There is intelligence that a large number of Hu people are gathering in the Junji Mountain area, and some intelligence sources also know that the gathering of grassland herdsmen is Touman's youngest son, Jituo.

As the king of the Xiongnu tribe and the alliance of the grassland tribes, Shan Yu Yutouman's southward invasion was trapped at the source of the Yellow River, and the Xiongnu who remained in the grassland should indeed have to react.

The news of the gathering of men and horses by the little prince of the Huns had been discovered by the Han army as early as a month ago, and the Han army also reacted to this, otherwise the 10th Mixed Army and the 11th Mixed Army should still stay in the Central Plains, instead of going north to join the Fertile Front Army.

The Han army only knew that Ji Tuo was gathering men and horses in the direction of Junji Mountain, but he didn't know what was happening in the deeper part of the grassland, and the Wusun envoy Shea said that a large army was gathering on the grassland, obviously not just referring to the more than 100,000 people gathered by Ji Tuo, after all, compared to the Chinese side of Chen with millions of soldiers, how could the 100,000 people gathered by Ji Tuo be called a big army?

"Not only the Huns, but also many tribes such as Ding Ling, Jiankun, Hujie and so on are gathering manpower," She'a's eyes kept staring at Xu Zhi, and he was observing any change in Xu Zhi's expression: "Donghu is also gathering a large army over there. ”

Yes, the center of the empire sent a document to the Fertile Front, especially reminding Donghu that he was also gathering an army on the side of Wuhou and Qinshui, and the number of people gathered in Donghu should be more than 200,000.

"And then?" Xu Zhi didn't change the indifferent expression on his face.

Shea was "snorted" for a moment, and asked strangely: "The whole grassland is gathering manpower, don't you feel it...... Feeling nervous? ”

Raising his head slightly, Xu Zhi was a little amused: "Why are you nervous?" ”

Shea was completely stunned.

Yes, why should Xu Zhi feel nervous? Not only Xu Zhi, but in fact, the Han army wished that the Hu tribe on the grassland would gather more men and horses to go south.

The history of Huaxia and the Hu people should be thousands of years, and the most curious thing about repeatedly fighting with the Hu people is that they can't find it, or that the Hu people retreat into the depths of the grassland when they are defeated and do not fight, and the Hu people are willing to gather a large army to have a head-on battle. That's something that the army of Chinese civilization can't ask for!

The grassland is too vast and too big, and the Hu people are not the enemy army defending the city, and the war waged by the Han army on the grassland is not like the model in China at all, where you can fight city by city to destroy the enemy in a certain city, but the enemy does not fight with it is the most troublesome thing.

Whether it is the current Han army or the future imperial army, sooner or later one day it is going to go deep into the grassland, they have carried out countless deductions, and each deduction is that the Hu people do not confront each other head-on and choose to flee, the Han army cannot eliminate more Hu people head-on, and the Hu people involve the Han army in a mobile guerrilla mode. Then it destroyed the logistics supply lines of the Han army, and the end result was a dismal end for the Han army to retreat from the depths of the steppe.

The Hu people in the depths of the grassland are gathering an army to come to fight, which is really too good news for the Chinese side, and the Han army can eliminate more Hu people in this confrontation, which means that the Han army will encounter less trouble in the future when they go deep into the grassland, so it is not bad news for the Hu people to gather a large army to come, but it is something that the Han army cannot ask for.

"Jituo has gathered 120,000, Ding Ling and Jiankun have gathered 150,000, and Hujie and Qu Jie have also gathered 50,000. There are even more sporadic Rong and Di people assembling," Shea said with an incomprehensible and tangled expression: "There may be nearly half a million troops going south, shouldn't you be worried?" ”

The kingdom under the rule of Lü Zhe was not the kind of dynasty that knew nothing about the grasslands, and it was in a long period of spying and exploration. The Han army was not blind to the division of power and territory in the grassland.

Xu Zhi raised his head again: "Yes, the direction of Hujie and Qu Jie to assemble the army is in the northwest of Wusun, and the direction of Ding Ling and Jiankun to gather the army is in the north of Wusun, if they want to go south, they must pass through Wusun?" ”

Not really. The habitat of Hujie and the territory of Ding Ling and Jiankun are all bordered by Wusun, not to mention that the location of the Xiongnu little prince Sulu Jituo's army is in Junji Mountain, not far east of Wusun, no matter how you look at it, Wusun belongs to the kind of predicament surrounded by regiments. No wonder Wusun King Bo Ximi would send envoys to try to negotiate an alliance with Huaxia, Wusun is feeling a serious threat!

