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"I didn't expect the resistance here to be so weak, as if the people here don't like the rule of the Qiuzi people."

Looking at the Nancheng that had just been captured, and then looking at the battle damage that could be regarded as "small" for the siege war reported in his hand, Li Shushi felt a little unclear about the comeback of the class around him.

"It's not surprising. After all, Gumo has not been attached to Qiuci for a long time, and the local nobles and the officials sent by Qiuci have not yet reached an agreement on the redistribution of interests. ”

Regarding Li Shushi's question, Ban Fu took it for granted, and he was unusually calm.

Gumo Country is a necessary stop for Li Shushi along the Aksu River, and it is also the first oasis that the army reaches when they come out of the Tails Mountains in the Tianshan Mountains. It is a very important stop in the ancient Silk Road, one of the important sources of culture in the Western Regions, and because of the clear Aksu River, which is the upper reaches of the Tarim River, the agriculture here is quite good in the entire Western Regions, supplemented by animal husbandry, and various natural stone mines, the life of the people here is still quite rich.

If it weren't for the fact that they had a powerful neighbor, Turtles, perhaps this would have become a "paradise".

Gumo now has about 4,500 households, a population of about 35,000, and about 5,000 soldiers. Of course, most of these soldiers were natives of Gumo, but most of the generals who commanded them were from Qiuzi. Therefore, in the face of the sudden tens of thousands of troops, most of Qiuzi's troops were directly smeared with oil on the soles of their feet, and the few hundred people that a few backbone generals could command were really not enough for Li Shushi's subordinates, even if they planned to drive the Gumo people to be cannon fodder, it was useless.

There are two major cities in Gumo, one is the stone city located in the upper reaches of the Aksu River in the north of Gumo, and the other is the southern city located in the lower reaches of the Aksu River, which used to be the seat of the kingdom. However, in Li Shushi's eyes, these two cities are just two large dock forts similar to the relatively large ones in the north, although the defense is very commendable, but they can't stop his army at all.

Coupled with the inaction of most of the Gumo people, Li Shushi did not spend too much time in Gumo.

"I think if there is a county in Gumo, Gumo will be divided into two counties centered on Shicheng and Nancheng. The first county magistrate is decided by Pangong. After that, I implemented the "Three Mutual Laws" of my Han Dynasty. These two counties will belong to the county of Qiuci or the kingdom of Qiuci, and if that king is willing to be like the kings of those vassal states of our Han Dynasty, it is not that we cannot keep him rich. In this way, I think that the resistance of the locals should not be so great, and then open a school, and even let the talented people in it work in the Han Dynasty. It's like the four counties of Hexi. It's weak, but it's not something to give up. I don't know if the idea of learning is true. ”

Because these things have already involved the management of the Western Regions Protectorate after its establishment. Li Shushi logically doesn't have much right to speak, but because of his original plan, he has such a "overstepping" move.

"I thought I could give it a try. However, they are also worried that this will strengthen the resistance of other countries, and even unite to oppose the extension of our Han rights in the Western Regions, and even worry that it will cause worries and suspicions in Wusun and Kangju. ”

"Then those big countries in the Western Regions are not worried about the annexation of small countries, why should they worry about us annexing those countries?"

"Even if Qiuzi completely annexes Gumo, Wensu, Weitou and other countries, it is only a country with a population of two or three hundred thousand, and tens of thousands of soldiers, at most, it will only have the strength to fight with Wusun, but if you talk about the word threat, there is no way to talk about it. It's just that if it were me and I was a big man, I was afraid that the situation would be completely different. After all, the strength of the Great Han is not comparable to that of other Western Regions countries. In the past, the Han could not fight here for a long time because they could not stay for a long time as a guest army, but if the situation of the host and guest was reversed, then the Han army that could fight for a long time and was extremely familiar with the local geography would be a nightmare for all the countries in the Western Regions. ”

"Nightmares are nightmares. In the past, the Han Dynasty was reluctant to waste more power in the Western Regions just because he couldn't make ends meet, but now if we can run the Silk Road, this land will no longer be a chicken rib that is tasteless to eat and a pity to abandon. ”

"But this will also be a reason for the uneasiness of the Wusun and Kangju people."

