Back to the Warring States Period as Zhao Kuo

After Zhao Kuo said so, the surrounding Han generals naturally took the initiative to fight one after another, wanting to take the final credit.

Zhao Kuo calmly named several generals and let them serve as the vanguard. The other generals who were not named naturally also showed disappointing expressions on their faces, feeling that they might miss out on their great contribution this time. .

Zhao Kuo also laughed it off. After all, the number of generals in the Han Dynasty is indeed quite large. You can’t say that everyone will lead the army to win this first achievement. You must only choose some with more potential. At the same time, Zhao Kuo also valued young generals to do this.

Among them, there is a special candidate, Xiang Yan.

Xiang Yan has now become the team leader of the Han Xiang family. As a former Chu native, his identity can be said to be relatively sensitive.

It is also for this reason that Zhao Kuo actually did not intend to send Xiang Yan to fight in this war to destroy Chu at the beginning.

In fact, Zhao Kuo didn't even want to take Xiang Yan with him when he went on an expedition, but after Xiang Yan learned the news, he took the initiative to come to the door and told Zhao Kuo that he was now a courtier of the Han Dynasty, and he should Fight for Han.

Not only that, Xiang Yan also said that even when facing those old subordinates and old acquaintances of Chu State, there will be no mercy.

Facts have indeed proved this point. In yesterday's attack on the east side camp, Xiang Yan's indomitable progress can be said to be the biggest contributor to conquering the east side camp.

Not only that, Xiang Yan also succeeded in persuading Qu Feng to surrender, which is also a great achievement.

Why do you say that?

This is about a very famous saying in history.

In history, after the fall of the state of Chu, a man named Nangong once said very sadly and indignantly: "Although there are three families in Chu, the death of Qin will lead to Chu!"

The "three households" here do not refer to three families, and it is impossible for Chu to be conquered by Qin with only three families left.

What Nan Gong meant was that although the Xiong family of our Chu Kingdom has been destroyed by the Qin people, there are still three remaining Zhaojingqu families. One day they will avenge Chu and destroy Qin.

Later, after Qin Shihuang heard this sentence, he immediately adopted very cruel suppression methods and killed all the descendants of these three major families.

But what Qin Shihuang never expected was that it was not the three major families that overthrew the Qin Dynasty, but came from another Xiang family, which was not considered the top level in Chu at that time.

This is the so-called man is not as good as the sky.

But in any case, the Xiang family is not as good as the Qu family in this common saying, which is enough to prove how famous these three families are in Chu State.

Therefore, the Qu family's surrender to the Han State will definitely make it easier for the Han State to subdue the hearts of the Chu State. This is something that Zhao Kuo attaches more importance to than winning the war.

Zhao Kuo's eyes fell on Xiang Yan, then nodded to the other vanguard generals, and said with a smile: "Okay, let's end this war!"

Chapter 1107 Cai Jingyang's death after breaking through

The war entered its third day.

If it was in the past, the third day of the war would not even be considered a warm-up. After all, the siege army at that time often did not even fill the moat outside the city.

But for the current Han army, the war on the third day can already try to finish.

The Huai River was also attracted outside Xiacai City as a moat, but this time, the Han army finally took out what was hidden two days ago.

Hundreds of ships came mightily along the surface of the Huaihe River, and soon sailed into the moat with the help of the Han army.

Afterwards, the soldiers of the Han army quickly crossed the "pontoon bridge" built by these ships and came to the city.

Looking at this scene, Zhao Kuo's mouth twitched slightly.

If it is changed to another city, the success rate of doing so is actually not high, but in Xiacai City, there is no problem.

Where did the ship come from?

The answer was brought from the Central Plains controlled by Han.

In this era, the water network in the Central Plains is densely covered. Starting from Daliang City, the capital of Wei State, you can reach any country in the Central Plains. After Wei Huiwang dug the gap, the Yellow River system and the Huaihe River system were successfully connected.

The main reason why King Wei Hui did this back then was actually to communicate with business, but now this waterway has been used by Zhao Kuo and has become a convenient waterway for attacking Chu.

Originally, Zhao Kuo planned to wait until they attacked Shouchun, the capital of Chu, but Zhao Kuo did not expect that the people of Chu would choose to take the initiative to attack the Han army in Xiacai City, so Zhao Kuo just waved his hand and directly On this day, let this "Han Navy" appear on the stage.

This water army is a real water army, because the navy of the Han Dynasty is also in the process of raising funds.

With the help of many ships from the Han Navy, the Han soldiers crossed the moat very easily.

After hearing the news, Jingyang, who had finally cheered up and planned to command the city defense, was furious and shouted, "Where's the archer?

