In the eighth year of the Qin New Calendar, the second day of the second month of February.

The dragon raised its head.

This winter's Hexi County was shrouded in strong winds and heavy snow, and only rut marks left by passing vehicles were left on the road.

Outside the city, 21,000 generals of the Qin army in Hexi, dressed in black armor and white armbands, braved the wind and snow to stand on both sides of the road, but today they are not to greet the martial king Li Yuan, who has just arrived, but to welcome another returning old man.

Bai Guangji's headless corpse was smuggled back by the people of the Aries tribe in the dark night, and today he was taken back to his homeland, the Qin State.

And his head, after being cut off by the Dayue branch, was transferred to the Xiongnu Shan Yu Maodun, learning that this Hexi Qiang leader named Bai Qin was originally a personal general next to Li Yuan, the martial king of Qin, and the psychologically perverted Mao Dun was overjoyed, that is, he ordered Sumeru Buda to ask for Bai Guangji's head from the Yuezhi people.

Men have tears, not flicks.

It's just that the fate has not arrived, and the sad place.

Li Yuan's car stopped at the front of the line.

Speeding all the way from Jincheng to Gaizang City, his car drove in the wind and snow for four days and four nights, and finally arrived when the Hexi army was lined up to welcome Bai Guangji.

In front of the team, Li Zhongxiang, the chief general of the Hexi Army, and Luo Jia, the general of the cavalry, all looked solemn, their faces were sad, and their tiger eyes were full of tears.

Eight years of war, eight years of comradeship.

But today, it has become a different path for people and ghosts, although there are no eyes on the battlefield, and casualties are common, but the death of a general of Bai Guangji's level has never been seen in the Qin army. Even the powerful Western Chu army led by Xiang Yu only caused some time trouble for the Qin army.

Li Yuan silently took over the box that collected the bones of Bai Guangji's corpse, and since the crossing, this is the second time he has truly felt the cruelty of war in this era, the first time was in Baima, he heard the battle songs of Gan Houbo and Zhou Xing, and this time. What he saw was a little of Bai Guangji's bones.

"Warriors of Great Qin, have you seen it?" Li Yuan stepped onto the wheel and shouted at the silent soldiers: "Although General Bai is dead, his soul is still there, his eyes will always be on us, he will watch us in the royal court of the Huns in Mobei, holding high swords and guns, rushing into the dome tent of Maudun, and killing those unstoppable Xiongnu nobles one by one!" ”

"Kill, kill. Kill! "Thousands of Great Qin generals shouted like thunder, and the sound broke through, almost making the roaring blizzard have to change direction.

"Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains, blood will not be drained, and death will not be truce!" Seeing the tough guy of the Zheng Zheng, Li Yuan took the lead and began to hum this familiar war song.

Eight years.

Li Yuan set up the belief for the soldiers of the Qin army that "those who commit crimes against me and strengthen Qin will be punished even if they are far away". This is a kind of spirit that would rather fight until the moment of Zuihou and shed a drop of blood than surrender to the enemy, which is also the new Qin State and the one in history who exchanged peace for peace. The Han Dynasty endured humiliation and burdens is the most different place.

Three days later.

The Qin State held a solemn and solemn funeral in Gaizang City, and Bai Guangji and his 1,300 dead soldiers from Hexi Qiang were placed in the cemetery of Qin soldiers in the west of Gaizang City in the form of burial in the form of clothing and burial.

came to see him off. In addition to Li Yuan, Luo Jia, Li Zhongxiang and other generals of the Qin army in Hexi, Cao Xin, a Qin general stationed in Di Dao, also came in a hurry, who had met Bai Guangji in Xingyang City. The upright man, who had fought side by side many times, was thin, his big eyes were deep-set, and he had obviously not slept well for several days.

"King Wu, he fought against Hungary in the day, he begged to be the vanguard, did not take the head of Maodun, never quit the army, King Wu should go down, the letter will rise, if not, the letter should kneel here, never get up." In front of Bai Guangji's tomb, Cao Xin suddenly knelt down, and the seven-foot man couldn't cry.

"King Wu, please also ask for an order, our department wants to be the main force of the Northern Expedition, swear to break the Huns, and avenge General Bai."

"Martial King-!"

With Cao Xin taking the lead, it was difficult for the Qin generals to suppress their grief for many days, and they all stepped forward to ask for orders.

"Rise up, all of you. My Great Qin and the Huns, since the border army stationed in Jiuyuan, several years of grudges, accumulated in the chest, all my Great Qin soldiers, do not want to eat their flesh, eat their bones. Today, you ask for an order to fight, I, Li Yuan, in front of the soldiers who are sleeping in the ground, hereby swear that the soldiers of Great Qin will one day conquer the Xiongnu, conquer the Yuezhi, and conquer all the opponents in this world who are enemies with me, because Daqin has a group of brave and fearless soldiers, you men who regard honor as their life, and you men who never give up! ”

Li Yuan helped up Cao Xin, Li Zhongxiang, Luo Jia and other generals one by one, and his voice was sonorous and powerful, and now he actually ruled the vast land of Great Qin, in terms of comprehensive national strength, it was not much weaker than the Xiongnu, and more importantly, the Qin army was strong and strong, and the generals gathered, not to mention the embarrassment that Liu Bang in the early Han Dynasty "flew all the birds and hid the good bow" and no one was available.

