"Leaving the grass on the plain, one year old and one withered glory......"

Once upon a time, Heifu always thought that this Tang Dynasty Bai Juyi's "Ancient Grass" was talking about the northern grassland, but later I learned that it was actually a place in Huaibei: Fuli.

"The land of Jiuyi, a radius of thousands of miles, there is a fortress of Fu Li." The reason why this small county located in the land of Huaibei is called Fuli is because of the nearby production of Fuli grass, that is, Guan grass.

It is said that this is the main military horse training base after the Chu State moved eastward, relying on the horses produced here, the Chu army can organize a chariot and cavalry army - although the southern horses are short, far less strong than the northern horses, although the endurance is good, but the charge is always at a disadvantage, but it is better than nothing.

In the middle of August, the vast and open meadows stretch out below the mountain, and with the arrival of autumn, the blades of grass dry and yellow, turning a bronze color, and the long blades of grass sway like waves.

Of course, this was the scene before the decisive battle between the two armies of Qin and Chu, a general battle of more than 200,000 people, which completely changed the appearance of this place.

Now, stretching from the mountain to the edge of Suishui, within dozens of miles, the bronze-colored grassland is full of human and horse corpses, and the blood flowing out of the grass has dyed the grass an ominous reddish-brown, and has been trampled into mud by countless pairs of feet. Large flocks of crows smell the scent and circle back and forth in the sky above the heads of the deceased, a feast prepared for them.

In addition to the crows in the sky, there was also thick smoke, and both sides did everything to win the victory, and some of the places that were affected by campfires and smoke arrows in the battle were lit up, and the surrounding area was full of charred grass, and the glowing embers rose from the smoke screen and floated towards the sky, like thousands of newborn fireflies............

When the flames were finally extinguished and the ground cooled a little, it was almost evening, and the remnants of the sun were like blood, and the water was full of bloody corpses.

"When the sky falls, the spirit is angry, and the wilderness is abandoned."

It is very appropriate to use Qu Yuan's poem to describe this battle.

Dressed in the armor of a high-ranking officer of the Qin army, with long white feathers standing on his head, Heifu got out of the cart and walked on foot on the post-war meadow, his skin covered with mud and blood.

He was followed by a short guard with swords and shields, still vigilant even after the battle was over, and a large number of officers and generals with happy faces, who were survivors and victors of the battle, still talking about the battle that lasted all day.

But Heifu just frowned and glanced around, standing on the top of the high mountain, which was the base camp of the Chu army, which had been destroyed at the moment, feeling the choking smell of smoke and blood, and even the smell of feces and urine.

This is the smell of the real battlefield, which has nothing to do with romantic epics, and of course, there will always be literati and writers who process this battle into that way afterwards.

He turned around and asked about the uncle and grandson who were following suit:

"Did you write it down?"

Although Shusun Tong was bold, he could walk in the sea of corpses and blood, and his face was still pale, which echoed the ink-stained fingertips, and he only said resignedly: "Write it down." ”

"Read."

Shusun Tong unfolded the white silk lined with wooden planks in his hand and read: "On the tenth day of the first month of August of the first year, Xia Gong and the generals and soldiers attacked the Chu thieves together, and the decisive victory of the Xiang Ji was separated. Xia Gong's army can be 150,000, Zhang Han is the main formation, the East Gate General is on the left, General Chen Ying is on the right, Xia Gong is behind, and Wu Guang is behind Xia Gong. Baby-filling, Zhou Cao in the left and right wings. ”

"The death of the Xiang family can be 60,000. Zhang Han first joined Xiang, which was unfavorable, but. Chen Ying was attacked by Chu Yingbu, but also, the general of the East Gate broke in, killed Xiang Liang, Chu thieves were unfavorable, when Cao Shen from the east to, and Guan Ying, Zhou Cao attacked the side of Chu, Xia Gong from the generals to multiply, defeated Chu in Fuli, and escaped south with thousands of remnants alone......"

Before he could finish reading, Heifu scolded:

"You Confucian student, the articles on weekdays are full of flowers, quoting scriptures, and when it comes to related matters, you suddenly lose your spirituality, and even the basic process is written in a vague way."

