In the cognition of later generations, the Silk Road is from Chang'an to the west, along the Hexi Corridor through Zhangye through Jiuquan, and then from Guazhou to Dunhuang, and finally out of Yumen Pass, Yangguan, through the vast Western Regions, over the green mountains. However, in the pre-Qin period, this was not the main route west of the Kunlun Mountains (Altai Mountains) in East Asia, but the main route in the pre-Qin period was from Luoyang to the north through Jinyang to Yunzhong County, and then from the southern foot of the Yin Mountains on the north bank of the Yellow River to the west, and crossed the Yin Mountains between the Wula Mountains of Daqing Mountain and entered the Mongolian Plateau.

This is actually the direction of the Great Wall of Zhao, the westernmost point of the Great Wall of Zhao Gaoque Sai (the northwest corner of the Hetao, now Bayannur City, Urad Houqi), is the only place to cross the Yin Mountain.

At the same time, it was also a necessary place for Wu Ding to kill ghosts in the Yin Shang Dynasty and Mu Tianzi in the Western Zhou Dynasty to travel westward; It is also the place where Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty built the city of 'sending Guanglu Xun Xu to garrison the city outside the Wuyuan Sai and the northwest to Luqu'; of course, it is also the place where the Xiongnu entered the clouds, Dingxiang, Wuyuan, Shuofang, killed thousands of people, defeated the two dry stones and left, and destroyed the pavilion barrier built by Guanglu"; finally it was Wang Zhaojun who went out of the fortress and married the place where the Xiongnu Hu Han Xie Shan Yu was in the royal city.

Because 'the soil is as white as lime, and you can see it from a hundred miles', so Li Daoyuan called this trade road 'Baidao' in the "Water Jing Note", the Northern Song Dynasty's "Taiping Huanyu Ji" called it 'Yinshan Road', and the Qing Dynasty called it 'Yinshan Avenue' and 'Naturalization Avenue'.

Even in ancient times, this trade route connecting East and West was crucial. The Han Dynasty's attack on the Xiongnu was all-round, and in addition to the bloody war, there was also an economic war, and the core war of the economic war was the competition for this trade route.

Zhang Qian's action of 'hollowing out' the Western Regions and Xu Ziwei's action of building a city outside the Saiwai were synchronized, that is, while opening another trade route for competition, the original trade route was sealed outside the Saiwai, which made this vital trade route connecting the East and the West since ancient times move from the northern Jin Dynasty, which was uncontrollable by the Han Dynasty, to Guanzhong, which was convenient for the imperial court to control.

As a Greek, Dicaeupoli naturally did not know that this trade route had such a long history, and subconsciously he felt that the places where the caravans passed through were all grasslands, and no one could intercept the caravans on the steppes unless they happened to encounter barbarian tribes. This was of course a fatal mistake, so fatal that the caravan had just reached the end of the white road, and after a different shout, he was immediately hit by more than a dozen arrows on his horse, and he was killed instantly.

"Shoot ——!" A rain of arrows fell, and with the exception of a few Sogdians who hid under the wagons, half of the Greek knights were shot by arrows. Aristotle IV was sleeping in the carriage when he was awakened by the sound of an arrow piercing the wooden planks of the carriage, and with the help of his servants, he also got under the carriage and cried out to the gods. He wished to hear the voice of Dicay Opoli commanding his soldiers to meet the enemy, but unfortunately, all he heard was screams and drumming.

"Kill!" In the middle of the sun, Xin Sheng, who was standing on the grassy slope, saw that the formation of the caravan had been scattered and had no resistance, so he immediately ordered the crossbowmen to stop firing and the foot soldiers stepped forward to fight. For this ambush, he has been lying in ambush here for half a month.