"As long as we don't attack Shule westward for the time being, and focus on stabilizing these two routes that can lead to Wusun, it's no problem."

"In this way, there is no need to think about it again, and it is great that the state pastor can help."

"How did I suddenly feel like I was being used as a gunman by you?"

"This is definitely an illusion on the part of the State Shepherd, not to mention that this is also for the great wish of the State Shepherd."

As a result, because of a series of chain reactions, Li Shushi and Ban Fu's plan for the Western Regions has undergone new changes.

The work of splitting Gumo's hometown into two counties went very smoothly, after all, most of the people who wanted to oppose had already been disposed of by the Qiuci people, and the remaining Qiuci captives naturally had no chance of opposition.

Of course, this qiē is just a plan now, after all, both Li Shushi and Ban Fu need to race against time to attack the Qiuci mainland, and it is impossible for them to give the Qiuci people time to react and mobilize.

So leaving hundreds of Dunhuang powerful troops, Li Shushi's army left Gumo's hometown along the Tarim River.

Although it was only a few hundred troops, Li Shushi was not worried that Gumo would be attacked by others. After all, Li Shushi's new plan was not something intolerable for the Gumo people, not to mention that Li Shushi promised to bring them the advanced culture of the Han people, and even those who showed their talents among them could go to other Han-controlled areas in the Western Regions to become officials, or even to the territory of the Han Dynasty.

In fact, Li Shushi's method somewhat imitated an example he was familiar with, and after the Jin State of the Sima clan destroyed Shu, he used this method to quickly grasp the hearts of the people of Shu, after all, although the Shu State occupied almost the entire Yizhou. However, the upper-level official positions were held for a long time by the men and horses brought by Liu Yan and Liu Zhang from other places and the people and horses brought by Liu Bei from other places and their descendants, which had long aroused the dissatisfaction of the local heroes of Shu State, so that the Sima clan successfully made the local heroes return to their hearts with a little intention of solicitation.

It is not very clear whether there are other versions of similar stories, but it is enough to have an example.

What's more, the more important goal in front of him is to capture the Qiuzi Kingdom to deter the entire Western Regions.

In this way, with the two countries of Wusun and Qiuzi as examples, it is presumably easier to work on the job in the future. To borrow a favorite description from ancient books, it depends on the pass, anyway, those guys are all wall grass, and if they are facing a hurricane with a central wind force of 17, it is no problem to directly uproot them and send them away thousands of miles away.

I have to admit that the soldiers of the Qiuzi Kingdom are not weak in terms of individual combat ability, or compared to the strongest combat group of the Han Dynasty. In addition to those veterans in the border soldiers, oil or guys who have the ability to advance and change classes, there may be a good chance of winning. And this is definitely not Li Shushi's rhetoric in order to elevate the other party to cover up his failure or anything. It's Li Shushi's personal feelings.

In fact, this view of his was unanimously endorsed by all the generals, including Lü Bu and Ban Fu.

But even with such a strong individual combat effectiveness, it is still difficult to escape the fate of defeat when facing the state army in the field.

Even Li Shushi felt that even if he commanded the battle, there was basically no possibility of losing when the number was equal.

Some people may find it strange, and some people may have guessed the crux of the problem.

Yes, these soldiers of the Guizi Kingdom really pay too much attention to the cultivation of personal combat effectiveness. and ignore the overall military formation.

This may have a big reason for the fighting between the countries of the Western Regions.

Generally speaking, the power of the Western Regions can be called the great power thirty-six. Small forces are even more scattered. It is possible for a small oasis to evolve into a city, and then gradually decline or even disappear after a hundred years. Therefore, even the largest population in these countries is only a hundred thousand, at most hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of soldiers can be recruited. And in most countries, there are thousands of people supporting the façade, and it is already a patchwork to be able to get it. And also at the expense of the production of various materials.

