Chapter 260: Wang Li's Dangerous Situation (4200 words)
When talking about Xiang Yu, Xiao He's face became solemn again. In the past two months, although he had not personally visited Kuaiji County to check the situation, he sent several waves of people to Shouchun and even wanted to sneak into Kuaiji County directly to find out what Jiangdong is now.
But for more than a month, the results that were passed back one after another seemed to be covered with a shadow in Xiao He's heart.
According to Wang Li's return, he led an army of 50,000 to station in Shouchun, mainly responsible for the guards in Jiujiang County, and the warships used to build a crossing river to attack Jiangdong, which Ying Gao regarded as the top priority.
Wang Li's problem occurred at this time in the supervision of the warships.
At the beginning, with Wang Li's supervising, the craftsmen sent to Xianyang City, and the local fishermen sought to speed up construction, the progress of the warship was quite considerable, but the good times did not last long, and the situation changed two months later.
Since the construction of warships must be carried out on the edge of the river, everything in this era must be done by manual labor, so even under Wang Li's instructions, many of the 50,000 Qin soldiers were tasked with staring at the construction warships to prevent the people in Jiangdong from secretly causing damage.
But if someone really doesn't want you to be good, you're really unprepared.
One after another, without the guarding Qin soldiers, all the semi-finished warships docked on the shore had problems.
It was very difficult to make the bottom of the ship strong and waterproof, but they didn't know what was pierced by the bottom of these warships. At the beginning, Wang Li kept sending people to repair it, but every time he repeated the same mistake within a few days after he had just repaired it.
This happened several times, and more than a month was wasted in the back and forth, and who did the destruction Wang Li didn't even catch a hair.
It was not until this time that Wang Li realized that this was just Xiang Yu from Jiangdong who didn't want to build a warship well. Without the warship, it was very difficult to cross the river to attack Kuaiji County. So Wang Li was anxious and just as soon as the envoy sent by Xiao He arrived at the moment, he hurriedly informed the envoy about the matter.
To Wang Li's words, this is clearly a dead end. He was a general of the Qin Dynasty with a strong roots and was not very familiar with the matters of the Jiangnan water town at all. However, they just use their strengths to hit your weaknesses hard. Wang Li really has no choice but to worry.
So I had to ask Xianyang City for help, otherwise if it was a year when it came and I hadn't even built a whole warship, it would be a bit unreasonable.
When the news came to Xiao He, it also gave him a headache. It was difficult to build and simple to destroy. Xiao He still knew this simple truth very well.
Now Xiang Yu obviously knows what your purpose is, and he keeps slapping here to destroy it, so it is quite easy for others to do it, but it is difficult for you to defend.
"It seems that it's time to train a group of naval troops that belong only to my Great Qin, and those destructors from Jiangdong are not the best actors of my Great Qin naval troops?"
Before Meng Yi could speak, Ying Gao suddenly said something like this. He wanted to say this before, but was interrupted by the news of Meng Yi's return. Now Meng Yi, the supreme commander of the Qin army, was standing here alive, and he was just passing on his thoughts.
"My Qin soldiers are all from Hangu Pass or in the north. If you want to make them good at water wars in a short period of time, it will be a bit difficult. What's more, the Huns are still eyeing the northern part of the world. After the First Emperor left, there is no intention to retreat. In my opinion, there will be a great war between the Qin and the Huns sooner or later. If the emperor divides troops to train the water army at this time, once there is a war with the Huns, the Shangjun will be in a short position..."
Although he had been away from Xianyang for a short period of time, Meng Yi was quite a master of the judgment of Xianyang City and the surrounding areas. As early as before he left, Meng Tian had said that this time, the death of the First Emperor was like throwing a large piece of meat in front of the evil dog. If they didn't pounce on him and bite him a few bites, they would not be the Huns.
