Ren Hong also didn't know what the so-called "last silver shield soldier" in Guishan City had to do with the veterans of Alexander's era, or the army in Seleucid, whether it was a descendant who was sent to the East and left behind, or a Xibei goods that stole the name and costume of the silver shield soldier through a backdoor listing.In short, it is fate to meet here, and Ren Hong decided to have a friendly exchange with these Greek descendants."
Give you a month."
Ren Hong gave such an order to the official craftsmen who accompanied the army, asking them to take local materials, start from cutting down trees and make some siege equipment, and no large siege equipment could be brought over the green ridge.Since Ren Hong proposed that the Han Dynasty engage in the "high engineering" system, many craftsmen have profited, and under the encouragement and personal allocation of Xi'an Hou as a big Si Nong in the past few years, new inventions have been constantly baked, there are innovations in agriculture and water conservancy, and there are also military innovations.Therefore, in this expedition to the west, in addition to soldiers and soldiers, Ren Hong also brought a lot of carpenters, stonemasons, blacksmiths, and blacksmiths, but he did not bring a papermaker.In case God does not have a long eye to let the hussar general's achievements fail, and the papermaking technique will not spread to the west, Ren Hong asked Liu Xun to establish a law, and the papermaking craftsmen and silkworm Sang Nong are not allowed to go west out of the Jade Gate, so let the Westerners use parchment and sedge for more than a thousand years.Ren Hong Duhu observed the wooden tower of Guishan City in the clairvoyant mirror again, and in the face of absolute power, it was useless whether it was a silver shield soldier or a bronze shield soldier inside.The saws twitch back and forth, the hammer strikes the nails and clankles, and the craftsmen use tape measures and copper calipers to measure the length of each iron part brought in bulk, compared with the composition of the instruments that have been tested many times in the Central Plains.Ren Hong has time, and Dawan's climate is much more comfortable than the Western Desert, where melons and fruits are fragrant, you can drink some wine every day, and eat the Hu cakes sent by Yu Cheng and Ershi.He even had to restrain his soldiers, so that the sons and daughters could concentrate on logging and work, and not always think about attacking the city.You have to wait for the siege equipment to be built, and you have to wait for Zheng Ji to take the 10,000 jade workers in Khotan to be the siege vanguard.The most important thing is to wait for the reinforcements that Dawan asked for to arrive!
So let Ren Hong stew in a pot!
The hapless Dawan is a litmus test for the attitude of the "six countries" of Central Asia towards the westward advance of the Han army."
Look at which of them is vertical and which is horizontal.Those who follow me prosper, and those who oppose me die!
”Heading south from Khujand in the western border of Dawan, which is also the "farthest city of Alexandria", and passing through the five Sogdian city-states strung like pearls on the Amu Darya River, is the border of the Dayue clan.The real name here is Batkeria, the Central Plains is called "Great Xia Kingdom", can be called such a name, since it is regarded as the state of Ming by the Central Plains, here is the last glory of the Hellenistic East, but after the Dayue clan was driven away by the Xiongnu and Wusun, and entered this land in a panic, the era of Hellenism ended.Daxia is worthy of being regarded by Zhang Qian as "its soldiers are weak and afraid of war", and the Dayue clan, which has been repeatedly ravaged and vulnerable in the east, has made great efforts here and conquered the north and south of Fushui.Now, nearly a hundred years have passed, and the originally nomadic Otsuki clan has gradually continued to the south, completely entering Bactria, and living the life of a city person.The king of the Yue clan divided this place into six, and he lived in Balkh, Afghanistan, the former capital of the Great Xia Kingdom, "Lan City", with 30,000 horses, Humi, Shuangmi, Kushan, Ditun, and Dumi, each of the five major marquis occupied a corner, distributed in the mountains and basins of Bactria, with thousands of troops ranging from thousands to tens of thousands.Among them, the Marquis of Guishan in the east was the most powerful, with 20,000 horsemen.The king of the Yue clan and the nobles of the Marquis ruled over the local Bactrian natives, the fallen Greeks, and the Cypriots who went south with the Great Yue clan.In the autumn, five younger brothers gathered to cross the Khyber Pass to the south and north of the poisonous Gandhara and Punjab, where there are still more than a dozen small city-states built by the descendants of the Great Xia Kingdom.The five Sogdian city-states in the north were also regarded by the Yue King as the servants of the Yue and Kangju, and the Sogdians had to pay a huge amount of protection money to the two kingdoms every year to avoid being invaded by the Yue Horse Kings like poison.The king of the Yue clan also had contacts with the Dawan Kingdom, and even had a relationship by marriage.Therefore, when Ren Hong besieged Guishan City for half a month, when Dawan's request for help arrived, the king of the Dayue clan hesitated.It is a white-walled castle with a blue gate painted with lapis lazuli paint, and where you can see Corinthian marble columns from the Bactrian era, carved with Hindu-style elephants and even statues of Buddha.The king of the Great Moon Clan sat barefoot cross-legged on the gorgeous blanket in the mixed Eastern and Western styles of the court in Lan Clan City, caressing the tendrils on his lips coated with sesame oil, and the swarthy poisonous slave servant served on the left and right with wine, which contrasted sharply with the complexion of his master.The king of the Yue clan was listening to the Dawan envoy who came from afar crying that the Han general Ren Hongman was unreasonable.The Han army marched westward, and the Dayue clan knew about it, and the king of the Yue clan was also happy to see the Han army attack the Xiongnu Zhizhi Shan Yu in the lower reaches of the Yasyr Darya River in the water.Although the Da Yue clan ran here to live a good life, the shameful experience of the ancestors is still passed on by word of mouth, and the Xiongnu are the natural enemies of the Yue clan, both emotionally and profitably.More than ten years ago, the Da Yue clan also ate the dividends of the Silk Road and became a transit merchant of silk silk, and they found that the taxes paid by letting the Sogdians pass through the road were more profitable than robbing them directly, and the disturbance of the Silk Road by the Zhizhi interrupted this prosperity.But the king of the Yue clan was not a short-sighted person, and after letting the Dawan envoy retreat, he only asked the older people in the court: "Forty years ago, what did the Yue clan not help the Han army attack Dawan?"
