Near a mountain outside Yiqu City, there are countless cattle and sheep grazing.
On the flat land at the foot of the mountain, there is a huge mansion, surrounded by soldiers and horses patrolling, and hunting dogs wandering around, making it difficult for ordinary people to approach.
Wushiluo's family is in Wushi County, but his family has tens of thousands of gold. They also have a vast pasture and private house in the mountains outside Yiqu City.
"Father, the caravan has left the fortress. Twenty miles away from the Great Wall, our people will break away from the team and head to Helan Mountain quickly to inform the Yuezhi people of the Qin army's march route."
U Thi Fang was in his thirties, a tall man with a beard, and reported the situation to U Thi Luo who was sitting at the top.
"Um."
Wu Shiluo picked up the kumiss and took a sip.
The Yuezhi people killed the Qin envoy and threw the Qin envoy's head in front of the Great Wall. After this incident was reported back to Yiqu City, it aroused the anger of General Zhao Tuo.
It is said that when the general heard the news, he stood up in front of the county guard and others, angrily scolding the barbarians for their rudeness.
It is said that since ancient times, the two armies have been fighting without killing the envoys. He led the army to conquer the six countries. Even if the countries were beaten to a bloody head, he never killed the envoys.
Now the Yueshi pretended to be an alliance, and before the two countries went to war, they killed Qin's envoys. This was not only a rude barbarian, but also a naked provocation to Qin.
"The barbarians on the border want to kill our Qin envoys. They will be killed no matter how far away they are!"
The general made bold words, and he publicly informed the 200,000 Qin troops outside Yiqu City about the incident, which aroused the anger of many Qin people, and there were endless calls to annihilate the barbarians.
In anger, the general decided not to wait for the soldiers and horses from Longxi and Shangjun to converge. He would lead his army out of the fortress in half a month, break through the Helan Mountains, and wipe out all the Yueshi and Guishang tribes grazing there.
"The arrogant Qin people fell into the trap of the prairie wolf."
When Wu Shiluo heard the news, he secretly laughed.
He is a Rong man and knows how the prairie people do things.
The Yuezhi people did this just to anger the general. He was an irrational beast and was more likely to be hunted by herdsmen on the grassland.
The Qin army has 300,000 troops, advancing together. This huge army will pose a great threat to the Yuezhi people.
Now, because the general was angered by the Yuezhi, he abandoned the two partial divisions and chose to advance to Helan. His strength was reduced by one-third, which was great news for the Yuezhi people.
What's more worth mentioning is that he, the Wushiluo, was the largest frontier merchant in the Qin State. Before that, he often traded cattle and horses with the Yuezhi and the Xiongnu. He was the person in the Qin State who was most familiar with the situation in Henan. Therefore, the general summoned him to come. To inquire about a suitable route of march.
Wu Shiluo was very enthusiastic and planned a suitable marching route for the Qin army, which would allow the 200,000 troops to avoid the Gobi desert along the way and successfully reach the Helan grassland with lush water and grass.
The general expressed his satisfaction and asked him to send another caravan out of the fortress to win over some small tribes in Henan to find out the latest movements of the Yuezhi for the Qin army.
This surprised Wushi Luo. He didn't expect the general to trust Wushi so much.
But it's normal to think about it. After all, Wushiluo has the "ranking king" treatment personally granted by the emperor. He will present a large number of cattle, horses and treasures to the emperor every year. He seems to be a good businessman in the Qin Dynasty. No one would have thought that he would betray .
After secretly laughing in his heart, Wu Shiluo happened to use this caravan as a cover to pass the Qin army's march route to the hands of Yuezhi Xihou.
"Father, if this Qin army is defeated by the Yuezhi on the grassland, will the emperor send another army to conquer it?"
Wu Shifang asked carefully.
Wu Shiluo snorted and said: "If these 200,000 troops are eaten by the Yuezhi people, the other two armies will definitely not dare to go deep and will have to retreat. This war will be considered a failure."
"If the emperor does not know what is right and wants to fight against the Yuezhi, the new general will still have to rely on our Wushi, and he will continue to do so when the time comes. If the emperor suffers and gives up attacking the grassland, then I, the Wushi, will be in Qin The status of the country will only be higher and not lower."
"You have to remember that only when the herdsmen outside the Great Wall and the farming people inside the Great Wall exist at the same time can we, the Wushi clan, be good at dancing between the two and benefit from them. If one of the two disappears, then I, the Wushi clan, will also There will be no source of wealth.”