In the rumbling drums, the Qin pawn, who had long been unable to hold back the order, shouted and rushed forward, for fear that the heads of those meritorious people on the ground would be snatched away by others, but at this moment, a military horn that had never been heard before sounded, which was the sound of the Macedonian transverse flute. With the sound of the rousing flute, all the Greek cavalry that could still move in the caravan gathered, most of them had lost their mounts, and the spears were abandoned, only the traditional Macedonian sarissa spear was in the hand, and gradually formed two thin spear phalanxes facing the enemy in front and back, and the remaining hundred or so cavalry were distributed on one side of the phalanx as usual.

"Enyalius! Inniaria!! The death of Dicay Opoli did not affect the morale of the soldiers, and they knew that they would not survive if they did not fight to the death, so they shouted the name of the god of war in the Homeric Epic and began to launch a counterattack against the Qin army.

"Attack!" The Qin army that grabbed the head rushed forward too fast, and was instantly pierced by Salisha's spear, but this was only a small part, and the spear phalanx could only protect a small section, and Xin Sheng immediately bet on more foot soldiers.

"General ......" At the same time that Xin Sheng ordered the Qin army's infantry to be escorted, more than 100 Greek cavalry with horses, led by the cavalry squadron leader Zaras, formed a diamond-shaped formation and rushed towards the grassy slope where he was.

"Shoot!" The grass slope is also the location of the crossbow array, without waiting for Xin Sheng's order, the crossbow array began to shoot again, the Greek cavalry who did not have time to put on armor continued to fall from the arrow, rushed to within fifty steps, and saw the Qin soldiers sitting on their knees suddenly stood up to form a thick spear phalanx, and Zaras, who was hit by several arrows, had no choice but to turn around. Taking advantage of the enemy's turn, the crossbow shot and killed many cavalrymen.

Xin Sheng smiled and watched the Greek cavalry turn around, the cavalry of Chu and Zhao liked to attack the position of the main general of the Qin army, he deliberately designed a defensive formation of spear array and crossbow formation, but he didn't expect it to be used on the Chu Zhao cavalry, but on the Bai Di cavalry.

The retreat of the Greek cavalry meant the defeat of the entire battle, although the phalanx of spears held out.

"Bachelor! Bachelor!! "Zaras, returning to the convoy, rushed to the carriage in which Aristotle IV was traveling, shouting that it was time to flee for his life, that he must find Aristotle IV. When he called out to Aristotle IV, he rushed past him on a horse under the protection of his servants.

"I'm here. I am here. Aristotle IV got out from under the carriage in a panic.

"Get on board." The soldiers in the spear array were still shouting, 'Inniaria,' but Zaras knew they were going to be overwhelmed.

"Get on the horse." Aristotle IV also knew how to mount his horse, but Zaras's mount kept spinning, and he didn't get up after a few picks.

"Quick!" Zaras was in a hurry, and he saw the cavalry of the Qin army rushing from both sides.

"My travelogue! My Travels ......" Aristotle IV finally clumsily climbed onto his horse, but he was reciting his painstaking Journey to the East, and when Porus handed him the Travelogue, he was suddenly hit by an arrow in his vest, and he grabbed only half of the draft of the Travelogue, and the remaining half fell to the ground with Porus.

"Driving ——!" The cavalry of the Qin army was getting closer and closer, and the spear phalanx no longer had the chanting of 'Yinniaria', only one after another screams, and Zaras quickly rode his horse and walked through the convoy with his body down.

"Stop him!" The Governor's Mansion gave Xin Sheng 3,500 men, and the order was not to leave anyone alive. Seeing the enemy cavalry galloping in the convoy, the two groups of cavalry immediately outflanked left and right. It's just that Zaras is a superb horseman, and as an officer, he still rides a bloody horse, and he skillfully moves around the convoy, one on the left side of the convoy, and the other on the right side of the convoy. The cavalry of the Qin army was not immaculate, but the war horse was not dexterous enough, and when it was about to catch up, the sweaty horse ridden by Zaras avoided the other side of the convoy with one side jump, and the short sword in his hand was immediately out of reach. The sword couldn't reach it, and the crossbow was blocked by the carriage, so he could only watch him escape.

