Cultivate independent judgment ability, enhance team leadership ability, and allow each and every outstanding backbone talent to become a pillar supporting the Qin Dynasty through repeated experiences.

The riot in Hanzhong County, combined with the arrival of natural disasters, directly tested the wisdom and ability of Chen Ping, Li Zheng, Meng Hu and other Qin backbone officials.

In the past, these officials and generals were used to moving forward like a group of stars around Li Yuan. This time, in the absence of Li Yuan, in the absence of a team, Chen Ping, Meng Hu and other group of Qin backbone officials had to make their own judgments, learn from each other to be inclusive and considerate, and at the same time, they also had to select the most suitable personnel to be responsible for affairs in the most suitable position.

The new Qin State, under rigorous and orderly laws, needs a mechanism that can support its operation for a long time, rather than relying solely on a certain person. This is what Li Yuan has always advocated as a modern person. Of course, under this mechanism system, the most core person is Li Yuan. Until one day, he was unwilling to lead this country or have another younger and stronger person to guide him.

Chen Ping and others made their own decision this time. This was the first time since Li Yuan led them to fight along the way, and it was also a significant step. Li Yuan was just a person, not an omnipresent god. Faced with the increasingly broad territory of Qin, if he experienced everything himself, he would be exhausted one day.

The Qin army attacked in three directions.

Let’s not mention Zhang Ping for now, what about Wang Shang’s two men? Take Meng Hu’s family as an example. After receiving the general order, Meng Hu suddenly discovered that there were only a thousand generals and soldiers under him, and he wanted to complete the important task of entering Hanzhong from Baoxie Road to defeat the bandits. This number of men was obviously far from enough.

After summoning a group of officials from the Tingwei Mansion to discuss, Meng Hu did not say hello to Chen Ping, Li Zheng and others, and raised a recruiting banner in Chang'an. Under the call of "If you live, you will be famous, and if you die, you will be in the stele forest, you will not be like this!", the noble children in Chang'an City, half-large boys in the rampant yard, or frustrated speculative merchants in the East and West City, all joined them.

At that time, the halo of the great victory of the Great Qin Northern Expedition to Yandi had not yet dissipated.

The Qin State, especially those young boys who grew up following the battles of Li Yuanjun in Guanzhong, moved from Guanzhong to Yongqi with their parents or tribesmen from his teens, and then returned from Yongqi to Xianyang and Chang'an. In their young and proud hearts, they had already regarded Li Yuan and his generals as heroes. Now they have the opportunity to follow the hero's footsteps and kill the enemy, so they are naturally willing to do so.

Among them, especially those children of officials who were officials in the New Qin Dynasty, their fathers and brothers often mentioned the glorious history of the Qin army in their words, which made them even more fascinated. In the youth's longing, they had long ignored the number of people who died on the battlefield. All they saw was the flying high Qin army flag.

"Forward, forward, forward!"

"Put the battle flag into the enemy's position!"

The passion was boiling in the chests of the young Qin people, and they could not wait. There were even a few bad guys who didn't even go back to their homes and secretly escaped from their homes and moved to the military camp set up by Meng Hu on the Leyou Yuan. Among these young Qin people, perhaps one day in the future, brave generals like Gan Yong and Li Zhongxiang will emerge, and they will also be an important pillar of the Qin Kingdom's future.

Meng Hu didn't know what his unintentional flag-raising campaign would bring to Qin State? He only knew that in just ten days, young people from counties from all over the country had filled the military camps.

Speculators hope to get their own share in the battle between Guanzhong and Bashu;

An ordinary farm boy, with his parents and relatives nagging, and the soles sewn by the young plum girl overnight. The first time he was traveling far away in the wind and snow.

Perhaps one day, they will return to their hometown with pain and scars all over their bodies and become a village pavilion chief and a pavilion lieutenant at the grassroots level in the local area.

Perhaps one day, they will fall down without a god in a war in a distance. When their lives are about to rest, a familiar and unfamiliar scene in their hometown will flash in their hearts.

This is life.

This is all about men, wonderful and colorful, with a little bit of tragic. But it is precisely with these fearless Qin people that the strength of Qin is guaranteed.

On the second day of the 2nd year of the New Calendar of the Great Qin Dynasty.

Meng Hu's five thousand new army was formed, and this young team, like their young generals, stepped onto the unknown battlefield fearlessly. What awaited them would be a bloody and cruel killing.

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Jushui.

This river, also called Jishui, originates from Ziwu Ridge in the deep mountains of the Qinling Mountains. It is said that this is also the birthplace of the Xuanyuan Huangdi clan. To the south of Jushui is Baoshui. The two waterways are only more than ten miles apart, but Jushui enters the river and Baoshui enters the river. The water system injected from each other is also 108,000 miles apart.

The second part of the Qin army was built on the banks of the Jushui River.

After Sima Yin went to Jinyang, the person who took on the responsibility of Jushui Bing was Peng Sheng, a famous scholar in Peng County who surrendered to Qin in Shu County. This alchemist, who claimed to be the son of Peng Zu, had his own insights in refining alchemy. Because of his specialty in this area, Chen Ping was placed in Jushui Bing.

Compared with Lishan and Jinyang, the topography of Jushui is more complex. The iron ore contains too many impurities, including a variety of metal properties. These impurities are hindering the wrought iron, and for the alchemist who is dedicated to studying the recipe for immortality, it is a new round of exploration.

After Shu County surrendered to Qin, Peng Sheng went through a long process from the initial ecstasy to the slow calm down. During this period, he finally clearly realized the difference between Li Yuan, the Shenwu Marquis of Qin, and Emperor Shi, and any other Qin emperor.

What's the difference?

