Seeing that the Qin army in the city did not dare to go out of the city to face the battle, the Hu people under the city became more and more arrogant, taking out the Qin army armor captured on the battlefield before and waving the knife hanging in their hands, wanting to stimulate the Qin army in the city in this way and force the Qin army to go out of the city to fight.

Meng Wu on the city wall, Wang Ji and Meng Tian and others saw the appearance of the Hu people under the city very clearly, and they could clearly hear some Hu people insulting the Qin people in unfamiliar Qin dialect. Some of the generals next to him couldn't stand it anymore, and asked Meng Wu for battle, hoping to go out of the city to fight with the Hu people, but Meng Wu and Wang Di did not agree, thinking that the Hu people dared to come to provoke at night, and they must have done an ambush outside the city, so they couldn't be fooled by them.

So Meng Wu ordered that all soldiers should not unload their armor at night, and the soldiers on the city wall were not allowed to poke their bodies out of the city wall, but were only allowed to observe the enemy situation in the battlements of the city wall, and those who violated the order were beheaded. As a result, all the Qin soldiers on duty on the city wall no longer leaned out to observe the movements of the Hu people, and the Hu people saw that there was no longer a single head of the Qin army on the city wall, and the sharpshooters hidden in the crowd had no chance to make a move, so they retreated.

Knowing that the Hu people who were harassing outside the city had retreated, Meng Tian instructed the defenders on the city wall to pay attention to the movements outside the city, and then led the people down the city wall and back to the camp.

After three days of traveling, Meng Tian returned to his tent and rested for the night. The next morning, Meng Tian woke up early, got up and washed up casually, picked up his spear and went out of the camp.

The barracks where Meng Tian was located was the camp where the Meng family army under his command was located, and it was also the core location of the military camp in Fushi City, and Meng Wu and Wang Di also rested and talked about the military situation in this camp. The Mengjia army already had its own tradition, that is, every morning after the whole army woke up, all soldiers went out to stand guard and stood guard and the soldiers who were on duty on the city wall at night, all soldiers had to conduct morning exercises. Because the area in the city of Fushi City was too small, the space left in the military camp was not large, so Meng Wu later ordered each battalion of soldiers and soldiers of the Mengjia Army to be led by their own battalion commander, and each battalion took turns to train.

This morning there is already a battalion of men and horses who have been trained, and the second battalion is being trained. Meng Tian divided the current Mengjia army into ten battalions, each battalion was led by a captain, and the Mengjia army only had one deputy general Du Hui below Meng Tian, but from today it became two, and the other was naturally Zhao Li, who had just followed Meng Tian.

Meng Tian saw Zhao Li who was watching the training on the side, walked over, stood beside Zhao Li and said, "How is it? ”

Zhao Li saw that Meng Tian came to his side, Shi Li said: "The general's Meng family army momentum is naturally good, but the last general thinks that the so-called training is for actual combat, and this kind of training is certainly good for the physical fitness of the soldiers, but it must be able to be used on the battlefield." ”

Meng Tian listened to Zhao Li's words, smiled slightly, and said: "Brother Zhao, what you said is right, we can't go out of the city to meet the Hu people for the time being, and we can only defend passively in the city, so that the soldiers below can't go to the battlefield and can't get the test of actual combat." ”

Zhao Li leaned over slightly, clenched his fists and said: "Young General, the last general has just joined the Mengjia army, and last night on the city wall, the last general also saw how the Hu people humiliated us, and the last general couldn't swallow this breath, so when he returned to the camp last night, the last general came up with a plan to fight against the Hu people." ”

"Brother Zhao said to come and listen, if it works, we will go to see my father immediately. Meng Tian heard Zhao Li say that he had already come up with a countermeasure and was very interested.

Zhao Li said: "Actually, it's very simple, since the Hu people don't fight us head-on, then we will treat them in the same way as others, and we won't take the initiative to fight the Hu people head-on, and we will also send a force to attack and harass their rear like them." Now the weather on the grassland will become colder and colder, and these Hu people are not good at growing food, and the only supply is the cattle and sheep at the back of the grassland, and the leather clothes on their bodies should not be able to withstand such consumption, so this gives us a chance. ”

After hearing this, Meng Tian thought about it carefully and said, "This idea is good, let's go to my father and tell him about this strategy." After saying that, the two of them walked towards Meng Wu's tent together.

