Fire is like a long snake.

Walking on the mountain plank road in Ziwuling.

After crossing another ridge, it was the core area built by the Jushui soldiers. Meng Hu stared at the towering mountains in the dark, praying in his heart that it was not too late.

"Report to the general, the scouts went out more than ten miles ahead, but no enemy was found." In the darkness, a cluster of torches came from the plank road ahead, and it was the Qin army scout who was exploring the way to send people to repay them.

"Where is there any change in military construction? Are the beacons for help still burning?" Meng Hu asked.

"One of our scouts has been in contact with the defenders, but the situation of the troops is not very good. More than half of the county soldiers guarding the guards have suffered casualties. Now, even the craftsmen have been sent to the battlefield." The scouts' expression tightened and reported truthfully.

"Transmission: speed up, and at all costs, you must arrive at the army at midnight." Meng Hu shouted in a deep voice. At this moment, his heart was as hard as steel. No matter how many casualties fell into the canyon, it could not stop him.

A person's state of mind will change with the changes in power, status and environment.

At that time, Meng Hu, who was leading a side cavalry to rescue Li Yuan, gradually transformed from a simple general to a civil and military important official after dual training in the army and local areas.

As the only surviving child of the Montessori family, Meng Hu has excellent qualities inherited from the three generations of the Montessori. After following Li Yuan through several wars and many dangers, Meng Hu has now truly separated from the border army group and has considered the problem from the overall height of Qin.

How will the Qin State develop in the future?

This is a difficult problem facing important figures such as Li Yuan, Meng Hu and Chen Ping. When they were not ranked in the center of Qin, Meng Hu almost never considered the overall situation. When he was in the position of Tingwei for a year, his mood completely changed when he looked at Qin and the Qin army.

Among them, Li Yuan's judgment on the situation in the world and the future of Qin State had a great influence on Meng Hu.

"Kanto must be unified. Although it will take several wars, it is not impossible for Qin to do that. However, the key to unification does not lie in occupation, but in the surrender of the people. If the people of Guandong cannot accept Qin from the heart, then this formal occupation will have no meaning—!"

"So, what we need to do now is patience, alliance, and search for all possibilities. Let the enemy's internal turmoil. Next, the Qin army entered the Chu realm as a means of rescuing the people in Chu. Last year, we did a good job in Zhao, and we can also--"

When the temptation to achieve unity was placed in front of him, Li Yuan revealed his true thoughts for the first time before going to Yanbei, facing Chen Ping, Meng Hu and Li Zheng, the three giants.

One mistake can lead to wisdom.

Emperor Qin Shihuang used strong military force to wipe out the six kingdoms and achieve unification, but this overly strong practice also left hidden dangers for the destruction of Qin. When the new Qin faced an opportunity again, Li Yuan chose to take steady steps and resolve the potential enemies in Guandong step by step. Now, the two northern enemies of Zhao and Yan no longer exist.

The remaining Chu State also split into Western Chu and Eastern Chu. If Xiang Yu and Ying Bu can be provoked to fight each other and fight in internal conflicts, the unification of Qin State will be a complete success.

As a court magistrate of a country, Meng Hu also had a clear understanding of the current national strength of the new Qin. If he still practiced the militant practice of the whole nation as during the Second Emperor, it would be fine to conquer 500,000 troops. But the result of this was that the economy that Qin had finally developed was on the verge of tense collapse.

Using both economic and military means to further oppress and dismantle the fighting spirit of the enemy country is the strategy adopted by Qin. Through the change of hands between Zhao and Yan, facts are also proving the accuracy of Li Yuan's idea.

According to the situation in the world at the end of the sixth year of the Qin Xinli period, if Qin put all his efforts into sweeping Guandong, it would probably take one year to defeat the weak Western Chu and Eastern Chu. As for other remnants such as the Western Wei, there is no need to consider it much. The reason why Qin kept Wei Bao in existence was just an extra layer of buffering.

Years of battle require huge amounts of supplies and manpower consumption.

During this Hanzhong riot, Chen Ping, Meng Hu, and Li Zheng, who were familiar with the situation in Qin, did not complain about the shortage of soldiers and generals in Hanzhong, which led to the refugees gaining power, because they knew that with the current vast territory of Qin, the nearly 150,000 generals and soldiers in Li Yuan's hands had been used to the limit.

In Yanbei, the 50,000 Qin troops ruled by general Han Xin had to face the troops of the Xiongnu Youxian King and the Youguli King, and also beware of possible Western Chu army plots from Qi. This amount of troops really cannot be considered too much.

In Hexi and Longxi areas, Luo Jia's 20,000 elite cavalry and Li Zhongxiang's Western Regions Allied Forces were stationed in a long area. Opposite them were the Huns who were unstable and often came to plunder from the depths of the desert. These Hun barbarians always headed south when the autumn was high and the horses were fat, and then plundered enough wealth slaves and returned. In order to block these robbers who had no trace, the Qin army must have a powerful and rapid mobile force.

