On 25 April, the 20,000 soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army who had arrived in Jiangling were gathered in the open ground between Jiangling and Yingxian, and Marquis Wu Zhonghou inspected their procession at the Jiangling Castle Tower, announcing that he had occupied all of Nanjun except Yan County, that even Anlu County had been recovered, and that Hengshan County was also under the control of the Southern Expeditionary Army.

"Wansheng!"

"The Southern Expeditionary Army is victorious!"

The soldiers were heartily happy, and Hefu pressed down with his hands to silence the people, and then let them each speak his wish.

First hundreds, then thousands, tens of thousands, many voices gathered together, and the low-level soldiers shouted their wishes to their commanders:

"Prince, we want to go home!"

Han Xin, Qu Ji and other military officials looked at this scene, worried, Heifu's sentence "Jingjing has not yet succeeded, and the robe still needs to work hard", which is not down-to-earth enough, but it can't touch ordinary soldiers, but they are a little helpless, except to stop it, they don't know how to deal with this situation.

I don't know what kind of magic Wu Zhonghou has?

Wu Chen muttered even more quietly: "I can't stop it, aren't the soldiers just because of the sentence 'I'll take you home' that they followed the prince and raised troops and were willingly driven by it?" ”

But Heifu just smiled and said loudly:

"I know that most of the second and third sons are Huaihan people, and you and others joined the Southern Expeditionary Army as soldiers, for four years and two years at the least."

"Ben Jiang joined the Southern Expeditionary Army late, and only served as a general for two years, but in these two years, he has lived and died with you, everyone in the Southern Expeditionary Army is my brother in Paoze, and the younger ones are sons and nephews."

Heifu looked at the banner of the three Qin subordinates with "Southern Expeditionary Army" written on the side, which was still done when he was in Lingnan, and it was a bit old.

He couldn't help but sigh: "Just like this flag, how many things have happened in the past two years." ”

"I once cut through thorns and thorns with my second and third sons, swept away Baiyue, made Yue Jun bow down, commissioned his subordinates, and expanded the land for thousands of miles."

Who has not suffered from insects and ants and the heat in Lingnan? Naturally, I remember who led them out of that green hell.

But after the death of the first emperor, the traitorous rebellious son failed the Southern Expeditionary Army, and wanted to punish his officials, let his pawn, and make Yongzhen Lu Liang. Therefore, in order to go home, the Southern Expeditionary Army had no choice but to raise troops to resist in accordance with the edict of the First Emperor. ”

"I once won the Battle of Wuchang with 3,000 short soldiers, defeated 8,000 enemies, and rescued more than 20,000 veterans of the Southern Expeditionary Army who almost died in the fire."

"I crossed Yunmeng with 5,000 warriors, and fought with the 50,000 people of Anlu County before they were about to be relocated, and defeated tens of thousands of enemy troops. In the end, he crossed the river with the people, so that the fathers and elders in his hometown were safe and sound. ”

"As for the Battle of Gangneung? You are no stranger to others, I took the Huarong Trail, and Han Duwei crossed the river in white, and in the end, everyone shouted 'Righteousness in the Southern Army', attacked from both sides, defeated Feng Wuxue, and won a big victory in the decisive battle! ”

These are all legends created by Heifu, even if you can't participate in person, you are familiar with them.

It was he who led the Southern Expeditionary Army to be invincible!

Heifu sighed: "It's not easy, robes, in two years, so many great achievements can be made, everyone in the Southern Expeditionary Army, from generals to military officials to non-commissioned soldiers, is good!" ”

These words deeply touched everyone.

But Heifu's voice changed and he said the most critical thing: "The southern expedition to Baiyue ended as early as half a year ago, and I promised to take you home, and I did it." Now that Nanjun and Hengshan have been restored, and the army is standing at the door of their homes, the soldiers from these two places want to go home to see, and this person's normal feelings are also ......"

"So, what I'm going to say today is that you can all go home!"

The 20,000 people in the city cheered, and the soldiers were shocked: the soldiers were all sent home, how would the battle be fought in the future?

However, Heifu's next sentence is even more appalling!

He waved his arms: "The general also wants to say that the Southern Expeditionary Army has also completed its mission, and it should be disbanded on the spot today, here!" ”

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"That's it...... Dissolution in place? The prince is joking! As soon as these words came out, even Yuan Yong, who was standing on the side, was dumbfounded.

Han Xin was also in a hurry, and almost stepped forward to stop him, but Xiao He stopped him and shook his head at Han Xin with a smile.

As the short guards spread this sentence throughout the three armies, the cheers stopped, and everyone was stunned.

Even the first people who were clamoring to go home were a little confused.

"Southern Expeditionary Army, gone?"

Because of Heifu's various measures, such as collecting the corpses of the dead in battle, including them in the cemetery of the faithful, engrave everyone's name on the monument, and try to meet the needs of the people, so that they can stay away from the suffering of cold and hunger.

