Tread, step, step.

The sound of steady, neat footsteps came from the feet of a group of old, tattered veterans.

They all had mottled gray hair, like pulsatillas.

Line up, side by side.

Advance unhurriedly on the streets of Xianyang, just as they did on the battlefield in those years.

Every time you go to the battlefield, it is a test of life and death. No matter how experienced he is, a veteran who will not die in a hundred battles will not dare to say that he can survive the one hundred and first battle.

Facing the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms, all they could do was to hold the Qin Sword in their hands and march forward.

In those years, everyone did this, and then fought a huge Qin State.

The state of Qin is strong, and they are old.

A group of figures pulled a long time under the slanting sun, and the afterglow of the setting sun fell on them, and these strong men in their twilight years could not match each other.

Some of them had lost their forearms, and their elbows were so round that they were exposed.

Some of them lost their thighs and broke off at the root, so they could only rely on their old comrades-in-arms to pull a wooden cart to travel, and some of the conjoined armor stomachs were pulled outside.

Few of these veterans have full beards and tails, even if they don't look like they're in good shape.

But if you look at them carefully, you can see that they either have three fingers missing, or have a large wound on their chest and abdomen, or only have the soles of their feet and no toes.

Sharp weapons are cut, chariots are crushed, and horses are trampled......

But most of them didn't complain, but often laughed and said that whoever was brave at the beginning, Naigong outlived him.

On the battlefield, injuries and disabilities are commonplace, and it is lucky to survive, and there are many people who have not been swept away by this luck.

"Stop."

The city defense army stopped the old men in armor and stopped in front of the old men with a grip on their hands.

"Stop."

The old man in front of him gave an order, and the forty or fifty white-haired old men stopped moving forward instantly.

This scene made the Yishi city defense army on the opposite side hold Changge's strength a little more.

"Something?"

The old man in front of the head smiled.

"Forming a formation has violated the Qin law......"

The city defense army said in a deep voice.

In Xianyang City, civilians were not allowed to walk in groups of more than five people, otherwise they would violate Qin law and be imprisoned.

Imprisonment is the most common punishment in Qin Law, and it is also the punishment that appears the most.

The root cause is that in this era of manpower shortage, everyone is a labor force, and it is too much of a loss to kill. The Qin State had endless civil engineering projects that required a lot of labor.

Qin law is very strict, but among them, there are definitely not many murderous punishments such as beheading, beheading, and splitting the corpse of five oxen.

It is more of a prison sentence - to do coolies, and a punishment to tattoo a word in the face, and a sentence to cut off the nose - a punishment that does not endanger life and wastes labor.

"Doll, see clearly."

The veteran interrupted the speech of the chief of the city defense army, took out his own photo sticker from his inner bosom and handed it over.

The commander of the city defense army took it seriously, without the slightest dissatisfaction—he could tell that these old men were all veterans of the battlefield.

In the Qin State, most people would not look down on people who had been on the battlefield, this was the mainstream culture.

If you look closely, in addition to the names and portraits that everyone has, there is also a knighthood - no more.

The old man in his last years is not only a veteran who has been on the battlefield, but also a veteran with the fourth-class title of Qin State.

No more than five people can accompany the Qianshou civilians, and the veterans with the fourth-class title of the Qin State are obviously not in the restrictions.

Smiled and took his own photo, the old man didn't wait for the city defense army to speak, and shouted again.

"Take a picture of yourself!"

A group of veterans cheered in unison.

"No!"

The city defense army checked the portrait of every veteran, and every old man had a knighthood.

Most of the old people's titles are concentrated in the third-class hairpin, and the fourth-class knights are not higher. In addition, there are three second-class lords, one is a first-class duke, five are fifth-class lords, and one is a sixth-class knights.

The state of Qin stipulated that as long as a soldier captured one of the enemy's "armor soldiers", he could be promoted to the rank of first-class duke.

Of course, "armor soldiers" are not ordinary soldiers, but armor soldiers, generally elite strikers in the army.

Moreover, after killing the enemy, his head must be cut off and brought back to the barracks as evidence of military merit.

With each increase in difficulty, the difficulty increases by at least tenfold. Most of the people in this city defense army are public soldiers, and only the chief of the city defense army is a top soldier.

When they saw the titles of the old people, the already silent city defense army became even more silent.

