On the boundless grasslands.
Luo Wuji and Huo Qubing's two forces, numbering 7,200 men in all, were marching through them at tremendous speed, almost without stopping, while protecting their warhorses and maintaining basic fighting strength.
Huo Qubing had an excellent sense of direction, and with Xiongnu serving as guides in the army, he found Xiongnu tribes unerringly. Even so, he still clicked his tongue in wonder at Luo Wuji's The Power of I Reckon.
The essence of the Grand Envelopment lay in effectively confusing the enemy, keeping them from knowing where the army was, or even that an army was coming to attack at all, before suddenly appearing and crushing them with the speed of thunder before they could cover their ears, settling everything with a single hammer blow. That was the Grand Envelopment.
In actual history, Huo Qubing was a commander who stood almost at the pinnacle of this approach. The two Hexi Campaigns he led could hardly be called warfare; they were more like art. Although their results were not as great as those of the decisive battle in the Northern Desert, in terms of tactical excellence alone, they were absolutely unrivaled-textbook cavalry penetrations through Grand Envelopment maneuvers.
Luo Wuji and Huo Qubing headed west all the way and soon entered the King of the Right Guli's sphere of influence. But the Xiongnu tribes lived wherever water and pasture led them, with no clear boundaries marked by states or cities. In fact, the area contained not only Xiongnu but people of other tribes as well. The Yuezhi, for instance, lived intermingled with the Xiongnu, especially the Lesser Yuezhi who had not migrated away, whose territory overlapped with theirs.
Chanyu's Court.
The atmosphere at the Royal Court was naturally dreadful. After all, Chanyu Qilian had just lost many