The soldiers escorted over the hundreds of people who were fighting for Xiang Yan's body, and knelt in front of Wang Qian's chariot one by one!

"Mariss-marised."

Wang Jian wore a hood on his head, and the bronze emitted a dim light under the torch, casting shadows that obscured his eyes that stared at these people.

But seeing that his face sank like water, he said coldly: "What is the crime of drawing a sword to fight each other in wartime?" ”

The military judge immediately responded: "The chief of the court, it is the same crime as fighting for the head and fighting privately!" ”

"Behead the leading military officer, and the rest of the people will be punished with thirty lashes, and they will be knighted!"

"General Wang, we have made a great charge!"

The hundreds of generals and tun chiefs straightened up and shouted wronged, and some even ripped off their armor, and under the light of the fire, Heifu also stood on tiptoe in the crowd and found that the man's back was full of blade wounds.

"I have followed General Wang for many years!" He shouted, "I have shed blood in the Valley!" ”

"I remember you." Wang Jian said lightly: "However, merit is merit, and merit is faulty, meritorious service will be rewarded, and meritorious service will be punished!" ”

At this time, it was useless to shout anything, the military law of the Qin State punished him heavily, and the merit could not be overcome, with the order of the military lawyer, including this person, more than a dozen military officials were pressed to the ground, and Wang Qian's short guards raised the blades that had never had a chance to stain blood, and cut off their heads one by one!

Wang Jian asked the heralds to hold a rank, ride horses to the various departments within a radius of more than ten miles, and ordered the soldiers not to fight privately, otherwise this will be the end.

After this was done, he ordered someone to transport Xiang Yan's body over.

In the battle for Fang Cai, Xiang Yan was almost divided, and it was easy for everyone to put their hands, feet and bodies back together and send them to Wang Qian.

Wang Jian got out of the car and walked over to look at it in person, with a solemn expression.

He and Xiang Yan only had a brief meeting, that was thirty years ago, Xiang Yan escorted Chun Shenjun to Xianyang to attend the funeral of King Qin Zhao, Wang Jian happened to be the palace guard Lang Lang.

In the Xianyang Palace, which is full of black and white and a mourning solemnity, two young military captains stand outside the hall on the left and on the right, talking about military affairs in a low voice, they talk about military affairs in a low voice, they talk about the night until dawn, they have a sense of seeing each other and hating each other, and when they say goodbye, they faintly feel that the other party will become their enemies in the future.

After that, they never saw each other again, but kept hearing about each other's brilliant achievements, who expected that when they met again, it would be like this.

is not only the bloody and miserable corpse that was dismembered after death, but from these messy corpses, Wang Jian also smelled death and ruin.

"No matter how heroic he was in his lifetime, he was powerful, and commanding hundreds of thousands of troops was like an arm, but in the end he was just a pile of rotten meat."

Wang Jian felt a sense of sadness in his heart, but when he heard that the head was still not found, he cautiously asked, "Is this really Xiang Yan?" Did you really see him kill himself? “

The military officials all said that they saw the Chu army crying for a while, and when they came close, the Chu people resisted desperately, trying to prevent them from approaching the headless body......

Wang Jian was silent, the current situation was a little troublesome, almost all of Xiang Yan's personal guards were killed in battle, and no one saw Xiang Yan commit suicide with his own eyes, or thought he was dead, or thought he was dead.

Although the military judge who had made the history of the order swore that the age of this corpse was almost exactly the same as Xiang Yan, but without seeing the head, the identity could not be fully confirmed.

"Cross-dressing and running away, this is not Xiang Yan's style."

Wang Jian finally made a judgment and asked the whole army to inform the whole army that Xiang Yan had committed suicide, but secretly, he decided to let the troops sent abroad to pursue the enemy army and continue to track down Xiang Yan's whereabouts......

Fortunately, he also seized Xiang Yan's handsome banner, which can prove the matter.

"Where is Li You, the governor of Nanjun, and the captain Heifu?"

Heifu was excited, and immediately followed behind Li You and stepped forward to present the flag......

Xiang Yan's handsome flag is not silk, but decorated with bright feathers, the flagpole is as thick as a calf, three feet long, and the flag can cover a chariot.

Listening to Dongmen Leopard, when they came to the front, everyone just rushed to grab Xiang Yan's body, and they also fought, and the scene was very chaotic. Seeing that he couldn't squeeze in, he was impatient, but he saw the big flag planted in the car, which made people cut it down and carry it out.

