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In Gaoque City, several Hun scouts rushed out.

Zang Yan and the others hurried down according to the order, each turned back to the tribe, gathered people and horses, and waited for Mao Dun's next move.

At the military level, Maudon has always been an autocratic man. Unlike those brave men on the grassland, Mao Dun's temperament is quite ruthless, and he is very vindictive, which is why many grassland dependent tribes dare not disobey Mao Dun's orders. Other people, if the advice is in line with his heart, it will naturally be adopted, if there is no agreement, then what awaits the other party is thunder and anger, and the next tribe will have a hard time.

Over the years, I don't know how many tribes who wanted to oppose Maudun have been ruthlessly annexed, and I don't know how many men who thought they were the first warriors of the tribe had their heads cut off.

As soon as they received Mao Dun's urgent order, the Xiongnu chiefs, who were busy with their fortune plans, reluctantly gathered their subordinates, and then escorted the captured men and women to retreat.

On the banks of the Wuding River.

A large river, dividing the north and south, the Wuding River basin, has approached the north of the Qin State Pass, once the Huns occupy here, it means that the door to the Qin capital Chang'an has been opened.

The topography here is very different from that of the Hetao, with undulating ravines everywhere, dividing the ground into deep cracks, these deep rifts have gradually become the juvenile shape of the river valley after being washed by the rain for a long time, and unlike the Loess Plateau in later generations, although tall trees are rare on the plateau of this era, the landform of grassland shrubs has been preserved.

Let the Huns of the Helian tribe be blushing. Helian Bi led a group of Xiongnu rangers to lurk on the north bank of the Wuding River, his tribe was the first to enter the hinterland of Qin, and it was also the most successful of all the Xiongnu tribes.

"Order, retreat!"

Helian Bi unwillingly looked back at the herd of cattle and sheep that appeared and disappeared on the south bank in the wind and grass, if he waited a few more days, those cattle and sheep would have been the spoils of his Helian tribe.

Maudun's command. Just arrived in his hands, to be honest, for the strategy of Maudun to lure the enemy deep, Helian Bi was quite unimpressed, judging from the few confrontations with the Qin army when he entered the Hetao, the Qin people in addition to the will to fight is not bad, in addition, in the application of equipment, defending the city has some advantages, and the others can not be compared with the Xiongnu.

Helian felt that Mao Dun was a little too careful.

But. From the order of the Xiongnu royal court, Helian Bi did not dare to disobey, his tribal elite are all in this expedition, and the remaining old and weak are still left in the Beihai area, if you don't listen to Mao Dun's order, the entire tribe may be uprooted by Mao Dun.

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Chang'an gallops to Gaonu City.

The vanguard of the 10,000 Qin army was speeding along the highway from Chang'an to Jiuyuan, and Cao Xin, the Qin general who was despised by Mao Dun, rode on a war horse with a pitch-black body and only a little white hair on his forehead. At a glance, I can't help but feel suffocated.

Circumstances change with the passage of time.

After Cao Xin has experienced several ups and downs, has his temperament become calmer, will he still be as reckless and impulsive as before. The answer can only be given by Cao Xin himself.

The reason why Cao Xin was looked down upon by Mao Dun. It was because of the Longxi War that year, Li Yuan's strategy of closing the door and beating the dogs, because Cao Xin's impulsive pursuit of the Huns was too much, which caused Mao Dun to escape from Di Dao without danger.

is also Li Yuan's pro-military camp. Cao Xin belongs to the type of person who is angry and desperate, and his personality and qualifications may be determined. He can only be a fierce general who charges into battle, and cannot lead an army to fight in all directions alone like Li Zhongxiang, Wang Shang and others.

After three years of hibernation, if you don't make a sound, you will be a blockbuster.

This sentence is applied to Cao Xin, it is just right, during the period when Li Yuanxue was hidden, Cao Xin really calmed down for the first time and examined his own shortcomings.

"General, the scouts have reported that the Huns on the north bank have retreated, and in addition, they have taken tens of thousands of people captive?" A scout who had been probing the enemy rushed forward and reported urgently.

"The Huns ran away, this battle has not been fought yet, if there is no opponent, where will the credit go?" Around Cao Xin, a group of generals became agitated.

50,000 Qin troops, selected from all over the country, the guards of each county after getting the news that Li Yuan was going to lead the army to go out, hurriedly summoned the strongest soldiers under his command into the ranks, so to be able to be selected into the vanguard team, all of them are brave generals with one block of ten, and now they hear that the Huns are going to escape, and these generals are eager to do so.

"What are you anxious about, when this battle is fought, the order will go down, camp on the bank of the Wuding River tonight, and the baggage battalion will be responsible for building a bridge in case the army passes-!" Cao Xin groaned for a while and snorted coldly.

The enemy situation is unknown.

Any rash move may lead to the passivity of the entire battle situation, and before leaving, Li Yuan repeatedly instructed Cao Xinyu to think about it in advance and then make a decision.

This time, the Qin army arrived at Gaonu at the beginning, and before the Xiongnu fought, the other party was cowardly without a fight, which was very unreasonable, and the Huns also retreated north with the captured people, which seemed to be intentionally guiding the Qin army to pursue.

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Linxia.

After three days of rapid marching, the Qin army of the Northern Expedition arrived here, and the lights continued for a long time in the county order mansion where Li Yuan, the king of martial arts, was temporarily stationed.

