The Spring and Autumn Period in Hedong belonged to the Jin Dynasty, and the latter three families belonged to Han, Wei, and Zhao. In the fourth year of King Xiang of Qin Zhuang, Qiang Qin, who had just experienced the Shang Dynasty reform, crossed the river and collected a large area of territory in the east of the river, and took the ancient city of Jinyang as the county to govern Taiyuan County, and governed seven counties of Jinyang, Jiexiu, Wu, Zishi, Lishi, Yuci and Huoren.

After Xiang Yu became the hegemon, he divided the world, and in order to take revenge on Zhao Xie who was watching from the wall, he forcibly moved him from the king of Zhao to the acting king, abolished the Zhao state and established the acting country, which made Zhao Xie and millions of Zhao people all hold grudges. You must know that in the past, Zhao was the only country known for its elite soldiers and strong generals outside of Qiang Qin, and the Zhao people were mostly proud of martial arts and respected by strong Zhao, but Xiang Yu did not care about the face of the Zhao people and abolished the Zhao State, which was undoubtedly a great insult to the Zhao State that established the country by force.

What made Zhao Xie even more resentful was that although Xiang Yu treated him well on the surface, he gave him the four counties of Taiyuan, Daijun, Yanmen and Yunzhong, making him seem to have the largest feudal state except Xiang Yu. But the problem is that Yanmen and Yunzhong have always been under the control of the Northern Army, but Xiang Yu divided these two counties to Zhao Xie, which shows his intentions. Afraid of Xiang Yu's strong strength, Zhao Xie had no choice but to swallow his anger and move the royal city from Handan to Jinyang, and tried to attack the northern army twice to seize the fief, but was defeated by Wang Jing.

This also forced Zhao Xie to give up the development to the north, and instead concentrated on the Changshan State, which was established by Zhang Er in the south with the three counties of Handan, Hengshan, and Julu. He knew that it would definitely not be enough to rely on his own strength to deal with Xiang Yu, so he sent a secret envoy to contact Tian Rong and Han Guang, who were also demoted, and made an appointment to raise troops together. What was somewhat surprising was that the former enemy Qin State also sent envoys to form an alliance, which made Zhao Xie really embarrassed.

You must know that Qin and Zhao have a feud, and the first battle of Changping was even more mourning for the whole country, and the entire Zhao State hated Qin to the core. But things have changed, but the Qin State, which was extremely powerful in the past, has been forced to retract into Guanzhong, and the strongest and domineering person in the world has become Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu. Therefore, under Chen Yu's persuasion, Zhao Xie finally let go of his knot and decided to secretly form an alliance with Qin to fight Xiang Yu to recover Zhao's former territory.

Therefore, the Qin people did not stop the Zhao army from going south, but the Xiongnu army that followed caught Zhao Xie off guard. In the minds of the barbaric Huns, there was no difference between the Qin and the Zhao, both of whom could be used to plunder. In fact, even Mao Dun didn't think about treating Zhao differently, he simply issued a military order to destroy all obstacles that could stop the advance of the Xiongnu army.

When the fierce cavalry of the Xiongnu rushed into Taiyuan County, the Zhao people panicked. The county town with a city wall can still hide from the plundering of the Huns, but the villages and towns without any support are miserable and have become a place for the Huns to plunder and kill.

The counties of Hebei are different from the land of northern Xinjiang, most of the counties in northern Xinjiang are established by the army, the border people are either fighting or grazing and rarely engage in farming, and most of the grain and grass rely on the supply of Guanzhong and the Central Plains of Hebei, so the counties of northern Xinjiang are barren and have no oil and water to fish. But Taiyuan County is different, it belongs to the interior and is mostly cultivated, and it is naturally not comparable to the poor northern Xinjiang, which also makes the Huns excited, and they scream and kill one by one. Even regardless of casualties, they stormed Lishi County, burned and looted Lishi, all the adult men were killed, and the women were thrown into carriages and sent back to the grassland.

At this time, Zhao Xie, who was hiding in Jinyang, couldn't help but complain, Taiyuan is now where his foundation is, but he was wantonly looted by the Huns, how can this not make him feel distressed. He originally thought that the Huns were only going to deal with the Northern Army and several counties in northern Xinjiang, and he, as a third-party force, the Huns would definitely not venture to war with him, but where would he have thought that in the eyes of the Huns, all the Central Plains people were enemies, and they had no intention of negotiating at all, but used the most direct burning, killing and looting to read out the naked hostility.

