At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 131 Collapse of Nanyang and the Arrogant Rebel General

December 36, the 7th year of the First Emperor's reign.

After being reunited with their families for a month, the soldiers and officers gathered at Yingchuan Military Camp and Chenjun Military Camp respectively. Zhou Zhang and others also gathered a large amount of food, weapons, equipment and methods to these two places to make final preparations for the upcoming southern expedition. preparation.

Although the war started again, this time the rebel army was no longer as panicked as when Wang Li invaded last time. The annihilation of 8 Qin troops in two battles completely destroyed the rebel army's self-confidence. Now the rebel officers are even more confident. To make contributions.

Under Xu Fan's order, the 5 Yingchuan Corps officially went south and launched a crusade against Nanyang.

Kunyang County, resettlement place for border disaster victims.

A large number of ragged victims ran from the territory of Nanyang County to the territory of the rebels. The reason is also very simple. Xu Fan's uprising in Chen County made Qin officials in the entire Chu region extremely nervous. This tension reached its peak after Xu Fan annihilated Wang Li and Li Yu's 8 Qin army.

The governor of Nanyang County was worried that Xu Fan would attack him, so he recruited soldiers on a large scale and built the city in preparation for the war. Nanyang County had to recruit soldiers and civilians to build the city walls. The heavy corvee and military service made the people of Nanyang County miserable. If The world is still Qin's territory, and the local people really have no other choice but to endure it.

But now that the Yingchuan Rebels are by his side, Nanyang County can quickly know what happened in Yingchuan. This has led to a large number of local people knowing that under the rule of the rebels, Yingchuan County has no corvee at all and taxes are very low. There is no tax except the 3% land tax.

With such a strong contrast, a large number of people in Nanyang County fled their hometowns and went north to join the rebels. Facing the people in Nanyang County, Chen Ping was overjoyed. He not only resettled these people, but also tried to arrange a group of propaganda teams to go south to Nanyang County and go deep into Propaganda of the rebel policies in rural areas of Nanyang County.

"Chu Zhaonu" and "Alive" have become the favorite operas of the people in Nanyang County. Every time the rebel propaganda team appears, a large number of people will watch. As long as they watch these two operas, the locals will The people's hatred of Qin officials will rise to the highest level, and they will gnash their teeth when mentioned.

When the Qin officials in Nanyang County learned about this situation, they were extremely horrified and sent troops to capture the rebel propaganda team. However, every day the propaganda team would hide in advance, allowing the Qin army to escape.

This situation made the Qin officials in Nanyang County even more worried. They were worried that the people of Nanyang County had become internal agents of the rebels. They would rather kill three thousand people by mistake than let a single rebel go. All the people who wrote words such as "Chu Zhaonu", "Alive", or discussed opera-related contents were all arrested, and the people of Nanyang Army were forced not to dare to speak out, and the road was in sight.

Troops were also stationed at the border to capture defecting people. But the more they arrest, the more people want to escape.

The political destruction of the entire Nanyang County became more and more serious, and any Chu people who showed resistance would be persecuted by Qin officials. However, Qin Li Yue suppressed the rebellion, and the resistance of the people in Nanyang County became more intense. Before the rebels came, three riots occurred in Nanyang County.

The order in Nanyang was already in the process of collapse. Qin officials were shocked to find that the five skills of controlling the people given to them by Lord Shang no longer worked. They tried their best to prevent the deterioration of the situation in Nanyang County.

On this day, the rebel soldiers took the victims as usual and guided them to the place where the victims were resettled in Ruyin County. But they saw a large group of disaster victims approaching, and a man dressed as a scholar shouted: "Xialu Jia is a rebel from Nanyang County, who has come to join the general of Shangzhu Kingdom."

The rebel soldiers looked like beggars and said: "The general is hundreds of miles away from here. The most we can do is take you to see the county magistrate."

The soldiers took Lu Jia to see Wang Dao, the magistrate of Kunyang County.

"You look like a scholar, are you really the leader of the Nanyang Rebel Army?" Wang Dao said a little surprised.

Lu Jia said loudly: "Scholars cannot resist the tyrannical Qin. General Shangzhu was not a scholar at first, but now he has become a banner for the people of the world to resist the tyrannical Qin."

