"Shang Cai has a story."

Looking at the Qin soldiers who climbed to the top of Ruyin City one after another and cheered for victory, Li You smiled and said to Heifu: "It is said that there is a Chu man who sells shields and spears in the Shangcai market, and praises and says, 'My shield is strong, and things can't be trapped.'" He also praised his spear and said, 'The benefit of my spear is not lost in all things.' Others may ask, 'What is it like to trap the shield of the son with the spear of the son?' This man is able to respond. ”

"Han Fei once said that the shield that cannot be trapped, and the spear that cannot be trapped, cannot stand together in the world! I used to wonder what would happen if the siege equipment made by Qin Mo met the city defense technique of Southern Mo and attacked the shield of the other with his spear? ”

"Now it seems that the ink attack is still better!"

Although the crossbow carts and other equipment arranged by Nanfang Zhimo at the head of the city caused a lot of trouble for the Qin army, Qin Mo Chengshang also worked with the military secretary Kong Zhanghan to let the craftsmen rush to make ladders, attack vehicles and other equipment, and knew how to defend the city, so after Li You led 30,000 people to besiege for two days, Ruyin finally fell.

Heifu flattered Li Youdao: "No matter how good the tool is, it depends on the person used, Du Wei, as a spear-wielding man, has sufficient strength, and the order is decisive, with 20,000 troops reinforced by General Meng, surround three and lack one, and drain his morale, so as to break the weak shield-bearer." ”

Li You was a little proud, and ordered in the attitude of a victor: "Bring out the detained Xiang Lige, let him see this scene!" ”

……

After the fire caused by the smoke was extinguished, the Qin army began to force the still alive to clean up the city, and the corpses of the Qin soldiers were carried out of the city, and under the identification of Xiang Lige, the three ink men were also found.

One is old, one strong and one is thin, and the three of them have been carried to the straw mat at this moment, their bodies are mutilated, but their faces are very peaceful.

"Didn't you say there were thirty ink masters?"

Heifu looked at Xiang Lige, after this person was intercepted by him, even though he was coerced and tempted, and even used torture as a threat, he did not confide in half a word about the defense in the city, he was a man. After the battle was over, he was also released, and stumbled into Ruyin City, which had just ended a brutal offensive and defensive battle, looking for the body of the division commander.

At this moment, he turned his head and said with red eyes: "There are a total of four people in Southern Mo, three dead and one alive, all here!" ”

"I see......"

Heifu understood, it turned out that the fire of the southern ink was already as weak as a bean, but they didn't have the idea of preserving their strength to wait for the world to change, or they paid for their lives in this city, should they laugh at its pedantry and lack of flexibility, or should they admire its righteousness?

Heifu was very lucky, he was not named by Li You to attack the city in the past two days, but was responsible for covering the first troops, and he had been watching the city, so he had some impressions of these three people.

This old man, who calmly commanded the soldiers and civilians in the city to defend against the enemy, finally died in the rubble of the collapsed corner tower hit by a catapult.

The strong man, armed with a huge spear, swept down the city first, and said that this man was a fool with a bad brain.

And the thin man with rotten teeth also operated the equipment and crossbow car, causing a lot of casualties to the Qin army, Xiang Lige said, this is an ordinary craftsman, he has only joined the ink master for two years, and his body is full of blade wounds.

"Sakuya said that he had been mediocre all his life, and he joined the ink man to be a hero for a short moment."

Xiang Lige bowed to the three of them, tears sliding down his cheeks.

"He did it, the ink of the south, and he died as he deserved!"

His hero, my enemy, during the battle, Heifu hated these three people who had caused a lot of casualties to the Qin army, and he let Xiao Tao shoot a fierce shot with a crossbowman, so that he died under the random arrows.

But after the battle, in the face of their corpses, there was not much hatred, and Li You also ordered, saying that the heads of the three ink masters would not be counted in the beheading, and that they would be left with a whole corpse.

Xiang Lige found a manpower chariot abandoned by the defenders under the city wall, and carried the bodies of the three division commanders one by one, but he couldn't drag the huge body alive, and finally Qin Mo Chengshang came to help, and Heifu also asked his subordinates to help them.

