The lord of Quli is named Karehan, the younger brother of the king of Quli, and he has a sad experience of being a hostage with Lai Dan and being rejected for his pursuit of Princess Qiuzi.But the reason why Karehan chose to surrender to the Han army was not because he had a dog-licking friendship with Raidan, but because of the three words that Raidan said to him."
Luntai City, which is adjacent to the west of Yuli, was also strong for a while, and the number of people was dozens of times that of Quli City."
The Han army has occupied Loulan, and the ditch and plough are determined to be won, and a large army will arrive soon.""
I vouch for the identity of the captain of the envoy of Huloulan to the west, as long as you surrender to the Han, you will be the future king of Yuli."
Under coercion and temptation, although he felt a little sorry for his brother, Karehan simply surrendered.On the bright side, in the end, no matter who wins the Western Regions between the Han and the Xiongnu, Yuli will not be as dead as Luntai.So he let people vacate the house and invited the Han army to enter the city and station.However, Lai Dan and two hundred Han troops were stationed in Quli, while the rest of the people camped at the Tiemen Pass in the north to block the reinforcements of the Xiongnu and Yuli from moving south.The next day, Fu Jiezi came back and asked Karehan to collect all the Ding Zhuang in the city and help the Han army.The people of Yuli left this place by the Han army, and lived in Quli for more than ten years, with a population of 1,480 and only 3,400 Ding Zhuang, and they were all driven out of the city by Karehan.The ditch plough in the middle of November of the summer calendar, the temperature has reached below zero in the morning, and it is still warm during the day, the ditch plough people are not dressed thickly, under the threat of the Han army, carrying their own farm tools and wooden buckets, driving cattle and horses, trembling and walking north for more than ten miles, coming to the vicinity of the iron gate.The young man in charge of the area was elegant and easy-going, and he spoke to the people of the canal plough with a pleasant face, and told them what to do."
Carry sand into the Iron Gate Pass."
What is the most in the Western Regions?
The answer is sand.Although the land of the canal plough is fertile, and Sang Hongyang believes that "5,000 acres of irrigated fields" can be irrigated, but more than 100 miles to the south, it is the vast Taklamakan that is often blown by wind and sand.Some small sand nests have also been formed, and there is such a piece in a place close to the iron gate two or three miles.So the ditch ploughman was in full swing, shoveling sand and shoveling sand, loading soil and transporting it to the Tiemen Pass with oxen-drawn carts.Then it was carried by manpower with wooden barrels and dustpans, and poured into the wooden planks that the Han army had nailed overnight.Xi Chongguo took his soldiers with strong crossbows and guarded the big rock hill a few miles to the north to prevent the Huns from going south.In between the work, the canal ploughman also found that the Han army had also erected some equipment in the canyon, and cooperated up and down to continuously lift water from the deep stream and the Peacock River, which had not yet frozen.They knew that this was a Han reel, which was used to draw water from wells.The Western Regions originally did not know how to dig wells, and it was only introduced by the Han people 20 years ago, and the most convenient thing about Quli City was that there were many wells, which were inexhaustible.And finally filled the plate with sand, and the poplar trunk used as a support was not passed, according to the method of building a city in the Han land, everyone should stand on it and work together, holding wooden sticks to ram it.Even if it is a local method of plowing the canal, it is necessary to mix a layer of sagebrush grass and red willow branches, and everyone goes up and jumps and steps on it, jumping on it for five or six days in a row, and the sand and soil are trampled tightly, and a section of the city wall is considered to be built.But the young man surnamed Ren was not.But when it was about to fall at night, when the sky was sprinkled with snowflakes, after laughing for a while, let the Han army pour the water brought up from the Peacock River on the sand little by little!
It was just dawning, and with a light snowfall last night, the temperature was getting colder and colder.In the canyon more than ten miles north of the iron gate, there is a place called Zini Spring, the place is relatively spacious, full of felt tents, the campfire of dry cow dung burning is rising, and people huddle together in twos and threes to keep warm."
