Chapter Thirty-Eight: The Price of Rescue

But how do you say that the Han Dynasty sent troops? , which is a rather important question. The relationship between countries is very pure, and only interests can be exchanged with each other. When Wu Hechi was on the front line, Kun Mo Weng Xu Mi allowed himself to arbitrarily agree to all the demands of the Han Dynasty Emperor not to endanger Wusun's core interests. And he also brought a letter of surrender written by Kunmo Weng Sumi, in which he recognized the Han as the country of the suzerainty of Wusun and listened to the orders of the Han to jointly attack the Xiongnu. And the war horses cultivated by Wusun for many years were used as a gift to celebrate the accession of the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and promised to donate 500 high-quality Wusun war horses every year free of charge, and the number of 2,000 horses in the mutual market. These add up to all the bargaining chips that Wusun can gather now, and as long as the Han Dynasty agrees to send troops, he can sign a contract immediately. Wusun would also immediately send the horses to the Han-Wu border for handover, but Wu and Chi knew that the chips could not be revealed at once, otherwise the powerful Han Dynasty friend would demand more from him. There is an ancient Chinese saying: The inch is the king's inch, and the ruler is the king's ruler. And the courtiers of the Han Dynasty would not give up the opportunity to show loyalty to their own king.

On the issue of the Xiongnu, Han and Wusun had many common interests. However, unlike the Han, Wusun hoped to maintain a weak balance between the three kingdoms, and Wusun hoped that the Xiongnu could resist the infiltration of Han's power in Hexi and even the Western Regions. It is also hoped that in the continuous confrontation between the Xiongnu and the Han, Wusun will have time to fully develop. Regardless of whether the Xiongnu or the Han were short-lived political allies to Wusun, they could not last long. Because compared to the Han and Hungarian countries, Wusun is too weak. If it weren't for the decision of both sides to use Usun to contain the other's intentions, Usun would have been destroyed decades ago. Between lions and tigers, foxes have only left and right to live.

If the chips in his hand were not enough to attract the Han Dynasty to send troops, Wu Hechi still had a letter sent to him privately by Kunmo Weng Sumi, hoping that this letter could be exchanged for the last hope of the Han Dynasty to send troops. The content of the letter was that Wuhuan and the leaders of the Yue clan were preparing to establish themselves as a country, and recruited Wusun to invade the Xiongnu together, and then raised troops to attack the Han together. This secret was known to only a few top nobles in Wusun, and even Princess Xie Wei was excluded. This is the best time for Wusun's decision-makers to rise. The Han and Hungarian struggles for hegemony for nearly a hundred years, has not been divided into winners and losers, although the Yanzhi Mountains and Hetao and other Longxing land has been lost, but there are 36 countries in the Western Regions to supply blood to the Xiongnu has not seen fatigue. Kunmo Weng Sumi agreed to the request of the Wuhuan Yue clan in a deliberate manner, and Wusun agreed to raise troops together and take the lead in attacking the Xiongnu Rizhu King Xianxian Chan stationed in the Western Regions. But in the first wave of the offensive was defeated by Xianxian Chan, the Xiongnu Huyan Shan Yu got the news, and immediately led the main forces of the four major clans of the left and right Xianwang to attack Wusun together, but the Wuhuan Yue clan and other departments did not lead troops to help according to the agreement, resulting in Wusun being attacked by the enemy, and the soldiers had arrived at Chigu City at noon and when Chi He left. The Xiongnu already had plans to annex Wusun, but in the final analysis, Wusun was weaker than the Xiongnu in terms of the quality of the soldiers and the population. Since it can be swallowed whole, the people of the Han Dynasty have no time to take care of it for their own reasons, so they just use Wusun to replenish their bodies, and it is good to have a strategic space that can be moved around.

Greed is a shortcut to hell, Kun Mo Weng Su Mi was dizzy for a while, and short-sighted listened to the bewitchment of the leaders of the Wuhuan Yue clan and other departments, and attacked the Xiongnu, who were a hundred times stronger than himself. There has always been such a voice in Wusun, saying that Wusun Zhao is not much different from Han and Hungary. As long as he can find a critical moment, Wusun will definitely emerge as the overlord of the world.

In the past, he was also deeply influenced by this voice, believing that Wusun lacked only opportunities compared to the two major powers. However, Wusun's war in the Western Regions completely woke up all the Wusun people, and the Wusun cavalry on the front line of the Western Regions did not even organize a decent offensive in front of the Huns, and the assembled battle arrays were also defeated by the Xiongnu's charges again and again. The Huns nailed the heads of the Wusun cavalry nobles to wooden stakes, and even threw their heads back into the reorganized military formation of Wusun.

The morale of the army was weakened by one defeat after another, and a large number of nobles and marquis led their troops to secretly evacuate at night. In this case, Kunmo Weng Sumi had no choice but to lead his headquarters to retreat to the vicinity of Akiti Castle. However, the Xiongnu's Huyan Shan Yu was not ready to let Wusun go, and on the way to Weng Xumi's retreat, the Huns were encroaching on Wusun's land little by little. A large number of herdsmen became slaves, and the cattle and sheep grain that Wusun had collected for many years was transported to Mobei by the Xiongnu in an orderly manner. Even if Wusun escaped this catastrophe, his strength was not as good as before.

Thinking of this, Wu Hechi looked at Zhang Fang, the accompanying Daxing, and nervously asked when Han Tianzi would arrive and when he could submit his credentials, looking at the nervous Wu and Chi Zhang Fang in front of him and comforting him unhurriedly. And inform me that Wu and Chitianzi will come soon, please be patient.

Liu Xun and Huo Guang stood patiently behind the screen at the entrance of the Qingliang Palace. There was no intention of going in, Liu Xun knew that this was the turning point of the Han-Hungarian struggle for hegemony, and after that, the Xiongnu began to decline. But in the second half of this game, it was not the Han family who benefited the most. Rather, it is Wuhuan, Yueshi, Wusun and other departments. The Han Dynasty made the least profit by giving people and money, and the conditions agreed to by Wusun in the later period were all regretted later. Therefore, Yidi's words are not credible, not to mention that from the report of the messenger who came back from Juyan, Liu Xun understood that it was Wusun who attacked the Xiongnu first and chased the king of Xianxian Chan. If you want to say that there is no conspiracy in it, the ghosts don't believe it.

The Xiongnu no longer have any major threat to today's Han Dynasty, and it is not in the interests of the Han Dynasty to solve the Xiongnu now. If it weren't for how the Xiongnu soldiers would have made meritorious service and awards, where would the Han get a steady stream of slaves, how would the merchants sell their surplus goods, and what excuses would they have relied on to conquer the Western Regions. All kinds of problems need to be solved, and there is no difference between the Han Dynasty and the pre-Qin Dynasty, both are classical nationalism and Songjun politics. All Jiuqing officials have experience in the army, and even Huo Guang, who is behind Liu Xun, has the experience of serving as a lieutenant in Fengche. Even in the future development of Hexi, Liaodong needs war as an excuse to make all domestic forces make concessions.

So now is not the best time for the Xiongnu to fall, and even Liu Xun is ready to let the Xiongnu recover a wave of vitality in Wusun....................................................................................