Standing on the east bank of Luoshui, Yang Xi could see the mighty Qin army lined up on the west bank, like a piece of square tofu - this is also a new thing from Jiaodong, each unit followed their respective captains, crossed several pontoon bridges in batches, and lined up on the east bank to prevent the six countries from counterattacking.

Yang Xi and the others were at the forefront of the entire army, scattered within a radius of 100 miles, scouting for any disturbances.

A cavalry commander carrying a military order, came on horseback, and bowed to Yang Xi and said:

"Yang led the commander, the army of the prince and the marquis has crossed, and the lieutenants Li and Luo have ordered us to go to the direction of Pusaka to investigate the enemy's situation!"

Yang Xi bowed his head and blew a copper whistle, gathering his subordinates who were cruising around him.

"To the east, to Kasaka."

Four hooves running, horses swelling, Yang Xi was at the end—this was the usual practice of cavalry marching, and when it came time to fight, he had to change to the front.

Yang Xi was promoted, he was originally just a "cavalry commander" in charge of five people, but now because of his exploits in Lantian who took the lead in surrendering to Cheng and caused the collapse of Wang Li's army, he was promoted two levels in a row and became the "cavalry rate" who commanded 100 cavalry.

In the past half a month, Lantian's late Qin soldiers accepted the reorganization of the Northern Expeditionary Army, as early as Yang Xigang's surrender to the past, Ji Ying, the captain of the Protector Army, told him about the policy of the Northern Expeditionary Army:

"You abandon the darkness and turn to the light, and the Marquis of Wuzhong orders us to welcome us wholeheartedly, and in the future, whether it is the old Qin people or the new Qin people, they are all one family. Marquis Wu Zhong's treatment of the soldiers who surrendered to Cheng is no different from the old department of Nanjun, as long as you and the others do their best to serve, they will naturally have a bright future and prosperity is promising! ”

Seeing that Yang Xi was still relatively restrained at that time, Ji Ying even comforted him and said: "Don't worry too much, although you are young, but your father also swept the six kingdoms for the first emperor, and the marquis of Wuzhong is a robe that is not acquainted, and he will still fight side by side in the future, with the same hatred!" ”

So in those days, Yang Xi and others listened to the military judges of the Northern Expeditionary Army give lectures in elegant dialects full of southern accents every day, so that they could "remember the bitterness and sweetness" - remember the bitterness of Huhai's government, think about the political clarity of the past, and the sweetness of Daqin's victory in a hundred battles under the banner of the first emperor.

Emphasized to them over and over again that the reason why there was this civil war and the reason why people in the world suffered was the fault of Hu Hai and Zhao Gao.

A few days later, the news came that Xianyang went down without a fight, Hu Hai died, and Marquis Wuzhong completed the Jingjing, became the regent of Great Qin, and announced a series of policies such as amnesty and rent reduction.

However, at that time, more than 500 officials were isolated separately, and rumors spread in the army, as if the Northern Expeditionary Army wanted to separate the officers and soldiers, which made Yang Xi and others more worried: Most of the Northern Expeditionary officers had a very strong southern accent, and it was difficult to communicate with the people in Guanzhong, and it would take a long time to even listen to a military order in the future, not to mention others.

But in the end, Heifu only left the replacement of Li Liang and other generals idle, and the rank of lieutenant was still maintained, which made the soldiers not know the soldiers and soldiers, and after a little adaptation, they were pulled to Lishan in batches to take care of the 170,000 prisoners.

Yang Xi and other cavalry were gathered to make up for the lack of chariots and cavalry of the Northern Expeditionary Army, and they were concentrated in Weibei, when everyone had a lot of slander and wanted to go home, or Wu Zhonghou specially sent a group of military judges to describe the crimes committed by the group of thieves led by the nobles of the Six Kingdoms in Xihe, and to preach that they were going to "fight for what!" “

"Save my captives, restore the land of my West River, and return me to the peace of Qinchuan. Not only for the hatred of Gongzi Princess Xue being humiliated, but also for the people of Xihe, to avenge the killing! ”

Every point is in the itch of the old Qin people, such as Yang Xi, his hometown is in Ningqin County, just on the edge of the West River, if he does not repel the bandits of the six countries, the next person to suffer, isn't it the mother and brothers of the family, and the neighbors?

Let's fight......

In this way, Yang Xi supervised a hundred cavalry to march eastward, and within a radius of more than 100 miles, there were more than ten cavalry teams performing tasks similar to theirs.

Their first stop, called Shangyuan, also called Shangyan, there are more than 10,000 hectares of brine land here, and the riverbank is good to collapse, it should be a poor place, but because there is a spring under the plain, the water tastes salty and bitter, and the sheep drink it, fat and meaty. It has made Shangyan a good place for animal husbandry.

"Bitter spring sheep, Luo water slurry, have you heard of it?"

According to the boast of a local cavalry commander, a spoonful of fatty mutton soup, soaked in the roasted film that has prevailed in Guanzhong for nearly ten years, the taste is really better than the immortals, and the local mutton is even directly served to the imperial food of Xianyang Palace for His Majesty the Emperor to eat, and the locals are quite proud......

But now the regent Wuzhong Marquis may not be able to eat Shangyan's sheep for the time being.

