Several soldiers answered and conveyed Xiang Yu's order to the whole army.

Liu Bang stood beside Xiang Yu, his face showed a little embarrassment, but this embarrassment only flashed on his face in an instant, and it didn't stay for too long.

When Xiang Yu and Liu Bang attacked Chengyang, Xiang Ye and others had also set off from Zhen County and rushed towards Chengyang.

Along the way, Xiang Ye and the others met a lot of refugees who dragged their children and daughters, Meng Su and Shi Lei just buried their heads in the road and did not pay much attention to these refugees, but Xiang Ye was not, he stopped and stopped, and kept paying attention to the refugees who passed by them.

After many refugees passed, Xiang Ye shook his head and sighed. Meng Su, who was walking side by side with him, looked at him with some puzzlement and asked, "Good and dignified, what are you sighing for?" ”

"I sigh the people of Chengyang, I'm afraid no one will be able to escape this time." Xiang Ye sighed again and said in a low voice: "Okay, don't talk about it, let's continue walking!" ”

"Why can't the people of Chengyang escape?" Xiang Ye didn't want to say it, but Meng Su wanted to break the casserole and ask to the end, frowning and saying, "Could it be that this time in Chengyang, Xiang Yu will launch a massacre like in Xiangyang?" ”

Xiang Ye let out a long sigh, he hesitated, not knowing how to explain to Meng Su how he knew that there would be a massacre in Chengyang. If he can't tell the truth in empty words, Mengsu will definitely not believe it. But if he made it clear that he had crossed over from more than 2,000 years later, I was afraid that he would immediately be treated as monsters by Meng Su and Shi Lei.

Meng Su looked at Xiang Ye suspiciously, and Shi Lei, who was following behind, also discovered the abnormality of the two of them at this time, trotted a few steps to catch up, and shouted at Xiang Ye: "What are you talking about?" What is it that is so interesting that I should not be told? ”

Xiang Ye and Meng Su gave him a blank look, and Meng Su said angrily: "Fighting, dead people, is it interesting?" ”

"Ugh!" Shi Lei was robbed by Meng Su, scratched his head in embarrassment, and said: "It's really not interesting, what's so fun about dead people!" Let's talk, I'll go and explore the way! “

With that, he ran away.

After Shi Lei ran away, Meng Su turned his head to look at Xiang Ye and said, "After walking together for these days, I always feel that you have something to hide from me." Since you and I are partners on the same road, why can't we treat each other with sincerity? ”

Xiang Ye stopped, looked at Meng Su and said, "I have nothing to hide from you, as long as you pay attention to it, you will definitely find that among these fleeing people, none of them came out of Chengyang." Now that the Xiang clan in Jiangdong is attacking Chengyang, there are no refugees fleeing, there is only one possibility, that is, the people of Chengyang have not had time to flee, and the Xiang army's army has already arrived in the city. ”

"That doesn't mean that Xiang Yu will definitely slaughter the people of Chengyang." Meng Su frowned, still a little unconvinced, and said: "Maybe the people of Chengyang are just controlled by the Qin army and can't get out of the city, but now that the Xiang clan has conquered Chengyang, the people have returned to their old lives." ”

"I hope so!" Xiang Ye let out a long sigh, he knew very well that when they were marching towards Chengyang, there might be a terrible massacre going on there, and Meng Su's good wish should not be possible.

In Chengyang City, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang sat face to face in the wing room of the county government, and in front of them was a low table, on which a small wooden barrel contained some slightly turbid liquid, and a long wooden spoon was inserted in this small wooden barrel.

Xiang Yu and Liu Bang each had a multi-horned pair in front of them. An attendant stepped forward to pick up a wooden spoon, scooped a small spoonful of turbid liquid from the barrel, and was about to add it to the bucket in front of the two, Xiang Yu waved his hand at him, and the attendant gently put the wooden spoon back into the barrel, bowed to the two, and withdrew.

Xiang Yu reached out and picked up the wooden spoon, scooped a spoonful of slightly turbid liquid from the wooden barrel and poured it into the cup in front of Liu Bang, and said to Liu Bang: "General Liu, this is the first time that you and I have sat together to drink since we went out together, and we will definitely not get drunk today!" ”

Liu Bang bowed slightly, and Nuo Nuo answered.

Xiang Yu added a cup of turbid liquid to himself with a wooden spoon, and then raised it high towards Liu Bang and said: "General Liu, this first glass of wine, you and I jointly respect His Majesty Wang, and may my Great Chu Kingdom Zuo Zuo Prosperity and Wuwei last forever!" ”

Liu Bang also raised his wine glass high and drank the wine in the cup with Xiang Yu.

After the two drank the first glass, Xiang Yu poured the wine for Liu Bang and himself respectively, and then he picked up the wine glass and said to Liu Bang: "This second cup of wine, we respect my uncle General Xiang Liang, if it weren't for him to raise the rebel army, now you and I are still just civilians in the city, how can we have the opportunity to show our talents?" ”

Liu Bang nodded again and again, kept saying "yes" in his mouth, tilted his neck, and drank the wine again.

