"What? You are actually from the E country!" Chen Xiaomu was shocked. He had heard Lu Jun talk about this E country that night.
"Didn't your country of E be destroyed by Chu's black-armored army?"
"Yes" Hou Kun nodded, his face gloomy.
"It's hard to collect the water!" Chen Xiaomu sighed.
"Oh, by the way, what did you want to talk to me about just now?" Chen Xiaomu turned to Hou Kun and asked.
"I would like to ask you who came up with the plan to flood the Chu army? And how was it implemented?"
Chen Xiaomu smiled, "This war is not a trap. Water has no shape, and soldiers have no power. This strategy may be successful here, but it may fail there. And some strategies are successful the first time they are implemented, and they may be used again next time. It will bring disaster to yourself! This depends on the time, location, and harmony!"
"What a wonderful time, favorable location, and harmonious relationship!" Hou Kun murmured, a sharp edge quickly flashing in his gray eyes.
Seeing Hou Kun's dazed look, Chen Xiaomu stood up and said, "How about I send you off myself?"
"I decided not to leave!" Hou Kun said resolutely, looking at Chen Xiaomu.
"Why don't you leave again?" Chen Xiaomu asked in surprise.
"I think I might have a chance for revenge if I stay. My mother would definitely support me if she knew I was doing this!"
"Your mother? Is the person being held hostage your mother?" But if you don't go back, what will your mother do? "
Hou Kun smiled sadly and said: "So many people in Chu State died in this war. If I don't go back, they will definitely think that I died in the battle! I just want to make my mother sad for me!"
Chen Xiaomu scratched the short hair on his head and said awkwardly, "Isn't it inconvenient for you to stay with us?"
Hou Kun glanced at him, "What's the inconvenience? I've been doing this since I was a child. As long as I find a way to prevent myself from getting hurt, no one will notice anything! Besides, I won't take advantage of you!" "
I think you should go back and take your mother out. It would be great to hide in that deep mountain and old forest and live a peaceful life. There are wars and chaos outside all day long, and war is really not something you women can get involved in. Besides, I used to It is understandable that those relatives of the emperor and the civil and military ministers of the state of E who have received favor from the emperor want revenge. You were a commoner when you were in the state of E, and now you are still a commoner after being merged into the state of Chu. What kind of revenge are you doing? hatred? "Chen Xiaomu persuaded Hou Kun earnestly. He really didn't want to bring a girl disguised as a man in his team of male animals, which would save him a lot of trouble.
Hou Kun looked at Chen Xiaomu intently, "How did you know that I was not a relative of the emperor when I was in Hubei?"
"Hey, I can't see that you are really a relative of the Emperor of E!" Chen Xiaomu pretended to be surprised and said sarcastically.
Hou Kun ignored him and continued to say sadly: "Actually, it is not right to say that I am a relative of the emperor. My original true identity is Ximen Ruoen, the princess of the country of E, and the last emperor of the country of Hubei, Ximen Jun, is my father. ,Do you understand it?"
Chen Xiaomu was stunned by Hou Kun's words. In the world he traveled to, were princesses so worthless? These days, I haven't met many ordinary women, but the princess has met three, including Su Xingyu!
Seeing Chen Xiaomu looking at him with unbelievable eyes, Hou Kun said: "Wang Yun, the garrison of Xinhe County in front of him, is an old minister of the E State. When the Chu State's black armor army attacked Chenzhou City of the E State for a long time, Unable to capture the city, they captured Wang Yun's parents, wife and children from Gucheng, Wang Yun's hometown, which had been captured by them, and took him to the gate of Chenzhou City to force him to surrender. When Wang Yun was in a dilemma, his father heard about this. I couldn't bear to let his family be ruined and his wife and children scattered, so I sent people to send messages by flying pigeons to ask him to surrender to the Chu army. Now I want to go to the city to persuade him to surrender to you, what do you think?"
Chen Xiaomu secretly sighed. It seemed that the Princess of E in front of him was also genuine. Otherwise, she would not dare to say these words. After pondering for a moment, he still felt that what Hou Kun said about going to the city to persuade him to surrender was too risky, so he didn't talk about it for now. Does Wang Yun still recognize his old master? The question is, even if Wang Yun agrees to surrender, most of his subordinates are from the Chu state. Will they be able to listen to him then? Also, the country of Hubei has been destroyed for more than ten years. Hou Kun was still a child at that time. Can Wang Yun still know her? Even the family of Hou Kun, a little pawn, was under surveillance. Wang Yun's family might have been imprisoned by the Chu people. Although he was ordered to surrender, he might have had the intention to surrender. The emperor's letter is just an excuse for him to go along with the situation! Rather than taking such a big risk, it would be better to use this letter from his boss, Zhu Ping, the deputy governor of Xinyang Pass, to lure him out of Xinhe County and let Zhang Jian set up an ambush near Tianmen in Tianmen Mountain in advance, taking advantage of the steepness of Tianmen Mountain. The mountain will annihilate his troops in one fell swoop! Relatively safe.
Chen Xiaomu immediately told Hou Kun his worries and the final solution to Wang Yun's troops.
