Chapter 534
As for Shangjun in the Qin Dynasty, there is not no one in Xianyang City to be dispatched. For example, Zhang Han is a person who is more than enough to guard Shangjun.
Through Meng Yi, Ying Gao could already see Meng Tian's attitude, because Ying Gao knew that the two brothers had more letters from each other than their decrees. Meng Yi could already fully control what kind of thoughts and movements Meng Yi was.
After the negotiations with Meng Yi, Ying Gao did not waste any time and directly issued an order, ordering Meng Tian to take away 50,000 troops from the Shangjun military camp, and hand over the remaining people to Zhang Han, who was about to replace Meng Tian.
When he received Ying Gao's order, Meng Tian had actually received an urgent report from his brother Meng Yi. Meng Yi told Meng Tian that the Mauryan Dynasty was most likely to be thwarted by other forces that emerged from somewhere before they were completely occupied. Looking at Ying Gao's opinion, the war should have to start when Meng Tian is in place.
After learning these inside information, Meng Tian ordered the most elite 50,000 troops without any hesitation and set off. He wanted to go back to Xianyang, but went directly to the Mauryan Dynasty to fight. However, without Ying Gao's order, he didn't know what was going on there. Meng Tian could only temporarily suppress the urgency in his heart and hurried back to Xianyang City.
After arriving in Xianyang City, Meng Tian didn't care about resting, so he hurried to his mansion, took off his armor and changed into a court suit that he had not worn once for eight hundred years, and hurried to Xianyang Palace.
According to Ying Gao's prediction, Meng Tian would have to go back to Xianyang City in two days. After all, the camp in Shangjun is not a temporary ending point. Meng Tian has been in charge of the overall situation for some time, so he must make good arrangements before he can come back, but he didn't expect it to arrive so soon.
"Your Majesty, I am so eager to call me back, I wonder if there is any war?"
Of course, Ying Gao knew that Meng Tian must have known about the Mauryan Dynasty from Meng Yi, so he did not hide anything from him, but directly informed Meng Tian of the current situation of the Mauryan Dynasty.
"What the emperor means is that at this time the Mauryan Dynasty already has tens of thousands of people? If this is true, the straight roads on the Western Regions have been built. I can set off with 50,000 cavalrymen in Shangjun tomorrow. When the Mauryan Dynasty is in charge, they will unite the hundreds of thousands of people to attack those foreign races who are overestimating their abilities, and will definitely drive them out of the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty!"
Meng Tian's words were actually in Ying Gao's heart, and it was Ying Gao and Han Xin who came up with it. It was not Ying Gao's style to wait for various progress in Xianyang City, although he knew that if he and Xiang Yu joined forces, it would be no problem for a mere Seleucid dynasty.
But it would not be a good idea to make the Seleuth Dynasty too arrogant on his land in the Mauryan Dynasty before this, so Meng Tian did set out as soon as possible, as he said.
"If the general really thinks so, he will have to bother the general. The journey here is long and the Mauryan Dynasty is a vast land. Therefore, this time the general can only fight with cavalry. In addition to the 50,000 cavalry brought by the general from Shangjun, I will give you another 50,000 cavalry. This is almost all the cavalry of the Qin Dynasty. I hope the general can lead Peng Yue and Sima Xin to exert the power of our Great Qin cavalry on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty."
When Meng Tian heard this, his eyes were brighter than before. Ying Gao not only agreed to his suggestion directly, but also added 50,000 cavalry to himself. Meng Tian, who brought 100,000 cavalry, was a person who would not frown even when facing 200,000 enemies.
In recent years, because Xiang Yu became the Shanyu of the Xiongnu, the relationship between the Xiongnu and the Qin Dynasty has been greatly alleviated compared to before, but it has also caused Meng Tian to have no wars to fight in Shangjun every day. In the past few years, as a general in the Great Qin platoon, all of them have been wasted.
"Don't worry, the Mauryan Dynasty is now the treasure of my Qin Dynasty, so naturally there will be no more troubles. No matter what dynasty the other party is, I, Meng Tian, will make it a land of rule by the emperor!"
