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The death of the Xiongnu condor archers meant that the remaining Xiongnu riders were finally wiped out in the encirclement of Qin officers and soldiers. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

But such a situation does not mean the end of this battle, on the contrary, this situation can be regarded as making this melee gradually develop into an unexpected situation for King Zuo Xian.

The more than 3,000 Hun cavalry who attacked could not stop the siege of the Qin officers and soldiers for too long, and after this group of Hun troops was annihilated, King Zuo Xian relied on the increasing strength advantage, but could not defeat the Huns during this period of time and lay the battlefield results.

In this way, King Zuo Xian will have to pay the corresponding price for his choice.

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The blood on Zabekh's body stained his leather coat red, but for Zabekh, who was quite old, the battle decided that he could not just fall like this. Because in his heart, he must not be the culprit of Donghu's demise.

Zabehe regretted that he had initiated a war against Zhang Jiashi and the Great Qin Empire that ended in a disastrous defeat, which led to a sharp decline in the strength of the Donghu people, and also became an opportunity for the Donghu people to split.

Although in the past few years, the Donghu people have been united again because of the war with the Huns, and another Donghu king died in the raid of the Huns in the previous two years of war.

But it is undeniable that the Donghu people have now planted the bane of re-splitting, and because of the war that has lasted for several years, the Donghu has changed from a power that temporarily abandoned the Xiongnu to a weak and weak tribe.

No one knows Zabehe's regret, but Zabehe knows very well that if it weren't for the material assistance from the Great Qin Empire in recent years, or the material assistance from Zhang Jiashi, who was supposed to be the mortal enemy of the Donghu people, I am afraid that the current Donghu would have been wiped out or annexed by the Huns.

Therefore, Zabekh's feelings about Zhang Jiashi are very complicated, if it were not for the original war. The current Donghu is probably not afraid of the offensive of the Huns. And the Huns also did not dare to take advantage of this period.

Of course, what Zabehe didn't know was that even without the appearance of Zhang Jiashi, his arrogant and arrogant personality also became an opportunity for the Huns to break Donghu during such a period of time.

He doesn't want to say that compared with Shan Yu Maoton, who is encountered once in a thousand years by the Huns, even compared with Touman, who has died in the hands of Mao Dun, it is quite inferior.

Tou Mandan Yu was in the Battle of Yin Mountain in the Hetao. paid a heavy price no less than the Donghu people in the Battle of the Great Wall. But because Touman was not like Donghu, he was ruthlessly overshadowed by Li Zuoche, who is now the imperial history of the Great Qin Empire. In terms of the restoration of national strength, Toumanshan is much better than this Zabeh in terms of restoring the strength of the Huns, both in terms of means and luck.

Of course, what Zabehe didn't expect was that if it weren't for the appearance of Zhang Jiashi, he would probably get an unexpected person after being defeated by the Huns.

This person is Lu Juan, but the current Lu Juan, who has been killed in Zhang Jiashi's Second Crusade. Naturally, he didn't expect that his descendants would become the king of Donghu one day.

In fact, if it weren't for the existence of a Donghu who was indeed more conducive to resisting the Huns, Zhang Jiashi would not have spared no effort to support the Donghu people at such a time. After all, in Zhang Jiashi's heart, the Donghu people are also the henchmen of the frontier tranquility, if it weren't for the fact that the Donghu people are now too busy to take care of themselves, Zhang Jiashi needs to face the pressure of the Donghu people's continuous invasion while governing Liaodong. Such a situation is not what Zhang Jiashi wants to see.

Just as a certain great man in later generations said, a victory was used to maintain the most needed situation of peaceful development.

Zhang Jiashi didn't think about it at the beginning, but he knew very well that his efforts in the Battle of the Great Wall had gradually evolved into the result of the current development of the situation.

This is one case. Zhang Jiashi also had to sigh secretly: unintentionally inserted willows into the shade.

In fact, Zhang Jiashi was quite tempted by Mao Dun's suggestion that the Great Qin Empire and the Huns carve up Donghu.

After all, such a situation can be regarded as adding a lot of strength to Zhang Jiashi. After all, the white mountains and black waters of later generations can also be regarded as fertile fields.

It's a pity that Bai Qi's reminder made Zhang Jiashi calm down and think. The pros and cons of doing this yourself.

Of course, it is indeed relatively advantageous to carve up Donghu with the Huns. But the Great Qin Empire was not at all ready to occupy the land of the Donghu people.

Not to mention anything else, it was impossible for Zhang Jiashi to develop his occupied area with peace of mind when the Great Qin Empire might be harassed by the Huns in turn, or even when the Huns attacked and occupied the Donghu region with all their might.

After all, even if Zhang Jiashi plans to build the Great Wall himself, I am afraid that there is no such time.

This is also the "capital enemy" plan that Zhang Jiashi had to choose in the end.

