6. Internal and external troubles (II)

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Although he really wanted to take the opportunity to take advantage of the Wusun people, Jia Xu finally stopped Li Shushi's anger relief.

So when half a day later, Li Shushi, who had escaped the noon sun, finally agreed to the request of the Wusun people - pretending to send three people back to report the news and ask for help, while Li Shushi led the troops to the west with the Wusun people as the guide.

Of course, those three so-called "cronies" were just sent to Yiwu to be Ren Du's subordinates, anyway, three more people are not too many, and three people are not many, and they have to be dedicated enough to act, right?

In addition, Li Shushi also left Zhang Tai and his second son Zhang Hua behind, and at the same time left two hundred strong private soldiers.

These men were mainly used to lead and train the nearly 5,000 slaves in the rear of the chariot division, and to wait for the army that would arrive later.

Li Shushi restored all the slaves to freedom, and promised that they would be given land in this wartime and become tuntian soldiers who undertook military affairs, and those who performed well would not only be rewarded, but also had the opportunity to be promoted to generals, and the treatment was no different from that of the Han Chinese.

Although the spirit of these slaves is not very good, Li Shushi still sees something called "hope" from many people, as long as they set some examples, most of them should be able to become Li Shushi's supporters in the Western Regions.

Li Shushi clearly remembers the emergence of famous generals of different races in the open era of the Tang Dynasty in the future-whether it is Gao Xianzhi from the peninsula, Heizhi Changzhi, or the Turkic Ashinadur, Tiele Qibi He Li, etc., they have all made great contributions to the expansion of the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Li Shushi is not very demanding, if he can grow up one of these 5,000 people, he will be worth the ticket price, and even if all these 5,000 people will die in the future in the battle for the Han Dynasty and stabilize the Western Regions, he will not lose anything.

In fact, for these people, Li Shushi knows very well that Wang Nongslip in the front of the division is very greedy, although the combat effectiveness is a little low, but for the front and rear of the division with a huge gap in national strength, Nonggli is already a little hungry.

However, Li Shushi was not too disappointed to leave Zhang Tai as commander of these people, because with the protection of these people, the front of the division was at least more protected than before, and if there was an invasion by foreign enemies, he could naturally ask the Han people to send this force, so that his own men and horses could be saved. Not to mention that he also knew that the Han people's ability to command battles was far better than his own, and those people could only be used as cannon fodder in their own hands, but it was difficult to say what kind of army they would become in the hands of the Han people.

Anyway, Li Shushi just hopes that Nonghua will provide this army with food and grass for a period of time, and when Li Shushi solves the problem of Wusun, maybe this army will follow the new Western Regions Protector to the governor's office of the Metropolitan Protectorate.

And just when Zhang Tai took Zhang Hua and began to incorporate the group of cannon fodder troops who had just escaped from the slaves, Li Shushi and his party had also embarked on the road to the west under the guidance of Le Mi, and the first thing they needed to break through was the Baishui Stream, which was not too far from Jiaohe City, and the area that was named "Daban" in the future, which translated into Chinese is the name of the mountain pass.

While on the road, Li Shushi once again asked Le Mi about Wusun's current situation.

This time, I probably know that things are prioritized, and I have to cooperate far more than before.

After Le Mi's introduction, Li Shushi understood that Wusun's current situation can be said to be very delicate.

In fact, when the Xianbei people showed their might in the west, the old king of Wusun, Lelaso, had already responded by arranging the first line of defense along the Manas River in the east and around the Alashankou Pass in the north. Although the nomadic Wusun is not good at defense, it is still within their ability to use the favorable terrain to stop the enemy army. However, unlike the Han Chinese, who built fortresses and even cities for defense, the Wusun people only built a few defensive posts and beacon towers at most, and they still relied more on the horses under their crotches and the blades in their hands than the city walls.

He then set up a second line of defense on the Denultai Trail in the remaining Borokonu Mountains of the Tien Shan Mountains, and also arranged rangers along the Ili River to prevent the Xianbei from bypassing these dangerous passes along the Sarejeshik Atyrau Desert and plunging into Lake Isaac.

And the area around Lake Isaac is also the final line of defense set by Lelaso, because if you cross here, Akiti Castle is actually close at hand, and the only way left is Cage City.

