Guanzhong has been an imperial state since ancient times.

Weishui originates in Longxi, enters the big river in the east to Hangu, flows through Guanzhong for 800 miles, and is called 800 miles of Qinchuan. The wind and rain here were smooth, the land was fertile, and the agriculture was developed, which laid a strong foundation for the rise of the Qin state.

Xi Shaodian married the Youshu clan and gave birth to the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor. The Yellow Emperor was made of Ji Shui, and the Yan Emperor was made of ginger water. Cheng is different from virtue, so the Yellow Emperor is Ji, and the Yan Emperor is Jiang. Both the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor rose up in Guanzhong and eventually founded the civilization of the Huaxia people.

In the past, Dayu plastic Jiuding divided the world into Kyushu, and his son Xia Qi broke the Zen concession system, founded the Xia Dynasty, and to the last Xia Ji tyranny for Shang Tang. The Xia and Shang dynasties both took the land of Henan as the royal city, and Guanzhong was gradually abandoned and reduced to a land of rebellion. After Zhou Wu arose in Guanzhong in the west, the westward advance replaced the desolate and unscrupulous Shang king, and the capital Guanzhong was the Son of Heaven, and Guanzhong returned to the center of Chinese civilization.

After King Ping moved eastward, Qin Xianggong, who raised horses and pastored the border for the Zhou family, because of his meritorious service, the king of Zhou Ping at that time was grateful for his merits, so he said to Xianggong: "Rong has no way, invade my Qi and Feng land, Qin can conquer Rong, that is, there is its land." "It means that the Rong people have captured Haojing and Qishan, you go and attack them, and wherever you fight, it will belong to Qin. This was originally a blank check promised by King Zhou Ping, wanting to fool Qin Xianggong, who was already so poor that he could not be rewarded. Unexpectedly, Qin Xianggong was a real person, and after returning to Qin, he attacked the Rong people, continuing the history of blood and tears of several generations of Qin people, and during the Qin Mugong period, the Qin State had completely driven out the Rong people to monopolize Guanzhong and became one of the five hegemons of the Spring and Autumn Period.

The state of Qin was able to establish Guanzhong, and gradually replaced the weakened Zhou royal family as the new master of Guanzhong. Because they have fought against the Rong people for a long time, the Qin people are unusually brave and good at fighting compared to the Kwantung princes, and because of such a fertile base in Guanzhong, the Qin State was able to lay a firm foundation for future hegemony.

It's already July, and the day of autumn planting is approaching, and the Qin State, which has just experienced a life-and-death battle, has already put down everything at this time and is dedicated to making all kinds of arrangements for farming. At the beginning, in order to strengthen the wall, the Qin State moved all the Qin people east of Xianyang into Xianyang, and the cities and granaries were also destroyed to prevent them from being used by the coalition forces.

Now that the covenant has been made and Guanzhong is temporarily peaceful, the Qin people have moved east to their hometowns under the guidance of the government to repack their broken homes. The machine of the Great Qin civil official system has been fully powered to start at full speed, and the civil officials headed by Meng Jian are busy one by one.

Originally, agriculture was only the responsibility of governing the internal history of Su, but today the Qin State has been ruined to this point, and only all the officials can be mobilized to be busy, and even Meng Jian, who is nearly sixty years old, has to bow down to routine and personally lead the team to engage in large-scale agricultural production, just so that the Qin State can accumulate more grain and grass to cope with the possible war in the coming year.

Compared with the 'model worker' Meng Jian, Han Xin seems to be much more idle, three months ago in order to meet all the Qin people were mobilized, now the war has been suspended and the mobilization has been lifted, so that most of the young people have returned to the countryside to cultivate, and from the Qiang tribes close to the Qin people in Longxi and Beidi, a group of brave and warlike Qiang people have been recruited to supplement the Qin army.

At this time, the standing army of the entire Qin State only retained 60,000, Tian Shi led an army of 15,000 to be stationed at Hangu Pass, Gan Xiao led an army of 8,000 to garrison Wuguan, Wang Qi's 20,000 army to guard the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains to guard against Liu Bang, Zhao Wuji 13,000 people in the north to guard against Sima Xin and Dong Peng of Shangjun, and Xianyang only left 5,000 Yulin in the center to respond.

The tragic wars over the years have made a whole generation of Qin people die on the battlefield, and the men of the Qin State who were born in the ten years from the tenth to the twentieth year of the First Emperor have lost more than eighty percent, which shows how tragic the Qin State is.

