"Liu Bang should be scolding his mother now, right?"

"Who's to say it isn't. More than 200,000 people surrounded us, and we lost contact with the legations. ”

"More than 200,000 natives of the Western Regions, tsk!"

"This place in the Western Regions is really magical, it can breed strong warriors, but once several brave warriors stay together, their martial prowess becomes a drag."

"I understand what you mean."

Xu Zhi and Wei Han had been chatting for a while, and they were ordered to move in the direction of Beishan with their troops, intending to find an opportunity to cut off the retreat of Maudun's troops and their allies.

About two days ago, the scouts of the legion found that several alien cavalry had retreated from the Beishan area to the western plains, and those alien cavalry had no banner, and they could not judge the belonging from the clothing from a distance, and after a day's delay, they were determined to be the headquarters of Maudun.

Knowing that Maudun led his troops to abandon the siege of the envoys, the generals of the Wehrmacht were actually in a mood of emotion, they thought that Maudun was worthy of being able to escape the deliberate suppression of the empire many times, and his vigilance and trade-offs were too decisive, and he would not hesitate at all once he realized that something could not be done.

The envoys deliberately crashed into the ambush circle, and the Wehrmacht generals did not expect to be able to hide from Maudun, they expected Maudun to be attracted by the supplies carried by the mission.

The envoys carried a lot of supplies, after all, the entire envoy group numbered sixty or seventy thousand people, including the imperial merchant travelers and the merchant travelers from Central Asia. Among the 60,000 or 70,000 people, only 13,000 people can really be regarded as envoys, of which 12,000 are escorts, and the other 1,000 or so are horsemen, attendants, and other auxiliary personnel. Among the remaining 50,000 people, there were probably nearly 1,000 merchants from the empire, who hired more than 30,000 warriors, and the remaining nearly 20,000 were merchants and entourages from Parthia, Bactria, and other Central Asian countries.

From the composition of the envoys, one conclusion can be drawn that the merchant relationship is definitely carrying a large amount of supplies, which are basically in short supply on the Empire's side, and perhaps a large number of ordnance and food. After all, this team has to travel tens of thousands of miles, how can it go long without carrying enough ordnance and food?

Whether it is commodities or ordnance or food, it has an amazing attraction for Maudun, more than half of them are from the source of the Yellow River, Maudun has looted a lot of forces in the Western Regions, but for a huge team that is not engaged in production, any resources, especially one vote at a time, it is of course a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Knowing that it might be a trap, Maudun led his army to attack the envoys, and immediately launched a fierce attack on the first day. It is a pity that in the face of long-range killing cold weapons, bows and crossbows, and projectiles of firearms troops, thousands of casualties were killed and wounded in a day's onslaught, and even hand-to-hand combat could not occur; The next day, Maudon threw in his elite thousand-man team, but the destruction of one thousand-man team was only in exchange for killing thirteen people, leaving them lightly and seriously wounded less than four hundred; On the third day, Mao Dun obviously knew that something could not be done, and the scout cavalry sent out also explored the news that a large number of imperial cavalry were approaching on the periphery, so he naturally did not dare to delay time, and on the one hand, he spent money to hire the natives of the Western Regions, and on the other hand, he led the army to retreat without hesitation.

There are quite a few indigenous groups in the Western Regions who accept the employment of Maudun. They have horse thieves, sand thieves, as well as state-like troops, and even small people who go with rudimentary weapons, proving that once it is profitable, the natives of the Western Regions will definitely not be left behind.

Huge numbers of natives from the Western Regions continued to run towards the areas where the imperial envoys were trapped. In a way, their actions hindered the movement of the Western Expeditionary Corps.

Xu Zhi and Wei Han led the army to hurry, and often encountered large and small groups of natives from the Western Regions on the way, and it was impossible for them to ignore the natives of the Western Regions who had entered the warning range, and in order to ensure the concealment of the march, they could only continue to surround and kill them all. The problem is that it is impossible to kill at all, and in the end it is thought that the route of the march has been exposed, and no more time is wasted to set up an ambush circle. It can only be an expulsion.

"How many people did we kill along the way?"

"At least more than twenty thousand."

"The population of the Western Regions is not small."

