Maodun Shanyu told his generals that he had his own tricks and could bypass Yinshan and take the hinterland of the Qin army off guard.

When the generals under his command thought of the colorful world of the Qin Dynasty, they immediately shone in their eyes and praised him: "Please guide us to the fertile land of the Qin Dynasty and enjoy the bliss of the eternal world!"

Maodun was excited for a while: "I will order the vanguard troops to go to the 200-mile place of Liyin Mountain tomorrow and take the detour westward, go 500 miles to the sunset place and then southward, go east from the grassland of the ancient Dayuezhi, and divide it into two routes, attacking Yanmen Pass and Longxi. After entering Qin, we will go directly to the straight road built by the Emperor of Qin and surround Xianyang, hahaha!"

Shanyu was very proud of his smart strategy, and his subordinates once again praised him for a while, but they didn't know that Meng Tian's army had been waiting for them to die.

Maodun Shanyu said: "The 100,000 elite Xiongnu soldiers of the rear army were stationed fifty miles away from Yinshan, ready to meet the two armies in front at any time." After the generals took the order, they all went to execute.

On the night when the Huns army was 500 miles away from Yinshan, Meng Tian drove the cavalry and chariots from Yinshan out of Yinshan and pushed the north for a hundred miles before resting.

The next day, the two vanguards of the Huns rumbled southwards with more than 800,000 troops and horses. Meng Tian also led the 100,000 cavalry and chariots around him to the north.

The Huns' horses responded to Maodun's situation of the Qin army heading north. He concluded that it was the troops used by Qin general Meng Tian to lure the enemy. He ordered the former army to turn around and go west two hundred miles away from Yinshan. He just needed to resist the Qin army that lure the enemy without having to get entangled with it.

Some Xiongnu generals wanted to take the opportunity to eat this Qin army, but were stopped by Maodun Shanyu's strict orders. It can be seen that Maodun Shanyu carried a human head on his shoulder, not a pig's head, and he was not greedy for small profits, otherwise he would lose the big picture due to small gains.

Meng Tian's 100,000 army came into contact with the vanguard of the Huns. The 400,000 troops of the Huns entered the ambush circle preset by Meng Tian. Meng Tian personally set up a formation to fight against the Huns' front army.

These 100,000 soldiers were secretly brought out by Meng Tian from Jiuyuan County. He practiced in the city for more than two months and basically followed the corresponding position during the march.

In less than half an hour, the "Checheng Round Array" was deployed. His array was much better than Han Xin's previous one. First, he prepared well, and second, he also studied it more thoroughly than Han Xin.

The generals of the Xiongnu front army were shocked when they saw the Qin army's formation. Why did the marching army suddenly become a "big city" in front of them? And this "big city" that stretched for several miles was still moving slowly!!!

When Maodun's order arrived, the Xiongnu's front army's flag began to wave, and the army began to charge forward. Hundreds of thousands of war horses ran to make the earth shake violently. Meng Tian's flags in the round formation also waved one after another, and commanded freely.

In an instant, the crisp and bright sound of Qin crossbows sounded in the east, west and south directions of the Huns, followed by crossbow arrows covering the sky and sun tilted downwards above the heads of the Huns army.

The cavalry of the Huns had heard that the power and range of Qin crossbows were twice as far away than their bows and arrows, but at this moment, the 100,000 crossbow arrows shot out from the grass on the east and west sides made them unpredictable. When was the Qin army hidden in this grassland that stretched for dozens of miles???

These sudden sneak attacks made the Qin army shoot countless crossbow arrows, and in the first round, more than 10,000 Xiongnu people lie on this grass forever. The Hun cavalry, who were already very afraid of being ambushed, found that countless crossbow arrows were shot from both wings. They knew in their hearts that the Qin army was ambushed again, but they still had to fight the horse and rushed forward.

In addition to a large circular formation spanning several miles in front, Meng Tian's army slowly moved backwards and turned into several smaller circles. However, there was also a large "Checheng circular formation" slowly moving towards the two wings, as if it had been agreed, and they all moved northward along the grass that kept shooting crossbow arrows.

The Huns cavalry were continuously shot by Qin crossbow for half an hour. The Huns' front army failed to move forward, but paid the price of more than 50,000 people.

The messenger of the current army reported to Maodun the situation of the front army lying in ambush and surrounded and shot on three sides 300 miles away from Yinshan. Shanyu immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing, and the central army rushed forward to rescue the front army and retreated, and re-arranged the strategy of advancing.

When Maodun's order to retreat came, two hours had passed. The Qin army, the former Huns' army, attacked and suppressed the crossbow arrows, and had no choice but to try to rush left and right. However, as soon as they rushed over, the crossbow arrows immediately increased the shooting of war horses, and the cavalry trampled on each other and suffered more casualties.

After finally getting the order to withdraw the troops, the Huns had lost more than 100,000 troops. As soon as the Huns first retreated, the flag behind Meng Tian's "Checheng Round Formation" was waving again, and the "city wall" in front of him instantly spread to both sides. The cavalry behind them formed three arrow-headed formations, and they rushed forward in a fan-shaped formation.

These charger cavalry were the elite cavalry that Meng Tian had trained in Jiuyuan for many years. They were not comparable to those of the Huns' soldiers in their hands. They also cooperated with battle formations, like wolves entering a flock of sheep, crazily killing the Huns' soldiers.