Wang Jian said with a smile: "Captain Li, you ordered your subordinates to rush to the aid of lightly and won the handsome banner of Xiang Yan, which is also your command and dispatch!" ”

"Heifu, you are the first batch of reinforcements to arrive, first make a big banner, mess up the hearts of the Chu people, and then break the Chu rear army several times in a row, and seize the Xiangyan army flag, this is not a small achievement."

"Whoever overcomes the banner shall be judged by the lord of his gain, and shall be rewarded with a clear heart of persuasion. The merits of you and the others, General Ben asked the military judge to write it down! ”

In addition, Wang Jian also commended the performance of the various armies today, luring the enemy, holding on, assaulting, and deceiving defeat, all of which have merits, even Mengwu, who has just defeated Jing's soldiers and is still more than ten miles away, Wang Jian will not forget his merits.

The victory of the Qin army and the defeat of the Chu army in this battle was a battle that everyone was happy about, but Wang Jian changed his voice and said solemnly: "Tens of thousands of people in the Chu army were annihilated or captured, but many of them still scattered and fled. Defeat them all! ”

Wang Jian is already preparing to attack Shouchun and take the cities of Chu State, as long as these resistance forces are cleared, it will be easy to destroy Chu!

Li You's Nanjun Corps was ordered to pursue to the north, and seeing that his men were not suffering heavy casualties, Heifu told Liham to stay and clean up the battlefield with some of his more tired men, while he himself followed Li You with 500 men.

"Captain."

After leaving Wang Qian's command post, Heifu asked in a low voice: "I don't know what reward I can get for my achievements today?" ”

Because Heifu's performance was excellent, which was equivalent to getting a "collective merit" for the Nanjun soldiers, Li You was very happy, and he had regarded Heifu as his own lucky general, and he helped him excel in the defeated army last time, and this time he made a big contribution without doing anything.

So Li You smiled and said:

"The merit of capturing the flag is second only to the beheading of generals. The 1,500 people you bring, the first-class military officers and soldiers, and the Dongmen Leopard who captured the flag, can be awarded the second-class knighthood, and as for you, the lord of the public ride is already in the bag! If there is a slight performance before Chu is extinguished, the five doctors can also be expected! ”

……

From this night until the next day, more than 100,000 Qin soldiers were divided into twenty or thirty divisions and began to disperse from the battlefield, chasing and killing the defeated soldiers of the Chu State.

As far as Heifu knew, there were two larger defeated armies: Zuo Sima Zhaohua gathered 20,000 men and fled into Qicheng, where he resisted stubbornly, and Wang Jian had personally commanded the main force of the Qin army to besiege the city.

In addition, the Jing clan soldiers who were sent by Xiang Yan to stop Mengwu that day, Jing Rui was beheaded by Mengwu, and Jing Ju fled east with thousands of people, possibly going to Xiapi.

In addition to these two branches, the rest of the Chu army, those who scattered in a hurry did not count, most of them lost their formation, more than 1,000 people, less than dozens of people, without Xiang Yan, they lost the backbone of unity, and they were also lost by the Qin army.

Some fled to the nearby cities of Chu, such as those who looked at the day and Zhou, and fled into the mountains and forests with some of them, and the Qin army did not bother to chase them.

But Heifu's good luck seems to have been exhausted in the capture of the flag, and after scattering, he pursued north, but did not catch any big fish, only cut the heads of more than 100 Chu people, and in the evening of the next day, he encountered a sudden heavy rain......

The wind was fierce, the lightning pierced the hazy sky, the rain poured down, and the ground suddenly became a Zeguo, and they could only stop pursuing a group of more than 100 Chu people, and when they were looking for a place to shelter from the rain, they found that there was a small town in front of them that was not even marked on the map......

"This map is too sloppy, only drawn to the county level, some roads are wrong, this Xiaoyi is not marked, fortunately the war has ended."

Mu didn't carry the flag anymore, but held the umbrella "curtain" for Heifu, and Heifu also asked Ji Ying to put away the map, so that everyone could speed up their pace and occupy this small town to avoid the rain.

"If there is a rout of the Chu army inside, there are just some more heads."

However, after entering this small town with only more than 100 households and a wall no more than one zhang high, they found that not to mention the Chu army here, there was not even half a figure here......

When the Hefu and the others drove into the largest house here to hide from the rain, they found that the people here had evacuated in such a hurry that they had not even had time to collect their clothes that were drying outside.

After a while, Dongmen Leopard, who was ordered to look for people in the city, caught a limp fifty old man, the old man was wearing brown clothes, it can be seen that he is very poor, and he is still holding a young girl, about three or four years old, she is very afraid of the fierce Qin army, hiding in the arms of the old man and sobbing non-stop.

