"Men are for war, women are for luck!"

"A man over fifteen years old and under sixty years old will enter the barracks and conduct training!"

"Mr. Shang, continue to fight. There are probably no more male members in the three counties. There are already many places where the people fled to the mountains and forests with their families, and there are dozens of households left."

"This matter is related to the life and death of our Qin Dynasty. How can one give up easily if one hundred thousand men and one hundred thousand soldiers?"

Shang Yang scolded and organized the male men from Qin to door and sent them to the front line.

Even with the severe punishments of Qin State, civilians fled.

In every household, a male student was sent to Jieting battlefield by Shang Yang, but there was no news. Shang Yang went to the back, not only two or three or three or three or one. As long as there were male students, they were sent to the front line, and even women had to participate in the transportation of grain.

The people of Qin could not bear the increasing pressure, and some of the people of Qin simply fled to the mountains of Nanliang and joined forces with the Qiang and Di people to avoid the increasingly heavy labor service and military service.

The Qiang and Di tribes were also frequently recruited by Shang Yang and gradually became dissatisfied.

The Qiang and Di people are good at fighting by nature, but it does not mean that they are not greedy for life and fear of death.

The Qiang and Di people who were transferred by Qin to participate in the Jieting War were successively killed, and the Qiang and Di tribes also began to flee.

As long as they hide in the Qinling Mountains, the Qin army will find it difficult to capture them.

In fact, Shang Yang did not have any extra troops to capture the fleeing young and strong men and barbarians.

The Qin army was transferred to the front line, and there were not many Qin army in the rear to maintain order in various cities. Shang Yang had the will but was not strong enough, so he had no choice but to the fleeing people.

"The lack of troops is a problem, and the other problem is that Zhang Hua attacked our Daqin in the spring, and all the young and strong in our Daqin went to the front to participate in the war, which means missing the spring plowing. I guess Zhang Hua's intention is to destroy our farming... Even if he cannot break through Jieting, as long as the war lasts until the turn of summer and autumn, we have no food, I am afraid that the people will eat each other... This move is quite cruel."

Another famous prime minister who stayed in Qin State, Fan Sui, was worried, and he saw through Zhang Hua's plan.

Fan Sui assisted King Zhaoxiang of Qin, inherited the ambition of Qin Xiaogong and Shang Yang's reform and strengthening, and started Qin Shihuang and Li Si unified the imperial career, and became a famous prime minister in the history of Qin.

Fan Sui and Bai Qi launched the Battle of Changping in the same era, and Fan Sui was also an advocate of the diplomatic theory of "family and close attacks". With his perspective, it is not difficult to see Zhang Hua's deep intentions.

However, the more this happens, the more anxious Fan Sui is, the more helpless he is.

In order to defeat Qin, Zhang Hua stored a lot of grain in the first two years, and Zhang Hua's territory was even more vast. Even if some areas of Guanzhong delayed spring plowing, the Guanzhong area would not be short of grain just by relying on the surplus grain in the granary!

Not to mention, Zhang Hua also possesses the Central Plains where the land is fertile, and the grain produced every year is not comparable to that of the Qin State.

Even if Qin State is in the summer and autumn, if there is a famine in Qin State, it will perish the next year.

"Unless you can not only win at Jieting, but also capture some cities in Guanzhong and obtain the food and grass in their granaries, you can survive the crisis."

Shang Yang also realized Zhang Hua's intention, but Shang Yang was also helpless.

There were only three counties left in Qin State, all the young and strong have already entered the battle, and even the young and young women and children had to participate in the transportation of grain. Shang Yang was a clever woman who could not cook without rice.

"In a few days, the last group of young and strong people will be sent to the front line. We can only see if the king can win."

"We have tried our best."

Shang Yang and Fan Sui tried their best to maintain order within Qin and drain the last potential for war in Qin.

The Qiang tribe, a group of Qiang elders with hair and braided hair, gathered secretly, and their faces were ugly.

Shang Yang issued an ultimatum, asking the tribe to send another three thousand young and strong people to support Jieting.

"The young and strong people in the clan have been recruited for several years, but one out of ten is not allowed. Now Qin wants our tribe to produce three thousand young and strong people. If this continues, there will be only women left in our tribe!"

"Shang Yang has always been strict. If we do not follow his ultimatum, once we pursue it later, our tribe may suffer a genocide disaster!"

"What should I do? Going forward is death, and retreat is death!"

"Captain, what do you think you should do!"

The dozen Qiang elders present all looked at the elderly chief.

When the Qin army conquered the Western Qiang tribes, they slaughtered many tribes, which made the Qiang people afraid, so the Qiang tribes and the Di tribes surrendered. These Qiang people were dissatisfied with Shang Yang's exploitation of their young and strong people, but were afraid that rejecting Shang Yang would bring about a catastrophe and were in a dilemma.

"Class leader, there is a Han man named Su Dai who asked for his visit!"

When this group of Qiang nobles were in a dilemma, the clan leader Su Dai appeared in the Qiang tribe in Wudu County.

"What does this Han man want to do?"

More than a dozen Qiang elders looked at each other, wondering why Su Dai came here at this time.

"Bring him here!"

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Soon, Su Dai was taken to the Qiang elders.

"Who are you? Why are you visiting our tribe?"

The Qiang elders were fierce and wanted to give Su Dai a warning.

Su Dai was unmoved and looked around the Qiang leaders with tattoos and scars on their faces to explain their purpose: "I am the envoy of King Xia, to save everyone from the water and fire."

