In September of the first year of the Second Emperor, Xianyang, the capital of the Qin Empire, was already in chaos, the emperor panicked in the court, and the ministers were relatively silent. The news from the east quickly spread throughout Xianyang, and the Qin people panicked, while the magnates quietly loaded their possessions into carriages and left Xianyang at night.

It seems that everyone has a premonition that Daqin is going to be finished.

A rebel army of 200,000 people broke through Hangu Pass, and directly killed Xishui only a hundred miles away from Xianyang, where they camped and looked at Xianyang from afar.

For the first time since the founding of the Qin Dynasty 600 years ago, it was the first time that it had faced such a critical existential situation.

Xianyang City is extremely empty, in order to eliminate dissidents, Zhao Gao has gone against the grain this year, frantically slaughtering the clan and nobles.

As Meng Yi's descendant, Yulin Jun became the target of Zhao Gao's first purge, and then the Xianyang County Commander was replaced by his son-in-law Yan Le, and his younger brother Zhao Cheng replaced him as the CRRC Prefecture Commander. The Yulin and City Guards in Xianyang who were related to the two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi were all purged, and a large number of experienced officers and non-commissioned officers were forced to leave the army and replaced with Zhao Gao's henchmen.

And the direct consequence of Zhao Gao's doing this was that almost all the powerful troops in Xianyang were paralyzed, and as a result, the rebels came to the door, and Zhao Gao found himself helpless, so he had to ask Li Si for help, and Li Si couldn't come up with an idea, so he had to urgently convene a court meeting to discuss countermeasures.

On the top of the main hall, the hundred officials looked at the second emperor silently, and no one was willing to speak. Hu Hai walked anxiously in front of the dragon throne like a fire burning his buttocks, stopped his steps suddenly, glared at the hundred officials of His Royal Highness, and said angrily; "Say, you should give me an idea, otherwise what's the use of raising you waste, you will point fingers at me all day long, and pretend to be dumb one by one when it is critical."

Seeing that no one dared to respond, Hu Hai looked directly at Zhao Gao; "Zhao Gao, don't you always say that my Daqin has a million tigers, I can sit back and relax, why are you so unbeaten now, and I am beaten by a group of mud legs."

Zhao Gao smiled a little embarrassedly; "Your Majesty, most of my Great Qin are the elite of the border army, as for the second- and third-rate troops in the Central Plains, the slightly stronger ones are concentrated in the hands of Young Master Li, but unfortunately they still can't defeat the rebels." After speaking, he secretly glanced at Li Si, and saw that he was angry, so he stopped his mouth.

In the past few months, the battle between Li Si and Zhao Gao has intensified, escalating from open and secret fighting to verbal and fierce quarrels in the lobby many times. Zhao Gao had been planning for a long time, and he wanted to overthrow Li Si and replace him in one fell swoop, but unexpectedly, Zhou Wen's unexpected killing made him panic, and he realized that he still did not have the ability to grasp the overall situation.

Hu Hai waved his hand impatiently and scolded; "Close your beak, when is it, you still want to fight in the nest." Zhao Gao's face changed, and he hurriedly lowered his head, Hu Hai looked at Li Si again, and suddenly bowed down and said; "Prime Minister, you are a veteran of the Three Dynasties, and my father has said many times that the country of Great Qin depends on you, and now that Great Qin is in danger, I have no choice but to ask you for advice."

Li Si hurriedly bowed and returned the salute, not daring to say that he didn't dare to say it, but he was very relieved in his heart. I thought that although Hu Hai was a teenager and playful, he was still a smart person in the end, and he was not blindly messing around. If you can restrain your mind after receiving this lesson, be diligent in government and love the people, you will be a good emperor.

Li Si thought for a while, then bowed down and said: "Your Majesty, now my Great Qin's army is mainly concentrated in four parts, the two most important ones are the Northern Army, and the other is the Southern Expeditionary Army, these two armies account for eighty percent of my Great Qin, but because they are far apart, they can't be counted on for the time being, so you can send two messengers with holy decrees, each rushed to Fushi and Panyu to summon, so that they can quickly wave their troops back to help, as a long-term dependence." ”

Hu Hailian nodded and said, "Good idea, good idea, Zhao Gao, hurry up and make an order." He looked at Li Si again and asked, "Then how can we solve our worries?" ”

Li Si said again: "The remaining troops of my Great Qin are scattered in Guanzhong and the Central Plains, mainly the seventy or eighty thousand troops that the dog held in Xingyang, as well as the tens of thousands of elite soldiers scattered in the northwest of Longxi to guard against the Qiang people, and the 20,000 soldiers and horses in our Xianyang City. The dog is in a tug-of-war with Wu Guang's 200,000 rebels, and he is lacking in skills. The northwest of Longxi is far away, and the minister has sent people to ask for help yesterday, but it will take five days to reach at the earliest, and now the rebels are only a hundred miles away from Xianyang, I am afraid that it will ......."

