The heavens start from saving Daming

Chapter 756 Although Chu has three households, Chu must die if Qin dies!
Zulong has its own luxury train.

Painted with gold and silver, carved with dragons and phoenixes, people can tell at a glance that the owner's status is extraordinary.

The special train was very long, not only carrying thousands of the most elite palace guards, but also a large number of cavalry accompanying it on both sides.

Starting from Xianyang City and heading west, after driving for more than half a month, we have passed the Hexi Corridor and officially entered the Western Region.

The reason why he ran so slowly was simply because the cavalry accompanying him slowed down his speed.

During a short-distance attack, the cavalry sprinted at full speed even faster than a train.

But as time goes by, it will be abandoned without hesitation, the kind where you can't see the taillights.

After officially entering the Western Region, the road suddenly became empty.

When I was in Guanzhong, there was naturally a constant flow of people coming and going in villages and towns.

Even in the Hexi Corridor, it is still densely populated, with groups of horses, cattle and sheep everywhere.

But after leaving Yangguan, you can see the vast sea of ​​sand on one side, and the faintly towering Kunlun Mountains on the other side.

Along the way, apart from the water and sand stations, there were only garrison beacon towers.

The common people surrounded the station and beacon tower, forming villages and towns of different sizes.

Looking at the scenery outside through the pure window, Zulong naturally knew why the scene in front of him was happening.

That's because the horse bandits were raging in the past, and they came and went like the wind, forcing the people who migrated to live together along the railway line.

"Yang Duanhe only knows how to make money these years."

Zu Long's expression remained unchanged, "It's just a horse bandit that has been wiped out and returned. What a waste."

He has made up his mind to replace Yang Duanhe, who has no enterprising spirit, and arrange for young people to take over to sort things out.

When the special car rumbled into the Xingxing Gorge, a group of knights were standing on the top of a cliff in the distance, using the monocular telescope seized from the Qin army to observe what was like a long black worm on the horizon. train.

The leader was tall and powerful, wearing a set of shabby armor. His whole body had a dusty appearance, but his eyes were extremely firm.

He put down the monocular telescope in his hand, turned his head and told the people around him, "Xiang Zhuang, tell the brothers to prepare for action."

"Leader!"

Da Qin has unified the world on the surface, and even Zulong believes that his Da Qin will last forever.

But actually?
Even with Li Yunze's advice, Zulong's exploitation of people's livelihood is better than in history. This is because the expansion of the Western Region has more people to exploit.

Taxes, corvees, and the oppression brought by the Qin people as officials.

When it comes to things like taxes, the court won't care whether you have difficulties or whether you encounter natural or man-made disasters. When the time comes, you have to come and collect your things. If you don't collect them, you'll steal your house and cows. If you don't, you'll sell your family members. As a slave.

Not to mention corvee, the intensity of Qin's corvee can be called the strongest in history.

The intensity with which Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty collected corvees and opened the Grand Canal was nothing compared to that of the Qin State.

Although Li Yunze in this world kept discouraging him, and Da Qin also received more and more labor from the West, Da Qin wanted to start more big projects.

Just to build a railway to the far west, only those who built the road and provided support for the road construction along the way would use more than one million people.

The construction of the mausoleum that had been stopped before started again, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Lishan to dig huge pits.

There is also Epang Palace. Zulong felt that Xianyang Palace was too small and not worthy of his status, so he wanted to build a super large palace complex. The design drawings he drew alone filled several large boxes. It was the corvee labor of hundreds of thousands of people.

It’s not just the construction site, it provides various materials to the construction site, transports food and other supplies to them, from mining to obtain raw materials to transportation and construction along the way, it is a series of projects, not only the people on the construction site, but also a large number of subsystems Security, etc., these all require people.

If it weren't for Zulong's feeling that the nomadic tribes on the grassland were vulnerable, he slowed down the construction of the Great Wall.In addition, the railway line replaced most of the Qinzhi Road and delayed the progress of the southward march to Baiyue, thus reducing a large number of corvees. It is impossible to say that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's affairs would have to be advanced.

Even so, the corvee in Qin was still very heavy, especially for the people in the six kingdoms area.

In fact, it is a luxury for the prisoners to stay in prison and eat cornbread in peace, as they are all assigned to work.

As for the local officials, who are mainly from Qin, who dominate the local area and oppress the people, they only need to refer to those flags, the ones with tattoos on their foreheads.

The people have been simmering for a long time, and the power to resist Qin has naturally gathered.

Like this time, the nobles of the six countries lurking in Xianyang City sent envoys to work hard and beat several horses to death before passing the news to the largest group of horse bandits hiding in the vast sea.

The leader of this horse bandit is named Xiang Yu.

After Xiang Yan died in battle and the Chu state was destroyed, the Chu people's resistance did not stop.

It's just that the Qin army is too strong, and their resistance is basically useless.

Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang and traveled to Chu to resist Qin. However, he was easily defeated every time he raised his troops and had to flee in embarrassment.

At this time, news about the Western Regions reached Chu Di.After deliberation, the Xiang family, who were out of breath after being surrounded and suppressed, decided to go to the Western Regions where Qin's control was not that strong, and the territory was vast and could be effectively maneuvered to accumulate strength.

