"Why do I think this is full of malicious conspiracy?" Liu Bang stared at Han Xin and said, "Listen, there are Hu Ge everywhere in the mountains, and they use strange tones and read procrastination language. ”

The range of the Beishan Mountain Range in the Western Regions is not too large, and the so-called mountain range is not the kind of green scenery of the Central Plains, most of them are steep mountain walls, there are very few trees, and more of them are grassy surfaces.

The procession of the envoys was on the periphery of a closed valley, and the merchants' party was placed in the valley, and at the mouth of the valley was the position set up by the escort of the envoys and a group of mercenaries.

They have been surrounded here for four days, at first Mao Dun appeared, his appearance was caused by a few explosions, a few solid bullets **** in the past unfortunately did not hit, and Mao Dun never showed up again.

The Imperial camp on the outskirts of the valley was tightly barricaded, and five miles away was a chaotic Huren camp, and in the middle of the two camps lay uncountable corpses, the remains of those killed in the four days of confrontation.

If you pay attention to observation, there are no arrows on the corpses of the Hu people who died in battle, and there are no melee scars, they are hollow holes penetrated by a projectile, and most of the Hu people's corpses still retain the posture of struggling and crawling beforehand.

"Bastard, I said that I would come to solve the siege within three days, and now it's the fourth day." Liu Bang was scolding He Yi, he felt that he had been deceived, and said: "We are helping, not obliging, how can he do this?" ”

Han Xin has been listening to Liu Bang's complaints since the morning, and he would persuade Liu Bang at the beginning, but he ignored Liu Bang later.

He Yi asked the envoys to cooperate in some aspects, such as leaving the Wusun royal court, where chaos was about to break out, and choosing the area close to the Beishan Mountains when he chose to continue westward, but he only asked for cooperation. There was no time limit for the mission, let alone a route for the mission.

In fact, when to go where and what route to take, all the way is planned by Liu Bang himself, and his constant complaints are just out of some shirking the psychology of responsibility, and he does not admit that because of his own carelessness or something, the team is blocked in the valley while walking.

When he got to the back, Liu Bang repeatedly nagged in Han Xin's ear, meaning to vaguely complain about Han Xin, the commander of the escort team, why he didn't remind him.

Han Xin actually didn't understand Liu Bang's hidden meaning of complaining, he was silent thinking: "The Hu people attacked fiercely two days ago. It's a bit like a quick victory, and on the third day, although the attack is fierce, as soon as there are casualties, they will immediately retreat......"

The envoys were deliberately blocked in the valley, and the intention was nothing more than to attract Mao Dun's troops to come over and encircle them, delay time so that He Yi had enough time to mobilize the army, and then do their best to surround the Hu people for annihilation.

Because Mao Dun could not be sensed the danger in advance, He Yi had already transferred the imperial army in the south of Wusun before the envoy headed west, 10,000 were transferred to the central part of the Western Regions, and the other 20,000 were ordered to go north to prepare for the spring offensive of Ding Ling and Hujie. The remaining 50,000 people were staying around the Wusun Royal Court, which meant that there were no imperial troops except for the armed personnel of the envoy group on this side of the Beishan Mountain Range.

Liu Bang's weakness was also due to the fact that there were no imperial field troops around, and the envoy corps only had 12,000 regular troops, of which 5,000 were still firearms troops that he felt were very unreliable. Then there are only about 7,000 foot riders left.

How many Hu people were there besieging the envoys? The mountains are full of Hu people, and it is difficult to count the exact number, but it is generally estimated that there will be no less than 150,000 people, and there are more Hu people arriving one after another.

"We seem to have stabbed a hornet's nest, huh?" Liu Bang was full of depression: "Except for the person who came to that kid." I saw a lot of natives from the Western Regions, and even found some Yueshi people. ”

By the fourth day, the number of enemy troops besieging the legation had exceeded 200,000. As Liu Bang said, the local natives and Yueshi people in the Western Regions also joined the siege, and it seemed that in an instant, the envoys became the goods that everyone shouted and beaten.

