China has a large army in history, that is, Qin Jun, with a population of one million at the most.
In 22 1 year BC, Qin Shihuang commanded Qin Jun, annexed other six countries in one fell swoop, and finally unified the whole country. This great and powerful army has created the history of the Chinese nation.
Qin Jun's 500,000 South Army did not stop after the annexation of Chu, but continued to expand outward.
According to Qin Shihuang's will, all the places that I can reach by the army of Daqin fighters must be conquered; Wherever the Daqin army goes, it is our Daqin territory, and its people are also our Daqin people.
As a result, 500,000 Qin Jun tirelessly continued to capture South Vietnam. At this point, Guangdong and Guangxi were merged into the territory of the Qin Empire for the first time.
The pace of Qin Jun's external expansion continues. At this point, the vast territory, including now Vietnam and Cambodia, has also been incorporated into the territory of the State of Qin for the first time.
To say the origin of this army, we have to start with Shang Yang's political reform.
The Rise of Qin State under Shang Yang's Reform
After Shang Yang's political reform, Qin established the basic national policy of "rewarding peace, punishing doctors and benefiting the world in one hole" throughout the country.
We should cultivate political principles to save military capital, and expand our territory outside to compete with other countries.
The rulers of the State of Qin used the harsh and ruthless legalist ideology to reward and punish clearly, and thoroughly mobilized their forces to pour the country into the massive and tragic merger war during the Warring States period. During the more than 50 years from/kloc-0 to Qin's unification of the world, the so-called "teacher of tigers and wolves" fought hundreds of wars with eastern countries and wiped out10.5 million troops in total.
On the battlefield of "corpses everywhere, thousands of miles of blood", the cold-blooded Qin people took the flesh and blood of the six countries to the road of reunification.
237 years ago, the king of Qin came to power, and the six eastern countries, which had been tossed about by Qiang Qin for more than a hundred years, were unable to fight back. All countries are weak, and there is no hope for the world to unite. However, Qiang Qin's dominance in the world may overwhelm Mount Tai at any time.
The six monarchs are in danger, and no matter how hard they try, they can't change the overwhelming advantage of Qin.
The day of showdown between Qin and other countries is not far away. In this regard, people of insight at that time had already seen it clearly.
Xunzi, the mentor of Li Si and Han Fei and a great scholar at the end of the Warring States Period, predicted that the world that had been in dispute for more than 400 years would be unified within 20 years.
The legend of the six-nation campaign
During the ten years from 230 to 22 1 year, the ruling group of Qin tried to destroy a country every two years after careful planning and preparation.
To this end, Qin mobilized men all over the country, and then millions of tigers and wolves in Qin launched a war to destroy the six countries.
History records: "Qin Shang Hei, Qin Chongxian."
It is not difficult to imagine that Qin Jun, like a dark cloud covering the sun, swept the world with destructive power, with the four northern countries bearing the brunt. In the first 230 years, Shi Teng, a general of Qin Dynasty, attacked North Korea, and An was captured. In the first 228 years, after several days of fierce fighting, the general Wang Jian led the army to destroy the main force of Zhao, break through Handan and capture it, and Zhao Gongzi A broke through and fled.
In the first 226 years, Yan was attacked on a large scale, and the Wangs were United against Qin. The Yan allied forces fought on the shore of Xiaoshui, and the Yan army was defeated and the whole army was wiped out. Qin Jun took advantage of the situation and broke into the territory of the State of Yan, trying to take the city of Ji. The prince abandoned the city in a hurry and led down archers out of Liaodong.
In the first 225 years, it was all around, only the lonely city of Wei, and it clung to the girders.
Qin Jun decided to fill the city with water from the Yellow River, and all the people in the city became fish and turtles. In March of that year, the city was broken and Wei was killed.
At this time, Qin turned its attention to Chu in the south. Different from the Central Plains countries, Chu is a big southern country with a long history and unique culture.
In its heyday, Chu ruled a vast territory south of Huaihe River, east of Three Gorges and west of wuyue.
Chu people have a strong sense of pride and independence since the Western Zhou Dynasty.
Although in the past century, under the fierce military attack, the declining Chu lost its land and moved its capital to avoid disasters many times, most of the dozens of cities in Jingchu, the birthplace of Chu, were merged into the Qin State, and were imprisoned in the Qin State and died in different places. Chu people's self-esteem was greatly hit and they were all ashamed. So that Qu Zifa felt the feeling of "leaving Sao" and lamented the sadness of "national mourning" and died in the Miluo River.
It should be said that in the ten-year unified war, Qin Jun met the most tenacious resistance in Chu, and Li Xin led 200,000 Qin Jun to attack Chu, and the first battle was invalid.
In the first 224 years, the State of Qin sent 600,000 troops, led by the general Wang Jian, which dealt a fatal blow to the western Chu area, the heart of Chu.
Chu concentrated the whole country's forces against Qin Jun, and the two armies fought a decisive battle in Huaiyang. The Chu army was defeated and the king of Chu was captured.