She'a didn't shy away at all, he nodded very calmly: "We are mortal enemies with the Xiongnu, and Hujie, Ding Ling, and Jiankun are allies with the Rong people and Di people of the department, and we are worried that they will attack us first." ”

In fact, Wusun also has its own allies, such as Kangju in the west and some Rong people entrenched in the Gobi are all allies of Wusun. Wusun originally had more allies, such as many natives in the Western Regions, but those ethnic groups who migrated from the west to the east poured in, and the Western Regions were completely chaotic, and those natives of the Western Regions were either wiped out or annexed in the chaos, or they migrated and did not know where to go.

In fact, the Wusun ethnic group did not become strong overnight, they also gradually grew after a long period of development and conquest, and in the process of making enemies with many people but also using some friends, it has been until Qin unified China, Wusun has always been a group of allies in the Xiongnu as enemies.

The war between Wusun and the Xiongnu began as early as 300 BC, and the battles between the two sides in the Gobi, in the grasslands, and in the mountains are difficult to count, but as Wusun's biggest allies, the Yueshi people, were defeated by the Xiongnu, Wusun fell behind in the confrontation with the Xiongnu.

In the history of the original, almost 200 BC or so, Mao Dun shot his father Touman to become the king of the Xiongnu and many tribes of Shan Yu, the Xiongnu began to concentrate on the westward expansion, Wusun faced the Xiongnu who were fully expanding It was difficult to parry, the Wusun people learned from the Yueshi people to migrate westward to avoid the fate of being destroyed or annexed, the natives of the Western Regions were not so lucky, the aborigines living in the Western Regions were either destroyed by the Xiongnu or were annexed, and the entire Western Regions became the back garden of the Xiongnu.

After moving west, Wusun finally submitted to the Xiongnu, and the two sides changed from a hostile relationship to a suzerainty and vassal, when Maodun sent troops to attack Donghu, Wusun even sent troops to participate in the war against the Donghu people, and Wusun also made a lot of efforts during the Xiongnu attack on Ding Ling, Jiankun, Hujie, Qu She, Hun Geng and other grassland ethnic groups.

Perhaps it was Wusun who became the "accomplice" of the Huns to make the Yueshi people who were originally attached to Wusun resentful, and the king of Wusun was attacked and killed by the Yueshi people, and Wusun once encountered the disintegration of the ethnic group, and the son of the difficult to be Gou Jiaomi was just born, and the Hunt Jiaomi was adopted by Maoton, and the adult Hunt Jiaomi was finally able to restore the country with the help of the Xiongnu. Since then, Wusun has always been a loyal dog leg of the Huns.

Probably in the historical process of the land of China, during the period when Liu Che was in power, the Han Empire and the Xiongnu fell into the Hundred Years War, and the Wusun people during this period actually participated in the war against the Han Empire, and directly fought with the Han Empire with elite troops.

Almost in 60 BC, the Han Empire entered the era of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, and by this time Wusun was no longer a vassal of the Xiongnu, because of the comprehensive defeat of the Xiongnu, Wusun was very close to the Han Empire, and then became one of the powerful forces of the Han Empire in the Western Regions.

Of course, in this historical version of Lu Zhe. Wusun was still in the stage of getting closer to the Yueshi, and in this stage Wusun was one of the biggest obstacles to the westward expansion of the Xiongnu.

It is precisely because Wusun is the enemy of the Xiongnu that the allies of the Xiongnu are gathering a large army, and what will not die is that the Xiongnu and those allies are gathering a large army to encircle Wusun from the territory, and Wusun cannot be allowed not to react violently.

"According to our understanding of the Xiongnu and other ethnic groups, the chances of them attacking Wusun before heading south are infinite, right?" Xu Zhike didn't gloat, he was telling a fact.

"We have a common enemy, in order to show the sincerity of the alliance further. My king is willing to marry the princess of your country, so that the two countries will become a kingdom of marriage. Shea didn't know what she meant by that.

"Huh!?" Xu Zhi's expression changed for the first time, and he stood up: "Say it again!" ”

“…… We have a common enemy, and the enemy of our enemy is our friend. She Ah didn't know why the general's face in front of him suddenly became so ugly: "The two families have become in-laws......", speaking of this, he could see that Xu Zhi had a wave of anger, and changed his words: "It's okay for Wusun to marry the princess, and the two families become relatives." Jointly attack those people, including the Xiongnu......"

