King Wu is back!

King Wu was not seriously ill, but went to the Tianshui River Valley, the birthplace of the ancestors of the Qin State, to worship the kings and sages who established the Qin State.

Although this official statement makes some wise and intelligent people not believe it, it is the most acceptable for most of the people of Qin.

These days, the brutality of the Huns in Hetao has made the bloody Qin people angry one by one, and made the new Qin people in the Kwantung counties who have not long been attached to the Qin State indignant. With the increasing stability of the rule of the New Qin, the sense of belonging of the New Qin people to the Qin State is also increasing day by day, and more and more Kwantung clans believe that the Seven Civil War is a struggle between brothers; The war with the Huns was a fight between two peoples.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth.

Blood is not shed, and death is not a truce.

Drove the Huns out, and then the army of Qin drove straight in, entered Mobei, swept the Xiongnu royal court, and completely solved the scabies that had plagued the Central Plains people for many years.

October 1.

In order to deal with the large-scale attack of the Huns, the central court of Qin not only ordered the troops along the border line to move closer to the places where the war was fierce, but also recruited soldiers from all over the hinterland of Qin except Jiangdong to join the conquest army.

In terms of generals, Wang Shang and Zhong Liwu became Li Yuan's right and left hands respectively, and in terms of strategists, Li Zuoche and Lou Jing were recruited by Li Yuan into the account, and Cao Xin, a one-eyed fierce general who had been eager to go into battle to kill the enemy, was appointed as a vanguard general, and this order also made Cao Xin excited for several days.

In addition to Cao Xin, many young Qin generals also joined the sequence of the expedition, many of whom were young men who retreated to Yongqi with Li Yuan from all over Guanzhong, and among these young people, the most outstanding one was Gan Yong, the Qin general who is now standing alone in Hexi.

Gan Yong's frequent reuse has made young people like him rejoice, and they remember the glory of the former Montessori army. They aspire to be like their ancestors, to resist foreign captives, to fight against the enemy, and to become heroes who defend their homeland and country.

The army marches north!

Everywhere Li Yuan's banner went, the people of Daqin thundered, and the morale of 50,000 generals was high, and they vowed to fight with the Huns to the end.

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Good news always comes in the air!

Just as the army of Qin was marching, the battle report from the Western Regions was reported by fast horses and flying horses, in the far west of the Western Regions. The Qin cavalry that pursued the Dayue clan all the way united with the Wusun two armies, and finally fled in all directions at the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, and the desperate Dayue clan king surrounded and annihilated.

In desperation, the king of the Dayue clan surrendered to the combined forces of Qin and Wusun, but was beheaded by the king of Wusun. After struggling to move west again and again to survive, the Otsuki clan finally disappeared into the long river of history.

Wusun and Yueshi.

The grievances between the two sides have been entangled for more than 300 years, starting from the two tribes attacking each other at the foot of the Qilian Mountains in the Hexi Corridor, and then moving Wusun westward to the Tianshan area, and the Dayue clan followed and drove the Wusun people to the Ili River Valley. The process in between is only a dry text, but the real process is accompanied by the blood and tears of the Wusun people.

Faced with the enemy who took away their homeland, the Dayue clan knelt down to the Huns in humiliation, and willingly became the helpers of the Huns in their march into the Western Regions. The Wusun people chose to unite with the Qin state. Rise up against the enemy of the Otsuki clan, in this regard, King Wusun's arrogant knowledge is obviously much better than that of the Otsuki clan. This is also the name that he will leave in history, and the Otsuki clan is in addition to the name of one ethnic group. It is not even possible to know who the leader is.

The territory of the Dayue clan in the Western Regions was immediately divided between Wusun and the countries of the Western Regions, and the Qin State only stationed more than 1,500 foot soldiers in Gushi City. In order to show his existence, Qin General Ji Xin became the commander of this small army, and at the same time, he naturally became the de facto ruler of Gushi City.

The existence of the Gushi Qin army also announced that the various tribes living in the Western Regions would make a comeback at any time, and if they wanted to occupy the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains for a long time, they must regard the Qin State as dependent.

A city is a nation.

This is the status quo of a large number of small countries in the Western Regions, and Ji Xin inadvertently became the king of a small country when Tang Seng Xitian learned scriptures in Journey to the West.

Of course, such a king is not what Ji Xin wants.

Not only him, but even Li Zhongxiang, who was already the commander of the Western Regions Alliance, was dissatisfied with the fact that he had to lead a ragtag army in his military intelligence report to Li Yuan.

After receiving the news of the fall of the Dayue clan, the ambitious and thoughtful city-states of the Western Regions, such as Loulan and Shule, were overjoyed one by one, and they sent envoys one after another to contact Li Zhongxiang, an acquaintance, so that they could reach the north of the Tianshan Mountains before other countries.

To the south of the Tianshan Mountains, desert oases are dominant, and the population and size of the oases will be limited, while in the grasslands of the north, the sky is high, the sea is wide and the pasture is fertile, which can just provide the material conditions needed for population growth.