It can also be said that Wusun at that time was actually only half a step away from the death of the country.

In addition, Lelaso asked Kangju for help and also asked Kangju to help him keep an eye on the situation in the north of Kangju, once the Xianbei people may plan to bypass Lake Balkhash and invade Wusun from the east through Kangju, then the Kangju people can first help the Wusun people resist for a while, and Wusun can naturally calmly withdraw his troops from several lines of defense and quickly throw them to the Kangju battlefield.

With Wusun's kindness to help Kangju resist the Kushan Empire and let Kangju obey the Kushan Empire**, even if Lelaso asked Kangju in a commanding tone, presumably Kangju would listen carefully, after all, Kangju and Wusun can be said to be a relationship of cold lips and teeth - Wusun needs Kangju to help him resist the attack of the Kushan people, and Kangju also needs Wusun's support to maintain his identity as **.

Even Lelaso asked Dawan in the southwest for help, but he didn't know why he was refused. After all, Dawan is in the Ferghana Basin, easy to defend and difficult to attack, unwilling to be interfered with by others and unable to interfere with others, the national policy has tended to be more conservative since the Western Han Dynasty, and I think this is also one of the important reasons for Dawan's refusal.

Although he was a little helpless not being able to invite Dawan's reinforcements, he still believed that he could protect the country of the Wusun people, even if they had to face the tough Xianbei people and Lelaso himself was decrepit.

It's just that the situation is obviously a bit unexpected by Lelaso.

Perhaps it was the defeat that passed through Yanmen that made the Xianbei people think about it very calmly, and at the same time put away the impetuous atmosphere they had originally cultivated from the Tanshi Huai period, after careful planning, the Danhan Mountain royal court troops led by Kuitou and Qianman easily crossed the defense line of the Manas River, and in the face of the Xianbei people who were also or even more proficient in tracking and counter-tracking, Wusun's rangers did not wield the desired effect, and by the time they reacted, it was already four days later.

Of course, even if they reacted, they didn't take it to heart, because in their opinion, the Xianbei army that they needed to pay attention to the most was still grinding in the east, and the Xianbei royal court army was thousands of miles away.

As for the infiltration of small units? The Wusun people really don't have the energy and strength to carry out large-scale encirclement and suppression.

In the face of a great enemy like Xianbei, it is obviously unrealistic to want not to suffer losses, so even if those rangers who slipped through the net broke through some settlements and other places, the Wusun people were ready to bear it.

What's more, in fact, the Wusun people did not receive similar information.

Originally, the Dengnu Le Tai Mountain Road was supposed to be a good place to stop the Xianbei invasion forces, after all, the terrain was dangerous and it was a canyon terrain with a considerable length, and the Wusun people would have to pay a huge price to get through Guò if they blocked the enemy at the mouth of the valley.

It's a pity that the troops stationed here are not the army of the Han Dynasty, but a group of nomads who are accustomed to coming and going like the wind, for whom it is quite a great thing to erect a simple wooden fence as a fortification.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that they needed a royal city to show their rule many years ago, maybe their city-building skills were still stuck in primitive societies or even inferior, not to mock their abilities, but that they were not willing to use their brains for such things. For them, the feeling of the wind blowing on their cheeks while sprinting on horseback is obviously much more comfortable than staying in a depressing building, as many people in modern times love drag racing.

But such habits by this time clearly affected their actions.

Compared with the tall city walls of the Central Plains, the Xianbei people are obviously more comfortable with such battles. The leader led most of his troops through the valley to attract the attention of the Wusun, while Qianman led a small group of elite troops from the mountains to behind them.

The Wusun people, who were originally surprised by the sudden appearance of the Xianbei army, were copied by Qianman again, and in a panic, they did not notice that Qianman's troops were actually not very many, they could have held Tanikou with a small number of troops and then turned over to eat Qianman's sneak attack troops, but because they were worried that the back road would be cut off, they took the initiative to withdraw from Taniguchi's defense and came to the wide battlefield they were more familiar with.

After that, it was the performance time of the Xianbei people.

Faced with the main force of the second line of defense of the Wusun army, which wanted to recapture Tanikou and destroy them, the Xianbei people unexpectedly chose to retreat quickly, and then the Xianbei people quickly reduced to zero, and continued to lure the main force of Wusun with most of them, while the remaining soldiers and horses began to intersperse with detours, and the Wusun people, who were carried away by the victory, did not notice the movement of the Xianbei small force.

