Maudun was full of confidence.

In addition to Zang Yan's dark line under the Hetao, he also got an "unexpected" good news.

Li Yuan, the Shenwu King of the Qin State, who has always been physically strong and likes to patrol around, has not appeared in front of people for more than two months, and it is rumored that Li Yuan is very likely to get seriously ill, and it is not known whether he will live or die now.

Chang'an City.

Since July, the gate of the Shenwu Palace's palace has not been opened for a long time, and the closed door and the solemn-looking Praetorian Guard soldiers guarding the door have made the people of Chang'an feel an unusual atmosphere.

"King Wu, what's wrong? Why haven't you seen him in months? ”

"I heard that King Wu is sick, or the kind of malaria that can contag people, haven't you found it? Some time ago, the Prime Minister's Office urgently issued an edict to recruit doctors from various counties to come to Guanzhong. ”

"This, if King Wu has three long and two short, wouldn't my Great Qin be bad, don't say the Hun barbarians in the north, even the country has just stabilized, and south of the Great River, there are still remnants of Shili who are resisting."

A question gradually shrouded the hearts of the people of Chang'an, and in the uneasiness of day by day, they were extremely eager that the door of the Shenwu Palace's mansion would suddenly open one day.

September 4th.

The arrival of the scout's fast horse, which galloped into Chang'an City from Hetao, finally broke the silence of the capital, and the Qin general Cao Xin, who was in charge of guarding the Shenwu Palace, welcomed the scout out out and took the sweaty scout inside.

What is strange is that after the scout who delivered the letter entered, he never came out again, and then, the number of people in and out of the Shenwu King's Mansion increased significantly.

"King Wu, is it really not good?"

"How is this possible, King Wu is just young and strong, how can he suddenly become seriously ill and die-!" Chang'an Fangfang. The people were panicked, and all kinds of rumors began to spread non-stop.

There are many spies.

The prosperity of Chang'an, while bringing countless wealth, also made it extremely difficult to clear the enemy's secrets, and in this regard, Yan Le's Zhijing Division had done quite well. Some Hu Shang, who had a lot of suspicious points and had suspicious signs in his words, had been put under surveillance by the Yejing Division.

The Huns, who felt the tense atmosphere, breathed a sigh of relief while transmitting "urgent" information. For these businessmen who are both Jia and spies, it is an unacceptable move to complete the affairs assigned by the Huns, and as a successful businessman, they also need to think more about themselves.

The sky is high and the sea is vast, since Li Yuan can no longer effectively govern this country, then the Qin State will inevitably be in turmoil in the future, and for Hu Shang, who has a huge amount of wealth, choosing a peaceful place is the most important matter.

Is Li Yuan really seriously ill?

The answer is mysterious. During this period of time, the state politics, military and other aspects of the Qin State were running in an orderly manner, and it seemed that Li Yuan's absence had much impact.

Among the important officials in the Qin dynasty, Li Zheng and Chen Ping were all there. As for Jishu-type officials like Peng Sheng, the second division of the soldiers, it seems that they do not have much influence in their presence or absence.

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The abnormal movements of the Huns, with the large-scale southward movement of the tribes, gradually lost their concealment. Of course, after completing the initial strategic mobilization, Mao Dun wondered if Qin could perceive his intentions. There are no longer many scruples.

The army is mobilized.

With the mobilization capacity of this era, it will take at least a month and a half, and a month and a half later, the Xiongnu army has already drunk Mayin Mountain and occupied this rich grassland of Qin.

The situation in the Hetao is getting tighter day by day.

On the gallop road from Jiuyuan to Chang'an. Stagecoach horses come and go, the Huns from the north of the desert through the Hanhai desert, through Longcheng, the outpost appeared in the Yinshan area, although the Qin army scouts can not find out the exact news, but from the yellow sheep herd, wild horse herd of abnormal migration, experienced scouts still perceive the change.

Zang Yan developed his eyeliner in the Qin army on the border, and similarly, among the Huns, the Qin State also had their chess pieces, and when Bai Guangji was in charge of the Military Intelligence Department, the Qin army scouts mainly spying on intelligence, that is, pretending to be traders or other small tribes, and mixing into the Xiongnu departments.

After Meng Hu succeeded him to take over the Military Intelligence Department, the general of the Qin army, who was more familiar with the situation in the north, in addition to continuing to follow Bai Guangji's practice, also sent several squads of scouts out of the Great Wall to search for traces of the Huns.

Seeing is believing, hearing is false.

Rather than the information he received from the Huns, Menghu preferred to believe what his scouts had really seen. It was precisely because of his caution that the Qin State did not completely lose time to react in the face of the Huns' old suspicions. Synthesizing the intelligence of many parties, the Jiuyuan Military Intelligence Division, which analyzed the possible attack of the Huns, quickly reported to the generals of the Qin army stationed on the border on the one hand, and to Chang'an, the center of the Qin State, on the other hand.

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Autumn high horse fat.

It was a good time for hunting, and the Xiongnu took Qin as the target of hunting, while in Gaoque City, a border city of Qin, Wang Xi, a Qin general who guarded the city, took a group of yellow sheep that moved south as a target.