Shusun Tong had no choice but to keep confessing his guilt, and said: "Wei Linggong asked Chen Yu Confucius. Confucius said: 'The things of the beans are tasted and heard; The military is not learned. 'The same is true for the ministers, the military affairs, before they have learned, the account is improper, and I hope that Xia Gong will punish the crime! ”

"What's the use of that?" Heifu gave his uncle and grandson a blank look and blasted him away.

Let Shusun Tong, a Confucian who doesn't know military affairs, record the war, it's really better for the military judge to see with his eyes and record the events of the past half a month as they are:

Ambush on all sides, this is Heifu's tactic, through the strategic outflanking of the Qin army in great depth, constantly compressing the living space of the Chu army, so that they can suffer from the enemy on their backs, and they cannot follow Xiang Yan's example of dealing with Li Xin back then, exchanging space for fighters, forcing the Chu army in the Huaibei area, and finally achieving the goal of gathering and annihilating.

Xiang Ji, on the other hand, wanted to divide the division with specialization, always concentrate his forces, avoid too many losses of the Chu army, and tried to find an opportunity to take advantage of the weakness of the partial divisions that were difficult to coordinate, and break the various divisions of Heifu.

really let him find an opportunity, the southern deputy general Wu Rui's Yue soldiers had very poor military discipline, and when they saw the benefits, they were defeated, and they were defeated by Xiang Ji more than half a year ago, they crossed Xu County to loot Huaibei, and were wiped out by Xiang Ji, killing 3,000 people, and Yue Xiaohua was killed in battle.

Hefu was also aware of this by the stinkers of the Winged Battalion, and in early August, he ordered all roads to halt their advances, except for Zhou Ke of Surabaya County, who sent an army to attack Fuli.

This is Heifu's bait, but the Chu army can't let the Surabaya soldiers go, once the other side occupies Fulisai, the troops of Surabaya and Jiaodong can go south from there, and cooperate with the main force of Heifu from Chen and Suiyang to the east to surround the Chu army.

So Xiang Ji responded, sniping Zhou Cao in Fuli, and also defeated his Wang Ling, but when the battle was over, Heifu's army had quickly outflanked Suishui from Suiyang and Chengfu, blocking Xiang Ji in Fuli......

After a long period of maneuvering, the decisive battle between the two sides finally began here.

At this time, Heifu had 150,000 troops, and there were several armies with a total of nearly 100,000 on the left and right who rushed to hear the news, completely occupying a strategic advantage, and could choose a decisive battle or a solid defense. Faced with the posture of the Chu army fighting against the water, he made a wise choice: to follow the example of Wang Jian back then, to dig trenches and defend them, to wear down the sharpness of the Chu people, and at the same time to wait for reinforcements.

The more it dragged on, the more favorable the battle would be for the Qin army.

So the Chu army, which was also aware of this, took the lead in attacking......

The two sides fought on the steppe of Fuli, with the Qin army in the southwest and a low position, and the Chu army in the northeast, with their backs to Suishui, occupying the commanding heights of Lishan.

As Shusun Tong wrote, Heifu named the servant Zhang Han as the former army commander, the guard captain Dongmen Leopard as the left wing, and the Donghai County guard Chen Ying as the right wing, he sat in the rear with 10,000 short guards, and Wu Guang was on standby with the reserve army. Zhang Han led the main force of 100,000 to advance, although the morale of the Qin army and the superior soldiers, but in the unfavorable terrain, the progress was not smooth, according to the battle plan, began to slowly retreat, luring the Chu army to think that he had won and pursued.

The Chu army really pursued, and Heifu ordered the left and right flanks to advance forward and outflank, but Xiang Ji played a small trick when arranging the formation, he let the elite concentrate on the right and be commanded by Yingbu, which made Chen Ying on the left flank of the Qin army hit his head and was frustrated for a while.

Fortunately, Heifu adopted the same tactics as Xiang Ji, placing the elite troops on the right and handing them over to the command of Dongmen Leopard, hoping to break through here and attack the Chu army in a detour to the flank.

