Chapter 1013 Where It Begins and Ends
"Wu Guang, do you know where is ahead?"
On the third day after the war, when it was dawn, the autumn rain was still falling. During the march, Heifu did not hide in the thick car, but simply put on a hat and called Wu Guang, who was in charge of the rear army, to ask questions.
Wu Guang has been in charge of Heifu for two years and has only served as Sima in the past. This year, he has a good fortune and has become a commander who can stand alone. He fought the Battle of Puban during the battle in Hedong. Since Heifu came out of the east, he placed Wu Guang in his familiar position in Chen, Runan, instead of the Gongwei who died in battle, and was also the Chenjunwei.
During the Battle of Fu Li, Wu Guang's army later fought against the enemy, withstood the almost defeat of the left wing, and made some contributions. Now he was promoted to the magistrate of County Chen and suddenly became a magistrate of two thousand stones. Heifu even put him among the many candidates who were enthroned by the Marquis of Guannei after the war...
He obviously did better than Chen Sheng.
Suddenly being summoned by Duke Xia and asked about the coming forward, Wu Guang was surprised and said honestly: "I only heard that it was Qi (qi) County and Daze Township, Sishui County."
"Have you been here?" Heifu looked at the woods on both sides, which were beaten by autumn rain.
Wu Guangdao: "Although the lower officials have been post officials in Yangxia County, they have never left Chen County before they were thirty years old."
Because of the role of the butterfly wings of the Heifu, Wu Guang passed by Dazexiang. The place where he and Chen Sheng rebelled was exactly where the Heifu had fought: Yuyang!
According to Wu Guang, they were still inspired by the black husband's "counselors, lords, generals, and ministers"...
Now Chen Shengyuan is in Yan land, and has raised the banner of responding to Xia Gong, waiting for Han Xin to save him from his family. Zhao's siege may be able to reunite with Wu Guang in the future and be a minister of the same dynasty.
Obviously, in this plane, Dazexiang and Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had no contact.
On the contrary, I have some reasons for the Black Husband!
Maybe he was old, or maybe he had just experienced a thrilling bloody battle, and Heifu suddenly became a little nostalgic. When he arrived at the command center of Dazexiangxiang, the Qin army surrounded by the Qin army, he attracted Dongmenbao, the biggest contributor to the battle, and asked him the same question.
Yesterday, Dongmen Bao defeated General Pu, the left-wing Qin army of Chu, and Yu Ziqi's troops, and made great contributions, beheading 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 vaguely slapped Han Xin, but he is quickly promoted to Dongmen Bao, which will make his status comparable.
This is also the reason why Heifu insisted on his command. It was not just confidence in his own strength. I heard that Han Xin is already arrogant enough now and is quite dissatisfied with his transfer of Guan Ying to the south. If this battle was won by Han Xin, this kid would not have to look up to his nostrils!
And Dongmen Bao really had some impression of this place: "Sixteen years ago, I followed the lord to chase the remaining soldiers of Chu and shelter from the rain."
They did come, and it was sixteen years ago. After Wang Jian and Xiang Yan fought to the south of Qi, Xiang Yan died in battle. More than 100,000 Qin soldiers were divided into twenty or thirty units, and began to disperse from the battlefield, chasing the defeated Chu soldiers.
At that time, most of the Chu soldiers lost their establishment, with more than a thousand people and few dozen people. Without Xiang Yan, they lost their backbone of unity and were beaten to the Qin army and scattered their armor and fled.
Heifu led more than a thousand people to pursue the north, but he did not catch any big fish. He only cut off more than a hundred Chu soldiers' heads. One evening, he encountered a sudden heavy rain...
"Just like this heavy rain now."
Heifu raised his head, which was different from the broken and leaking umbrella at that time. There was a thick and wide "cover curtain" above his head, but the person holding the umbrella was no longer the personal Wei Mu of that time, but replaced by two strong Anlu guys. They had good eyes, legs and feet, and their attention was all on Heifu, as if a drop of rain fell on Xia Gong, which was all dereliction of duty.
Lightning broke through the hazy sky, and the sudden rain poured down, hitting the cover and ticking, and the ground suddenly became a country of terrain.
So in order to shelter from the rain, they entered a small town called "Daze Township" on the Qin army map, a remote place with no name.
"At that time, when people in the city heard that the Qin army had arrived, they all fled, leaving only an old man with injuries to his legs and feet, and his little granddaughter who had a fever. Before he could leave, I still remember that his little granddaughter had a special appearance, and there were signs of being burned by fire on his left cheek, so he was very afraid of being angry..."
In my memory, Guan Ying and the others took a few locals to pay homage to Heifu, saying that it was these locals in Daze Township who provided the whereabouts of the Chu army.
Guan Ying reported: "At dawn yesterday, the Chu army was defeated and lost its way. He asked the people in the city. A peasant woman in the city said to him. The Chu army left and fell into the big marsh, so we chased him and surrounded him on all sides of the marsh. Not to mention a man, a big rat, could not run out!"
"Who pointed the wrong way for the Chu army?" asked Heifu.
Everyone bowed to Heifu, but he didn't dare to speak out. Instead, a woman holding a three or four-year-old child attracted Heifu's attention.
She was about twenty years old and had a red scar on her left cheek, probably because she was burned when she was a child. When she looked at her teeth when she spoke, she had been uneven. She probably didn't live a good life when she was a child.
Perhaps this is the little girl that Heifu and his friends saw sixteen years ago. It was only a long time ago that she was young and seemed to have not linked the black-faced "high-ranking official" in front of her with the black-faced little Qin official many years ago.
"General Chu asked for directions, and I pointed them in the direction of Daze and said it was a small path, which made them trap them inside."
