As the sun set, the herdsmen of the Yue clan, under the supervision of the Qin army, began to collect the cattle and sheep grazing on the grassland.

In the distance, in the tents, smoke rose everywhere.

The Qin pawn from the Seinai began to light a fire to boil water and bury the kettle to make rice.

With Helan Mountain in its backdrop, there is no shortage of wood as fuel. With the Yellow River running in the distance, the streams on the earth are crisscrossed, and there is no shortage of drinking water, which is a good place to stay.

In the center of the Qin army's camp, the commander's military tent under the black banner.

Zhao Tuo knelt on the felt carpet, staring at the two things on the wooden table in front of him, and sighed slightly.

"Technology without technical content is really easy to be imitated."

This is a stirrup and a Takahashi saddle that the Yueshi people imitated with wood and leather.

Although the saddles and stirrups made by the Tsukishi look rough and clumsy due to the materials and the time of production, there are not many problems with the shape, and they can barely be used.

Zhao Tuo's face returned to calm, and he was not too surprised.

When he invented the stirrup, he expected this day to come.

The stirrup and the Takahashi saddle are both very simple things in principle and shape, and their inventions focused on the conceptualization rather than the difficulty of manufacturing.

Normal people only need to look at it a few more times, they can roughly understand the purpose and manufacturing method of these things, as long as they are used on the battlefield, the enemy can run away alive, and basically can't hide it.

Of these three things, except for the horseshoe, which is more concealed and requires a certain smelting technology to be made, stirrups and high saddles can be replaced by other materials. Even the simplest rope stirrups can be made from a single piece of hemp rope, which is very simple to make, and no one has invented it before, and it is very likely that no one can still think of it.

Now the cavalry Sanbao was known by the Marquis of Humi and others, but the Qin army also won the victory in the Battle of Helan, which was worth the money.

Although once these things spread, it is very likely that the people of the grassland will be equipped to improve their combat effectiveness, making it more difficult for the Qin army to fight with them in the future, but Zhao Tuo is not too worried.

Because of the stirrups and Takahashi saddles, the bonus to the nomads is far less than the bonus to the farmers.

Going from zero to one is always harder than going from one to two.

Moreover, these two things are only auxiliary equipment, and the real advantage of the Qin army still comes from all-round scientific and technological crushing.

The horseshoe that can protect the horse's hooves and allow the war horses to run long distances in the Three Treasures of the Cavalry is not something that the current grassland herdsmen can come up with.

Not to mention, Qin Jun is still researching more powerful technology.

For example, just yesterday, a thousand elite cavalry came from Xianyang, and they brought a letter sent to Zhao Tuo, as well as a military artifact made by Shaofu.

Zhao Tuo bowed his head.

On the wooden table, next to the rough stirrup made by the Yueshi people, there is also a delicate copper cylinder.

A faint smile appeared on the corner of Zhao Tuo's mouth.

When the barbarians in the border wilderness were still trying their best to imitate the old technology of the Qin Empire.

The Qin army had already used even more powerful new equipment.

"The outflow of stirrups is expected, but it is the Sugarsha that I can't think of."

Zhao Tuo shook his head slightly, and thought of the Guishan coup d'état told by Li Shiqi and others.

As the eldest son of the Marquis of Xi, Laga Gu was originally the most likely man to become the new Marquis of Xihou after the Marquis of Guishan was captured by the Qin army.

As a result, less than a day after Raja returned to Helan, he was booby-trapped by his sister Sugartha in a felt tent, which was so stupid that people were speechless.

After Su Jiasha killed her brother, she immediately co-opted the Marquis of Humi, and in the name of supporting her younger brother, she controlled the entire Kushan Department in a short period of time.

Knowing Su Jiasha's series of operations, Zhao Tuo was quite surprised and felt that this woman was really unusual.

Moreover, according to the Yueshi people, after Su Jiasha took power, he actually persuaded the Marquis of Humi to evacuate with the Guishan tribe, return to Hexi, and give up the fight for Henan with the Qin army.

"This woman is smarter than Laga and even Odoga, and her vision is much better."

Zhao Tuo praised in a low voice, and even glanced at Su Jiasha.

