Chapter 51: Coming to the Front Line
"The tiger and wolf Qin sent 700,000 troops, and the will of our great Chu will not die. Even if the great Chu wants to retreat, there is no way out. The great Chu should work together to fight against the Qin State, and there will be a glimmer of hope." King Kaoli of Chu said beautifully first, and then said: "Qu Jingzhao, Huang Si, how many troops do you send?"
King Kaolii of Chu has always wanted to control the soldiers of the five major families, but he never had a chance. At present, he thought that the opportunity had come, so he naturally would not miss such a good opportunity.
"I would like to increase my troops by 30,000 more." The head of the Qu clan thought for a while.
"I am willing to send 30,000 troops." said the Zhao clan and the Jing clan leader.
"I am willing to send 40,000 troops." Chunshen Jun specially added 10,000 troops to please him.
The Si family finally made some progress, not only sent thousands of troops like last time, but this time it sent 30,000 to 40,000 troops, which is a considerable progress.
However, King Kaoli of Chu was not satisfied and said, "You have hidden your soldiers and thought you could defend your fiefdom, right? You don't think about it. If the Great Chu is gone, what's the use of your fiefdom? Can you still have a fiefdom? Will the tiger and wolf Qin let you go?"
The State of Chu is the foundation of the aristocratic families. If the State of Chu is destroyed by the State of Qin, these aristocratic families will be ruined. As the saying goes, how can there be a complete egg under the collapse of the nest?
"Your Majesty, I am willing to send 50,000 troops." The head of the Qu clan thought for a while, gritted his teeth and said.
Fifty thousand soldiers, plus the last ten thousand, was sixty thousand, which should account for half of the Qu family's soldiers. He felt very distressed.
The reason why these aristocratic families can deal with the royal family is that they have soldiers. If the royal family wants to move them, war will occur and chaos will occur in Chu. Therefore, the royal family knows that these aristocratic families are a huge threat, but they cannot move and can only let them go.
If there are no soldiers, the aristocratic families will be unable to compete with the royal family. If the royal family wants to kill them, they will kill them.
"I am willing to send 50,000 troops." The leader of the Jing Zhao clan said hurriedly.
"I am willing to send 50,000 troops." This time, Chunshen Jun did not please him. There were many soldiers with 50,000 soldiers, and some of them had to be left to deal with the royal family.
"Your little thought, don't think I don't know that you want to hide your soldiers, right?" The aristocratic clan has always been a threat from the Chu royal family. The royal clan has long wanted to kill them, but there is no chance. Now it is a good opportunity. It can completely transfer the soldiers of these aristocratic clans to the front line under the banner of resisting Qin and get rid of them with the hands of the Qin army. King Kaoli of Chu naturally would not miss this opportunity and kept putting pressure on him.
These aristocratic families are not easy to deal with. You have reasons. I have a statutory statement and everyone has their own reasons.
In this way, the dispute started again. This dispute was extremely exciting, and it took nearly two months.
The Qin State's 700,000 troops were approaching. It can be said that the military situation was like fire, and it was urgent, but the Chu State had been arguing for so long, which was really shocking.
Two months later, King Kaoli of Chu and the Huang Si clans of Qu Jingzhao finally reached an agreement. The four clans each sent 90,000 troops plus the 10,000 troops last time, and a total of 10,000 troops were sent.
The royal family sent 150,000 troops, plus about 50,000 soldiers from various small and medium-sized families. This time, the Chu State increased its troops by 560,000 in one fell swoop.
With the 400,000 Chu troops in Xiang Yan's hands, the Chu State dispatched a total of 960,000 troops to compete with the Qin army.
Some friends may say that the State of Chu does not have so many troops. Because in history, Xiang Yan led 400,000 Chu troops to confront the 600,000 Qin troops led by Wang Jian, there was no more troops.
In fact, in history, Wang Jian's destruction of Chu was divided into two stages. The first stage was to kill the elite Chu state led by Yan Xiang, which is 400,000. In order to solve the 400,000 Chu army, Wang Jian and Xiang Yan had a stalemate for more than a year, until Xiang Yan underestimated the enemy, the Qin army suddenly attacked and defeated the 400,000 Chu army in one fell swoop.
Next, the second stage was entered. The Qin army, led by Wang Jian, pursued the Qin army and chased them until Shouchun. Xiang Yan established another King of Chu in Shouchun and summoned the remnants of Chu to serve the king. In order to deal with these remnants, Wang Jian surrounded Shouchun and was not in a hurry to conquer it. This was to concentrate the remnants of Chu and annihilate it in one fell swoop.
The remnants of Chu State were indeed trapped and rushed to Shouchun on a large scale. In order to completely annihilate these remnants of Chu State, Wang Jian deployed Qin troops in Jiangyin and Yixing areas to cut off their retreat, and wiped out them in one fell swoop.
As for how many people there are in these remnants, it is difficult to know without accurate numbers. I believe it will not be less. Forty or five hundred thousand should be the same.
After reaching the agreement, the major families used the word "drag" technique, either not sending troops, or sending a little bit today and a little bit tomorrow. There are one or two thousand people at a low price, and there are only dozens of people at a low price. It's really strange.
These soldiers who were ordered to go on the road either traveling around or traveling around. They would walk on any road that was difficult to walk or as far as they were. They would not walk any easy-to-go or convenient road.
It is quite good to be able to leave. And even, it can last for ten days and half a month, or even one or two months.
Whenever these soldiers arrived at a place, they would eat, drink, and beauties, because they thought they were to save Chu and were the great benefactors of Chu, so the Chu people would offer him.
If one is not satisfied, he will smash, loot, or even kill and set fire. Therefore, wherever they go, complaints are heard, and the Chu people are indecently miserable.
