Rebirth of Wu Ba Spring and Autumn

Chapter 983

"Zixu, I can't let you prevent disasters for me. Zhongshan has hundreds of thousands of dead bodies, which is not what I want after all."

Qingji sighed and said, "Besides, you are already old and can't bear it anymore. How can I bear it?"

"Your Majesty, do you know how old I am?"

Wu Zixu asked.

"If I remember correctly, this year... Guigeng is 78."

Hearing this, Wu Zixu nodded movedly, and said, "Your Majesty can remember your age. It's a great honor for me. Your Majesty, at my age, I don't have many years to live."

"I remember that the king once said that soldiers should be proud of shrouded in horse leather."

"I deeply believe that, as the great Sima of Wu, dying on the sick bed is a shame to me, a great shame."

"There is only one Zhongshan country missing right now, and the king will be able to rule the world, and establish a great cause of the past. This is the last battle of the great unification war. Please ask the king to let his ministers serve..."

"In this way, even if I die in this battle, I will have no complaints or regrets, no regrets!"

Faced with Wu Zixu's request, Qingji couldn't help closing his eyes, feeling very heavy in his heart.

A 78-year-old man with gray hair wants to contribute his own effort to Qingji in the end. How can Qingji not be moved by this?

"Zixu, why don't you stay in Xianyang and enjoy your old age comfortably?"

"No. Your Majesty, this is not how a subject behaves."

Wu Zixu shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, you understand Wu Zixu just as Wu Zixu understands Your Majesty."

"Your Majesty, although I am old, my body is still strong. Don't you know, Your Majesty, that I can eat rice for a meal, ten catties of meat, and be put on a horse by armor!"

Wu Yuan is old, can he still eat?
Are you sure Wu Zixu is not bragging?

Qingji knew that Wu Zixu had a big appetite, but eating a bucket of rice, ten catties of meat, and being able to put on armor and mount a horse, isn't that nonsense?

Even Qingji can't do it!

"If your majesty doesn't believe it, you can order someone to prepare it, and the minister will not dare to deceive the king."

"do not."

Qingji waved his hands, for fear that Wu Zixu would get angry and kill himself.

"Your Majesty, my subject is Da Sima, how can the final battle of the great unification be without me?"

"Never mind."

Qingji finally let go.

"Zixu, I can appoint you as a general to pacify the Zhongshan country. However, this strategy of pacifying the Zhongshan country must be changed, and a two-pronged approach will be taken."

"How to do both?"

Wu Zixu asked rather puzzled.

"The widow has already thought about it. Treat Zhongshan people ruthlessly, but don't just kill them blindly."

Qing Ji said earnestly: "After you took office, in order to deal with the guerrilla Zhongshan Rong in the mountains, you set fire to the mountains and poisoned the rivers in whatever way you want."

"If there are rebellious Zhongshan people who dare to violently injure others, you can also let the soldiers kill them first and then fight. It doesn't matter. But there is one thing-restraint."

"Take one household as a unit. If one person in a household rebels, the whole family will be killed."

"In one village, one family rebelled, and the whole village was slaughtered."

"However, the widow will send people to follow up and move all the hundreds of thousands of Zhongshan people to Longxi County and Shu County for reclamation and garrison. So you just go ahead and do it, and the widow will support you unconditionally behind your back."

"Thank you king!"

With Qingji's full support, Wu Zixu felt relieved.

As the king of a country, if he doesn't know how to decentralize power, grasp the measure, and do things ruthlessly enough, Qingji will not be able to achieve the great cause of great unification.

"It's just... Your Majesty, is it too costly to relocate hundreds of thousands of Zhongshan people to Longxi County and Shu County? Moreover, in the future, the land of Zhongshan will become a sparsely populated 'white land'?"

Wu Zixu raised his own doubts.

"It's only temporary."

Qing Ji said slowly: "Right now, all kinds of businesses in the country are waiting to be flourished, so it's not easy for me to relocate Li Shu to Zhongshan to settle down."

