Chapter 181: The Night of Xin'an
\\ "Kill them all" Yingbu stood on the mountainside with his hands crossed on his waist, and behind him was a large group of Chu troops armed with bows and crossbows.
At the pass at the bottom of the mountain, a group of Qin troops who were busy fleeing for their lives had just been 'forced' back by the arrows of the Chu army on the mountainside on both sides
Groups of Chu saber and axe men howled and slashed at the Qin officers and soldiers who had just woken up from their sleep and had not yet fully understood what had happened
Some of the Qin troops who were still in their sleep and got up slower were chopped into two water scoops by the Chu army who broke into the tent, and those who had already got up and found that countless Chu troops with knives and axes rushed in the barracks, and they ran out of the camp tent with a howl of fear
These Qin troops, who had just woken up from their sleep and their brains were still in a 'chaos', first fled towards the mouth of the canyon, and when they reached the mouth of the canyon, countless arrows suddenly rained down on the mountainsides on both sides, and the Qin troops running in front were 'shot' by the arrows and fell down
The Qin army in the back saw that the Qin army in front of them was 'shot' to death, and they all screamed and turned around and ran back
After slashing the Qin army in the large camp, the Chu saber axe hand immediately turned his head and killed the fleeing Qin army
Qin Jun, who had just woken up from his sleep, was attacked from three sides by the sword and axe hand, and blindly chose the only road that no one was obstructing
A terrible scream pierced the night sky, followed by countless screams, one after another, rows of Qin troops were driven to the edge of the cliff by the Chu army when they could not see in the night, and they stumbled and fell
The Qin army in front fell off the cliff, and the Qin army behind them tried to stop their pace, but behind these Qin troops who found that there was a cliff in front of them, there were countless Tong Ze who were eager to flee for their lives, and these Qin troops who wanted to stop were pushed down the cliff by Tong Ze who was surging from behind before they could stand firmly
The miserable howl of "killing" the Qin army not only did not 'provoke' the compassion of the Chu army, but even more 'provoked' their bloodthirsty rage, and the Chu army sabers and axe hands frantically grabbed their weapons and smashed the slow Qin troops to the ground one by one
The Qin army, which was being chased by the Chu army, fled with rolling and crawling, and they desperately pushed Tong Ze in front of them, and in this 'chaotic' situation, although the Qin army running in front found that there was a dead end in front of them, but they were still pushed by Tong Ze behind them and fell down the cliff in rows
Nearly 10,000 Qin troops turned their backs to the cliff and knelt in front of the Chu army holding sharp blades, these Qin troops finally stopped when they fled to the edge of the cliff, and no one fell down anymore, but the 200,000 Qin army was only a handful of them at this time, and it was impossible to fight with the Chu army to break the net, and what was waiting for them to continue to flee was to fall under the abyss
There is only one way in front of these Qin troops, that is, to beg the Chu army for mercy, hoping that the Chu army can open the net and spare them a way to live
"General, there are still nearly 10,000 Qin troops who are surrounded on the edge of the cliff and surrender to our army, may I ask the general what to do?" A Chu officer half-knelt in front of Yingbu and Pu and asked what to do with the surrendered Qin army
Yingbu and General Pu glanced at each other, and Yingbu said to the officer, "Surrender? What to vote for? Remember, today we are not fighting, we are slaughtering, what are these people left behind? Let them tell the world in the future how brutal our Chu army is? How brutal was it to slaughter 200,000 people overnight? ”
"The subordinates understand," the officer hurriedly got on his horse and ran in the direction of the cliff
"The general has an order to kill, there is no forgiveness" The officer shouted to the Chu army who surrounded the Qin army when he was about to reach the edge of the cliff: "All the troops obey the order to kill"
After receiving the order, the Chu army, which was already covered in the blood of the Qin army, immediately burst out with a cry in unison, brandishing their weapons and rushing towards the unarmed Qin army who were kneeling on the ground
"Don't kill me, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a son and daughter under the age of one, spare me," a Qin soldier knelt on the ground, desperately kowtowing to the Chu army who rushed to him
The Chu army, who rushed up first, raised his sword, but after listening to Qin Jun's words, he hesitated, and the sword did not slash at the Qin army
"Waste get out," a Chu army officer rushed up from behind, kicked the Chu soldier who raised his sword but didn't slash down, kicked him to the side, lay on his stomach, and then raised his sword and fell, knocking the Qin army who kept kowtowing and begging for mercy to the ground
"If you are merciful to the enemy on the battlefield, is it cruel to yourself and Tongze, remember?" After slashing the Qin soldiers who were kneeling and begging for mercy, the officer turned around and yelled at the Chu soldiers who were kicked to the ground by him: "Pick up the sword for me, don't think they are surrendered soldiers, you have to tell yourself that they are from the Qin Dynasty, and they are Qin dogs who once trampled on our homeland, kill them all for me."
