"It's a fight."

"What's that?"

"Wusun people, Hujie people, Ding Ling people, and there seem to be some messy guys who can't be named, and they have a fight."

"Oh."

Feng Zheng said that he was very indifferent to this, he had already done his homework before coming to the Western Regions, and he clearly knew what the situation was in the Western Regions.

This is not the first time that the Wusun people have competed with the Hujie people, the two tribes have never stopped fighting in the long history, and the scale is large and small, but the Wusun people still occupy a huge advantage in comparison.

The Ding Ling people and the Wusun people have not been very peaceful, but in the past, the Ding Ling people rarely interfered with the affairs of the south, unlike the Hujie people who desperately wanted to get the land in the south.

This time, Ding Ling and Hujie joined forces to have a relationship with the empire, which was because the Xiongnu continued to suffer losses in the hands of the empire, and the empire occupied most of the land in the central grasslands, which caused a lot of psychological pressure on Ding Lingren.

The Huns continued to suffer losses at the hands of the empire, losing at least 130,000 square kilometers of land, and the Huns continued to lose land, once the central steppe was occupied by the empire, the situation on the steppe would inevitably face unimaginable changes.

For the steppe people, where is the central grassland? It is probably the inner Mongolia and outer Mongolia parts of later generations. This area is not actually a treasure land of abundant water and grass, but almost all the grassland tribes developed from this area, so the central grasslands are of great significance to them.

It would be a mistake to say that it is only because of political significance, and the central grassland has a more important embodiment for all grassland people, which depends on the nature of the region "cannot be lost", and in military terms, it is called a strategic place.

"The Xiongnu can't hold the central grassland, and the empire can't monopolize the central grassland." Nesten had arrived in the Western Regions a day earlier, and he had learned about the fight between the Wusun and the Hujie and Ding Ling people on the way, and felt that this was an opportunity for them. He told Feng Zheng that he was excited to think that there was something that could be operated, but the response he received was relatively cold. I couldn't help but ask depressedly, "Is there anything I need to know about what happened?" ”

Feng Zheng looked extremely melancholy, he tilted his head and glanced at Nei Shi Teng, and his tone was almost half-dead: "This broken place in the Western Regions must be back against me." ”

What happened next? Feng Zheng came to the Western Regions, first full of hope but received a relatively cold response from Meng Tian, originally went to Liu Bang for help and was rejected by Lisuo, these are all things in the past, and recently he wanted to open a breakthrough from Wusun, but the result was ......

Qin Fengguo may want to be neighbors with Wusun in the future, so there is always nothing wrong with establishing a friendship in advance, Feng Zheng went to Wusun Royal Court with such an idea. After he arrived at the Wusun royal court, he was received with more courtesy. It is almost the same etiquette that the Wusun people should enjoy, but when it comes to what he personally thinks is the right thing, the enthusiasm of the Wusun people is instantly extinguished, and the response given is cold.

Feng Zheng was a little confused at that time, if you want to say that Meng Tian, Liu Bang and even the people of other empires are cold, they are worried that they will cause some trouble that should not be caused, what is the situation of the coldness of the Wusun people?

According to Feng Zai's understanding, Wusun needed the help of the empire, but there were prerequisites for the empire to help Wusun. The first thing is that the empire must not suffer. The kingdom of Qin is about to settle down in the northwest of Wusun, and will be neighbors for a long time in the future.

Feng Zheng was annoyed at first. He believes that no matter from which aspect of the Qin feudal state, the relationship with the empire is much closer than that of Wusun, and Wusun should not treat an important minister from the Qin Kingdom like this, especially this important minister of the Qin Kingdom also represents the emperor in some aspects!

Later, Feng Zai figured it out. The respect that Wusun showed earlier was precisely because he represented the emperor in some aspects, but he talked about the affairs of the Qin Kingdom later, and his identity and role shifted to the important ministers of the Qin Kingdom. Then the princes and nobles of Wusun thought that there was no need to be so respectful to the important ministers of the Qin Kingdom.

Feng Zheng, who found this situation, was not dead-headed, he changed his identity and role again from the action, and changed his position to represent the emperor instead of the king of Qin, and as a result, what made him extremely depressed happened again, and Wusun once again turned to a respectful attitude.

