Chapter 331: Forage Money

Yanbei sent a message to stop fighting with Liu Bei, of course, he was not for a truce, but for Liu Bei to give a promise not to attack Shixie. In the end, Jiaozhou also surrendered to the Zhao Palace, and he couldn't watch Shi Xie fall into danger and ignore it.

Is Shixie dangerous, Yanbei thinks it's really dangerous.

When Yanbei realized that Cao Cao had entered Jiaozhou, he found that the situation in the southwest had become extremely strange. Liu Bei was attacked by Ma Chao in the north and Shi Xie in the south; In the same situation, Shixie fought with Liu Bei to the north and Cao Cao to the south; Cao Cao was even more miserable, fighting Shixie in the west, Shiwu in the east, and Zhang Jaw in the north...... In short, the tripartite forces are crowded in the southwest, and they are all in a miserable state of recklessness.

If Shi Xie was not caught between Cao Cao and Liu Bei, Yan Bei was very optimistic, if Shi Xie and Cao Liu were either in a different place, Yan's soldiers and horses could give Shi Xie sufficient assistance, but he was held back in the innermost, not only could not be saved, if Yan insisted on attacking, the final result could only be that Shi Xie was annexed by Cao Liu, and forced Cao Liu to unite against him.

This is what Yanbei does not want to see.

As the two princes who did not surrender to the Yan clan who worked hard to the end, no matter which way you look at it, both of them are outstanding people, and if they are united, there may be changes.

Now that a peace agreement has been reached with Liu Bei, then the three armies of Shixie, Zhang Liao, and Zhang Jaw will be able to reach an encirclement of Cao Cao, and I think that the Cao clan will not be long away from defeat. Previously, Cao Cao had been allowed to go south and north, and Gain was unable to completely encircle and annihilate him, but this time the Cao clan obviously no longer had such good luck.

Compared to the southwest, which made Yanbei worried, what happened in the Western Regions made Yanbei feel a little funny.

When Lu Yi set out on the expedition, he knew how much Lu Yi wanted to be ashamed of the past, and he hurriedly attacked the west with his soldiers and horses. Yan Bei could imagine how he would have a bloody battle with Guishan when he arrived in the Western Regions, but he didn't wait for the battle report from Lai Lu Yi, but waited for a letter from Lai Lu Yi asking for help.

Lu Yi asked for help, not for military assistance, but for the Liangzhou Thorn History Department to levy some people to repair the trade route leading to the Western Regions outside the Guan, in fact, it is to repair the road.

As for the reason, General Lu wrote very clearly in his letter that Guishan's soldiers had confronted Song Jian on the border line before, and Song Jian was a little cowardly, and did not dare to directly confront the Guishan army, and was frightened by the bright appearance of the cavalry in his country, and did not do much. However, when Lu Yi's soldiers and horses arrived at the border, they accidentally frightened Guishan's army, so frightened that they hid in the city and did not dare to go out.

The cities of the Western Regions are not like the Central Plains based on civil engineering, most of their cities are based on stone, and make full use of the iron hanging gates, and it is difficult to break through the city gates with ordinary wooden and other objects. There is a shortage of water and wood in the Western Regions, and it is useless to attack fire and water. There are only two ways to break down a city, either take a life pile or use a stone cannon.

However, the stone cannons could not be transported, because the roads in the Western Regions were in disrepair, and some places were intermittently completely covered by deserts, and it was impossible to transport the stone cannons at all. Their stone cannons were stationed outside the Yumen Pass, and Lu Yi was greedy in his eyes, so he made this almost ridiculous request to Chen Qun...... Building roads in the Western Regions?

There are still so many places in his mother's country that there are no roads for cavalry to pass, how much ghost does Yanbei have to go to the Western Regions to build roads?

And Yan Bei is quite puzzled, it is said that Song Jian has a lot of soldiers, that is also a prince with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, even if he did not launch a large army because of Yan's deterrence of Guishan, at least an army of a few thousand people should be sent, Song Jian did not scare the Guishan people, how could Lu Yi scare people back to the city as soon as he went?

Yanbei's question was answered in a letter sent by Chen Qun, the assassin of Liangzhou, who gathered 40,000 troops to go west out of Yumen Pass, but when he sent troops to the Western Regions, his troops were not so much. The Liangzhou Thorn History Department sent him 30,000 people to plan the baggage in the back, and the baggage team included the donkeys that Zhao Yun took away at that time. In addition, instead of causing losses in the march to the Western Regions, the army of Lu Yi increased its strength by 30,000, becoming a majestic army of 70,000.

To be honest, this is a bit more than the force that Lu Yi can command.

The 30,000 army is an attacking army sent by Wusun, Dawan and other countries, just like a big brother marrying a wife and making up a part, the countries of the Western Regions used to pay tribute to the three forces of Guishan, Han Zhao, and Xianbei Budugen in turn, but last year Xianbei was attacked by the Yan clan, and the power was not as good as before, and the expedition of Lu Yi to the Western Regions was extremely majestic...... The point is that the countries of the Western Regions are more aware of the civil strife in the Kushan Kingdom than others, and they don't even know how the Han Dynasty collapsed and was revived by the Yan clan in just over a decade, but they know that the Guishan Kingdom has been divided into several departments, and even shows that it is unable to quell the rebellion.

At this time, they don't have to stand up to support Yan's, but they can't help but stand up.

The Han people are very scary! In some books that were handed down to the countries of the Western Regions in the hands of merchants who used to pass through the Western Regions, there is a terrifying story recorded in the name of the False Dao Vayu. It means that they were originally famous to fight Guishuang, but they accidentally destroyed the Wusun Kingdom and the Dawan Kingdom on the way.

The history books of the Central Plains have been circulated to the Western Regions, and they can basically be used as enlightenment education books for mothers in the Western Regions to frighten their children when they see them crying at night. False Dao Destruction is just one of them, and there is something like being in the same room, lying on a salary and tasting guts...... Mom, how scary!

When a Guishan, who was still in disarray, was placed with the Zhao kingdom, which had returned to strength, the wise men of the Western Regions knew which side they should choose.

Standing in line is never an interesting thing, when they choose not to help each other, although it is possible to offend both sides, but because of weakness, they will not be regarded as enemies, but if they make a choice, then they must completely defeat the other side of abandonment, otherwise when the behemoth of Guishan reacts, none of them is Guishan's opponent.

In order to bury the Kushan together, the countries of the Western Regions have spared no effort.

With 70,000 soldiers and horses, especially the tall Yan army of 40,000 of the 70,000 soldiers and horses, the Guishan army had no idea of continuing to stay on the border, so they could only choose to withdraw to the city.

The military system of Guishan is similar to that of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with well-equipped nobles and superb combat power commanding their subordinates, and a large number of peasant soldiers under their command forming a grassroots combat force, which is enough to deter the countries of the Western Regions, but if you want to deter Lu Yi?

Lu Yi had already fought a battle on the Kushan border, but the battle report was stopped only when it was sent to Chen Qun, and he planned to send it to the Zhao Palace, along with the follow-up battle report. The cavalry of Lu Yi fought with more than 2,000 cavalry of Guishan, and a strong crossbow shot over the first dozen cavalry, and then a large number of foot soldiers actually broke up and even overturned their own formation.

Not to mention the eye-high Lu Yi, even Chen Qun, the assassin of Liangzhou, felt that such a battle report did not need to be sent to the palace of King Zhao in a hurry—it was not enough to send the forage money to the horses to ride the order!