For the Huns, they don’t know the messy things inside your Qin Dynasty. They only know that your Qin Dynasty must be not as strong as the First Emperor when he was alive.
With the urinary nature of the Huns, who cares who you, a new emperor in your twenties, is? If you have dates or not, how many poles will you do before you say what if you hit the other side of the Great Wall, what if you hit the foundation of Xianyang City?
Ying Gao naturally knew about the situation like the Huns. He had long known that he must teach the Huns a lesson, but he did not put the priority of this matter too high.
In Ying Gao's mind, he had to first clean up Xiang Yu and Liu Bang, otherwise, a good Qin Dynasty and counties would be in control of the thief. Whether it was said or written in the future, it would not sound good, right?
Moreover, if Kuaiji County is in Xiang Yu's hands for a long time, even if you take it back in a few years, it is already a matter of whether the people can recognize your rule of Qin. How could Ying Gao not be in a hurry?
"The army of Shangjun must not be moved. I ordered General Wang Li to not just wait for the 50,000 troops under his command to go to Jiangdong to attack Kuaiji County on warships. In this past, these 50,000 troops must also be proficient in water. If there is any opportunity for water war in the future, my Qin children cannot be afraid of the people in Jiangdong!"
Obviously, Ying Gaoshu's order was mainly dissatisfied with Wang Li, who was not very good at adapting.
If this were in later generations, employees like Wang Li would undoubtedly be of a slightly lower emotional intelligence type. If you throw the problem to your own leader, even if the leader finds a solution in the end, wouldn’t you not be favored by your leader?
Ying Gao gave such an order and ignored the matter of Shouchun. After Meng Yi informed Ying Gao of the situation in Nanhai County, Ying Gao knew that if Fusu did not arrange some capable assistants in Nanhai County, it would be very difficult for Fusu to completely control the nearly 300,000 army, based on the nature of Zhao Tuo and other local snakes.
Han Xin was arranged by Ying Gao to the south and was preparing to stay there for a long time because Ying Gao had other important things to let Han Xin do, but he was not allowed to serve as a full-time bodyguard in Fusu. In that case, having a Sima Xin would actually be enough, so how can Han Xin be used?
Therefore, Ying Gao did not think deeply about Wang Li, and thought that he had given him 50,000 elite soldiers from the Qin Dynasty and stood in Shouchun's strategic location. It would be quite easy to block Xiang Yu in Kuaiji County for one or two years.
After all, Xiang Yu could not recruit so many troops in Kuaiji County, and both armor and weapons were in short supply. The resources in Jiangdong were naturally not as rich as the Central Plains. Therefore, it is completely feasible to use Wang Li’s time in Shouchun to give himself some buffering and let himself handle matters in other places well.
But when Ying Gao sent Wang Li to train the navy in Shouchun, some people in Wu County, Kuaiji County, which is 108,000 miles away from Xianyang, had different ideas from Ying Gao.
"Sir, now under the invasion of people who are familiar with water nature, the progress of Wang Li in supervising the warship construction has almost stopped. The purpose proposed by Mr. and Yafu before seems to have been completed. However, the next plan, both of you seem to have not informed me..."
In the county temples of Wu County, three people sat opposite each other, and the age structure happened to be the three generations of old, middle-aged and young. Needless to say, these three people are the souls of Kuaiji County today, Xiang Yu, Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng.
Since Xiang Liang's head was cut off by Ying Gao, Xiang Yu seemed to be less arrogant and had fewer sharp words.
But his eyes were several times colder than before. Any idea proposed by Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng that could consume the strength of Daqin would be feasible. He would want to implement it at all costs.
Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang knew that Xiang Yu was obviously immersed in the hatred brought to him by Xiang Liang's death, and he could not look at the problem from a macro perspective.
So the plan they came up with half and half of it informed Xiang Yu. On the one hand, it was to sway Xiang Yu's appetite, so that his head would also be decorated with other things in addition to hatred, and on the other hand, it was to prevent anyone like Chen Ying from among other forces.
