The video takes us to ancient times; Li Er transforms into the Tongtian Emperor of Shu Han.

"I always felt that Bai Qi's recruitment speed was not fast enough."

The scene in the sky changed rapidly. Liu Bang glanced up at it during a moment of leisure, his eyes showing some disdain.

Given such a long period of time and such a favorable era, if it were Han Xin in his place, he would probably have been able to raise an army of twenty or thirty thousand by now.

"Indeed, not everyone has Han Xin's terrifying speed of troop production."

Li Er nodded.

He participated in Liu Bang's challenge. Only those who have used Han Xin know just how useful this military genius really is!

As long as he is under your command, you will not need to worry about recruiting soldiers when the uprising begins.

Han Xin would naturally gather all the strong men he could recruit in the area, and after training them for several months using his unique methods, they would become an elite army that obeyed orders without question!

He never hid his training methods from anyone, yet no one could learn them.

Even Li Er couldn't understand it. After studying it for a long time, he could only sigh helplessly, "Maybe this is talent!"

"Throughout history, there has only ever been one military genius, Han Xin. If he were not unparalleled, how could he be called the military genius?"

"However, don't underestimate Bai Qi because of this. There may be a difference in the speed of recruiting soldiers, but when you actually face him on the battlefield, it's really hard to say who will win or lose."

Liu Che still remembered the last time Ying Zheng participated in the challenge.

Despite being outnumbered and at a disadvantage in terms of equipment and environment, they fought a decisive battle of annihilation.

No, not just one battle, but a series of annihilation campaigns.

Throughout history, battles in which the few defeat the many have been rare, but certainly not uncommon.

It is extremely rare for a smaller force to win a decisive victory and even achieve annihilation.

"That's true. Bai Qi's advantage doesn't lie in recruiting soldiers. Once he rises up and truly becomes emperor, as long as he can withstand the court's first round of encirclement and suppression, countless ambitious people will naturally come to join him."

Liu Bang nodded.

Having lived through the tyrannical Qin and Chu dynasties, he naturally knew how many people would flock to him once his reputation was established.

Even after the Battle of Suishui, when he had wiped out countless soldiers, there were still countless people who willingly entrusted their last remaining children to him.

At that time, Liu Bang felt extremely bitter, but he also clearly knew one thing: he could not lose the Chu-Han Contention!

In the past, the people of the world suffered under the Qin Dynasty for too long; now, Ying Zheng's challenge is that the people of the world have suffered under the Mongol Yuan Dynasty for too long!

When he first proclaimed that the world had suffered under the Qin dynasty for too long, he was somewhat hesitant.

After all, when Ying Zheng was on the throne, he treated the people well, at least ensuring that the common people had a way to survive.

Even if corvée labor was delayed, or if people were unwilling to perform it at all, they could be exempted by paying some money, and the taxes were far less exorbitant than they became later.

It wasn't until the First Emperor died that the people truly began to suffer; the most bitter period of Qin's rule was the four years after Hu Hai ascended the throne.

Now, given Zhu De's current challenge, it would be perfectly reasonable to say that the world has suffered under the Mongol Yuan dynasty for too long!

Once the uprising begins, a single command will surely draw countless talented and ambitious individuals to join us!

In the sky above, Ying Zheng did indeed do just that.

Several months passed, and Bai Qi, who occasionally robbed the rich to help the poor and occasionally recruited soldiers, became famous far and wide, and his forces had grown to more than a thousand men.

In addition, Li Si persuaded more than a thousand bandits in the nearby mountains to surrender with his silver tongue.

The two sides had a combined force of less than three thousand men.

With just these three thousand men, Ying Zheng became emperor.

He preempted Han Shantong by establishing the Great Qin Kingdom, proclaiming himself Emperor Qin, and shouting the slogan of expelling the Tartars and restoring the Central Plains.

Unsurprisingly, after Ying Zheng became emperor, the Yuan court quickly dispatched troops to suppress him.

Everyone outside the canopy knew that this was the most important battle for Ying Zheng.

If he wins this battle, he will be able to command a large following!

Regardless of whether it was the Qin, Ming, or Song dynasties that established the nation.

The common people didn't care about any of that. They were simple-minded. They only cared whether you had any hope of overthrowing the Yuan Dynasty, whether following you would allow them to survive, and whether they could get enough to eat.

As long as we can defeat the Yuan court, countless people will naturally come to join us.

If they were to perish in this battle, many more rebel armies might emerge in the future, shouting slogans of expelling the Tartars and restoring the Central Plains, but that would have nothing to do with Ying Zheng.

This time, it's unclear whether it was because it was too early and the Yuan court hadn't completely split apart, or whether Ying Zheng was simply unlucky.

The Yuan army that came to besiege them this time had grown from several thousand to twenty thousand.

Three thousand against twenty thousand!

It is conceivable that even without victory, as long as Ying Zheng can survive the encirclement and suppression of these 20,000 troops, a large number of soldiers will definitely come to join him.

But for him to survive this battle was even more difficult than climbing to heaven!

These three thousand men were not the elite troops of the Qin people; it would be a stretch to even call them soldiers.

They couldn't even muster two sets of armor from top to bottom, and their weapons were mostly iron tools like hoes. They only had a few hundred proper swords and spears, most of which were brought by the bandits whom Li Si had persuaded to surrender.

Such a small fry, they thought they could fight against 20,000 Mongol cavalry.

Not to mention those outside the canopy, even Li Si, who was taking on the challenge, thought it was utter nonsense.

Putting everything else aside, when has the Qin Empire ever fought such a humiliating battle?

They, the Qin Dynasty, have always been the ones who crush others with their iron cavalry. When have they ever been bullied like this?

"Your Majesty, perhaps we should avoid their sharp edge for now?"

"I can lead a small force to meet the enemy and delay the Yuan army's advance, so that Marquis Wu'an can lead Your Majesty to escape."

Seeing that Ying Zheng and Bai Qi remained silent after learning the news, Li Si gritted his teeth and said.

Since he's already dead in reality, he's not afraid of dying again.

He died protecting Ying Zheng, and will be able to come back to life after Ying Zheng completes this challenge.

If he fails in this challenge, he will be truly dead!

But the words he struggled to utter only earned him strange looks from the two people in front of him.

"Who told you that I was going to flee?"

"Who told you that this general was going to escape?"

Bai Qi and Ying Zheng spoke at the same time.

Upon hearing this, Li Si slowly typed out a question mark.

"?"

Are you two joking?

The enemy had a full 20,000 men, while our army had a mere 3,000, and we couldn't even muster a single piece of armor.

We don't know what the enemy's configuration is yet. If there are hundreds of heavy cavalry among them, even if we send all three thousand men in, we might not be able to inflict any casualties on them.

"Prime Minister Li, the matter of leading troops into battle cannot be judged solely by the comparison of strength on paper."

Bai Qi smiled, but for some reason, the smile was somewhat bitter.

"If we only look at the strength on paper, the Zhao army would not have suffered such a crushing defeat in the Battle of Changping, and I would not have been branded as a butcher."

Others might think that the reputation of being a butcher isn't so bad, as it can intimidate the enemy during wartime.

But for Bai Qi, this is not a good thing.

Most importantly, even after accompanying Ying Zheng in the challenge last time and receiving a second chance as a reward, he could only remain anonymous and dared not reveal his identity to anyone...