Although he was bent on avenging the murder of his father and venting the shame and pain of being forced to move away from his hometown in the past six years, Zhi Zhishan did not have the brains to attack the whole army.The number of Han troops seemed to be small, and in this way, Ren Hong was so arrogant that he divided half of his forces to attack Guishan City, and only led 15,000 people to advance westward to face the Xiongnu and Kangju coalition forces.Although most of the opponents were foot soldiers, and Xin Qingji led thousands of cavalry from the six counties, after experiencing the battle of Yanran Mountain Camel City, Zhi Zhi also knew the strength of the Han army's infantry.They then took advantage of the mobility advantages of the Xiongnu and Kangju's archers, and after letting Dawan see the morale of the reinforcements and attract the Han army to divide their troops to resist, they turned around and retreated ten miles away, neither advancing nor retreating, which had the intention of watching from the wall.Zhizhi and Kangju were waiting for another friendly army to arrive."
The King of the Yue Clan is willing to fight with us against the Han army."
This is the good news that Kangju King Khotan told Zhizhi a few days ago, decades ago, Kangju was once a vassal of the Yue clan, and later as the Yue clan continued to move south, Kangju gradually became stronger, and the Da Yue clan drew the water as the boundary.Together, they enjoyed the suzerainty of the five city-states of Sogdia, and were allies in the invasion of the Sabbatical Frontier against the Sabbatarian army that was trying to recover the Mulu Oasis.The king of the Dayue clan was too lazy to deal with the feuding Xiongnu, and only communicated through the Kangju people, and after several envoys came and went, the three families unified their opinions.Now the most important thing is to block the westward advance of the Han army, once the Han people gain a firm foothold in Dawan, they may become their vassals like Wusun and Hujie, which is much worse than fighting with the Han and losing the little interests on the Silk Road.And the request of the king of the Great Yue clan was that the Xiongnu hand over their national treasure: the drinking vessel of the king of the Yue clan.As for whether to fight with the Xiongnu again in the future, it is a matter of working together to repel the Han army and protect Dawanhou."
Where is the Moon King?"
Zhi Zhi was very impatient, deep down he still wanted to fight Ren Hong directly, but if he added the thirty or forty thousand horsemen of the Yue Clan, the chances of winning were indeed greater.Khotan said: "Wu Zhitu said that the army of the king of the Yue clan has crossed the Jinshui Zelafushan River and came through the five cities of Sogdida. ”Jinshui, the river where the Sogdians were concentrated, was a five-city-state that was regarded as slaves by Kangju and Yue, but was now the object of guard.Because of the close relationship between the Sogdians and the Han Dynasty, this group of merchants who were blinded by money probably welcomed the Han army to the west, so that it would be more convenient to buy silk.Now that time is pressing, I don't have time to deal with Sogdia, so I just wait to force the Han army to withdraw from Dawan, and then go back to clean up Samarkand, which is the closest to Han.On the second day, Wu Zhitu sent someone to report: "The king of the Dayue clan is close to Kuzhan!"
”Kuzhan is the western boundary of Dawan, not far from Guishan, because Dawan is a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the army enters and exits only the western city of Kuzhand, so Zhizhi and Khotan let the exiled Wusun Kunmiwu slaughter with 10,000 horsemen to guard there.On the third day, forced by the approach of the Han army Xin Qingji, the Xiongnu retreated ten miles to the west, and the Han army had already launched an attack on Dawan without fear, and the huge sound of the counterweight trebuchet could be heard from afar, like thunder, and the Xiongnu and Kangju people were a little faintly uneasy.Seeing that Dawan was besieged and could fall at any time, Zhizhi became more and more anxious, and sent people to the west several times to urge, and finally waited for the good news from Wu Zhitu."
The King of the Moon Clan has retreated!"
