Yumen Pass is the only way to go to the Western Regions, there has been no war for many years, almost from the border pass to the commercial pass, inside and outside the city, there are more tax officials than military officials. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

General Shao Kejian came to Yumen Pass a few months ago to reorganize the garrison and repair the city walls, while at the same time sending scouts from afar to monitor the movements in the Western Regions.

The last group of Chu people returned from the Western Regions two months ago, and after that, occasionally there were people from the Western Regions knocking on the gates, bringing a lot of chaotic news, no one has ever been to Huju City again, and the countries of the Western Regions are capricious, but they are only fierce in their mouths, and they still respect the Chu people.

One evening in early summer, the scouts returned to the city to report that a group of people came from the Western Regions to ask to enter the city, with a special identity, it is said that they are all princes and nobles from the extreme west, all the way to escape from the army of the gods and ghosts Da Danyu, and ask to enter Dachu for refuge.

A total of more than 100 people, dressed in strange and gorgeous clothes, speaking a language that no one could understand, after entering the city, as soon as they saw the generals of the Chu army, they held out a large number of jewels in their hands, and there was an interpreter in the procession, claiming that the person holding the jewels was a king, and as long as the Great Chu was willing to take him in, he was willing to give more jewels.

Shao Kejian asked the guests to put away their belongings, sent them into the post house in the city, and asked for the news in detail as usual.

These people fled to the Western Regions two years ago, so they don't know the situation of Tiger City, but they heard rumors that the soldiers in the city were killing each other because of disagreements, and they were attacked by enemy troops, and it was already an empty city, and the only reason why the gods and ghosts Da Dan Yu had not attacked the Western Regions was that it took time to gather a large number of troops.

It is said that in the extreme west, from the grassland in the north to the sea in the south, they have all surrendered to the gods and ghosts Dadanyu, and will jointly form an army of up to one million people, annex Dachu in one fell swoop, and complete the final wish of the gods and ghosts.

Shao Kejian wrote an official letter and sent it to the capital as an urgent letter, and it was up to the imperial court to decide how to receive these fleeing guests.

In the days that followed, several more groups of refugees arrived, more and more in number, including nobles from the far west and natives from the Western Regions, some of whom swore that they had recently passed through the city of Huju, which was indeed empty and ruined, and that the walls had been torn down.

Half a month later, Shao Kejian received an order from the imperial court, asking him to investigate in detail, and the princes and interpreters could be sent to the capital, and the entourage and others stayed at Yuguanmen.

Shao Kejian, an obedient general, immediately complied with orders, intending to spend ten days screening and then sending the guests to the capital.

There has been no war in Yumen Pass for decades, even in the era when the Great Chu and the Xiongnu were still frequent, it was not affected here, all the news obtained by Shao Kejian showed that the Western Regions were unstable, but there was no war, although the countries had different intentions, at most they secretly flattered the strong enemies in the extreme west, and did not dare to be disrespectful to the Great Chu.

Therefore, when another group of refugees arrived, the entire Yumen Pass, including Shao Kejian, did not particularly care, and received them as usual and sent them to live in the post house.

Yumen Pass is often frequented by foreigners, and the post house here is larger than the capital, and it is built in the city, occupying a corner of the city, enough to accommodate thousands of people.

That night, the new refugees massacred the princes and nobles who had fled the city, while setting fire to the city in an attempt to seize a gate.

Shao Kejian was shocked when he heard the news, and personally led the soldiers to suppress it, tossing for half a night, and finally calmed down the situation, but the loss was irreparable, dozens of distinguished guests were killed, and they fled all the way to Dachu, but this was the real end.

Most of the assassins were killed, and there were more than a dozen prisoners left, shouting and shouting, and the interpreter said in fear: "Son of Heaven...... The gods and ghosts will be avenged if there is revenge, and they will be avenged if they have revenge, they will never be soft, they will never forgive, and the Chu people will ...... Great Chu will perish......"

