King Wu is back!

In fact, King Wu was not seriously ill, but went to the Tianshui Valley, the birthplace of Qin's ancestors, to worship the kings and sages who established Qin.

Although this official statement is not believed by some smart people, it is the most acceptable to most people in Qin.

These days, the brutality of the Huns in Hetao has made all the bloody Qin people furious, making the new Qin people in Guandong prefectures and counties who have recently surrendered to the Qin State angry. As the rule of the New Qin Dynasty becomes increasingly stable, the New Qin people have become more and more loyal to the Qin State.

The sense of belonging is also increasing day by day, and more and more Kanto people believe that the civil war between the seven countries is a fight between brothers; the war with the Huns is a fight between two ethnic groups.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

There will be no truce until the blood is shed.

After driving the Huns out, the Qin army marched straight into Mobei, swept the royal court of the Huns, and completely solved the scabies problem that had plagued the Central Plains people for many years.

October 1st.

Li Yuan swore an oath in Chang'an, and elite divisions from all over the Qin State gathered together. In order to deal with this large-scale invasion by the Huns, the central court of Qin State not only ordered the troops along the border to move closer to the place where the fighting was fierce.

In addition, soldiers were also recruited from various places in the Qin hinterland except Jiangdong to join the conquest army.

In terms of generals, Wang Shang and Zhong Limei became Li Yuan's right-hand men respectively. In terms of counselors, Li Zuoche and Lou Jing were recruited into Li Yuan's tent. Cao Xin, the one-eyed general who had always been eager to go into battle to kill the enemy, was appointed as the vanguard.

General, this order also made Cao Xin excited for several days.

In addition to Cao Xin, a large number of young Qin army generals also joined the expedition. Many of them were the teenagers who accompanied Li Yuan in retreating to Yongqi from various places in Guanzhong. Among these young people,

The most outstanding one is the Qin general Gan Yong who is now standing alone in Hexi.

Gan Yong's frequent reuse makes young people like him feel happy and inspired. They remember the glory of the Mengshi army in the past. They aspire to resist foreign invaders, fight against enemy invaders, and become heroes who protect their home and country like their ancestors.

The army marches north!

Along the way, he was welcomed by soldiers and civilians from all the cities in Guanzhong and Jiuyuan County. Wherever Li Yuan's flag went, the people of Qin thundered with joy, and the morale of the 50,000 generals was high, vowing to fight the Huns to the end.

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Good news always comes one after another!

Just as the Qin army set off for the expedition, the battle report from the Western Regions was reported by the fast horse flying cavalry in the far west of the Western Regions. The Qinqi and Wusun armies, which had been pursuing the Da Yuezhi all the way, joined forces and finally arrived in the north of the Altai Mountains.

The generals of Lu surrounded and annihilated King Dayuezhi who was fleeing in all directions and had no other way out.

In despair, King Dayuezhi surrendered to the coalition forces of Qin and Wusun, but was beheaded by Wusun King Liejiaomi with a sword. After struggling to survive by moving westward again and again, Dayuezhi finally disappeared in the long river of history.

Wusun and Yueshi.

The feud between the two sides has been entangled for more than 300 years, starting from the two tribes attacking each other at the foot of the Qilian Mountains in the Hexi Corridor, and then the Wusun people moved west to the Tianshan area, and the Dayue clan followed and drove the Wusun people to the Ili Valley.

The process is described in dry words, but the real process is accompanied by the blood and tears of the Wusun people.

Faced with the enemy who had taken away their homeland, the Dayuezhi people knelt down in humiliation to the Huns and willingly became the helpers of the Huns in their march to the Western Regions. The Wusun people chose to unite with the Qin State and rose up against the Dayuezhi.

This enemy, in this regard, King Wusun's knowledge of hunting Jiaomi is obviously much better than that of King Dayuezhi. This is why he will leave his name in history, while Dayuezhi, except for the name of a clan, does not even know who the leader is.

The reason for the exam.

Dayeshi's territory in the Western Regions was immediately divided up by Wusun and other countries in the Western Regions. The Qin State only stationed more than 1,500 infantry in Gushi City. To show its presence, Qin General Ji Xin became this small force.

At the same time, he naturally became the actual ruler of Gushi City.

The existence of the Qin army in the Qin Dynasty also warned the tribes living in the Western Regions that the Qin army would come back at any time. If they wanted to occupy the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains for a long time, they must rely on the Qin State.

One city is one country.

This is the current situation where there are many small countries in the Western Region. Ji Xin inadvertently became the king of the small country when Monk Tang went to the West to learn Buddhist scriptures in Journey to the West.

Of course, such a king is not what Ji Xin wants.

Not only him, but also Li Zhongxiang, who was already the commander-in-chief of the Western Region Allied Forces, expressed dissatisfaction with having to lead a mixed army in his military intelligence report to Li Yuan.

After receiving the news of the fall of the Dayeshi, the ambitious and thoughtful city-states in the Western Regions such as Loulan and Shule were overjoyed one after another. They sent envoys one after another to contact Li Zhongxiang, an acquaintance, so that they could get ahead of other countries.

Extend your tentacles to the north of Tianshan Mountain.

To the south of the Tianshan Mountains, there are mainly desert oases, and the population and scale of the oases will be limited. On the grasslands in the north, the sky is high, the sea is wide, and the pasture is rich and fertile, which can provide the material conditions needed for population growth.

After the war in the Western Regions ended, the Qin cavalry troops who fought in foreign countries began to return, and then the task of guarding the Western Regions was transferred to the coalition forces of various countries led by Li Zhongxiang.