Xiang Yan, the general of Chu, immediately made Chang Pingjun king in Shouchun, the capital, and continued to fight against Qin. Qin Jun attacked Huainan, surrounded Shouchun and launched a general attack.
Xiang Yan led the Chu army to resist to the death, but in the end, due to the disparity in strength, after several days of fierce fighting, Shouchun City was broken, Changping Jun died, and Xiang Yan committed suicide in despair.
Qin Jun crossed the Yangtze River and marched into the south of the Yangtze River, and the State of Chu perished.
At this time, the five countries have stood by and watched. From the ruins and Qi, which is enjoying peace, they all have a premonition of catastrophe and began to panic.
In 22 1 year, due to the grim situation, Qi broke off diplomatic relations with Qin and began to recruit soldiers to defend the western border and the Inner Great Wall.
Wang Ben, who had just made an expedition to Liaodong and was on standby in Yan State, led an army from the south of Yan State to the area of Hanoi in Qi State. After the defense of Qi Army, he accidentally plunged into Linzi.
With the speed of lightning, the state of Qi was too late to mobilize troops to resist. In the same year, it settled in Linzi, and Qi took the soldiers of the whole country. The division of Armageddon surrendered to Qin without fighting, and the land was returned to North Korea.
The first year of 22 1 is a day destined to go down in history, and the long-term war-torn world has been reunified. This hard-won unification has made people look forward to the western century.
After the completion of the Six Kings, the world will be at peace and there will be no more wars.
Many ordinary people spontaneously bought wine and meat to celebrate, so that the grand occasion of "the world's largest breasts" appeared.
A soldier from Qin Jun wrote happily in a letter sent to the rear: Today is the day when our country will destroy all countries, and the king rewarded us with a glass of wine.
Ying Zheng, a big bastard in the history of China, with his ethereal body, aroused the prestige of VI, swept the sea and wiped out the six countries, fulfilled the last wish of the six generations of King Tai in 150, and drew a perfect end to the cause of Qin people unifying the world.
222 years ago, the king of Qin was crowned as the first emperor of China. From then on, a brand-new and powerful Qin Empire was born.
The powerful first emperor
According to historical records, Qin Shihuang, the emperor with the quirk of howling at midnight, ruled the country with cold blood, iron fist and power.
He has great energy, set up counties, abolished the enfeoffment system, integrated centralization and autocratic monarchy, and read hundreds of pounds of letters every day;
He devoted himself to the standardization of the empire, making cars on the same track, books in the same language, unified currency and weights and measures;
He severely suppressed the rebels in the six countries, paid attention to nip in the bud, eliminated the traitors before they germinated, moved hundreds of Kanto nobles to Chengyang, and collected all the weapons in the world to build bronze men to weaken the people in the six countries.
He admired legalism, rejected all kinds of theories, burned books and buried Confucianism, and fooled people all over the world. He was overjoyed, abused the people's resources, repaired the tomb of Mount Li, built the Epang Palace, opened the Lingqu, built the Great Wall and extended the straight road. The whole country seems to have turned into a huge construction site.
Qin unified the world, but it doesn't mean the war is over. In the mind of the first emperor of militarism, it was only the beginning of a new round of territorial expansion.
He is so powerful that no one can change his strong will He attacked the Huns in the north and made hundreds of expeditions in the south, which made the Huns afraid to go south to herd horses. The foot soldiers dare not bow their heads and complain, and the people dare to be angry and dare not speak.
In 2 12, the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Qin dynasty, the empire reached its peak, and Qin Shihuang was full of ambition: within Liuhe, the land of emperors. It faces the sea in the east and quicksand in the west. South households and north households, and north households are summer. People have to surrender wherever they go.
Qin, Qin Weilie. Good intentions are rewarded for the benefit of cattle and horses.
However, the great emperor never imagined that the empire he fought for all his life lasted for thousands of years and only existed for 15 years in human history. 2 10 years ago, Qin Shihuang began his last trip to the hometown of Chu, which was called the death trip. He became more and more uneasy and prone to riots. He got sick on the road and walked on the sand dunes in Zhao Di. In July of the same year, Qin Shihuang died in Dune Palace.
Dune Palace, once the palace of King Zhao, witnessed the end of the lives of the two greatest emperors in the Warring States Period, King Zhao Wuling and Qin Shihuang, in less than 90 years.
At this time, in the gloomy palace of Dune Palace, under the dim light, eunuch Zhao Gao and Prime Minister Reese are planning a big conspiracy. They did not send out obituaries, so they ordered their son Fu Su and general Meng Tian to make Hu Hai, the son of Chengyang Gong Li, the second emperor.
Dunes were a battleground for the Qin Empire. This is the eve of chaos in the world, and it is also the inevitable doom of the Qin Dynasty. In the next three years, countless Qin Jun soldiers fought bloody battles and failed to save the demise of the Qin Dynasty.
