The land of Hedong was divided into Jin, Zhao and Han during the Warring States Period, and Taiyuan, Shangdang and Hedong counties in Qin. There is Jingcheng Pass in the east, the big river in the west and south, but the middle is a horse and a flat river, which is a place where the soldiers must compete for the east and west.

When the state of Zhao was strong, he once raised horses across the river to look at Qin, so that the Qin people did not dare to look east. At that time, the strongest soldiers in the world were none other than Qin and Zhao, and even the famous four famous generals of the Warring States Period, Qin and Zhao were equally divided, each with two of them. After Changping, the Zhao State collapsed, and the Qin State truly dominated the Seven Kingdoms and then dominated the world.

The land in Hedong is fertile, fertile for thousands of miles, and the population is also extremely dense, and it is the third largest granary of the Qin State after Guanzhong and Bashu. Because these three counties were annexed by the Qin State earlier, and the Zhao and Han were weak and unable to counterattack in the late Warring States period, the damage suffered in the unification war was not serious. People are determined, and most of the people live a simple and quiet life.

However, in October of the first year of the Second Emperor, the land east of the river fell into chaos. The rebel army from Henan, with the help of Zhang Er and Chen Yu of the Zhao family, fell everywhere they went. In less than two months, Wuchen captured the three counties of Handan, Julu and Hengshan, and established himself as the king of Zhao in Handan.

The ambitions of the military ministers who claimed to be the queen swelled rapidly, and under the instigation of Zhang Er and Chen Yu, they sent two large armies to capture Hedong and Yandi respectively, hoping to occupy the land of Hebei before the northern army moved south.

Because the north has the protection of the northern army, so the Qin State in the three counties of Hedong garrison is not very many, Wuchen's western expedition army out of the Jingcheng Pass after the easy capture of Shangdang County, the south and Zhou City troops will divide the Hedong, the north continues to attack the north under the Jinyang City. Because he was afraid of the strong strength of the northern army, he stopped and only sent troops around to capture the subordinate counties.

Of course, the Zhao people and the Han people did not have a good impression of the Qin State, which had a lot of labor, and they also had little interest in the rebel army from the Chu State, although they had the support of the old Zhao nobles such as Zhang Er and Chen Yu, but the Zhao people still rejected this group of foreign Chu people to occupy the magpie's nest. The land of Zhao and Han was originally extremely martial, so a large number of Zhao people gathered to protect themselves, neither loyal to the Qin State, nor responded to this 'pseudo-Zhao'.

But the people take food as the sky, and more people are still toiling for their livelihood, and the changing king's banner on the head of the city has nothing to do with them.

It was already afternoon, and the old man Zhang, who was busy in the field, put down his hoe, took out a dry cake from the basket, took a bite of it, and swallowed it. I just wanted to call my wife to come and eat together, but I heard my wife shouting in the distance, so I hurriedly put down the dry cake, grabbed the hoe and rushed up.

Seeing his wife standing there intact, Old Man Zhang's hanging heart was put down. I saw a person lying on his field, not moving, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.

Aunt Zhang patted her chest with her hand and said in shock; "Old man, look at whether this man is dead or alive, and how he is lying in the field of our house."

Old man Zhang held the hoe vigilantly, approached the man on the ground and turned around, and then carefully turned the man over with the hoe.

But I saw that it was a very young man, his face was pale, and although he was wearing tattered, he could still vaguely see that it was Qin Bing's clothes and armor. There were also a few wounds wrapped in thick cotton cloth, probably too long to bandage, looking dirty, already soaked with blood.

Old man Zhang shook his head and said; "It looks like he's dead, and he doesn't react at all, but it's pitiful, he died in this foreign land at such a young age. Alas, in this world, it's better not to fight, just pay more taxes honestly, how can so many people die. ”

He looked at his wife again and said; "Old woman, let's do a good thing, dig a pit and bury this young man."

Of course, Aunt Nazhang was extremely frightened when she saw the dead man, and when she heard this, she hurriedly nodded and helped her husband dig the pit together. However, when the old man Zhang was young, he served as a soldier in Zhao State several times, and he saw a lot of dead people, so he was used to it.

The one-person-sized pit was quickly dug, and Old Man Zhang dragged the young man's body with great difficulty, trying to put it into the pit. Unexpectedly, the young man was not dead yet, and when he was dragged away, his hand moved slightly, but the old man Zhang didn't see it, and continued to drag him into the pit.

Aunt Zhang's eyes were sharp-eyed, and she hurriedly stopped her husband, stepped forward and touched the young man's forehead and chest, and said with wide eyes; "Old man, this man is still angry."

"It's no difference, he's so badly injured, it looks like he's dying, what's the difference if he's a little sooner or later." Old man Zhang glanced at her, human life is like mustard in troubled times, how could he not know after decades of fighting.

