The Great Qin Empire---Qin Li

When Dou Ran was young, he had been to the Huainan Animal Park of the King of Chu. There were not only precious flowers and trees, but also various rare birds and beasts, including countless rhinoceroses, rhinoceroses, and elks.

The King of Chu, Fu Chu, who was still the prince's younger brother at the time, once took Dou Ran and his friends to watch a "game".

The tiger, which had been hungry for many days and looked weak, was put into a sheepfold. In just a moment, after smelling fresh blood and flesh, the two drooping eyes of the hungry tiger, which was originally lying on the ground dying and emaciated, suddenly burst into light. It stood up and rushed towards the sheep, pounced on one and bit its neck madly, drank its blood, and then let out a long-suppressed roar...

That day, the crazy hungry tiger killed more than 20 sheep in the sheepfold. Although there were many sheep, they could only bleat and run around, allowing the hungry tiger to slaughter them.

At this moment, the situation of that day seemed to be reproduced.

The Qin army that pretended to surrender in front of them attacked the Chu army with soldiers who had been trapped in the team and soldiers with spears and armor at a rapid speed, and the front line was in pieces. Even the Qin soldiers in the back who were captured by the Chu people and detained in the pit with low morale suddenly roared like hungry tigers.

Before accepting the surrender, the Chu people thought they were tigers and the enemy were sheep. At this moment, they realized that their identities were reversed.

Ji Ying and others suddenly rose up and cut Zhou Hua and others' restraints with hidden knives. The Qin officials began to call on the captives to resist. They rushed to the Chu soldiers guarding them with bare hands, threw them to the ground, strangled their throats, snatched their weapons, and attacked the rear of the Chu army to respond to the friendly army...

For a time, the Chu army fell into a dilemma of being attacked from both sides, with the Qin armored soldiers getting closer and closer in front. The array of more than a thousand people had collapsed by half, and only five or six hundred people were left to fight against the Qin people of equal number. The 500 men in the rear were also in chaos because of the prisoners' riot, and they could not be mobilized to support.

The archers and cavalry that Dou Ran had high hopes for were directly ignored by the enemy's commander. The Qin people ignored the arrows on their sides and heads and charged forward blindly, aiming directly at Dou Ran's chariot!

Thirty steps, twenty steps, ten steps! Dou Ran could even see the ferocious faces of the blood-stained Qin people in the front row of the Qin army. There was even a burly man with a red birthmark on his face who jumped high and threw a short halberd that broke through more than ten steps and threw it in Dou Ran's direction.

Dou Ran was caught off guard and could only squat subconsciously. The hand halberd knocked his bronze helmet away, and the bronze helmet rolled under the chariot. Dou Ran was so scared that he lay down in the carriage and broke into a cold sweat!

The drumbeat he had been trying to beat suddenly stopped!

As a last resort, Dou Ran's driver began to drive the chariot. Under the protection of his personal guards, the chariot ran over several defeated soldiers blocking the way ahead and began to drive towards the south where the organization was still intact.

Sun Feng's chariot and five hundred soldiers were there. Since the beginning of the war, Sun Feng had been in a daze. After Dou Ran sent people to urge him several times, he sent hundreds of people forward to encircle the Qin flank. Unexpectedly, the Qin people ignored it and only barely blocked their attack with one hundred armored soldiers, while the rest were still attacking the middle road...

Dou Ran planned to withdraw and use Sun Feng's manpower to reorganize and counterattack, but this happened to be the Qin army's trick.

"The Chu army was defeated! The Chu general fled!"

At the instruction of Hei Fu, the Nanjun soldiers in the Qin army shouted loudly. The Chu army that was still resisting in front was shocked. They looked back and saw that Dou Ran's chariot flag, which was originally steadily supervising the battle behind them, had run more than ten steps to the south.

In a moment of distraction, they were pushed back several steps, and their last will to resist collapsed.

The two thousand people brought by Dou Ran and Sun Feng were not the elite of the Chu army, but their own clan soldiers. Among these people, there were a large number of undisciplined Chu rangers, farmers holding sickles and rusty swords left by their grandfathers, and young men from the left side of the village who were found in the alleys and had not completed their training.

