Qin Official

"Most of the seven hundred soldiers in the city are from Nanjun!"

Since joining Heifu and the others, Man has never said so many words, but at this moment he cursed angrily: "Xu Yang said that all of us want to rebel and surrender to Chu! Heifu's generals had previously persuaded the captain to let him The soldiers wrote letters home to express their gratitude to us. Although Baijiang and I did not have a close relationship, I admired him deeply. Now Baijiang is personally involved in dangerous places, and Xu Yang is so stubborn that he encourages us to abandon our black husband Baijiang. , abandoning the soldiers and running away alone, you really deserve to die!"

After being explained by Man and Zhai Chong, Tu Si and others who had been released, Heifu finally understood what happened just now and couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Although he had been prepared for Xu Yang in advance, Hei Fu did not expect that he would be so crazy that he would do such a stupid thing.

After all, he was just a young general with short-sightedness. Xu Yang's plan was full of flaws. He was just drinking poison to quench his thirst for fear that he would die of thirst. But if he really breaks out into a battle, the entire city will be in chaos. Let alone a breakout, the Chu army may take the opportunity to enter the city. It is hard to say that Heifu's false surrender can only turn into a real surrender.

Fortunately, while Heifu was not in the city, his men stabilized the situation and eliminated the chaos.

Heifu looked at his subordinates, Dongmen Bao, Ji Ying, Xiao Tao, Li Xian and Gong Ao. Most of them were old subordinates who had followed him from Huyang Pavilion for two years. Even Gong Ao was also Unknowingly, I stayed under Heifu for almost a year.

Under Heifu's words and deeds, everyone has grown a lot, such as Li Xian. Hei Fu previously thought that he was too cautious in doing things, but this time, Hei Fu caught a glimpse of Li Xian's madness in difficult situations. Not only did he appear to be extraordinarily intelligent, but he also seemed to have the guts of a leopard. He could even do something as trivial as counterfeiting military orders. Perhaps he had been with Hei Fu for a long time and learned some of his tricks.

Of course, when the military judge came over, everyone remained silent on the matter.

Gong Ao also impressed Heifu. Not only could this young man speak big words, he was also brave and powerful at critical moments, but he was too straightforward and desperate.

Heifu asked what happened to Dongmen Leopard, patted Xiao Tao, laughed at Ji Ying, praised Li Xian, and then checked Gong Ao's injuries.

"You are Zhuan Zhu, and Xu Yang is King Liao of Wu? You think too highly of him, and you think too little of yourself!"

Hei Fu scolded Gong Ao, and then he bowed to everyone and said, "Hei Fu did something wrong."

Everyone looked at him.

"The reason why I went out of the city in person and pretended to surrender was because I thought that the second and third sons might not be able to do this job. But now I realize that the abilities of the second and third sons are far beyond what Hei Fu thought. All the gentlemen are brave men, and the wood of the tree can be used. For the great boat and the lofty beams!”

The words were called an apology, but they were actually a compliment. After hearing this, everyone felt happy in their hearts and a little proud on their faces. They didn't even dare to say anything. Ao Ao muttered that half of the favor he owed Hei Fu had been repaid. .

Heifu shook his head helplessly, and then said to the military judge who was supervising the troops on the city wall and had arrived belatedly: "I hope the military judge can testify for us about Xu Yang's matter after Captain Li wakes up."

After all, Xu Yang is Li You's old subordinate. Li You will definitely feel weird when he wakes up and finds that he suddenly died.

The military judge nodded and said: "Xu Yang wanted to rebel and escape. All the soldiers and three hundred generals testified about this, and it has been confirmed. These military thieves will die unjustly, and the generals will not worry about it."

"I dare to ask the military judge, what should Xu Yang do with the more than 20 remaining subordinates?"

The military judge gritted his teeth and said: "Those who follow Xu Yang and rebel will also be punished!"

Heifu nodded: "Let's take them to the market. In addition, I hope the three hundred generals can also summon their subordinates to the market. I have something to say to the soldiers!"

…

The township of Linyang is located in the southwest corner of the city. Because all the Chu people in the city were driven away when Li Xin captured this place, it looks particularly deserted. Until today, there were suddenly more than 600 people standing there. Except for dozens of soldiers under Hei Fu who were left on the east wall to monitor the movements of the Chu army, other Qin soldiers were concentrated here.

As for his subordinates, after more than half a year of leadership, Heifu can command them as easily as his brain commands his arms. After the Xu Yang incident, he feels more comfortable letting a few of them take charge alone.

What he needs to inspire is the friendly troops, the six hundred Qin soldiers who have just experienced a rebellion and some of them are panic-stricken.