After years of resistance, Xiang Liang died in battle, and was immediately replaced by Xiang Yu to continue the resistance.

With his personal bravery and charm, Xiang Yu successfully conquered the horse bandit tribes in various oases in the vast sea and became the most powerful horse bandit.

After receiving the news from Xianyang this time, I immediately decided to ambush Zulong.

The place they chose was Xingxingxia.

Zulong's train, still pulled by the black smoking locomotive, moved forward unhurriedly. After entering the slightly narrow valley, the cavalry guarding it on both sides began to climb towards the top of the mountain.

There were no problems along the way, but after the train traveled more than twenty miles, Li Xin, who was in charge of escort work, learned that the manpower sent to guard a mountain several miles away did not respond.

There were many reasons for the lack of response. The weather was bad, the fire sickle he carried was invalid, he fell off the cliff while climbing, etc. Or maybe someone was ambushed and killed?

Li Xin hesitated and wanted to talk to Zulong. He stopped the special train first and asked him to send a group of people over to check. After all, climbing the mountain was very troublesome and slow.

But Zhao Gao responded that the emperor was sleeping and should not be disturbed.

The trip was already very slow. Li Xin didn't want to wake up the sleeping emperor for a trivial matter, so he had to send people to speed up the mountain climbing while instructing them to be more vigilant.

The result was that after the second group of people climbed onto the cliff, there was still no reaction at all.

Now even if Li Xin was a fool, he knew there was a problem.

Before he could order anything to be done, he saw countless large and small rocks suddenly falling from the top of the mountain!
Stones fell like raindrops, making a clanking sound when they hit the train, especially a few huge rocks, which hit the front of the car hard under the effect of gravity acceleration, and the front of the car was flattened.

Then another fire basket fell on the top of the mountain, which was a round ball made of bamboo and rattan. It was ignited with kerosene and pushed down the mountain. It ignited the weeds in the valley, and suddenly there was thick smoke and flames.

"Kill~~~"

A large number of horse bandits rushed down from the mountain with shouts, holding oil cans and holding torches in their hands, adding new impetus to the fire in the valley.

Zu Long was awakened, got up and came to the car door to see Zhao Gao who was shouting "Assassin, there is an assassin~~~".

First, he slapped Zhao Gao to shut his mouth, and then ordered someone to call Li Xin, "How is the situation?"

"Your Majesty, there may be something wrong with the assassin pushing rocks to cut off the road and throwing kerosene." Li Xin, whose face was blackened, urged, "Your Majesty, please move your chariot and exit the valley first."

"madness!"

Unexpectedly, Zu Long directly scolded, "How many assassins can there be? There are tens of thousands of elite escorts accompanying them, and this special train is made of fine steel. If you let me go out and run away, wouldn't you be playing into the hands of the thieves?"

Then Zulong said, "Don't panic, just arrange for the sergeants to line up to fight."

With his mind calm, Li Xin hurriedly saluted and left to arrange for manpower to fight back.

Just as Zu Long said, there were tens of thousands of soldiers accompanying him at this time, and they were all the elite troops of Great Qin.

As long as you are stable, you don't have to worry about anything.

On the contrary, if you run away in a panic, it is easy for others to take advantage of it.

The Qin army responded quickly here.

The palace guards on the car quickly got out of the car and surrounded Zulong's special train.

Li Xin ordered the accompanying cavalry to dismount and form a formation, holding the stone fire basket and stepping on the burning grass and trees, and stepped forward to resist.

As a result, those horse bandits who mainly relied on mobility to survive were suddenly unstoppable.

Xiang Yu on horseback saw that the Qin army reacted quickly and that the real target never came out of the belly of the steel beast. He took a deep breath, held a steel gun and rode directly into the battle with his troops!

Using cavalry to directly attack the formation of infantry is a common thing in novels, but on the real battlefield, it requires great courage.

This is especially true when the opponent is extremely elite and equipped with iron armor and will fight to the death.

Those braids of later generations who showed off their power in front of the beggar soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, let them try to attack the Qin army formation?If you don't blow the shit out of them, it will be considered clean by them!

Xiang Yu dared to charge, and he really rushed in.

Xiang Yu led the elite cavalry, mainly members of the Xiang clan, and rushed into the military formation next to the vehicle like a mudslide from the hillside.

When the impact was closest, it was less than a hundred steps away from Zulong's carriage!
Looking at the dense crowd of Qin Army sergeants in front of him, and then at the Qin Army cavalry not far away who came quickly to help, Xiang Yu knew that this was the only way he could do it today, unless Zulong came out to escape.
He took a deep breath and used the impact of the war horse to throw the spear in his hand towards the carriage dozens of steps away.

Xiang Yu, who was born with extraordinary arm strength, had powerful strength. His spear drew a rainbow in the air like lightning, and then plunged into the carriage!
Zulong's special train was equipped with steel plates. Xiang Yu's last blow, even with the force of penetrating the stone, could not pierce it.

Before leaving, Xiang Yu turned to Zulong's special train and roared, "A certain Xiang Yu is from Chu! Even though Chu has three households, if Qin is destroyed by Chu!!!"

(End of this chapter)