Battle for hegemony at the end of the Qin Dynasty in the military god system

Chapter 131 The Enraged Li Ji
Half an hour later, Li Ji ordered his subordinates to check the progress of the engineering equipment again.Because the production of engineering equipment requires local materials, the production team is arranged behind the team, close to the jungle.A few inspectors came to the production camp with ease, but they didn't see anyone. They wondered in their hearts whether all these people had gone to the dense forest to cut trees.So we walked along the opened path and found bloodstains on the ground. Several people woke up suddenly. Could it be that the enemy army attacked our production team and wanted us to postpone the siege?Several people explored along the bloodstains, and found the body of an overseer not far away. One of them sniffed and found that the other party was dead.

An inspector said carefully: "Isn't this the supervisor sent by the general? How could he die here?"

The other shook his head, expressing that he didn't know. At this time, they hadn't thought that the soldiers in the production team rioted and killed these supervisors, and they wouldn't have thought about it.Therefore, some people said that they would continue to investigate and find out the matter clearly, and some people suggested that they should go back and report to the general, but some people pointed out that if they did not report the matter clearly, they would be directly killed and discouraged by the general.The person who wanted to reciprocate suddenly shuddered, and withdrew his naive thoughts.

Several inspectors cheered up and continued to investigate along the path with wariness.Not far away, they found another corpse. After turning it over to check, they found that it was the corpse of another supervisor.This discovery made these inspectors have bad thoughts in their hearts. They checked the scene of the crime and found that there were no traces of fighting, except for some footprints of transporting wooden soldiers, which were the whip marks of the supervising army.Could it be that the corpses of the two supervisors indicated that the production team had defected collectively?

Until now, they have not been 100% sure that these soldiers have defected. The superficial evidence is only the corpse of the supervising army, but not the corpse of the soldier, which is not enough to prove it.Unless all the supervising troops have been killed and none of the soldiers have been killed, it can be said that the soldiers have rebelled.They decided to keep searching, because if they went back to report like this, if it didn't end like this, these inspectors would be executed by Li Ji who was furious.

It didn't take long for the corpses of ten supervisors to be found. They moved these corpses together and prepared to go back and report the discovery.

One of them said: "If we tell the general about this result, he will definitely be very angry, and he will whip the soldiers. We will definitely not escape this whipping. I heard that uprisings have broken out in many places. Following this General, I don’t know when he died for no reason, why don’t we follow the example of these soldiers and flee for our lives, I think he will have no time to chase us for a while, and we may be able to avoid death.”

Some people disapproved and replied in a low voice: "We are the general's soldiers. If we flee the battlefield because we are afraid of life and death, that is not what loyal people should do. If we go back and tell the general the whole story, I believe the general will not vent his anger." On us.”

The rest of the warlords all bowed their heads. They also want to fulfill their loyalty, but it depends on whether the general is worthy of allegiance. They can't escape on weekdays. Now that this is such a good opportunity, it's time to wait.

The warlord who suggested fleeing asked again: "Do you want to be loyal to such a person? Waiting for the whipping after returning? I don't care about you. If you don't run away, I will run away." After finishing speaking, he ran towards the depths of the dense forest.

The warlord who disapproved of escaping shouted: "You coward, I will sue the general and kill your whole family." But fortunately, the other party didn't seem to hear his threat, and fled into the dense forest on his own.

The speaker has no intention of the listener, and the person who threatened him just now didn't bother him, but it doesn't mean that others won't.The rest of the warlords looked at each other, each understood, one took the opportunity to talk and distract, the others moved behind and drew their sabers, and directly beheaded the warlord who was going back to make a small report.

The rest had no choice and made the decision to flee for their lives.Someone even kicked the body of the warlord who refused to escape, spat and cursed: "What the hell, you want to kill the whole family, who do you think you are?"

Another warlord stopped him and urged him to flee for his life together. Without hesitation, the few of them ran towards the dense forest and fled quickly.

But he said that Li Ji waited in the formation for about a stick of incense, and asked impatiently: "Come on, let me see why the group of people who went to supervise the production team haven't come back yet. Wait until they come back They must be killed, and there is no common sense that the military situation is urgent."

The people who went to investigate this time were very fast. When they went there and found the bodies of the inspector soldiers and the overseers, he knew the general idea in his heart, and quickly went back to report.Li Ji was furious when he found out, and went to the production team to check with his staff.

When Li Ji came to the scene, his face was very ugly. He didn't expect that some soldiers dared to defect, and there were also inspectors he sent out.This kind of thing was really unbearable, Li Ji, in a rage, ordered the whole army to enter the mountains to encircle and suppress the defectors.

At this time, someone objected: "Lord Li Ji, you seem to have forgotten your business." He pointed to Juye City not far away. The person who spoke was the sheriff of Langya County. His official position was still higher than Li Ji, and he was also Zhao Gao. An important person in the same line, Li Ji was recommended by Zhao Ben to Zhao Gao as the coach of this expedition, because Li Ji is an old friend of Zhao Ben, and he stayed in the army for a while, so he is familiar with the army.However, the governor of Langya County was the supervisor sent by Zhao Gao, so he was not afraid of Li Ji here, and Li Ji's notoriety was nothing to him.

Li Ji's face became more and more ugly, he put his hand on the saber at his waist, took a deep breath, resisted not drawing the sword, and said with a frown: "I am the general, and my opinion is the biggest here."

The Governor of Langya smiled and said: "I don't care what your opinion is, I'm just reminding you, don't forget the purpose of your trip. If you do anything that will harm Zhao Langzhong's interests on the way, I will tell him the truth. I think you know what the consequences will be."

Li Ji drew out his sword, and shouted hoarsely: "Old man, do you really dare not kill you?"

The governor of Langya County pointed at his neck and said with a triumphant smile: "You can try it, once the knife is cut down, the glory and wealth will disappear. From now on, you will not be able to order others so readily, and you will be punished by death instead. You can figure it out." !"

Li Ji withdrew his sword, snorted angrily, and left straight away. When he left, he ordered his left and right to send more soldiers here to make siege equipment.Li Ji, who suffered a loss once, sent more manpower to supervise the army this time to prevent these soldiers from defecting again.

The governor of Langya saw that Li Ji had confessed, so he didn't continue to pursue the matter. After all, Li Ji was also the commander appointed by Zhao Gao, and it was really unreasonable to continue to hold on to the problem. He wouldn't want to hit Zhao Gao in the face.

Under Li Ji's order, an army of ten thousand people marched into the dense forest, felling trees to make ladders and other siege equipment.

Li Ji sat on the horse and looked at Juye City not far away, feeling unhappy, he had already scolded the old man of Langya County hundreds of times in his heart, if it wasn't for the pressure from above, Li Ji would have whipped the old man long ago.

(End of this chapter)