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

Chapter 23, Historical Illusion, Chu State was actually a continental country

Xu Fan was startled by Zhou Zhang's vomiting of blood. He just wanted to get some delicious food from Zhou Zhang, not Zhou Zhang's life.

He immediately carried Zhou Zhang onto his bed, but could do nothing else.

But Deng Zong and other younger brothers admired Xu Fan endlessly. He was worthy of being their eldest brother, and he could speak in a way that would make a big man like Zhou Zhang vomit blood.

Fortunately, Zhou Zhang was in strong health. Although he vomited blood and was depressed for a few days, he quickly recovered. Then he wanted to know Xu Fan's identity.

The person who can come up with such a strategy is not only the queen of generals, but also one of the hundreds of schools of thought. The Guigu sect has the most descendants of military strategists. Zhou Zhang now suspects that Xu Fan is a descendant of the Guigu sect, and he is not just an ordinary fish. , at least at the level of Sun Bin.

Xu Fan still doesn't understand Zhou Zhang's inner thoughts, otherwise he would definitely tell him that he thinks too much. The Yangtze River, the southern regime's vital defense line, and the Huai River must be defended to defend the Yangtze River. This is common knowledge in later generations. Anyone with a little knowledge can tell it, but this is the first time someone has mentioned it in this era. To the natives like Zhou Zhang, To me, it was like a bolt from the blue. Updated Zhou Zhang's understanding of strategic locations in the Central Plains.

It was precisely with this understanding that Zhou Zhang was even more distressed. Bajun was previously in the hands of the Chu State, but was easily abandoned. Nanjun was the capital of the Chu State, but was captured by Bai Qi. Most of the entire Jianghuai defense line was leaked. Said that even the Huaihe River defense line, Chu State did not make good use of it.

After this incident, Zhou Zhang often gave Xu Fan food and wine without telling him, and treated him like a master with unusual respect. This surprised all the prisoners in Yang County. They knew Zhou Zhang's identity, and even such a big man treated him very respectfully. Everyone is so respectful to Xu Fan, so Xu Fan’s identity is simply unimaginable.

Without Xu Fan noticing, he actually became the prison bully of Yang County.

Although Zhou Zhang was made to vomit blood by Xu Fan, he fell in love with the game of war games because of it. He made a simple sand table model based on Xu Fan's instructions, and then often conducted war games with Xu Fan.

The most deduced was the decisive battle between Wang Jian and Xiang Yan's million-strong army. Because Zhou Zhang was in Xiang Yan's army at the time, he knew more about the details of this battle. With his additions, the war game deductions between the two sides became more and more intense. Becoming more and more real.

Even if Xu Fan had a navy, it would be difficult for him to defeat Wang Jian's 60-strong army, because Da Qin also sent a navy when dealing with Chu. Even Chu's ships were not as good as Qin's.

This is simply counterintuitive. The Chu State is located in the south of the Yangtze River and has the most extensive coastline in the entire Warring States Period. However, this country despises the navy. Even the navy is extremely despised. The Chu State does not even have a separate naval branch. This It is actually a real land-based country.

The reason for this is also very simple. The Chu State has always been a big and powerful country since the Western Zhou Dynasty. It has always invaded other countries, and few other countries can invade the Chu State.

The entire Spring and Autumn Period was a history of the struggle for hegemony between the Chu State and various princes in the Central Plains. Even in the Warring States Period, the Chu State was a powerful country from beginning to end. The most important thing the Chu kings did in the past dynasties was to compete for hegemony in the Central Plains.

In the struggle for hegemony in the Central Plains, what is needed is not naval warships, but infantry and chariots. This leads to the fact that the navy has no status at all in the Chu State. After hundreds of years of inertia, the generals of the Chu State have not thought about development. The navy protects itself. After all, the time when Chu was really violently beaten by Qin was just a few decades after King Huai of Chu began. The generals of Chu never thought of using water to defend the enemy.

When Xu Fan understood this, he had to sigh: "No wonder Xiang Yan gathered 40 troops to fight Wang Jian. This is not a traditional Jiangnan country."

Without the help of the navy, the best outcome for Xu Fan is to defeat the Qin army, but the worst outcome is for Xu Fan to lose the Jianghuai area and retreat to the Jiangdong area. However, Xu Fan will not admit defeat, even if he retreats to Jiangdong. The region will continue to resist. Zhou Zhang commanded the Qin army and watched Xu Fan retreat to the Baiyue area in stunned silence. In the end, he could only rely on sea ships to retreat to the deserted island, but even so Xu Fan did not surrender.

This is a normal thing for Xu Fan, after all, they have experienced such history, but for Zhou Zhang, Xu Fan's strategy shattered his three views. In this era, if the capital of a country is breached and the king is captured, it means the destruction of the country. A country like Chu that can move its capital three times is already considered a country with a profound foundation, but a country like Xu Fan still has to resist even if all its territory is lost. It really never happened.

He looked at Xu Fan and thought, if he had been the monarch of Chu State, Chu State would not have perished. The monarchs and nobles of Chu State lacked Xu Fan's perseverance to resist.

One day in October of the 35th year of the First Emperor's reign.

Xu Fan had just finished harvesting the rice in Guan Tian. Zhou Zhang approached Xu Fan and whispered, "If you have a way, find a way out. If you don't leave, you won't be able to leave."

Xu Fan asked strangely: "What happened?"

Zhou Zhangdao: "The First Emperor wants to build a palace and an imperial mausoleum in Guanzhong. He wants the 36 prefectures and governors in the world to send prisoners to serve in Guanzhong. The prisoners in Yang County will all be escorted to Guanzhong. I understand these nobles. The palace and the imperial mausoleum are so important. In such a place, even if the people who built it are not exhausted to death, they will most likely be killed by them."

This era has just emerged from the era of slavery, and Chu State is the largest remnant of the slave era. Chu State not only has many nobles, but also has the most slaves among all countries. The burial system also has a lot of remnants in Chu State. In order to ensure For the safety of his own mausoleum, and in order to have someone to serve him in the underworld, he would kill a large number of slaves who built the mausoleum to be buried with him. Even the craftsmen who built the mausoleum would be killed for keeping secrets.

Hundreds of years ago, Gongshu Ban, who was as famous as Mo Zhe, led his family to seek refuge with the King of Chu. However, the Gongshu family soon disappeared from history. This had a lot to do with the fact that the Gongshu family helped the nobles build tombs.

This noble must keep it secret, and that noble must keep it secret. No matter how many members of the Gongshu family there are, these nobles will not be able to kill them.

Zhou Zhang's words were like a bolt from the blue to Xu Fan. The palace that the First Emperor wanted to build was the Afang Palace in the legend of later generations, but he did not expect that he would be one of the 70 prisoners.

Judging from the novels he read in later generations, the fate of these believers was extremely miserable. They were either exhausted to death, or were made into terracotta warriors and horses, or were killed and buried with them. Thinking of this, Xu Fan couldn't help but stand on end. After going to Guanzhong, he would definitely be A narrow escape from death.

Thinking of this, Xu Fan said angrily: "Why don't you do it so cruelly that you won't even give me a way out?"

Xu Fan had long been dissatisfied with the Qin Dynasty. It was only because he was greedy for life and feared death, and the First Emperor was still alive and well, that he did not dare to rebel. But now it seems that the Qin Dynasty does not give him any way to survive.

If you want me dead, even if you are the First Emperor, I will overthrow you.

(End of this chapter)