Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Name of a Strong Man
"Bell, bell!" Fortunately, the soldiers on the city walls reacted quickly and sounded the alarm in time.
"Quick, what are you guys doing in a daze, close the city gates!" A Qiuzi officer stood on the city wall and pointed at the few people below who were in a daze and cursed. At this time, several people woke up like a dream, and immediately hurriedly closed the city gate, but fortunately, the other party did not launch a surprise, but stayed a mile away from the city wall and stood still.
Soon, the Qiuzi officials in its Qiancheng also climbed the city wall, looking at the thousands of cavalry outside who were not moving, the city lord of Qiancheng wiped the cold sweat on his head and asked, "Have you found out where their army is?" "This small city has a population of only 30,000, and in the face of so many troops, it would be a lie to say that it is not worried.
"Tell the city lord, look at the banner, they seem to be the army of the Han Dynasty!" A Qiuzi official who knew Lishu replied.
"The Great Han has been withdrawn from the Western Regions for nearly eighty years, and I don't seem to have offended the Great Han, why did they come?" The City Lord of Guizi wondered.
"You, go and meet their general, I want to talk to him!" The city lord with a puzzled hand casually pointed to a Qiuzi officer beside him.
The officer who was pointed at by him immediately broke out in a cold sweat, who knows if the other party is coming to war, if he kills himself to sacrifice the flag, he will want to cry without tears, although the Han people have always been at war between the two countries without cutting off, but who knows if the other party's general is abiding by the rules.
The officer rode a white flag and rushed towards the Han army, and soon several Han soldiers stopped him, and after some interrogation, he was brought to a general, and the next day it was Cao Ren, who was now also a cavalry lieutenant because of his meritorious service in quelling the rebellion.
"This general, I, Qiuzi, have been doing my duty in recent years, and I don't seem to have offended the big man, I don't know what the general's behavior is?" Officer Qiuzi swallowed.
"You'll find out in a moment!" Cao Ren only glanced at him and said no more.
After more than half an hour, the Qiuzi officials on the city wall were so anxious that they were sweating profusely, if they hadn't seen that the officer was still alive, I am afraid that they would have been ready to fight, and even the Qiuzi officer wiped his sweat several times, and finally, the army from afar was slowly approaching.
Cao Cao rode forward alone and shouted at the wall of Qiancheng: "This official is the protector of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty, and he has come to return to the capital of the palace to protect the city of Qiancheng, and you will not open the city gate quickly." ”
The Qiuzi officials on the city wall are stupid, the Han has withdrawn from the Western Regions for nearly a hundred years, and now this is back again?
"This general, the lower official is Bayi, the lord of Qiancheng in Qiuzi Country, and the Han Dynasty has long since revoked the Western Regions Protectorate, and the general is not in harmony with the regulations!" The city lord Bayi wiped his sweat, as the city lord, he often dealt with merchants from the Han Dynasty, so he naturally spoke Chinese.
"Hmph, you are a vassal state of my Han Dynasty, and now my Han Dynasty has re-established the Western Regions Protectorate, and you will return to the Protectorate from Angelica!" Cao Cao snorted coldly.
"It seems that the residence of the Great Han was in Liuzhong City a few decades ago?" Bhai wondered.
"That is the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, and now the Great Han has reset the Western Regions Protectorate!" Cao Cao shook his head and said, this matter is also Yao Jie's intention, in the later period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Regions Protectorate has been changed to the Western Regions Governor's Mansion, although the Western Regions Governor's Mansion exercises the power of the Protectorate, but the Western Regions Governor's Mansion controls the area far less than the Western Regions Protectorate period, the peak of the Western Regions Protectorate was controlled to the west of the Green Ridge, but later because of a series of turmoil, Wusun controlled the west of the Green Ridge, and since then the Han Dynasty has lost the territory west of the Green Ridge forever, and now the Han Dynasty has reset the Western Regions Protectorate, not the Changshi Mansion, and there will be an excuse to beat Wusun in the future.
"The matter is serious, the lower officials don't dare to make decisions without permission, and I ask the general to wait a few days, and wait for the lower officials to make a decision in the future!" Bayi is a problem.
