The army left Xianyang City and marched to the north, but this time Meng Tian rode a bloody BMW and his father Meng Wu and Wang Ben at the front of the marching procession, followed by Du Hui, Du Hui was followed by two chariots, on which stood two large flags, one side was written with a big "Qin" character, and the other side was a "Meng" character, representing the Mengjia army of Qin. Behind the chariot was a mighty 10,000 Mengjia army, and in the middle of the army were chariots carrying grain and grass, each chariot was pulled by two horses, and at the same time equipped with a soldier who drove the chariot.

Since the weather did not rain during this period and the roads were smooth, the army marched north relatively quickly, and the army marched nearly 200 miles on the first day. After the army was encamped that night, Meng Tian took Du Hui around the barracks, inspecting the barracks of recruits and veterans. When the soldiers who were living and cooking saw the young general coming to inspect, they greeted the young commander one after another, and Meng Tian and Du Hui also responded one by one.

After inspecting the barracks, Meng Tian asked Du Hui on the way back to his camp tent: "Brother Du, I see that these newly recruited recruits you have trained in the past few days get along quite well with those veterans, and you really have a set of methods for leading soldiers." ”

After Du Hui heard it, he replied with a smile: "The young general has won the award, what is the way for the last general, but after they enlisted, I only said one word to them, in the future, the only people you can rely on on the battlefield are these colleagues around you, so if you want to live longer on the battlefield, get along with the people around you, maybe it will be these people around you who will save you on the battlefield in the future." ”

Meng Tian gave a thumbs up and praised: "Brother Du, you are right, in the future, on the battlefield, tens of thousands of people will be killed at every turn, so what we can rely on is the comrades-in-arms who fight with us, and I hope that in the future, Brother Du will also be my reliance on the battlefield." ”

Du Hui clenched his fists and bowed to Meng Tian: "The last general swears to follow the young general, the young general, please rest assured, as long as the last general, the young general can move forward to kill the enemy as much as he wants." ”

Meng Tian helped Du Hui up and said, "Okay, Brother Du, you go back to the tent to rest first, and the army will continue to rush tomorrow." After Du Hui left, Meng Tian did not go directly to his camp, but went to his father's camp. When he walked to the door of his father's camp tent, he learned that his father and Wang Ben had also gone to inspect the barracks and grain and grass, and had not returned for the time being, so Meng Tian did not continue to wait and returned to his camp.

On the morning of the second day, the army marched after breakfast. To the north of Xianyang City in Qin, after crossing the Wei River, the city is very scarce, because the northern Xinjiang is windy and sandy, not suitable for farming, so the successive kings of Qin have moved the Qin people in the north to the south, and the Qin people in the north to the Bashu region suitable for cultivation, so the land where the army passes through today is mostly a barren and populated area. It also coincided with the summer and autumn exchanges in the Qin State when there was less rain, and when I looked north, except for a few scattered broken villages, the goal was a scene of depression.

During the march, Meng Wu asked Meng Tian what he was looking for yesterday, and Meng Tian replied to his father: "This time I went to the Great Wall of Northern Xinjiang to resist Rong Di, did my father calculate how much time it would take?"

After Wang Ben heard it next to him, he asked with a smile: "Why, did you start feeling homesick after only two days of coming out?"

Meng Tian said: "Uncle Wang said that he laughed, I just heard you talk about fighting with the Hu people at home before, and I never thought that today I would lead the troops with my father and Uncle Wang to defend against the Hu people's attack, I don't know how the Hu people and the Six Nations Alliance in Hangu Pass are different?"

"The Hu people's attack methods are basically the same, because the Hu people's territory does not have cities, and they are not good at attacking cities, so they are not much of a threat to our passes. But the Hu people are naturally good at riding and shooting, a Hu man began to learn to walk since their parents began to train them to ride horses and shoot arrows, so almost everyone in the Hu people is a marksman, this is their only fatal place, and this expedition, as General Wang Lao said, do not go out of the city and the Hu people to carry out cavalry battles, our horses and soldiers can not compare to the Hu people, so this time we only need to defend until the turn of spring and summer next year, the Hu people will retreat on their own. ”

When Meng Tian heard his father say that he would not be able to return home until the spring and summer of next year, he was really depressed, but when he remembered that he could fight with Hu Ren's real swords and guns, Meng Tian was full of fighting spirit again.

Near noon, the scouts in front came to report that there were traces of the Hu people in front, and after hearing the news, Meng Wu and Wang Ben ordered Meng Tian to lead a group of men and horses to the front of the army to find out the situation, and the army temporarily rested on the spot. Meng Tian took Du Hui and dozens of cavalry to gallop towards the place inside the scout news, and it didn't take long for them to arrive in a ruined village.

Seeing his army coming, the scout walked out of the village and came to Meng Tian's horse to report the military situation: "General Qiyu, two groups of Hu people were found in the village ahead, these two groups of Hu people should not be together, the villain saw that the two groups of people were tense, and they seemed to be enemies. ”

Meng Tian rode on his horse and looked towards the village, which looked like there should have been about 100 families before, but now the village was deserted and overgrown with weeds. Meng Tian asked the scout, "Are there any other people in the village?" and how many people are there in these two groups of Hu people combined?"

