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The autumn breeze blows the withered yellow grass, and it looks like waves in the sea.

The leaves of the trees also swayed in the autumn wind, and a yellow leaf fluttered in a spiral, which fell on the shoulders of people, and the majestic wind continued to flutter, gliding as if fluttering and then landing on the forest path.

A group of about 30 travelers walked between the forest trails, and they set off from Kure County in Huiji and arrived at Gangneung in Nam-gun.

"Passing through this forest is the boundary of South County." The middle-aged man who spoke was wearing a blue linen coat, wearing a pair of short trousers, and he pointed to the northwest, "There is a county in front of Zhouling, called, we are faster, and we will strive to find a family to stay in Zhouling at night." ”

The rest of the people responded with a bang.

In this era, only Chu people will answer with "promise", and their identity is Chu people.

They are the group of people sent by Xiang Liang to Nanjun, and the one who walks in the current is a middle-aged man named Cao Ji, who is the chief envoy of this team, and Xiang Wei, the clan relative of the Xiang clan, is the deputy envoy.

Huiji County is nearly 800 miles away from Nanjun, and they passed through many counties along the way, and what they saw was that people were constantly gathering in the township, and the banners of the Qin State in each county were pulled out, as if the Qin State of Zhangjun had been completely eliminated.

When Pu set out from Huiji County and entered Zhang County, it was just when the turmoil had just spread.

When the turmoil spread to Zhangjun, the local county guards boldly ordered the county soldiers from each county to assemble in the capital Zhangxian, and put up notices with a strong attitude, extinguishing a township if there was a rebellion in one township, and reporting to the center to kill a county if there were more than three townships in a county.

The strategy implemented by the hard-line county guards was very much in line with the Qin state's rule over the region, which had always been the case in the face of rebellion. However, this county guard probably forgot that the county soldiers in Chu were basically the military service of the local Chu people, and the county soldiers from all over Zhang County were assembled in Zhang County, but they killed the county guard as soon as they came to Zhang County. Not to mention, it's all the other way around.

Cao Ji saw the counties of Zhangjun change their flags with his own eyes, and when he saw the banners at the head of the city, he immediately knew that Zhangjun's troops were controlled by the Huiji Xiang clan.

After entering Lujiang County, Cao Ji and others found that a lot of counties were planted with the word "Huan", and after inquiring, they learned that these counties had been captured by a leader of the rebel army named Huan Chu about half a month ago.

Who is Huan Chu? His reputation in Chu is very loud, and there are many people in Huiji County who know his name.

Seeing that the power of the Qin State in various counties was cleared, Cao Ji was naturally overjoyed in his heart, and when he went deeper into Lujiang County, he found that in addition to Huan Chu, there was also a man named Zhou Wen who had also captured many county seats. After the Qin state in Lujiang County was cleared, all parties rose one after another, in addition to Huan Chu and Zhou Wen, there were also Shang Xu, Dejiang and other righteous forces.

It stands to reason. The same rebel army revolted, so it should be coordinated to oppose Qin, but Cao Ji found that it was not the same thing at all, after the Qin state of Lujiang County disappeared, these rebels attacked and killed each other, and they were more ruthless than when dealing with the counterattack of the Qin people. Huan Chu captured more than 3,000 people during the attack on Shangsu, and he not only personally cut off the heads of the surrendered Shangsu, but also ordered the captured more than 3,000 people to be buried alive.

Huan Chu's methods were too ruthless, and the people in Lujiang County who knew that they were invincible were frightened and went to seek refuge with Zhou Wen. However, Zhou Wen's potential power swelled a lot in a short period of time, and after Cao Qi and his party arrived in Yugan, except for Huan Chu and Zhou Wen in Lujiang County, the rest of the potential force had been emptied. As a result of the scuffle, the people's livelihood in Lujiang County was completely destroyed, and the casualties of Qianshou were also very heavy.

Not only that, autumn was supposed to be the season of autumn harvest, but a large number of acres of land were destroyed under the destruction of each other. Most of the counties in Lujiang County have fallen into the dilemma of food shortage, and most of the Qiantou have become displaced people after their homes have been destroyed.

Later, Zhou Wen gathered a large number of forces dissatisfied with Huan Chu, and the two sides naturally became tense. There was no surprise that a big war broke out.

A large number of displaced people who lost their homes made more small groups of rebel armies formed, and they continued to sweep the villages they saw for a bite to eat, but Huan Chu couldn't take care of so much because he was fighting with Zhou Wen, and the chaos in Lujiang County aggravated for a while.

