Chapter 62 Digging a corner?
Hearing his uncle's words, Xiang Yu stood up from his seat and waved to the dancers to move down. After all the dancers retreated, he pulled out the sword at his waist, held his fists and saluted, and pointed the sword at the sky to start dancing.
The act of dancing swords to help drink was extremely popular at that time. Of course, sometimes the sword dancer would be a young girl, which looked even more beautiful. When Fusu was in Shangjun, he also saw many people dancing swords at the banquet. They were either quick or clever, but the feeling gave Fusu was that their sword dance was not used to kill enemies on the battlefield. But when he saw Xiang Yu's sword dance, Fusu knew what a beautiful and practical sword dance was.
The long sword flashed and moved in Xiang Yu's hand, suddenly like a breeze and lightning. There was no sound when the breeze was heard, and the lightning was accompanied by thunder. Fusu was stunned by the ability to dance a sword into two completely different states. Suddenly, Xiang Yu shouted loudly, and his body suddenly moved faster, making Fusu feel that the upper floor was full of sword light, and the sound of the long sword breaking through the air. Just when Fusu was admiring this moment, Xiang Yu's movements
It changed again. He suddenly stopped and threw the sword into the air. Fusu was startled by his sudden stop. Now seeing that he threw the sword in the air and reached out to get the wine glass, he even opened his mouth to scream. Xiang Yu took the glass and drank the wine and slapped his body. The sword fell off from above, but with a "blade" sound, the sword penetrated into the scabbard of his waist without bias.
This last moment completely stunned Fusu. This time, not only requires strength, but also courage and timing. After a while, Fusu came back from the shock just now. At this time, Xiang Liang asked, "Two, how are you looking at Yu'er's sword dancing?" Although he was asking them, in fact, from the smug smile on his face, he could tell how satisfied he was with his nephew's sword dancing this time.
Yu Fulong, who was on the side, nodded repeatedly and said, "Okay, I have seen many sword dances, but there is no one like General Xiang Yu, especially the final closing of the situation is even more amazing." As he said that, he drank the wine in the glass in one gulp, but he was shocked by the wine because the sword light in the building just now looked at him, afraid that Xiang Yu would suddenly assassinate himself with the sword dance.
Fusu also saw the worry in Yu Fulong's heart, so he hurriedly took over the topic and said, "Just relying on General Xiang Yu's good sword dance, I dare to say that no one on the battlefield is General Xiang Yu's opponent."
Xiang Yu looked happy when he heard this. After all, he was just a young man and had no scheming. When people affirmed him, their faces naturally showed their feelings. When Fusu saw him, he developed a little affection for Xiang Yu. This man was a true person and it was not in vain that the Chinese people praised him for thousands of years.
At this time, Xiang Liang said a year: "Looking at Zhou Changshi, he is also a martial arts practitioner. Why not dance a paragraph for me to see it?"
When Fusu heard this, he waved his hand and said, "If General Xiang Yu's pearls and jade were not in front of him, the officials could still offer their ugly things, but now it is better to hide their weaknesses than to offer their ugly things." He said, smiling self-deprecatingly.
"It is better to hide your weakness than to express your ugly words. Zhou Changshi is indeed very extraordinary. Since that's the case, Zhou Changshi will show your literary talent and comment on Yu'er's sword dance with poems." He saw that Fusu had been suppressing himself in words just now, so he took advantage of the issue and wanted to suppress Fusu.
How could Fusu know how to write poetry? He wanted to push it back, but when he saw Xiang Liang's ridiculous face, he became angry, so he began to think hard. After a while, he thought of a few sentences that were used together and opened his mouth: "Liu is like Yi shooting nine sunsets, as beautiful as the emperors flying dragons. Come like thunder and frightening, and stop like the clear light of the river and sea." These sentences are from the famous poem "Watching the Sword Dance of the Disciple of Gongsun's Disciple" by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu. Fusu once recited it when he was in school, but now he has used it for emergency response.
As soon as these few lines of poetry were expressed, the smile on Xiang Liang's face disappeared, replaced by a look of surprise. He never thought that this Changshi, who looked young last year, could say such a wonderful poem, and it was so appropriate to what his nephew danced just now. Although he valued martial arts and slight literature at this time, the Chu people often spread the literary talent to the world, and Xiang Liang did not avoid this, so his contempt for Fusu suddenly became attention. He recited twice in his mouth, "Liu is like Yi shooting nine sunsets, beautiful as the emperors flying dragons. Come like thunder and frightening, and stop like the clear light of the river and sea." Then he said, "Okay, it's such a good poem. This poem will lose its color when it comes out of Yu'er's sword dance."
On the one hand, Fusu didn't expect that the poem he stole the sage of the Poetry Saint was so powerful, but instead felt a little embarrassed and hurriedly claimed that he didn't dare. On the other hand, Yu Fulong also made a qualitative improvement in his view of Fusu, and he had decided to use Fusu well.
