It has been almost two years since he traveled to the Qin Dynasty, and Chen Xu has slowly adapted to this barbaric era, and he has gradually understood that many things can not be done by reasoning and using his brain, barbarism and rudeness are still the main way for people to solve problems, from the emperor to the scholars, from the nobles to the commoners, advocating the most direct way of revenge, and even the law does not stop the righteous revenge, which naturally contributes to the degree of barbarism.

In order to let out a bad breath, Meng Yi endured for a long time and completely trampled Ao Ping to death in one fell swoop, and aroused the emperor's anger to wipe out the three clans, this kind of ruthlessness made Chen Xu have to feel cold, to be able to stand on top of the court, to be able to rank among the three princes and nine kings, there is no one to deal with, or no good person, they can kill their opponents by any means for their own family, power and status.

And Zhao Gao must die in public and private.

And the last time the Qinghe Marquis Mansion found out a few domestic servants and guards, it may also be Zhao Gao'an's eyeliner, although it may not necessarily have any unfavorable situation for Chen Xu, it is just a matter of making a small fuss and reporting the news, but staying in the mansion is a scourge after all, and the identity of these people is also more complicated, most of them are sent by the Inner History Mansion, and there is no excuse to deal with it rashly, it will inevitably make the Inner History Qi unhappy, if it reaches the ears of the emperor, there will inevitably be more rights and wrongs, Therefore, Chen Xu also plans to take the opportunity to dispose of these people together, and after the manor outside the city is repaired, most of the people who were originally arranged can arrange to go to the manor to do some chores, and the mansion can also call for some slaves.

After arranging the affairs in the house, Chen Xu began to go to and from work at the Academy of Sciences on time every day, in addition to telling Zhao Qing to report the news that he must report the new horse pawn equipment every two days, he summoned Zhang Cang, Hu Kuan and a group of craftsmen who were proficient in water conservancy and wood and stone building structures to start designing waterwheels, running back and forth between the Academy of Sciences and the factory, and Sun Shujiong became Chen Xu's full-time secretary, with a gourd of ink hanging on his waist every day, holding a folder with a brush in his hand, ready to record Chen Xu's orders at any time.

At the end of November, there was basically good news from the counties where the imperial list was released, and the steel smelting and the manufacture of horse equipment had entered a very proficient state.

Nanyang alone a county, the daily steel output is stable to reach 5,000 catties, the stable mass production of weapons is more than 150 pieces, the construction of horseshoe saddle horseshoe is also more than 100 sets per day, Hedong, Shangdang two counties are also based on smelting steel, the number of weapons and stirrups and horseshoes in the two counties is also more than 100 sets, as for the scope of the internal history and Hanzhong County, because of the lack of coal and iron ore, the main thing is the production of saddles, and now there are two saddle production workshops outside Xianyang City, Each of them has gathered hundreds of craftsmen and hundreds of helpers, and a large amount of leather and wood has been transported to the workshop day and night, and then it is made into a saddle, and there are hundreds of sets of production every day, all of which are combined, and more than 300 pieces of weapons are made every day, and more than 300 sets of saddles and matching horseshoes and stirrups, and this output may be able to increase over time, so it should be at most until the end of January, as long as there are no accidents, 10,000 sets of equipment can definitely be fully equipped.

Although the weather is cold, the wind and snow block the road, but these made equipment are successively transported to Xianyang through the prisoners and chariots and horses, only after the beginning of spring, these equipment will be transported to the north, and the order to select 10,000 strongest war horses and the strongest humvee soldiers in the army stationed in the northwest has also been transmitted to the general Meng Tian's big tent.

After receiving the order, Meng Tian quickly convened his subordinates to discuss, and more than a dozen generals stationed at various passes of the Great Wall in Beidi County gathered in the tent.

Mengshi is a family of military generals, and Meng Tian is also one of the few famous generals in Daqin, and his grandfather Meng Fu, his father Meng Wu are all great Qin generals, Meng Tian is also outstanding in sweeping the six countries, destroying Chu and destroying Qi are all participating, Jue to the eldest of the eldest concubine, and then after Wang Ben's father and son retired, Meng Tian was entrusted with the important task, leading 300,000 of the most fierce soldiers of Daqin to guard the northwest to fight the Xiongnu, together with his brother Meng Yi, a text and a martial arts can be called the two Dinghai divine needles of Daqin today, and won the weight of Qin Shi Huang.

For military generals, if they don't fight, they have no merit, so although the 300,000 troops are stationed in the northwest counties to resist the Xiongnu and Hu people, but in the face of the nomadic people who are mobile and come and go like the wind, not only Qin Shi Huang is aggrieved, but also Meng Tian is aggrieved, and the border soldiers who are eager to get military merit are even more aggrieved.

