Although this encounter outside Yongqiu City made Liu Bang feel blocked, a talent like Ji Xin who has a certain ability and only needs a little grinding to grow into a qualified general is undoubtedly the most valuable for Liu Bang at this stage.

From ancient times to the present, wars are fought by a person.

No one, even if he is as strong as a co-worker, can only be unwilling to touch the mountains and die. However, Liu Bang's bad mood disappeared after hearing that Cao Shen had cut off Li You's head before the Chu army's fierce general, Long Ji.

The first work is still from our old Liu family.

Liu Bang's mood improved, although this city was beaten down by Xiang Yu, but our Liu someone also made a big effort, don't believe it, look at who killed Li You.

Liu Bang's good mood and good popularity have brought the support of many small shili, and compared with Xiang Yu, who is a scumbag except for the children of Jiangdong, who can fight, Liu Bang is much easier to deal with.

Rather be the head of the chicken, not the queen of the cow. What is Xiao Shili afraid of, what he is afraid of is being swallowed up by Big Shili, compared with Liu Bang, who is not a threat to a group of harmony, Xiang Liang Xiang Yu's uncle and nephew can be described as inferior.

In the magnificent battle for hegemony between Chu and Han at the end of Qin, Yongqiu did not participate in this battle with many troops, with 3,000 people on the Qin army and more than 50,000 on the coalition side.

In fact, the impact of the Battle of Yongqiu on the Qin army and the anti-Qin coalition army was far more than the battle itself, Yongqiu was located at the junction of Dangjun and Sanchuan County, which used to belong to the Wei State, and Li You led his troops here, originally to support Zhang Han, who was fighting with the main force of the Chu army in Dingtao, but did not want to fall into the siege of the Chu army.

Li Youzhi's defeat may have exposed the weakness of discord within the Qin army, and the foundation of the once-powerful Qin Dynasty had begun to crumble after losing the pillar of the First Emperor. Shaofu Zhang Han, who represented Zhao Gao Shili, and Wang Li, Su Jiao, and Jian Jian, who represented the hereditary military generals Shili, and the local county soldiers led by Li You and Yang Xiong, the three major groups not only competed for power and profit in the DPRK, but also in the army.

In four days, from Dingtao to Yongqiu, it was only a one-day trip if the fast horse was fast, but Zhang Han never sent a single soldier, not only that, but he also used Xiang Liang as the leader of the Chu army as an excuse to prevent the Sanchuan soldiers who were originally subordinate to Li You from returning to help. Zhang Han was like this, and Wang Lijun, who was located in Zhao Di north of the Yellow River, did not lend a helping hand.

It had been nearly a month since Wang Li's army had marched south from Jiuyuan, and had achieved few proud achievements other than contact with Liu Bang's troops at Chengyang and Gongli.

Fusu was given death and Meng Tian committed suicide, and the elite of the Qin army, which was once illustrious, lost the courage to fight in internal friction, the generals had no fighting spirit, and the soldiers were numb and indifferent.

In addition, the defeat of Yongqiu opened the door of Sanchuan County, and the anti-Qin coalition army, which had a large military momentum, could drive straight in, go down to Nanyang and Yingchuan in the south, and cross the river to the west and go straight to the east of the river.

It is precisely because of seeing this layer that soon after, Liu Bang adopted the strategy of the strategist Zhang Liang, transferred to Nanyang and Hanzhong, and entered the pass from the south; In the north of Julu, Xiang Yu faced the combined forces of Zhang Han and Wang Li, and adopted various strategies to defeat more than 200,000 Qin troops in one fell swoop.

The inertia of history has not changed much because of the appearance of such a small person as Li Yuan, and on the way to the westward retreat of Li Yuan and the rest of his troops, the local officials in the 12 counties of Henan, Pingyin, Xin'an, Mianchi, and Yangwu, which were extremely empty, have begun to flee, which has relaxed Li Yuan's anxious mood.

Since the crossing, he is most familiar with military affairs, and there are not many opportunities to deal with local officials, and he doesn't know very well what kind of standards the local officials of the Qin Dynasty use to do things, thinking about what not to show his feet, fortunately, Hou Xi, the secretary in charge, is very good at handling these affairs.

There are more than 100 Qin cavalry who broke through, although there are not many, but these surviving soldiers are all elite, and they are full of murderous energy, which makes people look at it with envy. Relying on Li You's name and the elite army at hand, Li Yuan unceremoniously grabbed ahead of Liu Bang's western expedition, and collected and commanded the chaotic county soldiers all the way, and when he arrived at the outskirts of Daliang, the old capital of Wei, Li Yuan's troops had expanded to nearly 1,000 people.

August 17th.

Li Yuan held the first military meeting in the small town of Junyi near Daliang to determine the candidates for the middle and junior officers in the new ranks, and in the way of selecting officers, the Qin army mainly used military merits to formulate titles and determine military positions, Li Yuan did not want to make much changes to this, he only added tests of personal command ability, coordination ability, and language expression ability on the basis of military merit, and these tests were personally checked by him and interviewed and assessed one by one.

Needless to say, the merits of military merit have been explained by the bravery of the Qin army's generals on the battlefield, but if it is a single method of officer promotion, it is also a bit biased to cover the whole, an excellent officer, may not be good personally in the battle to kill the enemy, but he is very keen in commanding operations and grasping fighters, such talents are easy to be buried in the case of military merit, Han Xin is an obvious example.

"Soldier Wang Lao Liu, behead the twelfth level!"

"Foot soldier Zhou Xing, behead the seventh level!"

"Hou Xi, the secretary in charge, ask for a recommendation for the heavy battalion Sima!"

"Flag Luo Jia, please be the cavalry general of the pro-barracks!"

With Li Yuan as the chief examiner, after two days of evaluation and selection, a total of thirteen people, including Wang Laoliu, became the officers of this Qin army for the rest of their lives.

The disappointment of the Qin court, the sympathy for Li Si's imprisonment and Li You's tragic death, as well as the recognition of Li Yuan's ability, made most of the Qin soldiers recognize this comprehensive officer selection method, military merit is the main thing, but there are opportunities if you are good at other aspects, and unconsciously, Li Yuan began to influence other people around him in his own way.

In the subsequent military meeting, in addition to Li Yuan, the main objects of participation were: Sima Houxi, two chiefs Zhou Xing and Wang Laoliu, as well as Hu Zhuang of Junyi County and He Ping of Yangwu County, two elders who had just come to vote, and the other five selected Wu chiefs, the total number of participants was 12 people, and Hou Xi served as the clerk. Luo Jia, who had just been appointed as a cavalryman, served as the guard at the venue of this meeting.

The meeting unanimously agreed to expand the number of troops to the size of 1,000 troops, and to appoint Li Yuan as a lieutenant in the army, which actually recognized Li Yuan as the new leader of this army. Zhou Xing, Wang Laoliu and a person named Gan Houbo respectively served as the head of the department, and Hou Xi served as Sima's part-time secretary and secretary.

Without the appointment of the imperial court and the permission of his superiors, Li Yuan reorganized this small army under his command in a vigorous and resolute style, which was a great crime of rebellion in the strict law of the Qin State. It's just that now, the imperial court in Xianyang, controlled by Zhao Gao, has lost much weight in the hearts of Hou Xi and other Sanchuan soldiers.