From the royal capital of Puqin, Xianyang, go north, pass through Beidi County, travel about 400 miles, cross Luoshui, here is already the boundary of Shangjun, pass through Gaonu County (Yan'an), and then go north for more than 400 miles, it is the county of Shangjun Zhifu Shi (Yulin South).

Fushi County is located on the west bank of the Yellow River (the eastern section of the Yellow River), opposite to Xihe County of Wei (Xihe County is Luliang Mountain in the east, and Taiyuan County in Shandong) in the east, and is the closest county to Shuofang in the north of Puqin.

Further north, dozens of miles away, is the Great Wall of the Qin Dynasty.

This section of the Great Wall consists of two large sections, the western one stretching from northwest to southeast, and the eastern section stretching from southwest to northeast.

Its westernmost point is on the east bank of the Yellow River (the west section of the zigzag), not far from Longzhou, from then on to the east, first through Helan Mountain, and then over the Tengger Desert of the later generations, a total of more than 500 miles, that is, the Wangcheng Guyin of Longxi.

Its easternmost point is on the west bank of the Yellow River (the eastern section of the zigzag), and it is connected by a river to the section of the Great Wall in Yanmen County (Xinxing County in the north of Taiyuan and Yanmen County in the north of Xinxing County) in the northwest border of the Wei State.

The length of the two sections of the Great Wall is five or six hundred miles each.

Further north of the Great Wall is an intermittent desert with a depth of five or six hundred miles from north to south.

The northernmost end of the desert is bordered by the Yellow River (the zigzag-shaped section of the North River).

The population of Shuofang County was originally small, and when the war was a hundred years old, the population withered more and more, and the Hu Mu and Tang people under the control of Zhao Yanli lived mainly in a few cities and grasslands between Mobei and the Yellow River.

Meng Lang and Gou Xiong, the news released was that there were 30,000 cavalry, but in fact, the number of soldiers and horses they led was less than that, with 8,000 cavalry and more than 10,000 armor soldiers, totaling more than 20,000 elite soldiers.

As early as the autumn and winter of last year, Pu Mao secretly ordered Shangjun to raise grain for military use, and the military supply could be obtained nearby.

On this day, the two troops arrived at Fushi.

Xianyang to Fushi is 900 miles, not far, not close.

Gou Xiong went to the Chinese army, found Meng Lang, and asked to rest here for three days on the grounds that the foot soldiers were tired.

Meng Lang disagreed, and said to Gou Xiong with a pleasant face: "Zhao Yanli has quite ears and eyes in Xianyang, and our army spontaneously sent Xianyang, and it has been more than ten days now, and Zhao Yanli should have been informed." It is imperative to attack it quickly, and not to give Zhao Yanli a chance to make sufficient war preparations. Otherwise, the battle may be delayed. The general is familiar with the art of war, doesn't he know that 'soldiers are expensive and fast'? That's right.

"In the next spring, when the farming is busy, although there are not many people and soldiers with us, they are all strong laborers of their families, and in order not to affect the agricultural affairs of their families too much, they should also fight quickly, and the sooner we can end this war, the better."

Boss Gou Xiong was not happy, and asked with a glare, "Do you mean not to let the soldiers rest?" I can tell you, the Tiefu Huns are sharp, and the soldiers of our army are tired, you don't let them rest, and if you fight Zhao Yanli in the future, if you lose because of this, it is your responsibility! ”

Although Meng Lang was the main general in this battle, he was a scribe, and he did not have the ability to kill the enemy on horseback. Seeing that Gou Xiong lost his temper because of this, if this guy was passive and slacking off on the day of the decisive battle with Zhao Yanli, then Meng Lang would not be able to eat and walk away.

Helpless, Meng Lang had no choice but to take a step back and said with a smile: "General Gou pities the soldiers, he really loves the soldiers like a son." Okay, just follow what the general said, let the three armies take some rest in the skin. But three days, isn't it too long? One day is enough! ”

"Two days!"

“…… In this way, it is now afternoon, not yet evening, and when the soldiers rest until the morning after tomorrow, it will be two days. How? ”

Being able to force Meng Lang to give in, Gou Xiong was already satisfied, and said in his heart: "It doesn't matter if you have one more day or one less day." Hmph, the old horseman, a little Tang Er, relying on the power of the king, is rampant and domineering, bullying my country's noble species! There is a king to support you, Lao Tzu can't do anything with you when he is in the royal capital, now the commander of the army is outside, only you and me, I tell you to know well who has the final say in our Daqin!

