Chapter 575: Stepping Out of the Hexi Corridor

In the eleventh year of the reign of King Qin, Qin still aimed the spearhead at the Three Jin Dynasty first.

At that time, Zhao and Yan had another war, and Zhao sent troops to attack Yan, so Qin sent Wang Jian and Wei Yi to attack Zhao respectively in the name of saving Yan. It successively occupied Yanhe, Yiyang, Hejian, Anyang and other places. In another year, he seized Yanmen County and Yunzhong County of Zhao State.

At the same time, the army led by Jiang Chiyu had a violent collision with the Xiongnu army in the area between Wuwei and Zhangye.

At this time, Wuwei was still known as Yongzhou, which was originally the territory of the Yue family, but the Xiongnu kept retreating west because of the residual power of Wang Qian's army, so the Yue family was forced to move west.

When Jiang Chiyu brought people over, the Xiongnu simply thought that Wang Jian was chasing after him with a large army, so they were so frightened that they continued to retreat to the north or west.

Jiang Chiyu and others soon occupied the Wuwei area, and then began to build beacon towers and build cities. Subsequently, the Jiang family, together with some tenant farmers, craftsmen, and people from the southwest county, migrated in large numbers, and began to invest in the construction of this area under the command of thousands of ink people.

In more than a year, Wuwei City began to take shape, and people also opened up many fields for cultivation. At this time, the farming technology of Great Qin was far ahead of other countries, and many weak and friendly tribes directly surrendered to the Qin army, and directly under the command of the Qin army, they stopped their nomadic life and began agricultural farming.

When the fleeing Huns got the news that this Qin army numbered about 50,000, and the rest were civilians, they began to look at this side, and even planned to come to plunder during the autumn harvest.

Jiang Chiyu and Jiang Narao had been guarding against this for a long time, so the beacon tower was built as early as the beginning of the city. The army was always strong, waiting for the Huns or other foreigners to attack.

Several tribes of the Xiongnu knew that the Qin army was brave, and they had just been defeated by Wang Jian not long ago, and they had just recovered their breath, so they thought about leaving with one blow. The Xiongnu planned to kill more Qin people with superior forces, and they believed that they could not defeat the Qin army in one wave, and if there were a few more such impacts, the small Qin army could only be eaten away in the end.

It's just that they never dreamed that they were greeted by a rain of crossbow arrows and arrows, and the rain-like crossbow arrows shot directly at them on their backs. After that, it was easy to break through the rain of arrows at the cost of one-third of the dead and wounded, and when they approached the Qin army to a position of thirty meters, something flew out of the hands of the Qin army and fell into their crowd.

Those Qin troops who had finished throwing things quickly retreated, and the next row got up, and it was another round of throwing.

The Huns' ears were full of thunderous sounds, gunpowder smoke was filled, and the things thrown out by the Qin army burst out among them, and those who touched it were either dead or wounded!

Tens of thousands of Xiongnu troops, after losing one-third, were killed or seriously wounded in the smoke of gunpowder.

The Hun army, which originally wanted to use the advantage of cavalry to break through, did not expect that the real killing situation was actually twenty or thirty meters away! And because of the explosion, after the horses panicked, they collided with each other and trampled, and a group of Hun soldiers died.

By the time the Qin army began to fight back, there were not many Huns who could still stand intact.

The Qin army successfully cleaned up the battlefield, and the 30,000 Hun army was annihilated.

After that, it continued to steadily build Yongzhou City, with Yongzhou City as the cornerstone, and gradually expanded to the west. Jiang Chiyu with few soldiers and horses, but also make them more mobile, years of training, the southwest county army is brave and good at fighting, using the advantage of the pastures near Yongzhou, the army and a large number of war horses available, after training, the gap between the Qin army's equestrianism and the Huns is getting smaller and smaller, until the same as the Huns, everyone has a superb riding skills.

In the process of advancing westward, all the friendly and obedient tribes were taught advanced farming techniques, leading them to cultivate land and grow crops. And all the tribes that attack and resist can only be exterminated or expelled.

By the fifteenth year of the reign of King Qin, Jiang Chiyu and his subordinates had already passed through Yanzhi Mountain and Hanyang Dacaotan, and reached the western end of Qilian Mountain.

The Zhangye of "Zhangguo's arm to pass through the Western Regions" has been returned to Great Qin, which is still called Ganzhou at this time, so far the middle of the Hexi Corridor and some places further west are under the control of Qin.

Jiang Chiyu Jiang Anrao further built a fortress in Ganzhou, because the natural environment of the Shandan area is suitable for the breeding of horses, so he also built a vast pasture here. At this point, there was no shortage of war horses available in the Qin State.

This Qin army is unstoppable, all the nearby nomadic tribes have understood their purpose, this place, they will not stop until they all occupy it, in order to avoid its edge, originally some nomadic tribes such as the Yue clan and the Xiongnu in this vicinity can only be forced to withdraw from the Hexi Corridor area.

Thanks to the previous experience in the construction of Southwest County, Jiang Chiyu and Jiang Anrao slowly dismantled and reorganized the various tribes that remained in the Great Qin, and at the same time instilled the idea of great unification of the Mo family, so that they could slowly accept agricultural work and so on.

In the thirteenth year of the reign of King Qin, Qin attacked Han, and in the seventeenth year of the reign of King Qin, Han Wang'an was captured, and Qin established Yingchuan County in Han, and Korea officially perished, becoming the first country to be destroyed by Qin.

At this time, Jiang Chiyu and Jiang Anrao also successfully occupied Dunhuang.

At this time, there were already many grottoes in Dunhuang, which shows that before the Qin people set foot here, the Western Regions countries had left their footprints here.

Originally, this neighborhood was Wusun's pastoral land, but over the years, no nomadic tribe dared to stay here, and after Jiang Chiyu and Jiang Anrao brought the Qin army here, they found the key to really build the city.

Hecang Castle sits north to south, rammed earth version building. It is surrounded by grasslands and swamps on three sides, and the south is covered by the Gobi Desert higher than the swamp. Using this as a pass, if you want to enter the Hexi Corridor from the north side, and then enter the territory of the Qin State, you can only go here.

In the seventeenth year of the reign of King Qin, a severe drought broke out in Zhao State; In the eighteenth year of the reign of King Qin, Wang Jian broke the Zhao army and captured Jingcheng, while Yang Duanhe led the army to take the lead in besieging Handan.

However, Li Mu was reused and successively resisted two attacks by the Qin State. When Wang Jian and Yang Duanhe led the army to a stalemate with Li Mu, Li Si and others used a lot of money to bribe Guo Kai, King Zhao's favorite minister, and used counter-plots to make King Zhao kill Li Mu. At this point, there was no one in Zhao State to stop Wang Qian's army.

In the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin, the city of Handan was broken, Zhao Wangqian was captured, and Zhao Gongzijia fled. Zhao Guo died. Zhao Gongzijia fled to Daiguo to claim the king, and was killed by Wang Ben, the son of Wang Qian, in the twenty-fifth year, and the line of King Zhao was completely cut off.

When Wang Jian broke through Handan, Jiang Anrao finally led the caravan to really step out of the Hexi Corridor and began to march towards the countries of the Western Regions. (End of chapter)