Chapter 779: Sending Troops to Dawan
"Let's send troops!" After a long while, Lin Xiangru slowly raised his head, his gaze swept over everyone's faces, and the old voice sounded in the hall.
The envoy of Zhao State cuckolded King Dawan, but was killed by King Dawan, there is no way to say this, it is too embarrassing.
But the envoy died, and it was the face of the entire Zhao State, and the Zhao State could not help but give an explanation to the people.
Not only to give an explanation, but also to use this incident to improve the cohesion of Zhao State, so that people who originally belonged to different countries have the same hatred and hatred for the enemy, and work together with the outside world.
There is no way, I can only grieve Dawan.
"Troops!" Wei Wuji nodded, "Although my Zhao Kingdom has not yet unified the Central Plains, I still have the power to control the Western Regions, and this is just an opportunity, if I miss it, I may not be able to wait for such a good opportunity."
"It's better to fight it early, the Western Regions are in the hands of my Zhao State, at least it will develop much faster than in the hands of that group of Hu people." Cai Ze also nodded.
On the side of the military generals, they don't have any opinions, they can't wait to fight and earn military merits.
As for Dawan......
No one cares!
"To recruit, Meng Wu is the main general, Yan Ju, Lian An, Yue Qi, Qiang Qi, and Tou Man are the deputy generals, and Mao Sui is the military advisor. Commanded 5,000 Zhao Fei cavalry, 5,000 camel cavalry, and 10,000 Hebei cavalry. Expedition to the West. All countries along the way must unconditionally provide food and grass for our Zhao army, otherwise they will be enemies of our Zhao country, and the Zhao army can attack at will. The widow has only one request, and he wants the head of King Dawan to hang in the north." Zhao Kuo stood up, pointed to the north gate tower of the palace, and said loudly.
With Zhao Kuo's order, the war machine of Zhao Guo was launched again.
Countless farmers were requisitioned to transport grain and grass, and on the middle reaches of the Yellow River, boats laden with grain, armor, and weapons lined up in long lines, slowly marching upstream.
The five kingdoms of Qin, Chu, Qi, Wei, and Han were shocked and hurriedly increased their troops to the border, until a month later, when they found that Zhao had not attacked any country, but had run to attack an unknown barbarian.
Fang Cai breathed a sigh of relief.
As long as Zhao doesn't attack them, and attacks whoever he likes to attack, it is best to lose his troops in the process of attacking the barbarians and reduce the threat to them.
"General Yu, Cheshi Guo allowed our army to borrow the road, but refused to provide food and grass support." Lian An strode into the camp tent and reported with his fists in his fist.
Meng Wu frowned suddenly, the chariot division was the first country that Zhao Jun encountered on the road, so he directly refused to provide grain and grass support, if Zhao Jun did not react, there would be no country to provide grain and grass for Zhao Jun next.
Although the countries of the Western Regions knew that Zhao was strong, the two sides had not really fought each other after all, and their impression of Zhao came more from commerce and trade.
They knew that Zhao had money and a lot of silk, and they called Zhao the Silk Country.
But they didn't really feel the power of Zhao ***.
Without the baptism of blood, without the stimulation of pain, they would not have revered Zhao Guo, for them, there was no difference between Zhao Guo's edict and rubbing paper.
They didn't believe that the Zhao army would really come to attack them, and even if they did, they didn't think that the Zhao army, which had driven thousands of miles, could still have any combat effectiveness.
If Zhao Jun wants to have fewer obstacles on the next march, reduce the burden of logistics, and let those countries obediently hand over grain and grass, he must be prestigious!
However, the Cheshi country was not easy to fight, and there were Gobi and deserts in the territory, which was not conducive to the cavalry of the Zhao army.
As for the camel ride, it has only been formed for less than two months and is still in the run-in stage, so it cannot be expected to play much of a role.
As a high-achieving student who graduated from Handan Military Academy, this is also the first time that Mengwu has led the army independently, and he hopes to be able to give a satisfactory answer to the imperial court.
"What do you think?" Meng Wu looked at the generals.
"Hit!" Mao Sui pointed to the map and said, "Although most of the territory of Cheshi is the Gobi and the desert, the national capital Jiaohe City is located south of the Tianshan Mountains, which is easy to attack and difficult to defend. Our army can easily take it by surprise as long as we send a small force of light cavalry."
Lian An and others nodded one after another, although Mao Sui was a literati, his personality was more like a martial artist, and he was deeply loved by military generals.
In the early morning of the next day, Yan Ju led Zhao Fei to march all the way to Jiaohe City, and without saying a word, launched an attack.
When the terrifying blade of light fell from the sky and split the Jiaohe city wall in two, all the charioteers were stunned.
They fully expected that Zhao Jun would suddenly be here and launch an attack on them.