"General Hui, the name of this village is Luozhuang, according to the map, all the villagers of this village moved south to the south of Xianyang three years ago, and no one was left, and the villain has investigated that this is indeed the case. These two groups of Hu people combined with fifty or sixty people, forty horses, and more than ten carriages, and it seemed that one of the Hu people should be a Hu caravan, and the other group should be dressed more like Yiqu people. ”

"Yiqu people?" Meng Tian said, "Although Yiqu was destroyed by our Qin State as early as the reign of King Zhaoxiang, the people of Yiqu are fierce, and the Empress Dowager Xuan has a paper to allow Yiqu people to manage Yiqu people, so so far Yiqu people can only be regarded as half of Qin. But this place is not too close to Yiqu, why would the Yiqu people appear here?" Thinking of this, Meng Tian made a gesture, and Du Hui saw that he led a team of men and horses to outflank the other side of the village, and Meng Tian led his own people to follow the scout and rode into the village.

In the center of the village, two groups of Hu people dressed as Hu people are facing each other, and there are some corpses scattered next to them, it looks like the two groups of Hu people must have just fought. Just as the two groups were about to start fighting again, Meng Tian led the army to arrive. When a team of Hu people saw Meng Tian, their emotions instantly became excited, and one of the two teams of Hu people was the team of Hu people who Meng Tian saved in Xianyang City that day. Meng Tian saw the Loulanhu man Mu Lituo in the crowd, and behind him was his daughter Tu Nazha, but this time Tu Nazha was not wearing a blue coat but a gray coat. Seeing Meng Tian on the horse looking at him, Tunazha blushed and turned his face away.

Another group of Hu people saw a well-equipped Qin army rushing here on horseback, plus the mood of the Hu people on the opposite side had changed a little, and the secret path was not good, could it be that this Hu caravan and the Qin army could not get acquainted, no matter what, it was the best policy to retreat first. Just when the other group of Hu people wanted to retreat, Du Hui arrived on horseback and blocked the way of this group of Hu people.

Mu Lituo walked out of the crowd, came to Meng Tian's horse, bowed to him, and said: "Ah, God bless, let me meet General Meng again, I hope General Meng can save the villain again, and the villain is willing to repay the general's great kindness with anything." ”

Meng Tian asked Mu Lituo, "Who are they, and why are you here?"

Mu Lituo pointed to another group of people and said: "They are robbers on the grassland, more than ten years ago Daqin occupied Yiqu, some Yiqu people did not accept Daqin's discipline, so they went to this wilderness grassland to become robbers, specializing in robbing caravans like us who came to Daqin from foreign countries to buy and sell." Yesterday I led my family out of Xianyang City, and today I don't want to be encountered by them, they want to take away my youngest daughter and all my property, as well as the handwritten letter from His Majesty the King of Great Qin to His Majesty the King of Loulan, hoping that the general will save my life and my family in the face of His Majesty the King of Great Qin. ”

Meng Tian nodded and said, "Since it involves the state affairs of my Great Qin and Loulan Kingdom, then I have no reason to ignore it. Brother Du, order the brothers to disarm this gang of Yiqu robbers, and kill those who do not disarm on the spot. ”

"Yes, General. The general has an order to arrest this group of righteous people for me, and those who dare to resist will be killed on the spot. Du Hui issued an order to the soldiers of the Meng family who came with him. All the Mengjia soldiers jumped off their horses, hung the Changge they were holding in their hands on horseback, and then drew the long knife at their waists and surrounded the group of Yiqu people.

The Yiqu people began to feel that something was wrong when they saw the army of Daqin entering the village, but they couldn't go if they wanted to go, not to mention that they didn't carry bow and crossbow weapons, once they got on the horse and fled, they would definitely become the live target of the Qin cavalry, if they didn't go, they would fight to the death with this group of Qin soldiers, and there was still some possibility of escape, although there were not many people who could escape in the end, but as long as they could escape and relay the news here to the big boss in the cottage, with the big leader's martial arts talent, he would definitely lead people to hunt down this Qin army, as long as all the Qin army was wiped out, then who knows who killed this Qin army？

Thinking of this, the leader of the Yiqu people shouted loudly in Yiqu language, and all the group of people began to form a circle, leaning their backs into a circle, and the unique moon-shaped scimitar on the grassland in their hands was facing outward, ready to fight to the death with the Qin army.

Seeing that all the Yiqu people were ready for battle, Du Hui understood that it was impossible to get them to disarm, so he raised his hand and waved, and half of the Qin army put the long knife back to the sheath and took off the crossbow on his back. Qin's military crossbow is the most powerful military crossbow in the six countries, this kind of crossbow is taken from the essence of the Mo family mechanism and Gongsun family mechanism technique in the hundreds of princes, powerful, can shoot through the armor within fifty steps, and easy to carry, a crossbow arrow box can be loaded with five crossbow arrows, originally used on the battlefield to fight in the early stage and later to hunt and kill the enemy, now since this group of Yiqu people do not know how to do evil, then Du Hui is willing to let them try the power of this Qin army's new style of crossbow arrows.

