Chapter 677: People's Heart (II)
The human heart is an extremely strange thing, once it is determined what will make a difference, so the human heart is always difficult to understand.
The strong rise of the Han State, the countries are all in a decline in attrition, about this point may not be in power may only be vague, the more powerful people see it more clearly.
After the Han army went north, the offensive was to blow the offensive and beat the seemingly powerful Qi State to the ground in an instant, but the dispatch of three legions of 150,000 regular soldiers (soldiers) is such a situation, and the Han army not only has three legions of 150,000 main forces, it is the six legions of the National Defense Army that have already shown their numbers, as well as the northern garrison and the central forbidden army have not joined the battlefield, and there is also a southern expeditionary army that has been fighting in the south for four or five years.
How many soldiers did the Han army have? The nations have known that there are no less than 600,000. In addition to the 600,000 soldiers, there were also very large second-line auxiliaries, and the third-line troops could be assembled at least 2 million at any time because they were obliged to have (quarterly) troops.
Judging from the previous battles, the combat effectiveness of the legions under the establishment of the Han National Defense Force has been shown to be strong, and the facts have proved that the armies of the countries are not opponents at all.
The Han State not only had a corps under the establishment of the National Defense Army, but also the Northern Garrison Army, which was originally subordinate to the Gongwei, was an old name from the beginning, and the forbidden army directly under the king was also formed by selecting warriors from various armies.
At present, it is only the Han National Defense Force that has joined the war in the north, so that the Qi State can lose the ability to block within half a year, and Han Wangzhe personally led 100,000 forbidden troops to the north......
Han Guang's corps was unable to break through the defense line of the second and third mixed corps of the Han army, and after Zang Tu succumbed to the Han state, he went to Han Guang's side to add another puzzle.
Zang Tu and Han Guang were the actual controllers of the Yan State, and if Zang Tu felt that there was no hope of stopping Han Wangzhe, he must have been able to persuade Han Guang to return to Han to seek new development; Tian Rong's corps also surrendered because of the lack of food, which was the news that Tian Rong personally informed.
There are still more than 200,000 Xiongnu allies in Qin, as well as 100,000 Qi troops and 50,000 Yan troops, but Qin is thousands of miles away from Linzi, what hope is there for the Qi country where the Han army is constantly approaching?
"There's nothing left for Qi Guo." Lu Zheqi straddled the war horse. The body swayed rhythmically with the hooves of the horses under the seat.
They were originally going to Mount Tai, but because of some changes on the way to Zang Di, Lu Zhe was unable to go to Mount Tai recently to see the Fengzen platform built by the First Emperor.
Will Zang Di be going to persuade Han Guang to surrender as he himself said? Under the premise that the hard power of the Han State can sweep away a qiē obstacle, Lu Zhe actually has a mentality of not caring about this.
The development of events has made the people of the world have a consensus, especially in the Han State's achievements in dealing with the occupied land, an idea of the return of the world to the Han does not require Lu Zhe to operate with much effort, just to guide public opinion a little, and then the statement that the world will eventually return to the Han has been widely spread and accepted.
The people's hearts are ethereal and uncertain, but the people's hearts are also the easiest to control, and the formation of public opinion about the return of the world to the Han is fermenting with the combat power expressed by the Han army. With the isolation of Linzi and the destruction of Qi Yan's southern army, Han Guang was also blocked and it was difficult to rescue Linzi, and it became easier for people to accept the idea that the world would return to Han.
Lu Zhe said that there was no hope left for Qi not only because of that, he made other arrangements before leading the army to go out, the first was 30,000 people to take ships from the coastal north, they carried out a supply at Dongmenque (later Lianyungang) in Donghai County, and then continued north into the Langxie County area and stayed at Langxitai (near Lingshan Island in later generations), and finally entered the coast of Jiaodong County and landed directly near Jiaozhou Bay in later generations.
The Fifth Cavalry Corps of the Han Army bypassed Linzi and directly entered Jiaodong County, which was to ensure the landing of this infantry army by sea. Those who don't know will naturally be confused, in fact, no one knows how it appeared until a Han army infantry appeared in Jiaodong County.
The 30,000 Han infantry troops who landed first by sea had already consolidated the beachhead in Jiaodong Bay, and the ferries that were convenient for docking were also under intense construction. However, he did not join the battle against the Han Guang Corps.
The Tian Rong Corps on the southern front surrendered, and the Han Army's Fourth Mixed Regiment, Sixth Mixed Regiment, and First Cavalry Regiment were liberated.
The 1st Cavalry Regiment stayed on the front line of Dangjun to rest after the surrender of the Tian Rong Corps, and the 6th Mixed Regiment also temporarily stopped in place when the second-line troops of the Han Dynasty took over the supervision of the surrendered Qi army, but the 4th Mixed Regiment was moving on the Surabaya line by boat through the inland water system.
Follow Lu Zhe's instructions for the latest step. Now that it has been determined that the sea can transport troops north, the Fourth Mixed Regiment should go to Dongmenque to wait, and then take a ship to take the sea and go directly to Jiaodong County. Cooperate with the Fifth Cavalry Corps to clean up the Jiaodong line.
