Time flies so fast, May 24th is here in the blink of an eye!
The more than twenty days were spent in Hu Hai's daily early morning training, Shangfang, Bashang Training Ground, and Bashang Camp! Of course, Hu Hai still went back to Xianyang Palace during these twenty days.
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For Concubine Li, who was confined in the palace, she was naturally extremely surprised when she first saw His Majesty the Emperor. Naturally, she used all possible means to serve His Majesty the Second Emperor with great pleasure, and the many tendernesses are self-evident!
Li Yan’s queen sealing ceremony has been delayed again and again!
The reason is very simple. Since the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, most of them have been queens, not empresses! Since the First Emperor established the huge Qin Empire and unified the world, there have been no queens, which directly led to the fact that the Qin Dynasty has not yet held a real ceremony for conferring queens.
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So this was a big worry for Ying Teng and others. Hu Wujing, one of the nine ministers in charge of rituals such as the ancestral temple sacrifices, was imprisoned by Hu Hai in the Xianyang prison under Yao Jia. Hu Hai has never mentioned it so far. It seems that
We have forgotten about Hu Wujing, the unlucky Lord Fengchang!
In desperation, Yingteng rushed from Xianyang to Bashang three days ago to report to Hu Hai that the post-registration ceremony needed to be postponed!
On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, Hu Hai had informed the Great Qin court of the news that General Wang Li had been killed in battle. At the same time, he also clearly informed the court that the day when all the ministers were registered would be the day when he would lead the army to quell the rebellion!
Ying Teng wouldn't worry at all if it was just that the grand ceremony for Li Ji's conferment as queen needed to be postponed. He knew very well that the reason why Hu Hai wanted to appoint Li Ji as his queen was precisely to exchange with Li Si. In exchange, Li Si would establish the Royal Academy of the Qin Empire with people from hundreds of schools of thought.
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As for Yingteng, he did not agree with canonizing Li Ji as the empress. After all, Li Si is currently in charge of the government affairs of the Qin Dynasty. He is already inferior to one person and more than ten thousand people! If Li Ju becomes empress again, then Li Si's authority will undoubtedly be even greater.
Heavy!
This is not good news for the Da Qin royal family!
However, Yingteng also knew that Hu Hai had no choice but to do so. Since he couldn't object, he could delay it for as many days as he could! But things were different on the day of the ceremony after Hu Hai set the date for dispatching troops to quell the chaos!
Delaying Li Yu's registration means delaying His Majesty the Emperor from sending troops to quell the rebellion!
After Yingteng carefully told Hu Hai that the grand ceremony would need to be postponed, he casually pointed out that if Mr. Fengchang Hu Wujing could help handle it, he would be able to prepare the grand ceremony within more than a month!
Hu Hai was extremely surprised when he heard Ying Teng's words. This is what Feng Chang should do. If you don't ask Feng Chang, why would you ask me? Apparently he has forgotten that Hu Wujing was ordered to be imprisoned by him!
When Ying Teng heard Hu Hai's words, his mind was filled with dark thoughts. The master of emotions had forgotten that he had ordered Feng Chang and Hu Wujing to be arrested and locked up in prison! Moreover, he had explicitly ordered that no one beg for mercy, so even Li Si has not yet
I didn’t even mention to Hu Hai about interceding for my brother Hu Wujing!
Ying Teng looked at the surprised Hu Hai and thought with malice, if Hu Wujing knew that he had been forgotten by His Majesty the Emperor, would he stab himself twice with a sword?
It was only after hearing Yingteng's reminder that Hu Hai remembered about Hu Wujing. Thinking of it, Hu Hai couldn't help but hesitate a little!
It's very simple. Hu Wujing was imprisoned by Hu Hai because he wanted to kill Kong Yu in front of Hu Hai. Now just over a month has passed and he has been released without incident. This will make Kong Yu and others who have just surrendered
What do people think?