"I'll give you an appetizer to try today, and I'll start a war in the next day, and see how Lao Tzu picks you up!" Reluctantly, "Okay." ”

After resting for a day and a half, the Qin soldiers continued north.

After crossing the Great Wall, crossing the desert, three days later, outside Shuofang County.

This county is the county of Shuofang County, and Zhao Yanli is currently in this city.

Shuofang County had ten counties under its jurisdiction in the Qin period, three counties outside He, and seven counties in Hanoi, but there were not so many counties under it, and a few were abandoned.

As Meng Lang speculated, Zhao Yanli had indeed received news that the Qin State had sent troops to attack.

He seized the time before the Qin soldiers arrived, and had already made preparations before the battle.

Zhao Yanli's pre-war preparations were roughly five.

First, he transferred all the troops stationed outside the river back to Shuofang County, except for the ferry crossing that guarded Beidu a little and left a way for himself to flee north.

Second, the soldiers and horses of Hanoi counties were also transferred to further enrich the city defense capability of Shuofang.

Third, he gave his eldest son thousands of soldiers, so that he could roam outside, which was an ambush, and when there were fighters, he could attack the Qin soldiers inside and outside; It also formed a rivalry with the city, and if there were no fighters, they would respond to the city outside, or harass the Qin soldiers to boost the morale of the defenders.

Fourthly, he summoned all the herdsmen of the headquarters, and requisitioned all those who could ride and shoot, and took the elite ones together in the city, and organized the rest into two armies, each of which set up a large camp outside the city, and was located in the east and west of the city, and ordered the camp to erect a large banner, looking into the distance like a forest, and claiming that each had a strong army and ten thousand horsemen.

Fifth, Zhao Yanli sent an envoy to Shengle, the seat of the royal court of Tuoba Xianbei, to urgently ask for help.

Shengle is located in the northeast of the Yellow River (northeast of the corner of the zigzag section of the North River section and the East River section), north of Yanmen County of Wei, less than 500 miles away from Shuofang County.

To put it mildly, Tiefu and Tuoba mean, one is Hu's father and Xianbei's mother, and the other is Xianbei's father and Hu's mother, these two tribes are mixed-race descendants of the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and there are similarities in the origin of the ancestors, and Zhao Yanli's father also married the daughter of the previous leader of Tuoba Xianbei, it seems that they should be closer to each other, such as cousins, but the tribe is different from people, one is that the two are according to the patrilineal bloodline, belonging to the Xiongnu and Xianbei, and second, each has the interests of its own department, therefore, does not treat each other as relatives.

Not only should the other party be a relative, because Zhao Yanli is greedy and capricious, Tuoba Xianbei also has the ambition to expand the land, and in the past, the two sides also fought, but it didn't get to the point of life and death.

In short, the relationship between these two neighboring colonies, sometimes friends and sometimes enemies, has always been not harmonious. However, at this critical juncture of life and death, with Zhao Yanli's temperament, it is not surprising that he will take the low and make the small, give up his face, and ask for help from the former enemy.

Zhao Yanli knew that the relationship with Tuoba Xianbei was enough, and she was worried that they would not come to the rescue, so she sent her favorite young son to Shengle with the messenger, and clearly said that this was given to Tuoba Xianbei as a proton, and she was willing to surrender to Tuoba from now on.

Whether Tuoba's reinforcements will come or when they will arrive, Zhao Yanli didn't know in his heart.

When he heard that the Qin soldiers outside the city had arrived, he hurriedly went to the city to watch.

The people who followed on the left and right were mostly bearded generals with small pigtails, two Tang people dressed in style, and a bald monk.

These two Tang people, one is Zhao Yanli's adviser, and the other is Gao Chong, who only arrived in Shuofang County last night. That monk, named Zhu Yuanrong, is a high monk in Dingxi, who was elected by Daozhi in accordance with the order of Xin Er, and then came with Gao Chong.

Zhao Yanli looked at the city, and the Qin soldiers were several miles away and were camping.

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