Chapter 52 Don't dare to go south and herd horses

Zhang Yanxi can't help it, this can be her own commodity, the price is only gold, and she can only sell one or two gold.

This trip to the supermarket once again opened the eyes of the ancients, before the next broadcast, Zhang Yanxi asked His Majesty the First Emperor what he wanted to know about the Qin Dynasty, His Majesty replied to the general, she nodded slightly, understood.

On the second day of the light rain, Zhang Yanxi had already gotten up as usual, and she was in a very good mood today, she liked rainy days, and she liked it even more if she brought a cool breeze.

The live broadcast started, and a week later, it kicked off again.

"Today, I will tell you about the ranking of the generals of Daqin, speaking of the Qin Dynasty, in the five hundred years of Qin Shihuang's conquest, there are also a lot of generals in Daqin, and there are more than 50 people mentioned in the recorded history books, there are too many people, I can only tell you the top four in two times, and I will talk about others later, but when I finish the next topic, you can also ask questions again from the first place in the reward list, and the questions are not counted."

"Speaking of this fourth general, I once talked about this person when I was explaining Hu Hai, and when he was in Qin II, he didn't end up well, he is the fourth general I want to talk about this time - Meng Tian."

"Meng Tian, surnamed Ji, Mengshi, Mingtian, ancestral Qi people, famous generals of the Qin Dynasty. Meng Tian was born in a family of famous generals. His grandfather Meng Fu and father Meng Wu were both famous generals of the Qin State, who were deeply influenced by the family environment and had great ambitions since childhood. ”

In 221 BC, Meng Tian was named a general, attacked Qi, and was worshiped as an internal history for his meritorious service in breaking Qi, and his younger brother Meng Yi was also appointed to the Supreme Secretary. The Montessori brothers won the favor of Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian served as a foreign minister, and Meng Yi was often an internal strategist, and was known as "faithful" at that time. The other generals did not dare to compete with them for favor. After Qin unified the Six Kingdoms, Meng Tian led an army of 300,000 to attack the Xiongnu in the north. Recovering Henan, building Lintao in the west from Longxi, to the Great Wall of Liaodong in the east, conquering the northern Xinjiang for more than ten years, and shocking the Huns. ”

"In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang completed the great feat of unifying the six kingdoms, and when he eliminated other countries, Meng Tian, who was Qin Shi Huang's right-hand man, was not present, and when Qin Shi Huang was attacking the six kingdoms, what was Meng Tian doing? As Qin Shi Huang's right-hand man, Meng Tian naturally appeared on the battlefield, and Meng Tian's enemy was not the Six Kingdoms, but the Xiongnu!"

"Since ancient times, the nomads on the Mongolian Plateau are very strong existence, but also one of the problems in the history of the flower country, a war horse is sitting very powerful and fierce Huns, their existence makes the monarchs of the Central Plains feel a trace of threat, the Han should empathize, it is difficult to repel, just such a fierce Huns, Meng Tian beat the other party "dare not go south and herd horses".

"It can't be said that the Han Dynasty can't do it, because the national strength of Qin and Han at that time cannot be compared, and the army led by Meng Tian at that time was far better than that of the early Han Dynasty. The Qin Dynasty can be said to be all soldiers, and the Han Dynasty has not been relieved after the baptism of conquest and cannot fight with the Xiongnu. It can be said that the strength of the Qin and Han dynasties was relative to that of the Xiongnu. As we all know, war is ultimately a contest of national strength between the two countries. The so-called "the army does not move, the grain and grass go first" is the truth. ”

"Secondly, the cavalry at that time did not have stirrups, had limited impact power, and had no advantage over bows and crossbows. And the Xiongnu did not have iron arrowheads at that time, and the lethality of bone and bronze arrows was insufficient. After the Xiongnu mastered the metallurgical technology, they gave Liu Bang a siege of White Wolf Mountain. When the stirrup was invented in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the nomads were unstoppable, but we are mainly saying that the battle of Meng Tian was not the same as the development of the dynasties, and the two cannot be compared. ”

Liu:......

In 215 BC, Qin Shi Huang, with Meng Tian as his commander, led 300,000 Qin troops to attack the Xiongnu in the north. On the banks of the Yellow River, the Qin army, which was dominated by infantry, fought a life-and-death battle with the Hun cavalry. ”

"It should not be difficult for Meng Tian to fight the Xiongnu with 300,000 troops, and Meng Tian did not disappoint Qin Shi Huang, Meng Tian took a phased and step-by-step attack method against the Xiongnu, first of all, it was natural to attack the Xiongnu to recover Henan; In the end, the Great Wall was built to better defend against the Xiongnu attack, and when the plan was made, Meng Tian decided to surprise the Huns. ”

"Meng Tian personally led the army to divide into two routes, one part went north from Yulin, and then quickly captured the northern part of the Hetao, and the other part entered the southern part of the Hetao, in the face of the fierce attack of the Qin army, the Huns were defenseless, so Meng Tian easily recovered the Henan region and defeated the Huns!"

"The army led by Meng Tian defeated the Xiongnu armies in the upper reaches of the Yellow River with an unstoppable momentum, forcing the Xiongnu to flee and go 700 miles north of the desert."

"Meng Tian dealt a heavy blow to the fierce and brave Xiongnu in just one battle, so that they could not be defeated and ran in all directions. The Xiongnu did not dare to enter the Han land for decades, and Meng Tiangong was supreme. In order to strengthen the defense line in the Hetao area, Meng Tian led a heavy army to sit in Shangjun, and built a pavilion barrier and a castle north of the Yellow River in the Hetao as an outpost position of the Yellow River defense line. ”

"After defeating the Xiongnu, Meng Tian did not relax, but ordered to start building the Great Wall, only after the Great Wall was built, can it resist the Xiongnu attack, at that time Meng Tian was the nemesis of the Xiongnu!"

"After this battle, it brought a stable social environment to the north for more than ten years, and created conditions for the development of the Hetao area. Meng Tian fought bravely, won by surprise, defeated the Huns, is the biggest battle in his life, people praised him as "the first warrior of China" He also lived up to expectations, Meng Tian stationed in Shangjun, shocked the Huns for more than ten years.

Qin Shi Huang respected Meng Shi very much, trusted and praised Meng Tian's talents, and was close to Meng Tian's younger brother Meng Yi, who was the official to the top of the court, and accompanied Qin Shi Huang in the same car when he went out, and served in front of Qin Shi Huang when he was inside. Meng Tian served as a foreign minister, and Meng Yi was often an internal strategist, and was known as faithful at that time. Therefore, the other generals did not dare to compete with them for favor. ”

"Meng Yi has a strict rule of law, never favors the powerful, and no one dares to compete with the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty. One day, the chamberlain Zhao Gao committed a major crime, and Meng Yi sentenced him to death in accordance with the law and removed him from his eunuch position, but was pardoned by Qin Shi Huang. From this time on, the Montessori brothers became Zhao Gao's heart disease. ”

"This led to the unjust murder of the two brothers later."

This is later, Qin Shi Huang toured the south, the first emperor died, Zhao Gao was worried that Fusu would succeed to the throne, Meng Tian would be reused, which would be unfavorable to him, so he withheld the edict and conspired with Hu Hai to usurp the throne. He coerced and enticed Li Si to conspire with them, and Li Si also knew that Fusu was closer to the two brothers, and the two of them, who were afraid of affecting their status, were embarrassed and fabricated a testament. ”