Lu Jia continued: "My people in Nanyang County have been separated from their wives and children by the Qin officials. They live in dire straits every day. I only hope that the rebel army can enter Nanyang County to drive away the Qin officials and save the people of Nanyang County."

Lu Jia was originally a Confucian scholar. He studied Confucian classics such as "The Book of Songs" and "Shangshu" from his teacher, and his life was fine.

But soon the First Emperor was ridiculed by Confucian scholars because they criticized Qin's policies and because of his failure to seek immortality.

The First Emperor could bear it, and although the Confucian scholars did not rebel, they had rebellious intentions.

In the end, in order to consolidate his rule, the First Emperor issued a book-taking order and burned the books of hundreds of scholars. His teacher was affected and was killed for collecting books. Lu Jia's family was also destroyed. Only he escaped by fleeing to the countryside of Nanjun County.

The life of fleeing was not easy, but no one thought that Xu Fan would revolt when Qin was at its peak and spread to the entire world.

Lu Jia understood that troubled times were coming. He tried to find a way to return to his hometown, but found that his hometown was already undercurrent. He immediately dispersed his family property and organized a group of refugees, hoping to capture the city and use it as capital to join the rebel army. But he didn't expect that the thousands of refugees he organized would be completely defeated by the Qin army. Less than 300 people fled here with him.

The king said: "Since you are a scholar, just follow my official duties, and don't get involved in the war."

Lu Jia said anxiously: "Your rebel army is a force of benevolence and righteousness. How could you annex the Renqu Department?"

Wang Dao said with a smile: "You guys can be considered a bandit. Listen to my advice. The battlefield is not a place for people like you."

Lu Jia said firmly: "Qin officials killed my whole family. If I don't avenge this revenge, I will be a son of a man in vain. I request to join the rebel army."

"I will report to the general and let you become the guide of the army." Wang Dao looked at Lu Jia with sympathy.

Although Lu Jia did not tell his story, no scholar in the world could escape the catastrophe caused by the narrow book order. If Wang Dao had not been protected by his teacher Kong Yu, I am afraid that his end might not be much better than his.

"Are you Lu Jia?" a rebel officer asked.

Lu Jia immediately saluted and said, "That's right, you villain."

"I am Sima Jingtao, the vanguard of the rebel army. Do you know the inside story of Nanyang County?"

Lu Jia immediately nodded and said: "The name of the governor of Nanyang County is Yin Lu, the captain is Li Jun, and the county supervisor is Wang Hong. The three of them are from Guanzhong. A few months ago, General Shang Guozhu annihilated Wang Li, and Li You8 After Wan Qin's army, the entire Nanyang County was in terror. The governor Yin Lu began to expand the army and build cities. Now there are 3 Qin troops in Nanyang County, most of which are stationed in Wan County. Because Ye County is on the border, there are 3000 Qin troops. military."

Yingchuan Corps barracks.

The information Jing Tao obtained from Lu Jia quickly spread to the top leaders of the rebel army.

Xu Fan looked at it and handed it to Ji Xin.

After reading it, Ji Xin said: "It is similar to the information obtained by my subordinates. Other cities in Nanyang County are easy to conquer. Only Wancheng City is high and deep. It is one of the top ten fortified cities in the world. There are a large number of craftsmen and fortifications in the city. Perfect, now there are nearly 3 Qin troops garrisoned, it is difficult to attack by force, we can only outwit them."

However, Yingbu disagreed and said: "The Qin officials want to defend, but the soldiers in Wancheng may not be willing to fight to the death. They only look at the various rebel armies attacking the city and seizing the territory. Is there a strong city to stop these rebels?"

Handan once withstood hundreds of thousands of Qin troops, but it was not captured by Zhang Er's tens of thousands. Linzi was the capital of Qi, and Tian Dan captured tens of thousands of people in one day. "

"Our rebel army is the army of the Chu State. The Qin officials want to stop us, but the people in the city are looking forward to our rescue. In this case, they will not fight to the death for the Qin State. The general only needs to bring the army to Wancheng Next, someone will surely open the city gate for us."

Deng Zhong smiled and said: "With the current momentum of our rebel army, if they reach Wancheng's wall, those Qin officials will sacrifice the city."

Song Liu also laughed and said: "Given the current situation in Nanyang, as soon as our army arrives, the people and powerful people will support us. I'm afraid it won't be the turn of those Qin officials to offer sacrifices to the city."

