The beautiful wooden door with hollow carvings was kicked open by the leopard of the east gate, and there was a loud crackling sound, and Heifu followed, he frowned and glanced around the luxuriously decorated room, and saw Bai Ling hanging on the beam, swaying back and forth with the wind, but there was no one on it.

"Ran away?" The Dongmen leopard was panting, holding the halberd and looking left and right, a little unwilling.

"Shh Hefu gestured to him in a silent gesture, and as he listened closely, he could hear the sound of nervous breathing coming from the position of the bed.

Heifu understood, nodded to Ji Ying and Gongao behind him, and the two immediately entered, squatted down, and sure enough, they found the person they wanted to arrest under the bed.

Looking at the officials of the Chu State who were curled up in a ball under the bed, Heifu smiled at him: "Climb out by yourself, or eat me with a sword first?" ”

"I'll come out, I'll come out."

The official shivered out of the bed, he was short and fat, with a pair of mustaches on his face, the original high crown had long since fallen somewhere, and his hair was stained with spider webs, looking a little embarrassed. This person sneezed when he came out, and must have eaten a lot of dust under the bed.

"Is it the county Yin of Dun County?" Heifu asked.

"I'm not...... I'm a cook......

The fat official raised his head and was about to deny it, but found that the Qin official in front of him was not asking him, but the maids in the two mansions.

The maidservant nodded tremblingly.

So, a moment later, the county Yin of Dun County was carried by several strong men of the Qin State and walked towards the main hall of the county Yin mansion.

"Where are you going to take me?" County Yin was a little flustered, but he didn't dare to struggle.

"Captain, please."

Heifu walked forward with his sword, at this moment, the county Yin Mansion had long been occupied by the Qin army, and there were short-range guards everywhere, and this place would become the temporary command post of Commander Li You in Dun County.

They left Yangcheng on the first day of October, traveled southeast along Yingshui, and soon defeated more than 100 sentry posts placed by the Chu State on the border and invaded the territory of Dun County.

He arrived at Dunxian on October 3 and breached the city the next evening, which can be described as swift, but it is not surprising considering that Dunxian is only a small county, the height of the city is no more than two zhang, and the number of soldiers is no more than three or four hundred.

"Could it be that the Chu army directly abandoned this city? What about the Chu State chariot cavalry who had several battles with the cavalry of the Qin army near Yingshui a few days ago? Why is it nowhere to be seen? ”

Heifu was a little uneasy in his heart, the more he did not resist, the more he felt deceitful, he knew that this war would be lost, but he did not know how it was lost, so he could only be careful day and night.

I only hope that the defeat did not start with their troops.

Thinking like this, the main hall of the county Yin Mansion had arrived, and Heifu asked his subordinates to follow him, threw the county Yin of Dun County, who was used to being pampered, to the bottom of the hall, and kicked him in the leg, making him kneel in front of the governor Li You.

"Du Wei, the county Yin of Dunxian County, he did not hang himself, but hid under the bed."

When the guards in the hall heard this, they all smiled contemptuously.

Li You was looking through some bamboo scrolls found in the mansion, which recorded the records of the Chu army's garrison in the local area, so he didn't look up at the prisoner at the bottom of the stairs, and asked directly: "Donxian County Yin, are you guilty?" ”

Dun Yin said in a trembling voice: "The foreign minister could have abandoned the city and left, but he stayed here when the general's soldiers pressed the border, because it was his duty to defend the land, Yu Chu was not guilty, and Yu Qin was guilty......"

The first half of the sentence is neither humble nor arrogant, but the second half of the sentence is immediately revealed: "But the foreign minister is willing to govern the people for the general, calm the people's hearts, and atone for his sins!" ”

"So, will you surrender?"

Li You looked at Don Yin, only to realize that he was also looking at him steadily, his eyes widening.

Seeing Li You raise his face and look at it for a while, Don Yin couldn't help but show joy on his face, got up and said, "Virtuous nephew, it turned out to be you!" ”

With this reckless move, Heifu and two of his subordinates immediately stepped forward, pressed Dun Yin back to the ground, and put the sword on his neck!

"Misunderstanding, misunderstanding! I'm really a captain! Don Yin hurriedly explained.

Li You looked Dun Yin up and down, but he didn't remember who it was, so he said, "Who are you?" ”

"My name is Cai Cheng, and I was a county official in Shangcai in my early years, and I worked as a Li Si...... No, it's Li Gong's superior, and he is kind ......"

Li You shook his head, still unimpressed, although their family was indeed from Shangcai in the Chu State, but since he could remember, his father Li Si went to Lanling to visit Xunzi and be his disciple.

A few years later, Li Si returned from his studies, but he only stayed for a few days, took his brothers to hunt and play for a few days, and then left a sentence "Long time in a lowly position, a difficult place, not the world and evil profits, self-trust in inaction, this non-scholarly feelings", so he went west to Qin to look for opportunities.

It was only from that time that the Li family embarked on the road of soaring prosperity from an ordinary family of Han scholars.

