Chapter 144 Qin's Elite Soldiers

On the last day of April, Hua Kai, Han Jinsheng, and Tang Lei set out on a journey northward with nine horses.

This time they planned to enter Yiqiu from the east of Qin, then go from Yiqiu to Xiaoyuezhi, and finally enter Xiongnu from the southwest of Xiongnu.

Although the journey would be about 1,000 miles longer, most of the road was wide and flat, and they could ride three horses in rotation for a thousand miles, which was less than a day's journey.

With two divine horses and seven BMWs, Hua Kai traveled 1,400 miles on the first day and directly entered Qu County in the north of Wei. Perhaps because the north was close to the grassland, Wei gave Hua Kai a feeling that it was less prosperous than Handan in Zhao, and more of a kind of bleak and murderous atmosphere of warriors. Hua Kai actually thought of this, because Wei was Qin's neighbor!

As the strongest country in the world, the most common words Hua Kai saw in books about Qin were that Qin soldiers were greedy for military merits and fearless of death. Often three or five people dared to fight to the death for the strong, and after winning, they liked to cut off the foreheads of the losers.

This statement has some derogatory meaning. Scholars all over the world do not like the brutal practices of Qin State. They say behind the scenes that Qin State is a nomadic people who migrated from the north. The Five Elements are guiding the powerful countries in the Central Plains to fight against Qin State.

Although Qin State is the largest country in the world today, its area is not vast. There are Yiqu State in the north, Wei State in the east, Chu State in the south, Ba State, Shu State, and Qiang Nationality in the west. None of the countries he faced was weak, and Qin State had always been at war with these countries.

Yiqu State is a semi-nomadic people. They can be said to be the most powerful force in the grassland. The population of Yiqu State exceeds 3 million, which is more than three times that of the direct forces of Qi State and one million more than the population of the entire Qingzhou.

Chu State is the second largest country in the world, and Wei State is also one of the Seven Heroes. In addition to the Qiang Nationality, Bashu and other countries whose combat power can be ranked in the top 20, Qin State can only focus on discovering its own combat power forever. Its days should be the most difficult of all countries.

Two days later, the three of them arrived at Gaul City, which is one of the cities closest to Qin State in Wei State. The city wall is tall and majestic, with a height of more than 12 meters, which is the construction standard of a strong pass.

The armored Wei soldiers on the city wall were patrolling constantly. When they saw Hua Kai and others, they asked about their origins and collected the entrance fee before letting them enter the city.

In the city, Hua Kai saw that the people here were popular wearing leather armor. There were various armor workshops on the streets, and some ordinary wooden weapon workshops. There were only about 10,000 people in this city, but Hua Kai saw nearly ten armor workshops.

Hua Kai could see from here how serious Wei State was on guard against Qin State. I believe that Chu State, Ba State, and Shu State were also the same. The war between Yiqu State and Qin State had never stopped for decades, and Qin State's national strength had been consumed. What Hua Kai is most worried about now is that if one day Wei State, Yiqu State, Qiang, Bashu and other countries cannot suppress the development of Qin State, giving Qin State the opportunity to discover and accumulate strength, Qin State wants to retaliate against the bullying of surrounding countries for many years. Who can stop his steps?

On May 4, Hua Kai entered the land of Qin for the first time.

Compared with the obvious battle preparations of Wei, the territory of Qin seemed very peaceful. Qin built many towns and villages on the road, and many people actually planted food outside the towns and villages, and they were not afraid of being attacked by wild beasts.

Hua Kai chatted with the people of Qin. The people here were very enthusiastic, which was completely opposite to the teacher's description of the Qin people who liked to cut people's heads.

Most of these people were old people and women. Hua Kai did not see a few young and strong people. After asking, he learned that all the men in their families had gone to the battlefield.

A village full of women, old people and children, if it was in Qi, this village would not be able to survive a winter. However, the King of Qin would organize soldiers to clear wild beasts in all regions of the country before and after winter every year, which made the people plant farmland outside the city without fear of wild beasts.

Planting farmland outside the city wall, what does this mean?

It means that the entire Qin State has basically driven all wild beasts out of the areas where the people are concentrated. Wild beasts reproduce very fast. How can they be cleared out? How to resist those powerful monsters? These are not easy to solve in a short time, and require long-term and continuous cleaning. The great families of Qin dare to fight with monsters.

Entering Qin is another feeling. The people here live relatively freely, and they all pay attention to their inner spiritual world. Women are the main force of farming. Their men have gone to the battlefield, but they don't seem to worry at all, as if their death on the battlefield is a very ordinary thing.

Hua Kai came all the way to Changwu County in Qin. The mountains here are steep and about 600 miles away from the Qin capital Xianyang City, but the Guanzhong area is mountainous. It takes at least 7 or 8 days to get to Xianyang City.

Changwu County has a population of less than 5,000 and is one of the northernmost cities in Qin. Hua Kai came to Changwu County and saw that the people here lived in poverty, but they were particularly united.

I didn't see a few mansions in Changwu County. Only the county government looked decent. This legendary first power looked much worse than Guang County, and no one was seen wearing brocade on the street.