”Because the Hanzhong area is shared by Kangju and Yue, it cannot tolerate the insertion of third-party forces.Although the king of the Yue clan was more interested in the warm and wealthy people in the south, it did not mean that he welcomed the Han dynasty, which had expanded dramatically in recent years, to occupy Dawan, and ten years ago, because the Han Feng wolf was the "king of the Xiaoyue clan" for a while, he was also protested by the Dayue clan.The perception of Ren Hong is even more very bad, because the king of the Yue clan once sent an envoy to the Han Dynasty, at first the Han people were very hospitable, and the wine and Jiarou were endlessly supplied.As a result, the treatment was drastically reduced, and the carriage that was connected and sent was also one level lower than that of the envoy of the Marquis of Guishan.Guishan occupies the Wakhan Valley, the main communication route with the Han Dynasty, so it has close communication with the Western Regions Duhu, and its strength is also the strongest among the Marquis of Xi, but after all, it is still a vassal of the Yue Clan, how can Ren Duhu do this?
This matter made the king of the Yue clan very unhappy, so after some discussion with his subordinates, the king of the Yue clan made a decision."
Dahan and Dawan are both friends of the Yue clan, the Buddha said, defeat the enemy, defeat and restlessness, victory and defeat are both abandoned, lying in silence and happiness, the Da Yue clan should go to persuade the two sides to stop fighting."
Belief in Buddhism does not prevent the people of the Da Yue clan from plundering the body poison, and the benevolent Yue clan king, which is going to stand up for Dawan, but he did not say it clearly, first summoned the marquis, personally took tens of thousands of horsemen north to Sogdia to see the situation, and asked the envoy to visit the general of the Han hussars, and attached a copy of the national letter written by Daxia.He promised that if Ren Hong asked the Han army to give up the attack on Dawan, the king of the Yue clan was willing to join the Han army in crusading against the Xiongnu Zhizhi Shan Yu.Ten days later, the king of the Dayue clan had crossed the Amu Darya River to the north, and his conscription order was also sent to the Guishan Xi Marquis Duyi Huyu City, which was located in the southeast of Lan Clan's city.In this stone city located at the western end of the ancient Wakhan Road, there is already an envoy from the Han Dynasty.Zhong, who was specially responsible for lobbying for Ren Hong, was already a guest of honor, and said to the already ambitious Marquis of Guishuang: "The king of the Dayue clan has sent troops to join forces with the Xiongnu and make enemies of the Han despite the fact that the head of the king is still in the hands of Zhizhi.Marquis Xi, now with the help of the Great Han, this is your best chance to become the King of Kushan and seize the Lan Clan's City!
”At the same time, the army was in the middle reaches of the Syr Darya, and was hesitating to help Dawan's Zhizhi Shan Yu, and also received a gift from Ren Hong through the Dawan people.It's a set of clothes, certainly not women's.Strictly speaking, this is a set of armor, ornate Scythian bronze scale armor, with traces of arrows embedded in it, with typical Hun silver deer decoration, and many golden discs hanging from the helmet, which have been torn off many pieces and appear to be broken.On the armor, there were still some traces of blood that had long since dried up.Zhizhi's hand trembled slightly, and his fingertips slid over the blood spots, just like when he welcomed his father back from the expedition when he was young.There was no need for Dawan to carefully tell the origin of this object, he had already recognized it: "This is my father's relic." ”Zhi Zhi's eyes were red: "This is the armor of the Xulu Quanqu plough lonely Tu Da Danyu!"
”Ignoring Wu Zhitu's dissuasion, he asked people to gather his troops and forced the Kangju king he supported to go south to Dawan together."
I said at the time, for Hu.""
Someone else took away the gold and silver.""
We'll howl and get it back.""
Horses and clans that have been taken by others.""
We'll ride faster horses.""
I'm going to grab it again.""
What if someone else takes away your pride?"
Zhi Zhishan Yu put on the eagle crown passed to him by his father, held the Xiongnu holy relic Jin Liuqi in his hand, and said loudly: "Only with the knife in your hand, go and win it back!"
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