Because it was artificially set on fire, several places attacked at the same time, and with the strong wind blowing on the river, the fire spread, so that Yingbu and thousands of Chu soldiers who rashly entered the city to search for food were forced to evacuate.

Although Yicheng is not as good as Jiangling, it is the capital of a county, and it has been enough to walk for a long time, the Chu army burst into smoke and fire, found a way to run, rushed out, the sergeants trampled on each other, and there were many dead and wounded.

People are out, but the whole city, but it is difficult to save, the flames wander between the Lu, has been burning for a whole day and a night, the fire reflects the red of several miles of the river, standing on the opposite bank of Exian (Hubei Echeng City), you can see clearly.

But as the county guard of Hengshan, Wei Jing did not have the feeling of watching the fire from the other side, watching the flames rise into the air and the smoke drifting across the river, he really felt the same pain in his heart as the residents of Yicheng who came across the river and looked at the burning of their homes.

"I am ashamed of my high hopes for the people of Hengshan, and I am also ashamed of my trust in Brother Zhong!"

Since the 37th year of Qin Shi Huang, and Anpu general Yuzhang Bing Lianke Iron Mountain, Tonglu Mountain, into Hubei City to kill the puppet Chu King Xiangqiang, after the battle of Jiangling, the general trend of the south has been decided, and the convergence of Dongmen Leopard to capture Yi County, since then, nearly two years, Wei Jing has never left this place.

His ability is the same as most of Heifu's old subordinates, only mediocre, the first county guard, trembling, for fear that he will mess up, but Heifu taught him a way.

"Do you think you are better than Nanjun Shou Xiao He, who is the wise?"

Wei Jing replied honestly: "My brother is far inferior to Xiao Junshou. ”

Heifu taught him: "You look at Xiao He next door, what he does, you can do." ”

"This is called Xiao Gui's surprise!"

So Wei Jing followed the footsteps of Jiangling City with a glance, and he did whatever Xiao He did. Xiao He is also a smart person, he understands what Heifu means, and he sent the decree to Hengshan in duplicate, and also marked how to profit and lose and adapt to the people of Hengshan.

The two places are clothed with water, the language and customs are the same, the decree that can be implemented in Nanjun is not far from Hengshan County, and after two years, it is really shocked by the captain, Hengshan and Nanjun together, it has become the key to winning the Civil War.

Later, Xiao went north to govern the internal history of Su, but Wei Jing also calculated that something had happened, and still used the old policy, made friends with the local clan chiefs, and let the Anlu people live in Wuchang Tuntian, serving as the traffic center between Nanjun and Jiangdong, and even saved the Danyang soldiers in the battle of Huainan......

But this calm was broken when the Chu army advanced westward, and Wei was really shocked, while mobilizing the county soldiers to garrison in Baiju, and on the other hand, he asked for support from Jiangdong and Nanjun.

Just as he was about to go to Baiju in person and fight to the death with the Chu people, Lixian, who was in charge of the five counties of Jingzhou, issued a shocking order:

"Evacuate Yicheng, migrate people to Echeng and Wuchang, and clear the wilderness!"

The three counties of Jiangdong also sent ships to arrive, claiming that the whip was beyond the reach of the whip and it was difficult to rescue, but they would cut off the back route of the Chu army, hoping that Nanjun and Hengshan would cooperate......

"Wei Yang, this son! Is this a death that cannot be saved? ”

Wei was furious, but he was helpless, so he had to implement this scorched earth strategy.

Although Yicheng is the capital, its population is only equivalent to a large county, relying on the massive ships in the Jianghan area, the population of the city has been transferred to Echeng and Wuchang across the river for resettlement, as for the suburbs of the county, township, it is difficult to move completely......

In the process of migration, there were inevitably conflicts, and the Zhu clan in the city responded positively, but the Huang clan, a large clan in the suburbs, refused to migrate, and the head of the family, an old man in his eighties, even carried a dove cane, and counted the salt he had eaten in front of the people sent by Wei Jing:

"The old man is seventy years old."

"Since I was born, I have been living in this township, Fu nationality, adulthood, marrying wives, giving birth to children, and now I have many children and grandchildren."

"You are by no means the first to stand here, coerced and enticed, and asked me to move away."

"Seventy years ago, when Bai Qi ruined the tomb, when the king of Chu fled, I was twelve. Yi County is not called Yi County, the local Chu County Gong asked us to go with them to the land south of the Yangtze River, my parents did not obey, took me to hide in the well, Qin Jun came here, but did not treat us how, the days are still lit up, that is, there are more laws and regulations, and the rent is higher. ”

"After that, Yixian changed hands several times between Qin and Chu, changed its name several times, and neighbors moved back and forth, but my family didn't go anywhere, the industry was getting bigger and bigger, getting richer and richer, and outsiders came, and they had to respect three points. I have several sons, who died in the previous battles between Qin and Chu, but the sons and grandsons, the grandchildren grew up, and shouted to participate in the southern expedition, some died in the Lingnan forest, and some fought back with the Marquis of Wuzhong. ”

He struck hard with his cane:

"The old man has seen so much, but now he wants me to leave and abandon the ancestral grave?"