If the Qin army did not raid with cavalry, but should be steady, and concentrate on foot and cavalry to approach Helan together.

By the time they arrived, the Yue's people had already run away, and Zhao Tuo could still win a big victory in Helan and subdue the entire Guishan Department in one fell swoop.

"This woman has eyesight, courage, and good abilities."

"Now it should be the grassland in the north with the Marquis of Humi, in the face of the current situation, what choice will she make?"

……

North of Helan Mountain, about 200 miles.

On the grassland covered with felt tents, the cavalry of the Yue clan of the Shuangmi tribe shouted, and came to gather from all directions on horseback.

In the distance, herders drive cattle, sheep and horses to converge.

From time to time, the sounds of children and women could be heard in the field, and a sense of sadness permeated the field.

Sugasa stood on a hill and looked at the tens of thousands of Humi herdsmen in the distance, her face calm.

Several fast horses galloped from a distance and came to a halt under the mountain pack.

After a while, an old man in his fifties climbed up panting.

Tooth bones.

The envoy of the Xiumi Department who went to the Great Wall with Su Jiasha to visit the general of the Qin State is now under Su Jiasha's command.

He saluted Sugartha and said with a bitter face, "Noble girl, the cavalry we sent to the north has returned. Sure enough, at the important crossing of the big river, traces of the Qin people were found. ”

"The number of this Qin army should be tens of thousands, and the defense is very tight, and several of our warriors were shot by them. However, they did not continue the pursuit, and it seemed that they had no intention of going south for the time being, perhaps to guard against the Huns on the other side of the river. ”

Su Jiasha said lightly: "The fact that the Qin army is not moving south now does not mean that they will not move." ”

"When the Qin people have disposed of the Kushan Division, they will definitely go north to attack the Xiumi Division, and then the Qin army in the north will go south, forming a north-south flank. The tens of thousands of old and weak people in this secret department, as well as 20,000 young and strong, are just fish and meat under the sword of the Qin people. ”

When the surrounding Yue clan people heard this, their faces immediately turned like ashes.

Yaguda said in a trembling voice: "Noble girl, then what should we do, now that the Qin army has occupied the grassland, blocking our road to the south, and the north and east are where their partial divisions are located, do you have to go west into the quicksand desert?" ”

Into the quicksand desert?

Sugartha shook her head.

Let's not talk about whether they can cross that vast desert and return to Hexi, let's just say that with the ability of that Qin general, it is impossible to let the Xiumi Department leave.

Tens of thousands of old and weak women and children, plus a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, can't go far in a day, I'm afraid that before they enter the desert area, they will be chased and entangled by the cavalry of the Qin army, and then the army of Qin will approach and wipe them out.

She turned her head to look south, her eyes full of fear.

Now that she has found the Qin army's partial division in the north, then her previous guess is correct, and all the two partial divisions of the Qin State have been sent to block the road.

The Qin army in the south must have blocked the passage for the Yueshi people to return to Hexi.

This is the trend of annihilating all three of them here.

"I don't know if the Marquis of Humi can escape back to Hexi."

Sugartha sighed faintly, and at the same time was a little glad that she did not follow the Marquis of Humi.

There, it was a trap laid by the hunters.

Compared with the blockade of the Qin army, the current Sujiasha temporarily took over the Xiumi Department with the authorization of the Marquis of Humi and the help of one of his cronies.

That's a good bargaining chip for her.

However, how to choose in the future, she still needs to wait for the arrival of a message.

The wait was not long, and a fast horse came from the south, bringing the news that Sugarsha had been waiting for.

"Noble girl, Helan has been completely occupied by the Qin army, and all the clansmen of the Kushan tribe have surrendered to the Qin army. The Qin people did not kill them, but also allowed them to keep a certain amount of livestock and continue to graze on the grasslands. ”

"The Qin people also sent some Kushan people out, saying that as long as the tribes on the grassland surrendered to them on their own initiative, they could keep a certain amount of livestock property."

"If you are an enemy of the Qin army, then you will be beheaded and fed to the wild wolves on the grassland."

Hear this.

Sugartha knew what she was going to do.

(End of chapter)