The Yue royal court and the border of Daqin are more than 1,000 miles apart, and the geographical situation is complicated, far less connected than the post roads that extend in all directions in the Central Plains, so it takes more than 20 days to come and go just to consume the time on the road, plus the king of Zuoping went back to report the news, and the king of the Yue clan hesitated, and then summoned the loyal clan leaders to discuss, so when the king of Zuoping came to the Mengtian military camp for the second time, it was already mid-June.

In June, Daqin was in the middle of summer, but the Western Regions deep in the continent had begun to enter autumn, the usually verdant mountains, rivers and fields and grasslands had begun to yellow, and the seeds of various plants had begun to mature and fall, and a large number of Yueshi tribes began to harvest forage and collect nuts and spices, and at the same time began to repair tents and yurts, collect cow dung and horse manure and slaughter old and weak cattle and sheep to prepare for the winter.

At the end of June, a group of 3,000 Great Qin horsemen changed into collected Qiang costumes and began to go deep into the Western Regions, led by a guide sent by the Yue Clan's royal court, to a hilly plateau on the border of Qiang and Yue.

In the end, the king of the Yue clan agreed to Meng Tian's plan, and was ready to use the power of Great Qin to attack the Qiang people under the pretext of attacking the Qiang people, and was ready to lure the rebellious tribes such as the king of Tunan to the border of Qiang Yue and wipe them out.

The king of the Yue clan thought about this matter for more than ten days, but in the end he had to arrange it like this, because through the various circumstances investigated, it seemed that the king of Tunan and the king of Xiumi and other tribes were getting closer and closer, and they were secretly waiting for an opportunity.

And at this time, the king of the Yue clan knew that it was his death.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Yue Clan Kingdom that he had single-handedly won would not fall apart, and would not anger the Great Qin Emperor and let the Yue Clan have the disaster of annihilation, he could only accept Meng Yi's plan regardless of the danger, and he was also using this attitude to make his position, and the Yue Clan did not want to be an enemy of Great Qin.

And just three days after the departure of these 3,000 horses dressed as Qiang, Jiang Hu also took the remaining 7,000 elite horsemen out of the customs and slowly went to the Yue's royal court, waiting for the release of nearly a hundred miles.

Thousands of miles away from the Longxi barracks, the northwest military camp of Shuofang County, there was also an elite army of 10,000 horsemen who also acted almost at the same time, under the leadership of Di Daohou Li Xin, through the path in Helan Mountain to cross Helan Mountain into the desert, and then braved the wind and sand and scorching heat day and night to go straight to Yanzhi Mountain.

At the end of June, under the leadership of the Yue's guide, the Qin soldiers who had arrived at the designated location one after another in small groups of Qiang people turned into pieces and hid in a hidden valley, which was less than thirty miles away from the Qiang tribe, and after arriving here, a large number of attendants were also released to inquire about the situation within a radius of hundreds of miles.

"General Ying, according to the news of the inquiry, this Qiang Yaodang tribe is indeed very large, occupying thousands of miles of territory nearby, and there are three larger Qiang tribes adjacent to it, which are called Sam Wolf, Xian Ling and White Horse, cast stone as a house, used to live on the mountainside, and used to ride horses when going out, but the use of a strange animal called yak to drive goods back and forth, the hair is more than a foot long, and it is used to grow corn and barley in the gentle area of the hillside on weekdays......"

After a few days of inquiry and the information obtained from the Yue's guide, the situation of the nearby Qiang people was also touched by Yingbu.

"I thought that the Qiang people were also herding like the dogs and barbarians, but I didn't expect them to farm the land, but what land can be planted in these mountains?"

Yingbu was puzzled to look at the rolling mountains and ravines nearby, all of which were thorny and barren mountains, although there were streams flowing in almost every valley, but it was inconvenient to get water if you lived halfway up the mountain, and it was even more inconvenient to farm.

"The general doesn't know, the Qiang people are the Yandi tribe, they used to occupy the current territory of the Yue people, and even occupy most of the area of Longxi County, the former Yiqu country was built by the Qiang people, and when the Duke was in power, he had launched several wars against the dog Rong and Yiqu, and even captured the leader of the Qiang people at that time, I heard that after the leader of the Qiang people escaped, he led the tribe to migrate westward, and also learned the method of farming from Daqin, and then it was different from the dog Rong Hu Barbarian and other tribes, Some of the Qiang people who scattered and lived in Longxi, Bashu and other places got along well with the Central Plains people such as us, and they did not like to harass the border like the Hu people. It can be seen that the history of the Qiang people can be regarded as very long......"

A gray-haired army commander Shi shook his head and began to popularize the knowledge of the Qiang people to Yingbu.

"It's not a bunch of savages!" Yingbu shook his head very disdainfully, then frowned and said, "I heard Master Hou say that there are several extremely huge salt lakes in the Western Regions, and the salt produced in them is enough to supply my Great Qin for tens of thousands of years, but I just don't know where it is?" After destroying the Yue Clan this time, we must arrange for someone to inquire about it, if we can transport a large amount of salt back to Daqin, won't we be able to eat and drink for the rest of our lives? ”

"Qinghe Hou said that there is a salt lake here?" The entourage of the chief Shi staff and a group of lieutenants and lieutenants all gathered around excitedly.

