Jixia Academy naturally had a plan to rescue Zhao Xie! Jixia Academy exchanged the lives of more than a hundred dead soldiers for Zhao Xie's life, so Zhao Xie naturally has his value! Otherwise, who would do this?
The training of dead soldiers cannot be accomplished overnight!
The so-called conspiracy, apart from using Zhao Xie's identity as a member of the Zhao royal family to raise the banner and fight against the Qin Dynasty, what else can there be?
In Hu Hai's opinion, the series of policies implemented by the First Emperor made the same mistake as the Ming Dynasty in later generations! That is, all the army was stationed in the northern and southern borders, but in the vast hinterland, the troops were extremely empty!
It is precisely because of this that several groups of remnants of the Six Kingdoms who opposed Qin were able to march forward with great success, attacking cities and plundering territory, and they were arrogant! The soldiers were like snowballs, getting bigger and bigger! Finally, they formed a trend that was too big to lose!
If 10,000 to 20,000 soldiers could be stationed in each county within Da Qin, and if the remnants of the Six Kingdoms launched an army to put down the rebellion in the early stages, then the rebels who lacked the necessary weapons and training would surely be annihilated in a blink of an eye!
Therefore, ordering Meng Tian to leave 80,000 troops in the three counties of Handan, Linzi and Julu was precisely to prevent Zhao Xie and Jixia Academy from raising troops at any time. It was also a pilot project for Hu Hai to garrison troops within the Qin Dynasty in the future!
Of the 40,000 elite soldiers of the Nine Plains Army, Meng Tian took away 26,000 soldiers who could ride or had ridden horses! And almost all the horses in the army of more than 100,000 were except for the necessary mules and horses, and the rest, whether old or old,
Horses and weak horses were all taken away by Meng Tian!
Therefore, the remaining nearly 100,000 troops are basically shirtless and rushing on their way! Meng Tian himself knows where his follow-up army is now!
The soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, one man and two horses, a total of 26,000 people, acted as the vanguard and rushed to support Chengwu under the personal leadership of Meng Tian! All the spare horses died from exhaustion on the road!
At first, the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army were not shirtless like Hu Haijian had seen. Instead, they were fully armed and running! Soon a large number of soldiers began to suffer from heat stroke. Meng Tian had no choice but to order the entire army to take off all their armor, including
He himself only brought the necessary dry food, crossbows and bronze swords, and the rest of the armor and other items left a thousand men and soldiers suffering from heatstroke to wait for the arrival of the follow-up army!
Even so, Meng Tian's 26,000-strong Jiuyuan Army lost at least a thousand lives due to heatstroke! Meng Tian didn't know how many of the thousands of Jiuyuan Army soldiers who were left halfway due to heatstroke coma at first.
People died in battle! And Meng Tian, a soldier of the Jiuyuan Army who followed him all the way to Chengwu City, has not yet received the specific number of casualties!
When he thought about it, there would be too many exhausted horses and soldiers!
"I beg your Majesty, please don't put yourself in such danger again!"
This was the first thing Meng Tian said to Hu Hai when he saw him lying on the stretcher! He spoke sincerely! Meng Tian's inner thighs and buttocks were bruised and bruised like those of the soldiers of the Nine Plains Army! Now, he can't walk on his own at all!
While speaking, Meng Tian turned over and wanted to go down to the ground to pay homage to Hu Hai!
"Meng Aiqing, you don't have to be so polite!" Hu Hai quickly held down Meng Tian and said, "I did act a little reckless this time! I am really ashamed that Lei Aiqing and the soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army are like this!"
"Your Majesty..." Meng Tian said anxiously when he saw Hu Hai looking at Zuojie!
"Don't be anxious, dear, I promise you that I will never act like this in the future!" Hu Hai said quickly!
"Your Majesty is like this, even if I die, I will have no regrets!" Meng Tian was relieved when he heard that Hu Hai finally agreed not to do such uncertain things again!
At this time, Hu Hai also realized the mistake he made in this battle of Chengwu!
In the end, it was not so much that he underestimated Xiang Liang, but that he had too much confidence in himself!
Today, Xiang Liang's hundreds of thousands of troops retreated calmly. And the Jiuyuan Army traveled a long distance because of him, and it is now exhausted. It is impossible to pursue them one after another. They can only watch Xiang Liang's army.
Back off!
Although in the first battle between Chengwu and Hu Hai, he relied on the Xuanwu Army and a group of elite pro-army troops to kill at least more than 100,000 Xiang Liang! However, after all, the Qin army seemed to have suffered more serious losses. You must know that more than a dozen people killed Xiang Liang.
Among the thousands of people, there are also 60,000 Xiang Yu's lone troops who penetrate deeply!
However, the elite cavalry of the Qin Dynasty who followed Hu Hai to the north suffered more than 1,000 casualties from the 4,000 Xuanwu Army! The 14,000 elite cavalry who followed Hu Hai back to Xianyang were basically not intact, and more than 10,000 people were killed!
There were more than 12,000 people killed and injured in Chengwu City. Almost all of the 3,000 disabled old Qin soldiers who migrated to Chengwu were killed in the battle of Chengwu! With a little training,
Zhou Bo, who became a famous general after several battles, also died in this battle!
Hu Hai now clearly remembers the man who was missing a leg but gave him fresh peaches. In order to reduce the casualties of the Qin elite, he asked for orders to lead three thousand old Qin soldiers on one leg to climb the city wall and face Wang Lin and Zhang Fugui who were filled with stone bullets.
