Qilian Mountain Prairie......

The scenery is poetic, and the mountains and rivers are beautiful and pleasant.

Herds of cattle and sheep are eating grass on the prairie, which is very appropriate.

Herds of horses galloped and galloped, and the Yueshi people branched out all over the prairie, living by grazing.

Suddenly, the cattle and sheep, who were all grazing, raised their puzzled heads and looked in one direction at the same time.

The wind was roaring, the ground was shaking, and the boundless black figure in the distance slowly appeared on the skyline of the prairie.

Soon, many Yueshi herdsmen noticed the strange situation in the distance, and immediately turned on their horses and fled in all directions towards the distance.

As for the cattle, sheep and horses, they can no longer take care of them.

It was the army of the Qin people, and they were no strangers.

Over the years, after the grasslands withered, they would plunder the border cities of the Qin people in groups, otherwise it would be difficult to survive the cold winter.

As for the border army of the Qin people, it was the first time they saw the Qin army go out of the customs and come to the prairie.

150,000 soldiers marched on the prairie in an orderly manner.

Meng Tian was wearing black armor, riding on a bronze chariot, looking at the sentry horses speeding in the distance, thoughtful.

"General Yu, the cavalry of the Yue clan is already less than seventy miles away from our army."

The sentry rode to Meng Tian's bronze chariot and reported to Meng Tian.

"How many centaurs?"

Meng Tian was not surprised, he led the army out of the customs and came from afar, and it was not less than half a month.

If the Yueshi people still don't know anything, then how can the Yueshi people dominate Qilian Mountain?

"Not less than the number of our troops."

The sentry said with a solemn expression.

"Revisit."

Meng Tian nodded, and then said.

The Yue clan is one of the three major tribes in the north, and its strength is not far from that of Donghu, who is known as the strongest.

It is not surprising to be able to recruit more than 100,000 cavalry, seven years ago, he was ordered by the emperor to defeat 160,000 iron cavalry of the Huns in the Hetao grassland, and beheaded 70,000, which not only captured the Hetao grassland, but also greatly damaged the vitality of the Huns.

His Majesty has high hopes for this battle, hoping that he can recreate the glory of the Yueshi people seven years ago and take over the Qilian Mountain Prairie of the Yue Clan.

Open up the Longxi Corridor and expel the Yueshi people to the north.

"Pass my general's order, and line up on the spot."

Meng Tian looked at the endless prairie and frowned.

On the grassland, in fact, the infantry can exert very little strength, if the Yueshi people do not want to fight with themselves, but choose guerrillas, their own 150,000 infantry troops, but also look at the horse and sigh.

But fortunately, His Majesty gave him 50,000 elite iron horses, which is a sharp weapon.

Meng Tian didn't intend to waste this sharp weapon given to him by His Majesty just like this, good steel should be used on the blade.

The reason why he chose to come to the Qilian Mountain Prairie to raid was to contain the main force of the Yue people.

This is the lifeblood of the Yue people, don't fight with yourself?

I'm afraid that the people of the Yue clan will never sit idly by and watch their hundreds of thousands of people in their own lair, wantonly destroying them.

Six or seven out of ten of the livestock people of the Yueshi people are on this prairie, and a few are in other places, which has nothing to do with the overall situation.

As the herald scattered on his horse, he began to convey the general's orders.

Soon 150,000 people were in order, as if tempered by a thousand tempers, and quickly formed one phalanx after another.

There were 3,000 crossbowmen per 10,000 people, including 1,000 archers, 1,000 light-arm crossbowmen, 500 medium-sized crossbowmen, 300 heavy waist crossbowmen, and 200 horse-drawn giant crossbowmen.

[The book sets that the bow and arrow are two stones, and the range is 100 meters.] The light is a three-stone crossbow with a range of nearly 200 meters. The medium type is a five-stone crossbow with a range of three hundred meters. The heavy weight is a seven-stone crossbow with a range of 400 meters. The giant is a ten-stone crossbow with a range of 600 meters. 〕

The three rows of strikers were all crossbowmen, and he carried an arrow bag behind him, and he traveled lightly [he did not wear metal armor, only leather armor]. ], with a solemn expression, without fear.

Every time the empire conquers the four directions, they will be the first to strike, striving to give the enemy the greatest blow and psychological deterrence.

Three horizontal rows, one round of killing, one round of preparation, and one round of standby, can ensure the continuous momentum of the arrow array.

The strong crossbow is in front, and the wedge is behind......

They are the first line of defense of the Great Qin Empire, and they are the unparalleled warriors of the Great Qin Empire.

It was followed by a hundred horse-mounted chariots, each of which was topped by three people, a charioteer, a halberdier [or a spear, a spear, a long weapon], and a crossbowman.

The crossbow in their hands was not the same as the others, but was a small repeating crossbow.

Behind the chariot were 3,000 spearmen, armed with seven-meter spears, the most solid line of defense in the battle array, ready to deal a fatal blow to the enemy who came to invade and provoke.

They were all hoplites, wearing metal armor, and their majestic spears were like towering trees, holding up the sky of the Great Qin Empire.

If they charge, the chariot is in front, they will follow closely behind, and if the front row is killed, they will be on top of the back, and even if the whole army is annihilated, they will never take a step back.

The four platoons of the rear guard were all heavily armored infantry, and their weapons were different, some of them were armed with halberds, long ge, and long beryllium.

Some are armed with different hand-to-hand combat weapons, such as long swords, scimitars, and bronze beryllium.

150,000 people stretched for dozens of miles, and the momentum was huge, as if it had become an iron wall.

It didn't take long for a dense cavalry army to appear in the distant grassland sky.

They rushed towards the Qin army head-on, and from time to time there were a few clattering shouts from their mouths.

After about a few miles of interest, the cavalry in front of them began to stop and no longer approached the Qin army.

Instead, he straightened out the formation, looking at the Qin army formation a few miles away, and his faces showed eagerness to try.

For many years, the Qin people had been entrenched in the moat of the Great Wall, and they had no chance to engage the Qin army at all.

In the face of the Great Wall moat, they can only stop, after all, they are riding war horses, not flying horses, and they can't fly up to the city?

A few days after the king of the Yue clan returned from the royal court, he received a report that the Qin people were marching towards their own territory.

This made him shocked and angry, and what surprised him was that the Qin people and the Yue clan had been well water for many years, and although there were sometimes skirmishes, most of them were peaceful.

Over the years, their Yue people didn't want to attack the Qin people, after all, the Qin people's moat was really a difficult bone to gnaw.

If it is a large-scale army and goes deep into the hinterland of the Qin people, with the strength of the Qin people, there is a risk of annihilation of the whole army.

Therefore, when it was the season of plunder, they mostly set their sights on their western neighbors, the states of the Western Regions.

These city-states were not only rich, but weak, like the aquatic plants of the steppe, fat and undefended.

The reason why he rejected the Qin people's plea to form an alliance and trade with the Western Regions was that the king of the Yue clan was afraid that the Qin people would get into his own delicacy.

The states of the Western Regions have always been regarded as forbidden by the King of the Yue Clan, and no one else is allowed to touch them.

Could it be that the Qin people came with troops this time, because they rejected their request to form an alliance and trade with the Western Regions, so they were annoyed and angry?

The king of the Yue clan ordered the army to stand by in place, and then with a few personal guard cavalry, he rushed out in the open direction of the confrontation between the two armies, and stopped at the center of the confrontation between the two armies.

Seeing this, Meng Tian instantly understood the intention of the Yue Clan's king, walked down from the chariot, and then changed into a war horse, and also took only a few cavalrymen with him, and greeted him.