"What my father said is that as long as the Yueshi are immortal, we can continue to make money from them and the Qin State."
Wu Shifang nodded, deeply convinced.
At this moment, a sharp whistle and the roar of a hunting dog came from outside.
The expressions of Wu's father and son changed, and they quickly pushed the door open. They happened to see the door of the mansion being knocked open, and Qin's soldiers wearing armor and swords filed in one by one.
"Mr. Li, what do you mean?"
Wu Shiluo looked at a middle-aged scribe surrounded by Qin soldiers with a livid face.
Li Shiqi smiled and said, "The general has invited Mr. Wu to go to the county mansion."
"Is this a request? My father has the power to make pilgrimages to the emperor and discuss political affairs. If you are so rude, we will definitely sue him before the emperor!"
Wu Shifang roared loudly and saw that the soldiers of the Qin State bypassed them and rushed into the mansion. They looked like they were going to ransack the house.
Wu Shiluo's hands trembling in his sleeves, his face said gloomily: "Then let's go, I just happened to go see the general to see what he means!"
"If you don't give me a reasonable explanation, I will never give up!"
…
Half an hour later, Beidi County Mansion.
When faced with Wushiluo and his son, they complained of injustice, questioned them, and even threatened to sue them to the emperor.
Zhao Tuo smiled and spoke calmly.
"Let's waterboard Mr. Wu and his son first."
Fan Kuai, who had already been exposed to water torture, immediately stepped forward with a ferocious smile and captured the two Wus on the ground.
Immediately afterwards, the soldiers brought cloth and water.
Cover your face, add water...
"I'm going to sue Xianyang!"
"Just kill me!"
"You are an evil spirit!"
"General, spare me!"
"I said! We passed on military information to the Yuezhi people!"
In less than two quarters of an hour, Wu Shifang realized that his old father could not hold on any longer. The moment he opened the cloth to breathe, he seized the opportunity and dumped the beans on them, telling the Yuezhi people how to pass on the Qin Dynasty message to the Yuezhi people through the raised dead soldiers. Everything about the national military situation came out.
The son surrendered first, and Wu Shiluo, who had long been unable to hold on, immediately collapsed, and without anyone asking, he confessed his fault.
However, in a moment, a major case involving the Wushiluo father and his son, who relied on the general's trust and used the caravan out of the fortress to convey important military information to the Yuezhi people, was immediately clearly revealed.
The faces of Commander Li and Commander Yang who were watching turned pale.
"The Wushi have liaison with foreign enemies and pass military information to the Yuezhi. This is a crime of treason. They and their son should be sent to Xianyang, where they will be punished by being torn apart!"
"Thanks to the general's understanding of such a great harm to the country, otherwise the consequences would be disastrous!"
"Deserves to be killed!"
Commander Li and Commander Yang flattered Zhao Tuo and angrily rebuked the Wu family and his son, fearing that they would be implicated.
Wu Shiluo knelt on the ground, his pale face still dripping wet.
He kept kowtowing: "Wu Shiluo was blinded by profit and did such a stupid thing. General, please spare my life. Wushi Luo is willing to give all his family property and wealth, just to spare my life."
"General, please spare my life."
Wu Shifang also cried and kowtowed.
"Hahaha, you are offering your family property to beg for your life? You are all traitors to the country. When the car breaks up with you, your family property will still be returned to the government."
Fan Kuai laughed loudly, extinguishing the hopes of Wushi and his son.
Wu Shiluo collapsed on the ground, his face full of despair.
When Zhao Tuo saw this scene, he knew it was almost time.
He asked calmly: "Treason and collaborating with the enemy is a capital crime. However, the war is about to begin. I think you and your son are still of some use. I will give you the Wushi clan a chance to make meritorious deeds. If you can help me defeat the Yuezhi, I will do it for you." If you do this, you might be able to avoid the death penalty and live as a prisoner."
"Prisoner?"
When he heard this, Wu Shiluo, who had already imagined what he would be like if he was torn apart by a car, suddenly had a light in his eyes.
Although the prisoner is miserable, he can still survive at least, which is ten thousand times better than suffering the torture of breaking a car.
Wushi and his son immediately bowed their heads and said: "We are willing to sincerely help the general to defeat the enemy!"
Wu Shiluo even said with a shy face: "I will choose a new marching route for the general to avoid the main force of the Yuezhi."
Zhao Tuo laughed.
"Avoid it? Why avoid it? I'm just waiting for those Yuezhi people to come and fight our Qin army!"
"One battle will determine the outcome!"
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