223: Chapter 223 Maodun: A Born Military Strategist!

People of the Right Worthy King's lineage, whether minor kings or major generals, including the Right Worthy King himself, believed that the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King could easily take down the Qinglan Tribe.

To their absolute surprise, not only did the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King fail to take the Qinglan Tribe, but they also lost their lives on the Qinglan Grassland.

"How could this happen!"

The Right Worthy King summoned the White Sheep King's three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry.

Seeing them safe and sound, the Right Worthy King was even more bewildered.

He didn't understand.

The White Sheep King was dead, so how could his three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry be completely unharmed!

The White Sheep King was in the central army; if he died in battle, the three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry should have died before him.

The three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry were perfectly fine, yet the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King were dead!

This defied all logic!

The three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry said, "When we attacked the Qinglan Grassland, the vanguard cavalry units encountered Horse Trap Pits."

"The enemy took the opportunity to rush out and used bows and arrows, causing significant casualties to our vanguard cavalry!"

"Our vanguard cavalry had just bypassed the Horse Trap Pits to attack from the flanks when they encountered a large number of Caltrops."

"Our horses did not have Horseshoes."

"Many horses' hooves were damaged, and they could no longer move forward, only to be shot down in large numbers by the enemy's Archers."

"Horse Trap Pits?"

"Caltrops!"

The Right Worthy King felt that the Qinglan Tribe was shrouded in strangeness.

It was one thing to dig Horse Trap Pits, but they even knew how to set up Caltrops!

These were all the methods of those damned Central Plains people!

He suddenly thought of a possibility and asked the three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry, "Could it be that there is a Central Plains person acting as a strategist within that damned Qinglan Tribe!"

"That was also the White Sheep King's assessment at the time."

The three Commanders of Ten Thousand Cavalry replied.

"And then?"

"The White Sheep King ordered the entire army to launch a full-scale assault on the Qinglan Grassland."

"Not long after we received the orders and left, a loud explosion rang out from the rear army."

"Then, a massive explosion also occurred in the central army."

"The entire ground was shaking violently."

"Flames suddenly erupted and dust filled the air where the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King were located."

"In the massive explosion, both the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King were blown into the air along with their horses."

"By the time we rushed there, the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King had already died tragic deaths on the spot."

"We didn't know what had happened. The warriors had suffered setback after setback, and panic had already set in; their morale was completely gone."

"At that moment, battle cries suddenly erupted on the Qinglan Grassland, and a black mass of cavalry charged down."

"They held the geographical advantage and their morale was soaring. To avoid excessive casualties, we could only retreat with the bodies of the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King."

"What on earth is going on?"

"Why did it suddenly explode?"

"And why was it so coincidental that the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King were killed in the blast?"

The Right Worthy King looked completely perplexed.

The more he learned about the battle, the more bizarre he felt it was.

The Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King were caught off guard and had fallen into the opponent's schemes the entire time.

While part of it was certainly due to the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King being overconfident, how could those two massive explosions be explained?

Especially the second explosion, which happened to kill the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King so precisely!

If the Right Great Danghu and the White Sheep King hadn't been killed, their morale wouldn't have completely collapsed.

In a desperate fight, even if their cavalry suffered heavy losses, they could have definitely charged onto the Qinglan Grassland and crushed the Qinglan Tribe's resistance with absolute superiority.

The Right Worthy King was somewhat wary and couldn't make up his mind.

With his hands behind his back, he paced incessantly inside the yurt.

"Right Worthy King."

A Commander of Ten Thousand Cavalry said, "The White Sheep King speculated that the Liefeng Tribe, Chiyanju Tribe, Shuangzong Tribe, Lingyu Tribe, Qinglan Tribe, and Jintu Tribe have all defected to the Qin people!"

"Oh!"

The Right Worthy King's body shuddered.

He said in a solemn tone, "You mean the Qin people have crossed Yangshan Mountain again and entered my territory!"

The current Right Worthy King was named Batur, appointed by Modun.

His power in the Right Worthy King's territory was not yet consolidated.

His support for the Right Great Danghu to annex the Qinglan Tribe was also intended to intimidate the tribes within his territory.

Whoever refused to follow his orders, he would destroy that tribe.

The Qinglan Tribe was the chicken he intended to kill to warn the monkeys.

To successfully make an example of them, he had specifically sent his capable general, the White Sheep King.

To his utter surprise, what he thought would be an easy task ended in disaster.

And such a disastrous failure at that!

This greatly diminished his prestige within the Right Worthy King's territory.

If he couldn't maintain a strong presence in the Right Worthy King's territory, the other tribes would simply ignore him.

Then it would be difficult for him to conscript Archers in the Right Worthy King's territory to fight for him.

But what that Commander of Ten Thousand Cavalry said forced him to be vigilant.

The Right Worthy King felt that the White Sheep King's speculation was likely correct; the Qin people had probably already crossed Yangshan Mountain and were striking at their Xiongnu Kingdom once again.

This was urgent military intelligence!

The Right Worthy King took his guards and headed to the Chanyu Court's main tent.

After Great Qin successively occupied the 800-li Hetao Region—the ancestral grazing lands of the Xiongnu—and Yangshan Mountain, the Xiongnu people retreated to the Yinshan area to graze.

For the Xiongnu people, the current Yinshan Grassland was their most important grazing land.

This was the reason the Chanyu Court personally guarded this place; it wasn't as simple as wanting to possess the Yinshan Grassland for themselves.

Once the Yinshan Grassland was occupied by the Qin people again, the Xiongnu Royal Court would be forced to retreat from the Southern Desert and enter the Northern Desert.

There were more Gobi deserts in the Northern Desert, and the grazing lands were far fewer than in the Southern Desert.

Neither the Left Worthy King's Court, the Right Worthy King's Court, nor the Chanyu Court wanted to head to the Northern Desert.

To reduce losses, Modun had arranged for many tribes to migrate to the Northern Desert.

However, after seeing that Great Qin wasn't attacking, they secretly migrated back.

It was mainly because the Northern Desert was too cold.

Not only could the people not stand it, but the cattle and sheep they raised couldn't either.

Large numbers of people and livestock froze to death, forcing them to migrate back to the Southern Desert.

Modun had always sent out a large number of scouts to keep an eye on the Qin Army stationed in the Yangshan Mountain area.

Unfortunately, the Qin Army also sent out many scouts to hunt down their scouts.

This made it very difficult for the scouts sent by Modun to get close enough to observe the Qin Army's movements.

The thousand cavalrymen Zhao Fusu sent to the grasslands were not discovered by Modun at all.

Modun only knew that the Qin Army had not launched a large-scale offensive.

If Zhao Fusu had ordered the three hundred thousand troops of the Great Wall Legion to attack, Modun could have judged the movements of the Great Wall Legion based on the distance his scouts could advance and made preparations.

Modun was indeed a natural military strategist!

His military talent was by no means comparable to that of Kaishen.