Chapter 642: The Former Country of Pu
Liu Zhang nodded, "You leave the horses where they are and continue to raid the Pu Country." ”
"Yes."
Although Liu Zhang is not a direct subordinate, since the Di people are attached to the Sichuan army, Liu Zhang can be equivalent to his own subordinate, and Ake promised to go back.
After the Di army left, Liu Zhang led the army to receive the Di horses.
Because the horses in the Central Plains are basically crossbred, although they look taller and faster than the grassland horses, but the endurance is very bad, Liu Zhang knows that he is going to fight in the Western Regions, endurance is very important, if he can't get a camel team, Liu Zhang plans to use camels.
From Chang'an to the Great Wall, Liu Zhang has been using the Central Plains horses to gallop quickly, and only Su Lan's 1,000 people are Mongolian horses, because the archers and cavalry established at the beginning are all selected high-quality Mongolian horses.
Moreover, the horses of the Central Plains appeared in the Western Regions, which was easy to arouse vigilance and could not achieve the effect of sneak attack, so it was necessary to use the horses of Zhelanying, this time the joint was not only to receive the horses, but also to hide the traces, and then the Di people attacked Pu, and the Sichuan army officially attacked the Western Regions.
The rattan armoured army and the white pole soldiers did not know how to ride horses, but they all brought simple stirrups and saddles, the horseshoe was too late to load, but the saddles and stirrups were loaded very quickly, and the rattan armoured army tightly pulled the horse's reins and clamped the horse's belly, which could still be equivalent to a sandbag being carried away.
After everyone got on the horses, Liu Zhang shouted loudly: "From now on, we are the army of Wusun Kingdom, galloping a hundred miles and waving the Wusun banner." ”
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10,000 people galloped quickly, and when they reached a hundred miles, they waved the stone banner of Wusun Kingdom. On the black flag is printed a white stone. It looks very heavy. I don't know why Wusun likes this flag.
The reason why the flag of Wusun is played is because until now, it is the only big country that has not used to use troops.
Wusun Kingdom belongs to the top power in the Western Regions, in the Western Regions, Loulan is a large city-state, there are dozens of small cities, said to be a city, in fact, it is a village. The walls were built to avoid the wind and sand. Dawan is at the same level as Loulan.
Shache and other countries are second-class big countries, which can make up thousands of regular troops and tens of thousands of people's troops, and bigger than Shache and other countries are Qiuzi and other countries, which can make up 10,000 regular troops and more than 50,000 people's troops.
And Wusun is a super country larger than Qiuci, the regular army can make up 20,000, the population is twice that of Qiuci, and the territory is larger than Qiuci.
But this time, Shache Kingdom killed people in Qiuzi City, and sacrificed to the sky. Wusun did not react, and later many Western Regions powers jointly attacked Shache. The Wusun Kingdom also did not participate in the alliance, because the Wusun Kingdom was in the northwest of the Western Regions, which could be said to be a corner of security, and did not hinder the rise of the Yache Kingdom.
And the Shache country and other countries all believe that the Wusun country is because the national strength is weak, so it did not act, and Liu Zhang also thinks so, because the Wusun country is indeed weakening.
As the top power in the Western Regions, although Wusun is far away from the Han Dynasty in the west of the Tianshan Mountains, its civilization is very high, second only to Loulan, of course, like the Han Dynasty, as soon as the country is stable, corruption comes.
In the past hundred years, it can be said that the Wusun Kingdom has become weaker and weaker, because of the corruption of the Wusun Kingdom and the corruption of the royal family.
This also explains why Wusun did not react to Shache, a corrupt country, will not react to anything, which is also the reason why Shache did not do anything to Wusun.
If it really starts, although there are many soldiers in Wusun Kingdom, all the 5,000 cavalry of Shache Country come from the cavalry soldiers of Xiliang, and they are equipped with thousands of horses and full defense armor, and the 20,000 regular troops of Wusun Kingdom will not be the opponent of 5,000 soldiers and horses of Shache Country at all.
Lathia just knew that her five thousand people were invincible, so she dared to be so arrogant, but now she wanted to be arrogant too much, and even under the threat of the Kushan Empire, she had to go on an expedition to Loulan and anger the Han.
Liu Zhang didn't want the Kushan Empire to take advantage, so he wanted to cut off the return route of the Shache Kingdom and force the Shache Kingdom to surrender, Liu Zhang played the banner of the Wusun Kingdom, at least until the retreat of the Shache Expeditionary Force was cut off, and the whereabouts of the Han army could not be exposed.
Because of the vine armor army and the white pole soldiers, Liu Zhang's army speed is much slower than Ake's army speed, Liu Zhang took out the map of the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and now he is still on the territory of Zhe Lanying, but Zhe Lanying has withdrawn all the troops in this area, which means that there is no one here at all.
Liu Zhang planned to bypass the former country of Pu, thirty miles north of the former country of Pu, and lean on the Gobi Desert to penetrate the hinterland of the Cheshi, and at that time, no one doubted the authenticity of this Wusun army.
The Wusun Kingdom is to the west of the Cheshi, close to the place of present-day Kazakhstan, if the people of the Western Regions find this army now, even if the banner of the Wusun Kingdom is displayed, others will wonder why the people of the Wusun Kingdom have quietly appeared in this place.