So, on the battlefield pre-designed by the Xianbei people, the group of Xianbei cavalry who had already "fled" suddenly appeared on the battlefield and defeated the rear flank of the Wusun people in one fell swoop. Subsequently, the two armies defeated the Wusun army in front and back.

And this battle is a roundabout interspersed action led by Qianman to complete the Xianbei elite.

To be honest, hearing the heroic appearance of the young but extremely strong young man on the battlefield described by Le Mi, Li Shushi almost couldn't believe that it was true, because in the information obtained by Li Shushi, the young man had always been very mediocre, and it was not an exaggeration to call him a puppet of other nobles in Xianbei, but he never thought that after removing the shackles on his body, the growth of the young man was shocking.

In the whole battle, it can be seen that if the Xianbei army has not been planned for a long time, then their tactical execution ability will only be a very big trouble for Li Shushi's trip to Wusun, and in the field battle, in the face of this kind of tactics of actively mobilizing the enemy and then seizing the flaws exposed by the enemy when the enemy is moving, there is basically no very good way to crack it, unless you can use tactics to lure the opponent into the battlefield that you are good at.

I'm afraid this will be the key factor in determining the success or failure of the battle.

There is no suspense in the rest of the story - the defeated Wusun people were chased back to their hometown by the Xianbei people, and the loss of nearly 30,000 people was a nerve-wracking for Wusun. The already somewhat weak Wusun King Lelaso was vomited blood, and at the same time, the ambitions of some people who were originally strongly suppressed by the old king finally dispersed.

It was this situation that finally prompted Lelaso to send his youngest brother to Dahan, and he was already prepared for the worst.

ps: Today is the day when Li Longji, the founder and terminator of the Tang Dynasty, died of illness. The man who ushered in China's prosperity and made China's green card one of the most popular things in the world has received mixed reviews, and his life has been full of turmoil and intrigues.

However, he is still worth rejoicing, after all, the Anshi Rebellion failed to overthrow the rule of the Tang Dynasty after all, so he is no better than bearing the infamy borne by the fallen kings of Shang and Sui Yang, even if Shang Yang has the merit of pacifying Dongyi and Sui Yang also has the great cause of splitting the Turks, stabilizing the northwest frontier and building the Grand Canal that will benefit the Qianqiu. And our Yang Guifei was once the daughter-in-law of Emperor Tang Ming, and her nature seems to be no less bad than that of Shang Xuan's wife who molested Huang Feihu......

Therefore, the greatest truth in this world is to win the king or defeat the king.

PS2: Today is also the day of the death of the famous dramatist William Shakespeare (April 23 is calculated using the Julian calendar of the Romans, and the Gregorian calendar is May 3, and by the way, the maker of the Julian calendar is called Julius Caesar.) Well, when you hear the name, you should actually react to what we're going to say. Yes, this guy is Gaius Julius Caesar, the representative of the Red Luo in the Total War, the greatest military strategist of the Roman Republic, and the adoptive father of Octavian, the founder of the Roman Empire).

The allure of Shakespeare's plays is no longer in the streets, and his greatness can only be seen in the frequency with which he appears in various literary publications. Although "Romeo and Juliet" is not one of the four major tragedies, it has deeply infected countless people. And the phrase "live or die"...... evolved the "golden milk in the city" that sold milk and the popular "chrysanthemum residue".

PS3: Today is also the day of the death of Kikunae Ikeda, a Japanese chemical bond. The reason why I want to mention him is not to say anything bad about this person, on the contrary, without him, many people will have a lot of trouble cooking because it is this person who has one of the essential seasonings of our life - monosodium glutamate.

Although many people use various reasons to show how dangerous monosodium glutamate is to human health, it is undeniable that MSG has indeed ushered in an era where we are constantly looking for more delicious substances from familiar foods and processing them into universally usable seasonings, making it easier for us to get more delicious food.

Except, of course, those who can only make hellish dark dishes anyway or habitually use concentrated sulfuric acid or neutral detergents as condiments, after all, not everyone has the appetite of a fool or a butler without stomach perforation.