Zhao He personally led a 120,000 army to advance eastward to attack Chu.

If the 120,000 army was placed a few years ago, although it would be a considerable number of troops, no one would think that this number was enough to destroy a country.

But now it can.

The Chu State had failed against Zhao State too many times. Too many young and middle-aged people in Chu State either became ghosts under the sword of the Zhao Army, or became prisoners and slaves used by the Zhao Army to enrich the border and reclaim wasteland.

As the Zhao army traveled along, it was obvious that whether it was the cities and villages of Lu, the elderly, weak, women and children accounted for the vast majority, and there were extremely few young and strong men in adulthood.

Regarding this, General Zhao She was somewhat worried: "King, will this make the people of Chu hate us, Da Zhao?"

Zhao He sat above the king's carriage, staring at the city in front of him thoughtfully, and said, "It's okay. The hatred between the elderly, the weak, the women and the children is actually not worth mentioning."

For the elderly, weak, women and children, the more important thing is to survive.

This society will always be centered on young and middle-aged men. Since all the young and middle-aged men in Chu State are gone, if the elderly, weak, women and children in Chu State want to continue to live, they can only rely on young and middle-aged men in Zhao State.

But when you rely on a person, no matter how much you hate this person, you can't leave this person at all.

When the young and middle-aged man in Zhao became the masters of the elderly, weak, women and children of Chu, then for up to twenty years, the elderly, weak, women and children of Chu would become the elderly, weak, women and children of Zhao.

If life can get better, the time limit for this twenty-year period will become shorter.

"In order to survive, ordinary people can abandon everything, and hatred is not worth mentioning in the face of existence."

This is what Zhao He said to Zhao She, and it is also one of the knowledge that Zhao He gained in that era of knowledge explosion as a time traveler.

Juyang City is already in front of you.

This city was briefly the capital of Chu State in history, but in this world there is no chance.

However, this does not prevent the fact that it is a great city in Chu.

Shangcai has already belonged to Zhao State. As long as you take down Juyang City, Zhao He can enter Shouchun very smoothly.

Zhao He thought for a while and said, "Send the order to let the military doctors pay more attention and don't let the epidemic in the army cause."

The march these days made Zhao He very uncomfortable, and many soldiers in the Zhao army were also uncomfortable.

There is a big difference between the Huaihe River Basin in this era and the Huaihe River Basin in later generations. The most intuitive point is that there are elephants here!

While the army was marching, it encountered a migrating group of elephants. In order to seek credit, a general paid the price of fourteen Zhao soldiers being killed and hundreds of Zhao soldiers being injured.

After learning the news, Zhao He removed the general without hesitation, but the five Asian elephants sent to him were all kept by Zhao He.

Zhao He has no special hobbies for ivory. He simply wants to experience the feeling of sitting in an elephant.

If possible, Zhao He didn't even mind that the Zhao army would get an Elephant Soldier. However, considering that the elephant Soldiers have no advantage over cavalry and artillery, it is estimated that it would be a military that is more ornamental than practical combat.

Where there are elephants, the climate is very humid and stuffy.

The temperature in the Warring States Period was significantly higher than that in later generations more than two thousand years ago. At the same time, the Chu State was famously vast and sparsely populated. This is why species such as elephants, rhinos and crocodiles can survive in the Huaihe River Basin and are quite large.

In later generations, these species were basically retreated near the equator, except for a few carefully preserved species.

The most obvious thing about humid and hot weather is the epidemic, which is also a problem that any northern army must solve when attacking the south.

Fortunately, Chu State still carried out some developments north of the Yangtze River, and the problem was not serious.

In the south of the Yangtze River, it is really the world of the barbarians who eat raw meat and drink blood.

Thinking of this, Zhao He had a not very good premonition about the difficulty of conquering Lingnan.

Zhao She seemed to have thought of the same problem and spoke: "King, I think it doesn't need to be taken too early to the south of the Yangtze River. I will just take it slowly in the future."

Zhao He smacked his lips and said, "No. If I can't conquer Lingnan by myself, can I still expect the descendants who grew up in the greenhouse to do such a thing?"

In Zhao He's heart, his yearning and desire for a certain territory is something that no one else in this world cannot know and understand.

Seeing that Zhao She was a little confused, Zhao He asked, "Zhao She, do you think that if Zhao State's territory is large enough after unifying the six kingdoms?"

Zhao She said seriously: "Of course it's enough. To be honest, this is far beyond my imagination."

Zhao He sighed and said, "Yes, many people think it's enough. It's not just you. But for me, this territory is still too small."

The Qin Dynasty south of the Yangtze River and most of Yunnan was captured, and its territory was only 3.4 million square kilometers!

Taking the territory of the current vassal states, even if the Zhao State destroyed other vassal states, it would only be about 2.3 million to 2.4 million square kilometers.

Too small!

Zhao He said slowly: "We Zhao people will become the backbone of the Huaxia people in the future, and the Huaxia people will never have much territory to survive. The Book of Songs says, 'All the kings under the world are kings and ministers'. This is just the words of the Emperor Zhou Dynasty who used hype. But now, since we have the ability to do it, why not do it?"

"I know that many people like you, Lian Po, and General Le Yi, think that if the six kingdoms are destroyed, everything should be over, and everyone can go home and live a good life. But I think this is wrong."

"You and the army under your command are a army of wars that have been tempered and tempered. What should we do if we cannot build a large enough territory for our descendants in this generation, and when there are more and more descendants and fewer fields in the future? At that time, will they still have such a powerful army of wars expand their territory?"

"So, I would rather work harder. Zhao's expansion will not stop because of unifying the world. If the sea is in the east, we will go out to the sea, if the plateau is in the west, we will climb to the plateau, if the grassland is in the north, we will gallop on the grassland, if the forest is in the south, we will travel through the dense forest."

"I want the whole world to tremble under the might of Zhao State, so that all aliens can know the divine power of the Huaxia clan, and make the Chinese civilization the most brilliant civilization in the world!"
Chapter completed!