Tu Sui did not occupy much space in the history books of later generations.
People's most common impression of him is that he was the unlucky general who overturned his car and was shot to death by the Baiyue people in Lingnan with poisonous arrows when he went south to conquer Lingnan.
Among the army that went south to conquer Lingnan, his presence seemed to be inferior to that of Ren Xiao, who succeeded him in completing the task of conquering Lingnan after his death, and Zhao Tuo, who controlled South Vietnam for 81 years after Ren Xiao.
But after the unification of the world, the person who was defeated by the political commissar Ying with an army of 500,000 was just an incompetent general who only killed innocent people indiscriminately after winning consecutive battles in Lingnan?
We must know that when Wang Jian destroyed Chu, he only led an army of 600,000 people. If Tu Sui was an incompetent general, how could he be given such an important task by the political commissar Ying?
At least in the early days, the 500,000-strong Southern Expedition Army maintained a winning streak. However, after going deep into the hinterland of Lingnan, they were trapped by the elusive guerrilla warfare of the Baiyue people and the difficulties of logistics and transportation. Finally, the army was frustrated and stopped. In the Sanluo area on the bank of the Xijiang River, Tu Sui himself was accidentally hit by a poisonous arrow from a Baiyue man and died from the poison.
The Yulin army currently controlled by Zhang Ji includes generals such as Li Xin, Qiang Yu, Su Jiao, Tu Sui, Ren Xiao, Wang Ben, Feng Wuze and Yang Wengzi, which can be said to be a gathering of stars.
And among them, Li Xin, Qiang Yu, Tu Sui, Ren Xiao and Wang Ben are all handsome men with the ability to lead an army on their own, so Zhang Ji wants to cultivate these people and give them more opportunities to increase their military exploits. Add more resume.
Although the Qin Dynasty has no shortage of generals, that is for the Qin State that purely conquers the six kingdoms.
Neither Ying Zheng nor Zhang Ji, in this world of the Qin Dynasty that had some knowledge of the world outside the Central Plains, did not intend to limit the territory of the Qin State to just this area.
The grassland barbarians in the north, the Baiyue barbarians in the south, the Western Regions, and the countries further west than the Western Regions...
Calculated in this way, Qin State is not short of generals.
And these things between Zhang Ji and Tu Sui were just a small episode before the army set off.
The huge war machine of Qin State began to operate with an edict from Ying Zheng. However, dealing with a South Korea would not allow Qin State to reproduce the full or even overload operation it had when facing the allied forces. Half of the Yulin army was mobilized.
These include Li Xin and his 1,000 Yulin cavalry, Su Jiao's 1,000 scout battalion, 3,000 crossbowmen and 4,000 infantry, and 200 chariots commanded by She Jian, with a total number of just over 10,000 people. about.
In addition to the 10,000 Yulin Army, a professional army separated from production, Ying Zheng summoned 80,000 soldiers from Beidi County, Longxi County, Sanchuan County, and Hedong County, as well as 10,000 soldiers from the Death Soldier Battalion, totaling 100,000 troops. , there are also civilian husbands, prisoners, etc. responsible for the transportation of food, grass and weapons for the army.
The Qin army was divided into two groups. One group led by Zhang Ji led the Yulin Army, the Dead Soldiers Camp, Longxi County, and Beidi County soldiers and horses, totaling 60,000, and marched from Nanyang to Xinzheng, the capital of Han Dynasty.
The other leader is Tu Sui.
Tu Sui was originally a twenty-four-year-old Qian Chang. He had made military exploits during the Hezong War, and his title was promoted from the eighth-level official to the ninth-level fifth-level nobleman. He was only one level away from the general-level Zuoshu Changjue. He is qualified to serve as the commander-in-chief of the partial army.
Of course, according to common sense, although Tu Sui is qualified to serve as the leader of a partial army, such a partial army usually has no more than 20,000 people at most. The army Zhang Ji handed over to Tu Sui included four soldiers from Hedong County and Sanchuan County. Thousands of people!
The political signal sent by Zhang Ji's actions is self-evident. He really wanted to cultivate Tu Sui and give Tu Sui an opportunity to make meritorious deeds.
And this is why Zhang Ji dared to give Tu Sui such trust. How could an ordinary army commander dare to hand over a 40,000-strong side army to Tu Sui, who was only 26 years old?
Tu Sui was also a courageous old Qin man. If another person had been appointed like this, he might have thought that Zhang Ji deliberately wanted to embarrass this partial army general, but Tu Sui understood that his general understood the talents and abilities of these people. He was ambitious in his heart, otherwise he would not have been selected among the millions of Qin troops to join the Yulin Army as the captain.
The task arranged by Zhang Ji for Tu Sui was not difficult. He went south from Yangcheng to conquer Yangzhai, and then he and Zhang Ji moved to the city of Xinzheng and jointly besieged Xinzheng.
The resistance that the generals originally suspected did not exist. Zhang Ji's army was welcomed by these former Koreans in Nanyang, and there was even a scene of eating pot pulp, which was originally only seen in Lao Qin's hometown. The scene of joyful soldiers and civilians.
But it’s no wonder that Nanyang, originally the most fertile land in South Korea, was first oppressed by South Korea’s high taxes, then further exploited by the night, and then encountered a food shortage. Nanyang once had bones exposed in the wild, thousands of miles away. There is no scene of roosters crowing, the people exchange their children and eat just to survive for a while.
Until Nanyang became a city of Qin, and the Koreans in Nanyang became Qin people, everything got better.
Qin's tax rate was also very high, but after the night was eradicated, the exploitation suffered by the people in Nanyang was reduced by half, and Qin's severe punishments also dealt a blow to many unscrupulous people who took advantage of Nanyang's grain shortage to maliciously raise prices. The disciples distributed part of the seized land to the people of Nanyang, and the public security in Nanyang also improved day by day.
The people of this era do not have much thought. All they seek is to live.
If they live safely and have enough to eat, they can settle down.
Once people have settled down, they will give up the idea of fleeing their hometowns to make a living as refugees and return to productive activities. The land that had not been cultivated for a long time had accumulated a lot of fertility, so that the people of Nanyang also harvested a lot of barley.
Thanks to the series of policies implemented by the Qin State in Nanyang that helped Nanyang resume production, neither Zhang Ji's main force nor Tu Sui's partial division encountered much resistance during the advance.
There are still many Koreans in South Korea who are still full of passion under the influence of the rule of law, but more of them have been transformed into scheming middle-aged people by the rule of law. Koreans who are hungry.
Wei Zhuang, who served as the general of South Korea, also noticed this and abandoned many small cities and concentrated his troops in large cities in order to delay the time, consume the Qin army's food and fodder, and wait for reinforcements from other countries.
Yangzhai, the old capital of South Korea, is the city with the most heavily defended troops and the largest number of defenders besides Xinzheng City.
However, the Korean army's will to fight was too weak. If it were not for the worry that Qin would massacre the city after breaking it, it would have lost its will to fight long ago. Therefore, Tu Sui's partial troops besieged Yangzhai and successfully breached the city in only 21 days of siege. Huanjue, the pretended defender of Hedong, personally went up with a shield and sword, and climbed to the top of the city first!
Less than a month and a half after the Qin army dispatched troops, they successfully reunited under the city of Xinzheng. In addition to the garrison troops remaining in various cities, there were a total of 70,000 Qin troops under the city of Xinzheng, who were eyeing the Korean capital with bloody sharp attacks. Fangs.
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