The Jagged Empire of Daqin

Ying Chang stepped up to the high platform of the main hall of Xuantian Palace, and sat on the dragon chair that belonged to the emperor's talent seat. Seeing Ying Chang sitting on the dragon chair, Bai Qi, Wang Kaijin, Ying Jiang, Ning Shilang and other generals also stopped looking at each other and raised their heads one after another. He looked at Ying Chang.

"Wang Kaijin." Ying Chang looked at Wang Kaijin.

"The minister is here!" Wang Kaijin bowed down respectfully and responded.

"Great Qin finally destroyed Han, you contributed a lot, tell me, what reward do you want!" Ying Chang looked at Wang Kaijin and asked with a smile on his face.

Wang Kaijin smiled mischievously, "I don't need any rewards, as long as your majesty fulfills what I promised you."

His king, Kaijin, is not so courageous, he often wants to reward him if he dares to follow Ying.

"What I promise you will of course be granted. Rewards are something else. After all, my Daqin has clear rewards and punishments and must be rewarded. How about this? I promise you ten thousand taels of gold as a reward for meritorious service. What do you think?" Ying Chang said in a calm tone. said with a smile.

Wang Kaijin hastily bowed down to salute and said with a smile, "It's no different from me!"

It doesn't matter whether the reward is rewarded or not. The important thing is to keep the Wang family and survive under the rule of Daqin. This is more important than tens of millions of taels of gold.

"Okay, then it's settled!" Ying Chang nodded, and then added: "I still have some important matters to discuss with the generals. If you have nothing to do, you can step down first!"

"Resign!" Wang Kaijin quickly resigned and left Xuantian Palace very soon.

As soon as Wang Kaijin left, Ying Chang looked at Ying Jiang, "What will I do next, Jiang Er, do you have a plan?"

Ying Jiang bowed down respectfully and saluted and said: "I would like to report to my father, my son thinks that after the Great Qin destroys Korea, we should send troops to capture the entire territory of the Han Dynasty, and at the same time appease the Koreans everywhere. I beg you to lead your army to destroy Zheng, Nan, and Xiao!"

Upon hearing the second half of Ying Jiang's words, Ning Shilang and other generals couldn't help being excited.

Zheng Guo, Nan Guo, and Xiao Guo are all vassal states, and they are subordinate states of the Chu Dynasty. The three vassal states are located between Zhao, Xia, Chu, and Han, and sandwiched between the four major dynasties. This vassal state is very weak, but the territory it occupies is not small.

There is almost one county in the entire territory of the three major vassal states. If they can destroy the three kingdoms and take the land, it will definitely be a great contribution.

"Your Majesty, I also ask for orders to lead the army to attack the kingdoms of Yun, Lu, Chen, Wuzhong, Jiang and other South Korean border states!" Pei Ji, the commander of the imperial guards, also stood up and asked for orders.

The vassal states mentioned by Pei Ji are all on the southern border of the Han Dynasty. The southern part of these vassal states are the Lu Dynasty and the Shen Dynasty. It can be said that these vassal states are the buffer zone between Han and Lu Shen.

Ying Chang replied in a neutral tone: "The southern vassal states and even the southern dynasty cannot be destroyed for the time being!"

The purpose of Daqin's all-out war was to unify the northwestern part of Kyushu. Now that Qi, Han, Zhao, Xia, and Zhongshan are destroyed, only Chu, Yue, Shu, Nanguo, Zheng, and Xiao are left. With three dynasties and three vassal states, Daqin has completed its strategic goal.

To complete the strategic goal, a truce is naturally necessary. In fact, Ying Chang also wants to fight all the way to the South China Sea, and dominate the world at one stroke, but the Qi people, Han people, Zhao people, Xia people and other subjugated people must be appeased, and the region must also be rectified .

Otherwise, let alone whether the logistics can handle it, the Qin Dynasty can drink a pot just by the small tricks of these subjugated people.

Therefore, the central and southern dynasties and vassal states of Kyushu cannot be fought. The main purpose now is to destroy the Shu Dynasty, the Chu Dynasty, and the three vassal states of Nan, Zheng, and Xiao as soon as possible, and first complete the unification of the northwest.

