Shushan.

Cherry blossoms fall, mountains, wild houses, roads, mountain people come and go, looking at each other and smiling, and then returning to the road. Fields, livestock, ox plowing, dogs barking, but a sense of peace and harmony is revealed in the noise.

"Is it here?" On the hillside, a Qin army captain looked at the existence of a paradise below and said to the scout beside him.

"That's right, this place should be a small village on the edge of Shushan." The scout nodded and said affirmatively.

"Kill, no one left." The captain's dark brown scarred face showed murderous intent, and his bloodthirsty eyes made people shudder.

"But they are all civilians!" The young Sima of the army beside the captain obviously could not bear the style of the captain and advised.

"So what if you are civilians? Could it be that these civilians attacked our food route and killed the soldiers of the empire?" The captain said disdainfully. The captain was well aware of the laws of war and was the elite lieutenant who had survived since the Qin eradication of the Six Kingdoms. These people were the middle-level members of the imperial team and the mainstay of the imperial team. The captain knew that on the battlefield, the kindness of a woman would only harm others and himself.

The captain waved his hand, and behind him were hundreds of Qin soldiers. They held long spears in their hands and rushed down the hillside with the command of the captain, heading towards the village in the valley.

The young Sima could not stop him, so he could only watch Qin soldiers rushing past him, with a clear expression of pain on his face.

The captain was not in the mood to care about the nobles who came out of Xianyang and had no interest in his dream of a war hero.

For the lieutenant, war is war, killing people or being killed, which is so simple. And this young Sima is said to be the son of a noble family in Xianyang City, with a mind full of demeanor, protecting the weak, and protecting the people.

The lieutenant has been out of the sea of ​​corpses and blood until now, but he has never believed in these things. On the battlefield, even a seemingly harmless child cannot be underestimated. Only by ensuring that there is no living creature in front of him to the greatest extent can the best protection for himself and his troops.

From then on, the killing began, and blood surged into the sky. During the Qin army's charge, no living mouth was left.

This time, the mountain people in the village were no match for the well-equipped Qin soldiers.

Half an hour later, the battle was coming to an end. The captain said to the baggage soldiers behind him, "Load all the supplies and transport them back to the military camp behind us."

"Yes, sir."

A hundred baggage soldiers pushed the wheelbarrow and headed towards the village in the valley.

"Follow me! Sima."

The captain ignored Sima behind him and walked down the hillside alone. He glanced at the captain who was gradually moving away. The young Sima Nono said nothing and followed him.

The mountain village that was still peaceful and peaceful just now was already a river of blood.

Piles of corpses fell to the ground, and the Qin soldiers had no intention of burying him. The soldiers were busy collecting supplies, gathering goods, and shipping them.

"What are you doing?" The captain turned a corner in the village and suddenly saw several Qin army soldiers in the narrow alley between the two houses, in the narrow alley, wondering what they were doing?

The lieutenant's loud shout awakened the soldiers, and they were scattered. The scene inside made Sima's eyes burst. A ragged girl was lying on the ground tremblingly, her snow-white skin was covered with handprints and claw marks. Her clothes that were supposed to cover her privacy were torn apart at this moment. Her eyes were empty, and there were still blood marks on her body, and she was already dying.

There is no doubt about what those soldiers are doing.

The young Sima did not expect that the heroic imperial soldiers he had heard of since childhood were like this, which was almost the same as a bandit.

The captain walked up with a bad look on his face, pulled out a long knife from his waist, and killed the girl with one knife.

"What are you doing?" Sima shouted behind the captain. He was puzzled, he was resentful, but he was helpless.

The captain ignored Sima's intentions, and there was still a trace of blood on the ring-headed sword made of the fine iron in his hand. He said coldly to the Qin army soldiers: "Who led the lead in this matter?"

The soldiers present lowered their heads and silently said nothing. Seeing that no one answered, the captain looked at everyone with a bloodthirsty look, saying, "Or do you mean that this woman was used to lewd and abuse together?"

The captain's cold voice resounded through the secluded alley, making people not doubt what he wanted to do next.