"If the army goes out in the future, it may be possible to capture some Hulu and place them in the old place of Zhongshan."

Hearing this, Wu Zixu finally realized Qingji's good intentions.

The next day, Qingji worshiped Wu Zixu as a general and went to Zhongshan to take office. The original general Tian Rangju was changed to a deputy general to assist Wu Zixu in pacifying Zhongshan.

……

The autumn wind is rustling.

In the Xianyu River area, tens of thousands of Zhongshan people were driven by Wu soldiers like cattle and sheep.

These Zhongshan people are basically old and weak women and children, and there are very few strong young men.

"Go faster!"

"go!"

"Look at what!"

As long as the expelled Zhongshan people were slightly dissatisfied, the soldiers of the Wu army who were in charge of supervising them would scold them at least, and beat them at worst.

The Zhongshan people who were abused in this way were very unconvinced, but they were intimidated by the wolf-like soldiers of the Wu army, so they could only swallow their anger and walked westward.

"Boom!"

At this time, there was a sound of horseshoes in the distance like thunder.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack!"

"Quick! Form a formation!"

The officers and soldiers of the Wu army who were in charge of guarding the periphery immediately formed a huge phalanx and stood ready.

It was Zhongshan Rong who had been hiding in Taihang Mountain who came to attack Wu Jun.

At this time, they were riding tall horses, galloping all the way, like a torrent, rushing towards the Wu army phalanx in front of them out of control.

As the general of this Wu army, Gong Zixi waved his hand with a sneer on the corner of his mouth, and said, "Put all Zhongshan people in front of the formation!"

"promise!"

Wu Jun has always ordered and prohibited.

Even though Gong Zixi's military order was a bit cruel, they would obey it.

After a while, thousands of old and weak women and children from Zhongshan who had planned to escape were driven to the front of the Wu army's phalanx.

Wu Jun actually used these old and weak women and children as a shield?
mean!

In this regard, the soldiers of the Zhongshan Army were very angry, but there was nothing they could do.

"Call-"

"Stop marching!"

The cavalry of the Zhongshan Army quickly reined in the reins of their horses and stopped their momentum of continuing to attack the Wu Army's phalanx.

The cessation of this charge dealt a great blow to the morale of the Zhongshan Army.

Taking advantage of this moment, Gong Zixi waved his hand again and said, "Arrow formation! Come out!"

"Crack clap..."

Wu Jun's crossbowmen formed a tight phalanx, stepped on the crossbow one after another, put the arrows on the crossbow, and after aiming at the enemy on the opposite side, following the order of Gong Zixi, the densely packed crossbow arrows suddenly rushed like a gust of wind. Like the rain, it shot at the Zhongshan people on the opposite side.

"Pfft!"

"what!"

Screams, curses, hoofbeats, etc., all kinds of sounds mixed together.

The soldiers of the Zhongshan Army, who were originally fairly orderly, suddenly became chaotic.

The oncoming crossbow arrows are extremely penetrating and have a long range.

A wave of crossbow arrows shot down indiscriminately, not only soldiers, but even those old and weak women and children were brutally shot to death by Wu Jun.

For a time, mourning was everywhere, and the screams were endless.

"Wind! Wind! Wind, wind!"

Behind Zhongshan's army, on the horizon, a large crimson wave suddenly appeared.

Accompanied by the earth-shattering sound of horseshoes, thousands of rides.

Tens of thousands of Wu troops suddenly swarmed in.

"Get out!"

"withdraw!"

"Escape!"

The Zhongshan Army, which was attacked from the front and back, fell into heavy siege, and could only fight passively, but they were not the opponents of Wu Jun's elite soldiers at all.

"kill!"

The generals and soldiers of the Wu army, who had been holding their breath for a long time, rushed over like a flood that had opened the gate, rushing from left to right and killing all the young and middle-aged men in Zhongshan Kingdom, whether they were soldiers or not, they were all slaughtered by the Wu army. empty.

Along the endless Xianyu River, corpses were strewn all over the field, and even the river was stained red with blood.

(End of this chapter)