Chop wood for soldiers, uncover poles for flags.

No wonder Meng Jiangnv cried at the Great Wall. The Qin Empire imposed exorbitant taxes on manpower and taxes 20 times as much as the previous dynasty. The vast majority of young and middle-aged men are left by Rafe, some of them are opening up wasteland on the frontier, and some of them play the role of "large-scale engineering madman". North China has become a big construction site, with infrastructure and national defense projects (roads, the Great Wall) and face projects (Epang Palace, Lishan Mausoleum ...).

Ying Zheng died in 209 BC, but the nightmare did not end; Zhao Gao assisted Emperor II and maintained a consistent style (exploitation). In the summer when II ascended the throne, the border of Yuyang, Hebei Province was red, and the local government carried out the notice of the central authorities. In Yangcheng County, Henan Province alone, two brigades (more than 900 people) were urgently recruited, and Chen Sheng and Guangwu were appointed as captains to lead the team at full speed.

Cutting firewood for soldiers and uncovering poles for uprisings (209 years ago)

On the way through osawa Township, Anhui Province, this place name caused an ominous premonition. Sure enough, it rained cats and dogs for several days, and the loess road became a swamp and impassable. Yangcheng Brigade is doomed to fall behind the time limit. According to the law of Qin dynasty, the deadline is a fatal limit, and any delay will be handed over to the military court.

Late resistance will kill you. Since you have to die, it is better to choose a meaningful way! Chen Sheng and Guangwu were cornered, and decided to "cut wood as a soldier and expose the pole as a flag", taking Zhang Chu (expanding Chu State) as the title, shouting the slogan "No way to attack Qin" and raising the flag against Qin.

In ancient times, even farmers' groups could come up with a slogan with a certain degree of appeal. Working people struggle for survival, and it is impossible to go to private schools, but a few people will squeeze some time out of lack of sleep and teach themselves in the middle of the night.

The first step is to occupy osawa Township on the spot, and then move forward to capture several counties. Wherever Zhang Chu's troops go, they don't need to formulate tactics, nor do they need psychological warfare propaganda. The peasants took up crude weapons and took the initiative to fight back. Progress is like a bamboo. When entering Chen County, Henan Province, the lineup has expanded to 600 chariots, tens of thousands of infantry and more than 0/000 cavalry/kloc.

Open up several fronts (the first 209 years)

The situation is ripe. Chen and Sheng Zaichen successively established the capital, integrated various armed forces and opened up several fronts:

The main force (western expedition) is divided into three roads, and the strategic goal is to enter Hangu Pass and seize Guanzhong (capital area).

-two branches, the northern expedition (Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong) and the southern expedition (Anhui).

Uprising troops received support along the way, "guarding the house for dinner (also known as eating everywhere; March without food and grass, and run around the world when you meet residential areas along the way. Qin people don't keep dangerous places, don't close beams, don't stab halberds, and don't shoot crossbows (Qin's dangerous places can't be kept, checkpoints and bridges can't be blocked, and halberds and crossbows can't be used. " (Jia Yi's "On Qin")

"A little siege pool, will want to drop (to attack which city, which land, only success, not failure). The world is boiling (reading "Kay") (the whole world becomes a pot of hot porridge and enters a boiling state), and the clouds are rolling (the wind blows the residual clouds and rolls the world up like a mat). This is a thousand miles (Wan Li). " (Liu An's Huai Nan Zi)

Zhou Wen led a Western Expedition Force, successfully crossed the south of Henan, broke through the "Luoyang, Xin 'an and Mianchi" defense lines, and seized the unshakable Hangu Pass. At this time, Zhou Wen's army has developed into a mighty army, with thousands of chariots and hundreds of soldiers on foot, reaching the imperial tomb at the foot of Mount Li, only a few tens of kilometers away from the capital Xianyang.

Amateur commander (weakness of uprising troops)

Uprising troops have some inherent weaknesses:

The Qin empire was only 14 years old, and the anti-violence mentality was brewing. Although it was detonated by an unexpected situation in North China and spread to parts of Central China, it has not spread to all corners of the country.

The members of the Western Expedition Force came from professional farmers. Although they serve every year and receive basic combat training, most of their service time has nothing to do with combat.

The commanders of Zhang Chu's troops are mostly amateurs and have little field experience. They don't need to attack and defend with the enemies along the way. Their main task is to accept the peasant masses station by station, eliminate local leaders, and incorporate troops and trench.

Facing the regular army of Qin dynasty, the uprising troops entered the bottleneck and their own shortcomings began to be exposed. First of all, they didn't establish a unified deployment center, didn't know what a "support system" was, and even planned three isolated mobile lines. Entering enemy territory alone, with no support behind, is adding fuel to the fire, which is a taboo on the battlefield.

