Chengsuke in the county government continued to pat his head to deal with the increasingly cumbersome military affairs, and outside the government office, the half-round moon has been to the west, and everything is quiet, and all that can be heard is the faint sound of pounding clothes - in the era when there was no cotton cloth, the common people wore mostly kudzu clothes, which were ramie, and they must be pounded before the clothes were boiled and rotten, and if they were not pounded, they would not be smooth and soft, and there would be no ready-to-wear clothes.

There is a fox Suisui, in Biqiliang. The heart is worried, and the son has no clothes.

There is a fox Suisui, and he is very strong. The heart is worried, and the son has no belt.

There is a fox Suisui, on the side of Piqi. The heart is worried, and the son is not satisfied.

The fox walked slowly alone, walking on the Qishui Bridge, how sad my heart was, he didn't even have pants.

The fox walked slowly and alone, walking on the shallow beach of Qishui, how sad my heart was, he didn't even have a belt.

The fox walked slowly and alone, walking on the shore of Qishui, how sad my heart was, he didn't even have clothes.

Just seeing a naked, lonely fox appear next to Qishui, the woman who wrote the poem thought of the man she was away from. Now his husband and son are going to go to war, whether they are soldiers or servants, and if they don't prepare winter clothes for him, they are afraid that they will freeze to death if they don't die in battle.

Under the bright moon, thousands of households in Xi County pound clothes; Under the bright moon, Jiyi is blazing into the sky.

The fire began to burn at dusk, the grain and grass were burned, the Gebu was burned, the baggage was burned, and finally even the government and private houses in the city were burned, and the fire became bigger and bigger in the night, so that Xiang Yan could only camp in the upwind outside the city.

In the first battle at dusk, the 4,000 people of the Qin army who went out of the city to fight were exhausted, and the Chu army suffered more than 1,000 casualties; During the siege of the city, the Chu army suffered hundreds of casualties, but fortunately, the Qin army that remained in the city saw the enemy rushing to the city, and soon opened the city gate and fled out of the city.

In this battle, the military Sima Pengzong has always had doubts: he first didn't understand why the Qin army went out of the city to meet the enemy? When it comes to dusk, can't you just shut your door and fight again tomorrow morning? Second, he didn't understand why the defenders had abandoned the city and fled. Judging from the reports from his side and Xiang Zhi's side, there are about 2,000 Qin troops defending the city, why don't these 2,000 people defend the city until dawn?

He asked Xiang Yan, the main general, these two questions, Xiang Yan smiled but did not answer, a copy of the expression that should be like this; He also wanted to ask the Qin army's Cheng Yin (Cheng Ling) or Cheng Sima (Cheng Wei), but the Qin Jun Cheng Lieutenant went out of the city and died, and Cheng Ling and others were shot dead by Chu archers at the head of the city.

- Among the armies of the nations, the Chu army has a tradition of attaching importance to archers, and some marksmen are also extremely famous. The idiom of a hundred steps through Yang is that the archer of the Chu State raised Youji during the period of the King of Chu Gong; The well-known story of Li Guang shooting stone in the Han Dynasty has the original version of Yangyouji's shooting of the tiger in the "Lü's Spring and Autumn Mastery", which was written at the end of the Warring States Period, and the "New Preface" written in the Western Han Dynasty has a copy of the shooting stone of King Wu of Chu. Whether the record is true or not, it can show that the Chu army had a deep tradition of focusing on archers.

And the Three Jin Dynasty and the Qin State naturally also paid attention to the archers - the three armor soldiers on the chariot, the archer stood on the right side of the chariot, and the status was higher than that of the Rong on the left side of the chariot; And the title of Hou, the word Hou originally means arrow target, and the Marquis refers to the tribal leader who can shoot the target. Shoot the marquis, shoot for the princes also. If you shoot, you must be a prince, and if you don't shoot, you must not be a prince.'"

