The next day, early in the morning.

The scouts returned to the city in succession, with three or five groups of people, and the military intelligence report was placed in front of Zhao Ta's case.

Zhao Ta looked at them one by one, and finally summoned a few Du Yan to ask about the preparations in the army.

Because it has always been in a wartime state, it does not need to be too much planning if you want to go on an expedition, and all the grain, grass, baggage, carriages, horses, and equipment have already been purchased.

After receiving a positive reply, Zhao Ta asked a few people to go back to rectify, and prepared to march out as soon as noon passed.

Subsequently, Zhao Ta wrote a few more warrants and sent the school soldiers to the north first, so that the remaining scouts in front of him would know.

He sent out a lot of scouts, and at this moment, under the pressure of the army of Mingsha City from the south, he was retreating in an orderly manner.

As soon as the Huizhou side sent troops, they continued to be with these scouts, and then the scouts turned back and took the first step to meet the Western Xia military horses, earlier than the vanguard, so as to facilitate the investigation of news.

This battle gathered almost all the soldiers and horses that could be used in Zhao Ta's hands.

There were only a few hundred people left in Shikikawa, Zhuoluo, Gaizhu and other places to defend the city, and the others were all transferred to Huizhou.

Yongzhu, Tiandeng, and Liangzhou are under the management of General Lu, and Zhao Ta doesn't pay attention to it, but it is estimated that after General Lu leaves Xiliang Mansion, then the soldiers in these three places will all have to be emptied.

As soon as noon passed, the sun was tilted, and after the soldiers and generals had eaten their mounts, the north gate of Huizhou slowly opened, and then the large group of men and horses began to leave the city.

The fiery red flag has the word Dou Da Zhao written on it, since the identity has been leaked, then it will no longer be concealed, and the flag will be played directly.

The flag is divided into left and right, the flag is in two colors, and the other black flag has the word Qin written on it, Qin of the King of Qin, Qin of Daqin.

During this period, there was no Song Banner, and in the vast army, there was only Zhao Qin, or Qin Zhao.

Zhao Tan stood at the head of the city and looked, and Zhang Xian said next to him: "Lord Wang, it's time to go down to the city." ”

Zhao Ta nodded slightly, looked at the military horses outside that could not be seen, and said with a smile: "Isn't Qin Zhao, isn't Zhao Qin?" Where did Song come from! ”

Zhang Xian was stunned, and his face suddenly showed a look of sudden realization: "What the prince said is extremely true, Qin is Zhao, and Zhao is Qin!" ”

Qin and Zhao both belong to the "Ying surname Zhao", and the Great Qin clan is surnamed Ying Zhao, so Qin Shi Huang's real name is "Zhao Zheng"!

In fact, in the Han Dynasty and the pre-Qin era, Qin Shi Huang would never be called "Ying Zheng", in fact, it is true that there is no record of "Ying Zheng" in the early years, because the historians around the Han Dynasty lived not far from Qin and the Warring States Period, and they are no strangers to the ancient surname culture.

In ancient times, "surname" and "clan" were two concepts, the so-called "surname, don't marry; clan, divided into high and low".

The same surname means the same origin. The clan is different, there are probably several kinds of origins of the clan, one is to take the fief as the clan, the other is to take the official status as the clan, and the other is to take the ancestors as the clan, which is mostly the princes of the clan.

The surname Ying is one of the eight surnames in ancient times, and the ancestor is Boyi in the Yaoshun period, which is the Boyi who rejected Dayu's Zen concession and finally let Xia Qi end the Zen concession system.

Boyi's descendants passed to the end of the Shang Dynasty, there were two brothers, Ji Sheng, both of whom were ministers of the King of Shang, in the confrontation with King Wu of Zhou, the evil came to die of exhaustion, Ji Sheng surrendered after the defeat, and became the courtiers of King Wu of Zhou, and the descendants of the evil came to Ji Sheng.

Ji Sheng's fourth grandson Zao's father is the emperor of King Mu of Zhou, that is, the charioteer, and the absolute henchman of the royal family of the Son of Heaven.