The Assassins also handed over several chests with gold, silver and jewels piled on top, but several small chests containing several human heads underneath, and they did not hide it, proudly declaring that these were Chu envoys, as gifts, to the Great Chu Emperor.

Shao Kejian recognized one of them, and it was indeed an envoy sent by the imperial court to the Western Regions in winter, and they had been trying to go to Huju City, but they didn't expect to die in other places.

In a fit of rage, Shao Kejian beheaded all the captives, closed the city gates from then on, refused to accept guests from the Western Regions, and wrote an urgent letter to the imperial court, hoping for support.

The Western Regions is no longer the barrier of Great Chu, but the enemy.

Since the beginning of spring, the Huns have returned to the north of Great Chu, and a large number of troops have stopped on the other side of the broken iron city and negotiated repeatedly with the Chu envoys.

Da Chu asked the Huns to follow the precedent and bow to Da Chu, but they were categorically refused, and the two sides were deadlocked for several months without progress.

The summer is getting hotter, the Huns need to graze, can not stay in one place for a long time, Da Dan Yu decided to go east, threw a sentence to the Chu envoy: "When Da Chu can block the gods and ghosts, come to negotiate." ”

He refused to admit that there was another Da Shan Yu, so he only called him "God and Ghost".

The scouts of the Chu army followed the Huns from afar, and found that they were indeed far away from the northeast, and they were more and more scattered, going to different pastures, and it seemed that they had no intention of fighting this year.

When the Huns retreated, Yumen Pass was attacked by a sneak attack, and the military headquarters quickly reacted and transferred an army from the Broken Iron City to support Yumen Pass.

It seems that the Western Regions has really abandoned Dachu and surrendered to a strong enemy, and the countries have formed a coalition army, this time in the direction of attack in the east.

Several kings quietly sent letters, claiming that they were also forced to helpless, and that the envoys of the gods and ghosts had entered the Western Regions, ordering the countries to surrender immediately, and those who hesitated to exterminate their tribes, and those who did not surrender to slaughter the country.

The Chu people have withdrawn from the Western Regions, and the countries have no choice but to send troops and food to establish a coalition army to show their allegiance, and when the army of the gods and ghosts Dadan Yu arrives, they will officially start a war against the Great Chu.

Based on the news from all parties and the strength of the countries in the Western Regions, the Ministry of War speculated that the gods and ghosts would send 100,000 troops at most, plus the Western Regions Alliance, less than 150,000, although it would not shake the Great Chu, the pressure on Yumen Pass was not small.

The Ministry of War suggested that more support be provided to Yumen Pass as soon as possible.

The emperor was a little hesitant, but Yumen Guan sent an urgent letter, and the military department was also urging him tightly, so he didn't have much choice, so he agreed.

Why didn't the gods and ghosts Da Shan Yu directly attack Da Chu from the north? The road was longer, but smoother.

The military department gave an explanation that the gods and ghosts Da Dan Yu must have thought that Da Chu and the Xiongnu had joined forces, and he was unwilling to fight against the two forces at the same time, so he only fought with the Da Chu family through the Western Regions.

Han Ruzi still had some doubts, but Yumen Pass was in an emergency and could not be ignored, so he sent 50,000 troops to support, and several other large armies entered the pass to garrison, which was equal to the distance between Yumen Pass in the west and Shenxiong Pass in the north, in case of emergency.

The war is really coming, Cui Hong took office as a new official, determined to make a great contribution in this battle in order to redeem his own title, so he went to Yumen Pass to command.

Cui Hong's health was weak, and his family and the emperor didn't want him to be affected, but Cui Hong insisted on his own opinion and wrote three times, detailing the importance of this battle and why he had to go to supervise the battle in person.

"Great Chu showed the enemy weakness, so that the countries of the Western Regions surrendered to foreign enemies, although this battle can hold the Yumen Pass, it will not help, and the Western Regions cannot be recovered unless the army marches west to break the enemy in one fell swoop."

