Chapter 428: When I first saw the might of heaven, I was terrified beyond words!
At this moment, Ying Jianglu was convinced that his uncle had no intention of staying in the Xiongnu territory and that he came here just to help him become king.
"Come and follow the prince. If you don't understand something, ask. Watch and learn more. Do you understand?"
"only!"
Ying Jianglu responded loudly.
He walked up to the veteran and bowed his head humbly.
"I am a stupid boy, please give me some advice, my lord."
Wang Xi nodded, which was considered as his agreement.
If it weren't for Ying Chengjiao, he wouldn't even bother to respond.
He had no good feelings towards Emperor Qin Shi Huang, let alone his son.
Wang Zhi's mansion in Xianyang was confiscated by Ying Zheng, and Wang Zhi had been dead for almost a year.
Ying Chengjiao sighed secretly.
Why do you need to be so literary when communicating with military commanders? Don't you know that they hate scholars the most? Being rude will win their favor.
I remember this kid was quite clever before, why does he look so dumb this time? Just now he was talking too, it should be enough to get to the point, instead of talking too much, it seems like he is showing off.
This kid is still a long way from being able to stand on his own...
"The corporals and platoon leaders have been selected, let them challenge the centurions and battalion commanders. Don't let the soldiers participate. Even the corporals and platoon leaders dare not compete. They are not qualified.
"The centurions still compete in the old three things: horse fighting, horsemanship, and archery. The battalion commanders don't compete in these things. We'll take out the sand table and let them practice against each other to decide the winner in one go."
Wang Xi responded repeatedly and followed Ying Chengjiao for ten steps. Seeing that the general had no intention of continuing to speak, he could not help but say:
"How do we choose the front general, rear general, lieutenant general, left general, and right general? Do we choose from the battalion commanders?"
Ying Chengjiao walked in silence for a while, then shook his head with an embarrassed look on his face.
The battalion commander commands 500 people. The difference in number from 500 to 10,000 people is twenty times. This is too big a difference in numbers. Almost no battalion commander can command 10,000 people.
Ten thousand people is a watershed.
Ten thousand people have the ability to turn the tide in any battle, which requires extremely keen vision and the ability to grasp opportunities.
It is no exaggeration to say that those who can reach this point are one in a million. They are either gifted and lucky, or they are the children of generals.
Let alone five captains of ten thousand men, it is unlikely to select a qualified one from the Taotie army through competition.
Originally there were generals from the Meng family, so this was not a problem at all.
These generals of the Meng family have all been tested on the battlefield, and many of them have experience in commanding tens of thousands of men. Not to mention five commanders of tens of thousands of men, even ten can be found.
Meng Tian suddenly withdrew his investment, and the backbone of the Taotie army was filled in, but the leader was still a problem.
"I've been looking all day, but I can't find my place. Where did you put me?"
Ying Chengjiao was slightly surprised.
"Uncle Wu? You're not..."
Meng Wu looked at the northern sky.
"Langjuxu Mountain is in the far north. It is a sacred mountain for the Xiongnu people, just like Mount Tai in the Central Plains. No Qin people have ever set foot there. I also want to go and see it."
Turning back, he pretended to be angry and said:
"What? Do you think your Uncle Wu is too old? Do you not want to play with your Uncle Wu anymore? Do you look down on your Uncle Wu?"
Ying Chengjiao smiled.
"If Uncle Wu is willing to come, I will be the vanguard general and charge ahead, and you can take the position of general!"
Before Meng Wu could say anything, the old general gave him a threatening look - would you like to give it a try?
After Wang Xi became famous, he willingly served as the deputy general of two people, one was Wu'an Jun Bai Qi, and the other was Chang'an Jun Ying Chengjiao.
Your father was a soldier under Nai Gong in the past. How dare you, a little bird, let Nai Gong serve as your deputy general? You are trying to rebel!
"Uncle, don't look at Wu like that. Wu is not fit to be a general. Wu doesn't know how to fight the Xiongnu alone. He can just be a lieutenant general."
Wang Zhi snorted.
"Prepare the wine and food at home and wait for me to come over for a drink. Your father has often come to my house in the past ten years, but you have never come. I tried to stop your father from beating you so many times, but you can't even remember? You little bird!"
Is that because I didn't come? It's not because I came but you asked Liuzi to kick me out! Uncle, are you being reasonable?
Meng Wu complained in his heart but looked happy on the surface.
"only!"
Ying Chengjiao heard the implicit warning in Meng Wu's words.
"Don't worry, Uncle Wu. We will win this battle. Cheng Jiao cherishes his life the most. He has never fought a battle that he was not sure of winning."
"Yes, I believe it."
Meng Wu looked up at the sky.
My Lord, don’t blame Meng Wu for not being able to stop the little King of Qin. This time I will only die, and I will apologize to you later!
"Your kid is even worse than Meng Ao."
Meng Tian's steps gradually slowed down, and the distance between him and Ying Chengjiao gradually widened.
After the two sides were five steps apart, they turned in another direction and strode away.