As a result, at the same time, there was a situation in which the right flanks of both sides were superior and the left flanks were frustrated, and the soldiers of both sides fought together on the grassland for more than ten miles. The two sides fought each other to the death, as if the new and old hatreds of the two clans of Chu and Qin were to be liquidated here.

In this melee, the single-handedness of the Chu people contrasted sharply with the organizational discipline of the Qin army, which always maintained a strict formation to take care of each other and gradually gained the upper hand.

In the direction of the right flank of the Qin army, the advance of Dongmen Leopard was obviously faster than that of the Chu army, and Wu Guang joined with more reserves, withstanding the left flank that was originally showing a rout, and seeing that the balance of victory gradually shifted towards the Qin army, Xiang Ji began an adventure.

He handed over the formation to Xiang Liang to command, and he led thousands of guards to ride and attack Heifu's handsome banner from the side and rear!

These people were the first to follow Xiang Ji, everyone was determined to die, Xiang Ji even rushed to the front, completely ignoring their own safety, they broke a few small formations in a row, and actually rushed straight to the front of Heifu's short guards!

There have been many times, Xiang Ji has relied on the gambling impact of beheading, and with the blessing of courage and luck, he has won battles, such as the Battle of the Chasm against Shejian, such as the Battle of Huainan against the Yue Colonel, and the Battle of Pengcheng against Peng Yue.

After attracting the opponent's main force, after the car is attacked, it will move in one rush!

But this time, what stood in front of him was the Nanjun short soldiers who had been following Heifu since the army was raised from Wuchang, and they could understand the shouting of the Chu people on the other side, and even, the arrows that came from the face brushed over the face, shooting down the robe, but the short soldiers were like poplars rooted in the soil, standing firmly in the queue, never moving half a step!

And Heifu is the same, in order to avoid the chariots and horses from being frightened and running around, causing unpredictable consequences, he even placed his handsome flag on a fixed guard tower, standing on it with his sword, commanding the overall situation, and not moving half a step from beginning to end, seeing the Chu people attacking, just a wave of his hand, so that the crossbowmen resist the enemy!

So, Xiang Ji was greeted by a crossbow array of flying arrows like flying locusts, and the feather arrows fired were so dense that they collided with each other in the air, and there was even a giant bed crossbow placed here, "Star Destroyer Crossbow" couldn't wait to exert his power in the field, this crossbow arrow shaft was as thick as a child's arm, once hit, everyone and horses died, even if the heavy chariot was, it couldn't stop the Star Destroyer Crossbow from coming up!

What's more, there are also the northern chariots commanded by Guan Ying and others on the flanks are ready to go, and most of the Saibei cavalry under his command are from the new Qinzhong, skilled in horse skills, and they are also strong Hexi horses and plugged horses, on average, half a head higher than Chu horses......

Even though Xiang Ji's personal strength is amazing, and he is good at finding opportunities to carry out a surprise attack, it is difficult to defeat the preparations that Heifu has already laid out. This time, even if he stared hard, it didn't work, he was hit by several arrows, and he was almost inserted into a hedgehog, only because of the thick armor, he was only injured, but he was still not dead, and was desperately saved by Xiang Zhuang.

With the failure of Xiang Ji's attack on Heifu Shuaiqi and his hasty withdrawal, the outcome of this war was decided.

The right flank of the Chu army no longer has an advantage, the left flank is gradually defeated, the Chinese army is pinched by the Qin army, and the Qin pawn who is holding a spear and squeezing forward is just playing the role of a chopping board, and the freed baby cart ride is like a hammer in the hand of the black man, aiming at the back of the Chu army and killing the killer!

When Cao Shen's vanguard also crossed Suishui and arrived at the battlefield, the already wavering Chu army completely collapsed.

The only pity is that due to terrain restrictions, the Qin army, which was only twice as many as the other party, could not be completely surrounded, and Xiang Ji, Yingbu and others broke through the Qin people with thousands of remnants and fled to the south.

"Wei Yang and Wu Rui are coming from the south, and Xiang Ji will crash into their encirclement."

