In January, the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor's reign, the sky was covered with heavy snow.
Fusu was wearing a snow-white cloak[g] and stood on the city wall next to Wang Ben. As a supervisor, he was also the only person in the border defense who was qualified to stand side by side with General Wang Ben.
"Report: Due to lack of food, fire, and medicine, the Dingling tribe has begun to kill horses for meat. The grassroots herdsmen are dying of old age, and many have died of illness."
"Report: Qushe tribe expelled the old people and gathered strong men. Judging from the direction they are traveling, they seem to be preparing to rob the Wusun tribe of food."
…
The golden eagles and eagles patrolling the sky convey the latest news about each tribe from time to time.
Of course, the Eagle Guards cannot speak, so they specially trained a group of petite soldiers to act as scouts in the sky. These scouts have sharp eyes, are good at drawing maps, and can also estimate the number of enemy troops.
"General Wang, why do those tribes prefer to kill horses rather than sheep?" Fusu was a little confused.
Wang Ben explained with a smile: "Because we told them that next time the market opens, we will still buy sheep at a high price."
After hearing this, Fusu couldn't bear the thought of the thousands or tens of thousands of people from those tribes dying because of Da Qin's lies.
"General Wang, is this going too far? Those herdsmen are all real people, and there are many old people and children among them."
Wang Ben turned his head and looked directly at Fusu.
"In the fifth year of the First Emperor, Donghu plundered Liaodong County on a large scale; in the ninth year of the First Emperor, the Xiongnu invaded Yan, killing countless old people and children, and captured more than 10,000 men as slaves; in the 12th and 18th years of the First Emperor,
In the 20th year of the First Emperor's reign, as long as they felt that there was less food, they would personally plunder our land of Kyushu."
"Master Fusu! The enemy's hero and our bandit, I hope you can put away your pity and never show any mercy during the battle!"
Fusu looked in the direction of the grassland and pondered for a moment: "But after I unified the world and established mutual trade, the Xiongnu no longer dared to invade the Qin Dynasty. Wouldn't it be great to have peace like this?"
Wang Ben shook his head: "No! Because we have 300,000 sergeants stationed here, they dare not come here. But Mr. Fusu, do you know how much food and grass the 300,000 sergeants consume every day? How many people hope for these 300,000 sergeants every day?"
Returning to your hometown to reunite with your parents, wife and children?"
"The most important thing is that if you defend it for a long time, you will lose! When I get old, I can't guarantee that the next general will be able to defend our Qin borderland."
Fusu looked in the direction of the grassland with a faint look in his eyes.
"So we have to annihilate these herdsmen who have never invaded the Qin Dynasty, right? If we still use such methods, are those old people and their children born into the Xiongnu tribe guilty?"
"Yes, they have horses, bows and arrows, and mounted cavalry. As long as they have the power to threaten our great Qin, they are guilty!" Wang Ben said firmly.
Fusu was speechless and suddenly recalled the day when his former father sent him to the north.
He knelt down and begged for mercy: "Father, the four hundred Confucian scholars are just admonishing at the palace gate. What crime is this? Why are they sent to the mines?"
"A chivalrous person uses martial arts to disrupt the prohibition; a Confucian scholar uses literature to disrupt the law; disobeying me and threatening me are sins!
Do you know Bai Qi?" His father asked him.
"The number one general in the Qin State was known as the Massacrer. Later, he took credit for his arrogance and attempted to rebel. However, he failed and committed suicide by taking poison out of fear of the crime." Fusu is naturally familiar with history...
"Rebellion? Haha, that's the record of the historian. Don't you know? In front of the king, history is like a little girl who lets others dress up.
Before committing suicide, Bai Qi asked the late king: What crime did I commit? I never thought of rebellion.
The late king replied: I know you have never thought about rebellion, but you have the ability to rebel, and this is your sin."
When Fusu heard his father say these words, he was so frightened that his legs weakened. Because there was a folk legend that Fusu was dissatisfied with the emperor and wanted to rebel. In the end, he was sent to this bitter and cold place.
Looking at the endless snow outside the border, Fusu sighed in his heart and turned around to leave.
Are some people born wrong?
Wang Ben looked at Fusu's lonely back with a little helplessness. Before Fusu was sent, he received a secret letter from His Majesty saying that the eldest son had a kind heart but no emperor's ambitions. Come to him.
Sharpen it up.
It turns out that this experience made Master Fusu even more indecisive.
In fact, this is fine. As a minister, he actually hopes to be with a benevolent monarch.
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April, the thirty-fourth year of the First Emperor.
The pasture is plentiful and the herdsmen gather together. I heard that the Daqin Mutual Trade Market will reopen in two months. The herdsmen look at the sheep they raise and are full of hope.
Going to the county, Gao Yao and Miao Le on his shoulders cursed all the way into the military camp.
A guy scolded me for coming here to play, but he wasn't even prepared to take him.
One said he could eat less because he felt like he couldn't walk anymore.
"Greetings to Your Majesty Tmall!" Wang Bi and Fu Su came to pay their respects.
