Chapter Ninety-Six: What is the Prince's Kind of Xiangning?
The time has entered the first year of Qin II, in the middle of July 209 BC, although it has entered autumn, but the weather is still exceptionally hot, this is the autumn tiger, the last attack of the hot summer, followed by the slow autumn cold wind.
However, this strong convection of heat and cold is the most prone to heavy rainfall, and it has been raining heavily for two or three days in Qi County, Surabaya County, which has washed away many bridges, flooded countless farmlands, and even flooded some low-lying villages.
Daze Township of Qi County was a small county seat more than 100 years ago, but unfortunately a flood a hundred years ago flooded the entire county, countless people died in the mouth of the flood beast, although the flood passed later, but the low-lying terrain here has accumulated a lot of water, more than three meters deep, it has become a vast ocean of Daze, so it is called Daze Township, and later the Chu State built Qi County in the highlands not far away.
However, Daze Township is the important place where Qi County connects Dang County, if you want to bypass Daze Township, you have to walk more than 100 miles, so Qi County has built a suspension bridge in Daze Township, however, now it is the rainstorm season, the water level of Daze Township is long, and the suspension bridge is also submerged, and there is no water for more than ten days.
At this time, in the ravine next to Daze Township, there were more than 1,000 people, they were doing or squatting, looking miserable, among which nearly 200 were county officials, and nearly 900 were strong men.
When they passed by here, they were trapped by a torrential rain, and many of them were sad at this time, and the officials kept scolding and cursing the strong men.
Qin Law had a strict time limit for conscription, and if the time limit was exceeded, the government officials would be punished, and the strong men would be beheaded.
According to the date, when the flood waters receded, they would definitely delay the date, even if they were looking for another way, there were still nearly two thousand miles from here to Yuyang, but the time left for them was far from enough.
In the col, most of the strong men are surrounded by a short-bodied strong man, who has a strong face, a high nose and big eyes, and a majestic appearance, especially a mole in the center of his eyebrows, which is very special.
It can be seen from the respectful eyes of the strong men around him that this person is very prestigious.
Next to him was an eight-foot man in rags, with a full beard and a pair of eyes that showed wit and a little fierceness.
At this time, the eight-foot man whispered to the stout man: "Chen Sheng, what should we do, it's too late to go to Yuyang." ”
"What Wu Guang said is, Brother Chen, we don't want to die." Several people next to him also panicked, their faces worried.
"Well, I still have a newborn doll."
"It's over, if you delay it for so many days, even if you go, you'll die."
As someone said it, they sobbed in a low voice, thinking of the children who were waiting to be fed at home, and the old lady who was looking forward to returning, and everyone was sad in their hearts.
At this time, someone snorted coldly: "Hmph, it's all tyrannical, and taxes and forced labor are getting heavier and heavier year by year." ”
"It's the brutal Great Qin who oppresses us every day, I really miss the Chu State."
At this time, everyone's emotions turned into sadness and anger, and they cursed Daqin one after another.
After a while, the strong man Wu Guang said again: "Brothers, even if we go to Yuyang, we will die, it is better to escape." ”
As soon as he said this, many people's hearts moved, and they immediately looked around.
At this time, Chen Sheng suddenly frowned, almost squeezing out the black mole in the center of his eyebrows, and finally said coldly: "Escape? Hmph, the whole world belongs to Daqin, where can you escape, I am saying, once you escape, your family will also suffer. ”
Everyone was stunned after hearing this, thinking of Qin Jun's horror and becoming timid again, they all put away their thoughts of escaping, and finally looked at Chen Sheng in unison.
"Then Brother Chen, you should pay attention." When it comes to life, Wu Guang is already a little messy.
After hearing this, Chen Sheng was silent at first, and finally raised his head, his eyes were full of wolf light, and he said in a low voice: "Since going is death, and running away is death, it is better for us to kill this group of officials, completely reversed, and now the Qin Dynasty is unreasonable, as long as we can lay down a county, we will inevitably gather with a call, and then you and I will not only be able to avoid death, but also build a great achievement, and bring your family to enjoy happiness." ”
When everyone heard this, their eyes widened, and even Wu Guang opened his mouth with a shocked face, rebelling? This is an unprecedented thing, in their cognition, the world has always been an aristocratic family.
