As the existence of the express vanguard, Gao Pet and his party, all the way to the west, saw more and more caravans stranded everywhere. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info and the atmosphere is getting more and more tense. Ten days after their departure, they had arrived at the northwest gateway of the Han Dynasty, Yumen Pass.

There is a clear difference between the Yumen Pass and the past, because the merchants have basically left, except for some military households and local residents, there are basically no caravans, instead of frequent soldier patrols, the entire pass has fallen into a state of combat readiness.

Gao Zhong asked the troops to rest on the spot to replenish supplies, and then took Shaoyuan and Wu Xu to the pass guard to receive supplies, preparing to continue westward. At this moment, Gao Chong's military rank and the guard's military rank are at the same level, so when the guards saw Gao Chong coming to find the guard, they did not delay, and immediately reported it. After a while, the guard personally came out to look for them with his own soldiers, and joked, "It's just that I haven't seen them for a month, and I never thought that the two Qincha lords would come again."

Gao Chong also smiled and arched his hand, "General, we are going to bother again"

The guard will get out of the way, "Please come in, this is not the place to speak, seeing that you are wearing armor, you must have come for something important." ”

In the barracks, the soldiers were stepping up their drills, and there was an atmosphere of imminent war in the barracks, so why was it that they were not so nervous in Jiuquan a few days ago, and why were they so dignified when they came to Yumen Pass? I am afraid that the reason for this is not only as simple as being close to the Western Regions. Shao Yuan was about to come back to his senses and ask Gao Pet what he thought, but he suddenly found that Gao Pet was only three steps away from him, but he and the Yumen guards in the silver and white cloak walked this kind of general together, and the momentum from behind did not fall by half a point. For a moment, Shao Yuan felt that Gao Pet was actually far away from them, so he stayed lightly.

Immediately, they walked to the main account, and within the main account, Shao Yuan also knew the answer he wanted.

In the main account, there are two maps, one is the topographic map of the 36 countries of the Western Regions, and the other is the topographic map of Liangzhou, the map of Liangzhou has not yet been marked with red dots at the moment, but the 36 countries of the Western Regions, among which the north of the Tianshan Mountains and the south of the Altai Mountains have been densely packed, and they can even be said to be terrifying.

The guard general sat on the main seat, and then let Gao Zhong and the others sit separately, and first asked, "General Gao, what are you doing here?"

"General, we are here to reinforce the Western Regions as a vanguard force, this is the emperor's special order to supervise the army of the Lu Guard, because we want to dare to come to Yumen Pass as soon as possible, so we rode all the way to come, so we came to Yumen Pass to replenish supplies, our army has a total of 853 people, and the documents are here"

The guard frowned and nodded, "I've seen the Lu Jian Army, it's easy to handle the materials, I will immediately assign the quartermaster to deploy the materials with you, but you only brought more than 800 people to the Western Regions?

Gao Chong shook his head, "The last general doesn't know about this matter, but he just received the emperor's order to take the first step, general, could it be that something happened in the Western Regions?

The guard stood up and motioned for them to come near the map, first the map of the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions. "As you can see, the Xiongnu have broken through a number of small countries in the southern Altai Mountains of the 36 countries in the Western Regions at this moment, and it seems that this time it is different from the previous captivity, it seems that the Xiongnu are larger, the latest news has not yet been received, this is the situation five days ago, in my opinion, this time the imperial court needs to send a large army to come"

Gao Zhong frowned, "The imperial army is needed, could it be that the Northwest Army has also encountered any trouble?"

The guard nodded, "This is exactly why Yumen Pass is suddenly so nervous, because yesterday a cavalry who went out to patrol the sentry discovered the abnormality"

Gao Zhong said keenly: "Could it be that the Xiongnu still appeared on the border of the Han Dynasty?"

The guard nodded, "Yumen Pass has been one hundred and eighty miles, and a certain scale of horse manure and horse hoof prints have been found, which is neither a trade road nor a place where people live, so at the moment I suspect that the Huns are back."

Gao Chong frowned and said, "If this is the case, the Northwest Army cannot move lightly, otherwise if the Northwest Army leaves the Western Regions lightly, the four counties of Hexi will face the Hun soldiers, and when the time comes, Hugh will say that Hexi, even Liangzhou, and Si Li may have to face the Hun soldiers."

The guard general said, "That's why we need the imperial army to arrive, and now the Northwest Army is still stationed in the four counties of Hexi, so there is no need to worry so much about the four counties of Hexi, but the Western Regions are really a headache."

Gao Zhong asked, "General, how many Han troops are there in the Western Regions right now?"

The guard general said, "Two thousand troops in the northwest, two thousand in the Western Regions, a total of four thousand people"

Gao Zhong nodded, looked at the map and shook his head, "That is, there is basically no need to think about recovering these areas, general, I will build a defensive line in front of Pei Shanguo, a fortress in the Western Regions, and wait for our army to come to help, and the problems of food and grass will be left to me."

The guard nodded, "It's rare that as a young man, you don't have the youthful vigor to make those unrealistic ideas, okay, you can hold Pei Shanguo and wait for help, but it's not easy to hold the front line of Pei Shanguo, remember, if you can't catch it, you will retreat as soon as possible, don't go deep alone, the distance from Yumen Pass to Pei Shanguo is not close, it's not a place that can be reached for a moment, you remember to do what you can in all situations"

Gao Pet nodded, "I understand, then we will go down and prepare at this moment"

Back in his camp, Gao Pet took off his helmet without saying a word, Shaoyuan a layman naturally didn't know what to say, and could only take off his helmet and sit aside, I have to say that this armor felt so handsome and stylish when I first put it on, but when you need to wear him every day, you will really feel the horror of this set of armor, and even practicing martial arts and swords, it is much more tiring than usual, and even many exquisite actions can not be completed.

After a while, Wu Xu walked close to the big tent, clasped his fists and said, "General, the grain, grass, bows and arrows are almost here, this is the list, you see"

Gao Zhong went through the list, "Let's get more bows and arrows, we have too few people this time, so this time we are very likely to refuse to defend the city and will not fight the Huns head-on"

Wu Xu nodded and withdrew.

Shaoyuan suddenly asked, "Ah Pet, the Northwest Army has been stationed for many years, can't you keep the enemy out of the country?"

Gao Pet shook his head and said with a wry smile, "Shaoyuan, do you know that there are three thousand miles along the northern part of Liangzhou, and to the north is the vast grassland, even if 100,000 people attack, go to the grassland, the wilderness is vast, 100,000 people is not a big number." In addition, the Xiongnu are nomadic people, extremely mobile, today in the east, tomorrow in the west, after the battle will not be occupied, immediately withdraw. How should we pursue? The Northwest Army had no choice but to station near the city, at least to keep the city with a large number of inhabitants, and if it was not to besiege the city, it could resist the city and wait for reinforcements. If it was a frontal battle, even if the Xiongnu were three times larger than the Northwest Army, they would not be able to escape the fate of defeat, and if it was guerrilla harassment, there was not much way to do it. After all, we are in the light, and they are in the dark. ”

Shaoyuan shook his head helplessly, "So there are fewer and fewer small villages, forming big villages, and then forming towns, that's the reason, right?"

Gao Chong nodded, "Liangzhou is not as peaceful as the Central Plains, Shaoyuan, you are so restive, after replenishing the grain and grass, we are about to set off, the situation on the battlefield is changing very quickly, I arrived early, and my heart is a little more stable."