"No," the Chu soldiers hurriedly got up, picked up the swords that had fallen aside, and rushed towards the remaining Qin troops
The miserable howl of the Qin army finally stopped, and the air was filled with a thick bloody atmosphere, and the blood of the Qin army flowed on the ground like a small river, and the Chu army carried the corpses of the Qin army that had been hacked to the edge of the cliff and threw these dead Qin soldiers off the cliff
Yingbu and General Pu led a group of Chu troops into the slaughter field where a massacre had just taken place, their feet on the ground dripping with slimy blood, and every time they moved, they would make a "haw, chirp" sound
Two Chu soldiers hurriedly walked in front of Yingbu and General Pu carrying a corpse of the Qin army, Yingbu glanced at the corpse of the Qin army, pulled the corners of his mouth slightly upward, and said to General Pu: "Now that it's okay, no one will make trouble in the army in the future."
"Yes," General Pu nodded and continued: "The general is wise, and only by killing them all is really a good way to do it once and for all."
Before the Chu army massacred 200,000 Qin troops in Xin'an, Liu Bang also captured Yingyang and slaughtered Yingyang City, passing all the way through the pass and breaking through the Wuguan Pass and entering the hinterland of Guanzhong
Just when the rebel army repeatedly attacked the city and pulled out the village, and 'pressed' Xianyang step by step, Zhao Gao actually came up with an idea to establish his prestige in the court
He let people find a deer that looked very similar to a horse, and personally led the deer into the Xianyang Palace
"Your Majesty, you know that you like Maxima, so he ordered someone to find a good horse to come and pay tribute," after going to the court, Zhao Gao led the horse and stood in the hall, and said to Hu Hai and the ministers who were sitting on the throne: "Your Majesty and all your colleagues, please look at this is a good horse, you see that it has a well-proportioned body, and its eyes are bright, and it can definitely travel thousands of miles a day."
Hu Hai tilted his head and looked at the deer held by Zhao Gao, and said with a smile: "The prime minister said that this is clearly a deer, how can it be a horse?" ”
Zhao Gao held the rope leading the deer in one hand, hugged his fist, bowed to Hu Hai and said, "Your Majesty, this is indeed a horse."
After that, he turned around and asked the ministers in the palace, "Your Majesty said that this horse is a deer, and all the ministers are here, do you say that this is a horse or a deer?" ”
"Yes, tell me, is this a horse or a deer?" Seeing that Zhao Gao looked serious, Hu Hai shook his head and smiled, and said to the ministers: "I said that this is a deer, Prime Minister Cheng said that it was a horse, you should give the comment, tell me whether this is a deer or a horse."
When Zhao Gao and Hu Hai asked like this, the ministers in the palace looked at each other and didn't know who to help for a while
Many ministers didn't know which side to stand on, and they didn't know what purpose Zhao Gao was leading Lu Laifei to say that he was a horse, but in the end, in line with the principle of self-preservation, they closed their mouths tightly, bowed their heads, and said nothing
In the main hall, there is also a group of ministers who tend to be inflammatory, and look at Zhao Gao's eyes, and when Zhao Gao and Hu Hai asked whether it was a deer or a horse in the palace, these people patted Zhao Gao's horse one after another, saying that this is clearly a horse, and even more even led to the "Book of Horses" written by Bole, saying that if the horse looks a little like a deer, it must be a good horse with excellent endurance and strong and powerful
In addition to these people, there are also some ministers in the palace who are dissatisfied with Zhao Gao's actions on weekdays, these people are very angry when they see Zhao Gao leading a deer to tease Hu Hai, and they all stand up and say bluntly that Zhao Gao brought a deer
The ministers quarreled for a morning over whether the deer was a horse or a horse, and in the end they didn't come to any conclusion, so in order to calm down the situation so as not to cause too much contradiction, Hu Hai ordered someone to send the deer sent by Zhao Gao to the stable to be kept in captivity, which calmed down the dispute
Hu Hai and the ministers who bluntly said that they were deer did not expect that a few days later, Zhao Gao successively found some reasons to 'kill' all the ministers who dared to say that they were deer in person
In addition to Hu Hai being 'blinded' in the dark, the entire Xianyang was shocked, and no one in the court dared to disobey Zhao Gao's voice, and the real power of Daqin was tightly held in Zhao Gao's hands
After the Xin'an massacre, Xiang Ye's mood has been very low, thinking of the 200,000 Qin soldiers who were innocently slaughtered, Xiang Ye felt a throbbing in his heart
Life is so lowly in this 'chaotic' world, and hundreds of thousands of people are easily slaughtered in order to achieve the hegemony of one person
After being reminded by Wu Wei, Xiang Ye chose to remain silent when this massacre occurred, he did not personally participate in the massacre, but every time he stretched out his hands, he would feel that these hands were stained with the blood of those Qin soldiers who had died
The big banner of the Chu army "Hulala" fluttered in the wind, and in the middle of the bright red flag, a big Chu character was very eye-catching, Xiang Ye raised his head, looked at the big flag flying in the wind in a daze, and sighed long
"Why is the general sighing?" Hearing Xiang Ye sigh, Wu Wei, who followed behind him, hurriedly urged the horse to ride with him, and whispered to him: "If the general wants to survive in this 'chaotic' world, sometimes he must restrain his own ideas, I have not given advice to the general, it is precisely because the current form is not allowed, and when we enter Xianyang, I have my own arrangements."
Xiang Ye was stunned by Wu Wu's words, and hurriedly turned his face to look at him, but Wu Wu had already slowed down the pace of the war horse and retreated to the back