Han Ruzi was convinced.

Cui Hong rushed to Yumen Pass, gathered a reserve army, gathered 80,000 people, and the main force was 40,000 southern troops, and attacked the Western Regions in late summer and early autumn.

His plan was not to wait for the army of the gods and ghosts to converge with the Western Regions coalition forces, to recapture the Western Regions first, and then decide as appropriate, preferring to turn the Western Regions into battlefields and ruins rather than let it become enemy territory.

After a great victory in the first battle, the countries of the Western Regions had no fighting spirit, and they were about to collapse at the first touch, and they all surrendered to the Chu army one after another, and turned to lead the way and quickly pacify the countries.

The emperor remembered the tiger city and the soldiers in the city, and Cui Hong did not forget it, and sent a vanguard of 3,000 people to check the situation.

Hundreds of miles away from Huju City, this army and the army of the gods and ghosts Da Dan Yu encountered, they did not know the details of each other, and observed each other for two whole days, the Chu army launched an attack first, the enemy fought back, and the combat effectiveness was much stronger than that of the people in the Western Regions.

Cui Hong led an army to support, and he had to return to Dachu before winter, so he was in a hurry to defeat the enemy army.

Han Ruzi can receive reports from the Western Regions every day, although they are all news of victory, he can't be completely at ease, these news are ten days or even a month ago at the earliest, he wants to know the current situation.

But he had other things to do, and the court finally took shape according to his ideas, and Prime Minister Zhuo Ruhe returned to take charge of the court, although he was not of the same heart and mind as the emperor, but it was relatively stable.

At the same time, the power of the Imperial Historical Observatory was strengthened, Feng raised the position of the Taishi, and the right patrol of the Imperial Shi Qu Zixi was in charge of the supervision alone, and he watched the officials more closely, and wrote impeachment on the ground twice in three days, which made the ministers miserable.

The General's Mansion became the emperor's direct yamen, which was specially responsible for military training in various places.

Han Ruzi felt that there was enough time, only one to three more years, although Da Chu could not restore the peak of Emperor Wu, but it was enough to free up his hands to fight a big battle.

But things don't always go as planned.

It was late autumn, the weather was getting colder, and news came from outside the fortress that the scouts of the Broken Iron City had observed a large army in the west, like the Huns, probably the Huns who had surrendered to the gods and ghosts.

Before the emperor and the court could react, more news came like snowflakes, and the number of troops was beyond imagination, and the scouts could not even make an approximate estimate.

Shattered Iron City sent an army to meet the battle, but was defeated.

The city of broken iron was besieged and destroyed in one day.

The defenders of the Broken Iron City fled back to Guansai, and there was not much left.

Kamio Pass was attacked.

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In just ten days, the unexpected news turned into bad news.

In the afternoon of that day, two urgent letters were sent to the emperor, one after the other.

One letter came from Shenxiong Pass, the situation was critical, and the imperial court needed to send troops to support it immediately.

The other is from the Western Regions, and when he wrote this letter, Cui Hong did not know the situation in the north, and happily declared that the Western Regions had been decided, the enemy army had been destroyed, and the army was on its way back, and it could reach Yumen Pass before winter.

Cui Hong's letter also reported a piece of good news, the tiger city is still there, and he has sent people to check, either continue to defend the city, or bring back the Chu people in the city.

Han Ruzi finally understood that he was fooled, Cui Hong was fooled, the entire Great Chu was fooled, and the Western Regions were just suspicious soldiers, leading away part of the Chu army.

The god and ghost Da Shan Yu is not only murderous, but also very treacherous, and he obviously knows far more about Da Chu than Da Chu knows about him.

Han Ruzi put down the official document, he has always attached great importance to the enemies of the West, but the result is still careless.

The eunuch Zhang Youcai hurriedly ran in, not knowing the emperor's thoughts, and shouted happily: "Born, Concubine Shu is born, she is a prince!" (To be continued.) )