"

"Isn't Liu Xiu going to see me outside the city? Even if I don't go to see him, I'll have to see him from the top of the city. One of the attendants hurriedly helped him up, and at the same time said to the attendants around him, "Change the king's clothes!" ”

Under the service of many attendants, Kui Huan dressed neatly, took a carriage, and went to the head of Dongcheng City.

Since the beginning of the Battle of Xicheng, this is the first time that Kui Huan has been on the city wall. The appearance of Kui Hustle made the defenders at the head of the city all cheer and call the king.

Kui Huan, supported by his attendants, walked up the city wall and waved to the surrounding soldiers of the Long army.

Walking to the city gate tower, Kui Huan held the arrow stack, looked out, and sure enough, he saw a team of Han soldiers outside the city, about a thousand people, all holding heavy shields, among these Han soldiers, there were several people on horseback.

As for whether Liu Xiu is among them, the current hustle and bustle is no longer clear.

He watched for a while, bent his waist, glanced left and right, and asked, "Who wants to go out of the city on behalf of Gu and meet Liu Xiu?" ”

With his current physical state, it is impossible to go out of the city to meet Liu Xiu, then again, even if he is not sick, he will not go out of the city to meet Liu Xiu, in Kui Huan's mind, Liu Xiu is a sinister and despicable villain.

Kui Huan asked for a while, and when he saw that no one answered, an unnatural flush appeared on his face, which was angry.

He was about to ask another question, when a middle-aged man stepped forward, bowed to Kui Huan, and said, "King, Weichen is willing to go." ”

The middle-aged man who took the initiative to invite Ying was not an ordinary person, his name was Zheng Xing, the word was Shaogan, and he was in charge of sacrificial wine.

Zheng Xing was a well-known scholar at that time and even in history, and he was the most proficient in "Zuo Chuan", quite accomplished, and became a school of his own.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, more than 80 percent of the academic researches on Zuo Chuan have come from Zheng Xing's faction.

Zheng Xing and another big family, Jia Kui, are collectively known as Zheng Jia, and their academic school, known as Zheng Jia's learning, has been passed down for centuries.

Kui Huan surrendered to Liu Xiu very early, and regarded himself as Hanchen, and he has been running Liangzhou for so many years, and he has indeed gathered a large number of talents under his hands.

As an academic master, Zheng Xing is not the most brilliant among the ministers under Kui Huan, which shows that Kui Huan's talent reserve is abundant.

Seeing that it was Zheng Xing who came out to ask for help, Kui Huan's face softened slightly, and he reminded meaningfully: "Shao Gan, Liu Xiu is cunning, insidious and vicious, when you go out of the city to see him, remember to be more careful, don't fall for his tricks." ”

Zheng Xing arched his hand and said, "Weichen obeys." ”

Speaking of which, the relationship between Zheng Xing and Wang Zun is also very good, but anyone who has a good relationship with Wang Zun is willing to be a Hanchen in his heart, and Zheng Xing is no exception.

It can be said that Kui Huan has been shrewd for most of his life, and the only stupid thing he has ever done is to take refuge in Gongsun Shu.

This makes a large number of ministers under Kui Huan's command deviate from him, otherwise, with the talent reserve under Kui Huan's hands, in Liu Xiu's Luoyang court, he will definitely do a lot.

Zheng Xing went out of the city and met Liu Xiu. Around Liu Xiu, there were more than 1,000 Han army soldiers, and when Zheng Xing went out of the city, he didn't bring a single soldier, he was alone, riding a horse, and met Liu Xiu.

Kui Huan didn't dare to go out of the city to see himself, Liu Xiu was not surprised, and Liu Xiu was a little surprised to learn that the person who came to meet him was Zheng Xing.

Liu Xiu is naturally no stranger to Zheng Xing's name, which is an academic master and a world-famous scholar.

When Liu Xiu met Zheng Xing, he behaved very politely and gave him a very high courtesy. Zheng Xing's heart was originally inclined to the Han family, but now when he saw His Majesty treating him so politely, his heart was even more moved.

He bowed to Liu Xiu and said, "Wechen has admired Your Majesty for a long time, and today I can see Your Majesty, I can see Your Majesty's demeanor with my own eyes, and Wechen is blind when he dies!" ”

Hearing this, Liu Xiu was surprised and delighted, and said: "I have long admired Mr. Zheng's name, Mr. Zheng quickly flattened." ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Zheng Xing straightened up. Liu Xiu looked at him carefully, Zheng Xing looked like he was in his forties, less than fifty, although he was a little older, but the whole person was full of energy, his eyes were bright, and he was full of energy.

Liu Xiu asked with a smile: "Kui Huan didn't dare to go out of the city to meet me, so he sent Mr. Zheng here, right?" When he said this, Liu Xiu's expression was somewhat arrogant.

Zheng Xing owed his figure, and Zhengse said: "It's not that the king doesn't dare to go out of the city to see His Majesty, but because the king is seriously ill, he can't go out of the city to see His Majesty now!" ”

He respects Liu Xiu as the Son of Heaven, but he still uses the title of Kui Huan as the king, and now he is still a courtier of Kui Huan after all, and he will not do one thing on the surface for his monarch, but one thing behind his back. Through this, it is not difficult to see Zheng Xing's temperament.