February of the ninth year of Emperor Yuan.
The situation in the world is complicated and complicated, often like flowers, appearing one after another in people's eyes, but then drifting away in an instant, making it difficult to trace.
But now, the melee between countries last year has finally come to an end, and the situation is slowly becoming clearer.
The State of Qi experienced some twists and turns, and the King of Qi fled to Jiaodong County. The court was in a state of panic, and the King of Qi's dignity was greatly damaged.
However, the power of the tiger's death is still there, not to mention that the fierce tiger King Qi is not dead yet, so with his past majesty, he can still calm the impetuous human nature of Jiaodong County.
Then using Jiaodong County as a springboard, after appeasing the return reinforcements, after a bloody battle, only 50,000 elite troops were left. With this large army and some soldiers and horses from Jiaodong County, they regained control of the remaining three counties of Qi State, and their momentum was slightly restored.
However, the population of the remaining three counties of Qi State has become increasingly declining, with only about one million left. This is because Zhao Jun evacuated due to the war in the rear shortly after arriving in Qi State, otherwise the population would have declined even more.
There are only 150,000 soldiers and horses left in Qi State, of which only 50,000 are elite, making it a small and low-ranking country.
The Tao State to the east of Qi State, after losing the aid of Qi State, no longer had any support. Facing the army of Wei State, it could no longer support it.
However, he was not destroyed all at once, but persisted for a long time. It was not until two months ago, at the end of the year, that he was eliminated by the Wei army.
The reason is that the Wei State was frightened by what happened to Qi, Zhao, and Qin. They were afraid that when they mobilized an army to attack Tao State, someone else would suddenly come behind them, which would not be fun. .
Therefore, Wei's offensive was suspended, and his troops and horses were on standby at any time, making preparations to immediately return for reinforcements.
However, after waiting for a long time, and there was no movement after three or four months, Wei Guo finally felt relieved, and the offensive that had been suspended became fierce again.
As a result, Tao Guo, who had just settled down because of the previous turmoil, thought he had escaped another disaster. Under the attack of the Wei State like a violent storm, it lasted only one month before being destroyed, completely declaring that this small country, which was founded only two years ago and had a territory of no more than one county, ended its history in a very short life.
The Wei State also took back its eastern barrier, so that its rear would no longer have to worry about and avoid the danger of being directly attacked by troops.
However, after this battle, Wei's national power was depleted a lot. Even if the population of Tao County is gained and the strength is slightly increased, it is still far from what it was before the war.
Although the population of Wei today is still around two million, its military strength is only 200,000, of which only 100,000 are the elite, so its strength has been greatly reduced. But the force still remains at the level of a second-rate power.
After the reinforcements came back, Zhao State defended the Taihang Mountains and blocked Qin State to the west of the Taihang Mountains. Coupled with the civil strife in Qin's rear, the Qin army's offensive on the opposite side was not very fierce, and later it even subsided.
There haven't been any major changes in the past few months, and the current territory division has basically been maintained.
However, after Zhao State lost the three counties of Yanmen County and Shangdang County in Taiyuan County, the population of the territory was greatly reduced. Now there are only four counties, and the population is only about 1.2 million. Among them, there are only 200,000 troops left, and about 150,000 elites. It is still a second-rate power.
Let’s talk about Qin again. After acquiring the three counties of Zhao, it left some soldiers and horses to guard against Zhao’s counterattack. The remaining troops were all transferred back to Guanzhong to quell the chaos caused by Liu Bang and others.
Liu Bang's armies in Yunzhong and Zhongshan combined totaled only 50,000 people. It could wreak havoc for a while before, causing panic in Guanzhong. It was just Kong who picked the Guanzhong army to go to war and whose defense was weak.
Now that the army came back for reinforcements, they immediately lost their arrogant capital, stopped their activities one after another, and fled back to their old territory with the army in dejection.
But before leaving, they didn't give Qin anything good. They burned, killed, and looted everywhere in Qin, leaving ruins and corpses behind.
After all their efforts, most of Longxi County and Shang County were completely destroyed. More than half of the population in the county was lost, and their vitality was severely damaged.
Longxi County and Shangjun are old territories of the Qin State, and they have hundreds of years of history when they were incorporated into the Qin State. Especially Longxi County, where the Qin people originated and grew. Dozens of generations of Qin kings are buried there, which can be said to be the foundation of their ancestors.
Although the capital of the Qin State later moved eastward and gradually left Longxi County, it was still the location of the old capital, and the tombs of the ancestors are still buried there. Therefore, the State of Qin also attached great importance to the development there, and regarded it as an important base for training Qin's cavalry.
Therefore, the population of Longxi County is quite prosperous, with a population of 600,000. Being so brutally abused by Liu Bang, he actually lost nearly 400,000 yuan, which was extremely harmful.
Shangjun also has a large population, about 400,000. Under the scourge of the Yunzhong Kingdoms, the population was also reduced by 200,000, and it was almost in ruins.
The population of the three newly recovered counties by Qin from Zhao was originally about 800,000. However, the Qin State committed massacres of cities and genocide there, which was no different from what Liu Bang and others did, so the population of these three counties was also greatly reduced.
In the end, when Qin and Zhao stopped fighting, the total population of the three counties was only about 300,000. It can be said that there is no rooster crow for thousands of miles, no people for hundreds of miles, and it is extremely desolate.
Because of the war, the originally prosperous and prosperous place became ruins.
Although the Yunzhong states and the Liang state where Liu Bang was located retreated, the Qin state did not let them go.
Instead, he divided his forces into two groups, each with nearly 200,000 troops to attack. They were like Mount Tai pressing down on him, and they vowed to destroy him.
The two forces were frightened and turned to the big boss behind them, Yu Guo, for help.
However, the actions of these two people were not Yu Guo's instructions. They caused trouble themselves, but they wanted to find their boss. Why didn't they think about the boss when they first got rich? So Yu Guo refused directly.
Their request was rejected, and both parties were extremely desperate. He wanted to surrender to the Qin State, but he was too harsh in the Qin State and left no room for it. Now it is impossible to surrender.
So I had no choice but to grit my teeth and fight back.
They recruited all the forces in the country, from the children who were crying for food, to the gray-haired old men, and the strong women, to join the army as their army to resist Qin.
Such oppression will allow both sides to have an army of eighty to ninety thousand, or forty to fifty thousand.
The momentum seems to be quite large, but how much water is contained in it can only be known in their hearts.
(End of chapter)