Zhao Xie saw that his people were killed one after another but there was nothing to do, the troops in his hands were only more than 100,000, if he was dragged out of the city to fight with the Huns in the field, it would undoubtedly be sent to death, so he had to order all the troops to retreat into the city, ignoring the Qin and Huns who had been against him in the past.

The red-eyed Xiongnu departments have already forgotten the military order issued by Mao Dun to pursue the Qin army, and some tribes even did not hesitate to fight with each other in order to grab the spoils of war, which made Mao Dun, who was in the rear, angry when he heard it, and personally led the army to deal with the three tribal leaders who did not respect the military order, which made the Xiongnu leaders who were addicted to robbery contain their fanaticism, and turned reluctantly according to the order to chase the Qin team that was fleeing towards the west river.

The scattered Xiongnu armies, which had become somewhat chaotic due to the plundering everywhere, became Han Xin's prey. Taiyuan County used to be the territory of the Qin State, and the cases reported by various counties in the Xianyang Palace were piled up, including the detailed topographic map of the seven counties of Taiyuan, which gave Han Xin more geographical advantages out of thin air.

Outside Jiexiu County, the right part of the Xiongnu Zuoxian King, who was burning and looting with excitement, was successfully ambushed by the iron cavalry of the Qin army, and the full 24,000 Huns were rushed and defeated by the 40,000 iron cavalry of the Qin army who were ready to attack under the city of Jiexiu. One minute ago, they were still smiling at the looting Huns in the Zhao village, but a minute later they turned into headless flies scurrying around, Han Xin, Yingbu and Mengshi each led an army to rush from three sides, quickly crushing the Huns' hasty resistance into powder,

Yingbu and Mengshi, who had already been holding back their anger, were crisscrossing and killing among the Huns, and in less than a quarter of an hour, the Hun army was completely annihilated, and only some scattered routs escaped. The Zhao people, who were watching the raiding of the Hun army in fear at the head of Jiexiu City in the distance, couldn't help but raise their arms and shout, cheering for the former enemy Qin army, and also making the Zhao army in the city disgraced and ashamed.

The counterattack of the Qin army also made the Huns understand that the Qin people were not meek sheep waiting to be slaughtered, they were like cunning poisonous snakes, dodging and evading everywhere, but from time to time they launched a fatal blow quickly and agilely. After learning the news of the annihilation of the Xiongnu army, the plundering frenzy of the Xiongnu army was stopped. Because they were afraid of repeating the fate of the Xiongnu, the various departments gathered their forces to get closer to each other, and instead pursued the Qin people according to Maodun's military orders.

Han Xin also saw that it was difficult to succeed in the sneak attack of the army, so he divided the team into a dozen teams, large and small, and suddenly killed from the mountains and forests, from the river bank, and from the high ground with his understanding of the terrain, so that the unprepared Huns were killed and wounded, and then retreated calmly along the original road before the Huns reacted, but the Huns could not catch up because they were not familiar with the terrain.

Because of the hatred of the Huns for burning, killing and looting, the Zhao people in the north were also willing to be guides for the Qin people, pointing out a series of mountain and forest trails that were not easy to walk but were extremely hidden, so that the Qin army was like a fish in water.

Taiyuan County is half mountainous and half plain, the further south you go, the more mountains there are, and there are mountain streams and rivers in less than dozens of miles, which makes the Huns who are accustomed to riding horses and galloping on the grassland have a headache. The Qin people who fled west on foot were not blindly fleeing, and whenever they arrived at a precipitous place, Wang Jing always left more than 1,000 people to rely on the terrain to block, and often in order to capture a small canyon, the Huns had to pay thousands of deaths. In this way, the Huns with horsepower could not catch up with the Qin team that fled on their legs, and it was extremely difficult to advance, not to mention that there was a sneak attack team of the Qin army that was tightly entangled like a bone appendage.

After the elite cavalry of the Huns entered the hilly land, they were like wild beasts trapped in a cage, with no place to exert their brute strength, only to jump like thunder in the same place. Mao Dun was also helpless about this, his original ambition to conquer the Central Plains was like being poured cold water on his head, he had to face up to the shortcomings of the Hun cavalry, and secretly determined to return to the grassland after making great efforts to improve and strengthen.

