Chapter Thirty-Seven: Xuanwu Army!
Seeing that the thing he was most worried about finally appeared, Zhao Xie's heart suddenly relaxed and calmed down, and his teeth were not ringing.
After two "whoosh" sounds, the carriage fell silent again.
And there was no pain as expected. "Am I dead?" , Zhao Xie opened his eyes suspiciously.
"Whew! I thought you were just a waste, but I didn't expect you to be a stupid waste! A sneer with a thick disdain suddenly sounded in front of Zhao Xie.
Zhao Xie was startled when he heard this familiar voice, only to realize that he didn't know when the ropes that had bound him had been broken.
It turned out that he didn't just want to kill me, he just cut the rope.
"I really can't figure it out, I don't know what she's thinking about so much waste for you stupid and stupid!"
For this person who called him a sin and said that he was a wreck, Zhao Xie said that if he was not angry, it must be false, how to say that he has also been the king of Zhao for a few days. But although he was angry in his heart, Zhao Xie didn't dare to show it.
At this moment, when I heard the "she" in the mouth of this sin, I immediately understood that the sin was ordered to save herself.
"Who is he?" Zhao Xie didn't know where he got the courage to ask.
As if he hadn't heard Zhao Xie's words at all, he leaned against the wall of the carriage in a comfortable position and closed his eyes again. completely treated Zhao Xie on the side as air.
Zhao Xie couldn't wait for a response for a long time, opened his mouth a few times, and finally didn't have the courage to speak again, carefully rubbed his bound numb arm, curled up in the corner of the carriage, and stopped talking.
The carriage fell silent.
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Hu Hai received the letter from Julu from Julu again, and it was already the third day of the fifth month.
After listening to Yingyi read Meng Tian's letter, Hu Hai did not speak, and his fingers were not in a hurry, not slowly, not lightly or heavily, and clasped the copper case in front of him.
Meng Tian searched the whole city overnight to no avail. The next day, on the morning of the first day of the fifth month, the Jiuyuan army found the rope used in the city of sin, but they were already unable to catch up. In one night, a fast horse is enough to gallop more than 100 miles.
Shi Ze also entered the city in the morning and reported to Meng Tian about the sneak attack that occurred at night in the camp outside the city.
There were not many people who sneaked attack, at most more than ten people. However, before he could get close to the camp, he was discovered by the secret outpost, and after more than a dozen black-clad people with masks killed the dark post, they shot dozens of rockets at the camp with strong crossbows.
When Shi Ze arrived with the army, he only found two corpses of the secret sentinel, both of which were killed with one sword. The battalion did not suffer any losses because of the warning from the sentry and the lack of rockets.
Soon after Meng Tian received the news that the thieves had slipped down the city wall from the Jiuyuan Army, he received an edict from Hu Hai.
Regarding the cremation, Meng Tian and the Jiuyuan Army did not reject it, but the only thing that made Meng Tian uneasy was that Hu Hai would come to Julu in person a month later, which could not help but worry him.
At present, Julu has just been re-annexed, and there are still three counties in the land of the four counties of Julu County that have not returned to Daqin. Although it is said that Li Zuoche and other thieves have been ambushed at the moment, they ran away from Zhao Wang Xie and forced out a huge Zhao force hidden in the shadows.
And the reason why this old Zhao force killed the rest of the old Zhao remnants was that in addition to the fact that it was difficult for them to escape, it obviously also had the intention of controlling Zhao Xie alone and putting Zhao Xie on the throne again.
As a result, Shandong and other places have obviously not really returned to calm, and may even be chaotic again.
Under such circumstances, His Majesty the Emperor of Great Qin came to the chaotic and dangerous Shandong in person, and it is conceivable that these rebellious remnants of the old Zhao clan and even other hidden forces would definitely assassinate Hu Hai at all costs.
Once Hu Hai is assassinated, even if nothing happens, it will definitely cause turmoil in the entire Great Qin, and maybe even affect the Guanzhong land that has just settled down now.
Therefore, after receiving Hu Hai's edict, Meng Tian ordered people to sort out the list of corpses of the fallen soldiers, and secretly visited the bereaved families of the deceased Zhao everywhere; On the one hand, he sent a letter to Hu Hai and resolutely disagreed with Hu Hai's visit to Julu.
Such a major thing happened to Julu in one day and one night, it can be said that it was really unexpected by Hu Hai.
Originally, he always thought that there were four of his biggest enemies in this Great Qin: one was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, who took the lead in the uprising; One is Liu Bang; One is Xiang Yu; The last one is the barbarians of the various ethnic groups around Great Qin.
Unexpectedly, the butterfly effect was so widespread, the wings were flapped twice, and history quietly deviated from the track.
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang are gone, and Zhang Er and Chen Yu have come out; Liu Bang, the final victor of the Qin Dynasty, did not rebel, but became his own attendant Langzhong; Xiang Yu is definitely a threat, this Hu Hai is sure; The barbarians of all ethnic groups around Daqin have not yet come, and the Xiongnu have not gone south, but Ziying is gone, and Zhao Tuo's side is a little reversed; Zhao Wangxie and Li Zuoche appeared, Li Zuoche died, Zhao Wangxi fled, and a huge Zhao force hidden in the shadows came out; How many people are still hiding in the shadows? How many people are there who should not have been in history to jump out? Hu Hai didn't know.
With such a major deviation in history due to his appearance, Hu Hai suddenly found that he could no longer bring him any advantage at the moment because of the situation he had mastered from later generations.
And if you lose this advantage, what else can you have? Hu Hai asked himself.