As for other aspects, the Qin army must also stay in multiple directions such as Jiuyuan, Sanchuan Hulao Pass, Nanjun, Yingchuan, and Handan. Otherwise, once the emptiness is taken advantage of by the enemy, it is very likely that the former Qin Dynasty, who was caught off guard by the Kanto riot, could only rush to organize a prisoner unit to fight.

——.

On the seventh year of the new calendar of Qin, the seventh month of the year.

After three days and three nights of continuous trekking, the Menghu Army finally arrived at Jushui. At this time, the battle situation created by Jushui soldiers had turned into a meat grinder hand-to-hand battle.

Peng Sheng resisted quite tenaciously, with more than 250 soldiers and guards, and in the end only more than 20 people remained, and the casualties of the craftsmen exceeded 300.

If Meng Hu's scout troops had not arrived first and informed the upcoming news of the reinforcements, even if Peng Sheng could create heavenly fire from time to time, he would not be able to block Lu Ze's attack.

On Ziwu Ridge.

The refugee team was in chaos, and the deafening Qin generals and soldiers shouted and fought from the bottom of the mountain, which made these Qiang and Di people who were afraid of being beaten by the Qin army lost their souls.

"The Qin reinforcements have come up, and we can't stand it."

"Don't panic, Qin Gou's number will not be large. We will rush to kill again. As long as we occupy the troops, Qin Gou will come to us, and we can't do anything about it." A confidant of Lu Ze was still encouraging morale, but his words were obviously limited.

Morale has increased one by one.

Peng Sheng and others, who had been attacked for dozens of days, finally had a moment of proudness.

When he saw the familiar Qin army flag appearing in his eyes, Peng Sheng couldn't help but burst into tears. At this moment, he seemed to have walked from the edge of life and death and came back. While feeling glad, he felt a deep pleasure of wanting revenge.

"Brothers, pick up the weapons you have made with you, and we will kill the enemy-!"

"Daqin, Daqin, kill!"

These shouts gathered into a torrent in the darkness, awakening the Qin soldiers who were still breathing in every corner of the army.

"We won!" On the long steps leading to the war, a bloody hand slowly stretched out from a pile of lodged corpses. He groped back and forth, holding a broken blade in his hand.

On the battlefield.

Most of the refugees have begun to flee.

These guys who burned, killed and robbed with impulse are full of fighting spirit in good times and are in a mess in bad times. Even Lu Ze cannot regain confidence in such a mob.

After shouting for a while, Lv Ze was ready to retreat. Lv Ze and his confidants retreated from the front line. Along the way, besides the refugees who were chasing the flood, there were the bodies of the dead generals of the two armies.

"Those who resist, kill, those who surrender will be spared from death!" At the foot of the mountain, the soldiers of the Menghu Army were shouting in unison. When they heard the Qin army's persuasion to surrender, many unsolicited refugees began to kneel down to the ground and prepared to surrender.

Now they also know the attitude of Qin toward prisoners. Generally speaking, as long as they are not a person with ten evil pardons, they can be spared from death. Of course, it is inevitable that they will be taken to the cold and free coolie after becoming a prisoner, but this is nothing, at least they can eat a bite.

"Well!"

Lu Ze was panicked. He stepped on the air and suddenly tightened his body. When he looked down, he saw a red belly under his abdomen, and a dark blade was inserted into his abdomen. The person holding the blade was a Qin craftsman with bloody face and one foot was broken and could not see clearly.

"Ah, it hurts so much." Lu Ze shouted, and stabbed the enemy's chest with anger.

This sword was extremely fast and had amazing accuracy. The body of the craftsman who was stabbed only bounced repeatedly for a few times, and then there was no sound again.

Lu Ze gasped for a long time. After killing the enemy, he stumbled forward a few steps, and then rolled down the steps unsteadily.

The long steps were originally up and down at a thirty-degree angle. Lu Ze rushed down and rolled down, and immediately crashed into the crowd like a ball. The escaped refugees in front were not as careful as they were hit and fell to the east and west by Lu Ze. Among them, there was an impolite and arrogant person who didn't care about who it was after being hit. He immediately angrily stepped on it with a big foot, and stepped on the broken blade on Lu Ze's abdomen for several points.

Originally, his clothes were thicker in winter. Although the thorn that Lu Ze ate hit the point, if he was good at bandaging and treatment, he could still stop bleeding and be rescued. However, after experiencing the accident of rolling down and trampling, Lu Ze was stepped on by dozens of feet. When his confidant panickedly helped him up, the mighty general among the refugees had already vented more and inhaled less.

Lv Ze died in the chaos.

The migrant armed forces who lost their command fled in the Jushui and Ziwuling areas. These guys who were used to wandering in the mountains and forests ran away in the wilderness without knowing the direction, and they were all heading towards death step by step.

Night in the Qinling Mountains.

It is the paradise for wild beasts. In the winter of 200 BC, tigers, leopards, jackals and wolves were dominating this area. For these hungry animals who were thinking about where to eat, the escaped refugees were the most delicious food they were keeping a close eye on.
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