More than 400,000 Xiongnu troops stepped on the rising sun, gave up the encirclement of Jiuyuan City without looking back, and went to kill the generals in the clouds behind Jiuyuan County.

In the entire northern frontier of Great Qin, Jiuyuan City is the only fortress city.

Behind Jiuyuan County, there are more than ten counties such as Yunzhong and Yanmen, and there is basically no strong city. Not to mention the low city walls, there is not even a single large crossbow machine. After all, Great Qin was newly established, and the surging wave of restoration of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms has always plagued the Great Qin government and the opposition.

In addition to strengthening the border defense of the Xianyang barrier, Jiuyuan and Longxi counties, many remote counties are basically in addition to the county guards directly sent by the central court of Daqin, most of the remaining county governors are selected to be local people with high moral standing as county commanders or county lieutenants.

It can be said that Great Qin's rule over many counties outside the Guanguan that were not strategically important was extremely weak. This also caused these counties to have a strong city or a strong city defense equipment, after all, as long as the city defense equipment is willing to spend time and manpower, it can be turned into siege equipment.

And if these instruments are installed on the walls of various counties, in the face of the surging wave of restoration, they may fall into the hands of the rebels at any time, and these instruments will become a sharp weapon used by the rebels to deal with the Qin army.

What's more, in order to better govern the world and suppress the surging wave of restoration of the remnants of the Six Kingdoms, all the passes, fortresses and fortified cities of the Six Kingdoms were basically demolished.

This point, the Huns may not be very clear. But Meng Hong and other generals of the Jiuyuan Army are like mirrors in their hearts. As long as this Huns break into the clouds, it can basically be said that the entire northern frontier of Great Qin is already unstoppable. With the mobility of the Hun cavalry, they could even go all the way north and then south, and many counties outside the Dasan Pass basically became the meat of the Huns.

Hearing Li Gang's words, Meng Hong did not speak.

The war is definitely going to be fought. The great general Meng Tian will definitely be able to rush to Jiuyuan City today, thinking of the arrangements and plans mentioned in Meng Tian's letter, he can't let the hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu troops leave like this.

"All the scouts in the city immediately leave the city and explore the fifty miles around Jiuyuan City." Meng Hong looked at the Hun cavalry that had already gone away, and then turned around and looked at the generals of the Jiuyuan Army behind him and said solemnly: "Listen to the order!" ”

"The last general will obey the order!"

The faces of the generals of the Jiuyuan Army were all solemn, and they shouted in unison with their fists clenched.

"General Wang Xu, lead 60,000 soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army to garrison Jiuyuan City!"

"The last general obeys!" Wang Xu is the middle-aged general who spoke earlier, and he is also Wang Gan's cousin.

"Li Gang, Meng Wei, Zhao Zhan, Meng Guo, listen to the order, the four generals immediately ordered a total of 40,000 cavalry troops from all departments, assembled at the east gate, and prepared to leave the city at any time!"

"The last general obeys!"

"Meng Zhuo, Meng Xiang, listen to orders! The two generals immediately led 80,000 foot soldiers to assemble at the north gate. Get out of town! ”

"The last general obeys!"

"The rest of the generals lead the troops and follow the order! If there is a person who disobeys the military order, the military law will be engaged! Meng Hong's eyes swept over the generals of the Jiuyuan Army.

"Whoa!" A group of generals responded in a hurry.

The Jiuyuan Army, itself has strict military discipline and prohibition. Naturally, it is impossible for anyone to deliberately disobey military orders. What Meng Hong said was just a matter of routine. Of course, if someone really disobeys military orders, it is naturally done by military law.

When the generals went down to the city to prepare, Meng Hong stood on the north city wall and watched the direction of the Hun cavalry. At this moment, Meng Hong, the Hun cavalry who had gradually moved away, could only see a few vague figures, and the roar of horses' hooves in the sky was gradually moving away.

Meng Hong knew very well that the Huns really gave up the encirclement of Jiuyuan City and wanted to go to Yunzhong this time, and they also faked the encirclement of the Qin army in Jiuyuan City.

It is true, because he saw that the high soldiers of Jiuyuan City did have the idea of giving up Jiuyuan City and plundering the Yunzhong and Yanmen counties behind Jiuyuan County, after all, Mao Dun was not stupid, even if he wanted to consume all the 300,000 Donghu cavalry used as cannon fodder, he would not be so stupidly consumed under Jiuyuan City. You must know that there are nearly 200,000 elites of the Jiuyuan Army in Jiuyuan City.

said that it was false, it was because Mao Dun knew very well that as long as he did not break through Jiuyuan City, then even if he occupied Henan and Hetao Plain, it would still be Qin sooner or later, and at the same time, even if he withdrew his troops into Yunzhong and Yanmen counties to plunder, he had to leave most of his troops at any time to guard against the possibility that the Jiuyuan Army in Jiuyuan City in the rear might come out at any time to copy his back road.

Moreover, it is obvious that the Jiuyuan army will not really hide in Jiuyuan City because they are afraid of their own Hun army. Then the reason why the Jiuyuan Army retreated in Jiuyuan City is to be discussed. Except for the imminent arrival of reinforcements from the Qin people, Mao Dun couldn't figure out why the Jiuyuan Army would act like this. Even if Meng Tian was not in Jiuyuan City, with the prestige of the Jiuyuan Army for more than ten years, no general would do such a thing that would damage the face of the Jiuyuan Army and the Qin people.

However, in the face of Jiuyuan City, which has a tall city wall and nearly 200,000 Jiuyuan troops stationed there, coupled with the advantage of the Qin army's armament, Mao Dun can only break through Jiuyuan City with all his strength with the idea of breaking the cauldron and sinking the boat. And that's just a possibility.