The emperor wanted to give an explanation. But the explanation was not given but Hu Wujing was released!
Of course, Yingteng understood why Hu Hai hesitated, and came up with a more radical idea, first releasing Hu Wujing in the name of preparing for the post-registration ceremony, and then imprisoning him again after the post-registration ceremony!
The fate of the unlucky Hu Wujing was decided by two unscrupulous people!
Meng Tian, who was far away in Julu, also knew the news of Wang Li's death in battle. In addition to his sadness, he stepped up the training of the captured rebel soldiers, because Hu Hai would go to Julu in person in a few days!
Today is the day when Wang Li’s coffin enters the customs!
Li Xin hurriedly and slowly rescued Yang Xiong's remnant soldiers who were surrounded by less than 10,000 people!
The veteran Li Xin and the 29 thousand elite soldiers once again made Xiang Liang realize the huge difference between his own mob of hundreds of thousands and the elite of Great Qin!
Starting from the fifth day of May, Xiang Liang began to consume the will of Yang Xiong's remaining 50,000 remaining troops little by little! Dozens of small battles and several major battles a day, for twelve hours without stopping!
On the fourth day of May, Xiang Liang and Wu Rui began to dispatch Baiyue barbarians from the south of the Huai River to cross the river!
On this day, Yang Xiong still had enough strength to block the Baiyue barbarians crossing the river. Once again, the nearly 100,000 troops of Xiang Liang and Wu Rui were severely damaged, reducing their number to less than 80,000. The Qin army also lost nearly 80,000 soldiers again.
More than a thousand people!
However, due to the containment of Xiang Liang's army of more than 100,000 people who were already on the north bank, the number of Baiyue barbarians who crossed the Huaihe River from the south bank to the north on the fourth day of the lunar month reached 100,000!
The offensive and defensive momentum of Xiang Liang and Yang Xiong suddenly changed!
By the beginning of May, Xiang Liang's army had reached more than 250,000 men! Almost all the Baiyue barbarians had left. Except for women, all men over the age of fourteen or fifteen had crossed the river and headed north!
All the food and grass were burned, and they could only rely on hunting in the dense forest and fishing in the Huaihe River to maintain their basic physical strength. Yang Xiong's army, which had become a lone army, was gradually squeezed by Xiang Liang's army in a corner on the north bank of the Huaihe River!
Xiang Liang knew very well the terrifying power of the Qin soldiers, especially those who had become a mourning army!
In order to minimize casualties, they did not rush forward in a rush, but adopted the method of harassment and siege, with the intention of starving tens of thousands of Da Qin soldiers who were hanging alone on the north bank of the Huaihe River to death!
From the fifth day of the lunar month until the sixth day of the lunar month when Yang Xiong received the edict from Xianyang from Hu Hai, Yang Xiong and the remaining 30,000 Qin soldiers had not slept a wink for nearly 20 hours!
Xiang Liang divided the army of more than 200,000 into dozens of armies ranging from thousands to tens of thousands, and constantly used gongs, drums and harassment to destroy the will of the Qin army.
Yang Xiong finally rejected Xi Chun's begging request to break out of the encirclement! For the death of Wang Li and the disastrous defeat of the army, Yang Xiong took everything on himself. In his opinion, if it weren't for his negligence in forgetting to send soldiers to defend
If the grain and grass in the camp at the rear were not burned, Wang Li would not have chosen to fight to the death, let alone let an army of 100,000 men be reduced to such a state!
Rather than saying that Yang Xiong was waiting for Hu Hai's edict, it would be better to say that he was waiting for death!
Yang Xiong knew very well that there was no Qin army within a thousand miles that could rush to rescue his remnant army. Hu Hai did not mention the news that Li Xin had led his army out of Wuguan to rush to rescue in his withdrawal order to Wang Li!
Therefore, in Yang Xiong's view, his remnant army, which has run out of food, and there are hundreds of thousands of rebels watching eagerly around him, are destined to die from any angle!
