Spring and Autumn I Am King

When the heavy city gate was slashed open by the copper axe, there were shouts from both inside and outside the city, but the Jin people cheered excitedly outside the city, while the Rong people inside the city were full of despair. 【...】

But then, the stones and tiles on the top of the head suddenly violently fell. This is the last fight of Qiu Youren, because they know that in the face of that dangerous and terrible opponent, they will definitely die, and their wife and children will die. Became a vassal, and was peddled in the Xintian People's Market. So they tried desperately to stop them in the city gate d with their swords in hand, and the Jin army could not break into the city for a while.

Just at this moment, a messenger in a chariot came with a banner and shouted to the Jin soldiers who were hesitant to move forward: "The gentleman has an order! Those who enter the city first will be rewarded with a hundred pieces of silk and a thousand stones, and can be Zhuoba. Rong You, get on the gentleman's car!"

Hearing that there is a reward for a gentleman, everyone was shocked, and the young disciple who broke open the city gate also pulled out the giant axe from the door, and the shards of wood fell on his face, and the smelly sweat and full of buns covered his face. The blood on his face was mixed together, extremely terrifying. He didn't care at all, licked his lips, and stepped forward again, the hard leather armor on his body made a rattling sound.

The city gate d was deep and dimly lit, like a tunnel full of death and blood.

Several feet in front were piled up with the entangled corpses of Jin and Rong people. A row of Rong archers kept shooting arrows, causing the Jin people to die as soon as they emerged. More Ge spearmen poked their weapons at the invaders. Thorn, two of them saw the Jin youths breaking into, they rushed up to stop him with spears.

Although they are still very powerful, but after the siege of the city for more than a month, Qiu You city has long run out of food, and their offensive is full of flaws under the torture of starvation. The young man of Jin was not afraid, he swung his giant axe with a thunderous force, and the two soldiers were headed in different places.

He immediately abandoned the copper axe that was missing a big gap and stuck on the neck of the second person, and pulled out a short sword from his waist, facing the arrows on the opposite side, and took a few steps forward. He was as flexible as an eagle cuckoo, and at the cost of an arrow in his shoulder, he rushed into the middle of the Rong archers and showed his claws.

sword. This is the weapon he is best at, and it has been in the palm of his hand when he sleeps over the past few years, it has helped him stand out from the crowd of swordsmen, but it has not helped him win the admiration of his master.

The boy held a sword in his backhand. Jumping up, the one-and-a-half-foot-long bronze claws pierced into a soldier's chest at a strange angle, then turned around and hacked to death two enemy soldiers who dared to charge up. For a time, he was like a tiger entering the flock, frightening the soldiers to step back, and he carried their bodies to block the arrows above their heads. Shouting out of the city gate d.

At this time, the brigade had pushed open the city gate and rushed in. The remaining soldiers on the city head cried out in despair. They also understood that the situation was over, and they fled from the wall. Although they were all at home when they were defending the city, they all panicked when death was about to come.

Win, the battle is won!

A Jin **** commander asked loudly, "Who is the first to ascend?"

The young man who was the first to enter the city stood proudly on the spot, stepped on a corpse that looked like a nobleman, turned around, patted his chest and announced loudly: "The first one, Yu Rang is also!"

...

"You are Yu Rang?" The one who just drove the car to boost morale was the messenger named Chipi. He Xiao looked with interest at the young but strong young warrior standing among the dead.

"Of course."

"Is it a retainer of the Zhonghang clan who came to help the gentleman?"

"Exactly."

Different from his outstanding performance in battle, Yu Rang seemed unusually silent when answering questions. The flaws in the military officer's costume immediately flipped over the bamboo slips in his hands, and then closed them gently, his mouth twitching in surprise.

"You can't be wrong, I've heard of you before. You are only twenty years old, but you have a lot of experience. You were originally a servant of the Fan family. You were a guide five years ago when the two gentlemen Fan and Bank of China sought the Zhao family. Later Because he angered Fan Jia, he was sent to the Zhongxing clan, first served as a servant, and later sent to Chaoge Sword Palace to practice swordsmanship. He is well-known in the circle of swordsmen in Dongyang."

