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

Chapter 296 Ghost Stories

The waiting time was the longest. Liu Bang got up from time to time and asked Zhang Liang if he could go down the mountain.Zhang Liang always shook his head and answered, the time has not yet come.In desperation, Liu Bang sat on a haystack again.

"My lord, being impatient is no different. Let's just sit down and rest for a while. I think it's safe here." Zhang Liang took out a water bag out of nowhere, and enjoyed it leisurely, savoring the taste carefully.

Liu Bang swallowed, turned his head and looked down the mountain, wondering what he was thinking.

Finally, after Liu Bang No. 20 questioned Zhang Liang nine times, Zhang Liang thought for a while before giving an affirmative answer.Liu Bang was overjoyed, and shouted loudly to everyone to prepare quickly and go down the mountain immediately.

Chen Ping smiled and said to Zhang Liang: "Zifang, you are waiting so hard, but the lord is very anxious."

"If we don't wait for the enemy to withdraw, we are throwing ourselves into a trap if we go on like this. The reason why I want my lord to wait is to give the enemy time to withdraw." Zhang Liang pointed to the sky.

Chen Ping understood, what Zhang Liang was talking about was the color of the sky, and now it was getting late, these enemy troops would not chase into the forest, and the opponent would never expect them to turn back again and escape from the same route.So now it is safest for them to go out through the mouth of the valley.

After leaving the valley, Liu Bang and others quickly ran south along the mountain road, and finally found a small mountain village before night fell.

An old man who was almost seventy years old led them into a dilapidated thatched hut to rest, lit a brazier for them, and said with a smile: "I think these little brothers came from the nameless valley." The road there is not so easy to walk, and there have been no young people going there for many years." Speaking of this, the old man's voice was a little hoarse, as if it was a sad thing.

Seeing the brazier, Liu Bang hurriedly stepped forward to warm it, and thanked the old man, "Thank you, old man. It's a blessing to have a fire in such a cold day." He didn't care about the sadness in the old man's words at all.

Liu Bang didn't pay attention, but it doesn't mean that among the ten people there is no one with a heart. Zhang Liang is such a person. He heard something in the old man's words, and it seems that there is something hidden.

"Old man, let me do it!" While speaking, Zhang Liang walked to the old man, grabbed a few pieces of firewood, and put them into the fire.Zhang Liang tried to ask while adding firewood to the brazier: "Could it be that many years ago, there were young people walking in this valley?"

The old man looked up at Zhang Liang with his vicissitudes of life, sighed, and slowly replied: "Yes! Many years ago, people would pass through that valley every day, so that they were trampled out of a mountain road."

"Then why did it become a valley that no one cares about?"

"It's a long story." The old man sat cross-legged, looked at the fire in the brazier, and seemed to be caught in a kind of sad memory: "As the saying goes, relying on mountains to eat mountains depends on water to drink water. Back then, people who were close to this mountain There are many hunters in the village, and these people go to the mountain to hunt every day, and this mountain has never disappointed the hunters. Every time the hunters enter the mountain, they return with a full load. Until one day more than 20 years ago..." The old man said here, Tears flashed in his eyes, and he continued with some sobs: "I remember very clearly that when the Qin Army came here that year, they fought against Zhao Guo several times, but they were all unsuccessful. In order to replenish its troops, the Qin Army, Young people from all the villages here were recruited. The young people in the mountains wanted to resist, but unfortunately the Qin army was too powerful to be their opponent. Because of this, the Qin army also angered the Qin army. In a rage, the Qin army took all the villages here People, all slaughtered. If you have leisure, you can continue to walk around tomorrow, and you will find that this statement is true."

"Qin Jun is really hateful!" Liu Bang couldn't bear to burn the anger in his heart when he thought of his new defeat at the hands of Qin Jun.

But Zhang Liang grasped the key point. The old man said that the surrounding villages had been slaughtered, so how could there be a village with inhabited people.Thinking of this, Zhang Liang's heart beat uncomfortably, and he asked in a low voice, "Old man, are there many houses here?"

"Where are there any houses? They are just some lonely ghosts. You don't know, after the Qin army passed, there will be no one left alive. Boy, there is not a single family in a radius of a hundred miles." The old man's deep voice reached everyone present. in people's ears.

Liu Bang gave a jolt, and then he came to his senses, and shouted to himself, why do I feel that there is something wrong with this old man, it turned out to be a wild ghost.At this time Liu Bang felt that the flames in the basin could not give him warmth. He shrank his neck, carefully looked at the old man who was fiddling with firewood, and carefully leaned closer to Zhang Liang.

To be honest, Zhang Liang was also frightened by the old man's words, but Zhang Liang traveled all over the country and was considered a knowledgeable person. He didn't really believe that there were ghosts in the world.So he asked in a solemn tone: "Is this old man joking? When we came, we saw smoke rising from this village. It seemed like there were people living here."

The old man was stunned for a moment, then he reacted and explained forcefully: "Oh! Those are some refugees who settled here not long ago. It's just a pity that these people don't know what happened here many years ago. I don't know Where they are now, there was once a place of burial."

The words of the old man reassured Liu Bang and others in the house. Liu Bang patted his chest exaggeratedly, and said happily: "It's really comfortable to warm up, and what's more comfortable is to be able to listen to people tell stories."

All the soldiers also laughed, and then everyone came out of the oppressive atmosphere just now.

The old man frowned and looked at the crowd coldly, and said in a low voice: "This is an unknown place. I advise you to go as soon as possible after dawn!" After speaking, he got up and slowly opened the wooden door and left.

"An unknown place, scare me!" A soldier teased with a strange smirk.

The rest of the soldiers also imitated the old man's tone of voice: "I advise you, after dawn, go to the road as soon as possible!" He said with the old man's cold expression.

Zhang Liang felt that it was too much and said to everyone: "The old man is willing to take us in, which is already a benevolent act. You should not do anything to make fun of him." In fact, Zhang Liang did not continue to say, he was praising the old man's statement. Yes, there are indeed some differences here, and now it seems that the smoke rising from the village seems to be a problem.

Liu Bang had a big heart, and told everyone: "Hurry up and rest! Tomorrow we have to go on our way. Damn it, we don't have horses. When will we be able to reach Wu Chen, Deng Zong's territory?"

Chen Ping added another piece of firewood to the brazier, and comforted him with a smile: "Be safe and don't be impatient, we will be there in less than a month."

(End of this chapter)