Li Zuoche, Zhong Lifu, and Wang Shang, together with Li Yuan, were analyzing the changes in the military situation in the northern border of Qin before the case.

"General Zhongli, in your opinion, is the Huns' retreat this time true or false?" Li Yuan pointed to the enemy arrows on the sand table that were gradually shortening and asked.

"King Wu, it seems unreasonable that the Huns were cowardly before they fought. Our army must not rush into pursuit because of this, and in this regard, General Cao did a good job. Compared with the familiarity of the other two, Zhong Liwu's expression was still a little restrained, he didn't expect that Li Yuan would specifically propose to let him join the army this time.

"According to the reports of the scouts from all directions, not only the Huns in front of us have withdrawn, but in the rest of the directions, the Hun cavalry has also begun to retreat to the hinterland of the Hetao. Li Zuoche analyzed that he had been in the north for a long time, and he was more familiar with the situation of the Xiongnu.

"King Wu, since the Huns intend to retreat, this shows that they are preparing for a decisive battle with our army in the Hetao area. Maudun is very confident in his field ability, we might as well take the main force of our army as the foundation, and choose one place to hold on, so as to attract the enemy to surround us, while the rest of the troops in all directions will take this opportunity to strike at the rear of the Huns. Zhong Li's eyes were blazing.

Being in the Qin army, I knew the liliang that Li Yuan had accumulated over the years. Not to mention the mysterious Tianlei troop that time. It is the quantity and quality of cavalry in the Qin army that is not at the same level as the Chu cavalry that Xiang Yu has built up with great difficulty, from the pastures of the Tianshui River Valley, to Hexi, Longxi, Yanbei, and Hetao, the vast grasslands controlled by the Qin State have given birth to one superior war horse after another.

With a strong background, the defeat of the State of Qin by the State of Chu was also a success, and now in the face of the Huns, a strong sense of pride suddenly rose in Zhong Liwu's heart.

"General Zhongli, Henan is flat. It is not easy to defend the palace, and Mao Dun should have thought of this, so he chose to fight our army in the Hetao. Wang Shang carefully searched the terrain and mountains around the Hetao, and said with a disappointed face.

"Martial King. The terrain is unfavorable, we can create favorable terrain, and those baggage chariots in the rear army, if they can be gathered and used. It didn't take long to form a large defensive array, and with the cover of the shield soldiers in the army, the scattered cavalry of the Huns wanted to break through the formation of our army. It's not easy. Zhong Liwu said confidently.

The Chu people lack horses.

This created Zhong Liwu's attainments in the command of chariots, and chariots, an ancient type of troops, gradually withdrew from the battlefield after Hufu cavalry shooting.

However, in some specific battlefield environments, the vehicle can play an important role.

"General Zhongli, I'll leave it to you about the arming and training of the chariot formation. The rest of the ministries, from now on, will cooperate with General Zhongli's troops. After a little hesitation, Li Yuan nodded in approval of Zhong Liwu's thoughts.

To completely solve the problem of the invasion of the Huns, it is far from enough to rely on one or two strikes, the Xiongnu tribes occupy the initiative in the attack, and the Qin army can only be in a passive defensive posture at present. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity of Maudun's arrogance to give the Huns a heavy blow is the most ideal decision.

"The last general will obey the order of King Wu." Zhong Li's solemn face showed a burst of red tide. He had always been calm-hearted, but after hearing Li Yuan adopt his advice and appoint him as the general of the chariot unit, he finally couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.

Among the generals of the Chu State, he was the one who fought to Zuihou.

Among the generals of the Chu army, the unit that killed and injured the Qin army the most was his Changshan army.

It stands to reason that he was able to save a life after the fall of the Chu State, and it was a great luck that he could be reused by the Qin State, wasn't it a general like Ding Gong and Zhou Yin who defected to the Qin State from the beginning?

This is not the case.

Ding Gong and Zhou Yin were sent to Jiangdong to hunt down the remnants of Xiangzhuang, this task seemed normal, Ding and Zhou Erren seemed to be reused by the Qin State, but in the eyes of a battlefield general like Zhong Liwu, it was just the opposite.

The Huns were rampant.

The main forces of the Qin army were constantly leaning towards the northern border, and in this case, it was obvious that the generals who had Li Yuan's trust would be sent to the north to participate in the war, while Ding Gong and Zhou Yin remained in Jiangdong. What surprised him even more was that Li Yuan also specially sent Lou Jing to talk about it and persuade him to join the army of the Northern Expedition.

An excellent general, from training to growth to maturity, the process is very long, just like Wang Shang and Luo Jia, who followed Li Yuan for nearly eight years before he got rid of the initial youth and gradually had a little temperament of a famous general.

In the face of the great enemy of the Huns, Zhong Liwu is such a talent, Li Yuan naturally can't let it be wasted, but with Zhong Liwu's personality and temperament, he will definitely refuse the civil war, and if there is a foreign war, he can't refuse.

Great man.

In the face of the alien race that invaded his homeland, he didn't want to be aggressive and resist, but he sighed leisurely all day long, Zhong Liwu was not such a person who moaned without illness, which Li Yuan believed in his vision. The best way to get Zhong Li to return to his heart is to recruit him to join the army when he resists the invasion of foreign enemies. (To be continued......)