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April 28.

A group of strong soldiers wearing black armor and carrying black flags came from the north.

"Emergency military order, the blocker is dead~~" The soldier rushed directly into Xianyang City with a token in his hand, and then went straight to the main hall of Xianyang Palace without stopping.

"Report, Your Majesty, Hebei is a great victory, General Jiang Hu led two thousand horsemen to attack the Xiongnu royal court, beheaded Manshan Yu, captured the Yan clan and his two sons, captured Ding Ling, more than ten new plough messengers, captured more than 30 Xiongnu nobles, killed countless people, and now has returned to Jiuyuan County......"

The civil and military officials who were in the upper court were stunned by this good news, and Qin Shi Huang excitedly shot the case after hearing it.

"Hahaha, okay, General Jiang Hu is worthy of being my Great Qin Fierce General, beheading Touman, breaking his royal court, this is a peerless achievement, and it is also an unprecedented victory in my Central Plains, Li Xiang drafted a decree, passed on my edict to General Meng Tian, ordered Li Xin and General Jiang Hu to quickly escort the captives back to Xianyang, I want to see the head of Tou Man Shan Yu with my own eyes!"

"Obey the order!" Li Si stood up and arched his hand, but his eyes fell on the empty chair in front of him, and his expression had an indescribable emptiness and loneliness, as if Qinghehou, a-stirring stick, had not been in court for a long time.

"Send this good news to the newspaper and quickly publish it in the latest issue of the Great Qin Metropolis Daily, I want the world to see how the Huns, who have been harassing my Central Plains for hundreds of years, have been crushed by my Great Qin Iron Cavalry!" Qin Shi Huang handed the good news in his hand to a confidant next to him.

"Your Majesty, the news of this great victory has been accompanied by the military reporter Li Shun has written a detailed battle report, and his subordinates have brought it back from the barracks, please take a look!" The postman took out a stack of hemp paper from the bamboo tube he was carrying.

"Who is Li Shun, a reporter with the army? What is the role? How come I've never heard of it? Qin Shi Huang was puzzled.

"Your Majesty, the minister has heard a little!" The military department ordered Wei Yu to stand up and said.

"Please also ask Aiqing to explain my doubts!" Qin Shi Huang asked when he arranged for the confessor to go down to get the battle report in the hands of the post guard.

"At the beginning of February, 10,000 sets of horse pawn equipment were built, and His Majesty ordered the equipment to be transported to the northwest military camp, when the Marquis of Qinghe arranged for someone to send me a young man named Li Shun, who said that he was a reporter from the newspaper hall, and he wanted to follow the horse pawns who attacked Henan this time, and to record the process of the conquest and publish it in the newspaper at that time, because the Daqin Metropolis Daily did not appear at that time, so the minister did not take it to heart, and after sending this person to the military camp, he told General Meng Tian to take care of it......"

"I see, it seems that the Marquis of Qinghe has thought carefully and made arrangements for a long time, I don't know what is the difference between the war report written by the reporter with the army and the military report of General Meng Tian?" As Qin Shi Huang spoke, he took the battle report handed by the confessor and looked at it, but he was immediately completely attracted to it.

In the past, the military newspaper was very simple, mainly because of the problem of the writing carrier, the cloth was difficult to make and the output was seriously insufficient, the common people were not enough to dress, in order to save the fabric and avoid waste, so the decree stipulated that all government orders could only be made of bamboo and wood slips, and the mud seal of the writer was stamped after being bundled, in order to avoid being too heavy, so whether it was a military newspaper or a government affairs document, it was very simple to write.

For example, military newspapers generally only indicate the time, place, number of captures, number of casualties and other simple information, as for the details, you can only wait for the military scribe and Changshi to come back to know more.

Even if there is hemp pulp paper now, the habit of writing military newspapers has not changed much, especially the barracks are all rough men, and they are not used to dancing and writing, and they just need to write clearly according to the usual routine after winning battles, they care about victory and military merits, and they don't care about any enthusiastic incitement details, so the war report of Li Shun, a reporter accompanying the army, that Qin Shi Huang saw, was almost completely different from Meng Tian's military report.

Fang Cai's military report was very simple: in mid-April, Jiang Hu's troops attacked Hebei, traveled thousands of miles, quened the Xiongnu royal court, beheaded Man, captured his wife, captured him, etc., the content was extremely simple, not a piece of hemp pulp paper was not written, and even the name of Touman's son was not written.

The good news naturally made Qin Shi Huang happy, but his heart was itching and uncomfortable, because what he wanted to know was how Jiang Hu could have achieved such a great victory.

But when I took Li Shun's press release from the hand of the confessor, the itchy and unbearable feeling in my heart was gently scratched a few times by a pair of gentle little hands, as if scratching my soul, and I was relaxed and comfortable to the bones, and I was overjoyed to look at it on the dragon chair.