Xiang Yan passed down one command after another, asking these soldiers to arrive as soon as possible. However, the four leading families replied arrogantly: "Xiang Yan, you are incompetent and cannot defeat Qin, so we are asking us to come to help the war. If you are incompetent, get out. We are here to help you, you must be polite to us."
Xiang Yan fought against Qin for the sake of Chu, and even had to whisper to ask for help, almost furiously.
King Kaoli of Chu also constantly issued orders to ask his soldiers to arrive as soon as possible. However, the head of the Huang Si clan of Qu Jingzhao had a tacit understanding and found various reasons. Even Chunshen Jun, who King Kaoli of Chu, also kept his word. Today, there was a Huang family's son, and tomorrow, the Huang family's son was going to marry...
These reasons are not reasons at all, but they are very evident, upright, and speechless.
King Chu Kaoli really wanted to kill all these aristocratic families, but now it is not the time, so he has to endure it.
I'll drag you and him to the Huai River. It's been ten months since I'll drag you to the Huai River. In addition, the two months of King Kaoli's dispute with the four major families, it took Chu a full year to increase its troops this time.
It took a year to increase the troops, which was extremely shocking.
As soon as these soldiers arrived, the Chu army camp was trapped. Xiang Yan's order could not be implemented and Xiang Yan could not effectively control these soldiers.
The soldiers are the foundation of the aristocratic families. Of course, these aristocratic families will not be willing to hand over the soldiers to Xiang Yan, but will be led by the core children of the aristocratic families. For their own interests, they must fight against Xiang Yan.
Among the five major families of Qu Jingzhao, Huang Xiang, except for the Xiang family soldiers who obeyed Xiang Yan's orders, the other four families did not have any 400,000 soldiers.
Not only did Xiang Yan not say that he didn't say that, but he also faced Xiang Yan everywhere. Xiang Yan asked them to go east, but they were facing west, which made Xiang Yan very distressed. Xiang Yan was determined to purify military discipline, but these four major families were in a group, one was moving, and one was moving, and Xiang Yan was full of worries and did not dare to take action.
At this time, the State of Chu should work together to fight against Qin, so how could civil strife be revived?
Only Xiang Yan's orders were implemented by the Xiang family's soldiers and the National Government Army, which was only about 500,000.
The remaining small and medium-sized families practiced the polite and politeness. On the surface, they implemented orders, but in fact they violated them because they also had their own interests. If Xiang Yan was too anxious, they would turn to the four major families, Xiang Yan had no choice but to deal with them.
In this way, the 960,000 Chu troops were divided into two groups at once, and each did not have the same order.
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It was in a messy and chaotic manner, just like Caishikou, and the Qin army camp was purged like an iron barrel.
Over the past year, the Qin army has nothing to do, just throwing stones and playing tricks all day long.
Stone throwing is a game in the Warring States Period, which is to compete for who throws the stone far away, similar to modern shot put.
The entire military camp was full of rock-towers. After Wang Jian learned about it, he ordered the generals to record the distance between soldiers throwing stones. He wanted to hold a stone-tower event to select the winners to reward him.
With Wang Jian’s support, the soldiers became even more happy and even more dedicated to throwing stones.
Wang Jian did what he said, and held a stone-treating competition every month, and the winner was rewarded.
Of course, this reward is not for nothing. Those who have great power and can throw far away will become another army.
In this way, Wang Jian calmly selected an elite force with extraordinary strength, with a total of about 30,000 people.
This army was selected by throwing stones, so Wang Jian called them "spun the stones."
Everyone has extraordinary strength to throw stones away. If it appears on the battlefield, it will be an unstoppable warrior.
In history, Wang Jian selected a powerful warrior to form the sharp knife of the Qin army by throwing stones. Under Wang Jian's leadership, he broke through the Chu army's camp in one fell swoop and finally destroyed the Chu State.
XX
Xianyang, Qin Dynasty palace, Shangshu.
Qin Yiren knelt on the short table, his eyes widened, he looked at the military newspaper, and kept shaking his head.
Fan Sui, Wei Liao, Meng Wu and Cai Ze looked disdainful.
"This Chu State is like a decay of his mouth. It takes a year to increase his troops. How can he not die!" Qin Yiren's eyes flashed and he said in a deep voice.
It took Chu a year to increase its troops this time. If the Qin army wanted to take action, the daylily would be cold when they arrived.
"Ah!" Fan Sui sighed and said, "Although Chu State is big, it is extremely corrupt and speechless."
"That's right." Wei Liao focused his attention and agreed with this, saying: "Fortunately, the emperor has the foresight and has decisively launched a large-scale increase in troops. Otherwise, it would take three or five years for the Chu State to mobilize its troops to mobilize its troops by 100,000. This battle to destroy Chu would be too long.
"Chu State has mobilized 960,000 troops in the Huai River. Even if it is not the entire Chu State's troops, it still accounts for 80% or more. The Qin Dynasty can take action." A glimmer flashed in Qin Yiren's eyes and said, "In order to better annihilate the Chu army, I decided to go to the front line in person."
The State of Chu mobilized 960,000 troops to compete with the Qin army. Although the Qin army had a high chance of victory, they did not dare to take it lightly. After all, it was 960,000 troops. If it was not good, the Qin army would suffer a great loss. Qin Yiren personally visited the front line to inspire morale, which was very necessary.
Fan Sui, Wei Liao and the others did not object.
"Prime Minister, Meng Wu, Cai Ze, you stay in Xianyang. Wei Liao and I go with you." Qin Yiren ordered.
"No!" Fan Sui and the others took the order.
Chapter completed!