So instead of thinking about how to make your own soldiers as many as possible, it is better to hone an elite army, which not only does not occupy too much population, but is also easy to use, and can also wield more powerful combat power in battle.

The initial melee of the Western Regions countries was carried out in such a state.

Originally, with the gradual annexation of various small forces and small countries, the large corps was still the main direction of development after all, and at the same time, various training and combat methods to match them would also come into being, and this can be said to be an inevitable law of history.

But who would have thought that with the establishment of the Western Regions Protectorate, this process was stopped by the Great Han Shengsheng.

Although he fought a lot of battles with the Great Han, because more than a dozen countries participated in the war together every time, the number of conscripts allocated to each country was not much, and in most cases, the armies of these countries were more like making up a number to wave their flags and shouting, or used to carry out a long-term siege, and there were not many opportunities for the real large corps to fight, so the lessons learned were far less than the four major alien mercenaries.

By the time the Han forces gradually withdrew from the Western Regions, it had only been a few decades now, and the mode of war was far from reaching the level of biological change, which means that the war between the countries of the Western Regions was still in the stage of "elite soldiers winning the decisive victory".

If the scale of the war were to be more than a few thousand, they might have been out of order by the halfway point.

For such a strange enemy, and not noticing the outflanking of his rear road by Li Shushi's cavalry troops, one can imagine how many soldiers were left in Yancheng, the royal city of Qiuzi, after the First World War.

However, the soldiers of the Guizi Kingdom are indeed very strong in their individual ability, although in that unfavorable situation, they can still send many soldiers back to Yancheng City in the scattered breakthrough, and such a table is indeed worthy of Li Shushi's evaluation of their combat effectiveness.

Yancheng, the royal city of the Guizi Kingdom, can be said to be the most majestic city that Li Shushi has ever seen in the Western Regions except for Chigu Castle. This yellow-and-white city has quite tall walls, and it is the same as Akaya Castle. It has a triple castle. And looking down from the top of the mountain in the distance, you can also see that the city is densely packed with large and small pagodas and temples, and there are more than 1,000 of them in a rough count.

This made Li Shushi can't help but think of Du Mu's Jiangnan Spring, only here, maybe it should be changed to "Qiuzi Eight Hundred and Forty Temple, how many buildings are in the dust" to be more appropriate, but from this we can also know how prosperous Buddhism is here.

Since the Buddhist temples are already so magnificent, the palace of Qiuzi is even more magnificent.

"Looking at it makes me feel like I can't sleep until I grab a pen." Lu Bu's eyes had turned into the shape of a copper coin.

"Okay, now it's up to us to make the most powerful jade sauce, use your hands to break the heavy city wall~!"

"People are not so violent~ And you are willing to hand over such heavy work to a weak woman."

If you are a weak woman, then you won't find a strong man in the whole army!

This is the common voice of all the men present who are deeply "poisoned" by Su Xiaololi.

And just when Li Shushi and Su Xiaololi were discussing ways to break the city wall. On the walls of Yeonseong. The King of Turtles, Fent Babi, was also looking at the dense army below with a worried face, and the officials and officials behind him were equally silent.

In fact, the king of Qiuci has done enough well, at least he has expanded the territory of Qiuci to the largest state of Qiuci's founding so far, and at the same time, he has not released all his strength in the face of Li Shushi's army. In fact, the previous battle was more like a temptation on his part. Although the results of this temptation were somewhat unforgettable for him. But this also made the troops in Yancheng City far beyond Li Shushi's imagination at this time, that is to say, this King of Qiuzi made the decision to defend the royal city at the first time, and even the envoys who asked for help from all directions were sent as soon as they heard that the Han army was menacing.

The rest. It is all the people who are united in defending the city while praying that the Han people will also return in vain this time.