Seeing this, Chen Sheng glanced at everyone coldly, and said in a deep voice: "If you don't want to hand me over to Qin Officials, my Chen Sheng will die if I don't want to, anyway, sooner or later, if you are willing to follow me, I, Chen Sheng, promise to take you to live well, and live a noble life." ”
"Live the life of an aristocracy?"
At this time, everyone's eyes gradually brightened, and finally refracted the wolf-like divine light, in a desperate situation, their ambition was completely stimulated, and only desperate people would burst out of the last madness and do something beyond the scope of people's cognition.
Wu Guang's eyes were red, he slapped his hands with a fist, and roared: "It's done!" No matter what, it's a death, so it's better to fight. ”
"It's done!"
"We did it!"
More than a dozen people around responded one after another, and a scorching light erupted in their eyes.
In the end, Chen Sheng waved his hand again, signaling everyone to silence: "Don't make a noise, don't forget, there are still two hundred servants here, and I don't know what other people think, whether they will obey me, we have to mention the arrangement." ”
After hearing this, everyone nodded their heads, feeling that what Chen Sheng said was very reasonable.
Wu Guang asked, "How to arrange?" ”
"Come with your ears." Chen Sheng motioned for a few people to approach and bow their heads, and then whispered: "If we want to rebel, we must build confidence in everyone and make them believe in us before they can follow us." If we rebel in the name of General Xiang Yan and in the name of Fu Chu, there will inevitably be many people who will take refuge in us.
However, this is not enough, we also need to make them believe that our rebellion is the destiny of heaven, so that they will not be afraid of the prestige of the Qin army and follow us. ”
After hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement, thinking that what Chen Sheng said made sense, Wu Guang said smartly: "This is easy to do, I have an idea." ”
After speaking, Wu Guang whispered his idea, and everyone agreed after hearing it, Chen Sheng said: "Without further ado, let's do what we say, prepare today, and prepare to act tomorrow." ”
"Okay, whether it will be successful or not in these two days." Everyone nodded their heads and finally split up.
In the afternoon of the same day, there was a servant of the Qin army to command Zhuangding to net fish, and then ordered someone to kill and eat, at this time, a person secretly stuffed a strip of cloth into the belly of the fish.
When the fish is cooked, some people can't wait to eat it.
However, just as everyone was bowing their heads to eat the fish, one of them suddenly raised his head and exclaimed, "What do you think this is?" ”
I saw that he suddenly pulled out a small strip of cloth from the belly of the boiled fish, and at this time everyone gathered around, and one of the literate people also read: "King Chen Sheng? ”
What do you mean? Everyone was stunned, and then looked at Chen Sheng who was squatting on the side, and was surprised for a while, and there were many discussions, until the Qin army officials came up to stop drinking, they were silent, but they also looked at Chen Sheng.
When they fell asleep that night, they continued to think about what had happened during the day, until they were in a daze, when they heard the fox barking again, and they got up in panic.
"Look, what's that?" Someone pointed to a hill in the distance, where a flame was faintly lit, flickering like a dancing ghost fire, from which the fox's cry came.
Then, just when everyone was frightened, suddenly a loud shout sounded on the mountain: "Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng." ”
"Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng."
"Da Chuxing, King Chen Sheng."
One after the other, and then suddenly disappeared, and even the bonfire was suddenly extinguished.
Everyone was shocked when they heard it, and at the same time, they were terrified.
"Sleep, sleep, get back to sleep." One fat and one thin, the two Qin soldiers whipped and scolded, they were the leaders of this group of officials.
Everyone was afraid, so they retreated back into the tent one after another, but after dawn, they couldn't help but talk about it, and someone with a heart attracted it, so everyone thought that Chen Sheng was going to be the king, and everyone was extremely respectful.
It's just that at noon that day, there was an unexpected incident, it turned out that the fat lieutenant was drunk, and Wu Guang happened to break into the camp tent.
"Captain Zhang, anyway, the date has been delayed, so let's go back together." Wu Guang said with a big grin when he came in.
