In mid-July, north of Helan Mountain, on the narrow green space between the desert and the great river, a cavalry of several hundred men was rapidly moving north......

The two hundred horsemen were all in armor, all wearing small leather hats, red tassels tied under their chins, carrying bow bags behind their backs, and bows or crossbows hanging on their saddles, typical Qin cavalry attire.

Although this area is on the verge of desert, as long as they walk next to the big river, they will not lose their way, and there is enough fresh water to quench their thirst, but the day is too hot, and many soldiers are skinned from the sun, but they can only continue to travel north against the sun, and when they drink and rest, they naturally complain.

"Beidi County has just responded to the Marquis of Wuzhong, and some counties are still resisting stubbornly, and they have been attacked and harassed by the Yueshi Hulu, either let us stay in the local area, or go south to Guanzhong, why bother to seek the near and far, and go all the way north?"

The horseman in charge of these two hundred people inevitably scolded them:

"Didn't Zhang Jun say it? Dead lips and cold teeth! At present, it is only a few remnants of the Yue clan who act in accordance with the orders of the Xiongnu who are attacking Helan Mountain in the north, but if Shuofang County in the north is captured by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu cavalry can drive south! ”

Zhang Han was about half a month ago, after hearing the news of Heifu's entry into Wuguan, he raised troops in Fuping, and he relied on the funds provided by the Wu clan to buy the small and small Rong troops stationed near Helan Mountain to serve him, and Gongsun White Wolf also responded in Yiqu City.

Beidi was originally a place run by Heifu, and many officials had received the wisdom of the black-faced county lieutenant openly and secretly, but in October, the county changed banners, and Zhang Cang was able to go to Xianyang from the waterway.

But Beidi County also encountered a little trouble, it turned out that with the destruction of Donghu by the Xiongnu a few months ago, for a time, all the departments of the northern grassland were respected by the Xiongnu.

A Marquis of the remnants of the Yue clan who was wiped out by Li Xin was also named the "Right Virtuous King" by Mao Dun, and rode thousands of Yue's clans, trapped in Yansai, and heard the civil strife in the north, so he was in Helan Mountain. However, he was repelled by Zhang Han's design, and at the same time, he also discovered the important information that the Yueshi and Hun cavalry began to use saddles and horse pedals......

Zhang Han quickly adjusted his deployment and divided the "rebel army" in the north into two parts, one to sweep away the counties that were stubbornly resistant, and the other to resist Hulu in Helan Mountain, and asked Guan Ying to take 200 people to the north to investigate, so as to find out whether Shuofang had all fallen.

Right now, after being scolded by the baby, the rider from a good family in the north didn't dare to complain, but after the baby left, he lowered his voice and scolded:

"I think it's this New Qin man who wants to go to New Qin and save him, just an old friend!"

As early as the Shang Dynasty, the Qin people had two kinds of origins: the people in the Guanzhong hometown were the old Qin people, and the newly seized counties in the Guandong region were the new Qin people.

The successive kings of Qin often took advantage of the advantages of the people of the old Qin land who were good at fighting and the people of the new Qin land who were good at farming, so that the people of the "old Qin" and the "new Qin" could rationally divide the labor, so that the Qin state could become strong without delaying the war for hegemony and without delaying agricultural production.

In short, one is responsible for serving in wars and cutting off people's heads, and the other is in charge of farming.

The boundaries of this division of labor slowly began to blur, like Guan Ying was originally a cloth seller in Suiyang, but he was recruited to Biansai, at first he was a people's husband, but because he was fast and good at weaving cloth shoes in the large-scale production movement, he was rewarded by Heifu, and asked him what reward he wanted? Guan Ying said that he wanted to be a military officer, and also showed his self-taught riding and archery kung fu......

It was at that time that he changed his military position, and now he has been reused by Zhang Han because he protected the eldest son of Wuzhong Marquis when Hu Hai Zhao Gao was perverse.

