Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 62 Burning the Mountain
Meng Ying patted Lu Ze on the shoulder, but finally left without saying a word.

To be honest, regarding the fact that Lu Ze picked up a mistake and beheaded the leader of the Qiang people, although Meng Ying pretended to be nonchalant on the surface, it was impossible to say that she had no grievances in her heart.

After all, that is a first-class title!
It's just the pride of many generations of generals and the majesty of Zhao Zhao Qin Fa that made him disdain and dare not compete with Lu Ze for merit.

Meng Ying stood behind a soldier with great interest and asked, "Is she beautiful?"

"Beautiful, beautiful!" The soldier sucked his saliva, staring at a Qiang girl with a thin waist and wide hips.

"Forty-five hundred dollars, take it home and be a mother-in-law!"

"It's too expensive, let's make it cheaper... Lang, Lang Jiang!"

Amidst the laughter of the crowd, Meng Ying shouted loudly: "Take everything you can take away, and burn everything you can't take away!"

After the soldiers left as promised, Meng Ying pulled Wu Zhida past him, looked left and right and asked in a low voice, "Da, tell me the truth, are you lost?"

"What are you talking about, General Lang?" Wu Shida couldn't laugh or cry, "I'm familiar with this road! You haven't walked in the wasteland, so you don't understand."

"There are no roads in the wasteland. Maybe the road you walked this year, after a heavy rain, will be completely covered by vegetation in a few days!"

"So whether it's the Qiang people or the Huns, sometimes it's a pile of gravel, and sometimes it's a piece of animal bone hanging on a tree..."

"But the Qiang tribe we met here was beyond my expectation!"

Meng Ying nodded without knowing it, and asked: "Is it still far from where we are going?"

He glanced at the Qiang captives gathering herds under the guard of soldiers of the Qin army on the hillside in the distance, and thought, if this place is far away from the grassland to be burned, he can only execute the captives and the herds...

Wu Zhida pondered for a moment in silence, and said firmly: "It's not far away, just go northwest and turn over two small hills to arrive!"

"Need to climb over two hills?" Meng Ying was a little hesitant. After going deep into the Qiang Realm these days, he finally understood what Fusu once said, "Look at the mountains and run to death."

It takes at least one day to ride a horse for two mountain bags.

Wu Zhida shook his head and said, "We don't need to go any further. Look at the current wind direction. If we set a fire on the opposite mountain, the fire can sweep the entire pasture in the blink of an eye..."

Mengying grabbed a handful of soil, measured the wind direction, then looked at the withered shrubs and grass on the hills in the distance, nodded, thinking in her heart:
"Although it doesn't match the military order, it can still be regarded as completing the task... Well, when you set the fire later, you must be careful, don't burn your own people!"

Meng Ying continued to ask: "Have you asked clearly? Which tribe are the Qiang people here?"

Wu Zhida nodded and replied: "This is a branch of Shaodang Qiang, the chieftain (chieftain) is called Jiang Ting..."

Jiang's surname?Burn Dang Qiang?

How did they come here?

Didn't it mean that they lived in Dayun Valley, north of Deshui?
Many questions emerged in Meng Ying's mind, recalling the classics she had read in Xianyang, if the Qiang people's surname was Jiang, then they might be the descendants of Emperor Yan...

"General Lang, the inventory has been roughly completed." A hundred generals stepped forward and saluted with fists in their hands: "A total of 43 levels of beheading were taken, 95 young men, 322 old and weak women and children, 155 cows, 124 horses, and 2477 sheep were captured. , 15 bullock carts, and a total of 254 bronze utensils..."

The number of horses is a bit small, but there is no way to do it. When I kicked the battalion, I was too busy killing people. It is impossible to divide the troops to collect the livestock... Meng Ying nodded incredulously, and then asked: "How about the casualties of our army? "

Baijiang showed embarrassment on his face, the corner of his mouth twitched, and said: "15 people were slightly injured, most of them were arrow wounds, and one person was seriously injured. He fell off his horse during the second wave of charge and was shot by his own The horse broke its arm...but it has been dealt with, and there is no disability, and it will be fine after a period of time..."

Fall off a horse?Her arm was trampled by her own horse... Meng Ying was a little dumbfounded for a moment, and then he let out a long sigh.

Before a large number of stirrups were equipped, the cavalry was responsible for harassment and interception tasks most of the time, and would not actively use it to attack the enemy's infantry formation.

Even though he stepped up time for training along the way, such an accident still happened...

Meng Ying shook her head, and then an unconcealable smile appeared on her face.

This was his first time leading an army in battle. Although the result was a little smaller, it was not the same as the war of annihilation that his father participated in.

but……

According to Qin Law, this is a big victory for him!
Although he, the chief officer with a high title, cannot be promoted, the cavalry and guides who follow him can get corresponding promotions!
In the Qin Law, cavalrymen, like crossbowmen, do not rely on beheading to record merit in battle, but collective merit.

After all, the latter has no chance to behead himself, while the former does not have the conditions to behead.

Therefore, after this battle, all participants will be promoted to the first rank, and will receive additional rewards.

This is because they took large numbers of captives, as well as herds.

Two hours later, the Qiang captives put on the bullock cart obediently, moved the tent leather and other things onto the cart, and were driven by the cavalry of the Qin army, and staggered around the bullock cart.

Behind them, the blazing flames, after devouring their winter camp, swept away to the distant hills under the whimpering autumn wind.

After a while, Meng Ying rushed up with a dozen cavalrymen. Under his command, the team was rearranged.

Lu Ze led two dozen cavalrymen and guide Wu Zhida to lead the team ahead;

The two chiefs each led fifty cavalry, wandering on both sides of the team;

Meng Ying personally led the team at the back, guarding the Qiang captives, cattle and sheep, while the horses were driven by two knights from Rong and Di, and they were at the back of the team.

In this way, the unarmed Qiang captives were held in the middle of the line and kept away from the horses. Even if they wanted to run, they would not be able to get out of the range of the Qin Nu.

At night, Meng Ying divided the camp into three places according to the characteristics of the Qiang people who are strong enough to fight and let women and children run away.

One is for cattle, sheep, and Qiang children, and the fifty cavalrymen led by Lu Ze are in charge of taking care of them; the other is for horses, and the ten cavalrymen led by Wu Zhida are in charge of taking care of a few horses. , you don’t have to worry about the horses getting separated.

The last camp held adult Qiang people.

The nomads are tough, even women cannot be underestimated, so Meng Ying is in charge of this camp.

On the one hand, relying on personal force makes the Qiang people dare not have distracting thoughts, and on the other hand, it can deter the soldiers so that they will not plot against the Qiang women at night!

After all, soldiers at this time are not moral models.

(End of this chapter)