After listening to Meng Tian and Zhao Li's strategy, Meng Wu sat down and thought about it for a while, and felt that this method was feasible, he asked the two: "This idea is indeed good, but have you ever thought that most of our soldiers are foot soldiers, the number of cavalry is very small, and it is not as good as Hu Ren's equestrian skills on horseback, so this method is good, but it doesn't have much effect." ”

Meng Tian looked at Zhao Li, Zhao Li saw that Meng Wu and Meng Tian were looking at him, and said: "General Hui, the last general has really thought about this matter, the general is right, there are very few soldiers on horseback in my army, on the one hand, our battles in the past were converted back and forth between siege and defense, but we don't have too much pasture to domesticate military horses, and it is much more difficult to raise a military horse than to train a soldier, so it has led to the scarcity of our war horses and cavalry, and now there is no way to face the attack of the Hu people." But did the general ever think that he could recruit some soldiers from the local people of Fushi, these people live here all the year round and rely on the grassland, so there must be many of them who are very good at equestrianism, these people don't need to do too much training at all, they only need to give them weapons and military salaries, I think they should be willing to join our Mengjia army. ”

Meng Tian slapped his palms excitedly after listening to it: "Yes, father, this method is good." Now that Yiqu has completely surrendered to our Qin State, I believe that in less than two years, our Mengjia army and even our entire Qin army can have a large number of domesticated military horses appear, and then who dares to make us enemies under the iron hooves of our Great Qin. ”

When Wang Di came into the camp tent, he just heard Meng Tian's words, walked over and patted Meng Tian on the shoulder from behind, and said, "The little guy said it well. Then he looked at Meng Wu, "Brother Wu, Tian'er is right, although our Qin State has trained cavalry in the past, but in the later expeditions with the princes of the Central Plains, this army was gradually discarded. ”

Meng Wu nodded and said, "What the eldest brother said is right, back then, the first king relied on his invincible iron cavalry to lay down the country for my Qin country, and we can't put our Great Qin's iron cavalry aside and not use him because we can't use it now." Okay, I'm going to write a piece of music today and send it to the king, this time we're going to have a 'riding system' to the Hu people, so that these Hu people know how powerful we are." ”

Wang Di gave Meng Tian and Zhao Li permission to go to the city to recruit locals to join the army. After Meng Tian and Zhao Li received the general order, they took a few people to the south gate of Fushi, and posted a notice at the gate of the city, which stated that all adult men who were skilled in horses and bows could enlist in the local citizens of Fushi, and all the enlisted citymen allowed their families to go to Xianyang to live, and issued travel expenses, and arranged a residence in Xianyang City and a series of attractive conditions. You must know that in Xianyang, except for Xianyang locals, outsiders are rarely allowed to live in Xianyang City, unless it is the Qin State recruited by the guest secretary and the soldiers who have been on the battlefield in the army will be allowed to give this glory, so this notice set off a lot of waves in the city of Fushi.

On the day of the announcement, hundreds of people came to sign up, and after some screening and equestrian tests, Meng Tian and Zhao Li only accepted less than fifty people, because according to Zhao Li's meaning, these people should be extremely skilled in equestrianism, and they are good at riding and shooting on horseback, so the conditions are a little harsh, and even Meng Tian feels that he may not be able to pass some conditions.

After a few days of selection, the cavalry unit of the Mengjia army was set at 500 people, and Zhao Li served as the cavalry captain, responsible for teaching these newly recruited cavalry some battlefield killing and assassination skills behind enemy lines.

After nearly ten days of training, the 500 people recruited into the army have learned the skills of training killers in the Dark Bird Organization taught by Zhao Li, and once again captured Meng Wu in the simulated actual battle, so that Meng Wu sighed at the combat power of this team and at the same time had a greater grasp of defeating the Hu people who came to invade the realm.

Xianyang's edict of the King of Qin also spread to the city of Fushi, and the King of Qin Yingzheng allowed the Mengjia army to train cavalry again, and gave Meng Tian greater rights, concurrently serving as the general of the Qin cavalry, and could dispatch the cavalry of all troops in the Qin army in wartime, it can be said that this position is already above his father and grandfather Meng Fu, second only to Wang Jian who can mobilize all the troops of Qin.

After several days of preparation, the cavalry of the Mengjia army was equipped and prepared to go out of the city to attack the rear of the Hu people. Although he knew that this was an operation that might not be able to come back if he left the city, Zhao Li originally wanted to lead the troops by himself, but he thought that he had just returned to the Qin State not long ago, and if he led the team to go on the expedition, it would arouse the suspicion of Mengwu Wang Yu and others, so Zhao Li, as the captain of the cavalry team and the person who taught the class, did not take the initiative to ask for it.

Meng Tian understood Zhao Li's thoughts, and also knew why his father and Uncle Wang did not appoint them directly, but asked in front of all the generals of the Mengjia army who was willing to lead this cavalry out of the city to the territory of the Hu people. Although the generals of the Mengjia army in the tent are all the best in the Qin army, in the face of this kind of action of bringing people and horses to death, there are still many people who choose not to go, first, they are unwilling to bear this responsibility, but they have no experience in cavalry combat at all.

When everyone was silent, Meng Tian stood up and said, "I'll go." ”