But when Yang Xi and the others arrived at Shangyan, they found that this place was no longer rich and peaceful as it used to be, and the blood soaked the bridgehead of the city, spread along the lines of the stones, merged into the ditch, and flowed to the well, where the stench was bursting.

Yang Xi looked inside, but saw that the forty-foot-deep well was filled with dense corpses, and even naked women, which were disturbing, and mosquitoes and flies flew around for a while, as if setting off a sandstorm.

Although he was accustomed to seeing the blood flow of swords, and could even face the robe that exposed his white bones without changing his face, at this moment, Yang Xi almost wanted to gag.

According to the Shangyan people who fled to the nearby mountains, before the arrival of the bandits of the Six Kingdoms, the townsman did his best to withdraw most of the Qianshou, while the old man himself put on armor that had not been worn for many years, held the head of the bridge, blocked the advance of the bandits, and finally died in battle, and the heads of him and the villagers were inserted in the stakes at the head of the bridge.

Yang Xi asked people to take off the head on the bridge and bury it properly, and then knocked down the wall and filled the well.

As for the local sheep, they had already been eaten by the hungry thieves of the Six Kingdoms, and only a pile of woolen sheep bones was scattered in their camp.

The local cavalry commander could not find his family, wife and children, and he did not know whether he had escaped or died, and he lay in front of the house destroyed by the fire for a long time, and Yang Xi went over and patted him.

"We will expel the bandits!"

They left Shangyan and continued to gallop eastward, and along the way they saw many li lu burning fires, which were released by the bandits of the Six Kingdoms as they retreated.

Some of the local leaders who fled into the mountains, forests and rivers have returned, and they can only watch helplessly with tears in their eyes, and their homes burn and their houses turn into a sea of fire.

A thin young man watched this scene blankly, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, knelt on one knee on the side of the road, and asked the passing Qin army to take him away, he wanted to catch up with the group of thieves and avenge the dead family.

But Yang Xi refused, and asked the young man to wait for the army of Wuzhong Hou, and learned the words of Captain Ji Yingdu: "The Northern Expeditionary Army needs every young man who can pick up a spear and carry a shield. ”

After more than ten miles forward, a fertile farmland appeared in front of me, with a breeze blowing and wheat waves.

A group of chariots and horsemen, numbered as them, also appeared in front of them, chopping down a bridge over a small ravine, setting fire to the yellow, orange and orange corn on the side of the road, in order to slow down the pursuit of the large Qin army and destroy the grain of the West River.

"It's the scout of the Six Nations bandits!"

Everyone's eyes lit up, and after a long pursuit, they finally caught the enemy's tail, and the enemy's large army was afraid that it was not far from here.

The bandits of the Six Nations on the opposite side also discovered Yang Xi and the others, and immediately regrouped and began to line up - it was a wise choice to evacuate immediately, but in the past six months, every battle has been won, and the Chu army has drifted a little.

"Draw the blade!"

Yang Xi loudly ordered the five cavalry to turn around and report the situation to the cavalry captain, while he took the rest of the men to form a formation.

They also had no room to retreat, the great armies fought with the great armies, and the scouts also clashed with the scouts.

Half a month ago, Yang Xi, as the scout commander of Wang Li's army, had encountered a group of scouts of the Northern Expeditionary Army, but at that time, he had no fighting spirit, but instead wrapped the surrender book in a stone and threw it over.

At that time, he lost the courage to shine the sword.

I remember that just after surrendering, the military judge of the Northern Expeditionary Army once asked the soldiers a word.

"You were summoned from Hu Hai to be the enemy of the Northern Expeditionary Army, have you ever thought about why you are fighting?"

At that time, Yang Xi couldn't answer.

His ancestors, who knew what they were fighting for:

In order to respond to the call of the monarch's father, to repay the shame of Xihe for a hundred years, and to make the princes no longer humble Qin, this is the backbone of the old Qin people!

His father, too, knew what he was fighting for:

For the dream of the First Emperor, fight for military merit!

However, their generation, growing up after unification, could not even cope with the rent of the conscription, and there was no profit at all when they served, and people gradually lost the fighting spirit of their ancestors.

Just because of the government's conscription order and the harsh punishment for desertion, he was forced to leave his home and set foot on the battlefield.

And now?

Why did they, who had lost their fighting spirit and lost their weapons, pick up their blades again and stand under this banner?

"Do you know where this is?"

Yang Xi gritted his teeth and stared at the bandits of the Six Kingdoms who were showing off their might in the distance.

"This is the land of my generation!"

This is the endless Qinchuan of loess, this is their home!

Who gave you the courage to do anything wrong?

What are we fighting for? That question haunted Yang Xi's heart again.

"Not for the glory of kings."

"It's not the law of the government."

Not even for military feats and ethereal glory.

The Qin people fought for themselves.

The Qin people fought for their homeland!

Yang Xi showed his sword!

It may have been rusty and difficult to unsheath.

But today it shines brightly, still shining in the sun!

The courage that was once lost is back!

With Yang Xi, the Qin cavalry unsheathed their swords, and more than 100 cavalry came out of the prancing horse, rushed towards the enemy, and shouted their new slogan!

"Defend the family and the country!"

"Defend the family and the country!"

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PS: Rushed out before the last one sailed, a little rushed, there are typos remember to leave a message.