If the Xiongnu are too strong, it is not in the interests of Zhang Jiashi and the Great Qin Empire at all. Because a Xiongnu who annexed Donghu was not an opponent to be despised with.

This has also become the most important reason why Zabehe was able to concentrate his last strength at this time and hold on until the Qin officers and soldiers came to support.

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The trend of the battlefield changed as more and more Qin officers and soldiers gradually joined the main battlefield.

Although the crossbow chariot unit of the Qin army that had previously gone north, although it did not directly access the stalemate battlefield of the Donghu people and the Huns, with its sufficient number of arrows and far beyond the range of most of the Huns, the Qin officers and soldiers were able to successfully destroy the offensive position of the Huns, and had considerable credit for the maintenance of the battlefield dynamics of the Donghu people.

However, with the Qin officers and soldiers under Su Jiao's command alone, even if they were united with the remnants of the Donghu people, it was impossible to encircle and annihilate the main force of the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang's troops in this battle, after all, the gap in numbers between the two sides was still too far.

Su Jiao's initial plan was not to completely annihilate the Huns or severely damage the main force of the Huns, his plan was to make the Huns retreat.

But the current trend of the battlefield situation is also a bit difficult for Su Jiao. After all, he didn't want the officers and soldiers under his command to pay a heavy price for rescuing the Donghu people, which was not in line with his thinking and the next direction of the battle.

For the Great Qin Empire, the Donghu people have the importance of having to exist, but it does not mean that the Great Qin Empire needs to pay a very heavy price for this foundation.

Although Zhang Jiashi had accepted this possibility of paying a heavy price in his heart, he ignored the basis for the importance he attached to the officers and soldiers under his command as a commander.

Su Jiao is not the kind of commander who disregards the lives of officers and soldiers. Nor is it the kind of soldier who is indecisive.

There is a description of this part in the "General Guide to Governance":

In the absolute chapter, the king left the army and lacked food. Chen Yu re-enlisted the soldiers. Xiang Yu knew that he led his troops across the river, all of them sank the boats, broke the cauldron and retort, burned the house, and held three days' rations to show that the soldiers would die. None of them returned the favor. So when he went to the end, he surrounded the king and left, and met the Qin army. Nine battles, the big break, Zhang Han led the troops. The princes dared to attack the Qin army, so they killed Su Jiao, captured the king, and did not surrender, and burned and killed themselves.

Su Jiao knew very well that he would be defeated in the Battle of Julu, and knew that if he let the officers and soldiers stay, he would inevitably suffer a miserable end.

After thinking of this, Su Jiao and Wang Liyan discussed. Decided to break out. However, they could not get a response from the two, and in the end they could only lead the officers and soldiers of the Northern Frontier Army who were temporarily out of food to break through.

However, Sujiao failed to break through and was finally killed in the siege of the princes' coalition forces.

Wang Li, on the other hand, was captured in the ensuing battle, and committed suicide.

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In the world where Zhang Jiashi was originally located, there were some controversies about Wang Li:

It is said that "Wang left Xianzhang Han to Zhao State". The reason is that Wang left Taiyuan and went east out of the well, in the first few months of the second year of Qin II. "Entering the territory of Handan County, approaching Xindu", "In September of this year, the king left the army to besiege the king of Zhao and rested in Julu"; the next month, that is, in October of the third year of the second emperor, Zhang Hancai "entered Handan in the north", "After that. Zhang Hanjun Julu South Thorn Plain". This timetable for Wang Li and Zhang Han to enter Zhao is a bit problematic. The military timetable recorded in the "Historical Records of the Qin and Chu Lunar Tables" is as follows:

In September two years after Qin II, "the Qin army besieged Julu".

In October of the third year, Zhang Han's army "broke Handan", and Liu Bang's army "broke through Dongjun Wei and Wang Li's army in Chengwunan".

In November, Xiang Yu "crossed the river with his soldiers to save the giant deer".

In December, Xiang Yu's army "broke the Qin army's giant deer".

Duanyue (first month), Xiang Yujun "captured Qin general Wang Li".

From this, it can be seen that Wang Li was first defeated by Liu Bangjun in Chengwu (now Chengwu, Shandong). He did not seem to have participated in the "siege of Julu" before, anyway, there is no clear record in the historical books; only later did he listen to Zhang Hanzhi's "order" to go to the siege of Julu (in the southwest of present-day Pingxiang, Hebei), and then was captured by Xiang Yujun. In other words, Wang Lijun first appeared in Chengwu, and then went to Julu. If he participated in the siege of Julu in the previous month, and broke into a martial force in the next month, it would be a bit puzzling in terms of timing. Chengwu is in Henan, which was originally the land of Song and Chu. Handan, Julu and so on are in Hebei, which was originally Zhaodi. Therefore, it is difficult to determine that Wang Li arrived in Zhao before Zhang Han. According to the available materials, it was Zhang Han who arrived in Zhao State first.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Zhang Ping and Chen Yulie" records: At the beginning of the second year of Qin II, Li Liang "slightly Taiyuan, to Shiyi, the Qin soldiers plugged the wells, and failed to advance". The "Qin soldiers" of the plugged well, some say that it is Wang Lijun. This is possible, but it is difficult to be sure, it is a lack of empirical evidence, and it is just speculation.