And the descendants of the evil branch are also called the Zhao clan at this moment, as a clan!

In the period of King Xiao of Zhou, the fifth grandson of the evil son Feizi was sealed in the land of "Qin" because of his meritorious service to King Xiao of Zhou.

"Qin" is very small, only a few dozen miles, and Qin is very far away from Zhao City, so the branch of Feizi, the descendant of the evil come, is gradually separated from the main sect of the Zhao family.

However, because the father had the grace to take in his clan, the branch of Qin Di still used the Zhao clan and did not change his clan.

Later, when King Ping of Zhou moved eastward, the "Qin" branch obtained the old land of the old Zhou Dynasty and ranked among the princes, which was the origin of the Qin State, one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period.

The rise of the small sect of Qindi, as the main sect of the six kings of the Jin State, was not bad, and the three families were divided into Jin and established the Zhao State among the Seven Heroes.

Ying's surname is Zhao, and since then it has occupied two of the Seven Kingdoms, namely Zhao and Qin.

It was the most prominent surname in the Warring States period!

Therefore, according to the custom of ancient times, Qin Shi Huang should be called Zhao Zheng.

Sima Qian's "Historical Records of Qin Shi Huang Benji" said at the beginning: He was born in Handan in the first month of the forty-eighth year of King Qin Zhao. And Sheng, named Zheng, surnamed Zhao!

And the Zhao and Qin people are the same ancestor.

After the "Three Families Divided into Jin", the state of Zhao became stronger and stronger, becoming one of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and was destroyed by Qin one hundred and fifty-eight years after the founding of the country.

After the death of the country, the people surnamed Zhao are mainly divided into two lines: one is the descendants of Zhao Jia, the acting king, who was sealed in Tianshui County, that is, the Tianshui Zhao family.

The other is the descendants of Zhao Qian, the king of Youmiao, who was first exiled to Fangling, and then moved to Zhuo County in the Western Han Dynasty, which is Zhuo County Zhao, also known as Hejian Zhao.

During the Qin Dynasty, after acting as the king Zhao Jia, Zhao Gongfu went out of Xirong and lived in Tianshui West County, and then became a Tianshui person.

To the Han Dynasty, Tianshui Zhao is the largest tribe in the surname Zhao, the clan was named the marquis of more than ten people, accounting for almost half of the total number of marquis surnamed Zhao, to the Tang Dynasty, there are five people in the surname Zhao to worship the prime minister, three of them are from Tianshui Zhao.

But at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin, a descendant of Zhao Qian, the king of Youmiao in Zhuo County, Hebei, and the descendant of Zhao Guanghan, the original Jingzhao Yin of the Western Han Dynasty, destroyed the Later Zhou and established the Song Dynasty, making the Zhao family a royal family again, and the influence of the Zhuojun Zhao family at this moment exceeded that of the Tianshui Zhao family.

The ancestor of Zhao Song was Zhao Qian, the last monarch of Zhao State, and Zhao Qian was a direct descendant of the ancestor of the Zhao family.

The Zhao clan of the Qin royal family, and the Zhao clan, the founding father, are the descendants of the eldest son of the Shang Dynasty minister Shu Lian, and the youngest son Ji Sheng, respectively.

Therefore, the two are of the same clan, the same clan, and the same clan.

In the late Qin period and even after his death, Hu Hai, Zhao Gao, and Xiang Yu slaughtered the Qin royal family layer by layer, if the Zhao clan of the Qin State was completely cut off at that time, then the closest bloodline to the Great Qin Empire is the Zhuojun Zhao clan.

The Tianshui Zhao family is a descendant of the acting king Zhao Jia, but the Zhuojun Zhao family is a descendant of the Youmiao king Zhao Qian, and it is orthodox for the lineage.