Yu Rang kept his head down, and just looked at Xu Que quietly. He heard that this person was the mastermind of the gentleman of the Zhi clan. Knowing everything, he is the best at being able to see the details, and I am afraid that his own affairs cannot be hidden from him.

Xu Que's voice gradually lowered: "Fan and Zhongxing's two gentlemen trained swordsmen and dead men of course not for fun. Three years ago, Taoqiu assassinated Zhao Wuxie. He did it for a long time. It is rumored that they did it. After that, it was very You, who were favored by the Zhongxing clan, were demoted to the end and assigned to Bianyi as a garrison, probably because the assassination failed?"

A trace of shame flashed across Yu Rang's face. Indeed, that was his shame. After the assassination was exposed, he hesitated and hesitated. If the gentleman of the Bank of China could give him another chance, he would definitely kill for him, but no one expected that the Bank of China's attitude towards him has changed drastically since then.

Moreover, he was never given a chance to make up for it.

"You have made many meritorious deeds in the Bianyi of the Zhongxing clan, but you have not been promoted. Instead, you despise you very much. So Zhishi asked the Zhongxing clan for help, and they sent you here, because even if you are damaged here, the Zhongxing clan will send you here. I won't feel sorry for it..."

"Yu Rang, ah Yu Rang, in the eyes of the Zhongxing Clan, you are just an abandoned child!"

After he finished speaking, he asked with a smile, "Am I right?"

Yu Rang's blood-stained face showed no joy, anger, sorrow or joy.

The counselor took an inch: "Can you resent the black arm of the central bank?"

Only then did Yu Rang sternly glared at Xie Dee, clenched the middle dagger tightly, and replied bluntly, "In any case, the gentleman of the Bank of China is the king of Yu Rang, if the superior dares to call him by his first name, don't blame Yu Rang's hand. The sword is merciless!"

The Zhi clan soldiers surrounded him vigilantly, and more than a dozen people faced Yu Rang, but they seemed cautious. This young man who was like a murderer had at least dozens of soldiers' lives in his hands, and he often fought against many. .

But Xue Xue waved their hands to let them back off, and he bowed respectfully to Yu Rang: "I was just a temptation, you have been so unfairly demoted to the enemy and yet you don't forget your lord, you are truly a loyal soldier, and Xue Xue is disrespectful. "

Seeing that Yu Rang's grip on the hilt of the sword was loosened, Xu Que walked around the boy and threw a damp silk cloth.

"Wipe your face, my gentleman wants to see you."

...

"The gentleman has an order, and the second and third sons have done great work! It can be plundered for three days!"

The brigade that broke into the city continued to enter the city, and the messengers kept chasing after him and shouting all the way, giving the order to massacre the city.

The soldiers of the Zhi clan cheered in unison, cheering for the gentleman of the Zhi clan. In their opinion, looting is the best reward after breaking the city, which means wealth, women, and venting the depressing killing intent in their chests.

Massacre means killing. But Yu Rang was indifferent to this. In the past few years, he has gone through several battle formations, each time he was killed in blood and fire, and he was always stepping on the stumps and arms of the dead. War and forging his heart into a heart of stone.

What's more, these Rong and Di tribes have also plundered the cities and towns of Jin people in the past. Maybe there are many bronze Yi wares stolen from Jin scholars' houses in the treasury of Qiu Youjun. They deserve to be today!

He traveled through this fallen Rong capital with the faults, and after the command of the plunder was issued. There were fires everywhere in the city, and there were cries and begging sounds mixed with Rong and Di languages.

Under the crumbling rammed-earth wall, chariots and pawns galloped back and forth, and the charioteers waved their whips to drive the survivors away from the place where they had stolen their lives. Most of these Rong captives were women and children, their faces were expressionless and lifeless, and they staggered to pull the weeping children.

