At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 35, Weak Da Qin
  Xu Fan was educating his subordinates, while Meng Shao on the other side was cursing his soldiers.

"Trash, hundreds of elite cavalry can't defeat a group of rabble. Feng Lin Mojin doesn't understand the simplest military knowledge. How did such a person become the commander of the village!" Meng Shao was furious because of Xu Fan's harassment. When he heard that the cavalry that had just joined his camp was ambushed by the enemy, and only half of them were left, he could no longer hold back his anger. If the cavalry commander had not been killed by Xu Fan, he would have killed the cavalry commander, a good one The cavalry will be lost in half in one battle.

But after he vented his anger, he did not punish the remaining cavalry, because he understood that cavalry guards were indispensable in the army. He selected some soldiers who knew how to ride in the army, replaced the cavalry who died in the battle, and then sent these cavalry to Arrange at the front of the army to prevent the rebels from continuing to harass the marching army

Although Xu Fan ambushed the Qin Army's cavalry, his own casualties exceeded 30%, and he was no longer able to hinder the Qin Army's advance. He could only lead the cavalry to join Zhou Zhang and the others.

On the way, Xu Fan heard the news that Chen Lin and others had captured Nanton County. Xu Fan was overjoyed. With Nanton County as a base, the situation of the rebels had been greatly improved. He led the remaining cavalry south.

December 35, the 10th year of the First Emperor's reign.

Without Xu Fan's harassment, Meng Shao finally led the Qin army into Yang County. This journey was extremely difficult for him. Originally, the distance from Chen County to Yang County was less than a hundred miles, but he was forced to leave. Four days.

The daily marching speed did not exceed 20 miles. This speed was simply a shame for the elite Qin army. If the rebels behind did not continue to harass the march, their arrival at Yang County would have been even slower.

After entering Yang County, Meng Shao sent his men to take over the defense of Yang County. The rule of Qin was once again restored on the land of Yang County. The people of Yang County still felt a sense of loss in their hearts. In the days without the restraint of Qin law, They only lived 4 days, which was too short.

Of course Meng Shao was in a worse mood at this time.

The magistrate of Yang County and other more than a dozen Qin officials were hanged by the rebels. Now their corpses are stinking, so they helped to resettle them. Most of these officials were old Qin people, but now they died on the land of Chu. Old Qin people like Meng Shao have a feeling of sadness in their hearts.

"General, the Yang County granary has been emptied by the rebels."

"The arsenal was also moved away by the rebels!"

"The county government office was also moved away by the rebels, and there is nothing left!"

Meng Shao had already expected that the granary and arsenal would be emptied. But what he never expected was that the rebels actually took away all the county government's household registration, land registration and other information.

Looking at the empty county government office, Meng Shao couldn't vent his inner depression.

Without these household registration and land registration information, the Qin State would have no basis for recruiting troops and grain. In addition, the grassroots organizations in Yang County have been destroyed by the rebels. It will be extremely troublesome for the Qin Dynasty to restore its rule over Yang County. There is no way to conscript troops or collect food.

This is the benefit of reading more novels. Before leaving Yang County, Xu Fan thought of a Warring States novel he had read before. In it, it talked about the Qin State attacking the Chu State. In order to prevent the Qin State from taking advantage of the newly occupied territory, Chu Fan Land, the protagonist took the initiative to destroy the household registration information of the occupied areas and killed all the officials who refused to go to the rear. In this way, the Qin State could not use the resources of the newly occupied territories until it had measured the land and counted the local population.

In ancient times, if you wanted to measure the land and count the population, you needed high-quality talents. You had to be able to read and write, and you also had to have a certain talent in mathematics and understand the calculation of geometric areas. Such talents had a literacy rate of less than 100%. The fifth Qin Dynasty is extremely rare, and recruiting these talents requires a lot of time, manpower and material resources. Paralyzing Qin's rule in Chen County was exactly what the rebels needed. Xu Fan was not as cruel as the protagonist in the whisper. He simply transported all the household registration and land registration information in Yang County. If he could not transport away, he simply burned it. , completely disintegrating Qin's rule over Yang County.

"Where did the rebels go?" This was what Meng Shao wanted to know most. He originally thought that the rebels would defend Yang County, but he did not expect that what he took over was an empty city.

Vice General Qin Yang thought for a while and whispered: "General, news just came that Nanton County has been captured by the main force of the rebels. Now the rebels are recruiting troops in Nanton County with great momentum."

Meng Shao was startled, and then shouted: "The situation is bad, the rebels want to go south to capture Xiang County. If the rebels continue to move like this, all the counties in the south of Chen County will be captured by the rebels, and the situation will be out of control."

Xiang County was the fiefdom of Xiang Yan, the last famous general of the Chu State. The Xiang clan there was very powerful. Even though the Qin State continued to move Xiang Yan's core descendants, there were still many Xiang clan members in Xiang County who were dissatisfied with the Qin State. If the rebels With the help of the Xiang clan, the entire southern part of Chen County will be at war.

The most important thing is that the entire Chen County has just completed its autumn harvest. There is a large amount of grain and grass in each county of Chen County that has not been transported to the county. The arsenal is also piled with weapons manufactured over the past ten years, and now they have all become the spoils of war for the rebels. , every time a county is captured, the strength of the rebels will be rapidly improved.

At this time, Meng Shao had realized that it would be difficult to annihilate the rebels with just his 1000 Qin troops. Even the entire Chen County is in a precarious state.

And there is nothing that can be done about it. Now the Great Qin is guarding the outside and the inside. The two armies of the north and the south have consumed most of the resources and troops of the entire empire. There is no mobile force in the entire Guandong region. The First Emperor has been leading a huge army to patrol eastward. To a certain extent, the military strength is also insufficient, and this method can only be used to deter the six countries of Kanto.

Historically, this kind of eastward patrol had a remarkable effect. During the entire reign of Emperor Shi, there was no major rebellion in the Kanto region.

But now the intrusion of a time traveler has disrupted everything. There were only 3000 Qin troops stationed in Chen County. If Xu Fan occupied the land and became king, Chen County's county soldiers could still destroy the rebels. But now Xu Fan leads the rebel army to move throughout Chen County, and the local county guards are unable to suppress the rebellion.

Let's take Chen County as an example. There are 27 counties in the local area. If the county soldiers fully defend these counties, each county can only be assigned more than 100 soldiers. This will only allow Xu Fan to defeat them one by one. Therefore, the mobile rebel army, It is more dangerous than the rebel army that occupies the mountain as king.

After Meng Shao thought about it for a long time, he sent a soldier to report the affairs of Yang County to the county governor and county lieutenant, asking them to recruit soldiers to deal with the growing rebellion. At the same time, he suggested that the county guard allow Chen County to expand recruitment in each county. The county soldiers prevent rebellion and cannot allow the rebels to easily break into the county town to obtain food, grass and ordnance.

Meng Shao was a general, and he knew clearly that the combat effectiveness of underfed soldiers and well-fed soldiers was completely different. He also knew that the combat effectiveness of soldiers with armor and spears was completely different from that of rioters without armor and spears.

If he continues to let the rebels attack the city in this way to obtain food, grass and ordnance to expand the army, it won't be long before the rebels run over him and escape.

Then he appointed a village chief as a fake county magistrate to temporarily manage Yang County, collect food and grass for the army, and recruit soldiers, while he himself led the Qin army to continue to pursue Xu Fan and others.

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