Foreign soldiers entered the hinterland of the empire, and they went straight to the capital. When they were far away, they just paid it back. When they were close, people would naturally ask, and now Guo Jia met the officials who came to ask.
"A Guishang official came to inform us." Guo Jia said in a sighing tone. It was obvious that this routine informing behavior made Guo Jia deeply feel the power of the system.
It is obvious that the Kushan people have indeed broken away from the background of the Da Yuezhi, a barbarian. They have indeed established a fairly complete system like the Han Dynasty. In feudal society and the monarchy, the most important thing is the quality of the monarch, while the continuity of the country is Depends on how complete the system is.
It is obvious that the situation of Guishang's routine notification was close to that of the Han Dynasty. When a large army passed through the outskirts of his county, the county guard, without knowing it, blocked the city gate first, took precautions, and then sent people to carry out the attack. Ask questions and determine the relationship between ourselves and the enemy.
"Take it down directly, or?" Guan Yu's eyes were as painful as the light of a knife.
"I'll go take a look, talk to the other party, and see if I can pass the blame." Guo Jia shook his head and said. The possibility of direct exposure was too great. Although the distance was close enough, what Guo Jia had opened now was If you have the Longwangshu model, you can take advantage of it.
Guan Yu nodded when he heard this, without saying anything, and then Guo Jia went over to chat with the other party. Although there were deliberate inducements and feints in many places, he succeeded in swaying the other party with his superhuman wisdom.
Although the officials of the other party had doubts on their faces when they left, according to Guo Jia's judgment, although the other party had doubts, the Han army did not expose them. I am afraid that it was caused by details that some officials themselves did not notice. Subtle feelings of the subconscious.
However, Guo Jia didn't care about this kind of thing after he sent the other party away. It's not like Jia Wenhe. As long as he has a little subtlety and turns on his spiritual talent, he can forcibly distinguish it from the clues. After that, he can basically follow the clues. Determine what exactly is going on.
The subtle feelings that normal people have when observing will disappear naturally in a short time as long as the matters of concern do not continue to appear in front of them.
"Join the army and say goodbye. Tomorrow morning, the lord of our city will send you a ten-day supply of grain, grass and dried meat. Please accept it when the time comes." Guishang officials with more than ten guards saluted Guo Jia. , then mounted his horse and left.
"Yun Chang, take a rest for the night." After Guo Jia fooled the other party away, he assured Guan Yu that the matter was resolved.
"Is this okay?" Guan Yu asked Guo Jia with a sidelong glance.
"How can there be no problem? In fact, the problem is big. We can't cheat the rest of the place, so we can only go straight. But we have fooled it this time. Nothing to do tonight. Let's have a good night's rest. It won't be as good later. It's time." Guo Jia smiled sadly.
"I'll make arrangements." Guan Yu turned around and left, leaving Guo Jia to look southward with a solemn look at the departing Kushan officials. Thirty thousand people, ten days' worth of grain, grass and dried meat. The other party didn't think at all and just delivered the goods. I know that this person is not the city lord, and Guan Yu and his group do not have the order documents to supply supplies here!
[Guishan is not an ordinary wealthy place, but the other party agreed and said it would be delivered tomorrow morning, which means the other party did not notice the problem. ] Guo Jia shook his head and turned back to the camp.
However, what troubled Guo Jia was that he had to cook a meal early the next morning. After the meal, Guo Jia did not wait for the Kushan officials who came to deliver the food and grass.
Although those things were not important at all to Guo Jia who had enough food and grass, the food and grass meant that the other party did not realize that they were Han troops and they were not coming now.
"It looks like he's been discovered." Guo Jia sighed and said, "It shouldn't be. I'm watching every move of the other party. Could it be that he's pretending? It shouldn't be."
Having said that, when Guo Jia was sure that the Han army had been discovered by Guishang, he did not show any pity. After all, he was only discovered after rushing here. Guo Jia felt that he could already say that it was What a lucky break.
The plan was well thought out and executed well, but how should I put it? Although the Kushan Empire has entered a period of bad luck, isn't it not dead yet? The other party is not a pig, and he will find out sooner or later. The discovery at this distance is already far higher than Guo Jia's lowest expectation.
"Has it been discovered?" Guan Yu glanced at Guo Jia and said, "Where has it been exposed?" Didn't he promise last night that he would not be discovered? What happened?
"I don't know, at least according to my estimation it shouldn't be the case. I was watching that official carefully." Guo Jia spread his hands with a look of helplessness on his face, "But now that we have reached a place like this, there is no point in taking advantage of opportunities. Let’s raise the flag and take action directly. Even if Peshawar reacts and mobilizes troops to stop it, it won’t be possible in a short while.”
