readx;?readx; Chapter 695 Although the world is safe, it will be dangerous to forget the war

Finding that the second wave of enemy troops were full of Chu people armed with knives, guns and sticks, Shen Qing, who was in charge of encirclement and suppression, stood on end with sweat all over his body, and shouted sharply: "The rear team turns around, and the guard against the Chu army ...... from behind."

Before the words fell, the regular army of Chu State, which was quietly following behind the righteous army, came out of the darkness, and before the Qin army could turn around, it was shot down by a sudden rain of arrows. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Countless officers and soldiers of the Chu State rode fast boats, shooting arrows while approaching the embankment at a rapid pace. Because the Qin army was caught off guard, they didn't have time to set up their positions, so they had to watch the Chu army on the ship with a sharp blade, jumped onto the embankment, and the two sides fought together and entered hand-to-hand combat.

Those Chu rebels who were surrounded in the center also suddenly tore off the veil of weakness and concentrated their forces on attacking the rear of the Qin army.

The soldiers of the Qin army, who were attacked by the enemy on their backs, resisted desperately, but the Chu army almost rushed over like a tide, and the two soldiers and horses were entangled in this short embankment, and there were many more people who were trampled and crowded into the water than those who were hacked to death and wounded. Although there were many Qin troops on the hillside, they could only fight to kill the righteous army of Chu State, and at the same time watch the tragic situation of their comrades and be anxious.

For hundreds of years, there has always been a saying that Chu people are weak, but tonight, these Chu ** people, who are known for their weakness, broke out with unprecedented blood. In its fierce attack, the 5,000 soldiers of the rear of the Qin army always disappeared from the battlefield......

But the results of the Chu army ended here, the main force of the Qin army wiped out the righteous army of the Chu State, and rushed up with fire in both eyes. The Qin fleet, which had temporarily taken refuge in order to paralyze the enemy, also drove over and surrounded the enemy again.

However, the Chu army has already put life and death aside, or they are simply here to seek death! Even if they are inferior to each other in terms of body size, kung fu and even weapons and armor, it doesn't matter, they are like crazy fighting and even biting, intent on dying with the enemy!

The war has been going on to this day, the military strength of the two sides has been completely asymmetrical, and the Qin army has an absolute advantage in all aspects, but the battle situation has not evolved into a one-sided killing, but has become unprecedented and tragic...... The people of Chu were completely crazy, they filled the dinghy with **, and took advantage of the night to crash into the Qin army's battleship. The chaotic battlefield and extremely low visibility gave them the best cover, and it was often the small boat that rushed to the front that the Qin army found out.

But it was too late, after a dull impact, the dazzling fire flashed, and in the violent explosion, the side of the Qin warship exploded into a big hole, the water poured in, the warship slowly rolled sideways, and the sailors had to jump into the water to escape.

Such suicide attacks were by no means rare, and I saw that the fire on the water was shining from time to time, and the explosions rumbled, posing a great threat to the huge warships of the Qin army.

Unable to bear this senseless loss, Chu Po had no choice but to order the battleship to retreat for the time being, and pour fire oil into the water to light the lighting to increase the line of sight.

The Qin army had obviously surrounded the other party, but it could not annihilate the enemy army until dawn. This made Chu Po feel embarrassed, and after revealing the white belly of the fish in the east and could see the surface of the water, he ordered nearly a hundred prince-class warships to rush into the battlefield, relying on the huge hull and sharp ramming angles to smash the clippers that the Chu army was riding, and using the fire dragon out of the water to blow up those suicide boats that were flexible in dodging.

During the day, the hit rate was greatly improved, and the soldiers of the Qin army, who had been suffocated all night, poured out everything that could be launched, and the losses of the Chu army suddenly increased greatly, and every moment the boats were destroyed and the warships were blown up. But they were still undaunted, and went forward to reunite with the Qin army one after another.

Standing on a battleship outside the battlefield, Qin Lei stared at the killing and death in front of him without a moment's notice, his expression extremely solemn. Yang Wenyu and Qin Youcai stood on his left and right, accompanying him in silence.