In addition to the pursuit, there were also Qin knights who went around to intercept them, but when the two horses rushed head-on, the war horse under the crotch of the Qin army uncontrollably avoided the sweaty horse ridden by Zaras, and forced a way for the other party to escape.

"The enemy is dead! The enemy cavalry was killed...... "Yu Fen, who had become a cavalry general of the Qin army, saw Zaras fleeing, and was in a great hurry. He was in a hurry and had no choice, he rode a horse and chased for a few miles, but he couldn't catch up, so he could only watch Zaras go away.

"I ran away." Xin Sheng put down the Lu Lijing in his hand and was deflated, at this time, the battle in the convoy had just ended, and the last gasping Greek cavalry surrendered and was cut off by Qin Pawn.

"It's a mistake to do this." Yu Fen was also terrified. He volunteered to lead people to intercept the north, but he didn't expect to be run away by the enemy.

"The general has no fault, but merit." Wang Ao, the protector who went out with Xin Sheng, had a smile on his face.

"Meritorious?" The Qin army's military merit knighthood system is like a tight mantra, and the knighthood depends on the head, and in addition to the loss, the battle is not effective. Yu Fen thought that he was going to cut the knighthood, but he didn't expect the protector Wang Ao to say that he was meritorious.

"What did General Fen say before?" Wang Ao's smile was even brighter.

"The last general......" Yu Fen thought about it, and said stupidly: "The last general said: 'The enemy is dead'." ”

"Of course, it's 'enemy cavalry is dead.'" Wang Ao looked at Yu Fen and Xin Sheng, who hadn't understood yet, and still smiled.

"Dare to ask the Protector, what should I do now?" Xin Sheng couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw Wang Ao so happy.

"Get these armors away." Intercepting the dragon horse from being transported to the state of Chu was one of the purposes of the Qin army's attack from Shangjun, and snatching the dragon horse in exchange for the huge armor was another purpose. Although the Qin army also captured a lot of Jujia, it was the first time that tens of thousands of pairs of Jujia were captured.

"Yui." Speaking of Ju Jia, Xin Sheng also had a smile on his face, just relying on these Ju Armor is a great achievement. "These corpses ......"

"Beheading is the norm of my Qin army," Wang Ao looked confident, "so the corpse must be buried." When Xin Sheng was about to give the order to bury it, he told again: "Don't bury it here, bury it farther." Again, those who were not beheaded were buried nearby. ”

The Qin envoy had already gone west to beg for horses, and Hu Shang and Bai Di could not let Hu Shang and Bai Di find out that it was the Qin army that intercepted and killed the caravan, so the Guoweifu sent Wang Ao as a protector to intercept the caravan with Xin Sheng. In order to worry that Xin Sheng would not be able to handle things well and expose his flaws.

After Xin Sheng gave the order, thousands of Qin soldiers began to carry the corpses, the beheaded ones were loaded into carriages and transported to distant places for burial, and those who were killed by arrows at the beginning were buried nearby, and it took more than two hours and more than 1,000 corpses to be disposed of.

"How many casualties did our army have?" When the soldiers buried the corpses, Xin Sheng asked about the casualties of his own army.

"More than three hundred." Military officials have long counted this.

"More than three hundred?!" There are more than 3,000 people on their own side, and less than 1,000 of them can really fight, and they also take advantage of the sneak attack.

"General, they don't lose to Jing people." The military officer smiled bitterly, "If it weren't for our army's strong crossbows, the spear formation would not have been broken." ”

The spear formation of the Chu army gave the Qin army the most headache, and these Bai Di also used the spear array, but fortunately, their spear array did not have the Chu army's foot archers, and they did not have huge armor on their bodies, so they were broken by the strong crossbow. Xin Sheng stopped saying anything when he heard this, and waved his hand to let the military officials retreat.