From the first year of the second year of Chen Sheng's army to this point, in addition to the Qin soldiers recruited in the Kanto, the Qin people in Guanzhong have lost a full 700,000 adult men on the battlefield, which is undoubtedly a devastating blow to the Zhongxing of the Qin State.

It is important to know that no matter which dynasty it is, population is the most important indicator of national strength. This also gave Han Xin a headache, although he was resourceful, he couldn't conjure up a population out of thin air.

To increase the population, there are only three methods: one is to slow down, that is, to encourage childbearing, and to enact legislation to reward those who have more children and punish those who are unmarried and those who are old and have young wives. Although this method has been effective for a long time, it will have to wait for the new generation of Qin people to grow up, I am afraid that the daylilies will be cold, and after Xiang Yu's army cleans up the other opposition forces in the eastern part of the country, he will definitely not mind destroying the Qin State again.

Another is to obtain the population through war, it was through the gradual encroachment of the six countries of the Kwantung region that the Tiger and Wolf Qin State had to eliminate each other's strengths and eventually dominate the world, but now that there is Xiang Yu, the super powerful existence of the overlord of Western Chu, Han Xin will naturally not easily start the war. The last remaining method, which Han Xin believed was the most feasible, was to reunify the Qin state and recall the Qin people scattered all over the country.

Xiang Yu's division of the three kings in Qin was nothing more than letting Liu Bang, Sima Xin, and Dong Peng threaten Guanzhong in the south and north.

Jiuyuan County is the youngest county in the Qin State, it was set up by Meng Tian in the past to drive the Xiongnu to take the Hetao, and now the Central Plains is slightly Xiongnu took the opportunity to take back the Hetao, so although Xiang Yu divided the two counties of Shangjun and Jiuyuan to Sima Xin and Dong Fei to establish the country, in fact, these two difficult brothers and sisters are squeezed into one county, and they are the two most unruly princes and kings in the vassal states. Because of Xiang Yukeng's killing and surrendering of troops, they have long been hated by the fathers of the Qin State, and it is not easy to gain a foothold in Shangjun now, let alone raise troops to the south. Han Xin only didn't want to start the war with Xiang Yu again, so he didn't send troops to expel the two Qin traitors.

As for Liu Bang in Hanzhong, he is in great trouble.

Although Hanzhong has been Qin's land for a long time, the residents there do not have a strong sense of identity with Qin. Moreover, Hanzhong is stuck between Guanzhong and another granary, Bashu, blocking Xianyang and Bashu.

Xiang Yu divided the princes that day, and deliberately did not mention the ownership of Bashu, which was nothing more than trying to use this as a bait to let Liu Bang and Qin State restart the war and consume the strength of both sides. Xiang Yu's intentions Liu Bang naturally guessed, so he decisively burned all the plank roads leading from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, expressing his intention to prevent the Qin army from going south at the same time. On the other hand, they recruited their troops widely and used fierce generals to seize the attack on the two counties of Bashu.

In the past, King Qin Hui took advantage of the inability to look west after the defeat of Lantian in Chu State, and sent the generals Sima Cuo and Shangqing Zhang Yi to destroy Shu State, and seized a large area of Ba Land from Chu State, and set up two counties of Bashu. Most of the people of Bashu are tribes of the Baipu lineage, advocating freedom and not allowing harsh Qin laws, so after the land of Bashu was occupied by the Qin State, rebellions broke out, and the officials and garrisons sent by the Qin State were killed one after another.

The Qin State retaliated and sent a large army to encircle and suppress it several times, but with little effect. Because Bashu is mostly a land of mountains and forests, as soon as the army of Qin came, the natives hid in the mountains and forests to avoid fighting without fighting, and attacked the grain route of the Qin army from behind, so that the army of Qin was trapped in the land of Bashu. This gave King Qin Hui a headache, and finally had no choice but to reach an agreement with the local leaders of Bashu, Bashu is the second county of Qin, subject to the management of the government and pay taxes according to the requirements of Qin law, but the people can not serve the military service and labor of Qin, and the local leaders also enjoy considerable autonomy in the tribe.

After Li Bing built Dujiangyan, Bashu became the country of abundance, the largest granary after Guanzhong, and contributed considerable strength to the unification war of Qin. Later, the world was in turmoil, and the Qin state was weak, and the local Qin officials reached a self-protection agreement with the Tu leaders, that is, they would not send troops to interfere in the internal strife of the Qin State, so although Bai Pang and Huangfu Gui held the edict of the Son of Heaven to enter Bashu to take over, they only controlled a small amount of land north of Chengdu County, Shu County.

