"Daqin I II and even ten thousand lifetimes are endless". This may have been what the First Emperor had in mind when he looked at the solid Xianyang City. But what he didn't expect was that from the beginning of the Qin Dynasty's unification of the world to the complete collapse of the Qin Dynasty, only 15 years had passed.
Every time we discuss the reasons for the demise of the powerful Qin that swept the world, our eyes will always focus on the fierce government of the Qin Dynasty, the dim king Hu Hai and the traitor Zhao Gao, but we ignore some irrational places at the time of the fall of the Qin Dynasty, such as: Chen Sheng Wuguang developed too rapidly, the prisoners of Lishan were too strong in combat, and Liu Bang's entry into Xianyang was too smooth.
Unreasonable one, Chen Sheng Wu Guang became bigger too fast
Chen Sheng and Wu Guang were originally just ordinary people serving in military service, and they were delayed by heavy rain from the sky, which was a capital crime of beheading in the laws of the Qin Dynasty at that time, and in order to find a way for themselves, they planned the first large-scale peasant uprising in Chinese history in Daze Township, and even shouted out such famous words as "the prince will have a kind of peace", which made everyone in the world tremble.
But in the next few months, the two expanded from a conscription team at the beginning to hundreds of thousands of rebels, which was quite explosive when looking at the entire feudal history so quickly. Where did Chen Sheng and Wu Guang recruit so many people? Why do they have such great appeal?
Unreasonable two, the prisoner of Lishan is too cattle
Faced with the menacing rebel army from all over the place, the Qin general Zhang Wei led the remaining Xianyang garrison and the prisoners of the original Six Kingdoms to suppress the rebel army with a hundred thousand prisoners and was powerless to fight back.
After Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's rebellious forces were quelled, the Lishan Prisoner Army sang all the way, killing Qi Wang Tian Dan and destroying Wei Wang Wei, and even Xiang Yu's uncle Xiang Liang died at the hands of Zhang Handan. Later, Zhang Wei joined forces with Wang Li's army and surrounded the state of Zhao at Julu City, and at that time, Zhang Ao's 10,000 troops and Yan state's reinforcements had reached Julu, but they did not dare to fight because they were afraid of the Qin army, and it was not until Xiang Yu broke the cauldron and sank the boat, and Zhang Wei was able to surrender.
Unreasonable three, Liu Bang's entry into customs is too smooth
At the critical moment of the Battle of Julu, Liu Bang and his group took the opportunity to attack Xianyang from Wuguan, and the Qin army along the way seemed to suddenly disappear, but Liu Bang's team continued to grow. For Daqin, the battle of Julu is of course important, but Xianyang is the most core area of Daqin, and it is impossible to be without elite guards, but why did Liu Bang disappear as soon as he came?
In fact, the above three problems are all related, and can even be said to be the reasons for the collapse of the Qin State.
Let's talk about the peasant uprising of the Qin Dynasty, during the reign of the First Emperor, he was bent on consolidating the foundation of the country and carried out thorough reforms in all aspects, but because the steps were too big, it eventually led to the people's livelihood everywhere, and the people were even more complaining. After the death of the First Emperor, the people of the world had become dry gunpowder, as long as there was a fire source, it could explode instantly, and the first fire source was Chen Sheng Wu Guang.
However, when the powder keg was ignited, Chen Sheng didn't think about where to blow up the gunpowder at all? How to fry? What about the quality of gunpowder? Whether it is homeless people, or the remaining aristocratic forces of the Six Kingdoms, or the local reckless reckless rebels, as long as they are people, they will all be absorbed into the rebel army, not quality but quantity. Therefore, more and more people naturally joined the rebel army, from more than 900 people at the beginning, it grew to hundreds of thousands in just a few months, but this also laid the groundwork for their later mute.
As for why Zhang Handan's prison army is so brave, it is naturally a comparison with whom. Some of the troops temporarily formed by Zhang Wei were the Guanzhong Regiment in Xianyang at that time, and most of the rest were captured generals of the original Six Kingdoms held in their cells, plus General Zhang Handan, these teams could naturally be comparable to the regular army.
On the other hand, Chen Sheng's rebel army, the leader himself is incompetent, proud and complacent, and there are constant contradictions within the group, the nobles of the six countries are in their own camps, watching their own people fight alone but choose to stand by (the Zhou Wen rebel army fought alone in Guanzhong and finally failed), in the face of such a rabble, Zhang Wei was naturally invincible and won a hundred battles. However, once this prison army encounters an organized and disciplined army, its disadvantages are also visible.
Later, in order to avenge his uncle, Xiang Yu led tens of thousands of people across the Yellow River, forcing Zhang Wei to retreat, and the Battle of Julu was even more defeated, defeating 400,000 Qin troops, at this time the main army of the Qin Dynasty in the Central Plains was almost completely destroyed, and Zhang Wei feared being held accountable, and then surrendered to Xiang Yu.
Before analyzing the problem of Liu Bang's entry into the customs, we might as well look at the location of the Qin army at that time from the perspective of God. When Liu Bang was preparing to enter the customs, Zhang Wei and Xiang Yuzheng were fighting hotly, and the Qin army was fighting against the Xiongnu in the north and the coast in the south, and at this time the pass was the most empty time.
However, even if the Guan is very empty, it is still not easy to deal with the Guanzhong Army in Xianyang with Liu Bang's old guys. Speaking of which, we have to return to the prisoner army: why did the prisoners of Lishan not take the opportunity to rebel, but followed Zhang Wei all the way? Why did the ace force guarding the heart of Daqin suddenly disappear mysteriously?
If you connect these two questions, you will see that things are strange. In fact, the Lishan Torture Army led by Zhang Wei was not only a mixed force of the Guanzhong Legion and prisoners, but also the core of the Guanzhong Legion.
At that time, in the face of the menacing rebel army, Daqin had to put together an army in a short period of time to fight against one, and at this time, the prisoners who had served in military service in Lishan became the best choice. And in order to make these anti-bone boys obedient, Daqin can only insert the core of the Guanzhong Legion with explosive force value and loyalty, which can not only serve the public, but also fight wars, but at the same time, it also hollows out Guanzhong .
After Liu Bang learned the identity of the defenders under Zhang Handan, he was keenly aware that no matter what the reason, the regular army of the Great Qin Empire would definitely not be able to return in a short time, and at this time, the Guan Kong was easy to obtain, and the land of the Great Qin Empire in Gyeonggi was within reach.
As a result, he made the right bet, and just when the Qin Dynasty was concentrating on dealing with Chen Sheng's Wuguang rebel army and Xiang Yu's army, within a year of the outbreak of the peasant uprising, Liu Bang took the opportunity to attack Xianyang, becoming the first general to enter Xianyang.
Finally, although these things that happened when the Qin Dynasty fell seem unreasonable and pompous, this is actually the reverse to show that the demise of the Qin Dynasty is doomed.