Zulong has his own luxury train.

Coated with gold and silver, carving dragons and phoenixes, people can know at a glance that the identity and status of the owner are extraordinary.

The special train was very long, not only with thousands of the most elite palace guards, but also with a large number of cavalry on both sides.

Starting from Xianyang City all the way to the west, it took more than half a month to drive mightily, which can be regarded as crossing the Hexi Corridor and officially entering the boundary of the Western Regions.

The reason why he ran so slowly was purely because the cavalry accompanying the escort was slowing down the speed.

During the short run, the cavalry sprinted with all its might faster than the train.

But as long as it takes a long time, it will be abandoned without hesitation, and you can't see the tail lights.

Officially entered the Western Regions, and the road suddenly became empty.

When I was in Guanzhong, it was natural that the villages and towns were constantly coming and going.

Even in the Hexi Corridor, it is also densely populated, with herds of horses, cattle and sheep everywhere.

But out of Yangguan, one side of the extreme eye is the vast sea of sand, and the other side is the faintly majestic Kunlun Mountain.

Along the way, in addition to the stations with water and Gaza, there are only beacon towers guarded.

The common people are surrounded by stations and beacons, forming villages and towns of different sizes.

Looking at the scenery outside through the pure window, Zu Long naturally knew why it was the scene in front of him.

That's because the horse bandits were rampant before, and they came and went like the wind, forcing the people who migrated to gather and live along the railway line.

"Yang Duanhe has only known how to make money all these years."

Zu Long's face was unswerving, "It's really a waste to be reinstated by the horse bandits." ”

He has already made up his mind to replace the unenterprising Yang Duanhe and arrange for young people to take the position and sort it out.

When the special car rumbled into Xingxing Gorge, on the top of a cliff in the distance, a group of knights were standing on their horses, using the monoculars captured from the Qin army in their hands to observe the train on the horizon that looked like a long black worm.

The man at the head was tall and powerful, wearing a set of shabby armor, and his body was full of dust, but his eyes were extremely determined.

He put down the monocular in his hand, turned his head sideways and instructed the people around him, "Xiang Zhuang, tell the brothers to prepare to do it." ”

"Command!"

Great Qin Ming unified the world on the surface, and even Zu Long thought that his Great Qin would last forever.

But in reality?

Even with Li Yunze's admonition, Zulong's exploitation of people's livelihood is better than in history, and this is still because there are more people to squeeze in the Western Regions.

Taxes, forced labor, and the oppression of the Qin people as officials.

Taxation is such a thing, the court will not care whether you have difficulties, whether you have encountered natural disasters or man-made disasters or something, when the time comes, you will come to collect things, if you can't collect it, then you will pick up the house and take the cow, and if you don't, you will directly sell your family members into slavery.

Not to mention the conscription, the intensity of Qin Zhi's conscription can be called the strongest ever.

The intensity of Emperor Yang of Sui's conscription to open the Grand Canal is not worth mentioning at all compared with the Qin State.

Although Li Yunze continued to dissuade him in this world, and Daqin also obtained more and more labor from the West, there were more big projects that Daqin wanted to open.

The construction of a railway to the far far west alone, along the way is only those who build roads, and those who provide support for road construction, and the millions of people are mobilized.

The mausoleum, which was stopped before, was also started again, and hundreds of thousands of people gathered in Lishan to dig a big pit.

There is also Afang Palace, Zu Long felt that Xianyang Palace was too small and unworthy of his identity, so he had to build a super large palace complex, and the design drawings he drew by himself alone filled several large boxes, which was the conscription of hundreds of thousands of people.

Not only the construction site, but also the construction site to provide a variety of materials, to transport food and other materials for them, from mining to obtain raw materials to transportation and construction along the way, it is a series of projects, not only the people on the construction site, but also a large number of subsystem support, etc., these need people.

If it weren't for the fact that Zu Long felt that the nomadic tribes on the steppe were vulnerable, he slowed down the construction of the Great Wall. In addition, the railway line replaced most of the Qin Zhidao, and the progress of the southward Baiyue was suspended, thus reducing a large number of conscriptions, and it was impossible to say that Chen Sheng and Wu Guang had to be advanced.

Even so, Qin's conscription was still very heavy, especially the people in the Six Kingdoms region before.

Even, if the prisoners want to stay in the prison in peace, it is a luxury, and they are all assigned to work.

As for the local officials, mainly the Qin people, who were powerful and oppressed the people in the local area, they only needed to refer to those flags, the kind with tattoos on their foreheads.

The people have long been holding back a fire, and the forces to resist the Qin State have naturally gathered.

For example, this time, it was the nobles of the Six Kingdoms lurking in Xianyang City who sent envoys to kill several horses quickly, and only then did they pass the news to the largest horse bandits hiding in the Hanhai.

And the leader of this horse bandit is named Xiang Yu.

Xiang Yan died in battle, and after the fall of the Chu State, the resistance of the Chu people did not stop.

It's just that the Qin army is too strong, and their resistance is basically useless.

Xiang Yu followed his uncle Xiang Liang and rebelled against the Qin State, but every time he raised his troops, he was easily defeated and had to flee in embarrassment.

At this time, news about the Western Regions reached Chudi.

After discussing the Xiang family, who were forced to breathe by the encirclement and suppression, they decided to go to the Western Regions, where the control of the Qin State was not so strong, and the territory was vast and could effectively maneuver to accumulate strength.

