After Sanyang Mountain ambushed an army of more than 200,000 barbarians, taking advantage of the fact that the barbarians besieging Yugu City did not react, Bai Qi left a small number of men and horses to deal with the prisoners, and immediately led the army to press towards Yugu City, and a larger encirclement came outside Yugu City.

The disparity in numbers, coupled with the fact that there was no intention, the 100,000 barbarian army that stayed behind to continue the siege of Yugu City was also annihilated by ashes, and the whole army was annihilated.

300,000 barbarians were killed at once, plus some of the border troops and militia groups were killed one after another some time ago, and nearly half of the barbarians who invaded from the middle lane have been wiped out. Such a result, for the time being, is still very good.

This time he successfully annihilated more than 300,000 barbarians, and Ma Shuo's contribution was naturally not small. However, for the time being, Bai Qi did not promote Ma Shuo's military position again, but reported his military exploits directly to Xianyang. Bai Qi emphasized Ma Shuo's merits in the documents reported, but how to reward them was not something he was worried about.

Nearly half of the barbarians in the middle lane were wiped out, and the defensive pressure of the border army on the middle lane was immediately much easier.

At the same time, Bai Qi's footsteps did not stop. He led the reinforcement army to leave Sanyang Mountain and rushed towards another area where barbarians were concentrated. Bai Qi didn't want to put too much energy on the scattered barbarians who would aid the Western Army, and if he wanted to kill them, he would kill them happily.

Ma Shuo's men and horses naturally set off with the Western Army.

This time, although Bai Qi did not promote Ma Shuo's military position, he still gave Ma Shuo a certain reward. First of all, all the captured horses were given to Ma Shuo. Then, Bai Qi rewarded Ma Shuo with another 50,000 taels of silver. Of course, all this silver came from the barbarians who were annihilated. Before those barbarians were buried, the things on their bodies naturally would not be wasted, as long as the useful things were all pulled out. Therefore, after this war, all the officers and soldiers who came to aid the West made a fortune.

Ma Shuo's credit is the greatest, so he himself gets the most reward. However, Ma Shuo didn't leave much of the 50,000 taels of silver himself, and most of them were distributed to the soldiers below. There are more than 20,000 people, one or two ordinary soldiers, and the officers range from five taels to one hundred taels according to different positions.

Don't look at it as just a tael of silver, but for those soldiers, it is a lot of rewards. Especially those soldiers who originally belonged to Luo Min and Xu Wei, they basically didn't have much chance to be rewarded in the past, and even many times the normal military salary was not guaranteed.

After receiving these two pieces of silver, some soldiers were even so excited that they shed tears at that time.

The rest of the silver, Ma Shuo didn't mean to keep it in his pocket, he also needed to use the silver to improve everyone's equipment. Before, a large amount of equipment relied on the support of cottages and wineries in Huangsha City, but in fact, there was still a lot of pressure.

Therefore, Fan Zeng and Bai Xuan, who are in charge of logistics, have always had a headache. Fortunately, the development of a large amount of wasteland has solved most of the food problem, which can be regarded as greatly relieving some of the pressure.

Hexi Corridor!

This time, the place where the Western Aid Army went was a place known locally as the Hexi Corridor. There is only one large river in Yumen County, which is called the Jade River. The location of the Jade River is closer to the Suoman Pass, forming a zigzag shape within the Yumen Pass.

Where there is water, the land is generally more fertile. Coupled with the special geographical characteristics here, there are many fertile fields distributed along the area where the Jade River flows. It's just that because of its proximity to the lock barbarian pass, when the barbarians broke through, this place bore the brunt of the attack, attracting a large number of barbarians to gather here to plunder resources.

The barbarians here belong to the North Road, and according to the information collected by the scouts, there are nearly 400,000 barbarians gathered in the Hexi Corridor alone. If you can eat this part of the barbarians at once, the pressure on the northern road will be greatly reduced.

In the Hexi Corridor, there is no suitable ambush site like Sanyang Mountain. Therefore, this time Bai Qi changed his strategy and decided to deal with these barbarians head-on and directly kill the other party.

Ma Shuo's men and horses were divided into two parts, with the cavalry battalion arranged on the flanks and the infantry battalion placed in the middle of the Chinese army, located close to Bai Qizhong's tent. Obviously, this arrangement still takes care of Ma Shuo a bit.

From Sanyang Mountain to the Hexi Corridor, there is a distance of nearly 300 miles.

The reinforcement army from the west, plus the men and horses drawn from the Yumen group, nearly 500,000 troops marched together, and the speed was obviously not as fast as there.

"Drive, drive!"

This time, Ma Shuo was walking with the cavalry battalion. The cavalry battalion is faster than the infantry battalion, so they have a separate mission. Among the 400,000 troops to aid the West brought by Bai Qi, there were actually not many cavalry, adding up to only about 70,000.

From this quantity, it can also be seen that war horses are very valuable materials in Daqin. In fact, Qin Wangzheng has always had a grand dream of forming a cavalry force with more than 300,000 people. However, this dream has never been realized.

Therefore, Ma Shuo was able to rely on his own efforts to make a cavalry of 10,000 people, which is actually quite remarkable. Although, Ma Shuo's 10,000 cavalry is still far from the regular cavalry requirements. Because according to the regular cavalry configuration, 300,000 cavalry need at least 600,000 war horses, and one person and two horses are the minimum standard standard.

Of course, for Great Qin, the reason why King Qin was unable to realize his dream for the time being, in addition to the problem of horses, was the source of qualified cavalry. Don't look at the fact that Daqin has a lot of troops, but it is not an easy task to select 300,000 qualified cavalry.

Ma Shuo's 10,000 people, plus the 70,000 people who came to aid the Western Army, a total of 80,000 cavalry were divided into left and right wings. Among them, Ma Shuo's men and horses were arranged on the far left side of the left flank.

This time, the task of the cavalry was to rush to the Hexi Corridor first, responsible for pinning down the barbarians there, attracting the attention of the other party as much as possible, and attracting the barbarians there as much as possible, so that the army behind could carry out a large-scale annihilation battle.

This is Bai Qi's consistent style, fighting in large regiments. Bai Qi did not like to chase a small group of enemies to clear up, in other words, if he encountered a guerrilla war, Bai Qi would be harassed and crazy.

The commander of the entire cavalry was General Zhu Guobiao and Deputy Commander of the Western Army, Zhang Hong. As for the eldest prince Fusu, who served as the envoy of the supervising army, he followed Bai Qi in the Chinese military tent. Of course, so far, Ma Shuo has not met the eldest prince.

At this moment, Ma Shuo was riding side by side with Zhang Xuan, the deputy commander of the Western Aid Army.