Shushan.

The cherry blossoms are falling, the mountain houses, the strange road, the mountain people come and go, look at each other and smile, and return to the way. The fields and barns, the cattle ploughing and the dogs barking, but in the noisy, there is a sense of peace and tranquility.

"Is this it?" On the hillside, a captain of the Qin army looked at the paradise-like existence below, and said to the scouts beside him.

"That's right, this should be a small village on the edge of Shushan." The scout nodded, affirmatively.

"Kill, leave no one." The lieutenant's dark brown scarred face showed murderous intent, and his bloodthirsty eyes made people shudder.

"But they're all civilians!" The young soldier Sima next to the captain obviously couldn't stand the captain's style and persuaded.

"What if it's a civilian? Aren't these civilians the ones who attacked our food routes and killed the soldiers of the Empire? The lieutenant said disdainfully. The lieutenant is well versed in the laws of war, and is an elite lieutenant who has survived since the era of Qin's annihilation of the Six Kingdoms. These people were the middle ranks of the Imperial Army, and they were also the mainstay of the Imperial Army. The captain knows very well that on the battlefield, a woman's kindness will only harm others and herself.

The lieutenant waved his hand, and behind him, there were hundreds of Qin soldiers. With Changge in hand, they quickly rushed down the hillside and headed for the village in the col with the order of the captain.

The young Sima couldn't stop it, and could only watch as Qin soldiers rushed past him, with a painful look on his face.

The lieutenant was not in the mood to care about this aristocratic child who came out of Xianyang, and he was not interested in his dream of a war hero at all.

For the lieutenant, war is war, killing or being killed, it's as simple as that. And this young Sima is said to be the son of a noble relative in Xianyang City, and his mind is full of nonsense about what kind of demeanor, what kind of defense for the weak, and what kind of about protecting the people.

The captain has been killed from the mountain of corpses and blood until now, but he has never believed in these things. On the battlefield, even a seemingly harmless child cannot be taken lightly. Only by ensuring that there is no enemy living creature in front of you to the greatest extent is the best protection for yourself and your troops.

The slaughter began, and the blood rushed to the sky. During the Qin army's charge, there was not a single living hole left.

With this carefully crafted plan, the mountain people in the village were no match for the well-equipped Qin soldiers.

Half an hour later, the battle was nearing its end. The lieutenant said to the baggage soldiers behind him: "Load all the supplies and transfer them back to the barracks behind us." ”

"Yes, sir."

A hundred heavy soldiers pushed wheelbarrows and headed for the village in the col.

"Come with me! Sima. ”

The lieutenant ignored Sima behind him and walked down the hill alone. Glancing at the lieutenant who was fading away, the young Sima Nuonuo followed him without saying a word.

It was a quiet and peaceful mountain village just now, but now it is already a river of blood.

Piles of corpses fell to the ground, and the soldiers of the Qin army had no intention of burying them. The soldiers were busy gathering supplies, gathering goods, and loading them.

"What are you doing?" The lieutenant turned a corner in the village, and suddenly saw that between the two houses, in the narrow alleyway, several soldiers of the Qin army were sneaking around, not knowing what they were doing?

The lieutenant's shout woke the soldiers up, and they scattered. And the scene inside made Sima tremble. A ragged girl was trembling and falling to the ground, her snow-white skin covered with handprints and claw marks, and the clothes that were supposed to cover her private parts were torn at this moment. Her eyes were hollow, her body still had blood marks, and she was dying.

What those soldiers are doing, there is no doubt.

The young Sima didn't expect that the heroic imperial soldiers he had heard of since he was a child would look like this, which was almost like a bandit.

The captain walked up with an unkind face, pulled out the long knife at his waist, and stabbed the girl.

"What do you do?" Sima shouted behind the lieutenant, he was puzzled, he was not angry, but he was helpless.

The captain didn't pay attention to Sima's meaning, and there was still a trace of blood on the ring head knife made of fine iron in his hand. He looked at the soldiers of the Qin army and said coldly: "Who is leading this matter?" ”

The soldiers present all bowed their heads and silently did not say a word. Seeing that no one answered, the lieutenant looked around at everyone with bloodthirsty eyes and said, "Or is this woman a whopin of adultery with you?" ”

The lieutenant's indifferent voice resounded through the secluded alleyway, making people not wonder what he wanted to do next.

