Douluo: The Lower Realm of the Children of the King of God and the Lord God

Chapter 40

[-]. The allusion of "Building the plank road in the open, secretly destroying the Chencang" comes from Sima Qian of the Western Han Dynasty's "Historical Records: Biography of the Marquis of Huaiyin". It means that the true intention is hidden behind the superficial actions, using obvious actions to confuse the opponent, causing the enemy to have illusions, and ignoring one's own intentions. True intentions to win by surprise.Sometimes the "Open Plank Road" can be omitted and the "Dark Chencang" can be used alone.[-]. Allusion: During the conflict between Chu and Han, Xiang Yu relied on his strong military strength and violated the agreement that whoever enters Guanzhong first would be king. He named Liu Bang, who entered Guanzhong first, as the King of Han, and proclaimed himself the Overlord of Western Chu.Liu Bang followed the advice of his adviser Zhang Liang and when he returned to Hanzhong from Guanzhong, he burned the plank road to show that he would never enter Guanzhong again.Later, Liu Bang worshiped Han Xin as his general. He ordered his soldiers to repair the plank road and pretended to attack Guanzhong from the plank road. In fact, he and Liu Bang led the main force to secretly attack Chencang through a small road, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the defenders to occupy Chencang.Then he invaded Xianyang and occupied Guanzhong.As a result, Liu Bang fulfilled his agreement to enter Guanzhong first.

The background of the extended information "Building Plank Roads in the Open and Visiting Chencang in Secret" was due to the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty. In July of the first year of Qin II (209 BC), Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled against Qin in Daze Township.In September, with the support of Xiao He, the chief official of Pei County, and Cao Shen, the prison rafter, Liu Bang gathered a crowd to respond to the uprising and called him Pei Gong. Soon Liu Bang defected to Xiang Liang.In 206 BC, the war between Xiang Yu and Liu Bang to destroy the Qin Dynasty ended. Xiang Yu relied on his military strength to break up the land and enfeoff 18 princes and kings, proclaiming himself the Overlord of Western Chu.In order to trap Liu Bang, who might compete with him for the world, he sealed Ba (the county governed Jiangzhou, on the north bank of the Jialing River in the north of today's CQ City), Shu (the county governed Chengdu, now part of Sichuan), and Hanzhong (the three counties south of the Qinling Mountains in today's Shaanxi Province and the west of Hubei Province). Liu Bang forced him to leave Guanzhong.Liu Bang's soldiers in the Han army miss him eagerly and look forward to returning to their hometown as soon as possible. Some of them who are weak-willed and impatient have already fled.Liu Bang took the initiative to add fuel to the flames, took advantage of the situation to defeat the Three Qin Dynasties, and personally led the Han army out of Hanzhong to launch a war to destroy the Three Qin Dynasties.Liu Bang accepted the suggestion of general Han Xin to take the Chencang Road, determined to raid Guanzhong, and fight eastward to compete with Xiang Yu for the world.

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