Winter has arrived, and the smoke of beacons everywhere in the world has fallen into a brief silence.

The beacon fire on the battlefield stopped, and some of the various forces began to lurk and lick their wounds, some took advantage of the temporary halt of the war to frequently mobilize troops, and some seized the time to sort out their internal affairs.

As the first target of Qin's attack, Zhao lost all of Taiyuan and part of Dangjun, Zhao Wangxi ordered 500,000 troops to be recruited, and at the same time constantly sent envoys to various countries to continue to ask for help.

The expansion of the Yan Kingdom in the northeast has naturally stopped with the arrival of winter, and they have completely entered the peninsula, close to the modern "38th parallel" position. On the other hand, the competition between Yan and Qi in Guangyang County is still continuing.

In Guangyang County, Yan had 50,000 troops, led by Zang Di, the general of Yan State; The State of Qi also had an army of 50,000, and the commander of the Qi army was the clan Tiandu. In addition to Qi and Yan, an armed force of about 80,000 people with a leader named Chen Sheng also occupied Zhuo County and Fanyang County. The small Guangyang County became the so-called three-legged stand for a while.

In addition to stationing troops on the side of Guangyang County, a Qi army of 70,000 people still stayed at the border of Huiji County. In addition to the two Qi armies with 120,000 troops with their own tasks, there are also more than 200,000 Qi troops who are constantly training in various places. The number of Qi's army reaching 320,000 in just half a year seems to be insufficient, and all parts of Qi are still recruiting soldiers on a large scale. It is reported that the king of Qi had made great ambitions to build an army of millions, and the slogan shouted was to avenge Qin's annihilation of the country.

However, the military is only one part of the many movements of the Qi State, and the agriculture, commerce, and industry among the Qi people are also developing at an astonishing speed, and it is foreseeable that the Qi State will definitely be one of the great powers in the future.

The situation of the state of Chu after the defeat of Xiang Liang is not very good, there is the threat of the Qi army in the north, and then the Surabaya County that has just been obtained has become an enclave, and there is also the revenge that Lu Zhe will definitely have behind in the south.

Xiang Liang was defeated, and Xiang's prestige in the Chu State would inevitably be damaged. In this state of affairs. Some people who dared to be angry but didn't dare to speak out before began to have courage, so how could the court of Chu State not be in constant disputes?

On the Qin side, after capturing parts of Taiyuan County and Dang County, with the truce in winter, Wang Ben and Xu Yan were each consolidating the territory they occupied. In the rear, while the Xianyang center stepped up the recruitment of troops, some ordnance materials were also transferred to the main force of Wang Ben's division Xu Yan.

It looks like the Qin State is stormy, but her interior is calm. In the past, some people would have doubted whether the First Emperor was right to wait for the ugliness to appear, but seeing so many people jumping out in just half a year, who couldn't see how big the torrent that was hidden in the shadows before was.

The courtiers of the Qin State saw that all the newly occupied territories had been lost within half a year. There were so many rebellions that jumped out, and each one was scared out of a cold sweat. The First Emperor can unify the world once and can do it a second time, they began to feel that the early indulgence may be correct, otherwise the First Emperor is still alive like this, if the First Emperor returns to the sky, the next emperor will succeed to the throne and the world will be like this, and they don't know if they have the ability to quell the rebellion.

The internal peace of the Qin State is naturally supported by the prestige of the First Emperor, but the prestige can subdue the internal but cannot prevent the increasingly difficult environment of the Qin State.

In addition to the current Qin State to sweep down the rebellion in the Central Plains, the situation in the north is becoming more and more severe, and the head of the Xiongnu, Mandanyu, has decided to go south. This time, the Xiongnu gathered 300,000 Hu people in the steppe, aiming directly at the Hetao, while the Great Wall Legion of the Qin State was repeatedly transferred to participate in the suppression of the rebellion in the Central Plains, and the Great Wall Legion that was originally close to 300,000 was less than 150,000.

After Meng Tian received the news that the grassland Hu people were about to invade the south, he continued to ask the First Emperor to recruit troops, but the Qin State now had to deal with a lot of wars. How can there be troops to supplement the shortage of the Great Wall Army. Under Meng Tian's repeated advice, the First Emperor ordered Zhang Han to reorganize 30,000 prisoners from Shaofu, and the Great Wall Army that received these 30,000 prisoners was only 180,000.

The border in the north is too long, and Meng Tian, who has only 180,000 troops, said pessimistically to the eldest son Fusu more than once. There are too many places that the Great Wall Army needs to defend, and once the grassland Hu people go south, I am afraid they will not be able to defend it, and it would be good if the Huns were willing to fight a decisive battle. The Xiongnu were reluctant to take multiple routes in the decisive battle, and the war would extend to the territory of Shangjun.

The Central Plains and the northern border are not all the war zones of the Qin State, and the Shu County side has not reported good news for a long time, and the latest news reported to Xianyang is that the Qin army was defeated in Moshui, and the Qiang and Baiyue people entered Yandao County, causing a tragic situation of human suffering.

Those are still things on the surface, and there is also a force that the Qin State is silent but has to deal with, a group of people led by Lu Zhe. This force still carries the banner of the Qin State, but it is a real rebellion.

After Lu Zhe accepted the edict of the first emperor, he waved nearly 400,000 troops to attack the state of Chu, and many people were stunned when the news reached Xianyang.