After years of resistance, Xiang Liang died in battle, and was immediately replaced by Xiang Yu to continue the resistance.

With his personal courage and charm, Xiang Yu successfully subdued the horse bandit tribes in various oases in the Hanhai Sea and became the most powerful horse bandit.

This time, he received news from Xianyang and immediately decided to ambush Zulong.

The place they chose was Star Gorge.

Zulong's train, still pulled by the black smoke locomotive, moved forward unhurriedly, and after entering the slightly narrow valley, the cavalry on both wings began to climb towards the top of the mountain.

There were no problems along the way, but after the train traveled more than 20 miles, Li Xin, who was in charge of the guard, learned that the men sent to guard a mountain a few miles away did not respond.

There are many reasons for not responding, the weather is bad, the fire sickle you carried is not working, you fell off a cliff while climbing a mountain, etc., etc., or someone was killed in an ambush?

Li Xin hesitated, and wanted to find Zulong to talk about it, stop the special train first, and let him send a group of people over to check it out, after all, climbing the mountain is very troublesome and slow.

But Zhao Gao responded that the emperor was sleeping, so don't disturb.

The itinerary was already very slow, and Li Xin didn't want to wake up the sleeping emperor because of a trivial matter, so he had to send people to speed up the mountain and ask to strengthen vigilance.

As a result, after the second group of people went up the cliff, there was still no reaction.

Even if Li Xin is a sand sculpture, he knows that there is a problem.

Before he could give the order to do something, he saw countless large and small stones suddenly fall from the top of the mountain!

The raindrops of stones fell and clanged on the train, especially a few boulders, which hit the front of the locomotive under the action of gravitational acceleration, and the front of the locomotive was smashed.

Then a fire basket fell on the top of the mountain, which was a round ball made of bamboo and rattan, which was smeared with fire oil and then pushed down the mountain, igniting the weeds in the valley, and suddenly the smoke was thick and the fire was continuous.

"Kill~~~"

A large number of horse bandits rushed down from the hill with shouts, holding oil pots and torches, adding new impetus to the fires in the valley.

Zu Long was awakened, got up and came to the door of the car, and saw Zhao Gao who was shouting 'Assassin, there are assassins~~~'.

first slapped it, making Zhao Gao close his mouth, and then ordered someone to call Li Xin, "How is the situation?" ”

"Your Majesty, the assassin pushed the stone to cut off the road and threw the oil again, I'm afraid something is wrong." Li Xin, whose face was blackened, eagerly persuaded, "Please move your majesty and exit the valley first." ”

"Stupid!"

didn't think about it, but Zu Long directly scolded, "How many assassins can there be?" Tens of thousands of elite soldiers accompanied by escorts, and this special train is made of stainless steel, so if you let me go out and run away, wouldn't you fall into the hands of thieves? ”

Then Zu Long said, "Don't panic, just arrange for the sergeants to line up to meet the battle." ”

Li Xin, who was stable in his heart, hurriedly saluted and left to arrange for people to fight back.

Just like Zu Long said, there were tens of thousands of soldiers accompanying him at this time, and they were all the elite soldiers and horses of Great Qin.

As long as it is stable, then naturally there is no need to be afraid of anything.

On the contrary, if you run away in a panic, it is easy to give people an opportunity.

Qin Jun responded quickly here.

The palace guards in the car quickly got out of the car and surrounded Zu Long's special train.

Li Xin ordered the accompanying cavalry to dismount and form a formation, stiffly carrying a stone fire basket and stepping on the burning grass and trees, and stepped forward to resist.

As a result, the horse bandits who mainly relied on mobility to eat suddenly couldn't stop them.

Xiang Yu on horseback saw that the Qin army reacted quickly, and the real target never came out of the belly of the steel giant beast from beginning to end, he took a deep breath, and led the team to charge directly into battle with a steel spear in his hand!

Directly attacking the infantry in formation with the body of cavalry is a common thing in the script, but on the real battlefield, it requires great courage.

This is especially true when the opponent is extremely elite and will not retreat when he is equipped with iron armor.

In later generations, those braids who showed off their might in front of the beggars and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty, let them try to attack the Great Qin army array? If you don't beat the down for them, they will be counted as clean!

Xiang Yu dared to rush, and he really rushed in.

Xiang Yu led the elite cavalry, mainly from the Xiang clan, and rushed into the military formation next to the vehicle like a mudslide from the slope of the mountain.

When the impact was closer, it was less than a hundred steps away from Zulong's carriage!

Looking at the dense Qin army sergeants in front of him, and then looking at the Qin army cavalry that came to help not far away, Xiang Yu knew that this could only be the case today, unless Zu Long came out and escaped

He took a deep breath and threw the spear in his hand at the carriage dozens of paces away with the impact of the warhorse.

Xiang Yu, who was born with superior arm strength, has strong strength, and the spear drew a long rainbow in the air like lightning, and then plunged into the wagon!

Zulong's special train was equipped with steel plates, and Xiang Yu's final blow, even if it had the power to pierce the stone, failed to pierce it.

Before leaving, Xiang Yu turned his head and roared towards the ancestral dragon's special train, "A certain person from Chu, Xiang Yu is also!" Although Chu has three households, the death of Qin will be Chu!! ”

(End of chapter)