Chapter 543
After completely driving the cavalry of the Seleu Dynasty out of the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, Meng Tian did not rush to bring the army back to the city of Hua, but temporarily garrisoned the troops in the nearest city to the Seleu Dynasty.
While letting the Qin soldiers, who had already been exhausted in succession of battles, they also sent scouts to order their generals to investigate this area northwest of the Mauryan Dynasty, which was not very familiar with in the Qin Dynasty.
"General, why don't we go back to the city of Hua? Since the Seleu Dynasty has been repelled by our Great Qin cavalry once, I think they will not send troops to the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty for the second time."
Because it borders several dynasties, including Seliu, and with frequent wars during this period, the cities on these borders all look lifeless. In Peng Yue's opinion, it is really unnecessary to waste time here.
"Do you know why the Seleu Dynasty dared to send 100,000 troops to capture the land of the Mauryan Dynasty and used 100,000 cavalry to conquer the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty?"
"Oh? Of course, it's because Seleu didn't know my Great Qin and the cavalry of my Great Qin and the Huns were! But now, we have already let them know the power of my Great Qin and the Huns! I think their monarch is also very regretful for their previous actions."
"It's not enough to regret. Although I can't understand the language, my purpose here is to let these forces like the Seleu Dynasty know that I, Qin, are an existence that they cannot touch. The Lord has great ambitions in his heart and will never stop at a small Mauryan Dynasty. So since we have come here, we must lay the foundation on the border of the Mauryan Dynasty and leave room for the orders that the Lord may issue in the future, rather than just ensuring that other forces dare not attack the Mauryan Dynasty."
"Oh? The general means that once the emperor firmly controls the Mauryan Dynasty in the hands of our Great Qin, even the Seleu Dynasty..."
Peng Yue said halfway, glanced at Long Qi, who was showing a look of shock at the side, and did not continue talking.
"Since my Great Qin has formed an alliance with the Huns, it is okay to tell Long and General Long and Xiang Yu of the Huns. The Huns' Shanyu and Xiang Yu must know the Lord's plan better than me. If the Huns can always follow my Great Qin, in the end there may only be two remaining forces in the world..."
Meng Tian was directly appointed by Ying Gao and one of the top generals in the Qin Dynasty. So before he came here, Ying Gao, as the Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, would definitely reveal some of the details of the Qin Dynasty to him. In addition, Meng Tian adopted such a radical strategy as soon as he arrived in the Qin Dynasty and directly defeated the Seliu cavalry, who was not weak, back to their dynasty. What he said was still very credible in Long Qi's opinion.
"The Shanyu entrusts me with 50,000 Xiongnu cavalry, and I naturally have some right to act here. If there is a place where the general can use my Xiongnu cavalry, it doesn't matter."
Although Long Qi sometimes had a little impulse in fighting, he was still very smart when he was able to become the number one person under Xiang Yu. He vaguely heard some implicit meanings from Meng Tian's words, so he immediately assured Meng Tian.
Seeing Long Qi so well, Meng Tian's originally serious face gradually relaxed. When he came before, Ying Gao did secretly raise some things with him, and only the two of them knew about it. Naturally, this also involved some interests between the Qin and the Huns.
"According to the agreement between the emperor and the Xiongnu Shanyu, the territory bordering the Seleu Dynasty and part of the territory west of this territory belongs to the Xiongnu. Therefore, the city we are huddled in should belong to the Xiongnu. My next plan naturally requires the opinions of General Long and General."
"It's okay to say that in the current Mauryan Dynasty, although the Huns and Qin have been divided, they have not really taken over these lands. In this case, the Shanyu is not here, so naturally I need to unite with the general."
With the efforts made by Meng Tian and the Qin cavalry under him, Long Qi naturally supported Meng Tian's proposal.
"Although this city is not large in size, it is the closest city to Seliu. Seliu's strength should be the strongest among the forces near the Mauryan Dynasty. If the Seliu Dynasty can be shocked and they will cut off their thoughts of capturing the city on the land of the Mauryan Dynasty, let alone other forces."
The meaning of Meng Tian’s words is already very obvious, that is, to station troops in this city. In this case, the troops stationed must be dominated by the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, so Meng Tian’s words appeared.
It is one thing to gain Long Qi's support. If Meng Tian goes forward directly and stations the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty here, it will be another matter. When Xiang Yu arrives on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, he may cause some misunderstanding. This is also something that Ying Gao repeatedly emphasized to Meng Tian before setting off.
With Long Qi's approval, Meng Tian directly began to tell him how he wanted to operate the garrison when it expired.
This time when we arrived at the Mauryan Dynasty, Meng Tian brought 100,000 troops. If we placed all 100,000 troops around the city of Fahrenheit, it would be a huge waste of troops. Therefore, Meng Tian combined the results of the investigation during this period to prepare to garrison 60,000 troops in this city and a larger city not far from this city.
At the same time, the construction of the Qin Dynasty's fortifications on the outer periphery of this city closest to the Seleu Dynasty will not build the Great Wall like in Shangjun, but it will also let the people of the Seleu Dynasty know that they will never have the chance to win the city as easily as before.
While building the fortifications, the official translation of the Qin Dynasty brought this time will also actively communicate with the people of the Mauryan Dynasty who are still sticking to these two cities, expressing to them the Qin Dynasty's determination to take root in the Mauryan Dynasty, and letting them realize that they have become the people of the Qin Dynasty, thus giving the Qin Dynasty's troops many convenient conditions.
In fact, these are basically what Meng Tian meant before coming here, and some of them didn’t agree with them at first.
