Su Jiao held his head high.

The burly and sturdy back looked more confident and calm at the moment of receiving the order.

Glory is life.

The so-called fierce generals, when one enemy hundred, when invincible, when who is left to me, every battle must be the first.

In the past two years, when colleagues in the army evaluate in private, they often mention the fierce generals and brave generals in the Qin army, although they still put Su Jiao in the first place. But Su Jiao himself disagreed, when young generals like Cao Xin, Wang Shang, Jiang Yu, and Luo Jia gradually caught up, Su Jiao also felt the pressure of the juniors to catch up.

On the battlefield, using new feats to prove his strength and let those young people take a look at the strength of their predecessors is the thing Su Jiao wants to do most now.

In the past, it was not that Li Yuan did not use him, but it was impossible.

The area of Jiuyuan County in the north of the Qin State was directly facing the threat of the nomadic tribes of the Xiongnu steppe, and in the past period of time, the border army was under great pressure.

As an important member of the border army system, Su Jiao could not leave his own defense area like Menghu, so although he had the enthusiasm to fight, he never had the opportunity to use force.

This time, the opportunity finally came.

Su Jiao cherishes it very much.

This is his best chance to prove himself, and he wants to use a series of military exploits to prove that the Great Qin Border Army is the best, and the fierce generals in the Great Qin Border Army are also the most powerful.

Su Jiao had a strong fighting spirit, and so did the other generals.

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Gaonu City.

Because the invasion of the Hedong Army once again became the focus.

Located on the bank of the Wuding River, this important town in the county, in the past two years, due to the large influx of border people and gradually prospered, the rich pasture on the bank of the Wuding River has given the border people the necessities of life, a thin foal here to grow and reproduce, a teenager has also become a man who stands up to the sky here.

The arrival of Sima Mao made Meng Hu both excited and nervous.

Compared with the youth when he went out to fight in the Tiger Prison, Meng Hu is no longer an impulsive and irritable young general. He has been serving as the county guard of Shangjun for a year, and in the process of pacifying the remnants of Bai Zhai, Qing Zhai, and Guifanglou in the county, he has further strengthened the Liliang of the cavalry under his command.

After learning the news of the Hedong Army's attack, Meng Hu was not careless, and quickly issued an emergency mobilization order in the whole county, and soon the border troops scattered everywhere moved closer to Gaonu City. The size of the 4,000 standing cavalry army is indeed less than the 30,000 men of the Hedong Army, but if we take into account that all the men of the border people of appropriate age have entered the campaign, the Liliang that Menghu can expand will not be much less than the Hedong Army.

In addition, the Qin army also had a clear advantage in speed compared with the Hedong army. The Menghu Division, which was dominated by cavalry, was far faster than the Hedong Army, which fought on only two legs, in the movement war.

Of course, there are also disadvantages, in the valley areas of Gaonu and Linxia, in February and March, the barren fields of Longlong were reclaimed and recultivated, and now the bunches of wheat with long ears are nodding frequently to the farmers.

The ears are being filled.

There is no room for negligence.

Once Sima Mao found out that the plundering could not be achieved, the Hedong Army, which had lax military discipline, was very likely to take extreme sabotage measures, and from this point of view, Menghu's frontal defense task was quite strong.

Thankfully, August is the time when the river is at its most turbulent. From Pusaka in the south to Yunzhong County in the north, there are three or five suitable places for crossing the river, and as long as more precautions are taken, it will not be easy for the Hedong Army to break into Guanzhong and cause chaos.

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Large-scale abnormal movement of the Hedong Army. Let the Qin Guozaku who lurked in the song of the dynasty suddenly get excited, for the darkness where there are few shining deeds and almost all his life is spent in obscurity, one shine is enough.

Up and down the border army. The crowd is excited, ready to meet the invading enemy.

This was the first independent battle since the border army was officially merged into the Qin army, and its significance did not require Wang Liduo to mobilize. The border soldiers all know it.

As the main general who commanded this battle, Wang Li was also as eager as Su Jiao, and he had always blamed himself for the fiasco of the border army in the south last time, and he was determined to fight a beautiful turnaround battle.

The total annihilation of Sima Mao's Hedong Army was Wang Li's first step in his vision.

Next, the main force of the border army occupied the Fen River valley between the Taihang and Luliang Mountains along the Yanmen Pass Road, from north to south, thus expanding the territory of the Qin State from the first line of the Great River to the first line of the Taihang Mountains.

Wang Li's idea was put forward as early as a few years ago, and was strongly supported by Li Yuan and Chen Ping, but the conditions were not yet ripe at that time. There were Xiongnu tigers in the north, Liu Bang snooping in the south, and the Qin State was in the predicament of being enemies on all sides, and the border army at that time Liliang also looked a little thinner.

Now, the Huns suffered a meal and retreated to the depths of the steppe, Hanzhong and Bashu were also pacified, the strategic situation of the Qin State was very good, and the only deficiency was that the northern territory was somewhat narrow. If the border army marched south and took the land of Sanjin in one fell swoop, the strategic situation of Qin against the Kwantung princes would be greatly improved.

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Bet.

It's a win-or-lose game.