In the crowd, suddenly a soldier knelt down and begged for mercy: "My lord, the villain has been in the mountains for too long, and he is confused for a while, so you can spare the villain!" ”

The soldier kept kowtowing, and in the end, he even cried out in fear.

"Sima, Qin Jun military law, traitor. What is the sin of adulterous women? The lieutenant suddenly asked the young Sima behind him.

Sima was stunned for a moment, and then shouted out loudly the military discipline that he had memorized since he was a child and could recite it backwards: "There is no forgiveness for killing." ”

"The law is clear, and the crime should be punished." The captain raised the long knife in his hand, and under the scorching sun, he cut down the soldier who was desperately begging for mercy.

The captain's knife was swift, and the soldier fell to the ground without feeling a moment of pain, lifeless.

"Bring back his corpse, and say that he died in battle on the battlefield." The lieutenant commanded the silent soldiers.

"Yes, yes."

"I thought you were going to let that soldier go. Thank you for not being disappointed with the army of the Empire. On the way to retreat, Sima, who was on a horse, said to the captain.

The captain was riding on a horse, and when he heard Sima's words, he said disdainfully, "You misunderstood. At present, our people are in the enemy's territory, and we have to fight for a long time, and we will encounter danger at any time. And rape. This kind of thing will seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of soldiers. If I don't make an example, the discipline of the army will quickly deteriorate. When the time comes, if you encounter the enemy, you will definitely be defeated. If the imperial army had captured Shushan at this moment, I wouldn't care about this kind of thing at all. ”

After listening to the captain's explanation, Sima's hand holding the reins unconsciously loosened. The military horse shook when it met the stone, and Sima almost fell off the horse. He said with a look of indignation: "You are derelict in your duties and contempt for the imperial military law. ”

Anyway, for this Sima who has a sense of justice, the more he looks at it, the more unhappy he becomes, and he always wants to contradict him: "Brothers, with their heads up, rushing to the front line, expanding the territory for the empire, living a life without the Ming Dynasty, what is it to rob a woman of property?" You high-ranking nobles have been clothed and fed since childhood, how do you know the suffering of our people. ”

The lieutenant's words made Sima speechless, but Sima was still unconvinced: "You are like this, why do you lie to him, saying that he did not die in battle when he met the enemy." ”

"These soldiers are all from poor backgrounds, and most of their families are not easy. If they die because of a military law, the court will not grant a pension, and how will the children in their family survive at that time? ”

Sima stopped, looked at the captain in front of him, and didn't know what to say for a while.

……

When Yu Zi rushed to the village with a thousand Shushan guards, the goal was that the broken trees were broken and the sky was full of flies and insects.

"Damn!" There was a foul smell in the air, but Yu Ziqi didn't look disgusted at all, he half-knelt down and slammed his fist on the ground.

"These damn Qin soldiers."

"What should we do now!"

"Chase, let's chase after us by taking the trail, we want to annihilate all the invading Qin troops, and pay tribute to the mountain people who died on the scene." Yu Ziqi's eyes flashed with hatred, and he gritted his teeth and said.

"Yes!" The Yu Yuan guards behind Yu Ziqi said one after another.

…….

In the barracks, a team of hundreds of people was gathering around the fire at this moment, and they were barbecuing and eating.

"If I want to say who I admire the most among the imperial army, it is General Wang. Back then, I followed General Wang Lao and destroyed Zhao and Chu, what a joy it was. Beside the fire, a soldier said cheerfully.

"What are you bragging about? You joined the army five years ago, when General Wang killed Zhao, what happened to you? On the other side of the fire, a soldier uncovered his old bottom.

"Who said that, when General Wang killed Zhao, he once passed by my house, and I personally helped him send a piece of military rations, how can you say that there is nothing to do with me."

"You're a footman, what's the matter with you when people fight?"

"What kind of cow are you, didn't you just follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to cut down a swallow? I heard that by the Yishui River, when facing the 400,000 Yan army, you were afraid to pee your pants. ”

"What do you say? Whoever peed his pants, I was windy and the river was wet. ”

Seeing that the two were about to make a move, the soldiers beside them hurriedly grabbed them. In the military, picking quarrels and provoking troubles is not a trivial crime, and there is no need to lose your life for a quarrel.

