Zhuyi is a small county next to Suishui in Surabaya County, famous for many bamboos on the outskirts of the county, in the bamboo forest is the military camp where the Chu army retreated from Pengcheng to the south of Suishui, since the army started two years ago, the Chu soldiers have hardly rested, but their morale has long been no longer a year ago when they set foot on the Qin land, and the high in the West River is very decadent at the moment, shrouded in the atmosphere of defeat.

On the edge of Suishui, a trial is being held, and the presiding judge is none other than Xiang Ji himself.

"I thought that others would rebel."

Looking at the general who was tied up and kneeling in front of him, Xiang Jizhong's eyes were in disbelief and anger:

"But I didn't expect that, Zhou Yin, you also want to follow in the footsteps of Zhong Liyi, not only to be a deserter, to bring people to the Qin army, but also to assassinate me......"

Zhou Yin is a Chen person, after Xiang Ji raised troops, he also responded to join Chen County with Wu Chen, etc., and was an important hero of Xiang Ji to conquer Huaiyang. After Xiang Liang became the Great Sima of Chu, Zhou Wen served as the left Sima, and he became the right Sima, and he was the fifth person in the Chu army.

But it was such a person, but because he planned an assassination of Xiang Ji, as a result, because a lieutenant who worshiped Xiang Ji learned about it and denounced them, the operation failed, and Zhou Yin and more than a dozen Chu generals were all arrested and detained here at this moment.

"Why?"

Xiang Ji had a puzzled look on his face: "Two years ago, you were in Chendi, and Zhou Wen and his son raised troops to respond, first ascended to capture Chen, the battle of the chasm, broke the cauldron and sunk the boat, and also helped me to break the soldiers of Wang Ben's department, attack Sanchuan in the west, often be the striker, and always make meritorious contributions, why is it now at the last moment of Chu's counterattack, but you want to harm me?" ”

"Shangzhu Guo knows what Heifu has done in Chen Di recently?" Zhou Yin was not ashamed, but declared without changing his face, although he was tightly bound by a rope and his face was dripping with blood.

"Sacrifice Taihao Mausoleum, wear Chu clothes to enter Huaiyang, his army in Chen people did not commit crimes, so that Chen Di's father and old scholars are still old officials in the township, and they are not investigated for the crime of killing Qin officials from Shangzhu State, and even proposed to reduce rent and save punishment after ......the war."

Xiang Ji was even more angry: "This is a black thief's trick, he wants to divide the Chu people, and you actually believe him?" ”

Zhou Yin shook his head: "I didn't believe him, but the situation was too bad for us." ”

"There is an enemy in the northeast, and Cao Shen in Jiaodong has occupied Langya and is attacking Tanxian, the capital of the East China Sea."

"There is an enemy in the southeast, Jiangdong Wurui has captured Guangling and Huaiyin with Vietnamese soldiers, Dongyang rebelled against Chu, surrendered to his township party Chen Ying, and threatened Xu County, and Zhoushi Weiyang has already sent a warship to cross Xiapi and enter the vicinity of Pengcheng, east of Surabaya, all of which will not be guaranteed."

"There is an enemy in the south, Zhao Tuo of Hengshan Yuzhang cooperated with Danyang Anpu to attack Huainan, has broken several counties, and is marching towards Shouchun."

"There is an enemy in the southwest, Wu Guangke Runan, stationed in Xincai, and the troops are in Yingshui."

"There is an enemy in the West, the Koreans betrayed the Chu State, Gongsun Xin defected to the Qin army, led the Qin, and attacked Ku County and Qian County."

"There is an enemy in the north, Chen Ping recruited the county princes of Fengpei, constantly attacked my rear, trapped my Pengcheng, and the monarch had to move south here."

"There is an enemy in the northwest, and the infant is based in Suiyang, and the Dangjun soldiers are built in Liangdi County, and Li Bi and Luo Jiabu are also constantly advancing to the east, and the big Sima Xiang Liang is fighting in Mangdang."

"Coupled with Peng Yue, who has taken refuge in Heifu, the Jiaodong merchant fleet that sealed our sea, and the main army of Heifu in Huaiyang, the state of Chu has been surrounded on all sides!"

In Zhou Yin's opinion, the situation has reached such a point, coupled with the fact that Heifu is good at buying people's hearts, there is nothing left to fight, and the Chu State will undoubtedly lose.

In the face of the collapse of the Chu State Building, the Chu army troops on all fronts could no longer have the same extremely firm will as before, and most of the county dukes, when they learned that the end was approaching and they were unable to return to the sky, chose to follow the example of their colleagues in Fengpei and Liangdi, retreat to their hometowns or surrender.

Of course, there are also those who still have confidence in Xiang Ji and are still carrying out a crazy counterattack against the Qin army.

Most of these people have participated in the Battle of Xihe, and they have raised butcher knives against the Xihe people and retaliated on a large scale. They also heard about the Qin army's execution of the Wei captives, and once the Chu State was defeated, they were afraid that they would not be able to escape death, so when the rivers were falling, they could only choose to fight to the death and fight the trapped beasts.

