Xiang Sheng and the others did not see Liu Quan in the Da Yu Society.

What appeared in front of them was the Qin pawn who was ambushed here.

At the same time, a large number of Qin troops poured out of the reeds outside the ancestral shrine, approaching and surrounding them from all sides.

"This matter is really deceitful, it seems that it is the Ji'er side who did it, and Qin will follow the line of the Liu family to track down us. Could it be that Ji'er really killed Zhao Tuo? ”

Xiang Sheng's thoughts turned, and at the same time he drew his sword and wanted to fight with the Qin people.

At this moment, Jing Ju, who was following him, screamed.

"I'll descend!"

"I'm willing to surrender, please spare my life!"

Jing Ju actually chose to lay down his arms and surrender to the Qin army.

Xiang Sheng was shocked when he heard this, and said angrily: "Jingju, we are all nobles of Chu, and we are mortal enemies with the Qin people. Now that you are besieged by it, you should fight to the death to the end, why do you want to surrender to the Qin people! Pick up your sword, let's fight with the Qin people. ”

Jing Ju glared at Xiang Xiang and said, "We were originally incognito, but with a new identity, the Qin people will not be able to catch us no matter what." It's all the trouble caused by your Xiang clan's Xiang family, if he hadn't insisted on going to the south to assassinate Zhao Tuo, how could there be today! ”

"Xiang Sheng, all these things were caused by the Xiang clan, and you Xiang clan's people are right to die. And why should I, Jingju, lose my life for the mistakes he made! ”

Xiang Sheng froze.

Jing Ju's words are really right, if it weren't for Xiang Ji's insistence, they wouldn't have fallen to such a point at all.

Just when the two turned their faces and confronted each other, Qin Jun's sharp pawn had already pounced on Xiang Sheng.

Xiang Sheng roared and swung his sword to meet him, and after a short confrontation, he was outnumbered, and was poked twice by Qin Pawn in the leg and fell to his knees.

However, he was a hard stubble, thinking that he would definitely be worse off than dead if he fell into the hands of the Qin people, so before the Qin people came up to capture him, he decisively killed himself with a horizontal sword, and in the blink of an eye, he became a corpse and fell to the ground.

Seeing Xiang Sheng's suicide, Jing Ju's body trembled, knelt on the ground and said to the Qin army who was surrounding him: "I am willing to surrender to Great Qin, and please spare my life." ”

A moment later.

Jing Ju was escorted to a middle-aged Qin general.

This person's expression was cold, his face was as sharp and angular as a knife and an axe, and his eyes staring at Jing Ju were full of murderous aura.

Jing Ju also commanded the army to fight, and he had seen many generals of the Chu State, and after just one glance, he knew that the Qin general in front of him was a battlefield general, and he didn't know how many people he had killed.

He hurriedly knelt down and bowed: "The general also asks to spare my life, I am willing to explain the location of all those who oppose Qin." ”

Li Xin glanced at Jing Ju with disdain.

Taking the initiative to surrender and honestly confessing will naturally be of great help to the Qin army to hunt down and kill the remnants of the Chu State.

But from the point of view of moral values, no one will like such a traitor.

……

In the thirty-sixth year of Qin Shi Huang, at the end of mid-spring.

The 5,000 Qin troops assembled from Donghai County, Jiujiang County, and Surabaya County began to sweep up the vicinity of Xutai County.

Because there is a Jingju to provide a list of personnel and hidden locations.

The Qin army gained a lot, starting from the hundreds of people of the Liu family, up to the officials in Xutai County who accepted bribes to handle the identity and household registration of the Chu people, and down to all the Chu people who had dealings with Jing Tong and Xiang were all arrested and arrested.

There are more than 1,000 people.

Some of them resisted arrest and resisted, and were killed on the spot by the Qin army.

Many people are crying out for mercy, saying that they have no intention of opposing Qin, and just want to be a good citizen of Daqin quietly.

Li Xin watched coldly, without mercy.

When the Qin army conquered the Six Kingdoms, it did not carry out a major purge of the remnants of the original Six Kingdoms because it wanted to stabilize its rule.

As long as they surrender to the Qin army, almost all of them are not guilty of the past, and they can become the people of the Qin State and live in peace.

But some of these people did not give up, seeing that the Qi and Dynasty had not yet perished at that time, they still had the luck of recovering Chu in their hearts, and followed Jing Tong to hide in the reeds near Xutai, ready to wait for the opportunity to find an opportunity to restore the country.

It's a pity that the Qin state was like a bamboo, and in an instant, it destroyed the two countries of Dai and Qi, and conquered the barbarians in all directions, making it hopeless for them to recover the country, so they came out of the reeds.

These people are not good citizens in the first place, so how can they be innocent?

Not to mention that they knew that the Jing brothers were hiding here, and the Qin State was also wanted by them, but these people had been hiding the thieves and not reporting them, and they had no loyalty to the Qin State, these were all sins!

Compared with these traitors, what Li Xin hated the most was the Liu family and the corrupt officials in Xutai County.

These people used their money and power to forge household registration identities for traitors such as Jingtong and Xiang Ji. so that these fugitives can walk in the people openly, and there was even a case of Xiang enlisting in the army and assassinating Zhao Tuo.

"Your Majesty is right, these people deserve to die!"

Li Xin's eyes were full of coldness.

