After meeting with the King of Wei, Zhong Yu led his troops to leave Wei and quickly headed towards South Korea.
According to the news that Zhong Yu has now received, South Korea is now in a terrible state, and the main country has almost been reduced to ruins.
Because they could not attack for a long time, the troops were sent out in a hurry, many supplies were not prepared, and the war consumed a lot of money, so the Qin army issued an order to recruit on the spot.
Nowadays, all the counties and counties in South Korea occupied by the Qin army are in devastation. The Qin army has never been a responsible person. Instead, it is like a grassland nation, full of greed and tyranny.
They vented the anger accumulated during the war directly on the people of South Korea. Although due to the ban and the interests of Qin, they did not kill them.
But there are still some scenes that should be seen after the war and banditry.
For example, they robbed, strong women did it, beat Korean civilians at will, and recruited civilian husbands wantonly!
All in all, in one sentence, the life of the Korean people under the rule of Qin is really worse than that of pigs and dogs.
And after such a period of chaos, South Korea's production was completely destroyed, large areas of fertile farmland were abandoned and burned, and various cities were demolished. The people in the cities either fled or were forcibly recruited by the Qin army to serve the Qin Dynasty. Military service.
After such a disaster, there are only a dozen cities left in South Korea near Xinzheng, which was originally densely populated, with a population of eight to nine million.
Nowadays, except for the hundreds of thousands of people who have been recruited to serve as soldiers, almost all of them have died. Of the remaining more than 700,000 people, tens of thousands were killed by the Qin army, and another 200,000 to 300,000 escaped. Only a mere 400,000 people were left, shivering and lingering under the overwhelming power of the Qin army.
If Zhong Yu does not save South Korea, even if South Korea finally defends, the enemy forces outside the city will be defeated, and the Qin army will retreat without a fight.
But South Korea is almost destroyed. There are only 50,000 defenders left in Xinzheng City. When Zhong Yu leads the reinforcements, they will probably be even less. It would be good to have 20,000 to 30,000 troops.
South Korea cannot be abolished, at least not until he completes his mission. Zhong Yu still needs South Korea to contain Qin and use it to cause a melee in the Central Plains after defeating Qin. How can he not say no to such a crucial chess piece
"It seems that resolving the siege of Xinzheng will also bring some benefits to South Korea and allow South Korea to continue to cheer up!" Zhong Yu secretly made up his mind.
Since South Korea is now in ruins, the area around Xinzheng is in ruins, and it even needs the help of the South Korean government, dragging down South Korea's national strength.
Now that Xinzheng has been abolished, why not just find another piece of free territory and give it to South Korea so that South Korea can use it as a foundation to rise again
This time, the alliance and the crusade against the Qin State not only resisted the aggressive power of the Qin State and saved their country's fate of decline, but also meant to regain the country's lost territory and rise again.
Among them, what the Chu State wanted to take back was mainly Nanyang County and Nanjun. These were the two most affluent and anointed places in the Chu State and were also the original capitals of the Chu State.
Zhao State, on the other hand, wanted to take back Taiyuan County, Yanmen County, and Yunzhong County, which had been captured by the Huns. And the most important thing is Shangdang County, which was received from South Korea and subsequently snatched away by Qin in the Changping War. This is an eternal pain in the hearts of Zhao people.
As for the Wei people, their targets were Dongjun, Taojun, and the surrounding areas of Yecheng in the south of Zhao State. These were prosperous places in the Central Plains with a large population, and were the foundation for Wei's original dominance of the world.
As for South Korea, they don't have any other extravagant hopes. They just want to protect themselves. South Korea will not be destroyed. By the way, they can expand a dozen cities outwards, and they are satisfied.
Yan Guo was just a fool, unwilling to do so, and was forced to do so by his own imperial kingdom.
After all, Yan State and Qin State have no border at all. Even if they seize the territory lost by Qin State and get it in their hands, they will not be able to hold it.
Just like the Wei State worked hard and spent most of its national power to eliminate Zhongshan State, which was like a small power. In the end, because it was too far away, Zhao State benefited, and now it has become most of the country between Dai County and HD County of Zhao State.
"When the time comes, just return Qin's Sanchuan County and Hanoi County, the two original territories of South Korea, to South Korea. With these two counties, South Korea's strength can also be greatly increased!" Zhong Yu said in I had this idea in mind.
Sanchuan County and Hanoi County were originally under the governance of South Korea and were the most prosperous places. Especially Sanchuan County, which was originally used by the Zhou royal family as a fallback route, had been carefully taken care of and fully developed.
Later, it was taken over by South Korea, and it was developed more carefully. Now it is taken over by the Qin State, which advocates farming and war, and has built a lot of water conservancy and transportation. It has been developed for a long time, and the population is much larger than that of South Korea. .
If South Korea obtains these two counties, let alone restoring the lost strength of Xinzheng City, it will only be a matter of a few seconds to regain its reputation as a powerful country.
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Under the city of Xinzheng, the Qin army, which was originally quite fierce in its offensive, completely slowed down.
The reason was that their coach Nestern forced too much. There were 100,000 men, but within three days, more than half of them were lost, and 50,000 of his men died.
Today's Qin army, although they are brave and good at fighting and are happy to hear the battle, the huge casualty ratio and the incompetence of the commander have greatly dampened their fighting spirit.
A total of 200,000 troops were reduced to less than 50,000 in less than a month. This cruel casualty ratio was enough to collapse the army.
After all, this Qin army was not led by a general who convinced them. Instead, it was led by a surrendered general from South Korea, which originally damaged their morale.
Now that so many people have died, resentment among the army has already arisen everywhere, and the undercurrent is surging.
If these Qin soldiers were not concerned about the harsh criminal laws and maintaining their loyalty to Qin, they would have rebelled long ago.
However, even so, it is absolutely impossible for them to continue to attack the city. If they are forced to continue, even if they are loyal to Qin, they will not be able to bear it.
In fact, this was also a mistake made by King Qin Yingzheng.
He originally thought that with the leadership of Nei Shiteng, a Korean surrendered general, he could break through South Korea from the inside and achieve his goal at the minimum cost and in the shortest time.
Who would have thought that today's South Korea is not what it used to be, with the United Vertical Alliance as a backer. It is not like in history, when the whole country surrendered immediately after hearing the news of the arrival of the South Korean army.
Instead, they resisted forcefully, and a whole country came to resist Qin, reducing South Korea to ruins, and had no intention of surrendering.
This has now created this embarrassing situation.
(End of chapter)