Over there, Zhizhi, Khotan, and Wu slaughtered a big groove without mentioning it, and said that the king of the Dayue clan would be an ally without saying a word, but in fact, it was also a last resort.Originally, the king of the Dayue clan had the idea of betting on both sides, first led the army to Kuzhan, and then let the Xiongnu, Kangju, Dawan and Han armies merge, and he finally appeared on the battlefield and became the party with the greatest profit: his blow can destroy the Xiongnu Zhizhi Shan Yu and avenge his ancestors; second, re-annexing Kangju, whose strength had been greatly reduced, expanded its power to the north; Third, force back the Han army and let Dawan return to the Shunyue clan.It's killing three birds with one stone.If it can be achieved, the entire Hanzhong region will be owned by the Great Yue Clan, and when the time comes, the southern ministers Gandhara, Zobin, and the remnants of Bactria will support Kangju in the north, reject the strong Han in the east, and rest in peace in the west, and an empire far beyond the heyday of Bactria will be formed!
When the king of the Otsuki clan was still in reverie, he didn't think that the backyard was on fire.It turned out that as soon as the king of the Dayue clan left, the Marquis of Guishan, instigated by the Han envoy, condemned the king of the Dayue clan for betraying his ancestors, colluding with the Xiongnu, and occupying Dayi, so he sent troops to attack the Lan city, calling himself "King Guishan".I have long seen that Guishan has ambitions!
What's even worse is that the two marquis of Xiumi and Shuangmi also responded to Guishuang, and under the organization of Han envoys, the three marquis came to a "Lan City Minister".They no longer recognized the king of the Yue clan as the co-master, and they saw that the Great Yue clan was about to fall into division.The king of the Dayue clan couldn't be a yellow sparrow, so he could only hurry away, fighting back and forth.On the other hand, knowing that the king of the Dayue clan suddenly retreated, the Xiongnu Kangju, who did not know the reason, was also confused, so he began to discuss whether to retreat in the rumbling sound of the Han army's attack on Dawan, but Zhizhi was reluctant to retreat.But before the two of them could come up with a result, they found that they had lost the possibility of retreating.On the fourth day, Ujatu, who was guarding the city of Khujand, came with a group of remnants of soldiers to inform the two in embarrassment."
There are enemy forces in the West!"
The city of Khujand, which had already opened the city and surrendered, had raised the red and yellow banner of the Han army, and a huge cavalry with the banner of the Empress Dowager Qin Pipa also advanced eastward through Khujand, blocking the way out of the Ferghana Basin.However, it was Princess Yaoguang who took Wusun tens of thousands of horsemen, and Zhao Han'er, who arrived in Chigu City from Beiting, copied the back road of the Huns.But don't forget, when Ren Duhu can overpower the outnumbered, he will never hit more with less.Yellow Sparrow, it's here!
Now that the Xiongnu and Kangju have entered the trap, Dawan, who is used to "encircle the point and send reinforcements", does not need to stay.After learning that Zhizhi, Khotan, and Wuqitu were in a dilemma, Ren Hong ordered Zheng Ji, the capital of the Western Regions, to launch a fierce attack on Dawan.Ten crosses have been called "Polyphemus" by the Greeks in the city, that is, the counterweight trebuchet of the Cyclops in Greek legend began to throw stone projectiles continuously, smashing the western wall of Dawan to a thousand holes, although they are not high, but after a whole day, they still destroyed almost all the heavy wooden buildings on the west wall of Dawan, and the torsion trebuchet did not have a chance to play, it became broken parts and flying sawdust.As soon as Dawan's two magic weapons were gone, the defensive capacity was reduced by half, and the whole city was frightened by "Polyphemus", and the Xiongnu and Kangju reinforcements actually ran farther and farther away after appearing once, and the morale in the city dropped greatly, and the time for a strong attack had come.As the offensive echelon, it was Zheng Ji who selected the "people in battle" from the jade workers, and Zhang was also guilty.Standing under Dawan City, the counterweight trebuchet behind him had stopped bombardment, Zhang Cheng looked left and right, his "robe" was mostly outlaws who ran to the Western Regions, with blood on his hands, and for several years in Khotan and Shache had been looking for jade, hoping to ignite again and again and extinguish again and again, and there was nowhere to vent his anger.And now, from Ren Hussar, they got another chance.Like Taoyu, he also gambled on luck that the arrows of the Dawan Sai archers would not hit the thin armored body, and that when he climbed the Dawan city wall along the ladder, he would not be stabbed by the enemy's spear and fall from a high place.The Dawan people are still desperately resisting, the first round of attack of the jade workers failed, Zheng Ji let them retreat, and the "cyclops" began to throw boulders again, this time with better luck, directly collapsed the corner of the city wall in the northwest corner of Dawan."
