Qin Official

"Physician Xia has brought the last edict of the First Emperor! Our actions are justified!"

When we set off again the next day, this exciting news had already spread among the three thousand Nanjun soldiers!

But Heifu didn't say the specific content of the "edict" either, because it hadn't been compiled yet.

After the test in Yu Lin, Lu Jia got a new proposition composition. At the moment, Xiao Lu was riding backwards on the mule, biting the penholder and racking his brains.

"Let the healer, the chief, and the mule walk in the middle of the line."

This was General Heifu's order. Xia Wuqie also got a mule to ride on the back of Lu Jia.

Old Man Xia is a man of genius. As a clan member of the Queen Mother Xia, he was able to escape from the treason case of Chang'an Jun Chengqi, and he saw the right opportunity to throw away Jing Ke's medicine basket. He gained the trust of Qin Shihuang and was rewarded with a hundred yi of gold. He was ordered by the imperial physician to He is a close confidant and is by no means a simple person.

So he knew that if he didn't want the situation to turn into "Mr.

Even so, Xia Wuji also thought to himself:

"Fake death and fake edicts. This Marquis Wu Zhong is really dark and daring. No wonder His Majesty is so afraid of him. He has to go to the south in person to patrol and try his best to solve this problem. It's a pity that the weather is not up. …”

Xia Wuji guessed that if Emperor Qin had known that Heifu dared to play this way after his death, he would probably be so angry that he would curse:

"Dogs... Are dogs so brave?"

…

Ever since he learned about the death of Qin Shihuang, Heifu's courage has indeed become more and more bold.

After all, without Qin Shihuang in the world, apart from his old mother's scoldings, he had no one to fear.

More than 3,000 people walked for several hours and finally arrived at the end of the grassland.

Heifu looked at the map and pointed to the lake in front: "During the dry season, there should have been a road here. Hundreds of years ago, the shocked King Zhao Zhao and his party fled to Yundi via Yunmengze, which is Anlu County, surrendered to Duke Yun to fight against Xin."

However, due to environmental changes, the road to Anlu has long been submerged in lakes. Even in the dry season, it is impossible to get through more than a hundred miles away without ships.

Fortunately, Heifu and the others are not going to Anlu this time, but to the Gaozao area southeast of Chalu, Yunmengze and the small county town called "Shaxian" on the edge of Dajiang.

The depths of Yunmengze where the group of people had previously been hiding was located between Nanjun, Changsha, and Hengshan counties. It was an area with no control, so it was possible to hide in such a majestic manner.

But it won’t work anymore. Although Shaxian is a remote rural area on the edge of Hengshan County, it is also the only way from Yunmengze to Wuchang. There is no way that a team of three thousand people with thousands of household registrations can go undetected. pass through.

What's more, the rations carried by the soldiers earlier have been eaten up. Before the battle, everyone must have a full meal and a good sleep.

"So if you want to capture Wuchang Camp, you must capture Shaxian first!"

Heifu tapped the inconspicuous little square on the map and said, "It can be said that this is the first battle of our big plan!"

He asked again: "Are there any Sha Xian people in the army?"

When Li Cang was away, Wu Chen, who was running errands with Hei Fu, said: "Yes, according to the order of the emperor earlier, in addition to the three thousand short-term personal guards, there were also soldiers from Nanjun, Hengshan and even Changsha counties. Each county picked one soldier. Hey, Sha Xian is no exception."

"Go and find the commander."

Not long after, Wu Chen came back with a thin man. The man was less than thirty. He was wearing the Qin Army's standard armor and his hair was tied in a left bun, indicating that he was a civil servant. He was thin and trembling because of excitement. This is the normal reaction of an ordinary soldier when he is summoned by his leader.

The soldiers searched behind him, and Shi Chang came over. After a few steps, he fell to the ground:

"I have been favored by the king, and I have been separated for sixteen years. I don't want to see the general again today!"

"He's an old friend?" Hei Fu was a little surprised. Although he looked like Louis Koo, he didn't remember that he had a sixteen-year agreement with him?

"Who are you?"

"My name is Xing."

The chief raised his head: "Sixteen years ago, the villain was abducted and tricked into robbing a tomb in Anlu. At that time, the prince was the head of the Huyang Pavilion. He arrested those thieves and saved the villain!"

…

When he cried in the tomb, the stretched out hand and the black face with big white teeth left an indelible memory for the young Xing.

"So you are the little man who was forced to go to the tomb to retrieve the light, and I pulled him up. I remember that was in the winter of the 21st year, right? Sixteen years have passed in a flash..."

After chatting with Xing for a while, Heifu couldn't help but sigh. In the past sixteen years, he and Dongmen Bao, Ji Ying and others who had caught thieves together had experienced a huge rise in status.

As a party involved, Xing has also experienced a lot in these years.

Xing smiled and said: "I thought I was going to die at that time. Fortunately, the general testified for the villain, saying that I was less than six feet five inches tall and was a young man. Moreover, I was abducted and coerced. I should not be judged with those thieves, so I was sentenced to seclusion." When I was an official, I did some work in the workshop and learned some crafts by the way."