Servant Captain, the Han army has been forced to retreat!"
Daigo Ada, the servant who had been waiting for a long time with a gloomy face, finally heard the good news."
Let's go!"
Daigo Ada immediately made the Huns shout, urging the Yuli people, Yanqi people, and Weisu people who were huddled together to get up, and prepare to advance south at dawn to demolish the Guancheng that the Han army was ramming.All three states were located in the Yanqi Basin, on the shores of Lake Bosten, and were the most faithful servants of the Richai king.A few days ago, when he heard that the Han army had taken Zhubin City and immediately headed north, he quickly went south and ordered the kings of the three states to recruit troops.But it was still a step late, and the day before yesterday, the cavalry of the Han army took the lead to jam the Tiemen Pass, and Quli City surrendered without a fight.Yesterday, they actually began to build the city with great swagger, did they want to use the royal tribe of the sun as rats and block them in the basin?
Although there is no iron gate, there is a way to get out, but either it is a deep mountain and a steep road, which is difficult for the army to cross, or the road is far away, and you have to go around in a big circle on the side of the Cheshi country.So Daigo Ada made up his mind that he would not let the Han army succeed!
Speaking of which, twenty years ago, when the Han army was ploughing the canal and ploughing the fields, it was not without the idea of building a pass at the iron gate, but every time there was a move, the Huns took their servants and pushed it back and demolished it.It's the same this time!
But it is really difficult to walk in the valley, the left and right mountains are sandwiched, a line is drawn in the middle, the dangerous stones beside the road stand sideways, the e'e is prostrate, a bow is a deep ditch, the Peacock River in the ditch is surging, a little negligence, people and horses will fall into the ditch, and they will die.On the way, King Yuli, who had lost a city, was worried, and the king of Yanqi had a gloomy face, while the man whispered a rumor that a few years earlier, the princess of Yanqi, Drohera, had fallen in love with a shepherd, and the king was furious, and captured the shepherd, and wanted to put him to death.When Zohra learned of this, he managed to save his sweetheart, and when the king found out, he immediately sent men after him, and the lovers were running at night in the valley of Shaliu, but unfortunately they fell into a deep stream with their men and horses, and although they did not find the body, they were supposed to be dead.Afterwards, people found that at some point, the place where the pair of people fell off the cliff had grown a few pear trees that only existed near the city of Qulicheng, and in the spring, the white flowers bloomed one by one, and there were butterflies dancing gently beside them.So there were rumors that the princess was incarnated as a pear blossom, and the butterfly was a shepherd.Whether the legend is true or not, it is true that King Yanqi was uncomfortable when he saw this road, and he used it as an excuse to stop halfway, as did the timid King Yuli.Only three or four thousand men remained, under the persecution of the Huns, carrying weapons and farm tools, and from time to time there were shivering and wailing, and although the snow had stopped, the road under their feet was still covered with snow, and even though the strikers shoveled it away, the road remained slippery.No, after someone slipped and fell, two people fell off the cliff together, and everyone looked down, only to see a hand stretched out in the turbulent water, and hearing the echo of their screams, everyone's hearts were furious.And by the time thousands of people arrived at the end of the valley, where the Han army had built the city, the sun had fully risen.In Daigo Ada's thoughts, near the Iron Gate Pass, there is a lot of pure sand, and it is not resistant to plate building, even if the soil is transported, it will take time to ram the city, which can be done overnight?
Today, the Han army was at most facing its own side through a half-man-high loose earthen wall, and as long as they endured dozens of casualties and rushed over, they could completely destroy it.Although the Han army has strong crossbow armor, there are many people here, in addition to the Xiongnu, as a half-cultivated and half-pastoral people, the three states can also make up more than a thousand archers.If you throw it, the bow and arrow have a long range, and a volley is enough to suppress the Han army!
