"King! We have died too many people, and if this continues, those subjugated tribes may have different hearts! ”

King Wusun's face was extremely ugly, and he said coldly: "Those who don't listen to orders, kill!" ”

This is Ka Meng said: "King Wusun, I think what the Hehe warriors said makes sense, the enemy is stubborn, the casualties are too great, I am afraid there will be a rebellion." “

Kameng didn't expect that this Wusun army was so wasteful, with 5,000 people attacking a small city of tens of thousands of people, and suffering such heavy casualties, but he also knew that if this continued, the power that he had built up with great difficulty would be lost, which was in the interests of the empire.

"Then what do you say we should do now, Qi people hide in a hard shell and don't come out."

King Wusun said coldly.

Kameng smiled and said, "King, since the enemy does not come out, then we will surround them. ”

"Around them? Why! ”

"Wang, they are hiding in the city, there is no food sent in from the outside world, they can only eat the original food, the food cannot be conjured out of thin air, there will always be less and less, this jade gate is far away from the hinterland of Qi State, it is difficult for the food in the city to hold on to the arrival of reinforcements, as long as they have nothing to eat, this city will be just a dead city at that time."

King Wusun frowned.

"So can we just wait?"

Ka Meng said: "Yes, we will wait, the king's army carries cattle and sheep, and the warriors are drinking mare's milk, and there is no shortage of food, we can wait, but the Qi people can't wait."

Sooner or later, they will not be able to support it, as long as they dare to go out of the city to face the battle, the king's tens of thousands of troops, are they still afraid of them?

As long as the tactics of the empire are used, the musketeers meet the enemy head-on, and the king will win.

”

King Wusun looked at the Yumen Pass, and his face showed pity.

Inside the Yumen Pass, Ming Zhong came to the wounded barracks to inspect.

In this battle, although the enemy's attack was repulsed, the Qi army also suffered a lot of casualties.

Although no specific number has been counted, a rough estimate of the number of casualties was no less than 200.

The doctors could only treat these wounded soldiers in a simple environment, and although there was a miracle medicine called penicillin, it did not mean that the medical treatment of Qi was very advanced.

All the doctors can do is to stop the bleeding and disinfect the wounds, and as for the other seriously injured patients, they are at the mercy of God.

Ming Zhong instructed the doctor to treat every soldier with heart.

In the next few days, the enemy did not attack the city again, how could Ming Zhong and the others not guess the thoughts of the Wusun people, this is to surround themselves here.

"General, or we'll rush out and them."

Several generals glared at each other.

Ming Zhong said: "The enemy is huge, and behind us are tens of thousands of Qi people, how can I, as a guard, take risks." ”

"Then we can't just wait, the food in the city will run out in a month and a half at most, what should we do?"

Ming Zhong took the binoculars and looked in the direction of the enemy army, who had already surrounded the city.

"The enemy army at the east gate is weak, so five elite soldiers were selected to go out from the east gate tonight, and they took advantage of the night to break through and ask for help from Qinzhou Hexi County."

"These damn Hu people should have been killed in the first place."

One of the generals said hatefully.

At night, it was cloudy, moonless, and I could barely see my fingers.

At the east gate of the Jade Gate, several soldiers dressed in black led the black horse out of the city from the east gate slightly.

The horse has been put on a horse chew and the hooves are wrapped in a thick cloth so as not to expose the target as much as possible.

No one cautiously headed east, the bonfires lit in the distance, and the noise of the Wusun camp was exceptionally clear in this silence.

"Be careful, everyone!"

The leading soldier commanded in a low voice.

The five of them walked and stopped, fearfully passing through the enemy's blockade area.

In the land west of the river, a team of 5,000 people has been facing the biting cold wind and heading west.

"Report! Brigade! Ten miles ahead is Moon Lake, where there is plenty of water for the army to rest. ”

Brigade Commander Chu muttered, "Arrived at Moon Lake? How long is it until the Jade Gate? ”

"Back to the brigade commander, it is less than half a month away from Yumen."

"Hmmm! Revisit! ”

"No!"

Starting from Qinzhou, it has been more than a month now, thousands of miles to support Yumen, in the era when there were no trains, the consumption of materials was extremely serious.

With an army of 5,000, there were as many as 10,000 people transporting grain and grass.

The long grain transportation stretches for more than ten miles.

Even the Qinzhou army, which can fight well, is a little unbearable in the face of this almost uninhabited Hexi.

But compared to the credit that is about to be received, this little hard work does not seem to be worth mentioning.

Since the war of exterminating Shu, it is difficult for soldiers to have the opportunity to make meritorious contributions again, and there are only two ways to be promoted, one is to boil up qualifications, and the other is to pass the regular assessment of the imperial court.

Chu Du has been the regiment commander for several years, and if it weren't for this rebellion in the Western Regions, even this acting brigade commander wouldn't know how long it would take to become a brigade commander.

In this regard, the attack of the Wusun people helped him take a step forward.

As for whether he would be defeated, Chu Du never thought about it, this time on the expedition to the Western Regions, the firearms troops of the 5,000 army were all equipped with the latest models of flintlock muskets, and there were no less than 200 large and small artillery.

With such a firepower configuration, the enemy can still stand in front of him alive, and he must look up at the other party.

Now, the enemies in front of them are living military exploits, waiting to be picked by themselves.

Although Moon Lake is called Moon Lake, it is not crescent-shaped, but only the name of the local Qiang people.

When the Qi people conquered Hexi, they continued this name.

In winter, Moon Lake has frozen, and the surrounding area is very desolate, but compared to the places I passed before, it is a place of abundant water and grass.

Chu Du was in the camp, lighting candles, and studying those military books that could be printed in a military academy carefully.

Suddenly, outside the camp, there was a commotion.

Chu Du frowned, and just wanted to go out and scold, when the herald walked in and reported: "Brigade commander! Guazhou sent people to come.

”

Hearing this, Chu Du hurriedly stood up and said, "Pass!" ”

Soon, a dusty soldier was brought into the tent.

"Guazhou defenders, Ganye meets the general."

"What are you doing here?"

Gan Ye said: "Yumen was besieged, five days ago Yumen sent people to Guazhou to ask for help, Guazhou is not enough troops to support the special subordinate Donglai to see the general, Yumen is in danger, and I hope the general will support as soon as possible." ”

"What's the situation in Yumen now!"

"Months ago! Wusun sent tens of thousands of troops to attack Yumen, and Yumen has been surrounded, and the grain stored in the city can last for ten days at most. ”

"What? Tens of thousands of troops? How can the Western Regions take such forces! ”

"My subordinates don't know!"

Chu Du frowned and said, "Take this brother down to rest, and let the first battalion commander and the second battalion commander come to see me!" ”

After Gan Ye was taken down, Chu Du muttered: "It seems that I underestimated the barbarians of the Western Regions, hehe, since you are looking for death, don't blame Lao Tzu for being ruthless." ”