These lovely and respectable old Qin soldiers!
They all died in this battle!
If we add in the loss of soldiers from the Jiuyuan Army, Hu Hai killed at least 20,000 Qin elites because of the Chengwu battle! There were also 20,000 war horses!
Most of Xiang Liang’s losses were mobs!
In this battle, Hu Hai seemed to have played a trick that ended in an anticlimax! It made him feel extremely ironic!
Seeing Hu Hai's silence and depressed expression, Meng Tian thought that his words of admonishment had made the emperor unhappy. He thought about it and said, "Your Majesty, does your Majesty know that if the thief chief Xiang Liang did not withdraw his troops this time, but continued to besiege him?"
Your Majesty, and took the opportunity to set up an ambush against the Nine Plains Army led by the old minister to come to the rescue. Our Great Qin is really in danger!"
At this point, Meng Tian continued: "It is the duty of the old minister and these tens of thousands of original troops to serve your majesty! However, if there is anything wrong with your majesty's body of thousands of gold, I am afraid that the Qin Dynasty will fall apart in just one day!
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"I'll be fine, Meng Aiqing. Han Xin's army of more than 100,000 will arrive at Chengwu tomorrow if it goes as expected!" Hu Hai didn't believe Meng Tian's story about the fall of the Qin Dynasty, but he didn't believe what Meng Tian said about Xiang Liang.
Setting up an ambush for the Jiuyuan Army, Meng Tian and others would die but they knew it was a real possibility!
Meng Tian knew from the look on Hu Hai's face that the emperor thought he was exaggerating! As for Han Xin's army of more than 100,000, Meng Tian had long expected that besides himself, there would be troops coming to rescue him. He originally thought it should be Feng Jie who was guarding Sanchuan. After all,
Meng Tian had been in Julu before and had no idea about Han Xin’s rocket-like speed!
He knew that the emperor did not realize the harm of his actions this time and the consequences that would result! It seems that some things must be made clear to the emperor! Otherwise, if something like this happens again, Meng Tian will not know that the emperor and Daqin
And have you ever had such good luck?
If the Qin Dynasty were destroyed in front of his eyes, Meng Tian would really have no face to see his deceased brother, the First Emperor!
"Your Majesty, can you step aside?" Meng Tian looked at the several Long Weidao standing in the lobby!
"Stand back! Don't let anyone come in and disturb you!" Meng Tian definitely couldn't harm himself, so Hu Hai ordered without even thinking!
"Your Majesty, except for the Meng family, the Wang family, the Li family, and the Feng family, there are only a few major aristocratic families left in Guanzhong such as Su, Fang, and Fan in our Qin Dynasty!" Meng Tian said to himself!
"The old minister and the Prime Minister were good friends, but now there has been a sudden rift. The Meng and Li clans are now at odds with each other! The Wang clan, because they took over the control of the Jiuyuan Army, are also at odds with my Meng clan! Zuo
I think your majesty has seen the discord between Prime Minister Feng's family and Prime Minister Li's family! And Guanzhong Su, Fang, Fan and other great families are originally nobles of the old Qin, so your majesty must know it!"
Meng Tian paused for a moment as he said this!
At this moment, Hu Hai somewhat understood what Meng Tian was going to tell him! However, he knew the Meng family, the Li family, the Wang family, and the Feng family, but Hu Hai did not know about the Su, Fang, and Fan families at all.
Don’t know!
Meng Tian did not notice Hu Hai's expression and continued: "Your Majesty, does he know that the Meng, Li, Feng and Wang clans that we have gained power now, except for the Wang clan, the other three clans are not true Old Qin people?
Thanks to the favor of His Majesty the First Emperor, our three clans have achieved today's status and glory in the Qin Dynasty! However, the old Qin nobles headed by the Su, Fang, Fan and other aristocratic families in Guanzhong, because we are all foreign Qin people,
And they have been fighting overtly and covertly with our three tribes! It’s just because our three tribes are so powerful now that the fight is not obvious!
As for the Wang family, although they are both from the old Qin family, they have always been on good terms with my Meng family, and our ancestors are even more like brothers! Just because His Majesty ordered Brother Wang Li to replace the old minister in controlling the Jiuyuan Army, there are now many conflicts between the two families.
, the harmony of the past has long ceased!
Many aristocratic families in the Qin Dynasty all respect His Majesty the Ying clan as the main ones! However, because of an incident twenty years ago, the First Emperor ordered that the children of the Ying clan could not serve as officials in the court, nor could Wu join the army to lead the army!
From then on, the safety of the entire Ying family depends on His Majesty. With Your Majesty at the court, the Ying family is the common master of the world. Without His Majesty, they will inevitably fall into the hands of nobles like us and other noble families!
Your Majesty, please forgive me for being disrespectful! This time, if Han Xin does not rush to rescue and the old minister is killed, something unexpected happens to your Majesty, and your Majesty has no heirs now! At that time, many noble families in Guanzhong will definitely do it for this
There was a big fight and chaos when the throne was assigned to the emperor!
The Meng clan, including the veterans, will definitely choose the royal children who are devoted to my Meng clan to take the throne! And I think the other families will definitely do the same! At that time, what kind of situation will our Daqin be in, your Majesty, do you know?"
Meng Tian did not wait for Hu Hai's answer and continued: "At that time, the throne was undecided, the world was without a master, the Great Qin was in civil strife, and the remnants of the six kingdoms in the world were restored one after another! Is the Great Qin not far away from falling apart?"
At this moment, Hu Hai was truly horrified!
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