Li Si didn't continue, but everyone already understood the meaning, it was still the same sentence, far water can't solve near fire, and what Daqin lacks most now is time.

At this time, the voice of the right prime minister Feng Qujian sounded; "Your Majesty, what my Great Qin lacks now is not soldiers, there are still more than 20,000 elite soldiers in Xianyang City, if you command it properly, it will be more than enough to hold Xianyang. It's just that we don't have generals now, Meng Tian and Meng Yi are no longer there, and I, Daqin, will take any generals to quell the rebellion. ”

Zhao Gao heard the sarcasm in Feng Quji's mouth, so he snorted heavily and said: "Feng Chengxiang, aren't you the right prime minister, this is the highest commander of the army after the vacancy of my position as the captain of the Great Qin State, how about you go as well as Feng Chengxiang?" ”

Feng Qujian said proudly; "The minister is a civil official, not a military officer."

"Then isn't your son Feng Zheng a general, and he is a guard lieutenant, why don't you let him go."

Before Feng could speak, Feng Zheng had already stood up with a black face and said; "Your Majesty, the minister's talent is limited, and there is no certainty of victory. If you send a minister to fight, the minister can only say that he will fight to the death to repay His Majesty. ”

When Hu Hai heard his words, his head shook like a rattle, thinking that these 20,000 troops were the capital for him to save his life, how could he give them to Feng Zheng to try his luck. Hu Hai looked around at the ministers, his face was full of anger, and he suddenly said abruptly; "I think I am a mighty Great Qin, the first king and my father were full of talents when they were in power, and now they have fallen to the point where there is no one to do."

Li Si lowered his head and pondered, suddenly remembered someone, raised his head and said loudly; "Your Majesty, there is a recommendation from the minister, he is proficient in warfare, and he must be able to help my Great Qin through this crisis."

Hu Hai was overjoyed and hurriedly said: "Prime Minister quickly say, who is this person." ”

"This person is Shaofu Zhang Han, he has followed General Wang Jian to fight for many years, and his military achievements are outstanding."

"Where is Zhang Han, where is Zhang Han." Hu Hai shouted repeatedly.

A guard responded: "Your Majesty, Zhang Shaofu is outside the hall, and he was turned away because his attire was not in accordance with etiquette. ”

Hu Hai waved his hand again and again, and said, "Hurry up, take care of the etiquette, hurry up and call him in." ”

Zhang Han was standing outside the hall, wearing chain armor, wearing a high red tasseled helmet on his head, holding the saber at his waist with his hand, and trying to lift his proud head, ignoring the surprised eyes of the guards next to him.

He hadn't felt this way in more than a decade. He Zhang Han is not a civil official, at least he never thought of himself as a civil official, he followed Wang Jian to destroy Zhao, break Chu, descend Yan, and have great military achievements, and was worshiped as a general.

Bai Qi and Wang Jian are the goals of his life, and his ambition is to eat Hulu meat, laugh and drink the blood of the Huns, this is his lifelong pursuit. It's a pity that he Zhang Han was born in the wrong era, with the dazzling starlight of Bai Qi, Wang Jian and Wang Ben in front of him, and the holy family of the two brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi in the back.

Great Qin has never lacked military generals, especially in the era of the first emperor, where there were many famous generals, so he Zhang Han was destined to be overshadowed by their dazzling halo, and he could only be a young mansion, in charge of the taxation of the world's mountains, rivers and salts.

But now it's different, Daqin's famous generals have withered to the end of the mountains and rivers, and the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces have no generals who know how to fight well. This made Zhang Han see hope, the hope of becoming the first person in the Qin army, and the hope of surpassing Bai Qi and Wang Qian.

Thinking of Bai Qi and Wang Jian destroying the country and slaughtering the city, galloping thousands of miles and killing millions, what a happy thing it is. With such a momentum, what more can a husband ask for!

