On April 18, in Shouchun City, the capital of Jiujiang County, the "traitors" lit torches and spread throughout the southern suburbs of Shouchun City, making the night sky dark and red, and the fire was shining.

It was not because of the rebellion of the Southern Expeditionary Army, Jiujiang County was ordered to assist Feng Wuxue to quell the rebellion, which led to the emptiness of the county, but after the news of the "death of the first emperor" came, several counties around Shouchun broke out in rebellion one after another.

Now a month has passed, and the traitors have become the climate, and they have begun to gather together to seek longevity.

In the city, due to the absence of the county guard of Jiujiang County and most of the county soldiers, the guards and captains could only prepare for war nervously with the Qin officials.

However, the atmosphere outside the city was very relaxed, and in the temporary camp, which could be called a shack, a horn festival that the Chu people liked was going on, and there were many onlookers and cheers.

Their shouts were so loud that each shout made the hands of the sparse county guards at the head of the city tremble, and their weapons were almost unstable.

After a while, the applause reached a climax, but I saw that in the dusty field, among the outlaws, Yingbu, who is known as a brave man, has never lost to anyone in the corner, but today he was easily knocked to the ground by the opponent, the heavy pupil with a bare upper body full of muscles!

Yingbu stood up one by one, and quickly rolled away before the opponent's attack to avoid a greater defeat, and then bowed his hand to Chong Pupil: "Major General, it was Yingbu who lost!" ”

Xiang Yu, who was only twenty-three or four, was a little unsatisfied, and wanted to make a few more moves with Yingbu, but under the shaking of his head by Fan Zeng, who he called "Ya Father", he still chose to stop, and praised Yingbu:

"You're not bad, you can go back and forth with me for a few rounds."

"The young general's divine power, Yingbu is not as good."

Yingbu didn't accept it, he took seven or eight hundred prisoners from six counties to cast Xiang Yu, there was no drama in the camp, only the horn was for fun, after the two of them fought each other, Yingbu knew that this nationality really deserved its name.

It is said that Xiang Ji, as the grandson of the Xiang family, learned the sword and the art of war from his uncle Xiang Liang when he was young, and he was quite brave.

Later, the Xiang family suffered, Xiang Liang moved away, the family was copied, Xiang Bo fled, and Xiang Ji fled south alone on a bloody road, and entered the river and Huan Chu as thieves.

At that time, he was more than eight feet long, he was able to carry the tripod, he was very talented, the robbers on the entire river were jealous, and he was willing to be guarded by him, and then he entered Chaohu Lake, and his reputation was even greater, and he gathered thousands of dead people, constantly attacking the township, killing the Qin officials who were extorting rent, winning the support of the local Chu people, and also giving the Luyi government a headache.

In the middle of last month, Xiang Ji heard that Emperor Shi had died, and the process of raising troops to seize Luyi was even more legendary: he actually brought a few cronies into the county seat, and let the heroic magi who secretly corresponded with him in the city falsely claim that he was a captured Chaohu thief and escorted him to the county for interrogation.

Above the public court, Xiang Ji, who was unarmed, actually snatched the sword of the attendant, drew his sword and beheaded the head of the county Cheng, and the county magistrate wanted to punish him, but Xiang Ji roared angrily, so frightened that everyone did not dare to move a little, and was arrested.

Xiang Ji took more than ten people, holding the head of the county and wearing his seal, and went straight to the order and the lieutenant. The county lieutenant blocked, but his subordinates were killed by dozens of people like a god, and they were greatly disturbed, and finally the county order and lieutenant were beheaded by him, and Luyi was taken down without blood.

At first, Yingbu didn't believe that there was such a person in the world, but when he saw it today, he realized that the rumors were probably true.

