"The emperor is unwilling to pardon the general, so he cannot surrender." Wang Jun sat behind the desk, his copybook hanging on the desk, answering freely, as if he did not notice the other party's actions. "But the general thinks we can leave? Abandoning Xiangyang and most of the troops, we, the confidants, take care of the general and his family and go to Jinghu to seek refuge with Prime Minister Zhong? He is ambitious, on the one hand he wants to equalize the rich and the poor, on the other hand he wants to be the King of Chu."

"I can't go." Fan Qiong put down the knife handle and sighed even more. "I've thought about this before. Not to mention that we are nothing without the city and soldiers, and there are horses blocking the way along the way. Even if we can really get to Jinghu, there is no way out!"

"What do you mean?"

"Don't forget, besides Prime Minister Zhong, there is also Li Xiaoyi who has a grudge against us for killing our brother. And Zhong Xiang is just like what you said, he is ambitious and wants to be the only one... Let me ask you, Li Xiaoyi still has 5,000 to 6,000 people, and we have hundreds or even dozens of people escaping. If you were Prime Minister Zhong, would you keep us and fight Li Xiaoyi to the death, or use us to curry favor with Li Xiaoyi and see if you can gather Li Xiaoyi's troops?"

"What the commander said is right, that's the truth." Wang Jun also sighed. "But if that's the case, we can only hold on for one day at a time... Commander, if the guards are placed outside the city, they will naturally be unstable without a general leading them, and the city will also be unstable. In my opinion, why not call them back? If you put them in front of you, you can control them and stabilize the city defense!"

"That's right, but are we just going to ignore the Han River?" Fan Qiong still shook his head. "It would be even more unsafe to let Emperor Zhao cross the river for nothing."

"I have received great favor from the Grand Marshal. I am willing to go out and guard the Han River for him. I will risk my life to stop Emperor Zhao for him!" Wang Jun took the opportunity to kneel down, revealing his true intentions.

Fan Qiong was slightly startled, then reached for the knife handle under the table.

"In this situation, if the general doesn't trust me, I have nothing to say, but I am absolutely sincere." Wang Jun was lying on the ground, but he raised his head and continued to speak without hesitation. "At worst, I can send my family to the state capital... As long as I can save the general, everything is worth it!"

Fan Qiong smiled slightly, but raised his hand and said: "It's not that I don't trust you, but at this point, I don't know if this action will be useful... Go back and let me think about it."

Wang Jun said no more. He kowtowed three times on the hard stone slabs in the hall and walked out.

After coming out of the door, the man returned to the mansion without stopping. He did not go to the backyard to see Master Lin, but put on his armor in the front yard, and then sat in the drizzle and waited for an opportunity.

In the afternoon, a man came into Wang Jun's house. It was the tooth general who skinned the man that day. When he saw Wang Jun, he bowed to him.

"What's wrong?" Wang Jun turned his head and asked. The gap in his tooth was really eye-catching.

"The Grand Commandant has issued an order, asking Commander Han to lead his troops out of the city to replace the Ya general!" The man bowed his head.

"Sure enough, he still doubts me." Wang Jun sighed. "I have tried my best to serve him in the past few years, but he still doesn't believe me."

The soldiers around were speechless.

"Oh, by the way, let me ask you one more thing." Wang Junfu asked again out of curiosity. "Didn't you say yesterday that the general was no longer a human being in the mansion? Why is he so capable today? Did he deliberately lie to you and lure us out together?"

The general shook his head repeatedly: "Commander, you think too much... Miss Xiu finally persuaded the general today and gave him a good beating."

Wang Jun was slightly startled, then his heart was moved, but he nodded repeatedly: "No matter what, since this thief has fallen into the trap, the credit for Xiangyang is in our hands. You don't have to panic that there will be no result after the city is captured... Eat up, follow me and wait for Old Han to leave the city, there is no need to wait until dark!"

Hearing this, the general and Wang Jun's subordinates around him were all relieved, as if a heavy stone had fallen from their chest.

The rain gradually got heavier and the sky got darker. In the afternoon, Han Li, the commander of the left army in the city, led 3,000 soldiers out of the city and went to the riverside to replace the soldiers guarding the river.

However, as soon as they left the city, they heard constant noise inside and the drawbridge was hastily taken down.

The soldiers of the left army around were in a panic and naturally looked at the commander Han Li.

Han Li, standing on horseback in the rain, sighed as well, then looked around at his trusted generals: "I knew it was Wang Huozi who did the evil today, and I was greatly favored by the Grand Commandant, so I should have stayed in the city and dealt with it carefully... But the situation has come to this point, and the Grand Commandant shouldn't have taken all the men in the city to die together. All of you listen to my orders, you guys should continue to go to the riverside to replace the guards, and then directly cross the river to surrender! You are of low rank, and the government won't blame you if it blames you."

Perhaps because Han Li was popular among the army, many officers around him were relieved but still remembered him. Someone asked, "But what about the commander? If the government blames him, can he be pardoned?"

"I don't know, so I have some plans." Han Li sighed. "Today you go to the river, surrender and plead for my family who are still in the city, and I will escape from now on, become a wanderer in the mountains, and never show up again."

Having said that, the man reined in his horse and rode away to the west without even looking back.

The soldiers around looked at each other, but followed the last order of this mountain hermit, no longer paying attention to what was happening in the city, and headed directly towards the Han River.

Not to mention, Commander Han saw through the world and became Mr. Han. On the other side, there was a commotion in the city, and Fan Qiong suddenly realized that he had fallen into Wang Jun's simple plan of luring the tiger away from the mountain.

However, since he had fallen into the trap, when he called out to the generals and soldiers around the government office but no one responded, he finally realized that he was at the end of his rope and became even more desperate.

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