Hou Kun shook his head, "Because Wang Yun surrendered to the Chu State, Wang Yun's parents had already committed suicide in shame. His wife and children also left him at the same time. Although he found several concubines later, no matter how much he teased him, they couldn't do it. Wang Yun gave him a son and a half daughters. Wang Yun himself believed that this was God's punishment for surrendering to Chu. As for Wang Yun's subordinates, it can be said that almost none of them were from Chu. They were all from Hubei. People in the land! It would be easier to say that Wang Yun didn't know her. Hou Kun now has a letter of thanks that Wang Yun personally replied to after receiving her father's letter of persuasion to surrender. Hou Kun took this letter She carries the letter with her anytime and anywhere, and she is always paying attention to Wang Yun's movements, hoping that one day she can see Wang Yun again and persuade him to raise the flag of rebellion and rebel against the rule of Chu Emperor Xiong Ze!"
Chen Xiaomu frowned and sighed: "You people, your competition for power is simply crazy! You never care about the life and death of the people of Li. In the end, you ascended the throne, became a prince, and became a general, but in the end everyone died. Children of the common people!”
Chen Xiaomu's words made Hou Kun's face suddenly turn cold, and he sneered, "Aren't you fighting for power now?"
Chen Xiaomu was speechless. He originally wanted to say that he was actually fighting for his wife, but when he thought about it, this reason seemed even more shameful than Hou Kun's reason for fighting for power! Just pretend to be deaf and dumb.
Hou Kun glanced at him and said, "Our Ximen family should have really fought for power when the country of Hubei was founded. But later on, our Ximen family gradually looked down on the various auras brought by power, at least in my father's generation. In his eyes, power is no longer as important as family! Seeing that Chen Xiaomu had no reaction, Hou Kun turned to him and asked, "Do you know how our country was destroyed? "
Chen Xiao shook his head numbly.
Hou Kun smiled bitterly, "Do you really think that Chu's 50,000 black-armored soldiers can destroy a country similar to theirs? In fact, no, the Chu people did not get any benefits at the beginning of the war. On the contrary, their casualties almost exceeded We were twice as powerful, but later Shi Lei, who served as the marshal of the Chu State to attack the State of E and the leader of the Black Armored Army, came up with a way, that is, every time a city of the State of E was conquered, all the ordinary people of the State of E would be killed. They were divided into men, women, old and young, and rushed to the next E city they wanted to capture. Let these ordinary people walk in front of the black armored army when they attacked the city, and block for them the arrows fired by the defenders on the city and the hammers thrown from the city top. The rolling logs and stones that came down from the city killed tens of thousands of E people every time they attacked the city. In the end, the E soldiers couldn't do it anymore, so they had no choice but to surrender after negotiating good terms with them! There are nearly 200 E people. The cities were lost one by one in this way. At that time, my father saw that many soldiers and people would die tragically at the hands of the Chu people if this continued, so he simply announced it to the Emperor of Chu, Xiong Ze, while ensuring the preservation of our E royal family and officials at all levels. Submit to the Chu State and allow it to be annexed by the Chu State."
"What happened next?" Hou Kun's words successfully aroused Chen Xiaomu's curiosity.
"Later! Later" Hou Kun choked up and couldn't speak anymore!
After waiting for some more time, Hou Kun calmed down and said, "The two thieves Xiong Ze and Shi Lei, less than a month after the signing of the surrender letter from the State of E, went on a mass killing spree of people from all over the former State of E. Many officials' families were wiped out overnight! My father was heartbroken when he heard the news, and he was also worried all day long. Finally one night, Shi Lei's son Shi Biao suddenly surrounded our home with heavy troops. He broke open the door of his residence, entered without saying a word and started killing people, almost killing everyone on sight. In desperation, my father pushed my mother, brother and I into a dry well in the backyard, and covered the wellhead with stones. The three of us hid in the dry well and heard all kinds of screams from outside the well. My mother hugged me and my brother and trembled all over, not daring to say a word. It was not until the second half of the night that the screams gradually calmed down, and then we heard them again. The fire burned with the sound of crackling wood, and from time to time the firelight shone into the dry well through the cracks in the rocks. It was not until the next night that the brother was so hungry that he couldn't bear it anymore, so he stepped on his mother's shoulders and quietly pushed the cover at the mouth of the well. I climbed out of the dry well with stones, looked around carefully, and found that all the thieves had withdrawn, so I found a rope to pull my mother and I out of the dry well. When we came out and took a look, all the furniture in the house had become one piece. It was black charcoal and the ground was littered with corpses. The three of us finally found the remains of our father, whose lower body had been burnt, among the pile of corpses. We didn’t even have time to scrub him, so we hurriedly pushed the remains into the dry well where we had just hidden, and then I found a stone to seal the mouth of the well and hurriedly left home. In order to preserve my brother’s Ximen family blood, my mother took off a golden phoenix hairpin from her head and asked him to go to other places to make a living alone in front of the money. Then she took me with her in I previously lived in a small town on the border between Chu and Hubei. In order to hide my identity from others, my mother sold some jewelry on her body and bought me a set of men's clothes on the second day after arriving in the town, so that I could disguise myself as a man."
"Then why did you join the Chu army as a soldier again?" Chen Xiaomu asked doubtfully.
"After Chu State annexed the State of Hubei, the traitor Xiong Ze was afraid that the people in Hubei would rebel, so he made some regulations. Anyone who originally lived in Hubei was not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations, join the army, work in politics, or even serve in the Yamen. At that time, the ten families used a kitchen knife, which had to be handed over to the local village masa's house for safekeeping after use. Later, because of wars with other countries every year, the troops on the battlefield were gradually stretched, so he had no choice but to start recruiting troops in the original Hubei region.