It’s no wonder that Song Liu was so confident. This kind of thing has already happened in other countries. Zhao, Yan, and Qi had one person take the lead, and with the strong support of hundreds of thousands of people, they captured dozens of cities without any effort. I guess they Not even a surprise.

Other rebel generals also meant the same thing. Although Wancheng had a high city and a deep pool, they did not think that Wancheng could stop the rebel attack.

Xu Fan was dissatisfied: "Every time we fight, we must calculate defeat before winning. We cannot always pin the war on the enemy's stupidity or guilt. Do you want to imitate Wu Chen, Tian Dan and the others? Will they win?" If you know where to win and don’t know where to lose, you will lose all your wealth in one battle.”

Xu Fan was dissatisfied with the pride and complacency of Yingbu and others. Xu Fan always believed that during the period between the late Qin and the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, the military strength of all parties was declining, which was not as good as during the Warring States Period, in which Qin's military strength declined. is the fastest.

Just look at the end of the Warring States Period. It is extremely difficult to annihilate an army of hundreds of thousands of people. The Battle of Changping lasted for three years, and the Zhao army was defeated only after their food and grass were cut off. The battle of Qin to destroy Chu lasted for two years, and Xiang Yan also fought for two years. It is defeated when food and grass are cut off.

During the period of the Chu-Han struggle for hegemony, there were frequent wars in which a small number of people defeated a large number. Although this was related to the extraordinary military talents of the generals in the late Qin Dynasty, it was also related to the lack of military talents at the grassroots level of all parties. Hundreds of thousands of armies were often involved in a battle. was defeated, and then a country was destroyed.

This kind of thing could not have happened during the Warring States Period. Even South Korea, which was the weakest, was gradually annexed by the Qin State. At that time, the military talents of various countries were extremely abundant and the organization was extremely strict. It was very difficult to fight a war in which a small number could defeat a large number and collapse at the first touch. . Just like the State of Zhao was tricked and killed by 40 soldiers in the Battle of Changping, but it still won the Battle of Handan and repelled the invasion of the State of Yan. It fully demonstrates the tenacity of an ancient military country.

Correspondingly, the princes from all walks of life in the late Qin Dynasty were simply a mess, and there were many who would destroy the country in one battle.

Naturally, Xu Fan did not want to become a military minister, a disorganized force like Tian Dan, but wanted to be like the ancient country in the Warring States Period, with a well-organized and a resilient political system. He did not ask Yingbu and others to achieve an amazing record of winning with less, he only asked them Don't be stupid and be defeated by the enemy in one battle.

I think of Zhang Han who loved to attack at night in the late Qin Dynasty. He often defeated many soldiers with a small number and was an unstoppable overlord. Xu Fan didn't have much confidence in these miscellaneous men under his command. Among his men, only Ji Bu and Ying Bu had their names in history. The fate of the other unknown generals was unknown. A mediocre general must train according to a mediocre general. For them, making fewer mistakes means victory.

Xu Fan's harsh words made the senior generals of the rebel army look at each other and fell into thinking. At this time, Zhang Liang, who joined the army, said: "General, attack Ye County first, and estimate the combat effectiveness of the Wanchen Qin Army based on the combat effectiveness of the Qin Army in Ye County."

Ji Xindao: "This method is feasible. If Yecheng is defeated by our army in the first battle, it means that the Qin army is not strong in combat effectiveness."

Xu Fan nodded and approved the idea.

December 36, the 7th year of the First Emperor's reign.

The 50,000-strong army of the rebels appeared under Ye County in mighty force. Xu Fan then ordered the army to build a camp. Xu Fan personally led the generals and asked them to dig deep trenches and deploy more horses. The camp's defense facilities must be sufficient to deal with any crisis.

Yingbu and others did not understand. Even if they had to be cautious, they were not facing 30 Qin troops, but only 3000 Qin troops. Why should they be so cautious? Yingbu and others thought that they were doing useless work.

Xu Fan criticized: "If Li You had been more cautious and set up a stronger camp, he would not have been annihilated by us in one battle. You not only want your own victory, but also want to see the enemy's defeat. Think about the situation you are in." Will Li You's situation also fail? In this way, we can improve our own shortcomings."

"Promise" said the generals.

December 36, the 7th year of the First Emperor's reign.

