On the second day of the second month of the 8th year of the Xinli period of Qin Dynasty.

The dragon raises its head.

In Hexi County this winter, it was shrouded in strong winds and blizzards. On the way, there were only traces of ruts left by passing vehicles.

Outside the Tibetan city, 21,000 generals and soldiers of the Qin army in Hexi, black armor and white armbands, stood on both sides of the road in the wind and snow. However, today they did not welcome the newly arrived Wu King Li Yuan, but another returning old friend.

Bai Guangji's headless body was smuggled back by people from the Aries tribe in the dark and was taken back to his homeland, Qin.

His head was cut off by the Dayuezhi people and presented it to the Xiongnu Shanyu Maodun. When he learned that the leader of the Hexi Qiang, named Bai Qin, was originally a relative of the Qin King Li Yuan, was a bit perverted. Maodun was overjoyed and ordered Sumeru Buda to ask for Bai Guangji's head from the Yuezhi people.

Men have tears, but don’t let them laugh easily.

It’s just that the fate has not arrived, and the sad place is not there.

Li Yuan's car parked at the front of the team.

He drove from Jincheng all the way to Gaizangcheng. His car drove in the wind and snow for four days and four nights, and finally arrived when the Hexi army lined up to welcome Bai Guangji back.

In front of the team, Li Zhongxiang, the chief general of Hexi Army, and Luo Jia, the cavalry general, all had solemn expressions and a painful face. The tiger's eyes were filled with tears.

Eight years of war, eight years of love for comrades.

But today, it has become a different path for humans and ghosts. Although there is no sight on the battlefield, death and injury are common, but generals of the level of Bai Guangji are unprecedented in the Qin army. Even the powerful Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu has caused some time trouble to the Qin army.

Li Yuan silently took the box to restrain the remains of Bai Guangji's corpse. This was the second time he had truly felt the cruelty of war in this era. The first time was in Baima. He heard the last song of Gan Houbo and Zhou Xing, and this time he saw Bai Guangji's last bit of remains.

"Did you see the warriors of the Great Qin?" Li Yuan stepped onto the shaft of the car and shouted at the silent generals and soldiers: "Although General Bai was killed, his soul was still there, and his eyes would always be on us. He would watch us in the royal court of the Huns in the north of the desert, rushing into Maodun's dome tent, and killing the arrogant Hun nobles one by one-!"

"Kill, kill. Kill--!" The thousands of Qin generals shouted like thunder, and the sound broke, almost causing the whistling Blizzard to change direction.

"The old Qin will revive my country and the blood will not flow dry, and I will never stop fighting!" Looking at the tough man with a firm man, Li Yuan took the lead and began to hum this familiar war song.

For eight years.

Li Yuan established the belief that "those who offend me and strong Qin will be punished even if they are far away." This is a spirit of rather than fighting blood until the last moment, shedding the last drop of blood, and never surrendering to the enemy. This is also the most different thing about the new Qin State and the Han Dynasty in history that exchanged peace for peace and endured humiliation.

Three days later.

The Qin State held a solemn funeral in Gaizang City. Bai Guangji and his 1,300 Hexi Qiang dead soldiers were placed in the cemetery of the Qin army soldiers in the west of Gaizang City in the form of burying them with their clothes and hats.

In addition to Li Yuan, Luo Jia, Li Zhongxiang and other Qin generals in Hexi, Cao Xin, the Qin general stationed in Didao, also came hurriedly. This straightforward man who had met Bai Guangji at the head of Xingyang City and fought side by side for many times was thin in spirit, and his eyes were deep, and he had obviously not had a good sleep for several days.

"King Wu, in the battle of the Huns in the next day, Xin Xun was the vanguard. He would never stop the army unless he took Maodun's head. King Wu responded and Xin got up. If he did not respond, Xin would kneel here forever and never rise up." In front of Bai Guangji's tomb, Cao Xin suddenly knelt down, and the seven-foot man cried in silence.

"King Wu, I also asked for an order. Our troops asked to be the main force of the Northern Expedition, and vowed to defeat the Huns and avenge General Bai."

"King Wu--!"

With Cao Xin taking the lead, the Qin generals could no longer suppress their grief for many days and came forward to ask for war.

"You all rise up! My Great Qin and the Huns have been stationed in Jiuyuan for several years. They have accumulated hatred in their hearts. All my Great Qin soldiers want to eat their flesh and eat their bones. Today, you ask for war. I, Li Yuan, swears here in front of the soldiers who are sleeping underground. One day, the Qin army will conquer the Huns, conquer the moon branch, and conquer all the opponents in this world who are enemies with me, because the Great Qin has you, a group of brave and fearless soldiers, you men who regard honor as life, and you will never give up!”

Li Yuan helped Cao Xin, Li Zhongxiang, Luo Jia and other generals one by one, with a strong voice. Now he actually ruled the vast land of the Qin Dynasty. In terms of comprehensive national strength, he was not much weaker than the Huns. More importantly, the Qin army was strong and the war generals gathered, not to mention the embarrassment of Liu Bang's "birds were gone and good bows were hidden" in the early Han Dynasty.

