The soldiers brought over hundreds of people who were fighting for Xiang Yan's body, and knelt down one by one in front of Wang Jian's military chariot!
"Military magistrate."
Wang Jian wore a jacket on his head, and the bronze gave off dim light under the torch, casting shadows and blocking his eyes that were staring at these people.
But seeing his face sinking like water, he said coldly: "Drawing swords to fight against each other in war, what's the crime?"
The military magistrate immediately responded: "I am reporting this to the chief concubine. It is the same crime as fighting for leadership and private fighting!"
"Behead the leading officer, and wait for the rest to be beaten thirty times and seize the title!"
"General Wang, our contribution to the charge is ours!"
The hundreds of generals and the commander stood up straight, shouting that they were wronged, and some even tore off their armor. Under the light of the fire, Hei Fu also stood on tiptoe in the crowd and found that the man's back was covered with blade wounds.
"I have followed General Wang for many years!" he shouted, "I shed blood in Lanyu!"
"I remember you." Wang Jian said calmly: "However, merit is merit, and mistakes are faults. Those who have merit must be rewarded, and those who have made mistakes must be punished!"
At this time, it was useless to shout anything. Qin's military law imposed severe punishments, which could not be offset by merit. As the military law officer gave an order, more than ten military officials, including this person, were pushed to the ground. Wang Jian's shortcomings
The soldiers and guards raised their swords that had never had a chance to be stained with blood, and chopped off his heads one by one!
Wang Jian asked the messengers to each hold a first rank and ride on horseback to various ministries within a radius of ten miles to preach, and ordered the soldiers not to fight privately, otherwise this would be the end.
After finishing this matter, he ordered people to transport Xiang Yan's body.
In the fight just now, Xiang Yan was almost dismembered. With great difficulty, everyone put his hands, feet and body back together and presented them to Wang Jian.
Wang Jian got off the military chariot and walked over to look at it in person, with a solemn expression.
He and Xiang Yan only met briefly. Thirty years ago, Xiang Yan escorted Lord Chun Shen to Xianyang to attend the funeral of King Qin Zhao. Wang Jian happened to be the palace guard Wei Langguan.
In the Xianyang Palace, which was decorated with black and white decorations and was filled with solemn mourning, two young military officers stood outside the palace, one on the left and the other on the right, discussing military matters in a low voice. They talked from night to dawn, and they felt as if they had met each other late.
, when saying goodbye, I had a vague feeling that the other party would become my enemy in the future.
After that, they never met again, but they kept hearing about each other's glorious achievements. Who would have expected that when they met again, it would be like this.
Not only was it bloody and miserable after death, but Wang Jian also smelled death and destruction from these messy corpses.
"No matter how heroic he was during his lifetime, he was so powerful, and he commanded hundreds of thousands of troops like an armour, in the end he was just a pile of rotten flesh."
Wang Jian suddenly felt sad that the rabbit had died, but when he heard that the head had still not been found, he cautiously asked: "Is this really Xiang Yan? Did you really see him commit suicide with your own eyes?"
The military officials all said that they saw the Chu army crying for a while. When they came closer, the Chu people resisted desperately, trying to prevent them from approaching the headless body...
Wang Jian was silent, the current situation was a bit troublesome, almost all of Xiang Yan's personal guards died in the battle, and no one of the captured prisoners saw Xiang Yan commit suicide, or thought he was dead, or thought he was dead.
Although the military judge who had served as a military judge swore that the age of the corpse was almost exactly the same as that of Xiang Yan, the identity could not be completely confirmed without seeing the head.
"It's not Xiang Yan's style to disguise himself and run away."
Wang Jian finally made a judgment and asked someone to inform the entire army that Xiang Yan had committed suicide. However, secretly, he decided to let the troops dispatched to pursue the enemy continue to track down Xiang Yan's whereabouts. He was not afraid of ten thousand, but ten thousand.
One...
Fortunately, he also captured Xiang Yan's handsome flag, which can prove this.
"Where is Li You, the captain of Nanjun, and his commander, Hei Fu?"
Hei Fu was excited and immediately followed Li You step by step, stepping forward to present the flag...
Xiang Yan's handsome flag does not use silk but is embellished with bright feathers. The flagpole is as thick as a calf and three feet long. The flag can cover a chariot.
I heard from Dongmen Bao that when they came to fight, everyone just swarmed to seize Xiang Yan's body and started fighting. The scene was very chaotic. Seeing that he couldn't squeeze in, when he was impatient, he saw the big man stuck in the car.
The flag was cut down and carried out. Unexpectedly, it was struck crookedly.
