Chapter 311: It turns out that the Qin state is so weak
Where is this place called "Dali" located? It is on the west bank of the river, surrounded by Luoshui River and Weishui River. It is considered a confluence of three rivers.
Logically speaking, "Dali" is the border between Jin and Qin, so when the Qin army goes eastward, it should be the first to attack there?
However, for a long time, most of the large-scale battles between the Jin Army and the Qin Army were concentrated near "Jiaogang" in the northwest of the Jin State. On the contrary, there were only a handful of battles in the western part of the Jin State.
In fact, to put it bluntly, the terrain near "Dali" is too complicated. There are three rivers intersecting, and there are many mountains around it. It is really not suitable for large corps to deploy.
In that era when the two countries agreed on a place for war and the two sides were in battle formations, the terrain was not open enough to be a suitable battlefield, and the war would definitely not be fought in a densely forested place.
To the back? The Qin State was beaten by the Jin State and cowered in a corner in the west. Even in the era when the Gentleman's War was no longer conducted, the Qin Army did not make a move to the east for the time being. Naturally, it would not be as complicated as "Dali".
The terrain serves as a battlefield.
Zhiyao knew that if history had not been changed, fierce battles would break out again and again on the "Dali" side in the future. The Qin army and the Wei army would fight each other back and forth, until one day the Qin army robbed the land in Hexi, and this was considered to be a small area of land.
Get a break.
Before the arrival of Zhiyao's era, that is, before 500 BC, the Qin State chose to invade from the northwest of the Jin State for many times when it went east.
Because of its openness, it is especially suitable for countries or forces with sufficient numbers of horses such as Qin and Bai Zhai to use it as an invasion route.
We are not in the Warring States Period yet, so we cannot see the Great Wall of Wei near Dali. There are mountains and forests everywhere as far as the eye can see.
Yes, that’s right, the Wei State also built the Great Wall, but it’s not famous because it was later demolished.
The first country to build the Great Wall was actually the Chu State. They built the first Great Wall in the Xia Dynasty in Henan, but the Chu people called it "Fangcheng", with a total length of about 500 miles. In later generations, there was a city there called
The name Fangcheng comes from the fact that the State of Chu built the Great Wall nearby, and the name "Fangcheng" was passed down.
As for why the city wall with a length of tens or hundreds of miles was not turned into a square city later? Who allowed the Chu people to be defeated and their civilization not to be passed down completely?
Do you know which country was the second to build the Great Wall? It was Qi, with a total length of 1,200 miles.
The following countries that built the Great Wall were ranked in no particular order. They imitated the Chu State in building long walls to resist the enemy. Among them, the Qin State built the longest Great Wall to resist the increasingly powerful Yiqu people, and later used it to defend against the Yuezhi.
On the human body, it eventually became a city defense system to resist the Huns.
The people of Qin were so afraid of the Yiqu people that they needed to build the Great Wall? They thought that the Qin State was the Jin State. Like the Jin State, it continuously annexed several countries and forces in less than fifty years, and rose to the point where it could defeat all dissenters before being divided.
Country? Not really.
From the very beginning, the Qin State was really inconspicuous. Even when the Jin State split into three countries: Zhao, Wei, and Han, at first even South Korea was able to bully the Qin State, and later it was hung up and beaten repeatedly by the Wei State.
It’s not surprising that the Qin State was afraid of the Yiqu people. Not to mention that the pressure from the east was too great, forcing the Qin State to deploy more troops to deal with the east, and had to build a road extending from the west to the northeast.
The Great Wall of China.
Of course, the Great Wall from the late Spring and Autumn Period to the Warring States Period was not designated as the modern stone-brick Great Wall. It was actually made of rammed earth. Some wall sections might only be two or three meters high and not much thicker.
The Great Wall that modern people know was built in the Ming Dynasty. Later, it was renovated during the revolution and modern times. Don’t go to Badaling and other sections of the Great Wall and think, “Wow! Did the First Emperor order it to be built?”, there are tour guides.
It will make the tour guide look confused, and it will also make people who understand history laugh.
Zhiyao is a person who has visited Chu State's "Fangcheng" with his own eyes. He must admit that the Great Wall played its due role, otherwise the Chu State's capital "Ying" would have faced the risk of falling for the second time.
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Is it necessary to repair the Great Wall? Anyway, there are many different opinions, good or bad, there are almost all kinds of opinions.
From Zhiyao's point of view, he believed that people of his generation had no need for the existence of the Great Wall. With such a Great Wall, no one knew who to guard against, and it would even prevent the army from going to the grasslands to gain harvests.
This is an era when the nomadic groups are completely overwhelmed. Zhiyao feels that once the Zhi family develops in an all-round way, the countries will not be able to stop the Zhi family from annexing. As long as they do not fall into a protracted "civil war", there is no chance that the nomadic groups will be defeated.
Rise up.
The truth seems to be like that? During the Spring and Autumn Period, the weakest State of Yan was able to hold Donghu first, and then beat Donghu wildly. By the early and middle stages of the Warring States Period, the Qin State mainly focused on marching out to the east and was defeated by Yiqu, Yueshi and the Xiongnu.
Taking turns to bully, for example, Zhao Guo kept bullying the nomadic groups.