……

Sima, who was sitting not far away, listened to the argument and didn't pay much attention. He looked at the captain sitting on the side and asked, "The soldier seems to respect General Wang very much?" ”

The lieutenant raised his head, his mouth loosened as he gnawed on the sheep's hoof, and he looked at Sima with an idiot look: "Nonsense." The prestige of General Wang's father and son, who in my Great Qin Army doesn't know, where did you come from? ”

Sima smiled faintly and said, "But I think that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not inferior to the two generals at all. ”

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, that doesn't need to be said. If it weren't for the fact that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince led the army to capture the Chu capital in the south and cut off the grain route of the Chu army. We don't know how long that big war will last? Next to the captain, the centurion with a long beard said.

"Old Fang, how long have the five scouts we sent out been out?" At this time, as if remembering something, the lieutenant interrupted the centurion's words and asked suddenly.

"It's going to be two hours!" The centurion, Lao Fang, replied.

"Something is wrong! It's been too long. ”

"Maybe it's because the mountain road is difficult to walk, so it's delayed for some time!" The centurion said unconcernedly.

"No, give the order down and let the brothers be on guard." The lieutenant stood up, like a beast sensing danger, and restless.

The two centurions immediately took action, and Sima looked at this scene and unconsciously clenched the saber in his hand.

"Our large army was in the rear, and we were only followed by three hundred soldiers, one hundred of whom were baggage soldiers. In the mountains and forests, there are many forks in the road, and the enemy does not know when to probe for it, which is really too dangerous. ”

Wow, a sharp arrow pierced through the darkness, pierced through the heavy branches, and hit a Qin soldier who was about to get up.

"Shield!" The lieutenant let out a loud shout and reacted immediately.

Qin Jun, who was still scattered in the woodland, immediately picked up the small shield beside him and moved closer to the direction of the captain. On the way, many soldiers were shot by sharp arrows that burst out of the forest.

The shield array had been erected, and the rows of vertical shields blocked the captain, Sima and a dozen wounded soldiers behind them, and the attack of the rain of arrows like locusts was soon much smaller.

"The arrow is poisonous, I'm afraid it won't work." Sima examined a soldier lying on the ground with an arrow wound and said.

"Damn!" The captain scolded, looked at the dying soldier on the ground with a black face and convulsions, waved his hand, and said, "Give him a good time!" ”

Sima nodded, pulled out the short blade he wore at his waist, and stabbed the soldier in his arms.

Sima's knife technique was very accurate, and the soldier who was still twitching lost his voice the moment the knife stabbed in.

The young Sima never thought that the war would be so tragic, and it was still a fresh life just now, but at this moment there was no trace of brilliance.

"Poison on arrows, despicable!" Sima scolded hatefully.

"The two armies are fighting, doing everything they can, what is despicable and not despicable." The captain commanded more than thirty crossbowmen on his side to counterattack towards the forest, and at the same time did not forget to teach Sima a lesson beside him.

There was an open-mindedness in the lieutenant's tone that saw through life and death. Sima looked at the lieutenant who was meticulously commanding the battle array, and a sense of pride ignited in his heart unconsciously.

"I haven't officially introduced it yet, my name is Wang Li. If we are lucky enough to be able to escape this time, we will definitely invite you to drink and get drunk. ”

"Nonsense. Of course you have to invite Lao Tzu to drink. The lieutenant didn't seem to perceive the meaning of the name. It took him a long time to react, ignoring the rain of arrows and fire, he suddenly turned his head and said to Sima: "Wait, what do you say your name is?" ”

"Wang Li." Sima smiled and said calmly.

"I heard that the grandson of General Wang, the son of General Wang Ben, is also called Wang Li. You can't be him!" The lieutenant turned his head, stared at the dark curtain ahead, and commanded his soldiers to dodge the hidden arrows fired from them, jokingly.

"That's right, I'm him!"

"I'm X! Hold these birdmen against me. The offensive of the Shushan guards was very strong, and the captain scolded fiercely and shouted at the soldiers in front.

"It's too late." In the darkness, Yu Ziqi walked out of the woodland.

"My lord, our people have surrounded these three hundred Qin regiments."

"Excellent! The offensive began. Yu Ziqi waved his hand, and five hundred Shushan guards wearing armor and holding spears rushed out of the forest and attacked the Qin army's battle column.

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? (To be continued.) )