Mythical Qin: I, Gao Yao, will never be a eunuch!

"Erniu, go get Han Xin for me."

"Here"

After hearing Gao Yao's words, Erniu immediately went down to look for Han Xin. After about half an hour, Han Xin hurried to Gao Yao's residence. Han Xin was training soldiers before. After hearing that Li Mo was looking for him, he rushed back from outside the city.

When I arrived at the door of Gao Yao's study, I saw Gao Yao studying something on the map in the study.

"Lord"

"Yes, here you come, come in"

Hearing Han Xin's voice, Gao Yao let Han Xin into the study without even turning his head. After Han Xin entered the study, his attention was focused on the map.

"Lord, what are you doing?"

Looking at the map, Han Xin also asked in confusion. At this time, Gao Yao was hanging a map of the entire Qin Dynasty, and Gao Yao had marked all directions of the southern border.

"If the imperial court sends a large army to attack, do you think the southern border can be defended?"

"impossible"

"Oh? What do you mean?"

As soon as Gao Yao finished speaking, Han Xin directly denied Gao Yao's guess, which made Gao Yao a little curious. Gao Yao himself was not confident, but Han Xin was very confident.

"My lord, how many troops does the Qin Dynasty have now, and how many are needed to garrison each place? To mobilize troops to the southern border now, at least 300,000 troops are needed. This is only theoretically, but where can the Qin Dynasty get 300,000 troops to attack the southern border now?"

"How to say?"

"Although there are more than 300,000 soldiers in the southern border, my lord, please don't forget that it is an army of 300,000. Not to mention whether the court will do this, even if it does, it will still be difficult."

"Difficult? Is it that exaggerated?"

"My lord, even if the road from the north to the south is flat, it will take at least several thousand miles. It will take at least half a year to travel this distance, and that's without any problems with money or food. But how can a large army march smoothly?"

"hiss......"

Gao Yao was also stunned when he heard this, and then he slapped himself in the face. Han Xin, who was watching this, was terrified and immediately knelt on one knee.

"My lord, what are you doing? If I have said or done anything wrong, just punish me."

"Ahem... It has nothing to do with you. It's just me. I was too cautious and forgot the most realistic problem. Sigh."

Gao Yao also smiled helplessly at this time. He also found that he was too cautious before, so he didn't dare to say many things, worried about causing panic in others. However, the disadvantage of thinking about problems alone still appeared. That is, Gao Yao often thinks about problems from the perspective of modern people, but ignores the simplest problem.

Even if Yi Xiaochuan could really take power, it would not be as easy as he imagined to send his personal soldiers to attack him. If Gao Yao's plan to assassinate Qin Shihuang could succeed, the biggest possibility would be that Fusu would succeed to the throne. At that time, Meng Tian and Yi Xiaochuan would most likely let Fusu attack him.

But Gao Yao forgot that even if they wanted to fight, where would they get the soldiers? Many of Qin Shihuang's political moves were indeed correct, but it was also true that they consumed countless money and grain. The treasury of the Qin Dynasty was not that rich now. The money and grain consumed by the 300,000-man army from the north to the south was probably just the basis.

"Lord..."

"It's okay, keep talking, what else do you have in mind?"

"Well, as for the rest of the places, although there are still 200,000 imperial guards near Xianyang, the court can only mobilize 100,000 of them at most. As for drawing troops from various places, or recruiting soldiers temporarily, it would have been possible a few years ago, but now there are complaints from various places about corvée labor. Except for some people from the old Qin people, it is almost difficult to recruit soldiers in other places, and at most, only 50,000 soldiers can be recruited."

"As for recruiting soldiers from all over the country, the maximum number will not exceed 100,000. In this way, even if they come to deal with the lord, the number of people will not exceed 300,000. It is too difficult to attack the lord with only 300,000 troops. Unless the court is stupid, it will not do this."

"To put it another way, even if all the above problems are solved, the various places will not watch the imperial army pass by them so openly."

After hearing Han Xin's words, Gao Yao also realized that he had thought the problem was too difficult before, but ignored that after the transformation of his own strength, things had changed a lot from before. At this time, Gao Yao also realized that he had long since gotten rid of the situation of needing to rely on the court.

"If you were asked to defend, what would you think?"

“Attack instead of defense”

"Oh?"

"Before the imperial court prepares to attack, I will directly occupy Minzhong and Kuaiji. As long as these two places are in my hands, even if the imperial court really sends 500,000 troops to attack, I will be able to defend the entire southern border."

As Han Xin spoke, he pointed at the map with his hands and began to explain to Gao Yao his method of defense. He used offense instead of defense, prioritized taking Minzhong and Kuaiji, occupied a favorable position, and dragged the battlefield from the southern border directly into the scope of Jiujiang County.

This forced the imperial army not to dare to enter the southern border to start a war. Once the imperial court dared to invade the southern border, they could march out of Kuaiji and directly cut off the imperial army's retreat. Without food supplies, the imperial army would naturally not be able to fight for a long time. Not only that, they also had to consider the problem of being counterattacked by Gao Yao.

On the other hand, if they wanted to attack Kuaiji and Minzhong, they would be easily delayed. The logistical supply in the southern border was more comprehensive, especially with the ships that Gaoyao had already built. If they really fought in Kuaiji and Minzhong, it would be equivalent to giving Gaoyao a chance to launch a surprise attack.

After all, with such a long coastline, Gao Yao's troops could land anywhere. With Gao Yao's current shipping capacity, within five days, he could gather 30,000 troops in Kuaiji directly by sea.

If a war really breaks out, this will be enough to influence the direction of a war. At present, no one in the entire Qin Dynasty, or even in the world at the same time, has the shipping capacity of Gaoyao.

"Hahaha... Not bad, not bad, Han Xin, you really helped me a lot this time!"

"what?"