As sharp soldiers who have joined the army and been on the battlefield, they know very well what the titles of the old people mean - one of these old people is likely to be more than the military exploits of their city defense army combined.

"Boy, which one is your father?"

A one-armed old man carefully looked at the baby-faced city guards who had examined his body and asked suddenly.

"My father's name is Sui."

Babyface replied respectfully, the old man's title is an official doctor, and he has an annual salary of three hundred stones, which is already a middle-level and high-level title in the Qin State.

"Yes." The old man repeated, patted the war knife hanging on his waist and said with a smile: "Did your father say that he has a centurion named Wang Wu who is unstoppable, and he doesn't use a sword, but a knife."

"Big Sword King Five!"

Babyface's eyes widened and he exclaimed.

"Hahaha, even if he has a conscience, it's not in vain that Fei Naigong helped him block an arrow!"

The old man laughed heartily, hoping to hear about himself from the old man.

"You, your arm......"

Babyface grew up listening to his father's story about the fifth king of the big sword since he was a child, and knew that this was his father's life-saving benefactor and a noble man who carried his father in the army.

The fifth king of the big sword originally did not have a surname, but later because the knife was used well, he was given a surname by a general and changed his name.

Father, who has never mixed his surname in his life, will show envy whenever he mentions this matter. At the end, I said that you have to fight for your father's surname to come back.

In Father's mouth, the centurion who used a big knife to slash and kill countless enemies was domineering, born with divine power, and no one could pick up the enemy with his hands, and he always cracked his weapon in half.

Everyone else is carrying a whole head to count military merits, and the fifth king of the big sword is carrying two and a half heads to count military merits.

The image of the big sword king five in the baby-faced heart has always been a tall and mighty idol. So how could the brave big sword king five be missing an arm, and my father knew how sad it should be......

"Out of the way."

The Big Knife King patted the empty sleeve and grinned.

"Thanks to the loss of an arm, the general personally instructed me with a one-handed knife, and Naigong is now more courageous."

With the only remaining hand, King Wu of the Great Knife gently touched the baby's cheek. His eyes were obviously looking up and down on the babyface's body, but the babyface felt that the idol in front of him was looking at another person......

Big Knife King Wu leaned over and stood with Babyface and compared the height of the two.

smiled: "Sui's sons have grown so big...... If my son is to live, he should be as old as you. ”

The son of the fifth king of the big sword also joined the army, went to the battlefield alive, died and was buried on the battlefield, and the one-armed old man did not even see the body of his son.

"If Naigong is alive this time, you will be Naigong's son?" The one-armed old man said with hope on his face.

The idol of the official doctor wanted to recognize himself as his son, but Babyface didn't react for a while, and he didn't wait for him to speak.

"Okay!"

At present, the old man gave an order.

"Yui!"

The old people shouted.

The one-armed old man was also responding, his face could not hide his disappointment, and he quickly returned to his place.

After the Yishi City Defense Army got out of the way and sent a person to the Inner History Mansion to report the situation, they followed behind this group of veterans.

They don't know what this group of veterans is going to do, but it's not a small matter anyway. They are all people who have joined the army, wearing armor and holding swords, marching in formation, which is a prelude to entering the battlefield.

But the veterans all have knighthoods, so if they don't violate the Qin law by walking on Xianyang Street, these city defense troops can't stop them, so they can only follow and follow......

"Father-in-law!"

Babyface screamed in the ranks of the City Guards.

He mustered up the courage to get no response except for the strange looks of his colleagues, he lowered his head and blushed, thinking that he shouldn't have been stunned just now, and now the big sword king will not accept him.

The one-armed old man's loneliness was gone, and he grinned silently.

He wanted to use his best strength to say "hey" and respond to this righteous son, but he couldn't.

"It's called early, and it's time to come back alive."

The old man muttered and touched the big knife at his waist.

"If you have a son, get out, there is no shortage of you."

There was a veteran beside him with a stiff tone.

"! Why is there no shortage of me? Naigong is the general's own name! If you don't go, you will go! ”

The old man raised his head proudly.

"The general didn't just give you a name and surname, you are a proud fart!"

"Then why didn't you? Hahahaha......"

The one-armed old man has made great achievements in his life, and he has made the enemy fearful with a big sword, and he has become the idol of many people.

