Chapter 1013: Where the Beginning and the End
"Wu Guang, do you know where the front is?"
On the third day after the war, when the sky was bright, the autumn rain was still falling, and during the march, Heifu did not hide in the thick car, but simply put on a hat and called Wu Guang, who was in charge of the rear army, for questioning.
Wu Guang has been taking refuge in Heifu for two years, only Sima in the past, this year he has good luck, he has been able to take charge of the captain, and he fought the battle of Pusaka when he fought in Hedong.
In the battle of Fuli, Wu Guang's rear army approached the enemy, withstood the almost rout of the left flank, and made some contributions, and now he was promoted to Chen Junshou, and suddenly became a 2,000-stone official, and Heifu even put him in the selection of many people who sealed the customs after the war......
He is obviously better than Chen Sheng.
Suddenly summoned by Xia Gong and asked about the front, Wu Guang was surprised, and said honestly: "I only heard that it is Qi (qí) County, Surabaya County, Daze Township." ”
"Have you been here?" Heifu looked at the wooded roads on both sides that had been beaten by the autumn rain.
Wu Guangdao: "Although the subordinate has been a postman in Yangxia County, he has never left Chen County before the age of thirty. ”
Because of the effect of Heifu's butterfly wings, Wu Guang and Daze Township passed by, and the place where he and Chen Sheng raised troops was exactly the place where Heifu fought: Liyang!
According to Wu Guang, they were still inspired by Heifu's "prince and general, rather have a kind of care......
And now that Chen Shengyuan is in Yandi, he has also raised the banner of responding to Xia Gong, waiting for Han Xin to save him from the Dynasty and Zhao's encirclement, maybe in the future, he and Wu Guang can get together again, and they will be the ministers of the same dynasty.
Obviously, in this plane, Daze Township has no contact with Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.
On the contrary, with Heifu, there are some karma!
Maybe it's because he's old, maybe he's just experienced a thrilling bloody battle, Heifu suddenly became a little nostalgic, and when he arrived at the headquarters of the Qin army's encirclement, Daze Township, he invited Dongmen Leopard, the biggest hero of the battle, and asked him the same question.
Dongmen Leopard yesterday defeated General Pu and Yuzi on the left wing of Chu with the right-wing Qin army, and made great contributions, beheading more than 10,000 people.
Therefore, the speed of promotion really has nothing to do with personal ability, Heifu is now faintly pressuring Han Xin, but he is quickly promoted to Dongmen Leopard, which will definitely make his status equal.
This is also the reason why Heifu insists on his own command, not only is he confident in his own strength, I heard that now Han Xin is proud enough, and he is quite dissatisfied with his own transfer of the baby to the south, if this battle is also won by Han Xin, this kid, nostrils must not be turned to the sky!
And Dongmen Leopard really has a little impression of this place: "Sixteen years ago, I came with the lord to chase the remnants of Chu and sheltered from the rain here. ”
They did come, it was sixteen years ago, after the decisive battle between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan Qinan, Xiang Yan was killed in battle, and more than 100,000 Qin soldiers were divided into twenty or thirty divisions, and began to disperse from the battlefield, chasing and killing the defeated soldiers of the Chu State.
At that time, most of the Chu soldiers lost their formation, more than 1,000 people, less than dozens of people, without Xiang Yan, they lost the backbone of unity, and were beaten by the Qin army to lose their armor and flee.
Heifu led more than 1,000 people to pursue north, but did not catch any big fish, only cut the heads of more than 100 Chu people's defeated troops, and also encountered a sudden heavy rain one evening......
"It's like this rain right now."
Heifu raised his head, it was different from the umbrella that was a little broken and leaking at that time, there was a thick and wide "curtain" above his head, but the person holding the umbrella was no longer the personal guard Mu at that time, but replaced by two sturdy Anlu guys. They have good eyes, legs and feet, and their attention is all on Heifu, as if letting a drop of rain fall on Xia Gong, it is all dereliction of duty.
Lightning pierced the gloomy sky, and the rain poured down, ticking on the curtain, and the ground suddenly became a country.
So in order to avoid the rain, they entered a small town called "Daze Township" - a poor place that did not even have a name on the map of the Qin army.
"At that time, when the people in the city heard that the Qin army was coming, they all fled, leaving only an old man with injured legs and feet, and his little granddaughter who had a fever, and he didn't have time to leave, I still remember that his little granddaughter had a somewhat special appearance, and there were traces of being burned by fire on her left cheek, and she was very afraid of ......."
In their memories, they escorted a few locals to visit Heifu, saying that it was these locals from Daze Township who provided the whereabouts of the Chu army.
"At dawn yesterday, the Chu army was defeated to this point, lost the way, asked the people in the Yi, and a peasant woman in the Yi said 'left'. The left of the Chu army is trapped in Daze, so we chase it, and it is surrounded by three sides outside Ze! Not to mention a human being, a giant rat can't run out! ”
"Who pointed out the wrong path to Chu Jun?" Heifu asked.
Everyone bowed in front of Heifu, but he didn't dare to speak, but a woman with a three- or four-year-old child in her arms caught Heifu's attention.
She is about 20 years old, and she has a red scar on her left cheek, probably from being burned when she was a child, and looking at the teeth she showed when she spoke, she was not aligned many times, and most of her childhood did not have a good life.
This may be the little girl they saw sixteen years ago, but the time has passed, and she was young at that time, so she didn't seem to connect the black-faced "big official" in front of her with the black-faced little Qin official many years ago.
"General Chu asked for directions, I pointed them in the direction of Daze, and said that it was a small road, which trapped them inside."
