Qin has never been a conformist country, because she has been discovering shortcomings and improving step by step to become stronger, so the concept of conformism is almost non-existent.

The nations have been saying that Qin is a country of tigers and wolves, what is a tiger wolf? Isn't it the land of beasts? A country without the laws of its ancestors is always incomprehensible, and it is even more hostile if it does not accept constraints and observe some universal values.

In various respects, it seems that the Qin State does not follow the rules and is always changing, so it improves its shortcomings and tries to become stronger, has this side been looked at by the other countries?

The nations must know that they can try to be strong when they find shortcomings, but they are different from the Qin state, the Qin state has that determination, and the kings and ministers of the Qin state can compromise with each other, but the conservative power of the countries is too big.

Of course, that was talking about the past, now that the nations are all restored after the destruction, and the conservative forces have almost become ashes in the catastrophe with the destruction of the countries that have been destroyed once, and now can be said to be the best time to change the law and become strong.

Li Si, the court lieutenant of the Qin State, was demoted from the court, as long as the eyes were not blind to a certain extent, the countries would definitely be able to see that the Qin State was changing again, and some of the more perceptive people could see more from the intention of the First Emperor to make Lu Zhe king, but they were not sure whether it was the Qin State confusing people or playing really.

Who is Lees? From the moment he wrote the "Book of Exhortations to the Guest", he was destined to be a figure in history, and he has been relied on by the First Emperor since then. After dominating the world, Li Si was the biggest advocate of "centralization" and fully promoted the concept of "integrating all power into one person". If there was no secret instruction from the First Emperor, would Li Si dare to do this? Obviously, without the nod of the First Emperor, Li Si would never dare to implement such an unprecedented national policy.

It is no secret that the First Emperor is seriously ill, and it is precisely when the nations know the news that they will appear to be so unscrupulous in attacking Qin. At this juncture, Li Si was demoted from the central government by the First Emperor, is that Qin State releasing some signal and coming up with a good plan to try to reverse this decline?

Zhao was raided, and Pu lost more than 70,000 soldiers in the battle. Grain and many supplies were even more heavily lost when they were raided.

The Qi Yan coalition army rushed to the rescue, but they did not expect to encounter the ambush of the Qin army in a row, and on the same day, they were severely damaged by the unified Qin army led by Su Jiao, and the number of Qi Yan soldiers who were killed and captured reached an astonishing more than 100,000.

The disadvantage of the first battle was the most demoralizing, and under a series of defeats, the coalition army lost 200,000 troops in less than five days, which can only be described as gloomy and bleak.

How many 200,000 soldiers can the coalition army lose? Not to mention the food and supplies that were burned during the raid, which planted the shadow in the hearts of the generals of the coalition army that the battle might be lost.

It was precisely because many of the materials prepared were burned in the raid that the three kingdoms of Qi, Yan, and Zhao would go to Lu Zhe to buy a huge amount of materials, and if it weren't for the heavy loss of materials, the purchase volume would definitely not be so large.

"Su Jiao really deserves to be a strong general in the Northland. The person named Zhang Han was originally the Shaofu who managed the treasury of the Qin Imperial Family, but he didn't expect to have such a great talent in the use of soldiers. Under the attack of the whole world. The good generals of the Qin State have come out repeatedly, is it really the immortal tyranny of Qin? Lone didn't believe that a small setback could cut off the heart of our coalition army to fight, but he also asked the kings and generals to cheer up. Yan Wangxia's tone was very low, but there was a little less sighing, as if he was ready to go.

Zhao Wangxie's face was extremely gloomy: "There is official news that the tyrannical Qin has armed the slaves of Shaofu, and has concentrated manpower from the Great Wall, Lishan, and various straight roads, and will organize an army of at least 600,000 people in half a year." ”

There was never a shortage of people in the roster of the Qin Shaofu, but most of them were prisoners of war captured from the Six Kingdoms in the War of Unification. There were also quite a few prisoners who had broken the law everywhere, and there were even slave families who had been slaves for generations. It would have been difficult for these people to have a chance to be free, but this time the Qin state set a "precedent", that is, to allow slaves to be used in the army. In exchange for freedom.

Chen Yu continued Zhao Wangxie's words and said: "Part of the Qin army that raided our army was the army composed of those Shaofu slaves, although these people were less rigorous than the Qin army had always been in battle, but their courage not to fear death was much higher than that of the normal Qin army, and they should be a strong enemy. ”

For the time being, no one knows what promises Qin made to form an army of slaves and prisoners. But judging from the fact that these people were so fearless of death after forming an army, it is not just as simple as exchanging their military exploits for freedom.

"How many slaves and prisoners are there in Qin?" Qi Wangdan's tone was quite calm, but he looked at the hand that kept loosening and clenching. The heart is never as it appears to be.

Everyone, including Chen Yu, was dumbfounded for a while......

