"When you come out to hang out, you have an additional identity, an additional path, and an additional choice!" Han Xin touched his head in embarrassment.
"So, you are still the one who caught the net!" Meng Tian pointed to the spider web mark on the back of Han Xin's hand, covered by his shirt sleeve.
"Uh..." Han Xin touched his head awkwardly and had no explanation.
"That's all, I owe you a favor this time. When I come to Xianyang in the future, I can come to Meng's house often!" Meng Tian didn't go into details.
"Chu people believe in the theory of gods and ghosts, so general, you might as well try using honey!" Han Xin reminded again, and then handed over a porcelain bottle filled with honey.
Meng Tian took the porcelain bottle, nodded, turned around and returned to his tent, and then opened the secret letter Han Xin handed him.
There is not much content in the secret letter, it just states that Xiang Yan advised Xiong Qi to return to Shouchun and stick to Shouchun, while other Chu nobles also wanted to coerce Xiong Qi into fleeing. In the end, Xiong Qi decided to escape back to Shouchun under the cover of night.
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Armed with the information, Meng Tian immediately came to the map and observed it carefully, looking for the escape route for Xiong Qi and the nobles of Chu State.
"Mo Shang Sang!" In the end, Meng Tian determined the path that Xiong Qi and others must take, and marked it carefully on the map.
"Come here!" Meng Tian shouted.
"Here!" The remaining general of the Fire Cavalry walked in immediately.
"How many brothers do we have left?" Meng Tian asked.
"Replenished from the Wuling Cavalry, now we have a thousand people available!"
"Tell the brothers to follow me out of the camp!" Meng Tian said in a low voice without intending to alarm too many people.
"Where are you going, young master?" the guard commander also asked in a low voice.
"The King of Chu wants to escape, let's ambush him!" Meng Tian did not hide these life and death robes.
"Okay!" The guard commander did not hesitate and left the camp directly, quietly notifying the Fire Cavalry soldiers, and then following Meng Tian, he also quietly left the camp under the cover of night.
The early morning mist dispersed, and Meng Tian and his party finally arrived at Mo Shang Sang ahead of schedule.
"Move quickly!" Meng Tian urged the soldiers to spread honey on the ground, attracting a swarm of ants and sweet-loving insects.
In the night, Xiong Qi was also coerced by other nobles and quietly left the Chu army camp. Even if he didn't want to, he had to leave.
"Wang Jian's words are right. After the battle has been fought like this, the general will have died long ago, but the king cannot die yet. As long as the king is still alive, there will be hope for the Chu State!" Xiang Yan cheered up in a rare move and asked his guard, General Xiong.
Qi and the nobles sent him away, choosing to stay and sit alone.
"General... take care of it!" Xiong Qi, coerced by the nobles, turned back three times and finally left.
He knew very well that this farewell was an eternal farewell, and Xiang Yan had already coexisted and died with the army with a certain death intention.
Xiang Yan didn't respond at all, just sitting quietly on the floor of the handsome tent.
"Keep your voice down, hurry up, don't be discovered by the Qin army!" Under the escort of their cronies, the nobles quietly left the camp and fled towards Shouchun.
Xiong Qi was also trapped in it, and the Qin army did not put much precaution at all, allowing them to escape easily.
After all, the trapped beast still fights. What Li Mu and others hope more is that the Chu army will collapse without a fight, and they will allow the Chu army to desert without pursuing or intercepting them.
After galloping all night, a group of more than a hundred people finally arrived at the Sangqiu area of Mo Shang Sang. As long as they crossed the Sang River, even if the Qin army found out that they had escaped, it would be difficult to catch up with them.
"Stop and rest for a while. When it gets dark, a ferry will come to take us across the river!" A nobleman looked at Xiong Qi and explained.
They wanted to escape back, so they naturally made preparations. The San River was neither wide nor deep, but it was difficult to cross without a boat. At least war horses could not cross the water.
Xiong Qi nodded and didn't say much else. Now he is no longer the aloof King of Chu. I'm afraid that when he returns to Shouchun, these people will put him under house arrest as soon as possible and use him as a bargaining chip to wait for the price.
sell.
This was the fundamental reason why this group of people wanted to take him back to Shouchun.
After all, if they vote for Qin, they can't get any high-ranking officials or salaries, but if they dedicate themselves to Qin, they can get a lot of benefits.
"Here we come!" In the woods on both sides of Mo Shang Sang's ferry, Meng Tian and others heard the sound of horse hooves and footsteps as Xiong Qi and his party arrived, and knew that the person they were waiting for had already arrived.
"Don't be anxious, wait first!" Meng Tian did not give the order to rush out immediately, but wanted to wait until dawn.
So, at first light and then dark, both parties waited for dawn at the edge of the small ferry at Mo Shang Sang.
Finally, the dark sky turned white, and the rising sun shone on the San River, as if it was shining a bright road.
"This is God guiding the king to return to Shouchun, regroup, and make a comeback!" the nobles flattered him.
Others nodded in agreement.
At this time, a small boat also appeared on the San River, slowly approaching the ferry.
In the woods, Meng Tian and others were a little anxious. If Xiong Qi was allowed to board the ship, they would not be able to pursue him any longer.
"Is it him?" Meng Tian was about to give the order to rush out, but when he saw the people on the boat, he suddenly stopped the order because he knew the boatman on the boat.
"Boatman, hurry, we have to cross the river!" The nobleman greeted the boatman overjoyed when he saw him coming in his boat.
"My tented boat can carry one person. Among you nobles, who will cross the river first?" the boatman asked, looking at the hundreds of people on the ferry.
Only then did the nobles realize that this did not seem to be the ship they had arranged in advance!
"Your Majesty, let's go first!" In the end, the nobles decided to let Xiong Qi cross the river first, because they saw other boats appearing and heading towards the ferry, and mistakenly thought they were together.
Xiong Qi didn't hesitate, jumped on the boat, and took the first step.
"Do it!" Meng Tian ordered decisively after seeing Xiong Qi boarding the boat.
Suddenly the war horse roared, rushed out of the woods, and charged towards the nobles on the edge of the ferry.
The nobles were stunned, not expecting that the Qin army would pursue them so quickly, so they decisively asked the guards to stop Meng Tian and his party, while he desperately shouted to the boats on the river to hurry up and take them across the river.
It's just that the boatmen in Sanhe only used money to do things and were not familiar with these nobles. When they saw a large army charging and killing them, they didn't dare to approach the shore again and left far away.
"What did you see, noble man?" the boatman asked while holding the boat at the stern.
Xiong Qi looked around doubtfully, and suddenly his eyes froze on the shore.
"The King of Chu dies here!"
Xiong Qi confirmed again in disbelief, his eyes fixed on a shallow beach next to the ferry. A group of black ants densely formed five large characters in the fish and bird script of Chu State.
Before, it was impossible to see clearly because of the darkness. It was only now, when the sun rose, that I could finally see clearly the five large characters measuring one foot square.