He clenched his fists and looked extremely ugly.
"Father..."
The Meng family had two brothers, Meng Tian and Meng Yi, one military and one literary, one external and one internal, and they were already a first-class family in the Qin Empire.
Whether Meng Wu is dead or alive does not affect the Meng family, but it will affect Meng Tian.
That was his father.
"If Uncle Wu is willing to come, we only need three generals..."
Ying Chengjiao didn't care about Meng Tian's departure. He counted on his fingers and calculated carefully.
"General, has another lieutenant been appointed?"
Wang Xi poked his head out. How could he not remember that the general still had ten thousand soldiers under his command?
"Yes, they will arrive in a few days with my retainers."
Ying Chengjiao said with a smile.
Without the protection of three thousand retainers who were highly skilled in martial arts and well versed in battle formations, he felt extremely insecure.
"Hey, Jiao'er, why don't you lead an army yourself?"
Meng Wu was a little hesitant.
According to the Qin army regulations, 50,000 people were divided into five armies. The central army did not have a deputy general and was under the command of a general. The general must have an army ready to obey orders at any time.
Why did he just hear that it seemed as if the young King of Qin didn't even lead an army? What kind of battle strategy was this?
Ying Chengjiao nodded.
"I don't lead the army."
"What about your safety?"
"I have a personal guard battalion."
"How can this be possible? There are only 500 people in a battalion!"
"Uncle Wu, my personal guard battalion has three thousand men."
"Even three thousand won't do! If the enemy rushes to your side once a big battle starts, three thousand men won't even give you a chance to retreat!"
Wang Xi rolled his eyes at his nephew.
"You little birdman, have you ever asked your father how he fought the war with the general?"
"…I asked, but Father wouldn't tell me."
Wang Xi's expression softened a lot and he muttered something.
"The old guy is pretty tight-lipped."
Waving his hand:
"Why do we need the enemy to come to us? The general always leads the charge! Go to the enemy's center and find the enemy commander!"
Meng Wu opened his mouth wide, unable to understand and believe it.
With all these wars going on, how did the young King of Qin survive to this day?
He suddenly felt a little confident about the upcoming battle in the desert. The tactics he didn't understand could win a great victory in Zhao State, so maybe it would work in the desert as well?
A few days later.
In front of Jiuyuan County, several thousand cavalrymen knocked on the gate.
On top of the city gate, Li You looked numbly at Chang'an Jun in front of him. He was temporarily borrowed from Meng Tian by Ying Chengjiao.
Over the past few days, he had heard a lot about Chang'an Jun's past from his good brother, and learned that Chang'an Jun claimed to be the best at killing people.
But from his observations over these days, he didn't see that he was good at killing people, but he did see that he was good at shaking people.
Why are there another wave? They are all cavalry!
People are easy to talk about, but where do the horses come from? Half of the Qin State's war horses are here! Is Guanshan Horse Farm opened by Chang'an Jun?
Ying Chengjiao had no idea what Li You was thinking. He smiled at the man who was leading the way under the tower, leaned against the wall and shouted loudly:
"Stop running! If you run again I'll shoot you to death!
"Jiuyuan is an important border town. How dare the gibbon trespass?"
Donghai County, with its seat in Tan County, governed a total of twelve counties.
Tan County, Xiangben, Lanling, Zeng County, Qu County, Xia Pi, Ling County, Huaiyin, Xuyi, Dongyang, Guangling, and Tangyi.
Most of Donghai County was originally part of the State of Qi, with the majority of its permanent residents being people from Qi. It is adjacent to the East China Sea.
Although Sishui County was adjacent to Donghai County, one was in Chu and the other was in Qi. The two counties should have been very different in terms of their residents, customs, and culture.
But when the Imperial Physician Zhang Han reported that they had entered Donghai County, the First Emperor got off the car to observe the people's sentiments, but he could not see any difference from Sishui County.
Time will even out the differences.
The First Emperor called the Left Prime Minister Li Si, whose hometown was Cai County in the State of Chu, to chat with him for a while, inquired about the past appearance of Donghai County, and then ordered the caravan to continue its journey.
Without that guy taking a detour to recruit guests, the convoy beat drums and gongs along the way and soon arrived outside Lanling City.
A meteorite with seven big characters "The First Emperor will die and the land will be divided" fell here.
A huge charred black stone two feet long, ten feet high, and one foot wide was placed under the sun. The seven large characters on it shone brightly, illuminating the armor of the guards in front of them with a bright red color.
These seven words are bright red, which can also be called blood red.
Next to it is a big pit that is three meters deep! The pit is deep in the middle and shallow around, forming a funnel shape. It is the first place where the meteorite was discovered.
It was treated the same as the meteorite that was dug out and was surrounded by armored guards.
After learning about the meteorite falling from the sky, the First Emperor immediately ordered the imperial censor to rush to Lanling County alone to investigate the cause and take control of the scene.
Jing Cha, the governor of Donghai County, personally led more than a thousand soldiers to Lanling as soon as possible to dig out the meteorite.
