Chapter 12: The Expedition to the Qiang

In March of the third year of Zhongping, Qin Hua led the generals to the barracks, and today is the day to send troops.

Since Qin Hua subdued Han Sui last year, he did not immediately send troops to attack Beigong Boyu, but first stabilized Jincheng County and Hanyang County, forged armaments, trained soldiers, and developed farming.

In the past year, Qin Hua has expanded his army again, from the original 20,000 to the current 30,000, but the population of Jincheng and Hanyang counties has not decreased, but has increased a lot, mainly due to Qin Huang's efforts.

With the help of the Qin family, displaced people from several nearby states successively settled in Liangzhou, especially Jincheng County and Hanyang County.

Jia Xu's original recruitment order was also changed by Qin Hua to recruit all talented people, no longer limited to internal affairs talents.

Therefore, now there are a lot of talents concentrated in Jincheng County, and now the full set of equipment of Qin Huajun is customized by these people, which is different from the standard equipment of the Han Dynasty.

There are also some talents who are good at planting, water conservancy, and civil engineering, and Qin Hua gathered all of these together and set up a Ministry of Engineering.

Of course, this Ministry of Industry is not the same as the Ministry of Industry in later generations, it is a bit similar to the Academy of Sciences, which is responsible for the agricultural and industrial science and technology of Qinhua's territory. Moreover, this Ministry of Industry is not in the system of the Han Dynasty, so if you don't get funds from the imperial court, all the expenses in it are paid by the Qin family, and of course the income he brings also belongs to the Qin family.

In addition to internal affairs and these "science and technology" talents, there are not a few military generals who come to Qin Hua, but there are only a few who can take action.

Liang Xing, originally a bandit, surrendered to Qin Hua after being defeated by Qin Hua's army, and was later discovered by Ma Teng, and now serves as a school captain.

Candidate, like Liang Xing, now holds the position of captain of Ma Teng's personal guard.

Cheng Yin, Li Kan, Zhang Heng, and Cheng Yi all took the initiative to serve Qin Hua, and now all of them are serving as commanders.

Ma play, a member of the Ma Teng clan, was recommended by Ma Teng to join the Qin Hua Army, and is now serving as a school captain.

Yang Qiu, who was originally a city gate guard, was discovered by Han Sui and now serves as a commander.

These should have been Ma Teng's subordinates in history, but now they have all become Qin Hua's subordinates, but their strength is not outstanding, but for Qin Hua, who lacks generals, it just makes up for the gap.

The army of 30,000 set off in the direction of the Qiang tribe, and Qin Hua's first target was Beigong Boyu.

After more than a year of recovery, Beigong Boyu's strength has recovered a lot, and when he learned that Qin Hua was about to attack him, he borrowed nearly 10,000 soldiers from other tribes, and now his strength has exceeded 40,000.

At the end of March, Qin Huajun and Beigong Boyu met, and a big battle was about to start on the prairie.

"Beigong Boyu, you are trying to get involved in the territory of the Han Dynasty, and now that the punishment of heaven has arrived, you will not be arrested yet."

"Qin Hua Xiao'er, if you want to fight, why bother talking nonsense."

The routine scolding battle ended quickly, and Qin Hua and Beigong Boyu each returned to their own army.

"Rush!"

Beigong Boyu gave an order, and the vanguard of 10,000 cavalry rushed towards Qin Hua's army, and the large army followed closely behind the cavalry.

"The Qiang people's fighting methods have really not improved at all, don't they know how I defeated the Black Sheep tribe?"

Qin Hua shook his head helplessly, and then ordered the soldiers to start attacking.

I saw hundreds of siege ballistas being pushed out, and the huge two-meter-long arrows looked very powerful, but this kind of thing had little effect on the cavalry.

Qin Hua naturally knew this, what was tied to the arrow was the key to dealing with the cavalry.

I saw that there was a huge net between the two ballistas, and Qin Hua tied him to two arrows.

The ballista was also angled with projectile fire rather than direct fire, as these nets were the key to dealing with cavalry.

For the infantry, it doesn't matter if a big net falls from the world, but for the cavalry, once it is caught, it is the scene of a car accident.

It is also true that regardless of whether the net can be opened or not, if only one cavalryman is caught in the net, at least several cavalrymen will trip over him.

And if you can catch several people, then dozens of riders behind will be tripped, even if the emergency "brake" is a series of rear-end accidents.

At this time, Beigong Boyu remembered what the defeated soldiers of the Black Sheep tribe meant by the huge net falling from the sky, and originally thought that these people were crazy, but he didn't expect Qin Hua to really use this trick to break the cavalry's raid.

At the same time as the crossbow net, there were also arrows from the archers, but the archers had less than 3,000 people, so the suppressive power of the arrow rain was not very strong.

After two rounds of arrows, the cavalry of the Qiang people had lost thousands of men, but the remaining troops were not far from the Qin Hua army.

At this moment, the troops in front of the Qin Hua army suddenly began to move backwards, and then they saw a row of shield walls appear in front of the Qiang cavalry.

These large shields are 1.5 meters high, and there are several holes in the large shields, which are used to hold spears.

Shortly after the shield wall was formed, countless spears emerged from the holes and shields.

The original walls of copper have become iron walls covered with spikes...

The Qiang cavalry didn't have time to brake, and all of them crashed headlong into the sharp spears.

Behind each shield there were at least three soldiers and two "poles" to support it, but even so, some cavalry broke through the shield wall.

But it only broke through the shield wall, and behind the shield wall was countless guns in the future, and the moment they broke through the shield wall, these cavalry would be stabbed into a hornet's nest.

Seeing that his cavalry unit was almost wiped out, Beigong Boyu's severed left hand wound began to ache faintly again.

This army is too different from the Qin Huajun he met at the beginning, not only the style of the armor has changed, but even the momentum is completely different.

The cavalry force of 10,000 men did almost no damage to this Han army, except for a small amount of damage caused by the arrows they fired.

"Damn, it's too late to withdraw the troops now, I can only be tough, as long as I can kill him, then the victory in this battle still belongs to me."

Beigong Boyu looked at Qin Hua viciously at the position of the middle army of the Han army.

He remembered what Qin Hua had done at the beginning, so he also wanted to repeat what Qin Hua had done at the beginning, only if he could kill Qin Hua, the commander of the Han army, then the Han army would naturally be defeated.

After the total annihilation of the cavalry troops, the Qin Hua army changed again.

The large shield troops in front of them began to retreat, followed by rows of pikemen, followed by a platoon of archers.

As the pikemen marched through the corpses of the Qiang cavalry, the archers in the rear began to fire.

The two armies quickly came into contact, and compared to the Qin Hua army, which moved in unison, Beigong Boyu's army was like a group of stragglers, who only knew how to fight and would not cooperate with each other at all.

In this kind of clan warfare, the armies that can cooperate with each other can exert greater strength, so the gap between the two sides is immediately reflected only in the moment of contact.

Just except for one contact, the battle loss ratio between the two sides reached 1 to 10.

However, this ratio also changed with the melee between the two sides, but compared to being able to have five people as a Han army, the Qiang soldiers felt as if they were fighting several enemies at any time, even though their own side was actually outnumbered by the Han army.