"But Xiang Ji is cruel and will slaughter the city!" The officials under Wei Wei frightened the old man so much.

The old man has his own set of ideas: "Back then, the county prince of Chu said that the Qin people's tiger and wolf teachers were greedy and old-fashioned, and they would slaughter everyone's heads, and they thought they were captives. ”

"Those Qin officials also said that the Chu people are all thieves, there is no order at all, and after returning, they will set up arson and rob my family's property."

"Even you and other southern expeditionary troops are said to be soldiers who defected, and they killed people when they saw them......"

"It's all about deceiving us to leave, if I believe it every time, I'm afraid there will be no Huang family in this world."

He muttered, unable to understand the way of the world:

"Qin State? Chu? What's the difference? Who can tell whether they are Qin or Chu now, and the same is true for the people of Nanjun such as Ru, but they can still tell the difference? ”

In the end, it turned into three hard words.

"I'm not leaving!"

After hearing this, Wei was shocked to hear this, and suddenly remembered that his wife's grandfather, Yan Gong in the plaque, was killed by Hu Hai and Zhao Gaoqiang when he was relocated.

He didn't harden his heart, so that people didn't have to embarrass this old man, but only told him a fact.

"When the whole city is gone, the county will be burned down."

The final result was that after the old man was silent for a while, he accepted this fact, but still didn't leave, just shook his head:

"It was you and others who burned and slaughtered Yi County, not the so-called Chu soldiers......"

"yes......"

At this moment, recalling the old man's words in his mind, Wei couldn't help but blame himself: "The one who abandoned Yi County and let tens of thousands of people be displaced is obviously incompetent." ”

He only hopes that the old man who stayed in Jiangbei can go through the first turbulence in his life smoothly......

However, a few days later, when Wei arrived in Wuchang and joined up with Nanjun Shou Lixian, planning to block the Chu army at Hanshui, Lixian had a different view on this matter.

"You, you, you're really confused, you can say that it was burned by Chu thieves, why bother to take it for yourself?"

"What's more, whether it's from this battle or from a long-term perspective, burning Di County is actually a good thing!"

……

"A good thing?"

Wei was a little unacceptable and blackened his face at the former boss:

"Is it a good thing that 10,000 families abandoned their ancestral graves and were forcibly relocated to other places, and they were half hungry every day?"

"Yixian County has been operating for a hundred years, thousands of houses have been reduced to ashes, those workshops and bazaars have finally been spared from the war, all of which have been carefully operated and restored by the military and civilians of the city for a year, and now they are destroyed and burned by their own people, Lijun, this is a good thing?"

He couldn't figure it out, how could Liham be so cold-blooded?

Liham is older, nearly fifty years old, as the first person in the entire group to respect Heifu as the master, he has an extraordinary status, he is the think tank of the Anlu system, and he is also the Dinghai Shenzhu that Heifu left in the south.

Seeing that Wei Wei was still so emotional, Lixian suddenly frowned and reprimanded:

"Surprise, if you want to join the court one day, you can't just stare at one city and one pool, but see the overall situation!"

He stood up and told the story of why he had made this difficult decision.

"I sent secret agents into Huainan when I was in Yuzhang, so I know that the so-called remnants of the Six Kingdoms, only Chu is strong, among which the most courageous is the item, and the generals under his command have also been in battle for a long time, rampant in the two Huai Central Plains, and it is not easy to get along."

"The main force of the regent is in Guanzhong, and there is no general in the south, so the battle of Huainan last year, although there are gains, but in the end the success is lost, if there is no good general, if there is no army of a hundred battles to help, just rely on the old and weak women and children in the south, barbarian soldiers, and the decisive plan can not wrestle with the Chu State alone, so it cannot be attacked, or even defended, but should avoid its edge......"

"If in your opinion, gather the troops of Jiangdong and Jingzhou to fight with Xiang Ji in the wilderness, but it is right in his arms, this person is like a gambler, he is gambling on the fortune of the country, betting on winning a war, and completely reversing the situation, but we don't have to gamble with him, we just need to grind slowly, and the walls are clear. Since two years ago, Anlu has long been empty, and now it only needs to evacuate the three counties of Yi, Xiling, and Xiakou and cross the river to resettle, while Qingzhuang can serve as tens of thousands of militiamen to help us stop the Chu army in Jianghan. ”

"The Chu army has no predation in Yi County, it will not be able to last long, if it retreats by the same way and returns to Huainan after passing the southern foot of Dabie, it will be pursued by our army, and the soldiers of Danyang and Wu Yue will disturb it."

"If you continue to move forward and want to attack the counties in the western part of Nanjun, which are populous, you must first pass through these hundreds of miles of uninhabited scorched earth, it is a harsh winter, the cold wind is steep, and you will suffer heavy casualties, and then you must force your way across the Han River and enter the Yunmeng wilderness."