Among the crowd, a soldier suddenly knelt down and begged for mercy and said, "Sir, the villain has been in the mountains for too long and is confused for a moment. You can spare the villain!"

The soldier kept kowtowing, and finally cried out in fear.

"Sima, Qin army military law, what should be a crime for traitor and sexually abused women?" The captain suddenly asked the young Sima behind him.

Sima was stunned at first, and then shouted out loudly the military law that he had memorized since childhood and could recite it as if he was like a stream: "Kill without mercy."

"The law has been clear, and the crime should be done." The captain raised the long sword in his hand, and under the scorching sun, he cut off the soldier who was desperately begging for mercy.

The captain's knife was quick, and the soldier fell to the ground without feeling any pain.

"Take his body back, and it means that he died of fighting on the battlefield." The captain ordered the soldiers who were silent as cold as a cicada.

“Yes, yes.”

"I thought you would let that soldier go. Thank you, for not disappointing me with the empire's army." Sima, who was riding on the horse, said to the captain on the way back.

The lieutenant rode on the horse and heard Sima's words and said disdainfully: "You misunderstood. Now our people are in the enemy's territory and will fight for a long time, and they will encounter danger at any time. And traitor and lust will seriously reduce the combat effectiveness of the soldiers. If I don't kill one to warn a hundred, the military's discipline will be quickly corrupted. If the enemy is met, they will definitely be defeated. If the imperial army has captured Shushan at this moment, I will not care about such things."

After listening to the captain's explanation, Sima's hand holding the reins unconsciously relaxed. The military horse shook when it met a stone, and Sima almost fell off the horse's back. He said with anger: "You are neglecting your duties and despising the emperor's law."

No matter what, the more you see Sima, the more you see, the more you feel, the more you feel unhappy, and you always want to sing a opposite tune with him: "Brothers, hold their heads, rush to the front line, expand the territory of the empire, live a life without the Ming Dynasty, what is the point of robbing a woman's wealth? You noble nobles have been frugal since childhood, and how can you know the suffering of us?"

The captain's words were speechless, but Sima still said dissatisfiedly: "Why do you do that? Why do you still lie about him? He said that he died when he encountered the enemy."

"These soldiers are all from poor families, and most of them are not easy. If they die because of military law, the court will not issue pensions. How can the young and old in their families survive?"

Sima stopped and looked at the captain in front of him, not knowing what to say for a moment.

...

When Yu Ziqi brought a thousand Shushan guards to the village, the goal was to break the trees and worms everywhere.

"Damn it!" A foul smell filled the air, but Yu Ziqi didn't look disgusted at all. He half-kneeled down and punched him hard on the ground.

"These damn Qin troops."

"What should we do now!"

"Chasing, we will chase after you by taking a path and annihilate all the invading Qin army and pay tribute to the mountain people who died there." Yu Ziqi's eyes flashed with hatred and he said gritting his teeth.

"Yes!" Yu Yuan's guards behind Yu Ziqi said one after another.

....

In the military camp, hundreds of people were lying around the fire and barbecued for dinner.

"If you want to talk about the empire's army, whom I admire the most is General Wang. How happy it was to follow General Wang and destroy Zhao and attack Chu back then." A soldier said happily beside the fire.

"What are you bragging about? You joined the army five years ago. What happened to you when General Wang destroyed Zhao?" A soldier uncovered his old secrets on the other side of the fire.

"Who said that when General Wang destroyed Zhao, he passed by my house. I also personally sent him a piece of military rations. Why did he say that it was not my fault?"

"You are just a peer man. What does it have to do with others' war?"

"You are so cool, why don't you just follow His Royal Highness to cut off Yan once? I heard that when you were facing the 400,000 Yan troops by the Yishui River, you peed in fear."

"What did you say? Who peed her pants? I was strong and the river was wet."

Seeing that the two were about to take action, the soldiers beside them quickly grabbed them. In the army, provoking trouble is not a minor crime, and there is no need to lose their lives for a quarrel.

...

Sima, who was sitting not far away, listened to the argument and didn't care much. He looked at the captain sitting beside him and asked, "The soldiers seem to respect General Wang very much?"

