Chapter 384
With this battle, Wen Zhong took advantage of the great victory, divided the coalition army into four routes, and forced the Black Armor Army to retreat one after another. The number of the black armor army was originally small, and the cities and towns captured were not divided into dozens of soldiers, at most more than 100, how could they withstand tens of thousands of Han soldiers and horses from attacking in several ways?
Within days, the coalition forces were able to retake the captured towns. And Wen Chong quietly covered up all the way to the strange soldiers, all the way from the most dangerous ancient road in the northwest of Ezhou, all the way to the border of the Khanate, and captured the border town of Sudar Town of the Khan with lightning speed, which was a shame for the Han Dynasty.
This General Wen will not only fight, but also restrain the hearts of the people and the army. For each city captured, they settled the people, left troops to defend them, strengthened the city walls, and posted notices to pacify the people. Everywhere he passed, everyone praised him, and the people said that he was a god from heaven. Among the generals he stayed behind, there was not a single Liaodong soldier, which won the praise of the generals of the Northwest Army, saying that he acted uprightly and brightly.
The Khan Khanate never expected to be captured by Wen Chong, and at that moment, Xiao Mingda, the general of the Khan Khanate, led 10,000 black armor troops to rush to the border. At this time, the troops led by Wen Chong also converged with the advance of the sneak attack on Sudar Town. The forward battalion that captured the town of Sudar, under the command of the 30,000 troops of the coalition army, looted all the property in the town, and then calmly retreated to the border of the Han Dynasty under the nose of Xiao Mingda's black armor army.
At this point, the two armies faced off in front of the national border. The 10,000 black-armored iron horsemen were like black clouds crushing the city, and in an instant, the little military spirit that the Han Dynasty coalition army had just given birth to, shrank back a little.
When it comes to naval warfare, the Khan is inferior to the Great Han; And when it comes to land warfare, 10,000 Khan black-armored iron horses. It is definitely possible to easily meet the 30,000 or 40,000 soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty according to the exchange ratio of more than 1 to 3.
However, Wen Zheng's mission this time was only to drive the Khan people out of the territory of the Han Dynasty, so the task was completed.
While the smoke of gunfire on the border line was still dissipating and the two armies were facing each other, the Khan Khanate sent a friendly signal.
They sent a letter to the Han court, requesting that a mission be sent to visit the Han Dynasty so that the two countries could re-sign a treaty of diplomatic relations. As long as the mission goes to Beijing, the Khan is willing to withdraw thirty miles to show its sincerity.
This signal is undoubtedly positive for the Han court, and it is also happy to see it today. The emperor promised to receive the Khan delegation as a guest of honor. And the Khan did retreat thirty miles as agreed.
So far. This friction between the two countries on the border. At least on the surface, it has dissipated invisibly.
In late October, a negotiation mission sent by the Khan Khanate arrived in the capital.
Since the establishment of diplomatic relations between the Khan Khanate and the Han Dynasty, they have always been in a state of non-fighting and discord. The Han Dynasty was rich and strong, and its maritime power was strong. For the Khan a formidable threat on his doorstep; And the Khan people are fierce. He is good at fighting on land. Possessing the most powerful cavalry in the world, it was also a difficult bone to gnaw on in the Han Dynasty.
It is precisely because of mutual jealousy that Khan has always been ambiguous towards the Han Dynasty. Something like this year's direct call, that's never before. Probably to show sincerity, the border general who led his troops to attack Dahan had been beheaded by Xiao Mingda in front of the battle. This move also made the Han court generally optimistic about the visit of the Khan delegation.
The delegation was headed by Xiao Changyuan, the great prince of the Khan Khanate, and had about 200 members, accompanied by Princess Mingzhu, who was most favored by the emperor of the Khan Khanate. The purpose of the visit was to renew the treaty of diplomatic relations between the two countries and to clarify the future relations between the two countries. Finally, there is also an incidental intention, which is to give a white deer hunted by Emperor Khan himself.
White beasts have always been known as auspicious. Judging from the actions of the Khithan Emperor, this delegation of more than 200 people should still be for the purpose of friendship, exchange, and the re-signing of the treaty.
However, on the day the mission arrived in Beijing, when Fu Jun was dragged by Xie Ting in the private room of the Shangyuanguan Restaurant and witnessed the scene of the Khithanate's delegation entering Beijing, Fu Jun felt that the envoys from neighboring countries this time were not so much friendly exchanges as a thief's immortality and showing off his might.
In the mission of the Khanate, there was a 50-man heavy cavalry and a 50-strong infantry team.
These soldiers were dressed in dark heavy armor, and the cavalry were all riding on tall black horses, holding black tasseled spears. Although the head of the gun was wrapped in a cloth cover, the handle of the gun made of iron was dark and very solemn. The infantry team was each holding a large shield as tall as a man and a long scimitar. Although the tip of the scimitar was also wrapped in a cloth cover, the blade was bright and awe-inspiring.
And the most frightening thing is the appearance of these Khan soldiers.
Different from the appearance of the Central Plains people of the Han Dynasty, the appearance of these Khan people is somewhat similar to the West Asian people that Fu Jun had seen in his previous life, with high noses and deep eyes, slightly dark complexion, and taller bodies than the Central Plains people.
They were also dressed strangely, with the soldiers all wearing bearded hair and fierce eyes. When some of the soldiers saw the beautiful little girl in the crowd, they let out a lewd/evil laugh. When a few soldiers saw a young child, they would stick out their tongues and lick their lips, and their eyes were as straight as wolves, as if they would pounce on them and devour them in the next second.
As the two teams marched through Suzaku Street one after another, the crowd of people who were crowded on the side of the street to watch the excitement gradually fell silent. Some timid children even shrank in the arms of their families, but they were so frightened that they didn't even dare to cry. The whole Suzaku Street was quiet, except for the banners in the shops, which rattled in the north wind.
Outside the five cities, the porridge shacks built were dismantled not long ago, and those displaced people who fled here were sent back to their hometowns by the officers and soldiers sent by the imperial court. And at this moment, there is another visit from this so-called friendly mission. Fu Jun couldn't tell how he felt.
She only knew that this visit by Khan was definitely not good.
And it turns out that Fu Jun's feeling is not wrong.
On the second day after the mission arrived in Beijing, several Khan soldiers were drinking in a restaurant when they had a quarrel with diners, and they actually drew knives and injured people in the street. If it weren't for the people of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses Division who came quickly, I was afraid that there would be a murder case.
As soon as this incident came out, the entire capital was shaken.
The people of Beijing were extremely angry. These Khan people killed people and set fire to the northwest, and they were so arrogant when they went to the capital of the Han Dynasty, and they didn't take the Han Dynasty in their eyes, which was simply too deceitful.
Xiao Changyuan, the great prince of the Khan Khanate, saw that the matter was getting bigger, so he first entered the palace overnight to plead guilty to the saint, and the next day he personally took the troublesome soldiers to the Wucheng Soldiers and Horses Division, and whipped them in public in the open space in front of the official office, beating the soldiers to the flesh. In addition, fifty taels of silver were given to each of the people who were cut down as a token of apology.
However, this matter finally touched the bottom line of the monarch of a country, and in a fit of rage, the saint sent 500 dragon guards to surround the embassy, nominally under the banner of maintaining order, preventing irrelevant people from harassing the mission, and protecting the safety of the envoys, but in fact it restricted the freedom of movement of the members of the mission. (To be continued......)