Controlling mountains and rivers since the Warring States Period

Chapter 268 Longxi
"The Huns rode on horses and drew bows, coming and going like the wind. It was indeed difficult to fight them."

In Xianyang City,

Heizhuang was following other ministers in reporting the war in Longxi to Fusu.

Although the starting point of the Great Wall ordered by the First Emperor to be built, Lintao, belonged to Longxi County,
But since Longxi was designated as a county, its territory must be vast.

Therefore, Lintao is relatively speaking only located in the central part of Longxi County.

The Great Wall starts from here and extends all the way eastward, which can greatly reduce the invasion of the Huns.

But there is no Great Wall west of Longxi.

Although there are mountains and rivers as natural barriers, the Xiongnu now have the map of the Hexi Corridor and the Lord of Jiaonan who has close ties with Guanzhong...

Therefore,

The impact must have been significant!
In addition, Longxi County was an important barrier established by the Qin Dynasty in the western border, and the impact it brought to Xianyang was more direct.

So during this period of time,
The Qin Dynasty's rulers and ministers had somewhat relaxed their attention on the process of suppressing the rebellion in Shandong.

After all, Meng Tian swept all the way across.
Is there anyone in the world who can resist this famous general who, during the time of Emperor Qin Shihuang, attacked Chu and Qi and then struck the Huns in the north?

Moreover, before this,
A lot of good news has come from Meng Tian.
Many officials believed that

The suppression of the rebellion in Shandong will soon be over.
by that time,
You can continue to play music and dance.
Continue to enjoy the wonderful reigning life.

therefore,

In order to prevent this bright future from being ruined, they all took the matter of resisting the Huns very seriously.

It cannot be said that since the Qin Dynasty inherited the mandate of the Zhou Dynasty, it must do the same as this predecessor and let the "Quanrong invade the Pass", right?

Fusu first listened in silence to his ministers' accounts of Longxi, and then said, "Fighting left and right is not easy for the country."

"If this delay continues, will it affect General Meng Tian?"

"This is inevitable!" Hei Zhuang sighed.

Why delay any longer?
As soon as the battle of Longxi broke out, the food and grass supplies to Shandong immediately became scarce.

If it weren't for this incident,
The place where Meng Tian is currently stationed is even closer to the border between Qi and Chu.

After resting in Ye County for a while, considering that the Zhang River was not far from the Chu army and Liu Bang was leading his army westward,

Therefore, Meng Tian first arranged for Wang Li to garrison Huangze, while he himself fought and retreated towards Hangu Pass, and finally stationed at a natural strategic location east of Hangu Pass, at the southern end of Taihang Mountains.

Meng Tian said to Hei Yi at that time, "This place can control the north and south of Taihang Mountain and separate the land of Sanjin and the Central Plains."

Because there are three unfathomable springs in this place, called "Tianjing Spring", Meng Tian named this place "Tianjing Pass".

"If the country is stable, I will definitely propose to Your Majesty to build a huge and majestic pass here to serve as a barrier for Hangu Pass."

Although Hangu Pass was a strong pass guarding the imperial capital Xianyang, there were other city passes inside as secondary barriers.

But to defend the capital,

I always want to put layer upon layer of protection on my turtle shell.

After all, it was proven in the Battle of Changping.

The lives of the people of the capital
Their lives are more precious than those of civilians in other places!
Hei Yi agreed with the place chosen by Meng Tian, but he was more worried about Wang Li.

He said, "Can General Wang hold Huangze?"

Wang,

They were also the generals of the Qin State.
Wang Li's father and grandfather,
That is, Wang Jian and his son Wang Ben, who traveled east and west, fought in the south and north, and made great military achievements for the unification of the Qin Dynasty. Now they are all dead.

He inherited the title from his father and grandfather and became the new General Wang.

However, Hei Yi once heard his father comment on Wang Li, saying that his talent was far inferior to that of his ancestors.

Therefore, he was worried that something might happen to Wang Li, causing the Qin Dynasty to lose its barrier to the north of Taihang.

Meng Tian comforted him by saying, "Huangze is a place of natural danger where one man can block the passage of ten thousand men."

"As long as Wang Li performs his duties conscientiously, he won't have to worry about other problems."

"The most urgent task is to defend Tianjing and then Hangu Pass."

If Hangu Pass is breached,

That was a huge shock to the morale of both sides.

After all, when the five countries attacked Qin, none of them opened Hangu Pass!

Subsequently,

Meng Tian then stationed at Tianjing Pass.