"And the elite soldiers of the two counties can follow the old plan of the regent to grant Ji Ying, the enemy advances and I retreat, the enemy is stationed and I disturb, the enemy is tired and I fight, and the enemy retreats and I chase, and the thief will be trapped in Yunmeng! As long as Zhao Tuo arrives in Nanjun and surrounds him, Xiang Ji will die, and the Chu State will die! ”

If you can't beat it, just do it! It's a trick they've learned from someone over the years.

In Lixian's opinion, when Xiang Ji could not accept Huainan's losses and was determined to send troops to Hengshan to find a place, he fell for it.

For the Chu people, the situation is like a quagmire, the more they struggle, the deeper they fall, but if they don't struggle, they will eventually be a dead end.

From Xihe to Jiangdong, the noose was put around the neck of the six countries as early as the moment when Heifu broke through Wuguan! The rest is just to be fastened slowly!

"This is from the perspective of this battle, for the final victory, Hengshan, sacrifices must be made!"

Lexian is the kind of person who orders his subordinates to die without blinking his eyes, and in his heart, he always cares about gains and losses.

Although he still felt a little blamed in his heart, he was not a person who did not know the overall situation, but he still murmured: "As a chief, I lost the place where I ruled and defended, and my people went into exile, and I was shocked by the crime, after this battle, I may resign from the post of county guard......"

"Sure enough, I'm only suitable to be a rich man." After two years of operation, it was gone, and Wei Jing was still a little decadent.

"How can you be such a child! You are really confused, Hengshan after the war is the place where our generation can make great achievements! ”

Lixian reprimanded Wei Xian again: "The regent has already said that the place of Hengshan is small, and there are big rivers in the north and south, and the reason why the county can be established is because of the Iron Mountain and the Tonglu Mountain, not the county of Yi, and now it seems that the harbor in that place is narrow, embarrassing, and not suitable for being a county ......government."

"The most suitable place is precisely Wuchang!"

Entrusted by Heifu with the entire five counties of Jingzhou, Lixian has its own uniqueness in the future development and strategic focus of this place.

"In my opinion, there are three forms of Jingzhou, Wuchang, Xiangyang, and Jiangling!"

"In the words of the world, the emphasis is on Xiangyang; In Jingzhou's words, the emphasis is on Jiangling; In the southeast, the emphasis is on Wuchang! ”

"Xiangyang and Jiangling don't need to say much, why not say that Wuchang is important? Fu Wuchang, strangle Jiang and Han, and take Wu and Chu. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu and Chu attacked each other, that is, there was something to do in Xiakou, and the land was connected to Jing and Xian, and the rivers and Han converged, and they were important places for the soldiers. The southeast shape must be in the upper stream, and the downstream will go straight down, then Yuzhang and Jiangdong are all in the domain, so it is said that the weight is in Wuchang. ”

"The regent's vision is unique, as early as when Wuchang was still a wasteland, he fell in love here, and the Southern Expeditionary Army took this as the base, set up a large camp, transferred heavy soldiers, and gathered boats and vehicles from all over the country, and became a city in a year."

"During the Northern Expedition, the old and weak women and children of Anlu built a town in this tuntian, which gradually became a scale and became a city in a year."

"Today, we will take the opportunity to avoid the slaughter of the Chu army, let the Hengshan people migrate south, after this battle, you can revoke the county of Yi, the counties east of the Hanshui will be incorporated, called Jiangxia County, the seat of governance is located in Wuchang, another year, will become the capital of the south of the Yangtze River, the household registration, merchants, and prosperity here will be ten times that of the county!"

Lixian's tone was a little softer: "At that time, we will be entrusted to the regent again, and Jiangxia County will be the fief of Xia Gong for generations, and his forced labor and taxes will be reduced. ”

His plan for the future of Jingzhou needs Wei Jing's help to endorse, and the success rate of adoption is higher, and he can also take this opportunity to enter the court in one fell swoop, as a prince and a prince, and as Jiuqing!

It worked, and this vision of the future made Wei Jing a little obsessed, and he muttered:

"Brother Zhong said when he raised the army that he wanted to end this troubled world completely......"

Wei was shocked and remembered that the old man of the Huang family who was on the outskirts of Yicheng and resolutely refused to move.

Relocating to a safe place is human nature.

"I only hope that my children and grandchildren, from birth to old age and burial, will only have to stay in one place, and never have to go through war and exile again!"

"Don't worry."

Liham patted him on the shoulder, encouraging Wei Jing to join hands with him to get through this difficulty: "This is the original expectation of the people of Nanjun. ”

"It is also the wish of all the people in the world!"

Shocked, his eyes were a little surprised, and a little joy flashed, he stood up, pointed outside, and said:

"Snow ...... It's snowing. ”

Lixian turned around, and sure enough, he saw the snow falling from the gloomy sky, falling on the heads of the Hengshan refugees who were lining up to live in the houses of the Northern Expeditionary Army's former base in Wuchang City.

They also landed hundreds of miles away, on the other side of the river, and after the fire was extinguished, a scorched earth on the ground of Yixian County seemed to sprinkle a layer of salt frost on the ugly scars......

The corners of Riham's mouth began to rise, and then he laughed in ecstasy:

"Heavenly help! God help! ”

"We have won this battle!"