But what about the grievances, I can only hold back, because now the six countries have just been swept away, the armament is insufficient, especially the war horses suitable for long-distance raids are too few, and they can't take too much advantage in the pursuit of the Huns. These Xiongnu will also cross the defense belt from the mountain path to harass the people on the border of Daqin, slaughter the people, rob grain, and kidnap women, so Meng Tian adheres to the will of the emperor, mainly to supervise the construction of the Great Wall by the slaves of the six countries, connect the Great Wall of the original Qin, Zhao and Yan Kingdoms, build passes to block the Xiongnu's raids, and also isolate the trade between the Central Plains and the northern grasslands, and control the export of metals and grain, but this is all forced to do it, and now after more than ten years of construction, the Great Wall has basically been completed.

Although the Xiongnu's way to the south was blocked, the 300,000 troops plus a million soldiers from the Six Kingdoms gathered in the northwest counties were not of much use, and there was no suitable opportunity or enough ability to complete the emperor's plan to wipe out the Xiongnu in Henan, so Meng Tian also lived a daily life like torment.

Judging from the various news from Xianyang in the past, the first emperor has convened several generals to deduce the conquest of Lingnan, and I heard that he has also mobilized the southeastern counties to prepare grain and grass, but he did not expect things to change suddenly, and changed to attack the Xiongnu first, from the order of selecting 10,000 horses and elite horsemen, His Majesty is ready to build an elite army to attack the Xiongnu.

But what can 10,000 horsemen do?

Meng Tian sat on the big chair in the center of the big tent made of wood, stone and leather, looking at the holy decree on the desk, his brows furrowed.

To sweep away the Huns in Henan, don't say that it is 10,000 horsemen, even if it is 35,000, it may not be able to succeed, first of all, the war horses raised in the northern counties are not as strong and tall as the Hun horses, and they cannot have any advantage in the pursuit war, the second is the problem of horsemanship, the Huns are nomadic people, both men and women, young and old, are skilled in bow horses since childhood, if they can't raid, they are simply a group of wild wolves, coming and going like the wind can only follow behind the ass to eat soil, the only advantage that the Qin army has is ordnance, armor and bows and crossbows and swords are all afraid of the Huns.

According to Meng Tian's idea, the Great Wall should be repaired first, so as to ensure the safety of the Central Plains, and then plan an encirclement from Longxi, Beidi, Shangjun, Yunzhong, and Jiuyuan, and then attack from the five counties at the same time after full preparation, directly cut off the retreat of the Xiongnu along the big river, and then gather hundreds of thousands of soldiers and 200,000 Qin troops to surround all the Xiongnu in Henan and annihilate them in one fell swoop, so as to completely pacify Henan.

But this plan has not yet begun, he has just succeeded in conceiving it and has not reported it to the emperor, but the emperor is a little impatient to form an elite horseman, what does it mean? Could it be that His Majesty is dissatisfied with me?

However, the following generals' ideas are not the same as Meng Tian's, they are not thinking about sweeping Henan, but considering whether there is a war, as long as they fight, they can get military merits, how good it has always been that the Huns, they can fight every year, they can get military merits by killing a few small leaders of the Huns, and their families can get land and real estate and slaves, maybe they will fight in ten or eight years, and they will be lucky to kill a small Shan Yu, maybe they can also be a general like General Meng.

Therefore, although Meng Yi frowned, the more than ten generals sitting below were all smiling, and one of them stood up and clasped his fists and said, "General, it seems that Your Majesty has changed his previous plan and is ready to attack the Xiongnu in advance, this is the best news we have waited for in the past two years." ”

"Yes, general, these 10,000 horsemen can be selected from the account of the last general, to ensure that all of them are fierce soldiers, just wait for the order of His Majesty Kaichun to arrive, the last general will lead the cavalry out of the pass and sweep Henan ......"

"General, of course, the horse pawn is the most powerful one I garrisoned at the Hengshan Pass, in September this year, we also fought with the Huns in the Shuohe River, a certain tent under the son Lang beheaded more than 200 Huns, and obtained hundreds of cattle and horses, these 10,000 horse pawns, naturally selected from the Hengshan Pass."

"General, choose ...... from my Yuyang Pass"

"General, choose ...... from my Shenmu Pass"

"General, choose ...... from my Hongliu Pass"

"Hey, you only have a total of 5,000 people and horses in Hongliuguan, and the horses are only 1,000, and the horses' hooves are not enough to make up the number, so what is the fun!"

Several of the generals in charge of the large passes rolled their eyes at the young general who had just stood up and spoke, and their mouths continued to taunt.

"Hehe, although a certain Hongliuguan is small, but the soldiers are all one as ten, and last year it was not that nearly three hundred Huns were killed!" The armoured general, who was about thirty years old, said with a dry smile.

