Chapter 868: Wusun Comes to Attack
Another voice shouted angrily: "Just tell them to get out of the way, where is so much nonsense!" Divulging secrets is a capital offense! β
Liu Yu has heard and witnessed it since he was a child, and he is much more sensitive than other businessmen, not to mention that he knows that Liu Xin is driving a personal expedition at this time, and after hearing this, he knew that there must be some emergency military situation, so he couldn't help frowning, and said to Bian Zhang: "Take care of the two of them, I'll go down and take a look." β
Bian Zhang agreed, took out the repeater from his arms, shook it at Tagina and Laura, and threatened: "You'd better be honest, otherwise you'll shoot you cold!" β
Before he finished his words, Liu Yu had already turned over as a harrier and jumped out of the grain cart, where was there still half a point of the sick seedlings just now.
By this time, there was already a mess all around, and many caravans that had just wrapped up their goods and were about to leave were rushing to the side of the road in a hurry. The shopkeeper Cui was also sweating profusely, although the value of the food was not high, but it was quite heavy, the carriage finally got on the road, and now it was about to rush to the side of the road again, and several guys were very difficult.
Liu Yu didn't say a word, rolled up his sleeves, and helped the guys get the carriage to the side of the road first.
Gao Ran was injured and didn't help the guys work together. He leaned on the rod and said coldly to Liu Yu: "What's the matter, my stomach doesn't hurt anymore?" β
"I don't know what's going on, but it doesn't hurt anymore anyway." Liu Yu smiled and suddenly asked, "Gao Zhuangshi, do you know what happened?" β
Shopkeeper Cui walked over and said with a bitter face: "I asked someone just now, Dawan and Uzberi Fortresses discovered the enemy at the same time, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial court couldn't be transferred in a hurry, so they wanted to send these people who escorted the supplies yesterday." β
Outside the Kangju border pass, many soldiers are gathering, these are the old troops of the Yuan and Cao families, many of whom are from Hebei. Shopkeeper Cui happened to know one of them, and these old soldiers never knew what secrecy was, so Shopkeeper Cui heard the news.
Liu Yu looked at the anxious appearance of the shopkeeper Cui, and couldn't help laughing: "Don't worry, Uncle Cui." Our Han army is very powerful, or we will be able to sweep away these petty people in a few days......"
Gao Ran shook his head and said, "The enemy's move is powerful, it is going to cut off the grain of the Han soldiers in front of him......"
The old army outside the Kangju border pass has been assembled, and from a distance, the black pressure is overwhelming, but it also looks very neat.
Gao Ran is a person who has led soldiers, and he has his own opinions about the army, pointed to the team, nodded and said: "There are about 30,000 people here, and they all seem to be veterans of the battle formation, and they can be regarded as an elite, but I don't know how the enemy is?" β
As he spoke, the assembled old army had already driven over, and the first two generals were the brothers Xiahoudun and Xiahouyuan. The two brothers were only low-ranking officers yesterday, but today they have become commanders and have been reused. Riding a tall horse, wearing iron armor, each holding a big sword and a spear, he was majestic and high-spirited, and his eyes were hot and his heart was sour.
This time the imperial court did encounter unprecedented difficulties, otherwise it would not have reactivated the Xiahoudun brothers, and sent these old troops who had not been systematically trained by the Han army to the battlefield.
In the early hours of this morning, Jia Xu suddenly received a message from the Uzberi Fortress and Guishan City, saying that a large number of people and horses of unknown origin were found in these two places. Just now, another flying pigeon reported that a group of cavalry tried to take advantage of the chaos to attack the fortress, but was repelled by the defenders who had already prepared, but according to Zhang Ren's estimate, it would not be long before more enemies would come to invade the fortress.
Although it is not clear where these enemies came from, Jia Xu knows that the Uzberi fortress is built on the mountain, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Zhang Ren is a famous general, so Jia Xu is not very worried about the safety there, and he is not at ease with Guishan City, the capital of Dawan County.
Dawan County is now under military management, and there are 20,000 soldiers of the Western Regions Army in the whole county, but these soldiers are scattered throughout Dawan, especially on both sides of the communication line from Uzberi to Kangju, and the guards of Guishan City are very empty, and there are no famous generals.
Jia Xu is the protector of the Western Regions, and he has a lot of troops in his hands, but the jurisdiction area is too large, and there are few people when they are distributed. These are from the old army under Yuan Shao and Cao Cao, Jia Xu really doesn't look down on it, but he has no troops available now, so he can only send them over first. More importantly, Jia Xu not only believed in the martial arts of the Xiahoudun brothers, but also believed that they were sincerely willing to serve the country, so he asked the two brothers to take 30,000 old troops to aid Guishan City.
At this time, not only outside the Uzberi fortress, but also outside Tulugert, more and more people and horses gathered, and the two exits of the Han from the Green Ridge to the west were all cut off. These horses suddenly showed the banner of the Wusun Kingdom.
