"Strange, the hussar general has always been good at using soldiers, and now he is on an expedition to the west of the Green Ridge and is ordered to destroy Zhizhi.The Great Wan Kingdom was also harmed by the Zhizhi, and should be used as a backup to provide food and manpower for the army.You can send an envoy to discuss, why did the general disagree with the envoy and repelled the envoy, and threatened to attack if King Wan did not come to greet him, isn't this deliberately making enemies?
”Feng Fengshi has read the art of war, and there is no problem in dividing the troops, whether it is the South Road Green Ridge Trail or the Tianshan Road near Wensu Kingdom, it is all dangerous, and it is very difficult for large troops to pass.A swarm of bees crowded on a mountain road is extremely attritional, and now the hussar general divides the army into six schools, and the foot soldiers arrive in Dawan, and the cavalry goes to Chigu, which is very appropriate."
But the art of war is cloudy, the common enemy is not as good as dividing the enemy, the enemy yang is not as good as the enemy's yin, and the general is really incomprehensible."
He finally came to a conclusion: "Could it be that the general is proud?"
”It is indeed possible, because the Han army is too strong, and because the enemy is too weak, the hussar general has not encountered the enemy for more than ten years, and he has made immortal achievements by beheading the Huns."
But because of the greatness of the country and the people, those who want to see the enemy are called proud soldiers, and those who are proud of the soldiers are destroyed."
Feng Fengshi felt worried, and it happened that the army was stationed outside Yucheng City, and the hussar general summoned the generals and captains to discuss the military and answer their questions."
Do you think that General Ben is making enemies needlessly?"
Ren Hong asked everyone with a smile, explaining the reason why he did this: "In your opinion, how should this battle be fought?"
”Xin Qingji said: "We should negotiate with Dawan on the conditions, supply grain, and then go to the west of Xiaye Sichuan to meet with Wusun Bing, Tangyi Marquis, etc., involve the Kangju boundary, force the Kangju tribes, and then find a decisive battle in Zhizhi." ”Feng Fengshi and the others also thought so, but Ren Hong shook his head: "When Zhizhi sees the arrival of our army, he is afraid that he will be cowardly and flee with his subordinates.The Kangju grassland is no less big than Mobei, if the army can't chase him, wouldn't it be empty?
”Kangju's national border, equivalent to most of Kazakhstan in later generations, Zhizhi moved westward with most of the young and strong and young and old, it is easy to transfer, this is also the true nature of the country, in that case, this war will be extended indefinitely, but in the original history, Zhizhi singles out to abandon the long and take the short, in Zhizhi City to play offensive and defensive battles with Chen Tang, it is really incomprehensible.If he can't defeat Zhizhi for a long time, Ren Hong's plan will add twists and turns, and he is very short on time.That's why Ren Hongcai deliberately played such a play in Dawan."
As far as the Han army is concerned, this battle is a quick battle, I don't expect that the king of Dawan will not come in person, and now the people he is most likely to ask for help are none other than the Huns and Kangju."
Ren Hong took a sip of wine: "Our army will first besiege Guishan City, wait for the rest of the work, wait for the Huns and Kangju soldiers to come to the rescue, and then fight a decisive battle with it!"
”This is to encircle the point to help, and the other party has no point of salvation, so he will send one.Feng Fengshi, Xin Qingji and others looked at each other, still felt a little far-fetched, Zhizhi had many ways to choose, or escaped, or stood still, and even took Ren Hong in Dawan, and Kangju and Wuzhi slaughtered to fight Wusun, and they might not necessarily take the bait obediently."
I have my own plan."
Ren Hong asked King Feng Ye to take the scouts to cruise around Kuzhan City in the western border of Dawan, and after catching the messenger sent by Dawan to ask Zhi Zhi for help, he did not want to kill them, but added another "gift" to them, so that they would definitely be sent to Zhi Zhi.In fact, even if Zhi Zhi can't come, Ren Hong is also determined to win the fertile soil of Dawan, which is the first base to be laid after the west, relying on the manpower and material resources of this place to go further.Feng Fengshi cautiously put forward his opinion: "It turned out to be the general's strategy to lure the enemy to gather and annihilate, and this plan is very clever, but the subordinates still have two doubts. ”"First, Dawan has a close relationship with other countries, if King Wan is determined to be an enemy of Han, I am afraid that the envoy sent will not only go to Kangju to find Zhizhi, but also may beg for help from the Yue clan or even rest in peace!"