However, the distinction between the new and old Qin people is still the same, so Qin has always remained the same, but with the destruction of the Six Kingdoms by Qin, there are more and more new Qin people.

And Qin chased the Xiongnu to collect Henan, set up Shuofang County, from the eastern part of the country to draw soldiers to build the Great Wall, and migrated to the people, the 30,000 households, nearly 200,000 people are mostly New Qin people, a total of more than 40 cities, because this county is almost a county composed of New Qin people, so it is also called New Qin, New Qin, New Qin......

Therefore, the Qin people looked down on the new Qin people, and they were usually humiliated and oppressed, so this rider refused to accept the baby, and even secretly called it "a child peddler".

When the baby heard this, he only turned his head and smiled slightly:

"Don't forget, Marquis Wuzhong, and the people of Xinqin! What's more, I am a cavalry general, holding the talisman of Zhangjun, you are honest and obediently obey orders! ”

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On the second day, they walked out of the desert, the yellow sand turned into sparse grass, the grass became higher and higher, as the horse's hooves stepped into the mire, everyone appeared in front of them a plain intertwined with water networks, full of greenery and forests, it is unimaginable, this is actually Saibei?

Guan Ying knows that this is the most fertile and rich grassland in the north: Hetao.

The river slowed down here, leaving a large amount of yellow-brown silt, extremely fat, in the past, the water and grass here were abundant, it was the favorite pasture of the Huns, and eight years ago, after the three generals of Hei, Li and Meng drove the Xiongnu north, this place was empty.

Under the advice of Heifu and others, Qin Shi Huang waved his hand and divided the three parts of Hetao, Beijiao, and Henan into a new county:

"Shuo Fang!"

At first, their rations were transported by the people of the hinterland, and they were transported from Guanzhong by a straight road for thousands of miles, only ten to twenty-three, and they consumed a lot of labor, and the whole world was exhausted by this, and later they adopted the method of moving people to Tuntian, and migrated 30,000 households from the eastern part of the country.

In order to settle these 30,000 households, as well as 150,000 soldiers along the Great Wall, Qin Shi Huang set up 44 counties in Helan, Huamachi, Yunzhong, Shuofang and other places in one go, and Shuofang monopolized 30.

In this way, dozens of small towns are dotted in the new Qin Dynasty like a string of pearls, they are the bridgeheads and outposts of the farming people on the grassland, and the Great Wall is the fence of the enclosure.

Each city has a walled city that can accommodate more than 1,000 inhabitants, and is surrounded by newly developed farmland, and then surrounded by pastures protected by the beacons of the Great Wall. The new Qin people who migrated here were self-sufficient through half-farming and half-pastoralism, and even supported the garrisons stationed on the Great Wall, who also vigilantly watched everything outside the fortress to ensure the safety of the immigrants.

But now, the balance has been broken, and the Great Wall, which stretches for thousands of miles, is empty!

This is what they saw after they entered the middle of the new Qin, the beacons along the Great Wall were empty, the civil war was fierce, and the Great Wall Corps was transferred south twice, and more than 100,000 people were almost wiped out.

The price was that the Huns, who did not dare to go south to herd horses in the past, began to get closer and closer with courage, and when the Great Wall no longer fired crossbow arrows, or even burned beacons to give warnings, the Hu people became more and more daring, trying to break through, or bypass the not tall Great Wall, and return to the Hetao Plain......

That was just the beginning, when Mao Dun had destroyed Donghu and had all the grasslands in Saibei, the Huns had no worries, and began to invade Yunzhong and Shuofang unscrupulously!

Bun Baby stood at the mouth of the castle, which was full of corpses and where vultures and crows lived.

This is the southernmost city in the new Qin, "Pei", the stone steps, the bank of the river trough is like a step by step, hence the name, has always been the rich ferry in the new Qin, the grain ships from the north docked here, and sailed east.