After thinking about this statement, Zhang Jiashi came to some conclusions:

Wang Li did arrive in Zhao before Zhang Han went to Zhao, and defeated the troops of Li Liang, the general of the Zhao army, and held the Jingchengkou, and then continued to penetrate into the territory of Zhao and participated in Zhang Han's siege of Julu.

However, because of the Dongjun Lieutenant's request for help and Zhang Han's order, Wang Li could only lead his army to Dongjun to support the Dongjun Lieutenant who was trapped in Chengwu.

Wang Li, who set off lightly, was defeated by Liu Bangjun, whose strength had improved a lot, in the battle of Chengwu, and Dongjun Wei was killed in battle, while Wang Li led the remnants to retreat to Julu and joined the main army under his command again.

And according to the chronology of the historical records, this inference is also reasonable.

Zhang Jiashi sorted it out, and then wrote out a corresponding yearlist:

In late June 208 BC (the latter September), Wang Li led his army to intercept and kill Zhao Wang Xie in Julu, and Zhao Wang Xie was trapped in Julu. Prior to this, Zhang Han led an army to attack Handan, and Wang Li defeated Li Liang at Jingcheng and then captured Xindu.

In October 208 BC (the so-called October of the third year is wrong, after all, the first year of the Qin state is October, and this period should be the first month of the third year of Qin II), Wang Li led an army to support Dongjun, but was defeated by Liu Bang in the Chengwu region.

As for the time of Wang Li's departure, it is speculated that it may have been September 208 BC.

In November, Xiang Yu led his army to the north, and broke the boat; in December, Xiang Yu led his army to defeat Wang Li and Zhang Han's allied army in Julu, Wang Li and Zhang Han's two armies were separated, one was stationed in an unknown area, and Zhang Han's troops were stationed in the Thorn Plain.

Later, in January 207 BC, Wang Li's army suffered from the lack of food by the princes' coalition army, and Sujiao failed to break through the siege and was killed.

Judging from the subsequent development of the situation, it is possible that Wang Li persuaded the county guard of Taiyuan County to surrender, and Taiyuan County was incorporated into Zhao State, while Wang Li died of illness before Xiang Yu divided the princes.

There is also an interesting statement:

Regarding the number of troops, it is said that Wang Li's army is "300,000", the reason is that the Qin Dynasty had ordered "Meng Tian to lead an army of 300,000 to the north to chase the Xiongnu", and after Meng Tian was killed, this army "returned to Wang Li's leadership". It is said that Wang Lijun was "about 100,000 people, at most about 200,000 people", the reason is that when the Qin Dynasty was in turmoil, "all those who had migrated to the border of Qin returned...... Wang Li's original 300,000 people must not be complete." According to the comparison of the military strength of the two sides in the Battle of Julu and the intensity of the war, it is "speculated" that Wang Li's army is about this number. Both of these claims seem to be well-founded, but neither seems to be very accurate.

"Historical Records: The Biography of Meng Tian" recorded: "Qin has merged the world, but Meng Tian will drive 300,000 people north to the Xiongnu and collect Henan. The same book "The Biography of the Huns" recorded: "After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, he made Meng Tian attack Hu with 100,000 people in the north and collect all the land in Henan. Because the river is blocked, 44 county towns are built near the river, and the migration is suitable to fill it...... After more than ten years, Meng Tian died, the princes were in Qin, China was disturbed, and those who migrated to the border of Qin were all gone. The former is brief, mentioning "300,000" without explaining the specifics of this figure; the latter is a little more detailed, mentioning both "100,000" and the coming and going of "those who are suitable for the border areas," but does not specify the specific number of people who are suitable for the border areas. According to these two materials, it can be inferred that there are about 300,000 soldiers under Meng Tian's command, including the original 100,000, plus about 200,000 "suitable for the border". At the end of the Qin Dynasty, there was a great chaos, and since "all those who migrated to the frontier returned", that is, they were all gone, then there were only 100,000 left. Obviously, the king was only 100,000 away from all the soldiers.

Wang Li's army did not have 300,000 people, because 300,000 people were the number of the entire Northern Xinjiang Army, and in addition to the number of troops left behind, and after the defeat of Chengwu, the number of troops under Wang Li's command was about 100,000.

In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu suffered heavy losses to the 100,000 army under Wang Li's command, while Zhang Han's troops retained the corresponding strength. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )