"Father, please take me!"

The item in the dream is still the boy who is not as tall as the wheel, but he is running desperately beside the car.

"You're too young."

The eldest father, Xiang Yan, stood on the car and turned around, his uniform was as bright as fire, and his thick beard covered the ties, and he was kind and stern to them.

"When will that child go to war?"

A weapon was thrown from the car, and along with it, there was the laughter of my father and Xiang's uncles and brothers:

"When you are at least as tall as a six-foot halberd, you can go to the battlefield with us to kill Qin Kou."

He could only pick up the halberd, hold it high, and shout at the smoke and dust of the convoy:

"Father, this will win!"

"Chu will win!"

At that time, in Xiang Ji's heart, as the invincible father of Shangzhu State, he had killed Qin Qidu Lieutenant and defeated Li Xin's eldest father, and there was no possibility of defeat.

Until the bad news came.

At that time, he knew that for General Chu, once defeated, there was only one choice:

"Die!"

Drinking so loudly, Xiang Ji woke up from his dream, his head was sweating, it was a small tent, set up in the middle of a newly opened bush, and he could even see a frightened lizard crawling out of the crack.

This is the place where they were trapped, the swamp called Daze Township, the damned field woman pointed them the wrong way, the remnants of the Chu army crashed in, and encountered heavy rain, and they couldn't get out, but they were surrounded by the Qin army that kept coming.

And Xiang Ji's body, from his forehead to his legs and feet, was also full of scars, and the most serious was a sharp arrow that pierced his armor and pierced his back, although it had been briefly treated, it still hurt like a heart.

This was the most serious injury since the beginning of the army, but these injuries did not have the humiliating pain caused by the defeat at all!

Now, as I come to my senses, every detail of the defeat in the war the day before yesterday is coming to mind, if I arrange the formation like this, if I have launched a charge earlier, if I have been more resolute, if I have ......

If there is no if, the result is that he is defeated!

A full 60,000 Chu people, died in Fuli, Long Ji, General Pu, Yu Zi period, all the old troops died on the battlefield, if it were not for his cousin Xiang Zhuang, his subordinate Yingbu struggled to rescue, Xiang Ji almost died after the failure of the shock to the Heifu main formation.

So Xiang Ji remembered the tradition of Chu again:

"On the day of the teacher's departure, there is glory in death, and disgrace in life. The law of Chu will be killed, and you can't ask for it, but you must ask for it! ”

This is a tradition that has been continued from Qu Bian, Ziyu, Shen Yinrong and even Xiang Yan, in the Spring and Autumn Period alone, there were 17 Mo Ao, Ling Yin, Sima, and the prince committed suicide due to defeat. This is because the Chu people regard dignity more than their lives, and they do not hesitate to die generously for their faith.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, it was self-hanging, and later it became self-hanging, and even developed a set of self-killing etiquette.

Self-slaughter has become a way for the loser to go to justice with honor and retain the last trace of dignity.

At least in the minds of the Chu people, it has always been so.

Xiang Jiqiang stood up, touched his side, it was empty, and then looked at Xiang Zhuang, who had been guarding himself with wide eyes: "What about the sword?" ”

After many years of military service, the sword seems to have become a third hand, and if it is missing, it will be empty.

But Xiang Zhuang, who was guarding Xiang Ji in the tent, seemed to have a premonition of something, and he had two swords hanging from his waist, one was the famous sword "Gongbu" given by Xiang Ji during the Battle of Xihe, and the other was Xiang Ji's own saber, holding two swords firmly at the moment.

Xiang Zhuang's tongue was cut off by Qin officials in the past, and he couldn't speak, so he could only make a babbling sound and shook his head at Xiang Ji.

"Don't worry."

"I'm not there yet."

"My sword, even at the end, is pointed at the enemy."

Xiang Ji said this, let Xiang Zhuang help himself up, and at this moment, they heard a commotion outside.

"What?"

Yingbu, who was guarding outside, came to report: "Shangzhu Kingdom, is the Qin army singing, or is it ...... singing"

This day is not afraid of heaven and earth, and despair appeared for the first time on the face of the black-faced prisoner who was pressed by Qin soldiers several times and still did not change his face:

"It's Chu Ge!"

……

"My father's soul is in the north, and the quicksand is blowing and the wind is blowing.

The sun is like frying, and the moon is like stewing.