And today's Zhao and Song Dynasty courts, it is the Zhuojun Zhao lineage, in the case of the descendants of the Great Qin Zhao clan being cut off, or not broken but hidden from the world, and not born, then there is no doubt that if anyone can inherit the Qin number, only the Zhuojun Zhao family of the same clan, and the lineage inheritance, is the most qualified to use the Qin number!

A smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Ta's mouth, Qin, Great Qin!

Taizu bullied other orphans and widows, founded the country and called the emperor, felt guilty, and when the world was short of gold, the four seas were not appeased, and he was unwilling to continue to use the Zhao number, for fear of being criticized, let alone talk about Yu Qin.

Otherwise, where did Song come from? At least use Zhao Cai, right?

Qin, Qin! Zhao Tan walked down the city while thinking about it, but Zhang Xian was beside him, but he set off a storm in his heart.

The prince is really going to rebel, he even thought about the country name, it turned out to be Qin!

Thinking of Qin, Zhang Xian couldn't help but boil with enthusiasm, Qin Zhao was originally in the same vein, he naturally knew about it, but he never thought that Zhao Ta would actually use this Qin number!

Huanghuang Daqin, the first emperor Zhao Zheng!

He inherited the throne at the age of thirteen, and was called emperor at the age of thirty-nine, swept through the six kingdoms and unified the world.

Implement the three princes and nine secretaries, manage national affairs, abolish the sub-feudal, replace the counties and counties, write the same text, the car with the same track, unify weights and measures, build the spiritual canal, pass the water system, attack the Xiongnu in the north, conquer Baiyue in the south, build the Great Wall, and create a great unification.

Take the "emperor" of the three emperors and the "emperor" of the five emperors to form the title of emperor, known as the first emperor, is the first emperor for the ages!

The more Zhang Xian thought about it, the more excited he became, watching Zhao Ta's big sleeves fluttering, coming down to the city, without armor, and directly walking alone for thousands of miles with a lamp.

Bai Zhan led his mount in front, and the soldiers immediately flashed out of the passage and went straight into the Chinese army.

Seeing this, Zhang Xian hurriedly got on his mount and followed, and went out with the army and out of the north gate of Huizhou.

Along the way, the scouts of the horses almost kept returning, Du Yan was in charge of the front, and the battle reports were constantly passed to the Chinese army behind, and then they rested and sprinkled a new wave of out.

Huizhou City is more than 300 miles away from Mingsha City, close to 400 li, and dozens of miles away on the east side is the border of the Jingsai Military Division, but there is no city, only a few small towns, and the population is sparse, which is only enough to be used as a sign to separate the two military divisions.

On the west side of the avenue is the mountains and hills, rugged and undulating, barely walking, but it is not good to run horses, bare, there is little forest and few trees, it is impossible to ambush, and it is difficult to control any fortifications, and it is not much use.

At this moment, the soldiers are heading north along the center of the road, with more than 40,000 people, pulling out several long lines, densely packed, and there is no end in sight.

The march of the soldiers was not fast, until the evening, did not go out of the hundred miles road, calculated down to only fifty or sixty miles at most, watching the west carmine sun set, Zhao Ta sent the order to go out, on the left near the mountain to camp in the village.

The camp cannot stand between the roads, it must be high on the side, although those hills and mountains are not easy to set down, but it is also impossible, for safety, even if it is hard, it must be built on it.

Because although the horses kept reporting the movements of the Western Xia army, they could not rest assured that if a cavalry brigade went to the side of the Jingsai Military Division, and then outflanked it, and rushed to camp at night, it would be very bad on this plain.

This is no better than when the city is besieged, the city comes out to steal camps and rob the village.

The camp in front of the city is carefully erected, the fence is fully protected, and there are all kinds of fortifications dug in front and back.

And this kind of wilderness marching camp is rough and simple, just rest for the night, and have to hurry early the next morning, there is no way to be too careful and attentive, and there is no time to dig the fortifications before and after, only send people to stand guard at night and watch, one is not noticed, the enemy cavalry is fast, and they may rush over.