Some of the wounded groaned, some begged for mercy, and a large number of Zhi clan soldiers with daggers shuttled between them. Countless ears were harvested from the dead and dying and stuffed into sacks.

There are also the flocks of sheep that the Rong people depend on for their survival. The soldiers are content to drive them out of the city. There seem to be thousands of them. If they want to fight hard for more than a month, they can feast on it tonight.

Wu Kui took Yu Rang through the bleating sheep and the captives who were no different from the two-legged sheep, and went to the Zhi clan's tent outside the city of Qiuyou.

This place is not like the disorderly plundering scenes in the city, but everything is orderly, which shows the strictness of the gentleman of the Zhi clan in governing the army.

When they arrived outside the account, a huge bronze bell with a height of more than ten feet was being pulled by a cart driven by eight oxen, and was transported from the newly built Taihang Mountain Road to Qiuyou. The bell is newly cast, and the taotie pattern and tiger and leopard pattern are interlaced on it.

In front of the big bell, there was a group of Qiuyou people kneeling densely. Judging from their clothes, they should be nobles in the city, and the middle-aged man at the head was even wearing a tiger fur coat. Wearing a scorpion crown on the head, it can be seen that the status is very high.

With a sneering smile on his face, Xue De pointed to the man and said to Yu Rang, "Look, because the state is located deep in Taihang, Qiu Yourong, the two generations of Zhongxing clan masters, can't help but helplessly. Kneel here. Waiting for the judgment of the gentleman of the Zhi clan."

Yu Rang suddenly realized that the person in front of him was Qiu You's Rong Jun, whose name was Qiu Youyan. Based on what he saw on the road, he knew that this war was the plan of the Zhi clan.

There are quite a few Rong and Dibang states in the northern part of Jin State, such as Xianyu State (Zhongshan State), Wuji, Daiguo, and the current enmity. These remnants of the Red Di and Northern Rong formed a force with considerable territory and combat power. They lived a half-farming and half-pastoral life. Every autumn and winter, they would spontaneously attack the mainland of Jin, looting population and food.

For Jin Qing, who was eager to expand, when the Central Plains princes were not easy to be fooled, and under the circumstance that the princes in the central area of ​​Jin were fighting for every inch of land, they launched a war against Xianyu and its satellite countries Gu, Fei, Qiuyou, etc. The easiest way for them to expand their power.

In this respect, the Zhongxing clan undoubtedly possessed a favorable geographical position. Their ancestors, Zhongxing Linfu and Zhongxing Wu, were all famous feudal lords for exterminating Rong and Di and expanding their territories. They also included the newly conquered Gu, Fei, Dongyang and other places by the way. Home rule. The Zhi clan were not bad either. Their territory spanned Taihang and was close to some small states where Rong and Di lived together, and Qiu You bore the brunt of it.

However, these states of Rong and Di are not weak in combat. If Qiuyou has a population of 50,000, all the men are in battle, and they can make up 5,000 soldiers. Moreover, the roads are blocked by mountains, so it is difficult to conquer. All this was only changed in recent years, after the concubine of the Zhi clan took charge of the military and government in the north.

The gentleman of the Zhi clan came up with a plan based on Qiu Youyan's greedy and naive character. He was going to attack Qiu You, but the road was not smooth, so he cast a big bell and gave it to the monarch Qiu You, indicating that he wanted to fight with Qiu Youhua for jade silk. Qiu Youguo's monarch Yan was very happy, so he ignored the advice of his ministers, rectified the road and prepared to accept it, but who would have expected that after the road was repaired, the Zhi clan's army would be ushered in...

Therefore, Qiu Youyan felt that he had lost wrongly, and even if he was defeated, he still had the sullen self-respect of the ruler of Rong and Di, looked at the tent opened by D, and asked loudly: "The gentleman of the Zhi clan lied to me! , I don't agree!"

"Dissatisfied?"