In addition, the reason that cannot be discovered, Liu Zhang has long decided to feed the war with war, if the people transport grain to feed this army, even if it is only 10,000 people, such a long transportation distance, the consumption of grain will be a huge number, and the transportation of grain in the grassland is not safe, it is impossible at all.
That is to say, the first battle of the Sichuan army must occupy a city and obtain the first batch of grain and grass, otherwise it can only be destroyed.
Liu Zhang took out the map to check, fifty miles ahead is the former country of Pu, and another hundred miles is the country behind Pu, Liu Zhang felt that he could take it, but it was not 100%, only 90 percent, but the Sichuan army did not bring much food, and Liu Zhang did not want to take this 10% risk.
There are many small countries in the south of the former and post-Pu countries, but the terrain is steep and not easy to attack.
According to the investigation of the Western Regions, there are thousands of defenders, if the Sichuan army attacks the city, it will definitely be able to organize strong men to guard, and it is estimated that more than 5,000 people will defend the city.
If it is 5,000 Central Plains troops, Liu Zhang still has to weigh it, but there are only thousands of troops that do not fight all year round, and there are thousands of people at home, and it is possible to capture them.
But once it can't be attacked for a long time, even if it is a few days, other car division countries will inevitably come to the rescue, if the Sichuan army is dragged here and falls into the quagmire of war, the consequences will be catastrophic.
However, fortunately, there is a very small country in front of the Cheshi Hou Country, the Beilu Country, according to the feedback information, this country is only guarded by a few hundred people, and the total population is only a few thousand.
The Beilu country is sandwiched between the Cheshi Houguo and the Pu Houguo, which is obviously a buffer of a large country, but the position of the Beilu country is just enough to jam other Cheshi powers, if the Sichuan army attacks the Cheshi Houguo, even if it is deadlocked, as long as it occupies Beilu, the Sichuan army will have enough time to maneuver.
And taking the land of the Underland is no challenge.
Liu Zhang put down the map, and had already decided to bypass the former country of Pu, and cut diagonally from the middle of the former country of Pu and the latter country to the southwest, directly occupy the Beilu country, and then attack the country behind the division with a large army.
Liu Zhang led the army to hide their tracks and rushed to the Gobi Desert in the former country of Pu, but after only a dozen miles, a ranger rushed over: "The lord ......"
"It's called the Third Prince."
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Third Prince, in a dirt mountain in the southwest, I found an ambush."
"What? Ambush? Liu Zhang frowned, as far as intelligence knows, these splitters of the Cheshi used to fight back and forth, but then they slowly became peaceful, and now several countries are safe.
Otherwise, the country behind the chariot division and the country after the Pu class would not have found a country of the inferior land as a buffer, and it would be impossible for the country before the chariot division to persuade other countries to attack the Di people.
Who are these ambushes? Moreover, this place is still facing the east, even if the former country of Pu and other Cheshi countries go to war, the ambush place is also in the west of Pu.
Liu Zhang's brows furrowed, and he immediately thought that something was wrong, this army must have ambushed Ake's army, but Ake's speed was so fast, how could Pu get the news in advance? Unless the Di people give this order, someone will immediately report the news.
"Zhelan's army is out of the traitor." Liu Zhang immediately thought of this result, and these ambushes have not moved yet, Ake's army obviously went straight to the former country of Pu, and Pu should have a conspiracy.
"Husband, what should we do?" Xiao Furong asked.
"Let's go see Tushan first."
Liu Zhang, under the escort of Hao Li and Qu Lingchen, led several Sichuan army generals to sneak near Tushan to observe, there were two masters of Hao Li and Qu Lingchen to guard, one swept thousands of troops, and the other was profound, Liu Zhang really felt safer than a thousand soldiers.
"It's strange, there are only more than 2,000 ambush soldiers, and more than 2,000 people ambush more than 5,000 people?"
Liu Zhang looked at the earth mountains suspiciously, there was not only one earth mountain, but two, and there was a very wide passage sandwiched between the two earth mountains, and the ambush soldiers were on the two earth mountains, and Ake's cavalry obviously passed through the passage and rushed to the former country of Pu Shi.
Liu Zhang observed for a while, or only found more than 2,000 people, a dirt mountain of more than 1,000 people, this dirt mountain is not a steep place, not to mention that the passage is very wide, as long as Ake forcibly passes through the passage and detours to the dirt mountain, it is not a one-sided massacre?
Ah Ke raided at such a fast speed, he shouldn't have expected that there was a traitor in the Di Ren Army, and he had already reported the news, but Liu Zhang couldn't figure it out, even if Ah Ke didn't find out, even if he was ambushed, the loss wouldn't be too big, right?
The puzzled Liu Zhang carefully inspected the two thousand volt soldiers, wanting to see if it was an elite soldier, generally a ten elite soldier, that kind of elite can be observed, although Liu Zhang does not believe that there is such a place as a car division, and there are elite soldiers who are ten with one, but now the Di army is Zhe Lanying, and Zhe Lanying is his own, and he can't let the Di army suffer.
Sure enough, Liu Zhang didn't see any elite soldiers, these soldiers should be the regular army of the Che Division at best, and they can dispatch two thousand regular troops, which is obviously not something that can be done by one country in the former country of Pu, so the former country of Pu has already united some countries, and they also knew in advance that the Di army was going to attack them.
Just when Liu Zhang was unimpressed with these two thousand soldiers, he saw a strange thing, (to be continued......)