More than a thousand men were dispatched from nearby Lanling, and more than a thousand soldiers brought from Tan County took turns guarding the meteorite and the crater day and night, and investigating the matter on the spot.
"Greetings, Your Majesty!"
Jing Cha knelt on his knees, touched the ground with his forehead, kowtowed respectfully, and trembled with fear.
Ying Zheng walked up to him and narrowed his eyes.
"You are afraid of me. Why? Qi is the only country that has not suffered from war. I did not destroy your family and appointed you as a county governor. Why are you afraid of me?"
"Back, back, back to Your Majesty."
Jing Cha's teeth were chattering and his speech was intermittent.
"I am a humble man, and when I first saw the might of heaven, I was terrified beyond words!"
The First Emperor frowned.
The first sight was real, the fear was real, but being so scared could not be explained by the word "God's power".
This shouldn't happen. The people of Qi shouldn't be so afraid of him.
Qi and Qin have always been friendly countries. The diplomat Zhang Yi broke the alliance of the five countries by connecting the two countries, Qi and Qin, and drew a horizontal line in the Central Plains from west to east.
When the powerful Qin army destroyed the five kingdoms, the King of Qi still believed that Qin would not attack, so much so that when Wang Ben's troops were at the gates of the city, he still could not believe it was true.
The King of Qi surrendered, and Wang Ben destroyed Qi without bloodshed.
Qi was the country farthest from Qin. After traveling thousands of miles, the political decrees from Xianyang had little effect on Qi. Qi was the place where Emperor Qin Shihuang had the weakest rule.
Some people in the remote mountain villages here don’t even know that the State of Qi no longer exists in the world.
Since the fall of Qi, the lives of most people in Qi have not been affected, so naturally they should not .
"Your Majesty, Lanling originally belonged to the State of Chu."
Li Si took a step forward.
I see……
A glimmer of understanding flashed across Ying Zheng's eyes.
The Chu land and the Chu people make sense. The Qin Empire was ruthless in its attack on the Chu State.
The two generations of military gods of the Qin Dynasty - Bai Qi and Wang Jian. The former forced the Chu State to move its capital, and the latter simply destroyed the Chu State. It was natural for the Chu people to fear him.
The First Emperor walked past Jing Cha with his hands behind his back and headed straight towards the meteorite.
If you don't tell the truth, then kneel down.
He didn't ask Jing Cha to get up. Jing Cha's legs were numb from kneeling on the sand and he didn't dare to move or even raise his head.
The First Emperor, along with the Left Prime Minister Li Si, the Duke of Pei Wang Xu, the Senior Minister Zhao Gongming, the Imperial Physician Zhang Han and a group of others, watched the meteorite for only a short while before asking the imperial attendant to bring Jing Cha over.
The First Emperor faced the meteorite and said casually:
"I asked you to cooperate with the Imperial Censor to investigate what happened to this meteorite. What did you find out?"
Jing Cha knelt behind the First Emperor, trembling constantly.
"Meteorites are falling from the sky. A few days ago, Mars was in the heart of the sky. The two correspond to each other. This means that the gods are angry."
The First Emperor chuckled, but there was no trace of joy in his laughter.
"The gods use Yin characters?"
Yinwen, later known as oracle bone script, is the writing used by the Shang Dynasty merchants.
The governor of Donghai County was horrified and knocked his head heavily on the ground. A middle-aged man burst into tears.
“I don’t know why the gods used Yin characters.
"I searched the area for 20 miles but couldn't find any suspicious people. This stone really looks like it fell from the sky. Who in the world could move such a big stone and create such a big hole?"
The First Emperor frowned, as if he found the noise too loud and annoying.
"Kill him."
The Qin sword will be stained with blood once it is unsheathed!
The sound stopped abruptly, Jing Cha spat out blood and looked down at his chest. There was a bloody Qin sword, which passed through his heart and pinned him to the ground.
There are only thirty-six counties in the world, and only thirty-six county governors.
Jing Cha, the governor of Donghai County, one of the thirty-six governors, died so easily.
The armored guards all had sweat on their palms. They were not Qin people, but Chu people.
Although they were the regular army of Qin, each of them was recruited on the spot. They had never fought for Qin and did not consider themselves to be Qin soldiers.
There was nothing that could be done about it. The First Emperor had conquered too many territories, so many that the Qin people could not cover them all. The farther away from Guanzhong, the weaker the First Emperor's control .
It was not until recently that the First Emperor bestowed titles on his meritorious officials and the families of the meritorious officials whose fiefs were granted in Chu and Qi that the two places began to be stained with black and branded with the mark of the Qin State.
These soldiers who thought they were Chu people were angry, frightened and panicked, but not many of them wanted to avenge Jing Cha.
The Great Chu was destroyed by the King of Qin. How could they kill the King of Qin?
Zhang Han returned the sword to its sheath with an expressionless face, as if he had done something insignificant.
Except for Zhao Gongming who frowned and seemed a little dissatisfied.
Other ministers, such as Li Si and Feng Quji, all looked calm, as if they had known that Jing Cha would die.
