On April 18th, in Shouchun City, the capital of Jiujiang County, the "rebels" lit torches and spread throughout the southern suburbs of Shouchun City, making the night sky dark and red and the fire lit up.

It was not because of the rebellion of the Southern Conquest Army that Jiujiang County was ordered to assist Feng Wuze to quell the rebellion, which led to the emptiness of the county, but did not expect that after the news of "the death of the First Emperor" came, rebellions broke out one after another in several counties around Shouchun.

Now that a month has passed, the rebels have become a climate and have begun to gather together to seize the Shouchun.

Because the county magistrates of Jiujiang County and most of the county soldiers were not present, the guards could only be given the guards. The lieutenant led the Qin officials to prepare for the war nervously.

The atmosphere outside the city was very relaxed. In the temporary camp that could be called a shack, a corner that the Chu people liked was underway, with many onlookers and cheers endlessly.

Their shouts were so loud that every time they called, the sparse county soldiers on the city trembled and almost couldn't hold their weapons.

Soon, the cheers reached the top, but in the dusty field, among the desperate people, Ying Bu, who is known as brave, has never lost anyone to play with the horn, but today he was easily knocked to the ground by his opponent, the double pupils with naked upper body covered with muscles!

Ying Bu stood up with a fight, and quickly rolled away before the opponent's attack to avoid greater failure. He then bowed to Chongtonger: "Major General, Ying Bu lost!"

Xiang Yu, who was only twenty-three or four years old, was still not satisfied and wanted to make a few more moves with Ying Bu. However, Fan Zeng, who he called "Asian Father", shook his head and chose to stop and praised Ying Bu:

"You are not bad either. You can go back and forth with me for several rounds."

"The power of the major general is worse than that of Ying Bu."

Ying Bu couldn't accept it. He brought seven or eight hundred prisoners from six counties to join Xiang Yu. There was no play in the camp, and only the horns were there to make fun of him. After the two fought, Ying Bu realized that this book was indeed well-known.

It is said that as the direct grandson of the Xiang family, Xiang Ji learned swords and military tactics from his uncle Xiang Liang when he was young, and he was quite famous for his bravery.

Later, Xiang was in trouble, Xiang Liang moved away, his family was confiscated, Xiang Bo fled, Xiang Ji alone fought a bloody road south, and entered the river and became thieves with Huan Chu.

At that time, he was more than eight feet tall, capable of carrying a tripod, and was extremely talented. The bandits on the entire river were afraid and willing to be controlled by him. Later, he entered Chaohu and became more famous. He gathered thousands of dead people, continued to attack the towns and towns, killed the Qin officials who were entrusted to rent and forced labor, won the support of the local Chu people, and also gave Luyi government a headache.

In the middle of last month, Xiang Ji heard that Emperor Shi died and the process of raising troops to seize Luyi was even more legendary: he actually brought a few confidants into the county town, and asked the noble and wise men who had secretly communicated with him in the city to lied that he was a captured Chaohu thief and took him to the county magistrate for interrogation.

In the court, Xiang Ji, who had no soldiers, took the sword of his attendant and drew his sword and killed the head of the county magistrate. The county soldiers in the hall wanted to kill him, but Xiang Ji was furious and roared, scaring everyone so much that they did not dare to move and surrender.

Xiang Ji brought more than ten people with him, holding the head of the county magistrate, wearing his seal and ribbon, and heading straight to the commander. The county magistrate stopped him, but his subordinates were killed by Xiang Ji who was like a god descending to earth. He was very shocked and disturbed. In the end, the county magistrate and Wei were all killed by him. Luyi was taken down without bloodshed.

At first, Ying Bu didn't believe that there were such people in the world. When he saw him today, he realized that the rumors might be true.

Xiang Ji is a good friend, especially likes warriors. When he saw Ying Bu, he got drunk and talked to him, but he asked, "Why would you like to vote for me?"

Ying Bu also said the truth: "Of course it is the name of Major General Mu. Moreover, Xiang's family is famous in Chu for generations. Now if you want to do a major event, you must not be the general. Ying Bu is a lowly prisoner. If you can rely on the famous family, you will definitely destroy Qin!"

After hearing this, Xiang Ji said to himself: "Afu's son is indeed good, and it has indeed caused the heroes in Huainan to join in and fight for the fight."

