Although the season has entered autumn, the days are still lively in July.

Along the middle reaches of the Sanggan River, the scorching heat has not yet receded, and the small autumn crops have begun to be sown under the leadership of the new local officials of the Qin army.

The autumn crops are still waiting to be harvested,

Many of the young and strong laborers who had been recruited by Liu Wuzhou to serve in the military to do husband service returned to their hometowns one after another, they took off their military robes on behalf of the country, put down their swords and soldiers, and happily returned with the pardon issued by the Qin Emperor.

Many of the newly arrived local officials are still temporary substitutes for the generals and colonels in the army, and the soldiers are always in a hurry, and they never compromise the emperor's will.

The county soldiers were formed, the township soldiers and soil regiments were set up, the officials were re-recruited and assessed, and they began to take them to take stock of the fields, go to the countryside and villages, re-census the population, register the household registration, and then grant the land, repair the roads, and clean the ditches.

The walnuts are about to ripen.

The rice in Ichikawa has also turned yellow, and millet grains, black beans and flax are being sown.

On the edge of the fields, there are troops and people coming and going every day on the road, and the Qin army team carrying the red flag, and the people driving cattle and horses and pushing chicken carts go north from the rear every day.

While the people were plowing and working, they also chatted with the people around them from time to time when they got up to rest and bent down.

"I don't know how the battle is going in the north, will the Turks come over?"

A stout man over there said, "It's true to hurry up and work, what's the matter, besides, the emperor's hundreds of thousands of troops have passed, how can the Turks be allowed to go wild again?" Even if there are really three or two Turkic people who have slipped through the net, and they don't know whether they are alive or dead, then don't we now have county soldiers in counties, soil regiments in townships and townships, and militias in villages and villages? What are you afraid of? Didn't the above equip our militiamen with spears and horizontal knives, stab him and cut him, and if you catch a horse thief and a bandit, you will have several rewards, not to mention the Turkic soldiers. ”

The words of the militia leader made everyone feel a lot more at ease, and everyone felt that it was true when they looked at the spear stuck in the field and the knife on their waist.

The leaves are not yet pale, and the white dew has not yet become frost.

The rear has gradually returned to its former life, but at the foot of the Great Wall in the north, which is only a hundred miles away, in the Yunzhong Basin under Wuzhou Mountain and Suzhen Mountain, there is already tension in the middle, and the decisive battle is about to break out.

In the Yunzhong Basin, on both sides of the Sanggan River, large tracts of spring wheat are not yet ripe, but the Qin army and the Turkic army are all grabbing the spring wheat, and even the rice that has just been yellow by the river is also being robbed.

Jieli was already panicking.

When Qin Qiongwei Chi Gong broke through the White Wolf Fortress and came to the city of clouds with the general's flag held high, Jieli panicked.

That's when he felt something was wrong.

All sorts of bad news came one after another.

Although Yanmen City is still in the hands of Liu Wuzhou, Luo Cheng has already broken through Xicheng and Loufu Pass, crossed the Inner Great Wall, and quickly captured the Great Wall passes and Great Wall passes such as Mayi, Biguan, and Huguan, and then came all the way.

The Qin army has passed, and almost no one has resisted anymore.

Immediately afterward, worse news came.

Zhao Gui had already made a detour outside the Cowhide Pass and launched a surprise attack on the Cowhide Pass, and Gao Manzheng and Luo Daen, the Shenwu City who had descended to Qin earlier, had also quietly bypassed the Kill Hu Pass.

Jieli panicked and hurriedly dispatched troops and horses to guard the cowhide pass and kill the tiger pass.

It's just that Zhao Gui came prepared, he blocked Jieli's reinforcements, and stepped up the attack on Niupi Pass. As for killing Hu Pass, although Jieli sent troops to fight, but the city was dangerous, and he didn't send many soldiers to stay in the city before, which led to the fact that after Gao Manzheng captured the pass, it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

And after Xue Wanche's army arrived, Jieli's intentions were shattered.

After Luo Cheng appeared under the Cloud City, the Cowhide Pass was also lost.

Jieli had to withdraw his soldiers and horses, and he still had 100,000 horses at this time.

But he was already surrounded on all sides, and was in the same predicament as Shibi Khan a few years ago.

The hundreds of miles in the Yunzhong Basin have become his big cage, and the two Great Walls inside and outside have besieged him to the death, and Luo Cheng has mobilized hundreds of thousands of horses to surround him.

By this time, Jieli had not yet been able to capture Cloud City.

Yunzhong City almost became the Yanmen City that was besieged at the beginning of the year, and it was attacked for more than a month, but it was not captured.

At this time, Jieli wanted to transfer Kang Sumi's army that was chasing Heiye back for reinforcements, but this force had long been unable to contact.

And the grain was running out, so Jieli had to send troops to harvest the immature wheat and rice.

As a result, the Qin army and the Turkic army fought for grain in the Yunzhong Basin, fighting while grabbing grain.

Jieli originally thought that the Turks should have a complete advantage in such small-scale cavalry engagements, but in fact, since the launch of the grain war, the two armies have fought hundreds of times a day, but almost all of them are Turkic defeats and fewer victories.

Often they didn't get much grain when they went out, or they finally grabbed a batch of grain, and before they could be transported back, the Qin cavalry caught up, so they were forced to fight, and finally either lost the grain and fled, or were forced to burn the grain.

There were even some food-grabbing cavalry teams, which were simply annihilated and captured.

In just a few days, Jieli lost tens of thousands of horses.

"Great Khan, we can't fight like this anymore, if we continue to fight, we will be all finished."

Persistent thinking persuasion Jieli.

"What then?"

The general Guancheng is not afraid, and wherever the Turkic cavalry goes, it can naturally be breached. But when this Guancheng is in the hands of the Qin army, no matter how they attack it, they can't break it.

On the contrary, it was the Qin army, when the cowhide pass was in the hands of the Qin army, a thousand people held it for almost a month, and they took it with several times the casualties, but now the Qin army attacked the fortification, and the thousands of Turkic troops in the cowhide pass were only broken after less than ten days, and the tens of thousands of people he sent could not break through Zhao Gui's blockade, and the closest one to the city was only five miles away, and it was defeated again.

When did the Turkic Iron Cavalry become so powerless?

It's not even as good as when facing the strongest Kaihuang Sui army?

Mid-July.

The wheat and rice in the fields near Yunzhong had long been emptied, and nearly half of the grain had been harvested by the Qin army, and nearly half had been trampled and burned by war horses.

Liu Heimin led about 20,000 defeated soldiers from Lingqiu to retreat to the city in the clouds, intending to rely on Jieli to escape the fate of annihilation.

It's just that at this time, I can't take care of it.

The Qin army pressed forward step by step, and began to build camps and dig on all sides of Jieli.

In desperation, Jieli broke through to the cowhide pass, but was blocked by Zhao Gui and could not break through, Qin Qiongwei Chi Gong led the army to kill from behind, and the Turks were defeated, so they had no choice but to retreat all the way to Baishan Mountain.

Jieli is trapped in the castle of Heng'an Military Town on the mountain.

Immediately, Luo Cheng led the army to surround on all sides, and besieged the 100,000 troops of Jieli and Liu Heimin on Baishan Mountain.

The Qin army dug more than a dozen huge trenches at the foot of the mountain, built several soil fills, and planted countless antlers and horses.