Chapter 257: Another Northern Expedition
"Woo~" On the north wall of Xianyang City, there was a row of sturdy Qin soldiers, they puffed out their cheeks, and vigorously blew the huge military horn in their mouths that needed two people to hold up, like the roar of a wild beast, raging in Xianyang City.
When all the people in Xianyang City heard this trumpet, everyone put down what they were holding. The vendors who set up the stalls all left their businesses and ran towards the north gate of Xianyang City with the pedestrians on the road.
Today is the day when the 200,000 Mengjia troops of the Qin State set out to fight the invasion of the Huns, and they will be reviewed by His Majesty the Great Qin Emperor Yingzheng at the north gate of Xianyang City, and then go out to resist the enemy under the leadership of the Qin general Meng Tian.
Outside the north gate of Xianyang City was a wide plain, and the 50,000 troops of the Mengjia army were stationed here at this time, and the remaining 150,000 troops had already carried grain and grass to the border before them.
An army of 50,000 stood here from the beginning of the rising of the sun, and among these men there were 10,000 cavalry and 40,000 foot soldiers, divided into two camps, east and west. The ancients once said that thousands of people gathered together to become a lake, and ten thousand people gathered to become a sea, so how big a sea should this ten thousand horses and 50,000 soldiers stand together.
The people of Xianyang City, who had received the news early, had already occupied a good position, standing on a high place and looking into the distance, they could see countless black-clothed and black-armored soldiers standing outside the north city gate, just like the black clouds over Xianyang City a few days ago had fallen and stayed here.
Meng Tian rode alone, riding the colt of the black wind, standing at the front of the black cloud. Black Wind was injured and could no longer follow Meng Tian to the battlefield, so it handed over his mission to his children. Meng Tian had long wanted to find a mate for Black Wind, and after a lot of careful selection, he chose the best one among the five hundred mares that Abra carefully selected for him, and Black Wind did not live up to her expectations, its child was as good as ever, and Meng Tian gave his child a name, called Wu Qi.
The head of the black horse was gnawing the grass under its feet, and Meng Tian rode on its body, waiting for the arrival of His Majesty the Emperor with the 50,000 soldiers behind him.
As the sun gradually rose, the copper trumpet on the north city wall sounded again, and as the trumpet sounded, Yingzheng's honor guard also appeared on the north city wall.
"Chen Meng Tian led the soldiers of the Mengjia army to meet His Majesty the Emperor, long live His Majesty the Emperor, long live, long live!" Meng Tian dismounted, knelt on one knee, and said loudly, behind him, 10,000 cavalry and 40,000 foot soldiers also knelt down with his movements.
At the same time, there were also the people of Xianyang City who stood next to the army and came to watch the ceremony, and after learning that His Majesty the Emperor had arrived, they also knelt down at the city gate, and at the same time shouted long live together.
Ying Zheng appeared directly above the North City Gate, followed by Zhao Gao and Zhang Han, and next to him were Li Si, Wang Xuan, Wei Yi and others, and Meng Yi was also among them.
Zhao Gao stepped forward and shouted to Meng Tian, who was kneeling under the city gate: "Your Majesty has a will, announce Meng Tian's visit." ”
Hearing this, Meng Tian got up from the ground, and then walked into the north gate and went to the city wall.
Ying Zheng looked at Meng Tian, who was of the same age in front of him, wearing armor and a killing aura, and said with a smile: "Yes, I have seen you wearing armor before, and today I saw you wearing this armor that represents the generalissimo of my Qin State, and your heroism is three points better than in the past." ”
"Your Majesty has won the award, and the minister is just a martial artist, who only knows how to lead the troops to fight for His Majesty. As for the heroism that the king said, the minister felt that the king was the most heroic. Receiving Ying Zheng's praise, Meng Tian replied to Ying Zhengdao.
Ying Zheng turned around and continued to look at the 50,000 soldiers under the city wall and the people of Xianyang City next to him, and made them all stand up. Ying Zheng said: "Others slapped my ass, why did you even start to flatter me Qu?"
Meng Tian smiled, and he said, "Your Majesty, how can the minister's words be flattering to Your Majesty? The minister is just telling the truth. You say, "Isn't it, Prime Minister?"
Li Si was standing beside Ying Zheng, and when he heard Meng Tian say his name, he hurriedly saluted Ying Zheng and said, "The minister thinks so too. ”
"The same goes for the ministers. ”
"Okay, okay, I'm tired of hearing such words, if I can say flattering words to drive away the Huns, then I wish you could say 10,000 good things related to me. Ying Zheng said angrily.
Ying Zheng stopped laughing, and he asked Meng Tian: "Meng Qing, this time you went north to kill the enemy, I don't know when you will be able to come back, do you have anything I need to help you complete?"
Meng Tian shook his head, and he said: "Your Majesty manages many affairs in the world, so you don't need to worry about the ministers, Your Majesty only needs to prepare the grain, grass and military salaries in the north." As for the war with the Huns, just leave it to the ministers. ”
"Okay, then I'm waiting for Aiqing's good news in Xianyang City. ”
"Chen Mengtian will definitely not let His Majesty down. ”
Coming down from the city wall, Meng Tian rode back to the north of Wuqi, he turned his horse's head and said loudly to the soldiers of the 50,000 Mengjia army: "Go!"
The movements of the 10,000 cavalry were the same, they all stepped on the horseback, and then turned the horse's head and followed behind Meng Tian and slowly drove towards the north of the Qin State, and the 40,000 foot soldiers followed behind them, bidding farewell to their relatives who came to see them off, and rushed to the battlefield.
Above the north city gate, the sound of the copper horn was still echoing, Ying Zheng stood on the city gate, watching the 50,000 army move farther and farther away, until it disappeared from his sight, leaving only a black line between the vast world in the distance, and then ordered to return to the palace.
Meng Tian led an army of 50,000 to join the army of 150,000 led by Meng Li in the evening, and the two armies joined together and set off towards the northern border of Qin.
This time, the Xiongnu went south to attack the border of Qin, not in one place, but in several armies, because the Xiongnu lived in the vast area outside the Great Wall. Each tribe has tens of thousands of people, and the small ones may only have hundreds or dozens of people, so this time the Huns attacked on a large scale, clearly wanting to take all the places south of the Great Wall as their own.
The 200,000 army had a limited number of marches per day, so by the time Meng Tian and the army reached the Great Wall on the border, it was already half a month after leaving Xianyang City, which was longer than the first time he followed his father to northern Xinjiang, although that time he left in the middle to help Zi Yanran pacify Yiqu.
The Great Wall in the territory of Qin has fought with the Huns several times, and the two armies have won and lost each other. The Qin army held the city, and the Huns were not very good at siege warfare, so the casualties of the Qin army were much smaller in comparison.
When Meng Tian arrived at the foot of the Great Wall, he met the general with the troops guarding here and asked him carefully about the situation of the Huns.
After getting the specific information of the Huns, Meng Tian felt a big head, things were worse than he thought, it seemed that this battle with the Huns was bound to be an extremely difficult bloody battle.