"Yes, there are more than 200,000 natives in the Western Regions besieging Liu Bang, and we killed 20,000 and drove 50,000 or 60,000 along the way. There must still be a team of natives from the Western Regions that we can't see, how much money did Mao Dun spill? ”

How much money did Mao Dun spill to attract such a big movement from the natives of the Western Regions? This is really a bit hard to say. He plundered quite a few forces, and the treasures and coins were literally piled up. Because he frequently attacks the surrounding forces, and he can't buy supplies even if he has money, money can help him very little at the moment.

It's just that it's limited on the premise that he can't buy materials, and he thinks that since he can't buy materials, it's better to sprinkle it on those gray forces, and he simply throws money at horse thieves and sand thieves regardless of the cost, and the facts have proved that he has been rewarded for doing so, and the more courage he throws at money, the more people from the Western Regions respond.

The Imperial army slaughtered all the way, and as more natives of the Western Regions were killed, another level of Maudun's goal was achieved.

"On the one hand, the people of the empire entered the Western Regions in the name of pursuing us, and there was also an invitation from Wusun, a local power in the Western Regions." There was a hint of ridicule on Mao Dun's weather-covered face: "The more Western Regions people they kill, the more the Western Regions people will hate the Imperial people." ”

The empire has been showing its strength, such as Li Xin killing the Loulan King and supporting the other, and strongly forcing Qiuzi and other countries in the Central Western Regions to withdraw their troops.

To his men, Maudon said, "Hatred is a rather wonderful emotion, and the Empire hates us for our invasions, so it has always wanted to kill us. Now that the empire has entered the Western Regions, no matter what name it used in the past, the Western Regions are in fact being invaded by the Empire, if the empire behaves mildly, with the strength shown by the empire, the weak people of the Western Regions may compromise, but the empire shows brutality, then the empire will reap the fruits of revenge. ”

The fruit of revenge? Didn't the Empire know that rough treatment of the people of the Western Regions would lead to hatred? I know, why don't I know, but from the emperor to the children of the people, no one seems to care about the hatred from the people of the Western Regions at all.

The Empire's lack of respect for aliens stems from its confidence in force, as well as a lack of humanity for outsiders. Why? Isn't it because of Lu Zhe's education that he gave the people of the country the idea that any alien race is an object that the empire can enslave. The empire does not need the affection of the aliens, as long as it makes them fearful and willing to accept slavery.

"The whole world is the enemy or something, do we care?" Xu Zhi turned into a "haha" laugh as he spoke, and he pointed to the corpse of a person from the Western Regions lying on the side of the road: "Your Majesty said that men are alive to conquer, and they will continue to conquer, so that the enemy's men will become our slaves, and the enemy's women will become our fertility tools, as long as we do not give up the heart of conquest, the empire will be forever strong!" ”

Lu Zhe's original words were not like that. The gist is: a country cannot lack enemies, and if there are no enemies, it creates enemies; A country cannot do without the desire to conquer ~ hope, the rise of any country is accompanied by a strong desire to conquer ~ hope, and the country that loses the desire to conquer ~ hope will enter decay, because the consequence of no longer opening up to the outside will only be to enter endless internal strife ~ strife.

Ah, the truth! Throughout the long history of China, starting from the three emperors and five emperors in ancient times, once the Chinese ethnic group steps outward, each generation will become extremely strong, but every time as long as the pace of outward expansion is stopped, it will fall into internal friction. He became weaker in internal strife, and then he was knocked on the door of the country by the alien race, and finally lived under the enslavement of the alien race.

The cavalry of a legion pounced on the northern hills, and there were many major battles and small battles on the way. However, the original military schematic plan was not achieved because Mao Dun saw the opportunity quickly, and later realized that he could not catch up with Mao Dun no matter what, so he could only give up chasing Mao Dun and turn to the siege and rescue of the envoys.

It was almost the new order issued by He Yi that reached the hands of Xu Zhi and Wei Han, but there was news from Beishan that Han Xin led his army to break through the 200,000 Western Regions indigenous camp.

That's right. Han Xin sensed that Mao Dun was not there, and after several temptations, he also clearly knew that the more than 200,000 natives of the Western Regions besieging him were like chickens and dogs, and he concentrated the warriors in the envoy group who could ride horses into battle. With the cavalry that the escort team already had, 18,000 cavalry were formed, and they were divided into three groups, using the assault troops of the envoy regiment to take the lead in breaking through the camp of the natives of the Western Regions, and the other two cavalry followed behind, staging a grand horse joint camp show.