Hearing this, Pei Ji couldn't help but feel a little disappointed, feeling that the great credit on his lips was gone...

"How many soldiers and horses do you want?" Ying Chang looked at Ying Jiang and asked.

"Ten thousand is enough!" Ying Jiang said without thinking.

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Chapter 1024 Returning to the Moon

Ying Chang took a deep breath, "I will give you [-], and all the artillery battalions will be given to you. After the southern, Zheng, and Xiao vassal states are destroyed, you will send your troops to attack Chu. In addition, you will also be responsible for the stability of the Korean territory!"

"Ah?" Ying Jiang couldn't help but be taken aback. Isn't it your business to be responsible for the stability of the Korean environment?

"Father, what about you?" Ying Jiang asked subconsciously.

"Father will destroy the moon today!" Ying Chang replied calmly.

Hearing these words, all the generals in the hall couldn't help but look at each other, feeling a little strange.

The reason why they cheated was because they all knew that Ying Chang and the Moon Empress had been alone in the big tent for an hour and a half. Although they didn't know what Ying Chang and the Moon Empress were doing during the hour and a half, as long as they were not stupid, they could guess. arrive.

Isn't it too ruthless to destroy the dynasty of one's own woman?

Ying Chang also knew what the generals were thinking, so he said disapprovingly: "What are women in front of military and state affairs, that's all right, don't speculate on your own, this matter has been decided, and if there is nothing wrong, all generals, go down and have a good rest." !"

"The last will obey!"

"I will retire at the end!"

All the generals bowed down one after another to salute and leave, and soon left Xuantian Palace, only Bai Qi did not retreat.

Ying Chang got up from the dragon chair, walked down the high platform, walked up to Bai Qi and said, "Go down and get ready, let's return to the moon and destroy the moon together, and don't forget to bring Bei'er with me. Bring Bei'er back to Xianyang, and you lead an army to attack Shu!"

"Yeah!" Bai Qi nodded expressionlessly.

...

At dawn the next day, Ying Chang, Bai Qi, Pei Ji, Lu Quan, and Cao Zhen led [-] soldiers from the capital to return to the original road, while Ying Jiang, Ning Shilang, Zhu Bo, Yang Taozhen, and Feng Feng led the rest of the army. The [-] soldiers of the capital and the five directly-affiliated artillery battalions were stationed in the capital of Yangzhai, preparing to rest for a few days before setting off.

Time flies, and the days pass day by day. On the seventh day of the first lunar month in the 29th year of Shengqin, Yingjiang sent three generals, Ning Shilang, Zhu Bo, and Feng Feng, to lead an army to occupy the entire territory of the Han Dynasty. Zheng and Xiao vassal states.

Same day!

The Great Shu Dynasty, Shuzhong County, and 25 miles north of Taiguang City, the grain plundering army camp!

Handsome account!

In the handsome tent, Zheng Leduo, who was dressed in military uniform, was sitting on the handsome seat, and under the handsome seat stood Zheng Fei, who was also wearing military uniform. Restless.

The reason why Zheng's father and son are like this is not that they are ineffective in plundering grain. In just a few days, they have plundered more than 50 shi of grain, and the plundered are all major families and Shi Kun.

The reason why their father and son are in such a state is that the court of Shu!

Since they sent messengers to Batu, they haven't received a reply. They don't know what's going on now, and they keep guessing whether the imperial court will blame them, and whether they will kill the whole Zheng family in a fit of rage.

The more he guessed about it, the more uneasy his heart became, which made Zheng and his son sleepless at night.

"Father, do you think His Majesty will kill our whole family?" Zheng Fei asked for comfort.

"No, absolutely not!" Zheng Le Duo directly affirmed without even thinking about it.

In fact, he himself doesn't know if the court will do so, so he can only lie to himself and force himself to believe that the court will not kill the whole Zheng family, so that he can feel better, and Zheng Fei can feel better, otherwise his heart will always be suppressed. This thing will drive people crazy.

"Report to the general, something is wrong!"

At this moment, an anxious sound came from outside the tent.