Xiang Ji is a good friend, especially like warriors, and when he and Yingbu hit it off at first sight, when they had a drink with him, they asked, "Why do you want to vote for me?" ”

Yingbu also said truthfully: "Naturally, it is the name of General Mu Shao, and furthermore, the Xiang family is famous in Chu." If you want to do something big now, you can't do it alone. Yingbu is a lowly prisoner, if he can rely on the famous clan, he will die! ”

After hearing this, Xiang Ji said secretly: "Ya Father's method is really good, and it has indeed provoked the heroes of Huainan to come to vote." ”

It turned out that after Xiang Yu seized Lu County, Fan Zeng proposed: "Xiang's family is a Chu general, Shangzhu State (Xiang Yan) is even more powerful against Qin, defeated Li Xin, and saved Chu State in danger. ”

"Although the Shangzhu country has fallen, most of the people of Chu do not know, or think that they are dead, or they think they are dead, and now the young general should succeed the Yu Wei of the Xiang family, gather the crowd to hold high the banner of the Shangzhu country, and take the revival of the Great Chu as the number, sing for the world, and there will be many responders!"

That night, Yingbu saw the aristocratic temperament of Xiang Ji, although he had the courage of ten thousand people, but he was respectful and loving to the virtuous and virtuous people, and his words were disgusting, which made him feel that it was right to come to Xiang Ji.

It's just that I don't know if I forgot or what, Xiang Ji didn't mention the positions of "Du Lieutenant" and "Sima" expected by Yingbu.

He didn't care too much, after all, the ultimate goal was to go "for the king", as for the false title, it would not be too late to talk about it after seizing Shouchun.

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The next day, when the sky was bright, Xiang Ji invited Yingbu to inspect the camp together, preparing to attack the fortified Shouchun City again.

It was early summer, the clear Huai River was gurgling, and on the shore of the Huai River, the green apples had grown new leaves, and Angelica dahurica sprouted and spit fragrant. On the north shore is a continuous jungle, walking along the swamp paddy fields, the road runs through all directions, overlooking the vast wilderness, and the land of Huainan can be seen for thousands of miles.

And Shouchun, the former capital that carried the last period of the Chu State, is standing in front of it!

Xiang Ji and Ying Buchi went to the front of the battle and pointed to the right:

"It's Zhong Liyi over there, he used to be a member of the Chu army, and now he is in Zhongli and has brought more than a thousand people over."

Xiang Ji gritted his teeth and said: "Speaking of which, Zhong Liyi is actually Heifu's old enemy, and I have heard a lot about this dog thief from him. ”

It can be seen that Xiang Ji does not have a good impression of Wuzhong Marquis of Wuchang, after all, it was more than ten years ago, and Heifu was making a name for himself by seizing Xiang Yan's military flag.

He pointed back again: "On the front are Huan Chu, Chaohu, and Luyi righteous soldiers, seeing my father's banner, and hearing that we are going to restore the old capital, and the Chu people along the way are enthusiastically joining." ”

The nearly 1,000 prisoners and light men brought by Yingbu were arranged in the west of the city.

"There are only 2,000 soldiers in the city, and the heart of the Chu people in the city is on our side, and they will not help the Qin officials to defend the city, and now they have two or three sons to attack together, with 5,000 people, the city where the enemy is not evenly matched, will be defeated!"

Indeed, although the armor is incomplete and looks like a rabble, the victory lies in high morale, on the other hand, the city has long been in chaos.

At this time, Yingbu saw that at the front of the position, an altar was set up, and there was a person on it, an old man who bowed to the sky.

"Major General, is that?"

Xiang Ji glanced at it, frowned, and said: "It's the former King of Chu's Men Yin, Cai Ci, he heard that I raised troops to recover Great Chu, so he took the secret Chu history "梼杌" to vote!" ”

Although Xiang Ji is young and sluggish, he is good at martial arts, he doesn't understand it very much, and he thinks it's useless.

But his mastermind Fan Zeng attached great importance to it, not only let Xiang Ji welcome Cai Ci ceremoniously, but also agreed to Cai Ci's request......

