In mid-April, in the wilderness on the outskirts of Xiquyang, Huainan, hundreds of Chu soldiers were squatting on the ground in embarrassment, their weapons and armor had already been taken away, and they were now unarmed prisoners.

Chen Ying also squatted in the crowd, crying bitterly in his heart.

About half a month ago, the state of Chu ordered Yin Changpingjun to send people to Dongyang County, asking the county Yin to organize the only remaining men in the county and go to the capital Shouchun "King Qin".

Chen Ying, a 35-year-old official from Dongyang County, was also recruited, and although his mother was illiterate, she was a wise man.

"My son, you once told me that Shangzhu led troops to fight against the Qin army, but now you are not going to Huaibei to reinforce but to Shouchun Qinwang, it seems that Shangzhu must have been defeated. With the talents of the above pillar country, it is difficult to defeat the Qin country with so many soldiers, let alone you? Along the way, if something is not good, remember that it is important to save your life, I heard that the king of Chu even killed his own brother, and slandered that the first king was not born by his father, such a king is not worth his life......"

Chen Ying listened to her mother very much, so she responded.

The county Yin took a thousand Dongyang soldiers all the way to the west, and constantly gathered with the people of King Qin from all over Huainan, and got four or five thousand people. Chen Ying found that among them, there were many old and weak children, because Ding Da went to Huaibei a lot, and now he doesn't know whether he is alive or dead.

Along the way, Chen Ying also heard people talk about the war in Huaibei, some people said that Xiang Yan was defeated and committed suicide, and some people said that he escaped, and the current division of King Qin was his organization.

But some of the people are panicking, the elites led by Xiang Yan have been defeated, what can they do if they are ordinary people who are negligent in training?

When they arrived at Xiquyang, which was more than 100 miles away from Shouchun, they were suddenly attacked!

Chen Ying watched in amazement as the Qin army came out of the forest on the side of the road, cutting the advancing team into two sections. According to County Yin, isn't the main force of the Qin army drinking Ma Huai water and preparing to attack Shouchun? Why did you meet ...... in the hinterland of Huainan?

There was no suspense in this battle, and the army of King Qin, who had been put together, was quickly defeated, Dongyang County Yin and several military officials were killed in the first time, and a thousand people in Dongyang also scattered and fled, being chased and killed by the Qin people's chariots.

It was Chen Ying who thought of his mother's instructions, shouted "We will surrender", and threw weapons with hundreds of fellow villagers, and the Qin people stopped the attack under the order of a black-faced officer.

The crowd was surrounded by a fence made of sharp stakes, and hundreds of crossbowmen surrounded them.

Right now, those Qin soldiers who went to chase and kill the Chu people returned one after another, basically each of them had a bloody head hanging on their waists, and they were elated, and when they got closer, their eyes kept glancing at the necks of the Chu captives, and that look was as if they had seen money bags!

Chen Ying was stared at by them and his back was cold, he had heard that the Qin people were the first to make the first contribution, maybe the officer gave an order, and he and these Dongyang Township children and sons were going to die on the spot, and for a while, the people of Chu whispered.

At this time, a Qin soldier with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks came over and shouted in the Nanjun dialect that they barely understood: "Who are you waiting for?" Stand up and have something to ask! ”

The children of Dongyang looked at each other, the county Yin died, and several military officials also fled or died, among them, there were only a dozen or so Shi Chang and Wu Chang left.

"Among us, Chen Ying is the eldest, and he has always been sincere, so it's better to let Chen Ying go!" I don't know who shouted, but a group of chiefs and chiefs agreed one after another, and pushed Chen Ying out like this......

Qin Bing looked at him: "Your name is Chen Ying?" ”

"No......" Chen Ying agreed stubbornly.

That Qin Bing was happy: "I have the same name, my name is Ji Ying." ”

Ji Ying was polite, but his subordinates were not merciful at all, and with a wave of his hand, he asked two people to tie up Chen Ying, and searched his body again, before taking him towards the camp that the Qin people had temporarily set up.

The Qin army that attacked them was about 10,000 people, and most of them were now heading towards Xiquyang City, leaving only more than a thousand guards in the camp, Chen Ying passed cautiously past the Qin soldiers who were making fires and cooking, and walked to the tent in the center of the camp, where the black-faced officer who took the lead was talking to another white-faced military officer.

Chen Ying's hands were tied, and he was kicked in the leg by Ji Ying, and then he knelt in front of the two of them with a thud, and his knee landed on a hard stone, which made him gasp in pain......

……

Heifu stopped talking to Zhang Han, raised his head and glanced at the Chu man who was escorted, but saw that he had a long beard, and he was afraid that he was in his thirties......

"The villain is a small official in Dongyang County, just a mix of food and clothing, this time he came out with the county Yin, because all the military officials died in battle, and among the remaining people, I was older, so they pushed me out to answer the general's questions." Chen Ying replied honestly.

"Where's Dongyang?"

Heifu asked Ji Ying to spread out the map and found the location, which turned out to be west of Hangou, at the junction of Anhui and Jiangsu in the future.

"Dongyang County, a total of five hundred and twenty miles away from Shouchun, takes half a month." Chen Ying was afraid that Qin Yan would be suspicious, so he immediately added.

Heifu raised his eyes: "Have you been to Shouchun?" ”

"I traveled twice when I was younger."

Being able to travel shows that the person's family conditions are not bad.