Saibei is unlivable, when will you return, when will you return!

My brother's heart is in the east of the sea, and the waves of the long sky are pouring into the cloud tower.

The soul sinks into the sand, and the fish and shrimp are buried.

Haidong is not inhabitable, when to follow, when to follow!

My son's henchman is in Lingnan, and poisonous insects are like swords and rain, like halberds.

Cut off their hair first, then tattoo their spines.

The end of the world is inhabitable, when to come home, when to come home!

Only the old garden can be lived, when to come to peace, when to come to peace! ”

The song was small at first, as if it were a few people singing in harmony, but gradually it grew larger and became a large chorus, coming from all directions......

This rhyme, this language, is indeed the unmistakable Chu song, and the content is quite similar to the traditional funeral song "Conjuring" of the Chu State, which may be one of the local versions.

Two years ago, when the army was raised and attacked Shouchun, Xiang Ji sang "The Conjuring" loudly, and at that time he believed that he had recalled the long-lost soul of the state of Chu......

That song of conjuring spirits once inspired the courage of the Chu people to fight, but today's song is making the fighting spirit of the only more than 3,000 Chu soldiers collapse at a speed that is visible to the naked eye!

Yingbu, this iron-clad man, lost his fighting spirit at this time, he knelt in the mud in despair, and muttered: "Qin has already won Chuhu? How many people are there? ”

"The people of Hondo Nanjun in the Black Army, the words in this song are indeed the wind of Nanjun Hengshan Xichu."

This time, Xiang Ji judged clearly that these singing people were either Nanjun soldiers, one of the main forces of the Heifu army, or those shameless county subordinates who had turned their backs on the Chu State and surrendered to the invaders not long ago.

When the singing gradually stopped, in the interval when Xiang Ji fainted due to his injuries, he had been following Xiang Ji's personal soldiers from the day he started the army to report:

"Shangzhu Kingdom, Yingbu has taken people away!"

"There are more than a thousand people wading out of the water with him and begging to surrender to the Qin army!"

Xiang Ji seemed to have expected it, and said with a smile: "Yingbu, Yingbu, those Chu Ge broke his backbone, thinking that he could live in this way, he should cut off my head and go again." ”

Yingbu did watch outside the tent for a while, but after all, he was frightened by Xiang Ji's prestige and did not dare to come in.

Xiang Zhuang angrily came to ask for instructions, that means, do you want to pursue? But Xiang Ji shook his head:

"Let's go, let them go."

"Today, those who are willing to go, go."

"Xiang Ji this time, I don't bring a person who doesn't want to die to die."

When he walked out of the tent again, everyone had already gathered here, and the originally small open space in Zezhong was no longer crowded, and most of the Chu soldiers were gone.

"How many people are left?"

"Eight hundred."

Xiang Ji laughed miserably: "The number of people who raised troops with me in Chaohu back then happened to be eight hundred. ”

A drum beat sounded outside, and this was the Qin army that began to advance towards Zezhong! After all, Heifu has no patience to continue the siege, and wants to end the battle and destroy the Chu State before the sun sets!

Xiang Ji's gaze swept over the faces of the rest of the people one by one, he had always loved people, and he could almost call out the names of most of the soldiers.

"Zhong Ping, I still remember the day you took the head of Huaiyang City, you were able to lift the entire Qin people and throw them off the city tower, what should you do today?"

"Liu Ji, the Ru family has been a retainer of the Xiang family for generations, your father died in battle with my father, your father died defending the Xiang manor, you hid the people, and when you heard that I had raised troops, I also responded as soon as possible."

Every time a person arrives, those Chu Lieutenants and Chu soldiers who are covered in colors and tired, but still holding their weapons, will burst into a loud shout, as if they have been fighting hard with Xiang Ji for two years, just to get a praise from Shangzhu State.

Some people despise Xiang Ji, some people hate Xiang Ji, and some people disdain him, but there are also people who respect and are loyal to him from the bottom of their hearts.

Because after those Chu people were aggrieved for more than ten years, they won exciting victories one after another!

"I have been eight years old since I started the army, and I have fought for more than 20 years, and those who are supposed to be broken, and those who are struck are subdued, and I have not tasted defeat, so I crossed the West River, which is the farthest place that the Chu people have walked."