"No thanks."

Xiang Lige looked at Heifu and Qin Mo Chengshang on the side, his emotions were very complicated.

"It's nature." Heifu smiled: "If the Qin army kills your division commander, you will naturally hate us." ”

Xiang Lige shook his head: "I won't resent it, the master once said to me that the ink only has duty and morality. The city guard, whose duties have been completed, resigned and returned, without receiving any benefit; The city is broken, the morality is exhausted, and there is no need to resist too much. For the ink man, under the war, you attack and defend, victory or defeat without complaint, the previous opponent, after the encounter, when you meet a passerby. ”

"Now, Heifu is the leader, Cheng Shang, you are equal to me, and you are a passerby."

After speaking, he pulled a heavy manpower chariot and went against the Qin army that was pouring into Ruyin to occupy the city, and headed out of the city.

Li You wanted to let him go as a victor, and it could also show the "leniency" of the Qin army, so he stood on the chariot at this moment and looked at Xiang Lige with some smugness at the city gate.

Xiang Lige stopped, but he still didn't have half a word of gratitude for the grace of not killing, he stubbornly raised his head, but he was more concerned about his own life: "The general's hometown is also Huaibei Shangcai, and Ruyin is also a neighbor, and I heard that the military law of the Qin State is strict, at least, he will not let the soldiers go and burn and loot the local Chu people, right?" ”

Li You said with a straight face: "As far as Qin Jun is concerned, those who follow will live, and those who go against will die!" Anyone who resists can be killed, Xiang Lizi was detained in the camp by my commander, and did not kill or injure a single Qin soldier, so I spared you from dying, if you swear that you will no longer stubbornly resist the Qin army, I will let you leave! ”

"It depends on it, there are still no weak people who ask me for help."

Xiang Lige smiled: "Although I am the only one who has the ink of the south, I have the righteousness of the ink man, if the commander wants to kill, kill me!" ”

"Foolish."

Death can not scare Xiang Lige, maybe he would prefer to be martyred here with the division commander, Li You felt a little bored, and after scolding, he competed and asked Heifu to lead someone to blast this guy out!

Out of Ruyin, passing through the dense corpses of the Qin and Chu armies under the city, the chariot was blocked by the corpses from time to time, so Xiang Lige walked very slowly, and Qin Mo Chengshang was ashamed of doing something wrong, helping him push the car in the back.

It wasn't until the place where the siege equipment of the Qin army stopped that Xiang Lige finally stopped and sighed to Cheng Shang:

"Cheng Jun told me the day before yesterday that Qin Mo wanted to let all voices come out of one mouth, so as to eliminate the war and finally realize the righteousness of the world."

This method may seem simple, but it does a lot of harm. Zi Mozi also said that if the princes do not love each other, they will fight in the field; If the head of the family does not love each other, he will usurp each other; If people do not love each other, they will be thieves; If the monarch and the minister do not love each other, they will not be loyal; If father and son do not love each other, they will not be filial piety: if brothers do not love each other, they will not be harmonious, and no one in the world will love each other, the strong will cling to the weak, the many will rob the widow, the rich will insult the poor, the noble will be cheap, and the deceit will deceive the foolish. After a few days of misfortune and resentment, the cause of which is not to love each other. ”

He pointed to the mountains of corpses piled up under the city and said: "In this way, it is absolutely impossible for the Chu people and the Qin people to fall in love with each other, but to enmity each other!" Moreover, blindly relying on power and relying on the king of Qin will not get the same in the world. ”

"The King of Qin is greedy for the name of victory, no year is not levied, I have heard, once he succeeds, he will destroy the enemy, write and paint the princes' pavilions, and build a palace in Guanzhong. Even if it doesn't cause much damage to the livelihood of the Qin people now, it is still relying on the plundering of the Six Kingdoms to compensate, if the Six Kingdoms are wiped out, but the King of Qin is greedy and continues to fight abroad, what will happen? If you want to prepare for war, you must squeeze more money to recruit troops and horses, and prepare weapons, I dare to say today, the king of Qin will be generous to the people, and rob the people of food and clothing, take the people's use, and abolish the people's profits, the people will not be hungry for food, cold and clothing, and labor will not rest. ”

Cheng Shang was quick to say and quick to act, and at this moment he could only say with a gloomy face: "No, Qin Mo will advise the king, rest with the people, and eliminate the ......military disaster."