But the cost of cultivating an archer is dozens of times that of training a crossbowman, even if the range of the crossbow with the same pull is much smaller than that of the bow, the result of the large-scale war is still for the Three Jin and Qin States to choose the crossbow that can be taught in ten months, and give up the bow that takes several years to practice and only the nobles can afford to play, while the Chu, Qi, and Yan countries retain more of the traditions before the Spring and Autumn Period, and there are both crossbowmen and archers in the army, which can be regarded as a sign that the military system lags behind the Three Jin and Qin States.

Because the archers of the Chu army and the senior officers of the Qin army in Jiyi were either killed in battle or disappeared, they waited for the order to treat the wounded, bury the dead, collect grain and grass, and grab the heavy carts...... After these orders, Peng Zong had time to meet the captive: the Qin official who could speak Chu.

"You're from Anlu, but you're from Shiyun?" Peng Zong asked. Anlu Chunqiu is the Yun country, and the Chu Gong King was destroyed by Chu, and his descendants take the country as the clan, and divide the four clans of Yun, Yun, Yun and Yuan.

"Otherwise, the villain has no clan." Xi was found by the soldiers of the Chu army from the fire. He still wore a long crown and soap-colored clothes, his face blackened by the smoke and fire, and his expression was sluggish and sluggish. Facing Peng Zong, he had to mention his spiritual answer.

"Oh. None? "Most of the Wu clan are commoners, Peng Zong is a little disappointed, he rarely talks to the commoners alone, unconsciously, he leaned forward and leaned back, and his smile also retracted." Let me ask you, do you know why Sima Yan went out of the city to meet the enemy? ”

"Back to the general, the villain doesn't know." I have been a official for six years, and it is instinct to observe words and colors. He sensed Peng Zong's disappointment, and at the same time, he also had a disappointment in his heart: this was the nobleman of the Chu State, and he naturally remembered the joke of carving a boat to ask for a sword.

Peng Zong didn't know that the little official in front of him was thinking of a joke that ridiculed him, and said, "Then why are you running away?" If the 2,000 defenders defend to the death, our army may not be able to break the city. ”

"Back to the general, the villain was in the Yiya when the city was broken, and I don't know why the defenders fled." Xi actually knew everything, but he didn't like Peng Zong's arrogant and disdainful eyes, and it was a felony to commit adultery, so he chose not to say anything.

Peng Zong began to think that this person didn't know anything, so he gave up asking, waved his hand, and said, "Go, you can go home tomorrow." ”

"The general won't kill me?" Xi was a little surprised, he couldn't understand why the Chu army didn't need to be beheaded to remember the merits.

"Why did you kill you if you weren't a soldier?" Peng Zong was also a little strange, but he instantly understood that he thought that the Chu army also had the law of beheading and promoting knighthood like the Qin army, so he said: "The Chu army is not the Qin army, and the Chu country is not the Qin state, and this battle is over, and there is no need to kill." Go, go home early to your father and mother, and your wife, who are thinking of you all day long. ”

It's okay not to mention my parents, but when I mention my parents' joy, my whole body is shocked, and I suddenly recall what happened in the past few hours. He first trembled, then sobbed, his face twisted, and he choked: "Please kill me, don't kill me...... If you don't kill me, it will definitely affect my parents and wife. ”

"You?" Peng Zong flicked his sleeves. He spoke so harmoniously with a common man for the sake of being a fellow Chu person, who knew that this common man actually cried in front of him without knowing the decency.

"The grain, grass, and heavy soldiers and chariots in the city are all burned, and I am guilty of a capital offense. Even if the original case is clearly investigated, it is also a dereliction of duty, and the guilty should be punished for the thirty-eight times. "Xi is worthy of being an official, he knows Qin Law by heart, what crime he has committed and what punishment he needs to suffer is instantly clear.

He hurriedly spoke, and knelt down in front of Peng Zong, crying and trying to grab Peng Zong's clothes: "Please kill me!" If you kill me, I will be innocent, and my family will not be taken away by the government or punished in lieu of punishment. Kill me, please kill me, general......"