Looking at Cai Ci's man with his hair on the altar, his hands facing the sky, as if he was holding an ancient ceremony, Yingbu couldn't help but be surprised.

"Isn't he doing it?"

Yingbu remembered a joke that was widely circulated in Chu: when Shouchun was about to break, when the king of Chu was desperate, he actually let Chu Wu go to the city to summon Yun Zhongjun and bombard hundreds of thousands of Qin troops outside the city to death with heavenly thunder......

As a result, Chu Wu didn't even attract a cloud, and Qin General Heifu waited under Wang Qian's order, took the opportunity to attack the city, broke the city wall, and entered the palace, and Chu died.

This old man Cai can't be doing the same thing, right?

Xiang Ji said: "Cai Ci is summoning spirits. ”

"Dare to ask which way of soul is recruiting?" Inbu Daqi.

Xiang Ji became solemn.

"What Cai Ci wants to recruit are the souls who died in battle to defend the Chu State and resist the invasion of Qin Kou more than ten years ago!"

As he was talking, he heard Cai Ci say loudly in an old voice:

"The emperor told Wu Yang and said: Someone is down, I want to assist him. The soul is scattered, and you give it ......"

"Wu Yang Yan is making a move: The soul is back!"

"Don't go east, don't go south, don't go west, don't go north, don't go to the sky, don't go down to the secluded capital!"

"Return! Return to Ying! ”

……

"You can know that no matter how many times the Chu State moves its capital, and how many times our country is ruined, the new capital will always be named Ying."

Fan Zeng, who is over seventy years old, but is becoming more and more wise, came to Xiang Yu and Yingbu, stroked his beard and said:

"The capital of Chu was originally in Danyang, named Ying, and later moved many times for various reasons, either because of the growth of the state or to avoid strong enemies, but no matter how it was moved, the new capital would still be named 'Ying'."

In Cai Ci's "Chu Ju", there are countless names of Yan Ying, Zai Ying, Hu Ying, Fan Ying, Wei Ying, Da Ying, Yan Ying, Jiao Ying, and Mei Ying.

But it doesn't matter what the prefix is, it's Ying.

Ying is the homeland of all Chu people's souls.

Therefore, in the "Conjuring" written by Song Yu and shouted by Cai Ci in the Chu dialect, it is necessary to show the evil of the Quartet on the outside and the beauty of the Chu country on the inside, so that the souls of the loyal soldiers who have been scattered for a long time will return to the hometown named "Ying" - Shouchun, the last Yingdu!

This is a tradition that has lasted for 800 years, and the Chu people, especially the nobles of the Chu State, this group of descendants of Emperor Gaoyang, have a stronger sense of remembering their ancestors and patriotism than other princes.

This is the case with the item.

"The soul is back! Anti-former residence some ......"

Xiang Ji, who was born with easy emotion, couldn't help himself, and followed Cai Ci to read it.

He remembered, before the fall of the Chu State, the Xiang family also had a mansion courtyard in Shouchun City, his house had a high lobby and a deep house, pavilions and pavilions, when he woke up, he could see the carved square rafters when he opened his eyes, and the image of the dragon and the snake was painted.

Walking out of the living room, the door is painted red, the window is carved with a checkered pattern, the young Xiang Ji stands on tiptoe, and he can see the mountains in the east of the city.

At that time, I was still young, and I danced the wooden sword with my brothers all day for fun, and my uncles gathered together to organize my father's 60th birthday banquet.

Sing "Shijiang" and then sing "Cailing", and there is a song "Yang'a......

The family members were very happy, wrote poems together to express their common thoughts, drank mellow wine and laughed heartily.

But all these prosperous scenes and happy scenes were ruined by the Qin people.

My grandfather died on the battlefield, and his body was killed by the Qin people.

Suddenly, the country is gone, and the home is gone!

How can Xiang Ji not hate, how can he not think about revenge day and night?