"Meow~"
Gao Yao exchanged greetings with the two of them and entered the inner tent.
Looking at the sand table in front of him, Wang Ben asked: "Gao Dusi, I have read the battle report of South Vietnam and found that Tian Qi actually developed a new tactics, which is to throw sky thunder directly into the enemy's key positions.
I suddenly thought, can we send the guard sergeants of the Eagle Guard to sit on the back of the eagle, and then drop thunder from the sky into the enemy's formation?
After testing, Wang Ben discovered that the thunder contained rusty iron pieces and excrement, and was extremely powerful. If it could really explode in the Hun cavalry formation, it would definitely shock people's hearts and even have the miraculous effect of disrupting the military formation.
Miao Le was stunned. Good guy, isn't this air force bombing support? Who said the ancients were stupid? He was the first to not believe it.
Gao Yao thought for a while and said: "But at high altitudes, the wind is strong, and it is difficult for sky thunder to ignite the fuse. Moreover, throwing thunder requires certain skills and requires training for a period of time."
"No problem, our army has discovered a strange flint. As long as a piece of windproof cloth is fixed on the body of the Eagle Guard, the fuse can be easily lit." Wang Ben said with a confident smile. It was obvious that he had spent a lot of time studying this new method of warfare.
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May, Yinshan Mountain, a certain hill.
The leaders of the Xiongnu, Donghu, Yuezhi, Loulan and other tribes stood on one side respectively, and there were elite warriors of each tribe in all directions below, because no one trusted anyone.
Shanyu Touman of the Xiongnu took the lead and said: "The situation is not right. I sent hundreds of tribesmen to the border of Daqin to inquire about the news, but no one came back. Moreover, the caravans from Daqin have not come since last year, and the tribe's salt has been exhausted.
, the ironware is also rusty."
Upon hearing the news, the other leaders were stunned and felt a chill in their hearts...
"Does Great Qin want to attack?" The leader of the Yuezhi was a little scared.
"Absolutely impossible. It's bitterly cold outside the Great Wall and there is no arable land. What's the point of Da Qin attacking us? Not to mention whether Da Qin's cavalry can defeat us. If we want to run away, can they catch up?" Leader Loulan said with a confident smile.
After hearing this, several other leaders also breathed a sigh of relief, smiled and nodded in agreement.
Think about it, this poor place is composed of grasslands and deserts. If they had not been able to defeat the Qin Dynasty, they would have moved to the inland long ago. The girls there are all white and delicate, but they are not like the old ladies here, who are rougher than the men.
Touman Shanyu frowned, always feeling something was wrong. Even standing here, he felt that his hair was standing on end, as if something ominous was accompanying him.
Looking around, there are elites from various tribes. For the safety of this negotiation, everyone has cleaned up the area. Even a gecko has been trampled to death and roasted.
Could the enemy still come from the sky?
Wait, who started this party?
Getting ready to ask a question.
"Hey~" When I looked up, I saw dozens of golden zodiac animals circling above my head, and then some black dots fell down.
The leader of the Yuezhi picked up a flaming black ball and curiously asked: "What is this?"
Touman was so jealous: "Tian Lei, run!"
"Boom, boom, boom~"
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June, desert.
The golden sand dunes remain as silent as ever under the sun, vast and endless, stretching as far as the eye can see. After hundreds of millions of years of precipitation, she calmly watches all the changes and the flow of world affairs, detached from anything else.
a troop of cavalry
They were marching quickly according to the golden guidance in the sky. Until evening, the afterglow of the setting sun painted the desert with a red blush. The scorching heat slowly dissipated, replaced by the slowly opening dim sky.
It shrouded the entire desert, making the desert look even more desolate and tragic in the evening.
The cavalry also slowly slowed down, because they were about to reach their destination and everyone needed to recuperate, replenish their strength, and charge again!
At the front of the team, Gao Yao and General Tuanjin were marching side by side. Not far away, Miao Le took the lead, followed by three thousand wolf guards. They charged rampantly, and soon the sky was filled with yellow sand, making the cavalry team covered with dust.
Gao Yao was speechless.
Ever since he came to the desert, he found that Le Ye was extremely excited and would run up and down the sand dunes with the wolf guards whenever he had nothing to do.
Is sand so fun?
I saw Le Ye running quickly to the top of the sand dune, and then jumped.
"Woo!" Jumped directly into the sky, then fell freely, spread out his body in the air, and fell straight down the mountain.
The huge wolf guards following behind did not hesitate, leaping high, then looking at the low slope dozens of meters below, their eyes widened and they waved their limbs.
In the end, three thousand big wolves shoveled a mouthful of mud one by one.
Miao Le in front was laughing so much.
Silly wolf!
The wolf guards climbed up, ranked according to their status, and continued to follow Miao Le one by one.
I saw the old man laughing, and the big wolves were also grinning silly.
General Jin behind him was full of envy. If he had these three thousand wolf guards, he would be absolutely invincible in this desert. Why would he still need to join the Qin Dynasty? These giant wolves, which are only a little shorter than horses, all look silly now, but
When facing the enemy, his cunning, cruelty, and ferocity made him terrified...