To the old man, at all costs, suppress these damn Han people! "

At this time, Jingyang actually had no good solution. He could only hope that the soldiers of the Chu army could withstand the attack of the Han army with their heroic combat effectiveness.

As for preventing gunpowder this time, the Han army did not give Jingyang any chance.

In the past, the Han army was directly pushed by carts, piled up at the city gate and detonated instantly.

But after Jingyang discovered this method of combat, he asked Chu Jun to come up with a round of rockets after seeing the cart to see if it could detonate.

But the question is, what if the Han army didn't use carts to load gunpowder?

As the "former enemy commander-in-chief" who is responsible for directing all siege affairs, Li Mu has already issued a very clear order before the attack: "Go and get me a thousand elites, each with ten catties of explosives on their backs, All the gates of the city are arranged, and this general wants to see what the Chu people want to do!"

Under Li Mu's order, the four thousand elites of the Han army quietly approached the city gate among the many troops attacking the city.

The battle was very fierce. From time to time, bows and arrows like raindrops fell from the city wall, shooting down many Han soldiers.

In such a fierce battle, it is easy for people to overlook one thing, that is, people keep quietly throwing some rather inconspicuous small bags at the gate of the city.

These small bags contained exactly the ten catties of explosives that Li Mu requested for each person.

Time passed slowly, and there were more and more small bags at the city gate.

Finally, an archer of the Chu army noticed this.

The archer thought for a moment, and felt that it would be too late if he continued to report at this time.

So, the archer took out the rocket that had been prepared a long time ago, and shot towards the pile of small bags that had begun to pile up at the city gate.

Perhaps it was because of being too nervous, so after the bow and arrow were shot, the archer of the Chu army had time to think about a problem.

"If these explosives are detonated, what will happen to the city gate?"

Before the archers could figure it out, the burning rocket had already landed at the city gate.

Next, an earth-shattering explosion sounded instantly.

The thick shock wave spread immediately in everyone's sight along with the billowing smoke. Jing Jing, who was standing at the headquarters in the city, was caught off guard and almost fell on the spot.

An extremely bad premonition surged in Jingyang's heart, and he roared almost immediately: "What's going on?"

No one answered Jingyang's words, but the panic on everyone's faces proved that they had already thought of what it was.

On the main position of the Han army outside the city, Zhao Kuo let out a sigh of relief and laughed: "From now on, the war will really be rewritten by us!"

The emergence of explosives is definitely a cross-age progress.

In the future, any city wall will become unsafe, and people will be forced to leave the shelter of the city wall and develop new ways of warfare.

Of course it is a hot weapon!In this regard, as a time traveler, Zhao Kuo naturally wants to lead the fashion of this era.

Among other things, the large-scale production of muskets has quietly started in the Mohist workshops. After the Chu Kingdom is destroyed, Zhao Kuo will think carefully about which foreign race will be used as the battle for the launch of muskets!Just when Zhao Kuo's thoughts were flying, Li Mu, who was standing next to Zhao Kuo, also showed a complacent expression on his face, and said with a smile: "My lord, you said that this will be the case if we fight every city in the future. If it's easy, wouldn't the whole earth be occupied by us within a few years?"

Zhao Kuo couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

Occupying a place is actually not difficult, the difficulty is how to rule a place for a long time.

This is what people often say, "It is easy to fight the country, but it is difficult to defend the country."

Why is it difficult?

Just give an example.

In the Great Qin Dynasty in history, it took seven days to transmit a message from Nanhai County at the southernmost point to Xianyang.

This is the communication speed in the most urgent situation. Under normal circumstances, it takes at least a month for one round trip.

How many things will be delayed in a month?

This can be experienced without thinking.

If someone rebelled in Nanhai County, it would take seven days for the news to come back to Xianyang, and then it would take another seven days for Xianyang City to issue an order to suppress it. If so, no matter how urgently mobilize various supplies and civilians, it will take two months to start.

This is why the Central Plains dynasty was particularly slow in dealing with the rebels in history. There was no way, because of the lag in information transmission, and the speed of army mobilization was too slow.

If this problem cannot be solved, then no matter how powerful a country is, the area it can really control and rule is limited.

So some people say that the Central Plains dynasty in history did not like to expand externally, but that is actually nonsense, mainly because the places that can really be controlled have been almost controlled, and the remaining places are difficult to control, or It is a loss-making business that pays more than the investment after it is controlled, so forget it.

It's like Kublai Khan, the founder of the Yuan Dynasty in history. After Kublai Khan inherited the position of the Mongolian Khan, why did he divide the Mongolian Empire into four major khanates?

