A few days later, in a village in the hinterland of Chu.
It was supposed to be a busy time for farming, but there was not a single person in the fields.
Everyone was in their ramshackle houses packing up their things and preparing to leave the place.
News of the defeat of the Chu army had already arrived.
Everyone knew what was going to happen down there, and conscription and food were the basics.
And the smoke that rose from time to time from the villages that dotted the wilderness was the best proof of this.
It’s just a pity that the crops inside the fields have had farming families in command for the past two years.
The crops have grown and harvested better than usual.
In two months’ time, they will all be ready for harvesting.
But they are now leaving.
They don’t really want to go, but the farmers have said so.
As long as the people were still there, when the chief came, they would just drive the harvest back.
But if the Chu army was expropriated, then there would be nothing left.
It made sense to them, and the south was mountainous, so the whole village decided to follow the peasants into the mountains to hide.
At this moment, inside a broken house.
A somewhat tall farmer listened to the urging outside and urged his mother-in-law to
“The boy’s mother, take the little one and go first, and when you get into the mountains, you won’t be caught.”
The peasant woman, holding the child in one hand and helping the peasant carry the rest of the family’s rations and clothes with the other, said back.
“His father, you have to go first, I’m of little use, they won’t catch me.”
When the farmer heard this, he gave a fierce alas, how could he possibly abandon his mother-in-law and child?
Just desperately squeezing his strength to move as fast as he could again.
Soon they were finally packed up and arrived at the entrance to the village.
By this time, a number of people had gathered at the entrance to the village.
A farmer was in command and the few young men left in the village were helping to keep order.
The farmer’s voice came from far away and
“Everyone move in unison according to the teams that were assigned when we were doing things earlier.”
“Help each other! Don’t let any fall out of line.”
“There are already wooden houses built by our people over the mountain, hide for two months and we’ll be back!”
Soon the whole village became orderly and ready to leave.
Suddenly, one of the villagers, who was in charge of the sentry duty, came hurrying from outside the village and shouted that
“Run! A Chu army is coming!”
Hearing this, all the villagers were silent for a moment, then the whole group was in chaos!
Everyone wanted to flee the place, but there was nowhere for them to escape to.
At this point the peasants shouted desperately that
“Don’t run! We have strength when we are all together!”
Only most of the villagers, the farmers, didn’t listen to him.
Only a few of the more exuberant young men, and those whose families were indeed too crowded to run, remained in place.
The taller farmer also stayed where he was, he could not run with his own mother-in-law and children.
A glance was taken in the direction of the village beyond.
Sure enough, a group of ten or so Chu troops were coming towards them!
The tall peasant looked at the villagers running around and the peasants who were still trying their best to keep the group together, and for some reason, an unspeakable anger surfaced in his heart.
This anger went straight to the top of his head and finally spilled out!
shouted.
“Run! Run, all of you!”
“I’ll see if any of you can outrun them!”
“Wait for death!”
He couldn’t speak too loudly, but in his heart he understood on.
How could they possibly outrun the Chu army, with their families in tow?
Hearing the angry roar of their fellow villagers, except for the very few who did not care and still buried their heads to escape.
Everyone else looked over in extreme fear.
At this point the peasant family said in a hurry that
“The Chu army only has a dozen men, we have a chance!”
“We can try, beg them first! ”
The peasant was actually tempted to just tell everyone to resist, but he knew.
According to what the chief had handed down to them, something called a workbook.
Farmers, if they are not in a desperate situation, are reluctant to resist.
So they had to bide their time.
It was not long before the Chu army’s group arrived at the entrance of the village, and the leader of the Chu army, without any nonsense, said indifferently that
“By order of the King of Hegemony, the army is called upon to raise provisions.”
“All men between fourteen and sixty have the duty of guarding the land, join the army immediately and bring your own provisions!”
“Men! Bring…”
At this point the elderly village chief rushed over and said.
“General! O General! Just spare us.”
“If all the men in the village leave and there’s no food, no one else can survive!”
The Chu soldier at the head of the group, however, had no fluctuation in his eyes, but simply pushed the other man away and said that
“Do as you are ordered!”
Soon, the surrounding Chu soldiers tried to forcefully pull these men away.
The whole group, then, resounded with a howl of tears.
“His father, you can’t take him away!”
“You guys let go! The boy’s mother!”
The whole scene was in chaos, but the leader of the Chu army was indifferent, he had been used to seeing it these days.
There was even some impatience in urging the
“Move faster, we have to go to another village…”
Poof!
There was a sudden, slight sound in the air.
The leader of the Chu soldiers lowered his head, and saw a sharp wooden stick, penetrating through his chest.
The bright red blood on top of the wooden tip was extremely conspicuous.
The leader of the Chu soldiers wanted to say something at this point, but in an instant, a burst of darkness invaded him!
Then his eyes closed and he slowly collapsed.
Everyone froze.
It was then that they saw a half-grown young man in the village, looking at Chu Jun with red eyes, and then roared that
“You are not allowed to bully my mother!”
At that moment, the farmer took a deep breath and roared that
“Kill the others or everyone will die!”
In the next instant, a roar of anger and shouts of murder rang out from the village.
At that moment, in front of a nobleman’s estate in the land of Chu
Xiang Yu was sitting on his horse with a cold look, only with a few more scars on his face, looking somewhat fierce.
He looked coldly at a slightly older nobleman from Chu Di in front of him and said that
“You are not willing to fight for Great Chu anymore?”
The old nobleman gave Xiang Yu a cold look and said
“It is not that I am not willing to fight for Great Chu, it is that I am not willing to fight for you!”
“Hegemon, you killed Emperor Yi, do you really think that we, the old Chu people, are all blind!”
Xiang Yu shook his head coldly, then ordered that
“Since you are unwilling to fight, then all of you should die.”
Hearing these words, the old nobleman trembled all over and pointed at Xiang Yu, saying
“How dare you!”
“The three sons of my family have all died in battle for Great Chu and are credited to Great Chu!”
Xiang Yu said, coldly
“You have also said that your sons died for Great Chu, not for this King!”
At this time, the soldiers behind Xiang Yu, went towards the inside of the manor, and soon inside the manor, a wailing sound rang out.
Seeing this scene, the old nobleman said, with red eyes
“Xiang Yu! The Qin army has not yet arrived, but the land of Chu is already full of war!”
“You are a hegemon in vain!”
At this time, Xiang Yu waved the Overlord’s halberd in his hand and a line of blood was added to the old nobleman’s neck.
Then he fell straight down.
Xiang Yu looked in the direction of Pengcheng, thinking about what had happened to him, and said coldly that
“It’s just a matter of becoming a king and losing a foe.”