When the news was sent back to the Chinese Army, Li Mu looked at the information sent back by the messenger without much expression, as did other generals such as Wang Jian, Wang Bi, Yang Duanhe and others.
"He's still dead after all!" Wang Jian sighed.
Once, when the Qin State made a plan to overthrow the Six Kingdoms, he placed Lian Po, Le Cheng, Li Mu and Xiang Yan in the first echelon, which were also the most dangerous enemy generals.
But later, the State of Zhao united without a fight, leaving Xiang Yan as his only opponent.
But I never thought that before the official battle, Chu State would be beaten into two by Long Jun.
Then he thought about confronting Xiang Yan on the battlefield, but who would have thought that the Chu army would be beaten again by a fledgling general Meng Tian and suffered heavy casualties.
"After all, Chu State cannot support his talent!" Yang Duanhe also sighed.
They knew that Xiang Yan was not reused before King Kaolie of Chu, and was suppressed by Lord Chunshen and Huang Xie, so his talents were not fully utilized.
After Huang Xie passed away, the newly appointed Li Yuan also squeezed him out, making him always restrained on the battlefield without any worries.
When the Chu State attacked Dragon City for the first time, no one was optimistic about Dragon City, thinking that Dragon City would be crushed and defeated.
No one thought that in order to be qualified enough to face the Qin army moving south, Xiang Yan chose to use the Dragon Guard to train his troops, and ended up being defeated!
But can we say that Xiang Yan was wrong?
Wang Jian, Meng Wu, Yang Duanhe and others did not think it was wrong. After all, the strength of Chu State was there.
If they were in Xiang Yan's position, they would have made the same choice.
It's a pity that everyone underestimated the strength of Longcheng and Longwei.
Who would have thought that a group of weak-legged Guizhou leaders could actually stop Chu's elite army?
In the end, if you make one wrong step, you will lose everything.
"Give it a dignified burial!" Li Mu still gave the order and did not let anyone insult the body.
Naturally, Li Mu does not need to take care of the finishing work. Wang Jian, Wang Ben and others will naturally do it.
"Where is Xiong Qi?" Wang Ben suddenly thought.
Xiang Yan committed suicide, but what about Xiong Qi, the king of Chu?
"Escaped!" Li Mu said calmly.
The entire Chu army did not find the commanding nobles, so they could naturally guess that these people must have escaped from camp under the cover of night.
"This..." Wang Jian and others also realized that it was Chu King Xiong Qi who really wanted to bring an end to this war.
"Didn't you notice that Meng Tian and the Fire Cavalry are also missing?" Li Mu looked at everyone and spoke again.
Wang Jian and others also noticed the Central Military Council, but Meng Tian didn't show up. He thought he had another mission and hadn't returned yet!
While everyone was still discussing, they saw the fire cavalry returning to camp, escorting a large number of prisoners of Chu nobles.
"Dragon Lord!" What surprised everyone was that the person walking at the front and riding a tall horse was actually not Meng Tian, but the Dragon Lord who shouldn't be here!
"The character of watching the excitement has really not changed at all!" Seeing Jin Yao appear, Li Mu also smiled unconsciously.
"Greetings to Mr. Long!" Everyone came out of the camp to greet him.
"Xiong Qi has drowned himself in the river!" Jin Yao knew what these people were most concerned about, so he took the initiative to say it.
Everyone had the same expression as Meng Tian when he heard it. How could Xiong Qi commit suicide?
So they all looked at Jin Yao with weird eyes, maybe you forced him into the water and drowned him, right?
"Why do you have to get your hands dirty when you can do something with a sword?" Li Mu also shook his head.
Jin Yao was speechless. The person really committed suicide. He didn't even touch a hair on the person from the beginning to the end.
"Shuchun was captured?" Li Mu didn't say much else and turned to ask about the battlefield.
"Isn't that waiting for you?" Jin Yao blinked. He had already plowed the area south of the Huaihe River. He didn't even wait for the Qin army to go south to conquer Shouchun, so he came here specifically to see how the battle was going.
But I didn't expect that at the right time, I would meet Meng Tian chasing and ambushing Xiong Qi and his party.
"???" Li Mu blinked, I have already sent you a message saying that the main force of the Chu army is finished and cannot return. If you haven't attacked the city yet, what are you waiting for?
Fortunately, I still swore that you were trying to attack the heart and deplete the morale of the main force of the Chu army.
"I just said my guess was right!" Wang Jian complained in a low voice.
How could Meng Wu, with his big head, think of such a scheme?
"Then assemble the army, march to Shouchun, and completely destroy Chu!" Li Mu didn't know what to say, so he decisively ordered the battlefield to be swept, and then sent his army south to defeat Shouchun and destroy Chu.
When the Qin army marched southward and arrived at Shouchun City, Shouchun did not put up much resistance. Officials all over the city had already opened the city gate before the Qin army arrived and stood outside the city gate waiting to accept the surrender.
"Are you going to accept surrender or should I go?" Li Mu looked at Jin Yao and asked.
In name, he was the commander-in-chief of the army and was eligible to surrender. However, Jin Yao was still the son of the Qin State and was also eligible to surrender.
"You go ahead. If I go, if there are people who are serious about advocating that I want to occupy Chu territory and stand on my own, I will really have no excuse!" Jin Yao shook his head, there are some things that must be avoided.
Although Ying Zheng won't think too much about it, there are so many people saying it, who can guarantee it?
It is better to have one less thing than to have one more thing.
Li Mu didn't say much, rode his horse forward, accepted Chu's letter of surrender, and inserted Qin's black dragon scroll on the Shouchun tower, announcing the demise of Chu.
"There will be a lot of troubles ahead!" Li Mu sighed.
Jin Yao nodded, the Chu State was destroyed, the Qin army set up some troops to guard and suppress the rebellion, and the rest of the army would gradually return to the Qin State to receive honors.
But such troubles also followed.
The first thing to bear the brunt of is whether Dragon City should retain such a huge Dragon Guard army!
Secondly, Zhao's 100,000 old troops were spontaneously summoned because of the call to destroy Chu, and were not part of Qin's organizational structure. Now that the war is over, what should be done with these 100,000 troops?
Let them return to the State of Zhao, remove their armor and return to their fields?
Not to mention whether Xianyang can feel at ease, how can Xianyang not be greedy for these 100,000 elites who are capable of recruiting and good at fighting?
Finally, there is the issue of governance. Who should govern the large territory of Chu State?
"Report~General Meng Wu and Meng Tian killed all the royal family members of the Chu Kingdom and destroyed the Chu Kingdom's ancestral hall!" However, before Li Mu could get a headache, an even bigger headache came.
The hatred between the Meng family and the Chu state was too great. It was understandable to destroy the ancestral hall and exterminate the Chu royal family, but it was difficult to explain to Xianyang.
"Report~Long Jun, Long Jun~" Another herald ran in, not knowing how to explain.
"What did Mr. Long do again?" Li Mu only felt that dealing with political affairs was really more tiring than marching and fighting.
"The Dragon Lord and the Dragon Guard killed all the nobles of the Chu Kingdom!" the herald said with a mournful face.
"What the hell! Whoever wants to be a political official can be one of us!" Li Mu couldn't bear it any longer and kicked the bar in front of him.
He also thought of temporarily letting the noble officials of Chu State help control Chu State, but in the end, Jin Yao gave them all away!