It is said that when King Wu attacked the merchants, eight hundred princes gathered in Mengjin, including the Ba Kingdom. Many Ba warriors traveled thousands of miles to join King Wu of Zhou and followed him from the coast of the Wei River to the merchants in Dayi in the Central Plains.
, singing and dancing in the Battle of Muye, and made great contributions to King Wu's defeat of Zhou...
Now, Heifu had the honor to reenact the original scene. After the incident at Wu Luo Zhongli Mountain, the Ba people obeyed Heifu's request and followed him to leave Yidao and march to the southeast.
However, when Heifu and Wei Lingkui of Yiling County led more than a thousand soldiers and 3,000 young Ba people across the 200 miles to Chaling City, they realized that their run was in vain.
According to rumors, the Chu army that gathered nearly ten thousand people here has long since disappeared, leaving only an empty camp. Black magpies were circling up and down above, and some Qin soldiers were still inside collecting the remaining military supplies and carrying them.
Carrying big bags of food and discarded weapons, they walked into the city chatting and laughing.
When they saw a group of barefoot Ba people approaching making noise and shouting, the Qin army was very nervous and thought they were enemy troops. So two thousand people immediately set up a formation outside the city until Heifu himself hit the horse and made a clear statement.
Their identity dispelled their hostility.
When Heifu passed by the city wall, he found that corpses were still being collected here. The air was filled with the smell of crows that specialized in eating carrion. There were still many floating corpses floating in the ditch and moat. The loess walls of the gurgling hills were badly damaged, and there were
There are traces of being burned by fire, and the city gate is also full of arrows. It can be imagined that at the same time as the Battle of Yi Dao, a fierce battle also took place here.
It wasn't until he saw County Lieutenant Li You and a group of familiar soldiers, officials and county lieutenants in the city that he learned what happened here.
It turned out that after the county governor Ye Teng learned that the main attack direction of the Chu army was Jialing, he immediately returned to Jiangling by boat and mobilized local county soldiers to cross the river for support. After all, the status of Jiling was much more important than that of Yidao. This team
The army was personally commanded by Lieutenant Li You and numbered four to five thousand people. Subsequent reinforcements also came continuously from counties along the river.
Faced with the Qin Army's rapid increase in troops and the fact that the Yidao side failed to open up the situation, the Chu Army's commander decisively chose to retreat. The Qin Army was outnumbered and did not pursue it deeply, so the Mengxia offensive ended hastily.
Already.
"what a pity!"
Hei Fu secretly thought that it was a pity. If the Chu army generals had been lucky, they might have been attacked by the Qin army and the Ba people now, and more than a few hundred people would have died in the battle.
However, he flattered Li You and said: "Fortunately, the county captain came in time and prevented the Chu people from succeeding. Otherwise, if we lose Jiling, Yidao will not be able to protect it. This summer and autumn, Nanjun's preparations for war will be greatly affected."
The impact will probably make it difficult to send troops to Huaibei to participate in the destruction of Chu!"
Li You shook his head helplessly and said: "Otherwise, although we did not capture Jiling in this battle, the Chu people's goal has been achieved."
"I would like to hear the detailed explanation."
Heifu looked confused and wanted to listen to Li You's teachings.
Li You said to everyone: "Anyone with a discerning eye can see that the king is bent on destroying Chu. How could the Chu people not know? The reason why he sent envoys to incite the Yidaoba people to rebel and sent troops to attack Jiling was simply to put pressure on Nanjun and let the people of Chu know.
Nanjun cannot concentrate on preparing for the war. The main force of the Chu army in the south of the Yangtze River is still there. If Nanjun sends all its troops to Huaibei, Chaling, Yidao, and even Jiangling may be attacked by the Chu army again."
Heifu understood that although it was still too early for the decisive battle, the struggle between Qin and Chu had already begun. King Chu and Xiang Yan would not sit still and wait for death. They would try to find loopholes in Qin. In Shangcai,
There are no flaws in the Liang and Song Dynasties, so let’s start from the off-angle Nanjun...
