Rumors about Bi Shu were not only circulated in Zhiling City, but rumors about General Bi Shu were already spread in the Chu army camp far away in Huainan. These rumors were shot into the camp by Qi army's detailed actions. Although these letters were quickly confiscated, the contents of them were inevitably spread. (_""")

The reason why these rumors can spread is because they have a market.

The reason why these rumors have a market is that the Chu army soldiers complained about Bi Shu.

The reward and punishment system of the Chu army followed the Qin army. If the soldiers wanted to be awarded a title, they could only rely on their military achievements. The more military achievements, the faster the title was promoted and the richer the rewards. This inevitably made the soldiers extremely warlike. When the Qin army swallowed the six countries, the factors of war had been integrated into their bones, and the Chu army is no less than that.

Therefore, Bi Shu's long-term avoidance of the war is equivalent to cutting off the soldiers' path to promotion. In this case, if the soldiers have no complaints in their hearts, then there will be a ghost.

If you have complaints in your heart, the rumors spread by Qi Jun will naturally have a market.

Tie Niu took two letters of rumor shot in by Qi army and strode into Bi Shu's tent. He bowed to Bi Shu first, and then said with a serious expression: "General, he has confiscated two more secret letters."

Bi Shu's eyes did not move away from Sun Tzu's art of war in his hand, and said lightly: "Iron Ox, throw it away."

Tie Niu frowned and said with some concern: "General, are you not worried at all?"

"Worry?" Bi Shu said without raising his head, "This is just a rumor. No one will believe it."

Tie Niu said: "But now the rumors have spread throughout the camp, and the soldiers are spreading it."

Bi Shu said: "That's because the soldiers were resentful. They were using this to put pressure on this general. Han Xin and Ying Bu were also hoping that the general would take the initiative to fight. They could not fulfill their wishes."

"Then..." Tie Niu hesitated, "Will it trigger a mutiny?"

"No." Bi Shu turned over a page of military books and shook his head slightly, "If a few rumors could be disintegrated, the Chu army would not be the Chu army. Don't worry, don't look at the soldiers who are full of resentment towards me now, but when the war begins, they will immediately forget all these unhappiness, and they will resolutely implement my military orders as they did at the beginning."

"Here." Tie Niu retreated hunched out, but his brows had never been stretched.

As the general's personal military captain, Tieniu is really worried for Bi Shu. """ () General's popularity is not very good. Because of the Battle of Fu Li, the relationship between General Hu Ben and General was a bit stale. Yu Ziqi, Ziche Shi, and Xiqilie, the army's important generals were also a little distant from following the general. This is not a good thing.

Bi Shu didn't take these things seriously and still focused on reading Sun Tzu's Art of War.

Recently, when looking through Sun Tzu's Art of War, Bi Shu vaguely realized a truth: whether the Battle of Huainan can ultimately defeat Han Xin depends on whether he can put his understanding into actual combat. As for avoiding war, it is just a means to disintegrate the morale of the enemy. Bi Shu never expected that he could kill his opponent by avoiding war alone.

Zhao Kuo tried to put him to death and finally ruined the Zhao army for 400,000. But Han Xin was not Zhao Kuo. If Han Xin's 150,000 Qi army and Ying Bu's 100,000 Huainan army were forced into a desperate situation of food outage, Han Xin might have staged an adversarial counterattack of "putting him to death and then living". Bi Shu would not give him such a chance.

"The soldiers are in constant force, and the water is in constant form..." Bi Shu murmured, falling into long periods of contemplation.

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"King, this is an open conspiracy." Zhao Yan shook his sleeves, raised two fingers to Han Xin, and continued, "The rumors in Huainan are just to strengthen the resentment in the hearts of the Chu soldiers, thus forming a psychological pressure on Bi Shu, forcing him to change his decision to avoid war and turn to fight and decide quickly with the coalition forces."

Kuai Che, who was sitting in the lower head, said: "I'm afraid this will be difficult to achieve."

Zhao Yan nodded and said, "Brother Zitong is as wise as a torch. As the general of the Great Chu, Bi Shu has absolute control over the more than 200,000 Chu troops in Huainan. It is indeed difficult to destroy the morale of the Chu army with just a few rumors. It is indeed difficult to force Bi Shu to change his decision, but if there is external force involved, it will be different."

"External force?" Han Xin said thoughtfully, "What external force?"

Zhao Yan smiled slightly and said, "For example, the suspicion of the King of Chu."

"Will Xiang Zhuang be suspicious of Bi Shu?" Ying Bu said unbelievingly, "No, definitely not."

Kuai Che also said: "The so-called rumors stop at the wise man. The wisdom of King Xiang Zhuang of Chu is never inferior to the King of Han. He has always been to use people without doubt and doubt people without using them. How can he deceive him by a mere disagreement plan?"

"Otherwise." Zhao Yan smiled and shook his head, "The King of Han is very wise and has great trust in the Grand Marshal Zhou Bo. However, when he was fighting for Liang territory with our king, he was also caught in the King of Chu's plan to interfere Zhou Bo's army back to Wancheng?"

