Chapter 1197: Hunt and Kill

King Tunan designed to kill the king of Gushi, and after sacking the city of Gushi Wang, he robbed tens of thousands of people and tens of thousands of cattle, horses and alpacas and then retreated to the depths of the desert.

Soon ten days passed, after Li Xin's summoning ** was displayed, Yueshi, Wusun, Yiwu, Loulan, Yanqi, Gushi and other countries quickly gathered a total of more than 40,000 soldiers, and Li Xin in addition to writing a letter to report the matter in detail to Meng Tian, who was far away in the Longxi camp, only left the deputy general to lead 2,000 soldiers to guard Yumen and Yangguan respectively, Qi army of 8,000, 20,000 horses, carrying enough food and supplies for a month to officially send troops to strangle the king of Tunan.

The 50,000 army was divided into five routes, respectively under the banners of Great Qin, Liang and vassal states, and marched along the edge of the alpine meadows and deserts at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains to the place where the Yue people were entrenched, but after arriving, they found that the king of Tunan had already migrated west with his tribe.

"Hehe, run, Ben Hou see where you can run, the scouts will go out fifty miles to investigate, no clues can be missed, this time we must completely kill King Tunan and Mao Dun!" Li Xin looked at the empty Yue Clan's royal court, and ordered the army to continue to advance without stopping at all.

Li Xin has long known that the king of Tunan is entrenched in the desert at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, but these people are nomads, and the original Xiongnu have a urine nature, they will disperse as soon as they fight, and they will gather as soon as they retreat, and now both sides have stirrups and saddles, which are easy to ride long distances, and the quality of the war horses is also comparable, so the only advantage of the Great Qin army is only sturdy leather armor and sharp weapons, but in this era of cold weapons, you can't catch up with the enemy, so after a few small-scale conflicts before, King Tunan retreated and retreated to the edge of the desert north of the Tianshan Mountains, barely harassing the countries of the Western Regions, so Li Xin didn't bother to provoke this leper dog.

Unexpectedly, this dog was raised, and now it has become a super underworld gang with a clan population of more than 100,000 people and nearly 30,000 soldiers.

More than 3,000 catties of gold, worth nearly 20 million yuan, even if you sell Dawan BMW, you can sell a large group, but unfortunately this money was robbed by the bastard of King Tunan, this is really more than worth the loss of raising tigers.

Li Xin was well prepared for this pursuit, and he was tempted enough by the tens of thousands of servants, and all the items he snatched, whether they were goods or people, cattle, horses, and alpacas, only half of them needed to be handed over, and the rest belonged to the tribes.

As the saying goes, there must be brave men under the heavy reward, driven by this heavy reward, tens of thousands of servant troops from the leader to the ordinary soldiers, one by one, they have already held back their strength with red eyes, and they screamed every day to attack from all sides to search for the traces of King Tunan, not to mention that although the situation in the field is complicated, the desert climate is also changeable, the population migration speed of more than 100,000 people is not fast, and the traces left are also very obvious, along the way are full of livestock manure and trampling marks and cattle, horses, alpacas and other livestock that have just given birth in the wilderness, ten days later, In the frenzied pursuit of the next way the servant army finally caught up with a tribe after the king of Tunan, and when Li Xin received the news to command the army to catch up, the battle was over, this tribe of less than 3,000 people was originally the natives who had lived here before, in the face of the murderous army of the Western Regions, it was rushed and killed in less than half an hour, and all surrendered after hundreds of casualties, which also allowed the victorious servant army to seize tens of thousands of cattle, sheep, horses and leather goods.

Although this victory was not large, it aroused the fighting spirit of the 50,000-strong army even more, and in the next few days, they chased and searched in a large area in the desert like chicken blood, and finally caught up with the migrating tribe of the king of Tunan near a large river two thousand miles west of the city of Gushiwang.

The enemy was very angry when he saw him, this time he came with the might of the Great Qin Elite Cavalry, and with the assistance of the armies of the Western Regions, the Prime Minister personally commanded the army of his kingdom to launch an attack on the King of Tunan first, and Li Xin held down the elite of Great Qin and postponed, and ordered tens of thousands of troops of Yueshi, Wusun, Yiwu, Yanqi, and Loulan to launch a tidal attack on the Yueshi people at the same time.

King Tu Nan never thought that he seemed to be a little carried away this time, Da Qin's father is still a father after all, not only is he stronger than him in the art of war and strategy, but he also has an absolute advantage in his grasp of fighters.

When he first learned that the night attack had killed the Gushi King, the Tunan King felt that the disaster was a bit big, so he listened to the bewitchment of Mao Dun and a group of tribal leaders, and simply robbed the Gushi Wang City without doing anything, and after making a lot of money, he quickly migrated west with the tribe after returning.

