The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

After annihilating the last enemy in the way, the Chu army embarked on a new journey.

Because the Qin army on the south road was divided into various cities to defend the attack of the Chu army in place, and could harass the logistics of the Chu army in the rear, the strength of the Qin army was extremely scattered, scattered in more than 20 cities. .

Among them, except for Nanliang City, which was defended by 100,000 Qin troops, the other cities had only 10,000 to 20,000 people, or simply a few thousand people.

After Nanliang City was breached by the Chu army, the entire South Road battlefield fell into an embarrassing situation.

That is, there are hundreds of thousands of Qin troops in the whole south, but there is no Qin army that can stop the Chu army from attacking. After all, although the Qin army is more numerous than the Chu army, it is extremely scattered and difficult to gather. The Qin army that can be used to stop the Chu army is often only some small troops on and around the Chu army's marching road.

Such a small number of people are all old, weak, sick and disabled. What can be used to stop the Chu army who has gone through a bloody temper and has completely become a brave man, and they are all made up of strong men in their prime. .

If these Qin troops gather together and go out of the city to fight the Chu army head-on, they may have just met, and they may be directly defeated by the highly morale Chu army!

Therefore, the hundreds of thousands of Qin troops could only hide in the city they defended, and let the Qin troops outside the city abuse them, but they dared not do anything.

But if you just think that these Qin soldiers are cowards and cowards, that would be a big mistake!

The reason why these Qin troops dare not go out of the city is not because they are afraid of fighting, but because they want to preserve their strength and wait for the right time.

After all, these Qin Jun are not fools. They clearly and deeply understand how serious and how big is the gap between themselves and those enemies outside?

If you really go out to fight in the city, then you will follow the intention of those enemies, and you will be a real fool.

The Chu army outside was eager for the Qin army in the city to come out to fight in the field, so as to take this opportunity to wipe out the troubles and leave a safe rear.

If you really go head-to-head with the Qin army, all the 100,000 Chu troops will die in those siege battles, and you don't know if you can take down the remaining cities guarded by the Qin army.

Therefore, the two sides weighed whichever was the lesser, whether it was the guards of those cities or the central Xianyang of the Qin State, the orders conveyed were to stay on standby and watch the changes.

Afterwards, following the news of the central and northern battlefields, the Qin army in the south, under the order of Xianyang, began to prepare for the retreat.

In today's battlefield, the central region is suffering from both losses. It can be said that there is no such thing as a central battlefield. The north ended with the disastrous victory of the coalition forces of Zhao and Wei, and the two countries also took advantage of the situation to occupy the entire territory of Hanoi County in Qin State. Completely declared the power of Qin State and completely withdrew from Hebei.

The reinforcements from the Chu State in the south, after receiving the news of the two battlefields in the north, immediately stopped their advance and instead stayed in Nanliang City to observe the situation.

As for the retreat of the remnants of the Qin Army around Nanliang City, Xiang Yan became a transparent person as if she couldn't see it. She chose the same choice as Li Mu and let them go.

As for the reason, the soldiers of Chu State are also human beings, they also have wives and children, how could they be wasted on the battlefield for nothing, and tens of thousands of families in Chu State were ruined!

What's more, in Xiang Yan's heart, he still has some selfish intentions.

Now the 100,000 Chu army in his hands has been slowly controlled by him after a period of time, and his orders have been placed in the same position as those of the king of Chu.

This is a terrible phenomenon. For the king of Chu, it means that the 100,000 Chu army has escaped his control. But for Xiang Yan, this is a gratifying change. In addition to his own fiefdom, he has an additional 100,000 direct descendants of the Chu army, which has become an important trump card in his hand.

With this 100,000 troops, and they are all elite troops tempered by blood and fire, Xiang Yan's status in Chu State will be greatly enhanced. He will change from an insignificant general of the Chu State to a powerful one, and become one of the few top leaders in the Chu State.

This change is an unparalleled temptation for both his family and himself.

I am afraid that the current king of Chu is going to have a headache. He regained the lost ground and defeated the Qin army, but he ushered in a Xiang Yan who is too big to lose. How to deal with him will be a difficult problem.

If one is not good, it will cause turmoil in Chu State, and if it is not good, it will lose all the territories that Chu State currently occupies, and will fall into endless internal friction.

Although the central battlefield has completely eliminated the war, the pain left by the war is still spreading on this land, lingering.

There are broken houses and broken tiles everywhere, withered trees, and abandoned patches of fertile fields. On the road along the way, the verdant grassland is no longer visible, and the lush woods have disappeared, replaced by a bare and lifeless scene.

The war lasted on this land for nearly three years. During the three years, the surrounding people did not have any production, and their rations were forcibly taken away by the army.

Facing the situation that they would starve to death if they didn't fill their stomachs, they had to use their wisdom to dig grass roots, peel bark, eat leaves, and catch insects to eat!

In front of their eyes, they ate up everything they thought they could eat and couldn't eat, and the area they ate turned into a hell on earth, a barren land.

Up to now, the originally prosperous and fertile land in the Central Plains, the important birthplace of Chinese civilization, has become a ghostly place, and it is difficult to see people in a hundred miles.

After all, the coalition forces won this war. The Qin army on the Korean border retreated to Sanchuan County, and even abandoned many counties and counties outside the pass around Luoyang City in Sanchuan County.

Fully retreated to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, within the Hulao Pass around Luoyang City, Dong Zhuo's posture against the princes was maintained.

Besides Sanchuan County, there are eleven counties that were abandoned, and all of these territories were taken over by the winner, that is, South Korea.

This is the promise Zhong Yu made to South Korea before the start of the war, and it is also a reluctant compensation for South Korea's dilapidated strength.

Faced with the fact that he has expanded his territory for the first time since he came to the throne from South Korea in decades, or regained lost ground. For the first time, the king of Han, who had been feeling gloomy because of the war-torn Korea, became a little happy, and he dispatched officials to take it over very quickly.

However, the officials sent by the King of Han went there full of expectations, but in the end they reported to the King of Han with disappointment.

Obviously, the situation in these newly recovered territories is not very good. At least, these officials feel hopeless and no longer have the joy they had before.