This is the pride of Xiang Ji, and it is also the talk of all those present today, just like his middle father Xiang Liang, who said goodbye to him when the two sides were separated in the battle of Fuli.

"You may be disappointed in your father."

"But Ji'er, you have never disappointed your middle father!"

"The Xiang family can have you as Ying'er, so that between heaven and earth, a few more bells can be played! That's enough! ”

Xiang Ji raised his head, and now even his middle father was gone.

"However, I am defeated by Fuli today, and I am trapped here, and I will die this day."

People can't choose where they come from.

But you can choose how you want to die.

"I'd rather die in battle than die of hunger and thirst, or die at the feet of the Qin people, and finally be humiliated by the jailers and die with an axe!"

No one will sing the praises of those who died.

"Today, I am determined to die, I am willing to fight quickly for the kings, break the siege for the kings, behead the generals, and cut the flag!"

Xiang Zhuang's tongue was cut off by Qin officials, and he couldn't speak, but he also let go of his throat and roared, like an angry beast!

"Die today!"

Following all the remaining Chu soldiers began to roar, and slapped each other with the broken shields and broken spears in their hands, Ze was filled with the sound of Ding Ding's clanging, which made the Qin army, which was wading towards this slowly advancing from the periphery, couldn't help but delay for a while.

Xiang Ji has changed his mind.

He no longer wants to die of suicide like the defeated generals of the Chu people in his ancestors.

He would rather use the sword in his hand, for the last time, to ring the sonorous bell that belongs to the Xiang clan and belongs to the Chu State!

He would rather have a battle to end this tragedy: swords intersect, blood-red snow, broken shields and severed limbs, let it all end here!

Even though the will to die was clear, when Xiang Zhuang brought the big black horse "Wuqi", which was covered in injuries and covered with mud, Xiang Ji seemed to see himself.

"Good horse, you have followed me to the end."

This man with five big and three thick, this demon king who killed people like hemp in Xihe and Xiangyi, suddenly became gentle, stroked the fur of the black horse, and brushed the dry and hard soil from the hair for it, but in the end he did not step on the horse's back.

He was wounded in the battle of Fuli, but if he wanted to fight on horseback, he could still do it, Xiang Ji even dared to pat his chest to promise that he would not fall behind when he clashed with any horseman, the halberd in his hand, and the black horse sitting down, were always handy and invincible!

Xiang Ji asked the black horse to be tied to the tree next to the tent, took one last look at it, and resolutely turned away.

The black horse was restless and restless, even though it was wounded and tired, even if it was chained, it still screamed, but it could only watch, the tall and majestic master, holding the halberd shield in his hand, and the eight hundred last Chu pawns, went towards the outside of Ze.

They faltered, they also walked firmly, although their clothes were torn and armored, but under the leadership of Xiang Ji, with 800 people, out of the momentum of 80,000 people!

It heard the sound of their angry shouting, heard them fighting with the Qin people who came from the water, the sword light and sword shadows, the intersection of gold and iron, the spitting of the Chu people, and the trumpets of the Qin people were mixed together, and from time to time heavy objects fell down with a bang, smashing out a large splash, and the ripples must have dispersed far away.

It struggled constantly, tugging at the ropes, hoping to break free and join the fight—it was also a member of the Chu army! He once carried the master invincible, crossed the chasm, and drank the Yellow River!

In this battle with the thousands of fronts of the Qin people, or the Chu people won, it heard the footsteps go outward, gradually moving away, and then there is a sharp roar that breaks through the sky!

It remembers, it was the sound of thousands of crossbows firing in unison and arrows falling in the Qin army's position!

Every time this sound appears, countless people of the same kind, along with their riders, will turn on their backs!

Like a shower, the water splashed in the swamp, but after the sound of the salvo passed, there were still Chu people alive!

"Kill!"

It is the horn of the Chu people's charge, it is the voice of the master, the hissing is exhausted, but it is still so explosive, like rolling thunder!

Then came the second salvo, and again, again, and every time, Chu Yin, who was angry and angry, was much smaller.

Until there was no more sound.

I don't know what happened, but the noise outside gradually stopped, and the black horse finally broke the trunk of the tree, which was the thickness of the child's arm, and dragged it out, over the bushes, into the swamp, and saw the scene outside......

As far as the eye could see, in the huge swamp, the Chu people had all fallen down, and the arrows that fell from the sky pierced them, like freshly grown rice stalks.

