Ren Hong's main force was a hundred miles away from King Kangju's army, and he had to walk for a day on horseback.And the Kangju grassland on both sides of the Broken Leaf Water is a flat river, unless there is no sudden attack at night regardless of the horsepower, but when it arrives at the place, the horses are completely unable to fight, and every move will fall in the eyes of the scout forwards released by both sides for dozens of miles.The Han army's forward scouts consisted of 5,000 people, 3,000 Wusun cavalry scattered across the vast plains, 1,000 Liangzhou knights, and 1,000 Sanfu light warriors were concentrated by the commander of Guannei Hou Xi Chongguo.In the battle of Dabancheng last year, he showed his skills with the elite Liangjia cavalry of the six counties, flexibly galloping to the aid of various obstacles, purely by beheading the Marquis of Guannei.Kangju guarded the 20,000 tents of Beiwusun and walked forward, and the Han army was in the back, it seemed that you were chasing me, but in fact, the two sides were extremely restrained.Even if there were light cavalry scouts who encountered conflicts, they would put a few arrows at each other and leave the battle, and neither King Kangju nor Ren Duhu had made up their minds to fight.Until Xi Chongguo received an order from the capital."
With the power of thunder, annihilate a scout behind the Kangju people's palace and capture its nobles alive?"
Is it because Du Hu is determined to start a war with Kangju?
Although most of the Han soldiers were blindly optimistic and tried their best to lead the battle, Xi Chongguo did not think it was a good idea.Kangju is also a big country and has a vast land, and the king of Kangju is determined to swallow Wu and slaughter this time, and has gathered at least seventy or eighty thousand horsemen.And the real Han army is only 5,000, known as 10,000.And most of them are Sanfu light chivalrous and evil teenagers who only came to the Western Regions the year before last, don't look at them After training for a year, they learned the golden drum command, but in the eyes of Liangjiazi, this group of social scum is still a straggler in their bones.Although everyone rode horses, in fact they were only infantry on horses, and they had to dismount and fight on foot when they arrived at the place, which was inferior to David, the son of a good family.This group of people was able to withstand the Xiongnu Shan Yu attack when defending the city, but the field battle was the first time to be pulled out.Ren Du escorted them to fight Wu and slaughter, and he also had the intention of training, but unexpectedly bumped into the hard stubble of Kangju.is full of calculations, but only the old pawns of Xi Chongguo's 1,000 Xiliang cavalry are the backbone.Although Wusun has 30,000 horsemen, the equipment is simple, and most of them are temporary recruited herdsmen, so the 3,000 people around Princess Yaoguang can be of great use.After entering the Seven Rivers, they began to fall behind and could only escort the soldiers of the Western Regions City, not to mention the vast grassland, they were no different from the deer herds that could be hunted at any time.With this soldier, fighting with Kangju and Wuzhitu, who have a combined army of nearly 100,000, even if God is fortunate to have a chance of victory, I am afraid that most of the light heroes and evil boys will be lost here, which is not in line with the consistent style of Duhu.In Xi Chongguo's view, the only chance was to attack the capital of Kangju, but when he learned that most of the families of the nobles of Kangju had moved to the interior of the summer capital of Kangju, which was nine thousand miles away from the winter field in the southeast of Kangju, and he had to leave for two months at the cost of his life, there was only one sentence left in his heart: "Excuse me!"
”I don't know if I don't ask, it turns out that the border of Kangju is actually larger than the Western Regions and Beiting together, and competing with this big country in the west is a completely different war mode from those small states in the Western Regions that can be destroyed by beating a city.If the 20,000 people who were taken away by Kangju were Han officials, Xi Chongguo risked his life and must be saved, but since they are Wusun people, and they are the "enemy people" of Northern Wusun who belong to Wujutu, they can leave by them, so why let the Han soldiers risk their lives to take care of it?
Having said that, a military order is a military order, and Xi Chongguo immediately planned an attack.The two sides have been going back and forth for several days, and the Kangju Houjun is two tribes, each with five or six thousand people, separated by more than 20 miles from each other's horns, and there are hundreds of people outside the tribe Scout activities, which seem to be very close, but in the eyes of Xi Chongguo, who does not know how to use soldiers, the other party is full of loopholes."
Luo Yanshou!"
