Qiang Qin

Updated: 2010-08-17

Watching Xiang Yu leave with the army, Xiang Liang had mixed feelings in his heart. On the one hand, he blamed his nephew for his recklessness, but at the same time, he still hoped that he would be able to successfully take down Qi. Only the clan can have successors, so that they will not be replaced by Qu Dou and others.

At this time, Qu Dou, who was also among the people who saw him off, walked up to Xiang Liang and cupped his hands: "General Xiang is indeed a strong general with a weak soldier. Now you are not only a famous general of my great Chu, but even your nephew You can go to attack the people of Qi on behalf of Da Chu."

Xiang Liang had already come out of the annoyance of the past few days at this time, he didn't care about Qu Dou's ridicule at all, and said with a smile: "It's up to Mr. Qu, if you hadn't repeatedly suggested to the king to raise troops to attack Qi, I'm afraid Yu'er hasn't had this chance yet. Thank you, thank you!" He said repeatedly cupping his hands.

Qu Dou originally wanted to ridicule Xiang Liang, but Xiang Liang ridiculed him in turn. He couldn't think of a rebuttal for a while, so he retreated in embarrassment, but he had already scolded Xiang Liang's eighteen generations of ancestors in his heart. up.

As a result, the state of Chu continued to calm down. Officials everywhere did their jobs well, and the battle between the court and China calmed down on the surface, but in the dark, no one knew what the other party was planning.

Compared with the state of Chu, Shangjun is much more harmonious. Everyone, whether civil servants or generals, is dedicated to Fusu, the master of everyone, so that he can get back everything that belongs to him as soon as possible.After this winter, the more than 4 people from Cang Haijun and others have begun to integrate into the system of Shangjun and become one with everyone.Among them, those who are good at riding skills also joined Fusu's cavalry team. Now the army that Fusu relies on the most has nearly [-] people, but a new problem has also emerged, that is, there are not enough horses.

Originally, Shangjun was located in the north, and many people lived on animal husbandry, but it was still deeply influenced by the farming civilization of the Central Plains. In addition, Chen Ping was educated since he was a child that the people are based on agriculture. Under his strong advocacy, Many people who used to be herdsmen also began to grow food, and the horse production in Shangjun City was greatly reduced, while the cavalry in the Fusu Army continued to increase. At this moment, the problem of horses came to the fore.

"Unexpectedly, my idea was wrong. A decree actually reduced the number of horses in the territory so much." Chen Ping apologized.

"Mr. Chen, don't blame yourself. Didn't you realize that because of your decree, the population of my county has doubled? And the people who come can support themselves. This may be more exciting than having more horses. .There are gains and losses. Since we have gained so many people, we will naturally pay the price in other places. And we are not really helpless when it comes to horses. As long as we can contact the Huns on the grassland, Then you can exchange some of the Huns’ daily necessities for horses with them.” Fusu quickly explained to him.

Meng Tian also interjected: "What the prince said is very true, we got a lot of horses when we captured Yunzhong, Jiuyuan and other counties, as long as we capture a few more cities, the problem of horses will be solved. "

Han Xin said bluntly: "Wars are fought against population. As long as we have enough people, the number of horses can actually be ignored. After all, cavalry can still fight without horses, and infantry who don't know how to ride don't know how to fight on horses. So we You only need to train more cavalry, and it is not necessary for them to mount horses and fight."

Seeing that everyone was comforting him, Chen Ping was very grateful, and repeatedly cupped his hands and said: "Thank you for your trust, Chen Ping will definitely treat me better in Shangjun."

"Prince, a letter from Feige has arrived." Peng Hong, who has been in charge of supporting Su's security and liaison with various places since returning to Shangjun, came in and said.He is also one of the people Fusu trusts extremely, so he can report to him any news that he thinks is more important at any time.

"Where did the news come from?" Fu Su stopped everyone's discussion and asked Peng Hong.

"It's the news from the spies of Chu State." Peng Hong said and handed the silk scroll to Fusu.

Fusu took it and opened it and said, "I guess it's the people of Chu who sent troops to Qiguo." After reading the content above, Fusu handed the silk scroll to Meng Tian who was beside him, and then everyone in the room read it above content.

After everyone had finished watching, Fusu turned his head and asked Han Daodao: "You have stayed in Chudi much longer than me, and you have been a good soldier in Xiang's army. In your opinion, this time What is the chance that Xiang Yu will win if he leads his troops to attack Qi?"