It is more likely that after the consumption of the Donghu cavalry, his Xiongnu army will face the overwhelming offensive of the Jiuyuan army in the city.

At that time, I am afraid that not only will Henan and the Hetao Plain not be captured, but he will also taste the first fiasco in his life.

Mao Dun, I can't afford to lose; The Huns can't afford to lose. Therefore, Mao Dun would rather withdraw his troops to more than ten counties in the northern frontier of Great Qin, such as Yunzhong and Yanmen, to plunder a circle, and then Shi Shiran would return to Wolf Juxu Mountain with the spoils of war, rather than take a risk.

The reason why Mao Dun decided to withdraw the army with half-truths and half-truths was that in the final analysis, what he hoped most was to be able to lure the Qin army defending the city out of the city. Then the two armies faced off, and he believed that the Xiongnu warriors under his command would definitely be able to deal with the Jiuyuan army that left the city.

At that time, even if the Jiuyuan Army still had soldiers stationed in the city, the 200,000 Jiuyuan Army defended the city and tens of thousands of Jiuyuan troops defended the city, and in Mao Dun's opinion, it was obviously much easier to attack the Jiuyuan City garrisoned by tens of thousands of Jiuyuan troops.

Of course, Mao Dun is also gambling, he is betting that the Jiuyuan Army will not watch his hundreds of thousands of Hun cavalry enter Yunzhong and Yanmen counties, you must know that these counties have always been the garrison of the Jiuyuan Army. If these counties are completely destroyed by themselves, it will be difficult for the Jiuyuan Army to explain to the little emperor.

It was precisely because of this thought that Maudun could slow down the advance of the army. At the same time, except for the scout cavalry who probed the surrounding dozens of miles, they did not leave any ambush around Jiuyuan City.

Mao Dun is still very confident in the Hun warriors under his command.

The scouts of the Jiuyuan Army, who came out to investigate in Jiuyuan City, quickly exchanged hands with the elite scouts of the Huns. Mao Dun and Meng Hong and others received the news almost at the same time. Mao Dun is a great joy, and Meng Hong is also a great joy.

The letter to the general Meng Tian has already been sent, and now the cavalry of the Hun brigade is more than 30 miles away from Jiuyuan City, and in addition to the Hun scouts who are constantly going back and forth to investigate the military situation around Jiuyuan City, the scouts of the Jiuyuan Army have not found any Hun cavalry.

Obviously, the Huns did withdraw cleanly.

The rumbling war drums that made people's blood boil suddenly resounded throughout Jiuyuan City.

With the sound of the drum, the east gate and the north gate of Jiuyuan City opened at the same time, and a group of Jiuyuan soldiers wearing black armor marched out of the wide open north gate with neat steps, and then lined up outside Jiuyuan City.

At the same time, the 40,000 elite cavalry of the Jiuyuan Army led by Li Gang, Meng Wu, Zhao Zhan, and Meng Guo gathered at the north gate at the same time, and quickly gathered towards the Jiuyuan Army infantry who were still lined up outside the city.

80,000 foot soldiers, a huge large repeating crossbow machine was removed from the city wall, put on the carriage and followed the brigade of foot soldiers out of Jiuyuan City.

The 80,000 soldiers of the original army who drove out of the city this time were different from the soldiers of the Qin army in the past. At least nearly 30,000 foot soldiers were armed with long geges and spears and other weapons specially used to deal with cavalry charges. Almost 60,000 of the 80,000 original infantry soldiers held a small rectangular shield in their hands, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, including a small square shield hanging from the arms of the spearmen.

At the same time, there were at least 20,000 infantry soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, holding a giant shield as high as one zhang in their hands.

The 80,000 original army foot soldiers formed three huge foot squares, arranged in a zigzag shape. 30,000 spearmen, 10,000 in each infantry phalanx, the middle infantry phalanx is composed of 10,000 spearmen and 10,000 foot soldiers with bronze swords and crossbows, and the spearmen are distributed in the front of the phalanx; On the left and right sides of the phalanx of 20,000 foot soldiers were two other foot squares.

These two infantry phalanxes have 30,000 people in one phalanx, and 20,000 spearmen are distributed in the front and left and right flanks respectively, but there are no spearmen in the places where the three phalanxes want to connect. And behind all the spearmen was a soldier of the Qin army armed with a huge shield and a bronze sword more than three feet long.

Obviously, the three phalanxes complement each other.

The Jiuyuan Army fought the most battles with the Huns, and had already explored a complete set of tactics to deal with the Hun cavalry that came and went like the wind. And all of them are extremely effective.

"Whew!"

The desolate trumpet sound suddenly sounded from above the head of Jiuyuan City.

The 80,000 foot soldiers of the Jiuyuan Army, who were originally standing quietly outside the city of Jiuyuan City, began to move slowly in the direction of the departure of the Xiongnu army in the sound of a loud sound. Immediately afterwards, the horse's hooves roared, and the 40,000 elite horsemen of the Jiuyuan Army who drove out from the east gate slowed down their horses, and closely followed the rear of the infantry phalanx of the Jiuyuan Army who were slowly moving forward.

From the sky, the 120,000 Jiuyuan Army was like a whole, crushing forward in unison. As the army moved forward, in the rumbling footsteps, the battle intent in the hearts of the 120,000 Nine Yuan soldiers was awakening little by little, and their blood was boiling little by little.

The majestic battle intent converged into a huge killing aura, soaring into the sky!

Jiuyuan Army, after more than ten years of peace, is finally about to show its edge again!

(To be continued)