"Oh? How do you explain this?"

"Qin State continues to lose money in the front, and in the rear, it continues to force men to recruit people. This is a sign of the destruction of the country. As far as I know, there are tens of thousands of young and strong people in your tribe, and now there are only a few thousand people left. Even you elders have many descendants who died in battle for Qin State."

"What do you mean by saying this?"

The Qiang elders had a gloomy face. They did have many sons and grandsons who were recruited by Shang Yang and were stained with blood on the battlefield.

Shang Yang's oppression on their tribe has exceeded their tribe's ability to withstand it.

"I don't have any special meaning. But I know that out of helplessness, you sent troops to help the King of Qin. Now the opportunity to abandon the darkness and turn to the light has come. As long as you send troops, attack the food and grass transported by the Han army from Hanzhong, and make a gesture of cutting off the retreat of the Han army, then our lord can forgive you for helping the tyrannical Qin before, and you can make meritorious contributions, and you no longer need to worry about Shang Yang's punishment."

"As long as our lord wins, you will be exempted from five years of corvee and military service, so that you can rest and recuperate."

Su Dai expressed his conditions, and the Qiang elders were all surprised.

Su Dai actually asked the Qiang people in Wudu County to guerrilla in the Qishan area and harass Liu Bang's Han army's food route.

Su Dai continued to incite these Qiang elders: "Do you want to fight all the males of the tribe for the sake of the tyranny of Qin? Once all the males of your tribe are wrapped in horses and corpses, if the Di tribes are born in Qiang tribes, take the opportunity to attack your tribe, your wives, children, and children will become slaves, and life is worse than death!"

"What he said makes sense. Before he defected to Qin, there were 40,000 strong men in our tribe, but now there are less than 8,000 left. There are countless widows in the tribe, and they are crying every day. How desolate."

"Not only that, many tribesmen in the tribe heard that Qin State was going to recruit military service again and escaped into the mountains overnight."

"If we obey Shang Yang's orders, our tribe will soon die in name only."

"Shang Yang is not worth our life."

The Qiang elders whispered and became increasingly dissatisfied with Shang Yang.

The military merit system created by Shang Yang for Qin can indeed inspire people when Qin continues to win, but once the world is peaceful, or if Qin loses consecutive battles, the people's hearts will inevitably decline, and they will complain.

Although killing enemies in battle can lead to military merits, you must have a life!

If you go into battle, one out of ten will not be left, then no one will be willing to go into battle to kill the enemy.

The reason why the Qin army was warlike was because the Qin State had too great advantages in the middle and late Warring States Period. In ten wars, there were at least eight victories, and those who survived were rewarded, so the morale became higher and higher.

But the situation is different at this time. In the Jieting Battle, Zhang Hua's bloodletting tactics were too cruel and constantly consumed the national strength of Qin. It was like stabbing Qin's stomach with a knife, and then spinning hard to bleed Qin!

Not only the people of Qin, but also the Qiang and Di tribes complained and became increasingly dissatisfied with Shang Yang.

A ruthless look flashed in the Qiang chief's eyes: "Can you believe your promise? You Han people have always been cunning. Because our tribe believes in Shang Yang's promise, more than 30,000 young and strong people have died in the past few years."

The suspicion of the Qiang chief was not groundless. These Qiang elders were indeed not as clever as those of Shang Yang, Su Dai, and Fan Sui, and were often played with by them.

As a traitor, Su Dai's words had inadvertently influenced the judgment of the Qiang chiefs and the Qiang elders, and the Qiang chiefs and the elders were already a little moved.

Su Dai calmly took out the official seal from his sleeve: "This is the official seal given to you by our King Xia. For your tribe and status, please don't have to doubt it."

The Qiang chief looked at the elders again, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I promise you! The warriors in the clan should not be regarded as cannon fodder by Shang Yang! Because Shang Yang, our tribe will only be able to recover its vitality after at least ten years! Since you can exempt us from five years of corvee service and military service, I will trust you!"

The Qiang tribe's dissatisfaction with Shang Yang completely broke out at this time and chose to collude with the Su Dai.

After Su Dai arranged tasks for the Qiang tribe, he went to lobby other Qiang and Di tribes, and brought the tribes that were originally attached to the Qin State to Zhang Huai.

The Qiang and Di tribes originally surrendered to the majesty of Qin, but in the Jieting Battle, Zhang Hua kept bleeding the Qin army, and the Qin army suffered heavy casualties. The Qiang and Di tribes' dissatisfaction with the Qin State accumulated finally broke out. After Su Dai lobbying and bribery, they defected to Zhang Hua.

Many rebellious Qiang and Di soldiers appeared on the food road of the Han army. They attacked the Han army's grain trucks, burned the food and grass supplied to Liu Bang's Han army, and increased the pressure on the Han army.

Shang Yang and Fan Sui organized 150,000 Qin soldiers and village warriors, divided them into several groups and went to Jieting to supplement the losses of the Qin army.

"Brothers, Jieting is bleeding, and hundreds of thousands of people have died. If you want to survive, it is better to run away as soon as possible!"

"Go back to the village and take your family away!"

However, some Qin soldiers and townsmen actually fled on the way.

Some pavilion chief even fled with the villagers.

The Jinyiwei went deep into Qin and spread the news that Jieting had become a purgatory, and any rural hero who went to Jieting was likely to be killed.
Chapter completed!