[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-and-heavenly-pow":3,"chapter-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-and-heavenly-pow-great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-583":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Great Qin: Starting with the Heavenly Stars and Earthly Fiends, the Peerless Immortal Master!",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},2191052,3759,"Chapter 583","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-583",583,"\u003Cp>Following Zhao Gao’s execution, all of his many partisans were rooted out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For the Qin side, this meant finding the spies hidden within their own ranks, so they no longer had to worry about military reports being leaked in advance; for the Xiongnu, it meant they could no longer obtain intelligence on the Qin army’s movements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Tian and Li Mu split their forces and marched deep into the vast desert, taking the initiative to advance against the Xiongnu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second clash between the Xiongnu and the Qin state unfolded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time was different from the previous few; the Xiongnu’s former advantages were completely gone. In just the first head-on collision, the Xiongnu suffered countless casualties, with the stirrups playing a massive role.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the stirrup is a simple construction, its appearance could compensate for the gap in horsemanship.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xiongnu people grew up on horseback and were all skilled riders capable of drawing bows with both hands—a point the people of the Central Plains could not match. But with stirrups, although the Qin cavalry’s horsemanship still lagged behind the Xiongnu’s, the gap was no longer as large as it had been.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this battle, the Xiongnu suffered nearly one hundred thousand casualties, and the remaining defeated troops were forced to retreat deep into the desert toward the Yinshan Mountains. The Yinshan Mountains were lush with vegetation and teeming with game; they were the Xiongnu Modu Chanyu’s hunting grounds and the location of the tribe’s headquarters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Over these years, as the Xiongnu’s power grew, the ambition of the Xiongnu Modu Chanyu, Touman, had also constantly expanded. He had even built a city within the Yinshan Mountains called \"Touman City,\" which served as the Xiongnu’s royal court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now, having been soundly defeated in the war against Qin, the Xiongnu had a good plan: temporarily retreat to the Yinshan region, abandon the conflict with the Central Plains, and then, while recuperating, find a way to eliminate the Yuezhi and the Donghu. The Yuezhi, in particular, had been in constant decline for years and their strength was far from what it once was. If they could be annexed, the Xiongnu’s power would surely expand rapidly. Once the Yuezhi were annexed, they could enslave the Yuezhi people as vanguards to conquer the Donghu. By then, the entire Mobei grassland would have only one voice: that of the Xiongnu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, the Qin state did not intend to let the Xiongnu off.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back in the days when the Zhao state still existed, King King Wuling of Zhao had seized the Hetao region, driven the Linhu and Loufan north of the Yinshan Mountains, and built the Great Wall. The current Qin state was even more powerful than the Zhao state during the time of King King Wuling.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Since the Xiongnu dared to cross the Yinshan Mountains to raid the Hetao region and invade the Central Plains, simply fleeing back north of the Yinshan Mountains would not solve the problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Tian led his grand army and immediately pursued the Xiongnu’s remnants.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because of horseshoes, even though the horses on the Qin side were not as sturdy or vigorous as the Xiongnu horses, they excelled in endurance. After long journeys, the hooves of the Xiongnu horses would wear down, rendering the horses useless. The Qin army’s horses were different; after a period of preparation, basically all of them had been shod with horseshoes, reducing hoof wear to a minimum.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, just as this group of Xiongnu was about to cross the Yinshan Mountains and escape back to their ancestral lands, they were overtaken by Meng Tian, followed by a brutal encounter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although the Xiongnu were strong, they were not as strong as imagined.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xiongnu of today, whether in terms of archers or population, were far from reaching the level of the Modu era. Ultimately, this was because they had not yet annihilated and annexed the two great tribes of the Yuezhi and Donghu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Qin state was different; having first destroyed the six states and then the Regarding Baiyue, the soldiers who followed Meng Tian to conquer the Xiongnu were, without exception, elites who had participated in many wars. They had fought north and south, and their ability to survive so many battles made their level of elite status unimaginable to the Xiongnu.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In one battle, another one hundred thousand Xiongnu were wiped out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of the two hundred thousand Xiongnu who invaded the Central Plains, nearly one hundred thousand were killed first, and another one hundred thousand were killed later. In the end, only ten or twenty thousand managed to escape back to the region north of the Yinshan Mountains. If it were the Meng Tian of the past, repelling the Xiongnu and reclaiming the Hetao region would have been enough, but now, it was different.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The appearance of stirrups and horseshoes, while helping Qin gain an advantage, could only be used as a surprise tactic. Once the Xiongnu were given a chance to catch their breath, they would very likely imitate them and make a comeback.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>From the fact that the Xiongnu built a royal city north of the Yinshan Mountains, it was clear that they were not pure barbarians; they had their own culture and were very likely to imitate these things.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Therefore, the Xiongnu had to be annihilated in one battle, without giving them the slightest chance to catch their breath.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Meng Tian made a rash move: he led his grand army, without any supplies, directly across the Yinshan Mountains to slaughter his way toward the Xiongnu’s tribal settlements.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every area he passed, he would plunder the Xiongnu tribes clean and then burn them to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>By \"foraging from the enemy,\" he solved the problem of food supply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Xiongnu tribes also suffered heavy casualties because of him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In Touman City, the Xiongnu leader, Touman, wrapped in bandages, looked at the news reported by the person before him with a gloomy face, furious to the extreme.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"These Central Plains people are actually so bold and reckless! Damn it, I must annihilate them all!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He already knew that Meng Tian had crossed the Yinshan Mountains and was leading his army to constantly raid the tribes under his command.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Earlier, Touman had been full of confidence, believing that the Central Plains had been through long wars and were currently in a period of recuperation. He had led an army of two hundred thousand across the Yinshan Mountains to attack the Central Plains. At first, he had gained quite a bit, but soon after, he was blocked by the Qin army, and the war fell into a stalemate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Touman did not believe he would lose. Besides the two hundred thousand troops under his command, it was also because a traitor had appeared on the Qin side, selling Qin’s military reports to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Although Touman despised that person, he gladly accepted the military reports sent by the other party.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was also because of these military reports that he avoided several crises and even thwarted the Qin army.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had thought he could take the opportunity to occupy a large area of the Qin state, but he did not expect that in another battle, the Qin army would deal him a heavy blow, wiping out his two hundred thousand troops. He had barely escaped back to Touman City under the protection of his personal guards, but he never expected that the Qin army would actually cross the Yinshan Mountains and pursue him here.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was truly courting death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was Xiongnu territory. If the Qin army, having penetrated deep into enemy lines, could not be left here, wouldn't the Xiongnu become a joke?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Touman was furious to the extreme and immediately ordered that Meng Tian’s army be completely annihilated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meng Tian was indeed worthy of being Meng Tian. Upon discovering that Touman had sent people to surround and suppress him, he took the initiative to split his forces. The horses on his side had horseshoes and could travel long distances.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In this situation, having more people was not necessarily better; having fewer people was more conducive to retreat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He split his forces into five groups, which constantly maneuvered in all directions. If they encountered a large Xiongnu force, they would avoid it; if the numbers were small, they would take the initiative to attack. At the same time, they would not spare any Xiongnu tribes they encountered, plundering them first and then burning any grain they could not carry away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For a time, because of Meng Tian’s actions, the Xiongnu rear fell into great chaos.\u003C\u002Fp>",1430,"2026-06-17T04:20:18.418Z","2026-06-17T04:29:31.175Z",1,"Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite","4d93b593657526dfc964c219d5d43aa46941dd5cca025c1c88cc222687592455","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-584","great-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-chapter-582",617,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fgreat-qin-starting-with-earthly-fiends-and-heave-cover.jpg"]