Around the Han people once again sent troops to the Western Regions. The lord of Wusun, Da Kunmi, and his most core civil and military subordinates had a discussion to decide the fate of Wusun.

There is no doubt that this extraterritorial country, which has been described by Han historians as "the people are just evil, greedy wolves have no trust, and many thieves", has never thought of surrendering to the Han people. The unruly Wusun people did not think of surrendering when they were threatened by the Huns, the heroic Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did not think about surrendering when he defeated the Xiongnu, and the beautiful and kind Princess Xie Wei did not think about surrendering when she married.

To this day, when the 100,000 troops of the king of Pingxi sent out to the Tianshan Mountains, from the lord of the country to the young and strong, they unanimously chose to use sabers in response.

After the two generals on the left and right who were in charge of the war in the whole country of Wusun firmly set the tone for the decisive battle to the end, the three local administrative chiefs who controlled the eastern, northwestern, and southwestern regions of the Wusun Kingdom, that is, the Marquis of Xi, unanimously stated that they would spare all human and financial resources to support the two generals' military operations.

The Great Kunmi then appointed the left and right generals to lead an army of 40,000 each, and the eastern army passed between the Hark Mountains and the Saarmin Mountains, with the goal of Wensu, and the western army detoured to the west of the remaining veins of the Tianshan Mountains, with the goal of Weitou. Da Kunmi also appointed the two eunuchs on the left and right to immediately set off to Kangju and Dawan to ask for help from these two countries, and the Wusun people were willing to take out 20% of the national income in the future to give Dawan and Kangju, just to get 60,000 reinforcements.

Xiang Dalu is a wise man who is old and calculating, he is familiar with the ravines and ravines in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and he knows how to give full play to the elusive mobility advantages of the Wusun cavalry. He suggested to Dakunmi: "I know of a hidden passage on the shady side of Mount Saarmin, where a river flows southeast from the valley and finally flows into the Qin Sea in the territory of the Yanqi Kingdom. If we can borrow reinforcements from Dawan and Kangju, we might as well let them replace the 40,000 soldiers under the command of General Zuo, and then let General Zuo lead the army around the north of Saarmin Mountain, and go down the river valley to Yanqi to destroy the Han army's logistics and supply nest. ”

Wusun Translator, who was in charge of translation affairs, raised his own questions after Xiang Dalu finished speaking. He said to Da Kunmi: "The Qiuzi spies hiding in Yanqi have recently sent news that they have found that there is an army of more than 50,000 cavalry, which did not accompany the Han army marching west along the Green Ridge River, but actually went the opposite way and headed to the east. Since the Han army has mobilized the army this time, there is no reason to let its main cavalry not use, but only rely on tens of thousands of infantry to fight, so the movement of these 50,000 cavalry is very suspicious!"

After listening to the translator's words, Xiang Dalu took out a map of the Western Regions drawn in a whole sheepskin, and after carefully studying it for a while, his face changed color. He said with some excitement: "The Han army is really cunning, deliberately sending infantry to attract our attention, and even intending to let these 50,000 cavalry go out of the sky from the Jiaohe Pass in the middle of the front and rear chariot divisions to outflank our back!"

Da Kunmi asked with some surprise: "In this way, our troops are obviously insufficient, how should we arrange our troops before the Kangju Dawan reinforcements arrive?"

After thinking for a moment, Xiang Dalu replied: "Our rear naturally cannot allow the Han people to enter, so we must first gather a large army to deal with these 50,000 cavalry. I suggest that General Zuo lead 60,000 cavalry to immediately set up an ambush at the Tianshan Pass in the upper reaches of the Ili River, and that this Han cavalry not be allowed to break into our rear under any circumstances. The right general led 20,000 cavalry plus 20,000 temporary clansmen, blocked in the Harke Mountain and Saarmin Mountain, and was not in a hurry to go out to rescue Wensu and Weitou and other places, I concluded that the Han infantry occupying the westward march would definitely not rush over the Tianshan Mountains to fight a decisive battle with us!"

The right general frowned and asked Xiang Dalu, "How can you be sure that the Han infantry will not attack the passage between Sahark Mountain and Arming Mountain with all their might?

"The Han army's battle line is so long, but the troops of 60,000 people actually put on a three-way formation on the left, center and right, which is clearly deliberately revealing flaws, intending to attract our main force to go south and go out of the mountains to fight a decisive battle with them. They are not good at attacking in the mountains, but are good at positional defense, so I can be sure that their main direction of attack is not in the south!" explained Xiang Daro.

Da Kunmi supported Xiang Dalu's judgment and asked, "This time we are not only going to defend our homeland, but we are also going to fight back fiercely against the Han army that has come to offend. So, when Kangju and Dawan's reinforcements arrive, how should we deploy our troops?"

Xiang Dalu replied: "After the reinforcements arrive, we will do what we want, let the Kangju and Dawan coalition forces go south to fight with the Han infantry to attract their attention, and then use the 40,000 warriors under the command of the right general to sneak through the nameless river valley, and suddenly appear in the territory of Yanqi State, killing the Han people by surprise! The Han army has always attached great importance to logistics and supply, and once the troops in the front hear that the old nest has been ended, they will definitely be in a state of confusion and collapse without a fight. At that time, the right general can lead his troops to the east to approach the rear of the Jiaohe fortress, completely cutting off the rear route of the 50,000 Han cavalry north of the Tianshan Mountains!"

The left and right generals listened to Xiang Dalu's arrangement, nodded one after another, and agreed that it was feasible. General Zuo said: "As long as we attack from the north and south and eliminate the 50,000 cavalry of the Han army, then the Han infantry advancing west will be like lambs on the grassland, we can chase them and bite them until they drain the last drop of blood in their bodies!"

After discussing this, the high-level leaders of Wusun reached a decision to counterattack the Han army, so they acted separately according to the tasks assigned by Da Kunmi.

At the beginning of March of the eighth year of Guangxi, the 20,000 soldiers of the Chinese army under the command of Guan Yu entered the Harke Mountain and the Saarmin Mountain, but encountered fierce resistance from the Wusun people in the mountain. Although the troops invested by both sides were only a few thousand, the Pingxi army did not pick up any advantages, so they had to withdraw from the foothills and return to the plains to hold on.

In mid-March, 50,000 Han cavalry led by Ma Chao appeared at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, and as a result, they marched forward for less than 50 miles, and were intercepted by the same number of Wusun cavalry. Ma Chao then led his troops to retreat to Jiaohe City, waiting for an opportunity to find a fighter.

In late March, the two eunuchs of Wusun Kingdom, who went to Kangju and Dawan to ask for reinforcements, did not fail in their mission, and actually borrowed 50,000 and 30,000 reinforcements from Kangju and Dawan respectively.

With 80,000 reinforcements joining the battle group, the original confrontation between the two sides took a sharp turn for the worse in early April, becoming more and more unfavorable to Guan Yu's army.

At this time, many generals in the army began to wonder whether Guan Yu's two-way division strategy and the one-word long snake formation were a bit careless, because judging from the current situation, withdrawing 60,000 infantry into a straight line to defend the Wusun people is very likely to be divided and surrounded after being broken through, and in the end it will cause a big disaster.