On the sixth day of the lunar month, Hu Hai's timely arrival of the edict rekindled Yang Xiong's desire to survive! From the emperor's edict, Yang Xiong saw that Hu Hai had no intention of holding him accountable for losing camp and causing all the food and grass to be burned!
As a result, the news that General Wang Li was killed in battle spread to the remaining tens of thousands of troops in an instant!
A weak army will win!
I guess this is how Yang Xiong describes the more than 30,000 Qin troops at this moment!
In the three days before Li Xin arrived, Yang Xiong's more than 30,000 Qin troops, who had no food or medicine, withstood the attack of more than 200,000 Xiang Liang's Baiyue barbarians! At first, the Qin army could still use powerful crossbows.
He killed Baiyue barbarians, but by the next day all the crossbow arrows had been used up, so he had to fight with men!
The wounded soldiers of the Qin Army are increasing rapidly! This makes the Qin Army, which already has no food and no rest, even worse!
When Yang Xiong received the news from Xi Chun that more than 10,000 wounded soldiers had committed suicide collectively, the nine-foot-tall man, who had never shed tears except when he saw Wang Li's body, cried.
Like a child!
Facing dozens of times their own strength, the remaining 20,000-odd Qin troops who were intact but withered and in shape were all wailing at that moment without fear of collapse!
But as soon as the horn sounded, all the remaining soldiers of the Qin army wiped away the tears on their faces, and immediately like tigers coming out of the gate, they killed them without any regard for life and death. That night, the nearly 10,000 Yue barbarians who came to attack were wiped out!
After hearing the news, Xiang Liang, who thought that Yang Xiong's army was about to break out, immediately ordered the entire army to press forward and tightly surrounded Yang Xiong's army, without engaging in battle, it was just a siege!
That night, Li Xin and his 19,000 original cavalrymen, who had traveled a long distance and abandoned all their food, grass and baggage, suddenly broke into the encirclement of Xiang Liang's army in three groups in the middle of the night.
The encirclement was broken through, and they joined forces with Yang Xiong's more than 10,000 remaining Qin troops!
On the way here, Li Xin and the Nineteen Thousand Yuan Jingqi, who had imagined meeting Yang Xiong's army countless times, couldn't see the human form when they saw Yang Xiong and the remaining ten thousand. They needed each other's support to barely stand.
But when the Qin soldiers still held the weapons in their hands tightly, they felt what shock was for the first time!
Before the expressions of horror on their faces faded away, more than a thousand Qin soldiers who had just been injured and could not move alone all committed suicide by committing suicide!
The Jiuyuan Army has always believed that they are the most elite soldiers in the Qin Dynasty. Even the Longxi Army, which is also a frontier army, although the Jiuyuan Army does not say it on the surface, all the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army also think that they are inferior to themselves!
For the first time, the Jiuyuan Army, who had always been number one, felt their own insignificance! The dissatisfaction of these ten thousand tired-looking Jiuyuan Army soldiers because they rushed thousands of miles to support this group of imaginary defeated generals who joined the army suddenly turned into shame.
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They knew very well why the more than a thousand Qin soldiers who had clearly seen their arrival and others chose to commit suicide!
Because they were afraid that they would drag down the rest of the uninjured soldiers to break through!
They are afraid of causing more deaths!
So they chose to commit suicide!
Only in this way, the remaining uninjured soldiers of Great Qin can devote all their energy to fighting the fierce Baiyue barbarians around them! More Pao Ze can break out!
Li Xin and Nineteen Original Jingqi could see from the sad but determined eyes of Yang Xiong and others that this was obviously not the first time such a thing had happened in the defeated Qin army!
Li Xin and the 19,000 Yuan Jingqi also understood at this moment why these 50,000 Qin soldiers without any food or baggage could persist until now under dozens of times the rebel siege!
Even though they were defeated, they were still glorious!