After the end of the war in the Western Regions, the Qin cavalry army that fought in foreign countries began to return, and the next defense tasks in the Western Regions were transferred to the allied forces led by Li Zhongxiang.

In the past month, Hu Yanyi has been slow to drill into the pocket of Dunhuang, and the Qin army has suffered from the inferiority of the Hun cavalry with infantry troops, and the war situation in Hexi has fallen into a state of long-term confrontation.

Now with Luo Jia, a rapid reaction force, the Qin army in Hexi finally has the confidence to compete with the Huns.

The situation on the Western Front of Great Qin gradually improved with the return of the Luo Jia cavalry.

Although Hu Yanyi is old and treacherous, he has been plundering the land of Qin for a long time, after all, it is not as convenient as his own grassland, and more importantly, the cities of Qin in the Hexi Corridor are like fortresses inlaid in chains, like the Huns can see it, but they can't eat it.

Attacking a target like the Aries Stump will not solve the supply of the huge rangers. The Huns went south, not just to give the horses a bite of fodder, but to rob the grain, wealth, and population of the Qin State, and to make reserves in all aspects for the coming harsh winter.

If the looted things were only to satisfy the usual consumption, then even if the Huns won again, they would still lose in the end.

The situation in the Yanbei area of the eastern front is not much different from that of Hexi, Han Xin's Yanbei army has taken shape after a year of training, and these young and strong people from Qidi have gradually taken on the appearance of soldiers after a winter test.

Qiu Lijin, the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, was the same as Hu Yanxie, who had suffered the lessons of the Qin army's blows, so he did not behave actively when he was ordered to attack the Qin State, and Zuihou was also forced by the Xiongnu envoys to do his best. However, Qiu Lijin still retained a hand in the selection of offensive targets.

Instead of continuing the route of the last Battle of Yanbei, he first marched westward, and then besieged the important town of Mayi at the junction of the Qin Border Army Group and the Yan Dynasty Army.

Mayi.

Located at the junction of Yunzhong County and Dai County, it has always been a battleground for soldiers.

In the 34th year of the first emperor, the Qin general Meng Tian chased the Xiongnu in the north outside the Yanmen Pass, besieged the city and raised horses, created the name of Mayi, starting from Yanmen Pass in the south and killing the tiger's mouth in the north, this "Mayi Ancient Road" extended in the south and north, forming the main traffic artery of the Central Plains and the desert and Central Asia and Europe.

Once the Xiongnu captured Mayi, they could wave their army into the hinterland of the Central Plains, sweep eastward across the land of the old Zhao, and outflank the Qin army in Yandi. To the west, it could occupy Hedong County and threaten Jinyang, Qin's largest military base.

Ma Yi is in a hurry.

The general of the Qin army guarding this city was none other than Su Jiao, the fierce general of the Qin army stationed in Yunzhong County and Hedong County after breaking away from the border army group.

This veteran general in the border army is nearly fifty years old, his face is still ruddy, and his body is even more straight, every time Li Yuan goes north and passes through Hedong, he will go to Sujiao County Mansion to sit down.

As the people grow older, there are generations of young generals, and generals like Su Jiao are the mainstay of the Qin army, Li Yuan hopes that Su Jiao can play a role in connecting the previous and the next, not only to set an example of a professional army for young people, but also to inject the traditional military soul into the army of the new Qin.

What is the military soul of the Qin army?

That is the war song sung "Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains, blood will not be shed, death will not be truce-!" This kind of indomitable spirit is the soul of the soldiers of the Qin army who move forward bravely and fight bravely.

Chulijin attacks Mayi.

In the face of the Qin general Su Jiao, who had extremely rich battlefield experience, Qiu Lijin hit his head and broke the blood, and the Huns died many people in the city of Mayi, but they were never able to lead the Su Jiao army out of the field outside the city.

Impulsiveness does not mean bravery.

After experiencing the lesson that the giant deer was defeated by the overlord Xiang Yu and almost lost his life, Su Jiao no longer had arrogance in his eyes, and more importantly, Li Yuan's appearance made him feel his gap and inadequacy in addition to being shocked again and again.

October 3rd.

Receiving the order of Li Yuan's counteroffensive, Han Xin, the general of the Qin army in Yanbei, led his headquarters out of Yuyang and Xiangping on the one hand, braved the wind and snow in late autumn, and marched to the old nest of the Xiongnu Qiuli tribe, and on the other hand, ordered the deputy general Yang Wengzi to lead an army to aid Mayi.

At the same time, in the Hetao area, the border army continued to rely on several fortified cities such as Jiuyuan and Yongquan, and held back the pace of the Huns.

On October 5, the city of Eternal Spring fell.

There are about 2,000 soldiers and civilians of the Qin State who defended the city, and when the ammunition and food were exhausted, Zuihou was killed in the battle, and after the Huns fell into the city, they set fire to the city in order to vent their personal anger.

The sky-high beacon smoke and flames rose up in the Hetao Plain, standing outside the tower of Jiuyuan City fifty miles away, and could be seen clearly.

Wang Li, the general of the border army, held the battlements in his hand, looked at the smoke from the place, and was speechless for a long time. (To be continued......)

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