Enter the bottleneck and be stopped in the water (first 209 years)

Zhou Wen's army marched into Xianyang and was blocked by water (river) in Lishan, so they set up a temporary bridge and prepared to cross the river by force.

On the other side is the elite troops of the Qin Empire, the Captain's Imperial Army, whose rank far exceeds that of the local army. At the junction of the three vanguard troops, there is a looming gap. Zhou Wen sent chariots as the vanguard, followed by infantry, and launched a tentative impact on the gap.

Qin Jun waited quietly. When the Chu army crossed the water, the formation of the vanguard troops quickly became a "nine-array", and the gap at the junction disappeared. Now Qin Jun's attack, the power is not ordinary terror:

First of all, the crossbowman either stands, squats or kneels, and takes turns shooting. They use reinforced bows and arrows, which are far more lethal than local troops.

After firing thousands of arrows, the crossbowman retreated to the two wings, nine doors opened and new chariots pressed over; Chu army "scraped" away the chariot from that place, as if blocking the car with the arm of a gladiator.

Followed by the chariot, is the formation of Qin Jun infantry phalanx.

-Qin Jun cavalry also rushed out from the two wings, flanked behind ChuJun (surrounded by two sides), and set fire to the temporary bridge.

Zhang Han's big plan

The quality and equipment of the two camps are very different. The Chu army fought bravely, but failed completely. Zhou Wen's army withdrew from Hangu Pass after the supply was cut off; The other two Western Expeditionary Troops could not break through. After two months of confrontation between the two camps, the Qin government got a breathing space.

The military situation is urgent, and it is too late to recruit troops all over the empire. Shaofu Zhang Han suggested that hundreds of thousands of people should be recruited from Xianyang site. Servicemen, prisoners, slaves and sons of Lishan Mausoleum Project joined the recruits of Shi Jing Legion.

Shaofu (Minister of the Interior) collected the income from mountains and seas, enriched the private finance for the emperor, and established handicrafts in the palace area. Zhang Han is not only an expert in financial dispatch, but also can use the same principle to dispatch troops quickly. Reese and Zhao Gao felt very Japanese, and immediately appointed Zhang Han as the general.

Zhang Han secretly mobilized, informing the "Northern (Great Wall) Army" and the "Southern (Lingnan) Army" of 200,000 each to gather in North China at full speed.

The Great Counter-offensive of Qin Dynasty (208 BC)

Two months later, Qin Jun prepared to launch a counterattack against Yulu, and defeated several armies in a row. As amateurs in the war, farmers fled in panic after being defeated, and they didn't know what "shrinking the front" or "turning in (retreating)" meant.

Concentrated forces attacked Chen county, and as a result, the commanders Cai Ci and Zhang He were killed. Bobby Chen insisted on fighting hard, and the driver Zhuang Jia was terrible. He thinks it's better to end it quickly than to go to despair slowly. Assassinate Chen Sheng, open the gate and surrender.

General Lv Chen, who used to be Chen Sheng's personal bodyguard, was very angry when he heard the news. He assembled the scattered soldiers, organized the "Cangtou Army" and re-established the banner of the uprising. This unit joined the Ying Bu Rebel Army, was defeated twice, recovered Chen County, restored the Zhang Chu regime, and killed the traitors.

However, Chen Sheng has passed away, and Zhang Chu Group has lost its momentum. Lv Chen and Ying Bu decided to join the Xiang Liang Rebel Army to fight against tyranny for a long time.

conclusion

Pioneer of peasant uprising

Did Chen Wusheng fail? The harsh rule plunged them into despair. If they give up their resistance and let the darkness kill them, they will die anyway. They will disappear in the torrent of history, and the tyranny of the empire will last forever.

They don't want to give in easily, but prefer to "chop wood into soldiers and expose the poles to rebel", raise their tired and malnourished hands, hold crude weapons and shout with their only strength. Although they failed on the surface, they took the first step. Farmers in the north and south of the Yellow River also raised their tired and malnourished hands and roared with crude weapons.

Darkness enveloped the earth and bred the people. Looking back, the Zhang Chu regime went from despair to failure in just half a year. But they initiated the peasant (national) revolution, which triggered a chain reaction of the atomic bomb explosion.

Two years later, Liu Bang Xiang Yu, the heir to the revolutionary cause, overthrew the "evil empire" and won the consciousness that "water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it" for future generations, telling them that tyranny will die.

Without pioneers, pioneering spirit, no one taking the lead in challenging the unknown future, and without the enthusiasm that "success is not necessarily mine", how can success be brewed?

Bobby Chen and Guangwu did not see success, and our descendants may not see success. But now darkness is hanging over the world, and some people must become Bobby Chen and others must become Guangwu. Anyway, if you don't resist, you will die. Just ignore the result, don't look forward and backward, send out a short and weak spark and knock down the first domino.