The chariots retreating to both sides drove to the Qin army in ambush circles on both sides. Where the Qin cavalry arrived, the crossbow soldiers who had been ambushing for more than two months ran out, loaded the Qin crossbows and the remaining crossbow arrows on the chariots, and retreated south one after another.

The front army, who was killed by the Qin army's cavalry, ran north like a stray dog, and just ran into the middle army that was coming to meet. At the same time, there were Qin crossbow archers who were not retreating at their junction, lying on both sides to shoot wildly.

Suddenly, the Huns were in chaos and were defeated. They stepped on each other and even killed each other in order to seize the road and escape. The chaos continued until late at night and slowly stopped.

After a night of counting, the Huns lost more than 200,000 troops. Meng Tian prepared this unexpected ambush shooting and cavalry rushing in advance, and all the hunts were finished before dark. The crossbow archers who had been ambushing on both sides for more than two months returned to the cave of Yinshan on the chariot.

The cavalry that rushed back and the crossbow archers on both sides who originally cooperated with the cavalry brought back the horses left by the Huns when they withdrew their troops. According to statistics, the Jiuyuan army lost more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and brought back nearly 100,000 Huns war horses, which could be considered a complete victory.

It turned out that when Meng Tian was in Xianyang, the military order sent to Li Xin was to ask Li Xin and the veterans in the Jiuyuan army to carry a map of 500 miles around Yinshan painted by Meng Tian. This map records all the surrounding mountains, rivers, and set up ambush caves 300 miles north of Yinshan. It repeatedly emphasized the places where the Huns went south and passed by, and the arrangement of ambush caves.

Meng Tian also introduced in detail how to avoid the Huns' horse exploration, which was to make the grass in the grass irregularly hang down like a mess, so that the Huns' horse exploration would not want to go up. The soldiers' daily training and cooking plan for glutinous grain at night was exactly the same as when they were in Yinshan.

The Huns had just recently gone south to send horses to explore, and they could not find the ambush circle that had been arranged two months ago, so they were attacked by Meng Tian's ambush. In a one-day battle, more than 200,000 Huns' string control men and more war horses were lost with casualties of more than 1 to 20.

When Meng Tian led the army to retreat to Yinshan, it was already late at night, so he ordered the army to rest and accumulate energy.

The next morning, Meng Tian promoted the tent to arrange military mobilization in the cave shogunate in Yinshan. Time was very urgent, and Meng Tian did not discuss changes with his generals, and issued an order to the battle plan agreed upon by Li Xin in Jiuyuan:

"First, the messenger immediately returned to Jiuyuan and ordered Li Xin to hang Meng Tian's flag to Jiuyuan Great Wall. Under the Great Wall, the flags were densely distributed. At the same time, the chariots were used to form a large formation and more than 10,000 crossbow archers were arranged to prevent accidents.

Second, Li Xi led 20,000 Jiuyuan cavalry to hide from the "Second Straight" secretly from the "Second Straight Road". Cheng Zhiyi and the Mongolian Army (Meng Tian general of the Meng Family) took a guide and led 50,000 crossbow archers and 30,000 Qin crossbows to ambush at the designated location on the map, and according to this tactic, they carried out attacks and shot the Huns."

After saying that, Meng Tian handed Li Xi a piece of sheepskin full of words.

"Third, Bai Long and Zhao Sheng (General Meng Tian) brought a guide to lead 50,000 crossbow archers and 30,000 Qin crossbows to ambush at the designated location on the map." Meng Tian also handed Bai Long a sheepskin full of words, "Qiang Yi (son of Qiang Jie) and Yang Hongxi (son of Yang Duanhe) led 50,000 cavalry to march quickly to the grassland north of Yanmen Pass to wait for their orders. Meng Shan (an old Qin Meng clan, a general of Meng Tian) led 2,000 crossbow archers and a thousand elite cavalry to ambush on both sides of Yinshan, be sure to shoot the Xiongnu who arrived at Yinshan and chase the horses who returned near Yinshan."

Meng Tian and Kun Yue and other generals led 150,000 cavalry to Jiuyuan and Yanmen Pass. All the generals went out to order troops and followed Meng Tian's general's order to execute the order.

Along the way, Kun Yue admired Meng Tian's magical use of military force. He repeatedly expressed his desire to learn military tactics and battle formations from Meng Tian. Meng Tian agreed one by one, saying that when he returned to Xianyang, he would choose the appropriate military tactics and battle formations to teach them to his generals.

Why do many descendants of generals serve in Meng Tian’s army? By the way, many generals and officials sent their children to Meng Tian’s army to learn about their literary and military strategies. Among them, Li Si’s son Li You was also a disciple of Meng Tian, ​​which shows that Meng Tian’s popularity in the Qin Dynasty was very good.

Maodun was ambushed by Meng Tian and was defeated in the first battle. Although his superiority to the Qin army had not changed, his morale and battlefield advantages had changed.

Maodun was furious for a long time before he calmed down slowly. He slept sadly for a night before waking up. Hearing the horse probe report that Meng Tian’s army had retreated to Yinshan, the horse probe who detoured over also found Meng Tian’s banner hanging on the Jiuyuan Great Wall, and a strange formation composed of chariots like yesterday was deployed under the Great Wall.

So Maodun left 100,000 troops to protect his family, cattle, sheep and horses who followed the army south. He pretended to be a million troops and still looked for opportunities to cross Yinshan to attack Jiuyuan. He personally led the remaining more than 600,000 troops to detour west, first attacking Yanmen Pass and then surrounding Longxi from behind.
Chapter completed!