"We have a lot of merchants in our ranks, merchants from the Empire, and foreign merchants from Central Asia who are full of goods to return." Chen Yu glanced at Liu Bang with disdain and said, "I heard that there are many countries in the Western Regions, and there are even more sand thieves and horse thieves who do not belong to the country, for them we are fat sheep, aren't we?" ”

It's a matter of fact, the number of bandits in the Western Regions is really very large, and the number of troops gathered by large groups of sand thieves or horse thieves will even exceed the number of troops of some city-states. Therefore, if you hear that such and such a city has been breached by bandits, it is definitely not a joke in the gossip, but a real fact.

"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, in such a terrain, a large number of people may not necessarily be overwhelming, and a small number of people will not suffer." Han Xin said this with absolute confidence, he said: "In the four days of battle, we have destroyed at least 6,000 enemies at the cost of sacrificing thirteen men and seriously wounding four hundred. ”

In the past four days, Han Xin took advantage of the favorable terrain to arrange firearms troops, the narrow terrain limited the range of movement of the cavalry, the enemy wanted to kill in a straight line, the firearms troops preferred the enemy to walk in a straight line, whether it was artillery or flintlock guns in turn to shoot can always easily harvest lives.

Whether it is the grassland or the natives of the Western Regions, they have never encountered firearms troops, and they have been shot over a large group of people without getting close to hand-to-hand combat several times in a row, and they do not know how to proceed in this mode of battle.

The only battle in which the legations suffered casualties was when Maudon himself took command.

Maudun estimated that he wanted to save his own low morale and sent his own personal guards.

A cavalry brigade composed of a thousand Huns, they roared at the finger of the horsewhip, and after the roar, they launched a charge, and there were already shells whistling down within 800 meters, but to be honest, being hit by shells can only be said to be unlucky, not how accurate the artillery is.

When a thousand Hun cavalry galloped into a distance of 300 meters, the crossbowmen on foot of the envoy regiment began to fire crossbows, and the dense crossbow arrows shot over about 300 Huns who rode about 300 horses, which was equivalent to a casualty rate of more than 30%.

The Hun cavalry, which waited less than 700 meters, approached 200 meters, and they were greeted by a wave of flintlock muskets, crossbow arrows, and bows and arrows. It was not until they reached about 100 meters that the Hun cavalry had sporadic bows and arrows to counterattack, and it was at this time that the envoy corps escort also suffered casualties.

In fact, under the dense firepower and crossbow arrows flying sideways, a thousand Hun cavalry had less than 100 horsemen left when they approached within 50 meters, and in the follow-up they stepped into 50 meters, and the firepower and crossbow resistance encountered by not advancing a meter was more intensive, and finally only six Hun cavalry galloped into the infantry array of the escort team, and the thirteen guards who died in battle were trampled on at the first time, and the rest of the wounded people were produced in the chaos.

In other words, in the past, thirteen people were killed in battle, and hundreds were wounded. The result was the total annihilation of a thousand-strong Hun cavalry, and this kind of thing should definitely be written about. However, as the empire continued to defeat the Xiongnu or the steppe cavalry, and even forced the surrender of more than 200,000 Hu people including Xiongnu Shan Yu with a small number of troops, it seems that it has become a matter of course to completely annihilate a Hu cavalry with a small number of casualties.

Mao Dun saw with his own eyes that his thousand-man squad was wiped out in a short period of ten minutes, and the tragic scene made him stunned for a long time, and it was at this time that he was discovered by the artillery of the escort team, and the artillery fired three shots at him.

It is a pity that the artillerymen did not know that the person they were shooting at was Maudun, otherwise they would never have fired three shots as if they were just joking. It's going to be a head-to-head and face-to-face to smash the cannonballs down.

The Huns' thousand-man cavalry team was destroyed, and Mao Dun's desire to improve the morale of his own army was not realized, but further frightened his own side, after all, the most elite Hun thousand-man cavalry team said that it was gone. What should some Hu people who think they are no more brave than the Huns?

Since that time, the Hu attack on the envoys has become procrastinating, often making a long circle, attracting artillery to fire a few shells. A short distance away from the range of the crossbow immediately retreated, and the siege battle became a real siege battle, that is, only encirclement without fighting.

Liu Bang will complain not because of the fierce war. There was no water source in the valley, and the water they had prepared in advance was only enough to drink for about ten days. will only prepare water for ten days, mainly to let the Hu people be fooled, so there is no excessive preparation.

