The surface fighting in the south was escalating, and the Qin State was encountering a new situation.

The General Staff of the State of Qin. The intelligence department is one of the most intense and busy.

"Damn, this telegram actually delivered such a message." A major officer came over urgently at this time and said.

"Something is wrong. The general must know about this. The major officer immediately sent the telegram to the chief of staff, who saw it. Very surprised. Surprised to the point of disbelief.

"It's a big deal. We'll have to tell the Chief of Staff about that. The chief of staff immediately stood up and said.

Then he hurriedly ran to Wang Qian's office. Then he gave this telegram to Wang Jian for review.

"Qiang?" Wang Jian asked suspiciously at this time.

"Yes, sir." The colonel said at this time.

"They're in our southwest direction." The colonel said at this time.

"I know, but the problem is, where we are now." Wang Jian said with some disbelief.

"Forget it, we have to tell the king about this problem. It's not something we can know for ourselves. Wang Jian said at this time.

"Is there an exact telegram report? The more detailed, the better. We need to know the details. At this time, Wang Jian said.

"Let's sort it out." The colonel said at this time.

"The more detailed, the better." Wang Jian looked at the telegram and said. At this time, Wang Jian thought of many situations in his mind. The war was very bad for them.

"Qiang people. Damn the Qiang. Wang Jian said at this time. Wang Jian looked helpless.

"We will spend a lot of resources on endless foreign wars, how can the unification of the Qin State be realized?" Wang Jian said worriedly.

The information was quickly sorted out, and some details of the battle were transmitted in the form of telegrams.

The overall defensive situation of the Qin army was very unoptimistic. A defensive line that runs parallel to the Qilian Mountains. There are a lot of holes, and the leaks of these holes bring about shaking in the entire line of defense. The 1st Infantry Division of the Qin Army is trying its best to maintain their defensive line, but there are still big holes in their defensive line.

Qiang people, especially highland Qiang people. Or the Qiang people of the plateau, who made a great impact on the carefully constructed defensive line of the Qin army.

They looked so helpless at first in the face of the Qin army's carefully constructed defense line, and they gathered a large number of soldiers and horses to stagnate in the Qin army's defense line. They tried several times, and the Qiang people were unusually brave, but bravery could not replace their huge casualties.

After the huge cost of casualties. The Qiang finally stopped their frantic attack. At the cost of blood, they finally understood that the Qin people's fortifications would drain their blood. Not even their blood could shake the fortifications. The Qin army's fortifications were built quite tightly, especially the fire of the fortifications, and the Qiang people would face the Qin army's scientifically calculated fortifications, such fortifications, so that they could stop.

However, any fortification has weaknesses, even if it is a scientifically calculated defensive weakness of the Qin army, however, the Qiang people are not smart, on the contrary, their ideas are very direct.

They use long-haired cattle. That is, the yaks of the Tibetan Plateau launched an attack. They drove hordes of yaks to storm the Qin army's positions.

Barbed wire, mines, and machine-gun crossfire were of no use against the frenzied animal, which used all sorts of methods to provoke the long-haired cows, who were desperate to charge.

The sting of the barbed wire only provoked their reckless onslaught, which hastened the collapse of the Qin army's defensive line. Taking advantage of the yak's frantic charge, the Qiang finally opened a key to kill the Qin army's defense line, and this key opened the direct attack of all defensive support points at once.

The barbed wire was hit and a large hole was opened, and all the mines were detonated. The machine gun was shot with a red barrel, and the entire tank was boiled. Not a single bullet can be fired.

The infantry were frantically charged by the yaks, and then, followed by the fierce Qiang, they immediately rushed up to fight the Qin army to the death. The Qin army, which did not have an advantage in numbers, quickly lost their defensive support points, and think about how terrible the consequences were.

Such tactics are played out in many places at the same time. Gaps of varying degrees appeared in the defensive line of the 1st Infantry Division of the Qin Army. More and more Qiang people are reaching the Qilian Mountains through these gaps, and once they cross the Qilian Mountains, then the entire Hexi Corridor will be exposed to the entire Qiang people.

The terrible thing is these, the narrow Hexi Corridor will be stuck by the Qiang people's neck to the Western Regions. The Qin people would never allow such a thing to happen.

"This is the case, the Qiang people in front of us are posing a mortal threat to us, according to our intelligence, the Qiang people have gathered about 100,000 people, and they are extremely fierce and pose a great threat to us." This time. Wang Jian said with the report.