Although he was not familiar with the west, he knew from the mouths of several tribes he conquered that along the desert and grasslands between the snow-capped mountains, there was also a large tribe with a population of about 70,000 or 80,000, named Hujie, who was also a nomadic tribe, and if he could conquer it, the strength of the Dayue clan would almost double.

King Tunan originally wanted to take this opportunity to completely control this vast desert and grassland, so that even if Great Qin used a large army to chase him, they could attack and retreat and defend, in such a vast environment, Great Qin did not have much advantage in strength.

However, because it has just started spring, a large number of livestock began to give birth, plus men, women and children carry all their belongings, and they have to drive millions of livestock to migrate, the migration speed is very slow, a day to travel only tens of hundreds of miles, stop and go, most of the month to travel two thousand miles to reach the junction with Hujie, but is blocked by a large river that began to surge after the beginning of spring.

At this time, when the 50,000 troops of Great Qin and the Western Regions arrived, the tribe of King Tunan was choosing a shoal to cross the river.

And Li Xin naturally will not let go of this opportunity to attack half-way.

Except for the Great Qin Jin's pawn, the more than 40,000 servants of the Western Regions all rushed towards the chaotic Dayue clan people on the river bank like a group of crazy pink eye.

At this time, it was too late for King Tunan to regret it, and in addition to the leaders such as Kai and King Humi Maudun leading the tribal warriors to meet the enemy, they were desperately trying to let the tribesmen carry goods and drive cattle across the river as soon as possible.

Nearly 70,000 people from both sides fought on the banks of the turbulent river, covering nearly 10 miles of river beaches.

Tens of thousands of Yue's people helped the old and young to drive the cattle and horses and alpacas full of belongings to cross the icy river, just to escape before their warriors could resist it.

Arrows, spears, clubs, tens of thousands of soldiers, more than 100,000 horses, millions of livestock, the river beach was densely packed with shouting and shouting crowds, countless livestock goods, women and children were washed away in the turbulent river, and the screams and cries of fighting shook the sky, shaking the radius of hundreds of miles.

King Tunan has already repented of his mistakes, he shouldn't have provoked Gushi for a horse, and he shouldn't have ransacked Gushi's royal city.

If it was just a battle with Gushi Wang, even if Gushi Wang died, this matter would not arouse Li Xin's anger and the determination of the people of the Western Regions to share the same hatred, at most he would become a mortal enemy with Gushi, but it was he who followed the advice of Mao Dun and others to sack Gushi Wangcheng, so that Daqin would inevitably have to ask for an explanation for the vassal state, and the current world reported quickly, although he led his clansmen to move ten days in advance, but it was still not as fast as the Daqin army that came lightly, and it was caught up in twenty days.

And if he can't withstand this battle, the little belongings that he has accumulated over the past few years will be wiped out again.

In the face of the attack of tens of thousands of troops from Great Qin and the Western Regions, King Tunan knew that there was basically no great chance of victory, so he could only hold on until all his clansmen crossed the river, and he also made up his mind that once the river crossing was successful, he would never come back, and he heard that the Western world was even vast, and there was no need for him to live in the shadow of Great Qin's iron hooves.

The war entered the white-hot stage in an instant, both sides did not flinch and show weakness in the slightest, killing these Yueshi people, they could grab a large number of livestock and slave goods, and only by withstanding the attack of the Western Regions countries, the Yueshi people could keep the little money they had saved so hard.

Falling horses, screaming, severed limbs, blood splattering, wailing in pain, tens of thousands of people rushing back and forth, flower-filled grass trampled into mud, blood mixed with mud, the entire river beach is like a Shura field.

For these Western Regions countries, they have almost never experienced such a large-scale war.

But for Li Xin and the Qin army, the battle of less than 100,000 men was just a commonplace scale.

The Eight Thousand Qin Army did not make any movement from beginning to end.

Li Xin led a few of his followers to stand on a small hillside two miles away from the battlefield, holding monoculars and constantly looking around and across the river.

Tens of thousands of troops were fighting, more than 100,000 people crossed the river, and there were millions of livestock, and the sound of people roaring and neighing resounded for hundreds of miles, and the wild horses, bison, and wolves that roamed on weekdays all fled in a hurry.

A big battle between the two sides fought from noon until the sun set, and the river beach was full of dead and wounded war horses and dead and wounded warriors on both sides, but because the river was too fast, even if the shallowest position was found, it was still very difficult to cross the river, and a large number of livestock and tribesmen were swept away by the cold river, so half a day passed, and the 100,000 people of the Yue clan were only half crossed, and the remaining old, weak, sick and disabled and a large number of sheep and young could not cross the river, and all gathered by the river to cry and shout, The family members and clansmen who crossed the river on the other side also kept screaming and shouting, and the whole river beach was filled with a miserable and desolate atmosphere.