Perhaps the Hu people knew that the envoys did not have enough water, or perhaps the repulsion of several attacks had made the Hu people lose the confidence to attack, and the Hu people had obviously made up their minds to besiege and not attack.

Because the casualties are not large and the grudge is not deep, so that the Hu people will not have any psychological unwillingness to leave if they want to, and in the end, even if He Yi can really achieve major results in this military operation, it seems that the role of the envoys has not been highlighted.

"There are more and more Hu people, but I find that Maudun's troops are showing up less and less." Liu Bang frowned and said, "Have we completed the task of attracting Mao Dun?" ”

Han Xin didn't answer, he was still thinking about his own affairs.

"We just need to attract enough Hu people, as for who those Hu people are......" Chen Yu chuckled a few times and said, "Is it something we can control?" ”

Chen Yu was happy in his heart, he knew that Liu Bang could do the whole thing, but it was a bit too much, He Yi let the envoys leave the Wusun territory, and it was the National Defense Army that couldn't stand some of Liu Bang's behaviors.

Liu Bang is very capable of doing things, he didn't do much else during the Wusun royal court, he just called friends to drink and eat every day, and made friends with a large group of Wusun nobles, which made the royal family think that the empire was going to subvert their rule over Wusun, and it seems that Liu Bang really planned to do that, or he stopped only after getting a warning from the locals.

"Snow and stars are already on their way to the Empire, right?" Chen Yu stopped Liu Bang, who didn't know what to say, with a smile on his face: "Bo Ximi will thank you very much, won't you?" ”

Liu Bangpi doesn't laugh at all. He knew what Chen Yu was teasing, wasn't he just pimping the emperor, what was there to laugh at? He not only wanted to pimp the emperor, but also wanted to be a brother-in-law with the emperor, so he had been currying favor with Lu Xiao before, and he was originally a bit of a success, but unfortunately he was appointed as an envoy later.

After the envoy, Liu Bang did not give up and continued to pursue Lu Xiao, he strictly ordered his retainers to go to Lu Xiao's side every other day to send some gifts, and he often wrote down what he saw on the way to Lu Xiao and sent it back to Lu Xiao, so the two sides have always exchanged letters.

"Not only will the royal family of Uzon thank me, but the royal families of Parthia and Bactria will also thank me." Liu Bang's face was triumphant, he raised his chin and pressed Chen Yu, and said, "Merchants from the two countries, they are constantly discussing with me the possibility of the two countries marrying the princess to His Majesty. ”

This time, Chen Yu was stunned, and Han Xin, who was thinking about things, also looked at Liu Bang.

Are businessmen qualified to talk about marriages between nations? There must have been some instruction.

Han Xin was wondering how the Parthian and Bactrian merchants inside the mission had received new instructions because he had not found any strangers entering the mission recently.

Chen Yu was stunned for a moment and then asked Liu Bang: "You're not joking, are you?" ”

"Can this kind of thing be a joke?" Liu Bang looked very unhappy, he said: "I have specifically learned about the situation of the two countries, they are under a new round of attacks from the Seleucid Empire, and you can imagine that they are very eager to be friends with the Empire, so what can become friends faster than marriage?" ”

"It doesn't matter if you marry or not, it's just ......" Chen Yu hesitated and dragged a long voice: "Does Your Majesty know about this matter?" ”

"Without His Majesty's nod, how dare I make my own decisions!" Liu Bang had a reason to be proud, he was one of the few people in the empire who could communicate directly with the emperor. He said: "The empire needs to open trade routes between the east and the west, and it is necessary to form friendly relations with Parthia and Bactria. ”

Chen Yumiao understands that the emperor doesn't care about one or two women at all, especially if women can be useful to the empire's diplomacy, if they don't take it seriously, then it depends on whether the country behind these so-called princesses is of any use.

"Both." Han Xin stopped the two of them from saying anything they didn't understand, and said, "I thought about it carefully, it's very likely that the Maodun Department is no longer here, so the point of us continuing to stay where we are is starting to become small?" ”

"We've done what we can, haven't we?" Chen Yu was reluctant to let Han Xin continue, he muttered in his heart: "This is a tiger guts, and if you go any further, you should take thousands of horsemen to play field battles with hundreds of thousands of people." (To be continued.) )