After Liu Bang occupied Hanzhong, he rushed to attack Shu, and Bai Pang and Huangfu Gui sent envoys to cross the Qinling Mountains with great difficulty to ask for help from Xianyang. However, Han Xin was helpless about this, not to mention whether the war with Liu Bang would give Xiang Yu the handle to start a war in the future, but to say that the Qin State's current extremely weak national strength was also more than enough and his strength was insufficient, plus the plank road was completely destroyed and there was no way to go south.

So Hanzhong and Bashu would be Qin's next target, but not now.

Since the Qin State and Xiang Yu made an alliance, the Qin people in the eastern part of the country have returned to Guanzhong in droves. When Emperor Shi unified the Six Kingdoms, there were millions of Qin officials and Qin people scattered in the newly occupied counties. The Qin Empire collapsed rapidly in just two years, and a considerable number of soldiers and soldiers were scattered in the six countries of Kwantung, but they could not return because the way back was blocked, and most of these Qin people took off the clothes of the Qin State and hid among the people of the six countries.

In the north, the remnants of the Northern Army still had nearly 100,000 soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Qin laborers and dependents, but they were blocked by the Kwantung princes and did not communicate with each other. Another large group was Lingnan, where the first emperor left an army of 450,000 in the past and 500,000 in the two expeditions to Baiyue, and 500,000 people from the Central Plains who were requisitioned and transferred to settle in the south. There are nearly 200,000 Qin people in this 450,000 army, and there are also more than 200,000 Qin people in Shimin, but the attitude of the guard general Zhao Tuo makes it difficult to figure out. At the critical juncture of the Qin state's survival, Zhao Tuo issued a very puzzling order, ordering the burning of the plank road to the north and forbidding the people to go north, and the Qin people in Lingnan abandoned the Qin Empire they had once established.

The large number of Qin resources in Lingnan made Han Xin moved, but because Hanzhong and Bashu were not under the control of Qin, they were powerless for the time being, and only by opening up the passage between Bashu and Qianzhong could they slowly figure it out. Therefore, Han Xin temporarily put aside his thoughts and turned his gaze back to the north, and sent an envoy to Yunzhong to get in touch with Wang Jing, who was staying in the north.

Now that the messenger has been dispatched, Han Xin can only wait patiently for the news from the clouds.

Although the war has stopped, there are many defeated troops from the Six Kingdoms who have not had time to withdraw in Guanzhong, and some of these people occupy the mountains to make the place not peaceful. Han Xin divided Yulin's 5,000 cavalry into dozens of squads, patrolling in groups of 100 people in Guanzhong, and found a small group of thieves to be directly extinguished, and a large group of thieves gathered to attack.

The hundred-man team led by Huai Shi was a small detachment of the Yulin Army Sanqu, and they were ordered to patrol the territory along the Shaoxi Mountain Range to prevent the spy scouts from crossing the Shaoxi Mountain and entering the Qin Realm.

Shaoxi Mountain stretches from Hangu Pass to Wuguan, which is the barrier between Guanzhong and Guandong, although the mountain range is tall and covers a very large area, and the army is extremely difficult, but a small group of skilled scouts can still climb over. Since the Qin State recovered Wuguan, it has been patrolling the Shaoxi Mountain by patrol horses.

There are two people in Huai Shi Chinese New Year's Eve today, Longxi people, long arms, thick arms, round arms, strong and powerful, and a standard old Qin appearance. Because of his strong martial arts, he was selected into the Son of Heaven's pro-army, Yu Linwei, and was able to accompany the emperor all the time, and became an aspiring young man envied by everyone in his hometown. In the past, when he followed Meng Yi to protect the first emperor several times, it was indeed very beautiful, but unfortunately after Meng Yi's death, Yulinwei became a motherless child, and was scattered by Zhao Gao, and a large number of experienced generals and soldiers were transferred out of the Yulin team, and the rest were either old and weak, or people with no background like Huai Shi.

Fortunately, after General Han entered Xianyang and took power, he rebuilt this once meritorious army of the Son of Heaven, and Huai Shi also made a lot of achievements because he followed the general in the bloody battle under Xianyang City and made a lot of achievements, and was exceptionally promoted to a hundred generals. This made Huai Shi grateful to the general, and performed military affairs more diligently to repay his appreciation.

Huai Shi looked up at the sky, and estimated that it would be dusk to return to the camp, so he ordered to stop his advance, rest for a while, and then return to the camp.

He took out the fodder from the bag and fed it to his mount, and Huai Shi looked at the mountains in the distance, thinking about things a little absent-mindedly. Looking into the distance, a horse suddenly appeared, and when he looked at it, it was the scout he had sent to investigate the military situation, and he greeted him.