The woman hugged the baby tightly, and did not feel guilty about "betraying" her compatriots, and when asked the reason, she was also eloquent.
"Half a year ago, he arrested my husband, saying that he wanted to resist the Qin army and become a Chu soldier."
"You can return?"
"The townsman asked the merchant to bring back a message, saying that he was dead." A flash of anger flashed across the woman's face.
"He probably died in battle with us." Hefu said.
The woman was very stubborn: "Xiaomin doesn't know where he died, who killed him, I only know who captured him, and never came back!" ”
She scolded again: "Since the army of his generation, the hometown has declined well, the taxes and forced labor are heavier than in the past, there are wars every day, the rice is not planted well, and it is about to be harvested, thousands of people come and step on it, and it is all gone!" ”
It can be seen that the Chu army, even in Chu, is actually not so popular.
Speaking of this, she was so sad that she squatted down, hugged the child and cried bitterly, the people of Daze Township also had a bitter face, the rice in the north of Yi was all destroyed, and they didn't know how to spend this winter......
Where the division is, thorns are growing, and the army has passed, and in order to feed the enemy, every grain of grain will be collected, which is no different from the crossing of locusts.
As for whether it was the Qin army or the Chu army, the difference was actually not big.
"You and others have succeeded in luring the enemy, and the grain for autumn and winter, and the seeds for the coming year, will be distributed by the new Surabaya County Government."
Heifu asked Zhou Ke, who had been promoted to the county guard of Surabaya, to write down the matter, and the future Surabaya county government will be established mainly by abundant people, and this group of people has supported the early Han dynasty in history and supported a county government, it should be no problem.
"Give another military order! From now on, anyone who dares to step on the grain fields in the counties and townships of Chudi where our army has passed and tramples a few corns to death will be flogged a few times, even if I have broken the law, it will be no exception! ”
After all, when the time comes, Heifu doesn't want to cut his hair and replace his ass......
Not to mention that the people of Daze Township were happy to thank him, Heifu got up and came to the outside of Lilu, but when he saw that the rain was gradually getting smaller, he couldn't help sighing:
"It's not the same as it was sixteen years ago......
At that time, this woman's grandfather refused to tell Chu Bing where he fled no matter what.
Hefu walked out the door, and it was the clear sun after the rain outside, and he squinted his eyes and muttered:
"This time, the cry of mourning for the homeland, perhaps, will not sound in this township?"
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Leaving Daze Township and continuing southward, about ten miles away, they arrived at Zewai, where the Chu army had fallen.
This Ze is dozens of miles wide, Daze Township is therefore named, there is arid land in Ze, can pass the outside, but every time it rains, it will be surrounded by water, muddy, and may fall into it if you are not careful, once the army enters, unless the natural water is dry, it is difficult to get out!
Since then, only thirty or forty miles to the south is Jinan, where Xiang Yan died in battle......
Sixteen years ago, when Heifu heard that he had come to Daze Township, he only felt that this was the place where everything ended and where everything began.
At that time, he turned his head and looked at Daze Township, which was gradually moving away, and the grandfather and grandson who watched them leave from a distance after coming out, and he didn't know whether it was fear or hatred in his eyes, he seemed to see that a ghost, a ghost called the hatred of the country and the family, had been wandering in this land of Jingchu for a long time!
"Sixteen years ago, we followed the banner of Qin Shi Huangdi, waved our army south, and destroyed her body, but her soul is still there."
Survives in the prophecy and fantasy of "Death of Qin and Chu".
It spreads in the 800 years of glory that the nobles and gentlemen will never forget......
"It is hatred, unwillingness, luck, incitement, coupled with harsh government, thick accumulation, and heavy labor, all kinds of factors that support the restoration of the Chu people and fight with us so far."
Heifu admits that there is a certain legitimacy for the rebellion of the Chu people, but this legitimacy has long been gone after the first massacre of the city, and his answer must only be an autocratic iron fist representing the imperial court!
Reunification is inevitable, and division is bound to fail.
"Now, I'm going to destroy even this last soul!"
Heifu will not destroy the book of the Five Kingdoms, but the history of the Chu State must be extinct! The people's clothing, customs, words and even beliefs can be preserved, but the traces of the official must be destroyed! "Han Zhu" and "The Book of the Chicken", except for a single copy that can be decrypted only after being sealed for a hundred years in the Afang Palace, which is used as a large library, for thousands of years later, later generations of scholars will study it, the rest must be confiscated and burned!
He retained the heroic forces of Han and Wei, and let them continue to serve as county commanders to ensure peaceful liberation to the greatest extent. But they will definitely wipe out the great nobles of Chu State one by one! Zhao, Jing, Qu, Xiang, this time, there will not be another descendant who can survive in the world!
Where it should be tolerant, it must be tolerant.
When it is time to be ruthless, you must also be ruthless, and you will be able to eliminate evil!
The rain had stopped, but the water in Danze was still there, and the generals of the Qin army were deliberating whether to besiege it for a long time or rush in to exterminate the only remaining Chu army.
At this time, Wei Yang, who had not seen him for many years, also came to visit, and Heifu smiled and helped his nephew and asked him how many sons he had? And just like when he was at An Lu's house, he said to him:
"Sing a song for me, my nephew."
"What song?"
Wei Yang was stunned, in the past, when his father returned to his hometown, he often let him and his sister stand in the courtyard, singing in harmony, while he beat the beat, and the family was happy, and he had to make some noises to make the eldest mother happy.
"A song of sorrow, a song of funeral."
Heifu looked at the pillars of cooking smoke rising in the surrounded Daze, as if they were incense lit before the burial in the wilderness.
"The song of our hometown of Nanjun."
"Chu Ge!"