In October of the twenty-seventh year of Qin Shihuang.
According to the Qin calendar, October is the beginning of the year, and when this month comes, it is considered the beginning of a new year.
The whole Xianyang City is in a very lively atmosphere. People can be seen hanging new peach charms among the houses in various places. Residents in the city are coming and going, carrying dog legs, chickens, ducks and other things in their hands, and they are full of smiles when they meet each other.
laugh.
Compared with the strong festive atmosphere in Xianyang City, the princess's mansion looks a little different.
"Two barrels."
"Ninety thousand."
"Three Articles"
"Victory! Brother, bring it!"
I listened to some vocabulary that was not suitable for this era, and then watched the scene of Ying Yinman happily knocking down the wooden sign, and reaching out to the young master Fusu opposite to ask for chips.
Zhao Tuo looked helpless.
In this Qin Dynasty, the picture is a bit broken.
He created mahjong for later generations in this era.
Zhao Tuo didn't want to do it at first. After all, this thing is addictive. If it became popular in the future, he didn't know how many people would be obsessed with the card table all day long, not thinking about tea and food, and staying up late to play mahjong.
But isn’t he about to go on an expedition?
They were about to separate within half a year of their marriage, and Ying Yinman was very unhappy.
In addition, she is almost five months pregnant.
Under the changes of hormones in the body, the mood of pregnant women is very unstable.
Women in this era did not have many recreational activities. Pregnant Ying Yinman could not even go out to relax at will. As a result, there was a risk of "depression".
Lovesickness can even make you lose weight, not to mention the risks during pregnancy.
How could Zhao Tuo not care about his wife and children?
Seeing that the novel he wrote could no longer cope with such a scene, he simply became cruel and resorted to a big entertainment trick.
Mahjong appeared in the world and was named "Qin Pai" by him.
Unfashionable terms such as "Hu Liao" were also cleverly modified by him to make them more acceptable.
As soon as Qin Pai came out, it turned out to be very effective.
With her spiritual sustenance, Ying Yinman no longer complained a lot about Zhao Tuo who was about to go on an expedition, and a happy smile bloomed on his face.
Zhao Tuo breathed a sigh of relief and once again realized the importance of a rich entertainment life to people.
The young master Fusu who came to visit today was accidentally spotted by Ying Yinman and was forced to the card table. Accompanied by Zhao Tuo and the princess's maid, they fought bloody battle on the card court.
Zhao Tuo looked at Fusu smiling bitterly and shaking his head while pushing the chips to his sister, and thought in his heart: "It would be better if my uncle comes to play cards more often. This can relieve her anxiety and is good for the development of the fetus.
.But what if Fusu becomes addicted to playing cards?"
Thinking of this strange possibility, Zhao Tuo secretly shook his head and said: "Fusu is a gentleman, and he will definitely not be addicted to playing mahjong. You have to trust him."
In the days that followed, Zhao Tuo either accompanied Ying Yinman to the countryside to relax, played cards with the princess at home, or gathered his close friends for a banquet to deepen their relationship.
He is living a relatively comfortable life this year.
However, after the New Year, the atmosphere in Xianyang City suddenly became tense.
Everyone knew that the First Emperor was going to conquer the Hu people in the north and regain the homeland of the Xia that had been occupied by the barbarians.
As the basic base of the Qin army, the Qin people in Guanzhong have been assimilated by the military merit system for hundreds of years. They have long been accustomed to going out to fight, and there is not much resistance to this war to attack the Hu people in the north.
There were even many Qin people who wanted to achieve meritorious service and be promoted to nobility, and they were excited and in high fighting mood.
Of course, this is also because the battlefield is located in the north, which they are more familiar with, and not in the distant miasma land in the south. If they were recruited to conquer Baiyue in the south, everyone would have been crying.
Amid the Qin people's rising war sentiments, Zhao Tuo, who had just resigned from the post of Shaofu, focused all his thoughts on the upcoming war.
The first move he made was to go to Pinyang to visit retired Wang Jian.
This is a kind of respect for the veteran, and it is also the importance Zhao Tuo attaches to this war.
Wang Jian's beard and hair are all white, and his body is slightly stooped, but he is in good spirits and can eat two bowls of rice in one meal.
"The Hu people in the north are different from the six countries in Shandong. The Hu people have no city walls. They wander around with water and grass, fighting with others. They advance when it is advantageous and retreat when it is unfavorable. They are not shy to escape. Moreover, most of them are cavalry. Our Qin army defeated
It's easy for them, but it's a bit difficult to annihilate them. Once they find that they can't defeat our army head-on, they won't gather the main force to fight, and will most likely use intrusion tactics, which is very difficult to deal with on the grassland."
"So if you want to take Henan this time, the first battle is the most important. You can learn from Li Mu's strategy of dealing with the Huns in the past."
Wang Jian spoke slowly while putting rice into his mouth.
"Show the enemy weakness, lure the enemy to go deep, and annihilate their main force?"
Zhao Tuo was thoughtful.
According to his understanding, the reason why Li Mu was able to defeat the Xiongnu back then was because of his clever tactics.
When the Xiongnu invaded the Zhao border, the sentries used beacon fire to warn the Zhao army, and the Zhao army retreated to the fortress and did not fight the Xiongnu. This continued for several years.
The Huns all thought Li Mu was a coward, and the Zhao people did not dare to fight with them, so they became more arrogant.