Fusu knew,

The reason why Meng Tian did not retreat to the more complete and more solid Hangu Pass, but stayed further east, was to protect more land for the Qin Dynasty.

So he was very worried about the general, fearing that the West would bring trouble to the East.

So he said, "I want to lead the army in person, to Longxi, to fight with the soldiers, to boost morale, and to fight against the Xiongnu!"

"This way, General Meng Tian can rest assured!"

most of the time,
If morale improves,
The war will go much more smoothly.

If we can finish the matter in Longxi as soon as possible, everyone will feel much less pressure.

But when the ministers heard him say this, they hurried to stop him, saying, "The emperor is a noble man, how can he take risks?" If it was during the Spring and Autumn Period, there would be no problem if the monarch personally joined the battlefield.

Because at that time, everyone still followed some rules and were quite courteous.

But now?

In Shandong, regardless of friend or foe, the city has been massacred several times in order to prevent civilians from being recruited by the enemy and turned into soldiers against them!

The gentlemen of the various states of China are so crazy.

What about the barbaric and rude Huns?

But Fusu had reflected on his indecisiveness and was determined to be a resolute and courageous monarch.

He rejected the advice of his ministers, "I have made up my mind, please stop trying to persuade me!"

Soon afterwards,

Emperor Qin II personally came to Longxi and faced the Huns' arrows head-on.

The First Emperor in the underworld was very worried about his children, so he asked the ghosts and gods to take him over to see them.

He Bo was soaking in the Zhang River at the time, trying to find the fun of being a water ghost 200 years ago.
After receiving the request from the First Emperor, he reluctantly took a dip in the Zhang River twice, but finally agreed.

After all, he can moisten it anytime he wants.
But it was not so convenient for Ying Zheng to see his son.

First, the Yin and Yang are separated.

The dead ghost can't come up just because he wants to.
What is your relationship with ghosts and gods?

Secondly,

It is Ying Zheng's inherent stubbornness and awkwardness.

After his father, King Zhuangxiang, died, he became more open-minded and gave up his obsession with power.

Duke Xiao of Qin was even more accepting of the fact that "the Qin Dynasty might fall" and even had the leisure to comfort the even more depressed Lord Shang.

But the first emperor Ying Zheng,

However, he still insisted that he "did not love Fusu at all" and "let him succeed to the throne in accordance with the ancestral system" and so on.

When He Bo pointed out bluntly, "Really?"

"Then let me ask you, who was the one who hugged Fusu until his eyes turned red when he fell ill when he was three years old?"

Children at this age are always prone to death, no matter how carefully their parents take care of them.

Death never distinguishes between the noble and the humble.

Even though Fusu was the eldest son of King Zheng of Qin at that time, he could not escape the torture of illness and the possibility of dying young.

Fortunately,

He quickly recovered and drove the disease away from himself.

It's just that the ghost suddenly mentioned this matter,
Obviously, he was not expressing his admiration for the loving father and filial son of the royal family.

Instead, it hinted at the First Emperor:
Don’t be so arrogant!
I've been watching you secretly!

At that moment, Ying Zheng's face turned red all of a sudden, and he turned and left without any intention of staying.

The ghost laughed loudly behind him, pointed at the back of a dead ghost, and said to Mrs. Ximen who was playing chess with him, "See, this is his character!"

"I was almost fifty when I died, and I was still like this!"

"You can imagine how stubborn he was when he was a kid!"

Madam Ximen just covered her mouth and laughed, “No wonder you looked like you couldn’t stand it at that time!”

then,

Ying Zheng walked faster.

Afterwards, perhaps because the First Emperor felt that he was being bullied here, he never mentioned again that he wanted to walk in the world of the living.

He stayed quietly in the underworld, fighting wits and courage with the ancestors of the six kingdoms who were hunting him down.

But right now,
Fusu arrived at Longxi, a place that had been plagued by wars.

There is no famous general like Meng Tian around me.

How could the First Emperor not be worried?

He had to come and see!
But when he arrived in Longxi,
Although he knew that the living could not see the dead, and that the latter could even ignore obstacles and pass through walls, he still couldn't help but hesitate outside the tent where Fusu was staying.

The ghost said to him, "If you had expressed your feelings before, why would you be so awkward now?"

The First Emperor just remained silent.

at this point,

What else is there to say?
He continued to hesitate, with his own twisted expression on his face.

"What a dead look!"

Seeing that Ying Zheng still looked homesick, the unbearable ghosts and gods stretched out their tangible big hands and pushed him.

"Come in you!"

(End of this chapter)