"Besides, you didn't see that he was wearing the uniform of the Qin soldiers, it is estimated that the deserter who was defeated from the city was seriously injured and supported here before falling. You must know that those rebels have already hit our Pang County, if our family takes in a Qin soldier, wouldn't it be a dead end? ”

Old man Zhang gently pushed his wife away, patted her shoulder and comforted; "It's okay, you don't see it, go back to the field first, I'll take care of it here. Everyone has their own life, and so does he, we can't control it. ”

Aunt Zhang nodded, her face was still a little unbearable, and finally she gritted her teeth and turned her head around, and walked away slowly. Behind him, I listened to the sound of my husband dragging hard, and the sound of heavy objects hitting the ground, mixed with a soft moan. Aunt Zhang couldn't help but turn her head and just saw the young man's cheek.

"Stop." The wife's sudden roar made the old man Zhang stand there, and the hoe that was hoeing the soil didn't have time to fall. I saw that Aunt Zhang rushed forward like crazy, wiped the dirt off the man's face with a trembling hand, and said in a trembling voice; "Old man, don't you think he looks like our Wan'er?"

Old man Zhang stepped forward and gently pulled up his wife, and said in a low voice; "Old woman, don't think nonsense, if Wan'er lives until now, she should be almost forty."

Aunt Zhang covered her nose and cried: "But he was also this age back then, and he was so young, you look at him, look at his face, look at the corners of his eyebrows, he looks almost the same as our Wan'er." Old man, I beg you, let's save him, just as if he were our Wan'er. ”

Old man Zhang sighed, his son is round face, and swarthy, this person is pointy-faced, and handsome, where can he be a little similar to his son. It seems that the wife misses her son too much, so she feels that the two look the same.

The only son of the two was recruited by the then Zhao State to garrison Daijun eighteen years ago, but unexpectedly three years later, the Zhao State was destroyed by the Qin State, and the son has not been heard from for fifteen years, and he does not know whether he is dead or alive.

Looking at his wife's pleading teary eyes, and thinking of his son who had died nine times out of ten, Old Man Zhang couldn't help but waver even if he was hard-hearted, gritted his teeth and thought: Well, since God sent this person to them, it must be God's will to save him and his wife.

Han Xin slowly woke up from his slumber, only to feel a splitting headache and a trance. Sticking out his tongue and biting hard, it was only under the severe pain that his energy was regrouped.

Looking around, I saw that I was on a clay kang, and the house was a simple mud house, with only a few simple wooden tables and chairs. Han Xin was a little confused, where was he, and he pulled himself together and carefully recalled what happened before he fainted.

After leaving Wang Jing that day, he rode all the way east. He was already seriously injured, and although Wang Jing gave him the medicine, it was also for external injuries, but it was useless for infection and fever.

The more Han Xin walked, the more he felt his head heavi, and finally he couldn't support it and fell off the horse and fainted. After being rescued by the old couple, they also had a low-grade fever and were unconscious.

A man of good physique like him, who had never had any illness since he was a child, suddenly collapsed like a mountain and almost killed him. Thanks to the old couple who rescued him home and took good care of him, he was able to save his life.

Han Xin struggled to sit up, leaning against the wall and looking around, his heart full of doubts. At this time, the half-hidden door was suddenly pushed open, and Aunt Zhang walked in with a pottery bowl, and when she saw Han Xin sitting on the kang, she couldn't help but be stunned, and then said with great joy; "You're awake."

Han Xin nodded blankly, and Aunt Nazhang hurriedly stepped forward, handed over the pottery bowl in her hand, and said with concern; "Come, drink a little. You're badly injured and weak, and you should eat something. ”

Han Xin took the pottery bowl with some distraction, and looked down at the clothes on his body, although they were full of patches, they were very clean.

Aunt Zhang saw Han Xin's puzzlement, so she smiled and pointed to a wooden cabinet road; "You're wearing too dirty, and it's all bloodstains, so I'll help you change into clean clothes, and yours has been washed and put there."

"Oh." Han Xin nodded, his spirit gradually recovered, and he looked at the pottery bowl in his hand again, and saw that it contained a bowl of yellow and thick millet porridge, which looked very attractive. Han Xin has been drinking porridge water for more than ten days, and his stomach is already hungry, so he took the wooden spoon and ate it in a big gulp, and after a while, a small bowl of rice porridge was eaten to the bottom.

When Aunt Zhang saw Han Xin's gobbling up food, she couldn't help but smile into a gap in her eyes, stretched out her hand to take the empty pottery bowl, and said with a smile; "No hurry, no hurry, what about the others, you wait for that, I'll do it."

After saying that, he turned around and left, and after a while, Aunt Zhang walked in with a pot of steaming millet porridge, and a few hard-boiled eggs in a clay bowl. Han Xin was really hungry, and he didn't care about being polite, so he didn't care about eating it when he took it, but Aunt Zhang was afraid that he would be hot and kept reminding him.

