My Chinese ancestors

Chapter 346 Jia Xu’s design makes Xiang Yu furious

The surrounding soldiers were dispersing, and Dian Wei was helped by Xu Chu to sit in the chariot. He took the silk handkerchief handed by Taoist Li and wiped the dust mixed with sweat on his body.

Su Chen gave Wu Zixun a few instructions and asked him to lead people to renovate the government office and build a new carriage.

When they returned to the ancestral coffin, the guards of the Embroidery Department were busy picking up the tokens on the ground. They didn't know what they were for, but no one dared to be careless with the emperor's things for fear of missing one.

"Are there any injuries?" Su Chen came and sat down next to Dian Wei. Xu Chu spoke first: "He is made of steel and iron, so he can't be hurt. But Xiang Yu is very powerful. If he fights with all his strength, he won't know. Anyway, I can’t stop it.”

For Xu Chu to say this, it shows that Xiang Yu is indeed ridiculously strong. You must know that Lu Bu's arrow is the best among all Chinese generals. As soon as he shot it, it was easily blocked by the opponent.

"The First Emperor just asked His Majesty to subdue him. I'm afraid it will be difficult." Lu Bu urged his horse to come over, dismounted with Huo Qubing and came to the side.

Huo Qubing, who was beside Lu Bu, also unusually restrained his usual arrogance, and his face showed seriousness.

"Xiang Ji is a very proud man. He would rather die than be a prisoner. Even his father, Fan Zeng, could not condescend to obey orders."

"If you want to use force to force you, don't even think about it." Liu Bang's body lay limply on the altar table, and only a weak voice came out: "I used it before, but it was useless.

If he is willing to give in... I... I can't say that I will be soft-hearted and recruit him, but you know the warrior in my song "And the warriors are guarding the four directions"... Actually... I just miss him... I want Xiang Ji to be like this The warriors...defend the world for me."

Su Chen knew they were worried, but the token was in his hand. Even if Xiang Yu regrouped, his life was still in his hand. It would be easy to take his life back.

But the Qiangu Overlord wants to follow others... Will he end up like General Song Yi?
"Your Majesty, if you are concerned about this matter, why not ask Taiwei Jia Xu? He is the best at understanding people's hearts." Taoist Li was cleaning the tattered car body, preparing to collect all the memorial tablets and place them in the government office.

When Su Chen heard what he said, he couldn't help but look at the government office where Jia Xu was leading people to inspect the smashed courtyard walls and buildings. Immediately, he went over alone and took Jia Xu aside to ask about the matter.

"Your Majesty, if you really want to think about it, there are some strategies here."

"It won't hurt his life, right?"

"Then I have nothing to do."

Seeing Su Chen's stunned expression, Jia Xu suddenly smiled, "I'm just joking, I'm just trying to convince the overlord of Western Chu. I'm afraid it won't work through coercion and inducement. I have to make him feel sad and guilty."

"Lieutenant, don't be so secretive and tell me quickly!"

"Your Majesty, this is what it is!"

Jia Xu came closer, raised his hand to cover his mouth and nose, and whispered a few words in Su Chen's ear, "So and so, and then... like this."

"Lieutenant, you have become close to Mr. Wolong recently, and have you learned to give secretive advice?"

Cough!

Jia Xu coughed twice in embarrassment and cupped his hands: "I'm leaving."

After taking the strategy, Su Chen was no longer idle. He hurriedly found Wu Zixun who was busy at work. He didn't care about the complaints that this guy was mumbling. Anyway, he was a regular attendant, so just let him do what he had to do.

After giving him a few words of advice in his ear and sending him away, he walked around the pass with Lu Bu and Huo Qubing and chatted about how the battle on the front line was going.

Listening to Lu Bu's wishes, Li Jing is now preparing to use Jiuding Prefecture as the rear and begin to advance the front in an all-round way. After taking over Jiuding Prefecture, he will build a group of fast boats to go south along the Tuo River, go straight through Pingsheng Prefecture, and attack Yangping County. With the flowering strategy, Xirong Qingqi, who assisted the corpses and drove away the tribes, accelerated to conquer the two states.

As the two spoke slowly, Jiuding Prefecture far to the south was plowed by soldiers. Battle scars were intertwined, and corpses and blood were constantly being paved towards the south.