Only its owner, Xiang Ji, is still holding a halberd and standing in Zezhong!

Around him were more than a dozen Qin soldiers who had been killed—they coveted a heavy reward for their first rank, and they rushed forward without obeying orders, and when they saw countless arrows in them, they stopped moving, and wanted to step forward and behead them, but they were all killed by the counterattack.

So the arrows in the distance continued to fire, almost shooting Xiang Ji into a hedgehog, but even if he was desperate, he never fell.

The man was cruel and violent, but he did fight to the last moment, standing to die.

The red armor on Xiang Ji's body was soaked with blood, making it even more bright red, and it became the only bit of red that survived.

And opposite Daze, the black flag, the overwhelming black armor array, 100,000 people slowly gathered towards this red dot......

……

After the battle stopped, in front of the Qin flag fluttering in the west wind, Heifu stood on the chariot and let go of the hilt of his sword that he had been holding tightly.

Looking at the black steed that rushed out of the Zezhong and rushed towards Xiang Ji's corpse, he stretched out his hand to stop the crossbow machine raised by the soldiers, and after a long sigh, he raised his head and looked at the gradually darkening sky, the blood-red demon star was long gone:

"Glowing Star, ...... Fall"

"The prophecy of the death of Qin Bichu has also been shattered."

On the contrary, it was another thing, and it has since become a fact.

"Will the people of the future say so?"

Hefu smiled as he fell to the ground:

"Chudi Heifu."

"Death here!"

……

"The corpses of the split items are five, one is passed on to the East China Sea, one is passed to Surabaya, one is passed to Chen County, one is passed to Jiujiang, and the head is passed to the west, and it is brought back to Guanzhong through Dangjun, Yingchuan, and Sanchuan."

This is the disposal of Xiang Ji's corpse by Heifu, Xiang Ji's body is full of arrows, and when he pulls it out and weighs it, it weighs half a stone......

The so-called "King of Chu", as early as a few days ago, was taken by Cai Ci, together in the broken Qi County self-immolation and died, Cai Ci failed to serve the King of Chu and killed himself, but now he has been martyred.

After Xiang Ji was also killed in battle, the state of Chu was completely wiped out, and only Ji Bu was still guarding Shouchun and besieging Zhao Tuo.

At this time, Yu Yang led the big black horse over happily with people, saying that this was Xiang Ji's mount, but this horse was very irritable and stubborn, kicked and injured two people, and kept screaming, as if he was mourning Xiang Ji.

"What's this horse called?" Heifu looked at Yingbu, the general of Chu who was being held aside, and only then did Heifu order him to take Chu's troops and launch a charge towards Zezhong, which successfully consumed most people's lives, and Yingbu also suffered a halberd on his thigh, but he was not dead, his fate was still waiting for Heifu's verdict.

"It's called Wuqi." People's loyalty is not as good as horses, and Yingbu's face is ashamed.

"Sure enough, it's a black horse." Heifu whispered:

"If you don't die, you can't help it, and you can't help it......"

But there are only horses, no Yu Ji, I asked the Chu army to capture Yingbu and others, and said that Xiang Ji did have a concubine and a beautiful woman named Yu, but she stayed in the prime minister and is nowhere to be found today.

disappeared together, as well as the father Fan Zeng......

Maybe it's hiding in the people, or maybe it's hiding in some mountain?

"Regent, what to do with this horse?"

"It's better to kill." Wei Yang and others suggested.

"No, cure it."

Hefu did not reach out to touch the steed, which was always thinking of biting and avenging his master, but pointed at it from afar:

"Then, take it to Jiangdong, untie all the harnesses, and put it in the Mayuan pasture."

"Let the chief of the Wujiang Pavilion, who was convicted of serving the Chu army, raise it for the people, and let this person and a horse be in the garden, and let him live his ......life."

There is no need for Heifu to kill a horse, the soul of the Chu State has been wiped out today.

Surrounded by the cheers of the Qin army, celebrating each other, and looking forward to returning to their hometown before the Chinese New Year.

They all felt that the war was finally over.

But then, can the Central Plains be able to release Nanshan?

"Not yet."

Hefu looked to the north, and there, there was still an enemy, an enemy of the wolf's ambition that he had let go many years ago!

"It's not over yet!"

……

PS: There is only one chapter today.