Cheng Jie in the county government office continued to patronize his head to deal with increasingly complicated military affairs. Outside the government office, the semi-circular moon was already westward, and everything was quiet. All he could hear was the vague sound of pounding clothes. In the era without cotton cloth, the common people mostly wore trowels and trousers. After the two were cooked, they had to be pounded before they were ready to go. If they were not pounded, they would be uneven and soft, and they could not be ready to go.

There is a fox Suisui, who is in the Qiliang. His heart is worried, and his son has no clothes.

There is a fox Suisui who is in the other side of Qi Li. His heart is worried, but his son has no lead.

There is a fox Sui Sui who is next to the other side of the Qi. His heart is worried, but his son is not convinced.

The fox walked slowly alone, walking on Qishui Bridge. My heart was so sad that he didn't even have pants.

The fox walked slowly alone, walking on the shallows of Qishui. My heart was so sad that he didn't even have a belt.

The fox walked slowly alone, walking on the Qishui shore. My heart was so sad that he didn't even have clothes.

It was just that when he saw a fox walking alone and wandering alone appeared beside Qishui, the woman who wrote the poem thought of her man who was away. Now her husband and son are going to go to war. Whether he is a soldier or a servant, he would not prepare winter clothes for him, but he was afraid that he would freeze to death if he did not go to war.

Under the bright moon, thousands of households in Xi County pounded their clothes; under the bright moon, the flames of Ji County soared into the sky.

The Chu army was just a harassment this time. After capturing Jiyi, they naturally had to burn down the mountains of food and supplies inside and outside the city. The fire began to ignite from dusk. The food and supplies were burning, the gurban were burning, and the supplies were burning. Finally, even the government offices and houses in the city were burning. The fire became stronger and stronger in the night, so that Xiang Yan could only camp in the upper wind outside the city.

During the dusk, the Qin army left the city to fight and the Chu army suffered more than 4,000 casualties. During the siege, hundreds of casualties were killed or injured. Fortunately, the Qin army, who were left behind in the city, saw the enemy rushing to the top of the city, quickly opened the city gate and fled out of the city.

In this battle, the army's Sima Peng Zong had always had doubts: First, he did not understand why the Qin army wanted to go out of the city to meet the enemy? At dusk, he could not stay away from the door. Will he fight again tomorrow dawn? Second, he did not understand why the defenders abandoned the city and fled? According to the reports from him and Xiang Zhi, there were about two thousand Qin troops guarding the city. Why don't these two thousand people defend the city until dawn?

He asked the chief general Xiang Yan about these two questions, but Xiang Yan smiled but did not answer, with a copy of the expression that should have been like this; he also wanted to ask the Qin army's Cheng Yin (Zheng Ling) or Cheng Sima (Zheng Wei), but the Qin army's Cheng Wei died in battle after leaving the city, and Cheng Ling and others were shot dead by Chu army archers at the top of the city.

——Among the armies of various countries, the Chu army has a tradition of paying attention to archers, and some sharp archers are also very famous. The idiom of "Hundred Steps to Piercing the Yang Yang" refers to the Chu archer Yang Youji during the reign of King Gong of Chu. It is well known that the story of Li Guang shooting stones in the Han Dynasty. In the "Lüshi Chunqiu·Mastery" written in the late Warring States Period, there is an original version of Yang Youji shooting tiger stones. It is probably written in the "New Preface" written in the Western Han Dynasty and an imitation version of King Wu of Chu shooting stones. Regardless of whether the records are true or not, it can be seen that the Chu army has a profound tradition of paying attention to archers.

The Three Jin and Qin states naturally also paid attention to archers - three armored soldiers on the chariot, and the shooting person was the Rong person who stood on the right side of the chariot and had a higher status than the left side of the chariot; and the title of Hou, the original meaning of the word Hou was the target, and the Marquis referred to the tribe leader who could hit the target. The so-called "the great shooting of the emperor is called the Shooting Marquis. The Shooting Marquis is the prince. If the shooting person is the prince, he will be the prince. If the shooting person is the prince, he will be the prince. If the shooting person is the prince, he will not be the prince."

