Volume 1 The Broken Mountains and Rivers of the Country in Chapter 63 The Other Side

When Xiao Jinxing left Xiao Pass, he also made some arrangements for the garrison of this gallop road.

He ordered 10,000 soldiers led by Ming Lu and 15,000 rebels led by Wang Jia, a total of 25,000 men and horses, to garrison the gallop road.

He also adopted Zhao Zhihai's strategy of arming and defending at the beginning, only mobilizing heavy troops at the exits on the east and west sides, and guarding some high ground in the middle.

After Wang Min broke through the high ground on the north side of Dongkou, Xiao Jinxing quickly sent Wang Jia to lead 10,000 Qin soldiers from the four passes of Yuan Musashi, Mica, Qixia, and Bitan to support Minglu, and finally under Wang Min's continuous attack, he kept the southern camp of Dongkou.

In the past few months of the truce, the Minglu tribe, like the Xiyan tribe, selected some soldiers from their own tribe to come to the Qin State to make up for the loss of soldiers.

And Xiaoguan City also selected some Qin people who surrendered and sent them to the high ground of Chidao to strengthen the garrison of Chidao, which has the current scale.

Before Wang Min attacked, he also found out the number of Rong troops on each highland, except for 8,000 people deployed on the two highlands at the west entrance and 10,000 people deployed in the south camp at the east entrance, the remaining 7,000 men and horses were distributed on each highland.

Among them, most of the Rong soldiers confronted Wang Min in the south camp of Dongkou. And the Rong people in Xikou are only about 2,000. There are not even hundreds of Rong people in the rest of the highlands, and their existence is only to be able to monitor the Qin people's brave battles.

In fact, when 20,000 Qin soldiers suddenly attacked the eight high ground guarded by only 7,000 men and horses from all directions, those Rong people could not play the slightest role of surveillance.

Under the absolute difference in strength, just like when the Rong people attacked Xue Simu's camp, it was only a matter of time before they were destroyed, and there were no reinforcements from the east and west.

Under the devastating attack for a whole day, the various heights only held on for less than half a day before they fell.

Although they occupied the high ground and had an advantageous location, the Qin soldiers who were stationed on the high ground saw the Qin soldiers with the Xuanwu battle flag rushing up from the bottom of the mountain, and the sense of resistance in their hearts prompted them to always be unable to do their best.

Several highlands were taken under this strange situation, so that the attacking Qin soldiers were able to successfully take them without encountering any strong resistance.

Only on the two heights closest to the East Exit Highlands is the situation slightly different.

Perhaps it is because he is afraid that the army of the Rong people is close at hand, and if he does not use his life with all his strength, it may cause the Rong people to settle accounts after the autumn. The Qin and Rong people on these two heights, together with the Rong people, launched a fierce counterattack against the attacking Qin army. At the same time, groups of soldiers were sent out to ask for help, hoping to be rescued.

In the south camp of the west entrance, this high ground was already higher than the other surrounding hills, and at this moment, the bright dew in the camp could clearly see the fierce attack on the two mountains in the west.

The Qin army dispatched about 5,000 soldiers and horses to launch successive attacks on the defenders of each of the two heights.

Because the Chidao had been occupied by the Qin army, Minglu could only hastily send 3,000 soldiers and horses to rescue from the hilly trails, but those trails were winding and rugged, with ravines and ravines, and Minglu could see clearly from the mountains, and the reinforcements were not far from the attacked highlands, but he also knew that the reinforcements could not reach the highlands quickly.

Wang Min is smart, but intelligence does not mean hesitation, after making his own judgment and making reasonable arrangements for the overall situation, the final attack will often be fatal.

This often makes the war extremely brutal, but the results are quite good.

After an hour of death-defying battle, the Qin soldiers finally attacked the top of one of the high mountains.

In Minglu's eyes, the mountain was full of the corpses of soldiers of the two armies.

At this moment, in addition to the shock, there was also a trace of fear in Minglu's heart, and in the past few months of confrontation with Wang Minjun, he clearly saw that the main general on the other side was so indifferent to life that even he was a little shocked.

Just like in this battle, he saw with his own eyes that the soldiers lined up behind the Qin army slashed and killed the Qin army who had withdrawn from the mountain.

Where is this still a man, it's a devil.

Seeing that the high ground was lost, Ming Lu ordered the soldiers to blow the horn, and watched with his own eyes as the 3,000 men who rushed to the high ground turned and retreated.

At the same time, the Qin on another hill also surrendered.

Ming Lu didn't hold a grudge against those Qin people who surrendered, and when the battle reached this point, even he felt that those Qin people had done their best.

And looking at the Qin people on that mountain, who were already small in number, Ming Lu regretted his attitude towards them on weekdays.

Since the surrender of the Qin army in Musashi Pass, Xiao Jinxing has given those Qin generals who surrendered to the rank of commander and centurion, but as more and more Qin soldiers surrendered, these military positions gradually became vacant.

After defeating Zhao Zhihai, Xiao Jinxing ordered that the Qin generals appointed in the future would still be rewarded according to the official positions of Qin military generals.

At present, in the entire Rong army, the highest military generals include Wang Jia, the former 2500 lord of Musashi Pass, who guarded the road with Minglu, at this time Wang Jia has been awarded the title of Captain Musashi by Shan Yu, and Lu Chang in Xiao Pass has been named Captain Yuxiao.

