In the jungle south of Chu Guopei County, hundreds of Qin mountain troops crossed the mountains and mountains, walking like flying. They were dressed in green cotton clothes, cowhide shoes, and trouser legs were tied tightly with leggings, and they were very capable, and the leader was Wei Jun. They ran for a while, and had to stop to look backwards, and scolded dissatisfiedly: "These Chu people walk as slowly as a group of stupid pigs, if they can be tired of walking early, it will be easier to slaughter!" "They treat this kind of running around the mountains with the enemy as a walk.

A mile behind them, thousands of Chu troops took off their leather armor and chased after them breathlessly, and the Qin army in front remained within their field of vision, out of range of bows and arrows. They chased for a whole day, and the team was so tired that they didn't hurt a single Qin soldier.

The leader of the team was a thousand-commander, cheering everyone up: "The encirclement and suppression mission under Wu Anjun is a death order. The Qin people are in front of us, let's work harder, exterminate them, and make a fortune for Jin Jue, otherwise we will serve by military law. ”

The soldiers raised their spirits and chased forward, and some of the weaker ones had begun to fall behind. When they saw that they were about to surround the Qin army again, the Qin army jumped out of the encirclement at a critical time, and the soldiers no longer had the fighting spirit, sitting on the ground, panting and complaining: "Where is this where we are chasing the Qin army, it is clear that people are walking us, and when we are tired of walking, we will turn around and kill us!" ”

The angry words of the soldiers made the commander wake up like a dream. Hurriedly ordered: "Give up the pursuit, rest in place, and be on alert." After a full meal, alternate covers, and retreat to the city. ”

The soldier's angry words and the sobriety of the commander undoubtedly saved the lives of most of the thousands. The soldier who had just spoken rolled his eyes, and then said: "The mountains here are high and dense, and the sentry sent by the general is easy to be attacked, so we should also send a secret sentry to secretly protect the sentry so that nothing goes wrong." ”

The commander was surprised, and immediately ordered his subordinates to do the same, and turned his head to ask the little soldier who spoke, "What is your name?" Where are the people? ”

"General Yu, in Xia Luxuan, Fengyi people. As a county pawn in Fengyi City, everyone saw that we could speak well, so why did we grow. Lu Qian replied.

Lu Juan is famous in history. He was born on the same day as Liu Bang, and entered Magong Academy to study together. Won Liu Bang's trust. When Liu Bang was the chief of the Surabaya Pavilion, he followed the left and right, and later raised troops together. In the Chu-Han War, he made many military exploits, and was named the Marquis of Chang'an. Liu Bang founded the Han Dynasty and was named King of Yan (present-day Beijing). In the eleventh year of Gaozu of the Han Dynasty (196 BC), he rebelled with the Daiguo Chen Feng and the Xiongnu. Liu Bang personally attacked and issued the White Horse Alliance: Those who are not the Liu family but the king, if they do not do what they do, the world will punish them. The generals Fan Xu and Zhou Bo attacked the Yan Kingdom, causing Lu Juan and his family to run to the Xiongnu and was named the king of Donghulu.

Seeing that Towan was extraordinary, the commander befriended him, and the two discussed a plan to withdraw from the army.

Lu Juan said: "The enemy is dark and I am clear, and the enemy is weak and I am strong." The plan of the Qin army is to drag us down, and when our army is exhausted, we will fight back. We should now conserve our strength, alternate cover, and retreat slowly, or we can go back safely. If you continue the pursuit or retreat in a hurry, you will be captured alive, even if you don't die. ”

After a while, just as he was about to eat, the Ming Sentinel was killed by the Qin army, but fortunately, the Dark Sentinel found it in time, so it was not successfully attacked. The commander was frightened into a cold sweat, and immediately ordered: "When you withdraw from the army, everything will obey Lu Juan's orders." ”

Sure enough, on the way to retreat, the Qin army turned around and chased after him. In the jungle, the bows and arrows of the Chu army were far less flexible than the crossbow machines, but fortunately, in addition to the large number of people in the Chu army, they also had abundant physical strength, and the Qin army did not dare to fight in close combat. It took two days to retreat outside Fengyi City, and the number of people counted, there were more than 50 people missing, and more than 100 people were injured. A head was not obtained, but nearly 200 people were killed and wounded, and the commander was afraid of military law and did not dare to enter the city. Lu Juan said: "The other horses must have suffered heavy losses, but only the general has suffered the least losses and has preserved his strength. Although entering the city, not only is he not guilty, but he is meritorious. ”

After hearing this, the commander was relieved to enter the city. As Lu Juan expected, several other groups of men and horses suffered heavy casualties, and few people returned to the city. Because of the preservation of strength, the commander was promoted to lieutenant.

