In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, where did the million Qin troops go? So why would they let Xiang Yu and Liu Bang kill the Qin Dynasty, and who destroyed Chen Sheng and Wu Guang?
The first to revolt at the end of the Qin Dynasty was Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, which almost swept the country at that time. Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, are they very good at fighting, are there many people, yes, there are many people, but after all, they are a miscellaneous army that has been put together, and the combat effectiveness is really not strong. If it is said that when Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Xiang Yu Liu Bang plus Chen Sheng were three together, and it was not necessarily possible to do it.
Chen Sheng Wu Guang
So why didn't you stop these people, what did these armies do, this is to talk about this Qin Shi Huang, he unified the six kingdoms until his death for a total of twelve years, there was no war in the country. Not only have there been no wars, but the weapons of the civilian people have been destroyed, and the defense of the city between the six countries has also been withdrawn, and the books are on the same track as the literary car, and they are also worried about the rebellion in this place.
Territory of the Qin Dynasty
Qin Shi Huang once made five cruises, and in the early days, he often had to carve a stone stele. For example, the emperor's family, the world's soldiers do not bear it. This is actually revealing a message that we are no longer at war, the world is one family, and we have begun to enjoy peace. On the other hand, although Qin Shi Huang did not fight internally, he was still fighting externally. The elite of the heavy troops are gathered in one south and one north. At that time, the Xiongnu were very powerful, and the northwest of the Qin Dynasty was the territory of the Xiongnu. In order to deal with the Xiongnu, he connected the Great Wall of the Warring States period to him. Then he sent the general Meng Tian and 300,000 men to garrison the border to deal with the Xiongnu.
Who will the South fight, this place is called Baiyue. Baiyue is not actually a country, it is composed of many, many tribes. What are the places, such as zhejiang, Guangdong, Fujian, Guangxi, and even a small part of Southeast Asia? These places were called barbarian places at that time, for example, like our Shaoxing is called Yuyue, like Wenzhou is called Dongyue. Fuzhou is called Minyue and so on. Because there are many tribes, it is called Baiyue. When Wang Qi destroyed Chu, the Qin army once took advantage of the victory to fight across the Yangtze River and began to attack this Baiyue, but when they hit Guangdong and Guangxi, they did not fight down. After three years of work, Qin Shi Huang began to invest half a million troops, led by this Ren Hu and Zhao Tuo. Finally, he occupied this land of Baiyue, that is, he took the area of Guangdong and Guangxi.
Hundred Yue Chart
It was not until the death of Qin Shi Huang, Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, and Liu Bang Xiangyu that they fought in this Central Plains, and it was not until 208 BC that Ren Hu received the news. At that time, it didn't take long for the Baiyue to fight, and it needed to be heavily garrisoned, and it was impossible to draw troops at all. Coupled with the fact that Qin Shi Huang died again, Hu Hai was unpopular, and you see that he killed all his brothers and sisters. Therefore, when he was dying in 206 BC, this Ren Huan said the following words to his deputy Zhao Tuo: "Thieves and soldiers come, rush to the end, gather troops to defend themselves." That is to say, the war in the Central Plains, these rebels will soon hit our side, we quickly destroy this road, gather heavy troops at the border pass, and cut off contact with the Central Plains. Then, he killed the officials set up by the Qin Dynasty there and separated themselves for self-preservation.
Zhao Tuo
Then, you see that the 300,000 in the north cannot move, and the 500,000 in the south are unwilling to move, and they cannot move, so the country is empty. Chen Sheng, Wu Guang, they just took advantage of this loophole, taking advantage of the fact that the army was in full swing, and their main force began to advance westward. At that time, Chen Sheng had a man named Zhou Wen, who led hundreds of thousands of people to prepare to sneak attack Hangu Pass and capture Xianyang. Nahangu Pass was the original Qin Dynasty's barrier against the Six Kingdoms, which was very important. But what I didn't expect was that such an important pass was actually broken by Zhou Wen, which was powerful. Who is this Zhou Wen, who is also called Zhou Zhang, and it is said that he was once a doorman under Huang Xie of the Chunshen Army. According to his own account, he had also served as a servant in Xiang Yan's army, that is, a combat staff officer, and according to the reason, he was a person familiar with the art of war.
Circumferential image
Then as soon as the Hangu Pass was broken, the Qin Dynasty panicked. Because as soon as you enter the pass, it is eight hundred miles of Pingchuan, and there is no obstacle along the way, all the way to the foot of Lishan Mountain. That is, the vicinity of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. Seeing xianyang was close at hand, victory was immediately in sight. At this time, Zhou Wen found that there was a river in front of him, and on the other side of the river, there was a military horse, and the number was not much, about 50,000 people. But these 50,000 people gave him a completely different feeling from the Qin Army he had encountered before, which was very frightening. Because Zhou Wen had fought against the Qin army in Xiang Yan's army, he knew that the qin army's combat effectiveness was really terrible. So I thought this was broken, the army in front of me was definitely the elite of the Elite of the Qin Army, but they couldn't run here, right, they could only go up. The key is that there is a river in front of you to cross the river, how to cross the river.
Hangu Pass
Zhou Wen thought that since the other party was elite, then I would also send elites, so I sent my most elite troops to start crossing the river. The man was in no hurry, and when you crossed the river halfway through, you came to a half-crossing and then burned down the pontoon bridge. Zhou Wen saw that he could not defeat him and had to retreat, this Qin army did not chase, then who was this leader, Presumably everyone guessed, he was Zhang Handan, this Zhang Handan was working as a supervisor in Lishan At that time. I heard that the enemy had hit Lishan, the situation was in crisis, what to do, it just so happened that there was an army in the Beijing Division of Xianyang at that time, and he belonged to the emperor's guard. What are they doing, working as models here in Lishan. What model is it to model this Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shi Huang. Our terracotta warriors, he did it according to the appearance of real people. So this army is here to be a model for the Terracotta Warriors.
Shōhō Image
Therefore, he quickly gathered this army and lined up at the foot of Lishan Mountain at that time to meet the enemy. Then this battle chapter Is a world war fame. Then he told Hu Hai that it was too late to mobilize reinforcements, so he simply organized these prisoners from Lishan to form this army, and then we began to suppress the rebellion. So Zhang Handan took these hundreds of thousands of people and horses and began to attack all the way. After killing Zhou Wen, his soldier began to point directly at this Wu Guang. Wu Guang was in Xingyang at the time, and when Wu Guang heard that Zhang Handan was coming, he opened up the situation. Go to war with him. However, Zhang Handan simply ignored him and went directly to the side to occupy the Ao Cang next to him. Ao Cang was a grain depot, which meant that Wu Guang's grain road was robbed and the army was in chaos. Then the people under him felt that Wu Guang could not fight, so he killed Wu Guang, and then went to find Zhang Handan with his soldiers and horses. This is like a fight on the ground, on this Wang Eight Fists, there is no battle formation at all. Then you think, one is amateur, the other is professional, the ending can be imagined.
Then Zhang Handan began to capture the thief first, and he began to aim at this Chen Sheng again, that Chen Sheng could not see it, I had to run and fight, just on the way to his retreat, Chen Sheng's driver, that is, the coachman, was called Jia Zhuang. He killed this Chen Sheng, and then surrendered to the Qin army with Chen Sheng's head. Chen Sheng Wu Guang died so vaguely. From the time of their uprising to the end, it was a total of six months, but was it over when they were wiped out?
However, no, because the rebellion was a cause, he was inherited by Xiang Yu and Liu Bang.