Xu Zhi's face finally became a little better, and none of them, who followed Lu Zhe from the end of the world, heard Lu Zhe's nagging words such as "harmony is the greatest shame for a country". They also fully agree with the idea that a country is trading a woman's breasts for peace or something that a soldier doesn't use to a certain extent.

Whether it is the current Han State or the future empire, a group of soldiers will never allow the honor (or pride) belonging to the military to be tarnished, and then how noble the imperial family of the empire is, the princess of the emperor will definitely be the pearl of the empire, I don't know how many talents admire, how can it be possible to let the princess of the empire marry a wild man!

And it seems that ...... Lu Zhe's eldest daughter is only six years old, no matter how young King Wusun is, he is definitely thirty-four years old, and the envoy of Wusun opened his mouth to marry the princess, how could he not let Xu Zhi get angry.

For the Han army, Wusun can send 100,000 troops is too little, and it doesn't matter if there is such an ally or not. However, Wusun seems to know very well the division of forces on the grassland, and can also spy on some information that the Han army cannot snoop on, Xu Zhi had already intended to send the Wusun envoy to the hussar general Sima Xin, but now he hesitated.

"You ......" Xu Zhi stared at She'a: "Don't talk about marrying the princess again." ”

After being stunned for a moment, his face involuntarily became ugly, how could he not hear the meaning of the general in front of him, that is, he thought that King Wusun marrying the other party's princess was a thing that made them feel insulted.

Now Wusun is not weak in the grassland, occupying all the land in the Tianhe (Ili River) basin, with at least 300,000 cavalry, and nearly two million slave groups, there are countless tribes who want to dedicate their daughters to the king of Wusun, and some countries in the west of Kangju are also willing to marry their princesses to the king of Wusun in exchange for friendship, even the hostile Xiongnu are willing to marry the princess, but it has become an insulting thing here in this strange country?

Shea wanted to get angry, but he hesitated. He would hesitate to say that Wusun was in need of allies now, and he didn't know if there were any special customs in this powerful empire in the East? For example, the princess does not marry a foreigner or something.

"Then ......," asked She'a, wonderingly, "what about the sovereign of your kingdom marrying our royal daughter?" ”

Xu Zhi couldn't understand it, a woman's marriage was just a woman's marriage, shouldn't Wusun think that a woman would really make two countries close friends, right? No matter how you look at it, you feel naïve and ignorant!

Perhaps, just maybe, ......in the original history, the emperor of the Han Empire married the princess and relatives, and the king of Wusun, who married the princess of the Han Empire, was also wondering, strange that the Han Empire was really naïve and inexplicable, how to pin the diplomatic relations between the two countries on a woman, hoping that the woman could exchange her body for Wusun to become a loyal partner of the Han Empire.

"This matter ......" Xu Zhi thought for a while: "You can go to the hussar general first, and maybe you will also go to our capital Nanling, where you will get the answer." ”

She didn't understand the official names Xu Zhi said, but he was still very happy to hear that he could go to the capital of the Eastern Empire.

Waiting to send off the envoy of Wusun, Han Xin spoke: "General, what is this Wusun, maybe it will be very useful to us." ”

Xu Zhi looked at Han Xin, who seemed to have a lot to say, and motioned for Han Xin to continue.

"In our intelligence, Wusun is a fairly strong tribal alliance to the west, they have been in opposition to the Xiongnu for a long time, and they also know the depths of the steppe very well." Han Xin paused, and when he saw Xu Zhi nodding, he continued: "We need a friend who knows the grassland, and we also need someone who can threaten the Xiongnu from the flank. ”

From a military point of view, Han Xin's suggestion is very valuable, but that is only from a military point of view, and Han Xin also thinks about this matter a little simply, the Han army is very unfamiliar with Wusun, so strange that he doesn't know whether to trust Wusun or not, an ally who doesn't know whether to trust or not is far more troublesome than an enemy, at least the enemy is eliminated, but the unreliable ally doesn't know if it will be taken into the gutter.

"Letter," Xu Zhi looked up and down at Han Xin, who had been looking up and down for a long time, "You take someone to escort those Wusun people to the hussar general." ”

Han Xin still has a lot to say, he opened his lips, saw Xu Zhi waving his hand, and finally could only respond to "Promise!" "Stand down.

Xu Zhi looked at Han Xin's departing back, and shook his head with a wry smile in his heart: "The military talent is very good, and he also has the talent to command the army, but why has he always been so naïve in temperament?" (To be continued......)