Having said that, in fact, this is also what Qin Mo is most worried about, this King of Qin, the ambition is the most ambitious in the Sixth Dynasty, and the resoluteness of his ideas is really rare, and it is definitely not something they can control.

"Well, it's come to this, and it's useless to talk about it."

Xiang Lige sighed: "Perhaps, in the end, you and I, the ink masters, are just tools, the Chu people use us as shields, and the Qin people use you as spears, and the contradictions attack each other, and the two phases are damaged." ”

He looked back at Ruyin City for the last time, full of sadness: "The morality of the ink artist may be going to pass away with the wind in this city!" Cheng Jun, cherish it! I also hope that this world is really as you said, unified after Qin, and there will be no more disasters from now on, and I also hope that our ink writers will no longer be useful! ”

……

Xiang Lige tried his best, pulled the manpower and slowly left, when he came, there were four people, only he survived the battle, and the sunset pulled his back long, looking extremely lonely and lonely.

Heifu also walked to Cheng Shang, who had been silent for a long time.

"Do you think what Xiang Lige said makes sense?"

Cheng Shang was excited: "It's just his speculation." ”

However, Cheng Shang also thought that Xiang Lige's last sentence was right, the original intention of the Mo family was to prevent the war, but now, it has been repeatedly used, playing the role of spear and shield in the war, unconsciously, their skills seem to exist for war, if the real war is eliminated, the Mo may really be useless.

The ink of the south, the social aspect on which they stand is too narrow to accommodate.

And Qin Mo, the political system attached to the Qin State, once it loses its use value, it will also be abandoned at any time.

The Mo family, for the past two hundred years, has been a well-known legend, but now, it may really fall like a superstar, and there is no way to continue.

Hefu sighed in his heart that his idealism seemed to have been disillusioned after this incident, and what he said under pessimism was unfortunately true.

Unification did not end the war, and after the fall of the Six Kingdoms, the seeds of hatred were planted and grew rapidly, and new turmoil would still follow.

But this is the historical process of the painful childbirth of the Great Unification Empire, and the only one who can slightly alleviate the pain of this process may be himself?

"Don't say anything early and say anything about the frustration of the fire, although the ink of the south is extinct, isn't there still Qin Mo waiting for you?"

As soon as he thought of this, Hei Fulu patted Cheng Shangdao, who was in a daze: "With all due respect, in addition to war, the ink artist is also useful in other places!" For example, if you and other craftsmen turn their skills in making offensive and defensive equipment to build sharp weapons for drawing water and rice? ”

"What does it mean to be long."

Heifu smiled: "Nanjun Shui, the ink person may know a thing or two!" ”

……

In early March, the southern army broke through Ruyin, Meng Wu then left 10,000 people in Ruyin, 10,000 people went south to threaten Huaishui, and personally led Li You and other six captains to cross Yingshui, broke the 10,000 people arranged here by the Chu State, and began to implement Wang Qian's established outflanking plan.

Xiang Yan also sensed the danger and was still leading the Chu army to fight and retreat, but when they arrived to the east of the city father, they found that the 60,000 troops of Mengwu had appeared behind their flank!

On top of the chariot, the scouts of the Nanjun soldiers, who were the vanguard of the Southern Army, reported that they had contacted General Wang Jian in the west, and that the 100,000 Chu troops had been oppressed by the Central and Southern armies in front of a low-lying swamp, and they had to camp in array.

"Where is this?"

Heifu asked Ji Yingdao, who was in charge of mastering the map.

"Jinan!"

Ji Ying spread out the map and replied: "This place is forty miles away from Qicheng, and it is called Jinan!" ”