In fact, the answer lies here. The combined territory of the four major Khanates is too vast, and Kublai Khan has no way to effectively control such a large territory.

So Kublai Khan thought about it, and simply won the richest Central Plains of the Song Dynasty and the prairie generation on which Mongolia was built, and sealed off the rest of the land to other relatives.

Even if Kublai Khan is not banned, it will be a matter of time before the four major khanates are far away from the emperor and become self-reliant.

This is the limitation of this era.

To solve this problem is actually very easy.

First of all, it is necessary to make the transmission of information smooth. The most obvious thing is that like modern society, two people at the extreme ends of the earth can also communicate through mobile phone calls.

The second is to make the mobilization of troops easier and faster.

These two elements cannot be solved in ancient society, but as long as Zhao Kuo allows Chinese society to continue to develop, a preliminary solution can still be obtained.

If you can't make a mobile phone, you can consider the telegram.

The telegraph needs electricity, but you can't get it out?

It doesn't matter, first use the train to top it.

The speed of the train is much faster and more stable than that of a horse, and the most important thing is that as long as there are no accidents, the train will never be delayed.

In addition, the train can also quickly send the Han army to every corner of the world through the railway.

Still take the rebellion in Nanhai County as an example. If there are trains in the future, the rebellion in Nanhai County can reach the Imperial Capital in two or three days at most, and then the Han army on the Imperial Capital City is urgently mobilized, and it can be reached in three or four days. Take the train to Nanhai County.

In just seven days, Nanhai County will usher in an army to suppress the rebellion. Compared with the reaction time of at least two months in the previous Central Plains dynasties, it is much stronger.

In the case of trains, electricity is not needed, only another thing is needed, and that is a steam engine!I don't know how the development of the steam engine on the Mohist side is going.

I hope to catch up with the progress as soon as possible, after all, the widow will soon embark on a journey of conquering other races in the world!At this time, Zhao Kuo, although Xiacai City, which had not been conquered for the time being, was in front of him, but the thoughts in his heart had already flown up and turned into the whole world.

After all, his goal is the sea of ​​stars!At this time, a group of generals around Zhao Kuo suddenly cheered excitedly, which also pulled Zhao Kuo's thoughts back.

When Zhao Kuo focused his attention on Xiacai City again, he found that Xiacai City had been breached.

There were three more explosions in a row. Obviously, after the first explosion, the soldiers of the Han army at the other three city gates also started blasting.

Countless soldiers of the Han army swarmed into Xiacai City along the gap created by the explosives.

This scene has appeared in many cities in the past, but it still makes all the generals of the Han army excited.

Xiacai city was captured not only because of Xiacai city itself, but also because of the complete annihilation of the main force of Chu State!Without the main force, what else can Chu use to prevent Han from continuing to attack?

Zhao Kuo smiled, and patted Li Mu on the shoulder beside him: "You, the former commander-in-chief of the enemy, look very relaxed."

Li Mu laughed loudly, and then said to Zhao Kuo very seriously: "Although it is very easy, but my lord, I still won't give in to the credit I deserve."

Zhao Kuo froze for a moment, then also laughed out loud.

The Chu army headquarters in the city was silent at the moment.

If one explosion didn't explain anything, then four explosions in succession and the approaching shouts of killing were enough to prove everything.

Jingyang's face became extremely livid. He looked around at all the generals of the Chu army present, and wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Jingyang stood up and walked out of the headquarters.

Here, there is an elite Jing family's personal soldiers who have been guarding this place.

The soldiers obviously also noticed something, and gathered around Jingyang one after another.

Jingyang glanced at the people present. These were soldiers from the Jing family. They were loyal to the Jing family, and this was also the real confidence behind Jingyang's ability to dominate the political arena of the Chu state over the years.

Jing Jing said slowly: "Second and third sons, we have already lost this battle."

No one spoke, but Jingyang saw many people silently clenched their sword hilts around their waists.

Jingyang laughed and said: "The old man has fought Zhao Kuo all his life, and he has never won against him once.

However, the old man is not reconciled!The old man is unwilling to continue living, unwilling to be a prisoner of Zhao Kuo, unwilling to watch Zhao Kuo successfully dominate the world like everyone else!So, this old man knows that he will die if he keeps fighting, but he still has to choose to fight until the last moment!Second and third sons, if you still have concerns at home, then stay here and surrender when the Han army arrives.

If there are still people who want to fight with the old man to the last moment, then follow up! "

After saying this, Jingyang strode towards the door in front of him.

The guards automatically parted a path, watching Jingyang's back silently, and then one, two, three more and more people followed in Jingyang's footsteps. After a while, the bustling courtyard There is no one in it.