Seeing that Qin Jun took out a standard crossbow, the Yiqu people understood that no matter how they struggled, it was just a battle of trapped beasts, and it was only a few moments when they were destroyed by the Qin army, and they couldn't help but feel a little desperate. Just when all the Yiqu people were desperate, a whistle suddenly came to mind outside the village, followed by the sound of horses' hooves, and the surrounded Yiqu people were ecstatic when they heard the whistle. Half of the Qin soldiers continued to surround the Yiqu people, while the other half turned around and faced the men who had entered the village on horseback.

Riding into the village was a group of people, dressed like the surrounded Yiqu people, thinking that the reinforcements of the Yiqu people had arrived. Du Hui looked at Meng Tian, Meng Tian had no expression or spoke, just made a gesture and ordered the soldiers to continue to attack, but no one was allowed to do anything without his instructions. Meng Tian rode his sweaty horse to the outside of the encirclement, walked to the periphery of the Qin army and stopped, holding the spear in his hand diagonally behind his back, looking at the group of people who entered the village.

The visitor stopped because he saw two generals of the Qin army and a group of soldiers armed with crossbows watching his group. The person who came asked loudly: "Dare to ask the two generals, whose soldiers and horses are these of the Qin State?"

Du Hui rode two steps forward and responded: "I am a soldier of the Mengjia army who was personally given the name by the King of Great Qin, I don't know what happened to you here?"

The person who came said a few words to the person next to him, and it seemed that he didn't know when the Qin State would come out and always have the Meng family's army. "I only know that there is a royal army in the Qin State, and I have not heard of this Mengjia army at that time. ”

Meng Tian smiled and said, "It doesn't matter if you've heard of it or not, it doesn't matter, but I think you'll know after today." Call out as many people as you have brought, and I will teach you the skills of the Yiqu people. ”

Later, the Yiqu people saw that the Qin army had no intention of negotiating with them, and understood that this battle could not be avoided, so they ordered their subordinates to take out weapons and prepare to fight the Qin army.

Meng Tian handed over Mu Lituo and his family to the protection of two Qin soldiers, keeping them away from this place, so that he could have a good fight with these Yiqu people. When Murituo and his daughter Tunazha passed by Meng Tian, Tunazha looked at Meng Tian on horseback, as if he had been conquered by the man on horseback, and stood on the spot for a while. Mu Lituo looked back at his daughter and saw that she was looking at Meng Tian in a daze, so he pulled her sleeve hard, and Tunazha came to her senses and followed her father to Qin Jun's place. Meng Tian didn't notice this scene, he was looking at the team of Yiqu people intently, although he was a general, but his mentality was still that fourteen-year-old boy, in the face of the other party's provocation, he didn't want to escape, even if he would be scolded by his father when he returned to the Qin army after winning the battle.

Meng Tian shouted to the Yiqu people who spoke before: "In this way, you and I will fight first, if you win, I will let you go, but if you lose, you and your men will either become my subordinates or all die." What do you think?"

After hearing the conditions that Meng Tian said, the Yiqu man paused for a moment, he didn't expect the general of this Qin army to say such brainless words, if he fought with the Qin army, even if he could win, it would probably be a disastrous victory, and it would be a good one of the ten brothers he brought and those brothers who were surrounded if they survived, not to mention that if it really started, the Qin army only needed to fire a round of crossbow arrows, and his own people would have to suffer dozens of casualties. He glanced at the brothers behind him, and found that they were also looking at him, he nodded to a Yiqu man with a masked face beside him, and then rode out of the queue and said to Meng Tian: "Okay, just do as you say." But if you win, I hope you can let my brother who is unwilling to join your Qin army go home. ”

Seeing that the other party agreed to his conditions, Meng Tian said: "Yes, but you want them to promise me that you are not allowed to be robbers on the grassland after leaving here, otherwise even if I disobey my words, I will kill you all." ”

"Okay, I promise you. ”

Meng Tian made a gesture to Du Hui, and Du Hui ordered all the Qin soldiers to put away their crossbow arrows, and then everyone stepped back, leaving an open space in the middle for Meng Tian to compete with the Yiqu man.

Meng Tian dismounted and took off his helmet, and then walked with the Yiqu man to the center of the field. Meng Tian said first: "I am Meng Tian of the Great Qin Mengjia Army, can Your Excellency report your name?"

The Yiqu man took off the face towel covering his face, but revealed a woman's face, and his voice also changed, and said, "I am a Yiqu person, and my name is Zi Yanran." ”

Meng Tian didn't expect that his opponent would be a woman, and it seemed that this woman was not bad, and asked, "Are you actually a woman?"

"Do you mean this voice?" Zi Yanran's voice changed back to the previous one, "This is my family's ancestral craft, change your voice." Okay, you and I both know each other's names, let's get started. ”

Meng Tian smiled, "I won't show mercy just because you're a woman. ”

"Just let the horses come. ”