It wasn't until noon that the sound of killing in the distance gradually became smaller, and the warships of the Chu army had been basically destroyed, but the remnants of the scattered officers and soldiers were still putting up desperate and desperate resistance.

I saw a Chu army being blown into the water from the boat, jumping out of the water again, climbing onto the Qin army's battleship, and then being pierced through the chest by the Qin army's spear on the boat. The dying Chu soldier clenched the spear tightly and carried the Qin soldiers who attacked him into the water...... Qin Lei's face turned a little pale, and he lowered his head and sighed: "This is really the worst battle. ”

Yang Wenyu nodded sympathetically, but Qin Youcai said in a sullen voice: "What's wrong with these Chu people?" There is no point in dying in vain, which is really incomprehensible. ”

Yang Wenyu shook his head slowly, and said in a deep voice: "Because the Chu State is dead, they are desperate, so they come with a will to die. ”

"Those who are soldiers are understandable." Qin Youcai was speechless: "But what are those ordinary people mixing with blindly? Green lotus, white lotus root, red lotus, the three kingdoms of China are one. They are all the same ancestors, they will not let them die and extinguish the species, right? In the future, they should chop wood, cut wood, fish, and live their lives, why bother to follow them to death? ”

"Birth is already over, and there is no compensation at that time; Death is in vain, and there is no shame in the Hereafter. After listening to his complaints, Qin Lei groaned softly, patted the railing and said, "Maybe many people will think of you and think he is stupid." However, Lone thinks that although they are humble, they care about the world. He sighed lightly and said, "Although we are more benevolent and generous than the Chu State, in their eyes, the Chu State will always be their motherland, and the Qin State will always be the invader, and this will not change." As an ordinary person, they cannot change the fact that their motherland is dying, they can only use their mantis arms as a car to express their anger and uncompromising ...... for us, the aggressors."

"No compromise?" Qin Youcai chewed roughly: "What a good man, it's a pity." ”

"No matter how good a horse is, if it can't be used by me, it's a black sheep." Yang Wenyu's face turned cold, and he said in a deep voice: "The prince can't be soft, otherwise there will be endless troubles!" ”

"No, the Lone King knows what he's doing." Qin Lei shook his head slowly and said: "I hope that after this time, I can have peace in Huaxia for as long as possible...... "He also knows that as long as the human race has not gone to extinction, war will never go away.

According to statistics, more than 177,000 Chu people who went out of the city to fight that day were basically killed......

More than 100,000 people were killed in the army, and the remaining nearly 200,000 people saw that the general trend had gone, so they gave up the attack and fled in a hurry.

When the news of the annihilation of all the soldiers and civilians out of the city came back to Shenjing City, the people of Chu completely abandoned the city defense, they wrapped their white headbands, and stood there quietly, mourning the dead children and mourning the dying motherland.

In the afternoon, on the tower of the west gate of Shenjing, the fluttering Great Chu Qinglong Flag slowly lowered, and a huge white flag rose up.

At the time of Shen Pai, a white building ship slowly sailed out of the city, and the deck was full of plain clothes of Chu State civil and military, and in the middle stood Emperor Jiankang of Chu State in white clothes, he held the Wang Yin jade box in his arms, with long white hair, his face was pale and numb, without a trace of expression.

The white boat full of the monarchs and ministers of the Chu State slowly drove on the black and red water, rowing through countless stumps and broken limbs, flag wood chips, and finally sailed into the black Qin warship.

Looking at the dark heaven and earth, that little bit of lonely and weak white, the soldiers and civilians at the head of Shenjing City suddenly cried, and some people said that there were more than 17,000 martyrs in Shenjing City that day......

Leaving that desperate cry behind, Emperor Jiankang met his brother-in-law, Qin Lei, the commander of the Qin State who had become the king of the State of Qin and destroyed the State of Chu.

Qin Lei held on to the railing with one hand and rested on the hilt of his sword with the other, looking at him calmly, without a trace of joy after victory.

'The reserve of the victors. With a muttering in his heart, Emperor Jiankang held the jade seal in his arms that had inherited the Chu royal family for 227 years high above his head.