But now, if he is asked to give up the fat that once came to his mouth and no longer pursue him, he is unwilling, which is related to the face of the Huns. Maodun, who originally reached the peak of his prestige by destroying Donghu, would have disappointed many people if he had returned from the southern expedition in vain and had lost his troops. Although he had seized several counties in northern Xinjiang and turned these former Qin territories into Xiongnu pastures, this obviously did not satisfy his ambitions.

His ambition is as high as the sky and as vast as the sea, but wherever the iron horse can tread, it should be the pasture of the Huns!

There is still hope in Mao Dun's heart, so many Qin people must need a large number of ferries to cross the river, and when crossing the river at that time, the Qin people will definitely be in chaos, and this is the opportunity for the Huns. Therefore, despite the opposition of his subordinates, he still insisted on continuing the pursuit and refused to let go of the Qin people.

On the land east of the river, two black tides suddenly competed with each other, chasing one after the other, one in front of the other, and they were always separated from each other by a distance of tens to hundreds of miles. Mao Dun became more and more cautious under the frequent sneak attacks of the Qin army, and the tactics of the Qin army coming and going like the wind were difficult to gain any successes, but under the defense of the Huns, many men and horses were lost. Han Xin gave up his plan to attack the Huns, and instead regrouped his army and merged with Wang Jing's brigade.

After nearly half a month of fleeing, the retreat of the Qin people finally came out of the hilly land, and in front of them was a large plain washed between the great river and the Fenshui. Further on, there is the mighty south-facing river, as long as the river is crossed, it is the hometown of all the Qin people in the north - Guanzhong.

It only takes to cross the river, and the great escape of thousands of miles of tragedy will end in victory.

But everyone's face was not relaxed, because leaving the mountains and hills meant that the Hun army was no longer in the way. Han Xin had already sent a skilled soldier to swim across the river and report to the Qin people on the other bank. According to the plan made when He Meng Jian left Guanzhong, there should be a large fleet of ships on the opposite bank waiting for the withdrawn Qin people at this time.

But the problem is that it takes at least a day to go back and forth, and the iron cavalry of the Huns is a hundred miles away, and it can be reached in half a day at most, so it is necessary to leave the broken team to buy more than half a day for the brigade.

There is a canyon at the end of the mountain range that runs through the whole territory of Taiyuan, but this canyon is extremely wide and has a distance of thousands of zhang, and if the Qin army wants to hold this place for half a day, it will need at least 30,000 phalanxes. And the most important thing is the blocking in the past few months, the loss of crossbow machines and large shields in the Qin army is extremely serious, and it is now difficult to assemble a complete phalanx.

In the case of a confrontation, the only thing the infantry could rely on against the cavalry was the phalanx. Without a complete phalanx, the foot soldiers would undoubtedly become vain ghosts under the knight's saber.

Even if the broken Qin army can rely on courage and determination to entangle the Xiongnu army, it will definitely not be able to escape the fate of the annihilation of the entire army, and the Qin army will not be able to bear the loss of tens of thousands of people no matter what.

The generals looked at each other, but none of them could come up with a solution. Han Xin also frowned, looking at the canyon in the distance and was silent for a long time.

Half a day, at most half a day, the Huns will arrive, so no matter what, we must come up with a way, we must, otherwise the previous work will be wasted. The painstaking efforts of the past two months have been completely wasted, and the deaths and injuries of tens of thousands of Qin troops will be meaningless, and this riverside will become a place where 400,000 Qin people and Qin troops will die.

It was already late autumn and the weather was getting cooler, but Han Xin's forehead was densely covered with beads of sweat the size of beans. As time passed, he became more and more anxious, but there was still nothing he could do in his heart.

Could it really be that only by letting all the Qin troops die here can the Qin people be safely evacuated to Guanzhong?

Wang Jing and the others had no choice at all, they just looked at Han Xin, hoping that he, who was usually scheming, could create another miracle, but unfortunately Han Xin's expression disappointed everyone.

