Ta Xue carried Qin Yang on his back and galloped for more than two hundred miles, entering the boundary of Qinghe, Julu County at the beginning of noon. If Qin Yang hadn't cared about Ta Xue's injuries and forced him to stop, Ta Xue would still be eager to try.
Although Qinghe is not an important town, it is a must-pass for the old Zhao Qi official road. Qinghe has become lively because of it. Various restaurants, teahouses and posthouses are everywhere. Qin Yang found one without much effort.
After resting in the post office, and after ordering a waiter to take care of Ta Xue, Qin Yang went up to the second floor alone and found a seat by the window with a view of the official road, sat down, and then ordered a plate of fried chicken.
, a plate of soy sauce beef, a plate of peanuts and a pot of Lao Zhao wine, and they started drinking by themselves.
Qin Yang estimated that the First Emperor's car should be near Xiajin, not far to the southeast. He rested in Qinghe just to confirm his judgment and also to get some useful information from other diners. This is what Qin Yang said in another article.
A habit developed over time and space, he never takes the initiative to ask questions unless absolutely necessary, especially in crowded places. "Too many words lead to mistakes" is the principle that Qin Yang has always followed. He knows that if he asks questions, he will give
Others leave memories. This is a very dangerous thing for a person with a special mission. He will not take such a risk. What's more, what others say unintentionally may be more true, so "listening" is Qin
One of the important ways for Yang to obtain information. In another time and space, Qin Yang's choice has been proved to be completely correct many times.
After noon, the sun in the sky became increasingly hot, and more and more people entered the post house to rest. Qin Yang still poured himself a glass of wine as if there was no one around, as if he could never finish the pot of wine.
At this moment, two people came up from downstairs and sat directly next to Qin Yang. The two were well-travelled, one was about forty years old, and the other was about early twenties. The older one was of average build, with a fair face and a beardless face, and he was kind-hearted; the younger one was about an average figure.
The man is a tall man, about eight feet tall, with a dark face, eyes like lightning, and eyebrows piercing his hairline.
As soon as the two of them sat down, the young man immediately shouted loudly: "Hey, man, please bring us the wine and food quickly!" The sound was like a bell, shaking the eardrums. But the middle-aged man said softly, "Ji'er, you are so reckless."
When can you calm down your temper? Are you afraid that no one will recognize you?" The young man was slightly startled, and immediately replied: "What Zhongfu said is that Ji'er was reckless."
Qin Yang, who was always paying attention to his surroundings, thought to himself: "Ji'er? Father Zhong? Could it be that these two people are the famous Xiang Yu and his second uncle Xiang Liang in history?"
Qin Yang was proficient in ancient Chinese history, and the memories of Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang suddenly came out in his mind. He knew that Xiang Yu's role in the storm at the end of Qin was extremely important.
In 223 BC (the twenty-fourth year of the First Emperor), Xiang Yu's grandfather, Xiang Yan, led more than 600,000 Chu troops to fight against Qin's general Wang, who led 600,000 Qin troops, in Huaibei. Xiang Yan was defeated and committed suicide, and the Chu State was subsequently destroyed.
After the fall of the Chu State, the Xiang family, as the backbone of the Chu State's resistance to Qin, was hunted down by the Qin army. Xiang Yu's father, Xiang Chao, was killed by the Qin army, and his young grandfather, Xiang Jin, was torn apart by a chariot in his hometown of Wuzhong. So Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Chao.
Liang went into exile in Wuxian (today's Suzhou, Jiangsu). When he was young, Xiang Liang asked someone to teach him calligraphy and poetry, but he got tired of it after a while. Later Liang asked someone to teach him martial arts, but he stopped learning after a while. Liang was furious!
Ji said: "Studying literature is only about remembering names; learning martial arts is just about being able to fight one against a hundred; if you want to learn literature, you need to learn how to defeat ten thousand people!" So Liang taught him the art of war. But after learning it for a while, he was unwilling to learn it anymore.