"Why did the general attack on a small country like ours?" Cheshi Guojun knelt on the ground, he obviously promised Zhao Jun to borrow the way, why did he attack them.
"Those who disobey the edict of the king will be punished." Yan Ju said in a deep voice, behind him Zhao Fei rode murderously, a pair of huge light wings dancing up and down, like a heavenly soldier and a general, extremely shocking.
The charioteer knelt on the ground with the monarch up and down, trembling, not daring to resist at all.
Even the city wall couldn't stop Zhao Jun, let alone their flesh and blood.
You Zhao Jun said that you are so strong, why do you need to be so troublesome, tell us directly what you want, didn't we send it to you earlier? Where can you get it yourself?
"Disobedience to the King's Edict?" Che Shi Guojun was stunned for a moment, and it was not until he was reminded left and right that he suddenly realized, and hurriedly said, "How much grain and grass does Zhao Jun need, as long as my Che Shi Guo can take it, I will give it all to Zhao Guo."
"This is the national letter drawn up by Zhao Guo, sign it." Yan Ju threw down a piece of paper, and Cheshi Guojun hurriedly caught it with both hands, bit his finger, and pressed a handprint on it without the slightest hesitation.
Although Zhao Guo's conditions were very harsh, he didn't have any way, Yan Ju's big knife was next to his head, but if he dared to hesitate for half a second, his head and body would be separated.
"It's ...... Little Wang's eldest son." Che Shi Guojun pulled out a teenage child from behind him, pushed him in front of Yan Ju, and sighed deeply, "I will ask the general to help take care of it in the future."
"Don't worry, I will send someone to Handan and ask the teacher to teach him to read and write." Seeing that Cheshi Guojun was obedient and obedient, Yan Ju's complexion gradually eased.
Cheshi Guojun breathed a sigh of relief, if a teenager followed the march of the Zhao army, he would die, and although he was sent to Handan, although he left his hometown, at least it was not a problem to live, if it was really like Yan Ju said, invite a teacher to teach him to read and write, then this proton does not seem to be unacceptable.
Che Shiguo did not have his own writing, and he did not mind learning Zhao Guo's writing.
After killing chickens and setting an example for monkeys, Zhao Jun saved a lot of things on the next journey, and after receiving the edict from small countries along the way, they sent grain and grass to Zhao Jun, and they didn't dare to say a word.
Merchants doing business in the Western Regions were very excited when they heard that Zhao was going to expedition to Dawan, and they donated grain and grass to the army, and some merchants even spent huge sums of money to buy grain and grass to send to Zhao Jun.
Although the Zhao army went out to avenge the envoys, to a certain extent, it was also to support them.
The countries of the Western Regions are numerous, chaotic, and full of robbers, some are afraid of the Zhao State and dare not do anything against them, and some directly send troops to plunder.
Don't expect the people here to follow any rules.
The only rule here is strength.
Going to the Western Regions to do business is to make money, and a round trip may make a fortune, but who knows, they are fighting for their lives.
People will only notice how much money they have made when they come back, and no one will pay attention to the bones on the side of the road.
Only those of them, who are fellow merchants, will know each other's hardships.
Zhao Jun is here, which means that their backing is here, and someone is in charge for them.
There is nothing more powerful than a mighty empire to deter these small ones and give them a sense of security.
They dared to guarantee that as long as Zhao Guo could win this war, the robbers, troubles, and so on they encountered in the future would be directly reduced by half.
If Zhao State can garrison troops in the Western Regions after winning this war, these problems will be directly reduced by ninety percent, and wherever they go, people will respect them and dare not despise them in the slightest.
As long as they can help Zhao State win this war, even if they donate all the money they earned this trip to Zhao State, or even post it upside down, they are willing.
"I didn't expect that it was not these small countries that would help us the most, but the merchants of my Zhao Kingdom." Meng Wu again
Sent away a businessman, said happily.
These merchants provided thousands of stones of grain and grass, and more than tens of thousands of stones, and when they got together, hundreds of thousands of grains and grasses, as well as cattle, sheep, horses, camels, and so on.
And when almost every merchant left, they would say that they would continue to raise grain and grass after they returned, and Zhao Jun only needed to fight this battle well, and there was no need to worry about grain and grass.
Even if they were hungry, they would never let the soldiers of the Zhao army go hungry.
To be honest, even if he knew that there were some benefits in it, Meng Wu's nose was still a little sour when he heard these words.
They can not come at all, as long as Zhao Jun wins, they can still enjoy the benefits.
But they still came and donated all their grain and grass to Zhao Jun.
This is the businessman of Zhao State, while pursuing profits, handouts.
After leaving Gumo Kingdom, Zhao Jun received a news that Zhao merchants in Wusun Kingdom, in order to support Zhao Jun, sold goods at low prices, sold assets, and frantically purchased grain, grass, cattle, sheep, and horses, and were ready to donate them to Zhao Jun.