But what makes him most proud is not the sword technique, nor the sixth-class official doctor, but the two words Wang Wu.

The veterans marched in formation.

The city guards followed.

Two groups of people walked for a tea time, and on both sides of the street, two veterans joined the team in silence.

One of them had no hair, and his shiny bald head was brighter than the sun in the sky.

One has a deep scar on his face, from the corner of his left eyebrow to the lower right corner of his mouth.

Other than that, they are no different from the veterans on the march.

The city defense army did not ask for an inspection of the body sticker this time, and in terms of identifying people, they believed that the veterans of the dozens of junior officers and the largest officers and doctors would be more professional than them.

As the two groups continued to march, the ranks of the veterans gradually expanded and expanded rapidly.

One after another stood there at some point, and the veterans who were stubborn and stubborn joined the group, sometimes in groups of three or five.

Soon, this team of veterans with perseverance exceeded 100 people, and there were no pedestrians on the streets of Xianyang, only veterans marching in formation.

If someone can fly high in the air and overlook the entire Xianyang City, they will find that there is more than one such veteran team.

They are like wanderers returning to their hometowns, and like ants going out to hunt for food returning to their nests, marching from all directions of Xianyang towards the same target location......

Xianyang had only two armies.

One is the city defense army under the jurisdiction of the Inner History Office, which is responsible for patrolling and protecting the safety of Xianyang.

The other is the Praetorian Guard under the command of Lang Zhongling, also called Lang Guan, who is responsible for protecting the security of Xianyang Palace.

Today, the majestic city of Xianyang has a third army, veterans.

The first group of veterans arrived at their destination and stopped outside the Tingwei's mansion, with a total of thirty-eight people.

Soon, a second team of veterans also arrived, blending in with the first, a total of 12 people.

When the veteran general Wang Qi came to the Tingwei Mansion with his six veteran sons, the veteran team had expanded to 15,803 people.

They are disciplined, and their silence is golden.

They wore armor and held weapons at their waists, most of which were swords, but there were also knives, and maces, forks, and thorns that should not have been seen in this era.

The palms of the soldiers guarding the gate of the Tingwei Mansion were covered with sweat, and the oppression brought to them by this group of veterans was too great.

This is because of the iron-blooded aura of the veterans, and since that killing aura left the battlefield, the two Tingwei Mansion soldiers have not been in contact.

And the killing spirit of the veterans is more than ten times stronger than the soldiers of the Six Kingdoms who opposed them on the battlefield!

And the knighthoods of the veterans.

When the first group of veterans arrived, the government soldiers stepped forward to inquire about the intention of coming, and checked the photo stickers.

The veterans of Italy are in the same language, come here to see.

According to the body, it is basically all hairpins, not more.

Qin Guo only has military merits, these veterans are all outstanding military achievements, everyone should enjoy the court at home, and the soldiers of the government have to beg the veterans to tell the battlefield deeds when they see it in private.

Now they are all wearing tattered armor stomachs, standing in front of the government soldiers, although they don't speak, but the pressure comes up all of a sudden.

This is equivalent to a group of lieutenants standing guard in front of the rookie egg, and they are all captains. That's not all, there are majors and lieutenant colonels, who can withstand this.

"His mother's."

Before the veteran arrived, the unique muffled thunderous timbre resounded throughout the audience, and he walked in front of the veterans in the formation with a black face, stood still, and glanced at him.

"How can there be so many people! Liuzi, how many birdmen did you find without saying anything?! ”

The sixth son of the veteran was also very surprised, and first returned to the veteran and said that I found five people for the villain.

Then standing behind the veteran, he found an acquaintance among the veterans of the array, and the fox and the tiger shouted: "Black species, how many people did you bring with you?" Naigong doesn't tell you to keep it a secret! Can't bring too much! ”

The old man, who was called black because his private parts were too dark, innocently spread out his right hand, which was missing four fingers, and his right hand, which was missing his thumb.

"Sixth brother, I'll just call Lao Jiu, Dong, aren't there many of you?"

Lao Jiu, who was standing next to the black race, did the same, spread his hands and said innocently: "I called Ya, Ma."

"I only looked for goods, loose."

"Don't look at me, I didn't call anyone, and when I wanted to call someone, I found that everyone was there."