"It's the same Chu people, they don't focus on anti-Qin, and they attack each other so ruthlessly." There was too much emotion in Xiang Bian's words: "How can you face the counterattack of the Qin army in this way?" ”

The Qin army will definitely fight back, as long as you are not a fool, you will understand this. But to understand it, those who raise troops will be annexed if they don't want to fight, and they can't stand still, right? Moreover, those who dare to raise troops have no ambition, how can they give up the opportunity to strengthen themselves.

Cao Ji didn't have so much emotion, he felt that the whole anti-Qin cause might be harmful, but it was beneficial to the Xiang family. Those who raise troops will become weaker when they attack each other, and they will have a great advantage when they wait for the army to be raised, and then they will be able to command the heroes more loudly.

Lujiang County and Nanjun have a handover, and when they crossed Yushui, they found a strange situation, Huan Chu arranged troops on the west bank of Yushui to defend, and many Qianshou stayed on the east bank of Yushui and seemed to be waiting for something.

There were no boats that could not cross the river, so they had to stay on the east bank, and after asking, they learned a surprising information, it turned out that Huan Chu's army was preventing the Qianshou of Lujiang County from escaping to Nanjun.

"There is no turmoil in South County, it is a happy land."

"I heard that the government over there in Nanjun will arrange work, so I can mix a mouthful of food."

"There is a lot of food ...... in South County"

A lot of news is circulating, and it is precisely when these people gathered on the east bank heard the news that they wanted to flee to the South County to survive.

Cao Ji and the others stayed on the east bank for three days, and they didn't know what the reason was for the road, but Huan Chu's army actually arranged boats to cross the river in batches from the Qianshou on the east bank.

Xiang Wei bribed Huan Chu's soldiers, and found out that there were troops in Nanjun who brought food, and exchanged that food for the garrison to release those Qianshou who wanted to go to Nanjun.

Looking up, there are men, women and children who want to migrate to Nanjun, and the number will not be less than 70,000, and the grain transported by Cha Nanjun is 70,000 stones.

"In exchange for a stone of grain for a person, what did those people in Nanjun do for man?" Cao Ji's heart was full of incomprehension.

All the counties in the south have suffered turmoil, and under the shortage of food, the southern county has come up with food to do this, not only does Cao Ji not understand, I believe that many people will think that those people in the southern county are fools.

Cao Ji and the others mixed in the crowd after crossing the remaining water, and he thought that the army of Nanjun was waiting. I didn't expect to see it at all, but what I got was that they had to continue to go west by themselves, and there would be a reception from the officials of South County at the border.

Seventy thousand people walked up and procrastinated, and walked west for two days to reach less than forty miles, and Cao Qi and the others felt that it was too slow and left the team.

Yu Shui was one hundred and thirty miles away from the boundary of Nanjun, and they broke away from the team and walked west for two days to a forest, where they rested for one night, and today they could enter the territory of Nanjun.

When I woke up during the day, I hastily ate some dry food, walked in the plains and wilderness, and continued to hurry, walking for a distance. Almost everyone heard Cao Ji say that they should rest at the state tomb at night, and as soon as the sound of "promise" fell, the sound of horses' hooves was heard in the distance.

"Hide!" After Cao Zhi finished speaking, he first ran into the grass next to him.

Thirty or so people quickly ran into the grass, and as they lay on the ground, they could hear the sound of horses' hooves getting louder and louder.

More than a dozen horsemen galloped from the northwest direction, and when they got closer, the knight slowed down and took out a short crossbow from the leather bag hanging on the right side of the mount, and the knight in front shouted: "Come out, if you don't come out, you will have to release the arrow." ”

Cao Ji, who was half-squatting in the grass, could see clearly, the soldiers who came were dressed as Qin rangers, but the kind of crossbow in his hand was the first time he saw it. The costume is the ranger of the Qin people. The accent was Zhao Ren, Cao Ji hesitated for a moment and stood up, he didn't think that the troops pointing in this direction with a short crossbow were a test, but really found out where they were hiding.

Cao Zhi stood up first. He said loudly: "Don't let go of the arrows, we are afraid of encountering bad people, so we will hide." ”

More than thirty people stood up, and they saw the cavalry stationed fifty paces away, and saw the soldiers dressed in black robes and holding a short crossbow facing them. Suddenly, he looked a little nervous.

The Qin cavalry was a patrol cavalry with no armor on their bodies, and their main weapon was not a cavalry spear but a bronze sword about sixty centimeters long.

Nanjun's ranger attire was no different from that of the Qin army. It's just that they have a new weapon, that is, the product of the failure of the experimental pouting crossbow, a short crossbow with a range of only about one hundred and thirty paces, but Lu Zhe called it a riding crossbow.

"Are you from Lujiang County?" The knight with the accent of Zhao is the leader of this cavalry, and he said that he put away his crossbow but did not approach.

