After some arguments, Wang Ben and Meng Wu decided to allow Meng Tian to lead 500 men to the rear supply line outside the pass to attack the Hu people.

Early the next morning, the newly recruited 500 soldiers gathered in the middle of the barracks and waited for the order to set off. After the hour, Meng Tian, Zhao Li and Du Hui came to the front of the team, this time leading the team with Meng Tian as the coach, Du Hui and Zhao Li as the deputy general and the vanguard officer of the team respectively.

Soon after Meng Tian and the three arrived, Wang Ben and Meng Wu also came to the front of the team, and Wang Ben, as the supreme military commander sent by the King of Qin to the north this time, announced the general order to the five hundred people, and also hoped that they would be able to make meritorious deeds in the most dangerous places and defend their families and homes behind them. After Wang Ben finished speaking, Meng Wu also stepped forward and told these people that they only had one month, no matter how many Hu people they could kill in a month, they would have to return to Fushi City in a month, otherwise they would encounter the Rongdi army that had withdrawn because of the cold weather, and then they would suffer from the enemy on their backs, and the consequences would be unimaginable.

After Wang Ben and Meng Wu finished speaking, Meng Tian set off with the team. Each of the five hundred and three men carried three days' worth of dry rations and water bags per horse, and each of them carried a longbow on his back, and at his waist he was equipped with a Qin sword improved from the sabers used by the Hu people in battle, and a bag of quivers hung on each side of the saddle, adding up to about a hundred bows and arrows. According to such a configuration, it is enough for this team to retreat safely as long as it is not a Hu centaur team of more than 1,000 people on the grassland, and it is even possible to counterattack the enemy. But if the team finds a new tribe of the Hu people or a team of the Hu army to transport grain and grass before these supplies are exhausted, then the team will starve to death on the grassland without the Hu people taking action.

Wang Ben and Meng Wu stood at the gate of the barracks and watched Meng Tian lead the people and horses through the city of Fushi to see off the residents who came to see off their families and gradually move away, Wang Ben asked Meng Wu: "Do you really rest assured that Meng Tian can let a child who has never led a soldier to the battlefield go to such a dangerous place?"

Meng Wu looked at his son's disappearing back and replied: "Big brother, when we were children, we all followed our father to learn to lead the troops to fight, so we have always been unable to surpass our father's footsteps over the years, and can only follow them forever, but Tian'er is different, he has been very talented in leading troops since he was a child, and even General Wang Lao was surprised, so I don't want Tian'er to follow us in the future like us, I want him to be in charge and train a real Mengjia iron army for my Daqin." ”

Wang Ben nodded, "When I drive away Rong Di this time, and when I return to Xianyang, I also want Wang Li to join this kid to join the Meng family army, and follow Tian'er to learn hard. ”

Meng Wu smiled and quipped: "If you let this kid join the Meng family's army, then who will inherit your family's Wang family army in the future?

"My father also thinks so, although Li'er has brute strength, but he is only suitable for being a general and cannot become the commander of an army, so my father plans to let Tian'er accept the Wang family army in the future. Wang Ben said.

Meng Wu was shocked when he heard Wang Ben say that Wang Jian planned to let Meng Tian take over Wang Jiajun in the future. Meng Wu said: "How can this be done, Tian'er already has her own Meng family army, how can she still accept the Wang family army, big brother, you must persuade the old general, this matter must not be." ”

Wang Ben waved his hand, turned around and returned to the camp, and said: "Brother Xian, you are wrong, whether it is the Wang family army or the Meng family army, they are all the army of Great Qin, since they are all the army of Great Qin, then why can't they have a powerful person to lead them to kill the enemy on the battlefield and protect the country?"

Meng Wu listened to Wang Ben's words, and knew in his heart that since they were indeed all Great Qin's army, what else did they share with each other. Meng Tian shook his head, didn't think about it anymore, turned around and followed Wang Ben back to the barracks.

