Chapter 621 How naive!

Domestic undercurrents did not affect foreign combat plans.

Zhao Kun is always paying attention to the war situation abroad.

Wang Ben knew this very well, and every once in a while, he would send someone to deliver military reports to Zhao Kun.

Although Da Qin has now successfully experimented with telegraph, there is still a long way to go before telegraph can be put into actual use.

Now, the vanguard army of Great Qin has arrived at the boundary of the Western Region, and the entire Western Region is in operation for the logistical supplies of the Great Qin Expeditionary Army.

The other countries, no matter what their intentions, at least after seeing the military power of Qin Dynasty, consciously did not cause trouble.

Li Xin naturally knew what they were waiting for, it was nothing more than the result of the first battle.

Barbarians have always been like this, fearing power but not being moral.

If you are strong, they will rely on you; if you are weak, they will spurn you, betray you, or even unite with your enemies to crush you.

Therefore, if this expedition cannot be fought beautifully, these countries in the Western Regions that originally relied on Da Qin will definitely have other thoughts.

Of course, Da Qin is not worried about their other thoughts.

If you dare to have different intentions and act against the Qin Dynasty, there will be only one outcome, and that is the destruction of the nation and the nation.

The Qin Dynasty always treated the barbarians with both kindness and power.

Now the Qin Dynasty is coming with a crushing force and the overwhelming power of heaven, and it is bound to crush the Pontic Kingdom's disrespectful crime.

And these countries in the Western Regions are naturally afraid of this kind of power.

Now, they won't say anything more, as long as they honestly follow Da Qin's established plan and do their duty.

Moreover, they will definitely be more well-behaved than before.

As long as the Pontic Kingdom shows any resistance in this war, no one can tell what the idlers in the Western Region are thinking.

Seven days later, the Great Qin Vanguard Army led by Li Xin had arrived at the eastern border of the Pontic Kingdom, less than 200 miles away from Kaer Morhen.

The first battle is about to break out.

At this time, in the Qin Army's military tent, Li Xin lowered his head and looked at the military sand table customized by the Academy of Sciences for the expeditionary force.

This military sand table is extremely delicately arranged, with mountains and rivers on it, all scaled on the table according to a certain proportion.

Along the march, Li Xin was amazed by this military sand table several times.

There is no other reason.

It's so accurate.

As long as it is deduced according to this ratio, the error of this sand table will hardly exceed ten miles.

Moreover, its three-dimensional shape is very intuitive.

Compared with this, the rough parchment maps that Li Xin used in the army were simply not worth mentioning.

Just casually sketching a shape with a pen is a little bit interesting.

If you point to that map and fight, it will definitely be bad.

The military sand table in front of Li Xin is exactly the environment around Kaer Morhen City.

Kaer Morhen City is the largest city-state in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Pontus, covering an area almost equivalent to half of Guanzhong.

The main city is built on the mountain. There are steep cliffs on both sides of the mountain, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack.

The 350,000 soldiers and horses of the Pontic Kingdom concentrated their efforts on defending the northern continent.

In a siege battle, we faced a force five times our own and were unable to complete the siege.

This kind of battle, even when Li Xin was young and frivolous, he would not have dared to say that he could win this battle.

After all, to surround an enemy with ten soldiers is the experience summed up by senior military strategists from countless wars.

However, Li Xin was full of confidence at this time.

In today's Great Qin, it is no longer the time when soldiers were able to go to war with ten kilograms of cake hanging on their chests during the melee wars in China.

Not to mention anything else, the military equipment alone is far superior to what it was before.

Not only did everyone wear armor, but the weapons they used were all made of fine steel, and they were equipped with weapons suitable for both long-range and close combat.

What's more important is that in this expedition to the Ponto Kingdom, the Academy of Science and Technology spent almost all its resources and brought out all the skills at its best.

This expedition is to avenge the Academy of Sciences. Apart from Zhao Kun, the most angry people are the group of technical geeks at the Academy of Sciences.

When these people transform into war madmen and burst out with energy, it is definitely not something that ordinary people can imagine.

Even a veteran general like Li Xin was afraid of him.

The vanguard army led by Li Xin was equipped with a total of five gunpowder speculators.

This kind of speculation was adapted from the catapult by the Academy of Sciences.

Compared with long-range weapons like artillery, this kind of speculative melee siege is very powerful.

Two hundred kilograms of gunpowder can be thrown onto a city wall a hundred feet away at one time.

This big killer weapon is where Li Xin's confidence lies in attacking Kaer Morhen.

To be honest, Li Xin was very satisfied with the performance of the Pontu Kingdom.

Li Xin would be very upset if the Pontic Kingdom simply gave in because Qin sent troops.

When he was young, he fought for the First Emperor in the six kingdoms, and except for the battle against Chu, he almost never lost any of them.

Although Li Xin had been depressed for a while, deep down he never lacked the arrogance of a famous general.

This time Zhao Kun specially appointed him as the deputy commander of the expeditionary force. Li Xin knew very well what the second emperor, whom he had only met a few times, expected of him.

Because of a single defeat, half a life has been wasted doing nothing.

How has Li Xinxin ever been willing to do so?

He has never hated others. He only hated that he was not strong enough back then and was defeated by Xiang Yan just because a mere Lord Changping rebelled.

Every time he dreamed back at midnight, Li Xin also thought, if he had been stronger back then, even if he was attacked from both sides, wouldn't it really be possible to turn defeat into victory?

This time he set out to conquer the Kingdom of Pontus and led his troops to advance all the way. Li Xinxin's faith gradually recovered again.

He had suffered a defeat at the hands of the Chu State, and although he was demoralized, he still made great contributions to the Qin Dynasty in the subsequent wars.

It was only after the six kingdoms were unified that Li Xin left in depression.

Suddenly looking back, he realized that the main reason for his depressed mood over the years was not that failure.

But he can no longer fight on the battlefield.

He, Li Xin, was a man destined to die on the battlefield from birth.

In Li Xinxin's mind, the first battle against the Ponto Kingdom was the battle where he announced his return to the world.

In his opinion, the previous battle to conquer the Huns was entirely a victory led by Zhao Kun and had little to do with him.

Even without himself, Zhao Kun could still destroy the Huns.

And I am just the icing on the cake.

But this time it was different. This time he went to the Ponto Kingdom. Although he was the deputy commander in name, he was actually the same as the commander.

Wang Ben did not interfere with his command.

So thinking from Wang Ben's perspective, he should also want to succeed.

So if the Kingdom of Pontus is a courageless quail and it is easy to fight, what is the point of such a battle?

A truly famous general is never afraid of the strength of his opponent.

On the contrary, they are afraid of opponents who have no fighting spirit.

Because only the tempering of iron and blood can make them feel the thrill of battle.

The Kingdom of Pontus is very good.

At this time, when he heard movement outside the account, Li Xin raised his head and looked towards the door.

A messenger ran in quickly.

"Report——!"

"General, the city of Kaer Morhen has been closed. The city lord Meserro sent 50,000 rangers out of the city last night and went to the north."

Hearing this, Li Xin raised his eyebrows and then chuckled.

It is said that if you know yourself and the enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.

Although the Pontu Kingdom was regarded as a barbarian country in the eyes of the Qin people.

However, as a commander in chief, Li Xin would never underestimate any opponent.

The people stationed in Kaer Morhen are the Mesero family, a great noble of the Kingdom of Pontus.

The Mesero family has served in the army for generations and has a very high reputation in the Pontic Kingdom's army.
To be continued...