"Quiet~" In the midst of the noise, Meng Tian, who was sitting in the center, spoke, and suddenly the big tent instantly quieted down, and everyone looked at Meng Tian with blank eyes.

Meng Yi's eyes swept over everyone, and finally said with a serious expression: "Yanmen, Yunzhong, Jiuyuan, Shangjun, Beidi, Longxi have a total of six counties, nine passes and eighteen passes and 36 mouths, 300,000 soldiers in the tun, 1 million soldiers, of which there are only 80,000 horses, 100,000 war horses, and only 60,000 war horses that can be used to charge the battle. Therefore, these 10,000 horsemen were all selected from our battalion, and in addition to informing the emperor of the edict, I also had to remind you that after returning, the beacon fire should be passed on immediately, and the notice should be closed to close the passes and passages, and no one should be allowed to have any contact with the Xiongnu and Qianghu in the land of Henan, and cut off business travel, and this news must not be revealed. ”

"Huh~" More than a dozen generals stood up and clenched their fists together.

"General Jiang Hu stays first, and the others disperse!"

"喏~"

More than ten generals in the big tent walked out of the big tent full of doubts, and then each rode back to the pass with the escort to defend their own passes, they are the generals of the two counties of Beidi and Shangjun, defending more than ten passes, and these two counties border with the Xiongnu in Henan The border is the longest, although it is not the main battlefield with the Huns, but the defensive area is the largest, more or less every year to do a few games with the Huns, there are winners and losers, but most of them are the Huns beat the crying father and mother, but if you want to continue to expand the results, it is a bit of a pipe dream, Once invaded into Henan, all are vast grasslands, there is no danger to defend and no city to rely on, and the Xiongnu are all soldiers, regardless of men, women and children can fight on horseback, there is no sufficient force to design the encirclement, then it is like scattered sand, you can't catch up, let alone kill them all.

Therefore, all the Qin generals mentioned the Huns, and there was nowhere to vent the fire in their stomachs, and they had already put the eighteen generations of female ancestors of the barbarian Huns in their souls into the belly of the horse.

"General, I don't know what the last general is doing?" Jiang Hu, who was left alone, was a little excited and a little apprehensive.

"General Jiang sit, you and I don't need to be polite, you have been following me at the beginning, fighting bravely on the battlefield, cutting Chu and beheading five Chu military captains, and three captains of Vaqi are all captains, all of whom are famous and surnamed, and then followed me to the northwest to resist the attack of the Huns, and have also made many military exploits, although now it is still the position of a captain, but it is already a general, and a certain decision will temporarily hand over the 10,000 elite horsemen required by His Majesty to be transferred to you to command, are you willing?" Meng Yi said with a smile.

"Really?" Jiang Hu couldn't help but kneel on one knee excitedly after being surprised, "Thank you General, Jiang Hu will definitely live up to the general's high expectations!" ”

"Good!" Meng Tian stood up, helped Jiang Hu with both hands and said: "You take my warrant and immediately return to the Hongliu Pass, hand over the matter of the pass to the deputy general, and then come to my camp to perform duties after the arrangements are made, if my guess is right, after the beginning of the spring, Your Majesty may have a big move, maybe this time is a good time for you to make contributions, if you can sweep away the Huns in Henan, your title can at least reach the great mastery, and then you can lead the army alone and be called the general!" ”

"Thank you for the cultivation!" Jiang Hu was grateful.

"Hehe, there is no need to be so, my brother sent a letter from Xianyang, saying that the Jiangmeng and Mongolian clans are working together to make porcelain, you and my family may make millions of dollars next year, this is a matter of benefit, now Your Majesty has leveled the six countries, only Lingnan and the northwest are not appeased, if these two places are also conquered, there will be almost no war in Daqin in the future, and it is almost impossible to rely on the military exploits to worship the generals in the future, and the conquest of Lingnan will definitely not be the turn of you and me and the northwest soldiers, so the battle of sweeping Henan is almost one of the few opportunities, You have to take advantage of this opportunity. Meng Tian said with a smile.

"I also learned the news about the production of porcelain in my brother's letter, and I heard that it was given by the Marquis of Qinghe, I wonder if the general knows the details?" Jianghu asked curiously while being excited.

Meng Tian nodded and said: "Yes, but my brother has not said it carefully, let's go back to Xianyang in the future to learn more carefully, you must practice the matter of 10,000 elite horsemen now, don't be careless!" ”

"Don't worry, the general will practice carefully!"

"Take my order, go!" Meng Tian picked up a piece of bronze talisman from the desk and handed it to Jiang Hu, and waited for Jiang Hu to walk out of the big tent before shouting, and several guards promised to come in.

"Spread the word that all the generals in the battalion will be captained and selected, and 10,000 elite horsemen will be selected from the five guards within three days, and they will do it immediately~"

"Whoa!"