empress and princess

The two elite divisions of Qin and Li reached a cooperation, and the action was so fast.

The sky was gray and bright, and the camp farthest from the military camp was lit with a beacon, and the light illuminated the entire camp in an instant.Soon, the sound of beating drums resounded through the sky, and it lasted for a long time. The Chu people who were sleeping were finally awakened, and hurried out to investigate.

But it was strange that no one communicated the instructions, but the beating of the drums still pierced through the sky, and they could only stand and listen to the beating drums.

"Look, the troops stationed outside have withdrawn!"

Everyone was puzzled, and suddenly someone raised his finger and shouted in the middle of a hundred tongues, and a word shocked thousands of waves.

The defenders retreated overnight, and some people speculated that they hurriedly echoed, "Could it be the eldest princess?"

Another sentence stirred up waves, and the ragged young man looked up, with tears in his eyes, and murmured, "Heaven has eyes, Meng Qiong is guilty, and finally... until this day."

A few days ago, the news of the great changes in the Qin Palace and the release of the captives had already spread. It was said that the eldest princess was in the crisis-ridden Qin Palace.

Such feats are soul-stirring, teach people that they will never hesitate to die, and reawaken the word of hope in their hearts!

"It must be the eldest princess who came to take us home. The eldest princess never gave up on us. Long live the eldest princess!"

"Long live the princess!!"

"..."

For a moment, their cheers and shouts seemed overwhelming, and even the sound of bells and drums was overwhelmed.

On the hillside outside the camp, Qin Jiufeng stood facing the wind, wearing a battle robe.In the hazy sky, the black armored cavalry lined up neatly behind her were aggressive, holding weapons in their hands, even if the Chu people shouted their throats, they would not be moved.

Because at this moment, in their eyes, the group of Chu people at the foot of the mountain are nothing but the heads of those who have made military exploits.

It wasn't until the drums stopped and the horses neighed that the lieutenant drew his sword and said loudly, "General, the time has come!"

Qin Jiufeng turned around when he heard the sound, with a cruel smile on the corner of his mouth, "Go and tell them that the eldest princess Chu Huaimin is here to rescue them. Only half a quarter of an hour, pack up and prepare to go home, three camps with 7 people, one person can't wait." Don't miss it."

"Follow the order!"

As soon as the deputy general received the order to leave, Li Shizhou sighed infinitely, and immediately approached and raised his hands and said, "My lord, I'm going too."

"To die?"

"The minister will accompany the prince, and live and die together."

"Get out! Go stay cool." Qin Jiufeng gave her a hard look, turned around on his horse, and pointed casually, "You, take care of Prime Minister Li Da. If she is disobedient, just do it and kill her."

The strangulation strategy was finally formulated by Li Shizhou, and everyone followed the plan, but she had no part in the action.

Prime Minister Li touched his nose, but didn't say anything else. He saw Qin Jiufeng leading the army away, and shouted at her back, "My lord, come back alive! I'll wait for you."

Qin Jiufeng on the other side ignored him, and rushed to the front with the bright sword that had been unsheathed.

In half a quarter of an hour, only half a quarter of an hour, [-] Chu people finally got the order to pack their bags in a hurry.Another half an hour later, they came to the deep valley surrounded by cliffs one after another.

The Qin people said that the eldest princess is here to hand over, and they can leave after it is over.

The Qin people also said that in order to maintain the order of the team, the three camps had to be separated and ready to evacuate as soon as possible, and they were the luckiest team in the camp, and the eldest princess came to pick them up in person.

But after waiting and waiting, they couldn't wait for their eldest princess, but suddenly heard the rumbling sound of galloping horseshoes behind them.

The wind was blowing in the deep valley, and the sky was full of dust, which almost blurred vision and hung people's hearts in their throats. However, the sound of galloping horseshoes was still incessant. At this moment, a small black spot appeared in the wind and dust. become a person.

It was only when they got closer that they realized that that person was definitely not the eldest princess!

A golden armored shirt, a woman who can only precipitate this coldness by going through hundreds of battles.

Extreme fear suddenly enveloped their heads.Finally, someone recognized this face, which was exactly the same as the frightening God of War in the rumors——

"No! She is..." The words stopped abruptly, and an arrow was shot in the air, and the scout who first discovered the anomaly was killed by the arrow.

"..."

"Are you waiting for Chu Huaimin? It's a pity that you will never see her again in this life. Remember my name, Qin Jiufeng. I'm here to see you off for the last time. Are you ready to go on the road?"

Before the word 'me' was pronounced, the long sword in her hand was raised high, and where the horse's hooves stepped, a large area was dyed bright red.

Thousands of troops and horses followed Qin Jiufeng, and the armored warriors rushed into the crowd, shocked by thunderbolts, and people were devastated all the way.

At the same time, this head harvesting was also staged in two other secluded valleys.

Absolute harvest, the captives are so weak that they have no ability to fight back, and they are easily crushed to death like ants.