On the huge scene, there was not a trace of movement, and everyone held their breath, waiting for this historic moment.

However, Qin Lei didn't react, he stood there without moving, staring ahead, not even looking at him.

Until his arm was sore, Emperor Jian Kang didn't wait for someone to come and take away the symbol of the imperial power of the Chu State, he smiled silently and slowly knelt down for Qin Lei.

"My Emperor......" The princes and ministers of the Chu State wept bitterly, and a few fainted on the spot, and the rest of the people wept while kneeling down with their majesty, expressing complete submission.

Seeing everyone kneeling down, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Qin Lei's mouth, and then disappeared again, and then he nodded to Shi Dang beside him. Shi Dang strode over, took the jade seal from Emperor Jiankang's slightly trembling hands, stepped onto the throne, knelt down on one knee, held it high above the top, and shouted loudly: "Generalissimo King, the monarch and ministers of Chu State present the jade seal of the country, please accept it." ”

Qin Lei glanced at the jasper-colored stone, nodded, and waved his sleeves: "Take it." ”

When Shi Dare retreated, Qin Lei's gaze swept over the surrounding warships, and he said to his soldiers: "Congratulations, Chu Guoping!" ”

The officers and soldiers of the three armies knelt down together and responded in unison: "Congratulations to the prince, the state of Chu is peaceful!" ”

On the fifth day of the fourth month of the ninth year of Tianyou, King Wucheng destroyed Chu, and his country has been in place for 227 years......

According to the division of the Qin state, Qin Lei divided South China into nine provinces, stationed military officials, and officially began to administer. However, rebellions and commotions broke out one after another, and the scale of the largest Chu people rebellion actually reached hundreds of thousands, four or five provinces. Qin Lei had to leave the entire 400,000 Qin troops south of the Yangtze River and stationed them in various provinces and provinces, brutally suppressing and killing them with all their might, and on the other hand, lightly reducing rents and taxes, it took four years and tens of thousands of casualties to completely pacify South China.

Although the rebellion was put down, the Chu people never stopped remembering their homeland, and they said that the Qin state imprisoned Emperor Jiankang in a mansion in the central capital, and no one was allowed to visit him, not even his own sister. At first, he was able to give him treatment commensurate with his status, but later, because of the long-lasting rebellion of the annoyed Chu people, he was cut off from food and drink, and starved to death.

Some people also say that it was not the Qin people who starved to death of Emperor Jiankang, but his own family hunger strike.

But no matter what, the people of Chu never heard from him again, and soon, a sad elegy spread in Chu: 'On the other side of the west, bury my king of Chu.'" The harm of the West is a thousand miles of quicksand. Thousands of miles of quicksand, don't be promiscuous for a long time, and the soul returns......'

Of course, this is a later story, but it can also tell us that the great potential of the Chu State and the patriotism of the people of the Chu State are really beyond anyone's imagination. However, this former largest and richest country fell in an attack of the Qin State, even if there was unyielding resistance, even if there was a resurgence, but even the Chu people themselves, the day when Emperor Jiankang knelt to present the jade seal, regarded it as the day of the death of the country......

Why is a mighty kingdom so vulnerable? Especially compared with Qi Guoyi, who insisted for another month, it is even more embarrassing...... You must know that Qin and Qi have been at war for a long time, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China two hundred years ago, there has been an average of one major war every seven years, and there have been tens of millions of dead and wounded soldiers. How many trillions of assets are consumed? The demise of the State of Qi can be regarded as the end of the oil and the end of life, so what about the State of Chu?

It is said that there has been no war for thirty years, and the state of Chu, which has never been attacked in two hundred years, should be strong and full of endurance, why did it collapse without any vigorous repetition? Where does it come from?

The great historian Fan Wenzhenggong pointed out sharply that the defeat of the Chu State was defeated in a long period of peace and ease. Peace and ease are certainly what everyone seeks, but it is difficult to imagine that a country can be content with the status quo in this Warring States world, never seek provocation and start war, never hope to expand its territory, and never want either of the two major enemy countries to decline...... Such a peace-loving country, which has not been at war for decades, should degenerate into a paper tiger that is safer than a sheep, even if it was once a tiger.