It seems to be very funny for a person to constantly change his identity to get two kinds of responses, respect and coldness, but for a person who is destined to only represent the emperor for a short time and can only become an important minister of the Qin Kingdom for life, it is a little laughable that such a thing happens. And the reason why it was like this is because he completely misunderstood the situation before, and if it is ugly, it is called having no eyes, everyone else is playing soy sauce, he can do as much as he can, so that he is embarrassed to turn back, so it is really a tragedy.

Indeed, if it were to represent the empire, the Wusun people would definitely have to give face. That's not just because the Empire is now helping Usun defend itself against enemy invasions, but also because the Empire is now a well-deserved peerless overlord. On behalf of the Qin Kingdom? The Wusun people are embarrassed to ask, where is the Qin Kingdom, and then how much strength does the Qin Kingdom have now?

There is also a very real problem, the Qin Kingdom is only one of the subordinate feudal states of the empire, even if Wusun is not clear about this relationship, they can understand it in the simplest way, thinking that the Qin Kingdom is not a country that can completely make its own decisions. Since he can't be completely autonomous, then Wusun only needs to curry favor with the empire, why should he curry favor with the Qin kingdom again?

"Our positioning is too awkward!" Can Feng Zheng not be half dead? No! He found that the Qin Kingdom was nothing now, and said to Nei Shiteng: "So the problems faced are not complicated, do what the empire thinks we should do, and don't talk about the rest." ”

Nesteng was completely stunned, he didn't know how much Feng Zhengde had been stimulated to become like this.

This time, Nei Shi Teng brought another 2,000 cavalry, which means that the Qin Kingdom's strength in the Western Regions has reached 5,000. His goal of coming to the Western Regions was relatively clear, that is, to take people to the northwest of Wusun first, and to personally inspect the future territory.

The land allocated to the Qin Kingdom by the Emperor is now owned by the Dayue people, but the reason why the Dayue people own that land is from the Sakya people.

See, it's that simple, the land has never had a fixed owner, and whoever has the strength is whomever owns. Therefore, there is no reason for the land to "belong to whoever and whoever it has belonged to since ancient times", and even if it is not one's own, it can become one's own.

Since the Qin Kingdom was divided there by the emperor, they could only use force to snatch the land from the Dayue clan. Speaking of Zhao's winning surname and Dayue people are old rivals, the two sides have been fighting each other hundreds of years ago, and the main enemy of Dayue has become the Xiongnu, and the main enemy of Qin with the surname Zhao has become the six countries of Shandong, so that the two sides can coexist relatively peacefully in the future, but they can not be called friends.

"Five thousand?" Feng Zheng seemed to have some spirit, looked up at Nei Shi Teng, and said, "We have five thousand cavalry. Liu Bang will ask Han Xin to bring 10,000, plus Meng Tian will send 6,000 troops, a total of 21,000 cavalry. ”

Twenty-one thousand cavalry is already a lot, and it is a well-equipped force, according to a new word recently invented by the Wusun people, it is called iron cavalry.

What is the Wusun Iron Horse? I guess I have iron weapons, but armor...... It's very simple.

The iron cavalry of the empire is really an iron cavalry, from weapons to armor, it is all made of iron materials. 21,000 iron horsemen, if you want to play a game of destroying the city and destroying the country in the Western Regions. Most of the countries in the Western Regions can't resist at all, and they can already be regarded as a good force.

"Doesn't the intelligence show that the Yue Clan's strength is nearly 80,000?" Nesten felt a little unsafe when he heard that there were only 21,000 troops combined, even if all of them were iron horses: "It seems that there are more than 80,000, and they will capture the Northern Sakya and the Alans ......." It's called the Alans, right? ”

Feng Zheng rolled his eyes directly, the names of the alien races were too strange, and he still memorized some of the names of this broken place in the Western Regions, how could he have the time to pay attention to them further.

