After Dai Yan left, the king of Chu asked Zhao Sui: "Are you sure that this Ziyan only used a thousand soldiers to defeat Yanglingjun's 5,000 army head-on?" ”

"This is indeed what your subordinates have seen with their own eyes!" Zhao Sui replied. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Hmph, Yang Lingjun is really a waste! These old aristocrats, usually one is more qualified than the other, but it is so useless to really fight! You go and reprimand him for this king, and by the way, let those old nobles know that it is powerful! The king of Chu ordered Zhao Sui.

"No!"

Zhao Sui then went down, but he did not directly reprimand Yang Lingjun, but went to Dai Yan privately.

"Childe, as you expected, after the king saw you, he really asked me to reprimand Yang Lingjun! Why are you so sure? And why do you have to see me before you reprimand him? Zhao Sui asked.

"It's simple." Dai Yan replied, "The king of Chu has the heart to fight Qi, which shows that he is a pioneering and enterprising king. Such a king doesn't care whether his subordinates break the rules at all, he only cares about one thing: whether his subordinates are capable or not. This time, Yang Lingjun was defeated so simply in front of me, which shows that the subordinates of the king of Chu are incompetent. Of course, the king of Chu will reprimand him. I met you in advance before you reprimanded Yang Lingjun to ask you to do me a favor. ”

"What's the busy?" Zhao Sui asked.

"I don't like to make enemies, and once I have a grudge, it's better for this person to die. Why don't you help me kill Yang Lingjun? Dai Yan said lightly, but the words he said were terrifying.

Zhao Sui was also moved when he heard Dai Yan's words, but then he asked: "Yang Lingjun has lost the battle now, no matter how down, he is also a feudal monarch." How shall I have the right to kill him? I beg your pardon for not being able to make this request. ”

Dai Yan said: "Zuo Yin doesn't have to kill him by himself, when you go to reprimand him, tell him that the King of Chu is very angry, and then tell Yang Lingjun about the military law of your Chu State: the general will be killed!" When the time comes, I'm afraid he won't have the face to live anymore, right? ”

What a vicious scheming! Zhao Sui shuddered in his heart.

Of course, Zhao Sui knew that he could kill Yang Lingjun according to the method that the other party said. You must know that the tradition of killing the generals of the Chu State began with Qu's ancestor Qu Fang. At that time, Qu Fang replaced Chuvaro, but he was defeated and returned. Halfway through the escape, he felt speechless and went back to meet the king and father of Chu State, so he committed suicide to apologize! As a result, the generals who lost the battle, the general of the Fu Dynasty, must commit suicide to apologize, and the generals of the Chu State have only two ways to lead their troops to war: either they will return with victory or die in a foreign land. So the state of Chu began to expand wildly.

Later, after the defeat of Ziyu, the commander of the Chu army in the Battle of Chengpu of Jin and Chu, he fled all the way, and when he was about to reach Fangcheng on the border of Chu, he sent a messenger back to report to the king of Chu, wanting the king of Chu to give him an amnesty and exempt him from the death penalty. As a result, King Chu Cheng directly sent a messenger to report to him: If you enter Fangcheng, how should you explain to the fathers and elders of Shen County and Xi County? Ziyu was speechless, so he hanged himself to death.

Even Ziyu, a descendant of the noble Ruo Ao clan of the Chu State back then, and the supreme rank of Ling Yin, could not violate the tradition of killing the general. And Yanglingjun's status is not as good as Ziyu's, and his official position is even worse than Ling Yin's, what reason does he have to escape the tradition of killing generals?

But why would you do it? Zhao Sui pondered.

He said directly to Dai Yan: "Although Yanglingjun is the waste material of my Chu country, he is a native of my Chu country after all. Why should I help you deal with our own people? ”

"I will directly deliver 40,000 stone of grain to Zuo Yin." Dai Yan said softly.

As soon as Zhao Sui heard this, it was as if he had heard the sounds of heaven. Forty thousand stone of grain! This is placed in the state of Chu, his own fiefdom, it is indeed not worth much. However, now in the land of this Song Kingdom, food is money for him, even more useful than money!

Based on the current price of one gold and four stones of grain in Taoqiu, these 40,000 stones of grain are equivalent to 10,000 gold! Not to mention that Yanglingjun himself and the Zhao clan are not dealing with each other, even if he is the feudal monarch of the Zhao family, 10,000 gold to take a head, Zhao Sui will definitely do it!

So he immediately turned to Dai Yan and said, "Is Childe's words true? That expression seemed to be that as long as Dai Yan dared to say a word, he could immediately swallow Dai Yan into his stomach.

"Of course it's true. We, the people of the Song Kingdom, have always kept our promises, and Zuo Yin should be very clear. Dai Yan replied.

"Deal!" Zhao Sui immediately agreed.