Angry in the chest, Xiang Ji roared angrily, Chu Fu, who was a little slow and sad, actually brought a majesty!

"The soul is back! Go to Jun Zhiheng, what is the Quartet? ”

Xiang Ji seemed to see that in the voice of the soul he sang loudly, the eldest father Xiang Yan, his father, the good sons of the clan, and the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who were beheaded by the Qin people after they died heroically on the battlefield!

Their souls are coming to Shouchun in a steady stream, with 100,000 banners, wanting to kill Qin Kou!

First of all, Xiang Ji, and then among the 5,000 Chu people, there were people who kept following the young general and repeating those slightly awkward words......

"The soul is back! Enter the Cultivation Door. ”

But no matter how awkward he is, he is also familiar with Chu Yan, which is kinder than the unfamiliar Guanzhong Yayan.

Chu is not only a country name, but also a unique regional culture, whether it is Chu people, you can know it with one mouth, Qin people laugh at their birds, but even if it is "Xiali" and "Ba Ren" sung by the country hooligans when they are depressed, they can also shout out a pride that is not satisfied with Zhou!

Compared with the shame of the aristocracy's loss of country and family, wanting to regain everything lost, for ordinary people, "not wanting to be ruled by foreigners with different accents" and "not wanting to be subject to onerous forced labor restrictions" are more mainstream.

But this does not prevent them from getting excited and shouting together when the major general climaxes!

Yingbu looked at everything that was happening around him in amazement.

Fan Zeng smiled under his white beard.

What he wanted Cai Ci to recruit was just the souls of Xiang Yan and others who died in battle?

No, there is also the soul of Qu Yuan, who cherishes his homeland and sand and sinks into the river.

There is the soul of King Chu Huai who was deceived, robbed of the alliance, imprisoned alone in the Qin State, and finally returned to his hometown, dishonoring the soul of the dead King of Chuhuai.

There are Qu Kuo, Fenghou Chou, the souls of those Chu generals who died in the Battle of Danyang and the Battle of Yanying in the past hundred years, and the souls of hundreds of thousands of Chu people who died innocently and tragically in the flood under the Qin Kou soldiers!

There are also the souls of generations of kings, princes, scholars and people who have opened the mountains and forests for the eight hundred years after the bear, for the Changda Chu State, the blue wisps of the road, and the mountains and forests!

This great country, she has gone through 800 years of ups and downs, ups and downs, wind and rain, but it is new and more brilliant with each passing day!

It covers an area of 5,000 miles, reaching the Yellow River in the north, the East China Sea in the east, Bashu in the west, and Lingnan in the south. The romantic elegance of Chu Ci, the solemnity and heaviness of bronzes, and the mysterious and gorgeous lacquerware are the culture of Chu.

With such a splendid civilization, how can it be said that there is no such thing?

The longitudinal body is gone, and the national soul formed by the obsession of thousands of people should also drift for a long time and not disperse for a hundred years!

Fan Zeng was scheming, and what he really wanted Cai Ci to recruit back here was the soul of this great Chu!

Chu Rufeng, although he will not die, he will be reborn from the fire!

At the end of the ceremony, Cai Ci was already in tears, and shouted with all his might: "Donghuang Taiyi has answered!" ”

"Dongjun has answered."

"Shao Si Ming, Da Si Ming, and Zhu Rong have also responded: the heroic souls of thousands of soldiers will return to Ying, which is our forerunner!"

"And the 800-year-old Chu will also be resurrected today!"

Xiang Ji pulled out his sword and shouted for it, screaming evilly, and the real sound was like thunder, which could make thousands of people hear it!

"The Chu people who don't want to be slaves of the country!"

"The Chu people who were harshly treated and oppressed by the Qin officials!"

"Follow me, Fuying!"

5,000 people responded, and the huge shouts have shaken through Shouchun and two Huai:

"Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu!"

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PS: Leaving home and returning to Kunming, on the road all day, only one chapter