Yu Guo's current powerful strength has aroused the vigilance of all countries in the world. His powerful strength is even more terrifying than the Qin State in the eyes of some people.
After all, today's Qin State has lost the land of the six countries it has conquered for hundreds of years, and its strength is far less than before. Under successive battles, Qin's military strength has continued to decrease.
From the beginning of the war to the present, in more than a year, Qin has lost more than 500,000 troops. Such a huge loss was a great weakening for the Qin State.
And the most important thing is that the 500,000 soldiers and horses who died were all composed of Old Qin people, which was half of the young and strong population of Old Qin people.
The loss of these people greatly shook the foundation of Qin's rule and made his originally stable country become turbulent.
The state of Qin is too big and has too many places to defend.
The two counties of Bashu and Bashu in the south are located in remote areas and there is no need to worry about attacks from other vassal states. In addition, it is blocked by mountains and the terrain is difficult, so only a few soldiers and horses can defend it.
Therefore, Qin State only needs to leave 50,000 people to guard the two counties of Bashu.
Who allowed Qin to occupy Bashu? It has been hundreds of years. All the people of Bashu have completely returned to their hearts and have truly become Qin people.
The only worry is that Qin's current Hanzhong County, which was originally in the rear, has faced the threat of Chu. It is adjacent to Nanjun that Chu currently occupies, and may be attacked by Chu at any time.
The King of Qin did not forget that the Hanzhong County was taken by the Qin State from the Chu State. The Chu State definitely had plans for Hanzhong.
Fortunately, there are some mountains between Hanzhong and Nanjun, which at least provide some defense. In addition, there are rivers blocking the area, which makes it somewhat dangerous. As long as some soldiers and horses are stationed and defended, there should be no serious problems.
Therefore, the Qin State left 100,000 people in Hanzhong and guarded various dangerous places, mainly in the direction of Nanjun, but they were attacked by the Chu State.
Hanzhong is too important. It connects the two granaries of Qin and Bashu. If it is cut off, I am afraid that Bashu will be completely lost from the hands of Qin.
Bad news also came from the northern border of Qin State during this period. There was a northern nomadic army numbering about 100,000 people, and they were raiding Qin State's border areas.
This northern nomadic army did not take plunder as its main purpose. It only harassed everywhere, plundered people, burned fields, and made the people in Qin's northern border miserable, with refugees everywhere.
But they are all cavalry, they come and go like the wind, and they are not greedy for military success. They often retreat at the first touch, and run to another place after attacking one place, leaving Qin's border troops unable to find their bearings and extremely difficult to deal with.
Although the threat to Qin is not as great as that of other countries for this partial army that mainly focuses on harassment, it cannot be underestimated.
After all, 100,000 people, if used at critical moments, can be of very important help. At least they can capture one or two counties of Qin without any problem.
If it were in normal times, King Qin would have ordered hundreds of thousands of troops to go on the Northern Expedition, and he would not stop until these steppe wolves were crippled and beaten until they surrendered and fled to the Northern Territory.
But now the Qin State is leaking everywhere, and there are battlefields full of gunfire, and there is no force or energy to deal with these people. They can only order the border guards to be more prepared, and don't let these disgusting mangy dogs cause any big crisis.
Because of the harassment of these nomadic soldiers on the grasslands, Qin's 200,000 border troops did not make any major mobilizations. They still stayed in place to guard against the invasion of these nomadic soldiers.
Nowadays, all the garrison troops in Guanzhong have been mobilized and sent to the front line. The defense is extremely empty. In some counties, even 100 people cannot be gathered to fight, and they can only barely maintain some basic security.
The entire Guanzhong, and now Xianyang City, the imperial capital of the Qin State, can provide 50,000 left-behind troops. However, this army was left by Ying Zheng to protect his own safety, so how could it be easily mobilized.
Without these 50,000 people, even if Guanzhong is the old territory of the Qin State, the King of Qin cannot guarantee that there will be no trouble. After all, there are many people eyeing the position of the King of Qin.
After all the calculations, the Qin State actually had five people per household and one child. It really recruited an army of millions. Basically all the men of the old Qin people were sent to the battlefield and rushed to various places.
However, after reaching the current situation, the Qin State's troops and horses were still not enough, and people were needed everywhere. As a last resort, they also recruited those untrusted remnants of the Six Nations.
He recruited 300,000 troops from these immigrants and sent them to the frontiers to fight against their original motherland.
Now the King of Qin has prepared the second round of mobilization and recruitment. In places such as Guanzhong and Bashu, where the Qin State has the deepest roots, he has once again mobilized people to join the army.
According to the conscription standards this time, everyone over the age of fourteen and under the age of eighty must join the army, with no exceptions.
With such a broad quota, the number of 5 million old Qin people has dropped sharply to 4 million because men went to serve as soldiers, and his 400,000 old and weak soldiers were once again recruited.
However, we should not feel contempt for these 400,000 old and weak soldiers. Those are just children, but those old men are all experienced veterans.
They have only a few years to live, and they must be very happy to be able to use their lives on the battlefield to fight for the chance of survival for their country before they die.
These 400,000 people were not sent to the battlefield immediately. Instead, they rushed from all over the country to Xianyang, the capital of Qin, where they rested for three months.
After all, the population is not young and strong. Many people are still unfamiliar with war, or are already unfamiliar with it. They need a certain amount of time to train and recuperate, so that they can slowly gain an understanding of war.
Qin's madness has reached its peak, and the recruitment of these old and weak people is not the end, but a beginning at all costs.
The people of Old Qin have reached this point, and naturally the remnants of the Six Kingdoms who are still under the rule of Qin are not immune.
There are probably more than 1.2 million people from the Six Kingdoms who are still under the control of Qin State. King Qin directly recruited 200,000 soldiers and horses from these people, plus the previous more than 200,000 people, they have already been drawn out. The men who killed all the survivors of the Six Nations.
This time, King Qin planned to have a final decisive battle, either life or death.
This army of 600,000 old and weak men will march to the military camp where Wang Jian, the commander-in-chief of the Eastward Army, will fight all the countries in the world for an upright and decisive battle.
The fate of the world also has an answer in this battle.
And all the countries in the world did not fall behind when Qin took action. More and more soldiers and horses were mobilized by those countries and sent to the front line.
(End of chapter)