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Chapter 233: The Six Kingdoms’ Old Nobles’ “Rebellion” Army
In Kuaiji County, Yin County, a great battle had just taken place and the smell of blood had not yet dissipated. Song Yi was too lazy to even take off his blood-stained armor and just closed his eyes to rest on a recliner.

Although I really don't like Qin, this thing that the Qin people spread throughout the world is really useful and quite comfortable to lie on.

He was really too tired. Ever since he decided to start the rebellion, he had not had a good rest. He was either racking his brains to come up with strategies or leading the troops to fight. For example, this Yin County town was captured by him.

There was no other way. The rebel army was short of generals. Even though he had been the prime minister of the State of Chu, he had to put on armor and lead the troops into battle personally.

By taking Yin County today, the rebel army now has one more county under its control. They can get some replenishment of food, weapons, soldiers, etc. and can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

This uprising was a hasty one under duress, with a short preparation time, which resulted in many inadequacies, such as weapons. If they had not secretly kept some weapons before the demise of the Chu State, it is estimated that when the uprising started, the soldiers would have had to cut wood for weapons and shave bamboo for blades.

The same goes for food and fodder. They had never thought that a rebellion would start at this time. Even if they had stockpiled some in advance for emergencies, that was not for preparing for a rebellion. How much could they have stockpiled?
As for the soldiers, if they did not have their retainers and old subordinates, they would not even be able to gather the troops to initiate the uprising. Now there are tens of thousands of soldiers, claiming to be 200,000, but they know their own business, and many soldiers were coerced and forced to join the uprising.

Will you join me in the uprising? Think about your elderly parents and your son who has just learned to walk. Don't you want anything to happen to them?

Under this kind of pressure, the number of rebels increased rapidly and is still increasing, but it also brought a series of problems. But now that things have come to this, they can't stop.

According to Song Yi's own plan for the uprising against Qin, the current situation should not have happened. He should have spent time and energy on preliminary preparations and spread prophecies and rumors before the uprising, such as "Who will destroy Qin?", "After the death of the King of Qin, the Qin State will immediately fall apart", "A one-eyed stone man was accidentally dug out in a river, and the stone man's eyes were fixed on the direction of Xianyang"...

In this way, people all over the world, and even the people of Qin, would believe that Qin would surely perish, so that when the rebellion started, some people would be willing to follow them in the rebellion.

Secondly, they secretly built up reserve weapons and food so that when the uprising started, there would be enough weapons and food to supply the rebels. They also secretly trained a group of elite soldiers so that they could lead those untrained ordinary soldiers after the uprising.

Finally, you have to wait patiently for the opportunity. Qin is very strong. If you start a rebellion immediately, it will only be a repeat of the Qin's conquest of the six kingdoms. So you have to wait until Qin is weak, or even better, wait until someone jumps out and exposes the fact that Qin is weak, and then start a rebellion against Qin.

But now, without making any preparations, they were forced to rebel.

Song Yi was not optimistic about this uprising, but what could he do? Should he leave at sea like his son?

Not to mention that going overseas also involves great risks. He is already old and does not want to go overseas far away from his homeland. When other options are not available, he can only start an uprising and fight against the Qin people.

Song Yi was so exhausted after the incident that he fell asleep on the recliner without realizing it. But he didn't sleep for long as he was awakened by the sound of hurried footsteps. He touched the hilt of the sword at his waist and looked towards the source of the footsteps.

Song Yi was relieved when he saw that the person coming was a general under his command. But then he felt something was wrong. This general knew that he was resting here for a while and would not come to disturb him without reason. He must have something to do!
Song Yi frowned and asked, "What's the matter?"

The general said respectfully, "General, the king has sent a message to urgently summon you back to Qiantang to discuss important matters."

What important matter required him, a general who was leading the troops at the front, to be summoned back for discussion?
Song Yi pondered in his heart and asked, "Did anyone say what the important matter is?"

The general shook his head and said, "I don't know. The messenger who brought the message didn't tell me."

This answer made Song Yi's heart jump, and he had a bad premonition. The king sent someone to tell him to go back to discuss the matter, but did not tell him what it was. It was obvious that he was preventing others from knowing about it. What kind of thing could not be widely spread and known to everyone?

It must be related to the Qin people!
Yes, they had been revolting for more than half a month, and had captured half of Kuaiji. The news must have reached Xianyang, letting the King of Qin know, and he had probably sent troops over.

I just don’t know which Qin general will lead the troops. I hope it’s not the most famous ones, especially not Wang Jian.

But as soon as this thought came to his mind, Song Yi shook his head in his heart. He was afraid that this hope would only happen in his dreams. The King of Qin would probably send a Qin general whom they didn't want to face.

Regardless of not having rested enough and being extremely tired physically and mentally, Song Yi said, "Prepare horses for me. I will return to Qiantang immediately. As for Yin County, you, Zhuang Zhong, and Jing Lie will decide!"

Soon, escorted by dozens of people who used to be his retainers and are now his personal soldiers, Song Yi hurried from Yin County to Qiantang.

It is only more than 300 miles from Yinxian to Qiantang, which is not far. It only takes a few hours to drive there in modern times.

But there were no expressways or high-speed railways in that era, and the roads were not well built. Even though Song Yi was eager to return, he only arrived the next day due to these factors.

Qiantang County, which later became Lin'an, or more precisely, part of Lin'an, was far from being as prosperous as it would later be. It was a very ordinary county in the Qin Dynasty:

This was mainly because the level of development in the South was not high at that time. Many southern cities that would prosper in the future were either villages or poor counties at this time.

But at this time, Song Yi's rebel army used it as their base camp for the uprising against Qin, and their first uprising was here.

As soon as he approached Qiantang County, Song Yi saw human heads hanging on the city wall. From time to time, he heard cries of crying and begging for mercy. Following the sound, he saw people trapped in cages.

Song Yi knew very well what was going on with these heads and people. Basically, they were people who did not want to join them in the rebellion against Qin, and therefore were punished by them.

The rebellion they started was a life-threatening one, and anyone with a sound mind would not want to be associated with them. But they could not allow this situation to continue. Without anyone to follow them, where would they get the soldiers to capture cities and fight against the Qin people?

Therefore, they could only resort to the method of killing a chicken to scare the monkeys, using cruel alchemists to severely punish a group of people so that others would not dare to disobey them after seeing it.

If you don't want your heads to be chopped off and hung on the city wall to be exposed to the wind and sun, and if you don't want your families to be locked in cages to freeze to death or starve to death, then you have to follow us to fight against Qin.

Song Yi ignored the people in cages and the heads hanging on the city walls and walked calmly into the city.

To him, rising up against Qin was something that every Chu citizen should do and should support, but these people did not want to support them, so they should be killed and punished!

(End of this chapter)