Zhang Han raised his head hard, and he heard Yu Linwei outside the hall shouting loudly: "Xuan Shaofu Zhang Han is here." ”

The little eunuch who led the way next to him rushed over, bent down and humbly signaled to Zhang Han to follow him. Hearing Zhang Han's whispered words, he didn't hear it too clearly, so he asked curiously; "Zhang Shaofu, what did you say?"

"I said." Zhang Han looked at the black water Qin flag flying in the wind in Yulin's hand outside the hall, and said loudly: "Don't call me Shaofu, call me general." ”

"I'm the general of Great Qin."

"The minister is willing to go." Zhang Han raised his head and looked at the Second Emperor on the seat. Although he was nearly half a hundred years old and his beard was half white, he was still majestic in armor.

"Weichen is willing to lead the army to play in the water, for Your Majesty, for the Great Qin to destroy the rebellion, and restore my Great Qin territory."

"Good, good." Seeing him so mighty, Hu Hai couldn't help but be very happy, and laughed a few times, "I worship you as a general, how many soldiers and horses does the general need to bring to quell the rebellion?" ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Zhang Han's face did not show much joy, because he knew that this general had too much water, and it was not rewarded to him because of his merits and talents, but because the emperor gave it in a hurry when he was desperate. So he just saluted very calmly and thanked him, and said, "Don't be a soldier." ”

"Don't be a soldier." Hu Hai was taken aback, frowned, thinking that Zhang Han was teasing him, and said a little angrily; "Is Aiqing kidding me?"

"The minister doesn't dare, the minister just wants to ask His Majesty to build the Lishan Imperial Mausoleum and the 300,000 slaves and convicts of the Afang Palace."

"I want slaves." Hu Hai's eyes widened with an incredulous expression. "Zhang Han, you old boy is crazy, don't you, you actually want to take the slaves to war."

At this time, Li Si couldn't stand it anymore, he had a very good relationship with Zhang Han, so he naturally had a little more favoritism towards him, for fear that Zhang Han would despise the rebel army, so he made this wild remark, so he reminded: "Zhang Shaofu, this time the rebels came violently, there are more than 200,000 people, and Zhou Wen, who led the army, is quite strategic, and many of the rebels under his command are the original rebels of my Great Qin, not the kind of vulnerable rabble." ”

"And most of these 300,000 slaves and convicts are not from my Qin, but the people of the Six Kingdoms, and they already hate my Great Qin to the core, so it's probably not appropriate to let them deal with the rebels in Kwantung."

Zhang Han shook his head, but asked rhetorically; "Dare to ask the prime minister, why are you from the country?"

Li Si's face was embarrassed and a little annoyed, he was from Shangcai in the Chu State, and Zhang Han knew that he still asked this, which obviously embarrassed him.

Zhang Han didn't mean to target him, but continued: "Dare to ask the prime minister, where is Bai Qi?" Who are the three fathers and sons, Meng Wu, Meng Tian, and Meng Yi, and further back, who are Shang Jun and Lu Xiang? ”

Bai Qi is a descendant of the Chu people, Mengwu's three fathers and sons are Qi people, Shang Ying and Lü Buwei are both Wei people, and then counting Li Si from the Chu State, these famous ministers and generals who have made great contributions to Great Qin are not from the Qin people, and Zhang Han said this to refute Li Si's statement that 'the people of the six countries are not credible'.

Sure enough, Zhang Han took advantage of the situation and said: "Your Majesty and your lords, since we are going to deal with the rebels, we have to figure out why they rebelled?" ”

"To recover the Six Kingdoms? It's ridiculous, although my Great Qin has a lot of taxes and a lot of labor, but was the Six Kingdoms better than us back then? As far as I know, the attitude of the royal families of the Six Kingdoms towards their people is not necessarily much better than that of my Great Qin. Therefore, it is completely nonsense to say that they raised troops because they wanted to recover their homeland and the six countries. I don't think anyone would think of the original king, at least not the untouchables, except for those wealthy families who have received the grace of the country. ”

"They rebelled and rebelled against my Great Qin, just to gain power and wealth. The reason why those untouchables rebelled was because they found that they had driven away the officials of our Qin State and looted the official offices and warehouses, and they could get a lot of benefits. Since they only rebelled to gain wealth and status, then we can also give these to those slaves, let them work for our Great Qin, and kill the rebels for us. ”

Zhang Han bowed to Hu Hai and said, "Your Majesty, I still want to ask you for one thing, that is, the money in the treasury, I want to rely on these to buy people's hearts." ”

Hu Hai frowned, all this money he had worked hard to collect from all over the country, so he said with some reluctance; "You want the entire treasury, that's my heart and liver, general, can we change the conditions, I'll give you the title of general, you don't want my treasury, okay?"