It's very simple. Li Yuan didn't believe in the legend of immortality at all. With his two thousand years of experience in reincarnation, he was completely an atheist. Against this background, Peng Sheng's specious theories have become rootless trees and rootless sources.

A master craftsman made by Jushui soldiers.

This is Peng Sheng's current position. In order to obtain this actual position, he paid a considerable price. For example, there are dozens of craftsmen with superb skills in Jushui, and if Peng Sheng wants to defeat them technically, he must come up with his own unique skills. Compared with the single craftsmen who only know how to train bronzes and irons, Peng Sheng's harmonious creation in the alchemy formula is deeper.

Mixing nitr, charcoal and sulfur together to make a special object that can explode within a certain range and produce thick smoke. This is the latest invention that Peng Sheng thought of in meditation.

Peng Sheng was not sure about the epoch-making significance of this invention. In fact, when he first tried this explosive pill recipe, he was almost unable to even get out of the pill house.

However, Peng Sheng's embarrassment was only once.

When Ju Shui Bingzao was besieged by the refugee team, it was Peng Sheng's seemingly inconspicuous invention that made Ju Shui Bingzao persist until the arrival of Menghu reinforcements.

The Jushui originated at the foot of Ziwu Ridge, and the terrain was extremely steep. At the entrance of the valley in front of the army, it was even more like a single man was at the pass and ten thousand men could not open.

The two women Lu Zhi and Ying family have the innate and careful thoughts of women in confusing people's hearts and stirring up dissatisfaction, but their shortcomings are shown in their specific military command capabilities.

After occupying Nanzheng, Lu and Ying were overjoyed. They then replenished the refugee armed forces and charged with a main force to advance towards the eastern Xicheng and Wuguan areas of Hanzhong County. At the same time, in order to completely block the Baoxi Road and seize the most exquisite iron weapons of the Qin State, Lu Zhi took 10,000 refugees as the vanguard and headed north along the Baoshui area toward the clear valley.

A battle surrounding the Jushui soldiers' ownership rights began.

Peng Sheng's special pill formula played an unexpected role in this battle. The total number of military craftsmen, craftsmen and apprentices in the Jushui area was only more than a thousand. It was really difficult to deal with a team of refugees of up to ten thousand people. Although they had the most excellent weapons, they still struggled to deal with up to ten times the enemy.

"boom!"

A local black gunpowder pill recipe guided by Ji Zigang was ignited and an explosion occurred in the refugee team. Although it only caused more than ten casualties around it, it was enough to shock the ignorant Qiang people Di people.

"Sky Fire!"

I don’t know who it was. I called out a name that made many refugees feel terrified.

For the tribes in the primitive and ignorant state of life, what they cannot bear the most is the punishment from God.

The first few rounds of attacks of the refugees were faced with Peng Sheng's unexpected means. However, Lu Zhi obviously did not admit defeat. On the one hand, she sent her confidant to send a letter to Jiangdong, trying to persuade Ying Bu to launch an attack on the Nanjun area of ​​Qin, thereby winning external support for the Hanzhong riot troops. On the other hand, she still wanted to take down the Jushui Army to provide support for the refugees' team in terms of weapons and equipment.

A battle with Jushui.

As the stalemate continues day by day, refugees rely on a large number of people, while Jushui's craftsmen rely more on their technical advantages.

Unfortunately, Peng Sheng's new invention is still not mature in technology, and the instability of black gunpowder causes sometimes gunpowder to not ignite, or even if it is ignited, it cannot detonate the explosive.

Although the refugee team was gradually suffering heavy casualties, they were pressing step by step under fanatical belief. After more than ten days of uninterrupted attack, Peng Sheng and the Qin guards made by the guards had to retreat to the last line of defense created by the Jushui soldiers. If Lu Zhi had not ordered the integrity of the soldiers to be kept, Peng Sheng and the others would have been burned with fire long ago.

Despair spread among the Jushui craftsmen.

The plank roads in the north are covered with winter snow and freezing, and the roads are rugged and difficult to move forward. Whether reinforcements will arrive and when will they arrive, it is like a dream of luxury, making people feel extremely uncomfortable to wait.

Peng Sheng is a practical person. From the fact that he judged the situation and surrendered to Qin, he really wanted to put down his weapons and surrender when he was in a difficult situation. However, when he thought of the power of Qin and Li Yuan's bravery, he gritted his teeth and persevered.

The situation is stronger than that of the people. Compared with the powerful Qin State under Li Yuan's rule, the refugee armed forces on the opposite side are actually a group of mobs. I heard that their leader was still a blind old pious woman. If such a team could succeed, Peng Sheng bet to write his surname upside down.

Peng Sheng is persevering.

At this time, he did not know that the Qin State's courtier Meng Hu had already made great progress on the Baoxi Road.

Five thousand children from Guanzhong.

With a beautiful ideal of achieving military achievements and a simple belief in defending the new Qin, Meng Hu and his personal troops marched at the forefront of the team. This time, he was no longer a young general in the border army and a rising star, but as a representative of the pacification of Hanzhong sent by the Qin central government. At the same time, it was this unexpected military operation that allowed Meng Hu to truly take over the burden of Qin's prosperity.

January 6th.

Lu Zhi's elder brother Lu Ze came to Jushui and took over the command of the refugee team. Then the refugee team's general attack on the troops began. More than a thousand guards had all taken part in the Qin county soldiers and craftsmen. Peng Sheng also made black gunpowder pill recipes overnight, but these could not resist the extremely fanatical Lu Zhi's refugee team.

Three days of fierce battle.

Peng Sheng's hand, the number of people who could defend himself was reduced to more than 400. Not only the losses of the county soldiers, but even the experienced craftsmen also suffered heavy casualties in the riots, and the Jushui soldiers had created the most dangerous moment.

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