At dawn three days later, the defenders of Guishan City, who had been in a defensive posture, took the initiative to attack uncharacteristically. Lewen. However, the direction of their attack was not the camp of the Sabbat, but a line of defense set up by the Sabbath army in the east.

The sudden battle made the ironclad cavalry in the camp of rest have not had time to fully dress, and the Han army has already broken through the eastern defense line of the rest army, and when the eastern gap was opened, the Han army rushed to this gap like a tide. Later, he found out that this was not an ordinary attack of the Han army at all, but that their whole army had broken through.

The ironclad cavalry, who hurriedly dressed up and lined up, could only see the smoke and dust left behind by the retreat of the Han army to the east. The heavy cavalry of the ironclad cavalry was invincible in the frontal charge, but the heavy armor completely deprived them of the ability to pursue.

"Stop the pursuit, immediately inspect Guishan City, and find out the movements of the Han army." Ou Lobazo understood that Huo Guang's army was lightly armed, and when it was all cavalry, if he was bent on breaking through and leaving, he would not be able to keep them at all.

In the end, this breakthrough was unusually smooth, so smooth that there was almost no fighting, and even the troops behind Li Lingdian did not go through any decent battles, so they fought with some small-scale rest troops for a while. Half a day later, there was not even a single Sabbath army in sight behind him.

When Huo Guang retreated to Wu'an City in the hinterland of the Western Regions with an army of nearly 50,000 troops, Ou Luobazo also entered Guishan City with the five monarchs and countless nobles of peace.

The three-month war has left this once prosperous and important town on the Silk Road into a dilapidated state.

"Honorable Prime Minister, all the food supplies in Guishan City have been burned, and the flames have not been completely extinguished when we arrive. There are still a large number of treasures in the palace of Dawan Wang, and Hou Huoguang of Anyang did not take these things with him when he retreated. The secretary stood in front of Olobazo and reported the information that had been counted to the commander of the Crusade Army, the Prime Minister of the Empire.

Oulobazo stood in place, his body slowly turned, his whole body turned in a circle, and his gaze followed his body, scanning Guishan City completely. Finally, looking at the Dawan Palace, the only intact palace in the entire Guishan City, Olobazo's face suddenly showed a strange smile.

"Haha...... What a great opponent....... We lost this battle...... What a respectable opponent, the great Oriental Hou Huoguang of Anyang......" Ignoring the curious gaze beside him, Olobazo suddenly burst into laughter, and then said something unbelievable.

Obviously, it was their resting people who fought Huo Guang and was forced to break through, this city that Huo Guang had been defending for three months, and finally fell into the hands of the rest army, why would the imperial prime minister say that the victorious side of his side lost instead? This is the doubt of all the resters, including the five great kings.

"Bring me the map of the Western Regions." Olobazo suddenly retracted his smile and instructed the secretary.

Soon, the secretary brought a map of the Western Regions and unfolded it in front of Olobazo and the five great kings.

"Are you all curious, want to know where our opponent, Hou Huoguang of Anyang, has gone now?" Olobazo looked at the map with a serious expression, and then asked the people around him.

No one answered, but they all nodded in agreement.

"Here...... This place is called Wu'an City. Our opponent was not defeated and broke through, he just went to a place more suitable for him to fight and waited for us...... This retreat should have a name that belongs to it...... Let's call it a strategic shift! Olobazo said intermittently, as if he was still thinking as he spoke. In the end, he did not characterize Huo Guang as being forced to break through, but gave a completely new term, which was called a strategic shift by Oulobazo.

"Strategic Shift......" The five kings and secretaries all whispered the new word that Olobazo had mentioned.

"Right..... It's not a defeat, it's just a transfer..... Looks like we need to recalibrate the deployment. Secretary, have our knights found the royal court of the Huns? Olobazo said with a serious expression, and finally looked at the secretary again, mentioning the Huns they were not familiar with.

"Honourable Prime Minister. A month ago, we had already contacted the right Xian King of the Xiongnu, and at this moment our envoy may have seen the Xiongnu Shan Yu. The secretary replied respectfully, when Olobazo was still attacking the Great Moon Clan, he had actually sent many envoys to contact the Huns.

"Are we really going to deal with the Han Dynasty with those savage and stupid Huns?" King Elimis asked reluctantly. His family was an extremely old aristocracy in Central Asia, even older than that of Mithridates II, the King of Kings, and the king of Elimis had always looked down on the races of the steppes.

