In the fifth year of the Han Dynasty, at the beginning of April, the political affairs hall formally proposed to the Great Council the battle plan for attacking Qin, which was immediately approved, and the Great Council issued a notice to the world to attack Qin, and the Han Daily and Jicheng Evening News reported this battle plan with huge headlines.

The Last Battle!

The last step of the Han Dynasty's domination of the world was finally taken heavily.

On April 5, the Great Council proposed that Emperor Gao Yuan of the Han Dynasty be the commander of the attack on Qin, commanding more than 400,000 troops on the three routes.

On 6 April, Gao Yuan generously accepted the appointment of the Grand Council, dressed in military uniform and swore an oath in front of the Grand Council Square.

After the destruction of Chu, the Han war machine, which had been suspended for several months, rumbled again.

Shannan County, Helanxiong of the Third Military Region from north to south, Sanchuan County, Meng Chong of the Second Military Region, Ye Zhen launched an attack from south to north, and in the direction of Hangu Pass, Xu Yuan once again gathered all the troops of the First Military Region, sharpened his sword, and prepared to attack Hangu Pass. In the territory of Great Qin, the Bashu rebel army, controlled by the Han Chinese, continued to launch wave after wave of attacks against the new army of Qin to which Bai Qi belonged, trying to drag the other party in the Bashu region and prevent the other party's attempt to return to Xianyang.

And at this time, the Qin State, but because Xuanyiwei was destroyed in Wulong, after the southern border army surrendered to the Han Dynasty, went to the new Qin, Wang Changyong led a main force and the whole army was annihilated in the prairie, a huge Qin State, at this time there was only a new army of 50,000 people in Baiqi, Xu Yahua still had nearly 100,000 garrison troops in Hangu Pass and Xianyang Luchao's subordinate troops, adding up to less than 200,000 people, the Great Qin Dynasty, which had been powerful in the past, was falling into an extremely embarrassing situation at the moment.

The gap with the Han army is all-round, especially after so many elite troops were annihilated one by one, anyone can see that the Qin State is already desperate, when the Han Empire issued the order for a general attack. The fall of the Qin State has already begun to enter the countdown time.

Since the beginning of the year, Lu Chao has issued a general ******, and men over 14 years old and under 60 years old in the Qin State have concentrated in Xianyang, and for several months, they have been on the road to Xianyang. Crowded with these old and young people with their own rudimentary weapons and food on their backs, they embarked on the journey to Xianyang, where by the beginning of April, hundreds of thousands of people had been assembled, and many more were still trudging on the road.

This is the last battle, and this is a crucial battle for the existence of the Qin state.

The mighty crowd walked deep and shallow in the Qin rain, and it was a peasant contingent of as many as seven or eight thousand people, all around them. Wandering around is hundreds of horses of the Qin army regular army, they are from Yunzhong County, after receiving the order of Xianyang, Yunzhong County guard tried his best to respond to Lu Chao's call, personally organized people and horses, personally led the team to Xianyang, this is only the first batch, more is still to come. This batch is at the forefront. All are strong, or combat-experienced personnel.

Yunzhong County guards horses and learns silver. He is the backbone of the Li school, and he knows very well that once the Qin State is defeated and Lu Chao fails, it means that the Li School will be swept into the garbage heap of history, and the Jiang scholarship pursued by the Han State is completely contrary to the Li scholarship of the Qin State. Once they fail, people like them will inevitably end up no better.

So even if it's for himself, even if it's a trapped beast, he has to fight to the death. The strategy of Lu Chao. Ma Xueyin also deeply agreed, instead of dividing troops to fight with the Han State everywhere, and then failing everywhere, it is better to concentrate all the forces to have a decisive battle, victory is the sky is high and the sea is wide, defeat is nothing, it is more desperate than being eaten away little by little.

Yunzhong County is the hinterland of Qin, and it is also a place with better economic conditions in Qin, where it has always been regarded as an old Qin person, Ma Xueyin decided to do his best, so he found the treasury, took out all the grain, gold and silver inside, and distributed it to the young Zhuang who gathered together, all the way to Xianyang.

It's just that God doesn't bless people, not long after departure, the continuous spring rain will come unexpectedly, the roads are muddy, the spring cold hits people, along the way, the sick, the stragglers, countless. The tens of thousands of people at the time of departure, after walking for half a month, have disappeared a small half.

Yao Laogen is one of them, unlike the enthusiasm of the county guard Ma Xueyin, Yao Laogen is disheartened, he is a veteran, served in the Qin army for many years, and only retired at the age of fifty to return to his home to farm, he originally thought that he would not die in a catastrophe, and he could spend a stable old age, but he did not expect that the court ordered that he was already over fifty years old, and had to return to the army.

