The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 296

[Chapter 293 The war subsided]

The Chu army, who annihilated the last enemy in his way, began to embark on a new journey again.

Because the Qin army on the South Road was separated into various cities, defending the attack of the Chu army in place, and could harass the logistics of the Chu army in the rear, the Qin army was extremely scattered, scattered in more than 20 cities. .

Among them, except for Nanliang City, which was defended by 100,000 Qin troops, the other cities only had 10,000 or 20,000 people, or just a few thousand people.

After Nanliang City was breached by the Chu army, the entire South Road battlefield fell into an embarrassing situation.

That is, there are more than 100,000 Qin troops in the entire south, but there is no Qin army that can stop the Chu army’s attack.

After all, although the Qin army was larger than the Chu army, it was extremely scattered and difficult to gather.

The Qin army that can be used to stop the Chu army is often only a few small troops on the road of the Chu army and around them, and it is unknown whether there are 20 to 30 thousand people in total.

Such a small number of people are all old, weak, sick and disabled. What can they do to stop them? They have gone through a bloody tempering, and they have completely become brave people, and they are all made up of the strong and strong Chu army in their prime. .

If these Qin troops gather and go out of the city to face the Chu army in the field, they may have just met, and they may be directly defeated by the morale of the Chu army!

Therefore, these hundreds of thousands of Qin troops can only hide in the city they are defending, and allow the Qin troops outside the city to abuse them, but they dare not do anything.

But it would be a big mistake to think that these Qin troops are cowards and cowards!

The reason why these Qin troops did not dare to leave the city was not because they were afraid of war, but because they wanted to retain their strength and wait for the opportunity.

After all, these Qin Jun are not fools.

They clearly and deeply understand how serious and how big the gap is between themselves and the enemies outside?

If you really go out to fight in the city, then you will follow the meaning of those enemies, and you will be a real fool.

The Chu army outside was eager for the Qin army in the city to come out and fight in the field, so as to take this opportunity to eliminate future troubles and leave a safe rear.

If they really fought against the Qin army head-on, in those siege battles, all the 100,000 Chu army were dead.

Therefore, the two sides should be weighed, whichever is lighter. Whether it is the guards of those cities or Xianyang, the center of the Qin state, the orders conveyed are to stay and stand by to watch the changes.

Later, with the news of the battlefields in the central and northern regions, the Qin army in the south, under the order of Xianyang, began to prepare for the retreat.

In today’s battlefield, both sides suffer in the middle. It can be said that there is no so-called central battlefield anymore.

The northern part ended with the tragic victory of the combined forces of Zhao and Wei, and the two countries also took advantage of the situation to occupy the entire territory of Hanoi County in the Qin state.

Completely announced the power of Qin State and completely withdrew from Hebei.

As for the reinforcements of the Chu State in the south, after receiving the news of the two battlefields in the north, they immediately stopped their progress and instead stayed in Nanliang City to observe the situation.

Regarding the retreat of the remnants of the Qin army around Nanliang City, Xiang Yan seemed to be invisible, and became a transparent person, choosing the same choice as Li Mu and letting them leave.

As for the reason, the soldiers and soldiers of the state of Chu are also human beings. They also have wives, sons and daughters. How could they be wasted on the battlefield and make tens of thousands of families in the state of Chu be destroyed!

What’s more, in Xiang Yan’s heart, he still has some selfishness.

Now, the 100,000 Chu troops in his hands, after this period of mastery, have been slowly controlled in his hands, and his orders have been placed in the same position as the orders of the King of Chu.

This is a very terrifying phenomenon. For the King of Chu, it means that the 100,000 Chu troops have been out of his control.

But for Xiang Yan, this is a gratifying change. In addition to his own fief, he has an additional 100,000 direct descendants of the Chu army, which has become an important trump card in his hand.

With these 100,000 troops, and they are all elite troops that have undergone blood and fire, Xiang Yan’s position in the state of Chu will be greatly enhanced.

He will change from an insignificant general of the Chu State to a powerful one, becoming one of the few top leaders in the Chu State.

This kind of change is an unparalleled temptation for both his family and himself.

I am afraid that the current King of Chu is going to have a headache. He has regained lost ground and defeated the Qin army, but has ushered in a big tail Xiang Yan. How to deal with him will be a difficult problem.

If one is not good, it will cause turmoil in the state of Chu, and if it is not good, it will cause all the territory currently occupied by the state of Chu to be lost again, and on the contrary, it will fall into endless internal friction.

In the central battlefield, although the war has been completely eliminated, the pain left by the war is still spreading on this land and lingering.

There are broken houses and broken tiles, dry trees, and abandoned fertile fields one after another.

On the road along the way, the green grass can not be seen, and the lush woods have disappeared, replaced by a bare and lifeless scene.

The war was on this land, and UU reading www.uukanshu.com lasted for nearly three years. During the three years, the surrounding people did not have any production, and their rations were forcibly confiscated by the army.

Facing the situation of starving to death if they don’t fill their stomachs, they have to use their wisdom to dig grass roots, peel bark, eat leaves, and catch insects to eat!

In front of their eyes, everything they thought could be eaten and couldn’t be eaten was eaten up by them, and this piece of eating became a hell on earth, a barren land.

Now, this once prosperous place in the Central Plains, the important birthplace of Chinese civilization, has become a ghost, and it is hard to see people in a hundred miles.

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This war was finally won by the coalition forces. The Qin army on the Korean border completely retreated to Sancheon County, and even gave up many counties outside the passes around Luoyang City in Sancheon County.

Completely retreated to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, within the Hulao Pass around Luoyang City, maintaining Dong Zhuo’s attitude towards the princes.

In addition to Sanchuan County, there are eleven counties that have been abandoned, and all of these sites have been taken over by the victor, namely South Korea.

This is the promise Zhong Yu made to South Korea before the war, and it is also a reluctance to make up for South Korea’s current dilapidated strength.

Faced with the first time he has been from South Korea since he took the throne, he has expanded his territory for the first time, or regained lost territory.

The King of Han originally felt hazy in South Korea, which had been destroyed by the war. For the first time, he felt a little happy, and he quickly dispatched officials to receive it.

However, the officials sent by King Han went forward with high expectations, but in the end they reported to King Han with disappointment.

Obviously, the situation in these newly recovered territories is not very good. At least, these officials feel despair and no longer have the previous joy.

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