Meng Tian took Du Hui and Zhao Li and five hundred elite soldiers behind him out of the west gate of Fushi City and turned to the north, because there was an army of the Hu people stationed at the north gate, so Meng Tian led the team out of the west gate, first marched all the way to the west for nearly a hundred miles, and then entered a hilly and mountainous area, and then the team began to march to the north. In this way, he was able to deceive the spies that the Hu people had planted around Fushi City, and the Hu people would not have thought that the Qin army, which was not good at riding and fighting, would not be able to go to his rear to die, so the Hu people's spies did not continue to follow Meng Tian's team for dozens of miles.

Since these 500 people are the best among the herdsmen in the city, since they left the city, the last soldiers of the team found that there were spies suspected of being Hu people following, and after reporting to Meng Tian, Meng Tian said that he didn't care about him, and that he wanted to use these spies to tell the Hu people about his whereabouts, so that he could hide from the sky and cross the sea from west to north through the mountains and enter the grassland under the noses of the Hu people. After the spies stopped tracking, Meng Tian ordered the march to speed up, and today he was to get out of the mountains and set up camp at the border with the grassland.

After entering the mountains, the team slowed down the march because the mountain roads were hard and the horses could not easily run, but even then it was almost dark when the team finally reached the junction of the mountains and the grasslands.

Due to the large number of people, the fire was easy to be discovered by the nearby Hu tribe on the unobstructed grassland, so outside the open and dark posts around the camp arranged by Zhao Li at night, everyone ate the dry food and water they carried, and rested early.

It was very troublesome to march on the grassland, especially for the Qin army, which had never fought outside the Great Wall, first, there was no marching map, and second, there were no intelligence personnel who were familiar with the geographical environment outside the pass, so every step had to be cautious. Zhao Li was once sent to carry out a mission outside the pass in the dark bird, and he was tracking the target at that time, so he was not very familiar with the terrain outside the pass, but as the leader of a killer organization, he still has a lot of skills to survive in the wild, so it has always been Zhao Li who has led people to the front of the team to find out information.

After walking on the grassland for a day, I didn't find any tribe of the Hu people, and at a glance the grassland was a barren ridge, which didn't look like a trace of human habitation. Fortunately, the team set out with three days' rations, and Meng Tian led all the herdsmen who had lived on the grassland for many years, so eating and drinking were not a problem at present.

Early the next morning, he spent the night in a wood, and just after dawn in the morning, Meng Tian gathered his team and set out to find the rear supply line of the Hu people. As soon as he walked not far away, a soldier who followed Zhao Li to spy on the military situation in front came to report, saying that traces of human habitation might have been found ahead. After hearing this, Meng Tian immediately led his men and horses to gallop forward with the soldiers who came to report the news.

After walking a short distance, he saw Zhao Li and two soldiers squatting on the ground, as if they were looking for something in the grass under their feet. Meng Tian dismounted, walked to Zhao Li's side and asked, "I heard from the soldiers that Brother Zhao has found traces of the Hu people?"

Zhao Li stood up, dropped the grass in his hand, and said, "Young General, look, what is the difference between the grass in this place and the grass in the place where we camped last night?"

After hearing this, Meng Tian squatted down and looked at the grass under his feet, "The grass here looks like it has been gnawed by livestock, could it be that someone from this place came here to graze yesterday?"

Zhao Li gave Meng Tian a thumbs up after hearing this, "Not bad." The Hu tribe on the grassland herds sheep and horses, and they will be within a radius of ten miles around the tribe, no matter how they migrate, this is their tradition, and it will not change. Also, there are some cow and sheep dung here, according to the observation of the last general, this should be left yesterday, so the last general believes that there must be a tribe of the Hu people within ten miles of this. ”

Meng Tian stood up and said, "Okay, then follow Brother Zhao to find the nearby Laker tribe." ”

Soon, soldiers came to report that a Laker tribe had been found in the front, and Meng Tian took all the soldiers to go, hoping to find out information about the Hu people's transportation and supply lines in this tribe.