The 5-strong rebel army was divided into three groups. Yingbu and Tianzang each led 1 soldiers to contain the enemy on the east and west city walls, while Xu Fan led the main force to attack the northern city wall of Ye County.

"Boom, boom, boom!" The rebel war drums shook the world. Colonel Song Liu slowly walked out of the rebel formation with 1 rebel soldiers.

Song Liu said to Captain Jia Bu: "Now is the time for us to serve the general. Later I will lead the army to attack the city, and you will lead my troops to suppress the Qin army on the wall with crossbows."

Jia Bu said: "No!"

Then Jia Bu's army formed a wild goose formation on the left and right flanks of Song Liu's tribe. The two armies of 2500 were arranged into three horizontal formations. The army stopped within 150 steps.

Jia Bu took a crossbow and a scale plate and shot at the Ye County city wall at a height of about 45 degrees.

This is something Xu Fan created. It is extremely difficult to train archers, so Xu Fan uses crossbows.

But if you want to shoot accurately, even crossbows are very difficult. Xu Fan thought of the artillery sight scale of later generations, so he also made such a scale, with every 15 degrees as a unit, and used the scale to control the crossbow arrows of the entire army. shooting angle to achieve the purpose of covering the shooting.

As a later generation, Xu Fan is more interested in the advantage of firepower from a distance. If he can eliminate the enemy on the offensive path, Xu Fan will crush the enemy with long arrows.

And Xu Fan also has this advantage. In this era, neither crossbows nor bows have become the mainstream weapons on the battlefield. The reasons are not as complicated as everyone thinks. It is not that generals do not pay attention to them or that crossbows are not powerful.

The main reason is that the feudal dynasty had no money. Xu Fan didn't know about other dynasties, but in the late Qin Dynasty, the price of a fine long arrow was 1 dou of grain. In other places, the price may be higher or lower, but the difference is not too far. .

Think about how an army of ten thousand people could shoot 1000 stones of grain in one round, but only killed dozens of enemies. What were the thoughts of the ancient generals, and what were the thoughts of their emperors.

Take the modern example of killing an enemy with thousands or even tens of thousands of bullets. Although the battlefield in the feudal era was close, it was not much different. If you use 1000 long arrows to kill an enemy, then you might as well use the 100 stones of grain to buy this enemy. enemy.

The cost-effectiveness of bows and arrows is extremely low, which is the main reason why in this era they can kill with just three arrows. In fact, swords, guns, swords and halberds are even more cost-effective.

But Xu Fan, a time traveler, relied on the advanced experience of later generations to lower the price of the long arrow.

In later generations, he often watched decompression videos, including videos of making wooden poles. When two high-speed iron rods were rubbed together, a log turned into a wooden pole, which was particularly decompressive.

Then Xu Fan found a big hammer and made such a mold bed. Now the spears and arrow stems of the rebel army are made in this way.

The efficiency has increased dozens of times, and the price of Xu Fan's long arrow has been reduced to only one-third of the original price. This is because the price of arrow iron has not been reduced. When the rebel blast furnace is successfully built and the price of pig iron drops, one liter of rice can produce a long arrow. Xu Fan will let the rubes in this world see what it means to have a phobia of insufficient firepower.

Of course, even the current rebels are equipped with hundreds of long arrows for each crossbow shot, which is enough to suppress the Qin army in Ye County.

"Boom!" The crossbow arrow crossed the distance of 150 steps and shot into the wall of Ye County. On the other side, Army Sima Cao Xing also shot an arrow like Jia Bu, and both of their crossbow arrows hit the female wall.

Jia Bu and Cao Xing shouted almost at the same time: "Use the scale three as the standard, shoot in three stages."

After receiving the order, the two crossbowmen shot at almost the same angle, and the dense long arrows suddenly shot toward the right side of the city wall with a terrifying roar.

"Boom!" Thousands of long arrows completely covered the top of the city wall of Ye County.

"Raising shields to defend" against such dense long arrows, the Qin army could only hide under the parapets and shields.

"Boohoo!" After the rebels fired a round of crossbows, the soldiers behind them continued to shoot.

The Qin army guarding the city just wanted to poke their heads out, but they did not expect another wave of crossbow arrows to be fired at them. As a result, they were once again suppressed by the rebels and could not lift their heads.

"Boom!" Three rounds of crossbow arrows were fired over, and the Qin soldiers could only tremble and hide behind the city wall.

