Qin Official

"Wu Guang, do you know where is ahead?"

On the third day after the war, when the sky was dark and the autumn rain was still falling, during the march, Hei Fu did not hide in the thick car, but simply put on a bamboo hat and called Wu Guang, who was in charge of the rear army, for questioning.

Wu Guang has been relying on Heifu for two years. In the past, he was only a Sima. This year, he has had good luck and has become a captain who can take charge of his own affairs. He fought in the Battle of Puban when fighting in Hedong. Since Heifu came out from the East, he has placed Wu Guang in a position he is familiar with. In the position of Chendi in Runan, he replaced the general captain who died in the battle and became the captain of Chenjun.

In the Battle of Fuli, Wu Guang's rear army followed the enemy, withstood the near defeat of the left wing, and made some achievements. Now he was promoted to the governor of Chen County, and suddenly became a big official with two thousand stones. Hei Fu even put him in. After the war, he was selected by many people who sealed the pass...

He is obviously doing better than Chen Sheng.

Suddenly summoned by Xia Gong and asked about the front, Wu Guang was surprised and said honestly: "I only heard that it is Qi County, Daze Township, Sishui County."

"Have you been here?" Heifu asked, looking at the woods on both sides that were beaten to pieces by the autumn rain.

Wu Guangdao: "Although I have been a postal clerk in Yangxia County, I never left Chen County before I was thirty years old."

Because of the effect of Heifu's butterfly wings, Wu Guang and Dazexiang had just passed each other. The place where he and Chen Sheng started their army was exactly where Heifu had fought: Linyang!

According to Wu Guang, they were inspired by Heifu's "It would be better for princes, generals and ministers to have their own kind"...

But now Chen Shengyuan is in Yandi, raising the banner of responding to Xia Gong, waiting hard for Han Xin to rescue him from the siege of Zhao Dynasty. Maybe in the future, he and Wu Guang can reunite again and become ministers of the same dynasty.

Obviously, in this dimension, Dazexiang has no contact with Chen Sheng and Wu Guang.

On the contrary, there is some connection with Hei Fu!

Perhaps because of his old age, or perhaps because he had just experienced a thrilling bloody battle, Heifu suddenly became a little nostalgic. When he arrived at Daze Township, the headquarters of the Qin army's encirclement, he summoned Dongmen Bao, the biggest contributor to this battle. Asked him the same question.

Yesterday, the Dongmen Leopard used the right-wing Qin army to defeat Chu's left-wing General Pu and Yu Ziqi's tribe, and achieved great success. He beheaded more than 10,000 people. He could not escape the position of Chehou.

Therefore, the speed of promotion really has nothing to do with personal ability. Heifu is now implicitly suppressing Han Xin, but he is promoting Dongmen Bao quickly, so his status must be equal.

This is also the reason why Heifu insists on commanding by himself. Not only is he confident in crushing his own strength, but I heard that Han Xin is now arrogant enough and is quite dissatisfied with his command of Guan Ying to go south. If this battle was won by Han Xin, , this boy’s nostrils must not be pointed upward!

And Dongmen Leopard really had some impression of this place: "Sixteen years ago, I followed my lord to chase the remnant soldiers of Chu and took shelter here from the rain."

They had indeed been here. It was sixteen years ago. After the decisive battle between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan in Qinan, Xiang Yan died in the battle. More than 100,000 Qin soldiers were divided into twenty or thirty groups and began to disperse from the battlefield to pursue the defeated Chu. The country is defeated.

At that time, most of the Chu soldiers had lost their organizational structure, ranging from more than a thousand to dozens of soldiers. Without Xiang Yan, they lost the backbone of their unity and were beaten by the Qin army to the point where they scattered and fled.

Heifu led more than a thousand people to pursue northward, but he didn't catch any big fish. He only beheaded more than a hundred Chu soldiers who were defeated. One evening, he encountered a sudden heavy rain...

"Just like this heavy rain right now."

