Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Ancient Road Paved with Blood

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The headless Yingbu slowly fell to the ground with a dull thud. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

Tens of thousands of people entered the entire Huai River bank, and the birds were silent.

Tens of thousands of pairs of eyes looked at the headless but still standing figure that cut off his head with his own hands and then carried his head and sent it away.

The wind is sluggish and the water is cold, and the strong man will never return.

"Major General! o Ah! ”

Long He, who had already walked out more than twenty steps away, let out a heart-rending wail when he saw the scene of Xiang Yu sending his head to him. rushed to Xiang Yu with a roll.

Xiang Yu, who had cut off his head, was still standing steadily, but there was no longer any life. The head in his left hand is as round as he was when he was born. It's just that at this moment, there is a little relief and relief in his eyes, and there is less recklessness and sharpness.

The dragon and the dignified eight-foot man were crying like a child at the moment. trembling, he stretched out his hands, but he didn't have the courage to take the head that Xiang Yu was holding in his left hand.

At this time, Long Ji had already understood that Xiang Yu had not given up the pride in his heart at all, and the reason why he agreed to surrender was just so that he and hundreds of Jiangdong cavalry could survive.

Regarding Xiang Yu's suicide and sending his head to himself, Long He knew the reason very well.

Xiang Yu will not surrender, and Xiang Yu is also atoning for his sins. atone for the dozens of Jiangdong guards who were killed by him outside Chengwu City.

Long He had imagined countless times that Xiang Yu would wake up one day, but he didn't expect that Xiang Yu would use such a drastic way to atone for his sins. It wasn't the outcome he wanted to see, but it was the best outcome of the day.

In this way, there is no doubt that Xiang Yu killed Yingbu.

Yingbu's eyes had already begun to flicker when he heard Xu Chuang's words, and compared to the Jiangdong cavalry who were still ready to fight to the death against the Qin army, Yingbu wanted to live more. This point is in the eyes of the dragon, and Xiang Yu also sees it in the eyes.

Since Xiang Yu has already done a good job of using his own head to atone for the Jiangdong guards who were killed by him, how could Xiang Yu let go of Yingbu, whose hands were also stained with the blood of those Jiangdong guards? What's more, Yingbu has never been liked by Xiang Yu.

"Bang!" With a loud sound, the weeping dragon fell to his knees.

The hundreds of Jiangdong cavalry who were guarded by the Qinglong Army also woke up from their extreme shock at this moment, and immediately wailed, struggling to run to the place where Xiang Yu was.

The development of things greatly surprised Xu Chuang.

After all the remnants of the Chu army surrendered, Xiang Yu chose to commit suicide.

Sighing slightly, Xu Chuang waved his hand. The soldiers of the Qinglong Army who blocked the Jiangdong cavalry let go of the Jiangdong cavalry one after another.

…… When Hu Hai received the news that Xiang Yu had committed suicide after killing Yingbu on the bank of the Huai River in Guangling, he was not too surprised.

Bi Jing, this may be the best outcome.

Although it is not known why Xiang Yu killed Yingbu before committing suicide, none of this is important. The important thing is that Yingbu is dead, and Xiang Yu is dead. Death will naturally not be a threat again......

At the same time as sending an edict to Xu Chuang to bury Xiang Yu and collect the Chu army captives to return to Chen County, Hu Hai issued an order to Feng Zai and Han Xin to go south to pacify Huiji, Yanjun and other places.

Xiong Xin, Xiang Liang, Zhaotong and others were all captured, and the main force of the Chu army was basically lost with Xiang Yu's death. At this point, there is no longer a Chu army in the entire Chu land that can pose a threat to the Qin army, and it can be said that it is very suitable to go south to pacify Huiji, Yanjun and other places at this moment.

Chu was basically pacified, and now the last rebellion in Daqin is only Nanyue Ziying and Zhao Tuo.

When hundreds of thousands of troops of Daqin gathered on the north bank of the Huai River to pacify Chudi, Zhang Han, who was far away in South Vietnam, was not idle.

From the fifth day of the ninth month of September, when they arrived at Ba County, Tong County (the center of Fuling District, Chongqing City, later Chongqing), with the help of Ba Qing, the 150,000 tiger army quickly crossed the Yangtze River and began to flow down the Wujiang River into Qianzhong County.

Of course, the Wujiang River is not called Wujiang at this time in Daqin, but is called Yanshui.

In the pre-Qin era, most of the entrances were concentrated in the Central Plains and other places, that is, the original five kingdoms of Qi, Korea, Wei, Zhao, and Qin, such as Yan and Chu.

In later generations, Yunnan-Guizhou, Gansu, Liaodong, Guangxi, Guangzhou, Fujian, Hunan, Jiangsu-Zhejiang and other places, especially near the coastline, although most of them were vast, but the cities were scarce.

Of the three counties of South Vietnam, in addition to Nanhai County, which has three cities including the county administration, Guilin County has only two cities, and Xiang County has only one city.

After the first emperor pacified, Zheng Guo was ordered to survey more than 400 roads in the early days, from low to high, divided into three categories and integrated separately.

The first category is the county official road. Most of these official roads were integrated and repaired according to the roads of the original Seven Kingdoms. The second type is the 12 official roads through the outside world centered on the Neishi County where Xianyang, the capital of the Great Qin State, is located. (These twelve official paths were introduced in the second volume of more than 200 chapters, so I won't say much here.) The third category is the Downhill Path. There are four thousand lines in the Chi Road. They are: Xianyang to Hangu Pass, Qin Yan Qi Road, Qin Wu Yue Road, Qin Chu Yue Road.

