Confucius was the first to learn privately, believing that "sex is similar, and Xi is far away", and bloodline and background do not determine a person's habits, and whether he can become a talent or not is more derived from acquired education.

He adhered to the principle of teaching without class, and taught a large number of disciples from humble backgrounds, and Zixia and Zeng Shen of these disciples taught again, which made private learning flourish, and indirectly promoted the Warring States style of the Gong clan and scholars......

However, after 300 years, Shusun Tong, as a post-Confucian scholar, believed that the common people could be in a high position through education, and on the other hand, he insisted on the emperor's bloodline.

The Son of Heaven came into being, and God will bless him.

The Mandate of Heaven Xuanniao, descended and gave birth to Shang, Xuanniao fell its eggs, Jian Di swallowed it, and then there was the ancestor contract of Yin Shang.

Jiang Yuan practiced the traces of giants, and the body moved like pregnancy, lived in the period and gave birth to children, thought that it was ominous, abandoned the narrow alley, horses and cattle passed by all avoided and did not step on it, and abandoned it on the ice lake, birds fell from the sky, covered the baby with its wings, this is the ancestor of the Zhou people.

With the origin of Yin Zhou's deification as an example, the princes of later generations all beautified their ancestors, and the old nobles of the Ji family inherited the business of the Zhou in the Yan State, and the Chu State claimed to be the emperor Gaoyang and Zhurong God, needless to say.

Later Qin, Zhao, Wei, Han, and Tian Qi also respected the deeds of their ancestors, especially Tian Qi, who found the Yellow Emperor to be the ancestor above the ancestor Yu Shun, and all countries followed suit, and also extended the lineage to the Yanhuang and Shaohao eras.

All the princes have prominent backgrounds, and few ancient emperors are ancestors, and they are embarrassed to greet people......

Dragons give birth to dragons and phoenixes, and rats and sons can make holes, and the reason why I am powerful is because of the power of my ancestors - this concept is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

So Shusun Tong couldn't understand, why didn't Marquis Wu Zhonghou follow the crowd?

He was often distressed by this matter, but today he was awakened by Yang Xi and had a bold idea.

So when asked about Yang Xi's ignorance, Shusun Tong only smiled and did not answer, and said ambiguously:

"This kind of thing, except for the First Emperor and the mother of the Marquis of Wuzhong, who knows?"

And these two are no longer alive! As long as Marquis Wu Zhong's head is nodding, and he can't help his uncle and grandson to make it up, as long as the story is legendary enough, it is easy to coax an ignorant leader like Yang Xi!

Keeping this matter in mind, Shusun Tong picked up the pen again: "I just talked about the battle of Wuguan, you continue." ”

Yang Xi promised to talk about what happened in the past half a month......

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"Ten days ago, after we retreated to Yaoguan, because the matter of Wuguan was spread to be divine, it is said that it was the Marquis of Wuzhong who attracted the spirit of the first emperor, causing the mountain to shake, and the city wall of Wuguan collapsed for a mile, crushing countless people, and everyone did not dare to resist the enemy under the city."

"The Marquis of Wucheng left and let the army be stationed in Lantian ......"

"Since we returned to Lantian and stationed in Lantian, morale has dropped greatly, and there have been escapees."

Yang Xi remembered that seven or eight days ago, a group of soldiers who went to Lantian Mountain to chop firewood had not returned for a long time, Yang Xi and others were ordered to ride horses to check, but they saw that there was no one in the forest farm, and the manpower cart used to pull wood was thrown in place, and the dozens of soldiers fled together under the leadership of the tun chief......

This is a rare occurrence in the Qin army after the Shang Dynasty changed the law, because the people who served as soldiers on the front line often implicated a family behind them, one person absconded, and the whole family was connected, even if they were afraid of death, they had to weigh the price.

But now, among the Qin people, the rigid and obedient old Qin people, there has been a collective defection......

Wang Li was furious and asked the cavalry to arrest the fugitive and ask him to be dealt with by military law.

Yang Xi understood very well that the government of the second emperor was unpopular, and it was said that he also trusted traitors, killed ministers indiscriminately, and coupled with the matter of Wuguan, the northern army had no heart to fight.

"If it weren't for the fear that my mother and younger brother would be implicated, I would have run away!" He muttered.

Yang Xi was very sympathetic to those fugitives, and when passing by a haystack, he clearly found a person lurking in it, but pretended not to see it, and perfunctorily walked around a few times, returned to the camp, and reported that he had not seen anyone.

However, the next morning, as soon as the sky was bright, the barracks began to beat the drums of an emergency assembly.

The Marquis of Wucheng looked serious and indifferent, and there were several captains and Simas of the Shangjun Army standing next to him, and four thousand short soldiers stood around with fierce and murderous spirits.

It is not difficult to guess what happened next, nearly half of the soldiers who escaped yesterday were arrested, and they were all tied up with ropes, and after Wang Li announced his defection, he was executed in public!