It may be lighter to say that more than 200,000 natives of the Western Regions are native chickens and dogs, they come from different places, there is no unified belonging, and at the same time, the communication is not enough to describe it, the result is that the camp fell into chaos when it was broken through, those horse thieves saw the opportunity to run first, and the guys with horses were the second echelon of the fleeing team, but no one thought of concentrating manpower to use the numerical advantage to trap and kill the imperial cavalry that rushed into the camp.

Many times the more people there are, the more chaotic they are, what they are talking about is that there are more than 200,000 natives of the Western Regions who are not even counted as chickens and dogs, Han Xin let the cavalry in the camp rush around in time after the chaos of the camp of the people of the Western Regions, which exacerbated the chaos of the natives of the Western Regions, and let the infantry be mobilized to oppress, so that the cavalry composed of samurai took the back road, and in less than half a day, he surrounded the majority with a small number of people.

That's right, Han Xin used 30,000 armed forces to surround the Western Regions natives who were at least five times more than himself, until he let the Western Regions natives surrender, the Western Regions natives were killed and trampled to death by the imperial cavalry in the chaos, and then trampled and killed themselves, and also escaped, and finally more than 200,000 Western Regions natives were left with less than 150,000 people who could still breathe after surrendering.

After Han Xin, who forced the natives of the Western Regions to surrender, tied up almost 150,000 natives of the Western Regions in tandem with ropes, Yu Fanjun issued an order to kill one out of ten, and a massacre in the field was staged, and it was the natives of the Western Regions who raised a butcher's knife to kill.

Can you imagine the expression of the person who was drawn? They looked desperate, but strangely did not resist. And the executioners who were reassigned their weapons, they picked up the bronze weapons that had been captured, and they were relieved and happy to cut the throats of their former comrades.

This kind of behavior also existed in the land of China in the ancient pre-Qin era, specially used to warn the prisoners, and was also used to carry out the soldiers who fled on their own side, and even the attacking troops did not complete the goal will also perform the ten draws and one kill, but later I don't know when there is no longer such a practice.

In Central Asia and the West, the 10-draw was continued until around 1900 AD, and the most strict and comfortable execution of the 10-draw was Rome, which had occupied the position of a world power for more than 1,000 years. Before the abolition of the powerful Rome, the army has maintained a strong will to fight, and the strange thing is that after the abolition of the cruel decimate and the abolishment...... The once-mighty Roman legions became extremely vulnerable to collapse at the touch of a button or to surrender as a group.

Because one out of ten kills is currently a universal value, the natives of the Western Regions are facing the massacre that is happening in front of them, only those who are selected will die in despair, and the rest of the natives of the Western Regions who are not selected are all relieved without exception. The reason why they would breathe a sigh of relief is very simple, there is one out of ten kills means that the collective slaughter will not happen, and one in ten people will die, but since the empire has carried out ten draws and one kill, then the rest of the people will be able to live.

"Why don't we kill them all?" Yu Fanjun pointed to the natives of the Western Regions who were being untied again, and said, "You actually ordered the untying of the ropes, aren't you afraid that they will rise up?" ”

Han Xin rarely looked at Yu Fanjun with contempt and said, "Labor, whether it is the mainland or the occupied area, we have always been in a state of lack of labor. As for untying their ropes, look at how wary they are of their fellows, for if someone wants to rise up, and we don't need our people to stop it, the natives of the Western Regions will subdue him and hand him over to us. ”

Yu Fanjun thought for a moment, and a dumb smile appeared on his face: "That's right, they just escaped a collective massacre, they won't think much about it when they are bound, but after letting go, they will be nervous, and they will not allow anyone to do anything that may kill them, which means that all prisoners of war will supervise each other." ”

Han Xin nodded happily: "What we need to do now is to restrain these prisoners of war and move to the nearby oasis, and at the same time send someone to inform the situation on the side of the Western Expeditionary Corps." ”

"You should be happy!" Yu Fanjun's face was full of smiles: "You just attacked more than 200,000 enemies with 30,000 people, and you won the victory. This will be recorded by the accompanying historians, and it will surely go down in history. ”

Han Xin nodded unceremoniously, but said in his mouth: "Happy is happy, but everyone knows that the gold content of this victory is insufficient." ”

Yu Fanjun thought in his heart: "That is, you sluggish guy, it is obvious that this victory is the estimation of the Western Expeditionary Corps to create the environment and conditions. It seems that there is a change in some place in the country, and the military wants a hero to appear on the Western Regions at this time, so there is no one more suitable to be a hero than you. (To be continued.) )