The group of people who are complex to explore the sea route, their new mission is to explore the Bohai Sea, to find a route that can transport troops to the peninsula, and the current information they give back is to continue to find a lot of islands after continuing to go north, there is a chain of islands in one sea area, and they are already starting to land on the islands to explore, once they find a natural port that can dock, they will apply for personnel to improve the construction.
There is no problem in transporting troops along the coast by sea, but it is two different things to leave the coast for sea transportation, and Lu Zhe remembers that there are many islands in the Bohai Sea that can be docked, so he will give an order to order people to find them. The personnel in charge of the exploration did not disappoint Lu Zhe, and sure enough, they found those islands, and now the remaining problem is whether the ships built by the Han State can withstand the wind and waves of the sea, and this is still in the tense reality. If Han-made ships could leave the coast, it would take at least half a year to build a new batch of long-distance ships.
After a long conversation when Lu Zhe met Zang Di, the two talked about many topics, including the fact that Lu Zhe concealed the situation that could only become a reality after half a year, and deceived Zang Di's Han army into being able to directly transport troops from the sea to attack Liaodong.
At this point, the civil and military forces of the Han State have long had enough judgment on the situation in the world, and the Qi State is obviously powerless to return to the sky, and the four legions of the Han army can be liberated after solving the Qi State, not to mention that there are still 100,000 forbidden troops waiting.
On the entire territory, a large area of the south and most of the Central Plains has been owned by the Han State, and two-thirds of the world's largest area is under the control of the Han State, and the effective governance of the occupied areas can also digest the fruits of victory as much as possible, and no one can imagine what will change the final outcome in this situation.
Therefore, for Lu Zhe's hasty release of Zang Tu, the ministers who followed the pro-conquest also had an indifferent attitude, they knew that even if Zang Tu made Zang Di break away from Yan State and continue to resist, it would only be a long time, and they would not be able to fundamentally cause any trouble to the general trend.
"Your Majesty, over there in Qindi...... I'm afraid it's going to be a bit of a problem. The strength of the Han army made Kuaitong very less like a military advisor and more like an intelligence analyst, and what he has done the most recently is to sort out intelligence for Lu Zhe: "The contradictions between the factions within the Qin State are becoming more and more strict, and Fusu is unable to mediate. After Wang Ben's de facto independence, Xu Yan's Central Plains Army also resisted Xianyang's orders. ”
Of course, Lu Zhe knew this information, he had never carried out any conspiracy against the Qin State, but many things happened passively if they were not active, for example, a large number of clan children of the Qin State came to the Han State to develop, and after the news of the death of the First Emperor could not be covered up, the old Qin people expressed their intention to join it, and Wang Ben, who was in Yanmen later, also showed a similar attitude, and they were all waiting for Lu Zhe's reply.
Xu Yan's change was due to the surrender of Tian Rong's corps to the Han State, and he obviously felt that the situation in the world had reached this point and was no longer clear, so while contacting Lu Zhe, he also became less and less respectful of Xianyang.
Hearts of people...... It will always change with the development of the situation, and many inexplicable things have become taken for granted, what Lu Zhe has heard the most recently is the statement about the Mandate of Heaven, and he actually believes in this statement a little, after all, even such an outrageous thing can happen through the crossing, who said that there is no kind of providence in the dark?
Believing that under the "providence" of Lu Zhe, he is more and more determined that if he does not set his sights on Huaxia and become the emperor, he is already making a plan for the full restoration of people's livelihood after the war in the land of China, and the matter of sending an exploration team to explore the ocean and the Western Regions is also being planned.
Of course, Lu Zhe did not forget the alien races on the grassland north of Jì that had to be resolved, so he had already expressed a clear attitude towards accepting the old Qin people in Longxi, and those old Qin people were all very good herdsmen, which could play a considerable role in cultivating war horses in the future of the Han Kingdom.
At the same time, after Lu Zhe sent Chen Ping to Linzi, he also issued new instructions to the lieutenants.
Gongwei will contact Fusu again at the right time, and what to talk about depends on the actual development of the situation, Wang Ben will break away from Qin, Xu Yan and Lu Zhe will also break away after they negotiate, and then Qin will only be left with the force in Meng Tian's hands, and I believe that Fusu will make the right choice.
The Qin State is very troublesome and very complicated, and the situation of the Qin State is not only that there are foreign enemies approaching Xianyang, but also that the country wants to disintegrate and split on its own.
"Whether we can hold out until we finish solving the Qi country, and then lead the army to cut off the return route of the Xiongnu and other Hu people, is really unknown." That's what Kuaitong said.
"Hmm......" Lu Zhe looked a little absent-minded, and replied casually: "Chen Ping told me that he was arranging in Linzi, and it was very likely that the Tian family would kill each other." ”
Kuai Tong nodded, he is qualified to know those things, that is the complex relationship within the Tian clan, when the Qi country is strong, it is covered up, but at the moment when the Qi country is obviously unable to hold on, the complex relationship will evolve into a contradiction, Chen Ping will deceive him according to the actual situation, the Qi family is really quite likely to break out into a civil war. (To be continued......)