Yiqu attacked the Qin State, and in addition to gathering the men and horses of his own tribe, he also recruited larger tribes on the grassland to fight together. Like Mianzhu, Zhai Rong, and Quyan, many Xirong tribes suppressed by the Qin State, after listening to Yiqu Xiao's analysis of the Qin State, they also very much agree with Yiqu Xiao, and everyone firmly believes that the Qin State gives gifts to the tribes, and it is indeed the Qin State that has suffered a deep crisis!

For the Xirong tribe that reveres strength, even among the tribes of the same ancestry, there is no way to help you when you are in danger, but they will definitely take advantage of this opportunity to trample you to death! And the Qin State has suppressed Xirong for so many years, and it has a deep hatred for itself, and the danger suffered by the Qin State this time is definitely the best time for them to regain their territory!

However, to Yiqu's surprise, in addition to Yiqu, the most powerful Wu tribe in the Xirong tribe refused Yiqu's order to send troops together this time!

When Yiqu was about to command troops to attack the Qin State, the patriarch of the Wu clan did receive an invitation from Yiqu, and the patriarch himself also recognized Yiqu's analysis very much, but when he wanted to participate in this grand event, he was directly stopped by the young master of Wu!

Wu Shaozhu is different from the chiefs of the Xirong tribe who only know how to plunder on the grassland, he is the son of the patriarch, and he is a merchant in the full sense of the word! And after he personally went to Taoqiu and learned the latest business concepts and even business knowledge from Taoqiu merchants, Young Master Wu had a clearer plan for the future of the Wu clan!

In his opinion, the Wu clan has a great advantage over the other tribes of Xirong itself! The Wu tribe is located on the main road between the Western Regions and the Central Plains, and is itself a hub for trade, and the Wu tribe itself has a monopoly on the jade trade between the Western Regions and the Central Plains!

And since he opened up the trade route to reach the trade center of the world in the Zhao State and even the Song State Taoqiu, he has seen the advantages of the Wu clan more clearly! In his opinion, the Yiqu, Mianzhu and other tribes, living by grazing are an extremely low way of life! The way of life of the grassland people should be through the trade routes of the Central Plains, the jade and horses needed by the Central Plains people should be transported back to the Central Plains, and many items such as tea, silk, salt and even iron pots should be exchanged from the Central Plains, so as to achieve mutual benefit and win-win results!

This means that just by virtue of the position of the Wu tribe itself, and even the business talent of the Wu clan, it is not impossible to turn the Wu clan into a pottery mound on the grassland!

In the opinion of the young master of Wu, the trade route between the Wu clan and the countries of the Central Plains is still not smooth enough! If you want to access the trade of the Central Plains, the best way is to directly pass through the Qin State, enter the Han Wei State, and then follow the Yellow River and Jishui to the East, instead of going around a big circle from the grassland to reach the Zhao State, and then go from the Zhao State to other places!

Moreover, having seen the prosperity of the Central Plains countries in Taoqiu and listening to the merchants' analysis of the strength of each country, Wu Shaozhu did not think that the Qin State, which was now feared by the Central Plains countries, would be depressed after such a simple sneak attack by Xirong! At most, they can only recapture their original pastures, and once the Qin State comes to their senses, these recaptured pastures will return to the hands of the Qin people again!

Which is greater, the income from grazing or the income from access to the Central Plains trade route? Young Master Wu was able to get the answer almost without thinking, so he must not let the patriarch of the Wu clan directly destroy the relationship with the Qin State because of small profits!

On the contrary, he even took advantage of this opportunity to form a good relationship with the Qin State! He directly sent an envoy to Xianyang to inform the Qin State that the Xirong tribe was going to attack the Qin State under the leadership of Yiqu!

Reporting such news, for the Wu tribe, is a betrayal of the Xirong pig tribe! However, in the eyes of Young Master Wu, when everyone betrays, it just depends on whether the chips are high enough! And this time to report the news to the Qin State, it is just a business, a business to gain the political trust of the Qin State! Just like before, in order to gain the political trust of Zhao State, when Zhao State was attacked by many countries, he helped to contact Zhao Guo and Lou Fu in the middle!

Doing trade between countries and betting on the national fortunes of various countries is the most lucrative business!

After receiving the report of the young master Wu, King Qin was also stunned by the news that Xirong was about to attack on a large scale! He didn't expect that the tried and tested tactics of the Xirong tribe before would not work this time! And behind this, there is a deep fear!

Now that all the soldiers who can be recruited in the Qin State have been conscripted to the front line of Hangu Pass, and the rest of the entire Qin State are the old, weak, sick and disabled, how can they resist the wolf-like Xirong army? And in his opinion, now that such a major event as the invasion of Xirong must be tightly sealed, and the soldiers on the front line of Hangu Pass must not be known, so as not to shake the faith in their hearts!

Subsequently, the king of Qin issued orders in turn, first blocking the news of Xirong's imminent invasion to the Qin army on the front line of Hangu Pass; Secondly, all the villages and tribes in the west and north of the entire Qin Kingdom were relocated, and let them temporarily take refuge in the nearby cities!