It is by no means an exaggeration that there is no grass growing wherever Qin's iron cavalry goes.From daybreak to the blood-red sunset gradually receding, and from the vast night to the twilight of dawn, in two full days, the [-] captives of Chu State were wiped out in three places of burial.

This makes people who are one step late after all, facing such a hell on earth, it is more than a heart-wrenching pain that can be described.

In the carriage heading north, Qin Tangjing was jolted back and forth, and finally woke up.

She passed out twice in a row for a total of seven or eight days, and her consciousness was lax. This time she was dazed and stared for a long time before she recovered.But before recalling what happened that day, Qin Tangjing sat up all of a sudden, raised the curtain of the car and stretched out his head on his stomach, throwing up all kinds of things.

Ah Yan, who was driving the carriage, was startled, and quickly patted her on the back, "Is Your Majesty feeling uncomfortable?"

After vomiting out the contents of his stomach, he spit out sour water, Qin Tangjing rolled his eyes, pinched his throat and finally stopped, staring at him and said with difficulty, "Give me... an explanation."

The carriage was still going north, Ah Yan slowed down the speed while answering irrelevant questions, "Your Majesty woke up a day earlier than the Ninth Prince expected."

It seemed that this was the little emperor's uncle's idea, Qin Tangjing rubbed the back of his neck, and said, "Explain."

Ah Yan hesitated, first handed her the water bag, thought about the words and then responded: "The prince doesn't want the king to get involved in killing prisoners, so he decided to let you go back to Handan to wait for her when you go north."

There was a breeze blowing, and the scorching sun was very bright at noon, but Qin Tangjing didn't spit out the mouthwash in his mouth, and there was a faint nausea feeling in his throat, his abdomen writhed again, and he couldn't hold back his vomiting again.

In the end, there was not even any acid water, and I kept retching, and the sky was dark.Only when Ah Yan stopped the carriage, would she feel better.

"How many days have I slept?" Qin Tangjing slowly sat up.

"Three days, three days and two nights to be precise. Your Majesty, it's already too late."

"Young uncle, did you do something?"

"Yes. Prime Minister Li helped the prince." Ah Yan knew everything, "Concubine Chu..." As soon as she uttered these two words, she realized that the title was wrong, so she changed her words, "Even if Chu Huaimin arrived, he couldn't be saved. them."

It's true that they can't be saved, a general and a lady are both the most intelligent people in Qin State, how could it be Chu Huaimin who dealt with them.

Qin Tangjing sat watching the scenery on the side of the road without saying a word, before saying for a long time: "I'm hungry, is there anything to eat?"

"Yes." Ah Yan touched a piece and came out, "But it's only this one, the king of grievances pads his stomach."

Qin Tang looked away at her, "I don't have any right to be wronged, it's good to have this. Back then when I was marching and fighting with Uncle Xiao Huang, I was so hungry that I even ate grass roots without food." After speaking, he stuffed the biscuits into his mouth, Tearing without image, chewing hard.

No salt, no taste, palm-sized pancakes, but she ate them with relish.

These days, he was comatose, running around and throwing up again, which had tortured Qin Tangjing enough, and he finally regained some strength after eating.

Ah Yan immediately said: "Your Majesty, shall we continue our journey?"

"No, turn around and go back." Qin Tangjing wiped his hands slowly.

"This... the Ninth Prince said that His Majesty would not be allowed to participate. This matter has nothing to do with you."But he was very obedient, pulling the rein and pointing the horse's head in the direction it was coming from.

"Ah Yan, what's the relationship between Little Uncle Huang and me?" The question was inexplicable.

"Same bloodline, uncle and nephew are close relatives." Ah Yan didn't want to blurt out, the relationship between the two can be said to be as close as father and daughter.

"Then what's the difference between what I do and what little Huangshu does?"

Ah Yan was speechless for a moment, and there was no difference.

"So, I still want to go back and have a look. Let's see if our Concubine Chu has saved her after all she has done." Qin Tangjing bent her lips and smiled, took the whip and waved it vigorously, and the horse galloped away in pain stand up.

But a heart gradually sank to the bottom, gradually became a mess, and could no longer be cleared up.

There are no miracles in the world, and there will be no miracles.

People, of course, were not rescued from Qin Jiufeng and Li Shizhou, just because Chu Huaimin rested overnight, 7 people died.

Really dead, dead bodies everywhere, no one survived.

General Meng Shao was buried here with bruises all over his body, only his body remained, but his head was missing.When Qin Tangjing came to the first corpse valley after three days and three nights, the first thing he saw was the head of this Major General Meng, which was stuck on a spear as a trophy.

As soon as the wind blew, the messy hair fluttered, revealing a scowl that could not rest in peace.

Qin Tangjing immediately stood in awe, clasped his hands, and saluted him solemnly with the highest standard of the army.