"There are no eternal enemies, and there are no eternal friends. We can't expect a Xiongnu defeated by the Han Dynasty to defeat the Han Dynasty in turn, but they can help us contain the Han Dynasty's northern army, just as the Pontus helped us contain Sula. They are like lions and tigers fighting each other, and we will be the last hunters! Olobazo still said confidently and calmly, not discouraged by this small loss, in his eyes it was just a small episode, and it had no impact on his overall situation.

The five kings and nobles around Olobazo all showed a look of relief. Then Qi Qi bowed his head respectfully: "Honorable Prime Minister, your wisdom will lead Anxi to become the master of the world!" ”

Everyone is happy and convinced, and their eyes are full of worship and heat.

When Huo Guang led the army to retreat to Wu'an City, the 30,000 Hexi elites led by Zhao Ponu had already entered Wu'an City one day in advance, and now Wu'an City has gathered 80,000 troops, and this time at least 50,000 of the 80,000 troops are real Hexi army elites.

"Immediately send an order to give up Akatani Castle for the time being, and all the Wusun tribes will turn into a nomadic state, and not to engage the army that is resting." In Wu'an City, Huo Guang strode into the meeting hall of Wu'an Jun's Mansion, he didn't take a moment of rest when he first arrived in Wu'an City, and he had already started a new deployment.

At present, the high-level Hexi leaders in Wu'an City followed behind Huo Guang and entered the conference hall one after another, which was originally a city built by Bai Zheng, a city in a completely Central Plains style, and now it is also the fief of Bai Zheng of Wu'an Jun.

There was also a sand table in the meeting hall, Huo Guang approached the sand table and stood at one end of the sand table, and the others were scattered around, waiting for Huo Guang to make further deployments.

"In addition, the Juyan Department was ordered to stop the attack on the Xiongnu, and at the same time convert all the herdsmen who can be armed into soldiers, and strictly guard the passage from Juyan to the Western Regions." Huo Guang stood in front of the sand table and gave the second order.

These two orders and deployments were directed at the two main alien tribes under the rule of the Dadu Governor, one was the Wusun and the other was the Xiongnu. The Wusun occupy most of the northern frontier of the Western Regions, and once they re-enter the nomadic state, the Rest Legion is accustomed to the frontal army fighting method, and basically will not divide troops or large armies to find the Wusun people. The Huns of the Juyan tribe now have a population of nearly 100,000, and at this time the characteristics of the nomads play a huge advantage, once these young and strong herdsmen are armed, they can immediately become good warriors.

"Summoning Yin Huajun, let's start recruiting troops in the four counties of Hexi...... In addition, in the name of the Metropolitan Governor's Office, the matter of our army's retreat to Wu'an City was passed to Chang'an. Remember, we must say that we were defeated! Huo Guang gave another order.

Everyone looked at Huo Guang curiously, and everyone could understand that they had begun to recruit troops in the four counties of Hexi, but they didn't understand why Huo Guang deliberately emphasized that he was defeated and retreated. Commanders who have led troops throughout the ages will not easily admit defeat, not to mention that Huo Guang is not really defeated. At this moment, even Dongfang Shuo was a little puzzled, and he didn't know what Huo Guang's real intention was in doing this.

"Have you written it all down?" Huo Guang looked at Sima Qian and asked.

"Write it all down." Sima Qian looked up and replied. Now the Taishi Ling of the imperial court feels that he has completely become Huo Guang's scribe.

"Then send it out as soon as possible." Huo Guang waved his hand and said.

"Grand Governor, now that Lu Chengjun's position is in the rear of the Sabbath Legion, do you want to let them withdraw as well?" Dongfang Shuo stared at the sand table, and his eyes fell on Lu Cheng, where Yi Jixuan was located. This place is in the southwest of the Western Regions, close to the poison, and Lu Cheng still has Yi Jixuan's army of about 10,000 people, but from the beginning of the battle of Guishan City, Huo Guang did not mobilize them.

"No, that place is of no strategic significance other than monitoring the body poison, and Olobazo won't be interested in it until he defeats us." Huo Guang thought for a while and said, it was not that he had forgotten that he still had the place of Lucheng, but that the miscellaneous soldiers of the small countries in the Western Regions with less than 10,000 people were really not of great use. And the battle for survival between the Great Yue Clan and the Great Xia region is getting hotter and hotter, and Huo Guang feels that keeping Lu Cheng can better understand that area.

When on the Eastern Battlefield, Olobazo and Huo Guang were thinking about each other. Sulla's legions were also engaged in a head-to-head confrontation with Mithridates VI's army in the province of Asia Minor.