Cai Cheng was anxious, and hurriedly said: "Twenty years ago, before Gong Li left Shangcai, he took the lieutenant and the neutron, led the yellow dog, and went out to the east gate of Shangcai to hunt cunning rabbits. At that time, I was also returning from a safari on horseback, and I had a few words with Li Gong at the east gate, and I asked the lieutenant how old he was and how he could learn to read. ”

Seeing that Li You seemed to remember something, he pointed to his hand again and said: "At that time, I was still carrying a wild child and giving it to Li Gong, and Li Gong asked Du Wei to take it, but Du Wei didn't remember it?" A few years later, when Li Gong took Duwei's brother to Qin, I also went to Duwei's house, and only then did I remember Duwei's appearance. ”

"It seems that there is such a thing, it turns out that it is really my father's old man."

Li You smiled, and he wasn't very happy, just waved his hand, asked Heifu and the others to let go of Cai Cheng, give him a mat, and bring a bowl of water to Cai Cheng to drink.

Cai Cheng probably hid under the bed for too long, took the water and drank it with a grunt, and then wiped his mouth, seeing that the son of the resigned official who was despised by him back then has now become the dignified captain of the Qin State, high above, and he has become a prisoner, life and death are decided between a thought, and he can't help but feel a lot of emotion.

"That was still thirty years ago, when Li Gong was young, just served as a small official in the county, and he always liked to watch rats when he had nothing to do. When we asked him why he was so interested in rats, he said that when he saw the rats in the toilet of the officials' house eating filth, he fled in terror whenever a man or dog came to him, and that in the granary where we worked, the rats in the barn ate corn and lived under the big house all the year round, so they did not have to worry about people or dogs. ”

"At that time, Li Gong sighed to us and said that a person's virtuous or unworthy character, such as a rat, is determined by the place where he is located."

"So within a few days, Li Gong resigned from his position as a small official and went to Lanling to worship Xunzi as a teacher, saying that he wanted to learn the art of the emperor, and many colleagues laughed at him at that time, but now he ......"

Cai Cheng looked at his embarrassed appearance, and then at Li You, who was majestic and occupied his mansion, shook his head and said: "We are really rats in the toilet, and Li Gong is already a rat in the barn......"

After finishing speaking, he felt that this was wrong, and hurriedly changed his words: "No, Li Gong and the Duwei brothers are all phoenix birds and birds!" ”

This was the first time Li You had heard that his father still had such a past, so he suddenly became kind and chatted with Cai Cheng in his hometown.

Li Si just arrived in the Qin State for a few years, just Lü Buwei Sheren, as the long history of the Qin State, the status is not high, after the fall of Lü Buwei and Zheng Guowei's spy incident, the King of Qin expelled guests, Li Si, as a foreigner living in the country, was almost blown away, relying on a "Book of Expulsions" to get the weight of the King of Qin, and since then he has risen to the top, all the way to the court.

It was only then that he took Li You's brothers to Qin, Li Youdu was already a teenager that year, and when the family left Shangcai, he was still wearing a cloth shirt, and he was dusty. At that time, I never expected that more than ten years later, I would be able to return to my hometown with the army of Princess Qin......

"When this battle is over, I will return to Shangcai to worship my ancestors."

Li You listened to Cai Cheng's compliments while thinking about what would happen after the battle, perhaps the capture of Dunxian County was too smooth, giving him the illusion that the war would end soon.

"What an inspirational story." Heifu listened to the conversation between Li You and Cai Cheng on the side, and only felt that Li Si's experience was simply an example for all aspiring young people in this era, but it was a pity that the time full of opportunities had passed.

However, the analogy of the rat in the toilet and the rat in the hamster can only be applied to the state of Chu, if it is placed in the state of Qin, the barn official sees a mouse, and he is so nervous that he has to catch and kill it, and then block the rat hole, because the Qin law stipulates that if there are more than three rat holes in the warehouse, the barn husband will be punished, so in the Qin country, the day of the barn rat is afraid that it is worse than the rat in the toilet.

After finishing the old story, Li You finally got to the point and began to ask Cai Cheng about the movements of the Chu army.

"I heard that they have all been evacuated to Xiangcheng."

Cai Cheng already knew everything, and complained: "It is said that Shangzhu Country is in Xiangcheng, I wanted to go, but I was afraid that Shangzhu Country would blame me for abandoning the city." ”

The "Shangzhu State" in his mouth is Xiang Yan, the highest military governor of the Chu State, and his official position is second only to Ling Yin.

Heifu listened to this critical military situation, and secretly bowed his head, it seems that he did not guess wrong, the reason why the Chu army gave up the border towns such as Dunxian is probably because they don't want to be broken by the Qin army because of the division of troops to defend the land, but plan to concentrate together, so that the Qin army will not take advantage of the strength of the troops when they fight from a distance.

"Do you know how many Chu soldiers there are in Xiangcheng?" Li You asked again.

Cai Cheng thought for a while, stretched out his two hands, and said, "I also heard from the military officials who went to deliver food, they said that Shangzhu Country is in Xiangcheng and has gathered 100,000 troops!" ”