"What are you that dare to say such a rebellious thing?" The fat lieutenant's face was furious, and he pulled out his sword to stab Wu Guang.
Wu Guang flashed sideways, the captain was drunk and stabbed in the air when he lost his head, and before the captain came back to his senses, Wu Guang grabbed his wrist with one hand, and then kicked him on his lower abdomen.
"Ahh Wu Guang grabbed the sword and caught up, and stabbed the captain in the chest and abdomen with the sword, snorted, the long sword entered the chest, and finally came out of the back, the captain's eyes immediately widened in pain, and finally Wu Guang pulled out the sword without waiting for him to scream, and after he fell to the ground, a sword cut his neck, and he went out of the camp tent with his head.
At this time, I happened to meet Chen Sheng again, he was covered in blood, but he was also carrying a sword and a human head, and he was another captain.
The gong sounded suddenly, and the officials and strong men in the camp ran out of the camp in shock, but they saw that on the hill next to the camp, Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were carrying a human head, the sword in their right hand was still dripping blood, and more than a dozen people behind them were carrying whistle sticks, and the momentum was fierce.
I only heard Chen Sheng raise his head and shout: "These are the two murderous captains, he won't let us go, he has been killed by me, brothers, the date has been delayed, going to Yuyang is a death, running is also a death, rebellion is a big deal is also a death, my good man must not be sent to death in vain, and he must die a famous death, fortunately, everyone is reversed!" ”
"Huh?" Everyone was shocked, they didn't expect Chen Sheng, a pariah, to dare to rebel, but after thinking about it carefully, what Chen Sheng said made sense, they really had no way out.
Those officials were furious and drew their swords and wanted to kill Chen Sheng.
Seeing this, Chen Sheng immediately shouted: "Most of you servants are from my Chu, why do you help to abuse, now that your leader is dead, you can't escape the responsibility when you go to Yuyang, and you will inevitably die, why don't you follow us to do a great cause, and you will also be awarded the title of Marquis in the future." ”
Nearly two hundred officials were stunned after hearing this, they all hesitated, and the swords in their hands were also put down, they were all Chu people, and they did not have much loyalty to the Qin Dynasty, and the most important thing was that now Chen Sheng killed two captains, and they would inevitably be killed when they went to Yuyang.
At this time, Wu Guangguang shouted: "The Qin Dynasty is brutal, the people of the world are suffering from Xing, and our family has been forced to die by conscription for many years, anyway, it is a death, it is better to be the big guy, the old general Xiang Yan said at the beginning, although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu, we have had enough of oppression, and it is time to resist."
Everyone must know what happened yesterday, this is the heavens hinting to us, Chen Sheng is our king, and the state of Chu will also be prosperous, with the help of the gods, what are we afraid of? Follow Chen Shenggan, you can get rid of the lowly status in the future, pay homage to the marquis, and live a noble life from now on. ”
As soon as they said this, everyone talked about yesterday's events, and they all stirred up for a while, and in the end, they were even more excited, and couldn't help but fantasize about the beautiful future.
"Bell!" Chen Sheng rang the gong again, and when everyone was quiet, Chen Sheng shouted excitedly: "The prince will Xiangning have a kind of call? Not at this time, but when! ”
"Oppose!"
"Oppose!"
"Oppose!"
The shouts of thousands of people rose wave after wave, roaring out all the fire they had suffered over the years, and the fire covered by the Qin Dynasty finally burst into flames, and finally turned into a raging fire, which was about to burn all over the land of China.
In the end, Chen Sheng used his bare right arm as a symbol, and everyone unveiled the pole as a flag, and copied trees, sticks, and hammers as weapons, and instantly turned into a nearly 1,000 peasant rebel army.
"Everyone will go to Qi County with me, take advantage of their unpreparedness, and take it overnight, and there will definitely be many people following us." Chen Sheng shouted, took the lead and left, and the surging peasant rebels followed.
In the end, Chen Sheng was not at ease, and asked Wu Guang to lead the officials on both sides to enter Qi County in disguise first, and then it was good to cooperate with the outside and capture Qi County.
(To be continued)