The captain raised his head, loosened his mouth as he gnawed the sheep's hooves, and looked at Sima with an idiot: "Nonsense. The reputation of the father and son of the Old General Wang, no one in my Qin army knows where you came from?"

Sima smiled faintly and said, "But I think His Highness the Crown Prince is not inferior to the two generals."

"It's not necessary to say that the Crown Prince. If the Crown Prince hadn't led his army to capture Chudu in the south and cut off the food route of the Chu army, we wouldn't know how long it would take for our battle?" said the centurion with a long beard on the side of the captain.

"Lao Fang, how long have the five scouts we sent out been out?" At this time, the captain thought of something, interrupted the centurion's words and suddenly asked.

"It's going to be two hours!" The centurion named Lao Fang replied.

"What's wrong! It's been too long."

"Maybe it's difficult to walk on the mountain road, so I've been delayed for some time!" said the centurion indifferently.

"No, send the order to keep your brothers on alert." The captain stood up, as if a beast had noticed the danger and was restless.

The two centurions immediately took action. Sima looked at the scene and unconsciously held the sword in his hand tightly.

"Our large army is behind, with only three hundred soldiers around us, one hundred of them being baggage soldiers. There are many forks in the mountains and forests, and the enemy will come over at no time. This situation is really too dangerous."

Wow, a sharp arrow cut through the darkness, passed through the heavy branches, and shot a Qin soldier who was about to get up.

"Shield formation!" the captain shouted loudly and responded immediately.

The Qin army, who were originally scattered in the woodland, immediately picked up the small shield beside them and moved closer to the lieutenant. On the way, many soldiers were shot by sharp arrows from the forest.

The shield formation was already established, and the vertical shields lined up to commander, Sima and a dozen wounded soldiers, and the attack on the rain of arrows, which was like locusts, quickly became much smaller.

"The arrow is poisonous, I'm afraid it won't work." Sima checked a soldier who was injured by an arrow on the ground and said.

"Damn it!" the captain cursed, looking at the soldier who was already dying with a black face on the ground, twitching, waved his hand and said, "Give him some fun!"

Sima nodded, pulled out the short blade worn by her waist, and stabbed the soldier in her arms with a knife.

Sima's sword technique was very accurate, and the soldier who was still twitching lost his voice the moment the knife stabbed in.

The young Sima never thought that the war would be so fierce. The life that was still alive just now was no longer shining with glory.

"It's actually poisoning the arrow, despicable!" Sima cursed hatefully.

"When the two armies fight, they do everything they can. What's the despicable or not?" The captain directed his thirty crossbowmen to fight back into the forest, and at the same time he did not forget to teach a lesson to Sima beside him.

There was a sense of open-mindedness in the tone of the captain who saw through life and death. Sima looked at the captain who was meticulously commanding the battle formation, and a sense of pride ignited in his heart without realizing it.

"I haven't officially introduced yet, my name is Wang Li. If we are lucky enough to escape this time, I will definitely invite you to drink and stop drunk."

"Nonsense. Of course you have to invite me to drink." The captain didn't seem to notice the meaning of the name. It took him a long time to react. He turned his head suddenly, regardless of the arrow rain and fire, and said to Sima: "Wait, what did you say you're called?"

"Wang Li." Sima smiled and said frankly.

"I heard that General Wang's grandson and General Wang Ben's son are also called Wang Li. You shouldn't be him!" The captain turned his head, stared at the numerous dark curtains in front of him, and directed his soldiers to avoid the hidden arrows shot out of them, and said jokingly.

"Yes, I'm him!"

"I'll hold back all these birds." The escort of Shushan was very strong, and the captain cursed fiercely and shouted at the soldiers in front of him.

"It's too late." In the darkness, Yu Ziqi walked out of the woodland.

"Sir, our people have surrounded these three hundred Qin corps."

"Very good! The attack has begun." Yu Ziqi waved his hand, and five hundred Shushan guards wearing armor and spears rushed out of the forest and attacked the Qin army's battle lineup.
Chapter completed!