Heifu is not worried about this, this time, there is no Jiangdong to pass by.

It was getting dark, Heifu was still inspecting the battlefield, the corpses of the fallen soldiers on both sides were piled up, there were very few prisoners, and those who could follow Xiang Ji to the present were basically diehards, they were unwilling to surrender, and they died in battle, and the Qin army also left few prisoners, and the head was cut down.

A familiar face flashed, and Heifu asked the emperor to stop: he saw that Sima Yang Xi had gauze wrapped around his head—his ears had been cut off in unison, and he was kneeling on one knee in front of a corpse covered with a military flag at the foot of the mountain, holding a wine gourd in his hand, taking a sip of his own drink, and then pouring a sip at his feet......

Heifu had an impression of Yang Xi, this young man who was the first to surrender in the Battle of Lantian, after joining them, he performed heroically in the Battle of Xihe, Heifu specially distinguished him, and also gave a concubine of Hu Hai......

He got out of the car and came behind Yang Xi.

"Who is the deceased?"

Yang Xizheng was wiping his tears and laughing there, and when he heard the words, he turned around and saw that it was Heifu, and hurriedly bowed down: "Dare to sue Yu Xia Gong, this is Sima under Li Biduwei, named Jiubo, and the people of Pinyang in Guanzhong, because they are often good wine, we call them Jiugong." ”

Heifu seems to have heard someone talk about it: "Is it the old Sima who participated in the battles of the First Emperor to destroy Zhao, Yan, and Chu?" ”

"Exactly!"

Yang Xi didn't expect Heifu to know about Jiugong, and said: "Although Sima has a bad temper and likes to talk after drinking, he is often punished, but he is familiar with the Kanto road and knows the enemy's tactics, the battle of Sanchuan, and the battle of Mangdang Mountain. ”

"This decisive battle with the Chu thieves, the wine prince personally led the soldiers, counted the Chu army, broke into the right flank, fought with the Chu people, beheaded Lian Ao alone, killed the soldiers and did not count, and finally Xiang Liang wanted to leave, he took dozens of knights, broke into the Chu thief formation, killed Xiang Liang, but unfortunately, he was immediately injured by Xiang Liang's personal guards......"

The voice did not dim, but became higher and higher, and Yang Xi was proud of the courage of the wine father.

Heifu listened quietly, and said, "What are the last words of this wine man?" ”

Yang Xi said: "He said before he left the customs, whether it is life or death, this is the last time he will go out of the customs!" I only hope that the heirs of my children and grandchildren will no longer have to be like him, conscripted every year, and fought on the border every year. ”

"This expectation was not fulfilled by the First Emperor, and what I promised will be fulfilled!"

Heifu bowed his head: "His body will be sent back to Guanzhong with dignity and buried with other war dead." ”

"Xia Gong, is this true?"

Another voice came, but it was Qin Pawn, who was guarding the corpses of three or five of his comrades next to him, and he was guarded by Heifu's personal guards, kneeling down and shouting loudly in Anlu dialect.

Heifu asked the guards to let this person over, and after looking at him for a long time, he said: "Aren't you the Nanjun folk who I commended when I was in Wuguan, your name is Bo ......?" ”

"Yes, it is the Anlu people who are shrike! Now it's the tun chief! Seeing that Xia Gong still remembered his little fellow, Shrike was very happy, and asked:

"Xia Gong, can all the corpses of the war dead be buried at home?"

"Yes."

Seeing that more and more people were gathered, Heifu re-got on the carriage and said loudly: "More than ten years ago, three hundred comrades from Nanjun died in the battle of Liyang, and I vowed to take them home at that time. In the second expedition, I scattered all my wealth, bought 300 coffins, and sent them back to Nanjun! The world's first cemetery of loyal men was erected. ”

"The war dead today, as they did then, died for the great cause of reunification. Before leaving the customs, Yu asked the military judge to give each person a small wooden card, with the name, place of origin, and military affiliation on it for identification. The fox will be the first to die, and the black man will not expose the bones of the heroes to the wilderness, and he will be alone in a foreign land, and he will not be fed blood. ”

"If the wooden plate is lost and cannot be recognized, it will be sacrificed in the local cemetery of loyal soldiers, and those who can be identified will be temporarily placed in the local area, and Fu Li will build a coffin workshop, cut down all the good trees on the mountain, cut down the good timber on both sides of the Suishui, and recruit the vehicles of the entire Central Plains, and send them back, whether it is Guanzhong, Nanjun, or Nanyang and Shuzhong!"