He fought with the Han army, which was the biggest nightmare in his life, and it was said that the Qin people were the army of tigers and wolves, but only after fighting with the Han army did he know what the real army of tigers and wolves was, and what was the real indomitable. Those well-armed Han soldiers, armed almost to the teeth, were like groups of fierce tigers on the battlefield, wantonly tearing at their opponents, making anyone who was their enemy shudder. The war between Qin and Han has never been won in Yao Laogen's memory.

At that time, he was in the army, but the real old Qin troops were the essence of the Qin State, they were not opponents, could it be that these peasants who had just put down their hoes and taken up arms now could be the opponents of those well-trained killing machines?

Yao Laogen is not afraid of death, he has been in the army for so many years, and he can still go home alive, he is used to seeing life and death, what makes him angry is that this time the imperial court actually issued a full ******, over fourteen years old, under sixty years old, his family of four men, all within this range, the youngest son is just fourteen years old this year, even if he pleads to the official, it will be useless, even if he takes off his clothes and reveals the scars all over his body, to show his contribution to Daqin, In exchange for only the officer's merciless horsewhip.

Go, or die!

This is the choice given to them by the imperial court.

The four men of the Yao family bid farewell to their families with tears, and in the tears of their wives and children, they took up arms and walked out of the house, gathering in the flow of people in the cries of the whole village.

The only set of leather armor in the family, which he put on his fourteen-year-old son's body, although it is a little older, it is better than nothing, and in the whole team, there are few people like him who still have a set of leather armor. Dressed in thin clothes and carrying rudimentary weapons, everyone set out to advance. Yao Laogen noticed that there were not even archers or crossbowmen in this team.

As a veteran, he had no hope at all for this war.

"No matter what, when the time comes, we must keep Xiao San alive!" He summoned his two older sons and addressed them. The eldest and second are all adults, marrying wives and having children, only the third is still a doll!

Walking in the mud with one foot deep and one foot shallow, straw sandals are lifted in his hands, playing barefoot, so that it is easier to walk, from time to time someone falls to the ground, causing chaos, where is this like an army, this is a fleeing refugee!

Holding his youngest son tightly in his hand, Yao Laogen was completely in a state of numbness, the eldest and second were one after the other, tightly guarding them to prevent them from getting separated, fighting brothers, going into battle father and son, the family got together, and there was a response at any time!

At last came the sound of the commanders ordering a rest, and almost at the same time everyone breathed a sigh of relief, looking for a slightly dry place, sitting or lying, with no hope in sight on their pale faces.

"Rest for half an hour, eat, and then hit the road." The officer who swept by on horseback roared loudly. Before leaving, each person was given about thirty catties of dry food, which was their consumption on the road, and the county guard said that as long as they arrived in Xianyang, there would be a big bowl of wine and a big bowl of meat to supply them, the warriors of King Qin, but Yao Laogen knew that this was nothing more than a scam. If all parts of the country are now concentrating on Xianyang like them, and when they get to Xianyang, I don't know how many people will be gathered, how much food can be in Xianyang, how can everyone be fed, I am afraid that when the time comes, even the supply of food will become a problem.

Because of these experiences, Yao Laogen has a very strict control over his family's food, unlike other people, who eat without moderation at all, because of the continuous spring rains, the speed of travel has been greatly slowed down, and the original plan has been broken, and many people's grain bags are no longer much left, but I am afraid that if they go to Xianyang, the grain bags will be empty.

The four members of the Yao family have only eaten half of the supply now, and although they are not full every day, they still have surplus food.

He took out a dough from his pocket, tore half of it and gave it to his younger son, and then divided the other half in half and gave it to his two eldest sons, but he didn't eat it, but put the hand that had just torn the dough in his mouth and licked it.

"Daddy, you eat!" The younger son tore half of his bread and handed it to his father.

Yao Laogen touched his youngest son's head lovingly: "You eat, Daddy is not hungry." When you are growing your body, you can't afford to lose money, otherwise you will fall ill. Eat, eat and rest for a while. I'm going to have to go in a minute! ”

The ignorant old man swallowed half of the bread in two bites, and for a person of his age, this ration could only barely quench his hunger. After eating the cake, he pillowed his head on Yao Laogen's lap, and soon fell asleep, stroking his youngest son's head, looking at the spear that was much higher than him, Yao Laogen sighed.

Several sons fell asleep, but Yao Laogen couldn't sleep. Will you be able to make it home alive? These days, he's been thinking about this question is, run? It was not that he did not think about the consequences of escaping, and along the way, from time to time, bloody human heads were carried back and forth by those officers and soldiers on horseback, and the consequences had been revealed.

Looking at the puddle of water not far in front of him, Yao Laogen was at a loss.

The water in the puddle suddenly rippled, and the circles of water ripples expanded outward, and Yao Laogen's hairs stood up all of a sudden, and he suddenly woke up his younger son, and at the same time as the youngest son wiped his eyes, Yao Laogen heard a tremor like thunder from afar.

The cavalry is coming!

(School has just started, I'm too busy with work, and I'm running at the school below all day, so I really don't have time to write, so I'm sorry for this chapter today.) (To be continued.) )