What you need to be a general is to have such confidence as Xiang Meng Tian. Without such confidence, no matter how many military books and strategies you read, you will not be a truly qualified general.
This is exactly the confidence that appears in Meng Tian at this time, and in Xiang Yu, Han Xin, and even at this time, Long Jie, Peng Yue and the other three who were preparing some small movements that Ying Gao didn't know about were all prepared on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, they all had such confidence, but the performance was different, and the strengths were different, otherwise they would not have entered Ying Gao's eyes.
Ying Gao gave Meng Tian a good advice, especially the narrow land he was about to cross the Western Regions. The climate there was different from other places after all. If Meng Tian set out from Xianyang City with great pride, but before the Mauryan Dynasty could be overwhelmed, the soldiers under his command would be damaged a lot, and this matter would not be beautiful.
"Your Majesty, if you defeat the Mauryan Dynasty and some of the surrounding dynasties, will you still share the land of the Mauryan Dynasty with the Huns?"
Obviously, Meng Tian still had some thoughts about his old opponent, the Huns. Whether from the perspective of emotions or from other places, Meng Tian did not want to see the Huns grow bigger little by little under the eyes of the Qin Dynasty. After all, the Huns had caused many murders to the people of the Qin Dynasty before, Meng Tian was still vivid in his goal.
"For the Huns, I have not been watching them grow bigger under my nose. I, Daqin, want to sweep the world, relying on the current military strength alone is far from enough. The world is so big that you and I can imagine that the Huns and Daqin attacked the Mauryan Dynasty together. If they encounter alien races on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty, the Huns will naturally be in the forefront. Generals should cooperate with the Huns first. If they really cannot do anything, I will naturally not be lenient."
Ying Gao's meaning was already very clear. Although there was still some obscureness, Meng Tian felt a little relieved. After all, Ying Gao did not really regard the Huns as his friends.
The next day, Meng Tian set out with his 50,000 soldiers. Ying Gao and a group of officials and generals in Xianyang City sent him out of the city gate. For the old Qin people, Meng Tian, known as the God of War in the Great Qin, indeed represented the character of the Great Qin.
But except for Ying Gao and Han Xin, no one else knew what Meng Tian was going to do from Shangjun to the Mauryan Dynasty. The relationship between the Huns and Daqin divided the Mauryan Dynasty, and the relationship was different from the past, so it was indeed useless to station troops in Shangjun. Almost all the officials of the Qin Dynasty could understand this. However, they all thought that Meng Tian’s increase in troops to the Mauryan Dynasty was just to provide more troops for the Mauryan Dynasty so that the Qin Dynasty could occupy the place with great success. However, they did not expect that at this time, there would be wars with other alien races on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. They had been in the Central Plains for too long, and they only had the Huns, Nanyue, or Yelang, and nothing else.
Meng Tian’s reinforcements could play a very strong stabilizing role in the situation of the Mauryan Dynasty, while for Ying Gao, it was a timely buffer. After all, what Ying Gao wanted was not a powerful Qin Dynasty, but a Qin Dynasty that first developed its internal affairs to a certain level and then supported the conquest.
In recent years, Ying Gao has been silent about the development of the internal affairs of the Qin Dynasty. From the transformation of business registration to the change of corvee service system, to the prevalence of lectures, to the implementation of the imperial examination and attention to agriculture, although these things did not seem to have changed much, they have made the lives of the people of the Qin Dynasty deeply rooted, and these things will be reflected more clearly with the changes of time.
The Qin Dynasty that Ying Gao wanted was an existence that was enough to infect other countries in internal affairs. The reason why he did not let the people of the Mauryan Dynasty and the people of the Qin Dynasty mix together prematurely was of course part of the reason for the language to be misinterpreted, but more because the internal affairs of the Qin Dynasty had not yet developed to the point where he was satisfied.
The effect he wanted was that when the Qin Dynasty met the people of the Mauryan Dynasty, they told each other about their previous lives. Then the people of the Mauryan Dynasty were extremely grateful that the Mauryan Dynasty was attacked by the Qin Dynasty, and that the Qin Dynasty's policies would also be implemented on the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty.