Zheng Fei and Zheng Le looked at each other, and quickly ran out of the tent. As soon as they walked out of the tent, they saw a captain standing outside the tent. The captain's face was pale and terrified. They all looked ugly.

Although the captain and the surrounding Shu army did not speak, the Zheng father and son seemed to have gotten the answer from their expressions!

Zheng's, probably suffered a disaster.

"What's the big deal!" Zheng Ledu asked with trembling tone.

Although he had roughly guessed it, he couldn't believe it until he got the answer.

The captain lowered his head, and said in a sad tone: "General, let's go to Yingkou and see for yourself!"

Zheng Leduo and Zheng Fei ran towards Yingkou without saying a word. Before reaching Yingkou, they saw a large number of Shu army soldiers gathered in Yingkou. There are expressions of sympathy and sadness on the face.

Although Zheng's father and son didn't get close, and didn't see anything surrounded by the soldiers, the two keenly smelled a rancid smell.

The hearts of Zheng's father and son sank again, but they continued to walk forward, and the soldiers of the Shu army who formed a group also automatically gave way for Zheng's father and son to pass through the crowd.

When Zheng's father and son passed through the crowd and saw the scene in front of them, Zheng Fei's face paled instantly, and he staggered and fell to the ground. , the courier sent earlier knelt on the ground, surrounded by a pile of rotten heads, and some tattered sacks stained red with blood.

After many days, the messenger finally returned to the grain raiding army camp, but as soon as he arrived at Yingkou, the sacks that had been dragged for many days were overwhelmed, and big holes were broken, and the heads inside fell off. So he knelt here and waited for Zheng's father and son to commit crimes.

Zheng Le was stunned in place, looking at the scene in front of him with dull eyes and muttering to himself: "My Zheng family, was slaughtered?"

What he said seemed to be a rhetorical question, but it was actually an affirmative sentence. Although these heads were a little rotten, he still saw a few familiar faces, and his youngest son's head was in the pile of heads.

"General, the villain has a mission. I failed to explain it clearly to the court. I also ask the general to surrender. The villain is willing to die!" The messenger choked up crying bitterly.

"what!!"

Zheng Leduo looked up to the sky and shouted loudly, screaming with all his strength, venting his grievance and pain in his heart!

Seeing Zheng Le's pain, the generals of the Shu army couldn't help kneeling on one knee one after another, and comforted each other: "My condolences to the general!"

"My condolences to the general!"

"The general..."

After Zheng Leduo yelled for a while, his mood eased, and he said to the messenger while weeping, "You have to tell me the ins and outs of this matter..."

Zheng Leduo's tone was hoarse and his voice was weak, one can imagine how much this incident hit him.

"General, the imperial court doesn't believe you. Before the villain entered the city, the officers and soldiers on the tower dragged your family out and beheaded them in front of the real villain. The villain gives you the heads of your family."

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In the first month of the 30th year of the Holy Qin Dynasty, an earth-shattering event happened in Xianyang City!

On this day, tens of thousands of book friends rebelled. The reason for the rebellion was that Qin Emperor Yingchang forced them to vote. In the end, the book friends' rebellion was suppressed by Bai Qi, and tens of thousands were beheaded.

This incident tells future generations that you must vote when reading a book!

Chapter 1025 The Pain and Choice of Zheng's Father and Son

"In the end, the officers and soldiers asked the villain to send you a message to let you go back and punish you as soon as possible. General, the villain feels wronged for you. You have fought for the country for most of your life, and you have made great achievements. Even if Taiguang is defeated, you will kill 10,000+ Qin military."

"When the Qin army swept the world, when did it suffer such huge casualties? It was you, who made the Qin army suffer so much, and led my Dashu man to show the blood of a Dashu man, so that the Qin army dare not look down on us Shu people!"

"But in the end, you were accused of treason, and you were condemned by all your families. The court didn't even want to listen to a word of explanation. Besides, although you plundered food and grass for Qin, what you plundered were those damn family scholars, and there was no Kill someone."

"The court's treatment is unfair, the court's treatment is unfair!" the messenger cried bitterly, feeling unfair for Zheng Leduo sincerely.