Kill!"
The offensive began again, and in the Central Plains and Khotan, Zhang was a thug and a villain, but on the battlefield, he was an indomitable warrior.With a shield on his head and a ring knife in his hand, Zhang and several of his comrades climbed the gap after the collapse of the city wall, and after chopping a Dawan to death, he was the first to jump onto the land in the city."
Go first!"
The Han people entered the city one after another, and the Dawan people were losing and retreating, and their next step was to take the inner city in one go.But when they walked through the devastated streets and arrived at the square in front of the west gate, the jade diggers, who were like a group of chaotic soldiers, ran into a strange army.They wore bronze Thracian helmets that bent slightly forward on their heads, held huge round shields with a diameter of two feet, held spears in the other hand, and short swords pinned to their waists.This army only had more than three hundred people, more than ten people in a row, more than ten people in a column, standing very closely, and the spears that were much shorter than those of their ancestors were held in their hands, and with the orders of their commander Dionysus, from front to back, they were slowly leveling!"
Wait, we have to fight first."
This is what Dionysus said to his adjutant, Ren Duhu asked the Sogdian merchants who had infiltrated the city to offer a very attractive price for the silver shield soldiers, but Dionysus just felt aggrieved, he was bombarded by the enemy for so many days, but he could not carry out any counterattack.They can fail, they can surrender, they can betray, but they must not surrender without a fight.They are the last of the Silver Shields!
The last sojourn of the Greeks in the East, the inevitable fall of Dawan, is unstoppable.But more than 300 people are lined up here, this is the Macedonian phalanx that followed Alexander eastward and conquered the world more than 200 years ago.The Xiandeng Dead Soldiers composed of jade diggers were useful in the siege of the city, but when they encountered such an enemy, their unorderly weakness was revealed, and Zhang Cheng and the others screamed and attacked the phalanx without fear, only to be defeated like an egg hitting a stone.Unlike the jade diggers, who have no rules and jump forward and backward, the silver shield soldiers in the phalanx fight with one board and one eye, the first two rows raise their spears to resist, and the back rows raise their spears above their heads to assassinate, and the silver shields in their hands can be used to resist the enemy's swords, and they can also be raised violently to push them to the ground!
The jade diggers continued to fall, and the silver shield soldiers pushed forward shoulder to shoulder with their shields on their heads, squeezing the dead soldiers of the Han army towards the gap.Seeing that victory was in sight, this made Dionysus feel a little better, he didn't expect to win the whole picture, as long as he won a small battle and restored his dignity, they could do what the silver shield soldiers should do to betray their masters, and they didn't feel guilty.But after the jade diggers dispersed on both sides, an army as orderly as the Silver Shield Soldiers appeared behind them, and they entered the city one after another through the gap, and formed the battle under the shouts of the commander.The armor soldiers in the front row are holding a square Wu Kui shield, holding a spear, and the back row is holding a sharp steel ring-headed knife, most of them are wearing dark iron armor, and the officer is wearing a bright light armor, which is the Western Regions to protect Zheng Ji himself!
On the city wall that has been occupied by the Han army, there are also strong crossbow officers with crossbows aimed at the phalanx, ready to attack.Guarding their home and country in the Western Regions, the veterans of the Protector Army, who have been tempered for thousands of years, met the last silver shield soldier in Dawan City.On one side are the Greek descendants with high noses, deep eyes, white skin, black hair and black beards, and on the other side are the big Han soldiers with fine eyes and yellow skin.This is the first time in history that the East and the West have collided.Dionysus sighed, expecting it to be a bitter battle, and with his loud shout, the flute in charge of the command sounded, and the silver shield soldiers leveled their spears and aimed them at the Zheng Jidu guards who were waiting in formation.And more than 300 shields were also slowly raised, the shields were plated with silver, some dim, some brilliant, reflecting the light of the setting sun, like the afterglow before the end of an era!