"Rude!" Before Peng Zong could speak, the armor behind him shouted loudly and slashed the joy away with his sword.

"It doesn't matter." Peng Zong retracted his sleeves in disgust, he also wanted to drive Xi out, but he was a little curious about what he said. "Kill you, but you need to answer Ben Sima's doubts. I ask you: Since you are not guilty of death, why don't you hang yourself? ”

"Hanging oneself is still afraid of sin, and being killed by the enemy is death in battle, and the one who dies in battle is not guilty." was framed by a soldier, and he was finally no longer hysterical.

"Oh." Peng Zong hesitated for a moment before nodding, this is indeed the truth. "Then what you said is the ...... of the thirty-eight Jia"

"Those who are guilty of Qin Law will be given a shield to compensate, and even if my sin is found out, it will be necessary to pay 38 Jia. The family is not rich, and there is no money to spend, so they can only be Chengdan (slaves who build cities), and eight or six dollars a day are offset. The wife at home... Whining... The wife at home ...... "Speaking of his wife's joy, the cry was louder and more sad, Peng Zong felt very uncomfortable when he heard it, and his eyes were a little moist when he listened, but fortunately, he stopped crying for a while.

"With Qin Law...... The wife and son of the husband shall sit down, and the concubines, money, houses, clothes, and livestock shall be collected. My wife is weak, and my sons are young, and they will die. Xi finally returned to normal, and he began to bow his head to Peng Zong, saying, "Please let the general kill me!" Make people kill! ”

"That's it." Peng Zong sighed, he finally figured out the reason: don't say that the person who committed a serious crime should not say that according to the Qin law, and the Chu law should also collect his wife's property, but he didn't expect that the crime of war would also be blamed on the officials. "Let me ask you, how much money does it cost?"

"Gang Yijia... It costs 1,340 dollars. Xi replied, he was still pausing, not thinking about what Peng Zong meant.

"One thousand three hundred and forty dollars." Peng Zong repeated, "These thirty-eight ......"

"Sima, the thirty-eighth is fifty-thousand, nine hundred and twenty dollars." Peng Zong just asked about the calculation in the account, and they were the soldiers in the Chu army's big tent who were specifically responsible for calculation. Perhaps knowing what Jun Sima wanted to do, Fa Suan muttered more: "Sima, with Qin Law, it is only 23,000 and 40 yuan to redeem his death, which is two and a half capital crimes." ”

"I want you to say more." Peng Zong snorted coldly, "Although he is Qin Min, he can speak the Chu language, and he is my Chu people." Come and take six gold. ”

Fa was very embarrassed, but he still had an occupational disease, and said, "Sima, Qin Yijin is worth 9,216 yuan, and this 50,920 yuan, the hardware is more than 827 baht, and he can have some money at home, or give him hardware......

"I want you to say more!" Peng Zong was angry, his eyes (glared at him), and the law was stupid and left.

"These are six gold, you can take them to atone for your sins." The gold was taken, and Peng Zong asked people to hand it over to Xi.

The six catties of gold were heavy and golden, and he was as stunned as a wooden chicken when he saw it, and when he woke up, he abandoned it and said: "The general will not harm me, will not harm me!" Receiving money from other countries for no reason, this is a traitor, and the law of Qin ......"

"There is no Qin law here, only Chu people!" Peng Zong interrupted loudly. "Again, I will give you six gold, and you will melt it into bread, who knows? Go, go, think about the weak wife and young son in your family, if you die, I'm afraid you can only see each other in Huangquan. ”

Xi was still hesitating, but the soldier stuffed the six gold into his arms, and then dragged him out of the big tent, and said: "Our Peng Sima Nian you are a Chu person, these six gold is for you, don't thank you, go and go......

"Or they have done a righteous deed." After the joy went out, Peng Zong, who was sitting alone in the tent, smiled and said to himself.