At this time, a large number of Qi soldiers and horses had withdrawn from several large cities and fled towards Pingsheng Prefecture further south. Soldiers were everywhere in the mountains and plains. They were unorganized and undisciplined, and they could almost be regarded as rioters.

The soldiers and horses were in chaos and formed into small groups, causing more damage than the Xia soldiers and horses that entered the country. They rushed into the village, forcibly demanded food, killed people, looted, and even directly snatched women. , pulled her into the house in front of other people’s husbands and parents.

The soldiers and horses were in chaos, and they did not dare to walk through the wilderness or the main road. After all, there were still [-] Xirong corpses outside and the tribesmen and cavalry were sweeping them from the rear. However, in the large cities and small counties in Jiuding Prefecture, two days after they were massacred in Pingwu City, sacrifices began to appear. The trend of city surrender.

Such a scene made many soldiers who wanted to perform meritorious service in exchange for land feel very dissatisfied, especially the Xiliang army. Most of the soldiers felt that they had not killed enough, and they reflected these complaints to Li Jue and Dong Zhuo.

The two of them were also dissatisfied with Jiudingzhou's move to present the city, but it would allow the soldiers to survive longer, so they had no choice but to press down on these matters. The most they could do was to guarantee that they would ask the coach Li Jingduo for some military missions.

However, soon a letter came from Feiyan Pass. Dong Zhuo and Li Jue's hands shook when they saw the content in the letter.

This is to ask them to cooperate to expel the Qi rebels, cause more tragedies, and bring back the memories of the overlord of Western Chu.

Not only the Xiliang Army, Zhang Yi and Zhao Yun of the Youyan Army, but also Li Jing, who was in command, and his apprentice Su Dingfang also received this emperor's order.

Xiang Yu, the Overlord of Western Chu, was the man who interested the generals the most, besides Huo Qubing, who was granted the title of Xu.

As for the tragedy... no one will care.

Soon after, a larger sweep began, but this time it was slightly different. It seemed that they were not chasing down many Qi soldiers, but creating more chaos.

"Jiudingzhou is over."

Li Changjue, the general of Jiuding Prefecture with a small number of personal guards and a large number of defeated soldiers, was sitting on a sand dune, looking north.

This Qi general was originally the guard of Changju County. After the city gate was breached, he led his troops to retreat into the city. After several bloody battles, he followed the prefect and escaped from the south gate.

Along the way, he kept collecting defeated troops and fought with a group of Xia soldiers who were pursuing him. He was almost killed by a female general in silver armor and white robes.

Thinking of this, his chest felt oppressive and painful.

And frustrated!

In the past, he had heard about the Xia Kingdom's army, which conquered the Central Plains and engulfed the Xirong people, but he only heard about it. After drinking a little wine, he could even boast that he could lead an army alone and beat them to the north.

However, when they actually encountered the Xia Kingdom's soldiers and horses, they were as ferocious as they had ever seen.

At this point, he broke away from the pursuit and temporarily settled on this mound. He was still a little confused and frightened. In just over ten days, the originally peaceful Qi country was turned upside down.

Feiyan Pass was captured, and most of Jiuding Prefecture fell into the enemy's hands. Soldiers and horses in various counties were killed one after another and collapsed. Even tens of thousands of cattle and sheep would not be defeated like this.

But in the final analysis, he did not feel that he was disadvantaged in commanding the soldiers and horses in combat, but that it was simply because the disparity between the two armies was too great. The other side was a group of wild beasts. When they smelled blood, they were like runaway mad dogs. 'How can there be such a war...'

He sat on the stone and murmured.

Thinking back carefully, I am more certain that it was not a problem with my command, nor a problem with the city's defense, but that Xia's troops were too strong.

The sun on the horizon has already turned orange, and there are scouts running around here, sending information about the movements of Xia Kingdom's troops and whether there are any raids coming this way.

A group of rebel soldiers also came to seek refuge. They were covered in blood, and their belts were stuffed with looted property. Some even dragged a woman who was only wearing clothes and naked from below. The woman must have been raped by them, but she felt that If it’s not enough, just take it with you and continue to enjoy it.

Li Changjue just took one look at her, and besides thinking that the woman was quite pretty, he continued his imagination without any intention of letting his guards stop her.

It would be nice to have some soldiers and horses around. As for that woman, just treat it as a benefit to these soldiers who are working hard with their heads in their crotches.

……

More and more broken soldiers fled south. Seeing the rebel soldiers taking advantage of the chaos to plunder, many people followed suit.