"Later, the general was appointed Sima of another department and captured Yuzhang. The imperial court moved the people from Nanjun to work in the fields, saying that as long as they went there, they would be able to get rid of their lowly status as a son-in-law and a hermit official. So I took a boat to Nanchang and became a soldier. I got a piece of land there, raised some money by growing sugarcane, married a wife, and had two sons and a daughter. Unfortunately, there was an epidemic a few years ago, and one son and one daughter are gone."

The voice became deeper. The little people have the bitterness and joy of the little people. This is a portrayal of most ordinary people who moved to Yuzhang from Nanjun County.

Life was helpless, but one had to go on. During the first southern expedition, Xing was ordered to serve as a garrison in Lingnan. Fortunately, he had better luck than Chen Ying from Dongyang. He followed Anpu to garrison at Huangxiguan, and during the Heifu Pingyang Mountain rebellion, he gained merit and was awarded the title of Duke.

And when Heifu faked his death and went north through the three passes, asking Anpu to find soldiers from each county, Xing was also included because he reported that he was from Shaxian.

Having said this, Heifu thought of something and asked, "What do you think of this general's grand plan?"

He was so excited that he didn't dare to speak. He only repeated "I will obey the general's orders" and "I am willing to go through fire and water for the general." Hei Fu didn't want to hear this, so he patted his thigh and said:

"How can we meet old friends without wine? Wu Chen, bring us some good wine!"

The stopper of the jug was removed, and the aroma of rice wine overflowed, making people salivate with greed. The army was depressed and could only drink wine a few times a year. It was a hobby and pastime for many soldiers.

"Want a cup?"

Heifu personally poured a bamboo tube for Xing, and Xing took it anxiously, holding it with both hands, looking a little moved.

After a bottle of wine, Xing looked slightly tipsy and became brave enough to speak!

"Shaxian used to be the territory of Chu State, and I was considered a Chu native at that time."

"Later I came to Anlu, joined the Yinguan, and became a Qin citizen. Then I came to Nanchang, and when the imperial court issued an order, I went to Lingnan to serve as garrison soldiers. Every time the order was transferred, we just followed the captain. There are many places, I just feel that this time it will be similar..."

Unlike the short-term guards who are well-trained, loyal to Heifu, and have a hometown friendship with him, these soldiers who were originally from Changsha and Hengshan were intimidated when they heard that the general was going to lead them to "make a big plan". .

"Is this a rebellion?"

After all, there are only a few people like Chen Ping who spend all their time thinking and worrying about keeping the world in chaos.

Heifu knew very well that excluding the four thousand short soldiers, the entire Southern Expedition Army, which consisted of more than 100,000 people, once heard that Marquis Wu Zhong was alive and wanted to raise the flag and become an enemy of the court, no matter it was a belt edict or for any reason. , most soldiers are inevitably worried and anxious.

Although the First Emperor was gone, his remaining power shocked the world.

Besides, when the country rises and falls, the king's flag changes on the city wall, is this justifiable? What does it have to do with these low-level soldiers?

Anyway, over the years, apart from the increasingly empty titles and the bad land on the frontier, I have not been able to get any benefits!

They are also accustomed to suffering new injuries as soon as they are half healed. I am used to being half-starved, used to popping blisters on the soles of my feet with wooden thorns, used to having the clothes my mother and wife mended become rotted into strips of cloth, used to guarding alone on desolate hills, and used to crying secretly when I miss my family.

They have long been accustomed to being deceived, let down, ignored, represented, and become indifferent.

The generals are so used to shouting slogans that they can't even call them by their names...

So, the general asked the soldier what he thought of this incident?

Is it important? Anyway, it’s not just following your flag, running around here and there, and getting nothing in the end.

At this time, a soldier took a blade of grass from the edge of the river, rolled it up and brought it to his mouth, and played a folk song from an unknown place. There seemed to be indescribable sadness in the long melody.

After drinking another bottle, even though it was rice wine, it became a bit spicy. Xing stopped talking and just lowered his head to reminisce about the ups and downs of the little man.

But Heifu, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said:

"But now, this general knows your name, and I know that your name is Xing."

"I also know your story, your joys, sorrows and joys. Although I can't listen to each of these more than 3,000 people, you, no matter where you are from, are all Hei Fu's robes and soldiers! "

Xing raised his head and raised his hand to Hei Fu, feeling a little excited: "I'm just talking too much. I never thought that with my humble status, I could actually drink with the general. It's like a dream..."

"A dream? No, this is not a dream."

Hei Fu stood up with the wine in his hand and not only told Xing, but also asked all the guards and soldiers nearby to come around.

Three thousand people surrounded Heifu in the middle, and were ordered to sit cross-legged and listen to his words.

"More than ten years ago, in Anlu County, while we were drinking heavily, I and my colleagues discussed our own aspirations."

"I was just a small county captain at that time, but I said something to everyone present."

Heifu pointed at someone present that day: "Ah Bao, you have the loudest voice, tell everyone what Nai Gong said!"

Although he was nearly forty years old, Dongmen Baohu opened his eyes wide and roared at the top of his lungs, which was no less than the roar of a tiger and sounded like thunder! A group of water birds were frightened and even the crocodiles in the lake were so scared that they dived back into the lake.

"The general said that princes, generals and prime ministers would rather have their own kind!?"