Zhong Xiang's idea is very good, and Liu Xu's strategy is also good.

However, many things do not necessarily follow the trajectory that everyone thinks, and the state of affairs will necessarily develop according to their intended trajectory.

Just when Liu Xu offered a plan to divide the line and watch the fire from the other side, the people of Xiongshan had already received a new secret order sent to him and Yang Mi by Liu Xing through Ying Yangwei.

What is Liu Xing's explanation for this new secret order? The content of this new secret decree is only eight big words: embattled.

Embattled, it is an extremely classic case in the history of Chinese civilization and war.

I think that when Chu and Han were fighting, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang originally agreed to use the east and west sides of the chasm as the boundary and not to invade each other.

Later, Liu Bang, who was originally a scoundrel in the market, listened to the advice of Zhang Liang and Chen Ping, and felt that he should eliminate Xiang Yu when he was weak, so he joined forces with Han Xin, Peng Yue, and Liu Jia to pursue Xiang Yu's troops who were heading east to Pengcheng.

After a series of onslaughts, schemes, and deceptions. Finally, several layers of troops were arranged to tightly surround Xiang Yu.

At that time, there were very few soldiers under Xiang Yu, only more than 800 cavalry left, and there was no food.

At night, when he heard the troops surrounding him singing the folk songs of Chudi, he couldn't help but be very surprised and said, "Has Liu Bang already gotten Chudi?" Why are there so many Chu people in his army? ”

As he spoke, Xiang Yu's heart actually began to lose his fighting spirit. He got up from his bed, sat down in the tent, drank wine, and sang with his favorite concubine, Yu Ji.

What about after singing? The overlord of Chu, who was a generation of heroes, even burst into tears, which made the people next to him very sad and felt that they couldn't raise their heads.

It's not a big deal. Xiang Yu mounted his horse and took the remaining 800 cavalry. Escape from the Southern Breakout. Fight while fleeing. went to the bank of the Wujiang River to kill himself.

Because in this story, Xiang Yu heard Chu Ge singing around, felt surprised, and failed to commit suicide after watching it, so later people used the phrase "embattled" to describe the personnel environment in which people were attacked or persecuted from all sides, and fell into a situation of isolation and embarrassment.

The fate of those who fall into such a situation is often very tragic, for example, because someone is constantly in the company of bad people, and he is idle and busy.

But then when he was forced by those bad people to make a living and turn to others. Others also do not sympathize with or ignore him because his usual behavior is too bad, and this person is in a situation where he is "embattled"......

Such a Central Plains person even knows the strategy hidden in the classic story that Meng Tong knows, whether it is Xiongshan people or Yang Mi, how can they not know?

In Zhong's army, 100,000 are Xiaoxiang's disciples, and the shortest time they have left their hometown has been half a year. Most people of the Chinese nation have a kind of nostalgia in their bones, and their homeland is difficult to leave, and they will naturally miss their hometown and want to return to their hometown after leaving for a long time.

Yang Mi understood what Liu Xing was going to do, and of the 45,000 people he brought to Guangxi, 30,000 were also Xiaoxiang children. Many people are even in the same village and street as some of Zhong Xiangjun, and they grew up together since childhood.

So Zhong Xiang did not raise troops to rebel. Fall into the embattled realm first. When Zhong Xiang sent people to Yang Mi's side to buy people and start Liu Xu's discord plan, Yang Mi also sent people to infiltrate Zhong Xiang's army.

The man sent by Zhong Xiang to buy people in order to make a divisive plan had not yet found someone to buy in Yang Qi's army. All sorts of gossip. Two days later, it began to spread among Zhong Xiang's army.

Some people say that Zhong Xiang wants to establish himself as a king and no longer cares about his relatives in his hometown in Hunan. He is going to step on the shoulders of our Xiaoxiang children to ascend to the throne, but he will be an ungrateful villain who turns his back on Sangzi.

There are also people who say that the current situation in Hunan is good, and every family has been allocated land, and it is no longer the world full of injustice when we followed Zhong Dashuai to raise troops. Let's go home, return to our hometown after unloading our armor and returning to the field, and we can all live a good life that we couldn't hope for before......

Some people directly and continuously sang Xiaoxiang folk songs in the army, and used those folk songs to stimulate the homesickness of those Xiaoxiang children in Zhong Xiangjun's army, so that many Xiaoxiang veterans began to quietly get together at night and plotted how to ask for retirement or transfer back to Hunan to be patrolling......

Yang Mi used the family card, first lit a fire in Zhong Xiang's backyard, which burned his army's heart, and then the old Dao Xiongshan people also took action.

Xiongshan people's subordinates are all Dongchuan soldiers, and there are not many Xiaoxiang children. But what? These Dongchuan soldiers still secretly kept going to go to the officers at all levels in Zhong Xiang's army to go around privately.

I don't know each other, you Dongchuan soldiers went directly to meet those officers who were in the prime of life, what reason and excuse did you use?

The excuse of the Dongchuan soldiers under the Xiongshan people was: Grandpa's brother is a magistrate in Yuanjiang, and I asked me to bring some family letters to everyone from Yuanjiang. My younger brother is an official in Changsha, and he asked me to bring you some local products from his hometown and family letters.

Liu Xing's new law does not have an explicit stipulation of "supporting the army and giving preference to family members", but the rule of ordering local officials and county-level yamen to take care of military families during the New Year's holidays has long been set as an iron rule since the city of Taiyuan was laid.

Therefore, those Dongchuan soldiers went to meet the officers at all levels under Zhong Xiang, and after meeting, not only were they not suspected by those officers, but they made the officers under Zhong Xiang's hands all kinds of gratitude and gratitude to the Dongchuan soldiers who went there......

A letter from home for thousands of miles, the comfort and stimulation of the psychology of wandering outsiders are indescribable.

What are the letters written in those letters? The vast majority of them are written about the earth-shaking changes that have taken place in the hometowns of those officers, and a scene of Xinxin being prosperous and thriving.

In the letter, they also persuaded and induced those officers to be transferred back to Hunan as soon as possible, at least closer to their hometowns, so as to help protect the good life that they have created with great difficulty......

So, it was only a few days. First, the low-level soldiers plotted how to get their wish to ask for a transfer and return to their hometowns, and then it became a homesickness among officers at all levels.

When Liu Xing's return journey was still three hundred miles away from Bianjing City, Zhong Xiang and Liu Xu's plan to separate Yang Qi and Xiongshan people had not yet been implemented, but the hearts of the soldiers in his own army were completely chaotic first.

The army's heart was in turmoil, and Zhong Xiang immediately felt that something was wrong, so he could only summon Liu Xu to the front again to ask about countermeasures.

Even if the resourceful Liu Xu has a plan, he is at a loss in the face of the shock of the military caused by this kind of homesickness. can only be bitter, and offer Zhong Xiang another set of strategies.

has been planning a plan for himself for a long time, and Liu Xu feels that if he doesn't implement it, he is afraid that he will not have a chance to implement it in the future.

But as soon as this set of tactics was finished and left Zhong Xiang's governor's yamen, Liu Xu found an excuse and rushed to his brother Liu Heng in Qinzhou in the starry night, leaving Zhong Xiang's side. (To be continued.) )