Burning black smoke rose in the wilderness and was blown diagonally across the orange sky by the wind.

On the roads and in the fields, you can see burning villages, screaming people falling under the swords of random soldiers, and women being dragged to the fields by a few laughing soldiers and having their clothes torn apart.

There was a tragic sound in the wind.

Among the few soldiers who were messing around on the field ridge, someone stopped, raised his head, and saw a lone figure on horseback coming from the north.

Thinking it was some general who had gotten separated, he asked the other party a few questions in Qi dialect, but there was no reply. When he got closer, he saw that the other party's armor was not the Qi standard.

However, seeing the opponent's tall and mighty figure, the silver armor cloak, and the exaggerated heavy halberd in his hand, he didn't dare to have evil intentions.

The generals who came over didn't seem to care at all about these rebels and the people who were being massacred around them.

Riding alone on his horse, he slowly passed in front of these rebels.

The rebel soldiers looked at each other and saw that the opponent's back was turned to them. They were not even on guard. They quietly clenched their swords and looked greedily at the horse under the opponent's body and the luxurious armor.

Several people temporarily let go of the crying village woman on the ground and moved toward the opposite side. One of them was close to the horse's butt. Just as he raised his sword to chop at the knight above, the heavy halberd hanging on the ground hit him. Move it away and directly hit the rebel's head to explode.

Red, white, bones and scalps were all stuck on the faces of the other three people, making them turn around and run away.

The knight over there didn't even look at him, and he didn't even pay attention to the village woman who came to thank him. He lowered his head and stared at the ground, silent.

"Liu Ji... finally became the emperor..."

"He is indeed more suitable than me... It doesn't matter if the country is given to him, but I really can't swallow this breath. There is also Yu Ji... Yu Ji..."

I was talking about this woman's name as if it was yesterday, and all I could think of was the image of her disappearing, "What kind of country, what kind of country, what kind of nobles from the six countries... I was in a desperate situation... Only then did I realize that this woman next to me was against... me..." How important it is...and I...act like a fool."

……

Li Changjue was still stuck in his thoughts about the mounds in the distance. A few rebel soldiers came back in a panic, but he didn't care. Anyway, they finally gathered together and reorganized. They were his own soldiers. Such rebel soldiers The more that come, the better.

Soon, the guards from below came over.

"General, some of my comrades said that there is a Xia general coming up ahead, single-handedly... coming towards us."

"Ok?"

Li Changjue raised his face. He was a little surprised. The soldiers of the Xia Kingdom were so powerful that almost no one could defeat them. He had come here with some experience, but coming alone was simply too arrogant. Anyway, he had more than 2000 people here.

"General, come here, see him!"

The guard quickly pointed to a trail outside the mound. There was indeed a figure riding a horse, walking slowly towards this side. His body was mottled with blood and dirt, and his armor was covered with knife marks, as if he had just experienced a bloody battle.

"Even if you can't defeat a group of Xia soldiers and horses, even a general dares to come here!"

Li Changjue stood up abruptly, pulled out the big gun next to him, but took two steps and then stopped, asking his bodyguard to send someone over to see if it was the Xia General he had seen.

After a while, the scout came back and shook his head, saying that he was not chasing their general.

Li Changjue felt relieved, and just in case, he sent the soldiers below to surround the opponent first.

……

"Yu Ji..."

There were many footsteps approaching from around him. Xiang Yu lowered his head and ignored them. Occasionally, he heard a woman's shrill cry, so he slightly raised his eyes, as if he was in a hallucination, and returned to the big tent that night.

The beloved woman cried and bid farewell to him. She raised her sword and pressed it on her white neck, leaving a bloody mark.

In an instant, an arrow flew over and passed directly through the imaginary woman's figure.

Yu Ji's figure disappeared from in front of him.

"Yu Ji!!"

Xiang Yu looked at the place where the hallucination disappeared, with a ferocious expression on his face, and laughed lowly, with anger mixed in his laughter. He glanced at the painful shoulder and the arrow stuck on it, raised his hand and pulled it off directly. Break it off with a 'snap'.

Xiang Yu turned his head and looked in the direction of the arrow, his eyes almost splitting.

"I want to kill you...I want you all to die——"

Over there, Li Changjue looked at the other person's eyes and suddenly felt that he had done something outrageously wrong.

(End of this chapter)