Xiang Yu fights the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 9
Walking through the past, memories flood in like a tide, but everything has dissipated into history like a vast smoke and dust, so what's the use of focusing on remembering the past?
Xiang Yu frowned slightly, and gradually clenched his fists. Originally, the believers controlled by Zhang Jiao could be regarded as a good resource, at least a good human resource. However, during the conversation with Zhang Jiao, Xiang Yu found that, This Zhang Jiao is an out-and-out magic stick. He has never had real military experience. He seems to think that with a large number of people, he can overthrow the Han Dynasty regime and establish a peaceful world in his ideal.

Xiang Yu, who has experienced countless battles, big and small, knows very well that fighting depends not only on blood, but on ideals and ambitions. In addition to people, fighting also requires a lot of supplies and certain political resources. Zhang Jiao controls Those believers themselves have reached a situation where it is difficult to survive. For them, rebellion is indeed a good choice, but because the peasants themselves have extremely shallow knowledge, few desires, and short-sightedness, they are very easy to be satisfied.

Such a team itself is very unstable. When these farmers are unable to survive due to natural disasters, they are willing to rebel, but once they obtain some survival resources, many of them will quickly lose their fighting spirit. If you continue to fight with your life, it is better to occupy some resources as the capital for your own survival and enjoyment.

Especially if their leader is also a person who is ungrateful and short-sighted, then his determination to rebel will change quickly, from a person who resists oppression to an implementer of oppression, from a person who is determined to bring the people The man saved from the misery becomes the same man who keeps the people from the misery.

The peasant army does not necessarily love other peasants. They are more likely to become bandits, become rioters, and give hatred and destruction to their former compatriots and other peasants, because they need to rob food from other peasants. Grab land and rob various resources.

Therefore, if an insurrectionary army lacks a leader who truly has the ability to control and has long-term political and military goals, then its final result will inevitably fail. What happened afterwards can prove this point.

After Chen Sheng achieved a certain amount of success, he began to suspect the people around him, those brothers and friends who rebelled with him and were born and died together. When the power was in his hands, the power began to corrupt his heart, and the power was like a demon. The same, gnawing at his soul, and as a farmer, he is hard to resist this kind of corruption from power and material. In the end, the people around him are alienated from him. In the end, this vigorous peasant uprising broke out He was defeated by the prisoner army led by Zhang Han in a short period of time, and eventually became a laughing stock.

Originally, Xiang Yu planned to give it a try. If Zhang Jiao was willing to hand over the supreme control of these peasant troops to himself, perhaps under his careful training, these peasants who had no combat ability could become truly capable. Combat soldiers.

But Zhang Jiao’s hesitation later made Xiang Yu dispel this idea, and decided to leave Zhang Jiao and look for opportunities in other places. The trust of Jiao Jiao’s religious thoughts, the peasants who are in a painful and tragic fate urgently need this kind of spiritual food to give them the hope of continuing to survive, and this is something that Xiang Yu cannot bring to them, so in a sense Speaking of which, Xiang Yu will never be able to truly replace Zhang Jue to control these peasants, because what they need deep down in their hearts is not to make contributions like real soldiers, relying on their own heroic fighting to gain the opportunity to seal the wolf and live in Xuxu. Instead, I hope to obtain the kind of peaceful world that Zhang Jiao promised, although illusory but beautiful.

With such a group of people, Xiang Yu feels that he has no way to train well. Even if he trains well, they will never be able to have true loyalty to him. It is definitely a very thankless task for him to do this under Zhang Jiao. If he kills Zhang Jiao, there is no way to replace him, because he doesn't know Taiping religion, let alone use these religious thoughts to control these people, so he needs to find a place that truly believes in the strong and force.

At this time, he thought of Xianyang, which is now Chang'an. Whether it is Xianyang or Chang'an, there is a very serious problem, that is, the prairie close to the nomadic people in the north and the Western Regions in the west.

When Xiang Yu walked along the way, he learned more or less about the situation in the northwest frontier of the Eastern Han Dynasty from some people. If the climate in the late Qin period where Xiang Yu lived 400 years ago was still relatively warm, then the overall climate in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was already warm. It was much colder.

From the beginning of Emperor Cheng in the late Western Han Dynasty, the climate in the Central Plains gradually became cold and dry, and the grasslands in the north moved southward on a large scale. Great changes have taken place. Some areas that originally had virgin forests have turned into wastelands due to climate and human destruction, and even gradually evolved into Gobi and deserts.

Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the northwest frontier has almost never been peaceful. The protracted war between the Qiang people and the Eastern Han Dynasty has lasted for more than 100 years and has not been completely quelled. The human threat has always existed.

It was precisely after Xiang Yu realized this that he decided to go west. At this moment, he did not have any power of his own, unlike when he raised his army back then, he was able to rely on the power of his family. With the support of one's own powerful family or forces such as bureaucrats, relatives, eunuchs, etc., it is difficult to accomplish things only by one's own strength.

And Xiang Yu knew that Zhangjiao would inevitably set off an uprising of the peasant army in the near future, and the world would inevitably be in chaos, so he had to accumulate some of his own strength before that, and when the world was in chaos, it would happen to be him. A good opportunity to show off.

The relatively peaceful Central Plains is obviously not the first choice. It is still controlled by various powerful forces. It is difficult for Xiang Yu to get a good opportunity by himself. He believed that even if he started as a small soldier, he would be able to grow quickly and build an armed force of his own.

First of all, the problem he has to solve is the problem of personal combat effectiveness. This guy named Zhou Zhuo is actually not as bad as he imagined. However, it may be due to long-term malnutrition and lack of systematic training and training. Talent has not been developed enough.

After Xiang Yu gained control of this body, on the one hand, he could often rely on his own ability to obtain meat to supplement his body's nutrition; on the other hand, he also knew how to exercise to maximize his physical talent. Zhou Zhuo himself is not too old and is still in the stage of growing his body. Therefore, after Xiang Yu's recuperation and training for a period of time, not only his height has grown a little, but his muscles have also become much stronger.

Xiang Yu's current body shape is gradually developing towards a thinner and taller direction. He found that the overall frame size of this body is moderate, and the limbs are relatively long. Whether it is running or jumping, it has relatively good explosive power, but the current body shape is still relatively thin. Thin, not good in terms of absolute strength, but on the other hand, speed and explosive power seem to have a relatively large potential to be tapped.

But the disadvantage is that the physical fitness is not particularly good. This is probably because the original owner of this body does not particularly like to exercise. Although there are some signs of practicing weapons and fighting, it should only be at the level of ordinary people in the militia reserve. Overall, If Xiang Yu wants to make this body as invincible as his previous life, it is still impossible, but if he can fully explore the potential of this body from now on, then relying on Xiang Yu's previous life's combat skills and With experience, you can still become a top general in this era.

(End of this chapter)