The earth is rejuvenated, the autumn is yellow, the winter branches and leaves are rotting, and the grass roots are left behind, and it has regrown its buds, swaying slightly in the breeze.

Most of the soil in Qindi is brown and yellow, but when you dig deep, it is a deep red like blood. This soil has a strong moisture content, making it ideal for use as a material in a wide range of fields.

In addition to the red soil, there are many unusually fertile black soils and loams containing copper.

Of course, before the development of modern industry, people did not have enough technology to make use of it, but some of the most primitive methods of using soil, such as choosing the right soil for pottery processing, will also smelt a small amount of metal from the soil, such as the discovery of tin in the development of bronze is part of it.

The white "Qin" flag on a black background is fluttering, most of them are vertical flags from top to bottom, a few are triangular flags, the only thing that is the same is that each flag must have some strips of cloth, and the strips of cloth are also dancing wildly in the wind.

An army armed with bronze appeared on the horizon, with countless cavalry at the forefront, and a long phalanx of infantry in the rear.

The speed of the cavalry was not a galloping state, it was a very smooth and slow march, and the sound of horses' hooves was not so intense, but a large number of infantry soldiers, and the sound of their boots with wooden plates on the ground converged into one.

The sound of footsteps startled the birds in the woods on both sides of the road, and for a time all kinds of birds in the forest spread their wings and flew high, and the wild beasts ran deeper into the forest with their hooves, and some small animals quickly got into their nests and trembled.

The army is frightened everywhere, and many people interpret the behavior of the animals as being shocked by the murderous spirit of the army, but in fact, the movement of the army march is too big, and many times it can even be described as magnificent, and it is strange that the animals do not avoid it under such a big movement.

The army that appeared was the Qin army that marched northwest from Yiqu. The commander of the unified army will be Meng Tian, the general of Qin Zhengbei, the chief deputy general of the army will be Nei Shi Teng, the ancestor of Zhao Ying, and the second deputy will be Li You, the eldest son of Li Sichang.

At present, the Qin army does not have the theory of left and right deputy generals, and the left and right deputy generals originated from Chu culture, and it is rumored that they are the products of the Shang Dynasty. The inheritance of the Qin army comes from the Zhou royal family, and the vassal states under the command of the Zhou royal family are indeed named after the chief and second seats, which generally occurs in the field army.

In addition to the chief deputy general and the second deputy general in the Qin army, there will be the first general and the second general in the army...... Until the official position of the fifth general, the deputy general is not completely a deputy without military power, and there will be a certain number of subordinates under each general.

It was continued by the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. In fact, there is also a phenomenon in the army, that is, every officer above the rank of general will carry his troops to the battle. The trilogy is not a state-made force, it is very similar to "vassals", which is "lord armed" in the Western way of understanding. Therefore, the number of troops carried by each officer is not fixed, and the more prominent the officer, the more troops he carries, and the equipment status of the troops will also vary according to his wealth.

During the period when the Qin State ruled the world, not only did officers participate in the war with their troops, but even soldiers and soldiers carried slaves to participate in the war, because the war was very smooth under the circumstances at that time. Everyone expects to be able to earn more in order to earn military merit, so as to get an official position or a promotion in a knighthood, and the title is precisely the basis for how many acres of land and how many slaves each person can have. Whether the soldiers of the Qin army were with troops or slaves, they all needed to provide anything by themselves. From the daily food, to the armed maintenance of the troops and slaves.

It must be noted that the Qin army is an army recruited by the state but not very responsible for logistics, which means that under normal circumstances, non-commissioned officers or officers must prepare their own war materials before participating in the war, and even their battle uniforms must be prepared by themselves. So much so that for a long time, the Qin army has always been a "rabble" in colorful clothing. The Qin army also had a strict level of treatment for the food of the soldiers, and the lower the title, the worse the food they ate, so if they wanted to add food, they needed to buy it.

At one point, the state of Qin stipulated that it could no longer bring non-personnel into the war. Policies were also introduced to limit the clothing styles of the soldiers, and gradually the Qin army was no longer so colorful. The Qin army stipulated that the colors of clothing were black, gray, and white, but there were very strict level restrictions on the style, for example, only people above the rank of public servants could wear armor, and only those who combed their hair were eligible to wear a plate-like hair crown, and each level had a different style.