“……”

The veterans shirked their responsibilities with every word, and they all said that they had called a few people.

The more the veteran in front of the head listened, the more the black line on his head became, especially looking at the thousands of city defenders who were constantly gathering behind the veterans, and he wanted to scold even more.

The veteran thought so and did so.

"Shut up Naigong! There are so many birdmen who are going to mutiny! Go back to Naigong! ”

The veterans were silent for a moment, and none of them made any gestures to leave.

Mutiny...... That depends on what the general means.

They stared at the Imperial Commander's Mansion with the confined gate closed, and silently clenched the weapons at their waists.

"Prince."

Nei Shi Meng Yi rode his horse and walked quickly to Wang Qi's side, looking at his eldest father's best friend in a complicated manner.

He said in a low voice: "This move is very unwise."

The veteran squinted, put a foot in Meng Yi's abdomen, and kicked him three meters away.

Where did Meng Yi expect that this world father would suddenly make a move, and he would be so ruthless.

Struggled to get up, clutching his abdomen, which was like Qin Jian stirring in it, in severe pain, with cold sweat on his forehead, he looked at Wang Qi in disbelief.

"Get out."

Wang Qi shouted angrily.

呲~

The sound of Qin Jian unsheathed by the city defense army was uniform.

Nei Shi Mengyi was beaten, and they didn't dare to be careless.

The situation in front of them will deteriorate if they are not careful, and they must first pull out the Qin sword.

Otherwise, they were afraid that on the way to draw their swords, they would die at the hands of this group of veterans with an average of three or four ranks.

The veterans heard the sound of swords drawn from behind them, and no one paid any attention.

They looked at the veteran Wang Qi in front of them, and watched Wang Qi pointing at their face.

"You birdmen must recognize the face of Naigong!"

The veteran pointed to the streets of Xianyang.

"Get out!"

No one answered.

Silence is the Xianyang of this afternoon.

The veteran's anger piled up more and more, and he was about to explode, and a veteran in front of his head lowered his head.

He said, "Prince, let's stay." It's all here, go back now, damn it or die. ”

"Fart! You ......"

Wang Qi was furious, and his words just began.

In the crowd of veterans, there was a sudden shout, interrupting the veteran.

"Prince!"

The veteran was even more angry when his words were interrupted, his eyes were fierce, and he followed the voice to find the speaker.

Seeing that the old man was sitting on a wooden cart, with no legs and right arms, his left hand was holding Qin Jian tightly, and the anger in his eyes couldn't help but disperse.

"Let me, a wasted man, stay."

The old man was sincere, and he was afraid that his voice would be too small for Wang Qi to hear, so he asked his old friends to push him to the front.

The wooden wheel wheel spun around and carried an old man who could no longer stand up in front of Wang Qi.

The old man looked up at the veteran, put down Qin Jian, and lifted up his clothes to let the veteran see his empty legs.

"These legs were cut off by the group of Zhao dogs called the Flying Soldiers. In the past, the army will continue to march, and a waste person like me will come to make up for his family. ”

Wang Qi was silent, this is an unwritten rule of the battlefield that has not been written into the history books.

In the Qin Dynasty, medical treatment was not developed, and the injury of a broken leg was not necessarily dead, but there was a high probability of death, and even if it was saved, there was no ability to work.

If it is a victorious division, or if the two armies are in a stalemate, they may still be rescued, because there is this time.

But if it is a rapid march, and fierce engagements, the battlefield is changing rapidly.

No one has the energy and time to take care of the invalids, and they usually give a good time and then report the death in battle, and send a pension to the family.

In this era, if you lose your combat effectiveness and ability to work, you will be a waste of people, and a waste of people will be a burden.

"Without the general, I, a wasted man, would have died a long time ago, and I wouldn't be alive now. No one will care about us except the generals. No one will give us a home in Xianyang, give us money and rice noodles, and bring us together as a group of birdmen.

"No one will tell us that the Qin State is not only a credit to the generals today, but also a credit to us. No one will tell us that we are not wasters, but heroes. Heroes, who would say that a bunch of wastes are heroes, except for generals......"

The old soldier, who looked like he wasn't a good person, had a hoarse voice.

Said: "I told the general not to spend money on us, waste. The general said that we are the most valuable wealth of the Qin State. ”

is polite and polite, even if he is old, he is still elegant, and the old man who is incompatible with the armor and stomach on his body walks to the front.