In addition to the above three main thousand roads, in order to fight against the Xiongnu, the first emperor specially ordered Meng Tian to build a straight road from Guanzhong to Jiuyuan. This is a road that opens the road in the mountains, fills in the valley, does not detour, and goes straight north from Guanzhong to a road in Jiuyuan. Therefore, it is called a straight road, in addition to the straight road itself, it also represents the jing god of Daqin according to the Zhou system. Zhou used to have a straight road as well.

Poetry? Lesser? Dadong" song cloud: "Zhou Dao is like a stone, and it is as straight as an arrow." "Singing is the ancient royal road of the Zhou Dynasty.

At the beginning of the pacification, the first emperor couldn't wait to carry out two huge battles. The battle of the southern expedition to Baiyue and the northern attack on the Xiongnu. Among them, Meng Tian attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and the Jiuyuan Straight Road had not yet been completed at that time.

The main force of the Qin army in the southern expedition to Baiyue was divided into three routes. All the way the army to Qin-Wu-Yue Chi Road, north to Hangu Pass Chi Road as the contact point, south to Chu State Yingshou (Shou Chun) Chi Road as the turning point, southeast through Dantu, Wuzhong, through the south bank of Zhenze, into Huiji County, and then south into the land of Minyue.

The other army took the Qin-Chu Yuechi Road, took the Hangu Guanchi Road in the north, went south through Luoyang, Xinzheng and Anling, passed through the old Chu Chencheng and Ruyin, and arrived at the old Chu capital Yingshou (Shouchun), and then went south through Hengshan County and Changsha County, crossed the Wuling Mountains to reach Nanhai County, and then arrived at Guilin County. This road is from the south of Wuling, and it is called Yangyue New Road.

In the original history, when the remnants of the Six Kingdoms surged and raised the banner of anti-Qin, because of the chaos in the Central Plains of Great Qin, Zhao Tuo, the captain of the South China Sea, closed the Qin, Chu and Yuechi Dao, and finally wandered away from the struggle between Chu and Han.

The army of Great Qin's southern expedition to Baiyue was said earlier to move south with the surrendered Chu army as the main force. Therefore, in 219 BC, when Tu Sui was the main general of the southern expedition, he mainly took the first two relaxation roads.

Following Tu Sui's death and the failure of the First Southern Expedition, the First Emperor confirmed the construction of the Ling Canal on his southern tour, and then Ren Huan led the army south again, and finally pacified Nanyue in 214 BC. During the southern expedition of Ren Huan, there was a large army that set out from Ba County and crossed Qianzhong County along the Wujiang River to Xing'an County near Guilin in later times, and then turned to attack South Vietnam through the Ling Canal.

Similarly, it was in the year that the construction of the Ling Canal was completed that the First Emperor finally pacified Nanyue, and the vast land of Nanyue was officially incorporated into the Chinese territory for the first time. Since then, it has never left the territory of China.

The route taken by Zhang Han's army today is the route taken by the third army of the original emperor's southern expedition.

However, the more than 1,000-mile journey from Tongxian County to Lingqu in Guilin County is not a road at all. It is completely an avenue that is stepped on by more than 100,000 old Qin who set out from Bashu with his feet and stepped on in countless lofty mountains.

After the pacification of South Vietnam, the First Emperor successively moved hundreds of thousands of old Qin into South Vietnam to stabilize the foundation of South Vietnam and assimilate the Baiyue barbarians. On both sides of this avenue, there are no less than 100,000 old Qin tribes buried. These entered, there were strong men, soldiers, old and weak, and women and children.

Countless old Qin Jin stepped out of this road to pacify South Vietnam with their feet.

After a lapse of several years, Zhang Han led 150,000 emperors' pro-army tigers, and once again walked on this ancient road that was completely opened up by Lao Qin's blood and sweat.

Every ri, the letter of Zhang Han's army will be delivered on time to Hu Hai's bronze case. While Hu Hai was concerned about the battle of Pingchu, he did not let go of his attention to Zhang Han's army.

In fact, in addition to the long distance, high mountains and dangerous forests, and difficult roads in South Vietnam, the most difficult thing to adapt to is the humid and hot climate of Yunnan and Guizhou in South Vietnam. The climate in Bi Jing Pass can be said to be very different from the climate in South Vietnam.

Every time Zhang Han's letter is reported, everything will be reported to Hu Hai on the march, which is Hu Hai's request. With the conditions of Daqin now, if Hu Hai wants to tour the south and walk South Vietnam again, I am afraid that it will be impossible without a year and a half.

And now that Great Qin has just gone through a critical period of war, Hu Hai simply doesn't have so much time for him to squander. He is not the first emperor now, and he can settle this huge throne as soon as he enters.

Zhang Han's letter and newspaper, if he took Hu Hai to take this ancient road to the south covered with the blood and sweat of Lao Qin.

Marching through the land of South Vietnam, every riri saw endless mountains, reckless trees, never-receding dark green, and the pouring rain that would come every now and then.

When I first entered this ancient road, the tiger soldiers who had lived in Guanzhong since I was a child were still surprised by the roar of apes and tigers all over the mountains, and they were still intoxicated by the emerald green that could not be seen in Guanzhong at all in this season.

But after a long and boring march of more than ten years, none of them were surprised to hear the roar of the tiger. Whoever walks on for more than ten years will not see the slightest smoke in addition to seeing the robe around him, and he will not be visually fatigued.

It's a long and boring journey!

On both sides of the ancient road, a white skeleton will be found, weathered to the point that it shatters at the slightest touch. After more than ten years of marching, the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army did the most to solemnly bury a white bone pit with exposed bones.