The Dawan Basin is located in the easternmost part of the Transoxiana region, and is connected to the outside world only by a gap in the west, with Dawan occupying Afghanistan to the south, Kangju to the north, and five Sogdian city-states to the west.More than 1,000 miles southwest of Sogdia is Turkmenistan, the Mulu Oasis under the control of the Rest Empire.At present, the situation in Hezhong is quite similar to the Warring States two hundred years ago, the Han army is the Qin army from the west, and Dawan, Yueshi, Xiongnu, Kangju, Sogdia, and Anxi are the six countries.Ren Hong has already calculated this: "Now that Daqin and Anxi have become enemies, Anxi will be vigilant against the Han army's westward departure, but he will never be an enemy of Han for the sake of Dawan in this matter." ”"What's more, the rest of the border is not close to the city, and its capital Taixi is thousands of miles away, I am afraid that the distant water cannot quench the thirst of the near.""
As for the Yue clan who is cold with Da Wan's lips and teeth" Ren Hong said: "The king of the Yue clan and the Xiongnu are feuding, and it is said that the head drinking vessel of the king of the Yue clan more than a hundred years ago is still in the hands of Zhi Zhi, and I am afraid that he will not join forces with it." ”"Even if the king of the Yue clan is confused, he has to come to save Dawan."
Ren Hong said with a smile: "The five marquis of Guishuang, Xiumi, Shuangmi, Didun, and Gaofu have made a lot of money on the Silk Road over the years, and they will not necessarily follow the King of the Yue Clan to be enemies of the Han. ”Speaking of which, the Marquis of Guishan is also his "old friend" of Ren Hong, as early as ten years ago, when Ren Hong was still a protector, he bought a poisonous slave weaver with Guishan, and the Wakhan Corridor controlled by Guishan is also an important passage of the Silk Road.The system of the countries west of the Green Ridge is completely different from that of the Han Dynasty, and there is no strong centralized power, most of them are territorial feuds, or tribal alliances, which are very loose, and even have the titles of "vice king" and "auxiliary king", which is unimaginable in the Han Dynasty.Let's just say that this Dawan, there are more than 70 yi, each small yi is an independent city lord who pays tribute to the king of Dawan, such as Yucheng in front of him, whose city lord is also called the king, and is also called "the vice king of Dawan".This is related to Feng Fengshi's second concern, and he bowed again: "If King Dawan insists on being an enemy of Han, then we are in the enemy's land, and if we want grain, we can only because of the grain to the enemy, and we must first defeat Yucheng before we can enter Guishan." ”This is not an easy task, Yu Chengcheng is easy to defend and difficult to attack, when Li Guangli first conquered Wan, it was here that he suffered hardships, and he couldn't fight alive or dead, but he was defeated by Yu Chengcheng, and he was embarrassed, so he had to turn around and return to China.The second time was to send a partial division to besiege Yu Cheng, and he was defeated first and then won.Now General Ren has provoked the third Hanwan War."
Let's wait."
Ren Hong looked at Li Guangli's Yu Chengcheng, who had been broken: "Zhong has entered the city on my orders, and let's see how Yu Cheng and the two cities of Yu Cheng and Ershi react." ”"Are they going to perish with King Wan, or are they going to become independent and become a vassal state that was awarded the camel seal of King Hu by the Great Han!""
When Li Guangli went on his second expedition to Wanwan, the people sent were Wang Shensheng, the captain of the school, and the Honglu translator Changhu Chongguo."
When the Han army surrounded Yuchengcheng, the small Dawan Eastern Fortress, Yang Yun, who had eaten rice in the army for nearly half a year, provided information about the past history of this place.The two only led more than 1,000 troops to Yucheng, Yu Cheng insisted, refused to give food, at that time the division and the second division of the army were separated by 200 miles, relying on the army and despised, and actually attacked Yucheng with a thousand people, not down.Yu Cheng saw that Wang Shensheng had few soldiers, so he went out of the city with 3,000 people in the early morning to attack and kill Wang Shensheng and others, and the division was defeated, and only a few people escaped. ”You see, it's not good to call it "Shensheng", it's obviously unlucky.Then Li Guangli sent the Shanggong Jie who was then the "Captain of Sosu" to clean up the mess, it was the grandfather of the Empress Dowager Shangguan, Huo Guang's old enemy.Shangguan Ji not only has great strength and can carry the flag, but he is also good at fighting.After taking some time to break through Yu Cheng, King Yu Cheng broke through and fled to Kangju, and Shangguan Ji chased after Kangju Guosuo, and finally tied up King Yu Cheng and beheaded him.So Yu Cheng defeated the Han army twice, the first time because he was tired and had no food, and the second time because he was careless and underestimated the enemy.Today's situation is very different from forty years ago, when the Western Regions did not belong to the Han Dynasty, and the Xiongnu were eyeing the north, and the supply of the army was difficult, and even more than 100 Han envoys could starve to death if there was no help from the cities