Those who were executed together were also a few who failed to search and arrest, connived at deserters, and "praised the enemy and feared the public", led by those who secretly rumored that Marquis Wu Zhong was the son of Qin Shi Huang and had received the help of his divine power.

Those fugitives were like dung and grass mustard, and the lives that were still fresh and young just now turned into dozens of wronged souls in a moment, and they remained on the banks of the water forever.

Yang Xi was silent the whole time, for fear that he would allow a person's hidden matter to be exposed, sweat flowed down his forehead to his chin, and the tun chief asked him what was wrong, he could only look up at the sun and say......

"It's too hot."

Fortunately, the person he deliberately ignored seemed to have successfully escaped, and Yang Xi escaped smoothly.

"Master Wang Yuxing, repair my spear! Swear to be loyal to Daqin to the end! ”

Afterwards, following the Marquis of Wucheng, shouting this empty and powerless slogan, Yang Xi was completely disappointed in the imperial court.

In the eyes of the Qin people, it is indeed a shame to escape, but in the face of the southern army with divine help, it is a fool's business to meet them head-on and send them to death......

In short, after this incident, the 100,000 troops that had been reassembled everywhere in Weinan not only did not regain their strength as Wang Li expected, but were more like frost-beaten leaves-wilted.

Just when the Lantian battalion was thinking about it, the news of the surrender of the pass suddenly came from the front, and the Northern Expeditionary Army quickly arrived at Lantian Mountain, and confronted Wang Li's army across the bank according to the east side of Bashui.

Looking at the southern army barracks on the other bank, the trumpets shouted loudly, and the morale of the soldiers was high, which was completely different from that of the west bank.

Husband war, courage also, before the battle was fought, the northern army lost half first.

On June 28, Ji Ying, the commander of the guard army under the Marquis of Wu Zhong, began to launch a fierce propaganda offensive against Wang Lijun......

Tens of thousands of people gathered at the edge of the water and shouted loudly.

"Soldiers fight hard outside, traitors betray the country inside!"

Such as Zhao Gao betraying the country, chasing the prime minister, making an appointment with Chu, and wanting to destroy the Qin clan and Wang Guanzhong, Yang Xi just listened to it, and felt that it was a little ridiculous, Zhao Gao's kind of fortunate minister with a bad reputation can also be the king?

But in the next words, Yang Xi can't be indifferent......

"Zhao Chengkai is defending the east of the river, the water and land are connected, and the six countries have entered the customs!"

"Xiang Ji has led the Chu people to Hongmen, wanting to destroy Qin Sheji, slaughter Xianyang, burn the palace, send out the emperor's mausoleum, plunder treasures and goods, capture Ru and other children, and share them with Zhao Wei and the group of thieves!"

"I froze."

Yang Xi said: "My home is in Ningqin! It is very close to Hedong and Hangu Pass, and it is past Zheng County to the west, and under the play, it is Hongmen, if the Chu people really arrive there, my family will definitely suffer! ”

Qin and Chu are not separated, and ordinary Qiantou also knows about it, not to mention, the Qin people in Guanzhong have more or less heard about the Chu army's massacre of the city......

Speaking of this, Yang Xi was anxious: "Mr. Uncle Sun, is there any news from Ning Qin?" ”

Shusun Tong was indispensable to lie for Heifu: "The Chu army is just a forward outpost and rode to Hongmen, and the army is still in Hedong and Shaoliang, and the Ru family should be fine." ”

In short, in those few days, the Northern Expeditionary Army adopted two methods, one hard and one soft, and went on a military offensive, propagating Zhao Gao's betrayal of the country and leading the Chu people into the customs.

But when they asked about the situation in the officials' homes, they were all silent, and only one of the more easy-going five hundred lords secretly told them: "Something happened in Xianyang, rumors are spreading, or Zhao Gao was killed by the prime minister, or the prime minister was killed, and I don't know which is true or false." ”

On the 29th, when Ji Ying organized a group of Guanzhong Qin soldiers who surrendered at Wuguan, and preached the policy of the Northern Expeditionary Army to treat prisoners favorably and welcome surrender to Cheng, Yang Xi couldn't sit still, he summoned a few fellow villagers and said to them:

"The Marquis of Wucheng said that he would be loyal to Daqin to the end, but we have done our duty to serve and serve as soldiers."

"But now, it's time to think about it."

"The Chu people hate the Qin people deeply, it is said that every time a city is broken in the eastern part of the Guandong, the Qin officials and the Qin people are slaughtered.

"Since Wang Li is unwilling to defend against the Chu people, then we will figure out our own way!"

"What's the solution?" They asked him.

Yang Xi pointed to the camp of the Northern Expeditionary Army on the other side of the river:

"The Marquis of Wu Zhong on the opposite side is still holding the Qin flag, and the Qin people under his command are also, no matter how bad they are, they will not harm Qindi! Have you heard it? The Qin people did not fight the Qin people, stopped the civil war, and united with the outside world. ”

A group of people from Ningqin County then secretly connected in tandem, made an appointment with hundreds of people, pulled the cloth by a literate chief, bit the blood on his fingers, and wrote the words "We want to join the Marquis of Wuzhong tonight", and rode out to inspect with Yang Xi, and met several scouts of the Northern Expeditionary Army who crossed the water to investigate intelligence, so they wrapped the cloth with stones, threw it deadly, and left far away.

