We also all know that the status of the Meng family in the Qin state is very important, and in the generation of Meng Tian is still used by Qin Shi Huang, and it is precisely because of this that Meng Tian is a thorn in the eye of Zhao Gao and Li Si, if you want to implement your original plan, then the first one will suppress the prince Fu Su, because Fu Su is the first heir to the throne;
The second is to get rid of Meng Tian, because Meng Tian is the death of the Great Qin, the death of the Qin Shi Huang, and the gongzi Fu Su is very good. This also led to Meng Tian becoming a thorn in the eye of Zhao Gao and Li Si. Meng Tian, the "first warrior of China" of the Great Qin Empire, eventually died in the conspiracy of the eunuch Zhao Gao and the powerful minister Li Si.
However, where did the more than 300,000 Great Wall Corps under his command go after Meng Tian's death? In the late Qin dynasty, it fell into a riot, did the Great Wall Army contribute?
The answer to this point is yes, after Meng Tian's death, Wang Li became Meng Tian's successor, and under the command of Wang Li, these 300,000 Great Wall legions entered the Central Plains and participated in the war to quell the chaos in the Central Plains, but they were completely annihilated by Xiang Yu, a ruthless man, under the giant deer city.
The earliest record of the Great Wall Army commanded by Meng Tian is wang li's engagement with the peasant army. The target of this engagement was Liu Bang's army, and the Great Wall Army commanded by Wang Li was defeated by liu Bang's army, after which Wang Li led the defeated army to retreat towards Zhang Handan's position.
From here, we can see that after Wang Li became the commander of the Great Wall Army, the combat effectiveness of the Great Wall Army and Meng Tian was fundamentally different. The combat effectiveness is no longer the Great Wall Army that fought the Xiongnu and looked for teeth all over the place.
At that time, Liu Bang's army was really in a very embarrassing position, when Liu Bang first entered Guanzhong in the west, but he could not conquer any important military city of the Qin Dynasty, and when he attacked the Luoyang garrison, he did not move Luoyang at all, which showed that Liu Bang's power at that time was really ordinary. However, it was such an army that miraculously defeated the elite troops of the Qin State commanded by Wang Li, which showed that the combat effectiveness of the Great Wall Army at this time was quite average.
We can also do related analysis, mainly out
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cause:
First, Wang Li's military talent is very poor, he did not inherit his grandfather's military skills, relatively not suitable for being a commander, and only suitable for being a vice general;
Second, under the rule of MengTian for more than ten years, the Great Wall Legion already had a deep relationship with the soldiers. Meng Tian was killed by Hu Hai and Zhao Gaoren again, so this time caused the great wall legion to be unstable, and it also caused the great wall army to have no original combat effectiveness.
And according to the relevant records, we know that at that time, the total number of soldiers and horses of the Great Wall Corps commanded by Wang Li was more than 200,000, and at the beginning, Meng Tian led more than 300,000 Great Wall Legions, so where did the other 100,000 people go?
When Fu Su first came to Meng Tian here, Meng Tian said a word to Gongzi Fu Su:
"The pen is outside, the prince has not been appointed, the envoys have unified 300,000 people, and now the prince is the prisoner, and the heavy responsibility of this world is also!"
From here, it has been argued that the above-mentioned Meng Tian led a 300,000-strong Great Wall Army.
The relevant record in the Chronicle of the Huns reads:
"After more than ten years of death, the princes of The Qin Dynasty, the disturbance of China, and the return of all those who have migrated to the qin."
In fact, this sentence also reveals two meanings: the first point is that there was a riot at the end of Qin, and the Great Wall Army stationed in Shangjun was ordered to withdraw from the border to the Central Plains to suppress the rebellion; the second point is that most of the soldiers in the Border Guard Country are soldiers in the Six Kingdoms, and after seeing the war, they do not want to fight, so they flee and want to go home, because of the excessive number of people, there is an uncontrollable situation, and the Great Wall Army is inexplicably less than 100,000 people.
In fact, the specific reasons for this are also just like the two reasons we analyzed above, one of which is that Wang Li's military ability is not as good as Mengtian, and he is very poor in governing the army, and he has not inherited his grandfather's excellent military genes; second, after Mengtian was killed, it caused a violent reaction within the Great Wall Army, so it also led to a very chaotic phenomenon in the Great Wall Army, which was still not resolved until the Great Wall Army was transferred to the Central Plains to counter-rebellion, resulting in the power of a fist being dispersed to several places. The phenomenon of not using strength in one place has led to a situation of low combat effectiveness. In addition, the death of Meng Tian caused the Great Wall Army to lose trust in the Great Qin Dynasty, so there was a sharp reduction of 100,000 people.