The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In the eyes of the people of the six kingdoms in Shandong, Qin is known as the country of tigers and wolves, not only because Qin is extremely aggressive.

What is more important is the speed with which Qin launched the war and the sufficient armaments in the treasury.

The sluggish efficiency of the six kingdoms in Shandong, the corruption in the court, and the mobilization of the whole country's army can only take him two or three months, so what about his efficiency when Qin is completely turned into a machine by the Legalists!

In one and a half months, when Zhao State captured Taiyuan County, the siege of Xinzheng in South Korea was broken, and the dilapidated Dongjun County was wantonly invaded by Wei State's 150,000 troops, Qin State's national strength has been completely mobilized.

As I said before, the original territory of the Qin State was calculated at more than 50 years. This period of time is enough for three generations to grow up, and it is also enough for the Qin State to completely transform them into a Qin State.

During this period of time, the population of Qin State was 5 million, and in the following fifty years, due to conquests from east to west and wars from south to north, the territory increased by nearly half.

On these territories, although many were lost due to the war, there were also 5 million people added.

But what Qin can really use is the 5 million people.

From the five million people before, 800,000 of them have been drawn to join the army, which is already barely within the reach of Qin.

But that refers to a relatively peaceful period, and now that it is almost time to destroy the country, how can we take care of so much.

According to the practice of the Warring States Period, one member of each family of five served as a soldier.

To 5 million people, 1 million people can be sent to join the army. After removing the previous 800,000 people, another 200,000 people can be drawn out. These 200,000 people are old Qin people who are good at fighting. Don't say it.

The remaining 5 million people are divided into several parts, the most important ones are Zhao, Wei, South Korea, and Chu. The survivors of these four countries, and some are obtained from the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty.

Most of the populations of the above four countries cannot be trusted, but the population obtained from the destruction of the Zhou Dynasty can still be trusted.

The most critical reason is whether the country has been destroyed or not.

The six kingdoms of Shandong still exist to this day, and they have been in the ruled area of ​​Qin State, trying to incite the people there to make them revolt and return to the embrace of South Korea.

Because of the disgusting actions of the people from the Six Kingdoms, people in the newly-occupied areas of the Qin Dynasty panicked, and people everywhere wanted to return to their original countries.

The reason for this is that in the final analysis, the strictness of the Qin law made the people of the six countries very uncomfortable.

However, Qin Wang Yingzheng excluded some distrustful people from the lands of these six kingdoms, and selected a group of people who were loyal to Qin and trustworthy to join the army.

In addition, the old place of the Zhou Dynasty, where the population that had completely returned to the Qin State, also recruited some more soldiers and horses. The two sides made do, but they also recruited 200,000 people.

Adding in the 200,000 that Qin could send from the mainland, the combination of the two resulted in an army of 400,000 that could go out.

The 400,000 army, although extremely large in number, is enough to scare any country in the six countries.

But facing the joint efforts of all countries, Qin, which has enough frontier territory to defend, is still unable to send such a large number of troops to face the attack of the six countries.

Therefore, this requires a certain strategy.

Ever since Taiyuan County was captured by the State of Zhao, the King of Qin understood that the two counties of Beidi, which had previously captured the State of Zhao, were already difficult to defend.

Taiyuan County has been lost, so Yanmen County in the north, which hangs alone outside the Great Wall, has become an isolated place, which is no longer difficult to rule.

Therefore, the King of Qin directly ordered that the frontier army of Yanmen County and some local defenders all go south along the Great Wall, wipe the border of Taiyuan County, and retreat to Shangjun.

For this part of the retreating frontier army, Zhao Guo did not try to stop them. If they were left in Yanmen County, the Qin army who had no way out would definitely resist to the death.

However, it would be very difficult to repeat the scene in Taiyuan County where the army and the people colluded with each other to fight against the Qin invaders. It would be difficult to repeat it in Yanmen County.

Apart from the fact that the Qin army was on guard and would definitely not let Zhao Guo succeed easily, there was also the territory of Yanmen County, which was vast and sparsely populated, and the total number of people was only about 200,000, so it was difficult to shake this Yanmen County. The total number adds up to 60,000 Qin troops.

It's better to let these Qin troops retreat. He, Zhao Guohao, took over the entire Yanmen County without any loss, and expanded the land for thousands of miles without a single soldier. How can there be such a good thing?

These withdrawn Qin troops all accepted the order of King Qin and stayed on the spot in Shangjun to guard against possible attacks from the nomads in the north and Zhao in the east.

At this time, in Shangjun, there were 70,000 of the local army and frontier army left behind by him, plus the 60,000 withdrawn from Yanmen County, he had a full army of 130,000.

With such a huge number, it is more than enough to stay in a small Shangjun to guard against the attacks of those nomads and Zhao people.

At the very least, the defending army of Shangjun, which is prepared, can be attacked by Zhao Guo's all-powerful force. Because it is a local war, Zhao Guo can't carry out any civil strife, and it can last for a long period of time. There is no problem for a few months and a half.

Dongjun, which is being ravaged by Wei State, and Taojun, which is west of Dongjun, were also ordered to abandon by Yingzheng, and all the remaining defenders retreated.

With this order, the defenders of the two armies moved, and correspondingly, the Wei army, which was attacking Dongjun, also stopped their steps.

The army of Wei State, under the order of the king of Wei, is in the hands of the Qin army, watching them coldly, withdrawing from Dongjun and Taojun, and the army of Qin State in each county withdraws, and the army of Wei State will rush take over.

It didn't last too long. In half a month, that is, fifteen days, the remaining 60,000 Qin troops in the two counties all withdrew.

The retreating Qin army all rushed to Hanoi County, which made the strength of Hanoi County reach 100,000 at once, and the originally weak defense stabilized.

As for the counties and counties in the other directions of Qin State, the South captured Nanyang County and Nan County from Chu State. The two armies originally had 50,000 defenders each.

The king of Qin sent another 100,000 troops out of the 400,000 troops he had drawn out, bringing the total number of troops on the southern front to his 200,000 troops to fight against the 300,000 troops sent by Chu.

The remaining 30 troops, under the leadership of Qin's general Wang Jian, went to the territory of South Korea again. This time, they planned to complete Qin's unfinished great cause and destroy South Korea.

The reason why they sent 300,000 troops and the only remaining commander of the God of War in Qin State is because South Korea is currently stationed with 200,000 cavalry, and it is also the longest army in this alliance.

With such a great god, Qin Guo naturally needs to focus on taking care of him.