He ordered one of his team leaders, and Luo Yanshou, a native of Tianshui County, stood up, he was originally the team leader of Gan Yanshou's subordinates, but in the battle of Chigu City, he was dragged out of the pile of dead by Gan Yanshou and carried back to the army, and he was also rewarded afterwards.But this guy said that he wanted to buy land for his family, but when he arrived in Chang'an, he turned his head and entered the Nulu gambling house with the money, and finally lost the reward, and he had to rely on Gan Yanshou to help, and now he has returned to the Western Regions and became the tun chief.Xi Chongguo knew about this person's bad habits, and repeatedly reminded him: "This time, don't be greedy for beheading, you want to be captured!"
”Or boasting of being a big state in the west, King Kangju did not promise the Xiongnu to help Wu to slaughter and resist the Han army, nor did he want to help the Han to destroy it, but tried to take the third road himself!
In the past 100 years, Kangju was also weak, with the Yueshi in the south and the Xiongnu in the east, and it was by constantly absorbing the surrounding forces that it became a regional power with 120,000 cavalry.They took in the Cypriots who had been driven west by the Yueshi, embraced the Bactrian Greeks who had nowhere to go after the fall of their homeland, and protected the five Sogdian city-states in the south, allowing them to trade their wealth and food for peace.Ally with Dawan to fight against the Yue clan and the westward Han Dynasty, and protect each other.The survival of Kangjuguo is not to blindly give in to the strong, but to pretend to maneuver and find ways to strengthen itself, which was the case in the past and is also true today.Kangju has a vast land, and the most scarce thing is people, if you can swallow the 20,000 tents and nearly 100,000 herdsmen slaughtered by Wu, the strength of Kangju will surely rise.He bet that the Han army and the Wusun army would come from afar, and they would hesitate to retreat in the face of the unfamiliar grassland and the Kangju army.Because no matter whether the Han army brought cheese or grain, after more than a thousand miles out of Chigu City, it will be exhausted, and the horses that have not had time to eat grass for a few days at night are getting thinner and thinner.It wasn't until early that morning, when the news of the Han army's attack on the scouts on Kangju's back road came, that King Kangju was taken aback, and it seemed that he had underestimated the courage of the Han people.King Kangju immediately made the right choice, drove the Wusun tent to cross the wide broken leaf water in the summer, came to the west bank of the upstream, and looked across the river from the main force of the Han army that arrived later, observing the appearance of the opponent's army.Although the Kangju army on the west bank was numerous, they obeyed the orders of different nobles, scattered and separated, looking chaotic, drinking water, and even undressing and frolicking in the water.The Han army on the east bank was neat and tidy, although it had traveled a long way, its morale was high, and it was surrounded by all the banners, and it had its own special auxiliaries to fetch water to quench the thirst of the knights.Not only are the soldiers wearing iron armor on their bodies, but the spears and halberds they hold are erected like a forest, reflecting the noon sun dazzlingly.Even the Wusun horse on which he was riding was covered with vests, and in addition to the horse's rump, the horse's head to the torso were covered in leather equipment, dyed yellow and black, like a group of fierce tigers.Central Asia also has Caspian tigers, and even if they don't know them, they are uneasy by their dangerous color.King Kangju was also very worried, and after attracting the guidance of the older nobles in the country, they all agreed: "Its army is not even as good as the Xiongnu and Yueshi, and only in peace can it have so many armored horses." ”Kangju is adjacent to the Anxi Empire in the southwest, and he fought in the Mulu Oasis decades ago, and has a deep memory of the tactics of the Anxi people.Anju has an invincible elite heavy cavalry, and the Kangju people's cavalry and archery can not be injured, and the same superb Anxi light cavalry as its cavalry and archery cooperates, so that Kangju has suffered a big loss, and only with the rest of the water as the boundary, and no longer dare to go south to herd horses.Today's Han army also has elite armored cavalry "thousands", with "tens of thousands" of Wusun light cavalry, perhaps it is also a method of resting warfare, it is indeed a hard bone to gnaw, although the number of their own side is numerous, there is no absolute chance of victory.When he was hesitating, there was a small group of people swimming across the water in the Han army, and there was a Han envoy holding a festival in it.Killing the Han envoy is like declaring war, which is a well-known thing, which makes King Kangju very nervous, for fear that someone will harm him, stabbed the hornet's nest, and ordered all the troops to retreat and not attack.When they came ashore, Feng Fengshi was still the leader, and they brought it with them, along with a group of scouts who had been attacked and captured by the Han army before.Feng Fengshi bowed his hand, and first strongly condemned King Kangju's violation of the oath and betrayal of the alliance, saying that Ren Duhu was surprisingly angry.But in the end, he said: "Even so, Du Hu also thought that this was not King Kangju's intention, but that someone around him wanted to destroy the diplomatic relations between the two countries, and when some Kangju scouts strayed into the Han army at night, Dadu Hu entertained them, and specially ordered me to send it back to King Kangju!"