"In this case, the official will give you three days, if there is no news by then, don't blame the official for not being merciful!" Cao Cao is not a weak person, in fact, this traitorous man is still a ruthless person, he can kill Lu Boxuan's whole family because of a guess, and even more because his father was killed for money, he will not listen to any explanation, slaughter the people of Xuzhou, just like he said, if Qiuzi dares to delay time, he will definitely be outdated, and directly wave his troops to attack the city, as for whether to take it down, just look at his soldiers, it is not difficult to destroy Qiuzi, Qiuci has only more than 21,000 soldiers in the country, After the Yellow Turban captives were recruited, Cao's army had swelled to 17,000 people, because he wanted to sit in the Western Regions, Emperor Han Ling was also generous enough to supplement him with 5,000 soldiers and horses, Cao Cao now has more than 22,000 horse infantry troops, including 3,000 cavalry, this force is already a decisive force for the small countries in the Western Regions, and even Wusun, a powerful country in the Western Regions, is only 100,000 troops.
The king of Qiuzi is in the capital of Yancheng, and Bai Chengzheng, the king of Qiuzi, is sitting on the throne in horror.
"Is it true that the Han is here just to reset the Western Regions Protectorate?" Bai Cheng asked the messenger of Bayi below.
"According to the Great Han Protector, they just asked us to give up its Qiancheng as the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate!" The messenger said.
"What do you think?" Bai Cheng turned his gaze to the Minister of Qiuzi below and asked.
"King, dare to ask where the Han army came?" An old Qiuzi minister asked.
"Bayi reported that there were tens of thousands!" Bai Cheng had a headache and said, as soon as he thought of the great Han heroes who had destroyed countless countries, he had a sense of fear, Bai Cheng did not forget how his throne came about, in 84 AD (the ninth year of the founding of the Eastern Han Dynasty), Qiuzi, Gumo, and Wensu all descended; Ban Chao abolished the king of Qiuzi, Yulido, and established Baiba as the king of Qiuzi, and his throne was passed down by his grandfather Baiba.
At the beginning, Ban Chao easily pacified the Western Regions without leading the Han army, and now Cao Cao personally led tens of thousands of troops westward, and he had no courage to resist.
"The king, the minister suggested that we should agree to the Han's request!" The face of the minister who asked before changed greatly, and even the generals who originally planned to fight in Qiuzi hurriedly lowered their heads, and didn't even dare to speak, Ban Chao left countless shadows in the hearts of the people of the Western Regions, if the Han only sent dozens or hundreds of people this time as usual, then they might dare to resist, but now tens of thousands of troops are coming, it is obviously a posture of destroying the country if they don't agree, these generals don't think that Qiuci can win tens of thousands of Han troops, at this time, one Han to Wuhu is not to say, 20,000 Han troops needed at least 100,000 foreign troops to dare to fight against them.
In fact, from the mantra of the Han envoys in the past - the Han army is coming, don't move, and if you move, you will lose the country, you can see the power of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty collapsed, and the young emperor ascended the throne
The countries of the Western Regions tried to stir up, Fu Jiezi went to Loulan as an envoy, killed the king of Loulan at the palace banquet, and set up Loulan's proton in Han as the king.
Fu Jiezi left a sentence: The Han army is coming, don't move, and if you move, you will lose the country. There are dozens of kings in the Western Regions, and none of them dare to move. Since then, the Western Regions have been stable. This sentence has also become the mantra of the Han envoys since then.
We have heard the story of Su Wu shepherding sheep since childhood, Su Wu once sent an envoy to the Xiongnu, which coincided with the rebellion between the prince of the Xiongnu and the rebel Yu Chang of the Han Dynasty.
After the Xiongnu Shan Yu put down the rebellion, he found that the adjutant in the Su Mu mission was also related to the rebellion, and the Xiongnu Shan Yu wanted to kill Su Wu.
Su Wuyan said: South Vietnam killed the Han envoys and slaughtered them as nine counties; King Wan killed the Han envoy, Touxian Beique; North Korea killed the Han envoy and immediately exterminated. The Huns are not heard!
Su Wu asked Shan Yu if he dared to move??
Well, Shan Yu said that he was not moved and was very afraid, but he didn't want to let Su Wu go, so he exiled him to Baikal for grazing, and it was not until nineteen years later that he was released back to Dahan.
The reason why a strong man can give a name to a nation is naturally extremely fierce.