"Fortunately, those scouts who are literate have come to ride over and pick them up, and after opening them, they give us a thumbs up and pat their chests."

In the early morning of the 30th, a bombing broke out in the camp when the king of Lantian left the army......

Taking the opportunity of the rotation of fellow villagers, the people of Ningqin County quietly touched outside the camp, but they still alarmed the chief.

"Run!"

It was too late to hesitate, Yang Xi shouted at that time, and hundreds of Ning Qin soldiers strode towards Bashui not far away, but there was a roar behind him, and there were thousands of chasing soldiers, running faster than them!

Seeing that the people behind him were about to catch up with him, Yang Xi was a little desperate, but unexpectedly, those soldiers also threw their blades, crossed Yang Xi and the others, plunged into the water, and swam to the opposite shore with their lives!

Wet on the east bank, Yang Xi and others like amnesty, a short beard of the Northern Expeditionary military officials with thousands of people to pick them up, although the speech is sonorous and powerful, but the attitude is very kind, after Yang Xi and others lost their blades, they led them to the back camp to rest......

This defection led by the Ningqin people finally drove thousands of people from the adjacent Zhengxian battalion, Xixia battalion, Xiayang battalion, and Linjin battalion, and a huge hole appeared in the right wing camp of Wang Lijun's army!

The chaos and flight were still spreading to the other battalions, and the military judge was no longer able to control the situation.

When Yang Xi turned back again, he happened to see that the combat troops of the Northern Expeditionary Army began to force their way across the water, and the falling torches spread all over the world, while Wang Li's army on the other side had collapsed without a fight......

The one-sided battle lasted all night, Yang Xi and others were arranged to the prisoner of war camp, the military officials arranged for them to eat, after eating, Yang Xi and other people who took the lead in surrendering to Cheng were brought to a big official, that person was very thin, named Ji Ying, it is said that he was a confidant of Marquis Wuzhong, and the person next to Ji Ying was Shusun Tong, holding pen and ink, and said with a smile that he wanted to talk to him......

"That's all there is to it."

After Yang Xi finished speaking, his mouth was a little dry, and he didn't know why this uncle and grandson asked in such detail.

Shusun Tong looked at the account full of stacks of papers, and nodded with satisfaction: "Yes, you go down to rest, and there will be a reward in the near future!" ”

Yang Xi promised, but raised his head again, and said weakly:

"I just want to go home now......"

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Yang Xi left the camp a little groggy, and several of his own Northern Expeditionary soldiers took him back to the prisoner of war camp - it was the original Wang Lijun camp, today is the first day of the seventh month, the battle has long ended, the Battle of Bashui, the Northern Expeditionary Army won a complete victory.

In addition to tens of thousands of people such as Yang Xi, who spontaneously surrendered before the war, the guard army of General Li Liang on the right wing was nearly 20,000, and they also unarmed and surrendered after the bombing of the camp. On the left flank, General Sima Ying, with less than 20,000 remnants, hurriedly fled the battlefield and retreated to Duxian.

As for Wang Li himself, after finding it difficult to restrain the whole army, he only took thousands of guards and retreated to Lantian County, and now he has been surrounded by Marquis Wu Zhong with 100,000 legions......

The rest were crushed at the slightest touch, or fled or were captured.

At this time, driving a group of newly captured prisoners and passing in front of Shusun Tong, Yue Xiaoxiao from Fujian and Guangdong complained with Qin Yan, who was not left to be trapped:

"This battle is really boring, the army of his generation is no less than ours, but he collapsed without a fight, and Thailand surrendered, it is really boring to the extreme......"

The Yue people were brave and warlike, and they waited for the Yue soldiers to come all the way from Huiji County to come here on the orders of Heifu, thinking that they could catch up with an epic battle that they could boast to their ancestors after death, but it was such a lackluster ending, because Marquis Wu Zhong strictly forbade killing prisoners, and he didn't even hunt a head.

"Captain Shake, you're wrong, you're very wrong!"

Uncle Sun Tong stroked his beard and said with a smile: "The art of war is cloudy, a hundred battles are won, and the good is not good." ”

"A soldier who surrenders without a fight, and a good man who is good!"

"What's more, the benevolent man is invincible in the world, so that the benevolent is unbenevolent, and what is the blood of the pestle? Tens of thousands of people turned against each other and rushed to vote! ”

Uncle Sun Tong bowed his hand to the Marquis of Wuzhong in the distance, and boasted from the bottom of his heart:

"The Northern Expeditionary Army, worthy of the division of benevolence and righteousness, and the Marquis Wu Zhong, who surrendered without a fight, is the real number one general in the world!"

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