General Qin

Outside the side hall of Xianyang Palace.

Li Xin stood at the door, took a deep breath, took off his shoes, and walked into the hall carefully.

Qin Wangzheng was sitting in the upper seat, leaning on the bronze table with one hand to support his side face, while holding the bamboo slips with the other hand, reading them squinting.

Next to him, the CRRC Mansion Commander Zhao Gao and several eunuchs stood silently waiting.

King.

Li's heart was agitated, but he didn't dare to disturb him. He stood silently in the hall, only quietly looking at Qin Wangzheng.

After a long time, Qin Wangzheng read the bamboo slips in his hand and put them on the case.

He turned his head and said to Zhao Gao next to him: "The list sent by Han is very good. I will draw up an imperial edict for the widow, and let the prefects of Chu, Yan, Wei, Zhao and other places list the local old princes and nobles as soon as possible. , and the list of the rich and powerful."

"only."

Zhao Gao respectfully agreed, went to the small case and began to write.

Li Xin watched this scene, his heart moved slightly.

Your Majesty actually asked the county guards in various places to count the nobles of the old princes, as well as the powerful and wealthy. This is not a small amount of work.

Counting the nobles of the public clan can also be said to be afraid that these old princes and nobles have the heart of restoration, and they can take precautions after mastering the list. But what are the statistics and reports of those rich and powerful?

Li Xin was slightly puzzled, but quickly put the doubts behind him, because the king's eyes fell on him.

"Li Xin, do you have the heart to fight for the widow again?"

Qin Wangzheng spoke calmly, straight to the point.

Although Li Xin had been prepared for a long time, when he heard this, his whole body was still trembling with excitement.

Your Majesty, you really have the heart to use Li Xin again.

This kind of scene has already been staged countless times in Li Xin's dream.

Dreams become reality.

Without hesitation, Li Xin raised his head and said, "Li Xin is willing to serve the King!"

Qin Wangzheng looked at the general who was in his thirties but had already grown gray hair on his temples, and felt a little sighed in his heart.

Li Xin was the most trusted general of Qin Wangzheng before Zhao Tuo.

He once gave Li Xin all his trust, and even ignored the advice of Wei Liao, Wang Jian and other veterans, and insisted on letting Li Xin lead 200,000 troops to conquer Chu. I only hope that this young man can make a great contribution in one fell swoop, to prove that Qin Wangzheng did not misunderstand the person, and that without Wang Jian, he could still destroy Chu State.

Unfortunately, the cruel reality dealt Qin Wangzheng a severe blow.

Li Xin let him down. The first battle against Chu was the biggest defeat of the Qin State in decades, which made Qin Wangzheng feel ashamed. In order to avenge Xiong Qi and the Chu people, Qin Wangzheng went to Pinyang in person to apologize. Please ask Wang Jian to come out of the mountain again by threatening.

What a shame!

Although the defeat of Li Xin's attack on Chu had a lot to do with Xiong Qi's rebellion in Huaiyang, without Xiong Qi's secret transmission of military information, Xiang Yan might not be able to stop Li Xin's lone army from going deep, let alone cause Qin's attack. Crash across the board. However, Li Xin ignored the suggestions of Meng Wu and other veterans, forcibly abandoned the safe tactics, and chose the radical heart-pumping tactics, which was also an inescapable cause of defeat in the battle against Chu.

So after the war, in addition to belittling Li Xin, Qin Wangzheng also expelled Li Xin from his heart.

The defeat of defeating Chu was Li Xin's disgrace, and it was also a dark history of his Qin Wangzheng.

Li Xin was left idle for two years.

Until Zhao Tuo recommended him, he thought he was a good candidate to conquer Liaodong.

Zhao Tuo's words awakened Qin Wangzheng's appreciation and favor for Li Xin.

In two years, my anger has almost disappeared.

Especially when Qin Wangzheng was reminded by Zhao Tuo, when he noticed Li Xin's depressed appearance and stooped body in the court hall, he couldn't help feeling sorry for him. He sometimes thought of Li Xin's high-spirited days when he claimed to destroy Chu with 200,000 people. scene.

Qin Wangzheng also remembered the phrase he said to Li Xin, "General Li is very powerful and courageous."

What happened back then was not only Li Xin's fault.

Old emotions surged in my heart.

Qin Wangzheng looked at Li Xin, and said in a deep voice: "Li Xin, I want you to lead the army to the north, drive out the Hu bandits for the widow, and recover the land of Liaodong. If you use troops, how many people will you need?"

Liaodong was recovered, as expected!

Li Xin's eyes lit up, he really wanted to speak, and said on the spot that only 10,000 people are needed to conquer Liaodong for the king.

But he held back, after experiencing a fiasco, Li Xin changed.

I want to be steady!

Li whispered confidently.

He cupped his hands and said, "Your Majesty, as far as I know, Liaodong is vast and is now occupied by the barbarians of the Donghu and Yeji. If you use fewer troops, it will be difficult to attack the enemy and defend the territory. If you use more troops, it will be difficult to support the logistics due to the remoteness and bitter cold." The old minister believes that this expedition against Liaodong will require 20,000 people."

"Twenty thousand people."

Qin Wangzheng nodded slightly. This number is neither too much nor too little. It should be no problem to recover a Liaodong occupied by barbarians.

"Very good, since that's the case, I will give you 20,000 people. You will lead 10,000 soldiers from Guanzhong to go out to fight, and another 10,000 people will go to Yandi to recruit. I will ask the guards and lieutenants of the counties in Yandi to cooperate with you. It is an act of conquest of Liao."

"Li Xin will drive out the Hu Kou for the king and recover Liaodong!"