Most importantly, the promise was fulfilled to bring them home.

This makes everyone have a high sense of identity with this army.

When they leave home, the Southern Expeditionary Army is like their home! And Shiwu Paoze is also like a brother.

Now that the Marquis of Wuzhong is benevolent and virtuous, he should have been happy to allow everyone to go home, but when he learned that there was another "home" behind him, and said that it was gone, the soldiers were a little reluctant and inevitably wailed.

Heifu took the banner of the Southern Expeditionary Army in Mu's hand, raised his head and smiled:

"A great army without soldiers, only an empty shell remains."

"A general who has no soldiers to trace back is no longer a general, but a horseman."

"Rather than that, let's disperse."

Now some people quit, and Yuan Yong took the lead and shouted loudly with the brothers from Anlu:

"General, they want to go home, but we don't come back, please don't abandon us."

"Please Marquis Wu Zhong, don't disband the Southern Expeditionary Army!"

More and more people knelt down to petition, and those who wanted to return home looked at each other, somewhat bewildered.

But everyone's persuasion was only exchanged for a loud shout from Heifu:

"I've made up my mind!"

After all, he really lowered the banner of the Southern Expeditionary Army on the flagpole in front of 20,000 people, and very carefully folded it and handed it over to the military judge.

"From today onwards, there will be no Southern Expeditionary Army in the world! Those who want to go home should disperse. ”

There was a silence, accompanied by howling and crying, tens of thousands of people couldn't help but kneel on the ground, and the soldiers who did not shed tears easily were crying like children at the moment.

Until Hauff's voice rang out again.

"Today, in addition to disbanding the Southern Expeditionary Army and letting the soldiers who want to go home go home, there is another matter."

"Before you return to your hometown to farm, and you look forward to a good life, please listen to this incident first, what has just happened to us is close at hand!"

Everyone raised their tearful faces, Heifu beckoned, and at the city tower, a young soldier wearing a sackcloth filial piety robe walked to Heifu's side, and his short soldiers also followed, all wearing filial piety clothes, and everyone was holding a tablet in their hands......

Although the Southern Expeditionary Army briefly gave filial piety to Qin Shi Huang, it ended after the capture of Jiangling.

Who is this group of people filial piety for?

Heifu pulled the young man to the city wall: "You should know him, his name is Gongwei, he is my other subordinate Sima, his father Gongao, is my old department, and now he is the county guard of Guilin." ”

"As early as more than ten years ago, Gong Ao moved to Yuzhang with his wife and children, and he himself followed me, but the Gong clan did not all migrate, and there were still more than 50 people who stayed in Yan County."

"Yan County is the only Nanjun county that we have not captured, because the Nanyang County Guard brought 5,000 people to settle there, and just yesterday, we learned a news, that is, the communist clan of Yan County, together with some local soldiers' families, was actually planted by local officials!"

There were no exclamations of surprise, the soldiers just whispered, which was something they had all expected.

Although everyone shouted "righteousness is in the Southern Army", in the imperial court, in the eyes of Xianyang, they were just plotting rebellion.

As Heifu's right-hand man, Gongao's family will definitely be implicated.

"It's not just the Gong's, it's not just Yan County."

Heifu sneered:

"Rebellion, this is the traitor who has returned to Xianyang, and everyone in the Southern Expeditionary Army is condemned!"

"Do the second and third sons know what punishment will be imposed if they follow Qin's legal order?"

The whispering stopped, and the soldiers fell silent again.

"Go and tell them!"

"No!"

The army holding the banner of the Southern Expeditionary Army in his hand was going to say loudly:

"For the crime of treason, although he himself is dead, he should still kill his corpse, and abandon the city to deter Xiaoxiao. Then, according to the criminal law, the three clans will be razed! That is, your parents, brothers, and wives! ”

At this time, the lieutenant answered loudly: "It is said that it is the three clans, but my clansmen in Yan County, they have already left the three clans, but they were still executed." ”

This matter is true, although those cousins and uncles were already estranged, and they were unwilling to go to Yuzhang with Gongao at the beginning, and they also broke up the family, but they suffered this disaster today, and Gongwei was also uncomfortable in his heart.

Go to the head of the jaw: "Yes, the law says, five families are together, ten families are not, it is not allowed to move without authorization, supervise each other, report each other, if you don't expose it, ten families will sit together." The rebels' Shiwu, their neighbors, Lidian, Rizo, and Lijianmen were to sit together and be taken into custody for interrogation. ”

"In other words, if Nanjun, like Yan County, is controlled by the cool officials of the imperial court, no one from the three clans, relatives, and neighbors of you and the others will be able to escape torture."