This morning, they relied on this to drive the Han soldiers away from Dashigang.But when the iron gate pass appeared in front of them, the people in front of them did not leave, all of them were dumbfounded, and some even raised their hands and chanted the gods they worshipped."
Get out of the way!"
Daigo Ada whipped and split a path, and when he walked to the front and saw the scene in the distance, he was also too shocked to speak.But at the narrow iron gate pass, a gate city as high as two or three zhang high suddenly appeared in front of him, blocking the road.Although it is only based on the most easily available sand, the water that was poured out during the snow last night has been frozen into ice by the severe cold, and it has frozen the loose sand together and turned it into an impregnable iron city!"
Overnight!""
Miracles?""
The mountain god is helping the Han people.""
It could also be the ghost of Princess Chohra, who wants to oppose King Yanqi."
The people of Yuli, Yanqi, and Weisu began to whisper, and even the Huns could not help but tremble, and they had no thoughts about the Guancheng that shone in the sun.It's just an ice lump.They have to deal with snow and ice every winter and know how hard the sand is when it freezes to death!
Not to mention wooden tools, even iron spears and pickaxes, which are not easy to pry open!
Not to mention the fact that the Huns were greeted by a dense range of crossbow arrows.Daigo Ada was a warrior, but not a fool, and instead of forcing everyone to step forward, he stood there and watched his breath turn into white mist in an instant, and the snow piled up on the side of the road, even in direct sunlight, showed no signs of melting.He knew that in the months before the beginning of spring, the weather in the Western Regions would get colder and colder day by day, so cold that the entire Peacock River would be frozen, and so cold that people would freeze to death if they went out rashly.And the gate of ice and sand in front of you will survive the winter unharmed, and will not slowly melt and loosen until it is exposed to the warm spring sun for more than ten days.But at that time, with the urine nature of the Han people, a real iron gate must have been built behind this sand city!"
Withdraw."
Daigo Ada was discouraged, he knew that just like when he was in Loulan, this matter was no longer something he could solve alone.In the distance, on the Guancheng, the Han soldiers wore thick winter coats and non-slip felt shoes, and held crossbows and strong bows.When they saw the enemy coming, they all raised their weapons and let out a shout, and when they saw that they were retreating, they let out a burst of mockery and mockery.In the midst of the call, a young man wearing a felt hat and his hands in his sleeves were pushed onto the city."
Ren Shilang is really a clever plan, fill the sand with water, and become a city overnight!"
Up and down the pass, hundreds of soldiers of the Han army with red faces were cheering at him, and the name of Ren Shilang was transmitted to the ears of the Huns for the first time.Ren Hong wiped his nose and waved his hand: "It's not enough, you have to let the ground in front of the pass slip a little more!"
Let the Huns, who dare to come to die, be able to skate on it. ”"Gentlemen, come, send Hu Lu with me."
Ren Hong shouted at the soldiers to join him to untie the thick squirts, or lift up the bottoms.Everyone giggled, you pushed me and stood at the head of the city, the muzzle of the gun was unanimous, aiming at the enemy who was gradually moving away."
Three.""
Two.""
One!"
Under Ren Hong's countdown, hundreds of steaming rapids gushed out, drawing a parabola, which was really spectacular and heroic.This is the most merciless mockery of the Han army against the sworn enemy.The cold wind blew into the valley from outside the valley, bringing the smell of the Huns to the Huns, and although it was three or four hundred steps apart, Daigo Ada felt it in frustration.Those hot mist have been like a slap in the face, directly on his face!
He silently turned around, turned his back to the sarcasm, gritted his teeth, and swallowed the bitter fruit of failure after being calculated.Daigo Ada struggled to remember the Chinese pronunciation: "Ren Shilang?
Ren Shilang!
This is your name, I have written it down, and you will be my mortal enemy of Daigo Ada!
”PS: The second chapter is in the evening.