But they didn't want it to be like this, the ferry was ruined, and it was a mess, and looking at the situation in the city, there were only two or three hundred dead, and the rest were either like the hundred or so people they met when they came, and fled by boat, or they were ......

"Taken captive by the Hulu!"

The old Qin horsemen who had a gap with the baby before gritted their teeth, they all knew that once the women and children were captured by the Huns, the end would be extremely miserable, basically they were reduced to slaves, and suffered humiliation, the Huns called them "sheep concubines", and they were not qualified to ride horses and cars, so they could only follow the Huns barefoot to migrate around, and the day was precarious.

"God-damned Hulu, when the Great Wall guards were in the past, the Huns were cowardly and did not dare to go south to herd horses, but today they are rampant here! If General Li is here, if Marquis Wu Zhong is here, An can be like this! ”

The horseman said pessimistically: "Dengkou Fort is already the southernmost city in New Qin, and it has all fallen here, not to mention the twenty or thirty in the north?" Presumably, it was also plundered by the Huns, and the cavalry generals, we went deep into the land of Hulu, so we should be careful to find and pursue it for its brigade, or we should retreat early and report this matter to Zhang Jun......"

"Look at that."

Guan Ying pointed to the north, more than ten miles away, in the depths of the green grassland, a beam of wolf smoke rose straight up, which was so eye-catching in the sky.

"There is wolf smoke, which means that there are still people holding on and asking for help!"

He urged his horse and began to move there.

"Not all the cities in the new Qin have been reduced to dust!"

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Although he planned to go to Linrong Fort to find out, considering that the Hu people liked to use hunting skills in warfare, especially to lure the enemy, Guan Ying let two hundred northern horsemen hide under a hillside, and only brought a few scouts to explore the situation of Linrong Fort.

Guan Ying and the others tied their horses to the upwind and sneaked into the woods a mile away from the city to secretly check.

But I saw that there were more than 100 Huns riding on horsemen, camping outside Linrong Fort, and driving some people, showing off their might in front of the fortress.

Or they dragged the old and weak of the captives on their horses, and galloped on them, so that they staggered and were scourged, and were covered with blood. The Hu knight made fun of the people in the city loudly, and when he was tired of playing, he drew his bow and arrows and killed the old man and the weak.

"This is an indiscriminate killing and humiliation, in order to provoke the people of the city and lure them out of the city to fight......"

Guan Ying gasped, this strategy is really vicious, these old and weak are afraid, I am afraid that there are many relatives in the fort who have not entered the city.

If you don't save it, the morale in the city will drop greatly, and the people's hearts will be scattered.

The Huns are not good at attacking cities, which is well known, but when it comes to field warfare, many of the Huns are now following the example of the Qin people, equipped with saddles and stirrups, and riding and archery are better than before.

Guan Ying looked at the woods a few miles away, where the birds did not fly down, and I am afraid that there were some Huns in ambush, but I don't know how many?

When the baby was thinking about how to deal with it, the situation under the fortress suddenly changed.

But there was a Hun who was too arrogant and too close to the city wall, and was killed by a big man on the wall who had endured with a bow for a long time!

A full hundred paces away, or a moving target, an arrow actually hit the center of the eyebrows, and into the body a few inches, regardless of accuracy or strength, it is a first-class material officer strong!

The baby asked himself if he couldn't even do it himself, who was this person, so powerful?

The Huns outside the city gate were a little stunned, but what was even more unpredictable for them was to come.

But when he saw that the big man who shot a Hu man to death, and saw that he had won the first place, he roared loudly and jumped down from the two-foot high earthen wall, as if the gods had descended from heaven.

It should have been agreed, and the gate behind him was opened, and a group of young immigrants, armed with swords, rushed out with a roar, and the big man took the lead in running, drawing his sword and shouting angrily:

"Zhou Bo is here, Hu Luan dares to be rampant!"

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PS: The second chapter is in the afternoon.