"Marshal, the grain and grass have arrived......" With the sound of the report, the cheers of the soldiers of the Qin army outside also spread throughout the entire camp.

In April of the third year of the Great Qin Chengwu, the grain and grass baggage from the direction of Datong finally came to the northeast of the Yunwai grassland, although the number was enough for the Qin army in the first half of the year, but the loss was very amazing, and it also made the generals of the Qin army completely understand the difficulty of grassland warfare.

It took more than two months for a huge team of grain and grass to arrive here, and there was no delay on the road, but the road was difficult, and such a supply degree, anyone with a little sergeant common sense understood what it meant, and in the future, there was no need to count on the grain and grass from the direction of Datong.

From Daqin, to Tongguan, to Hezhong, to Hedong, to the grassland, such a long supply route is enough to give anyone a headache.

Fortunately, now that Hezhong has output, it can help Hedong somewhat, and when Hedong is almost self-sufficient this year and next year, this supply route can slightly relieve the pressure on the grain and grass of the Qin army.

Therefore, in this campaign against the grassland, the Qin army is almost equal to no logistical supply, and most of the wars this year and next year will be fed by war, which is also set by Zhao Shi at the beginning.

The Qin army has tens of thousands of horses, the number is not too much, there is no infantry to cooperate, and there is no accompanying baggage team, which is exactly the idea.

However, the arrival of this batch of grain and grass, although most people know that it is estimated that there will not be a second batch of such a large escort team in the future, it still makes the Qin army rejoice, and after subduing the Tatars, the grain is still second. Swords, guns, bows and arrows are the guarantee of the Qin army's combat power, and all kinds of herbs and accompanying doctors. It is also an indispensable thing for the Qin army to fight.

More than two months have passed, and the combat strength of the Qin army has actually been affected, one is that the water and soil are not adapted, the greasy beef and mutton are eaten, and the diarrhea of the guide zhì is almost every day.

The huge temperature difference between day and night on the grassland also made the sergeants and soldiers suffer.

And the most important thing is the horses, the tall Hexi war horses of the Qin army. Although he ran like electricity on the grassland, he didn't seem to be able to adapt to such a climate, and he fell ill a little bit, so Qin Jun's mount was changing to a short and hard-working grassland horse.

The Qin army is constantly adapting to the wind of the grassland, and it is constantly making changes, of course, with a commander like Zhao Shi. Add to this the submission of the Tatars, and such changes will be much faster.

But the Han army who came to the grassland for the first time was still choked by endless problems, and there were no major problems, because Zhao Shi 6 continued to issue military orders.

For example, the leather robe that Qin Jun is wrapped around now, for example. It is forbidden for the sergeants to drink the cold river water on the grassland at will, and it must be boiled before they can be eaten, for example, everyone has an extra wine bag on the side of the horse, so that they can drink a little to refresh their muscles and bones when marching. By the way, heating or something.

And so on, of course. It was only a change and preparation made to ensure that the army marched into battle.

But considering the overall strategy, Zhao Shi's preparations in Datong are not known to others, for example, in the team that came this time, there were hundreds of craftsmen who came with the army, most of them were carpenters and blacksmiths, and for example, the army came all the way to the northeast of the Yunwai grassland, and at the moment of the Tatar alliance, Zhao Shi had already sent people to start looking for coal and iron ore in the Yunwai grassland.

And Datong does not need to mention, although the heavy battalion led by Du Huqing has been 6 years to return to the south, but there are still a lot of people left, in this year, before Zhao Shi left, the last order to the Xuanfu envoy Yamen is to let them assist the craftsmen who stayed behind, and make ordnance in Datong.

At the same time, he also wrote to the imperial court, asking the imperial court to send all kinds of talents to Hedong, especially Datong, with only one ultimate goal, to take Datong as the most important town in the northern expedition to carry out all aspects of construction.

As a more long-term strategy, it is inevitable to set up military villages and post stations everywhere in the grassland, as for the relocation of the people, there is no need to think about it, in the river, the fields in the east of the river are barren and sparsely populated, and the people are relocated without thinking about it.

According to Zhao Shi's plan, in ten or even decades, several important towns will be built on the grassland, or garrisoned by the Great Qin army, or guarded by the tame Hu cavalry, so that the grassland will be slightly included in the Great Qin control, even if it is not bad, as for the construction of roads and the location of the city, there is no need to think so much.

In fact, fundamentally, it is still necessary to unify the Central Plains in the south and ensure a strong military force all the time, which is enough to ensure the tranquility of the Hu people's territory.

