Chapter 839: Untitled

"The Emperor Star is fine, but the battlefield in the south, it seems the Great Qin is still in a lot of trouble?" The remnants of the Six Kingdoms were rebelling. The Great Qin's main body was fine, but in the lands originally belonging to the Six Kingdoms, especially the south and the east, these two areas had the greatest momentum of rebellion.

For example, the Donghai City they were in now was the land of the Qi State. This place was fine because it was the base camp of Confucianism, and there was no rebellion.

But in other places, there were nobles originally belonging to the Qi State inciting the local people to rise up and resist the government.

As for the lands of Wu Chu, there was no need to even mention them.

Several counties in the south had all risen in rebellion. It had to be said that the Xiang clan really had some ability.

With the help of the remnants of the Wu Chu nobles, the momentum was vast. Originally, they only had the land of one county, but in just over half a year, they had swept across four counties.

Now, the other party had even captured Shouchun, the former capital of the Chu State.

And they had even pushed out a bloodline of the Chu royal family.

"The momentum is indeed not small, but the Great Qin has not yet taken full action."

"Now, those attacking them are merely the young generation of Great Qin generals. That young junior of the Meng clan is not bad."

"These days, fighting with that Xiang Yan, there have been both victories and defeats."

"Meng Tian of the Meng clan."

In history, Meng Tian was considered a relatively strong general under Ying Zheng, and he had always guarded the north for the Great Qin. It could be said that after Wang Jian and his son died, he was the number one person in the army.

But in this world, Meng Tian could only be considered a junior in the army.

After all, there were too many veteran generals in the army. Those of the older generation, such as Bai Qi and Meng Ao, and even earlier ones like Sima Cuo, were all still alive, just in seclusion now.

Wang Jian and his son were even more meritorious in destroying the Six Kingdoms.

So juniors like Meng Tian really didn't count for much in the army.

However, being able to fight Xiang Yan with both victories and defeats showed that his ability was not bad.

Zhang Liang's evaluation of him was nothing special.

Xiang Yan's status was still very high; after all, he was once the Great General of the Chu State, not a person like Zhao Kuo.

In fact, even Zhao Kuo could not be considered an incompetent person.

Back then, Zhao Kuo fought Bai Qi and was slaughtered by Bai Qi, but Bai Qi's army also suffered quite a few losses.

To be able to fight against Bai Qi, this ever-victorious general, and reach this point was already not easy. In this era, how many generals could do this?

Even Li Mu and Lian Po would likely find it very difficult.

Later generations evaluated Zhao Kuo as "talking on paper," which was a completely derogatory term, but was Zhao Kuo really an incompetent person?

In fact, being able to command hundreds of thousands of troops in a large-scale battle without one's own side collapsing first was already not easy.

Looking at history, how many generals could command hundreds of thousands of troops?

In fact, there were not many. The four famous generals of the Warring States period could indeed do it.

That military immortal Han Xin could also do it. Apart from that, in every dynasty, it would be very good if one could appear in each dynasty.

The Wei and Huo of the Western Han dynasty's twin stars—Wei Qing might not even have commanded a large army of over one hundred thousand, and Huo Qubing, there was no need to even mention him.

As for the brilliant Three Kingdoms era, it was said that fierce generals were like clouds and strategists like rain, but how many of them commanded large armies?

Yuan Shao's eight hundred thousand troops collapsed, and Cao Cao, who claimed to have a million troops, was almost finished by a fire burning the connected camps.

It wasn't that Zhuge Liang, who was not from a military family, was completely a commander; it was a pity that the Shu Kingdom did not have such strong military power. He made six expeditions to Qishan, and every time he used troops, even including logistics, it could barely be considered one hundred thousand.

In the subsequent Jin, Sui, and Tang periods, famous generals also emerged in large numbers, but most of them led one or two thousand, at most five thousand.

Exceeding one hundred thousand, they had no ability.

The reason for this was that ancient times were not later generations, which had various communications. Ancient communication basically relied on shouting. Hundreds of thousands really swarming together was unimaginable and terrifying.

To convey an order from the beginning to the end would likely take several days.

To really have hundreds of thousands and be able to reorganize them was already very remarkable.

So Su Fan had never looked down on Zhao Kuo. Su Fan had also led troops in battle and knew very well the importance of the unity of the team in ancient great wars.

And it was recognized that Xiang Yan's ability was above Zhao Kuo's.

Su Fan was also very curious about Xiang Yan, mainly because Xiang Yu had been by Xiang Yan's side since he was a child.

Xiang Yu, this commander who could not be covered up no matter what in history.

The military school had four major schools: Military Strategy, Military Yin-Yang, Military Form, and Military Technique.

Among them, Military Form was a school: "Form and situation are like thunder moving and wind rising, arriving first after starting later, separating and combining, changing constantly, controlling the enemy with lightness and speed."

Simply put, it was "the brave win when meeting on a narrow road." On the battlefield, the form school did not have much strategy, nor did it engage in empty talk about Yin-Yang techniques or mystery.

One word: just fight.

It looked like the behavior of a reckless man, and Xiang Yu was the most famous among them. After all, he was a famous fierce general. Historical evaluation: "No king surpasses Xiang, no general surpasses Li."

This refers to the two great fierce generals in history, Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao.

Xiang Yu's "breaking the cauldrons and sinking the boats" was an application of Military Form.

One of the representatives of the military school, perhaps Xiang Yu's evaluation in history was not very high, especially his evaluation as an emperor; it was really, among the hundreds of emperors in history, it could only be considered low-class.

Not to mention comparing him with the Qin Shi Huang and Han Gaozu of the same era, even compared to emperors of small dynasties like Liu Bei, he could not compare.

But putting him among the generals, then Xiang Yu's evaluation was beyond doubt. Although the Martial Temple of various dynasties did not have Xiang Yu, that was because Xiang Yu belonged to the emperors.

As a general, entering the Martial Temple was beyond doubt, and he could even reach the level of the Ten Philosophers of the Martial Temple.

In history, it could be said that it was Xiang Yu who overturned the Great Qin.

Of course, at that time, the Great Qin did not have many famous generals left. Meng Tian committed suicide following Fusu, and Wang Jian and his son had long since died.

The famous generals in the army were only Zhang Han and Wang Li.

As for Ren Xiao and Zhao Tuo, they took hundreds of thousands of troops to the land of Nanyue and did not return. It was also because of this that Xiang Yu and the others could overturn the Great Qin.

At that time, the Great Qin did not have many troops.

It could only be said that after the First Emperor died, because there was no clear successor, the Great Qin fell apart.

Otherwise, how could the strong Qin perish so quickly?

But no matter what, Xiang Yu's ability as a commander was beyond doubt.

And in this world, Xiang Yu's ability to lead troops in battle had not yet been displayed, but his personal bravery on the battlefield was displayed vividly.

That terrifying combat power was also one of the reasons why Meng Tian and his army suffered.

Although Meng Tian was also a fierce general, he could not compare to Xiang Yu's bravery; it seemed the former had awakened some bloodline.

His strength was astonishingly strong, and often every time the Great Qin gained the upper hand, Xiang Yu would personally take the lead in charging into the Great Qin army. ===== CHAPTER 840 =====