Heifu raised his head, and it was different from the old umbrella that was somewhat torn and leaky. There was a thick and wide "canopy" on top of his head, but the person holding the umbrella was no longer the personal guard at that time, but a There were two sturdy Anlu boys. They have good eyes, strong legs and feet, and all their attention is on Hei Fu, as if letting a drop of rain fall on Xia Gong would be a dereliction of duty.

Lightning pierced the hazy sky, and the rain poured down, hitting the curtains with a ticking sound, and the ground suddenly became a country.

So in order to avoid the rain, they entered a small town called "Daze Township", a remote place that was not even named on the map of the Qin army.

"At that time, when the people in the city heard that the Qin army was coming, they all fled, leaving only an old man with injured legs and feet, and his little granddaughter who had a fever. Before they could leave, I still remember that his little granddaughter had a special appearance. , there are traces of being burned by fire on his left cheek, and he is very afraid of strangers..."

While reminiscing, Guan Ying and the others escorted several locals to visit Heifu, saying that it was these locals from Daze Township who provided the whereabouts of the Chu army.

Guan Ying reported: "Yesterday at dawn, the Chu army was defeated here. They lost their way. When I asked the people in the city, a peasant woman in the city, Fing Fing, said 'left'. The Chu army on the left fell into the swamp, so we chased it and ended up in the swamp." The lake is surrounded by three layers of siege on all sides! Not even a human, not even a giant rat can escape!"

"Who pointed the Chu army to the wrong path?" Heifu asked.

Everyone bowed in front of Hei Fu, but they were too shy to say anything. However, a woman holding a three or four-year-old child caught Hei Fu's attention.

She was about 20 years old, and there was a red scar on her left cheek, probably from a burn when she was a child. Looking at her teeth that she showed when she spoke, it was obvious that she had not lived a good life since she was a child.

This may be the little girl that Heifu and the others saw sixteen years ago, but it was a long time ago. She was still young at that time, and it seemed that she did not understand the black-faced "high official" in front of her and the black-faced little girl many years ago. The officials of Qin were in contact.

"General Chu asked for directions, but I pointed them in the direction of Daze and said it was a small road, so they were trapped in it."

The woman hugged her baby tightly, showing no guilt at all for "betraying" her compatriots. When asked why, she actually spoke plausibly.

"Half a year ago, they kidnapped my husband, saying that he wanted to resist the Qin army and become a Chu soldier."

"Can your husband come home?"

"The fellow countryman asked the merchant to come back with a message, saying that he was dead." A trace of anger flashed across the woman's face.

"He may have died while fighting with us," Heifu said.

But the woman was very stubborn: "I don't know where he died or who killed him. I only know who captured him and never came back!"

She scolded again: "Ever since that generation started fighting, our hometown has been in decline. Taxes and corvees have become heavier than in the past. We fight every day, and the rice is not sown properly. When the harvest is about to be harvested, thousands of people come to trample on it. It’s all gone!”

It can be seen that the Chu army, even in Chu land, is actually not that popular.

Speaking of this, she was so sad that she squatted down, hugged her child and cried bitterly. The people in Daze Township also had a sad face. The rice in the north of the city was all destroyed. They didn't know how to survive this winter...

Where the division is, there are thorns and thorns. When the army passes by, every grain of food will be taken away in order to feed the enemy. It is no different from locusts crossing the border.

As for whether the Qin army or the Chu army passed by, the difference is actually not big.

"You have done a good job in luring the enemy. The food for autumn and winter and the seeds for the coming year will be distributed by the new Surabaya County Government."

Heifu asked Zhou Ke, who had been promoted to the governor of Sishui County, to take note of this matter. The future Sishui County Government will be established mainly with rich people. This group of people historically supported the court of the early Han Dynasty and supported a county government. Question.

"Issue another military order! From now on, anyone who dares to step on the grain fields in the counties, counties and villages in the Chu region where our army passes will have a few millet plants trampled to death and be given a few whips. Even if I break the law, I will be no exception!"

