In the autumn of the twenty-ninth year of the First Emperor, in the middle of July.

Jiang Hu and Li Xin each led an army of 10,000 troops, and the troops were divided into four routes to attack the Xiongnu from the four counties of Beidi, Jiuyuan, Yunzhong, and Yanmen.

Wang Li and Su Jiao each led an army of 10,000 people, and they also divided their troops into four routes to attack Donghu from Shanggu, Yuyang, Youbeiping and Liaoxi counties.

Because of the adequate preparations, coupled with the tight blockade of the news, neither the Xiongnu nor the Donghu had much preparation and defense, and it was autumn, and the Hun herdsmen, who had been living by water in spring and summer, were also harvesting forage and collecting wild barley oats for the arrival of winter, so they were basically in a semi-settled state, which was the most conducive time to find and attack.

In particular, Donghu, this almost semi-nomadic and semi-hunting mixed ethnic group is more loose than the Xiongnu, the ethnic groups are scattered in the east to the Changbai Mountain, west to the Mongolian steppe, north to Heilongjiang and other vast primitive grasslands and woodlands, plus the Donghu Wang's tribe has become weaker and weaker in the past hundred years, a large number of other tribes with bows and horses have not obeyed its orders, and even many tribes have begun to grow and become independent, so Donghu as a whole is a state of scattered sand.

The situation in Donghu is very clear to the commanders of the Great Qin Border Pass.

Because there are merchants who come and go to the counties of Liaodong and Liaoxi all the year round to do business with the Donghu people, the leather and medicinal materials of Changbai Mountain and Daxinganling are the favorite goods of the merchants of the Central Plains, especially the tiger skin bear skin and mink skin, which can be exchanged for gold bronze and linen pottery from the Central Plains, and once transported back to the Central Plains, even the most worthless old mountain ginseng is worth hundreds of dollars, and a piece of linen cloth can be exchanged for a bunch in the local area, because most of the Hu people do not know how to spin and weave cloth at all, and they wear either animal skins or some inexplicable strange things mixed with bark and leaves. I am very fond of the fine cloth and pottery metal of the Central Plains, and there is an urgent need.

Therefore, through the merchants who traveled back and forth between the Donghu tribes and the Central Plains, Daqin had a relatively good understanding of the distribution area and scope of the various tribes in Donghu.

In mid-July, when the war officially began, Wang Li and Su Jiao, under the leadership of merchants and guides who traveled to and from the Donghu area, fought out of the Great Wall with lightning speed, and then divided into two or two four, and the army of 20,000 quickly broke down into a scale of one or two thousand people and went straight to the gathering areas of some of the larger tribes in Donghu.

The Xiongnu horses plus saddle stirrups and horseshoes were equipped with a full width of the era, as well as steel weapons and the fierce longbow and hard crossbow of the Great Qin, which were sharp weapons of war, the loose Donghu tribes were strangled and dispersed before they had time to make a decent resistance, while some other tribes heard that the fierce Great Qin army was suddenly attacking, and in a hurry, they could only leave behind a large number of livestock and even old and young women and children and began to retreat to the mountains and deserts in the north and east.

After the Yan State expelled Donghu for thousands of miles, the Donghu people lived more and more poor and miserable, and after living in the mountains and grasslands in the northeast for decades and finally settling down, the Donghu people once again experienced the taste of being slaughtered and driven away, losing cattle, sheep and horses, losing women and children, losing the familiar home they relied on for survival, and retreating to the northeast in panic like a lost dog.

However, during the retreat, the Great Qin army followed like a wild wolf and chased and intercepted along the way, and the slightest resistance would be slaughtered by the entire clan, so many tribes in Donghu surrendered in large numbers after losing their leaders and warriors and became prisoners of the Great Qin army.

One victory after another was sent back to the northwest military camp, and then sent to Xianyang after being summarized.

Throughout the beginning of August, almost every day, there were soldiers who rushed to and from the northwestern counties to pass war reports, and these victories were just a topic of discussion and a spice for life in the court in this lively autumn.

The Xiongnu kings were killed by my Daqin's soldiers, and the Xiongnu king's wives are still imprisoned in Xianyang, this time the autumn offensive Daqin soldiers will return with a great victory, maybe this time they will bring back the head of the Donghu king, and put a shriveled head on the altar of the Taimiao to comfort the ancestors.

When Wang Li and Su Jiao swept Donghu, Jiang Hu and Li Xin also divided their troops, Li Xin led the army from Henan, which he was most familiar with, and after crossing the river, he continued to wipe out some small Xiongnu and Linhu tribes, and then continued to attack to the west, and occupied Yinchuan after defeating the Yueshi Division, and began to garrison troops on the west bank of the river, and at the same time arranged a large number of sentinels to explore the super huge gathering place of the Xiongnu nobles located in the northwest corner of the Hetao.

And Jiang Hu Jiang Bu crossed the Yin Mountain again, under the leadership of the Xiongnu prisoners, the troops were divided into four ways to go hand in hand like four tigers broke into Hebei, the same familiar route and familiar combat methods, but this time not only the number of people increased fivefold, logistics and supplies are also extremely sufficient, plus the raid after the beginning of spring has made the Xiongnu in Hebei have long been frightened, many large tribes have already retreated hundreds of miles to live and graze, thinking that they can cultivate and recuperate, but they never thought that Daqin would kill them.

In the middle of August, the four-way Qin army once again penetrated thousands of miles into Hebei, swept seven or eight larger tribes with lightning speed, and strangled countless small tribes captured along the way, some only dozens or hundreds of people, and more than three or five hundred, which was completely different from the situation in the first raid on Hebei, and this time the Qin army suddenly appeared, and many small and medium-sized tribes did not dare to have any resistance and surrendered.

