Chapter 1149: Hunter and Prey (3)(1/2)
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Accompanied by the sound of desolate horns, the Hun cavalry began to assemble.
Jiankun, Weixu, Yan She, these three main Huns who were currently besieging Dayuan under Guishan City, began to line up in the wilderness outside the city.
This immediately aroused the vigilance of the Dayuan defenders.
"What are these savages going to do?"
"Do they want to attack the city with cavalry?!"
"Crazy!"
Even Qian Ji appeared on the top of the city, staring at the situation outside the Huns camp.
About an hour later, with a dull drum sound, three Hun cavalry lined up in a long line and headed towards the distance.
The place where it is headed is the southwest of Guishan City and the west coast of Weishui.
"Oh no!" Qian Ji shouted immediately: "These barbarians are going to intercept reinforcements!"
Guishan City has been surrounded for almost half a month. In the past half month, Guishan City has cut off almost all external ties.
The water and food inside are gradually scarce.
Currently, the population in Guishan City is nearly 100,000.
However, the national treasury is only 700,000 tarantulas and wheat (Greek weight unit, one tarantulas is about 30 kilograms) and 300,000 tarantulas and cheese, jerky and dried fruit.
It won't last long!
Therefore, Qian Ji knew almost immediately that troops must be sent out of the city to restrain the Huns' actions and buy time for reinforcements.
Even in fact, this has no effect at all.
But you must not do it!
So the defenders of Guishan City gritted their teeth and pieced together, selecting more than 2,000 people from slaves, criminals and civilians as suicide squads.
They were given weapons and shields, and each of them was given ten gold coins, one talan and wheat as a deposit.
Stimulated by gold and food, these people took weapons and handed over gold coins and food to their families, and then stepped out of the city gate with a determined heart of death.
The movements of the Dayuan people cannot be hidden from Li Ling.
But he was unmoved at all, and he didn't even want to look back.
"The Wan people are weak and not afraid!" He told the generals who came to report the news: "It happened that the Shule people and the Shache people were training troops and make plans for the future!"
Now that Li Ling understands this situation, his Western Xiongnu has no longer returned to the era of being able to respond to the past, surpassing the countries of the Western Regions, and being arrogant and instructing them to do whatever they want.
Because the power of his Huns could no longer crush the entire Western Regions, he had to change his ruling method, from the past power to the focus of support, allowing several more obedient major powers to rule their own and suppress some countries.
Tie them to their own chariots and face the future together.
This is also a quick strategy for the Huns or the people who led the bow when facing difficulties or need to expand.
What should I do if the enemy is too powerful to defeat?
First develop lewdly and absorb people as much as possible.
Insert other tribes into your own tribes/powers.
In this way, the population can expand overnight.
However, this strategy is the first time it is used for non-nomadic people to draw bows, and the effect is currently unknown.
However, Li Ling no longer cared about this.
Even if this may eventually poison yourself, it will be better than dying of thirst immediately!
So, with Li Ling's order, King Shule and King Shache immediately prepared to move troops and generals to deal with the incoming Dayuan army.
Li Ling led his army to the west and move forward.
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The medicine kills water to the west, where the grassland and hills junction.
The Wusun people had already established tents that stretched for dozens of miles here.
There are more than three thousand domes arranged in sequence.
Tens of thousands of war horses and more than 100,000 livestock wander in the water and meadows among rivers and valleys.
And behind the Wusun Camp, more than a thousand dome tents were listed one by one.
The Kangju people wearing brown clothes and a small felt hat and brown pupils gathered beside the bonfire and worshiped the burning bonfire.
Deep in the military camp, Kangju nobles wearing silk clothes surrounded a monk who was full of fragrance and looked rich and friendly, listening carefully to his lectures.
Wusun Xihou Yuan Anmi walked in this camp and saw with his own eyes the daily lives of these Kangju allies.
"This split between Kangju has reached this point?" He thought to himself: "I'm afraid these people may not be reliable..."
Wusun and Kangju are also enemies.
Since the Han Dynasty attacked Dayuan more than ten years ago, Wusun and Kangju inevitably collided.
The Wusun cavalry often went to Kangju to hunt grass valley, caught some slaves, and robbed some livestock.
Therefore, I still understand Kangjuyuan Anmi.