In Yanbei, there are masters of the art of war, the victorious general Han Xin led more than 30,000 Yandi Qin troops to garrison, the existence of this Qin army, not only effectively prevented the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang Department from attacking the eastern border of Qin, more importantly, Han Xin can also unite the remnants of Donghu and other tribes to launch an attack on the flank of the Huns.

In Jiuyuan, Wang Li's border army corps has long been stuck in the Yinshan and Gaoque lines, their living habits, horse riding skills are no different from the Huns, this Qin cavalry corps dominated by crossbow cavalry, the closest distance from Mobei, is also the Liliang of Qin's direct threat to Mobei Wangting.

In Hexi and Longxi, Li Zhongxiang, Luo Jia, and Cao Xin, the young generals of the Qin army, they are full of vigor and blood, they are the liliang that Li Yuan relies on the most, and they will also be the main force of the Qin army to crusade against the Xiongnu and the Western Regions.

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The wheels of the battle of nations are rolling.

In addition to the military offensive, suppressing the Xiongnu economically, politically, and diplomatically is a means that the Qin state can take at present.

When the generals of the Qin army in the Tibetan city were excited, the central court of the Qin state in Chang'an also began to issue a series of decrees against the Xiongnu.

In the car that came to build the Tibetan city, Li Yuan thought that the Qin State had the most obvious advantages in economic development compared with the Xiongnu, and with the Jishu level of the Huns, they could not even build the bronze weapons used by the soldiers into batches, but could only use some simple melee weapons such as copper clusters and copper spears.

In a series of new decrees promulgated, the first was to strictly prohibit merchants from selling copper, iron and other strategic materials to the Xiongnu without authorization; Article 2 All craftsmen registered in the counties of the Qin State are not allowed to leave their hometowns without the order of the county government, and the secrecy on the jishu of course starts with the people, which is to prevent the Xiongnu spies from instigating the craftsmen of the Qin State to go north.

The third article was dedicated by Lou Jing, a doctor of the Qi people, who allowed and encouraged merchants to sell luxury items such as silk, cloth and seashells to the Xiongnu, Donghu, Yuezhi and other foreign races.

At first glance, this strategy seems to run counter to the hostile policy that the Qin state should have adopted towards the Xiongnu, but its real intention was to make the Xiongnu nobles fall into the pursuit of luxury goods and the pursuit of the trend of enjoyment, and in exchange for these impractical things, the Xiongnu could only exchange their horses, cattle and sheep.

When the trade was carried out again and again, when more silk and other luxuries corrupted the souls of the Xiongnu, the time was ripe for the Qin State to truly crusade against the Xiongnu.

Qi people Lou Jing.

In the past, the important minister of the Western Chu State, on the occasion of the Qin-Chu War, he had been ordered by the Chu Prime Minister Xiang Tuo to make the Qin State lobby, and later because of the continuous military disasters between the two countries, there was basically no possibility of stopping, Lou Jing's lobbying in Chang'an City became meaningless, after the fall of the Chu State, Lou Jing was idle in Chang'an, indulged in the neighborhood all day long, and later changed his mind to enter the court as an official under the persuasion of Kui Che.

At this time, Xiang Yu was dead, and Xichu no longer existed.

Chen Ping, Li Zheng, Guan Yue, and other Qin internal affairs officials were anxious because they had to govern a huge country, and when they saw a talent like Lou Jing coming to vote, they hurriedly accepted it.

Economically, the Qin State began to suppress the Xiongnu in an all-round way with both blockade and dumping, and in the diplomatic direction, the lobbyists represented by Kuaiche and Lu Jia also began to frequently set out from Chang'an, with one by one delegations to the Western Regions and Liaodong, lobbying those tribes who had grievances with the Xiongnu.

Lu Jia was the envoy of this mission to the Western Regions, and his main route was along Qiuci, Gaochang and other places in the southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, all the way west to Wusun.

After the alliance between the Great Yuezhi and the Xiongnu, Wusun, a large country located in Central Asia and the Ili Valley, became the winner and loser of the Great Qin against the Xiongnu and Yuezhi.

The countries of the Western Regions, in addition to the Yuezhi, Khotan, Shache, Jingjue and other countries in southern Xinjiang, because of the Silk Road, are mostly friendly with the Qin State, while in the northern and southern foothills of the Tianshan Mountains, Qiuci, Gaochang and other places, because they are often attacked by the Yuezhi people and the Huns, the attitude of these countries has not been very clear, in other words, they are typical wall grass, which side is strong, which side will take refuge.

On the shore of the sea in the east, Kuaiche's mission passed through Jixian County, and then went all the way east, after reaching Liaodong County and Youxiangping, and then continued eastward towards the Goguryeo Peninsula.

His final destination is a place in the middle of the jungle.

A branch of the Donghu tribe, the Xianbei people are hiding in the vast primeval jungle of Changbai Mountain, Daxing'an Mountains, and Xiaoxing'an Mountains, although they hide in Tibet and live a primitive hunting life, but according to the course of history, this tribe will gradually go out of the mountains in the following days, occupy the vast grasslands in the north, and annex the Xiongnu tribes, becoming a hegemon on the grassland.

Regardless of whether the Xianbei people can be contacted or not, Kuaiche's trip to the northeast is mainly to show the attitude of the Qin State and the Xiongnu to go to war, and his lobbying all the way is to convey a message, if the Donghu people still remember the once powerful glory of Donghu, and remember the hatred of the Donghu King who was killed by Maoton, then the opportunity for revenge has come. (To be continued......)

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