Then he went to find Yangling Jun non-stop, threw him a sword directly, and said to him: "Yangling Jun, the king is very angry with your performance!" You provoked the Song Kingdom in private, and the king had no opinion. However, you can't even defeat 1,000 Song troops with 5,000 soldiers and horses on the frontal battlefield, is there a more incompetent general in my Chu State than you? You should know the tradition of my Chu country: if you overcome, you will be killed! The king doesn't want to see you anymore, so you can do it yourself! ”

Yang Lingjun burst into tears when he heard Zhao Sui's words, he really didn't want to die! However, he did not dare to disobey the order of the King of Chu, if he dared to disobey, then his fief would be taken back and his family would be wiped out! If he commits suicide now, his family will survive and his son will be able to inherit his title.

So Yang Lingjun sighed and killed himself directly. Poor this feudal monarch of the Chu State didn't know that he was actually killed until he died!

Zhao Sui was also relieved to see that things were going so smoothly. Although this Yangling Jun fights in war, he still has a deep obsession with the survival of the family. He thought silently.

Subsequently, the king of Chu and Dai Yan both learned the news that Yang Lingjun had killed himself.

When the king of Chu heard the news of Yanglingjun's death, he only sighed slightly, and then said to Zhaosui: "Let his son inherit the position of Yanglingjun." You choose an excellent general from among the clan soldiers brought by Yangling Jun and let him command on his behalf. ”

Dai Yan was truly relieved to hear the news. He knew that when the news of Yang Lingjun's death really spread, there would definitely be no feudal monarch of the Chu State who would dare to go privately to "collect grain".

He designed to kill Yanglingjun, of course, because Yanglingjun privately plundered Fengyi, causing irreparable losses to the people of Fengyi. There is also a fief of Yangling Jun close to the Song State, and Dai Yan is worried that he will find trouble with the Song State in the future.

However, Dai Yan's most important purpose in killing Yangling Jun was actually to deter the feudal monarchs and generals of the Chu State. The army of Chu has always been a tiger with a pack of wolves. The king is a tiger, and the king is a pack of wolves.

The tiger wants the wolves to work hard for him to grab the territory, so he must tolerate the behavior of these wolves secretly catching rabbits, like robbing neutral countries in private, which is actually not a big deal in the heart of the king of Chu. He was dissatisfied with Yanglingjun not because he went to catch rabbits secretly, but because he couldn't even beat rabbits! Is he still qualified to be a wolf under his tiger?

In Dai Yan's opinion, the only way to leave the eyes of the fierce tigers and wolves of the Chu State from the territory of the Song State was to show their swords to them! He was like a killer, killing Yangling Jun who dared to come out to provoke, and using Yanglingjun's corpse to shock the remaining feudal monarchs and generals of the Chu State!

He knew that after this incident, the eastern border of the Song Kingdom was truly safe, and he no longer had to worry about being plundered by the Chu army!

After doing these things, Dai Yan returned to Fengyi and began to deal with the aftermath of this battle.

Although the battle with Yanglingjun this time was short, the losses suffered by Fengyi were not small. A total of more than 20 civilians were killed in the process of Yanglingjun's plunder, and more than 100 soldiers were killed in the battle with the Chu army, more than 70 were seriously wounded, and nearly 200 were lightly wounded.

Fortunately, the farmer Xu Xing used to weave straw mats for a living when he traveled in the south, and also studied Shennong's science, so he knew a lot about wormwood, which can stop bleeding. As a result, many of the wounded were relieved of their bleeding by the peasants after they retired from the battlefield, and no large-scale tetanus was caused.

In addition, Dai Yan personally instructed before leaving, not to waste the fabric, and to bandage each injured person. These measures allowed the wounded soldiers to receive the best possible treatment, so that the casualties were controlled within the acceptable range of Dai Yan.

As long as those injured veterans can recover, they will become the best combat force in the future, so Dai Yan is very concerned about the care of these people.

And those Chu soldiers who were captured by Dai Yan, after Yang Lingjun died, Dai Yan handed over all these people to Zhao Sui. As for the weapons of the Chu army and the property they looted from Fengyi, Dai Yan took them all unceremoniously. Dai Yan sent people to sort out those belongings and return them to the people of Fengyi one by one.

In the process of returning the property, you can see the characteristics of the people of the Song Kingdom, basically every family only takes the things that have been robbed from their own home, and few people will take more. In the Song Kingdom, the folk atmosphere is to keep promises, this time the property can be lost and recovered is already very rare, if anyone at this time is still greedy enough, want to take more, once it is discovered, then the face may be the whole society spurned!

At this time, Dai Yan can really feel what is the style of a gentleman and what is the country of a gentleman. He couldn't imagine that in such a country there would be an old man who fell to the ground and blackmailed the well-wishers who helped him up! So in this country, there is absolutely no such thing as an old man falling and not daring to help him!

Just when Dai Yan had dealt with all the trivial matters, he received an edict from Suiyang, an edict of reprimand signed by the monarch and the same country!