General Qin

Qin Wangzheng twenty-five years (222 years ago), February 2.

It was the day when Zhao Tuo, the general of Qin, agreed to go to war with Da Sima of Qi.

In the early morning, as soon as the sun emerged from the mountains in the east, it was covered by dark clouds, and the sky and the earth were gloomy.

Nan Guogua, who came from Yeyi in Qidi, was following the soldiers of the same battalion towards the southwest of Zhencheng.

A robe named Mei, while walking, was still complaining: "Nan Guojun, why do you think we are so unlucky, we have only been here for a few days, and we are about to go to the battlefield."

Nan Guo Guaweng said: "What are you afraid of? We have more people than Qin people. When we fight, three of them will beat him and two of them. Are you afraid that we won't win?"

"That's right, we have a lot of soldiers in Qi. When the fight starts, we will charge together and catch a single Qin man and kill one of them with a few hits."

Mei picked her buttocks, looked left and right, and grinned when she saw moving heads everywhere.

Judging from his experience in fighting privately in Yeyi, if more people fight than others, he will surely win.

Hearing Mei's words, Nan Guogua shrugged indifferently. He had no desire to kill the Qin people.

It's not that the Qi army didn't have rewards after killing the enemy. On the contrary, in history, Qi was the first country to establish the system of bestowing titles.

During the time of Duke Huan of Qi, there was a system of conferring nobles and households to honor meritorious officials. By the time of Duke Zhuang of Qi, it was even more clear that the Yongjue was established to order warriors, which was almost the same as Qin's military merit system in terms of nature and function.

In the Warring States period, Tian's Qi State also attached great importance to the title system. The first sentence of "Qi Sunzi Shashi" is "Ming Juelu".

It's a pity that Qi's military titles are not as thorough and extreme as Qin's implementation, and the entire title system has not been fully integrated into all aspects of Qi people's lives. Coupled with the powerful power of Qi's aristocrats, the role of Qi's military meritorious service is far less prominent than that of Qin's.

Of course, the most important thing is that Qi has not fought wars for more than 40 years, and the system of awarding nobles for military exploits has been abandoned. For more than 40 years, no one has been honored for his military exploits. Most people have long forgotten this thing. How can it be inspiring at this time.

Although Da Sima restarted the military merit reward system for this battle, after discussing with the nobles and ministers of the court, he only gave him the merit of beheading, and gave more rewards and land houses.

Such rewards may be somewhat attractive to civilians who have no money.

But Qi people have always been rich, and many people are not willing to exchange their lives.

For example, the descendants of the Jiang Qi family like the Nan Guo family.

Although the status of their Nanguo family declined with the succession of the Tian family to Qi, the ancestors in the family were once reduced to the point where they played the Yu for the king of Qi to make a living.

Now they have moved out of Linzi and become the home of merchants who sell melons and fruits in Yeyi. However, relying on business, Nanguo Gua's family has a lot of money and some farm savings.

When Nan Guogua walked in the nearby villages, he would be honored as "Mr. Nan Guo" by the villagers.

If it weren't for the Qin army's aggressive approach this time, forcing Qi to recruit troops to resist on a large scale, how could he, Nan Guogua, go to the battlefield with a spear.

"The reward for risking the head of a Qin soldier is not as much as Naigong's profit from selling melons. If the battlefield is too dangerous, I'd better run away first. Going back to sell melons is the right way."

Nan Guogua whispered in his heart, and the soldiers who followed the group of Yeyi walked for a while, and finally arrived at the battlefield agreed upon by the Qin and Qi armies.

Looking down from the sky, from the direction of Zhencheng, long snakes composed of people from Qi meandered towards them, and finally converged on the plain north of the river. Looking from a distance, it was densely packed with darkness.

On the chariot, Qi Guoda Sima Tianchong was wearing a gorgeous purple armor, smiling and very confident.

He glanced at the assembled army under the command of generals at all levels.

Turning back to look at a big river to the south, Tian Chong quickly asked Xiangfu, who was riding beside him on horseback, "Mr. Xiangfu, what is the name of this water?"

"Da Sima asked a good question. Xiangfu's disease is indeed known. This water is called Pushui, and this place was also called Chengpu in ancient times."

The husband stroked his beard with a smile and said: "The people of Qin have a fixed time, and our Qi army has a fixed land. In my opinion, Da Sima chose this place for the battlefield, not only because the terrain here is open and vast, but also because it allows our Qi army to deploy our troops. Advantages. It is because the ancient city of Pu is where the people of Jin defeated the barbarians of Chu in the past!"

Xiangfuji's voice was full of pride and said: "Four hundred years ago, the Chu barbarians were powerful and invaded the Central Plains to the north, and their fierce power shocked the world. It was not until the Jin people in this city were defeated by the Jin people that they retreated in embarrassment. Only then did we show the majesty of our country in the Central Plains. "

"But now, Qin Rong is advancing eastward with barbarism and no way, just like the Chu barbarian aggression in the past. Da Sima fought Qin Rong here, just in response to the old Jin's defeat of Chu!"

Tian Chong laughed loudly: "Mr. Xiangfu really knows what I mean!"

As Xiang Fuji said, Tian Chong chose this place not only for the convenience of deploying troops, but also for superstitious reasons.

Four hundred years ago, the state of Jin defeated the Chu people who had gone north and preserved the majesty of the princes of the Central Plains.

Four hundred years later, Tian Chong will also face the Qin people advancing eastward here.

In this country's major event, in the era of Si and Rong, Tian Chong would naturally believe in some mysterious power in the dark, in order to get a good start.

"The Lord of Soldiers will bless me with victory."