In Yanbei, there was a great master of military tactics. The victory general Han Xin led more than 30,000 Qin troops in Yan. The existence of this Qin army not only effectively prevented the attacks of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King's troops on the eastern border of Qin, but more importantly, Han Xin could also join forces with the remnants of the Donghu and other tribes to launch an attack on the flanks of the Xiongnu.

In Jiuyuan, Wang Li's border army corps had been standing on Yinshan and Gaoque for a long time. Their living habits and horse fighting skills were no different from those of the Huns. This Qin cavalry army, mainly crossbow cavalry, was the closest distance from Mobei, and it was also the power of Qin to directly threaten the royal court of Mobei.

In Hexi and Longxi, young Qin generals such as Li Zhongxiang, Luo Jia and Cao Xin were energetic and full of blood. They were the force Li Yuan relied on the most, and they would also be the main force of the Qin army to attack the Huns and the Western Regions.

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The wheels of the national war started rolling.

In addition to military attacks, suppressing the Huns in all aspects of economic, political and diplomatic aspects is the current method that Qin can take.

When the Qin generals and soldiers in Gaizangcheng were excited, the central court of Qin State located in Chang'an also began to issue a series of decrees against the Huns.

In the carriage that came to build Tibetan city, Li Yuan thought that Qin had the most obvious advantages in economic development compared to the Huns. With the technical level of the Huns, they could not even make the bronze weapons used by the soldiers into batches, but could only use some simple melee weapons such as copper clusters and copper spears.

Since the rebellion has been turned against each other, Qin will naturally take more severe measures. Among the new decrees issued, the first is to strictly prohibit merchants from selling copper, iron and other strategic materials to the Huns without authorization; the second is that any craftsmen who are registered in various counties of Qin will not leave their hometowns without the orders of the county government. Technical confidentiality will of course start with people first, which is to prevent the Huns from slandering Qin craftsmen from going north.

The third article is presented by Lou Jing, a doctor of Qi, to allow and encourage merchants to sell luxury goods such as silk, cloth satin, sea shells, etc. to foreign races such as the Xiongnu, Donghu, Yuezhi, etc.

Thinking about it, this strategy seems to be contrary to the hostile policy that Qin should have adopted against the Huns at present, but its real purpose is to make the Huns aristocrats fall into the pursuit of luxury goods and enjoyment trends. In exchange for these unpractical things, the Huns could only exchange their horses, cattle and sheep.

When the transactions are carried out again and again, and when more luxury goods such as silk corrupt the souls of the Huns, the time for Qin to truly conquer the Huns was ripe.

Lou Jing, a native of Qi.

In the past, an important official of the Western Chu State, during the war between Qin and Chu, he once served as an envoy to Qin State to lobby under the order of the prime minister Xiang Tuo of Chu. Later, because the war between the two countries was incessant, there was basically no possibility of stopping. Lou Jing's lobbying in Chang'an City became meaningless. After the destruction of Chu State, Lou Jing was idle in Chang'an and was addicted to neighbors all day long. Later, under the persuasion of Kuai Che, he changed his mind and became an official in the court.

At this time, Xiang Yu was dead and Western Chu no longer existed.

Chen Ping, Li Zheng, Guan Yue and other Qin domestic officials were worried about managing a huge country. At this time, they saw talents like Lou Jing coming to invest and quickly accepted them.

In terms of economy, the Qin State began to suppress the Huns in a comprehensive manner through blockade and dumping. In the diplomatic direction, lobbyists represented by Kuai Che and Lu Jia also began to frequently set out from Chang'an and lead missions to the Western Regions and Liaodong areas to lobby those tribes that had grudges with the Huns.

Lu Jia was the envoy to the Western Regions this time. His main route was to go west along Kucha, Gaochang and other places on the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains to Wusun.

After the Dayuezhi formed an alliance with the Huns, Wusun, a major country located in Central Asia and the Yili Valley, became the winner of the Daqin against the Huns and Yuezhi.

In addition to Yuezhi, the countries in the Western Regions, the countries such as Khotan, Shache, and Jingjue in southern Xinjiang have mostly had good friendships with Qin due to the Silk Road. However, in Kucha, Gaochang and other places on the northern and southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, they are often attacked by Yuezhi people and the Huns. The attitudes of these countries have always been unclear. In other words, they are typical fence-bearers, and they will surrender to which side they are strong.

On the banks of the sea in the east, Kuai Che's mission passed by Ji County, then headed east to Liaodong County, and after Youxiangping, it continued to go east and headed towards the Goguryeo Peninsula.

His final destination is a place in the vast jungle.

A branch of the Donghu tribe, the Xianbei people were hiding in the vast primitive jungle of Changbai Mountain, Daxingan Mountains, and Little Xingan Mountains. Although they hid and lived a primitive hunting life, according to the historical process, this tribe will gradually walk out of the mountains in the following days, occupy the vast grasslands in the north, annex the Huns tribes, and become the overlords on the grasslands.

Regardless of whether the Xianbei people can be contacted, Kuai Che's trip to the northeast was mainly to show the attitude of Qin and the Huns to start a war. His lobbying along the way was to convey a message. If the Donghu people still remember the once powerful glory of Donghu and the hatred that the Donghu King was killed by Maodun, then the opportunity to take revenge came. (To be continued...)

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