After Shen Yinshu returned to his sleeping tent, he ordered someone to summon You Sima Miji.

Across the dim candlelight, Shen Yinshu and Mi Ji sat across from each other!

After a long silence, Shen Yinshu finally spoke slowly: "Ji, I am going to lead my army to surrender to Wu..."

Shen Yinshu made a decision that made him extremely painful.

"General..."

There was no surprise on Miji's face, but it was still a bit hard to accept.

"Our Chu army is at the end of its rope, and countless soldiers starve to death every day. This is Mi Shu's sin."

Shen Yinshu sighed and said: "After all, I underestimated Qingji and underestimated the state of Wu! Eighty thousand Chu troops attacked Wu with great momentum. I didn't expect to be reduced to this situation. Isn't it ridiculous?"

"Qing Ji has given me an ultimatum, fight or surrender. However, those who fight will only increase casualties!"

"I really can't bear to see my sons from the Chu Kingdom being slaughtered. I can't lead them to make great achievements, but at least I can let them go home and survive!"

Hearing this, Mi Ji opened his mouth, but did not speak or make a single sound.

Shen Yinshu's idea cannot be said to be wrong, it is a helpless move!

In a head-on battle, the Chu army could only end up being wiped out.

Instead of doing this, they might as well surrender to the Wu State and wait to be redeemed by the Chu State after the war, so as not to have more generals shrouded in mutilation and buried in a foreign land!

"Ji, I leave you with the heavy responsibility of surrendering to the Wu people."

"General, are you..."

Miji clicked her tongue.

I saw Shen Yinshu sighing and saying: "The blame for defeat must be borne by others after all. As a general, I, Mi Shu, lost my army and humiliated the country to Wu. How can I have the face to see the elders of Jingchu? How can I have the face to see the king again?"

"I cannot tolerate my own guilt, let alone escape my own guilt."

"Ji, I just want you to tell Qingji. After I die, please transport my body back to Yingdu. This is my only request..."

A trivial request!

Miji couldn't help but mourned greatly.

"General, we shouldn't attack Wu!"

Mi Ji regretted it too late.

But Shen Yinshu didn't speak. Thousands of words finally turned into a long sigh!

After Mi Ji left, Shen Yinshu drew his sword and killed himself, falling on the table. As he lay dying, he reluctantly looked at the flickering candlelight.

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The next day, when Qingji was preparing to lead his army to attack the Chu army's camp, news came of Shen Yinshu's death and the news of the Chu army's surrender.

Qingji was not surprised that the Chu army chose to surrender.

But Shen Yinshu chose to kill himself to apologize, which made Qingji feel very uncomfortable!

Shen Yinshu was a famous general of the Chu State with a high prestige. He had done detailed work and became an official in Wu, where he investigated the customs, customs, and military affairs of the Wu State.

If we say that among the nobles of Chu State, who knows Wu State best, it must be Shen Yinshu.

There is no doubt that Shen Yinshu is a powerful enemy of Wu!

But Qingji still felt very sorry for Shen Yinshu's death.

Shen Yinshu, surnamed Mi, surnamed Shen, is from the Chu clan, and is the great-grandson of King Zhuang of Chu!

Mi Shu was called Shen Yinshu, Shen Shu, just like the cultural custom of this era, nobles often took their fiefdom as their surname.

Shen Yinshu was originally Yin of Shen County, so he took Shen as his surname.

Shen Yinshu made a lot of contributions to the state of Chu!

At that time, King Ping of Chu built a large number of palaces and cities, and conducted wars for many years, but did not fulfill his promise of "resting the people for five years". Shen Yinshu had many comments on this.

At the same time, he was also extremely concerned about the war situation between Wu and Chu.

In the first year of King Zhao of Chu (515 BC), the Wu army took advantage of the death of King Chu Ping to attack Chu. The Chu army mobilized in large numbers to defend Wu, and Shen Yinshu took the initiative to lead the city's soldiers and other troops to supplement the vanguard.

In the same year, Shen Yinshu ordered Yin Nangwa to indulge Fei Wuji, and General Yan killed the Que family and other three tribes, which caused dissatisfaction among the people of the country. He sternly warned Nangwa to deal with it.

After Nangwa killed Fei Wuji and General Yan, the resentment of the people began to subside!

After that, in the historical battle of Wu State to destroy Chu, if Nangwa could have listened to Shen Yinshu's advice, he would never have been attacked by the weak Wu army in the capital of Ying, and almost destroyed the Chu State!

Qingji vaguely remembered that during the Battle of Baiju in history, the defeated Shen Yinshu did not want to be captured and humiliated, so he asked his subordinate Wu Goubei to cut off his own head and sacrifice a heroic sacrifice.

Shen Yinshu's strong character is quite rare!

At least, he could not tolerate being captured by the Wu army and then humiliated.

Even if Qing Ji could treat Shen Yinshu kindly, the latter would not be able to forgive himself!

An army of 80,000 troops attacked Wu and suffered such a huge defeat. This was something that had never happened to the Chu State since its founding, and it had already damaged the country's foundation.

Shen Yinshu must bear this responsibility himself!

If not, even if he is a son of a noble family and a highly respected person in the Chu State, he will probably be ruined and cast aside by the Chu people.

With Shen Yinshu's arrogant personality, he cannot tolerate this kind of thing.

In order to preserve his reputation or protect his family, Shen Yinshu must commit suicide and bear the responsibility of losing his teacher and humiliating the country!

Qing Ji immediately ordered people to collect Shen Yinshu's body and send it to Chu State, where he was buried in the capital of Ying according to his wishes.

However, before that, in order to win over people's hearts, Qingji expressed his high respect for Shen Yinshu and even personally mourned Shen Yinshu and erected a tomb for him beside a lake in Yuzi.

At the same time, Qingji specially sent soldiers to build an ancestral hall nearby for people to worship Shen Yinshu!

This lets the world know that Shen Yinshu was still glorious even though he was defeated!

And everything Qing Ji did showed his magnanimity as a king, which was impressive.

"King Wu, you are such a man!"

As a defeated general, Miji couldn't help but sigh like this.

Afterwards, Qing Ji led some soldiers and horses, took the soldiers of the Chu army to the boat division, returned to the court in batches, and returned to the capital of Wu.

The Chu army surrendered a lot of soldiers. Since the war broke out, the Wu army has captured and surrendered more than 50,000 Chu soldiers!

This is a very scary number!

After all, throughout the Spring and Autumn Period, wars with a scale of over ten thousand were already major wars.

A war involving more than 50,000 people is a country-destroying war!

The number of soldiers and horses invested by Wu State was only 50,000 to 60,000!

It can be seen from this that the national power of the Chu State is incomparable to that of the Wu State.

The State of Chu is the dominant country, while the State of Wu is only a military power!

Looking at the world, if Wu is a first-class country, then Chu is a superpower!

It was not easy to feed the more than 50,000 soldiers of the Chu army. Fortunately, the family wealth left by the kings of Wu for Qingji was strong enough, and there was enough rice and grain in the warehouse, otherwise it would really be impossible to feed them.
Chapter completed!