In this battlefield in the west, there is no tug-of-war between Huo Guang and Olobazo that can fight for months on a single city, where Rome and Pontus are the most direct legion battle formations. Thousands or even tens of thousands of military formations are spread out on the land along the Mediterranean coast, and the heroic soldiers are fighting in the most primitive and savage way, which is a duel of pure strength and courage.

And here there are wars not only on land, but also between the huge fleets that cross the Mediterranean. In addition to using long-range arrows, warship warfare during this period mainly relied on battleships to ram and then move closer to each other and fight on the deck.

"Caesar, it seems that we have to work harder, and we can't make our friends in the East wait too long!" Sulla sat on top of the chariot and watched calmly as the huge legions on the plain fought each other. When he was in full swing fighting with the Pontus ** team, he received the news that the 180,000 Eastern Expeditionary Army of Ouluobazo and Huo Guang were constantly tugging at Guishan City.

Compared with the lag of Rome in getting the news, the news of Chang'an City is much smoother. When Huo Guang re-arranged the defense line in Wu'an City, the urgent military information reported in the name of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion had already appeared on the Xuanshu Hall of Chang'an City.

The crown prince Liu Ju, who has been busy with the witch Gu case recently, has not convened a court meeting for almost two months. However, when this military information letter from the Dadu Governor's Mansion appeared in Liu Ju's hands, he was not allowed to ring the giant bell of Weiyang Palace.

After all, Liu Ju is still the crown prince of the prison state, the nominal supreme decision-maker of the imperial court. When the courtiers who could still go to the court sat on the seats of the Xuanshu Palace, Liu Ju said directly: "The Governor of the Western Regions reported urgently that Guishan City had been lost four days ago, and the Metropolitan Governor Huo Guang led the remnants to break through and rebuild the defense line in Wu'an City, and transferred Zhao Ponu to lead the Hexi Army 30,000 to converge in Wu'an City. At the same time, the Metropolitan Governor's Office has issued a conscription order to recruit troops in the four counties of Hexi. ”

Looking at the courtiers in the palace, who were already only half of the number of courtiers in the past, Liu Ju sighed helplessly, and then continued: "What good plan do you have? ”

When he received the Hexi Military Report, Liu Ju was really panicked. In his eyes, Huo Guang, who was once invincible, was also defeated, if Huo Guang was defeated again, then once the land west of the river fell, the army of peace could drive straight in.

"His Royal Highness the Prince, now that the rest army is pressing, coupled with the stagnation of commerce and trade in the Western Regions, it has had a great impact on the country, and there is little commerce in the two cities of Chang'an, and the prices of salt and grain on the market have begun to appear chaotic. Under such a dangerous situation, the minister thought that he should ask His Majesty to decide. Sang Hongyang was the first to come out and said. He directly gave a description of the danger, hoping to invite Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.

What Sang Hongyang said is the truth, since two months ago, the two cities of Chang'an have become more and more depressed, all kinds of shops have closed down, a large number of goods have been chaotic in price, if it were not for the fact that there are even losses and equalization of official materials, I am afraid that Chang'an City would have been in chaos long ago. Of course, Sang Hongyang did not tell the truth, that is, the reason for all this was not mainly because of the war in the Western Regions, but because of the impact of the witch Gu case.

When the military situation of the Western Regions Governor's Mansion appeared in the hands of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the eyes of this old man, who was already in his last years, once again burst out with a gleam.

"Zhang Anshi" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty held the military emergency report in his hand, slowly stood up, and called Zhang Anshi's name in his mouth.

"The minister is in" Zhang Anshi took a step forward and bowed down.

"Summons Liu Quyu and Jiang Chong, stop the investigation of the witch Gu case, and close the case first!" The first decree issued by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not about the military situation in Hexi, but about the Wu Gu case.

"Huo Heng" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty called Huo Heng's name again.

"The Minister"

"You immediately go to Chang'an and summon officials of more than 2,000 stones to Ganquan Palace." This time, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty asked Huo Yan to summon all the officials of Chang'an with more than 2,000 stones, and it seemed that he planned to hold a court meeting directly in Ganquan Palace.

Huo Yan and Zhang Anshi took the order and left, and Emperor Wu of Han also turned around and walked towards the inner hall. said "Su Wen, change clothes for me".

At this moment, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is walking vigorously, a little less old than in the past, and at this moment, the demeanor of his generation of heroes seems to be back!