And all he could think of was actually preparing for the army, as for benefiting his children and grandchildren, ensuring a thousand years of success, he didn't have that ambition, and he wouldn't think about it......

With all this preparation, as the period of the Tatar alliance approaches, the day when Yunzhong and Yunwai grasslands will be included in the territory of Daqin is actually not far away.

But his gaze is definitely not only on the Tatars, the decline and weakness of the Tatars is an indisputable fact, subduing them, it is only a small corner from the steppe, not even enough to affect the general trend of the steppe, so the next target, he has firmly focused on the Naiban tribe located in the northern steppe.

This is undoubtedly a piece of fat, but the grassland overlord who has dominated the grassland for hundreds of years is not so lightly offended, and the arrival of grain and grass is just an increase in some weight for him, and if he wants to defeat this huge grassland tribe, he still needs a lot of people to work hard and fight bloodily......

And Zhao Shi was also suspicious, trying to search for his memory, but he couldn't find much information about the Naiman Tribe, as if on the Mongol journey, the Naiban Department was just stored as a small supporting role.

But that is not normal, the more he knows about the powerful tribe in the north, the more sure Zhao Shi is, this is a huge tribe that spans east and west, with a large population and is very rich.

Even with the strength of the Mongol tribes, it would not be possible to defeat such a giant than to conquer the Mirbegs and the Tatars, and it would be more difficult than the conquest of the Murbegs and the Tatars.

But in his memory, the Mongolian herdsmen he came into contact with, talked about, talked about, and talked about the names of Zamuhe, Wang Han, and Sangkun, which gave him the feeling that such a tribe as the Naiban tribe seemed to have been blown away by the wind, and as soon as the Mongol army arrived, it defeated the Naiban tribe like a withered and decaying one.

Thinking of this, Zhao Shi couldn't help but snort, sure enough, history is always written by the victors.

Such a huge tribe, he has heard so far, this tribe can play with the Tatars in the palm of his hand, can influence the succession of the Great Khan, the most powerful tribe of the Mongol tribe, can accept the Mir beggars to work for him, can make fair deals with the Western Liao, can refuse the canonization of the Jin people, and even their power is as far as the Western Regions, and even in this era, the strange small countries in the Western Regions that are enough to be called far away are familiar with the name of the Naiban tribe.

This is undoubtedly the prototype of an empire, Zhao Shi silently thought, if it were not for the rise of the Mongol tribes, the grassland would definitely be under the control of this huge tribe, in fact, he has indeed controlled the northern grassland for hundreds of years.

No matter how many things Zhao Shi had to think about and arrange, the enthusiasm of the Tatars was getting higher and higher, and the period of the alliance was finally set at the beginning of the month of rain in the steppe, that is, the beginning of May for the Han people.

And with the arrival of the Qin army, Mu Huali, under the command of Zhao Shi, also began to select soldiers among the Tatars.

Such a name was so good that many of the Tatars, who were brave and strong, or who felt that they were well-born, asked to be included in the army of the future Great Khan.

The leader of this Great Khan's army is a Han man, his name is Li Xing, he was born in the most noble part of the Han people, and his aunt is the wife of that person, these two identities alone are enough, because no one consciously will be more noble than this person's identity, and more worthy of the trust of the descendants of the holy wolf......

And Li Xing's deputy is a warrior among the Tatars, and he no longer needs to use loyalty as circumstantial evidence......

This army of soldiers and horses was recruited very quickly, only a few days, even under the strict recruitment rules of the Qin army, they had already recruited as many as four or five hundred people, and the skillful riding and archery skills of the grassland people were indeed beyond the reach of the children of the Han family, and the physique they exercised in the cold wind of the grassland, not to mention.

Many Qin generals and colonels also have to agree that the Hu people are indeed born warriors, and although the Tatars are a mess on the battlefield, it cannot be denied that they have all the conditions that a steppe warrior can have.

Mu Huali came to see Zhao Shi at this time and proposed to recruit some Hu people to his subordinates, Zhao Shi shook his head, but did not directly deny it, but told him to recruit as many Tatar soldiers as possible, and after training, he could be added to the army in 6.

This undoubtedly opened an opening, which made Mu Huali very excited, he felt that if these grassland warriors could withstand the strict military discipline, understand the tactics of the Han people, and participate in it, then the combat power of the Qin cavalry would suddenly grow, of course, if his subordinates could also be as dexterous and changeable as the Hu people, then he would definitely be able to become the sharpest sword in the hands of the commander.

The idea seemed contradictory, but in fact, what he thought of were the two extremes of cavalry warfare......

(Commuter pass, commuter pass...... ）

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