After a summer of nourishment, the yellow sheep on the grassland gradually became fat and strong, and some ewes also gave birth to new life in their stomachs, and the yellow sheep meat at this time was the most firm and the most delicious.

Outside the city of Gaoque.

A group of Qin cavalry is chasing a group of running yellow sheep, Qin cavalry in the hands, holding a standard bronze machine crossbow, this flat-end continuous Qin Dynasty "machine gun" weapon is very powerful, however, with the emergence of more tough iron weapons, the shortcomings of the bronze crossbow are increasingly exposed.

The production of a crossbow requires Jishu's exquisite craftsmen to carefully build, and the process in the middle cannot tolerate the slightest error, which is why the name of the craftsman is engraved on the Qin crossbow. In other words, the low qualification rate of crossbows is the main reason why Qin bronze crossbows finally withdrew from the battlefield.

Today, among the three major military buildings of the Qin State, only one of the three major military buildings of the Qin State still retains a bronze crossbow furnace, while the other two places have been converted to the production of iron tools.

Among the Qin army, the most handy when it comes to the use of bronze crossbows, is the border army guarding the Hetao, once the crossbow cavalry troops in the Qin army charge, its deterrent power far exceeds the bows and arrows scattered by the Huns, there are successful experiences and achievements again and again to prove that the border soldiers are not afraid of the Huns.

Gaoque is an important city on the line of the Great Wall of Yinshan, it is a barrier to protect the Hetao Plain, where the Qin State stationed 7,000 border soldiers, and at the same time, the guard is Wang Li's close cousin: Wang Xi.

The strength of the border army is weakening day by day.

Wang Li, the backbone of the Qin army, was gradually replaced by Wang Shang, Han Xin and others, at the same time, after Su Jiao was transferred from the border army and Yang Wengzi was forced to leave Yandi, the non-royal shili within the border army gradually declined, and Wang Li took this opportunity to support Wang Xi and other cronies.

Wang Xi has a gloomy personality, and among the border army generals, he is quite a maverick, he is not only out of place with Menghu, these old Mongolian generals, but also Su Jiao, Yang Wengzi and other military generals, if it were not for Wang Li's protection, Wang Xi would have been squeezed out of the border army long ago.

Under the law of life.

The yellow sheep that originally lived in the depths of the desert were disturbed by the Xiongnu army, left their original habitat, and moved long distances to the south.

If Wang Xi is vigilant, he can find clues from the abnormal situation of yellow sheep and other animals, but it is a pity that Wang Xi's military ability is insufficient, although three days ago, he received an urgent military report from the military intelligence department stationed in the Hetao area, but he did not pay much attention to it without actual combat tests.

The Huns are coming!

In the past few years, the Huns would try to go south to the Hetao in the autumn and plunder the cattle and sheep of the Qin State, but they have never really succeeded. A month ago, Wang Xi also led a team of Qin cavalry to kill a small tribe of Yuanlou that was attached to the Xiongnu and escaped.

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Hanhai.

Thousands of miles in circumference, its location is between the Xiongnu King Tinghan River and Yinshan, Hetao, the so-called "sea" here, is not the big lake Daze, but the vast desert, the sand sea formed by the long yellow sand.

The existence of this desert is very important to the Huns. If it weren't for Hanhai, the crossbow cavalry of the Qin State would not have just gone north for more than 20 miles, according to Meng Tian's temperament, I am afraid that they would have killed the royal court of the Huns long ago. Of course, from a purely military point of view, Hanhai was also a natural barrier for the Qin army, and if the Huns had to cross the vast desert and attack the Qin border further south, it would become quite difficult to supply them in the rear.

The harsh natural environment, while protecting people, also makes people careless.

In order to break the Qin War.

Mao Dun did not hesitate to force the Xiongnu of the Left and Right Xianwang to attack the Hexi County and Yanbei County of the Qin State, and as for giving up temporary allies such as the Dayue Clan, he did not hesitate at all.

The attention of the Qin army was drawn to the east and west flanks, and the Qin border army in the Hetao gradually became an isolated and helpless force.

Recapture the Loop.

Dadan Yu Maodun issued a general mobilization order for the first phase of the southward march in the royal court, and all the tribes of the grassland responded in unison, and the tribes of Helianbi even volunteered to take the lead in the vanguard of the attack on the Hetao and Yinshan areas of the Qin State.

Mid-September.

The 30,000 soldiers of the Helian tribe successfully crossed the Hanhai Sea and arrived at the birthplace of Gonglushui, a tributary of the Hannan River.

The existence of Dragon City.

Except for a few people among the Xiongnu magnates, and not known to many, this is a secret move that has been hidden in the silence of Mao Dun for two years, and now, it has finally come in handy.

Helianbi has been garrisoning Longcheng for five days, because the Huns are good at field battles and not good at attacking fortifications, so in order to successfully take Gaoque City, he has sent a small force several times to induce the Qin cavalry in the city to attack.

Not long ago, Wang Xi, the Xiongnu tribe that he had just defeated was the bait of Helianbi's old cloth, and now, with Wang Xi's big fish biting the bait again and again, Helianbi felt that the time had come to defeat the Qin army and capture Gaoque City. (To be continued......)