As the intimidation continued, the disease began to depict the horror of the punishments:

"The second and third sons have not seen executions at the market entrance in the past, right? The cool officials would tattoo your face with ink, gouge out your nose, cut off your left and right arms, whip them alive, cut off your head, and dump your fleshy corpse in the street. During the execution, if someone shouts and abuses, pull out his tongue! In this way, the people of the world can be deterred, so that they dare not follow suit, and can only obediently pay heavy rent and serve heavy labor! ”

Gao Yanli had been punished in Xianyang, and when Heifu went to Jiaodong to take up his post, his assassins were also punished in this way, the Tian Heng brothers rebelled, and the rest of the party was slaughtered.

But now, the former law enforcers have become "criminals" in the mouth of the imperial court.

Not only the people present today, but all the officers and soldiers of the Southern Expeditionary Army, who does not obey the rebellion and deserve death?

At this moment, everyone's faces were horrified.

He was also angry by the short-sightedness of the soldiers, and at this time he couldn't help but point at them and reprimand: "You think that if you leave the army and return to your hometown with the reward money given by the prince, you can farm well and enjoy it in peace?" What a delusion! ”

"I am a military official, I deal with the law every day, and I know that in the Qin law, there is no law that does not blame the public, only the sky net is restored, and negligence is not leaked! Therefore, don't be lucky, once the Southern Expeditionary Army is dispersed, in less than a year and a half, the imperial court will send a large army to counterattack back, waiting for you, it is the clan, it is the slaughter of the city, and it is the river of blood! ”

"The Southern Expeditionary Army is like a boat, now that the ship has reached the center of the river and has not yet docked, the people above are vying to jump down, but they will be the first to drown."

"Marquis Wuzhong is like a big tree, he sheltered more than 100,000 soldiers from the wind and rain, and took us to this day, but no matter how big the tree is, it is difficult to support it alone, two or three sons, why bear to abandon it? In my eyes, you are like a bunch of fugitives! ”

I couldn't help but sigh: "I really don't want you to wait, when the time comes, I can't regret watching my parents and wives being killed, and before I was cut off my head, I cried and said: 'I shouldn't have put down the spear in my hand, abandoned the Marquis of Wuzhong, and abandoned the Southern Expeditionary Army on that day, in order to covet temporary comfort!'" ’”

The tragedy of the Gongwei family was just around the corner, and most of the soldiers who were blinded by the short-lived victory and could not see the cruel truth of the future were awakened by fright.

They began to realize that once the Southern Expeditionary Army was really gone, everyone would lose their shelter, and they might not live a happy life for long.

So, many people who wanted to go home, and those who did not intend to go back, knelt down together and said to the black man:

"Marquis Wu Zhong, we were wrong."

"Please don't abandon us!"

"Please don't disband the Southern Expeditionary Army!"

"Marquis Wu Zhong! Marquis Wu Zhong! Marquis Wu Zhong! ”

For a while, there were thousands of calls, just to save Heifu's mind.

Han Xinzhong was impressed, and looked at Heifu, he just gave up the stage to two of his subordinates, one of them stood on the other side of the city wall, looking at Gangneung City, which had gradually recovered its prosperity, and didn't know what he was thinking?

When he heard the call of 20,000 people behind him in unison, he just said lightly.

"An army, the mission has been completed, it is destined to disappear, the monarchs, the Southern Expeditionary Army, is gone, and it is difficult to recover!"

After these words were spread loudly, the loss swept through everyone present, and everyone hung their heads and fell into a brief confusion.

Until Hefu was back in their sight.

"But what has disappeared is just a name! As long as the second and third sons don't abandon Heifu, the soldiers are there, and the generals will be there! Even if this name is gone, and replaced by another, the soul of this army will still be there! ”

Heifu bowed to everyone, his voice fast and firm!

"But I won't force anyone to stay, and if you want to go home, go home."

At this point, no one got up and left, they had more worries about the future, and they were also afraid of being together, and the eyes of the robe Ze who wanted to devour themselves alive ......

Heifu smiled with satisfaction: "The next words are to those who are willing to stay." ”

"The southern expedition has ended, but the war has not, we have been ordered to conquer Baiyue in the past, and we fought back to our hometown together, in two months, from Lingnan counterattack to Jianghan, repeatedly defeated strong enemies, invincible!"

"From this day forward, what we have to do has become another."

As soon as the words fell, a new banner had been erected beside Heifu, just like the "Southern Expeditionary Army" in the past, and there were also three Qin subordinates written on it......

The literate officer, looking up and trying to keep his eyes open, read out two of them......

"North ......"

"Fell?"

"Yes, we should not indulge in temporary comfort, but in order to enjoy peace in the future, we should chase after the poor! Fengtian Jingjing, the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains! ”

Heifu swept away Fang Cai's "discouragement" and became scrappy again:

"The ancients said that all teachers have bells and drums to cut down, and there is no invasion! We are righteous teachers, not rebels! This new flag should not only be inserted in Jianghan, but also in Nanyang and Wuguan, and in Xianyang City! ”

"From this moment on, the Southern Expeditionary Army has been renamed as the Northern Expeditionary Army!"

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PS: The end of the fifth volume of "Glowing Star".

You can guess the name of the next volume.