According to many people's opinions, the canonization of rebellion in Great Qin is a measure to delay the army, and Lu Zhe's rebellious acceptance of the edict is also to get a chance to breathe, no one has thought that Lu Zhe will really act according to the edict's orders after accepting the edict, and Lu Zhe should develop after accepting the edict?

As early as a year ago, no one knew which onion Lu Zhe was, but in the past year, there has been a lot of news about Lu Zhe, and the first time people heard rumors about Lu Zhe was in the twenty-eighth year of the First Emperor (219 BC), when they heard that Lu Zhe led less than 40,000 remnants to defeat 100,000 Baiyue, and those who heard it thought they had heard it wrong.

Baiyue took advantage of the fact that Qin did not pay attention to the continuous northern invasion of the south, and the Baiyue people in Qianzhong County and Changsha County were once more than the Chinese, and Qianzhong County was occupied by the entire Baiyue County in the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor (221 BC), so the Qin people were not ignorant of the Baiyue people.

Originally, Nanjun was infiltrated by Baiyue and riots broke out, and Lu Zhe stood up to clean up the mess, which was not a bad thing for the Qin State, after Lu Zhe successfully pacified the Nanjun, the Qin court also thought about rewarding heavily.

Later, Lu Zhe was unexpected and reasonable, he actually implemented autonomy in Nanjun, and to be honest, Qin Guo was prepared accordingly for this.

The army is full of remnants of the Six Kingdoms, and these remnants hate Great Qin to the core, is it possible that they will have a good impression of Great Qin? In fact, Lu Zhe was only autonomous, and he did not immediately wave the army to Qindi, which is already good news in bad news.

There is a saying that you can't help yourself, the environment in which Lu Zhe is located and the composition of the members under his command are already destined to take the path, but although it is said that rebellion is always rebellion, so there will be a matter of waving 150,000 troops south to attack Lu.

The 150,000 Qin army went south, and in the eyes of many people, it would be a situation that would destroy the ancient and decaying land, but Lu Zhe, who had risen for a short time, once again brought an accident to the people of the world.

Lu Zhe defeated the Qin army, and besieged the Qin army with very little loss, I have to say that no one would have thought that this situation would be like this before it happened.

In the eyes of many people, the two interviews of the Qin State, Wang Ben's road should be more difficult, and Sima Xin's way should be the only one, after all, Wang Ben is facing the newly restored Zhao State with the corresponding background, and Sima Xin said that Lu Zhe who was conscripted has no background at all.

The result? Whether it is a natural disaster or a man-made disaster, the 150,000 Qin army is not only difficult to go south, but if it is not for an edict, it may be completely eaten, how can it not be stunned, it is precisely after Lu Zhe's victory over the 150,000 Qin army that the world recognized the rise of Lu Zhe in the south.

Not many people know what was written in the edict of the first emperor, but when the reward was awarded, it was spread in the back, and people found out that Lu Zhe was just a small tun chief a year ago, and in less than a year, he not only became a prince, but also a general of the southern army.

In a year's time, from obscurity to the world's knowledge, such a thing is like a dream, but it really happened.

When people were still surprised by Lu Zhe's achievements in one year, they had not yet come to their senses, and Lu Zhe did another surprising thing within a month after accepting the edict.

What was written in the edict of the First Emperor? Why did Lu Zhe wave his army to attack Chu after receiving the edict? Is Lu Zhe returning to Great Qin?

The rumor spread by Xiang Liang's order was that the First Emperor ordered Lü Zhe to attack the nations, and that Chu was only the first target to be attacked, followed by the rest of the kingdoms.

Seeing that Lu Zhe really sent troops to the Chu State, the countries once believed the rumors spread by Xiang Liang, but after Lu Zhe defeated Xiang Liang, he had the opportunity to sweep the Chu State but did not do so, which made people wonder a lot.

What exactly does Lu Zhe want to do? A series of questions were born in the minds of countless people, and those questions had not been thought through thoroughly, and the news of Lu Zhe's victory over Xiang Liang and his invasion of Chu Guozhang County spread all over the world again.

If it is said that Lü Zhe occupied Nanjun and took advantage of the situation to expand Qianzhong County and Hengshan County, then defeating the Qin army and defeating Xiang Liang to enter Huizhang County is the strength that Lü Zhe showed.

Unknowingly, Lu Zhe relied on a series of victories to announce his rise, and those who thought that Lu Zhe was just relying on luck or forces, when they came to their senses, they had to admit that Lu Zhe was already the strongest person in the south after occupying the five southern counties. is the strongest, there is no such thing as "one".

What kind of luck can make a person go from obscurity to a hegemon in a year? Too many people have this question.

No matter what kind of luck it is, it is already a fact that Lu Zhe owns five counties in the south.

Some people seriously analyzed the situation in the world, the Qin State had no time to look south, so it could only appease Lu Zhe and prevent him from attacking Qin, and the Chu State could not threaten Lu Zhe even if it was half-crippled, and the only thing that could pose a threat to the rise of Lu Zhe was Baiyue, who continued to invade the north.

The rise of Lu Zhe has been unshaken in a short period of time, and some people who have not found an opportunity to be in the world are also considering whether to go to Nanjun to try their luck, among which there are already many people who have set off to the south, such as Shusun Tong is one of them.

Many people were staring at Lu Zhe with wide eyes to see what kind of move he would take next. (To be continued......)