In his heart, Tian Chong silently prayed to the military master, one of the Eight Gods of Qidi.

At this moment, Qi General Tian Dan came galloping on his horse, and reined in near Da Sima's chariot.

Tian Dan said loudly: "Da Sima, 150,000 people from all departments of our Qi army have arrived on the battlefield and are now forming formations according to Da Sima's order."

"Okay! I have 150,000 warriors in my hands, so why worry about it!"

Hearing that the army had gathered, Tian Chong smiled.

The Qi army claimed to conscript 300,000 troops to fight against the Qin people.

But in fact, in the 300,000 army, the auxiliary soldiers responsible for transporting food and fodder and building camps accounted for as many as 120,000.

And this is because the Qi army is fighting locally. If it is a long-distance expedition, the proportion of auxiliary soldiers in the army will be further increased.

Of the remaining 180,000 soldiers, 20,000 were stationed in the area from Zhencheng to Ayi to prevent the Qin army from raiding the rear.

Another 10,000 soldiers were guarding Zhencheng to prevent the Qin army from stealing their homes.

Only the remaining 150,000 people are Tian Chong's real available troops for this battle.

Compared with the 300,000 available soldiers, although it is half less, Tian Chong is still confident that he still has an advantage in terms of military strength.

The total number of Qin troops was no more than 200,000.

They expedition to Qi, even if there are big rivers and water transportation, the proportion of auxiliary troops in the army must be higher than that of Qi army. In addition, Zhao Tuo also has to reserve troops to guard the central areas such as Puyang, the number of people that Qin army can use in this battle One can imagine.

"Zhao Tuo, I bet you don't have 100,000 soldiers in your army!"

Looking to the west, Tian Chong could not help showing a faint smile when he saw that the Qin army had not yet arrived.

The battle of gentlemen is the formation of battles between the two sides, fighting in an upright manner, without using tricks such as sneak attacks, which does not include factors such as military strength.

He, Tian Chong, was not so pedantic that he insisted on fighting with the same force as Zhao Tuo, so that he could fight more and fight less, that was also the right way of tactics.

In addition to the advantage in military strength, Tian Chong chose this place as the battlefield. In addition to some superstition, it is also because this place is close to Qi and far away from Qin. The geographical advantage is somewhat favorable for the Qi army.

"Although I don't have time to train soldiers, I have more troops than you, Zhao Tuo, and I, Tian Chong, are better at fighting than you, Zhao Tuo. Now I still have a geographical advantage. How can we not win this battle?"

Tian Chong whispered to himself, he has found many advantages for himself, and now he is only waiting for Zhao Tuo's arrival.

At this moment, there was a commotion in the distance, Tian Chong turned his head and saw some commotion on the right wing of the army formation.

"what happened?"

Tian Chong asked with a frown.

Tian Dan immediately went to check, and after a while, the commotion subsided.

Some short soldiers came forward and reported back and forth: "Da Sima, General Tian Dan said that there was a dispute between the newly arrived Yeyi and Yiwei's soldiers over the issue of positioning, and it has now subsided."

Tian Chong thought that the Qi army recruited from Yeyi, Yiwei and other places was the last to arrive. Without training and adaptation, they performed worse than other troops. It is normal to have commotion now.

"During the war, these people are weak points."

Tian Chong felt a little troubled, thought for a while, and ordered: "Arrange the soldiers from these two places to the rear of the left wing as a reserve team."

"only."

The short soldiers took the order and immediately went down to deliver the order.

Only then did Tian Chong feel more at ease. The Qi army lined up along the Pushui, and the left wing was close to the Pushui, which could block the Qin army's chariots and horses, which was safer than the right wing.

Soon, Mei, Nan Guogua and others, who had almost fought with someone on the right wing of the Qi army, began to go around to the left wing of the Qi army under the scolding of the military officials.

"This is on the battlefield, so you can't do it casually. Otherwise, I'm going to wrench the heads of those Yi Weizhuzi off."

Mei scolded as she walked.

"Stop talking, didn't you see that everyone was beheaded?"

Nan Guogua shrank his neck and opened his mouth.

When standing in line just now, a Qi soldier from Yiwei actually held his halberd flat. A Yeyi soldier in front didn't know it. When he retreated, his ass was stabbed squarely by the halberd.

When this incident happened, Yeyi and Yiwei's soldiers started to scold each other on the battlefield, and some of the leaders even made a move.

When that general Tian Dan came over, regardless of the reason, he immediately snapped all the leaders, which suppressed the chaos.

"The battlefield is really dangerous, and there is a danger of losing your head before you fight."

With fear in his eyes, Nan Guogua followed his team to line up behind the left wing of the Qi army, and looked around with his eyes open.

"What's that sound?"

At this moment, Mei cried out in surprise.

"Qin Jun is here!"

"It's their singing!"

The Qi soldiers around spoke one after another, looking forward one by one on tiptoe.

Nan Guogua had short legs, so he couldn't see Qin Jun coming from behind.

"Mei, take me up there to have a look, and I'll give you some money."

Nan Guogua let out a cry and asked Mei to lift him up on her shoulders, immediately raising his head so that he could see clearly to the west.

Under the gloomy sky, the ground is green, several miles to the west.

There, there is a boundless black army, lined up in a neat queue, walking in the direction of the Qi army with consistent steps.

On both sides of the black armor, there are cavalry and chariots moving forward slowly.

Before the Qin soldiers arrived, the voice had already arrived.

"No clothes? I'm in the same robe as my son. The king Yu Xingshi repaired my spear. I have the same hatred as my son..."

There's a third chapter tonight, a little later