"On the night of March 20, the stars and the moon were dark, the night was dark, General Jiang Hu led 2,500 soldiers to cross the river at night, in order to hide the sound, the general ordered the horse to wrap the hooves and hide in the reeds, and went south along the Yin Mountain into the valley, and when the day dawned, when the Huns tribe, more than 2,000 iron horsemen swept through like a tide, and beheaded more than 300 Huns, men, women and children, all of whom were given heads and abandoned in the wild, and none of the soldiers were injured. When he reached the unitary time, he met the Huns again, beheaded more than 100 people, obtained countless cattle and horses, and slaughtered cattle and sheep for food......"

"On March 25th, the army detoured more than 700 miles, then out of Yin Mountain, in front of the eyes are flat and broad grassland, endless palpitations, twenty miles outside the mountain pass, meet the Huns, the population of more than 10,000, thousands of strong soldiers, but all do not know that my Great Qin Iron Cavalry suddenly arrived, a fight like the wind and clouds, slaughtering the Hun leader spicy thorn flower, beheading more than 7,000, abandoning women and children, and handing over thousands of horses......"

"On March 26, I met the Huns again, with a population of 3,000, and the army swept through without getting out of the mouthful, and surrendered 600 horses ......."

"On March 27, the night attack on the Huns Yizhihun, more than 8,000 mouths, capture Yizhihun Danyu, 70 casualties among the soldiers, more than 100 bows and crossbows, and more than 100 horses. Recalling the words of the Marquis of Qinghe, the Huns attacked and harassed my Central Plains for hundreds of years, disturbed my borders, slaughtered my people, robbed my women, and ruined countless of my compatriots in the Central Plains. The general and the captains all stroked their palms and said good! After the plan, the plan was decided, and when it was strong, it was around, and when it was weak, it was attacked, and the soldiers and nobles quickly struck away, and went deep into the north to find the traces of the Hun royal court......"

"March 28 ......"

"April 1st ......"

"April 3rd ......"

"On April 5, the army went deep into the north for more than 2,000 miles, exterminated more than 10 Xiongnu tribes, beheaded countless people, and killed and wounded more than 100 soldiers......

"April 7 ......"

"April 8 ......"

"On April 13, under the leadership of the guide, the army traveled more than 1,000 miles in the desert, and finally bypassed dozens of Xiongnu tribes, broke into less than 100 miles away from the royal court, the general ordered the soldiers to hide in the barren mountains, drink water and eat enough, at night, the bright moon was in the sky, two thousand iron horsemen set off in full gear, wrapped in hooves and rings to break into the royal court, the soldiers were divided into five ways to attack the royal court tribe at night, the Huns were caught off guard and fled in all directions, and they did not dare to fight in the night. The Huns were all on fire within a hundred miles of the Hun royal court, and the head man was killed by the captain Jiang Bu in the melee, and a fight was fought until dawn, and the corpses were uncountable, but the Huns were afraid of coming back, and the general ordered the Huns to capture the beautifully dressed and retreated......"

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"On April 23, the general led two thousand Erlang to detour more than 2,000 miles in Hebei to break into Donghu, get rid of the siege of the Xiongnu army, and cross the Yin Mountain into Jiuyuan County, which lasted more than a month, and went to more than 2,500 Erlang, and returned 2,0018 people......"

Li Shun recorded these war reports are incomparably detailed, according to the time almost every day to write clearly, every major battle is also recorded, this kind of detailed war report completely attracted Qin Shi Huang at once, as if he incarnated as a Qin army soldier deep into the Hebei grassland, chasing and killing will attack the Central Plains for hundreds of years of Xiongnu slaughter, so while looking, Qin Shi Huang's face is sometimes surprised, sometimes serious, sometimes smiling, sometimes angry, the mood is completely intoxicated with the Xiongnu this unprecedented war.

The civil and military officials above the court all waited quietly with bated breath.

A few days ago, there was a great change in the court, the whole Xianyang is still panicked, every day there are middle and low-level officials arrested by the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Supervision, the sequelae of Zhao Gao's rebellion is still fermenting, plus Princess Qingning died, Qin Shi Huang has been very short-tempered these days, and has continuously punished several ministers of the second and third grades in the court, although it is only a verbal reprimand or a fine salary, but this terrifying atmosphere almost overwhelms everyone.

Therefore, in the past few days, the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty have been very restrained, and all the people in the previous dynasty have frowned and pouted their eyes and dare not talk nonsense, and they don't even dare to write too extreme words in the book, for fear of angering the emperor and throwing themselves with on their faces.

At present, the emperor is fascinated, and all the ministers dare not bother, so they can only wait obediently, and this wait is nearly half an hour, and Qin Shi Huang finally finished reading this thick stack of diaries-like battle reports.

"Okay~" Qin Shi Huang was in a good mood, with an extremely comfortable smile on his face, and after packing up the war report in his hand, he said: "The reporter with the army arranged by the Marquis of Qinghe is really extraordinary, and quickly send the war report to the newspaper for typesetting and proofreading!" ”

"Oh~" The confessor hurriedly took this thick battle report and left.