Chapter 44: The Soul of Chu's Army (Part II)

More than 100 prisoners were carrying earthwork, wood and stone on a hill under the scorching sun. www.biquge.info Although they were already sweating profusely, their skin and flesh were worn out and bleeding, the Qin soldiers who were supervising on the side would not look at it at all, and their sticks and whips mixed with scolding would only inflict more ferocity on these criminals. Sweat, blood, and mud congealed into lumps on the prisoners' bodies, and then melted away under the scorching sun, repeatedly, and the flesh had long since adhered to the flesh and could not be distinguished. No one cares if they live or die.

A prisoner, carrying a large basket of stones behind him, staggered, suddenly his feet went limp, and he fell to the ground.

Syllable! A whip immediately blossomed on his back. "Useless thing, I'll kill you!" A Qin soldier walked up to him and scolded while whipping non-stop. The prisoner was beaten and rolled all over the ground, begging for mercy, but this would only make the Qin soldier scold more fiercely and the whip fall harder.

"Stop fighting! Please, ah, please! The prisoner was beaten and curled up in a ball, and howled and screamed. The other prisoners around him couldn't bear to look at it, so they had to turn their heads, and everyone dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

The Qin soldier was fighting vigorously, when suddenly a hand grabbed the wrist of the whip he was raising.

"General?" The Qin soldiers looked back and were stunned, the person who came was the leader of the Qin soldiers in charge of the mountain here.

"These things that are inferior to pigs and dogs, why waste your own energy?" The leader of the Qin soldiers said, "Just let that waste fight." ”

"The general is right." The Qin soldier put down his whip.

"Waste, you come over to me." The leader of the Qin soldiers beckoned not far away.

Everyone's eyes fell on a prisoner who was crouching down to carry stones. I saw the prisoner put down the stone and slowly stood up, and walked forward step by step with his head bowed. The dozens of Qin soldiers on the hill looked at each other, and their faces showed expressions of schadenfreude and waiting to watch the show.

"These people were your soldiers, and they made mistakes," said the leader of the Qin soldiers, took the whip and threw it at his feet, and smiled disdainfully, "You come to punish them." ”

The prisoner lowered his head and stared silently at the whip at his feet.

"Give him a hundred lashes, and tomorrow you will not have to work, and you will be rewarded with a meal of meat." The leader of the Qin soldiers laughed jokingly.

The prisoner slowly leaned down and picked up the whip with his hand covered in mud.

The prisoner, who had just been beaten a dozen times on the ground, pleaded: "Big brother, we were brothers from birth to death......

"I want to eat meat." The prisoner's eyes were blank, he just lowered his head and looked at the whip in his hand.

"Big brother...... Yes! The prisoner lying on the ground wanted to beg again, but the merciless whip had fallen on him again.

Suddenly, the whipping and the screams of the prisoner resounded.

Not far away, several prisoners carrying earthwork gritted their teeth.

One of them whispered: "Big brother, how can he ......?"

"Phew, you still call him big brother!" The other spat out.

"He's inhuman, completely ruined!" The third person was indignant and hated and scolded.

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On the other side, the leader of the Qin soldiers found a big stone, sat down with a golden sword, drank water, and watched the good show in front of him with great interest, laughing from time to time: "Okay, have a wonderful fight!" ”

At this time, a Qin soldier ran from under the mountain and said, "Report to the general, we have caught a spy!" ”

The leader of the Qin soldiers looked back and saw several Qin soldiers escorting a young general and walking towards the mountain. The young general's hands were cut behind his back, and he was shackled, but he still held his head high, and his eyes were blazing, giving people a kind of arrogance and majesty in his bones.

"It's ...... Major General Long? One of the convicts whispered.

"I didn't expect him to be arrested too......" There was another sigh from among the prisoners.

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"Hahahaha...... "The leader of the Qin soldiers laughed when he saw this, "I didn't expect that Long Ji, the major general of the Tenglong Legion of the Chu State in the past, actually fell into my hands!" The surrounding Qin soldiers also laughed loudly, as if the dragon at this moment had become the most shameful and ridiculous person in the world.

Who knew that the dragon turned a deaf ear to this, and didn't even look at them.

Long Ji's gaze fell on the two prisoners.

One of them, with a whip in his hand, was whipping another prisoner at once. The prisoner who had been beaten had fainted by this time, and only writhed when the whip fell on him. He had been beaten to the ground and was dying, but the prisoner with the whip was more like a walking corpse, and continued to swing the whip in his hand, as if everything around him had nothing to do with him.

"Your head is worth a lot!" The leader of the Qin soldiers laughed.

Long Ji still stared at the two prisoners, ignoring the leader of the Qin soldiers.

The leader of the Qin soldiers stared at him, and was about to scold, but suddenly stopped, followed Long Ji's gaze, and also looked at the two prisoners, and had a plan, and shouted at them at the moment: "Waste, don't fight." ”

The prisoner, known as "waste", slowly lowered his whip and stood there with his head bowed.

"This is your general," said the leader of the Qin soldiers, "and you will cut off his head with this axe," he said, taking an axe from the hand of the Qin soldier beside him, and throwing it at the prisoner's feet, "I will let you not have to work for a month, and you will have meat to eat every day." ”

The prisoner glanced sideways and saw that the dragon was glaring angrily, glaring at him.

"Otherwise, I'll cut off both of your heads," the leader of the Qin soldiers continued, "Make me a drink!" ”

The prisoner closed his eyes, his chest heaved, gasped for breath, and suddenly opened his eyes, leaned down, and picked up the axe violently.

When the other prisoners saw this, they couldn't help but gasp.

The prisoner walked up to Long Ji, and at this time, the two Qin soldiers also pressed Long Ji's shoulders and kicked him several times in the crook of his legs, which made Long Ji kneel.

"Do you still know me?" The dragon raised his head and glared at the prisoner.

"General Long, don't blame me," the prisoner Mu Ran said, "I have no other choice. ”

"Has the general of the State of Chu, who once fought bravely on the battlefield, become the executioner of the State of Qin?" Long Ji asked.

The prisoner gritted the roots of his teeth, waved his hand, and scolded in a trembling voice: "Stupid! That Chu State has perished! ”

When the other prisoners around heard this, they lowered their heads one after another, and their hearts were sad. Yes, the state of Chu, which once stood on one side, has been destroyed by the state of Qin. The supreme glory of the soldiers of the Chu State in the past has now become the humble humiliation of the convict coolies. How can such a gap not make people disheartened and lose their fighting spirit?

"Then, what about the Chu State in your heart?" Long Ji asked word by word, raising his head and questioning.

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