In the eyes of the people of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong, Qin is known as the country of tigers and wolves, not only because Qin is extremely aggressive.
What is more important is the rapidity with which Qin launched the war and the sufficient armaments in the national treasury.
With the sluggish efficiency of the Six Kingdoms of Shandong and the corruption in the court, it only took him two or three months to mobilize the army of the whole country. So what about the efficiency of the Qin State when it was completely turned into a machine by Legalism
Within a month and a half, the Zhao State captured Taiyuan County, the siege of Xinzheng in South Korea was lifted, and the dilapidated Dongjun County was wantonly invaded by Wei's 150,000-strong army. The Qin State's entire strength had been completely mobilized.
As mentioned before, the original territory of Qin State, calculated over fifty years, is enough time for three generations to grow, and it is also enough for Qin State to completely transform them into Qin people.
During this period, Qin's population was 5 million. In the next fifty years, it conquered the east and west, conquered the south and the north, and gained nearly half of its territory.
In these territories, although many were lost due to the war, there were also an additional 5 million people.
But what Qin can really use is the 5 million people.
From these five million people, 800,000 people had been recruited to join the army, which Qin could barely do.
But that refers to a relatively peaceful period. Now that the country is about to be destroyed, how can we care about so much.
According to the practice during the Warring States Period, one member of each family of five served as a soldier.
If we reach 5 million people, we can get 1 million of them to join the army. In addition to the previous 800,000, we can also get 200,000 more. These 200,000 are all old Qin people who are good at conquering and fighting. Their loyalty to the Qin State is Don't say it.
Among the remaining 5 million people, they are divided into several parts. The most important ones are Zhao, Wei, Han, and Chu. Some of the survivors of these four countries were obtained by destroying the Zhou Dynasty.
Most of the populations of the above four countries cannot be trusted, but the population obtained by destroying the Zhou Dynasty can still be trusted.
The most critical reason is whether this country has been destroyed.
The Six Kingdoms of Shandong still exist today, and they have been in the areas ruled by the Qin State, trying to incite the people there to revolt and return to the embrace of South Korea.
Because of these disgusting actions of the people of the Six Kingdoms, people in the newly occupied areas under the Qin Dynasty were panicked, and people everywhere wanted to return to their original countries.
The reason for this is, in the final analysis, the harshness of Qin's laws, which made the people of the six countries very uncomfortable.
However, King Qin Yingzheng eliminated some untrustworthy people from these six kingdoms' hometowns, and selected a group of people who were loyal to Qin and trustworthy to join the army.
In addition, the population of the Zhou Dynasty's hometown, which had completely returned to Qin, also recruited some more soldiers and horses. The two sides made do, but they also recruited 200,000 people.
In addition to the 200,000 Qin people can send from the mainland, the two combined, there are actually 400,000 troops that can go out.
Although the 400,000-strong army is extremely large, it is enough to frighten any country in the Six Nations.
But in the face of the combined efforts of all countries, Qin, which has enough frontier territory to defend, is still unable to send such a 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, King Qin had already understood that the two northern counties that had previously been captured by the State of Zhao were difficult to hold.
Taiyuan County has been lost, so Yanmen County in the north, which is isolated outside the Great Wall, has become an isolated land and can no longer be ruled.
Therefore, the King of Qin directly ordered the Yanmen County border troops and some local defenders to move south along the Great Wall, brushing against the border of Taiyuan County, and retreat to Shang County.
Zhao made no attempt to stop this part of the retreating border troops. If they were left in Yanmen County, the Qin army with no way out would resist to the death.
It would be very difficult to repeat the scene in Taiyuan County where the army and the people colluded inside and outside to jointly attack the Qin invaders.
In addition to the fact that the Qin army was on guard and would not allow Zhao to succeed easily, there was also the territory of Yanmen County, which was vast and sparsely populated, with a total of only about 200,000 people. It was difficult to shake Yanmen County. The total number of Qin troops totaled 60,000.
It's better to let these Qin troops go back. Zhao Guo can take over the entire Yanmen County without any losses, and expand the territory thousands of miles without spending a single soldier. How can such a good thing be possible
These withdrawn Qin troops all accepted the order of the King of Qin and stayed on the spot in Shangjun to guard against possible attacks by the nomads in the north and the Zhao State in the east.
At this time, in Shangjun, there were 70,000 local troops and border troops left behind, plus 60,000 people who had withdrawn from Yanmen County, which amounted to a total of 130,000 troops.
With such a huge number, it is naturally more than enough to stay in a small Shangjun to guard against the attacks of the nomads and Zhao people.
At least, the well-prepared Shangjun garrison can withstand the attack of Zhao State's overwhelming power. Because it is a local battle, Zhao State is unlikely to cause any civil strife. It can sustain for a long period of time, a few months and a half years is no problem.
Dongjun, which was being ravaged by the Wei State, and Taojun to the west of Dongjun, were also ordered to be abandoned by Ying Zheng, and all remaining defenders retreated.
At this order, the defenders of the two armies moved into action, and correspondingly, the Wei army that was attacking Dongjun also stopped.
The Wei army, under the order of King Wei, was fighting against the Qin army, watching them coldly, and evacuated from Dongjun and Taojun. The Qin garrison in each county withdrew, and the Wei army would rush there. take over.
It did not last long. Within half a month or fifteen days, all the remaining 60,000 Qin troops in the two counties were withdrawn.
The retreating Qin army all rushed to Hanoi County, allowing Hanoi County's military strength to reach 100,000, and the originally weak defense stabilized.
As for the counties in other directions of the Qin State, the south captured Nanyang County and Nan County from the Chu State. The two armies originally had 50,000 defenders each.
King Qin sent another 100,000 troops from the 400,000 troops he mobilized, bringing the total number of troops on the southern front to 200,000 to fight against the 300,000 troops sent by Chu.
The remaining 30 troops, led by Qin's general Wang Jian, once again marched to the territory of South Korea. This time they planned to complete Qin's unfinished business and destroy South Korea.
The reason why a 300,000-strong army was sent and Qin's only remaining war god commander was because South Korea currently has 200,000 cavalry stationed, and it was the largest army in the alliance this time.
With such a great god, Qin State naturally has to focus on taking care of him.
(End of chapter)