Chapter 601: Imminent
It is always the cruel truth that breaks the illusion of beauty, and the truth is often not the truth, and the truth is always used to distort, especially in the historical record.
For the annihilation of the 10,000 Qin troops in the first line of defense, the official must be "positive energy" propaganda, and for this reason, they will use their imagination to make up countless stories about the process of the 10,000 defenders' battles, emphasizing loyalty and unyielding, and the courage to die with the enemy.
In many cases, there is no need for the truth that has not been distorted, and the cruel content always needs to be emphasized with beautiful embellishments, giving more people an example, even if that example is to send everyone to death.
The reimbursement of the first line of defense of 10,000 Qin troops is to block the Huns for 57 days, and possibly to destroy 20,000 to 30,000 Huns, for Meng Tian or anyone in the Qin State, the disappearance of 10,000 Qin troops is worth it, it is extremely worthwhile!
From a military point of view, the dead are not the key, but whether the dead people have helped the war accordingly, Meng Tian used nearly two months to strengthen the second line of defense more solidly, and at the same time, the deployment of garrisons and the storage of logistics materials for each martial city were also correspondingly enhanced. Therefore, Hao is not hypocritical to say that the 10,000 Qin troops in the first line of defense are well-deserved.
Touman uprooted the city of Dingbian, and he did not rejoice in the victory, except for ignorant herdsmen, and none of the nobles of the Huns rejoiced in this victory.
In order to conquer the three Wucheng cities, which did not exist, the Xiongnu paid more than 30,000 dead and wounded, of which nearly 6,000 were burned to ashes after rushing into the larger Wucheng.
The damage to the people is not a big deal for Touman, the soldiers of the nomads are the herdsmen of various tribes, and the herdsmen are like weeds, and once they are cut, they will always grow another stubble.
The only reason that really made the Xiongnu nobles unhappy was that it was a fruitless victory, and after the city was broken, they did not capture many slaves and did not capture many supplies, which was an unacceptable victory for the nomads.
Don't look at the nomads as ignorant, but their understanding of war is much more correct than that of the Chinese regime in many cases, and they emphasize war with benefits. That is, why fight. They have their own calculations and opinions on what kind of war is worth fighting.
Roared a few times and lost money, Touman's head was a little painful There are still a lot of martial arts cities behind Dingbian City, and the number is so large that even if they can pull out one in two months, they will have to fight for three or five years.
Touman's head hurts, but the leaders of some tribes are numb in their hearts, they are not good at attacking cities, it will take more than two months and pay the price of 20,000 or 30,000 people to fight a city with less than 10,000 people, so it will take 20 months to fight ten cities, and 200,000 people will die. There won't be a few people left who have entered Qindi.
At this time, Mao Dun came with the 10,000 cavalry he had trained, and after he understood the situation, he immediately built that he could not fight one by one, and should choose a target that the Qin State would inevitably save, and attract the Qin army to the grassland for field battles.
Mao Dun is a smart man among the Huns, and he is also a prince with great ambitions, but the Xiongnu nobles who went south are not all fools, so Mao Dun did not get the expected praise after speaking, and everyone looked at Mao Dun like idiots.
In many cases, there is only a thin line between being smart and being too clever, especially if you rashly build a building without knowing the truth at all. Instead of compliment, you will be ridiculed.
Choosing the city that Qin will save to attack, who wouldn't do this? There are many martial cities blocking the southward movement of the Xiongnu, and there are Wucheng in almost every direction. Then I have to talk about it well, which of these martial cities is the city that Qin State must save. Which one can be chosen to give more advantage to the Huns' cavalry?
"......" was dumbfounded, he knew that he had chosen the wrong time to show his face when he saw that everyone was looking at him as if they were stupid.
It's not for nothing that Mao Dun is so urgent, Touman doesn't like him, he, the first heir of Xiongnu Shan Yu, was forced to go to the Yueshi people as a hostage. After coming back, he learned more clearly that Tou Man loved his younger brother, and if he didn't fight for his cousin, let alone his turn, his life would very likely die at the hands of one of his brother's cronies.
The Huns did not have a written word. That means that there will be no battle map, and how the Qin State city in front of it is arranged completely depends on the barren language to describe it, so that it can be clearly said that there is a ghost.
Because there was no battle map, the Huns were in great need of good probes when they were fighting, and these probes had to surpass ordinary people's language ability and memory, so that they could explain the complex situation clearly with their mouths. But can you really make it clear? At least when he called out to the scout to repeat the situation ahead, no matter how hard he tried to imagine, he didn't know if there was any difference between the actual situation and his own imagination.
"I need to see for myself." In the end, Mao Dun just dropped such a sentence, and in the ridicule of some Xiongnu tribal leaders, in the scene where Tou Man covered his face with his hands and whispered that he didn't know what to mutter, Mao Dun took people away.
To the south, less than thirty miles away from the Huns, Yulin, where Meng Tian was located, had another 30,000 troops because of the arrival of follow-up reinforcements.