”This did give King Kangju a step down, and King Kangju happily accepted it, admitted the matter, apologized for the recklessness of the scouts, and placed wine by the water's edge to entertain Feng Fengshi.But he asked the vice king to interrogate the Kangju nobles who were released, and only listened to his words, saying that he had seen with his own eyes in the Han camp, and the Han and Wusun coalition troops were probably more than 30,000 or 40,000 horsemen."
Every morning, a large number of Han reinforcements came from the south one after another, and converged into the banner of the Duhu King.There were also camel caravans accompanying them to transport grain, and the Han army was still full of food. ”The vice-king reported the matter to Queen Kangju, making him palpitate and have no desire to fight.King Kangju then let go of his luck and carefully asked Feng Fengshi, what was Ren Duhu's intention to chase into the Kangju realm?
Feng Fengshi said with a smile: "Didn't King Kangju say that he was slaughtering Wu and his subordinates for the sake of protecting the capital?
The meeting was also attended by Dahan.There is an old saying in the Han Dynasty, if you take the world and chase wild deer, you will get deer, and the world will share its meat!
”"I heard that the rules of the grassland are the same, when the arrows of two hands hit the object at the same time, it must be divided equally, there are people around to drive away, someone in front of the interception, the person who surrounds the blocker has merit, how can there be a reason for Kangju to swallow the fat deer alone?"
He put forward Ren Hong's conditions: "Duhu can withdraw from the army, and this incident should not happen, but the premise is that King Kangju can leave half of the Northern Wusun account!"
”King Kangju is a typical person who forgets his life when he sees small profits, and does big things and regrets his life, listens to the translator's translation, and learns that Ren Hong wants to share the spoils with him, and he sinks his face to think about the pros and cons.Feng Fengshi stood up, pointed to the Han army on the east bank, and said: "As Du Hu said, the Han army is less than 10,000, and it is invincible!"
A Han can be a Wuhu, and I have used several battles with the Xiongnu to warn King Kangju. ”"And an army like this, the big man can dispatch ten at a time!
The king had heard the Sogdians speak of the wealth of the Han dynasty, and he should know that this was true.Although Kangju is large, it is not as good as one of the Han counties, and the Han has hundreds of counties in the east!
”In fact, it is only more than a hundred, and it is rounded up, anyway, the Sogdians and Kangju envoys have only been to Chang'an at the farthest, and they are already dazzling for the strength of the Han Dynasty.Feng Fengshi began to intimidate King Kangju: "King Wan offended the Han Dynasty, and the Han army crossed the quicksand to conquer the city of Wan, and did not make a truce until the Wan people beheaded their king and surrendered.If Kangju leaves and the news is transmitted back to Chang'an, he will definitely be disgusted by the emperor of the Han Dynasty. ”He pointed to the silk worn by King Kangju in his armor: "The Great Han will cut off the Silk Road, and from now on, there will not be another silk horse entering Kangju." ”"And the emperor of the Han Dynasty will also regard Kangju as an enemy country, although Kangju is big, it is not as good as the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu and the Han have been competing for a hundred years, and now they are very weak, how many years can Kangju last?
If Kangju is hit by the Han Dynasty, the surrounding Yueshi, Xiangcai, and Hujie will be happy to see this scene, I am afraid that Kangju is greedy for the people of Wusun today, but in the future, he will suffer the enemy and be divided by the neighbors. ”"And if peace talks can be reached, with Yibohai as the boundary, as long as King Kangju manages Northern Wusun, the Han can also manage Southern Wusun, and they will not invade each other!
Whether it is to break with the Han Dynasty by coveting 20,000 accounts, or to show sincerity to form a happy relationship between the two countries, please consider it carefully for King Kangju!
”It is troublesome to play with Rong Di, many allusions and idioms cannot be used, Feng Fengshi must use the most popular words, otherwise the translator will be speechless and difficult to translate.Feng Fengshi made the short-term and long-term pros and cons very clear, King Kangju's face was uncertain, and he only asked Feng Fengshi to stay less, and after discussing with the vice king and princes for a long time, he sent the vice king to reply to the Han envoy.As soon as he opened his mouth, Feng Fengshi smiled."
The king is too greedy, even if it is a deer, there is a difference in how much he can contribute."
Kangju Deputy Wang said: "Kangju can only leave three thousand tents, no more!"
”PS: Chapter 2 in the evening, Chapter 3 in the evening.