along the way, let alone tens of thousands of troops.But now, the Western Regions has been the land of the Han Dynasty, although the green ridge trail is still dangerous, but Shule has a logistical burden, and Wusun north of Dawan is no longer the first rat at both ends, and the power is controlled by Xie Wu, and Dawan can be encircled.Ren Hong's army also had 20,000 people, and he surrounded Xiao Xiao Yu and made a posture to attack, while Zhong, who had traveled back and forth to Dawan many times, was in charge of lobbying.Everyone is only worried that Yu Cheng will not learn his lesson, ignore the huge gap between the two sides, blindly want to be the enemy of Han, and throw Zhong's head out.But in the end, Yu Cheng's city gate slowly opened, and King Yu Cheng, who was also the deputy king of Dawan, rode out of the city with Zhong and bowed to Ren Hong, expressing his willingness to accept the conditions of the Han Dynasty.Independent from Dawan into a country, subject to the Han seal, I only hope that the Han army will not slaughter and plunder, Yu Cheng is willing to supply the army of food.Ren Hong was overjoyed and immediately asked the court for a seal, and among the Wan people sent by Yu Chengcheng to assist the Han army in transporting grain, it was found that in addition to the blonde and green-eyed barbarians, there was also a type of people with deep eye sockets and black beards, who were engaged in serving as soldiers and doing business.When I asked, I found out that it was the descendants of the Greeks who fled to Dawan for refuge when the Dayue clan broke through Bactria, and it is said that there was also an army of the Great Xia Kingdom to take refuge, and their descendants became well-known mercenaries.After successfully persuading Yu Cheng to surrender, the second king of the west, who is also the "auxiliary king" of Dawan, also sent people to ask for surrender and accept the same conditions.At this time, the two most important city-states of Dawan jumped to Ren Hong's camp in order to avoid destruction, and the food of the army was temporarily guaranteed.Ren Hong left Feng Fengshi with the heavy soldiers of Sanhe to stay near the two cities, transported grain to the west, continued to have more than 10,000 soldiers, and arrived at the capital of Dawan: Guishan.King Dawan really did not accept Ren Hong's harsh request, and after hearing that the second division and Yu Cheng had surrendered to the Han Dynasty, he closed Guishan City and sent envoys out to ask for help from the big countries west of the Green Ridge."
Back then, the Han envoy once boasted that there were only 3,000 Han soldiers, and they were shot with crossbows, and they were all captured."
As a result, Li Guangli fought for forty days with ten times the number of people, and only then did he break through the outer city, and Dawan himself killed King Wan and surrendered, it seems that this King Dawan believes that Wan people can withstand the siege of the Han army again.And Ren Hong, who was holding a clairvoyant mirror from afar to observe the enemy's situation, looked at Guishan City, which stood in the center of the Fergana Basin, and he somewhat understood why Li Guangli had hit a wall here, this was indeed the strongest fortress Ren Hong had ever seen thousands of miles west of Yumen.Although it is still a rammed earth wall, there are many tall towers built in front of the wall, and the earthen wall is not connected to the Greek-style stone tower, but a low-profile version of the wooden tower, which the Han people call "heavy wood city".It is covered with square perforations, and the distinctive thing is that there are no gates on the east, north, and south sides, and the scouts report that there is only one gate on the west side, with tall tower-shaped horse faces on either side of the gate.There is also a stone aqueduct from the nearby Syr Darya River to divert water around the city, and there is a culvert under the city wall to divert water into the city, in the past, the Dawan people did not point out the technology of digging wells, only draw the water outside the city, but rely on the help of the "Qin people", according to the Sogdian merchants, there are already a few in the city of Guishan.Inside the earthen walls, there is also an inner city made entirely of stone.At this moment, the inner and outer walls and towers are full of people, and the reflection of metal can be seen from afar.When Ren Hong put the clairvoyant mirror in front of him, he saw a typical Thracian-style Greek bronze helmet, and a silver-plated shield arranged like fish scales!"
Is that the fish scale army that once defended the city for Dawan, made good use of the fish scale array in the mecca gate, and defended the inner city?"
It was this mercenary who, when Akita Castle was in danger, refused to be hired by the Empress Dowager.However, the so-called fish scale army is just an ignorant title for the Wusun people and the Kangju people, Ren Hong asked the translator to carefully ask those dark-eyed and black-haired descendants of Greek descent to learn that the real name of this group of mercenaries is "The Last Silver Shield Soldier!"
”PS: Chapter 2 is before 0:00.The structure of Dawan City refers to the ancient city of Ming Tiepei, which was also found in the Fergana Basin.The origin of the silver shield soldier and Dawan is the author's own speculation based on the information, and the novelist said, don't take it seriously.