Soon, the vast wealth accumulated by the merchants of Zhao aroused the covetousness of the Wusun monarch, so he ordered the merchants to be seized and demanded that they surrender all their belongings.
After Mao Sui learned about it, he hurriedly found Meng Wu: "I Zhao Jun can't sit idly by and ignore this matter, don't say that these merchants are buying materials for Zhao Jun, even if it's not, I, Zhao Guo, have to make decisions for them." It is the duty of Zhao Jun to protect the Zhao people."
"What do you mean by ......," Meng Wu asked.
"Attack Wusun first, rescue the merchants of my Zhao Kingdom, and then attack Dawan." Mao Sui said in a deep voice.
"Good!" Meng Wu did not hesitate, Mao Sui's suggestion was in line with his ideas.
These merchants raised grain and grass for the Zhao army, but they were detained by Wusun State, which was simply a slap in the face of the Zhao army, and Meng Wu, as the main general, could bear it.
The army turned north, and it was not until October that the Zhao army crossed the Southern Tianshan Mountains and reached the territory of Wusun.
At this time, the weather was already very cold, and the biting cold wind was blowing on the grassland all day long, and even the vultures hid in the caves, and as far as the eye could see, there was not a single herdsman in sight.
Fortunately, when Zhao Jun went on the expedition, he knew that he would not be able to come back in a short time, so he prepared enough supplies and cotton clothes.
Mao Sui and Lian An had both been to Wusun before, and had a wonderful encounter with King Wusun, so they were relatively familiar with the terrain here.
Zhao Jun went all the way non-stop, and within three days, he broke through several cities and hit the city of Chigu City, the capital of Wusun Kingdom.
When King Wusun learned that the Zhao army had called, he was first surprised, and then he was overjoyed, and he seized the merchants just for money, and never thought of provoking the Zhao state.
His grandmother's Zhao Guo actually sent an army to crusade against him in the winter for the sake of a dozen businessmen, and his brain was really kicked by a donkey.
But this is just right, Lao Tzu is just taking revenge.
was kidnapped by Mao Sui back then, and let Zhao Guo and his party escape from Wusun, which was simply a shame for his life.
I thought that I would have no chance to take revenge in this life, so I could only spread anger from the merchants of Zhao State, but I didn't expect Zhao Jun to send it to the door.
"How many people are there in Zhao Jun?" King Wusun asked.
"About 20,000 kings, some of them are camels." The guards reported.
"Hahaha, only 20,000 people dare to attack my Wusun, it seems that Zhao Guo doesn't know the strength of my Wusun. Command all the troops and assemble the army." King Wusun ordered, striding outside, he was going to personally command the army to defeat the Zhao army.
Let the arrogant Zhao Guo know who is the king of the northwest!
When the Zhao army arrived at Chigu Castle, they did not attack immediately, but set up camp.
It's not summer now, it's winter, Zhao Jun ran all the way, his hands and feet were cold, there was no way to attack at this time, even if he was angry in his heart, he had to stay calm and do everything he could.
The next day, after the Zhao army had eaten and drunk enough, they came to the front of Chigu Castle, and Mao Sui drove forward and shouted at the city wall, "Where is King Wusun? Come out and answer."
Lian An stood next to Mao Sui and looked at Chi vigilantly
Valley City.
King Wusun stretched out his head to look at it, and suddenly saw the figure that he would never forget for the rest of his life, and immediately became furious, and shouted, "Give me an arrow and shoot him to death."
Left and right hurriedly raised arrows and shot towards Mao Sui, but the distance between the two sides was too far, and after the arrows flew out of a distance, they fell weakly at Mao Sui's feet.
"A bunch of trash." King Wusun said angrily.
"I'm coming, my lord." A general strode over from behind.
When King Wusun saw the visitor, he was overjoyed, and the person who came was one of the two transcendent realm generals of Wusun, and he was also the general Mo Kun he relied on the most.
Mo Kun took out the bow and arrow from his back, aimed at Mao Sui, and as soon as his fingers were loosened, the arrow feathers pierced the sky and shot towards Mao Sui.
"Not good!" Lian Anxin was startled, and hurriedly blocked in front of Mao Sui, and with a wave of the halberd in his hand, he blocked Mo Kun's arrow.
"The person next to him is also transcendental, as long as this person is there, the final general will not be able to kill him." Mo Kun shook his head and sighed, what he didn't know was that even if Lian An was not there, he wouldn't be able to kill Mao Sui.
Mao Sui's mental power was enough to push away the arrows he fired.
"Transcendental!" King Wusun gritted his teeth and looked at Lian An, he not only recognized Mao Sui, but also recognized Lian An. A few years ago, the other party was definitely not transcendent.
It seems that it should be the same as the two transcendent realms in Wusun, which have only broken through in recent years.
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