There was a dead silence, Meng Shi was young and vigorous after all, and he couldn't bear the unhappiness in his heart and slammed his fist on the tree next to him, and said hatefully: "It would be great if there was a pass here, and we didn't need to waste so much energy, you said that His Majesty the First Emperor built roads and passes everywhere, why don't you build a pass in this place, even if it's a small pass!" ”

Han Xin's body was shocked, he raised his head to look at Meng Shi, and shouted loudly; "What did you say?"

Seeing Han Xin's face twitching, Meng Shi looked at himself with bloodshot eyes, and couldn't help but take a step back with some cringe, and whispered; "I didn't say anything, General, don't be angry with me, it's a big deal that I won't speak."

Han Xin ignored him at all, but grabbed the hem of his clothes and asked; "I asked you what you just said."

Meng Shi saw that his expression didn't look like he was blaming himself, so he said a little inexplicably; "I just said it would be nice if there was a pass, what's wrong with that?"

Han Xin was stunned for a moment, and then looked up to the sky and laughed, as if he was crazy, and his voice was full of joy. "I've got a way!"

"Quick, summon the craftsman among the generals."

A middle-aged man with a long honest relationship knelt down respectfully and kowtowed; "The villain will be Feng Chuan, see the general, see the general, see the generals."

"Feng will be invited." Han Xin had regained his composure at this time, and looked at Feng Chuan as usual and said, "Feng Jiangzuo, have you ever had the experience of building a pass before?" ”

Feng Chuan nodded and said respectfully; "Back to the general, the villain has supervised the construction of several passes and beacon towers in Shanggu and Yuyang, and there is still no shortage of experience."

Han Xin pointed to the valley road in the distance; "If you were to build a pass there, would you be able to do it?"

Feng Chuan looked at what Han Xin was pointing at, and silently thought about it in his heart before replying; "It's a good place to build a pass, and I'm confident I can do it if I have enough manpower, but it will take at least two months."

Han Xin shook his head, his smile a little weird. "General Feng misunderstood you, I didn't ask you to build a pass that could fight, but a pass that looked like a pass."

Feng Chuan was slightly stunned, and then asked with some puzzlement; "What do you mean by this, the lower officials are stupid, and some don't understand it."

"Simple, I don't need this pass to fight, as long as the Huns look decent and dare not attack, and of course, people can stand on the city wall."

Feng Chuan understood a little at this time, and said after thinking about it; "If it's just a bluff, you can make a shelf of solid wood, and cover it with cowhide and horse leather to pass off as a city wall, and the battlements and the female wall can be made of sand, but this kind of wall can only barely stand people, I'm afraid that even a bow and arrow can't resist it, and I think a few horses will collapse under the impact."

"Okay, I want you to create such a barrier for me, how long will it take you."

Feng Chuan thought for a while, and then said: "There are many brothers under my command in the evacuation team this time, as well as craftsmen from other counties, there should be five or six thousand." If they were all recruited, I think one day and one night would be enough. ”

Han Xin stretched out his ten fingers and said in a deep voice; "I'll give you twice as many men and ten times as many people, can you do it in five hours?"

"If you want to know whether we can safely withdraw to Guanzhong, it's in your hands."

Feng Chuan gritted his teeth and said; "Okay, I'll give up my life, general, please rest assured, the villain will be completed."

Craftsmen and sturdy people were quickly mobilized, and the entire valley was covered with dust, and a huge construction brigade of tens of thousands of people was frantically building a fragile pass, and a barrier about five meters high was added out of thin air in the canyon about a thousand feet long.

From mid-afternoon until dawn, the construction brigade toiled almost sleeplessly, and huge trees were dragged down the hill and sawn into hard planks to form wooden frames. Hundreds of bonfires were lit in front of the valley, illuminating the entire site as if it were daylight. Therefore, people are working hard, because everyone knows in their hearts that this is related to their lives.

When the iron cavalry of the Huns arrived in front of the valley after the Ming Dynasty, a tall checkpoint had been erected in front of them, and 20,000 Qin soldiers with crossbows and halberds had already stood at the head of the city.

However, no one among the Huns noticed that the Qin soldiers at the head of the city were all pale, and many of them even trembled slightly!

PS: Sorry for being late today because of a little personal issue. The relationship of more than two years is officially over today, and my head has been very messy, and it is difficult to calm down and write, so I'm sorry. There will be no emotional fetters in the future, presumably Jiangnan will be more attentive, hehe.