In September 2008, the second year of the full-scale rebellion in Kanto, Qin Jun General Zhang Han led the main army to 300,000 battles, and defeated Zhao Jun to attack Han. Zhao Wangkai led the remnants to retreat to Julu. Qin Jun stormed the stag, and there was plenty of food and grass. The prince of Zhao sent messengers to the governors of the world for help.
In 1 1 month, nearly 200,000 people from Yan Jun and Qi Jun reinforced Julu, but in the face of Qin Jun's huge momentum and neat lineup, Yan Qi's reinforcements did not dare to move Qin, so they all looked on coldly.
In December, Xiang Yu led Chu reinforcements to Julu. This god of war, like the ancient Greek god of sulfur, roared and rushed to Qin Jun, leading the soldiers of Chu who were determined to cross the rubicon and were fearless.
The soldiers of the Chu army fought fiercely in the Qin array and killed each other. At the command of the Chu army, all the officials and soldiers were surprised.
Qin Jun, who emphasized collective cooperation, had never seen such a desperate army and was at a loss psychologically. In three days, the Chu army won nine wars and nine victories, and Qin Jun General Wang Li and Lieutenant Su Jiao were killed. Another lieutenant was killed in fear, which made the Kanto people tremble. The Qin Jun Heavily Armed Group, known as the division of tigers and wolves, suffered the heaviest blow in a hundred years. In the face of the fierce offensive of the Chu army, at the front line of Julu.
Later, Xiang Yu was elected as the commander-in-chief of the allied forces, commanding more than 400,000 vassal armies from all walks of life to launch a general attack on Qin Jun. From the Spine Plain to Huanshui, Qin Jun lost a losing streak, reducing its troops by one third, and lost a lot of food and grass in the retreat of Cangkuang.
Since the Battle of Handan in September last year, Qin Jun has been fighting continuously for nearly a year, with low morale and exhaustion. Unable to resist the continuous attack of the superior forces of the vassal Coalition forces, they had to fight and retreat. In June, the bad news came that Qin Jun's retreat to the south was completely cut off by the allied forces.
Before July 2007, in the Yin Ruins south of Huanshui, Qin Jun generals Zhang Han and Sima Xin, who were cornered, coerced more than 20 disabled soldiers to surrender to the vassal coalition forces commanded by Xiang Yu.
After Qin Jun disarmed the soldiers, Xiang Yu, who hated Qin Jun, ordered the Chu army to break the contract and killed Qin Jun. The troops of other governors also participated in the bloody massacre.
This is 150 years, the people of the six countries in Kanto have a long-suppressed total revenge against the Chiyou army, and it is also the last sad song of this invincible and invincible powerful army.
Qin Jun, who killed Zhao in Changping, did not expect to suffer the same fate.
June 5438 +2006 10, Chu led Liu Bang's army into Chengyang, and Prince Qin won and surrendered.
165438+ In the month of October, Xiang Yu led the allied governors to invade Hangu Pass, just like a disaster across the sky, and the end of Thailand, a country that has developed rapidly for more than 500 years since the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, finally came.
Xiang Yu, commander-in-chief of the Allied Forces, could not restrain his hatred in his heart and decided to take the severest revenge on the ruler who had been arrogant and now was trampled under his feet. The descendants of the first emperor were all killed by Xiang Yu, and the princes who hated the tyranny of Qin were burning everywhere.
There are raging fires and smoke everywhere in Lishan Tomb, Epang Palace and Xianyang City.
At this time, the first emperor, who had been lying in the tomb of Lishan Mountain, would be uneasy if he knew what was going on underground. The Chu people are on fire, poor scorched earth.
Qin Shihuang's "fame for a thousand years, fame for ten thousand years, what's good? When you die, it's gone." He established this cold-blooded empire by brutal means for twelve years, and was ruthlessly destroyed by Xiang Yu, a more brutal Chu overlord from the south.
The Epang Palace, which is "Shu Mountain stands upright, Epang Palace comes out, weighs more than 300 miles, and leaves the sun every other day", has been burning for 90 days. At night, the soaring flames lit up hundreds of miles of dark night sky in Qinchuan, and the fire burned all winter until the early spring of the following year. After that, everything about the Qin Dynasty vanished with the fire and disappeared.
So why did this once powerful Qin Empire perish only three years after the death of Qin Shihuang? There seem to be many reasons. When Qin Shihuang was alive, the seemingly powerful rule of the Qin Dynasty was not very stable.
The aristocratic forces in the six countries are waiting for an opportunity to revive, especially in the vast south, where the sky is high and the emperor is far away, and the locals who are used to freedom have strong resistance to the harsh Qin law and Qin system.
In the face of the tyranny of the Qin Dynasty, hatred accumulated in various places, but under Qin Shihuang's high-handed policy, it was temporarily unable to lift too much wind and waves. 2 10 years ago, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty died, and Hu Hai ascended the throne successfully, which provided an excellent opportunity for the total outbreak of this hatred.
On the whole, the demise of the Qin Dynasty can be summarized as follows: institutional failures are more than political failures, political failures are more than military failures, and strategic decision-making errors are more than campaign command errors.
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