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

Chapter 31, Chasing Troops

The imperial power of the Qin Dynasty can form the most powerful war machine in the world, but it consumes an extremely large number of talents. When Qin Guoguang ruled Guanzhong, he needed the participation of scholars from the six countries to barely maintain the war machine of Qin.

And now that it rules the entire world, Da Qin is even more lacking in talents. Even though it has been ten years since it unified the world, a county in Guandong can only be managed by a dozen old Qin people, and a county can only have dozens of officials and superiors at most. Thousands of old Qin soldiers, the stability of the six kingdoms of Guandong is extremely difficult.

The First Emperor also had to fight on two fronts. He stationed 50 troops and 30 troops in the most remote north and south of his empire respectively. With such extreme control, the 500 million old Qin people were not enough for the First Emperor to use.

The Qin State could only be forced to cooperate with the local snakes of the Six Kingdoms of Guandong, and had to recruit more scholars from the Six Kingdoms. However, this cooperation was extremely unstable. The upper-level resources were all occupied by the old Qin people, and the scholars of the Six Kingdoms began to be dissatisfied. The Old Qin people occupied most of the world's resources, and they began to miss their motherland. The resistance in Guandong never stopped.

This kind of change could not be seen by the First Emperor who was in the clouds of the empire. On the contrary, local officials like Meng Shao could see it more clearly. They understood that it was difficult for their country to open another battlefield. Any changes that were not conducive to the country would All must be wiped out quickly.

It's a pity that they couldn't bring this knowledge to the eyes of the First Emperor. The First Emperor still believed that his empire was extremely powerful, and he once again opened up a front, which was to recruit 70 prisoners to build the Epang Palace.

(After seeing this period of history, I admire the First Emperor very much. The empire in the feudal era often claimed to have an army of one million, but only the First Emperor truly mobilized more than one million people, and sent 50 troops to the south to conquer Baiyue, and at the same time, 30 Tens of thousands of troops marched north to conquer the Huns, and 70 prisoners were recruited internally to build palaces, fighting on three fronts. The population separated from agricultural production accounted for % of the empire. This kind of organizational power was unprecedented in the feudal era, and this kind of mobilization ability was even comparable to that of industry. In the era of mobilization for World War I, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Qin Dynasty was the pinnacle of the feudal military empire, but he also really did not cherish his empire at all.)
  The three county guards discussed and made the final decision. County Supervisor Yu Shi Meng Shao led 1000 elites to quell the rebellion in Dingyang County. Chen County County Governor Gan Di and County Lieutenant Bai Meng guarded Chen County to prevent new unrest.

In the early morning of October 35, the 10th year of the First Emperor's reign, Meng Shao led 10 Qin troops to attack Xiangyang County.

At the same time, after these days of hard work day and night, the craftsmen like Big Hammer helped Xu Fan get 300 wheelbarrows, which had used up all the wheels in Yang County, and Xu Fan also Indeed, they were not blamed, but all the craftsmen in the engineering division were integrated into the rebel army's craftsman battalion, with Big Hammer as the leader.

At the same time, Xu Fan's team had 231 more oxen, 120 horses, 200 various chariots, transport vehicles, and oxen carts, as well as more than 200 large and small ships. All kinds of transportation vehicles in Yang County were The rebels bought it. Xu Fan paid 6 shi of grain to buy these transportation tools. Every farmer who traded with the rebels was now excitedly thinking about how to hide the grain.

Although Xu Fan's rebel army was established less than five days ago, the reputation of fair trade (taken advantage of) has already spread. Many rich peasant families in Yang County shed tears and sold their cattle, carts and boats to 5 They sold it to Xu Fan's rebels at twice the price. They understood that there was no such store in the village they came to. With these grains, they could buy two more cows and two boats.

But Xu Fan is not at a loss. They couldn't transport this grain. Now they trade these useless grains for cattle, horses, and various vehicles that can take them away with more grain. Xu Fan thinks they have made a lot of money. .

These vehicles, boats and 300 wheelbarrows with thousands of cartmen and boatmen were organized into the supply camp by Xu Fan, with Chen Gang as the commander. He was responsible for the 2 stones of grain and thousands of pieces of cloth and other property in the hands of the rebels.

As for the more than 4000 families of the rebels, Xu Fan organized them into teams according to the militarized management of tens, hundreds, and thousands of households. Zhou Zhang served as the leader to manage the 4000 family members of the rebels. The number of soldiers in the rebel army expanded to 1100, led by Xu Fanlai, who also directly managed 500. Chen Lin was appointed by Xu Fan as the Qu Commander, managing another 500 people. Deng Zong was the supervisor of the army, supervising the military discipline of the entire army. There was also a The surrendered officer named Wu Sheng, because of his excellent riding skills and because there were too few people in Xu Fan's team who knew how to fight cavalry, he became the scout and garrison commander. These 1100 people were fully armed and were the core of the rebel army. the power of.

After the core leadership of the rebel army and the leaders of the various ministries were formed, the rebel army also began to flee south. According to their original plan, they went to the Dabie Mountains to establish an anti-Qin base.

Of course, fleeing for one's life can't affect morale, so a few days ago, Xu Fan told the rebel soldiers that their next strategy was to capture and occupy Nanton County, expand the territory of the rebels, and at the same time expand the influence of the rebels. , Xu Fan also shouted the uprising slogan: "Execute the Qin Dynasty, attack the unjust, equalize the fields, and avoid corvee".

This will attract more people to join the ranks of the rebels. If a few more rebel forces emerge in Chen County to attract the attention of the Qin army, the pressure on Xu Fan and others will be much less.

It may be that Xu Fan's slogan is attractive, or it may be that the Qin officials are too inappropriate. Xu Fan's slogan has just been shouted for two days. Heroes and common people around Yang County have joined the rebel army, and their numbers have quickly exceeded 2%. Thousands of people, and counting every day.

Especially after knowing that Xu Fan has three meals a day, not to mention that each meal is full, more people come to seek refuge with Xu Fan. These days, many people are willing to sacrifice their lives to ensure that they have enough to eat. Faced with the swarming heroes, Xu Fan had to set up dozens of cauldrons in the square in front of the county government office and cook porridge day and night to relieve the heroes who had taken refuge in him.

As a result, the rebel army leaving Yang County became extremely large. There were nearly 800 relatives of the 3000 prisoners alone. These people wanted to leave with Xu Fan. Together with the thousands of heroes who came to surrender, the number of rebels swelled to more than 5000, and half of the people in Yang County had defected to Xu Fan.

In this way, a huge team of more than 5000 people marched towards Nanton County together with their families by land and water.

In order to ensure the safety of the team, Xu Fan spread the scouts very widely, and there were scouts on the front, rear, left and right of the team to explore the way.

But they had just walked for half a day when they got bad news. The rebel scouts detected that the Qin Army sent a large force to Yang County, obviously to encircle and suppress them. At their current speed of 20 miles a day, It is impossible to escape the Qin army's pursuit.

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