Chapter 9 Journey to the Homeland

Author: Magic Prince

Chapter 9 Journey to the Homeland

After walking through the old road, memories come flooding back like a tide. However, everything has eventually dissipated into history like vast smoke and dust. What is the use of focusing on recalling the past?

Xiang Yu frowned slightly and gradually clenched his fists. Originally, the believers controlled by Zhang Jiao could be regarded as good resources, at least good human resources. However, during the conversation with Zhang Jiao, Xiang Yu discovered that,

This Zhang Jiao is a complete magician. He has never had any real military experience. He seems to think that relying on large numbers of people can overthrow the Han Dynasty regime and establish a peaceful world in his ideal world.

Xiang Yu, who has experienced countless large and small battles, knows very well that fighting requires more than just blood and ideals and ambitions. In addition to people, fighting also requires a large amount of materials and certain political resources. Zhang Jiao controls

Those believers themselves have reached a situation where it is difficult to survive. For them, rebellion is indeed a good choice. However, because the farmers themselves have extremely shallow knowledge, few desires, and short-sightedness, they are very easy to be satisfied.

Such a team itself is very unstable. When these farmers find it difficult to survive due to natural disasters, they are willing to rebel. However, once they obtain some survival resources, many of them will quickly lose their fighting spirit. They will think that they are not as good as others.

If you continue to fight with your life, it is better to first possess some resources as capital for your own survival and enjoyment.

Especially if their leader himself is a person who is unscrupulous and short-sighted, then his determination to rebel will quickly change, and he will soon change from a person who resists oppression to an implementer of oppression, from a person who is determined to conquer the people.

The person saved from dire straits becomes a person who also puts the people in dire straits.

Peasant armies do not necessarily care for other farmers. They are more likely to become bandits and rioters, bringing hatred and destruction to their former compatriots, other farmers, because they need to snatch food from other farmers.

Seize land and seize various resources.

Therefore, if an insurrectionary army lacks a leader who is truly capable of controlling and has long-term political and military goals, then its final result will inevitably lead to failure. Xiang Yu knows this very well in his heart, because when Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rebelled,

What happened next can prove this.

After Chen Sheng achieved a certain degree of success, he began to be suspicious of the people around him, his brothers and friends who had rebelled with him and lived and died together. When power was in his own hands, power began to corrupt his heart. Power was like a devil.

The same thing, gnawing at his soul, and as a person of peasant origin, it was difficult for him to resist this kind of corrosion from power and material. In the end, the people around him alienated him, and in the end, this vigorous peasant uprising ended

He was defeated by the prisoner army led by Zhang Han in a short period of time, and eventually became a laughing stock.

Originally Xiang Yu planned to give it a try. If Zhang Jiao was willing to hand over the supreme control of these peasant armies to himself, perhaps with his careful training, these peasants who originally had no fighting ability could become truly capable.

Fighting soldiers.

But later Zhang Jiao's hesitation finally made Xiang Yu give up the idea, and decided to leave Zhang Jiao and look for opportunities elsewhere. On the one hand, these farmers' trust in Zhang Jiao actually came from the kind of peace he taught him.

Xiang Yu's religious thoughts, the farmers in a painful and tragic fate urgently need this kind of spiritual food to give them hope of continuing to survive, and this is something Xiang Yu cannot bring to them, so in a sense

It is said that Xiang Yu can never really replace Zhang Jiao to control these farmers, because deep down in their hearts, what they need is not to make achievements like real soldiers, and to rely on their heroic fighting to gain the opportunity to be a wolf and a slave.

Rather, he hopes to achieve the kind of illusory but beautiful peaceful world that Zhang Jiao promised.

Xiang Yu feels that he has no way to train such a group of people well. Even if he trains them well, they will never be truly loyal to him. Doing this under Zhang Jiao is definitely a very thankless task.

thing, and if he kills Zhang Jiao, there is no way to replace him, because he does not understand the Taiping Religion, let alone use these religious ideas to control these people, so he needs to find a place that truly believes in strong men and force.

At this time, he thought of Xianyang, which is now Chang'an. Both Xianyang and Chang'an have a very serious problem, that is, they are close to the grasslands of the nomadic people in the north and the Western Regions to the west.

Along the way, Xiang Yu learned more or less about the situation in the northwest frontier of the Eastern Han Dynasty from some people. If the climate in the late Qin period when Xiang Yu lived four hundred years ago was relatively warm, then the overall climate in the late Eastern Han Dynasty was warmer.

It has become much colder.

Starting from Emperor Cheng of the late Western Han Dynasty, the climate in the Central Plains gradually became colder and drier, and large areas of northern grasslands moved southward. This forced the nomadic people in the north to migrate southward to survive. The climate in the Guanzhong area was also

Great changes have taken place. Some areas that originally had virgin forests have turned into wastelands due to climate and man-made destruction, and have even gradually evolved into Gobi and deserts.

The northwest frontier has almost never been peaceful since the Eastern Han Dynasty. The protracted war between the Qiang people and the Eastern Han Dynasty lasted for more than a hundred years and has not been completely settled. Although the capital of the Eastern Han Dynasty has been moved from Chang'an to Luoyang, the Xiongnu and the Huns from the north

The threat from the Western Qiang people has always existed.

It was after Xiang Yu learned this that he decided to go west. At this moment, he did not have any power of his own. Unlike when he raised an army, he could rely on the strength of his family. Moreover, in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, if he did not have any power belonging to his family,

Without the support of your own powerful family or forces such as bureaucrats, relatives, eunuchs, etc., it is difficult to achieve anything by relying solely on your own strength.

And Xiang Yu knew that Zhang Jiao would definitely set off a peasant army uprising in the near future, and then the world would be in chaos, so he had to accumulate some strength of his own before then. When the world was in chaos, it would be his time.

A good opportunity to show off your skills.

The relatively peaceful Central Plains region is obviously not the first choice. It is still controlled by various powerful forces. It is difficult for Xiang Yu to get a good opportunity by relying on his own strength. On the contrary, in the northwest border area, he shows his extreme ability.

A big stage for outstanding military talents. He believed that even if he started as a small soldier, he could quickly grow and build an armed force of his own.

The first problem he has to solve is the problem of personal combat effectiveness. This guy named Zhou Zhuo is actually not as bad in physical talent as imagined, but perhaps due to long-term malnutrition and lack of systematic exercise and training, his physical

Talent has not been sufficiently developed.

After Xiang Yu gained control of this body, on the one hand, he was often able to obtain meat by his own ability to supplement his body's nutrition. On the other hand, he also knew very well how to exercise to develop his physical talents to the greatest extent. This

Zhou Zhuo himself is not that old and is still in the stage of growing his body. Therefore, after Xiang Yu's maintenance and training for a period of time, not only did he grow a little taller, but his muscles also became a lot stronger.

Xiang Yu's current body shape is gradually developing in the direction of slenderness and tallness. He found that the overall frame of this body is of moderate size, the limbs are relatively long, and it has relatively good explosive power whether running or jumping, but now the body shape is still relatively thin.

He is thin and not very good in terms of absolute strength, but on the other hand, his speed and explosive power seem to have relatively large potential that can be explored.

But the disadvantage is that the physical fitness is not particularly good. This is probably because the original owner of this body does not particularly like to exercise. Although there are some signs of practicing weapon combat, it should only be at the level of ordinary people in the militia reserve. Overall,

If Xiang Yu wants to make this body as invincible as his previous life, it is still impossible. But if he can fully explore the potential of this body from now on, then relying on Xiang Yu's previous life's fighting skills and

With experience, he can definitely become the top general of this era.
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