After the ceremony, continue to walk inside.It's just that the road was soaked in blood, and the soles of her shoes were soaked before walking. When she felt the biting chill, she also saw the figure kneeling in the bloody corpse not far away.

Chu Huaimin, sobbing and swallowing, the usual spotless white clothes had turned into blood clothes.She just knelt there, quietly, although she didn't hear the cry, her whole body was full of sorrow, but even the world was paled by it, she didn't know how desperate she must be.

Qin Tangjing suddenly felt at a loss, his heart was extremely heavy, and his feet were extremely heavy.

The eldest princess is dedicated to her family and country, sympathizing with the common people. When the soldiers are in danger and desperately rescue them, she is bent on destroying her family and country, killing her people, and doing all kinds of bad things.

Even though there is not much distance between them, the gap between their respective positions has widened, as if they are so close to each other.

After all, they couldn't avoid it, and they still came to this step.

In the end, Qin Tangjing also came to Chu Huaimin's side, put his hands on her shoulders and slowly knelt down.

Chu Huaimin raised his eyes, and the two looked at each other. Looking at her with that kind of silent gaze was like looking at a dreamy nothingness.

"Qiwu..." For the first time, Qin Tangjing called Chu Huaimin face to face, his voice trembling.Even though she has made countless times of firm and wavering determination, hate as she hates, hate as she hates, and don't expect to understand her difficulties.

But at this moment, when hatred really appeared in those eyes, Qin Tang's heart felt like a thorn.

"7 people must die, right?" Chu Huaimin's eyes moved after a long time, and his voice was hoarse.

Qin Tang was tongue-tied, and after a long silence, his lips moved slightly: "Yes."

If you don't die, more people will die in Qin State. There is no way to have both in the chaos of war, so the main force of Chu State must be eliminated.Such a reason and such an explanation are too pale, so there is no need to argue.

"The palace change was planned by you, right?" Chu Huaimin asked the second sentence in front of him.

Qin Tangjing shook his head, without any hesitation, "It's not me."

As if they are also victims, both of them are victims here, they stab each other, no one is innocent and no one is unforgivable.Qin Tangjing still had a sliver of hope in his heart at this time, and stretched out his hand tentatively to cover the back of Chu Huaimin's hand, and without feeling any resistance, he tightened his fingers a little bit, and squeezed his fingers into hers.

"If that's the case, then I'm sorry for you and caused you to lose the throne." After a while Chu Huaimin sighed very lightly, but his expression was indifferent, and he withdrew his hand, that gesture was icy and cold, "The killing order, is it true?" Did you order it?"

Qin Tangjing looked down at the two hands, neither admitting nor denying it.However, silence is the default.

The fact is like this, there is no trace of hidden secrets, and the corpses stretching for dozens of miles are enough to prove it.

The blood in his breath became more and more intense at this moment, Qin Tangjing glanced over, no matter how cold his heart was, he was moved by it.

There are young faces, bodies that were once vigorous and strong, and the corpses are piled up in mountains.They died in various poses, unwilling to open their eyes wide open, as if they were complaining about this extinct massacre.

"Don't worry about these things, you can't control them!" In the end, she breathed wildly, raised her head with burning eyes, grabbed Chu Huaimin's wrist and pulled her up, "Follow me! The sky is high and the earth is wide, it's not enough to hide Well, big deal..."

Chu Huaimin struck out with a palm in an instant, and her words were cut off here.

Qin Tangjing, who had no internal energy, couldn't stand it. The man flew out like a kite with a broken string, and slammed into the boulder hard, blood spattered three feet from his throat.

With the force of this palm, several of her bones were broken.

So don't look at the eldest princess's calm and self-sustaining surface, which can make her ruthless, it can be seen that the eldest princess is very angry at this time.

Angry enough to almost kill her.

Now that she has lost her internal strength and has been injured to her internal organs, she can't beat that eldest princess no matter what she does with fists and kicks.

Qin Tangjing lowered his head, clutched his chest and coughed a few mouthfuls of bruised blood, lay down on the ground for a while, waited for the pain to subside, then slowly raised his head, but couldn't get up, still in a panicked state. Tummy time.

It's just that she looked at Chu Huaimin, looked at Chu Huaimin's eyes, and smiled indescribably with the corners of her lips cracked. In Qin State, I will help you ascend to the throne of Chu, okay?"

Chu Huaimin raised his hand and pulled out the soft sword from his waist, calmed down by extreme despair, "What do you think?"

Qin Tangjing glanced at her sword, sat up with a strong breath, and gestured with his hand, "Let's discuss first, can you let me die quickly? It's best to go to hell with one sword, you know, I'm afraid of pain."

Chu Huaimin swept her coldly, and slashed his soft sword across the clothes, imitating the ancients' way of cutting the robe to judge righteousness.

Qin Tang was taken aback for a moment, staring blankly at the piece of clothing flying towards her, and then heard Chu Huaimin's voice: "Qin Jihuang, from now on, you and I will never owe each other anything."