Song Liu saw that the Qin soldiers were completely suppressed by the rebel crossbowmen. He drew his sword and shouted: "Brothers, kill!"

Then the whole group took the lead, leading the siege soldiers towards the Qianye County wall.

The soldiers quickly followed Song Liu. The Qin army was suppressed by crossbows and did not hinder Song Liu and the others at all. The soldiers quickly set up ladders, and dozens of ladders were hooked on the city wall.

"Brothers, come on!" Song Liu took a shield and was the first to rush up the ladder.

Only then did the general of the Qin army react. He kicked his soldiers one by one and said, "Stop hiding. The rebels are coming. Let Naigong stop them."

At this time, the Qin army on the city wall thought of throwing stones at the ladder.

"Bang, bang, bang!" Several rebel ladders were destroyed by the Qin army, but Song Liu was lucky enough to escape. But when he was about to climb the city wall, the Qin army discovered him, and suddenly several spears stabbed him at the same time. The Qin army wanted to stab Song Liu to death with a spear.

"Boom, boom, boom!" Cao Xing had been paying attention to Song Liu. When he realized that he was in danger, he immediately shot and killed the Qin soldiers in front of Song Liu.

Seeing that there was a gap in the city wall in front of him, Song Liu roared and used all his power and strength to quickly climb up the city wall.

Song Liu, who suddenly climbed up the city wall, startled the Qin army, and two Qin soldiers just surrounded each other.

"Kill!" Song Liu killed the two Qin soldiers with two swords. Dozens of Qin soldiers around him were frightened and did not dare to move forward to surround Song Liu.

At this time, rebel soldiers continued to climb the city wall from the ladder. They quickly formed a small encirclement with Song Liu to protect the city wall behind the ladder.

"What are you doing? Why don't you let Naigong kill you!" When the Qin army guard saw what was going on here, he immediately led his soldiers to surround him.

But the Qin soldiers around them were like outsiders. Faced with the scolding of the defender, they not only did not move forward, but hid in the corner of the city wall and gave up their position, allowing the Qin army defender to fight with Song Liu.

"Kill!" Song Liu led a dozen rebel soldiers and rushed towards the Qin army's defenders. The dozen soldiers were as unstoppable as tigers descending from the mountain. Song Liu's long sword pointed at them, and they were even more invincible. There was no one under his command. Qin The general's bodyguards were quickly killed, leaving the general alone to resist.

But as more and more rebel soldiers followed and jumped onto the city wall, fewer and fewer Qin troops resisted on the city wall. The defender was surrounded by more than a dozen rebel soldiers and chopped into bloody men. , fell down directly.

"Brothers, kill them and open the city gate!" Song Liu shouted.

Hundreds of rebels who climbed onto the city wall followed Song Liu and howled and killed. The entire northern city wall of Ye County was killed by Song Liu and others. The rebels killed directly from the top of the city wall to the city gate. The Qin army did not attack at all along the way. Don't dare to stop.

After rushing to the city gate, Song Liu and the others opened the city gate.

With a loud "Boom!", the high-hanging suspension bridge in Ye County suddenly fell, the huge city gate made a creaking sound, and the city gate was opened.

"Kill the enemy!" Jiabu excitedly led the remaining soldiers to cheer in unison and swarmed in.

The north of Ye County fell, and the morale of the Qin army collapsed. They surrendered to the rebels one after another, and more than 2000 soldiers were captured.

In the rebel army formation, Ji Xin and other senior generals saw that Ye County had been captured, and they all said with great joy: "General, the Qin army in these counties is really vulnerable!"

Only Zhang Liang did not dare to imagine the scene in front of him and hesitated: "Is this really the Qin Army? Nanyang County is no better than other counties. It has been occupied for more than 50 years. The local people have probably forgotten the Chu State. Why did the Qin Army It would be so vulnerable.”

No wonder Zhang Liang was so suspicious. Nanyang County soldiers were also one of the main forces when they destroyed Han. He had seen the Qin army's combat power with his own eyes. He couldn't believe that 3000 Qin troops defended a city and couldn't even defend it for a day.

Although the combat effectiveness of the rebel army was a bit beyond his imagination, the difference in the Qin army's fighting will also exceeded his imagination. This combat effectiveness was not even as good as that of the Koreans. If the Qin army only had such combat effectiveness, how could he destroy the Sixth Army? country.

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