In fact, the outside of the Tulugert fortress was originally the land of Wusun, and when a large number of troops appeared here, the defenders of the fortress already understood that Wusun and the Han were going to turn their faces. Although it was possible to reach the West through the Tulugert fortress via Wusun, because the "Shule Treaty" was signed very early, the interests of the Han merchants could be well guaranteed, so the vast majority of Han merchants chose to leave the Uzberi fortress. However, what Zhang Ren did not expect was that Wusun's army actually crossed the border into Dawan, and wanted to attack the fortress of Uzberi all the time.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Wusun once belonged to the Western Regions Protectorate, and later took advantage of the civil strife of the Han Dynasty to become independent. There are many good horses here, and a wealthy family can often own four or five thousand. Horses were both an important asset for them and an important commodity for their foreign trade. In the past, a large part of the horses of the Han Dynasty were traded from Dawan and Wusun.
Now, Liu Xin has complete control of the Mobei grassland, and there is a stable supply channel for war horses, and the Han has not purchased horses from Wusun for a long time. At the same time, the reopened Silk Road mainly passed through Dawan rather than Wusun. In this way, Wusun's life is not very easy. For economic reasons, the relationship between Wusun and the Han Dynasty gradually became estranged.
On the other hand, when Liu Xin sent Cai He as an envoy to the Western Regions and surrounding countries, he once expressed his desire to restore the Western Regions Protectorate to the situation it had been more than a hundred years ago. The implication is that Dawan and Wusun are to be placed back in the territory of the Han Dynasty.
In fact, whether it is Wusun or Dawan, if they return to the rule of the Han Dynasty, there will not be much difference for ordinary people, and they will even live better than before. Because the Han Dynasty was, after all, one of the most advanced civilizations in the world, and Liu Xin's policy towards the Western Regions was also more favorable.
But for the king and those nobles, the situation was completely different. These people all belong to the privileged class of a country, and Liu Xin's attitude towards the countries of the Western Regions is there, although the kings of those small countries have retained the title of king, but the specifications have been reduced to the rank of Hou, and many of their privileges have been revoked. They can only be regarded as rich men now, and they no longer have the power to kill and kill.
It was based on this fear that a few years ago, Dawan would unite with Shule to intercept the Han army, but instead he was defeated and forced to sign the "Shule Treaty". In the same way, Wusun has always been very wary of Dahan. When Caracalla's mission arrived in Usun, the two sides hit it off.
In Caracalla's original plan, when the Han expeditionary force arrived at the concession, Dawan and Wusun and Guishan sent troops at the same time, Dawan attacked the Uzberi fortress, Wusun attacked the Turugert fortress, and Guishan went to attack Kangju. It's just that Artike was in a hurry and launched a coup d'Γ©tat in advance, but Liu Xin took the opportunity to destroy it, and officially incorporated Dawan into the territory of Dahan and became a county of Dahan.
Without Dawan's helper, Caracalla's plan has many variables. However, the "Se" king of Guishan was a little quick and proposed an alternative, in which Wusun sent troops to attack the two fortresses on the Green Ridge at the same time, while he sent troops to attack Guishan first and then Kangju. Prior to this, he also sent a number of small groups of cavalry to infiltrate the territory of Dawan, plundering and harassing everywhere, and demagoguery.
However, in this large-scale battle, the forces of Wusun were the first to arrive, and they attacked the fortress of Uzberi and Turugert at the same time before noon, and the focus of the attack was not on the fortress of Turugert, which was closer to the territory of Usun, but on the fortress of Uzbeli. Because the people of Wusun know that after the fortress of Uzbeli, not far to the east is the prosperous Seoul. There were all kinds of goods there, and as long as they occupied Seoul first, they could take what they wanted.
There are more than 200,000 young people in Wusun, and this time 150,000 people were dispatched, almost all the strength of the whole country. According to the information that had been heard in advance, the defenders of these two fortresses were no more than 30,000 men. Of course, they didn't know that Liu Xin had already sent another 30,000 people to strengthen the guards of these two fortresses.
After the order to attack was given, groups of Usun cavalry jumped off their horses and rushed towards the fortress of Uzberi.
Suddenly, the door of the fortress, which had just been closed, suddenly opened, and a large group of Han cavalry slaughtered into the formation of the Wusun army, waving scimitars and reaping lives wantonly. It was only a back and forth, and Wusun's besieging forces were defeated. The Han cavalry did not pursue any further, and Le Ma withdrew to the fortress.
The general of Wusun couldn't help but jump like thunder, gathered up the defeated army, and launched an assault on the fortress again. Because before leaving, their king Xing Mi Yuan promised whoever attacked Seoul first, the money and beauty would be at their mercy. For such a generous reward, it is worth fighting for your life.
This time he learned to be obedient and set up an ambush behind the besieging troops, but the Han army did not rush out again, but only stood on the head of the fortress and wounded the enemy with bows and arrows.