Seeing that the scout's face was flushed and he looked panicked, Huai Shi couldn't help but shout; "Little Stone, look at you bear-like, what's the fuss about."

The reason why Huai Shi said this is nothing more than that the biggest enemy he has encountered in the past few days is that there are hundreds of rogues, and the Qin State has already closed itself off, so naturally the enemy army will not come to disturb it.

The little stone's face was flushed, and a little face was full of panic, and he stammered after taking a few sips of the water bag handed by his companion; "Big ...... The army, there is a big army there, many, many people. ”

Huai Shi was startled and hurriedly asked; "Where did the army come from, how many people are there, but the army of my Qin State?"

Little Stone shook his head and said; "I didn't dare to approach for fear of being discovered, that army seemed to have suddenly emerged from the mountains, and there were tens of thousands of people in the dark."

Huai Shi's forehead was cold and sweaty, and at this time, a large army suddenly appeared at the foot of Shaoxi Mountain, it was definitely not Xianyang's army, could it be that the princes of Kanto treacherously came to attack. Thinking of this, Huai Shi couldn't hold back any longer, so he decided to personally take someone to follow Xiaoshi to investigate, and at the same time ordered his deputy to withdraw the team back to the camp for early warning.

When the horse came to the place where the small stone said, Huai Shi and the others cautiously climbed a high ground, and their scalps suddenly tingled when they looked at it, and a chill arose in their hearts.

Xiaoshi didn't lie, it was indeed a large army, and from a distance, there were no less than 20,000 people.

It's just that this army looks a little strange, how to put it specifically, if there is no looming ranks, then this team is not like an army but like a refugee team. The people in the team were also in tatters, some were holding weapons, some were empty-handed, there were no flags, no horses, they were all listless on foot.

Huai Shi has been in the army for more than ten years and has a lot of experience, and he can't help but have a question in his heart, if it is said that the princes' army is attacking, it is too nonsense, such an army called Huazi, and a neat charge of thousands of iron horsemen is enough to completely crush them.

Xiao Shi and the others all set their eyes on Huai Shi, looking at him nervously and waiting for him to give the order. Huai Shi hesitated for a long time, and finally made a bold decision, he led the four of them to gallop towards this 'army', which is called an army.

Seeing the five horsemen galloping towards them, the army also noticed it, and there was a panic in the team, and they all stopped. Hearing the shouting and shouting of one person, the hundreds of people who were facing it actually lined up in an array facing Huai Shi, which looked very much like the defensive queue in the Qin army. It's just that the guards who were supposed to be the shield bearers and halberd bearers, but the empty soldiers standing in their hands all looked at the comers with nervous faces, and they didn't show joy until they saw their clothes clearly, and they exchanged their heads and ears.

Huai Shi cautiously stayed an arrow away, and gently urged the horse to step forward and shouted loudly; "Who are you?"

Huai Shi waited for a long time, but no one came to talk back, those people just looked at him with flashing eyes, and suddenly felt a little inexplicable, and raised their voices and shouted; "This is already Guanzhong, and it is the territory of the Qin State according to the covenant, please tell your identity, otherwise you will be regarded as an enemy of the Qin State!"

At this time, there was an uproar in the opposite team, and one person shouted loudly; "I've arrived in Guanzhong, and I've finally returned home alive and returned to Guanzhong."

There was another chaos in the ranks, and a man who looked like an officer ran towards Huai Shi, dancing excitedly as he ran. Huai Shi was suddenly startled when he saw his crazy appearance, and hurriedly took out his bow and arrows, and said sharply; "Stop, I'll let go of the arrows any further."

When the man saw this, he was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped, waved his hand repeatedly, and said; "Don't don't, don't let go of the arrow, I'm a Qin person, I'm a Qin person."

"Qin people?" Huai Shi was wary and asked again; "Are you all Qin?"

The man hurriedly nodded again and again, "Yes, yes, we are all Qin people, we are only a part, there are many more behind, their guys are still in the mountains with slow feet, and the general is also behind." ”

"General." Huai Shi was stunned for a moment, the only general in the Qin State now was not Han Xin, how could he run to the mountains, but seeing that the man's ecstatic expression did not look like a fake, he asked suspiciously; "General, which general is it?"

The man remembered something, and suddenly lowered his head with some shame, his lips moved slightly, and he said; Chapter ...... Zhang Han, General Zhangshang. ”

"We are also Qin people, and we are also Qin soldiers."