It turned out that after Xiang Yu captured Lu County, Fan Zeng proposed: "Xiang's generals have been with each other. Shangzhu Kingdom has even more powerful rivals against Qin. He defeated Li Xin and saved Chu from danger. He made many contributions and loved his soldiers. The people of Chu felt pity and respected him."

"Although the Shangzhu Kingdom died, most of the common people in Chu did not know it, or thought it was dead, or thought it was dead. Now the major general should follow the remaining power of Xiang family, gather people to hold up the flag of Shangzhu Kingdom, and use the title of reviving the Great Chu, and sing it to the world, and there will be many people who will respond!"

That night, Yingbu saw Xiang Ji's aristocratic temperament. Although he was not worthy of the courage of thousands of men, he was respectful and kind to the virtuous and capable men and spoke in disgusting words. This made him feel that it was right to vote for Xiang Ji.

But I don’t know if it was forgotten or what happened, but Xiang Ji didn’t mention the position of “Sima, the Duwei” that Ying Bu expected.

He didn't care much, after all, the ultimate goal was to "be the king". As for the empty title, it would not be too late to talk about it after seizing Shouchun.

...

The next day, at dawn, Xiang Ji invited Ying Bu to inspect the camp together, preparing to launch another attack on the strong Shouchun City.

It was early summer, and the clear Huai River flowed. On the shore of the Huai River, green apples grew new leaves, and white angelica sprouted and fragrant. On the north shore are continuous jungles, walking along the swamp paddy fields, the road is well-connected, and the vast wilderness can be seen from a distance. You can see the vastness of Huai River for thousands of miles.

And Shouchun, the old capital that carries the last period of Chu, is standing in front of it!

Xiang Ji and Ying Bu rushed to the front of the formation and pointed to the right:

"Then is Zhongli. He was once a member of the Chu army. Now he is in Zhongli and brings more than a thousand people here."

Xiang Ji gritted his teeth and said, "Speaking of this, Zhongli is actually the old enemy of Heifu. I have heard a lot of the past of this dog thief from him."

It can be seen that Xiang Ji had no fondness for the Marquis of Wuzhong, who was the reign of Wuchang. After all, it was more than ten years ago that the black husband became famous by seizing the Xiang Yan army flag.

He pointed back again: "Front at the front are Huan Chu and Chaohu, the righteous man from Luyi. When he saw the flag of my eldest father, he heard that we were going to restore the old capital, and the Chu people along the way joined enthusiastically."

The nearly a thousand prisoners and gentlemen brought by Ying Bu were arranged to the west of the city.

"There are only two thousand county soldiers in the city, and the Chu people in the city are on our side. They will not help Qin officials guard the city. Now they have two or three sons to attack together. With five thousand people, they will definitely defeat them!"

Indeed, although the armor and soldiers were not complete, they looked like a group of mobs, but the victory was due to the strong morale. On the other hand, the city had long been in chaos.

At this time, Ying Bu saw an altar in front of the position, with an old man bowing to the sky.

"Major General, that's that?"

Xiang Ji took a look and frowned and said, "It was the gangster of the former King Fu Chu, Cai Ci. He heard that I was trying to restore the Great Chu, so he brought the secret Chu historian "Zhu" to vote!"

Although Xiang Ji lost his father at a young age, he liked martial arts and writing, and he didn't understand it very much, thinking it was useless.

But his planner Fan Zeng attached great importance to it, not only let Xiang Ji welcome Cai Ci solemnly, but also agreed to a request from Cai Ci...

Looking at Cai Ci's man with his hair disheveled on the altar, his hands facing the sky, as if he was holding an ancient ceremony, Ying Bu couldn't help but wonder.

"Is he doing it?"

Ying Bu remembered a joke that was widely circulated in Chu: When Shouchun was about to be destroyed, King Fu Chu of Chu was desperate, and even asked Chu Wu to climb the city to make a move, to summon Yun Zhongjun and to kill hundreds of thousands of Qin troops outside the city with thunder...

As a result, Chu Wu didn't even attract a cloud. Under the order of Wang Jian, Qin general Heifu and others took the opportunity to attack the city, then broke through the city wall, rushed into the palace, and Chu was then killed.

This old man Cai is not doing the same thing, right?

Xiang Ji said, "Cai Ci is summoning the soul."

"I dare to ask which soul is it?" Ying Bu Daqi.

Xiang Ji became solemn.

"Cai Ci is the souls who died in battle more than ten years ago to defend the Chu State and resist the invasion of the Qin gangs!"