The Hedong army marched all the way to the west, like a swarm of locusts, and the riotous soldiers shouted to flatten one village after another, turning one place after another into piles of ruins.

This is a division of tigers and wolves.

When Sima Mao thought of this, he couldn't help but be proud.

There are many ways to train soldiers, one is drilling, and the other is murderous. When the soldiers of the Hedong Army changed from a group of young strong men to iron-blooded and ruthless murderers, the combat effectiveness of the Hedong Army was gradually improving.

"Sir, how do you look at these Hedong sons, compared to Da Zhao's athletes?" Sima Mao was triumphant and smiled at Zhang Er, who accompanied him on the expedition.

"The Hedong Army has traveled all the way west, and wherever it goes, there is no opponent, and I Zhao Dierlang is not as good as many." Zhang Er lowered his eyebrows and looked at him, and he waved in the chariot.

Zhang Er said this, but in his heart he couldn't help but despise, Sima Mao boasted of himself, training soldiers with brutal methods, if he faced weak princes such as Shen Yang and Zhao Xie, he might be able to win with a ruthless force, but if he faced the well-trained Qin army, the result could only be more fierce and less auspicious.

Originally, Zhang Er proposed that Sima Mao test the reality of the Qin army with a small force, even if he lost a few shares, it would not hurt the overall situation.

“haha。 I'm a strong athlete in Hedong! Sima Mao was triumphant. Either you don't fight, or if you want to fight, you can hit a big one. This is Sima Mao's idea, if he can take advantage of Li Yuan's serious illness to enter the hinterland of Guanzhong, his Sima Mao's name will be loud among the princes.

ambition made Sima Mao, who was already impulsive and irritable, lose his normal judgment.

And the family battle with Sima Yin made Sima Mao lose his normal heart. As soon as his mind was hot, he decided to take the brothers of the Hedong Army to fight for a future.

"There is only one man's head, and he either cut off the enemy, or he was cut off by the enemy." In the turmoil of the past against the tyrannical Qin. Sima Mao won the title and fief of King Yin.

This time, he's going to fight again in the hope of getting a bigger good. As for the dilapidated place east of the river, whoever wants it will let him go.

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Northern border of Great Qin.

The smoke rose again.

Compared with the tension of the previous Hun invasion, this time, the state apparatus of Great Qin was not greatly affected, no matter how much Sima Mao regarded himself as a figure, in the eyes of Li Yuan and Chen Ping, Sima Mao's invasion was at most a local war. It cannot be compared with heavyweight opponents such as Xiongnu Maodun, Overlord Xiang Yu, and Han King Liu Bang.

Guanzhong hinterland.

Both sides of the Weishui River.

The ears of wheat begin to fill, and the peasants, who are busy clearing the weeds, arrive in the fields early in the morning and take care of the plants that give them so much hope as if they were their parents.

It's business as usual. The prosperity is still the same, with the revival of the Qin State and the strength of the country, a group of merchants from the Western Regions, Bashu and Guandong rushed to the capital of the Great Qin State from all directions.

The construction of Chang'an New City has basically taken shape, and the music is on the original. After more than a year of construction, seven of the eight main diversion canals have been opened, and the rushing Weishui water enters the channel through the diversion port. Singing all the way through the new city, from agitated to slow, from large to small, from clear to turbid, taking away dirt and leaving clean.

Li Yuan, who had just recovered from his illness, came to the highest place in the new city - the altar due north on this day of the Mid-Autumn Festival in August to worship the sages of the Yellow Emperor and the ancestors of the Qin State.

Standing on the high platform, looking north, the Weishui that is rushing to the east is roaring, several boats are going against the current in the rapids, the boat gang has a deep draft, and the slender man on his back shouts the trumpet on the shore path, moving forward step by step.

Looking back at the city, several cross-shaped long streets have gained some popularity, and some shrewd Hu merchants have settled on the shops in the east early, and began to put rare objects brought from the far west in the shops, which attracted many merchants from the Kanto region to come to negotiate.

The value of the foreign goods from the West is extremely expensive, just like the value of the silk in the East, the division and westward migration of the Yue clan have allowed the Huns to cut off the Hexi Corridor, these Hu merchants came all the way to the east, and can only go from the south to Lop Nur Daze, and then cross the alpine grassland inhabited by the Qiang people, there is no huge profit, how can they take risks.

From west to east.

From east to west, the blending of civilizations is like a distant epic, which has never stopped after wind and rain.

Take the stage and look out.

The world is vast, and the mountains and rivers are still magnificent.

Li Yuan couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

This time he was seriously ill, and the major affairs of the court and politics were taken care of by Chen Ping, Guan Yue, Li Zheng and others, and the operation of the institution did not get out of control, which allowed Li Yuan to calm down and look back and re-examine the gains and losses of the past four years.

In the past four years, from a small soldier to the Shenwu Marquis of the Qin State, from surviving to aiming for the revival of the Qin State, he has been fighting every moment, thinking every moment, and hardly stopping. Such a persistent attitude allowed Li Yuan to cross the rapids again and again, turning danger into relief again and again, but it also made his body seriously overdrawn and his spirit to the limit.

Living again, maybe you don't need to work so hard, this serious illness made Li Yuan happy at the same time, but also changed his attitude towards future life. (To be continued......)

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