"General Jin, the enemy is right in front. It will depend on your Tuan's strength soon?" Gao Yao said with a smile.
The main force of the Xiongnu and Donghu fought a decisive battle with the Qin army in the Yinshan Mountains and the Hetao area, delaying time to help the rear retreat. His main task was to attack the logistics and equipment, and to stop the old, weak, women and children of the royal family who wanted to retreat.
These retreating teams brought with them a large amount of wealth, cattle, sheep and horses, which were the spoils of war for the Qin Dynasty.
General Jin did not hesitate and nodded: "No!"
As a vassal state of the Qin Dynasty, since the conquest of the Huns had begun, they naturally could not stay out of it. All the elite troops of Tu'an were sent as forwards. They were called forwards, but in fact they were cannon fodder to dampen the Xiongnu's charge.
After climbing over three more sand dunes, we finally caught up with the Huns' retreating troops.
"The Qin soldiers are coming, the Qin soldiers are coming, assemble, assemble!" Seeing the Black Dragon Flag of Qin in the distance, the Xiongnu began to assemble quickly.
Originally, the Xiongnu also had eagles to explore the way, but unfortunately they were captured by the eagle guards as soon as they met. Some people even accidentally discovered that their own eagles were guiding the Qin soldiers in the sky not long after.
Gao Yao and General Jin did not charge directly. Instead, they waited for the other side to assemble. After a while, five thousand cavalry began to countercharge. It seemed that this team still had a big fish, otherwise there would be no such elites.
When they were still one mile away from the Qin army, giant wolves began to appear behind the sand dunes, led by a little yellow cat.
"Woo!"
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"
Thousands of wolves howled across the vast land.
Seeing the giant wolf and hearing its howling, the charging horses were immediately frightened to the point of peeing, and their formation was in chaos.
General Jin immediately drew his sword and moved forward.
"kill!"
"Boom boom boom~"
When the cavalry loses the charge of their horses, they are like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, and can only be harvested by General Jin with his men and horses. Even if some capable warriors can resist for a while, when a giant wolf slightly shorter than a man rushes over,
At that time, I no longer had the courage to resist.
Why did Giant Wolf and Jin Tuo side with Da Qin? Could it be that Changshengtian abandoned her people?
In less than two hours, the Hun princes surrendered because they saw no hope of survival.
Count damage, collect loot, and distribute prisoners of war.
"Report to General Jin, 500 of our troops were killed, 200 were seriously injured, and 100 were slightly injured!" A subordinate reported.
General Jin closed his eyes and remained silent.
Three thousand against five thousand, a huge victory, but the ones who died were all the elites of Tuan, and those giant wolves were just picking up the slack behind, with almost no damage. Even if someone had the chance to hurt the giant wolf, they would be killed by a yellow streak.
Light interrupts.
But according to the rules, he could only get a small share of the spoils.
Is it a crime for a country to be weak?
Thinking about other small countries, it seems that they only need to provide food, grass, cattle, sheep and horses, but Tu'an is the only one who needs to come out to fight. Thinking of the reason, General Jin's hatred for Yi Xiaochuan deepened instantly, and he even started to hate Da Qin.
Hate.
Those soldiers didn't deserve to die!
"Hey!"
A black horse came to General Jin like the wind.
Gao Yao was riding Meng Tian's former horse: Black Wind, which was also the Meng family's compensation for Yi Xiaochuan's repeated harassment at his door. Otherwise, Yi Xiaochuan would have already experienced special services at Heibingtai.
Seeing Gao Yao, General Jin suddenly thought. He didn't know why this eunuch had such great power. He had seen what he had done just now. He shouted "Li Xi Huashan" and then swept across several enemy soldiers with his sword.
Get rid of it.
Riding on his horse, Gao Yao looked down at Xiao Jin from above. Gao Yao smiled and said, "It's such a great victory and we even captured the Hun prince. Why isn't General Jin happy?"
General Jin forced a smile: "Of course I am happy."
"Haha!" Gao Yao laughed and looked at him meaningfully: "General Jin, do you know why our hunters in Da Qin like to take hounds with us when we go hunting?"
General Jin was stunned and looked at the giant wolves: "Because... they are strong enough?"
Gao Yao picked up the big knife and said with cold light: "No, because the dog is loyal enough!"
General Jin felt a chill in his heart. He felt as if he was being targeted by some being that he couldn't understand. Then he looked at the giant wolves with green eyes surrounding him. He quickly dismounted and knelt down.
"I, Tu'an, will always be loyal to Da Qin and will never betray me!"
Gao Yao did not raise his head: "Some things are not just words, they must be done, and your Majesty must see them. I heard that your little princess Tu'an has also reached the age of marriage?"
General Jin's body trembled: "When I get back, I will persuade the king to get married."
Gao Yao clamped his legs, turned the horse's head, and turned away. A distant voice came: "Don't let Yi Xiaochuan come to you this time."