Xiang Yu then poured a third glass of wine for the two, after he picked up the glass, his face suddenly became solemn, and he said to Liu Bang with some amazement: "This third cup of wine, I want to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in this battle, if they didn't fight desperately against the Qin army, you and I would not have been able to enter Chengyang before it was dark!" ”

So saying, he stood up, raised his glass above the top, looked up to the sky, prayed silently, and then tilted his neck and drank the wine dry.

Liu Bang also stood up and drank the wine dry as Xiang Yu did.

After Xiang Yu poured the wine for the fourth time, he didn't pick up the wine glass again, but looked at Liu Bang with his eyes and said: "General Liu, now that you and I are marching westward together, we must work together, and we must take responsibility for what our army does in the future!" ”

When Xiang Yu said this, a little embarrassment appeared on Liu Bang's face, and he answered twice, but he didn't say yes or no.

Seeing Liu Bang's appearance, Xiang Yu couldn't help but feel a little more disdainful in his heart, he walked to the window, pushed the window open, and there was a faint cry of women and children outside the window, mixed with the miserable howls of some middle-aged men.

"There's a massacre going on out there." Xiang Yu's eyes narrowed slightly, and he said without the slightest emotion: "Since the first battle of Xiangyang, the world has said that I am a demon, I don't care what they say about me, all I want is for us to prosper in Great Chu, and all I want is for the Qin people to return our land to us!" ”

Liu Bang stood behind Xiang Yu and was silent, when Xiang Yu said this, he was a little unimpressed, he didn't think that it was necessary to use the method of slaughter to regain the land of Chu from the hands of the Qin people, for him, the slaughter was just a catharsis, just a way to express his dissatisfaction. But he couldn't afford to take the responsibility of slaughtering the city, and his only choice was to stand behind Xiang Yu and find a trace of psychological satisfaction for himself through Xiang Yu's slaughter.

"Everyone in the world is afraid of me! Fear me! This is exactly what I wanted! Xiang Yu, who was standing in front of the window, tugged at the corners of his mouth, revealing a bitter smile: "I don't want to hear these cries, I also know that they all have parents, wives and children, but I have to kill them, because they are the enemies of our Great Chu, as long as they are the enemies of Great Chu, I will completely erase them from this world!" ”

Liu Bang stood straight behind Xiang Yu with his hands lowered, and when Xiang Yu said these words, a strange look flashed in his eyes.

In Chengyang City, groups of Chu soldiers searched for men over the age of fifteen and seventy from house to house, and the city was full of the cries of civilians.

In an open field to the west of the city, the surrendered Qin army and the civilians who were first captured by the Chu army were digging holes in the ground with hoes and other tools.

When these surrendered Qin soldiers and civilians were digging pits, there were Chu troops in the city from time to time escorting newly captured civilians to join the ranks of digging pits.

"Brother, are these people going to be buried alive?" A Chu soldier looked at the captives who were busy digging pits and sweating profusely and asked the Chu army who looked older than him on the side.

Chu Jun, who was asked, raised a finger on the side of his mouth, made a silent gesture to him, and whispered: "Shhhh All the men in the city who are over fifteen years old and under seventy years old are to be killed, and these people are digging their own graves. If a noisy dying person does the last thing, it will be damned. ”

"Oh!" Chu Jun, who was asking, nodded, quickly shut up, and looked at the prisoners who were bending down and digging pits with some pity.

A squad of seven or eight Chu troops wandered around the street corner of Chengyang, stopping when they reached the door of a large mansion with a locked door.

The leading officer turned his head and said to the Chu soldiers who followed behind: "The door of this house is closed, it must have not been searched yet, I will wait and go in to have a look!" ”

The soldiers of the Chu army behind him answered, followed the officer and ran to the door of the house and slapped the door of the house vigorously.

The knock on the door was very loud, and it came for a mile or two, but the door of the house was still closed, and several Chu soldiers smashed it for a long time, where did half of the people come out to open the door.

"Smash the door open!" Seeing that no one had come to open the door for a long time, the leading Chu army officer frowned and shouted at the Chu army behind him.

Several Chu soldiers responded, and they all used their shoulders to resist the gate, and the gate shook a few times, but there was no sign of opening.

"Damn, this must be a big family, and the door is quite sturdy!" The officer spat on the ground, cursed, and said, "Go find a log, let's knock the door open!" ”

"Okay!" As soon as several Chu soldiers heard that it was a big family, their eyes immediately flashed with greed, and four or five of them hurriedly ran to find the logs, while the rest followed behind the officers, pressing the hilt of their swords to prevent the people in the house from escaping.

After a while, the few Chu soldiers who left ran back with a log, and behind these Chu troops were also followed by a new team of people, seeing the new team of people, the Chu army officer who arrived first frowned, stepped forward and hugged his fist at the new team of Chu army leaders and said: "Brother, there is always a first to come first, broken house, we have seventy percent of the things inside, how about you get thirty percent?" ”