Chapter 517 After Meng Tian and Wang Ben each won the battle of the Xiongnu, the Huns no longer took the initiative to fight, which made the Qin army slow down.

One of the major characteristics of the nomads is that they do not have a fixed place of residence, which makes the Qin army have to look for the shadow of the enemy in the endless grassland, without the enemy, there is no main combat goal, and it cannot be like in the Central Plains, just directly capture a city.

After losing the traces of the Huns, the Qin army could only unite with soldiers for safety, and then sent a large number of scouts to find the traces of the Huns.

However, after searching for several days, there was still no trace of the Xiongnu army. Everyone in the big tent of the Chinese army frowned when they listened to the map of the grassland.

Many, many locations are marked on the map, all of which Haji marked out as the places where the Xiongnu army might be lurking.

Meng Tian and Wang Ben sent scouts to investigate in these places, but there was no trace of the Xiongnu army.

"The grassland is so big, if hundreds of thousands of troops are hidden, it is really difficult to find." Bai Yi sighed and said.

Cao Yu took the tea and said, "The Huns will definitely not stay in one place for too long, which must have increased the difficulty of our search." Han Xin pointed to the map and said, "Send more people, no matter how big the grassland is, as long as our search range is large enough, sooner or later we will find some clues." ”

"Clues, that's right!" Cao Yu said: "Hundreds of thousands of troops, as well as herdsmen, even if they stay for one night, they will definitely leave traces." Wang Li pointed to a location on the map and said: "The last trace of the Xiongnu army was here, and our army took this place as the center and searched around. ”

"But it's not a way to go on like this, our clan is one step behind the Huns, it's like being led by the nose, which is very disadvantageous for us." Bai Yi frowned and said.

Wang Ben said at this time: "Bai Yi is right, it will definitely not work to search for it like this, and the Xiongnu army can drag our army to death on the grassland in this way." ”

"Our army's logistical supply is very fragile in the grassland, if our army goes too deep, as long as the Huns interrupt our army's supply line, our army can only retreat without a fight."

"The most important thing is that once the Xiongnu army attacks our army's supply line at that time, as a cannon, it may fall into the hands of the Huns, which is absolutely unacceptable to Great Qin." Cao Yu looked at everyone and said.

Meng Tian suddenly stood up, came to the map with a teacup, and placed the teacup directly on the map. Meng Tian said: "Since we can't find the Xiongnu army, then we will compress the living space of the Huns!" Within the control of our army, build a city! Everyone was stunned, this method is indeed feasible, and building a city is equivalent to being in the hands of Great Qin.

Wang Ben said: "It is indeed feasible to build a city, but it consumes a lot of manpower and material resources, and the time is too long. Meng Tian said: "We don't have to build a huge city, as long as it is enough to resist the Xiongnu army for one or two days." The role of the fortress is to hold back the Hun army, as long as the Hun army appears, each fortress can keep an eye on the Hun army and create time for the main force of our army. ”

"As for the manpower and material resources consumed, there are still a batch of prisoners of war in the hands of our army that have not been sent back, and the materials can be taken locally."

"This is feasible, but, and if our army acts like this, it may force the Hun army out in advance." Wang Ben said: "It is already early autumn, and it is impossible for the Huns to watch the grasslands in the south completely lose control. ”

"What I want is the effect of forcing them out," Meng Tian said

"Of course, if they don't come out, then we will continue to build fortresses and slowly encroach on the grasslands."

"But before that, I want to ask Your Majesty for instructions, after all, this matter will definitely affect Luoyang······." After the first emperor saw Meng Tian's Zhou Zhang, after discussing with several ministers, he agreed to Meng Tian's plan, but also gave a deadline, that is, to complete the war against the Xiongnu within three years.

As for Luoyang's side, due to the fact that some materials have to be sent to the grassland, coupled with the lack of criminals, the progress may be slowed down, but there is no way to do it.

Subsequently, the first emperor sent an edict to Luoyang. After Qin Xi saw the edict, he also sighed helplessly, this Mao Dun was worthy of being the overlord who had the ability to dominate the grassland, and he actually thought of this method to drag the Qin army to death.

However, Meng Tian is not easy to deal with, although Meng Tian's method is slow, but his control of the grassland is very thorough, and even if Mao Dun reacts, it will be too late.

However, Qin Xi didn't want the army to drag on for that long, Qin Xi came from later generations and knew about the terrain of the grassland when he was in high school.

If Maudun wanted to avoid problems in winter, he could either venture south to fight the Qin army, or head west to the area between the Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains to escape the bitter winter cold.

So after Qin Xi handed over the affairs of Luoyang to Mo Ling and Wei Yun Geming, Qin Xi planned to go back to Xianyang.

"Why do you suddenly want to go back to Xianyang?" Bai Muxue asked puzzled. Yin Ya cleaned up this thing for Qin Xi in the back.

Qin Xi hugged the little girl and said: "The impasse on the grassland side, if it drags on according to the current state, it will take two or three years to solve the grassland problem." ”

"Here in Luoyang, it will be two or three years slower, which will affect many things."

"So you're going to go to the prairie yourself?" Bai Muxue asked. Qin Xi nodded and said, "Where the Huns are going this cold winter, I have basically decided, and I plan to solve the problem of the grassland in this cold winter." ”

"If you don't go, it's okay, just let General Meng Tian deal with it, you don't have to go in person." Bai Muxue said worriedly.

"Where is Daddy going, don't go, stay and play with me." The little girl grabbed Qin Xi and said.

Qin Xi said with a smile: "Daddy is going to do a big thing, if he does it well, he will be able to take you to the endless grassland to play in the future, do you want to." ”

"Yes! I want the prairie! I want to play! As soon as the little girl heard about playing, she was immediately happy. Bai Muxue sighed and said, "Then you must be careful, we are waiting for you to come back at home." ”

"Don't worry, I'll be back safely." Qin Xi stretched out his hand and scratched Bai Muxue's pretty face, and said: "Luoyang is still too backward, when the things on Bailu's side are over, you can return to Xianyang to spend the winter first." ”

"I've already handed over the matter to Mo Ling over there in Xinluoyang, so don't go over again, so as not to make Mo Ling feel that I don't trust him."

"Well, the white deer over there in the Chamber of Commerce will be dealt with in three or four days at most, and then we will go back to Xianyang first, and the little girl also wants to go back there." Bai Muxue said.