Zhou Yin bowed: "I know that Shangzhu State has been looking forward to it, hoping that there will be a big victory in Chu State three hundred years ago, when King Chu Zhao defeated the Wu people to restore the country, or Xiang Yan broke Li Xin's great reversal!" ”

So in this situation, Xiang Ji was still issuing his war mobilization order, calling on the Chu people to swear to the death, defend their home and country, and fight to the death against the Qin people in every lane.

At first, the Chu people were still trembling with weapons, but when they found out that the enemy had no intention of exterminating the Chu people, and even kept saying that they would "liberate" them from under Xiang Ji, who would pay attention to this order.

Faced with this situation, Xiang Ji could only use one thing to encourage everyone to continue to believe in him.

"Since I raised my army, I have not lost a single battle!"

"Shangzhu Country."

Zhou Yin said heavily: "Since the army started two years ago, the soldiers have followed the Shangzhu Kingdom to conquer the south and the north, starting from Huainan, seizing the East China Sea, Dingchen County, attacking Dangjun, Linsanchuan, crossing the big river, entering Guanzhong, and Tuxi River...... Then he rushed thousands of miles back to aid Huainan, attacked Hengshan and Nanjun in the south, but returned in vain, and went to the Central Plains to fight hard with the Qin army, defeated Peng Yue, as long as he was a general of Shangzhuguo, there was indeed no defeat. ”

"But we're really tired, we've worn out more than a dozen pairs of shoes, and there are fewer and fewer township parties around us."

"And the people, they have sent their children into the Shangzhu army, most of them have been killed in battle, and they are not willing to make more sacrifices, Shangzhu country may not know, in some places in Chendi, the Chu people began to hang their bedding outside the window early, as a sign of surrender, they even begged the Chu soldiers not to defend their township anymore, so as not to anger the Qin army at the last moment and be annihilated."

"But Shangzhu Kingdom, what kind of order did you give?"

However, what echoed the efforts of the Black Husband to win the hearts and minds of the people was the order of the Xiang Ji calling for "scorched earth warfare".

According to the strategy of exchanging space for time and involving Heifu's supply line, Xiang Ji demanded that all Chu people migrate north of Suishui and west of Yingshui.

The land is not divided into East Chu and West Chu, and people, whether old or young, have the responsibility of defending the land and resisting Qin!

He hoped so, but he didn't solve one problem: how easy would it be to get them to abandon their ripening crops and leave the land where their ancestors lived? Moreover, millions of Chu people migrated on foot without safety at all, they had to endure heavy rain, and when they arrived at the place, there was no food to supply, and even the army of Xiang had begun to run out of food and was eating mulberries.

So when it comes to talking, only an empty slogan in the Chu army remains:

"It's better to be broken than to be complete!"

This is Xiang Ji's angry shout, he hopes to use the jade fragments of five million Chu people to let the Qin people see the dignity and pride of the Chu State!

This phoenix, which has been standing for 800 years, has been reborn once, and it is not going to die!

"Broken jade?"

But Zhou Yin laughed at this:

"But Shangzhuguo, you think wrong about one thing, everyone is just a tile."

"Only you, a nobleman, are jade!"

……

The supporting characters die of too much talk.

Zhou Yin died, it was Xiang Ji who personally cut off his head, his blood flowed into the Suishui, and his head was hung high with a freshly cut bamboo pole and inserted on the bank of the Suishui, as a warning to those who were lucky, every Chu pawn who crossed the river would take a look, and then bow his head and continue to walk forward.

A rebellion seemed to have subsided, but Zhou Yin's words echoed in Xiang Ji's ears, as harsh and cruel as war drums:

"Everyone is greedy for life and evil death, more than ten years ago, the Chu people have already been destroyed once, as long as they can survive, do they still mind, do you have to do it again?"

"In this case, if it is to be broken, it will be up to us to smash the Shangzhu Kingdom first!"

"This is the reason why I, together with soldiers who have the same idea, want to assassinate Shangzhu Kingdom!"

"Admit it, Xiang Yu, this battle, the Chu people have lost!"

Turning around, Xiang Ji looked at the Chu pawn who was hungry because he could only drink porridge, and the general who didn't dare to look directly at him, the morale of the Chu army seemed to be even lower.

"I haven't lost yet."

Xiang Ji could only repeat this sentence in his heart, smiled, and encouraged everyone:

"The Qin army raised troops and surrounded the Chu State on all sides, but in fact, the black thief has committed a taboo in the army, his soldiers are divided into ten roads, it seems that there are many people, but it is really the enemy and I am the one!"

"It's time for the decisive battle!"

After crossing Suishui, when convening the generals and lieutenants of Yingbu, Longji, and Yuziqi, Xiang Ji announced the tactics of the Chu army in a loud voice:

"No matter how many ways he comes, I will only go all the way, and I will definitely defeat these enemies on all ten sides!"

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PS: There is only one chapter today.