Liang had no choice but to follow him and ignore him. He was more than eight feet tall (recorded as eight feet and two inches in the "Book of Han"), capable of carrying a tripod (the origin of the term "overlord lifting a tripod"), and had the power to overwhelm tens of thousands of men. His ambitions were limited when he was young.
Extremely ambitious. Once when Qin Shihuang was on a patrol crossing the Yangtze River (today's Qiantang River), Xiang Yu saw the majesty of his chariots and horses, and said to Xiang Liang: "He can replace him (I can replace him)." In the first year of Qin II (previously)
209), Chen Sheng and Wu Guang raised their arms in Daze Township and rose up (i.e., the Daze Township Uprising). Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang to assassinate the prefect Yin Tong in Wuzhong and raised his troops to respond. In this battle, Xiang Yu killed nearly a hundred of Yin Tong's guards alone. The first
This time he demonstrated his unparalleled martial arts skills! In this way, the 24-year-old Xiang Yu led eight thousand Wuzhong (today's Suzhou) anti-Qin troops and entered the stage of history.
After the Qin Dynasty was destroyed, Xiang Yu named himself the Overlord of Western Chu, established his capital in Pengcheng (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province), and occupied Liang and the nine counties of Chu. In the winter of the second year, he ordered people to kill King Huai. The princes rebelled, and Tian Rong of Qi State took the lead in raising troops. Xiang Yu led the army himself.
He attacked Qi general Tian Rong and others. Liu Bang then joined forces with the princes to advance eastward, starting the four-year "Chu-Han Struggle". Xiang Yu was good at running on the offensive, and once led 30,000 elite troops from Qi to attack for more than a thousand miles.
They defeated Liu Bang and the coalition forces of the princes who had occupied Pengcheng, and almost captured Liu Bang alive. After that, he fought with the Han army for a long time, conquered Xingyang (now northeast of Xingyang, Henan Province), and captured Chenggao (northwest of today's Xingyang) twice, forcing Liu Bang to flee in panic.
However, because Xiang Yu was not good at planning and did not adopt good strategies, he gradually lost his advantage and initiative. Finally, he lost the decisive battle in Gaixia (now southeast of Lingbi, Anhui) and broke out. He retreated to Wujiang (now Hexian County), because he was too embarrassed to see Jiangdong.
The elder, unwilling to cross the river to escape, dismounted and fought on foot, killing hundreds of Han soldiers and injuring more than 10 people. Finally, he was exhausted and committed suicide at the age of 31.
Xiang Yu has superhuman bravery and said that he "has experienced more than ninety battles and has never been defeated." Therefore, in later generations, Xiang Yu is almost the embodiment of a hero, and later generations have many words of praise. The most representative one is Sima Qian's
"Gaixia Song": "Strengthening the mountain, the world is overwhelming, the times are unfavorable, and the time is not going away. What can you do if the time is not going away? What can you do if you are worried?". This was actually left by Sima Qian in the Historical Records to commemorate Xiang Yu.
Sigh. Sima Qian felt that Xiang Yu was a hero, but he was born at the wrong time. Another poem was written by Li Qingzhao, "I was born as a hero, and died as a ghost hero. I still miss Xiang Yu and refuse to cross the Yangtze River."
But in Qin Yang's eyes, Xiang Yu was not like that at all. Although Qin Yang admired Xiang Yu's heroic spirit, he was very disdainful of Xiang Yu's actions against the Qin Dynasty. In Qin Yang's memory, Xiang Yu's actions in a short period of time
In seven years, he did at least seven things that were outrageous to both humans and gods, or "atrocities".
In the first month of 7 BC, Xiang Yu was ordered to lead his subordinates to attack Xiangcheng, a strategic military location (now south of Xuchang, Henan Province). After a hard battle, Xiangcheng was captured. However, he was annoyed by the defenders' stubborn resistance and massacred the city. In 7 BC
In July, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang were jointly ordered to attack Chengyang (today's northern Qingdao, Shandong). After capturing Chengyang, they once again adopted the method of massacre to end the battlefield cleanup. Later, Xiang Yu killed Qin after the Battle of Julu.
