General Qin

Xiang Sheng and the other two did not see Liu Quan in the Dashe Society.

What appeared in front of them was the Qin soldiers who were ambushing here.

At the same time, a large number of Qin troops emerged from the reeds outside the temple, approaching and surrounding them from all sides.

"There is indeed a fraud in this matter. It seems that Ji'er did it, and the people of Qin will follow the Liu family's line and trace it to us. Could it be that Ji'er really killed Zhao Tuo?"

Xiang Sheng's thoughts were spinning, and he drew his sword to fight the Qin people.

At this moment, Jing Ju, who was following him, screamed.

"I surrender!"

"I am willing to surrender, but please spare my life!"

Jing Ju actually chose to lay down his weapons and surrender to the Qin army.

Xiang Sheng was shocked when he heard this, and said angrily: "Jing Ju, we are all nobles of Chu, and we are mortal enemies of the Qin people. Now that we are besieged by them, we must fight to the death. Why do you want to surrender to the Qin people!" Pick up your sword and we will fight with the Qin people."

Jing Ju glared at Xiang Sheng and said, "We were originally anonymous, but with our new identities, the people of Qin can't catch us anyway. It's all the trouble caused by your Xiang Ji, if he hadn't insisted on going." How could it be possible to assassinate Zhao Tuo from the south?"

"Xiang Sheng, all these things were caused by Qin Xiang. It is right for you Xiangs to die. And why should I, Jing Ju, throw away my life for the mistakes Xiang Yu made!"

Xiang Sheng was stunned.

What Jing Ju said was true. If Xiang Ji hadn't insisted on going his own way, they would never have ended up in this situation.

Just when the two of them turned against each other, the sharp soldiers of the Qin army had already pounced on Xiang Sheng.

Xiang Sheng roared and swung his sword to meet the attack. After a brief confrontation, he was outnumbered and was stabbed twice in the leg by Qin Zu and fell to his knees.

However, he was a tough guy. He thought that his life would be worse than death if he fell into the hands of the Qin people. Before the Qin people came up to capture him, he decisively killed himself with his sword. In the blink of an eye, he became a corpse and fell to the ground.

Seeing Xiang Sheng commit suicide, Jing Ju trembled, knelt on the ground and said to the surrounding Qin army: "I am willing to surrender to the Qin Dynasty, but please spare my life."

After a while.

Jing Ju was escorted to a middle-aged Qin general.

This man's expression was cold and stern, his face as sharp as a knife and an axe, and his eyes staring at Jing Ju were full of murderous intent.

Jing Ju had also led troops in battles and had met many generals of the Chu State. With just one glance, he knew that the Qin general in front of him was a veteran on the battlefield and had killed countless people.

He hurriedly knelt down and knelt down and said: "General, please spare my life. I am willing to explain the location of all those who oppose Qin."

Li Xin glanced at Jing Ju with disdain.

Taking the initiative to surrender and confessing honestly will naturally be of great help to the Qin army in hunting down the remnants of Chu.

But from a moral value point of view, no one will like such a traitor.

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In the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shihuang's reign, it was the end of February.

Five thousand Qin troops gathered from Donghai County, Jiujiang County, and Sishui County began to sweep and clean up the vicinity of Xutai County.

Because Jingju provided the personnel list and hidden location.

The Qin army gained a lot, starting from hundreds of people from the Liu family, to those officials in Xutai County who took bribes to register their identity and household registration for the Chu people, and to all the Chu people who had contacts with Jingtong, Xiang, etc. All the people were arrested and captured.

There are more than a thousand people.

Some of them resisted arrest and were killed by the Qin army on the spot.

Many people cried out for mercy, saying that they no longer had any anti-Qin intentions and just wanted to quietly be good citizens of the Qin Dynasty.

Li Xin looked on coldly and showed no mercy.

When the Qin army conquered the Six Kingdoms, it did not launch a purge of the original remnants of the Six Kingdoms because it wanted to stabilize its rule.

As long as those who surrender to the Qin army can almost forget their faults, they can become the common people of Qin and live in peace and contentment.

But some of these people did not give up. Seeing that Qi and Dai had not yet perished at that time, they still had the chance to revive Chu. They followed Jing Tong and hid in the reed swamps near Xutai, waiting for the opportunity to find the people who would revive the country. Chance.

It is a pity that the Qin State was so powerful that it destroyed the Dai and Qi countries in an instant, and conquered the barbarians from all directions, leaving them with no hope of recovering the country, and then they walked out of the reeds.

These people are not good citizens to begin with, so how can they be said to be innocent?

Not to mention that they knew clearly that the Jing brothers were hiding here and that the Qin State wanted them, but these people kept hiding the thieves and refused to report them. They had no loyalty to the Qin State. These were all sins!

Compared with these traitors, what Li Xin hated most was the Liu family and the corrupt officials in Xutai County.

These people used their money and power to forge household registration identities for Jing Tong, Xiang Ji and other traitors. These fugitives were allowed to walk openly among the people, and Xiang Ji even joined the army to assassinate Zhao Tuo.

"Your Majesty is right, these people deserve to die!"

Li Xin's eyes were full of coldness.

