General Qin

The Yellow River flows out from the Qiang land, winds its way north around the edge of Longxi County in the Qin State, and nurtures patches of lush grassland on both sides of the river.

A black-armored army of tens of thousands of people is stationed on a wide grassland on the river east.

There are camps all over the place, and cavalry are sent out from time to time to patrol along the line of the Yellow River.

"unlucky!"

General Pi Qiang Yan walked out of the tent cursing, the summer sun fell on his head, scorching Qiang Yan's face to a yellowish brown.

"What a general, what a partial division to block the way back, the main force defeated Helan, I think Zhao Tuo is deliberately targeting me!"

General Qiang Li was very irritable, and turned his head to look in the direction of the Helan Grassland to the north, with a bit of resentment in his eyes.

He has meritorious deeds to kill the enemy, and he has the heart of being promoted to a noble and worshiping officials. He is a general in the court of Qin who strongly advocates external expansion.

Although he and Zhao Tuo had some quarrels, when Zhao Tuo proposed that the emperor attack the Hu people in the northwest, Qiang Li still supported him with both hands, and was successfully appointed as the general of the side division afterwards.

Qiang Li was very excited, thinking that Zhao Tuo's next battle arrangement would be that the three armies would advance side by side. The 300,000 Qin army besieged Yueshi in Helan Mountain, drove out all these barbarians, and took all of Henan, so that he, Qiang, could also make contributions in this war.

After gearing up for a while, Qiang Li found that the situation was different from what he thought.

After the official start of the war, Zhao Tuo tried to show weakness to the enemy and lure the Yuezhi people to take the initiative to attack the main force of the Qin army, regardless of the superior force.

For the sake of the hearts of the Yuezhi people, the orders they received from the two side divisions were to stand still in the early stage, so that the Yuezhi people thought that the main force of the Qin army was going deep alone, and they could go to confront the main force of the Qin army with confidence.

Then came the news that the main force of the Qin army defeated the Yuezhi coalition forces and captured two Xihous on the spot.

While admiring Zhao Tuo's tactics, Qiang Lu felt very dissatisfied at the same time.

Because Zhao Tuo's order to him was to let Qiang's army garrison on both sides of the Yellow River along the important crossing road.

One task is to guard against the Yuezhi reinforcements coming from Hexi.

Hexi also has the Royal Court of the Yuezhi and the two Yuezhi. After receiving the news that the Qin army attacked Henan, it is hard to guarantee that they will not come east to rescue their compatriots.

Zhao Tuo asked Qiang to prevent the Yuezhi in Hexi from rescue, but also to block the passage of the Yuezhi people from Henan to escape to Hexi, and try to capture and kill the defeated Yuezhi troops who were defeated by the main force of the Qin army, so as to prepare for the Qin army to attack in the future. Reduce resistance at Hexi.

These two tasks sound very important, but they are actually things that are difficult to get credit for, which makes Qiang Li very annoyed.

Zhao Tuo defeated the Yuezhi coalition forces, captured two Xihous, and then planned to raid the Helan Grassland. It can be said that the Qin army basically won this battle.

The battle was all fought by the main force, and there was no need for them to play sideways. How could General Qiang make any contribution?

After the class teacher returns this time, can he still be promoted to noble?

A war horse galloped over in the distance, and it was a young man immediately.

"Uncle, the cavalry we sent to Hexi to investigate came back, and did not find any movement of the Yuezhi army. The captured Yuezhi herdsmen said that the Yuezhi king was still stationed in the pasture hundreds of miles away The intention of rescue in Henan."

Qiang Ren got off his horse and reported to Qiang Zhen.

He is Qiang Zhen's nephew, about 20 years old, he was taken care of and promoted by Qiang Zhen, served in the Qin army, and was trained by Qiang Zhen as his successor.

Of course, what Qiang Lu originally planned to train was not Qiang Ren, but another junior named Qiang Dagger.

It's a pity that when Qiang Dagger was in Weidi, he happened to be Zhao Tuo's subordinate, and was slaughtered by Zhao Tuo when he was training the army, which made Qiang Lu sulk for a long time.

Therefore, he re-trains the juniors, and he dare not release them again, but keeps them with him to avoid being used to gain power again.

At this moment, hearing Qiang Ren's report, Qiang Yan's face turned black and yellow.

"knew."

They have already missed the decisive battle of the main force. If they still want to make contributions to the Qin army's capture of Henan, they can only hope that King Yuezhi of Hexi will lead his troops to support him, so that he, Qiang Li, will be at the front line. Only by fighting the Yuezhi can there be a chance to make meritorious service.

However, King Yuezhi didn't know if his head had been pissed into the horse's urine. He sat back and watched his own clan being attacked by the Qin army, and he didn't have the slightest intention to come to help. This made Qiang Li very depressed.

