Chapter 139 The Emotional Card and the Divergence Plan
Xu Ran naturally noticed Zhang Liu's gaze. Could it be that there was something about Fan Kuai, so he asked calmly: "Tell me about what happened recently."
"That fellow Liu Bang once wrote a letter to Fan Kuai," Zhang Liu said.
"Prince Xu, I, Fan Kuai, am loyal to you without any second thoughts." Fan Kuai immediately knelt on the ground and looked directly at Xu Ran without any intention of dodge.
"That's not necessarily the case." At this moment, Zhang Liu said angrily from the side.
"Zhang Liu, you are deliberately against me. I, Fan Kuai, have a clear conscience." Fan Kuai growled angrily, then looked at Xu Ran and explained: "King Xu, Liu Bang did write a letter to persuade me and let me lead the soldiers to follow."
To him, but I refused, my loyalty to King Xu is a lesson.
"This is the letter Liu Bang wrote to me." Fan Kuai then handed over a letter and handed it to Xu Ran respectfully.
It was said to be a letter, but it was actually just a piece of cloth with a seal written in an unknown pigment. The main idea was to ask Fan Kuai to switch sides and follow him. If Liu Bang conquers the world in the future, he will not treat Fan Kuai badly.
And there are many emotional cards at the back, such as the two met in Peixian County, had a deep friendship, were like brothers, shared blessings and shared hardships, and so on.
"I believe Fan Kuai, he will not betray me." Xu Ran took a look and threw the cloth on the ground like trash.
"Prince Xu, thank you for believing in me, Lao Fan." Fan Kuai said excitedly when he saw Xu Ran trusting him without reservation.
"King Xu, you can't trust Fan Kuai." At this moment, Zhang Liu said eagerly: "Fan Kuai has betrayed you and said he would take thousands of elite soldiers to join Liu Bang."
"Zhang Liu, you fart, when did I, Fan Kuai, say that?" Fan Kuai immediately retorted with great excitement.
"Hey, this is the letter you wrote." Suddenly, Zhang Liu took out a piece of cloth from his arms and said with a sneer: "What, do you want me to read it out to you?"
"Hello Brother Liu, we have known each other since childhood. Naturally, I cannot sacrifice my life for King Xu. In the past few days, I will select thousands of people who are loyal to me and choose a day to follow you."
Without waiting for Fan Kuai to refute again, Zhang Liu read out the content on the cloth.
Then he sneered and said: "I knew you were going to rebel, but I didn't expose you because I didn't want to see my soldiers killing each other. Now that King Xu is right in front of you, do you have anything else to say?"
"You're talking nonsense, I didn't write a letter, I didn't write a letter to Liu Bang," Fan Kuai explained with a pale face, but the evidence was in Zhang Liu's hands, and any explanation given by Fan Kuai seemed weak.
Xu Ran suddenly looked at Fan Kuai in shock, his eyes slightly cold. Could it be that Fan Kuai really betrayed him because Liu Bang played the emotional card.
This is not impossible.
After all, Fan Kuai and Liu Bang had known each other since childhood in Peixian County. The two had a close friendship, and there was a certain chance that Fan Kuai would betray him.
However, Fan Kuai, a first-level warrior, was full of resentment and resentment on his face at this moment. Only a person who had been wronged could truly show such an expression.
Fan Kuai has a simple mind and well-developed limbs, so it is impossible for him to act in front of himself.
If so, that would be terrible.
"etc"
Suddenly, Xu Ran seemed to have thought of something, looked at Zhang Liu and asked, "When did you get the letter in your hand?"
"On the second day after Liu Bang sent someone to deliver a letter to Fan Kuai, I realized at that time that Liu Bang would probably instigate Fan Kuai to rebel, so I kept an eye on it."
"Not long after the messenger sent by Liu Bang left, a soldier under Fan Kuai bumped into me in a hurry, and what fell out of him was this reply letter written by Fan Kuai."
"After receiving this letter, I immediately realized that Fan Kuai had betrayed you, King Xu."
"Ha ha"
Xu Ran suddenly laughed, waved his hand and said, "Zhang Liu, I now believe that Fan Kuai did not betray me. This is actually just Liu Bang's strategy."
Zhang Liu looked at Xu Ran with some surprise and said: "Why is King Xu so sure that Fan Kuai did not betray you?"
"It's very simple. If I were Fan Kuai and I have defected to someone else, and my former friend asked me to surrender, I would not make an immediate decision. I would think about whether I should betray my current position and join my former friend, or reject the invitation of my former friend. This requires
a certain amount of time”.
"And this letter was available the day after Liu Bang's messenger handed it to Fan Kuai. It was obviously prepared long ago."
"In addition, if Fan Kuai really wanted to join Liu Bang, based on his brains, he would probably lead his troops and leave without resorting to such unnecessary actions as writing a letter."
"Also, why did the person who delivered the letter happen to bump into you? Why did the written letter just happen to fall at your feet and be discovered by you? Don't you think it's suspicious?"
"So, all of this is Liu Bang's plan." Xu Ran raised a confident smile on his lips, and continued to explain amidst the blank expressions of the two of them: "Both letters were written by Liu Bang, and Liu Bang knew
I re-employed Fan Kuai. He had thousands of people under his command, and he was Fan Kuai's good friend, so he wrote a letter and played the emotional card to get Fan Kuai to surrender to him. However, Liu Bang also knew Fan Kuai's temperament, so he made the decision Nine Heads Cow
I can’t even pull it back.”
"So the messenger he sent bribed an adjutant under Fan Kuai and handed the adjutant the second letter that he had prepared. And this letter of surrender must be discovered by you, Zhang Liu."
"Why is this?" Zhang Liu asked still confused, the reflex arc was a bit long.
Xu Ran said angrily: "This is naturally Liu Bang's plan to alienate each other. He deliberately dropped this letter in front of you to make you mistakenly think that Fan Kuai had thoughts of betrayal. As part of Liu Bang's plan, you knew about it.
He will definitely tell me, and I will mistakenly think that Fan Kuai really surrendered. If I kill Fan Kuai, Liu Bang will not have to face a general like Fan Kuai on the battlefield. If Fan Kuai is lucky enough to survive, he will definitely be resentful.
With me, I must join Liu Bang. Liu Bang has a strong general in Fan Kuai. If I really believe that Fan Kuai has betrayed me, no matter what decision I make, it will be beneficial to Liu Bang."
"So, all of this is a plot arranged by Liu Bang. Find the person who bumped into you that day to see if he was bribed by Liu Bang. Then all the truth will be revealed," Xu Ran said calmly.
Xu Ran almost believed it, but when he thought of Liu Bang's capricious character, he said one thing on the surface and another on the inside, he would do whatever it took to achieve his goals, and his palace was extremely deep.
So Xu Ran 99% believed that this was Liu Bang's strategy.
"Liu Bang, Liu Bang, no matter how many tricks you have in your belly, I am a person from more than two thousand years later, can I be played by you and be played with by applause?" Xu Ran sighed in his heart.
"Okay, I'll go find that guy right now," Zhang Liu said, and hurried out. After a while, Zhang Liu hurried back, holding a soldier in his hand.
It was the person who bumped into him and dropped the envelope last time.