The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 504: Bingzhou’s weakness is finally exposed [Please subscribe*Please vote]

"When I was studying, I was laughing at Li Guang. He could get lost in the desert with Boyuan Hou Zhang Qian as his guide. Now..."

"Laugh at Li Guang, understand Li Guang, become Li Guang, and surpass Li Guang!"

Yan Yan became serious. The terrain of the Alxa desert was too complicated. The quicksand moved at any time, making all maps become a thing of the past.

This is the fundamental reason why Li Guang got lost, because the maps Zhang Qian could provide were out of date.

Li Guang is different from Huo Qubing. Li Guang wants to lead the army to the designated battlefield, while Huo Qubing is a mobile force with no fixed goals and a high degree of freedom.

In other words, Huo Qubing himself didn't know who his next enemy would be. He only needed to continuously attack the Huns' army and follow the Huns' defeated army to find the main force of the Huns.

However, Li Guang wanted to go north from Monan to join the main force led by Wei Qing.

The same goes for Wei Qing. He doesn't need to cross the Alxa Desert, he just needs to follow the main force of the Huns.

Only Li Guang, as a special force, needed to cross Alxa, which has no reference objects and landmarks, to intercept the main force of the Huns.

Since King Xiutu has been at war with Dayuezhi, even if Maodun has surrendered to Bingzhou, it does not mean that King Xiutu will recognize Bingzhou.

For this reason, Wei Qing sent Zhang Qian, an old acquaintance of the Xiongnu, to Li Guang.

Although they occupied Yanzhi Mountain, King Xiutu of the Xiongnu was not within their control.

What's even more fortunate is that Bingzhou has sent many people to various Xiongnu tribes to take charge of the Xiongnu, and they can perfectly avoid those deserts.

With only the six thousand troops in the hands of Luo Bing, it would be difficult for them to counterattack and capture Jiayuguan and Jiuquan, let alone Zhangye further behind.

"Fortunately, the Xiongnu have not yet been integrated by Maodun. They are not yet the largest tribe on the grassland, nor have they become the only tribe on the grassland." Yan Yan was thankful.

The most critical thing is that once King Xiutu's army attacks Zhangye and Jiuquan and captures Jiayuguan, Dunhuang will become an isolated city and completely lose contact with Bingzhou.

Without an army of hundreds of thousands by then, it would be a fool's errand to conquer the Huns.

Now, once King Xiutu returns to King Xiutu's city, Luo Bing and the others will be blocked outside the pass.

The main force of Luo Bing is now guarding Yumen Pass, leaving not many troops in Jiuquan and Zhangye in the middle of the Hexi Corridor.

Otherwise, Yan Yan has no doubt that they might be Li Guang's seniors.

"No, Wuwei!" Yan Yan's expression changed drastically.

The main force of King Xiutu's army was always outside, so when Luo Bing and others passed through Wuwei, they did not encounter any decent obstruction.

If Maodun is really allowed to integrate the grasslands, the entire Xiongnu will become extremely powerful, and the population will be several times larger than it is now.

He gave Wuwei to Qin, but it was different from Jincheng, a county dominated by Qiang people.

Wuwei is King Xiutu's City, and they were the ones who forcibly renamed King Xiutu's City Wuwei.

"But King Xiutu is not easy to deal with!" Yan Yan looked at the noisy civil and military officials below.

Dianqing and others suddenly realized that they had ignored King Xiutu.

Unfortunately, they all underestimated the complex terrain of Alxa and the speed at which quicksand could change the topography.

This is why the Han Dynasty, which was clearly unified after the rule of Wenjing, brought down the entire empire in the conquest of the Xiongnu.

This is also a special feature of the grassland tribes. Although the Xiongnu Royal Court is powerful, it does not mean that the tribes can completely obey orders.

"Qin State must pay attention to this!" Yan Yan and others looked ugly. They actually ignored King Xiutu.

If the Qin State did not pay attention to it and allowed King Xiutu to return to Wuwei, the consequences would be disastrous.

"Quickly, check to see which tribes King Xiutu's tribe consists of!" Yan Yan said hurriedly.

"The tribe of King Xiutu is mainly composed of King Xiutu's headquarters, Dugu tribe, and various tribes of Tu. Among them, King Xiutu's Jin clan, Dugu clan, and Yan clan are the main ones." The aides of the Guowei Mansion immediately found the relevant information.

The tribe of King Xiutu became very famous later!

Jin Rixi and Queen Dugu are both descendants of King Xiutu’s tribe.

In later generations, the territory of King Xiutu's tribe had another name, an existence that caused headaches for later dynasties.

He had many names in later generations, the most famous being Turkic Khanate, the Turkic Khanate that forced Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty to bow his head and sign the Weishui Alliance.

"In addition, we also have to worry about the Hunxie King tribe on the other side of the Qilian Mountains!" The ceremony became more solemn.

Mao Dun did them a lot of harm.

Today's Xiongnu King's City is in the east, directly north or even northeast of Bingzhou, but King Hunxie and King Xiutu are both in the southwest of Bingzhou.

As a result, they didn't have much information about King Xiutu and King Hunxie from the beginning.

It was not until the opening of the Hexi Corridor that they noticed that there were still two such large and powerful tribes in the Xiongnu.

As the information was collected one by one, everyone's expressions became extremely ugly.

The entire Bingzhou region made a fatal mistake in making operational decisions, that is, it did not correctly estimate the danger level of the Hexi Corridor.

They only considered the difficulty of the terrain, but forgot that there were two such powerful tribes above and beside this corridor.

"Did we sell them?" An Qisheng and Dianqing both looked at Yan Yan hesitantly.

After carefully gathering the information, they discovered that the combined army of King Xiutu and King Hunxie had exceeded 100,000.

It is not advisable to send an army deep into the desert for the sake of 6,000 men.

Emotion tells them not to sell the person, but reason tells them it's not worth it.

The most important thing is that drought has occurred, and their food and grass supplies will not be able to keep up.

Yan Yan's face turned pale. After all, Bingzhou's grassroots team had a fatal flaw.

That is, none of them are professional, not only the Guowei Mansion, but also other officials.

If this matter was made by the Qin State's Guowei Mansion, then they could estimate all the risks from the beginning.

But Bingzhou was not like this. They trusted Yan Yan so much that they followed Yan Yan's orders.

Everyone resolutely implemented it without any hesitation.

There was not a single voice of dissent.

Everyone was looking at Yan Yan, waiting for Yan Yan's answer.

Reason told them that Bingzhou could no longer sustain such a large-scale war.

But those are six thousand elites, and they are the robes of life and death.

"Pass an isolated order to order Zhao Chao and Meng Tian to return the entire army to the royal court in Beiye!"

"Pass an isolated order, and all young men under forty and over sixteen in the same state will join the army!"

Yan Yan gave the order coldly.

This time, Bingzhou will mobilize all the troops to rush to the desert to cut off King Hunxie and King Xiutu.

As for the Beiye Royal Court, which has no troops to defend it... it can't take care of that much.

(End of this chapter)