The woman hugged the baby tightly and felt no guilt for "betraying" her compatriots. When asked about the reason, she was also very upset.
"Half a year ago, they captured my husband and said they wanted to resist the Qin army and become the Chu army."
"Can you return?"
"My fellow villager asked the merchant to bring the message back and said he was dead." A trace of anger flashed across the woman's face.
"He may have died in battle with us," said Have.
The woman was very stubborn: "Xiaomin didn't know where he died, who was killed, but I only knew who captured him and never came back!"
She cursed again: "Since those who started the army, their hometown has not been well-behaved. The taxes and labor service are heavier than in the past. They fight every day and the rice is not well planted. They are about to be harvested. Thousands of people come and step on them, and they are all gone!"
It can be seen that even in Chu, the Chu army was not so popular.
Speaking of this, she squatted down in sorrow that she hugged the child and cried bitterly. The people of Daze Township also had a bitter face. All the rice in Yibei was destroyed. They had no idea how to live this winter...
Where the army is located, thorns are born, and the army passes by. In order to eat from the enemy, every grain of food will be searched, which is no different from locusts passing through the border.
As for whether the Qin army or the Chu army were driven, the difference is actually not big.
"You are the one who has been rewarded by luring the enemy to make contributions. The food for autumn and winter and the seeds for the coming year will be distributed by the new Sishui County Government."
Heifu asked Zhou Ke, who had been promoted to Sishui County Magistrate, to record this matter. The future Sishui County Magistrate will be mainly established by people. This group of people supported the early Han dynasty in history, and it should be no problem to support a county magistrate.
"Issuing another military order! From now on, those who dare to step on the grain fields in the counties and towns of Chu where our army passes to death will stomp a few millet and rice, and will beat them a few times. Even if I violate the law, it will be no exception!"
No matter how you say it, Heifu doesn't want to cut his hair and replace his butt at that time...
Without mentioning the people from Daze Township, he thanked him happily. Heifu got up and went inside and outside, but saw that the rain gradually became smaller. He couldn't help but sigh:
"It's different from sixteen years ago..."
At that time, the woman's grandfather refused to explain the location where Chu Bing escaped no matter what.
Heifu walked out the door and the sun was clear after the rain outside. He narrowed his eyes and murmured:
"This time, Ai Ying's crying of missing his homeland may not have sounded in this township?"
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Leaving Daze Township and continuing to go south, about ten miles away, then we arrived at the outside of the marina where the Chu army was trapped.
This lake is dozens of miles wide, so Daze Township is named. There is arid land in the lake that can be connected to the outside, but every time it rains heavily, it will be surrounded by water and muddy. If you accidentally fall into it, it will be difficult to get out unless the water is naturally dry!
From then on, only thirty or forty miles south, it was Qinan where Xiang Yan died in battle...
Sixteen years ago, when Heifu heard that he was in Daze Township, he felt that this was where everything ended and where everything began.
At that time, he turned around and looked at the gradually moving away from Daze Township. After coming out, he watched them leave from afar. He didn't know whether they were afraid or hatred in his eyes. He seemed to see a ghost, a ghost called national hatred and a family hatred, wandering around this Jingchu land and not dispersing for a long time!
"Sixteen years ago, we followed Emperor Qin Shi's flag and rushed south to destroy her body, but her soul was still there."
It exists in the prophecy and fantasy of "the destruction of Qin will lead to Chu".
It spreads in the eight hundred years of glory that the nobles and scholars have been obsessed with...
"It is hatred, unwillingness, luck, incitement, coupled with harsh policies, strong consolidation, heavy service, and various factors that support the restoration of the Chu people and fight hard with us until now."
Heifu admitted that the Chu people had a certain legitimate nature to resist, but this legitimate nature had long disappeared after the first massacre of the city, and his answer must be the only one who represents the imperial iron fist that represents the court!
Unification is inevitable, and division is bound to fail.
"Now, I will destroy this last soul together!"
The book of the Black Man's immortality in the Five Kingdoms is to eliminate the history of the Chu State! The folk clothes, customs, words and even beliefs can be preserved, but the official traces must be destroyed! "Jiaoshu" and "Jiuzhizhi" retain a lonely book that can be sealed for a hundred years before deciphering in the Afang Palace, which is a large library, and wait for thousands of years to be studied by later scholars, all the rest must be checked and burned!
He retained the heroic power of Han and Wei, and asked them to continue to be county magistrates to ensure peaceful liberation to the greatest extent. However, he was determined to wipe out all the nobles of Chu one by one! Zhao, Jing, Qu, Xiang, this time, no other descendant could survive in the world!
You must be tolerant where you should be tolerant.
When it is time to be cruel, you must be able to make up your mind and eliminate evil!
The rain had stopped, but the water in the lake was still there. The generals and lieutenants of the Qin army were discussing whether to siege for a long time or to rush in to wipe out the remaining Chu army.
At this time, Wei Yang, who had not seen him for many years, also came to pay a visit. Heifu smiled and helped his nephew up and asked him how many sons he already had. He said to him like when he was at Anlu's home:
"My nephew, let's sing a song for me."
"What song?"
Wei Yang was stunned. In the past, Zhong's father returned home with wealth and honor, and often asked him and his sister to stand in the courtyard, singing in harmony, while he beat the rhythm, and the family was in a happy mood, and they had to make some sounds to make the eldest mother happy.
"Sad song, burial song."
Heifu looked at the several pillars of smoke rising in the surrounded water, as if it was the incense lit before the wild land was buried.
"Song of our hometown Nanjun."
"Chu Ge!"
Chapter completed!