There are more than a dozen one-sided battles like this every day in the territory of Chu State. The encirclement and suppression completely failed, which made Xiang Yan anxious. The military rations could not be collected, and even to send a letter to the king of Chu, thousands of people had to be sent to escort it. Chu State is like a bulky elephant, stretching out his feet, unable to step on ants, and being eaten by ants everywhere, helpless. He had to order the troops to be collected and not to leave the city.

Seeing that the Chu army in the city did not dare to leave the city, Montenegro gathered all the generals and ordered the Qin army outside the city to start carrying out land reform movements in various villages and Lili, and put forward new mission goals:

1. Severely crack down on slave owners and confiscate land and farmland.

2. Emancipate slaves and subordinate peasants, and give them land and homes.

3. Protect the interests of small landlords and middle peasants below 1,000 mu.

Fourth, pull out some grassroots officials with good reputations, and suppress some officials with deep public grievances.

After listening to the above four points, the generals applauded one after another.

Montenegro also ordered: "The above four points should be printed as propaganda leaflets and distributed to every soldier." Let the soldiers not only study carefully, but also deeply understand the meaning of this general! ”

"No! Obey the General's orders. The generals replied loudly.

Montenegro had just returned to his tent after taking care of military affairs. Qiu immediately greeted him happily, hugged Montenegro's neck, and said, "There's great news, guess what?" ”

Montenegro has been so busy lately that he can't guess it at all, seeing that Qiu is so happy, he hurriedly gently hugged her slender waist with one hand, stroked her belly with the other, and said with a smile: "Could it be that you are also pregnant with our child?" ”

Qiu's face brushed, blushed, and said, "It's not!" I just received Chun's family letter, it was a few days before the princess, September 24, and gave birth to a son to you. With that, he handed the letter to Montenegro.

Montenegro happily picked up Qiu, spun around again and again, and after putting it down, he kissed her little lips a few more times.

The two of them were happy, and another military official sent a secret report from the Black Ice Terrace. When Montenegro opened it, it turned out that there was a large-scale rebellion in the south of Chu State. Montenegro expected it to be the handiwork of Chen Ping and Brother Ahei, and he was overjoyed, and immediately ordered: "Set up a banquet tonight to reward the soldiers of the three armies." ”

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Slaves and subordinate peasants accounted for sixty percent of the Chu State, and civilians and small landlords accounted for thirty and a half. The remaining half were large landowners and slave owners, who controlled eighty-five percent of the land. Montenegro's four guidelines were immediately supported by the vast majority of Chu people!

After a short winter, not far from the border of Qin, the land reform was basically completed in the townships, villages, and li of Chu State. When Montenegro looked at the map, there were more than 30 cities, all of which were surrounded by the new territory of the Qin army.

When the rainy season came, Montenegro counted that it had been a year since he led his troops to attack Chu, and in a blink of an eye it was already April of the twenty-fourth year of the reign of King Qin (222 BC).

Looking at the more than 30 lonely cities, Montenegro felt that the time was ripe, and ordered that the new Qin people in the countryside should first write letters to relatives, friends, and children of the Chu army in the city to persuade them to surrender. Then these county towns were uprooted, and the cities around Hengshan, Chencheng, and Pengcheng were completely integrated into the territory of the Qin State.

After more than a month, the Chu army lost nearly half of the country's land, and north of the Yangtze River, except for the three isolated cities of Juyang Pass, Xia Xiang and Pengcheng, all of them were turned into the Qin State.

In the early summer, the rain was sufficient, and Meng Tian led 100,000 sailors, taking 400 sailors and warships, down the Yangtze River, and stormed the Chu army sailors in Yunmengze (now Dongting Lake). The Qin warships were larger and faster than the Chu warships because they were equipped with waterwheels. It was also equipped with long-range weapons such as stone-throwing vehicles and large crossbows, so it easily defeated the Chu army. The Chu army's naval division was almost wiped out, and Xiang Liang led the remnants of the army to flee into Yingshou. Since then, the warships of the Chu army and the warships of the Qin army have met, and they have either been captured and annihilated alive, or they have abandoned the ships and fled, and Meng Tian's 100,000 sailors were the first to reach the city of Yingshou.

In April, Xiang Yan saw that the Yangtze River was lost, and it was pointless to defend Pengcheng and Juyang Pass. Ordered to abandon Pengcheng, Xiaxiang, and Juyang Pass, and took the Xiang clan people to retreat into Yingshou.

After entering the city, an inventory found that there were more than 100,000 people missing. Only after inquiring did they know that Jingju and Zhaotong were attacked by barbarian rebels under the pretext of fiefdom, and went back to quell the rebellion without saying goodbye. The rest of the feudal lords also followed suit and ran back. After Xiang Yan heard this, he was so angry that a mouthful of blood almost spurted out.