There seemed to be no noble families in this county. Hua Kai had heard of no more than ten noble families of Qin in Guang County. The noble families of Qin always seemed to be inconspicuous.

When he came to an inn, Hua Kai gave 2 taels of gold to the shopkeeper to feed the nine horses with good food. After eating a meal of mutton noodles, he came to the medicine shop in Changwu County and asked if they had any spiritual medicines for sale. Unexpectedly, the shopkeeper reported the patrol personnel at the door.

"My lord, your attire does not look like a Qin person. Our Qin spiritual medicines are forbidden to be sold at will. All spiritual medicines must be sent to Xianyang City to be refined into pills and sent to the front line. Since you did it unintentionally, I will not punish you." A patrol captain said to Hua Kai with several soldiers.

This was the first time Hua Kai heard that a country could send all spiritual medicines to the capital for unified refining. It was terrifying to think about it. The Qin State had so many pills, how many powerful talents could be cultivated, and thinking about the fact that there were not many noble families in the Qin State, Hua Kai began to have a little admiration for the King of Qin.

After resting for a day in Changwu County, the three continued to head north. After Changqing Pass, they were at the border of Yiqiu State. The mountains here stretched for hundreds of kilometers, and you could see the solid post stations built by the two countries everywhere. They both claimed sovereignty over the area, but they still couldn't decide the result after fighting for decades.

In just half a day, Hua Kai rode more than 200 miles. Although the mountain roads here were easier to walk than those in Taishan County, the horses couldn't run at all, so the three could only walk slowly.

On the way, they saw four post stations that belonged to Qin State. After crossing a mountain, Hua Kai saw a battle in front of him. He looked carefully and found that the soldiers of Yiqiu State were attacking the post station of Qin State.

There were about 500 people in Yiqiu State. They all rode tall horses and wore armor, and slowly approached the post station of Qin State.

Hua Kai saw that the walls of the post station were all built of loess, which could not withstand the attack of the cavalry of Yiqiu State at all. The people in the post station were basically finished, unless they had more than one Qi training realm. (Why is it an earthen wall? Because some places on the Loess Plateau lack stone resources, they all use earthen foundations to build walls.)

The soldiers of Yiqu State quickly broke through the earthen wall of the post station, and many cavalrymen rushed to the small post station through the gap. Hua Kai turned his head and stopped looking there. He, Han Jinsheng, and Tang Lei tried to stay away from the battlefield as much as possible, otherwise it would be bad if they caused unnecessary trouble.

Unexpectedly, when Hua Kai thought that the post station would definitely be breached, the cavalrymen who broke into the post station began to retreat one by one. Some cavalrymen who fled slowly were caught up and killed by the Qin soldiers behind them. Hua Kai saw a team of Qin soldiers wearing fish-scale heavy armor.

These soldiers rushed to the nearest Yiqu soldiers in teams of three or five. Most of these soldiers were in the Kaiyuan realm, and occasionally a few Qin team leaders were also in the early Qidong realm.

Several Yiqu cavalrymen rushed towards the three Qin soldiers. Hatred welled up in the eyes of a Qin soldier. He held a spear in his hand and stabbed at an opponent's cavalryman. The spear pierced the opponent's knight's chest, and the knight fell off his horse. Other Yiqu knights raised their spears and rushed towards the soldier.

Seeing that the enemy was approaching him, the Qin soldier threw away the spear in his hand, quickly took a short knife from his waist, jumped up, but was hit by the galloping horse.

He spit out a mouthful of blood but hugged the horse's neck. The short knife pierced the neck of the warhorse. The Yiqu cavalryman's spear had pierced his chest. The two fell to the ground with the horse at the same time. In this way, Yiqu lost two Kaiyuan soldiers, and Qin not only prevented Yiqu soldiers from rushing into their own team, but also exchanged one for two. All three were injured. As for who would survive after the war, that was in the future. At least now Qin used an ordinary Kaiyuan spearman to exchange for two Kaiyuan cavalrymen from the other side, which was a big profit.

Hua Kai was shocked by the Qin soldiers' fighting style that only sought results. Qin had only more than 300 soldiers, of which no more than 50 were elite soldiers, but they were able to chase after the Yiqiu cavalry, which was simply incredible.

Hua Kai watched from a distance, and when all the Yiqiu cavalry withdrew, Hua Kai saw that there were only more than 100 bodies of Yiqiu soldiers outside the post station, while there were nearly 200 bodies of Qin soldiers. Only a dozen of the 50 elite soldiers of Qin survived in the end, but they cheered for victory.

"These should be the Qin sharp soldiers! Legend has it that the Qin sharp soldiers are fearless of death. Today, it is indeed well-deserved. It is unimaginable that they can turn defeat into victory under such circumstances." Hua Kai seemed to be talking to Han Jinsheng and Tang Lei, and it seemed to be talking to himself.

Qin was known as "300,000 sharp soldiers". If there were really 300,000 such strong sharp soldiers, then who in this world could stop them?

Hua Kai was just thinking about it when he saw a dozen Qin elite soldiers chasing them with weapons. This was the Qin post station area, and Hua Kai did not want to have a conflict with Qin. He took Han Jinsheng and Tang Lei and quickened their horse steps, and soon escaped from the pursuit of the Qin soldiers.