Shache Country.

Located in the Pamir Plateau, it is located in the Tianshan Mountains and Kunlun Mountains, which is the east side of the Green Ridge in the Han Dynasty.

To the northwest is the Shule Kingdom, and to the south is the two countries of Khotan and Pishan on the South Silk Road.

When Mo Xiaobai led the soldiers to the Yache King City, he could see that there were several beacon towers at the corners of the two city walls in the southeast. At this moment, thick smoke is billowing down, and it is obviously the fastest way to communicate remotely in ancient times.

"The so-called 'desert is lonely', that's the scene, right?"

The desert wolf smoke condensed vertically, even if the wind was howling, it still couldn't be tilted, Mo Xiaobai couldn't help but drop a sentence of the book bag, causing Guo Jia to nod again and again.

A group of 2,000 cavalry entered the city, and Mo Xiaobai soon found that he was now the highest-ranking Han general in the entire royal city. Apart from him, there was only one lieutenant here who led 500 retainers and strengthened the fortifications with a group of Yache citizens.

At the same time, Mo Xiaobai also met the lord of Shache.

A fat middle-aged man with obvious characteristics of the Central Asian race spoke with a little respect to Mo Xiaobai, a Han general with the status of baron and lieutenant.

Mo Xiaobai estimated that this goods were probably packed by Ban Chao, so he was so in awe of the Han people.

After chatting with the lord of Shache for a while, Mo Xiaobai immediately gathered all the civil and military forces under his command to his side: "If Guishuang wants to send troops, he will pass through the green mountains before and after the beginning of spring, and now it is the end of the lunar month, and there is not much time left for us." ”

"This time, the old general wants us to garrison Shache, you should know what our important task is. First, to investigate the enemy's situation, once a large number of enemy traces are found, immediately use wolf smoke to spread the word; Second, we did not have to go out of the city to resist, but only closely monitored its movements, and harassed its rear and scattered and plundering cavalry when the Kushan army attacked Shule. ”

"So I'm waiting for the key to this battle, it's all on you, and the sentry sent out this time must be alert enough, and if you find the enemy's tracks, you will immediately retreat, and you can't do any entanglement. In addition, urge them and the Hun cavalry to learn more Xiongnu language, at least the most commonly used words, which will be useful in the future. ”

With Mo Xiaobai's command, Li Guang immediately clenched his fists.

Since the dispatch of the army, he has always been in charge of the sentry sentry, and Li Guang is now not only very proficient in the use of foot sentry sentry, but also has a lot of experience in cavalry scouting.

In addition, this time, the route of the Otsutsuki clan has been mastered, and it is naturally not an impossible task to discover the traces of the enemy.

After explaining the things that should be explained to Li Guang, Mo Xiaobai turned his head to look at Li Ji and Guo Jia: "Although this battle must strictly implement the strategy of fortifying the wall and clearing the wilderness as mentioned by the old general, it is indispensable to defend the city. Mao Gong, you hold the seal of our school captain, and take over all the Han troops in the city, I will not ask you how to prepare for war, I only want the result, that is, to give me a firm hold of the Shache King City, as far as possible to minimize casualties. ”

"Fengxiao, you and Ziyang assisted Mao Gong in defensive preparations, and the rest of the generals must obey Mao Gong's dispatch. Now that the veteran general has made it clear that this battle will be won and undefeated, I hope that this war will be a beautiful victory. ”

"Whoa!"

When a group of civil and military officials heard this, they immediately clenched their fists, and for them, it was this moment that they followed Mo Xiaobai from Jilusai to the Western Regions.

………

For three days in a row, Mo Xiaobai followed his subordinates and actively prepared for pre-war matters.

One of the most important pre-war reserves is bows and crossbows.

And the Han bow and Han crossbow are the strongest individual equipment that Ban Chao brought to the Western Regions from the Great Han. Especially in the defense of the city, a Han crossbow with abundant crossbow arrows can undoubtedly shoot the number of enemy troops will be quite terrifying. At least a thousand consecutive fires before wear and tear and internal bracket destruction occur.

When all the war reserve matters were carried out in an orderly manner, Mo Xiaobai finally took a break from his busyness.

As soon as he returned to the exotic courtyard where he had temporarily settled, Mo Xiaobai heard the sound of ping-pong metal crashing.

Striding into the courtyard, I saw the fat man and Dumb holding a one-handed sword and playing.

"What are you doing here? Where did you buy a one-handed sword? ”

Because he had been busy arranging the city defenses for several days, Mo Xiaobai naturally didn't have time to care about these two, and at this moment, seeing them slashing each other with one-handed swords that were obviously used by European nobles, he immediately raised his eyebrows and asked.

"I'm a good sword, and I can't buy it anywhere."

Hearing Mo Xiaobai's footsteps, the fat man and the two quickly stopped, and the perch walked with a one-handed sword: "There is only one Greek in the whole city who has goods, oh, this is a sword made of steel." ”

"Steel?"

Mo Xiaobai suddenly became interested when he heard this, he had just received a batch of Uzi weapons in Qiuzi not long ago, but he didn't expect Shache to have steel swords?

Taking the hilt of the sword from the fat man's hand, Mo Xiaobai only glanced at the one-handed sword that was shiny in the dark, and he could be sure that it was indeed made of steel.

At least one level higher than ordinary fine iron weapons.

"The smelting technology of the Western Regions is so developed? Can steel be smelted at this time? ”

Although there is no doubt that the one-handed sword in his hand is made of steel, Mo Xiaobai still can't believe it, you must know that there is still some time before the famous Uzi Steel comes out, how can the Western Regions take the lead in smelting steel?

"Dude, you don't understand this, tinkering with these things is not only in the smelting factory, and there is a group of people who are also very good at fiddling with metal."

The fat man looked a little proud, took another one-handed sword from Dumb's hand, and said, "Look at this, this is an ordinary fine iron sword, although the gap with the steel sword is obvious, but it is also much stronger than the weapon of our plane player." ”

Holding another one-handed sword in his hand and playing with it for a while, Mo Xiaobai couldn't help but nod.

Although this sword has been cut out by the fat men and them several times, in terms of sharpness and solidity, I am afraid that it is three points stronger than his baron's sword.

But the more Mo Xiaobai looked at it, the more he felt that these two one-handed swords should not be products of the Western Regions.

Such a high-end smelting and forging technology should also be a kind of black technology for the current Western Regions, right?

As for what the fat man said, it was not a product of the smelting factory, Mo Xiaobai was even more confused, and said directly at the moment: "Don't play dumb riddles, where to buy it quickly, I'll take a look." ”

Seeing Mo Xiaobai urging him to ask, the fat man replied with a smile: "This matter is also a coincidence, I have been wandering around for the past two days, and I found a Greek in the city who is chattering, he said that he is an alchemist and has a lot of alchemy products in his hands. ”

Greek?

Alchemy?

"Are there still Greeks in the Western Regions who know how to make gold?"

"There may even be black Africans here, and one or two more Greeks are not normal, and don't forget that Alexander the Great, who was once the Macedonian Empire, was already in India hundreds of years ago. From North Africa to Central Asia, what race does not exist? ”

"You're right to say that, no matter how he came here, since he has a first-hand ability in metal smelting, it is worth our visit."

There was nothing wrong with the fat man's explanation, and Mo Xiaobai immediately decided to meet the Greek alchemist who was 'wandering' in the Western Regions.