However, since these Qin generals voted for the Rong people, they have never been treated well by the Rong generals, although they can still maintain a superficial politeness to Wang Jia, Lu Chang and other generals, but they are completely different from some lower-level soldiers.

To be honest, whether it is Minglu or some commanders, or even centurions, they all look down on the rebel generals of the Qin State, so on weekdays, beating and scolding have long become the norm.

In the remorse that was revealed, he once again saw the picture that shocked him a little, those Qin people who surrendered under the banner of Xuanwu were cut off by the Qin soldiers without hesitation.

Even though the Rong people are fierce and regarded as man-eating demons in the eyes of the people of Qin, they will only be cruel on the battlefield. But letting them kill prisoners is something they won't do easily.

They often escorted their captives back to the tribe, where they were treated as slaves along with the captured Qin men and distributed to meritorious warriors.

For them, population is labor, and labor is the basis for the tribesmen not to starve to death.

"Just killed?" Ming Lu was a little incomprehensible, could it be that the Qin people didn't have the idea of letting these captives use them to consume the enemy's arrows in the next attack, so they killed them like this?

In his mind, people can do many things, but dead people are useless.

Long before the war, Wang Min considered that the Qin people might surrender to him again, and at that time, he did not hesitate to say only one word to the generals who led the troops to fight, that is, "kill".

Kill the rebels, this is the law written on paper on the Qin law, as a Qin general, Wang Min did not have the idea of not carrying it out at all, and he knew the meaning of this order, killing the soldiers could deter other Qin soldiers from surrendering to the enemy.

So these people, they must die.

After the one-day battle, only three camps on the east and west sides of the eleven heights of the Rong people remained. The army of King Min of Qin was exhausted in eight places in one day, capturing 3,400 Rong troops.

This night was bloody, from the moment these 3,400 people surrendered, it was doomed, in the dark night, thousands of torches lit by the Qin army illuminated the gallop road like day, and 3,400 soldiers knelt on the ground along the gallop road facing Qing Shui.

They already knew their fate, but they didn't expect it to be so fast, on the way to the gallop, they cried and shouted for their mothers, muttered about their children, howled sadly and angrily to the sky, and finally calmed down when they arrived at the execution ground by the clear water of Chidao.

With a sound of orders, as rows of heads fell to the ground, as the clear water in the darkness gradually turned red, and then turned ink, for these three thousand four hundred people, everything was over.

But at this time, neither the soldiers executing on the gallop road nor the Qin troops on the high ground on both sides of the gallop road noticed that in the distance, dozens of Rong people and horses holding burning red sun flags were also quietly watching this incredible scene in front of them.

Among these exploration horses, although most of them are Rong people, there are also Qin people wearing black battle clothes and wearing Xuan armor.

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On this day, the gadfly went out of the camp early in the morning, led the war horse with the brothers who had descended together, went to the clear water to feed the horses to drink, and washed the dirt on the horses.

He was originally a member of Fang Hengxin's Xuanjia Cavalry, and after the city was broken, he also fought bravely to kill the enemy, and he just wanted to die wholeheartedly, but he was hit in the back by a stick from Rong Bing in the melee, and he fainted in an instant.

When he woke up, he found that he was being taken care of by the Rong people, although he was also a Qin people. But when the Rong people who shuttled back and forth saw him wake up, they all smiled at him.

In the confusion, the Qin people told themselves that Xiao Guan had been lost, and the main general Yongyunqi was nowhere to be found, and the vast majority of the living Qin soldiers in the city except for the corpses had descended to Great Xia.

At first, he didn't quite understand what Great Xia was, and he was not willing to do things that betrayed the face of his ancestors like those traitors who had descended to the Rong people.

It's just that he is a little strange in his heart, aren't these Rong people rumored to eat human flesh and drink human blood, why do they still recruit this set.

But he knew very well about the matter, the reason why these Rong people smiled at him was because of his heroic battle before being knocked down by the Rong people, which made him gain the respect of the Rong people. What's more, he is also dressed in the unique costume of the Xuanjia Ride.

For the next few days, the gadfly ate on time every day, and when he was full, he lay down and fell asleep, and the only thought in his heart was to see an opportunity to return to Qin.

A long time passed like this, and just when he was a little desperate and didn't know what to do, he heard some news from the barracks, saying that Zhao Zhihai was coming.

For Zhao Zhihai, he knew it, and few Great Qin soldiers didn't know Zhao Zhihai's name. Although Gadfly was a little disappointed, because he hoped that the leader of the counterattack this time would be Fang Yuanheng. But he still made up his mind and saw an opportunity to return to the Qin army.

To be honest, during this period of time, the people of Rirong were really good to themselves, so good that they did not strictly guard themselves at all, and they could do whatever they wanted every day except that they could not go out of the camp.

But after all, the distinction between Rong and Qin is deep-rooted, and the mother state of the family and country cannot be abandoned, and the gadfly always feels that returning to Daqin is the right way.

The opportunity finally came, and soon after being dragged west into the mountains with the army defending the city, he heard that Shan Yu had ordered a counterattack on Xiaoguan.

At the beginning of Zhao Zhihai's breakthrough, he took advantage of the chaos to steal a war horse, preparing to flee east to the hills, and then try to return to Yuanzhou.