The restriction that you can't bring unofficial personnel into battle has been lifted, but now it's not the stage where the Qin State is invincible, and not many people will go out with their troops at all, slaves of ordinary soldiers...... The social unrest is too intense, the taxes are so heavy that people can't breathe, the lack of labor in the farmland is mostly deserted, and how many families still have enough food to afford slaves? Even if you can afford it, you need to stay at home as a laborer.

The chariot carrying Meng Tian was a new vehicle purchased from the Han Kingdom, that is, the kind with axles and anti-shock devices. The axle is to give the vehicle a flexible turning function, and there is no need for the vehicle to turn and people to lift, but the shock device is not much necessary for a combat vehicle.

The body of the new vehicle is three meters long and two meters five meters wide, and is pulled by four horses.

That's right, the unit of "meter" has been implemented in the Han Kingdom, and the extension is about the emergence of millimeters and centimeters, and a new set of measurement has been promoted at the request of Lu Zhe.

Meng Tian was sitting on the chariot, the people standing on the left and right sides of it were Ne Shi Teng and Li You, and the driver of the car was a nobody.

The main general, the chief lieutenant general, and the second lieutenant general should not have appeared in the same car, after all, the three of them are the rotation of the order of the army, once the chariot accident is all three, then the army will have no leader, but the situation they are facing is a bit special.

The three main characters are all in a chariot, not to mention how nervous the chariot driver should be, no matter how much the surrounding escort force is strengthened, then there will be a chariot with shields stacked on the side of the chariot in the inner layer, the second layer is a heavy cavalry with armor on both men and horses, and the outermost layer is a layer of infantry sergeants.

“…… The straight part is all the way to the old Great Wall, and we need to make a diversion on the edge of Luoshui and turn into the northwest direction. Another option is to keep going straight down the straight. Until you reach the end of the straight, "the space in the car is not small, when the Han Kingdom designed the chariot, a suspension device was added, which can hang a map, and the inner Sten is now pointing to the mountains and rivers to tell something."

The so-called section of the Old Great Wall is actually a defense line set up by the Qin State in the northern Xinjiang during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, which has been changed many times, sometimes extending forward, sometimes retreating. At the beginning of the establishment of the Great Wall, the object of defense was not the Huns, the first object of defense was the Yiqu people, and later it became the line of defense against the southward expansion of the Dayue clan. The Great Wall is made of rammed earth. Its scale is not large, compared to the Great Wall rebuilt behind the Qin State, one can be regarded as a giant dragon, and the old section of the Great Wall is a small bug.

Fusu appointed Meng Tian as the chief general of the Northern Expeditionary Army, Nei Shiteng as the chief deputy general, and Li You as the second deputy general, and the final destination of sending 150,000 troops to the north this time was to approach the direction of Jiuyuan, and the strategic goal was to attack the Xiongnu and other Hu people who were cut off by the Han army because of the back road.

By the way, Qin Xiu's straight path did not extend all the way to Jiuyuan because of the short time. It was a passive stop when it reached 70 miles north of Fushi, which is also the area of the old Great Wall in Shangjun.

Han Wangzhe issued a timetable for the establishment of the empire, and there were Han troops approaching the Qin realm in all directions, which was obviously a kind of impatience that the Qin state was still hesitating. Lu Zhe did not show impatience before. Fusu still had time to hesitate or bargain, but when the Han army encircled the Qin realm, Fusu was useless just by talking, and he still needed to express his position with practical actions. It was in this context that Meng Tian led the army to the north.

Originally, the Qin army in Yiqu was about 250,000, and the more troops to attack the north, the better, especially if the target of the attack was the Hu people, who were very mobile. But what's the matter. Meng Tian said a different opinion.

Meng Tian thought that since the Qin State was going to express its position to Han Wangzhe, it was not that the more troops should be sent, the better, and that it should not be misunderstood as going to attack the Han army in the fertile field, and that it was necessary to master a scale, which was best to show enough sincerity, but did not pose a threat to the Han army in the fertile field, so as to make Han Wangzhe believe in the sincerity of the Qin State in sending troops as much as possible.