Such an army was fine to fight with the Zhao, Jing, Qu and Xiang armies, but they were a little confused when they were suddenly attacked so fiercely. At this moment, they heard shouts of killing from the rear, and their own commander also "ran away", which made them even more panicked. Not only the five hundred soldiers who had been defeated by the Qin army, but also the remaining five or six hundred people began to retreat step by step.

"Stop, stop!"

Dou Ran was shocked when he saw this. He came back to his senses from the shock just now. He hurriedly helped the driver to hold the horse and asked the guards to shout: "Hu Gong's flag is still here!"

But it was too late to make up for the loss. The defeated soldiers seemed not to hear the shouts of Dou Ran's guards and still ran around like headless flies. There were more than a dozen tall family guards beside Dou Ran's chariot, all wearing armor. Now they were all covered with blood, but this blood was not from the enemy, but from their own people.

In the past, whenever the battle was in decline and retreated, chopping off a few cowards' heads could force the large group to stand still. But this time it didn't work. Chopping off more than a dozen heads still couldn't stop the rout. For a while, more than a thousand people in the central part of the Chu army were all defeated!

Dou Ran stared at this scene blankly, and a sentence from the art of war flashed through his mind.

"Burn the boats and break the pots, like driving a flock of sheep, drive them away, drive them back, no one knows where they are going!"

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"Are they driving sheep?"

Sun Feng, who was more than a hundred steps to the south, looked at the scene in front of him and muttered to himself.

From his position, the Qin people did not pay attention to the rules of war. At the beginning, there was still some order. But now, they have completely ignored the formation, just charging forward and rushing around, just like this, they opened a big hole in the Chu formation, forcing Dou Ran to move.

As a result, the Chu soldiers were defeated on a larger scale, running in all directions in a noisy manner. As the battle broke out in the rear formation, the hundreds of Chu people in the rear also fell into a bitter battle with the Qin prisoners and were difficult to support.

For a time, the only well-organized troops on the entire battlefield were the 500 people under Sun Feng, and the Qin people had never cared about them.

Logically speaking, Sun Feng's men were equal to the number of Qin troops. If they attacked from behind or rescued Dou Ran, they might be able to save the situation. But in the blink of an eye, Sun Feng, who had to carefully calculate even a little food, made a choice.

"We lost."

Sun Feng said so dejectedly, "We lost."

He seemed to remember the day when Qinqiu was breached by Li Xin, and suddenly lost all his fighting spirit. Before the Qin people turned around to attack him, he ordered the driver to turn the carriage around, took more than 500 of his men and more than 100 riders under him, left Dou Ran behind, and fled to Qinqiu in the east...

...

"County Lord, Sun Feng has escaped, let's retreat too!"

In the chaos, the driver turned around and persuaded Dou Ran to leave with an anxious look on his face. Although the front line had collapsed and the back line was in chaos, they had a chariot anyway. As long as they drove away, they would definitely be faster than the Qin people on two legs!

Dou Ran looked depressed, but he did not follow Sun Feng's footsteps and fled in panic. Instead, he stroked his sword and sighed, "Yes, I was defeated. Looking back at the thirty generations since the establishment of the Ruo'ao clan, there has been no head of the family who was defeated and still alive!"

Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu State has had a tradition of defeating the army and killing the generals. Generals who lost the battle did not need to be punished by the King of Chu or the law of the country. Most of them would commit suicide first!

During the reign of King Wu of Chu, Mo'ao Qu Xia led his army to attack the Luo State. He was defeated because of underestimating the enemy and advancing rashly. He hanged himself afterwards.

During the reign of King Cheng of Chu, another branch of the Ruo'ao clan, the head of the Cheng clan, Lingyin Ziyu, fought a fierce battle with the Jin army in Chengpu. After the defeat, Ziyu was so ashamed that he committed suicide in Liangu.

During the reign of King Gong of Chu, Sima Zifan fought with the Jin army in Yanling. The Chu army was defeated again and lost its hegemony in the Central Plains. Although the King of Chu did not blame Zifan afterwards, Zifan still stubbornly committed suicide.