These Qin soldiers, led by Zhai Chong, Tu Si, and Man, gathered here. They had been informed about the false surrender and were about to leave the city to fight to the death. Many of them looked nervous and a little timid. After all, they had been there a few days ago. We had just experienced a huge defeat, and it would be strange if our morale was so high at this moment.

"Two or three sons!"

Heifu stood at a stall that probably sold dog meat in the market, his feet still a little greasy.

He usually only cares about his soldiers and rarely stands in front of so many people to speak, let alone give a speech. Fortunately, the movies and TV series in his previous life were not in vain. He knows how to guide the soldiers correctly and make their minds unite!

"Most of you are short-term soldiers under Lieutenant Li, or soldiers from Nanjun. You should have heard of me."

Heifu pointed at himself and said: "I am the 'hundred generals in quilt' Heifu!"

"Hahaha."

As soon as these words came out, the soldiers who were a little nervous and panic burst out laughing. This was Heifu's original nickname, which was widely circulated in the camp at that time. For a moment, everyone who knew about it smiled knowingly, while those who didn't know asked the people next to them.

After everyone laughed for a while, Hei Fu also laughed and said: "Of course, I am also the 'Hundred Generals' Hei Fu."

The soldiers who had laughed heartily just now became solemn, especially the soldiers from Nanjun, who cast grateful glances at Hei Fu.

They had been away from home for more than a year, and they had been trying to contact them but could not. It was Hei Fu who persuaded the captain to allow the whole army to send letters home. At this moment, everyone should have received letters from home, right? Some soldiers even regretted that if they had known there would be such a big defeat and if they had known that they would escape death, they should have written more words in their letters at home...

Reluctance, unwillingness, this emotion lingers in everyone's heart, and it feels extremely heavy.

Heifu said again: "Captain Li is injured and dying and cannot lead the troops. Thanks to the captain's trust, he appointed me as the false master of five hundred. He gave me the tiger talisman and ordered me to command everyone. He asked me to lead you out of danger. , go back to Qin, go home!"

Hearing the word "go home", the seven hundred soldiers, who were aroused by the nostalgia of the letter from home two months ago, all raised their heads and looked at Hei Fu!

At this moment, it is useless to talk about country, king, honor, and title. The only thing that can unite these defeated soldiers is the desire to go home alive! This is the deepest obsession in every Qin soldier's heart!

"But the Chu people outside the city won't let us go home!"

After unifying everyone's thoughts, Heifu's tone became sad and angry.

"To tell you the truth, I was not in the city just now because I was ordered by the captain to go to the Chu camp to fake a surrender and to investigate the enemy's strength. Do we know what I saw?"

What did you see? The soldiers who secretly planned to surrender were very concerned.

"I saw hundreds of Qin soldiers, like prisoners and concubines, being put in wooden clamps, tied with ropes, and crowded together like dogs and pigs. The Chu people even said proudly that they were going to kill these Qin soldiers. Take the prisoners back and send them to the humid seaside, to the cold and humid south of the Yangtze River, and to the bottomless mines of the nobles of Chu!"

"No matter whether you are a high-ranking official in the Qin State, whether you are an official, a soldier, a petty official, a farmer, or a craftsman, once you are captured by the Chu army, you will only be a salt slave, a field slave, or a mine slave! You will never be able to do so. Return home! And our parents and wives will also sit together according to the law!"

"If so, I'd rather die!"

Many people also shouted this sentence in a low voice from their throats.

"Better die!"

Heifu asked someone to greet the soldiers in advance and told them not to shout loudly so that the Chu people outside the city would notice.

Because he knew that his speech would make them scream countless times!

"At this point, if you want to go home, there are only two ways."

Heifu sneered and said, "The first is to be a deserter. Just now, there is a general who is as afraid of the enemy as a tiger. He actually plans to kidnap the captain and leave you and other small soldiers to die, so as to buy him time and escape with a few cronies."

After Hei Fu finished speaking, he waved his hand and asked the military judge to bring up the twenty of Xu Yang's men and let them kneel on the dirty rural ground in front of the soldiers.

"These people also want to go home. They are not wrong, but they are wrong in trying to escape from the ground, which is not allowed by military law. They are also wrong in that they want to use the lives of hundreds of people like you to clear the way for them. Who is not born to his father and raised by his mother? Why should you? You can live, but we have to die?"

Heifu asked the military judge loudly: "May I ask the law official, what is the crime?"

The military judge said with a sullen face: "The only way to escape from the ground is to behead him and abandon him in the market!"

Heifu looked at the hundreds of people in front of him again. They heard that someone wanted to risk their own lives to escape, and in anger, he squeezed out that word through his teeth.