In this decisive battle, the Chu army died nearly 60,000, and the Qin army also killed nearly 10,000 in the battle, and tens of thousands of people were seriously injured.

Therefore, this is a huge project, which will cost tens of millions of dollars, but the words of the black man are here.

"Move slowly, if it doesn't work in one year, it will take three years, and if it doesn't work in three years, it won't work for five years, as long as it can be found, all the corpses of the soldiers will return home!"

"Hooray!" I don't know if Yang Xi shouted first, or Berao shouted first.

"Long live Xia Gong!" The voices of Banzai came and went, making it difficult for Heifu to continue speaking, and he could only stop it a few times before the voices of the soldiers gradually lowered.

Heifu continued: "Not only that, when the imperial court is rich, I will not build a palace like the first emperor, but will erect a big stone monument for the dead in today's war, for the loyal soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in order to overthrow the tyranny of Huhai and reunify the world in the past few years!" ”

"This monument is called: 'Hero Monument'!"

"Monument to Heroes?" The soldiers looked at each other, they all said that Xia Gong was a great hero who saved his life, and they also thought that this name was exclusive to Xia Gong.

But Heff, it seems, doesn't think so:

"I once told people that there is not a single hero or hero in this huge world. That's right, the kind of 'hero' and 'hero' who once drew his sword, but brought ten years of calamity to the common people, Yu doesn't recognize it! ”

In the distance, Mr. Huang Shi stood quietly wearing a mask, the wind blowing from the water, and the stench of the battlefield made him shake a little, this was the scene that Yingchuan was almost facing.

And now, hearing this, he nodded slightly.

This stinking endgame seems to have a breeze blowing, making people not so desperate.

Hefu's voice continued, and the soldiers passed ten to hundred:

"Only those who have sacrificed for the great cause of the unification of the world, for the sake of the people of Li can enjoy their careers, women can enjoy their careers, and the truce of the four seas is worthy of this title!"

"Those who are still alive after the hard battle, even if they are just Qiantou and small soldiers, will ...... from now on"

Heifu threw his hand at the survivors and said, "All are heroes!" ”

"And those who died in battle are also ghosts!"

……

"The scene of today's decisive battle should also be engraved on the stone relief of the hero's monument, set up in front of the gate of Xianyang Palace, and the deeds of all the soldiers and the names of the soldiers should be immortalized......

Heifu asked his uncle Sun Tong, who was almost unemployed, to write down the matter, and when he returned to Guanzhong, he would hand it over to Fengchang Lu Jia and Shaofu Zhang Cang.

The rain washed over the battlefield, washing blood into the water and making the ground even more muddy.

At this moment, the infant who had gone to pursue the enemy sent someone back to report it, and the messenger pounced and fell down in the muddy water, but his face was full of joy:

"Guan County Lieutenant reported to Xia Gong, was ordered to chase Chu thieves, along the way for a hundred miles, beheaded more than 3,000, Jiangdong land and water division, also occupied Qi County. There are 3,000 remnants of the Xiang family, and they can't enter Qi, and they are trapped in the north of Qi County, Daze Township, by my tens of thousands of divisions! ”

"Daze Township ......"

Heifu muttered these three words, and the strategists and generals next to him were all congratulating each other, but he knew what this place name meant......

"There must be providence in the underworld, right?"

Heifu walked into the rain and looked up to the sky and laughed, those threads of rain that hung down seemed to be really manipulating the threads of dynasty and personal fate, leading them to the position of the final chapter little by little.

Or, is it the wish of the common people to end the war as soon as possible and start a new life?

"It's fine."

"Right where it all began," Hauff sighed. ”

"Let this war that should never have happened be over!"

……

PS: The second chapter is in the evening.