The emperor's edict was that all those who facilitated Xiang Yu's assassination, and even those who knew Xiang Yu's identity, should be cut in half.

Those who had gone into hiding with the Jing brothers and failed to avenge the thief would be beheaded.

Li Xin decided to let the prisoners who deserved to be killed be put to their best use.

The dense and boundless reeds outside the county town are a good place to hide.

Before Wang Jian attacked Chu, Chu general Xiang Yan stationed troops here and used the natural terrain advantages to resist the Qin army, making it difficult for Wang Jian to advance. Later, after the death of Chu, Jingtong and others also ran into this place to hide their traces and escape the wanted pursuit.

Now Jing Tong was up to his old tricks again. When he found out that the situation had changed, he immediately hid with Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Tuo and others.

It was very difficult for Li Xin to search for Jing and others in the reed swamp.

After understanding Jing Tong's character, he had a plan in mind.

Hundreds of Xutai people held special copper trumpets and walked along the reed swamps, constantly announcing General Li's words.

"Jing Tong is a traitor and a remnant of the Xiang family. You are in vain to be nobles of the Chu Kingdom. For your own selfish purposes, thousands of people have shed their blood. Our army will execute the traitors here today. If you continue to hide, you will be killed in one day." Within, thousands of people will die here, and the entire Liu family will be implicated by you!"

In addition to the Chu people in Xutai, Jingju, who took the initiative to surrender, was also under the custody of Qin soldiers, shouting with a loudspeaker.

"Brother, the Liu family is an old friend of mine. This time, because of our involvement, the entire clan will be killed. How tragic it is. General Li said that as long as you take the initiative, all the Liu clan members who don't know our situation will be spared from death!"

Jing and the others listened to the distant sounds drifting in the wind, their expressions ugly.

"General Jing, this must be a trick of the Qin army. They want to trick us out. Don't trust it easily!"

Xiang Zhuang spoke anxiously.

Xiang Tuo also nodded repeatedly.

Jingtong didn't answer.

He turned around and looked around, only to see rippling lake water and reeds swaying in the wind. Although it was spring, there was a bleak feeling.

The Liu family had a deep friendship with him, and their patriarch Liu Quan was his former friend. He had compassion in his heart, otherwise he would not have continued to help them after so many years, and even bribed the Xutai government to help him and Xiang Ji and others. People forge household registration identities.

This dedication of friendship ended in the death of the family and a river of blood.

As a nobleman, how could Jingtong sit down.

This is an act of betrayal.

And he didn't think he could escape if he continued to hide.

"I will go out in exchange for the lives of the Liu clan. You should hide well and take care of yourself."

Jing Tong bowed his hands to Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Tuo, and strode out, leaving the two of them with shocked faces.

Half an hour later, Jing Tong walked alone outside the reeds with his sword in hand. He saw two to three thousand Qin troops on the opposite side. The black armor was like a dark cloud pressing over the city, full of intimidation.

In front of the Qin army, dozens of severed heads and rows of prisoners waiting to die added to the terrifying atmosphere.

Jing Tong raised his head and looked at the big flag with the word "李" flying in the distance.

"Li Xin, I didn't expect that we would meet here."

Jing Tong whispered, with some sigh in his eyes.

The last time he and Li Xin fought was on the battlefield of Qin's first attack on Chu. At that time, he was in the Shangzhu army and watched with his own eyes as Xiang Yan led the Chu army to defeat Li Xin. He ran away in panic like a dog.

Unexpectedly, more than ten years have passed, and time has changed. The Chu State that once won a great victory has disappeared. The Qin people have conquered the world and become the real winner.

Scenes from the past appeared in Jing Tong's mind.

Zuo Sima Zhaoping was defeated by Zhao Tuo on the banks of the Sishui River. He had no face to return to Shouchun and committed suicide.

General Xiang Qu was defeated by Zhao Tuo in Pengcheng and committed suicide by the Sui River.

Ling Yin Xiangyan was defeated by Zhao Tuo on the bank of the Huai River and died in hatred.

Where is he Jingtong?

In the past, he once led his army to intercept and kill Zhao Tuo's army disguised as "Qiang Fu" on the border of Donghai County, but was defeated by him.

At that time, Jing Tong was so defeated that he wanted to kill himself with his sword, but was stopped by Jing Ju, so he gave up the idea of ​​​​martyrdom for his country.

"Maybe I should have died long ago."

Looking at the Qin soldiers approaching him in the distance, intending to capture him alive.

Jing Tong sighed, took out his sword, wiped it carefully with the corner of his clothes, and placed it across his neck.

He looked at the figure of General Qin flying in the distance.

"My death was not at the hands of you, Li Xin, but at the hands of Zhao Tuo!"

"Your Majesty, General Xiang, Zuo Sima, and I, Jingtong, will follow you and die for our country!"

As soon as the words fell, Jing Tong stabbed himself with a horizontal sword, his blood flying on the reeds in front of him.

General Jing Tong, who was privately called by the Chu people as "the last hope to regain the Chu Kingdom", died here.

The Qin army immediately raided Shuize. A few days later, under the leadership of local fishermen, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Tuo and others were found and killed.

This Fu Chu force hidden in Xutai County, Donghai County was declared destroyed due to Xiang Ji's assassination of Wugong Hou.