Chapter Fifty-Seven: Squeeze Out of Hoan
"If I agree to your request, where are you going to fight those 300,000 troops?"
The guard general glanced at Bu Zheng lightly, and anyone could say bloody words, but after all, fighting is not a child's play, even if both sides of the war are foreigners, but as long as the location of the battle is close to the big Han, it is not a trivial matter.
"I'll show you."
Buzheng looked up, and there was a map hanging in the tent, and he walked over in three or two steps and stretched out his hand to point at one of the places marked with the city.
It was far away from Yumen Pass, in the middle of the thirty-six kingdoms of the Western Regions, but it was clearly marked on the map that the Han Empire had begun to build a city there.
And Bu Zheng knows better that the city has an extremely loud name in later generations, the Western Regions Protectorate (changed some of the settings of the Heavenly Generals, forgive me, the Western Regions should not have the Metropolitan Protectorate in the Tianjiang era, one more mouth, that area of the Western Regions, including Liangzhou, has not appeared in the position of Taishou until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty).
This copy has hidden a lot of things at the beginning of the plot at the beginning, this era, the Xiongnu is no longer an insoluble danger to the Han Dynasty, the Han Empire has extended its gaze to the west, this time the Han Dynasty is different from the later Eastern Han Dynasty, did not experience Wang Mang's rebellion, the Han Dynasty after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is really the time to bring the martial arts to the extreme, and there is an endless pursuit of the four words of opening up the territory and expanding the territory.
An army of 300,000 sounds like a lot, but in the previous war with the Xiongnu, the Han Empire sent troops no less than this number, and even at most only the cavalry had this number.
In the original plot, why did the 300,000 army not appear when the army arrived, in fact, the original drama gave an answer, infighting.
Yumen Pass, the local infighting in the Western Regions, Huo An's deputy general framed Huo An, these explanations don't make sense at all, if the person who entered this world was Zhao Long, Ye Feng, or the woman of the Red Alliance, Zhang Daquan and others would probably be suspicious.
And Bu Zheng guessed more when he knew the plot in his previous life, and then verified it through the forces that befriended him below, in this copy, why there was no Han army appeared, it was also infighting.
But it is not only infighting, but also a build-up of strength by the Han military.
The Han Empire has been in the Western Regions for decades, and just like the plot narration given at the beginning of the copy, those caravans heading west are from both official and non-governmental sources.
The news that the 300,000 troops of Rome and Anxib together are coming towards the Han has already been passed to the Han military, but in the eyes of the Han military, these 300,000 people are exactly what the current Han needs.
These 300,000 troops just happened to clean up the Western Regions, and then when they approached the border of the Han Dynasty, they would do it once and for all.
There is no need to doubt the arrogance of the Han military now, for them, the biggest difficulty in sweeping the grassland is not how brave and superb the cavalry of those nomads on the grassland is, but that the grassland is too large, and they need to spend too much time to search for the enemy's traces, which is a great pressure on logistics.
Of course, the generals did not think too much about the logistical pressure, in fact, after entering the grassland, they preferred to fight to support the war, however, the soldiers who died in battle needed to be compensated, and the soldiers who went out on the expedition needed higher salaries, which was enough to make all the civil officials in the court oppose the expedition to the grassland.
The civil officials of these years are not as pedantic as those of later generations, but because of this, they will consider the problem from a practical position, whether to fight or not, and whether it is meaningful.
"It's a good place."
A smile appeared on the corner of the guard's mouth and nodded.
It is not for nothing that the Western Regions Protectorate is located in the location indicated on the map, it can be said that it is the center of the Western Regions, which is enough to affect the entire Western Regions, and it is not far from the Han Dynasty, and once something happens, it will neither catch the Han off guard, nor let the Han have time to react.
The most important thing is that the Han has already settled the right to belong there, and once it is attacked there, no matter whether the battle is won or lost, it will be a provocation for the Dahan, a provocation that will be slapped twice in the face.
In this Qin and Han dynasties and even the Sui and Tang dynasties, harmony is not humiliating, people at this time are more realistic, a woman in exchange for the peace of the border, it is worth it, and if the situation requires it, even if the princess in front has just married, the army behind can also follow and kill the past, as for whether this will make the princess unlucky, this is really no one cares, it is a very simple thing, but all the princesses who are kissed are by no means favored.
Therefore, later generations feel that the extremely humiliating and intimate relatives are really nothing at this time, but it will not work if they invade the border, especially after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, regardless of the brain-dead emperor, he is still a cowardly emperor, even if an emperor like the Marquis of Haiyang is in power, the ministers of the court and the central government have only one reaction when they hear the word invasion of the border, fight back, must fight back.
Therefore, the battle location chosen by Bu Zheng is simply a place that there is no better place for the Han military now.
"Huo An, you go down first, you don't have to worry about the affairs of those two tribes."
The guard glanced at Huo An and said indifferently, a word came out, Huo An's expression darkened slightly, even if the affairs of the two tribes did not need to be dealt with by Huo An, but this matter itself was reported by Huo An, and it seemed that Huo An should not be allowed to leave, at least let Huo An participate in the handling of these two tribes next, ask Huo An what he knew about those two tribes, and so on.
But the guard general didn't do this, no doubt because he didn't want Huo An to know how to deal with those two tribes next, and to put it seriously, this was a distrust of Huo An.
"The last general will retire first."
Huo An clenched his fists and retreated helplessly.
"Tell me about your specific plans, even if you entangle those tribes outside the Guan, but the 300,000 troops of Western Qin and Anxi may not be able to fight you in this place as you want, and even if it is as you want, how sure are you that you can defeat them."
Huo An retreated, and the guard's gaze looked at Bu Zheng again, and his extremely sharp eyes instantly shrouded Bu Zheng's body.
"The reason why the Western Qin army came to the east, one is for the Silk Road, and the other is because of the battle for the heir, their little prince is being escorted by the first warrior in their country on the way to my Han, the current king of Western Qin, Tibes, is not in the right position, if you can't kill the little prince, don't say that you occupy the Silk Road, I'm afraid that the throne will not be stable, and this is my chance, Lord Fu Jiezi and the enemy king's palace to kill the enemy king is an example for my generation of boys to learn."
Bu Zheng opened his mouth with a cold expression, he knew that this was the last test, and he knew what kind of mentality the soldiers of the big man were at this time, and what kind of words he liked to hear.
The most important thing is that he also knows that in this way, he will be reprimanded by those literati in later generations, and the method of messing around can really be done in this era.