"Your Majesty! General Weng Zhong is here outside the tent! Liu Bang walked into the big tent and bowed to Hu Hai.
After waiting for a while, Hu Hai, who was sitting in the tent, did not respond.
Liu Bang looked at Ying Yi suspiciously, and said again: "Your Majesty! General Weng Zhong is here outside the tent! ”
"Win one, pass on the edict to General Meng Tian, I have made up my mind to visit Julu in person, and ordered him to appease the people in Julu, and closely track down Zhao Xie and the old Zhao relics hiding in the shadows, and I will send Long Wei to Julu to help him." Hu Hai suddenly spoke.
"Your Majesty obeys!" Win one hurriedly bowed in response.
"Summoning the five to the camp to see me!" Hu Hai continued.
"Whoa!"
Watching Win out of the account, Hu Hai found that Liu Bang was standing below.
"Hey, Liu Aiqing has something to report?" Hu Hai asked suspiciously.
"Back to Your Majesty, General Weng Zhong will meet you outside the tent!" Liu Bang bowed down and replied when he heard Hu Hai's question.
"Oh, Weng Zhong is here, Xuan!" Only then did Hu Hai remember what he had summoned Weng Zhong to meet earlier.
Weng Zhong arrived two days ago, and the reason why he came later than Li Xin was mainly because of his huge size.
With Weng Zhong's height of one zhang and three feet (one foot = 23.1 centimeters in the Qin system, one zhang = ten feet), that is, nearly three meters in later generations, weighing four hundred catties, can only be described as a big giant.
When Hu Hai saw him for the first time, the first thing that came out was the word Hulk, no wonder he was called "Heavenly God" by the Yueshi people.
Weng Zhong's body shape and weight could not find a suitable horse for him at all, so he could only take a carriage to Xianyang. Therefore, the journey was much later than when Li Xin arrived in Xianyang.
For such a slamming down, Hu Hai hated and loved. Hate is that his height of about 1.75 meters has just reached Weng Zhong's waist and abdomen, standing in front of him is like a child, what he loves is such a sudden fall on the battlefield, it is really a husband and a man.
What's more important is that with Weng Zhong by his side, Hu Hai has a sense of security in person, what is the overlord of Chu?
After a while, Weng Zhong bent down and opened the tent and came in.
"Your Majesty, Weng Zhong, your Majesty!"
Weng Zhong bowed to Hu Hai and said like thunder, fortunately, the height of the big tent was enough, otherwise Weng Zhong would definitely have to bow down and speak all the time.
Hu Hai rubbed his ears that were numb by Weng Zhong's loud voice and said, "Weng Aiqing doesn't need to be polite. How did you choose the soldiers? ”
Weng Zhong can be said to be the best choice for the leading general of the heavy infantry, so as soon as he came to Hu Hai, he directly gave him the false name of a general of Bashang, and ordered him to select soldiers with a height of eight feet or more from the 600,000 troops of the Bashang battalion to form a heavy armored corps.
Weng Zhong looked a little embarrassed when he saw Hu Hai rubbing his ears, although he looked relatively old, his real biological age was less than twenty years old, and it could be said that he was one or two years younger than Hu Hai.
"Back to Your Majesty, the subordinates have selected a total of more than 6,000 people."
This time, Weng Zhong obviously lowered his voice a lot, making him look very uncomfortable.
"Six thousand out of 600,000?" Hu Hai said in surprise.
"Back to Your Majesty, there are only more than 6,000 people in the 600,000 army who can lift a thousand catties above eight feet. The subordinates did not dare to disobey His Majesty's order, so only 6,211 people were selected. Weng Zhong reported the accurate figures, and he thought that Hu Hai was not satisfied.
didn't know that hearing Weng Zhong's words, Hu Hai was not only not dissatisfied, but happy.
A man who is more than eight feet tall will be at least about 1.9 meters in later generations, and it can be said that he can select more than 6,000 people out of the 600,000 army in Ba Shang, which is much beyond Hu Hai's expectations, with a probability of nearly one in ten.
It seems that the physical fitness of the Chinese at this time in the pre-Qin period was at least much stronger than that of the later generations!
"Do you know how many people can't lift a thousand pounds between seven feet and eight feet?"
"Back to Your Majesty, if you are seven to eight feet tall and have less than 1,000 catties of strength, there should be 30,000 people in the 600,000 army of the Bashang battalion!" Weng Zhong thought for a moment and said affirmatively.
Hearing Weng Zhong's words, Hu Hai couldn't help but be overjoyed.
More than 6,000 people plus 30,000 people, this is nearly 40,000 people, although there is still a gap from the 100,000 heavy armored army envisioned by Hu Hai, but it is enough to form a prototype of a heavy armored army led by Weng Zhong.
With a prototype, the rest can be slowly replenished, and if the expansion is too fast, it is impossible for Shang Fang to create so many armor and weapons specially for the heavy armor legion in a short period of time.
And the most important thing is that Daqin's current war horse is not very suitable for heavy armored cavalry, not only the knight must be fully armored, but the war horse also needs to be covered with armor, so that it can be called heavy armored cavalry.
With these more than 30,000 heavy armored troops, Hu Hai didn't believe that there was still an army in today's Great Qin that could resist 30,000 fully armored charges on the frontal battlefield, and there were also 6,000 heavy armored infantry, which was a sharp sword that would kill people at critical moments.
The most important thing is that the heavy armored infantry can attack when advancing and defended when retreating.
Hu Hai, the heavy armored army that will be led by Weng Zhong, has already thought of a name for them - "Xuanwu Army"!
(To be continued)