On this day, it was the sixteenth month of Montenegro leading troops to attack Chu. With a loss of less than 5,000 people and more than 200,000 enemies, he occupied all the land and cities north of the Yangtze River and some areas south of the Yangtze River in Chu State, and obtained 56 large and small cities, and did not storm any city.

As soon as the Chu army retreated, Montenegro immediately ordered a three-way army by land and water, except for some remaining in the cities, a total of 500,000 people immediately set off and joined the army under Yingshou City, the capital of Chu State.

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Besides, Xiang Yan withdrew to Yingshou with his clansmen and 200,000 troops. A family meeting was immediately held, at which he said affectionately: "The Qin army attacked Chu this time under the slogan of liberating the slaves and subordinate peasants of the Chu State, and the Chu State no longer has any hope of victory. I have passed the age of six, I am a king, I am full of children and grandchildren, and I have no regrets in this life. I have been deeply favored by the kings of Chu for several generations, and I stayed to live and die with the kings of Chu. Liang and Bo, you will take Yu'er and all your family members out of the city and go south tonight. From today onwards, incognito, Qin is in chaos, and he is not allowed to go north. ”

"Father!" Xiang Liang and Xiang Bo knew that today's farewell was goodbye, so they immediately burst into tears and cried bitterly.

"Grandpa!" Xiang Rong's son Xiang Yu and Xiang Liang's son Xiang Zhuang were not yet ten years old at this time, and Xiang Yu was already as tall as an adult, as powerful as an ox. At this time, the two grandsons were also in tears, crying bitterly on the ground.

Xiang Yan stroked her favorite grandson, couldn't help but burst into tears, and said in a choked voice: "Yu'er has no father, you are extremely smart and unforgettable, and your strength is infinite." If you can change your temper, you will definitely be a hero in the future. Grandpa is most worried about you, and the two uncles will be your own father in the future. You have to listen to your uncle's words, so that you will have the opportunity to avenge the country and your family in the future. ”

After speaking, Xiang Yan handed over an ancient sheepskin map and a copy of the "Xiang Clan's Art of War" to Xiang Liang, and said: "In the future, you will be the patriarch of the Xiang clan, and you will immediately go south with your family, return to our ancestral land, stay incognito, study and practice martial arts, and the Qin State is not chaotic, and you are not allowed to go north." Set off now and take all the precious and soft goods brought back from Pengcheng without delaying for a moment. ”

As soon as Xiang Yan finished speaking, the palace attendants happened to arrive at the palace and spread the news that Wu Anjun had entered the palace to discuss matters. Xiang Yan tidied up her clothes and instructed her two sons: "Go immediately!" The sooner the better! Then he entered the palace to meet the king of Chu.

At the south gate of Yingshou, cars are crowded with cars. A large number of nobles and common people fled south with their children and daughters. Xiang Liang took hundreds of family members, more than 1,000 soldiers, and family wealth, and it took an hour to squeeze out of the south gate of Yingshou.

Xiang Liang said to Xiang Bo: "Third brother, my father has been a hero all his life, and he is Wu Anjun. Now he is old, alone in a dangerous city, and he is determined to repay the country with death. How can you die without a child around you? You take your family south, and I stay behind to serve my father. ”

Xiang Bo said: "Second brother, you are the patriarch and bear the heavy responsibility of the family. I'll stay behind to take care of my father, so let's go!" If my father and I could escape the war, we would have gone south to find you. ”

"Third brother, take care of your father and pay attention to safety! Definitely coming back! Dingliang said in a choked voice.

Xiang's surname, his surname was Mi, and after the king of Chu, he was sealed in Xiang and changed his surname to Xiang. Jin attacked Chu, Chu was defeated and lost, and Xiang moved to the lower minister. The ancestors of Xiang Yan moved south to Wu (now the Wuyi Mountain area of Fujian Province), and fought with the local Tu people for decades before gaining a firm foothold and settling down. Because of the courage and good fighting of the clan, several generations of people became generals in the state of Wu, and put down many barbarian rebellions for the king of Wu, and the Xiang clan has been famous for their good warfare since then. After the Yue Kingdom destroyed the Wu State, the Xiang family refused to surrender to the Yue State, and fought with the Yue army in the mountains and forests for more than 100 years, until the King of Chu Wei destroyed the Yue Kingdom. After King Chu Wei heard that the Xiang clan was not only good at war, but also a distant branch of the Chu royal family, he sent an envoy to woo the Xiang clan, not only re-recognized the royal identity of the Xiang clan, but also married the daughter of the head of the Xiang clan as a concubine. and returned the Xia Xiangfeng that had just been recaptured from the Qi State to the Xiang family, and the Xiang family became the fourth largest nobleman after Zhao, Qu and Jing. From then on, the Xiang clan assumed the responsibility of opening up the south for the Chu State and suppressing the rebellion of the Yue people. Xiang Yan let his family flee back to South Vietnam, in fact, he returned to his old land, where the Xiang family has roots.