However, the cost of cultivating an archer is dozens of times that of cultivating a crossbow. Even if the same pulling crossbow range is much smaller than that of the bow, the result of the large-scale war still allowed the Three Jins and Qins to choose crossbows that could be taught in just ten months, and it would take several years to give up the bow that only nobles could afford. Chu, Qi and Yan countries retained more traditions before the Spring and Autumn Period. There were both crossbowmen and archers in the army, which was also a symbol of the military system lagging behind the Three Jins and Qins.

Because of the Chu army's archers, senior Qin army officers of Jiyi were either killed or disappeared. After the treatment of the wounded, the dead were buried, the food and grass were collected, and the heavy chariots were robbed... After these orders, Peng Zong had time to see the prisoners: the Qin official who could speak Chu language was happy.

"Since you are from Anlu, how about you? "Peng Zong asked. Anlu was the Yun Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period. He was destroyed by Chu during the reign of King Gong of Chu. His descendants took the country as their clan and divided them into Yun, Yun, Yun, and Yuansi.

"Otherwise, the villain is not a clan." Xi was found by the Chu soldiers from the fire. He still had a double plate and long crown, soapy clothes, his face was blackened by fireworks, and his expression was listless and dull. Facing Peng Zong, he had to raise his spirits to answer.

"Oh. Wu?" Wu's family was mostly a commoner. Peng Zong was a little disappointed. He rarely talked to the commoner alone. Unconsciously, he leaned forward and his smile calmed down. "I ask you, do you know why Sima Yan in the city went out to meet the enemy?"

"Return to the general, the villain doesn't know." Xi has been an official for six years. The official is instinct to observe his words and expressions. He sensed Peng Zong's disappointment, and at the same time he also felt a sense of disappointment in his heart: this is the noble man of Chu. He naturally remembered the joke of carving a boat and asking for a sword.

Peng Zong didn't know that the little official in front of him was thinking of a joke that ridiculed him, and said, "Then why do you want to escape? If the two thousand defenders defended their lives, our army might not be able to break the city."

"When the general was defeated, the villain was in the county yard when the city was broken, and I don't know why the defenders wanted to escape." Xi actually knew everything, but he didn't like Peng Zong's arrogant and disdainful eyes. In addition, it was a serious crime for traitor, so he chose not to say anything.

Peng Zong began to think that this person was a minor official who didn't know anything, so he gave up asking and waved his hand and said, "Go, you can go home in dawn."

"The general won't kill me?" Xi was a little surprised. He was puzzled. Why didn't the Chu army need to beheaded and earnestly earned merits.

"You are not a soldier, why do you want to kill you?" Peng Zong was also a little surprised, but he instantly understood Xi thought the Chu army also had the law of beheading the title of Qin army, and then said: "The Chu army is not the Qin army, and the Chu State is not the Qin State. This battle is about to end, and there is no need to kill. Go, go home early to see your parents and wives, and they will be thinking of you every day."

It was okay if he didn't mention his parents, but when he mentioned his parents, his whole body was shocked, and he suddenly remembered what happened in these few hours. He first trembled, then sobbed, his face twisted, and said chokingly: "Please kill me, if you don't kill me... If you don't kill me, you will definitely affect your parents and wives."

"You?" Peng Zong frowned. He spoke in harmony with a commoner because of his fellow Chu people. Who knew that this commoner was crying in front of him without knowing the moral integrity.

"The food, grass, supplies, and chariots in the city are burned, and I am guilty of death. Even if I investigate the whole story clearly, I will be dereliction of duty and will be thirty-eight-armed." Xi is worthy of being an official, remembering Qin Rules, and he knows what crimes he committed and what punishment he needs to suffer in an instant.