As for the most important battle, the battle with the Xirong army, the king of Qin had to recruit all the old, weak, sick and disabled who had been on the battlefield in the entire Xianyang and even the nearby cities, formed an army, and ordered them to be stationed near Xianyang to protect the safety of the capital!

The attack of the Xirong army first began from the west and north, the lands that were originally occupied by the Qin State! These places originally belonged to the territory of Xirong, and the people of Xirong are naturally very familiar with it! Moreover, most of the people in these places are the original people of Xijon. During the reign of Gongsun Yan and his westward expansion, these people were reluctant to follow their original tribe and stayed in the land and became the subjects of Qin. Now that the clan is back, it's time to surrender to the clan again!

With the help of these internal supporters, who originally belonged to the people of Xirong, the Xirong army led by Yiqu Wei reoccupied this territory that originally belonged to them. And after regaining these territories, he immediately recruited all the people who could hold weapons in this land, and led them to the land of Guanzhong to plunder!

I have to say that after years of Qin law control, these people who originally belonged to Xirong have become timid and afraid of things. However, this kind of cowardice and fear was when the ruling order of the Qin State still existed in this territory! And once this order was lost, those who were originally bound by the Qin Law began to burst out with incomparably powerful destructive power!

Those who followed the Xirong army to Guanzhong to plunder took the initiative to help the army collect grain! These people who were born in Xirong and grew up in the Qin State do not have any good feelings towards the Qin people who belong to the same country as them! They were even more brutal than the "pure" Xijon people, and in the face of the countryside without the slightest resistance, they plundered all the Qin villages they saw and burned them to ashes! And all the Qin people who didn't have time to evacuate along the way, as long as they were encountered, they didn't have any chance of surviving!

With such destructive power, even when Xirong himself invaded the Qin State, he couldn't do it to such a point! After all, for the Xirong tribe, they invaded the Qin State just to grab things, not to vent! Their invasion of the agrarian nation, in a sense, was akin to sheep shearing, and it was not for the sheep themselves!

And these people who were ruled by the Qin State and "rescued" by Xirong still have hatred for the Qin State! So they didn't take into account the ideas of the Sijon people either, but came exactly as they wanted it!

Some of the chiefs of the Xijon tribe also wanted to stop these people from going overboard, but they were all stopped by Yiqu Horror! In Yiqu Xiao's opinion, since these people have perfectly completed the task of requisitioning grain, even if the means are a little more intense, what does it matter? And the more intense the methods of these people, the deeper their hatred with the Qin State, and the more unlikely it is that they will reconcile with the Qin State in the future! After attacking Qin this time, these people will also become the most loyal warriors under his command!

And with the promise of King Yiqu, these people no longer have any scruples! They set out from the northwest of the Qin State and almost burned the west and north of Xianyang to the ground!

Standing on the tower of Xianyang City, King Yingsi of Qin could clearly see that this country that belonged to him was full of smoke! He looked at the rolling army of Xijon, and his eyes seemed as if fire was about to erupt!

Under his order, the only remaining army near Xianyang immediately began to set off to meet the Xirong army!

There is a bitter hatred between Yiqu Xiao and the Qin State, and he knows the combat methods of the Qin State army well! And in order to be able to defeat the Qin army, he was in the territory of Yiqu, and he was thinking about how to deal with the Qin army almost every moment!

And after analyzing his many combat experiences, plus the news he heard from others, the cavalry of the Zhao State defeated the army of the Qin State, he also began to pay attention to the cavalry!

As a branch of Xirong, Yiqu itself is a half-farming and half-pastoralizing tribe, and its tribe itself can support a sufficient number of horses, and it is not difficult to train a cavalry on this basis! And the only difficulty is the equipment of the cavalry, in Yiqu Xiao's opinion, it is impossible to defeat the Qin army with a bone weapon! And in order to enhance Yiqu's advantage, he spent many years of savings and finally purchased a small amount of metal weapons suitable for cavalry from the merchants of Zhao through the Wu tribe!

Such an army, which had been piled up with almost the wealth of the entire Yiqu, on the battlefield outside Xianyang City, encountered only the old and weak remnants of the Qin State, and as soon as the two sides fought, the Qin army immediately began to be at a disadvantage!

Yiqu Hao personally rode on a horse and led the army to continuously carry out tentative attacks on the Qin army's military array. After all, the old and weak soldiers are not as elite as the hundred battles, but after three temptations, the entire Qin army array began to waver!

And just after there was a flaw in the Qin army's military array, Yiqu didn't say a word, and directly launched a decisive charge against the Qin army's military array! The cavalry directly crushed the spot, and the entire Qin army immediately collapsed!

The King of Qin stood on the city of Xianyang and watched as the army he had worked so hard to assemble suffered a crushing defeat! At such a time, he couldn't help but want to send an envoy to Hangu Pass to summon the Qin army back, but the desire in his heart still stopped him from acting!

He opened the gates of the city and allowed the army, which had been defeated by the army of Yiqu, to retreat into the city. At the same time, he began to directly blockade Xianyang City, and did not do anything to deal with the plundering of Xirong!

As a result, half of Guanzhong was almost sacked by the Xirong army into white land!

And just when the Xirong army was ravaging Guanzhong, outside Hangu Pass, the battle between the Qin State and the Sanjin coalition army had entered the final decisive stage!