The Qin army that came later was no longer as strong as the previous soldiers, and among the thirty thousand, there were gray-haired ones, and they looked like they were only twelve or thirteen years old.
When Meng Tian saw that most of the new reinforcements were old and weak, he only asked Nei Shi Teng, who led the army, one sentence, that is, how was the battle situation in the Central Plains.
Nei Shi Teng is the general of the Qin State who destroyed Han, and his surname is neither "Nei" nor "Shi", let alone "Nei Shi". He is actually the surname of Zhao's Ying, named Teng, and he will have the full name of Nei Shi Teng because he used to be a member of Nei Shi County...... He is the county guard of Zhili County of Qin State.
Meng Tian, who presided over the war in northern Xinjiang, asked a question with a lot of meaning, which only an insider could answer.
It just so happened that Nei Shi Teng belonged to the part of the "insiders", and he knew that Meng Tian was asking how the First Emperor's condition was, whether Fusu had taken over the command of the Central Plains Army, the political environment on the side of the countries (Qi Yanzhao), and what was the situation with Lu Zhe in the south.
Nei Shi Teng used very short language to explain the illness of the First Emperor, so short that there was only the word "collapse", and then used slightly more words to tell sΓΉ Meng Tian Fusu had won Xu Yan's allegiance, but the countries and Lu Zhe could not be said in a few words.
The message "Death is imminent" made Meng Tian's face extremely gloomy, and his face looked better after hearing that Fusu had obtained the allegiance of the Central Plains Army.
In fact, many things are related, the first emperor is about to die, Fusu can get the allegiance of hundreds of thousands of soldiers of the Central Plains Army, which means that there is strong military support, but the countries and Lu Zhe are related to the diplomatic environment after Fusu ascended the throne.
The Qin State is difficult, but there is a limit to the difficulty, the environment that Qin is facing now is not much more difficult than that of Qin Xiaogong at that time, the only thing that can make the Qin State perish is not how powerful the foreign enemy is, is whether Fusu can ascend the throne after the death of the first emperor.
Now that the Central Plains Army has been loyal to Fusu, and the Great Wall Army in the north is also the strong backing of Fusu, then the competition for the throne that may occur in China because of the death of the First Emperor will not break out.
After Meng Tian confirmed this, he invited Nei Shi Teng into his big tent, he needed to know the movements of the Central Plains countries, and he should also know what Lu Zhe was doing now.
It's not that he looks down on the three kingdoms of Qi, Yan, and Zhao, Meng Tian really thinks that as long as the Qin State does not have internal strife, these countries that have just been restored for less than three years will be difficult to threaten the national glory of the Qin State at all.
In fact, it is almost the same, every time the Qin State faces the above countries, unless it is the internal chaos of the Qin State itself, otherwise it has never lost at all when a war breaks out.
Even if the countries that guarantee the integrity of the Qin State are against the Qin State, they can't defeat the Qin State by relying on the alliance. The countries that have just been reinstated, at most, they will tie up the footsteps of the Qin State and want to annihilate the nearly 700,000 troops of the Central Plains Army...... Is it possible?
The news brought by Nei Shi Teng was very clear that it was "impossible", Fu Su supervised the army, Xu Yan fought the main battle, and then Meng Yi, Su Jiao and others, the Central Plains Army had won four consecutive victories against Qi, Yan, and Zhao, and a total of nearly 350,000 enemies were destroyed.
"Oh? And what about Lu Hou's side? Meng Tian asked if Lu Zhe had any signs of cutting off the trade route.
Nei Shi Teng first corrected Meng Tian's address to Lu Zhe, saying that the official edict had been issued, and it was time to change the title to King Han, and then told the situation over there one by one.
Strictly speaking, Lu Zhe did not hold a day of worship to the heavens, did not worship ghosts and gods, did not change into a king-level crown robe, and did not have too many things...... Then Lu Zhe is not a king. Therefore, Nesten corrected that Meng Tian's title was wrong.
Nei Shi Teng's behavior only shows some problems, first of all, Qin State's jealousy of Lu Zhe, and the other is that Qin State can't do without some help from Lu Zhe now, so he subconsciously doesn't want to offend ...... Even if Lu Zhe never knew what to call an official of the Qin State, whether it was called Lu Hou or King Han, or Lu Dog Thief or Lu Rebel Thief, they just didn't want to do anything that would make the two sides evil.
How could Lu Zhe cut off business contacts with the Qin State, Nei Shi Teng only gave a few examples, and Meng Tian was immediately relieved.
In order to obtain materials from Lu Zhe, the domestic treasury of the Qin State is almost empty, and it has been bartering for a while now, but this kind of payment is that the soldiers of the 700,000 Central Plains Army are not hungry, because the grain, medicine and other materials are sufficient, and the morale is relatively high.
Nesten said worriedly: "If this continues, even if we can defeat the coalition forces of the nations and keep the east calm, we will not be able to recover for at least five years." β
"Marriage matters......" Meng Tian stopped after spit out a few words, what he said was about a big secret. (To be continued......)