The return of the Luo Jia Cavalry brought great good news to the Gan Yong and Ji Bu tribes of the Qin Army fighting in Hexi. In the past month, Hu Yanxie has been reluctant to infiltrate the Dunhuang pockets, and

The Qin army suffered from the disadvantage of using infantry to deal with the Huns' cavalry, and the battle in Hexi fell into a long-term confrontation.

Now with Luo Jia's quick reaction force, the Qin army in Hexi finally had the confidence to compete with the Huns.

The situation on the Western Front of the Qin Dynasty gradually improved with the return of the Luo Jia Cavalry.

Although Hu Yanxie is treacherous and cunning, he has been plundering the land of Qin for a long time. After all, it is not as convenient as his own grassland. More importantly, the cities of Qin in the Hexi Corridor are like inlaid in a chain.

The fortresses above are visible to the Huns but cannot be eaten.

Attacking targets like the remnants of Aries cannot solve the problem of supplying the huge range of horses. The Huns went south not just to provide fodder for their horses, but to rob Qin of its grain, wealth, and population in order to survive the coming coming.

Make all kinds of reserves for the harsh winter.

If the looted items were only for daily consumption, then even if the Huns won, they would still fail in the end.

The situation in the Yanbei area on the eastern front is not much different from that in Hexi. After a year of training, Han Xin's Yanbei Army has taken initial shape. These young men from Qi have gradually become soldiers after a winter's test.

appearance.

The Xiongnu Zuoxian King Qiu Lijin, like Hu Yanxie, had suffered a lesson from the Qin army. Therefore, when he was ordered to attack the Qin State, he was not active at first. Similarly, in the end, under the pressure of the Xiongnu envoys, he had to mobilize all his troops. However,

, Qiulijin still retained his skill in selecting attack targets.

He did not continue the route of the last battle of Yanbei, but first marched westward, and then besieged the important town of Mayi at the junction of the Qin border army group and the Yan Dynasty army.

Mayi.

Located at the junction of Yunzhong County and Dai County, it has always been a battleground for military strategists.

In the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor's reign, Qin general Meng Tian drove the Xiongnu to the north outside Yanmen Pass. He besieged the city and raised horses, which created the name of Mayi. It started from Yanmen Pass in the south and ended at Shahukou in the north. This "Mayi Ancient Road" extended from south to north, forming

It is the main transportation artery connecting the Central Plains and Deserts to Central Asia and Europe.

Once the Huns capture Mayi, they can move their troops into the hinterland of the Central Plains, sweep across the land of Zhao to the east, and outflank the Qin army in Yan. To the west, they can occupy Hedong County and threaten Qin's largest military base in Jin.

Positive.

Mayi is in a hurry.

The general of the Qin army guarding the city was none other than Su Jiao, a fierce general of the Qin army who was stationed in Yunzhong County and Hedong County after breaking away from the border army group.

This veteran of the frontier army was nearly fifty years old, his complexion was still rosy, and his body was erect. Every time Li Yuan went north and passed through Hedong, he would go to Sujiao County Mansion to sit down.

For no other reason than to catch up with this veteran general in the army. As he grows older, young generals emerge from generation to generation. Veteran generals like Su Jiao are the mainstay of the Qin army. Li Yuan hopes that

Su Jiao can serve as a link between the past and the future, not only setting an example of a professional army for young people, but also injecting traditional military soul into the army of the New Qin Dynasty.

What is the military spirit of the Qin army?

That is what is sung in the war song: "Old Qin is brave, restore our rivers and mountains, the blood will not be shed, and there will be a truce until the death -!" This unyielding spirit is the soul of the Qin army soldiers who march forward bravely and fight bravely.

Qiulijin attacked Mayi.

Facing the Qin general Su Jiao who was extremely experienced on the battlefield, Qiu Lijin hit his head and suffered a bloody blow. The Huns killed many people in the battle in Mayi City, but they were still unable to draw Su Jiao's army out of the city to fight in the field.

Being impulsive does not mean being brave.

After experiencing the defeat of Julu at the hands of Overlord Xiang Yu, and almost losing his life in the battle, Su Jiao no longer had any arrogance in his eyes, and more importantly, the appearance of Li Yuan allowed him to

After being shocked again and again, I felt my own gaps and shortcomings.

October 3rd.

After receiving the order from Li Yuan to launch a counterattack, Han Xin, the general of the Yanbei Qin Army, led his troops out of Yuyang and Xiangping, braving the late autumn wind and snow, and marched towards the Xiongnu Qiuli tribe's lair. On the other hand, he ordered his deputy general Yang Wengzi to lead the army.

An army rushed to Mayi's aid. After being passively beaten for more than half a year, Qin finally officially sounded the clarion call for counterattack.

At the same time, in the Hetao area, the border troops continued to rely on Jiuyuan, Yongquan and other fortified cities to hold back the Huns. The royal court of Maodun moved to Gaoque City and ordered the various ministries to gather three times in a row.

Together they defeated the remaining Qin army in the Hetao area.

On October 5th, Yongquan City fell.

There were about 2,000 Qin soldiers guarding the city. When they ran out of ammunition and food, the last one died in the battle. After the Huns fell into the city, they set fire to the city to vent their personal anger.

The beacon light soaring into the sky rose over the Hetao Plain. Standing outside the city tower of Jiuyuan City fifty miles away, you could see it clearly.

Wang Li, the general of the frontier army, held his hands on the city battlements and looked at where the beacon smoke was rising. He was speechless for a long time. (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!