It wasn't until he ate that Han Xin put down the clay pot and met Aunt Zhang's smiling and kind face. Suddenly remembered that Aunt Zhang's house was surrounded by four walls, and these eggs and millet should be good things for her to exchange for money and salt.

With a burst of gratitude in his heart, he said; "Auntie, thank you for saving your life, I believe that he will repay you again one day."

Aunt Zhang smiled when she heard this, and hurriedly waved her hand and said; "It's okay, it's okay, you don't have to repay it, it's good that you can get better."

After the old man Zhang came back, Han Xin ignored the excuses of the two, and knelt down to thank the two for saving their lives. After more than ten days, Han Xin recuperated in the old man's house in Zhang, he was originally a strong and healthy person, infected with typhoid fever, he quickly recovered, and he was able to walk as usual in a few days, although the wound will still be faintly painful when exerting force, but it is no big deal.

During this period of time, the old man and his wife have been taking good care of Han Xin, especially Aunt Zhang, who has taken almost every care of Han Xin. Han Xin already knew about their son from the mouths of the two, so he guessed that Aunt Zhang regarded him as a son, and he was not disgusted in his heart, but felt a little warm.

As the days passed, Han Xin's injuries were almost healed. Counting the time including the coma, he has been delayed here for more than half a month, so he wants to find an opportunity to resign to the second elder. I was about to say it when I was eating on this day, but suddenly I saw a person running in in a panic outside the door, but it was the village chief.

The village chief was not surprised when he saw Han Xin, but just looked at Old Man Zhang and said; "Old man Zhang, there are a large group of military masters from outside the village, looking dressed as a rebel, and they are about to enter the village. I know you have outsiders at home, so I came to say hello to you, be careful. With that, he turned and left.

Aunt Zhang hurriedly took Han Xin's hand and said; "You hide in the cellar first, you are a Qin soldier, and your accent is a foreigner, it will not be good if they find out."

Han Xin hesitated; "Then you will not be in danger."

Old man Zhang shook his head and said; "The rebels claim to be there to save us ordinary people, and they shouldn't hurt us. It's great to grab something and go, anyway, our family is also poor, if you want to take it, you still listen to your aunt's words and hide, don't clash with that group of military masters. ”

Han Xin hesitated, and then heard the noise of the soldiers outside the window getting closer and closer, so he nodded in agreement and hid in the cellar behind the house.

This cellar is often opened for ventilation, so the air inside is not very dirty, and Han Xin does not feel suffocated when he stays inside. I waited patiently for a while, because the cellar was very well insulated, and I couldn't hear the movement above, and I didn't see Uncle Zhang and his wife calling him for a long time, so I couldn't help but feel a little flustered.

After waiting for a while, he suddenly heard a scream, although the sound was inaudible through the cellar, but Han Xin still heard it faintly. His face changed greatly, and he hurriedly lifted the lid of the cellar and ran out, and heard several screams from afar.

As soon as I went out and entered the courtyard, I couldn't help but open my eyes with anger and want to crack.

Seeing that the old man Zhang and his wife were already lying in a pool of blood, Han Xin hurriedly stepped forward to check, but saw that the two of them were already angry. In the distance, a group of chaotic soldiers were scattering into the houses and looting, and from time to time there were screams.

Han Xintian screamed wildly, full of grief and indignation, hating himself in his heart, why did he hide in the cellar. At this time, when several rebels saw Han Xin, they rushed forward with a cruel smile and raised their knives to slash.

Han Xin half-knelt on the ground and looked at the corpse of the second elder, as if he had no sense of the knife that slashed at him. Just when the knife was about to be cut, Han Xin suddenly turned around and quickly grabbed the big knife, and hacked several rebellious soldiers to death with several backhand swords.

At this time, the leader of the rebels also found out that his subordinates were killed by Han Xin, and in a fit of rage, he didn't care about chasing and killing the people, so he hurriedly gathered hundreds of his subordinates and killed Han Xin.

Han Xin couldn't ask for it, so he killed him head-on, and the big knife flew up and down, as if to vent the grief and anger in his heart. In the blink of an eye, the rebels were killed by Han Xin seventy or eighty people, and even the leader was cut in half by Han Xin. Everyone was terrified, and how could they dare to fight, so they scattered in a hurry and fled in all directions.

Han Xin caught up and killed dozens of people, but he couldn't catch up anymore and had to return to the village. With tears, the corpse of the second elder was collected and buried, and the wooden plaque was engraved with the words "The Tomb of the Father-Mother and the Husband and Mrs. Zhang".

returned to the house and put on his clothes and armor, and found the fish intestines hidden by Aunt Zhang, Han Xin knelt silently in front of the tomb and swore to the sky; "If you don't take revenge in this life, you will not be a man."

PS: It's been a big chapter lately, four or five thousand words. Hehe, don't scold Jiangnan, it's not easy for salarymen to write books, and it's a rigorous historical novel.