Li Si was a treacherous minister, but it is precisely because he was a treacherous minister that he was good at judging people.
At present, there are only a few people in the Qin Dynasty who are truly loyal to the court and even disregard their own lives. Meng Tian is one of them, which is why Li Si came to find Meng Tian.
But he overlooked one thing.
Meng Tian was indeed a loyal minister, but precisely because he was a loyal minister, he would not do something like leading troops into Xianyang.
Li Si was so anxious he almost vomited blood.
"Once you, General Meng, finish your battle against the anti-Qin alliance, there will be no follow-up!"
They now have an army of 700,000, and even the Imperial Treasury Minister Zhang Han has surrendered. How can we possibly fight them?
Just then, a personal guard rushed in and said, "General! Scouts and the vanguard of the rebels have been spotted ahead!"
Meng Tian suddenly stood up, put on his helmet, and said in a deep voice, "We have to fight, even if we can't!"
My Meng family has been indebted to the Qin ruler for generations; how can we surrender without a fight now?
If the Prime Minister is afraid, I will have someone send you back to Xianyang.
Li Si quickly shook his head and said, "I won't go back! I want to fight alongside you, General!"
Li Si wasn't unafraid of death, but rather he didn't want to return to Xianyang to face the sorcerer Xu Fu and the First Emperor, whose true form he didn't even know.
Moreover, Li Si had other ulterior motives.
If Meng Tian were to lose, it wouldn't matter whether he surrendered or not; I would definitely surrender.
Since the anti-Qin alliance could accept Zhang Han's surrender, they could certainly accept their own surrender as well.
They were different from the mob led by Chen Sheng and Wu Guang who wanted to kill all the Qin officials. They were descendants of nobles from the six states, so they had to be given some face.
Upon leaving the camp, Meng Tian saw the army formation of the anti-Qin alliance, and a complex expression unconsciously appeared on his face.
"Half of the people in this anti-Qin alliance were soldiers of my Great Qin, but now they have all become enemies of my Great Qin."
Li Si followed Meng Tian and said cautiously, "In the past two years, I have been in charge of the government. In fact, the Qin Dynasty's rule over the grassroots is now on the verge of collapse."
It could even be said that the only territory we can fully control is the area around Xianyang. The Qin territory was already somewhat unstable before, let alone the territory where the other six states were located.
Furthermore, Xu Fu had been causing trouble for so long that he had already stirred up widespread resentment throughout the land.
I even feel that the destruction of so many of Qin's elite troops this time is related to that bastard.
Logically speaking, the death of Ying Tao shouldn't have angered Xu Fu so much. That guy was only nominally Xu Fu's disciple, not his most favored one.
However, Xu Fu dispatched three large armies for him, but he committed a major taboo in military strategy.
It could even be said that if Xu Fu hadn't urged General Zhang Han to attack the anti-Qin alliance first, and if General Wang Li and General Meng Tian hadn't joined forces, what power in the world could have been your match?
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It's more accurate to say that Generals Zhang Han and Wang Li were defeated not so much by the anti-Qin alliance, but by Xu Fu.
Meng Tian glared at Li Si: "Why didn't you say these things before?"
Li Si smiled bitterly and said, "What was the use of what I said before? Now it seems that His Majesty has become an empty shell, and those orders were all issued by Xu Fu."
Moreover, General Meng, you should remember that His Majesty was previously protected by many Qi cultivators from our Great Qin. Especially after Jing Ke's assassination attempt on the King of Qin, these people hid in the shadows, guarding His Majesty around the clock for twelve hours.
But this time when Zhao Gao lifted the curtain, no Qi cultivators stopped him, presumably because they had all fallen victim to Xu Fu's wicked schemes.
I didn't say I'd be spared; if I did, at best I'd be ostracized from the center of the court, at worst I'd lose my life.
Meng Tian frowned, his thoughts in turmoil.
He originally thought that at worst he would die in this battle, but he did not expect Li Si to bring such news.
It doesn't matter if I die, but if what Li Si said is true, then I will have died in vain, and I will have only wasted my life for an empty shell.
At this time, the anti-Qin alliance and Meng Tian's Great Wall army had begun to make contact with the enemy.
Both sides were once the elite forces of the Qin Dynasty, and even the commanders were renowned generals of the Qin Dynasty.
This battle was more like a civil war within the Qin state.
Fifteen minutes later, the outcome of the battle was already clear.
The Great Wall Corps' positions were being gradually eroded. Although the soldiers did not collapse, they were retreating step by step.
The Great Wall Corps had traveled a long distance and had barely had any rest before being hastily sent to the battlefield. Even the most elite troops could not withstand such attrition.
Moreover, the enemy's numbers were twice that of their own, and this sense of oppression greatly affected morale.
Furthermore, the two fierce generals Yang Cheng and Xiang Yu launched a charge, and they were almost invincible.
Meng Tian let out a long breath and said in a deep voice, "Bring me my gun, I want to personally charge into battle!"
Li Si quickly stopped him, saying, "General, calm down!"
"If I stay calm any longer, all my soldiers will be slaughtered!"
Just then, a group of Qin soldiers suddenly rushed into the battlefield.
A young nobleman dressed in fine clothes waved a large banner and shouted, "General Meng, stop fighting! Leave these elite troops for our Great Qin!"
Qin may perish, but the people of Qin will not!
Moreover, Xu Fu has now caused chaos throughout the land, and my father is no longer the father he once was!
"This is all Xu Fu's conspiracy; he deliberately sent you generals here to your deaths!"
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