Because Meng Tian is a general, in his heart, you don’t have to deal with such opponents at all. There are no other enemies in the territory of the Qin Dynasty, the Xiongnu and the Mauryan Dynasty. You can mobilize an army of 200,000 to fight directly to the Seleu Dynasty, and then destroy them. It’s all done.
However, Ying Gao firmly opposed this statement when he was in Xianyang City, and Ying Gao just said earnestly: You don’t know what the other side of the Seleu Dynasty is. If you continue to fight like this, the day you will be defeated will be the day when the evil wolf is introduced into the Qin Dynasty.
Ying Gao said nothing like a lie at all, so Meng Tian naturally could not violate Ying Gao's request. After driving the cavalry of the Seleu Dynasty out of the Mauryan Dynasty, he did not make any proposal for attack. Instead, he honestly organized guard forces on the border, which also gave Seleu an illusion that the Qin Dynasty only wanted the Mauryan Dynasty but not the place other than the Mauryan Dynasty.
But the illusion is good. Regardless of the moment, when Seleu's main general who went to the expedition this time brought the remaining four deputy generals and 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers back to the capital of the Seleu Dynasty, what was waiting for them was the anger of Antioch III.
The reason why Antioch III proclaimed himself the Great Emperor was that although he had failed in the battles he had personally fought to the throne at this time, he had almost never had such a complete defeat, and he had more victory than defeat. Faced with the current war, his own dazzling could only further highlight the incompetence of the generals who set out to fight this time.
"Your Majesty, this failure is because I am not in good condition. Please punish me!"
This master general is still quite responsible. For him, this battle was one of the few cowardly defeats in recent years. So when he saw his monarch, he naturally had nothing to say and admitted his mistake first.
"What kind of existence does the alien race actually make you and others defeat this?"
Even if he is angry, he is very aware of what kind of ability his subordinates have. Antioch III is still aware of what kind of person the enemy is. He can actually make his few capable generals and 100,000 elite cavalry return, which makes him feel extremely curious.
"In my opinion, the alien race is definitely not the small dynasty that we knew before that was attached to the surroundings of the Mauryan Dynasty. They had only stationed 100,000 troops around the city of Fahrenheit and did not occupy other cities because of other reasons, rather than insufficient troops. When we waited for the five armies to advance eastward, they showed their true strength!"
So, the lord general cried and cried and rushed his team from the beginning to be attacked and destroyed. Later, the enemy suddenly increased, and the number of cavalry alone exceeded 100,000. He also told his monarch all the way when he was not enough to drive himself back to the Seleu Dynasty in a battle.
After hearing his words, Antioch III was also a little silent because he was good at war, especially at attack, and he had been deducing from the beginning, how would he deal with it if he was going to me this time.
But in the end, once the strategy of the Qin general who discovered that he had implemented the strategy of playing to his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses, he might not have any greater changes if he did not know the exact force of the other party.
In such a passive situation, the master general he sent out had almost reduced the losses of this battle to the minimum. If he blamed him rashly, it would be a bit unkind.
"If such a strong enemy dares to send troops to capture the capital of the Mauryan Dynasty and take down the monarch of the Mauryan Dynasty, then he naturally has plans for the large territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. I am not careful to allow you to send troops rashly this time. Since you have had a confrontation with the enemy, you will monitor them at the border to see what their plans they have on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. Will it have an impact on me, Seleu?"
Antioch III lost a large area of territory east of the empire because his several predecessors lost a large area of territory in the east of the empire. When he saw that the Qin army was full of many generals and was not good, the first thing he thought was whether they would reorganize their troops after taking down the Mauryan Dynasty and wanted to take down all his dynasty and some of the surrounding small forces. If that was the case, even though he felt that he had developed the Seleu Dynasty quite well, it was still very dangerous. The previous battle could already explain many problems.
Seeing that the monarch with a bad temper did not punish him, the lord was still very grateful. After thanking Antioch III, he brought a team of men to the border between Seleu and the Mauryan Dynasty. He could not fight the war. He asked himself that he must do a good job in surveillance, otherwise he would be useless in this huge Seleuyan Dynasty.
At this point, Meng Tian's trip to the Western Regions was very smooth. Of course, he did not regard this matter as a great contribution. After arranging the guards of the city on the border with Seleu, Meng Tian left 60,000 troops and his two deputy generals in the two cities, and he still brought Peng Yue and Long back to Fahrenhe.
He wanted to study the structure of the Mauryan Dynasty and the potential enemies around him, and at the same time, he was waiting for Ying Gao's next instructions. He always felt that internal affairs were too troublesome. They were all done by a dumb guy like Xiao He. All he could do was when Ying Gao gave the order, he took the iron cavalry of the Qin Dynasty to break through every place he could see.
Meng Tian knew that this was the whole meaning of his remaining time that might not be much. His first half of his life was almost focused on guarding the stability of Daqin. In the second half of his life, he wanted to change his identity and transform from the strongest shield to the sharpest spear.
Meng Tian's itinerary was smooth, but some people were not so smooth. After Hu Hai, Zhao Cheng and others sailed nearly two-thirds of the journey on the sea with a very accurate chart, when they thought they had adapted to the sailing on the sea and would arrive at the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty tens of times to create a new world, a huge trouble slowly approached them.
Because the ship they built was much smaller than the cabin of the regular warship, and most of the space in the inner cabin was allocated to Zhao Cheng, Hu Hai and Zhao Hu, some sailors and the South Vietnam Warriors they recruited could only stay on the deck in a crowded manner.
In this way, the changing climate at sea has caused these people to have some situations that they had never expected before.
Chapter completed!