As he was talking, he heard Cai Ci's old voice saying loudly:

"The emperor told Wu Yang: Someone is here, I want to assist him. My soul and soul are separated. You divine me..."

"Wu Yang then called out: Soul is back!"

"Don't go east or south, don't go west or north, don't go to heaven, don't go to Youdu!"

"Go back! Go back to Ying!"

...

"Can you know that no matter how many times the Chu State moves its capital, and how many times our country is destroyed and our family is destroyed, we will always name the new capital Ying."

After being over seventy, more and more wise people from the village came to Xiang Yu and Ying Bu, stroked their beards and said:

"The capital of Chu was originally in Danyang and was named Ying. Later, due to various reasons, whether it was a country that grew or avoided strong enemies, he moved many times. However, no matter how it moved, the new capital would still be named 'Ying'."

In the "Chu Ju" written by Cai Cixian, there are countless capitals of Yan Ying, Zai Ying, Qiu Ying, Fan Ying, which are Ying, Daying, Ying, and the suburbs of Ying.

But it doesn’t matter what the prefix is, just Ying is fine.

Ying is the homeland of all the souls of Chu people.

Therefore, in the "Summoning Soul" written by Song Yu, Cai Ci, who shouted in Chu local dialect, he wanted to show the evil of all directions outside and respect the beauty of Chu State inside, so that the souls of loyal soldiers who had been wandering for a long time would return to Shouchun, the hometown called "Ying", the last Yingdu!

This is a tradition that has been continued for eight hundred years. The Chu people, especially the nobles of Chu, and these descendants of Emperor Gaoyang, have a stronger sense of patriotism than other princes.

This is true for Xiang Ji.

"Soul is back! Go back to the former residence..."

Xiang Ji, who was born to be prone to emotions, couldn't help himself, so he began to miss him.

He remembered that before the fall of Chu State, the Xiang family also had a mansion and courtyard in Shouchun City. His family had a high lobby and deep houses, and there were pavilions and pavilions. When he woke up, he could see the carved square rafters when he opened his eyes, painting the images of dragons and snakes.

When he walked out of the room, the door was painted with red inks and the windows were engraved with square patterns. When the young Xiang Ji stood on tiptoe, he could see the mountains in the east of the city. At this time, the eldest father Xiang Yan would always stroke his hand over his head, and his grandparents and grandchildren looked at each other and smiled.

At that time, I was still young and danced wooden swords with my brothers all day long to make fun of them. My uncles and uncles gathered together to prepare for the 60th birthday banquet of my father. In the courtyard, dancers listed and appeared. The musicians placed chimes, set up big drums, and played the new musical songs.

After singing "Shejiang" and singing "Cailing Ling" again, there is also a song called "Yang'a"...

The family members were very happy and happy. They wrote poems together to express their common feelings, and drank fragrant wine and laughed happily.

But all these prosperous scenes were all destroyed by the Qin people.

My grandfather died on the battlefield and his body was killed by the Qin people.

Suddenly, the country was destroyed and the family was gone!

How could Xiang Ji not hate him, and how could he not think about revenge day and night?

Anger was in his chest, Xiang Ji roared and roared. Chu Fu, who was already a little slow and sad, actually brought a sense of majesty!

"The soul is back! Let's go, what are the four directions?"

Xiang Ji seemed to see that in the sound of his loud singing, his father Xiang Yan, his father, the good men of the clan, and tens of thousands of soldiers who were chopped down at the head of the Qin people after a heroic sacrifice on the battlefield!

Their souls are constantly coming to Shouchun, with hundreds of thousands of flags, trying to kill the Qin gangs!

First there was Xiang Ji, and then among the five thousand people of Chu, there were constantly following the major general, repeating those slightly difficult words...

"Soul is back! Enter the cultivation gate."

But no matter how difficult it is to speak, the familiar Chu Yan is more intimate than the strange Guanzhong Yayan.

Chu is not only a country name, but also a unique regional culture. Whether it is the Chu people can tell whether they are the Chu people can laugh at them. The Qin people laugh at them, but even the "Xiaoli" and "Ba people" sang in depressed times can still exclaim a sense of unwillingness to Zhou!

Compared with the shame of the nobles' destruction of the country and the family, they want to regain everything they have lost, for ordinary people, "not wanting to be ruled by foreigners with different accents and do not want to be subject to heavy labor restrictions" is more mainstream.
To be continued...