Now it is not far from that time, but Ying Gao did not want to be too hasty. He wanted to make that small number of people from the Mauryan Dynasty who came to the Western Regions yearn for the Great Qin, and then pass on this yearning back to the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty. Under such circumstances, the time when the Great Qin and the Mauryan Dynasty can be merged.
Of course, before the new war in the Mauryan Dynasty ended, all this could only be Ying Gao's fantasy. Another reason why he sent Meng Tian and a 100,000 army was to give the people of the Mauryan Dynasty a signal to let them know that once their country was taken down by the Qin Dynasty, it would not be allowed to be involved in any other country.
The news that Meng Tian's army was dispatched was spreading at a very fast speed. Before Meng Tian could leave the Western Regions, Xiang Yu had already found out.
Xiang Yu was able to know about this so early, so naturally it was the result of the changes in Shangjun being passed on to his ears in a timely manner.
"The Qin Dynasty actually sent a powerful general like Meng Tian to the Mauryan Dynasty, but did not let me, the Huns send troops..."
On this day, Xiang Yu, who was personally supervising the construction of the straight road in the Western Regions and preparing for immigration to some tribes, received the news and was discussing with Ji Bu, who accompanied him.
"Major General, Daqin was not thinking of taking over the Mauryan Dynasty alone, right?" Ji Bu was also very puzzled by Daqin's abnormal behavior. After trying to guess, he looked at Xiang Yu blankly.
"That's not, but even if I don't send troops, the final result of this matter may not be beneficial to me. I know Meng Tian's ability. I don't think that the general of the Seleu dynasty could resist him after he brought a hundred thousand troops to the Mauryan army. If I expected it, after this battle, the people in the Mauryan dynasty's territory would only know the Great Qin but not the Huns. When the various tribes of my Huns immigrated to my land, the people of the Mauryan dynasty on the land will be far inferior to the Great Qin."
"Why would I lead 50,000 cavalry to immediately rush to the Mauryan Dynasty and defeat the Seleu Dynasty with Meng Tian, and let the reputation of my Huns be passed on to the territory of the Mauryan Dynasty?"
After hearing Xiang Yu's words, Ji Bu was thinking of going to the Mauryan Dynasty. Although the Huns also had some awe of him, Ji Bu and Long Qi were mostly unwilling to accept it because they had never fought with Meng Tian head-on, and they did not think that Meng Tian was invincible. After all, the Huns who had been invincible before were all Hun tribe leaders who did not know the tactics of war.
"No need, in addition to having some advantages in cavalry, our Huns are very different from the Qin Dynasty, both in terms of internal affairs and population. Therefore, our Huns' task at this time is to follow behind the Qin Dynasty silently and slowly improve our strength. After this contact with the Emperor of Qin, I found that this person's ambition is far more than as simple as the Mauryan Dynasty. My Mauryan Dynasty's chances will be in the future, not now."
Xiang Yu said this obviously because he didn't want to participate in Meng Tian's dispatch of troops this time. After all, there were already Long Qi and the 50,000 Hun cavalry led by him in the Mauryan Dynasty. Ying Gao did not inform Xiang Yu in advance of sending Meng Tian this time.
During Meng Tian's rapid rush to the Mauryan Dynasty from the Western Regions, what he didn't know was that Peng Yue and the other three who had received the order from Ying Gao's guard before did not keep an eye on the surroundings of Fahrenheit City, but had taken action silently.
After receiving the order from Antioch III, the generals of the Seleu Dynasty rectified their troops one by one and then excitedly attacked the city that was further away from the direction of Fahrenheit.
At the beginning, they were quite careful, but after attacking several cities one after another, they found that the soldiers of the foreign races were still huddling near Fahrenheit City, without any other intentions, which made them feel relieved, and their mentality was quite relaxed. Even in their minds, once their cities were unstoppable and finally reached the point close to Fahrenheit City, they might just scare away the alien races occupying Fahrenheit City.
Chapter completed!