If the Yuezhi people in Hexi didn't come to rescue, Qiang Li would lose the last hope of making great achievements, and he was depressed.

As for the task of intercepting the Yue clan's defeated army, Qiang Li didn't take it seriously.

Two of the three Xihous of Yuezhi in Henan were captured alive by Zhao Tuo.

There is another Xihou who is currently leading the army in the Helan Grassland, and his tribe's grazing land is further north, so it is impossible to run to him.

In Qiang Lu's view, this task of interception is boring.

He directly handed it over to his subordinates. After all, he couldn't catch Xihou. No matter how many other ordinary Yuezhi people caught him, it was impossible for him to make great achievements. Why bother.

"It's better to drink!"

"Go, have a few drinks with me before we talk!"

Qiang Lu snorted, grabbed Qiang Ren's hand, and pulled him into the tent.

Before entering the account, Qiang Yan took another look at the direction of Helan in the north, feeling very upset.

"When the group of Confucian scholars said that people with the same surname should not marry, I helped Zhao Tuo. I never thought they would bully me like this now."

"Zhao Tuo, you just won't let me do meritorious deeds!"

...

On the side of a small river to the south of the Helan Grassland, there are nearly Qianyue clan cavalry resting here, letting their horses drink water and eat separately.

Su Jiasha is standing by the river, with green grass under her feet, the breeze blows across her cheeks, and a few strands of hair flutter in the wind, adding a touch of softness to her three-dimensional facial features.

Her gaze was looking in He Lan's direction.

Footsteps came from behind.

"Thanks to your daughter, we have the hope of escaping back to Hexi."

Xiu Mi Xihou came over.

He had already walked away from the guilt of abandoning his clansmen and running for his life alone, and he only wanted to escape from the encirclement of the Qin army as soon as possible and return to Hexi, which belonged to their Yueshi.

Xiu Mixi looked at the woman in front of him with some obsession.

If it wasn't for Su Jiasha persuading him to flee south, and to take a detour to the south while the cavalry of the Qin army attacked Helan, I'm afraid that after he went north to join the tribe of the Xiumi tribe, he would be blocked by the main force of the Qin army on his way south.

In the end, they became the prey of being besieged and killed by the Qin people together, and there was no hope of survival.

Thinking about it now, he admired Su Jiasha's wisdom very much, and even felt a sense of dependence.

Xiu Mixihou is not a person with his own opinions, so he hopes to find a good wife with wisdom and opinions.

"After returning to Hexi, I will marry her."

Xiu Mi Xihou thought to himself.

However, the first sentence Su Jiasha said after turning around surprised him.

"Do you think that after the Qin people seized this land, would they continue to cross the river, march westward, and wipe out the entire Yue clan?"

Su Jiasha's eyes were a little red, and her face was a little tired.

Marquis Xiu Mi Xi was startled by her words, swallowed his saliva, and said, "I guess not, the Qin army is a farming people, and the food they eat needs to be transported from the distant land of the Senai. This time the Qin people attacked He Lan, the transfer along the way is a journey of thousands of miles, if they want to cross the river to attack our Yuezhi, how can their logistics support it?"

"And such a large grassland, the Qin people should be enough to seize it, whether it is for grazing or for other purposes. The Qin people's ambitions should not be so big that they even want to seize Hexi, right?"

When Xiu Mixihou said this, he said it as if he was comforting himself.

"It's not so easy to destroy our Yuezhi. This time we were defeated only by the tricks of the Qin people. Now we have mastered the equipment that the Qin people used to fight on horseback. As long as we can bring it back, my Yuezhi warriors It will definitely become stronger. On the west side of the big river, there are still Wang Ting and two Yue clans, and we still have an army of nearly 100,000!"

Seeing the appearance of Xiu Mi Xihou, Su Jiasha nodded slightly.

What Xiu Mixihou said made sense, but there was still a look of disappointment in Su Jiasha's eyes.

At the same time, she seemed to have made up her mind.

She said: "The general of the Qin State is very cunning. Apart from the main force, there are two divisions of the army that have not been sent to the battlefield this time. I guess the Qin army division in the south should have occupied it. If you want to go back smoothly, Xihou must be careful."

"Maybe you can give your red robe and golden crown to your subordinates to wear, and let them lure away the soldiers and horses of the Qin people, so that you have a chance to escape back."

Xiu Mi Xihou nodded, but immediately realized the meaning hidden in Su Jiasha's words.

"My lady, you won't go back to Yueshi with us?"

Half an hour later, a team of a hundred people separated and turned around and headed north.

Su Jiasha sat on the horse, looking firmly into the distance.

This is a gamble for her.