After that, there were fewer arguments at the banquet, and more friends were talking to each other. Xiang Liang also had the intention to recruit Fusu, and no longer acted domineering when talking to him. After the banquet, Xiang Liang said to Fusu and the two: "Premier Yu, Zhou Changshi, the dancer who came to cheer up with dance just now was sent to the two of you by my King of Chu. How about I send them to the two of you now?"
Yu Fulong hurriedly said, "I am just a surrendered minister, how dare you take such a respectful courtesy? It is already a great blessing to be able to receive General Xiang today. How dare you ask for the beauty of Chu?" He understood in his heart that these dancers were probably spies or even killers placed by Chu people by him, and he did not dare to ask them to live in the same room with him.
Fusu also refused to accept it, and Xiang Liang had to give up when he saw it.
After leaving the wine, Yu Fulong invited Fusu to get on the car, but Fusu felt that he had drunk a little too much and refused, so he walked slowly along the long street to his residence. Not long after he walked, someone called him from behind and heard the sound: "Please go slowly, Mr. Zhou." Fusu stopped hearing the sound, turned around and looked, but Xiang Liang chased him from behind. He looked at Xiang Liang strangely and said, "What else does General Xiang have to do?"
Xiang Liang came to Fusu and looked at him carefully and said, "Young Master Zhou is both civil and military, why should you be a chief minister in the small town of Jiujiang? At this time, the world is changing. It is the time when a talented and knowledgeable person like Young Master Zhou shows his strengths. I don't want Mr. Zhou to be buried and come to persuade him." While speaking, he did not call himself the general, but called himself the next person, and did not call him Zhou Changshi and changed to the young master.
Fusu felt funny after hearing his words. He didn't expect that he was coming to poach the clerk. If he was really just a young man with great knowledge, he might have really listened to Xiang Liang's words and defected to them, but he was not an ordinary person. He still had more than 100,000 troops in his hands. Moreover, his identity was the Qin people who the Chu people hated the most, and he was also the prince of the Qin people. Of course, it was impossible for him to defect to the Chu people. So he smiled and said, "I am just an unknown person, but he was promoted to the chief minister's position as an exception. He really has the kindness of knowing me, so I will not abandon him and vote for him. I hope General Xiang can understand it."
When he heard Fusu was not moved by his words, Xiang Liang's respect in his eyes went further and said, "In fact, now the prefect Yu is already a minister of my Great Chu. Since the young master is his subordinate, he is naturally a minister of my Chu State, why do you have to assist him?"
Fusu knew that he could not bear to refuse him in person, so he said, "Person I will consider it."
Xiang Liang smiled and nodded and said, "The Japanese general will return to Kuaiji County in Ming Dynasty. Once Master Zhou wants to serve my Great Chu, I, Xiang Liang, must open the door and wait." After that, he bowed and left.
After Fusu watched him leave, he let out a gentle breath, and he was afraid that the other party would be unfavorable to him if he was not satisfied.
The next morning, Xiang Liang led the army back to rest and wait for the next time to expand the territory. Xiang Yu stayed in Jiujiang City as mentioned at the banquet, and in addition to him, there were 800 elite Chu soldiers accompanying him to stay.
There was no war on the southeast side, but the battle in the Central Plains was just beginning. Zhang Han and the Baishi Corps sent 150,000 troops to attack Handan City, which had just been rebuilt by the Zhao people. The army mainly took 80,000 troops and horses brought by Zhang Han, and launched an attack from Shangdang. The tens of thousands of troops from the White Squad set out from Taiyuan County, hoping to first capture Julu County, which had been occupied by the Zhao people and then attack Handan from behind. Zhang Han's army was well-trained and well-equipped, so they broke the newly established Zhao army outside Handan City, which was so fierce that they dared not leave the city again. overnight, Zhang Han's name spread throughout the Central Plains, and people finally knew that there was such a powerful general in the Qin army. However, the Baishi Army encountered considerable trouble when attacking Julu County.
Relying on their familiarity with local geography, the Zhao people always launched sneak attacks on the Qin army with small troops in the mountains and fields. Often before the Qin soldiers began to encircle them, they fled in dispersion. Once the army ignored them, they harassed the baggage troops. In this way, they fought each other like cats and mice for a long time. The Bai Ban army finally attacked Julu, the capital of Julu County, but their morale was greatly depressed. When the Bai Ban saw it, he knew that he could not immediately attack Julu, so he changed the attack to siege, surrounded Julu first, and then found a way.
The Zhao people in Handan were afraid of the attacks between the Bai Ban and Zhang Han. Now that the Bai Ban army was dragged to Julu, they were more at ease to defend. The walls of Handan City were thick and high, and they could not be broken by tens of thousands of people. In addition, the food inside was well prepared, so Zhang Han's army could not capture it.
Chapter completed!