"For the lives of 20 Dashu men, the general had to plunder food and grass, and he did not commit treason. How could the court punish and kill the entire family of the general? I don't accept it!"

"Could it be that in the eyes of the imperial court, five million shi of grain is more precious than the lives of our 500 men?"

"I'm not convinced, and I'm going to ask the court to give an explanation, otherwise so is treason!"

"The imperial court is unkind to us, don't blame us for being unrighteous!"

The trend of public opinion in the army was quickly mobilized. More and more soldiers of the Shu army accused the court of unfair handling, felt great injustice for the Zheng family and their sons, and could not help feeling a little bit of hatred for the court. Doubts arose.

Is this the court we want to protect?

Is such a court worthy of our desperate protection?

It is not surprising that the generals and soldiers of the Shu army had such a mentality, because Zheng Ledu cooperated with the Qin people for their lives. The whole family of the benefactor was punished by the court, so how could he not hate the court.

Zheng Leduo knelt on the ground weakly, with regrets and helplessness in his heart, regretted cooperating with Qin, but had no choice but to cooperate with Qin, which led to today's situation.

At this time, Zheng Fei, who was limp on the ground, shouted at Zheng Leduo in grief, "Father, surrender to Qin, the child would rather be with Qin than serve this bullshit court!"

The brother was killed, the mother was killed, and the uncle was killed, which made the young and passionate Zheng Fei unbearable!

"Shut up!" Zheng Leduo endured his grief and sternly reprimanded, and then said helplessly, "I can't blame the imperial court for this matter, I can only blame the treacherous and insidious Qin people for setting up this scheme to trap this old man!"

He has been caught in a dilemma. If he doesn’t continue to serve Qin, the Qin army will kill 19 prisoners of the Shu army in the prisoner-of-war camp, and the Shu court will not accept him. 20 prisoners of war became enemies with the Dashu court.

No matter how you choose, you can't get the best of both worlds.

"You are still speaking for the court, the court killed our whole family!" Zheng Fei roared angrily!

Zheng Leduo shook his head repeatedly and sighed: "So what? The fault lies with the people of Qin, and the fault lies with the old man who lost the battle. The only fault of the old man is that he lost the battle, which is why he is today..."

Zheng Fei covered his face in pain and sobbed softly, and the surrounding soldiers of the Shu Army also felt heavy in their hearts.

The scene began to quiet down, quiet and silent, as if everything was still. I don't know how long it took, Zheng Leduo slowly got up from the ground, and walked slowly to the messenger who was already crying so hard.

"It's not your fault, go down and rest!" Zheng Leduo said to the messenger.

At this time, Zheng Leduo's face was no longer sad, and his expression was as calm as water.

"Thank you, General!" The messenger kowtowed heavily.

Zheng Leduo looked at the surrounding Shu army officers and soldiers, and said, "Help me bury these heads, and set up a wooden sign with Zheng's tomb engraved on it!" After saying this, Zheng Leduo turned around Leaving, gradually disappearing from the sight of the soldiers.

Compared with Zheng Leduo's extremely deep city, Zheng Fei looked very tender. Not long after Zheng Leduo left, he fainted to the ground due to excessive grief.

Zheng Leduo returned to the commander-in-chief, sitting in the commander-in-chief and fell into deep thought. After thinking and resolutely, Zheng Leduo finally decided to collect 500 million stones of food for the Qin army first, and when the Qin army released all 20 prisoners of war, he would Go to the city of Batu alone and commit suicide!

As for where Zheng Fei would go, he had also considered it, and had to go to Baiyue to survive.

Why did you arrange Zheng Fei's whereabouts like this?

[-]. Zheng Fei encountered this difficulty in his bloody year, and he must resent the Shu court in his heart. Once he dies, Zheng Fei will hate the Shu court even more, and the Shu court may also be afraid of Zheng Fei's revenge, and kill him quickly!

[-]. Zheng Fei can't help hating the Shu court and the Qin Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty may issue a warrant to force countries to arrest Zheng Fei in order to eradicate the grass. At that time, the countries will be under the pressure of the Qin Dynasty and will definitely carry out a search.