Zhang Han was speechless for a while, thinking to himself that His Majesty the Emperor had reached the time of the country's survival, how could he still be so nonsense, if there was no money in the treasury, how could he impress those slaves and prisoners.

Zhao Gao, who was on the side, couldn't stand it anymore, and reminded Hu Hai with a sharp voice: "Your Majesty, the situation is critical now, it is better to promise General Zhang first, and wait for the traitor to calm down." Your Majesty, even if you want twice as much, why is it difficult? ”

Hu Hai still listened to Zhao Gao's words, and after thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said: "Okay, I'll give it to you, you must not let me lose all my blood." ”

Zhang Han was overjoyed in his heart, but his face was silent, and he bowed to the end and said, "Your Majesty." ”

Zhou Wen's army had already arrived at the water a day earlier, only a hundred miles away from Xianyang. If he had mustered up the courage to go straight to Huanglong, I am afraid that Xianyang would have already fallen. But he didn't do this, Zhou Wen just ordered to set up camp and send scouts to Xianyang to peep.

It's not that Zhou Wenxin is soft-hearted, but that he is a little scared. This victory came too suddenly, too easily, and he easily captured Hangu Pass, and the 20,000 army quickly swelled to 200,000 troops, and entered the pass. This string of victories dazzled him and made him apprehensive. He began to suffer from gains and losses, and began to worry about whether the Qin army deliberately let 600,000 Chu troops enter the pass like the army that treated King Chu Huai back then, and then annihilated the Chu army in Lantian in one fell swoop.

It was because of his hesitation and scruples that he brought him a catastrophe, he could have captured Xianyang, captured Huhai alive, and built immortal achievements, but a thought made him fail.

Zhang Han's army of 300,000 slaves suddenly arrived, which caught Zhou Wen off guard. Zhang Han promised these slave prisoners that he would bring them freedom, wealth, and power. After receiving Zhang Han's promise, the morale of the army of slave prisoners was greatly boosted, and they obtained the exquisite weapons and armor in the treasury of the Qin State, and obtained the wealth they had dreamed of for a long time. They screamed and slaughtered the rebels, because Zhang Han told them that the rebels' heads were the proof of their wealth.

This is the worst quality army of Great Qin since the founding of the country, although they are strong enough, they have no ranks, no rules, and even many of them even wear armor backwards. However, this did not dampen their desire for victory, and they brandished their weapons to cut off the heads of the rebels, who were also untouchables.

When Great Qin was facing an unprecedented crisis, it was not the elite army that it relied on to sweep through the Six Kingdoms that defended it. In Xishui, an army of 300,000 slaves and convicts burst out with amazing courage, and they crushed Zhou Wen's army in one fell swoop, causing Zhou Wen to flee from Hangu Pass with the remnants of his army.

Although they themselves have suffered heavy losses, Zhang Han doesn't care, he knows that the reason why an army can become an army must have experienced bloody battles, and only soldiers who have experienced death-to-death battles can truly become a qualified soldier. He doesn't care about the dead and wounded, he only needs those soldiers who have experienced bloody battles and can survive, he is confident that these people will form a real tiger and wolf army, not to mention that reinforcements from the counties of Longxi are constantly coming to supplement his team.

Zhang Han's birth saved the fate of Daqin, who was on the verge of collapse. He almost single-handedly turned the tide and brought the rebel army to an abrupt halt. Zhou Wen fled back to Caoyang outside the gate, desperately gathered the remnants of the defeated army, and at the same time quickly asked Chen Sheng and Wu Guang for help. And Zhang Han is taking the 200,000 troops he has just replenished to drive out of Hangu Pass.

PS: This chapter is an extended version, which can be regarded as a small outbreak in Jiangnan, hehe. Don't scold me, ladies and gentlemen, it's really mundane, and the historical text is different from the fantasy city and the like, you can make it behind closed doors, this history is still relatively rigorous.