It is outside the city, on the banks of the Tarim River.

Han Sui's army camp.

"Yan Xing, you said that with our troops, can we take down it within ten days?" The big tent of the Chinese army, under the command of Han Sui, all the generals gathered, Han Sui stood in front of the marching map, looked at the layout on the marching map, and asked.

"King, it's not very difficult to say that it is not very difficult to conquer this city, after all, they only have 5,000 soldiers and horses, and their weapons and equipment are not as good as ours, but we are all in the Western Regions now, and the people of the Central Plains are fighting each other, which is really unwise!"

Yan Xing thought about it, stood up, bowed his hand to Han Sui, and said in a deep voice: "Among the countries of the Western Regions today, Wusun Kingdom, Dawan Kingdom, Shanshan Kingdom, these big countries are eyeing us, if we can recruit the soldiers and horses of the Central Plains of the Western Regions Protectorate, it is the best policy!" ”

Their army entered the Western Regions, and those who came all the way out of the Yumen Pass and followed the Qiuzi to kill in, which had already alarmed the countries of the Western Regions.

Among the dozens of small countries in the Western Regions, most of them have little combat effectiveness, and they only defend one or two cities, one or two thousand soldiers and horses, and at most three or four thousand.

But in the Wusun Kingdom in the north of the Western Regions, it is indeed a big country, with a population of hundreds of thousands, and it should not be a problem for them to pull out tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and the Dawan Kingdom in the south and the Qiuzi Country where they are now located, as well as the Shanshan Kingdom in the southeast, all have a certain amount of combat effectiveness.

In the Western Regions, this is no longer the era of Ban Chao.

In the Banchao era, as long as the Han army erected the flag, the countries of the Western Regions immediately forced back for hundreds of miles and did not dare to fight.

In today's Western Regions, these monarchs' reverence for the Central Plains has already fallen below the freezing point, especially since more than ten years ago, the Central Plains court has never sent soldiers and horses into the Western Regions Protectorate, and they think that the Central Plains is not enough to trouble.

Once the fight starts, their strength is not weak, and it is still a question whether their rootless duckweed-like tens of thousands of soldiers and horses can be defeated.

"Lone also wants to recruit them. But their attitude now, you can also see, it's difficult! ”

Han Sui's face was a little old, and the wind and sand along the way made him a lot haggard, and he was not young anymore. If you don't have the courage of the past, you will naturally be a little unable to survive.

"Great King, although Banlu and Gailing have no intention of surrendering to us, and they also close the city gates, intending to resist, but I think they can still discuss, after all, they are not having a good time in the Western Regions now!"

Yan Xing said: "The most important thing is that we are the same Central Plains people after all. In this territory where the countries of the Western Regions are numerous, if they are not united, they will only be swallowed up by other countries, so I think that as long as they are well discussed, there is still a chance to recruit them! ”

The Western Regions Protector Army is now in a large encirclement of the Western Regions countries, and without the support of the Central Plains, it has long been much worse than before. Now it's just a matter of surviving.

They are reluctant to surrender, but they only think that they are the orthodox protectors of the Western Regions. I don't want to accept the leadership of Han Sui, a nameless and pointless person.

Sometimes it's just that important.

"Lone understands this!"

Han Sui gritted his teeth, a little helpless, and said: "But we don't have time to run out, our army is stationed here, and the grain and grass of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses are difficult to support for several days, so we must take it as soon as possible." Otherwise, we will starve to death without the need for others to send troops! ”

"Mr. Meng, what do you think of our current situation?"

Yan Xing groaned for a while, and his gaze fell on a man in a Confucian robe who had been quiet all along.

This man in Confucian robes took over Li Ne's position to assist the Eastern Wu military division of Han Sui's army in the south. It belongs to the Jinyi Wei of the Great Wu Dynasty, with the surname Meng, the name Jian, and the word Gongwei.

Meng Gongwei was originally a shadow son buried by Jinyiwei next to Liang King Ma Chao, but his identity had already been exposed, and after the battle of Liangzhou and Ma Chao's surrender, he naturally became precarious.

Fortunately, Ma Chao was thinking of a friendship between the two of them after all, and at the last moment, he let him go, and did not catch him to sacrifice to Cao Wei, so that he retreated and left Liangguo.

After leaving Liangguo, he did not return to Jinling City, but stayed in Liangzhou, relying on his familiarity with Liangzhou to establish the intelligence network of Liangzhou Jinyiwei.

After Li Ne persuaded Han Sui's remnants to go west out of Yumen Pass, as the boss of Jinyiwei, he naturally couldn't just focus on Han Sui, so he let Meng Gongwei replace him and became a line of connection between Han Sui and the Great Wu Dynasty.

"Han Gong, this battle can't be fought!"

Meng Gongwei raised his head, his eyes flashed, Dongwu did not recognize the existence of the Jin Kingdom, so he called Shen Sheng Han Gong, and he said in a deep voice: "The Western Regions Protectorate is the orthodox government of the Central Plains ruling the Western Regions, and it has a deep deterrent power in the Western Regions. If they send troops to intercept them, will you be able to withstand them? ”

"It's not fighting, it's not fighting, so what should we do now?"

Han Sui and Yan Xing's faces were ugly.

"Let's talk!"

Meng Gongwei's eyes became sharper: "Han Gong, I believe that we can still talk with it Qiancheng, I am willing to represent you and enter the Western Regions Protectorate to talk, I am confident to convince them!" ”

"Then please Mr. Meng!"

Hearing this, Han Sui's eyes flickered slightly, and he bowed down.

"Han Gong is welcome, this is what Meng should do!"

