Chapter 458: Attack Han and besiege Xinzheng
Tu Sui does not occupy much space in the history books of later generations.
People's most impression of him is that he is the unlucky general who overturned his car and was shot to death by the Baiyue people in Lingnan with poisoned arrows when he went south to conquer Lingnan.
In the army that went south to conquer Lingnan, his sense of existence seems to be inferior to Ren Huan, who succeeded him after his death to complete the mission of conquering Lingnan, and Zhao Tuo, who controlled Nanyue for 81 years after Ren Huan.
But after the unification of the world, the person who was given an army of 500,000 by the political commissar of Ying is just an incompetent general who can only kill innocents indiscriminately after winning consecutive battles in Lingnan?
You must know that when Wang Jian destroyed Chu, the number of troops leading was only 600,000, and if Tu Sui was an incompetent general, how could he be given such a heavy responsibility by Political Commissar Ying?
At least in the early stage, the 500,000 Southern Expeditionary Army has always maintained a state of continuous victory, but after going deep into the hinterland of Lingnan, trapped in the elusive guerrilla warfare of the Baiyue people and the difficulties of logistics and transportation, the troops were finally frustrated and stopped in the Sanluo region on the bank of the Xijiang River.
Now among the Yulin Army controlled by Zhang Ji, there are generals Li Xin, Qiang Qi, Su Jiao, Tu Sui, Ren Huan, Wang Ben, Feng Wuxue and Yang Wengzi, etc., which can be said to be star-studded.
Moreover, among them, Li Xin, Qiang Qi, Tu Sui, Ren Huan and Wang Ben are all handsome talents with the ability to lead the army alone, so Zhang Ji wants to cultivate these people, give them more opportunities to increase their military merits, and add more resumes.
Don't look at the Great Qin, there is no shortage of generals, but that is for the Qin State, which is purely conquering the Six Kingdoms.
Whether it is Ying Zheng or Zhang Ji, in this Qin Shi world that knows something about the world outside the Central Plains, they do not intend to limit the territory of the Qin State to just this area.
The steppe Zhuhu in the north, the Baiyue barbarians in the south, and the Western Regions, as well as those countries further west than the Western Regions......
In this way, the Qin State is not without a shortage of generals.
And these things between Zhang Ji and Tu Sui are just a small episode before the army starts.
The huge war machine of the Qin State began to operate with an edict from Ying Zheng, but dealing with a South Korea would not allow the Qin State to regain the full load or even overload that it had when it faced the Combined Vertical Coalition Army, and only mobilized half of the Yulin Army.
These included 1,000 Lin Assault Cavalry under Li Xin and his command, 1,000 scout battalions at Su Jiao, 3,000 crossbowmen and 4,000 foot soldiers, and 200 chariots under the command of Shima, with a total number of about 10,000 people.
In addition to the 10,000 Yulin Army, a professional army that has been separated from production, Yingzheng summoned 80,000 soldiers from the four counties of Beidi County, Longxi County, Sanchuan County, and Hedong County, as well as 10,000 soldiers in the dead battalion, a total of 100,000 troops, and other people, prisoners, etc., who were responsible for the transportation of grain, grass and ordnance for the army.
The Qin army was divided into two routes, one was Zhang Ji led the Yulin army, the dead soldier battalion, and a total of 60,000 soldiers and horses from Longxi County and Beidi County, and marched from Nanyang to Xinzheng, the capital of Han.
The other main general is Tu Sui.
Tu Sui was originally a twenty-four-year-old Qianchang, and during the Battle of Hezhong, he made military exploits, and his title was promoted from the eighth-level public to the ninth-level Fifth Doctor, which was only one level away from the general-level Zuoshu Changjue, and was qualified as the chief general of the partial army.
Of course, according to common sense, although Tu Sui is qualified to serve as the chief general of the partial army, such a partial army is often no more than 20,000 people, and the army handed over by Zhang Ji to Tu Sui has 40,000 soldiers in Hedong County and Sanchuan County!
The political signal released by Zhang Ji's actions is self-evident, he really wants to cultivate Tu Sui and give Tu Sui the opportunity to make meritorious contributions.
And this is why Zhang Ji dared to give Tu Sui so much trust, how could the commander of an ordinary army dare to hand over a partial army of 40,000 people to Tu Sui, who was only twenty-six years old?
Tu Sui is also a bold old Qin man, if another person gets such an appointment, he may think that Zhang Ji deliberately wants to embarrass this partial army commander, but Tu Sui understands that his own general understands the talents and ambitions of these people, otherwise he would not have been selected from the millions of Qin troops to enter the Yulin Army as a captain.
The task that Zhang Ji arranged for Tu Sui was not difficult, from Yangcheng to the south to conquer Yangzhai, and then with Zhang Ji under the city of Xinzheng, together to besiege Xinzheng.
The resistance that the generals originally guessed did not exist, and Zhang Ji's army was welcomed by these former Koreans in Nanyang, and there was even a scene of eating pot pulp, which was originally only a scene of joy for the military and civilians in Lao Qin.
However, it is no wonder that Nanyang, originally as the richest land in South Korea, was first oppressed by South Korea's high taxes, and then further exploited by the night, and then encountered a food shortage.
It wasn't until Nanyang became the city of Qin that the Han people of Nanyang became the Qin people, and everything got better.
Qin's tax rate was also very high, but after the night was eradicated, the exploitation suffered by the people in Nanyang was reduced by half, and Qin's harsh punishment and strict laws dealt a blow to many unscrupulous people who maliciously raised prices when Nanyang was short of grain, and divided part of the confiscated land to the people of Nanyang, and the public security in Nanyang was also improving day by day.
The people of this era do not have too many thoughts, and what they seek is nothing more than to live.
Live safely, and if they have enough food and clothing, they can settle down.
When people are determined, they give up the idea of fleeing their hometowns and becoming displaced people to earn a living, and return to productive activities. For a long time, no one cultivated the land that accumulated a lot of fertility, so that the barley planted by the people of Nanyang also harvested a lot.
Thanks to a series of policies implemented by the Qin State in Nanyang that helped Nanyang resume production, neither Zhang Ji's main force nor Tu Sui's partial division encountered much resistance during the march.
There are still many Koreans in South Korea who are still full of enthusiasm under the wind of surgery, but more of them are middle-aged people who have been turned into scheming middle-aged people who have been treated by surgery, Koreans who have gradually lost their blood, and Koreans who are poorly clothed and hungry.
Wei Zhuang, who served as the great general of Korea, also sensed this, and abandoned many small cities and concentrated his forces in large cities, hoping to delay time, consume the grain and grass of the Qin army, and wait for reinforcements from other countries.
Yangzhai, the old capital of South Korea, is the city with the most tightly defended and the largest number of defenders in the Korean army except for Xinzheng City.
However, the Han army's will to fight was too weak, and if it weren't for the fear that Qin would slaughter the city after breaking the city, it would have lost its fighting spirit a long time ago. Therefore, Tu Sui's partial division soldiers surrounded Yang Zhai, and successfully broke the city on the 21st day of the siege.
In less than a month and a half after the Qin army dispatched, it successfully joined forces under the city of Xinzheng, and in addition to the defenders who remained in various cities, there were a full 70,000 Qin troops under the city of Xinzheng who were staring at the Korean capital with bloody sharp fangs.
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