Wang Jian smiled and said: "Li Duwei, you ordered your troops to rush to the rescue with light equipment and captured Xiang Yan's commander's flag. This is also the result of your command and deployment!"
"Heifu, you were the first batch of reinforcements to arrive. You first set up a large banner to demoralize the Chu army, and then defeated the Chu army in several formations and captured Xiang Yan's army flag. This achievement is not small."
"Those who win the flag in victory will each consider the title they have received, and I will reward and encourage you. The general has asked the military magistrate to record the merits of the two of you!"
In addition, Wang Jian also commended the performance of each army today, including luring the enemy, holding on, attacking, and feigning defeat.
His merits will not be forgotten.
In this battle, the Qin army was victorious and the Chu army was defeated. It was a battle that everyone was happy about, but Wang Jian changed his tone and said solemnly: "Tens of thousands of the Chu army were wiped out or captured, but many of them fled in all directions.
To prevent them from regrouping, you should pursue them all night! Defeat them all!"
Wang Jian is already preparing to attack Shouchun and seize all the cities of Chu State. As long as these resistance forces are cleared away, it will be easy to destroy Chu!
The Nanjun regiment led by Li You was ordered to pursue north. Seeing that his men were not seriously injured, Heifu asked Li Xian to stay with some of the more tired people to clean up the battlefield, while he himself followed with 500 people.
Li You.
"Captain."
After leaving Wang Jian's command post, Heifu asked in a low voice: "I wonder what kind of reward you can get for your contribution today?"
Because Heifu performed extremely well, which was equivalent to giving the Nanjun soldiers a "collective merit", Li You was very happy and regarded Heifu as his lucky general. Last time he helped him stand out among the defeated army, and this time he made him stand out.
He got a lot of credit without doing anything.
So Li You smiled and said:
"The achievement of capturing the flag is second only to that of beheading a general. The fifteen hundred men, officers, and soldiers you brought with you are of the first level. The Dongmen Leopard who captured the flag will be awarded the title of two levels. As for you, you will be awarded the title of Gongcheng.
It's already in the bag! If it shows a little bit of performance before Chu is destroyed, the five great officials can also look forward to it!"
…
From that night to the next day, more than 100,000 Qin soldiers were divided into twenty or thirty groups and began to disperse from the battlefield to pursue the defeated Chu troops.
According to Heifu's knowledge, there were two larger defeated armies: Zuo Sima Zhaohua gathered 20,000 people and fled into Qicheng, resisting stubbornly. Wang Jian had personally commanded the main force of the Qin army to besiege the city.
In addition, on that day, Jing clan soldiers were sent by Xiang Yan to stop Meng Wu. Jing Rui was killed by Meng Wu's formation, while Jing Ju fled eastward with thousands of people, probably going to Xiapi.
Except for these two groups, the rest of the Chu army was scattered in a hurry. Most of them lost their organizational structure, with more than a thousand people and dozens of people. Without Xiang Yan, they lost the backbone of their unity and were also defeated by the Qin army.
They lost their souls, abandoned their helmets and armor, and fled away.
Some fled to nearby Chu State cities, such as Shi Ri Zhou Wen, who took some of his people and fled into the mountains and forests, and the Qin army did not bother to pursue them.
But Heifu's good luck seemed to have been exhausted in his ability to capture the flag. After he dispersed and pursued northward, he didn't catch any big fish. He only chopped off the heads of more than a hundred Chu soldiers who were defeated, and he was still there.
In the evening of the next day, we encountered a sudden heavy rain...
The wind was strong, lightning pierced the hazy sky, and the torrential rain poured down. The ground suddenly turned into a marsh. Hei Fu and the others could only stop chasing a group of more than a hundred Chu soldiers. When they were looking for a place to take shelter from the rain, they found that there was a tower in front of them.
Xiaoyi is not even marked on the map...
"This map is too sloppy. It only goes down to the county level. Some roads are wrong. This small town is not marked. Fortunately, the war is over."
Mu no longer carried the flag, but held up the umbrella of Hei Fu these days to "cover the curtain" for Hei Fu. Hei Fu also asked Ji Ying to put away the map and let everyone speed up to occupy this small town to avoid the rain.
"If there are Chu troops defeated inside, there will be more heads."
However, after entering this small town with only a hundred households and a wall no more than one foot high, they discovered that there were not even a single person here, let alone the Chu army...
When Heifu and the others drove straight into the largest house here to take shelter from the rain, they found that the people here were leaving in a hurry, and they didn't even have time to collect the clothes that were hanging outside.
After a while, Dongmen Leopard, who was ordered to search for people in the city, caught a limping fifty-year-old man. The old man was wearing brown clothes, showing that he was very poor. He also held a young girl in his arms.
When she was about four years old, she was very afraid of the ferocious Qin Jun, so she hid in the old man's arms and sobbed non-stop.
"Old man, let me ask you."
Hei Fu asked everyone not to scare them, and asked kindly: "Where have all the people in this town gone?"
The old man from Chu never thought that the authentic Jingchu dialect came out of the mouth of the black-faced Qin official in front of him. He was stunned for a moment, and then he said calmly after a while: "I heard that there is a big battle in Qinan, and the lord of the city is afraid of being affected.
, so he took the people in the city and fled to Zeli..."
The swamp he mentioned should be the swamp and mountain forest swamp located in the north of Qi. It is usually a natural refuge for the people to avoid war. After all, where the division is located, there are thorns and thorns. When the army passes by, in order to feed the enemy, every time
Every grain of food will be searched and taken away, no different from locusts crossing the border.
"Why don't you hide?" Heifu continued to ask.
"The old man has weak legs and feet, so he can't walk very far. Besides, he has a daughter and grandson to take care of." His leg was indeed limping, and he must have been injured.
"Did any Chu soldiers escape here yesterday and today?"
The old man hugged his little granddaughter, as if he wanted to hide her as well as possible, lowered his head and said: "Wuyou..."
"Captain, look what I found!"
While talking, Ji Ying ran over excitedly. They also found several pieces of bloody armor hidden in the grass at the old man's home. There was no doubt that these were Chu armors! Obviously, the old man lied.
Not only did defeated troops enter the city, but he also took them in and rescued them!
"How to explain this?"
The old man's face was ashen and he murmured: "Those are the sons of this town. They fled back here after being defeated. I couldn't just watch and ignore them, so I asked them to throw down their armor and go into the swamp..."
At this time, Heifu discovered that the old man's eyes had been glancing at the terrifying head hanging on Qin Zu's waist from beginning to end.
"This is your granddaughter, where is your son?"
The old man hugged his granddaughter tightly and said in a low, trembling, yet suppressed voice with a hint of anger: "I'm on a long journey!"
"Oh, didn't you also join Xiang Yan's army to fight against the Qin army!?"
As soon as Hei Fu finished speaking, the Qin soldiers looked fierce and drew their swords. The little girl was so frightened that she cried!
"My son is indeed in the Chu army, but his companions came back and said that he was trapped in the army and was probably dead."
The old man knelt down in despair, and said repeatedly: "I heard what you said, you are also from Jing! I hope you are pitiful, if you want to kill me, then kill me, bypass my granddaughter, and let her stay here.
When his mother returned, she followed the others to Zezhong because she was afraid of being kidnapped and humiliated by the Qin army..."
It's just an ordinary Chu people's household. Their son was drafted into the army and died in the war. The only lame old man left at home was alone. Looking at his leg injury, he might have been injured by the Qin army's sword in the war many years ago.
hurt.
In this war, Chu State used one-tenth of its population. Although most of the civilians stayed in various places when Xiang Yan evacuated, or fled in advance, the number of casualties among them was no less than 100,000, so in Chu State, this
There are many more families.
Those who survive live in vain, but the dead have long since passed away! There is no one in the house, only the grandson under the breast...
And they, unfortunately, play the role of invaders.
"From now on, you are also people of Qin."
After being silent for a long time, Hei Fu said this, gestured with his hands, and asked his men to put away their weapons: "That's it, lock the grandfather and grandson in the house, and then release them when we leave."
It was night, and the rain had been falling steadily. It was late at night, and the voices of the Qin soldiers gradually disappeared. Only the faintest sounds could be heard, and the low and intermittent crying came from the room where the grandfather and grandson were locked up.
, I don’t know if it’s the crying son, father, or something else?
The next day, when the weather cleared up, Heifu and his people left this small town, preparing to take more than a hundred heads to return to the large army for business.
Before leaving, he re-opened the very inaccurate map on his carriage, marked the path he passed yesterday, as well as this inconspicuous town, and wrote in small characters next to it
The name I got from the old man from Chu came out:
"Oze Township!"
Only thirty or forty miles away from Qinan, where the Chu army was destroyed and Xiang Yan died in battle, is Daze Township!
This is where it all ends and where it all begins.
In history, the fire of Chu State was extinguished here, but the spark in the ashes was still rekindled here?
Heifu turned around and looked at Daze Township, which was getting farther and farther away, and the grandfather and grandson who watched them leave from a distance after they came out. The look in their eyes was either fear or hatred.
He seemed to see a ghost, a ghost called hatred of country and family, lingering in the land of Jingchu for a long time!