Li Xin was appointed as the leader immediately.

When he got up, he bowed heavily again, and kowtowed to Qin Wangzheng: "Li Xin, thank you for your trust."

Qin Wangzheng said indifferently: "You should thank Zhao Tuo."

Zhao Gao, who had just put down his pen and ink, looked at Li Xin with a slight smile on his lips.

"Thank you Zhao Tuo?"

Li Xin looked up at the king's calm face and was stunned.

He quickly understood, and his eyes became moist again.

"Zhao Tuo."

"It turned out to be Zhao Tuo."

On the second day.

Qin Wangzheng officially issued an edict for Qin to conquer Liaodong at the court meeting.

With the king's order, the entire state of Qin is like a machine, running quickly, transporting food and fodder, and orders to recruit soldiers are quickly issued to various counties and counties.

This time, Qin will conscript 200,000 troops!

...

Nanjun, Yidao.

The top leader of Nanjun County, Sheriff Teng, rushed here from Jiangling, the governor's office.

"Li Junwei, Li Junwei, you really did a good job!"

The county guard Teng was over forty years old, with a Chinese character face and thick eyebrows like black ink. Just standing there, he had a majestic air.

At this moment, he was staring at Li You, Lieutenant of the Nanjun County, who was standing in front of him, looking embarrassed, with suppressed anger and a hint of helplessness in his voice.

In the system of prefectures and counties in the State of Qin, a county is divided into guards, lieutenants, and supervisors.

Although people often take it literally, they think that the county guard is in charge of civil affairs, and the county lieutenant is in charge of the military, and the two sides do not belong to each other.

But in fact, the county lieutenant is just the assistant officer of the county guard, and his duty is to "be in charge of the military guard", that is, to assist the county guard in charge of the military.

This is also the reason why the county guards often lead troops to go out in history books. And the rank of the county guard is two thousand stones, and the rank of the county lieutenant is two thousand stones, which is one level lower than the county guard in terms of rank.

The county guard is the leader who truly controls the military and political power of a county, and the whole county will kill and seize power.

In addition, the county guard Teng is also a veteran of the extermination of the country, and is deeply trusted by the current king. At this moment, he is blowing his beard and staring at Li You, which frightens Li Junyi to confess repeatedly.

Li You said in a low voice, "Calm down your anger, the governor. Although there have been some accidents in this conquest of the barbarians, several tribes of barbarians have surrendered to me. This war of conquest of the barbarians is about to be won..."

The county guard Teng shook his head helplessly, stretched his fingers to the dead and barren mountains ahead, and roared: "You are ordered by the king to conquer the barbarians, of course you should. But why set fire to the mountains?"

"Li Junwei, you have burned the fire to the neighboring counties! If you really burned down the cities, mountains and forests of our Qin State, what will it look like if it gets out?"

Hearing this, Li You said with a full face of grievance: "Governor, I didn't expect the wind direction to change suddenly. The local people say that the northwest wind blows in autumn, and it blows to those barbarian mountains and forests. I have observed it for several days, and it is true that the northwest wind is often blowing. A fire is intended to burn all those barbarian people to death. Even if they do not die, they will definitely fear my fire attack method and surrender to pay tribute. I knew it would turn into a southerly wind..."

Li You was very wronged.

Yidao was originally a place where barbarians gathered, and there were not many local Qin people, and the mountains and forests were also occupied by barbarians, so even if he burned the mountains, it would not cause any loss to Qin.

But the problem was that after the fire started, it was out of Li You's control, and the most important thing was that the wind direction changed.

The fire was directly burned to the next county. This incident alarmed the county guard Teng, who rushed to Yidao overnight to stop it.

Seeing Li You's appearance, he thought of the words that Ting Wei Li Si wrote to him asking for care.

The county guard Teng said helplessly: "Fortunately, there was no loss this time, so I won't say more. It's just Li Junwei, you are not allowed to play with fire again in the future."

Li You nodded and said: "Don't worry, the governor, those barbarians have been frightened by my fire attack, and they are about to surrender. The great work has been accomplished, and I don't need to set fire to the mountain again."

As he spoke, Li made an arc from the corner of his mouth.

Although something went wrong halfway, it almost set fire to the neighboring county.

But those barbarians were really as Li You expected, they were frightened by his act of setting fire to the mountain. They were afraid that the Qin county captain would really go crazy and burn the whole mountain, so they sent envoys to surrender.

If the barbarians surrendered, then Li You was ordered by the King of Qin to conquer the south, and he could return to the king!

"My lord, father, I, Li You, have not let you down!"

A smile appeared on Li You's face.

Governor Teng nodded and said: "It is a good thing for the barbarians to surrender at this time. Your Majesty has ordered the mobilization of troops from all counties. I, Nanjun, are also among them. I just want to concentrate on completing this matter."

Li You thought about the news he had received before, and asked, "Your Majesty ordered General Li Xin to conquer Liaodong, but to fight Liaodong, do I need to send troops from Nanjun? And there are so many of them?"

Governor Teng glanced at Li You, and said with a smile: "Liaodong? Naturally, such a huge army will not be needed to conquer Liaodong, so this time, the king should take down Qi State in one go. It's just that it's not yet time, I'm afraid The news was leaked, so it was not announced.”

"Looking at the king's arrangement, it is likely that General Zhao Tuo will be the commander in chief. I have heard the name of that little general for a long time. He is only twenty years old, and he has already made such achievements. I have a daughter under my knee... "

Li You was stunned.

"Zhao Tuo is going to be the coach to destroy Qi?"

He could no longer hear what sheriff Teng was saying.

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