Chapter 917: Winds and clouds in Jiuyuan

Logically speaking, Meng Tian had arrived in Jiuyuan Commandery with an army of two hundred thousand, and had the assistance of an old general like Li Mu, who had once defeated the Xiongnu head-on; this war should not have been in such a stalemate no matter what.

But the fact was exactly that.

Whenever Meng Tian and the others made preparations to deal with the Xiongnu's attacks, the Xiongnu seemed to have received information in advance and deliberately refused to walk into the trap. When the Qin army took the initiative to march into the desert, if the Qin army was numerous, they would take the initiative to flee; if the number was small, they would launch pincer attacks and surprise raids on the Qin army.

It was hard to imagine that this group of barbarians, the Xiongnu, had actually started playing with military tactics.

It was also fortunate that the main general of the Qin army this time was Meng Tian, and there was an old general like Li Mu to assist him. Although the Qin army had been tricked by the Xiongnu several times, they had not suffered major losses; on the contrary, Li Mu had turned the tables several times in desperate situations.

But this kind of turning the tables was not what Meng Tian and Li Mu wanted to see.

With the war in such a stalemate, although the Xiongnu had temporarily stopped their incursions into the Qin border, as long as the Xiongnu were not annihilated, they would still invade the Qin border after the Qin army withdrew.

And the meaning of His Majesty the Emperor was also to seek success in a single battle, completely annihilating the Xiongnu, occupying their territory and land, and making the place where the Xiongnu lived into the pasture of the Qin Guo. ===== CHAPTER 919 =====