Qin Emperor Ziying

Chapter 300 Horseshoes

Meng Tian had made great military exploits in rejecting the Huns in history, but now in the hearts of the soldiers, he is just a general who can lead everyone to victory.

Maybe after more than ten years like this, the prestige accumulated over time can reach the point of respect of the soldiers, but after all, there is no reliability that the soldiers thought from the bottom of their hearts.

As for how much Meng Tian can understand, Ziying can't help.

Although King Youguli's royal court is located in a place with abundant water and grass, the surrounding fields are extremely open, and there is no shelter around it as a barrier, so naturally there is no need to stay for a long time.

The goal that Ziying and Mengtian were going to defend was Jiuyuan City abandoned by the Huns.

After eating a sumptuous meal, the army of the Qin army began to prepare to march towards the old city of Jiuyuan.

Of course, there is no possibility of keeping all kinds of materials in the royal court. Almost every soldier of the Qin army is full of them, and the accompanying chariots have been directly changed into transport vehicles.

As for some large items that could not be transported away, they were directly burned on the spot.

However, at this moment, Ziying and Meng Tian faced a problem that they had never considered before.

How to get rid of millions of livestock.

To say that many Qin soldiers knew about livestock, and some even grazed when they were young.

However, they have never come into contact with such a large-scale horse, especially those horses that number in the hundreds of thousands. Once they are released from the stables, once they run away, they are hard to chase on the vast prairie.

In desperation, Ziying had to use some more cooperative Huns to drive the livestock.

Fortunately, these Huns also know their current situation, and know that if they play any tricks, they will definitely stab themselves to death by looking at the expression of Qin Jun who is in charge of supervision beside them.

With such a huge number of livestock along the way, although they moved like a turtle, nothing happened.

It wasn't until the sun went down that the outline of Zhao Jiuyuan's old city faintly appeared in Ziying's eyes.

In the later period of the Zhao Kingdom, this lonely and majestic city in the Hetao area has always been used as a frontier post to resist the invasion of the Huns.

As long as Jiuyuan is not lost, even if all the rest of the Hetao area is occupied by the Huns, Jiuyuan is like a fire that can burn the entire grassland, and sooner or later it will rekindle the entire grassland.

It wasn't until Li Mu left, Zhao State perished, and the isolated and helpless soldiers and civilians of Jiuyuan were forced to abandon the city, that the Huns captured this northern city and completely occupied the Hetao Plain.

Jiuyuan City in the afterglow, after being abandoned for more than ten years, waited for its owner-Qin Jun again.

As the forefront of the Xiongnu in Zhao State, the scale of Jiuyuan City is not inferior to some big cities in the Central Plains.

Although it is a little dilapidated now, the grandeur of that year can be vaguely seen.

It was already dark when they arrived near Jiuyuan City, just in case, at Meng Tian's suggestion, the Qin army temporarily camped outside the city for the night.

At dawn the next day, after sending out a team of scouts to confirm that there was no danger in the city, the Qin army entered the city.

As an important town in the north, Jiuyuan City was home to a large number of troops and residents, so barracks and residences were all ready-made.

Although many of them are dilapidated after more than ten years of wind and frost, it is better to clean up than to camp in the open air.

The residence of Ziying and Mengtian is naturally the most well-preserved mansion in the city.

After the settlement was completed, the craftsmen accompanying the army and the army of the Qin army immediately devoted themselves to the process of repairing the city.

Although the city walls of Jiuyuan City are well preserved, there are still some damages in some corners.

King Youguli's court is the center of the surrounding tribes, and the destruction of the court will never be concealed for a long time.

According to Ziying's calculations, when the news of the destruction of the royal court reached Touman City, Touman Shanyu integrated the various tribes of the Alliance to march south.

If there is no delay in the middle, the time left for Qin Jun may only be [-] days.

Carts of grain and grass were continuously transported into Jiuyuan City from the rear.

As for the tribes such as Lin Hu Loufan who were originally recovered by the Huns, before the two behemoths, the Qin Army and the Huns, had not decided the outcome, they did not dare to take the courage to attack the Qin Army's grain road.

And there was no time to muster troops.

Unstable factors such as the captured Huns naturally cannot stay in Jiuyuan City, and they have already sent people to escort them south and return to Shangjun.

The sheriff of Shangjun tried to send it back to Xianyang.

Harvested cattle, sheep and livestock, such spoils of war are naturally not let go. Under Ziying's arrangement, the entire Jiuyuan City can be said to be bloody in the past few days.

Cows and sheep were slaughtered one by one, and the pieces of meat were hung on the walls of every house.

In ancient times when there were no refrigerators, meat could only be dried in the sun to prevent it from deteriorating. Without these livestock, it would be difficult for an army of [-] troops to last three months with the military rations slowly brought in from Shangjun.

The most direct consequence of this is that the air in the entire Jiuyuan City seems to be filled with a strong bloody smell that cannot be dissipated.

When the whole Jiuyuan was actively preparing for the battle, Meng Tian received Ziying's invitation and came to a very open space in the south of the city.

Although it is open, it is very tightly defended by teams of sergeants. It is not an exaggeration to say that there is one post at ten steps and one sentry at five steps.

Taking a closer look, these sergeants in charge of guarding the periphery turned out to be Shenzhou iron cavalry in leather armor.

Why didn't Meng Tian know that the Shenzhou iron cavalry was born in the private army of Lord Chang'an, but the direct line of the lineage was loyal to Lord Chang'an.

Since the Shenzhou iron cavalry is responsible for guarding, it can be seen that Ziying attaches great importance to the things guarded inside.

At the same time, Meng Tian is also a little curious about this, what is the item that makes Chang An Jun nervous now.

After entering this area, several carriages were parked in the center, and Meng Tian recognized that these were the carriages that Ziying brought from Xianyang all the way.

The chains in the ten medium-sized carriages helped Qin Jun cross the river in the fastest time. Meng Tian was already very anxious about what was in the remaining carriages.

However, as a lieutenant general, he naturally understood that when Ziying should let him know, he would naturally let him know.

Slowly approaching, I saw the cavalry of the Shenzhou Iron Cavalry driving their horses to tie up on the wooden frames one by one.

Then the driver who was driving the carriage flattened the fixed horseshoe with a sharp dagger, took out a piece of red-hot semicircular metal from the charcoal fire on the side, measured it on the horseshoe, and then beat it again.

Then there was a scene that Meng Tian couldn't bear to look directly at, the coachman actually directly pressed the metal that had not cooled down to the horse's shoe.

Immediately, there was a burning smell, and after a while, the groom took out some bronze nails, and nailed the semicircular metal directly onto the horse's shoe.

(End of this chapter)