However, the only thing that reassures Fenter Babi is that this is not Gumo's hometown, and the people here are quite supportive of him because of his more benevolent rule, so with the support of the triple fortress and the people, as well as the large amount of wealth and materials hoarded as a royal city, Fenter Babi Ni is confident that he will be able to rely on these supports for two years.

And with the size of the army outside the city, it is obvious that it cannot afford two years of food and grass consumption. However, it is also conceivable that after this battle, I am afraid that the rest of the Qiuci Kingdom will be hit by different Cheng Dù, and the Qiuci Kingdom will also lose the ability to continue to expand.

This made the originally ambitious Fenter Barbie mud somewhat melancholy and unwilling.

The Han army slowly assembled various siege equipment outside the city.

Although it was not impossible to assemble it immediately, and even relying on Li Shushi's golden fire cannons alone was enough, but in the end, he still chose this approach, after all, such an act did not need to cost too much, and it could also give the enemy a kind of pressure of "killing is coming". Even if it is not expected that such an act will directly crush the nerves of the defenders, if the seeds of "the Han army is strong and invincible" can be planted in their hearts, it will also be beneficial for the recovery of Qiuzi after the war.

After all, compared to a peaceful settlement, the way of war needs to consider not only the problem of fighting, but also the question of how to win the hearts and minds of the occupied people after the battle, after all, the land and properties of Qiuzi are very suitable as the seat of the Western Regions Protectorate, if they can't get a stable base, it obviously has no good impact on Li Shushi and Ban Fu's Western Regions plan.

Because of this, the whole day was spent in such a grind.

The time gradually came to the night.

"Because I didn't expect it, I didn't have a lot of materials to prepare, and the stone bullets shot by other trebuchets were not good-looking."

"So what are the trebuchets made during the day for, are they just wasted?"

"It's good to put this city on the city wall to defend the city after it is built, or it can be on the wall of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, but it's really not good to let those soldiers do a drill, practice makes perfect, da★ze~"

In the face of Su Xiaololi, who maliciously sells cuteness, no matter who she is, there is nothing wrong with it, not to mention that Li Shushi still has a little bit of expectations.

Looking forward to the cooperation of the Golden Fire Pot Cannon and the Chuan Guoxi, plus Su Xiaololi's cannonball, what kind of power will explode.

I hope that the soldiers and civilians in Yancheng City on the opposite side will not be scared out of Xiang, after all, the power of this thing is even beyond Li Shushi's control.

The meteor rises and the meteor falls, bringing with it a dull explosion.

Li Shushi's golden canister didn't seem to hit the city wall for the first time, but instead shot into the place between the first and second city walls, but when he heard all kinds of panicked sounds in the city, the effect didn't seem to be bad?

Anyway, Li Shushi just needs to sit back and enjoy the experience.

Of course, while enjoying the experience, he can also reminisce about the mysterious feeling when shooting the cannonball, as if the cannonball he went out with some kind of unique power and a mysterious trick will inevitably cause the greatest damage.

It's a strange feeling, and it's fascinating, as if you don't have to calculate the trajectory yourself to do the most damage......

The maximum damage is the same......

That's why it's because the walls are dead that cannonballs fall on the heads of the crowd.

Li Shushi didn't want to admit it anyway, but it was actually because his ability was too low to control this ability, which ultimately caused such a result.

Therefore, the revolution has not yet succeeded, so let the comrades continue to work hard.

So all night, the people of Yancheng were terrified to listen to the rumbling sound like thunder, and because Qiuci does not rain often, thunder is even rarer, such a sound caused them more fear, and even began to have "Han people invited immortals to help help attack Qiuzi" rumors began to circulate in the city.

The outermost wall of Yancheng looked like it had become crumbling in the sound of explosions one after another. (To be continued......)

ps: After watching the latest "Amber Sword", we said that we would bow down and worship Scarlet Yanda, such a setting really made us suddenly feel like tears in our eyes, knowing that we are still excited and can't help ourselves......