There was a young man's chuckle in the tent, and with the sound of footsteps, two tall Hu Ben stepped forward first. They were really majestic. on the youth.

There is a kind of person in the world who is born with a certain charm, even if he is a stubborn young man covered in blood, even if he is an ordinary-looking strategist among the chief retainers of Baiton, no matter how low-key and silent he is walking in the crowd. , no matter how many splendid and powerful people around him. As long as he appears in that picture, then when you look, you will definitely see him for the first time.

This young gentleman who walked out of the tent slowly was such a person. He was about twenty years old. He was wearing a heroic copper-skin armor, without a coat of arms. He wore a two-foot sword around his waist. Stable, just stepped out of the tent as usual, and instantly took all eyes away.

Even Yu Rang, who had experienced life and death and the ups and downs of life, stared at him like everyone else, like the stars holding the moon, and he could no longer look away.

The afternoon sun hit the young gentleman's face, allowing Yu Rang to see his face clearly.

His handsome brows and eyes were as impeccable as in the legends, lining the faint smell of blood after the war, and the smell of fireworks permeating the fire of Qiu Youcheng, Zhiyao appeared in everyone's field of vision like this, like a son of god.

Here and now, no one can compare to it!

...

Qiu Youyan, who was still unconvinced just now, was also stunned when he saw such a character for the first time.

There was no emotion on Zhiyao's face, just calm, but like the sound of footsteps whose rhythm was clear and rigid, everyone in the room felt his pride, the pride that was so deeply hidden in his body that he didn't bother to show it. pride.

He opened his mouth and said: "Chou Youyan, if you want a big bell, I will send the big bell to your capital, not only that, but I will also transport it to the city and to the ancestral tombs of you Qiu Yourong people. There, they will be razed to the ground, and the ancestral temple of Zhi's clan will be built on the spot, and the big bell will be hung in the temple. I will ring the bell myself and tell my ancestor Zhiwuzi, Huanzi of Zhongxing, and Muzi of Zhongxing: Chou Therefore, from today, this small state of the Rongmen will be wiped off the map, and this place will be annexed and become the territory of the Zhi clan."

He stood still in front of Qiu Youyan, looking down at him mercilessly, making Qiu Youyan's lips and teeth tremble.

"And your hatred is salt, as a shameful ruler of a subjugated country, you will lose the sect and the land to worship the ancestors' spirits, and your family will become the chosen ministers and concubines in Xintianren city, and your people will become The slaves who farm and graze for the Zhi clan, help my clan to grow and prosper, as for you..."

"You will be recorded only a few words in the history, not because of your stubborn resistance, but also because of your unsuccessful administration over the years, just because I was defeated by Zhiyao, so thank me!"

He glanced at Yu Rang with an eagle eye, paused for a moment, and then settled on the flaw.

"Xie fault, write down for this gentleman, on the seventh day of the second month in the spring of the fourteenth year of the Marquis of Jin, Zhiyao exterminates Qiu You, and kills Rong Zi Qiu Youyan!"

The slippery slips and ink pens in the defective sleeves ~www.wuxiahere.com~ heard the words and hurriedly complied.

Just like a goshawk flying in the blue sky that disdains looking down at ants, Tai Dai will not deliberately lower his head and look down at the mountains. Turn away.

"If you have any dissatisfaction, go cry with your ancestors who can't eat blood when you get to the Yellow Spring!"

The surroundings were silent for a while, and Qiu Youyan was caught off guard by two tall Hu Ben, who was pressed to the ground, looking at the sharp sword that was slowly pulled out from the waist of Hu Ben with a dazed face*.

The bluish-yellow sign lay quietly on the ground, Yu Rang bent down to pick it up, and found the seal character "slash" painted in red on it. He knew that it was a bamboo stick used by the army to execute executions...

"Killing the ruler of a country is like killing a dog..."

He sucked in a deep breath and looked at Zhiyao's background, even Yu Rang, who boasted that he had tempered his heart into a stone heart during the war, couldn't help being horrified.

(To be continued.)

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