"These Qiang people." King Qin said after hearing the report.

Shang Wen frowned. Shangwen believes that this will be another war. War meant that the Qin state had to pay a lot of money, especially the cost of the war.

"This is another significant war expense. The other side is 100,000 people, and the strength of our defense in that direction is only more than 10,000 people. Shang Wen said with some grumbling at this time.

"Not 10,000 people, but a combat unit of less than 8,000 people. The situation there is already bad, their defense is very extensive, and the mobile troops, so to speak, are none. Wang Jian added at this time.

"We don't have any reserves yet, the Third Infantry Division has been sent out, there is no way to collect it, and military spending is being greatly compressed, it belongs to the plateau, and it is difficult to deploy air power, and the restrictions are very large. All in all, it's a very bad situation. Wang Jian said to Shang Wen at this time. And Shang Wen could only listen, he couldn't do anything about it.

"Financial reforms are underway, and banking unions are moving slowly. The large and small banks of the Qin State are merging and reorganizing, and we can only inject funds after they complete the restructuring, although we have already started to buy the people, as well as the bonds in the hands of some banks, but the injected funds are only to stabilize the situation, and the whole situation has not improved much for us. Shang Wen said at this time.

"That is, it is difficult for military spending to be paid in a short time?" At this time, Wang Jian asked.

"Yes." Shang Wen replied.

"We're not at the point where we're not going to be able to raise money by issuing bonds, you know. There are also quite a few bonds circulating in the market. We haven't been able to get them back yet. Shang Wen said at this time.

"And the question of the soldiers." Shang Wen said at this time.

"We don't have any troops on hand to replenish them, and we don't know how long our 1st Infantry Division will last, and whether they will be able to maintain it until new units arrive. Now the state of Qin is very large. This is disaster for us. We don't have enough troops to defend. Shang Wen said at this time.

"Your Majesty, the last general thinks that the Qin State cannot go on like this. The long-term war consumption consumed the national strength of the Qin State, and although the national strength of the Qin State increased for a time, the number of foreign wars of the Qin State far exceeded that of before. The state of Qin was no longer able to go east to the world. At this time, Wang Jian excitedly pointed out this problem.

"Yes." Shang Wen said he didn't understand.

"This is the current situation around the Qin State." Shang Wen said.

"The endless wars have allowed us to grow in national strength, and at the same time, they have also brought us trouble. But don't forget. Opportunities and challenges coexist, and now is the time to test us. Shang Wen said confidently.

When King Qin heard Shang Wen's words, he immediately felt a little funny.

And the surrounding ministers felt very helpless about Shang Wen's words, Shang Wen was too naïve in politics sometimes.

"Our problem now is that there is no money, no people." Shang Wen said.

"The most critical issue is money, and our finance has just taken a hard hit. We don't just need to regain our strength, but we also need to get our financial system back to life. Shang Wen said at this time.

"When will finance be able to give us money?" Wang Jian asked Shang Wen unceremoniously at this time.

"Well, it's not accurate." Shang Wen replied helplessly.

"The financial system is in shambles, you know the banks are merging and reorganizing. Their money is intensively spent on mergers. Shang Wen said at this time.

That is to say. Our situation. It takes quite a bit of time. Shang Wen said.

"In that case, the Qiang people will hit Xianyang." At this time, Yang Duanhe said with some annoyance. For Shang Wen's answer. Yang Duanhe felt very dissatisfied.

"Oh." Shangwen shrugged.

"What we can do is speed up bank restructuring and mergers. Funds are then injected. At the same time, acquire their stocks as well as bonds. Let them be part of the state's enterprises. Shang Wen said at this time.

"The question is, what do we do now?" Wang Jian asked.

"Now, we have to wait until the financial reform is complete." Shang Wen said.

And Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe expressed their helplessness about this.

"This matter must be resolved as soon as possible, once there is a problem in the entire Hexi Corridor, the Western Regions of the Qin State will be lost. That was the land of the Qin State, and the Qin State needed to maintain its own land. King Qin spoke at this time.

Everyone was listening respectfully, while Shang Wen was thinking about another question. What trouble the Qiang will cause.

And Wang Jian was thinking about the soldiers. For him, he will have no troops to adjust. He didn't know from which direction else he could draw his troops.

Finally, he thought of mercenaries. Those mercenaries of minorities.