In fact, Guo Jia's estimate was correct. The Kushan official who came to inform the Han army did not find the problem. It was Banham who arrived here in the morning who discovered the problem. This was a complete accident. It can only be said that Guishan's fate Shouldn't.
"Send the news to Peshawar and inform Zhu He that the Han army is coming." Banham said to the inner energy leaving the body next to him.
"What?" The guard beside him was shocked, "When and where are the Han troops?"
"The official who reported the routine meeting yesterday noticed something was wrong, and then came back and mentioned something to me. I didn't pay much attention at the time, but now I see the city gate guards, huh, we don't have tens of thousands of people dressed in the same uniform in our country. A large elite army." Banham said with a sinister smile.
"I will go back to Peshawar right away." The guard felt his scalp numb when he heard this. This is the hinterland of Kushan. The Han army was found in a place like this. Has Kushan become a sieve?
The guard flew away immediately after speaking, while Banham stood in the city gate with a gloomy expression. It was really a big joke to find the Han army only a day or two away from Peshawar.
"Banham, how could you directly order him to deliver the message without verifying it? This information is just something you surmised after listening to an official in Chashiluo City." Seeing this, an old Brahmin man said to Banner in a panic Mu said, are you sure you are not provoking trouble?
"Oh, it's a guess. So what if I guess wrong? It's just to make Vesudeva I think that we played some unspeakable tricks to vent our anger and fool them. What does this mean to us? ." Banham waved his hand indifferently and said.
"..." The old Brahmin was confused when he heard this and didn't know how to answer.
Are you angry? You should indeed be angry, but what Banham said makes sense. What happened if you guessed wrong? If you guessed wrong, the other party made a false alarm. They Brahmins were just watching a joke. They just said this because they were dissatisfied. It was funny. You guys are playing, what else can you do to us?
We Brahmins admit defeat this time, so we can’t just do something to fool you, so that we can feel better.
Or, you can't pretend to fool us and make us happy. You win and get the benefits. We Brahmins admit defeat, but since we are needed, don't think about the benefits of monopolizing everything. You take it. Benefits, can't you just smile?
"Banham, are you sure that's really the Han army?" Seeing his colleague being choked to silence, another Brahmin elder immediately changed the subject and asked.
"More than 90% are Han troops. On the one hand, our Kushan side does not have units of ten thousand, but at first glance, it is the configuration of a legion. On the other hand, our armor does not have this place." Banham pointed with a chuckle. own palm.
After some things are made clear, everyone can understand it from the results back, but when no one knows, it is very powerful to point out the key point.
"Has the Han army been able to cast steel gloves that protect the palms and fingers without affecting the flexibility of the fingers?" A young man who knew metal smelting looked at Banham in surprise.
"Without a doubt, that's it." Banham sighed and said. Because he wanted to improve the Brahmin system, Banham also learned a lot of knowledge that seemed useless in the past. And when the armor was made, Banham just happened to There is learning.
There is nothing much to say about smelting steel. Even if the level of Kushan is lower than that of the Han Dynasty ten years ago, it is basically at the same level. After all, it was killed from the monster house in East Asia. In addition, ancient India itself has quite complete steel casting. technology.
It can be said that the current level of steel casting and smelting in Kushan is at most one or two small stages lower than the level of the Han Dynasty ten years ago. It can be regarded as a very powerful level in the world. However, even at this level of Kushan, it has been The problem of hand armor is not solved.
In fact, the gauntlets that did not affect the flexibility of the hands basically didn't exist until the fifteenth century.
In the second century, when Kushan was at its most prosperous, there was a kind of armor called Rohapada, which was the kind of armor worn by the Padu armor.
This kind of armor is full-body armor in the true sense. Except for the fact that the hands are not covered by armor, the armor covering the whole body is actually not that Kushan cares about so much iron, but that Kushan cannot guarantee the flexibility of the hands after equipping them with armor. .
So until now, the best armor in Kushan still hasn't solved the problem of hand armor, and the Han Dynasty already has two sets of solutions, one is the kind of anti-thorn gloves made of steel wire used by shield guards, and the other is It is a real gauntlet.
Based on this alone, Banham already understood that the army passing by here was definitely not from Kushan. If the gauntlets were developed by Kushan, then the Paduo Armored Corps, King Sai Fighters, and Imperial Guards, etc. Several elite melee infantry regiments will definitely be deployed.
Unfortunately, this is not the case, so the opponent can only be the Han army.