The country surrendered more than 10,000 troops.
Xiang Yu's six massacres were recorded in "Historical Records. The Chronicles of Xiang Yu"**: the first massacre in Xiangcheng, where all the civilians in the city were killed. The second massacre in Chengyang, where all the civilians who assisted the Qin army in resisting were killed.
.The third Xin'an Massacre, the fourth Xianyang Massacre, killing civilians in Guanzhong without any plan, burning, killing, looting, and digging graves. The fifth Poqi Massacre, killing Tian Rong and reducing the number of soldiers
Unknown, large-scale looting and burning, forced the post-restoration Qi State. The Sixth Waihuang Massacre was finally given up because of a young man's self-interest. The above-mentioned killings were all the appalling massacres and killings after the victory.
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After Xiang Yu entered the Pass, he carried out a comprehensive purge of the descendants of the First Emperor, then burned Xianyang and Epang Palace, and excavated the emperor's tomb. "Historical Records of Xiang Yu" records Xiang Yu's actions when he entered the Qin Dynasty: "Xiang Yu led troops to the west to massacre Xianyang.
, kill the prince and infant of Qin Jiang, burn the palace of Qin, the fire will not be extinguished for three months, collect the goods, treasures and women, and go east."
In other words, Xiang Yu's heroic aura was formed by the accumulation of thousands of innocent civilians, and his hands were stained with the blood of thousands of innocent civilians. The restoration forces in the late Qin Dynasty with Xiang Yu Group as the axis became
The crazy demon launched a perverted revenge on the entire society. Its cruelty and cruelty were far different from the civilization construction of the Qin Empire. Such atrocities of great destruction made the short few years from the end of Qin to the beginning of Han become a landmark in Chinese history.
It was a period of great destruction that was unique in history. The direct consequence was that in five or six years, the prosperous Qin Empire suddenly fell into a state of extreme poverty in a society where "people cannibalize each other and more than half of them died". Even more than 50 years after the founding of the Western Han Dynasty, the situation was still
Severe depression and no recovery.
Such a murderous demon and destroyer, for Qin Yang, a man whose mission is to save the people of the world, only disgust and anger are left in his heart, which also dooms Qin Yang and Xiang Yu's relationship in this time and space.
Confrontation and conflict. But they met by chance like today. He didn't know what Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang wanted to do when they came here at this time, so Qin Yang decided to listen to what they were talking about.
Sure enough, when the food and wine were served, Xiang Yu's voice began to get louder again.
Xiang Yu lowered his voice and said, "Father Zhong, the tyrant is so well guarded, but how do you attack him?"
"Ji'er, be careful. You just eat and drink, how can you talk so much?" Xiang Liang's voice was low, but there was a trace of anger on his face.
Wanting to achieve something big but being so impatient, even Qin Yang secretly shook his head this time. He thought: "No wonder Xiang Yu was defeated by Liu Bang just a few years after Xiang Liang's death, and ended up committing suicide in Wujiang River.
Even Fan Zeng said that Zhu Zi was not enough in terms of strategy, which shows that Xiang Yu is just a martial artist."
In just a few words, Qin Yang judged that Xiang Yu and the two men were here to assassinate the First Emperor. Because the assassination attempt failed, there is no record in history. However, this time Qin Yang came east to kill Zhao Gao, as long as they stopped plotting.
Qin Yang did not want to cause trouble when assassinating the First Emperor, but just silently observed the movements of the two men.
The two of them devoured their food in a hurry and rode straight to the west without noticing the presence of Qin Yang next to them.
When Qin Yang saw the two of them heading west, he must have given up on his plan to assassinate the First Emperor, so he just watched Xiang Yu and the two go away. Although he silently thought about the two opponents he was about to face in the near future, he was still confused.