went to the Hexi Corridor again, but Ma Shuo did not have the joy of revisiting. The last time he was in the vanguard, he led his cavalry, and he once fought the barbarians here.

The scene at that time can still be clearly recalled vividly.

I thought that in the last war, the successful recovery of the Hexi Corridor would allow the people here to live a stable life.

But there are unforeseen circumstances, who would have thought that so many changes would happen later? The Hexi Corridor has been gained and lost, and the people here are suffering.

Later, those barbarians vented their anger directly on these ordinary people.

The slaughter of a people who had already been traumatized was compounded by the slaughter.

When Ma Shuo led the men and horses to the vicinity of the Hexi Corridor again, he was greeted by desolation.

This time, Ma Shuo personally led the team, and a total of two cavalry battalions and infantry were dispatched.

Qinglong Camp, Vermilion Bird Camp, Golden Camp, E-Shaped Camp. The Jinzi Battalion was originally stationed in the 100,000 Mountains, but now it was transferred back by Ma Shuo. As for the 100,000 Mountain, he had the newly formed Renzi battalion stationed there.

More than 50,000 people, mighty, all the way to the Hexi Corridor to kill. Ma Shuo took the southern route here, followed the wasteland ancient road, and went straight to the middle of the Hexi Corridor.

Probably with the experience of the last time, the barbarians who later occupied the Hexi Corridor also began to consciously build defenses.

At the entrance to the Hexi Corridor of the Ancient Wasteland, they built a military fortress and stationed some barbarian soldiers in it.

However, the number of people is not very large, only 5,000. In fact, it's not that the barbarians don't want to station more people, but the space here is really limited, and 5,000 people are already full.

Of course, at this time, all the barbarians in the Hexi Corridor combined were only in their early 50,000s.

There is no way, the last time Bai Qi came with men and horses, the barbarians here were killed too hard.

It is not easy to mobilize people from other places.

The organizational form of the barbarians is mainly tribal, and if you want to use people and horses, you need to send people from each tribe.

Every tribe has its own territory, people are always selfish, who would want to take out their own people to occupy the territory for others?

One husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open.

Sometimes, the more people there are, the better.

When Ma Shuo led the men and horses to the Wasteland Ancient Road and entered the entrance of the Hexi Corridor, he did not rashly attack. There was a military village here, and he had already learned about it through the hidden guards. So, when he got to the neighborhood, he first asked the battalions to find a suitable place to set up camp.

Running all the way, rest first, recharge your energy. However, not everyone will be able to rest. The baggage men of both infantry battalions did not rest, and as soon as they settled down, they were busy with their work. Because they need to assemble the engineering equipment they brought over as soon as possible, and they can successfully break through the military fortress the next day, it depends on these things.

These siege equipment were naturally made by Ma Shuo. The 10-day preparation is not just about mobilizing men and horses to raise food and grass. One of the key things is to gather information and rush to produce these siege equipment.

This time, the machines that Ma Shuo made were all assembleable. When transported, they are separate parts, so they are very easy to transport. When using, you only need to assemble it, which is still very convenient, and the assembly actually does not have much technical content, only simple training is needed, and the general baggage personnel can do it well.

In addition to assembling equipment, another thing is to make some stone balls from local materials. Because this time Ma Shuo rushed to make a catapult, and the catapult threw out stones. Stones, of course, do not need to be transported long distances, just take local materials, and do not need to polish, any shape is fine, the more random the character, the more destructive the attack.

When the baggage personnel were busy, except for the patrol personnel, the other soldiers entered a state of rest and seized the time to recover their strength.

With the arrival of Ma Shuo and others, the barbarians in the military village found out as soon as possible. Seeing that tens of thousands of Qin people came over at once, the barbarians stationed in the military village were very nervous, because they only had 5,000 people.

Not only that, but for this kind of thing of defense, it's actually not what barbarians are good at. Therefore, they sent people for help as soon as possible. It's just that how did they know that the Qin people who attacked them this time were not the only way.

In the other direction, there was also a road where the military horses of the Qin people also arrived. In the other direction of the Hexi Corridor, at the other entrance, Li Mu also took 50,000 Pingxi troops to that side. However, unlike Ma Shuo, after Li Mu arrived, he did not immediately let the soldiers rest, but directly launched an attempted attack.

Because it was only an attempted attack, it did not break through the opponent's military fortress in the end, but lost the lives of hundreds of soldiers. Of course, this tentative attack also killed almost as many barbarians, and also knew the reality of the other party.

There are not many people, the defense is very poor, and the guards are lawless.

Li Mu was very happy with such a result. Therefore, he also asked his men to rest first, only waiting for the official attack the next day. Of course, Li Mu didn't have a catapult on his side, and all he brought was a general siege ladder.

The next day, it came as promised.

On this new day, many places in Daqin are like the Hexi Corridor, where battles are taking place one after another.

After breakfast, Ma Shuo ordered the official siege of the city.

As a result, one catapult after another was pushed out, escorted by a soldier, to a distance of several hundred paces from the opposing army's fortress, a distance that could not be attacked by archers.

"Look, what kind of monsters are those big guys that the Qin people got here?"

The movement of the Qin army outside the city immediately attracted the attention of the barbarians on the military wall, and they saw the catapults, but they did not recognize these things. People always have fear of the unknown. A panic involuntarily began to permeate the barbarian's heart.

The leader of the barbarians soon got the news and went to the lookout to look outside.

What's weird?

The barbarian leaders were also at a loss, and they didn't know any of these things. However, as the leader, their sense of crisis was still much stronger than that of ordinary subordinates, and their intuition told them that the strange things that the Qin people made against them were definitely not good things.

"Quick, all ready, the Qin people are going to attack. Be careful with me, otherwise I won't even know how to die when the time comes! "The big leader in charge of the entire military village gave a decisive order. Suddenly, all the barbarians began to get busy under the leadership of their respective leaders.

When the barbarians were busy, the auxiliary Qin army was already ready.

"Catapult Attack!" The commander of the Jinzi battalion, who was in charge of the on-site command, gave the order.