Since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the land of China has been in a state of "no war for a day", and the Qin State is located in the northwest frontier all the way to the east, and the number of wars with the Central Plains countries cannot be counted. Prisoners of war inevitably appeared in every battle, and the Qin State always rewarded the captured prisoners of war to the soldiers participating in the war, or sold them by the government to the people, or accepted them as slaves registered by the government. The nations have been at war for hundreds of years, and after accumulating generation after generation, who can calculate how many slaves there are in the Qin State? As for the prisoners, who here doesn't know that Qin's laws are strict, and the number of prisoners doesn't need to be thought about to know where it will go.

"The number of registered Qianshou (free people) of the Qin State has exceeded five million last year. It seems that in the third year before the unification, Wang Juan presided over the counting of registered (civil) slaves and official slaves, and the total number of slaves at that time had reached four million. Chen Yu's face turned blue as he spoke: "In the first stage, an army of 600,000 slaves can be formed, and in the second stage, there should be 300,000 ...... in half."

By the way, it must be noted that whether it is the Qin State or the other countries, their total population will not count slaves. In other words, the "countrymen" and "free people" of the Qin State are already more than five million, and counting the increasing number of slaves, in fact, the total number of people that the Qin State can use has exceeded 10 million. According to the current concept of four out of one to become a soldier, if the Qin State is fully mobilized, it will be an ironclad matter to organize an army of two million people.

The largest number of troops mobilized during the battle of the unification of the Qin State was only 800,000, and now listening to Chen Yuchu's calculations, the number of slaves and prisoners organized by the Qin State alone was at least 900,000, and the people who heard it were all unusually ugly.

Maybe it's too scary, and Zang Di, who was exchanged by Yan Wang Xia for a cart of beautiful jade from Lu Zhe, couldn't help but say: "Recently, I have been chatting with Lu Hou a lot, and I once talked about the past of King Wen's war......

In fact, Lu Zhe had never chatted with Zang Di at all, and Zang Di was talking about an allusion through Lu Zhe's prestige. This allusion is that King Wen raised only tens of thousands of troops, but he easily defeated the million-strong slave army of King Wen, and used this history to boost the morale of the increasingly low morale.

Wise people are very tempted to say something, the slave army of the king of Qin and the slave army of the Qin state are not the same thing, and the slave soldiers of the king of the state will not have any reward for their meritorious service, let alone restore their free body, but the state of Qin has obviously negotiated a set of reward systems that make the slaves fight hard, and if you use the slave army of the king of the Qin to look at the combat effectiveness of the slave army of the Qin state, it will definitely suffer a big loss.

However, even if they knew that they couldn't talk about it, no one would mention it, but they would strongly agree with what Zang Di said, and come up with some practical examples to prove it.

Zang Di talked about Lu Zhe, and their topic involuntarily turned to Lu Zhe.

The nations successively sent envoys to prevent Lü Zhe from continuing to lead his army close to the place of battle, but persuading Lü Zhe to lead his army back was explicitly refused.

Now the coalition forces still have a total strength of nearly 800,000 after many strikes, and the Qin side has lost some and still has a small 180,000. It stands to reason that 800,000 to 180,000 is more than a four-to-one ratio, how to say that the winning side should be very large, but the kings and generals of the countries who are biased and know the Qin army's battle show their crazy fighting intentions do not think that this battle will be won.

In the final analysis, the nations have been re-established, and they have all reorganized their armies, but many of the newly formed armies are people who have only recently been assembled, and the number of soldiers who have actually trained for more than half a year is not too many. In modern terms, it is one "peasant army" after another, and it is not at all a "regular army" in terms of combat effectiveness and organization.

What about the Qin State? The Qin state has always been a militaristic state, most notably the system of cultivation and warfare established by the Shang monarchs. Before the Qin State changed its national policy, whether it was the nobles, officials, the army, and the capital of Guizhou, they suffered different blows, which made the Qin army's belligerence decline to the lowest point in history, but the foundation of the Qin army was still there, as long as the Qin State changed its mistakes, it would soon be able to regain the belligerence and tenacity of the soldiers.

No one clearly says that wars are fought not by numbers, but this truth should be known except for fools and self-deception. It is precisely because they discovered this that their minds could not be improved, and they were worried about the unpredictable victory over the defeat.

800,000 against 180,000 is still unpredictable, and a large part of this mentality is also due to Lu Zhe's beating of the Qi Yan coalition army too badly in the hunting, which further deepened their doubts about their own combat effectiveness, which can be regarded as an indirect damage effect, right?

"No matter what, we have to fight," Qi Wang Dan first set a tone, and then asked with little confidence: "If you don't quickly divide the victory and defeat, transfer the army from the back to form a stalemate, and wait for the Huns to go south, is there a chance to change the situation?" ”

Zhao Wangxi said: "Yes, and the probability is not small. After all, Tou Mandan then wanted to directly threaten Xianyang, as long as Xianyang was attacked, the military spirit of the Qin army everywhere would inevitably be shaken. That's our chance to defeat the Qin army in front of us! ”

It looked very exciting, but they were all worried about another problem in their hearts, Qin Jun had a way to deal with it, but what about Lu Zhe? What should Lu Zhe do over there? (To be continued......)