Heifu bowed his head and asked, "In addition to you and others, do you know where the other Chu masters who went to Shouchun set off from?" ”

Chen Ying reported all the teams he met on the road, and when he asked in detail, he didn't know.

Heifu knew that this person had a low status and couldn't ask anything, so he waved his hand to let Ji Ying take him down, but Chen Ying had a strong desire to survive, and suddenly said: "We are just ordinary people in Chu, acting according to the orders of County Yin, not bent on opposing Qin, and I hope that the general will spare our lives!" ”

Zhang Han on the side said: "If it is indulged, who knows if you will repeat it!" ”

"Never, we will return to Dongyang and tell Dongyang what we have seen and heard."

Chen Ying said: "At present, Chu defeats Qin Sheng, Chu Guosheji is destroyed, and the land will also become Qin's county, let us go, the King of Qin will have hundreds of more households, if you kill it, then the Dongyang family will lose their father, brother and grandson, and they will fight to the death with Qin and will not surrender, so they are not afraid of benefit, killing is harmful!" ”

"In the Qin army, the head is considered a merit." Heifu looked at Chen Ying's head with a smile.

Chen Ying held back her fear, lowered her head and said, "I heard that Xiang Yan has hundreds of thousands of people, hasn't the general cut enough in Huaibei?" Or do you think that our head is more valuable than the prince and the prince in Shouchun City? ”

Heifu smiled dumbly: "Although you are only a small county official, a small chief, you can see the situation clearly, and you dare to say anything in order to save your own life and the life of the township party." ”

After thinking for a moment, he said: "We are not murderous people, so since you have been to Shouchun, you should stay in our army as a guide first, and I will let your township party leave." But if they still oppose Qin in the future, they will either stubbornly resist and not surrender......"

Heifu smiled kindly, "I'll kill you!" ”

……

After Chen Ying left, Zhang Han praised: "I never thought that a small county official would have such insight and courage. ”

"There shall be faithfulness in the town of ten chambers; In the land of a hundred households, there will be wise men. ”

Heifu said: "However, after the decisive battle of Qinan, General Wang Lao also asked all armies to issue a ban on killing prisoners, or to prepare for the capture of Chu and sending officials to govern......

It had been almost a month since that battle, and Wang Jian had spent a few days first conquering Qicheng, which was defended by Sima Zhaohua of Chu State. He also asked the various departments to pursue and suppress the remnants of the enemy, and the severed heads were enough for the officers to meet the standard of "profit theory", so the organized killing of prisoners organized by the officers disappeared, and at most the soldiers who did not receive the credit secretly killed the prisoners and killed the people because they longed for the first rank.

After that, Wang Jian separated the reunited three-way army of Qin again.

The Northern Army led by Feng Wuxuan was divided into two divisions, the main force attacked Xiapi, Xiaxiang and the eastern coastal areas where the remnants of the Xiang clan were entrenched, and the partial division turned around and marched towards the hometown of Lu, and the Confucian scholars in the land of Zou and Lu were finally about to usher in the rule of "Tyrannical Qin".

Wang Jian personally led the Chinese army to attack Xia Cai, and collected boats and wood everywhere, preparing to build a pontoon bridge on the Huai River to cross the water and attack the Chu capital Shouchun on the opposite bank.

As for Mengwu's southern army, he was ordered to march southeast, and when Wang Jian attracted all the remnants of the Huainan Chu army at Shangcai, he had already crossed the Huaishui from Zhongli and sent a large number of people to attack the city.

Heifu's Nanjun soldiers are the vanguard of Mengwu, and they have now occupied Xiquyang, cutting off the only way for the king of Chu to escape from Shouchun. In addition, it also intercepted the army of Huainan of Chu and King Qin of Jiangdong, and completely turned Shouchun into an isolated city.

Shouchun is bordered by the Huai River in the north, and there is the Rao of Shaobi in the south, since the 22nd year of King Chu Kaolie (241 B.C.) moved the capital here, the happy life of the king of Chu and the nobles only lasted for more than ten years, but it will face the catastrophe of extinction......

In the next few days, Heifu and the others successively defeated several Chu troops organized by Changping Jun and came from Jiangdong and Huainan to save Shouchun.

By the end of April, the Mengwu army had arrived in Shaobei, and the Chu army could no longer hold Huai, so they could only retreat to the city.

Meng Wu approached the city with tens of thousands of people, and cooperated with the Qiang tribe from Yingkou to surround a corner of the city.

The Nanjun Corps was ordered to meet Wang Jian to cross Huai in the east of the city, and the location where Heifu and they camped was located between a mountain and a river.

"The water is called the water."

Even if Chen Ying was unwilling, he could only honestly be a guide for Heifu, pointing to the tributaries of the Huai River rushing in front of him, and pointing to the towering hills of pines and cypresses behind him: "The mountain is called Bagong Mountain!" ”

As soon as he heard this, Heifu was immediately happy, and took people up to Bagong Mountain to look into the distance, and looked north, and could see Wang Qian's main force crossing the pontoon bridge from Kipshikou, which was called "Huaishang Jinyao", which was the result of Zhang Han and other military officers taking the people to work for several days.

Looking at the southwest again, you can just see the splendid palace tower of Shouchun City at a glance.

At this moment, in Shouchun City, the King of Chu may also be looking over here, and saw that the Qin army was in full formation, and the soldiers were elite......

Heifu couldn't help but sigh: "In the eyes of the King of Chu, on Bagong Mountain, at this moment, there are also soldiers of grass and trees!" ”