I don’t mean to belittle the Qin State at all. The facts are those facts. The Qin State, which did not capture the land of Hexi and Bashu before the reform, was weak and barbaric. However, it still liked to fight on two or even three fronts, and was not beaten to its full potential.
Head buns are a weird thing.
Take Zhiyao for example, because he knew the "historical answer" and had a "predetermined impression", he looked at Qin higher than anyone else.
So what is the situation? Isn't it just the premise of "knowing", and then having a "preconceived" impression, so that Qin is the powerful Qin, ignoring the fact that Qin was so weak in the past.
Let's put it this way, if the Qin State was strong and could handle multi-front battles, would there be any need for King Qin Huiwen's mother Mi Yue to give birth to a child for King Yiqu?
As for the story that Mi Yue and King Yiqu knew each other first and that they were in love with each other, it is just like a novel. The truth has been hidden for a long time under the premise of being a taboo. Later generations can only judge from the facts that happened.
Various speculations were made.
It can be made more acceptable by people to make up the story that Mi Yue and King Yiqu are in love, and that Qin is weaker than the country and needs the mother of the king to play a honey trap, right?
Zhiyao just listened to the report. It was said that envoys from the State of Jin had arrived at "Yong" to declare war on the monarchs and ministers of the State of Qin. The subsequent news was that the State of Qin had recruited three "armies". According to the Zhou ritual system, a total of three
Seventy-five hundred soldiers gathered in the direction of "Ma Tunnel".
This "Ma Tunnel" was near Jingyang in later generations. The former Jin State gathered its princes to form an alliance and fought a great battle with the Qin Army in the "Ma Tunnel".
In that "Battle of Ma Tun", the king of Cao State, Cao Xuangong (named Lu), died under the influence of a target. He directly asked the State of Jin to take care of the State of Cao for fifty or sixty years. The result of the war was of course the allied forces of the State of Jin and the princes.
It ended with victory.
"Qin people follow etiquette?" Zhiyao wanted to laugh a little after hearing this.
The others also looked like they had seen a ghost, and then laughed out loud.
What happened? In fact, the Qin State invited the Jin army to go hunting at the "Ma Tunnel", pretending to be a gentleman's war.
Suddenly the people of Qin who were reasonable really made the people of Jin laugh.
It’s just right? Don’t look at Qin’s repeated sneak attacks on Jin. In fact, it was Jin who attacked Qin first.
That is to say, the Qin State was about to attack the Zheng State. The news was discovered by the Zheng State's caravan and was reported to the Zheng State monarchs on the way, forcing the Qin Army to attack the Hua State instead. The victorious Qin Army was attacked on the way to the retreat. The Jin army's ambush resulted in the entire army being annihilated.
That battle was called the "Battle of Confusion", and it made the Qin people completely hate the Jin State. From then on, the Qin State never reasoned with the Jin State, and used whatever method worked. People in Qin are addicted to playing.
This time, the Qin State assembled 37,500 soldiers to challenge the Jin State. The appointment was still at a place like "Ma Tunnel"?
"Ma Tunnel" is a plain terrain, located on the east bank of Jingshui River. The Qin army did not consider whether they could cross the Jingshui River or not go back, or did they plan to fight a back-and-forth battle? How dare they use an army of 37,500 to challenge the enemy all of a sudden? The Jin army with an army of 70,000 has arrived?
Han Geng put away his smile and asked, "Is there any fraud?"
Any conspiracy involving the national level, even if it is a counterintuitive plot, or a sneak attack, ambush, etc., doesn't the outcome still have to be determined by strength?
Zhiyao knew that there was a possibility of civil strife in the Jin State, and at the same time, the Jin State currently had many external enemies. After careful consideration, he determined that even if civil strife broke out in the Jin State, it would not be under the control of the Qin people.
So, did Qin complete some deal with some country and wanted to drag the two legions of Jin into the "Ma Tunnel", or did the army of one or more countries enter Qin's territory to hide in order to play a trick on the Jin army? Ambush or siege?
Don't think that it's easy to find out which countries secretly mobilized their troops to the Qin State. This is because they don't understand the pattern of the current era. They don't know that too many places are no-man's land. What really belongs to a country's effective rule is to use cities as radiation. , and then connected by various "states".
Where there is no "city" or "state", there is no one there. Unless a traveler or caravan happens to happen upon it, otherwise who knows what is there.
Therefore, concealment march is really not a difficult task in the current era. The difficulty lies in how to continue to provide logistical supplies for that army.
If Qin is willing to take on the logistics, is there any country willing to make Jin suffer at this time? I guess there will be quite a few.
"Who dares to attack me?" When Han Geng heard Zhi Yao's guess, he immediately became angry instead of other emotions.
Zhiyao has a lot of guesses. Without relevant evidence, guesses are just guesses.
For example, Chu State borders Qin State, and Chu State and Qin State have been friendly for a long time, and Qin State asked Chu State for help and received a response.
Another point is that even if the Chu State does not send troops themselves, they can provide an excuse for countries that do.
A more realistic possibility is that the Qin State has a history of alliance with foreign races. It is really difficult to say whether they will gather a large number of foreign races.
"What if Qin thought they could defeat us with nearly 40,000 troops? How serious must they be? There must be some back-up or support!" Zhiyao firmly believed in this.