At night, the plain rushed to the camp, and there were no fortifications to stop it, if the opponent's cavalry was excellent, it was probably vertical and horizontal, coming and going freely, and it was difficult to block and defend the opponent.

Therefore, this camp cannot be set up on flat ground, and must live on a high place, so that even if there is no fortification and other defenses, at least it can make it difficult for the war horses to walk, and it is not easy to impact, so the possibility of being stormed will almost be reduced to nothing.

War horses can't rush forward directly, so what are you talking about?

After the tents were all over the barren hills, it was already dark, and Zhao Tan was sitting in the tent of the Chinese army commander, watching the latest military report sent by the scout from the front.

The military horses of Mingsha City had already traveled half of the way out of Huizhou, that is, nearly two hundred miles, and it was about one hundred and fifty miles away from the place where they were camping at the moment.

This distance is already extremely close, if nothing else, tomorrow day, the two armies will go in both directions, then they will definitely collide together.

One hundred and fifty miles, more than seventy miles per army, even if the infantry army cannot reach it, but the cavalry will definitely arrive.

Zhao Ta put down the military newspaper in his hand, looked at Du Yan, Zhang Xian, and Li Yanxian in front of him, and said: "Tomorrow everything will be according to plan, the infantry will be on standby twenty miles away, and the cavalry will be divided into three roads, all the way to the east flank, go forward to explore, don't fight, if the other party chases, run back, and then go to the side of the Jingsai military division to see if you can go around the other party, and leave one in the front army to lure the other party to consume its energy and spirit." ”

Du Yan and the others all nodded yes.

Zhao Ta glanced at the military report on the case again, there were two groups of scouts who had already detected the movement of the Iron Harrier, everything was as expected, this heavy armor really came, then Bubazi must also be in the army, since the two elites of Western Xia are there, there is no doubt that the boss must be Brother Richard.

And Zhao Ta did not have many generals under him at the moment, he speculated that the other party had at least 50,000 soldiers and horses, but in fact there may be more, and the number of pure cavalry must be better than his own, and his side does not have any advantage, especially in such a mountainside wasteland, it is actually a disadvantage to fight openly and hard.

Normally, if this kind of direct collision is a direct collision, there is a chance that your side will lose.

Without any conspiracy and tricks, it is almost impossible for the more than 40,000 people under him to fight the other party, not to mention that the other party will definitely have more people than his own, even if they are equal to each other, the normal combat power of the more than 40,000 people under him may not be stronger than the elite on the other side.

The people under him are newborn calves who are not afraid of tigers, dare to kill and rush, but they have not yet reached the level of the elite of a hundred battles, but these Western Xia soldiers on the opposite side are!

The guards of Xingqing Mansion, who have been fighting with the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty for many years, are they good matches? How many famous generals of the Western Army have lost their halberds in Hexi, all of them are lost in the hands of this iron harrier, foot bazi, and six classes.

However, it seems that he must lose, and it is difficult to win, but Zhao Ta still insists on fighting this encounter in the wilderness because he has supreme confidence in the vine armor army in his heart.

Five thousand hook sickle soldiers, five thousand rattan brand swordsmen, will definitely break the Xixia Iron Harrier!

As long as the Iron Harrier, which has always been known as invincible, falls, then the Western Xia soldiers and horses will definitely be in chaos!

What is an Iron Harrier? It is the military soul of Western Xia, and it can even be said that it is the national capital of Western Xia!

As long as the three thousand iron harriers fall, then no matter how elite the remaining Western Xia military horses are, they will not be able to withstand the shock in front of them, and they will not be able to withstand this kind of blow!

Seeing the destruction of the Iron Harrier, the remaining Western Xia military horses will inevitably lose confidence and fighting spirit, and their combat power will be greatly reduced, and it is difficult to say that they are even directly defeated and fled!

Therefore, in fact, Zhao Ta did not want to start a war with all the military horses on the opposite side, he just wanted to fight with the Iron Harrier.

As long as the Iron Harrier is defeated, then this battle will be considered a victory!

(End of chapter)