The emperor's edict was to facilitate the assassination of Xiang Ji, and even those who knew Xiang Ji's identity should be beheaded.

Those who had gone into hiding with the Jing brothers and did not report the thieves were to be beheaded.

For the prisoner who should be killed, Li Xin decided to make the best use of his things.

The dense and boundless reeds outside the county are a good place to hide people.

Before Wang Jian attacked Chu, the Chu general Xiang Yan stationed troops here, using the natural terrain advantage to resist the Qin army, making it difficult for Wang Jian to advance an inch. Later, after Jing Tong died in Chu, he also ran into this place to hide his traces and escaped the wanted pursuit.

Now Jing Tong is repeating his old tricks, and when he found that the situation had changed, he took Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Tuo and others to hide in as soon as possible.

It was very difficult for Li Xin to search for Jing Tong in the reeds.

After learning about Jing Tong's character, he had a plan.

Hundreds of Xutai people with special brass horns walked along the reeds, constantly announcing General Li's words.

"Jingtong is a traitor, the remnants of the Xiang family, you are the nobles of the Chu State in vain, and for your own selfishness, you let thousands of people shed blood. Today, our army executes traitors here, if you continue to hide, within a day, thousands of people will die here, and the entire Liu clan will be implicated by you! ”

In addition to the Chu people in Xutai, Jing Ju, who took the initiative to surrender, was also under the custody of the Qin soldiers, holding a loudspeaker and shouting.

"Brother, the Liu family is my old friend, and this time I was involved by us, and the whole clan was annihilated, how miserable. General Li said that as long as you take the initiative to come out, then the clansmen of the Liu clan who don't know about our situation can be saved from death! ”

Jing Tong and the three of them listened to the sound of the wind in the distance, and their faces were ugly.

"General Jing, this must be a trick of the Qin army, if you want to lure us out, don't be gullible!"

Xiang Zhuang spoke anxiously.

Xiang Tuo also nodded repeatedly.

Jing Tong did not answer.

He turned his head to look around, and saw that the lake was rippling, and the reeds were swaying and swaying in the wind.

The Liu family has a deep friendship with him, and its patriarch Liu Quan is his former friend, and he has pity in his heart, otherwise he will not help them directly after so many years, and even bought the Xutai government to help him and Xiang Ji and others forge their household registration identities.

This love and righteous dedication, in the end, is the family's punishment, and the blood is flowing like a river.

As a nobleman, how can Jing Tong sit down.

This is a transfiguration.

And he didn't think that if he continued to hide, he would be able to escape.

"I will go out in exchange for the lives of the people of the Liu clan. Wait and hide, cherish. ”

Jing Tong arched his hand at Xiang Zhuang and Xiang Tuo, and strode out, leaving only the two of them with shocked faces.

Half an hour later, Jing Tong walked alone outside the reeds with his sword, and saw that there were two or three thousand Qin troops on the opposite side, and a black armor was like a dark cloud pressing down on the city, full of deterrence.

In front of the Qin army, dozens of heads that had been cut off, and rows of prisoners waiting to die, added to the terrifying atmosphere.

Jing Tong looked up at the big flag with the word "Li" fluttering in the distance.

"Li Xin, I didn't expect us to meet here."

Jing Tong whispered, with some sighs in his eyes.

The last time he and Li Xin clashed was on the battlefield of Qin's first attack on Chu, when he was in the Shangzhu army, he personally watched Xiang Yan lead the Chu army to defeat Li Xin, and let him flee with the Qin army like a lost dog.

How do you know that more than ten years have passed, time has changed, the Chu State that once won a great victory is gone, and the Qin people have annexed the world and become the real victors.

Jing Tong's mind was reminded of scenes from the past.

Zuo Sima Zhaoping, defeated by Zhao Tuo on the bank of Surabaya, returned to Shouchun without shame, and died by suicide.

General Xiang Qu was defeated by Zhao Tuo in Pengcheng and killed himself on the bank of Suishui.

Ling Yin Xiangyan was broken head-on by Zhao Tuo on the bank of Huaishui and died with hatred.

What about him?

In the past, he led his army to intercept and kill Zhao Tuo's army disguised as "Qiang" at the boundary of this Donghai County, but was defeated by him.

At that time, Jing Tong wanted to raise his sword to kill himself under the fiasco, but he was stopped by Jing Ju, so he gave up the idea of martyrdom.

"Maybe I should have died."

looked at the Qin pawn who was approaching him in the distance, intending to capture him alive.

Jing Tong sighed, drew his sword, carefully wiped it with the corner of his clothes, and placed it across his neck.

He looked at the figure of General Qin fluttering under the banner in the distance.

"My death is not at the hands of your Li Xin, but Zhao Tuo!"

"Ling Yin, General Xiang, Zuo Sima, I, Jingtong, should also follow you and die of martyrdom!"

When the words fell, Jing Tong slashed himself with a horizontal sword, and his blood flew on the reeds in front of him.

General Jing Tong, who was privately called "the last hope for the recovery of the Chu State" by the Chu people, died here.

The Qin army then searched for Mizusawa on a large scale, and a few days later, under the leadership of local fishermen, Xiang Zhuang, Xiang Tuo and others were found and killed.

The Fuchu force hidden in Xutai County, Donghai County, was destroyed because of the assassination of Wugong Hou.

(End of chapter)