Of course, there are always sober people like Zhu Lie who advocate cheering up and actively participating in the great era of change, but under the deep-rooted national policy of 'keeping the river safe', the clearer and more sad these voices of struggle and rejuvenation become, and the closer they are to the truth, the more lonely they become.

The tragedy of the loss of the country was not caused in a day! In fact, since the Great War thirty years ago, the Chu army has begun to slide into the path of slackening armaments. The vigilance of the entire court and society against war and the importance of armaments were declining day by day, and they preferred to stick their money on the city walls rather than 'waste' it on the training of the infantry army...... All their confidence is based on the fact that the water division of the Chu State is invincible in the world, and the enemy country cannot break through the defense line of the Yangtze River, but what if the water division is defeated? Has the defense line been breached?

It is inconceivable that a highly civilized and intelligent country should be unprepared for another possibility and make such a child's play on the affairs of the country.

In this way, the state of Chu, in the face of the cruelty of the world, ignored the weak and the strong, and insisted on pursuing an ostrich policy of burying his head in peace, who did he not forget? If he doesn't lose, who is aggrieved?

There is a saying in the soldiers: 'Although the kingdom is great, the warlike will perish.' Although the world is safe, it will be dangerous to forget the war! This time-honored maxim reveals an ironclad truth - the belligerent will perish, and the forgetful will die!

Throughout the past 5,000 years, ancient and modern Chinese and foreign affairs, all the war-forgetting regimes that indulged in fantasy have all been aggrieved and perished, making the people of the country regret and sigh, and the people of later generations laughing and talking, without exception.

Take history as a mirror and never forget the war.

This is the end of the story of the Chu State, and it is necessary to mention at the end the fate of the general of the Shangzhu State.

In the suicide battle that day, Zhu Lie did not stay in the rear again, but rushed to the front, but after all, he was old and weak, and fainted in the battle, and his guards protected him to the death, and finally became a prisoner of Qin.

When he woke up, he saw King Wucheng of Qin who was thinking about it and hating him so much, and the two were also old acquaintances, so naturally they didn't need to introduce greetings like Zhao Wuyi.

The old general confidently looked at King Wucheng in his prime, and the first sentence was to say: "Dare to ask the prince this year?" ”

"Just the right year." Qin Lei said lightly.

"It's only thirty." Zhu Hongjun shook his head and sighed: "I didn't expect that the first time of the Great Chu Water Division, he would be defeated in the hands of such a young general. ”

"No, you're wrong." Qin Lei also shook his head and said: "In the battle of Dongting Lake, this king is just a spectator, and it is my righteous brother who really defeated you......"

"Farewell?" Zhu Lie pursed his lips and said, "It's just that my subordinates are defeated." Although he had fallen into such a field, he was not willing to make a name for himself as a man who died at his hands.

"Stupid." Qin Lei snorted and said, "The destruction of you and the Chu State Water Master is all planned by the old marshal," he said with a sneer: "In order to let you understand that you are dead, I will tell you a secret that has been buried for twelve years." ”

"What's the secret?"

"The reason why Gong Liangyu was able to enter and leave Daqin back then, as if he was in a no-man's land, was due to the arrangement of Marshal Bo Xiang." The corners of Qin Lei's mouth tugged at a grim smile: "Wise as Zhu Hongjun, you should have understood." ”

Zhu Lie's face changed drastically, and it took a long time before he made up his mind: "Could it be that the blueprint of the oar-ship was deliberately stolen by Bo Xian Bieli?" ”

"Exactly!" Qin Lei high-fived, and said with a smile: "Since you got that drawing, you have been led by my brother-in-law, but you are conceited and clever, and you are still in the dark until now, don't you feel pathetic?" Originally, he still listened to and respected this old general who persevered to the end, but his contemptuous words towards Marshal Bo Xian suddenly aroused Qin Lei's anger, and he spoke harshly.