He said hurriedly, then knelt down to Peng Zong, and wanted to capture Peng Zong's clothes while crying: "Please kill me! If you kill me, I will be innocent. Your family will not be taken away by the government, and there will be no need to be punished. Kill me, please kill me..."

"Irregular!" Before Peng Zong could speak, the soldier behind him shouted loudly and spread the joy with a slap.

"It's okay." Peng Zong retreated his sleeves in disgust. He also wanted to drive Xi out, but he was a little curious about what he said. "Kill you, but you need to answer my Sima's doubts. I ask you: Since you are innocent, why not hang yourself?"

"If you hang yourself, you are afraid of your crime. If you kill yourself, you will die in battle. If you die in battle, you will not be guilty." He was slapped by a soldier, and finally he was no longer hysterical.

"Oh." Peng Zong hesitated before nodding. This is indeed the truth. "Then you mentioned the Thirty-Eight Ances..."

"If anyone who is guilty of Qin Lu will be punished by shields and armor. Even if my crime is found out, I will still need to be collected from thirty-eight Jias. My family is not rich and I have no money to pay, so I can only be a city-dan (a slave who built a city), with eight cents a day and six cents a day. The wife at home... wuwu... the wife at home..." When she said that her wife was crying louder and she was extremely sad, Peng Zong felt very uncomfortable when she heard it, and her eyes were a little wet as she listened. Fortunately, Xi cried for a while and stopped.

"Using Qin rules... the husband's wife should sit down, and the family's concubines, money, land, clothing, and animal property are collected. My wife is weak and her two sons are still young. If she is collected, she will die." Xi finally returned to normal. He began to bow to Peng Zong heavily and said, "Please let the general kill me! Let the person kill me!"

"Forget it." Peng Zong sighed. He finally figured out the whole story: the person who was a serious crime should not be followed by Qin Ru, but Chu Ru also wanted to take his wife's property, but he didn't expect that the crime of war would also be blamed on the officials. "I'll ask you, how much money does it cost to a deposit?"

"A piece of armor... costs 1,340 coins." Xi replied, he was still pausing his head, not thinking about what Peng Zong wanted.

"One armor, one thousand three hundred and forty coins." Peng Zong repeated, "These thirty-eight armor..."

"Sima, 38 Jia is 5920 yuan." Peng Zong just asked about Fasa in the account. They were the guards who were responsible for calculations in the Chu army's tent. Perhaps he knew what Sima wanted to do, Fasa muttered even more after saying that: "Sima, with Qin Rule, he will only redeem 23,400 yuan to death. This is two and half-death crimes."

"I want you to talk more." Peng Zong snorted coldly, "Although he is a Qin people, he can speak Chu language, but I am a Chu person. The person who comes will get six golds."

The law was very embarrassed, but he still had an occupational disease, saying, "Sima, Qin Yijin is worth 9,216 coins, and the 5920 coins, the 8 taels and 7 zhu of hardware will be more than 1,000 yuan. May he have some money at home, or just give it to the hardware..."

"I want you to say more!" Peng Zong was angry and looked at him (glazed at him), Fasuan bowed and left in disappointment.

"This is the six gold, you can take it to atone for your sins." The gold was taken over, and Peng Zong gave it to Xi.

The six kilograms of gold are heavy and brilliant. I was so happy that I saw it as stupid as a wooden chicken. When I woke up, I abandoned it and said in a terror: "General, don't harm me, don't harm me! I received gold from other countries for no reason. This is a traitor, and I am the rule of Qin..."

"There is no Qin rule here, only the Chu people!" Peng Zong interrupted loudly. "Another, I will give you six golds and you will melt them into cakes. Who knows? Go and go, think about your weak wife and young son in your family. If you die, you will be afraid that you will meet in the underworld."

While Xi was still hesitating, the soldiers of Jia stuffed the six golds into his arms, then pulled him out of the big tent, and said, "We Peng Sima Nian, you are from Chu, and these six golds are rewarded for you. Don't thank you, go and go..."
Chapter completed!