"kill!"

Without being sloppy at all, when Hei Fu waved his hand, more than twenty big heads had been chopped off by Dongmen Bao and others. They rolled all over the countryside and the city, and the soldiers in front kicked them hard as if venting their anger. foot.

Let you wait and escape!

"Anyone who wants to abandon the army and flee should die!"

In this way, the road to escape has been blocked. Needless to say, Heifu, the hundreds of soldiers below also understand that they have only one choice left.

"war!"

"Fight to the death!"

In the blood all over the ground, the soldiers stood up one after another with bright eyes.

"Of course, if you fight, you will survive; if you don't fight, you will perish!"

Hei Fu was very satisfied. Just like what is said in the art of war, my division is leaving the country and the army is in the enemy's territory. The enemy is huge and surrounds me several times. If I want to break out, I am blocked from all sides. This is a dead place.

What they are in now is a place of death.

In the land of death, despair is everywhere, which will magnify the things in human nature countless times.

For example, the stupid Xu Yang, his stupidity and ugliness were magnified ten times, and he took risks that seemed unbelievable to ordinary people. In fact, he was just a panic driven by fear.

For example, Heifu's subordinates, their wisdom and bravery, which were usually hidden under mediocrity, were magnified tenfold, and the brilliance that bloomed surprised Heifu.

People who don't see their advantages and disadvantages in ordinary life will definitely reveal their humanity in the place of death.

What Heifu wants to do is to use the despair in the dead place to amplify the desire to survive and the desire to return home in these soldiers ten times and a hundred times, and finally defeat the fear of death!

This is what the art of war says: Throw yourself into death and then survive; trap yourself into death and then survive. If everyone is in harm's way, then they can win or lose!

So he's going to do something even crazier.

"Leham!"

Heifu ordered: "How much food is left in the city?"

Li Xian cupped his hands and said: "There are still hundreds of stones left, which can be eaten for a month."

"Keep the rations for three days and burn the rest!"

"No!" Li Xian's eyes were bright and he took the order and left.

Kill the cows and burn the carts to feed our soldiers, and everyone will be a starved ghost!

Burn all the grain, fill the wells and stoves, cut off the hair and donate the crown, and give up all worries. If you don't even have the head, what's the use of the crown?

Let the soldiers despair, let them cut off all escape routes, work with one heart and one mind, draw out the intestines and splatter blood, and die in front of them. Only then can they turn defeat into merit and turn misfortune into blessing!

Let the Chu people see the billowing smoke in the city!

"Ji Ying."

Heifu then ordered: "Collect these heads, take a few people with you, and send the heads to the Chu army camp. It is said that there are people in the city who are resisting and want to set fire. They have been put down by Lord Cheng Wuyou and are unwilling to surrender." The man was also beheaded by Master Cheng Wubai, so I will offer it here first! We will abandon our armor and weapons later and leave the city to surrender!"

"promise!"

Ji Ying also accepted the order and left. Hei Fu had given him an important mission beforehand and solemnly said that the outcome of this battle depended on him. Ji Ying was quite excited to receive this important task. Although he did not have the enemy-killing skills of Dongmen Bao and Gong Ao, nor did he have the strategy of Li Xian, he was good at sneaking around!

Heifu turned around and looked at the soldiers in front of him who had cut off all escape routes.

"Second Son, now, like you, I have no way out."

He has done everything he needs to do. Now, they really have no plans left and they are determined to die. There is no other way but to fight hard.

"As I just said, now that things have happened, we are no longer fighting for meritorious status or for property, house, money, and silk."

Heifu shouted to everyone: "Only for one thing, go home! Go home!"

"What is sent back with the letter from home should not be a piece of death news, but a living person. Let the mother see her son, let the wives and concubines see their husband, and let the children see their father. They are all on the shore of Jianghan, in Nanjun. Every county, every township, every small village is looking forward to it! We are looking forward to our return with the first snow!"

"go home……"

Not only the soldiers had tears in their eyes, but also the three hundred generals Zhai Chong, Man, and Tu Si clenched their fists and were excited. Although they were ordered not to shout, at this moment, everyone just wanted to follow Hei Fu and shout loudly. Shout out what’s in your heart!

"I know you want to shout loudly."

Heifu's voice was hoarse, but he still shouted: "Keep this shout in your heart! After a while, when the drums are beating and we all rush towards the enemy's formation, shout it out again! You can shout as loud as you want!"

"Let the people of Chu hear it, let the people of Chu see how terrifying the Qin army is, donating their armour, but only wearing their shields to fight against the enemy!"