The plan of the Chu people can be said to be half successful. Nanjun, which is across the river from the Chu State and has crisscrossed borders, must first consider its own safety. So Li You changed his original plan. He decided to send troops after the autumn.
Twenty thousand people stayed in Nanjun to defend Chu, and only ten thousand people went to Huaibei to join the main army.
This also means that the county soldiers in Jiangling and Ying counties, as well as the soldiers in the counties along the river, will not go out to fight.
"As a result, if you stay in the county or along the river, you may end up being left behind."
Hei Fu secretly kept Li You's plan in mind, and then when Li You asked him about the situation of Yi Dao, he took Li You to the dilapidated city, pointed several miles away, and was surrounded by the Qin army vigilantly.
Three thousand Yidaoba people.
Li You looked at the Ba people sitting back to back and was a little surprised: "I just planned to relieve the crisis in Chaling, so I sent people to Yi Dao to help. Unexpectedly, you quelled the rebellion first and recovered the local Ba people tribes.
Driving him to fight for Qin? How did you do it?"
Heifu then told everything that happened in Yi Dao in the past half month. When he heard that they persuaded the tribes of Yi Dao to kill the culprit Fan Qin at Zhongli Mountain in Wuluo, Li You couldn't help but clasp his hands.
And praised: "Well done! The crux of the Ba people's rebellion lies in the ruler. Once Fan Qin dies, it will naturally fall apart."
Li You greatly admired Hei Fu's ability and means, but Hei Fu said that he just had an idea, mainly due to the lobbying efforts of Ba Zhong, the son of Widow Qing...
"Furthermore, besides wanting to assist the county captain in relieving the siege, my subordinates induced the tribes of the Ba people to come here with me. There is another reason!"
Heifu cupped his hands towards Li You and said coldly: "The county lieutenant, the Ba people rebelled and killed the county magistrate of Yidao. Although the county lieutenant put all the blame on Fan Qin and his tribe, among these people, the hands of
There are not a few people here who are stained with the blood of the Qin people. Now, due to the situation, they have surrendered again under Ba Zhong's persuasion, but they may one day rebel because of some trivial matter. If they just let it go, it may be difficult to convince them.
oral."
"you mean……"
Li You couldn't help being shocked, lowered his voice and said: "Treat him to death!?"
Hei Fu didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Where did Lieutenant Li think about it?
This method is not unfamiliar to the generals of the Qin State. More than thirty years ago, after the Battle of Changping, under the pressure of food, military achievements, etc., Bai Qi used "Zhao soldiers are repeated, do not kill them all, for fear of causing chaos"
"For the reason, kill all the Zhao soldiers who surrendered!"
All the young men of the Yidaoba people are here, and the Qin army has at least five or six thousand. They are at an absolute advantage in terms of numbers and equipment. If they suddenly rise up and kill them all, it is not too difficult to do it intentionally or not.
This is a desperate method that looks very tempting. If it is really done, although it will make the Yidaoba people unable to recover from the fall, there will be many consequences.
First of all, Heifu's reputation will be ruined after this time. He vowed to let the Ba people follow him to Jiling, but he betrayed his promise and killed them all. From then on, every Ba people will want to eat his flesh raw.
Secondly, the Yidaoba people were severely hit, but what about the hundreds of thousands of Ba people in Bajun, Nanjun, and Qianzhong County? Can they be exterminated one by one with this method? It is obviously impossible, and it is also inconsistent with the gentle approach adopted by the Qin State.
If this matter spreads out, the Ba people on the Qin-Chu border may surrender to the Chu State.
So Heifu smiled and said: "I didn't mean that, I just thought that if you want to regain the Ba people, blindly giving soft concessions is not feasible, and you need to beat them from time to time. It's a pity that the Chu people retreated so fast that the Ba people couldn't see them.
They were defeated. But now that a large army has gathered here, it is better to take this opportunity and let the army officers and soldiers perform martial arts on the outskirts of the city to show the strength of the Qin State to the Ba people and let these ignorant border barbarians know the power of the Qin Army.
! Then take advantage of the situation to force the rulers to hand over the murderers who participated in the killing of Qin people and Qin soldiers, bring them to justice, and restore the wronged souls to justice!"
