Since the twenty-sixth year of the First Emperor, the First Emperor, who had just unified the six countries, turned his attention to the northern frontier that he had no time to take into account in the unification war, and ordered the young general Meng Tian to lead a large army to the north to resist the Xiongnu who repeatedly violated the border at that time. After Meng Tian arrived in the north, he had a fierce war with the Xiongnu under the command of Toumandanyu, and won several great victories, successfully curbing the momentum of the Xiongnu's southern invasion. In the 33rd year of the first emperor, he led an army of 300,000 to go out of the fortress, and a big battle severely damaged the main force of the Huns.

In the following four years, the Great Qin was strategically on the offensive in the north, with tens of thousands of troops wandering outside the Great Wall, taking turns to carry out uninterrupted attacks on the Huns, so that they did not dare to go south. In the face of the continuous attacks of the Qin people, the Xiongnu had no choice but to constantly move north to avoid the blows of the Qin army. Since then, the Hu people did not dare to go south and herd horses, and the soldiers did not dare to bend their bows and complain.

Then the offensive and defensive situation changed again in the 37th year of the first emperor, hearing that the first emperor was dead and Meng Tian had lost power, the Huns thought that the long-awaited time for revenge had come for a long time. The Xiongnu spent a lot of money to tie up with Donghu, and they stopped fighting with their troops and made an appointment to go south together. Touman sent an envoy again, ordering the Aries tribe and the Loufu tribe, which had been wandering in Monan, to gather troops to attack Qin.

At this time, Daqin was already in crisis.

In the past, when the first emperor was there, every time he fought with the Xiongnu, it was the power of the whole country. And this time the Qin-Hun War became a war between the Northern Army and the Huns.

In order to gather grain and grass, Wang Li ordered grain control in the north, and there was an official government to collect grain and grass and sell it, and traders were not allowed to trade privately. He also sent a large army south to obtain grain from the government from the surrounding counties of Taiyuan, Hengshan, and Guangyang, and at the same time urgently requested grain and grass support from Xianyang.

Taiyuan, Hengshan, and Guangyang are inland counties, and they are not under the control of the Northern Army. Yue Qian went south to get grain without the emperor's edict, and the officials of the three counties naturally did not cooperate. Yue Qian has Wang Li's handsome order with him, how can he be willing to reason with such a civil official, directly set up troops to grab food, and even kill officials who are stubborn and inflexible. For a time, the reputation of the Northern Army's flying and domineering spread throughout Daqin, and the impeachment appeal flew to Xianyang like snowflakes.

At this time, the new imperial court of Xianyang was silent, and did not make any punishment for the arrogant momentum of the northern army, even a little reprimand on paper.

The imperial court seems to feel that these 300,000 arrogant soldiers and fierce generals cannot be dealt with with by them with a single order and an edict of reprimand. When Meng Tian was in office, his loyalty made many people ignore the great strength of the Northern Army, and after Meng Tian was imprisoned, the Northern Army was like a beast that had lost its cage control, and the arrogance it exuded made Xianyang feel terrified. They were horrified to find that Great Qin actually didn't have any force that could restrain this beast.

For a while, the hearts of Xianyang people fluctuated, and Meng Tian, who was originally imprisoned in Yangzhou, suddenly appeared in people's field of vision again, and the magnates ignored the ban and went to visit.

In the Xianyang Palace, Zhao Gao and Li Si were relatively silent, and now this situation has exceeded their expectations. Zhao Gao originally thought that he could eat Wang Li to the death and take him for his own use, but unexpectedly, the Xiongnu went south in a big way at this time, and the change in the situation in a hurry caught him off guard.

Since the Shang Dynasty reformed the law, the mechanism of the Great Qin Dynasty was that the state apparatus served the war, and the generals of the unified army had great autonomy in wartime, and they could refuse to obey the dispatch of the imperial court under the pretext of 'the general is outside, and the monarch's order is not subject to it'. Moreover, the Northern Army had been in the Northland for nearly ten years, and it had already formed its own system, and the initial emperor only relied on his prestige and Meng Tian's loyalty to Great Qin to firmly control this army.

It's a pity that Hu Hai is not the first emperor, he does not have the momentum of his father's 'first emperor through the ages'. Wang Li is not Meng Tian, he does not have Meng Tian's fierce loyalty, nor does he have Meng Tian's prestige and reputation.

After discussing for a long time, Zhao Gao and Li Si finally made a decision. The imperial court issued an edict to several northern counties to fully cooperate with the northern army to collect grain and grass, and at the same time, Xianyang requisitioned and dispatched people to transport grain and grass to Shangjun.

Yu Gong, the northern army is the barrier of Great Qin, if the northern army is defeated, then more than a dozen counties in the north will be completely eroded, and Xianyang will be under the horses of the Huns. Yu Private, Zhao Gao and Li Si didn't want to be too stiff with the Northern Army, and Wang Li could still fight for this person.

After the edict of the second emperor was issued, Wang Li had already raised enough grain and grass for 200,000 troops in Fushi for March, and obtained the guarantee of grain and grass from Xianyang, so he was scheduled to swear an expedition on the eighth day of October.

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On the prairie outside the city, the mighty 140,000 troops have been assembled. Wang Li showed unprecedented courage this time, and gathered all the garrisons of the middle army, the front army, the left army, the right army, and the upper county, totaling 60,000 cavalry battalions, 80,000 infantry battalions, and more than 1,000 charioteers.

In the center of the huge military array, Wang Li and Su Jiao, Shijian and other generals stood on the point general platform that had been temporarily set up the day before yesterday, looking at the hundreds of thousands of tiger soldiers under the stage.