However, after understanding, Yuan Anmi saw it with his own eyes, he realized that there was a reason why the Kangju people were able to be killed by a partial army in the Han Dynasty and arrested King Yu Cheng of Dayuan and executed him in front of his king.
Because, the whole country has been completely separated.
The nobles and the middle and lower classes of herders and slaves are like two tribes.
They have different lifestyles, different beliefs, and even different customs.
The upper class of nobles had generally converted to a religion called Futu, which seemed to advocate obedience and obedience to one's own destiny and to wait for the next life.
The god's name is: Buddha, who is called enlightenment, claims that if you believe it and follow it, you will be enlightened and enlightened, know the natural past and future of heaven and earth, and see through all fame, fortune and wealth in the world. In short, it is very mysterious.
It is not difficult for Yuan Anmi to understand, but the Kangju nobles are like Yu and almost everyone believes in it.
But the lower classes, especially the lower classes, believe in a religion called "Zoroastrianism".
The two are clearly distinguished, do not interfere with each other, and discriminate against each other.
And Kangju, which has been split to this point, can there be any combat power?
I am afraid that once the war begins, there will be any trouble, the soldiers and slaves below will scatter and throw the heresy in their mouths to the enemy.
pity……
Now Wusun has to cooperate with such allies. Thinking of this, Yuan Anmi was inexplicably sad and a little angry!
"If my Wusun has the national strength of the Han Dynasty, why should I be with such rats?" So Yuan Anmi couldn't help but glance at the Kangju camp with his vicious eyes: "When my Wusun possesses Dayuan, Kangju will be destroyed!"
Such a healthy residence has split into this country.
Yuan Anmi believed that as long as his monarch agreed, his headquarters could destroy his country!
At that time, maybe as long as he takes the banner of eliminating heresy, Kangju's army will turn against each other!
Just as he was thinking about these things, a Kangju nobleman came towards him, walked up to him, stroked his chest with his hands and said, "Great Wusun Xihou, my Lord has a welcome!"
Yuan Anmi quickly showed a smile and said with a fake smile: "Please lead the way..."
Under the guidance of the latter, he walked into a tent deep in the barracks.
There were bursts of hearty laughter in the tent from time to time, and one of them was particularly familiar, which was Yuan Anmi's cousin Wusun Kunmowengguimi.
"Gridang, you're here just right!" Weng Guimi waved to Yuan Anmi and introduced to him: "I'm about to introduce you..."
"This is the special envoy of the Yuezhi King, Qi Keli who came from Lanshi City..."
A foreigner wearing a wide blue robe and a headscarf wrapped around his head, looking in his thirties, with a hooked nose and deep eye sockets walked to Yuan Anmi and folded his hands together, saying, "The Buddha will bless you, the respected nobleman of Wusun! I am the Yueshi Special Envoy Qi Keli!"
Yuan Anmi raised her head, looked at the person, and looked at her king with some confusion.
When Weng Guimi saw it, he immediately laughed and said to Yuan Anmi: "Gridang, do you know that this special envoy is also a great enlightened person with superb Buddhism. I was very happy to talk to the special envoy..."
"I even wonder if the people of Wusun can be taught by the Buddha and protected by the Dharma?"
Qi Keli immediately folded his head and bowed again, saying, "Amitabha, my Buddhist cultivation is not as good as that of our country's enlightenment... Kunmo is too proud, but if His Majesty Kunmo is willing, I would like to give up everything in the world, follow Kunmo to Wusun to promote Buddhism, and shine on the world!" His face immediately became rosy, as if he had found the purpose of life.
Yuan Anmi listened, and his eyes were filled with an incredible look.
Wusun was born in the Huns.
But I always wanted to get rid of the label of the Huns, so the king of Wusun was called Kunmo instead of Shanyu, and the leaders of the four major tribes within Wusun were called Xihou instead of Xinu-style kings.
The Wusun people even tried to settle down and farm and irrigate the land.
However, the primitive shamanic beliefs brought by the Huns were like shadows and could not be shaken off.
Even if Kunmo tried his best to create the legend of the so-called God of Crow and the Son of the White Wolf.
However, Wusun was ultimately a member of the shamanism.
Back then, Hunjiao was in Japan and even wanted to introduce the religion of the Han Dynasty to replace the faith of Wusun.
To be continued...