In late August, Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu broke into Hebei for more than 2,000 li again, this time they went straight without worries, so the results of the battle were fruitful, although the enemy killed was not much, but the captured Xiongnu population reached more than 100,000 people, and the cattle and horse skins were simply incalculable, which was several times more than the spoils that Li Xin swept Henan.

However, when they killed the location of the Xiongnu royal court, they found that because of the killing of the Xiongnu king, the Xiongnu royal court had completely collapsed, and several princes scattered after fighting each other with the support of different tribes, and some unscrupulous noble tribes gathered here to prepare to re-elect one to rebuild the royal court.

Since they have come, in line with the idea of beating the rabbit with grass, Jiang Hu and Jiang Bu raided the Xiongnu royal court from the southeast and southeast directions unabashedly, and a nobleman who finally sat on the throne of the Xiongnu king did not have time to celebrate, but was frightened by the Qin army that suddenly came again.

The Xiongnu court once again suffered a catastrophe, this time Jiang Hu came with the power of destroying the country, naturally he would not run away after the sneak attack like the first time, but scattered the pursuit for a full day and a night, killed nearly 10,000 Xiongnu, captured 30,000, and completely wiped out the little family wealth left by Tou Mandan, and also exterminated the gathering place of the two princes by the way, one of them was killed, and the other surrendered and captured.

After nearly a month of fighting, the remnants of the Xiongnu tribes who had already been killed to the heart of the heart fled to Mobei, they needed to completely get rid of the pursuit of the Qin army before the cold winter came, otherwise the cold winter would cover the snow for several months, and the whole clan would be frozen and starved to death, so these fleeing Xiongnu ran all the way to two thousand miles away, and then settled around a big lake.

And after Jiang Hu once again strangled the remnants of the Xiongnu royal court, he also stopped chasing the scattered tribes, because this vast prairie is too big, and the 10,000 army is indeed fierce and abnormal, but it is completely like a drop in the bucket in this vast prairie and there is no shadow at all, and after this attack, this Xiongnu in the north will not have a big climate for a hundred years, not to mention that the north is becoming more and more bitter cold, I heard that most of the year is ice and snow weather, and it is not a place where people have lived at all. Only savages survive.

Jiang Hu rested in the Xiongnu court for three days after collecting his troops, and only after the follow-up troops responsible for collecting prisoners and counting the spoils of war arrived that Jiang Hu led the army to set off.

In order to complete Chen Xu's task, he made an appointment with Li Xin, and this time he had to play a big ticket, and he would gnaw away the Xiongnu tribes gathered outside the Hetao from the southeast, north and south.

There are seventy or eighty thousand Huns there, and they belong to a Xiongnu nobleman whose strength is no less than that of Toumandanyu, and there are more than 30,000 people who lead the bow, especially after two consecutive battles, the Huns in that place must have been ready to meet the enemy, so this will be the largest and most tragic war in the autumn expedition against Huns.

Although Daqin is now strong and strong, in the face of tens of thousands of fully prepared Xiongnu troops, any negligence will lead to huge casualties, so this battle must be cautious, minimize the casualties of subordinate soldiers, and use the blood of their own soldiers to accumulate victory, and the military merits summoned with huge casualties will inevitably lose character.

The reason why Wang Jian has such a huge prestige in the Great Qin Army is that it has a huge relationship with his love for soldiers.

In the battle of Zhao, Wang Jian never took the initiative to attack without a fighter, and Li Mu did the same, the two military gods were in a stalemate in Jingcheng for more than a year, and both sides were under great pressure in repeated battles, but even if the supply of grain and grass was not enough, Wang Jian did not plan to fight with Li Mu with all his might, that is, he constantly urged the Qin State to provide soldiers with food and grass, and the King of Qin in order to support Wang Qian, has conscripted all the boys over the age of fifteen in the country and sent them to his account, In the end, seeing that the Qin State was indeed about to hold on, Wang Jian was forced to play a divisive plan, the King of Zhao killed Li Mu, taking advantage of the unstable heart of the Zhao army, Wang Jian personally led the army to raid the Zhao army camp, after a few days of fighting and fighting, the Zhao army was defeated, and the Zhao State finally won, but the Qin State also won extremely tragically, even if the Qin State had a great advantage, but it still suffered heavy casualties, and almost dragged the Qin State to the point of collapse.

When he arrived at Chu, Wang Jian knew that Chu was not only large but also several times richer than Zhao, and his military strength was equally strong, so he asked for 600,000 troops before he went to war, but Qin Shi Huang was afraid that the national strength could not withstand it, so Li Xin attacked Chu, and the result was miserable, and the food and troops were lost, so he had to gather 600,000 troops to ask Wang Jian to go out of the mountain, and Wang Jian still took a defensive position, hung up the battle card and the Chu army for more than a year, and continued to use the strategy of exhausting soldiers to hold out, the Chu army was stalemate and had to retreat, and then Wang Jian led the army to chase and kill, the Chu army was defeated, and Xiang Yan committed suicide, Soon the state of Chu was destroyed by Wang Qian.

Wang Jian won both countries, although he was exchanged for high-ranking officials Houlu and Che Hou, but his prestige in the army was not only because he could fight, but because he cherished his subordinates and never killed his soldiers, so Wang Jian not only had a high status in the hearts of the soldiers of the Qin State, but also had a good reputation among the people of the other six countries.

At present, against the last hard bone of the Xiongnu, whether it is Li Xin, who has fought with Wang Qian, or Jiang Hu, who has followed Meng Tian's recent rise, they all understand this truth.

If you want to improve your prestige in the army, you can't just win battles, you have to do your best to protect your subordinates, let all the generals follow you to get military merits, and follow to curry favor, otherwise you will be promoted and rich alone, and you will eventually become a loner.