Wang Li looked up at the sky, and it was already three poles in the sun, so he mustered up all his strength and shouted loudly: "The oath begins!" ”

On the high platform next to the general platform, the huge war drums were hung high, and several naked men smashed the big drum with all their might, and the drum sound was deafening. Under the stage, dozens of horns were erected by several soldiers, and the sound of the horns resounded in the sky.

The knights tightened their reins and rode their panting horses slowly@ forward. The foot soldiers lined up in a neat phalanx, shouting slogans and marching in unison. In front of the huge chariot, the high-headed war horse with a loud nose was already covered in heavy armor, revealing only the big brass bell horse@ eyes and the hot mouth of the horse, and the royal hand and wrestler on the chariot were also heavily armoured, and the rook drove the chariot to gallop past the front of the formation, and the wrestler held their heavy halberd and crossbow machine tightly.

Wang Li on the stage couldn't help but feel agitated when he saw that the army was so powerful, and he only felt that with such a tiger in his hands, there was nothing else in the world that he couldn't establish. His grandfather and father only relied on this tiger army to have great feats, and now he can do the same.

Wang Li stretched out his hand high, and the sound of drums and trumpets immediately stopped, and the army stopped in unison, and they all stopped and looked at Wang Li.

Wang Li looked up at the sky, waved his shirt and knelt down, and knelt down with a brush behind him, Wang Li's voice ran through the sky:

"Vast sky, bless my Qin army!"

"Spirits of the Underworld, help me with divine might!"

"The Son of Heaven swears to the army, and law enforcement is like a mountain!"

"Those who obey orders will be rewarded, and those who disobey orders will be beheaded!"

As soon as Huayin fell, a man dressed as a civil official on the stage said loudly; "Please Son of Heaven Sword." One of the soldiers stepped forward, raised his sword in his hand, and knelt down before the king.

Wang Li stood up, took the sword with both hands level, and with a 'clang' sound of the sword unsheathed, he held the sword and said sharply, "According to the edict of the Second Emperor, the Northern Expedition to the Huns, all the soldiers and soldiers of the army should move forward bravely. ”

The crowd of shouts from the audience sounded, and the soldiers all raised their weapons and shouted loudly. The Qin people's desire for war far exceeded that of any other dynasty or country, and they longed for victory and merit in exchange for the heads of their enemies.

The military song sounded like thunder, and every soldier sang in unison;

How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear. Enmity with the Son.

How can you say that you have no clothes? With the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my spear halberd. Work with the child.

How can you say that you have no clothes? with the Son. Wang Yuxingshi, repair my armor soldiers. Walk with the son.

Wang Li's raised hand waved down heavily, "Teacher!" ”

The mighty 140,000 army marched north, and the momentum was certainly not trivial. The army stretched for dozens of miles, and Han Xin followed the right army in the middle of the ranks.

Because it is still in the territory of Shangjun and still belongs to the hinterland of Great Qin, the advance of the army is not so strict.

Han Xin was on his horse, a little absent-minded.

After saying those words to Ying Ke last time, she never looked for Han Xin again. Originally, Han Xin wanted to go to Wang Li's mansion to bid her farewell the day before yesterday, but looking at the golden plaque and the endless flow of carriages and horses in front of Wang Li's mansion from a distance, he couldn't help but retreat, hesitated in front of the door for a long time, and didn't go forward after all.

If you say that you don't have a good feeling about winning at all, you must be deceiving yourself. It's just that Han Xin never forgot the tearful look in his eyes when he watched him leave, and whenever he thought about it, his heart always ached. As for winning, it is more out of sympathy for the same disease. Han Xin didn't know Ying Ke's intentions for her, but he was already too heavy and heavy, and Miao Yi was waiting for him, so he could only pretend to be deaf and dumb to Ying Ke.

If you really let it go if you win, that's fine. She was originally the princess of Daqin, the proud daughter of the sky, but she was just a poor boy from a humble background. He was willing to agree to escort Ying Ke to the north, also in order to use her identity to find a good future for himself.

Thinking of this, Han Xin comforted himself and said: Since they are just using each other, then this result is already the best.

Although I think so, I am inevitably a little depressed. Fortunately, after the army left Upper County, when it arrived in Kuhara County, the march began to become cautious. The scouts and cavalry were everywhere, and the ranks were strictly in accordance with the standards of the Qin army when fighting.

As the Marquis of Qu, Han Xin naturally will not be easy, he has to patrol the team at all times, and arrange the marching tent when he sets up camp, so that he has no time to think about those things about the love of his children.

The army crossed the old Great Wall and entered the Kuhara Prefecture. This was originally the Great Wall of Daqin, the first emperor 33 Meng Tian took the land of Henan, and put Jiuyuan County in this way, then pushed the Great Wall to the north for more than 700 miles, the old Great Wall here was abandoned, just as the dividing line between Jiuyuan and Shangjun.

After three days of marching in Jiuyuan County, Zhao's rear army made peace with the army. Han Xin saw that the right army was a little embarrassed, and the soldiers and equipment seemed to be damaged, so he guessed that the rear army might have encountered a fierce battle outside the Great Wall.

Two days later, he entered Jiuyuan County to govern Jiuyuan City, and after a day of rest, the army continued to turn northwest, and most of the Jiuyuan County soldiers accompanied him. On the way, he met the commander of Yunzhong County, Han Li, who came from the clouds, and the army was nearly 200,000, with flags covering the sun, horses like thunder, and crossed the Great Wall from the clouds and appeared on the grassland.