"The general said, 'Anyone who holds a salary for the sake of the people must not be frozen to death in the wind and snow.' The general said that we are the ones who hold salaries for everyone, and we deserve everything. The general has held so much annual salary for us, it is time for us to shield the general from the wind and snow. ”

A veteran who should have been in the underworld for a long time, with the life span snatched from Lord Yama, said some nonsense that was not recognized in this world and this era.

The ghosts are fluctuating, and one or two old ghosts still join the formation from time to time.

Bang dang~

The door to the Imperial Mansion was opened from the inside.

The children of the three families of Meng Xibai scolded and scolded, and walked out of it arrogantly.

They didn't mean that they wanted Li Si to pay the price, but they wanted to win into a good-looking man.

They walked out of the palace and walked quickly, wanting to escape from this place stained with the blood of the three families as soon as possible, and wanted to take revenge on the shaft as soon as they returned home.

These sons and daughters of the three families who started from military exploits do not know how to fight, but they understand politics very well.

What Ying Chengcheng did today will inevitably arouse the jealousy of all the noble officials of the Xianyang family, and he will inevitably have to pay an extremely heavy price.

No one would want to have a Qin sword around their neck all the time.

Today, Ying Chengcheng can catch the three major families of Meng Xibai, will he be able to catch other families tomorrow?

Don't talk about it, you won't be arrested if you don't violate Qin Law, Qin Law is a weapon that restricts untouchables and is a weapon for political struggle.

Qin law itself was not binding on the nobles, and only when the nobles fought with each other, or when the king wanted to kill, the Qin law was binding on the nobles.

Whoever attacks the matter of violating the Qin law itself, rather than for the interests of power, title, fief, etc., is suffering from a mad disease, or a disease.

This was true not only of the Qin Dynasty, but of the entire feudal dynasty, and even the Qin Dynasty was better in this regard - at least in Guanzhong, the nobles did not dare to kill people in public.

On the order of Emperor Shi, Li Si was forced to release the children of the three families of Mengxi and Bai.

These noisy, gloomy faces, thinking about how to take revenge on Ying Cheng, the three children who killed Ying Chengcheng went out of the gate of the Tingwei Mansion, and found that they still couldn't return home - the veterans surrounded the gate of the Tingwei Mansion.

"Where did a bunch of old dogs come from, this is going to rebel."

Someone sneered.

"Get out! Don't get in the way! ”

Someone is impatient.

Most of the children of this group of families have no fear of the veterans, who come from the nobles of the family, and they don't even look down on the regular army of the Qin State, let alone the veterans who look miserable.

They think that they are noble, and they are different from those untouchables who can only fight with their lives.

But when the forest is big, there will not only be stupid birds, there are so many clever birds that see that the situation is not right, and secretly cry out badly, no longer go out, but return to the Tingwei Mansion.

The veterans who were thinking about it stopped talking and stared at the children of the three families fiercely.

The release of the children of the three families means that Ying Chengchan's order is wrong, and it means that Ying Chengchan has failed.

Before the veterans captured the three major families, they did not have much hatred towards the three major families. Maybe a few people will say that the children of the three families are arrogant, but most people don't think that the three families should be killed and damned.

But when the three great families stood on the opposite side of Ying Chengcheng, the veterans wanted the three great families to die.

This is not an ideological shift, but an absolute cult of personality against Ying Cheng.

The veteran turned around and squinted at the crowd waiting.

Although the veteran has not shown up for a long time, the three major families who have experienced Wang Qi's fight still recognize the veteran at a glance, and their faces can't help but change.

呲~

The veteran draws his sword.

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear, and have the same enmity with the son! ”

The veteran sang "No Clothes", which was a ballad that the entire army would sing when he was charging into battle.

The veteran's thunderous voice really can't sing "No Clothes" beautifully, and it can't be compared with the beautiful voice of Youling in the palace.

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But the smell of desolation, iron blood, golden iron horse. Those excellent actors in the palace who are good at acting will not be able to perform in this life.

呲~

The veterans all drew their swords and sang together with the veterans to boost their morale on the battlefield and make the enemy's fighting spirit fade.

"Do you say you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd, and work with my son!

"Do you say you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers, and go with my son! ”