In the past few months, under the guidance and training of Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang, Xiang Yu's mentality has been much stronger than before. Although his main energy and purpose are still used to weaken the Qin Dynasty, his thinking has survived a lot.
For example, when Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng informed him, they arranged the matter personally. Now that seeing such harassment really made Wang Li stop the progress of building the warship without any tricks, Xiang Yu was still very happy. At the same time, he also developed a strong interest in the next plan that Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng had already said.
Xiang Yu now calls Fan Zeng, an old man who is nearly 70 years old, the father of Yaya, his sincere name. After returning to Kuaiji County, Xiang Yu knew clearly that if Fan Zeng was not available, the Jiangdong children whom they trained with them when Xiang Liang died would not return to his side.
Moreover, when Xiang Yu first returned to Kuaiji County, although he seemed to be fine, he was actually worried. If it weren't for Fan Zeng, even the anti-Qin forces that Wuyang and Wuyang escaped with them would probably be enough for him to drink.
So, when Xiang Yu felt the same breath as his uncle on Fan Zeng, the title of Yafu became natural.
Now Xiang Yu can take the initiative to ask about this plan, which can completely show that he is not thinking about avenging his uncle every day. This makes Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang breathe a sigh of relief. This is the result they have only obtained after they have worked hard.
"The major general has made Wang Li miserable now, and what he thinks in his heart must be how to find those who harass him every day to build ships. When these became the crux of Wang Li's heart, he naturally did not realize that although my Jiangdong children were not as strong as all the elite soldiers of Daqin, they were still more than enough to deal with his mere 50,000 people..."
Zhang Liang and Fan Zeng looked at each other slightly, and saw Fan Zeng nodding slightly, then they expressed their meaning to Xiang Yu.
"hiss……"
After hearing Zhang Liang's words, Xiang Yu had to admit in his heart that Fan Zeng and Zhang Liang got together and really thought of something that he didn't dare to imagine.
Now in this Kuaiji county, after integrating all the people withdrawn from Chen County, he only had 70,000 or 80,000 people who could fight. After these two months, almost no one came to join him again. Xiang Yu himself knew that his troops would almost certainly not change any more.
Against this background, even Xiang Yu had to admit that if he crossed the river and entered the west easily, he would probably not be able to do anything to Hangu Pass that the army around him would have lost all, so he could only hide his strength and wait and see what happened in Kuaiji County. Today, Zhang Liang's words made Xiang Yu's heart open again.
If the 50,000 troops stationed in Shouchun could be eliminated with extremely small losses, Jiujiang County would undoubtedly be in control of Xiang Yu.
In this way, not only Jiangdong, but also the entire southeast of the Qin Dynasty fell into the hands of Xiang Yu. In that case, if you defend these territory for one or two years, there is undoubtedly a lot of potential. At least if the troops are not too weak, you can still compete with Ying Gao for a while and continue for a while.
"Although the final result of this matter will be like this, it will be extremely difficult if it is really necessary to operate it. If we cannot attract all Wang Li's attention, we cannot take it down at a very small price. If we acted like that, it would be counterproductive to anger the young master Gao..."
On this day, the three of them discussed in the county temple in Wu County for a whole day. As for the final discussion, they were probably the only three of them who knew it.
When Wang Li received the order from Xianyang, he felt helpless in his heart. He guarded a river, which made Wang Li feel at a loss from time to time.
According to his original idea, he stayed here for about a year and built all the warships for Ying Gao. Ying Gao naturally asked him to go back to Xianyang, but the subsequent changes were obviously something he could not have imagined.
The construction of the warship stagnated again, and his attention was already focused on how to catch up with the speed of building the warship. At this moment, Ying Gao asked him to train the navy, which was difficult to destroy the general. Perhaps it was because of this that Wang Li made the most wrong decision in his life.
Chapter completed!