"Yes, yes!" Cao blame and they should be regarded as coming from Huiji, but they are indeed from Lujiang.

The military rank of cavalry is different from that of infantry, only team rate, centurion, and song commander, and when it reaches the rank of captain, it is a partial general, and a partial general is a cavalry general, and above the cavalry general is a general...... Oh, now there is one more military rank of lieutenant general.

The cavalry team took a few looks: "You continue to walk ten miles in the direction of the west to enter the state mausoleum boundary of Nanjun. After speaking, he waved his hand to the rest of the cavalry, and shouted "Ride" to take the lead in driving the war horse to trot.

Waiting for the cavalry to approach and leave, Cao Ji just wanted to speak, but Xiang Wei pointed in the direction of the west: "Banner ......"

Cao Ji turned his head to look, and a dark shadow appeared on the western horizon, and from a distance, he could see the flag fluttering in the wind. He was also a general who led the troops, and at a cursory glance, the horizontal length of the black shadow was about a mile, but he didn't know what the depth of the queue was, but he preliminarily concluded that there should be more than 3,000 troops.

Xiang Wei asked: "It should be Nanjun who came to pick up the troops of those Qianshou, what should we do?" ”

"Hmm......" Cao Ji didn't plan to reveal his identity so early, and planned to take a look at the people of Nanjun to spy on useful information: "Let's give way." ”

The roaring footsteps of the troops coming from the west, when they marched, sounded very neat, and Cao Ji's face became very serious when he heard such footsteps from a distance.

Judging the combat effectiveness of an army is not just by the equipment, an experienced general can tell from the footsteps of an army whether the army is a rabble or a regular army, Cao Ji heard the neat footsteps and couldn't help but stare intently at the slowly approaching army.

The army that marched slowly was a whole army dressed in black uniforms, and the non-commissioned officers who walked in front were very traditional spearmen, and their marching columns looked very neat.

There weren't many flags fluttering in the army, and Cao Ji counted thirty strokes a little, but he didn't find the triangular military flag of the Qin army's representative general's flag.

"Three thousand, no generals," Cao Qi whispered to Xiang Wei, "There is no military flag, they are not going to go on the march." ”

Xiang Wei nodded: "Look at their marching posture, the queue is not chaotic when walking, and there is no noisy conversation in the military formation," his face was a little solemn, "Is it elite?" ”

Cao Ji didn't answer immediately, he stared at the black army that was constantly approaching, "Earlier intelligence showed that there were only 10,000 Qin troops from Guanzhong in Nanjun. The 10,000 Qin army lost one school (5,000) in the turmoil, and Lü Shizhe got 5,000 men. I don't know if these 3,000 people are those Qin troops who have been reorganized. ”

The number of that army was indeed three thousand, and among them there were also orthodox Qin troops, but they were all in the role of officers.

Most of these 3,000 people were organized from the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, and they had been training in the queue since the defeat of the invading Baiyue, and the fact that the marching posture could be neat did not mean anything, but these were unaware of Cao Qi.

The army is not a brawl, many times the role of individual bravery can be limited, Lu Zhe's training of the army is not very complicated, a large part of the time is just training the soldiers' sense of collectivity, practicing combat skills and so on only occupies a small part of the time.

On the surface, the uniforms of that army are unified, the weapons are also complete, and the spirit of the soldiers is also very sufficient, no matter how you look at this Nanjun army, it looks like a strong army.

Cao Ji and the others stood in place and watched Nanjun's army trample away with neat footsteps, and looked at each other for a while.

How did they know that this army had only been formed for less than three months, and they thought that they were seeing the elite of Nanjun.

"Spearmen, spearmen, archers......" Cao Ji showed a confused expression: "Those soldiers wearing leather armor, holding small round shields, and short swords hanging from their waists are a bit like Zhao Ren's pawns?" ”

Xiang Wei said: "It looks very similar. ”

"Lu Shizhe has successfully subdued more than 300,000 people from the Six Kingdoms in Nanjun, and it is not difficult to have the strength of the Zhao people." Cao Zhi only saw those who were the original Zhao Jun's strong soldiers, "I heard that the Zheng clan of Yan State is also attached to Lu Shizhe, so the halberd warriors of Yan State should also be trained." If given time, the warriors of Wei, the fencers of Qi, the crossbowmen of Korea, and even the Shenxi division of our Chu people may be able to practice. ”

Xiang Wei smiled: "If Lu Shizhe really plans to train the elite teachers of various countries, then it will be even better." ”

"Ha Lu Ha!" Cao Ji couldn't help but smile: "The manpower and material resources that every kind of elite soldier needs to invest are not idle, I am really not afraid of him training, but I am afraid that he will not practice." (To be continued......)

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