After all, Heifu doesn’t want to cut off his hair and replace his butt when the time comes...

Not to mention the people from Daze Township happily thanked him, Hei Fu got up and went outside. He saw that the rain was gradually getting lighter. He couldn't help but sigh:

"It's not the same as it was sixteen years ago..."

At that time, the woman's grandfather refused to reveal the location of the Chu soldiers' escape no matter what.

Heifu walked out of the door. Outside was the clear sunshine after the rain. He squinted his eyes and murmured:

"This time, maybe the cries of mourning and longing for the motherland will not be heard in this hometown?"

…

Leaving Daze Township and continuing southward, about ten miles away, we arrived at Zewai where the Chu army was trapped.

This swamp is tens of miles wide, and Daze Township is named after it. There is dry land in the swamp, which can be accessed from the outside. However, every time it rains heavily, it will be surrounded by water and become muddy. If you are not careful, you may get stuck in it. Once the army enters, unless the water dries up naturally, , otherwise it will be impossible to escape!

From then on, only thirty or forty miles south was Qinan, where Xiang Yan died in battle...

Sixteen years ago, when Heifu heard that he was coming to Daze Township, he just felt that this was the place where everything ended and everything began.

At that time, he turned back and looked at Daze Township, which was getting farther and farther away, and the grandfather and grandson who watched them leave from a distance after coming out. It was unclear whether the eyes were fear or hatred. He seemed to see a ghost, a man named Guo. The ghost of hatred from the enemy has been lingering in this land of Jingchu for a long time!

"Sixteen years ago, we followed Qin Shihuang's banner and marched south, destroying her body, but her soul is still there."

It exists in the prophecy and fantasy that "Qin will be destroyed by Chu".

Spreading in the eight hundred years of glory that the nobles and nobles have never forgotten...

"It is hatred, unwillingness, luck, and incitement, coupled with harsh governance, heavy taxation, and heavy labor. Various factors have supported the restoration of the Chu people and have fought hard with us to this day."

Heifu admitted that the Chu people's resistance had a certain legitimacy, but this legitimacy had long since disappeared after the first massacre of the city, and his answer must only be the authoritarian iron fist on behalf of the imperial court!

Unification is inevitable, division is bound to fail.

"Now, I want to destroy this last soul as well!"

Heifu's book of immortality of the Five Kingdoms only wants to destroy the history of the Chu Kingdom! Folk clothes, customs, language and even beliefs can be preserved, but official traces must be destroyed! Except for a single copy of "梼杌" and "Chicken Code" that is kept in the Epang Palace, which serves as a large library, and can only be decrypted after being sealed for hundreds of years, to be studied by later generations of scholars thousands of years later, all the others have to be confiscated and burned. !

He retained the heroic forces of Han and Wei and allowed them to continue to serve as county magistrates to ensure peaceful liberation to the greatest extent. But he is determined to wipe out all the great nobles of Chu State one by one! Zhao, Jing, Qu, Xiang, this time, there will be no descendants who can survive in this world!

Tolerance must be tolerated where tolerance is needed.

When you should be ruthless, you must also be ruthless, and you must eradicate all evil!

The rain has stopped, but the water pool in the lake is still there. The generals of the Qin army are discussing whether to besieged for a long time or to rush in and wipe out the remaining Chu army.

At this time, Wei Yang, whom he had not seen for many years, also came to visit. Hei Fu smiled and helped his nephew up, asking him how many sons he had? Just like when he was at Anlu's house, he said to him:

"My nephew, just sing a song for me."

"What song is it?"

Wei Yang was stunned. In the past, when his father came back to his hometown rich and powerful, he and his sister would often stand in the courtyard and sing together while he would beat the beat and the whole family would enjoy themselves. He would also make some noise to make his eldest mother happy. .

"Sad songs, funeral songs."

Heifu looked at the few pillars of smoke rising from the surrounded swamp, as if they were incense lit before burial in the wild.

"The song of our hometown Nanjun."

"Chu Ge!"