The 150,000 Qin army was an appropriate number, consisting of 20,000 new cavalry and 5,000 chariots to form the backbone, and then with about 115,000 infantry troops and auxiliaries.

Another problem that caused the limitation of troops was that after the Han State gradually reduced the resource delivery to the Qin State, the Qin State's material reserves could not use troops on a large scale......

Fusu made a statement and sent the Northern Expeditionary Army, and the response of the Han side was that the 70,000 troops recruited by Longxi who were originally stationed in Longxi also began to move north, and the Hannan Expeditionary Army, which was originally going to Hanzhong County, stopped in place when it arrived in Jiangzhou in Ba County, and some of the Hannan Expeditionary Army was transported to Nanjun by ship through the Yangtze River, and the three Han mixed regiments in the direction of Sanchuan County also left only one and the rest to open to the Central Plains.

The elimination of hostility is not only a good thing for the Qin state, but also a heavy burden for the Han state, and all of them seem to be developing for the better?

When the Northern Qin Expeditionary Army led by Meng Tian passed through the area of the old Great Wall, a team of about 100 Han army rangers appeared.

The leader of this Han army was Li Liang, who came to make the necessary briefing to Meng Tian, brought the news of the Hequ generation, and also discussed some necessary details of the march of the Northern Qin Expeditionary Army.

At present, the area known as Hequ is very wide, not counting Jiuyuan County and Yunzhong County, which were newly placed by Lu Zhe, but also including some areas of Beidi County and Shangjun County, and even part of the Qingtang Plateau area.

The latest batch of maps of rivers and rivers in the Han Kingdom were painted very carefully, and the geographical features were subtly marked, where are the plains, where there are water sources, and where are the mountains or swamps. What worries Meng Tian the most is that the mountains and rivers of the Han Kingdom are marked with the ethnic groups and tribes in that area.

"Is the meandering river so complicated now?"

"General Meng, the meanders of the river are currently divided into three regions, namely the generation near the south, the generation north of the north and the upper (county) land, and the generation west of the two places, which one are you asking?"

Meng Tian was appreciative of the Han army's repeated refinement, and nothing could make it clear at a glance than detailed refinement, so the detailed division could also enable the generals to grasp more information about a certain area in the least amount of time. He asked about the part of the "Hexi Corridor" that had been marked on the map by the Han Kingdom.

This "Hexi Corridor" is actually not the same place as the "Hexi Corridor" of previous dynasties. After the establishment of Liangzhou by the Han Dynasty, the Hexi Corridor actually referred to a narrow section leading to the Western Regions, covering the area extending from the east to the north of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, which was almost the part of the Ningxia Autonomous Region in later generations. However, at present, the Hexi Corridor named by Lu Han is not within the territory of China, for example, the east of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is not, it should be closer to the west, located further north of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

"It turns out that the Han army has expanded so far......" Nei Shiteng's gaze at the mountains and rivers map is complicated, just because the Hetao area on the map, even extending more than 500 miles to the north, is almost about to invade the Junji Mountain area.

The Junji Mountain area is deep into the nest of the Hu people, and if it is added two or three hundred miles further north, it will be the core of the Hu people in Yanran Mountain.

Li Liang seemed to be stunned for a moment when he heard Nei Shiteng's words, of course the Han army did not expand so far, even if it took advantage of the emptiness of the Hu people in that area, the Han army only expanded to the north for about 200 miles, and there were at least 400 miles away from the Junji Mountain area.

Obviously, Nesteng had mistaken the Han army's reconnaissance area map and territory diagram, but Li Liangcai would not explain it.

Meng Tian was also surprised by the expansion of the Han army on the grassland, but what he cared most about was the movements of the Xiongnu, and he was also very concerned about the new alien races, especially when Li Liang introduced that the new alien races were from the Han Wangzhe called "Central Asia", or even the farther one called "Europa", when they migrated from those two distant places that he had never heard of, the only thing left for Meng Tian was to feel sincere admiration for the size of the world. (To be continued......)