Kuai Che said: "As far as we know, Zhou Bo's army was not recalled by the King of Han, but voluntarily withdrew."

Zhao Yan said: "The results are the same. The reason why Zhou Bo took the initiative to withdraw is because he knew that the King of Han would definitely be suspicious. By the same token, as long as rumors arose in Ziling City, Xiang Zhuang would not be suspicious. As a monarch, how could he truly trust the general who commanded the troops outside?"

Speaking of this, Zhao Yan couldn't help but glance at Han Xin.

Han Xin was a little unnatural, but Ying Bu, Kuai Che, Xue Ou and others suddenly realized that there was indeed a living example of Han Xin. As a monarch, who would dare to trust the general under the tent without reservation? Xiang Zhuang is certainly aware of people and good at responsibilities, and Bi Shu is certainly loyal to him, but what does this mean?

Finally, Zhao Yan said confidently: "As long as Xiang Zhuangsheng felt suspicious, Bi Shu could only show his feelings by taking the initiative to fight!"

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Through Fei Ge's letter, the news about Ebony quickly spread to Xiangzhuang's army.

After reading the secret letter, Xiang Zhuang handed it to Bailixian who was in the next head. Bailixian looked carefully, then smiled and shook his head and said, "This is just Han Xin's plan of separation."

Xiang Zhuang said: "But we have to admit that this plan of disagreement is very lethal."

"That's it." Baili Xian said, "If it weren't for Xuejian and founding the military system of the palace, the military power in the world would be concentrated in the king from now on. It would be very difficult for the king to truly trust Xuejian without reservation." After saying this, Baili Xian said, "Now, this plan of disagreement has no lethality."

Indeed, in the Chu State, which implemented the system of government troops, the army was divided into two parts, one was the imperial guards and the other was the imperial guards. Needless to say, they were elites who were absolutely loyal to the king. The government troops were usually stored in the Zhechong Prefectures of various counties. Only in the war can they be mobilized and assembled by the monarch's military talismans. After the war, the government soldiers would immediately disperse and return to the governments.

In this case, if the general who commanded the army does not have his own direct army, what can he rebel?

Xiang Zhuang sneered: "I am not Liu Bang, and the government system is not as good as the more military system. Han Xin wanted to use the tricks I used to deal with Liu Bang to deal with me, which was a delusion, hehe."

After saying this, Xiang Zhuang turned around and said to Qu Bucai: "Old Qu, immediately send a letter to Bi Shufeige, telling him not to have any scruples. Just waste his time with Han Xin in Huainan, and I will not believe it anymore. With the strong national strength of our Great Chu, he can't even waste his Qi State, which is so poor that he is about to lose his fault? Humph."

"Here!" Qu Bucai bowed and took the order.

However, after a while, Qu Bucai entered the tent again and surrendered to report: "King, the news of the West of Shu!"

"Oh? Come on!" Xiang Zhuang hurriedly took the secret letter from Qu Bucai. After reading it quickly, he couldn't help but be overjoyed. He turned around and said to Bailixian, "Ziliang, Zi'ang defeated Qiang and Di, which has completely eliminated the hidden dangers in western Shu. Jinchuan in all directions is settled, and the passage of Ran Long's march into Bashu has also been blocked, haha."

Bailixian smiled and said, "King, we have no worries now."

Xiang Zhuang nodded and said, "That's right, now we can do our best to deal with Liu Bang's old man."

Bailixian's feather fan shook and suddenly stopped, then turned his head and looked at the map hanging on the screen not far away and said, "Master, I suddenly had an idea."

"What's your thought?" Xiang Zhuang asked casually.

Bailixian stood up immediately, walked to the map and said something to Xiang Zhuang.

Xiang Zhuang's eyes suddenly lit up and he said in an inexplicable tone: "Ziliang, this is a big game! If this big game is played well, Liu Bang will be completely finished!"

Bailixian smiled slightly and said, "The premise is that the general must first break the deadlock!"

"This is not a problem." Xiang Zhuang waved his hand and said confidently: "I have enough confidence in learning swords. In this Huainan battle, he will definitely be able to defeat Han Xin!"

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Two days later, a fast horse rushed into the Chu army camp on the north bank of Sishui like lightning.

Soon, Tie Niu hurried into Bishu's central army tent with a secret letter and reported: "General, the king who was transferred from Ziling was urgently ordered."

Bi Shu quickly put down Sun Tzu's art of war in his hand, knelt down and stood up, then stretched out his hands to take the secret letter from Tie Niu's hand, and waved to Tie Niu again, saying, "Tie Niu, you go out first."

"Here!" Tie Niu bowed, bowed back two steps and turned around and came out of the big tent.

Bi Shu carefully cut open beeswax with a dagger, took out a small roll of paper from the small bamboo tube, then put it on the table and spread it gently. After reading the secret letter carefully, a faint smile broke out in the corner of Bi Shu's mouth. Han Xin tried to force him to take the initiative to fight with a divisive plan, but it was in vain, but... this was an opportunity worth taking advantage of.

At that moment, Bi Shu stood up and stood in front of the map and began to ponder for a long time. (To be continued...)
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