Later, Li Mu secretly gathered more than 100,000 elite soldiers to herd livestock in the mountains and plains. When the Huns sent a small force to invade, Li Mu pretended to be defeated and fled, leaving thousands of people to the Huns.
After hearing the news, the Xiongnu Chanyu thought that the Zhao army was vulnerable, so he led a large number of troops to invade.
When Li Mu heard about the arrival of the main force of the Huns, he changed his previous fear and attacked with the Butch Formation, outflanking the Xiongnu from both sides, and finally killed hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu's horses and severely damaged their main force.
This is a very classic example of showing the enemy's weakness, luring the enemy deep and then killing it with one strike, and achieved significant results.
If Li Mu had not used strategies, it would have been almost impossible to achieve such results when fighting the Huns on the grassland.
It is difficult to cause great harm to these nomads by using foot against horse without any strategy.
Wang Jian nodded and said: "You want to take Henan this time, and unlike Li Mu's defense, you can't afford that time. So you should find a way to let the Yuezhi people gather their own main force to fight, and then you can find an opportunity to use their main force to fight."
After annihilating it, Henan will be easy to conquer. Later, when we attack Hexi, it will be much easier."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Zhao Tuo grinned and said: "Just like luring the Qi army to a decisive battle in Zhencheng before? I'm familiar with this."
Wang Jian was startled.
Looking at Zhao Tuo.
The two of them laughed in unison.
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After returning from Pinyang, Zhao Tuo was already confident and had a general idea for this Northern Expedition.
In the following time, he spent the whole day with Li Shiqi and the newly joined Chen Ping, studying various tactics to deal with the barbarians and deducing the war situation.
At the same time, after the busy farming season after the new year, the First Emperor recruited a large number of corvees to transport grain and fodder, and stored a large amount of grain and equipment in Shangjun, Beidijun and Longxijun.
It is precisely before the soldiers and horses move, the food and grass go first.
While the soldiers recruited from all over Kanto are still on their way and will take several months to reach their destination, the elite cavalry from Yunzhong, Yanmen, Shanggu, and Daijun have already been recruited to Beidi County.
A large number of cavalry gathered, waiting for Zhao Tuo to go to train and promote the three treasures of cavalry he had created.
At the great court meeting at the end of October.
The First Emperor waited no longer.
He was dressed in majestic and solemn black clothes and sat high on the imperial couch.
His eyes scanned the officials in the palace, and finally landed on Zhao Tuo, the chief concubine in the front row of military attaches.
"Since ancient times, China and the barbarians have been at odds with each other. Our country of Qin and Rong and Di have been feuding for generations."
"In the past, my ancestor Qin Zhong was a high official of Zhou Dynasty. He was ordered by Zhou Dynasty to kill the Western Rong and died in the army."
"Qin Zhong had five sons. He borrowed seven thousand Zhou soldiers to attack the Xirong and defeated them greatly. So the land of Quanqiu was merged, and this became the official name of Xicui Dafu."
"In the first year of Zong Zhou's reign, Quan Rong and Shen Hou attacked Zhou and killed King You at the foot of Lishan Mountain. My ancestor, Duke Xiang, sent his troops to rescue Zhou. He fought vigorously and made great achievements. Zhou escaped from the Quan Rong and moved eastward to Luoyi. Duke Xiang sent troops to send King Ping of Zhou.
King Ping made Duke Xiang a vassal and gave him the land west of Qi. He said: 'The Rong have no way and invade our land of Qi and Feng. If Qin can attack and drive away the Rong, it will have the land.' So far our Qin State has been established, and we will be a vassal for the rest of our lives."
"Later, Duke Wen attacked the Rong and collected the remnants of the Zhou Dynasty. The territory reached Qi. As for Duke Mu, he used Yu Yu to attack the Rong king and benefited the country for twelve years. He opened up thousands of miles of land and conquered Xirong. The emperor summoned the Duke to congratulate him.
Golden drum, Zhibo dominates..."
The First Emperor's voice was deep and powerful. According to the tradition of this era, before the war started, he described all the entanglements and grievances between Qin and the Rongdi barbarians.
This made Zhao Tuo feel excited.
The history of the Qin people's founding of the country can be called a history of bloody battles with the Rong, Di and barbarians.
This vast Qin land in Guanzhong was obtained by generations of Qin ancestors who fought bloody battles with barbarians. Every inch of the land is bathed in the blood of Qin people and Rong people.
This is the true martial nation. Facing the Rongdi barbarians, the only thing they can do is conquer!
At the end of the First Emperor's words, his voice was quite high.
"The barbarians are unruly and took advantage of the civil war among our Xia tribes to plunder and invade Zhao's old fortress, occupy the land in Henan, and oppress our Xia people."
"Now that I am the emperor, I shall inherit the martial style of Qin, expel the barbarians, and recover the homeland of the Xia, so that in this world, only my land of Qin will be the only one, and there will be no land for the barbarians!"
"The great concubine, Zhao Tuo, has great martial arts and is my good general. I now worship him as the general of Qin!"
"We should attack the barbarians in the north, conquer the Xia soil, and promote the great Qin Dynasty!"
As the voice of the First Emperor fell.
Zhao Tuo immediately stepped forward and accepted the order.
"My minister, Zhao Tuo, will drive out the barbarians and promote the great Qin Dynasty!"
Zhao Tuo's voice was passionate and powerful, and his eyes were shining.
He was the commander-in-chief of the Qin army of 300,000 men.