"Uncle, let me ask you."

Hefu told the people not to frighten them, and kindly asked, "Where have all the people in this town gone?" ”

The old man of Chu never thought that the black-faced Qin official in front of him actually popped out of the mouth of the authentic Jing Chu words, and he was stunned for a while, and only after half a sound did he say: "I heard that there was a big battle on the other side of Qinan, and the lord of Yi was afraid that it would be affected, so he fled to Zeli with the people of Yizhong......"

The swamp he was talking about was the swamp located in the north of Qi, the mountain forest swamp, which was usually a natural shelter for the people to avoid war, after all, the division was located, thorns were grown, and the army drove through, in order to eat the enemy, every grain would be scavenged, no different from the locust transit.

"Why don't you go and hide?" Heifu continued.

"The old man's legs and feet are inconvenient, and he can't go far, and he still has his daughter and grandchildren to take care of." His leg was indeed limping, presumably injured.

"Yesterday and today, did any Chu soldiers flee here?"

The old man hugged his little granddaughter, as if he wanted to hide her as much as he could, and bowed his head and said, "There is no ......."

"Chief, look what I found!"

While talking, Ji Ying ran over excitedly, they also found a few bloody armor clothes hidden in the grass in this old man's house, there is no doubt that this is Chu Jia! Obviously, the old man lied, not only did the rout enter the small city, but he also contained and rescued him!

"How can this be explained?"

The old man's face was like ashes, and he muttered: "Those are the children of Benyi, and they fled back to this place after being defeated, and I can't just watch them, so I let them throw down their armor and go into the Zezhong......"

At this time, Heifu found that the old man's eyes, from beginning to end, had been glancing up at the terrifying head hanging on Qin Shu's waist.

"This is your daughter and grandson, where is your son?"

The old man hugged his granddaughter tightly, trembling in a low voice, but suppressed a trace of anger: "It's a long way out!" ”

"Oh, didn't you also join Xiang Yan's army and fight against the Qin army!?"

As soon as Heifu finished saying this, the Qin soldiers showed a fierce face and drew their swords, which frightened the little girl into crying!

"My son is indeed in the Chu army, but his companion came back and said that he was trapped in the army, and eighty percent of them were dead."

The old man knelt on the ground in some despair, and said again and again: "I listen to you and others, and I am also a Jing person!" I hope to be pitiful, if you want to kill, you will kill me, bypass my daughter and grandson, let her stay in this city, and wait for her mother to return, she is afraid of being captured and insulted by the Qin army, and she also followed everyone to Zezhong ......"

It's just an ordinary Chu people's household, his son was conscripted into the army and died in the war, and only the lame old man was left alone in the family.

In this war, the state of Chu used one-tenth of its population, although most of the people stayed in various places when Xiang Yan evacuated, or fled in advance, but the dead and wounded were no less than 100,000, so in the state of Chu, there are still many such families.

The survivors steal life, and the dead are gone! There was no one in the room, but the grandchildren were ......

And they, unfortunately, play the image of the aggressor.

"From now on, you will also be Qin people and Qin people."

After being silent for a long time, Heifu said this sentence, and made a gesture of hands, and asked his subordinates to put away their blades: "That's it, lock these grandfathers and grandchildren in the house, and release them when we leave." ”

It was night, the rain had been falling, and it was late at night, and the voices of the Qin soldiers gradually disappeared, only faintly audible, and in the room where the grandfather and grandson were locked, there was a faint and intermittent crying, I don't know if it was the son or father who was crying, or what was crying?

The next day, when the weather cleared, Heifu and his men left the small town, preparing to return to the army with more than 100 heads.

Before leaving, he re-unfolded the very inaccurate map in his carriage, marked the path he passed yesterday, and this inconspicuous little town, and wrote the name asked from the mouth of the old man of the Chu people in small letters next to it:

"Daze Township!"

Only thirty or forty miles away from Qinan, where the Chu army was destroyed and Xiang Yan died in battle, is Daze Township!

This is where it all ends and where it all begins.

Historically, the fire of Chu was extinguished here, but the spark in the ashes was still rekindled here?

Heifu turned his head and looked at Daze Township, which was gradually moving away, and at the grandfather and grandson who watched them leave from a distance after coming out, and he didn't know whether it was fear or hatred in his eyes.

He seemed to see that a ghost, a ghost called the hatred of the country and the family, had been wandering in the land of Jingchu and would not disperse for a long time!