Han Xin lowered his head and thought about it: "I can't say it right now, but Xiang Yu should know that he is a prince. He is very brave, and he is good at marching and fighting, but he is just self-willed and arrogant. His weakness. If he encounters a difficult opponent, he will think of a way to overcome the enemy, so as to defeat the opponent, but if the enemy is too weak, he will relax his vigilance and become only attacking blindly. So in my calculation Xiang Yu has a [-]% chance of winning against Qi people, of course, the premise is that he has not been dazzled by the previous success."

When Fusu heard Han Xin's analysis, he thought of Xiang Yu's deeds in history.When fighting hundreds of thousands of Qin soldiers in Julu, he used his extraordinary bravery and decisive courage to defeat Zhang Han. However, when facing Liu Bang, who was much weaker than himself, he repeatedly missed the opportunity to win. The chance to get rid of him was finally besieged and killed himself in Wujiang.These things are indeed determined by Xiang Yu's character as Han Xin said.Thinking of this, Fusu couldn't help admiring Han Xin's insight.

"Since the Chu people have sent troops to attack Qi, should we do something?" Meng Tian asked.His question interrupted Fusu's train of thought, Fusu thought for a while, and said: "Let's do as we said just now, and first capture a few cities in northern Xinjiang, firstly to replenish horses, and secondly Stabilize our rear."

"Moreover, we can recruit more horsemen from several cities in the north, so that our cavalry will not be insufficient." Chen Ping also added.

So when spring came, the people and horses in Shangjun moved again, and this time their goal was the place where Fusu had just traveled to this world——Shanggu County.This time, Fusu didn't lead the troops there himself, it was Meng Tian who went there.Originally Han Xin, Zhou Xing and other generals wanted to lead troops, but thinking that Meng Tian had resisted the invasion of the Huns with Fusu in Shanggu County and had great prestige among the soldiers, so Meng Tian led the troops.Because Fusu hoped that Shanggu County would capitulate and surrender when the army arrived because of Meng Tian's prestige, so that many killings could be avoided, and the troops on his side would not need to be lost.

When Mengtian went to Shanggu, Fusu sent Han Xin to Taiyuan to guard.After taking down Taiyuan County, Fusu did not send troops to guard it. On the one hand, because Fusu led troops to attack Xianyang, there were not enough manpower in Shangjun City, and on the other hand, it was also because they occupied several cities in the north at that time. , Chen Ping was busy arranging there, so he put Taiyuan aside. In Chen Ping's mind, the northern counties now play a greater role than Taiyuan.Although Taiyuan is in an excellent location, Shangjun will not lose its city just because Taiyuan is in the hands of the enemy.However, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao and other people in charge of the court did not send troops to attack Taiyuan, so Taiyuan City has always been in a position that the courts of Fusu and Qin did not care about.Now that Fusu can free his hands, after learning about the situation, he dispatched Han Xin with thousands of troops to guard.The throat area leading from Shangjun to the Central Plains has finally completely fallen into Fusu's hands, and he will wait for news from Meng Tian next.

The news came quickly. Meng Tian is worthy of being the No.1 general on the border of Daqin Town. Most of the defenders in Shanggu City lost the confidence to resist when they saw the banner with the word "Mongolian". Secretly planning how to surrender.But Shanggu still belonged to Qin's territory after all, and he had to resist for his own dignity when facing the attack of rebels.So many people who were not familiar with Meng Tian led the army to guard for two days.

But after two days, these people began to regret it, because the soldiers brought by Meng Tian were all the elite of the Fusu Army, and their combat experience and equipment weapons were higher than those of the Qin soldiers guarding the city. For those who wanted to surrender, when Meng Tian sent his army to attack on the third day, the surrender forces in Shanggu City tied up those who insisted on holding on, and then opened the city gates to allow Meng Tian's Daju Nian to enter the city smoothly.In this way, within two days, Shanggu County was taken down.

On the one hand, Meng Tian did all kinds of aftermath work in the city to make Shanggu County restore everything before as soon as possible. On the other hand, he sent people back to Shangjun to report the news of victory to Fusu.

After seeing that Shanggu was captured, several counties and counties near it sent people to Meng Tian before Meng Tian led troops to attack, expressing their willingness to follow Fusu to fight against the imperial court together.

Fusu and the others who received these good news one after another were full of excitement, "It seems that Han Xin was right when he was in Jiujiang County, as long as I reveal my identity and use strong force, those who were originally Those who are dissatisfied with the court will submit to me one by one, and maybe even some large counties in the Central Plains will vote for me in a few days." At this time, Fusu felt that no one could stop his progress If the pace is fast, maybe it won't take long before I can lead an army to attack Xianyang openly, instead of using a surprise attack like last year, and I was forced to give up that idea in the end.

ps: There are some other things these days, so the update will not be as fast as before. I hope you will forgive me, but I will make up for them in a few days.