During the reign of King Ping of Chu, Sima Yanyue ignored his subordinates' advice to fight again and committed suicide after losing the battle with the Wu army.

During the reign of King Zhao of Chu, after the left Sima Shen Yinrong fought hard but was defeated, he also asked his subordinates to cut off his head...

This is still relatively well-known, and a total of nine people in the Ruo'ao family died in this tragic way throughout the generations!

"My grandfather and father once told me that the generals of Jingchu, when they go out to fight, have the honor of dying and the disgrace of living!"

"Defeat is not terrible, what is terrible is that the loss of 800 years of inheritance and the loss of the pride of Jingchu!"

A true Jingchu noble, a true descendant of Emperor Gaoyang, must lose with dignity even if he loses!

"I was arrogant and unprepared, and now I have lost my army and my army. How dare I forget my death?"

After saying this, as the Qin people were getting closer and closer, Dou Ran drew out his sword and bowed to all the family servants and guards:

"Dou Ran is incompetent, and I have caused you two to suffer this great humiliation. Dou Ran is extremely ashamed, but I hope you two three will remember that you have served the Ruo Ao family for generations and will defend me against the enemy for a while!"

"Your servants respectfully send off the master! May the master's soul return and travel around Jingchu!"

More than a dozen guards did not persuade him anymore, kneeled on one knee, tears in their eyes, shouted loudly, then drew their weapons and rushed towards the Qin people who were already close at hand! They vowed to stop them for a moment and let the master go on his way with peace of mind.

The suicide of the Chu nobles also had a noble ceremony. With the help of the driver, Dou Ran gently wiped the long sword with white silk to make sure it was spotless. Then he stood up, raised his hands, and placed the blade across his neck...

When cutting, you must also cut from right to left, never the other way around!

"I only hope that after I die, my soul can really return! Return to my old home!" Dou Ran thought so in his heart at the last moment.

However, just as Dou Ran was about to commit suicide, more than ten steps away, an arrow flew over and shot his wrist!

The sword fell out of his hand, and Dou Ran covered his wrist that was bleeding profusely, in great pain.

At this moment, his clan soldiers had already fled or died, and his personal guards were also killed by the Qin people's chaotic swords. Even the driver who tried to stop the enemy with a halberd was shot and died. A large number of Qin people rushed over and surrounded Dou Ran's lonely chariot. Another Qin official jumped onto the chariot and kicked away the sword that Dou Ran tried to pick up again!

Dou Ran looked up in despair, but saw the little village chief Zhong who had come to "surrender" in the morning, looking at him with a smile.

"Dou County Lord, you and I meet again."

"Zhong, you really surrendered falsely..."

Dou Ran laughed bitterly: "Now the victory and defeat have been decided, I have nothing to say, I just want to die! I hope you can tell Cheng Wuyou to help me, the defeated general!"

As soon as these words came out, Dongmen Bao, who had once offered his halberd to Dou Ran, and Xiao Tao, who had shot an arrow to stop him from committing suicide, couldn't help laughing. For a while, dozens of Qin soldiers around the chariot laughed non-stop.

Dou Ran was ashamed and annoyed, feeling humiliated, and Hei Fu stopped everyone and said to him: "I deceived Dou Lord. There is no Cheng Wuyou Wuyou in the city."

"Who commanded this battle?"

Dou Ran originally felt that he had lost fairly, but now he found that this was a confusing battle, and he didn't even know who his opponent was.

"It's me."

"You?" Dou Ran's face was full of disbelief. This man, as the commander, went to the enemy camp to pretend to surrender? This...

Hei Fu said: "I am not the commander of a garrison, but a general. I was appointed by Lieutenant Li You as the fake commander of five hundred people and temporarily led everyone."

"My name is not Zhong either, my real name is Hei Fu! That's right, I am the Anlu Pavilion Chief that County Lord Dou is looking for."

Dou Ran's eyes widened, as if the man in front of him was a terrible monster.

"So, County Lord Dou, you can't just die like this."

Hei Fu also laughed: "You still owe me 700 acres of good land!"