No response. Ne Shi Teng frowned, feeling quite dissatisfied with Feng Zheng in his heart, but he didn't express it in words. He looked at himself and said, "Counting the people raised in Wusun, the total is about 140,000? ”

"Wars are no longer won by numbers." Feng Zheng pursed his lips. said: "I'll tell you something new, that guy named Han Xin, he defeated the 40,000-strong coalition army of Wanguo and Maodun Xiongnu with 7,000 men half a month ago. ”

"Huh?" Nesteng felt that Feng Zheng was going a little farther and farther on the road of death, and felt that Han Xin was the only apprentice of the emperor, would he die if he respected him verbally? He was very curious about the course of the war and asked, "Can you tell me?" ”

"There's nothing you can't say." Feng Zai asked people to take a few pots of chilled grape wine, and said while drinking: "No one pays attention to what the cause is, the important thing is that a small country called Jingjie will send troops to participate in the real rebellion against the northwest of Wusun, and then ......"

Jingjue is really a small country, and there is only one place in the whole country that can be called a city, and the rest are small villages or something. They are a semi-nomadic, semi-settled people, with a population of more than 30,000, maintaining an armed force of 2,000 men, and it is better to see that there is no shortage of horses and no shortage of cavalry.

The elite took out a thousand cavalry, saying that they were going to participate in the suppression of the northwest of Wusun, and this army was directly under the orders of the empire. Taking out half of the country's troops, no matter how you look at it, it can be considered very obedient, the empire does not want to fully occupy the Western Regions now, and those who should be pacified always need to make a gesture, right?

Shi Luchen, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Corps, made a limited guarantee to the countries that sent troops to participate in the cooperation, that is, when the countries sent troops to obey the dispatch, they would provide the necessary military assistance in the event of an invasion of their country.

Lu Chen's assurances made many small countries cheer, many countries originally did not want to get involved in anything, after that statement was issued, many small countries of you 100 people, I 200 people, the result is that more and more countries send troops to obey the dispatch.

"Very clever, is there anything wrong?" Nesteng was full of puzzlement: "The empire does not want to make a big move in the Western Regions in the short term, and it is a very reasonable move to attract more people to stand on the side of the empire." ”

Feng Zai didn't say that it was unreasonable, but he was very disdainful of the indigenous countries in the Western Regions. According to what he meant, even if it was the era when the Zhou royal family had just divided the princes, and the various vassal states called for troops accordingly, it would not be a hundred or two hundred, and the actions of those indigenous countries in the Western Regions were simply demonstrating what it meant to be a cold joke.

"It's just a gesture." Nesten said very bluntly: "In the eyes of the imperial military, even one person from those countries is a statement, and it is their willingness to submit to the empire, and they don't really care how many troops those indigenous countries send. ”

Can Feng Zheng still not understand this truth? It's because he understands that he disdains! What is Empire? Although he was very reluctant, he really understood what the emperor said, the empire is strong and untouchable, and it does not need allies at all, and it is destined to be lonely.

Okay! The empire is so powerful, if you want to play a little with Wusun, Wusun is still a country with a population of more than one million, and it can also make up one or two hundred thousand cavalry, which is a bit of a decent country.

With a population of 10,000 or 20,000, at most 40,000 people, such a scum the size of sesame mung beans, it is already nonsense to say that the country is already nonsense, and the empire actually wants to be friends with this kind of sesame mung beans? It's just ****** funny!

"The emperor probably didn't know that something like this was happening in the Western Regions. As I understand it, the emperor would not have given such an order at all. Feng Zheng almost patted his chest: "Believe me, such a thing can never be authorized by the emperor." ”

"......" Nei Shi Teng wondered again, he found that Feng Zheng's thinking was a little out of the box, and reminded: "We are talking about Han Xin......"

"Isn't it just that Wanguo and Mao Dun are unhappy for the empire?" Feng Zheng pouted again, he was almost sarcastic: "This mung bean is not far from the sphere of influence of Wanguo, and the cavalry march is a matter of three or two days, they are just trying to find the empire unhappy, with the idea of 'you say that you want to protect, then we will beat you to see if you can protect it, and how many times can you protect it'." ”

"In other words, Han Xin won the battle against 7,000 against 40,000, but ...... In fact, the results achieved are not significant? Nesten is a person who can lead troops, he said: "If the results are not big, it means that there is not much meaning, and if you can keep it once, do you send troops every time?" ”

As if he had found a confidant, Feng Zai slapped his thigh hard: "That's what it means!" (To be continued.) )