Meng Gongwei smiled, stood up, and walked outside the camp.

Yan Xing's eyes looked at the back of Meng Gongwei leaving the camp, and suddenly asked in a low voice: "Great King, in fact, we can break away from the influence of Eastern Wu and become the king of the Western Regions!" ”

"King of the Western Regions?"

When Han Sui heard this, his eyes became deeper, and the corners of his mouth outlined a sneer, and he just asked: "Yan Xing, let me ask you a question, are you willing to stay in the Western Regions for the rest of your life?" ”

"A little unwilling!"

When Yan Xing heard this, he thought about it and replied calmly.

"Are you willing?" Han Sui's gaze swept over the generals and asked repeatedly.

"Unwilling!"

The generals glanced at each other and replied in unison.

They were driven out of the Central Plains like a lost dog, if they did not have the heart to return to the Central Plains. That's impossible.

"Lonely is not reconciled!"

Han Sui said: "We are like a lost dog, driven out of the Central Plains, if I am only the king and hegemon in the Western Regions in my life, I am really unwilling." ”

"But the king, if we devote ourselves to Soochow, it will be tantamount to subservience!" Yan Xing said.

"Huh!"

Han Sui smiled a little self-deprecatingly: "You think we won't vote for Soochow." Will you be able to gain a foothold here in the Western Regions? You underestimate Dongwu a little, Dongwu's ambitions are bigger than ours, they know more about the Western Regions than we do, we don't even know what the existence of the Kushan Empire is, but they have already laid a piece of the sky there, it is rumored that they have 100,000 lions in the Kushan Empire, and sooner or later they will go north, according to the map they gave, as long as they defeat the Dayue Clan. will be able to enter the Western Regions, will we be able to fight them then? ”

It's not that he hasn't thought about being self-reliant, but the power of Eastern Wu in the Western Regions makes him feel a little mysterious, and he doesn't dare.

The general's mood also cooled down a little.

"No matter what happens in the future, what we have to do now is to take the Western Regions Capital Protectorate first!"

Han Sui's expression became cold: "Once Meng Gongwei fails to negotiate, then we will forcibly start fighting, and we will not continue to have food and grass." You must take the Western Regions Protectorate in order to survive. Yan Xing, you prepare for war! ”

"No, the last general will prepare now!"

Yan Xing nodded and took the order.

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It is a Qiancheng, located in the territory of the Western Regions Qiuzi Kingdom, when the squad exceeded the soldiers to pacify the Western Regions, then moved the Western Regions Protectorate to this city. Since then, this has become the center of me, the Western Regions.

This city is independent, does not belong to the Qiuzi Kingdom, and is managed by the Western Regions Protectorate, which can be regarded as a self-proclaimed country. And the population of this city is relatively large and lively in the entire Western Regions.

In the lobby of the Metropolitan Protectorate, Ban Lu and Gai Ling, the two leaders of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protector Army, knelt on a bamboo mat across a desk.

"Old Gai, have you heard of Han Sui?"

Ban Lu is only in his early thirties, with a strong body and a temperament that is biased towards the fierceness of a military general, and his bronze bell-like eyes are staring at this Gailing.

He has been living in the Western Regions, and he doesn't know about the people in the Central Plains over the years, but Gailing is from the original from the Central Plains, and he should know some about the people in the Central Plains.

"Well, I know."

Gai Ling is in his early forties, with the temperament of a scholar, wearing a robe, he took a sip of wine, and then said: "This person is from Liangzhou, and he has some fame in Liangzhou, and my father once praised this person back then!" ”

Gai Ling's father is the famous Gai Xun, the Gai family is the first family in Dunhuang, the family strength connects Liangzhou and Xiliang, before the Han family was not chaotic, he relied on the family recommendation, has a long history of protecting the capital of the Western Regions.

"Is he here on behalf of the Han Dynasty?" Ban Lu's eyes were sharp, and he asked again.

"Impossible!"

Gai Ling shook his head and said: "The Han family has long been destroyed, and now the Central Plains is not in civil strife, last year there was a Central Plains person from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, we learned that the current situation in the Central Plains is that the two major hegemons of the north and the south are competing for the country, Eastern Wu and Cao Wei, there is no Han Dynasty at all!" ”

"Then what's going on with Han Sui?"

"Han Sui used to be a prince of Liangzhou before, I guess he should have lost the battle for hegemony in the Central Plains, and was forced by the overlord of the Central Plains to have no way out, so he fled to the Western Regions!" Gailing said.

"It turned out to be a lost dog?"

Ban Lu sneered: "It's ridiculous that they still want to recruit us and others!" ”

"Banduhu, you can't underestimate them!"

Gai Ling said: "After all, they have tens of thousands of troops, if we can unite with them, it will be able to prevent our Western Regions Protectorate from being oppressed by the countries of the Western Regions!" ”

Since losing the protection of the Central Plains, the Western Regions Protectorate has been pressed by the countries of the Western Regions, and it has already lost the right to protect the Metropolitan Domain.

"Lord Duhu, there is a messenger outside the city who claims to be the representative of Han Suijun, and he wants to enter the city to meet your lordship!"

A soldier came to report.

"Emissary?"

Ban Lu asked, "How many of them are with them?" ”

"The messenger alone came alone!" The soldier replied.

"Coming alone? Have the courage to let people open the gates of the city and invite him in! Ban Lu thought about it and said instructively: "Be polite, don't let people think that we have been out of the Central Plains for a long time, and we don't even understand the benefits!" ”

"Lord Tsugo, I'd better go myself!"

Gailing stood up, straightened his robe, and said with a smile. (To be continued.) )