"Well, I just heard that the Marquis of Qing accidentally mentioned it once, saying that there are countless salt lakes in the Western Regions, which are rich in salt as white as snow, and they are inexhaustible, but unfortunately I don't know where it is?"

"It's not easy, just grab a few Qiang barbarians and ask?" A group of lieutenants and lieutenants rubbed their fists and said.

"Well, you arrange a group of soldiers to go out to investigate, if it's close, wait until you get the Yue clan to take a look, if it's far away, this mountain range is boundless, there are ravines everywhere, it's not easy to find it and transport it back!" Yingbu nodded, and was led away by one of the captains of Yingbu's point.

For Yingbu and others, this time to cooperate with the king of the Yue clan to eradicate the king of Tunan or something, their purpose is just to attract the army of the Yue clan here, as long as the king of Tunan and the others are panicked and will inevitably flee to the west, and then there will inevitably be a violent conflict with the army of the king of the Yue clan, they will drive the king of Tunan behind their backs to attack the tribe of the king of the Yue clan, and finally the people of the Yue clan will end up in a place where both sides are defeated, and Jiang Hu and Li Xin will take the opportunity to seize the royal court of the Yue clan and surround them, At that time, the king of the Yue clan had no other way but to surrender, unless he wanted to break the net, but without the support of the cattle, horses, grain and grass of the royal court, the Yue clan would definitely collapse under the attack of 20,000 horse pawns in Great Qin.

This is a serial scheme, and it is a dead end for the King of the Yue Clan.

As long as he accepted Meng Tian's strategy, he would never be able to escape.

As for what benevolence, righteousness and morality are all nonsense, there is no benevolence at all in the war of the country, and the state of etiquette is just that the princes of the Central Plains respect each other, in fact, they don't talk about etiquette at all, only about fists, because the Central Plains has long been ruined, and when they meet, they are discussing where to get rich recently, which is simply a mess of profit.

What's more, for a group of military ruffians, how can they have military merit if they don't fight? How can you be knighted? How can you seal your wife and son?

Therefore, it is better that there are endless battles in this world.

And Yingbu, Li Xin, Jiang Hu and others have long known that as long as they are willing, they can fight to the death in this life, the Western Regions are just an appetizer, and the real credit is still thousands of miles away from the west of the Western Regions, that is the real battle to destroy the country.

Half a day later, a group of soldiers who went out captured a few Qiang people, and suddenly found that there was a group of Great Qin soldiers wearing Qiang costumes gathered here, and several Qiang people were suddenly frightened and almost scattered, and after some inquiry, Yingbu was very depressed.

The salt lake that Chen Xu said is not in this area at all, but on the other side of the snow-capped mountain in the southeast, according to one of the white-haired old Qiang people, to go to the salt lake over there, you can't pass through the territory of the Yueshi people, but you have to walk west from the Jishi Mountain on the border of Longxi along the Huangshui for half a month to see a huge lake, the salt lake is near the big lake, and there is more than one.

Therefore, after hearing the results of the salt lake, Yingbu also gave up, rewarded a few Qiang people with some new coins and a porcelain bottle of Daqin, and told them that Daqin was here to deal with the Yue's people this time, and asked them not to say it, as a result, as soon as several Qiang people heard that Daqin was here to help the Qiang people beat the Yue's people, they were immediately excited, and they asked to join the Qin army to beat the Yue's people's buttocks, and they were also willing to gather their own tribes to help.

Originally, a group of captains and lieutenants did not agree, but this Nima and a group of Qiang people in tattered clothes followed the estimate, and it was estimated that the horses' butts would not be able to catch up when they started a battle.

However, Yingbu agreed after thinking about it for a long time, and asked some soldiers to follow these Qiang people with coins and some pottery and porcelain to their respective tribes, if they could, they would gather a group of Qiang people to take the lead, and the Qiang and Yue people had just come and gone all the year round, and they must be more familiar with the situation of the Yue tribe.

And just when Yingbu arrived at the predetermined location to hide, a large number of warriors of the Yue tribe also converged on the Qiang tribe under the leadership of the clan leader and warriors.

The first to arrive were some small tribes that were relatively close to here, about five or six with a total of more than two thousand people, all of whom were all prepared with bows and horses, and after arriving, they were stationed near the Yueyue clan dozens of miles away, followed by some vanguard troops of the royal tribes, led by the eldest prince Beihe Wang, and the weapons and equipment were much better, and hundreds of them were equipped with saddles and stirrups.

Five days later, some tribes that are far away have also arrived seven or eight one after another, these are all clans loyal to the Yue Clan's royal court, adding up to the number of Yue Clan warriors reached more than 20,000, scattered and stationed together, tents stretched for more than ten miles, plus the women who were responsible for burning the fire and cooking and the servants who raised war horses, it looked very magnificent, after the arrival of these tribes, the leaders all gathered in the big tent of the King of Beihe and arranged people to go out to inquire about the movements of the Qiang people every day.

On the seventh day, the king of the Yue clan arrived accompanied by a group of royal families such as King Zuoping, followed by more than 10,000 elite warriors of the Yue clan's royal court, in addition to more sophisticated weapons, more than a thousand war horses equipped with saddle stirrups, and after the arrival of the king of the Yue clan, he immediately arranged for someone to inform Yingbu to discuss more detailed countermeasures.

And at this time, the shadow of the rebellious tribes such as the king of Nantu has not yet been seen.