Du Lai City in the northern border of Kangju is located to the south of Balkes Lake and adjacent to the western border of Wusun to the east.
In history, this place would be occupied by the Western Huns after it was split into east and west parts a few decades later, and was renamed Zhizhi City.
Just that afternoon, a strong wind suddenly blew outside Durai City, and yellow sand rolled in.
The defenders in the city never expected that a team would emerge from behind the overwhelming wind.
The defenders hastily closed the city gates.
Crack!
The flying particles of yellow sand blew against the city gate, making a dense crackling sound.
All cities of this level have neither moats nor high walls.
When the Xiongnu tribesmen came out from outside the city with the help of strong winds driven by shamans, the defenders of Kangju were horrified.
Behind the Xiongnu soldiers, Luo Tingbo leaned forward on his horse and ordered his troops to press forward to destroy the resistance in the city as quickly as possible.
The Huns soldiers threw the lasso from the air and landed on the loess city wall. They used the lasso ring to wrap around the battlements and other protrusions, and the other end was fixed on the horse. Like pulling a cart, thousands of troops and horses pulled at the same time.
Boom!
The low earth wall suddenly collapsed.
The Huns' method of breaking down cities could not defeat the high walls and high walls of the Han Dynasty, but they were able to deal with Kangju's northern border city with this kind of city with ease.
Several sections of the city wall were pulled down one after another.
Luantan Bo half-erected his body from his horse and shouted: "Enter the city and kill."
The contrast between the ferocity of the Huns soldiers and the panic of the defenders is sharp.
For a moment, the sounds of shouting and fighting in the city, the screams of people being attacked, the screams of women, and the cries of children all mingled together.
More than an hour later, a raging fire broke out in Du Lai City.
Burning everything that cannot be taken away, leaving no one alive to weaken the enemy, is the consistent fighting method of the Huns.
The combat purpose of their team is to cause murder.
After entering Kangju, six thousand Xiongnu elites advanced from north to south. Taking advantage of the cover of night, they attacked Balai again that night and set fire to the two cities of Yanye and massacred them.
In order to prevent the Han army from finding traces, reinforcements came. The next morning, the Huns suddenly changed direction and advanced eastward.
"In one night, the news should have spread. Let's see how the Han army reacts."
In the morning, in an abandoned mountain town, Luo Tanbo and the deputy general said after taking a short rest.
"How do Danghu think the Han people will react?"
The deputy general's name was Qiwu Gudu. He was a tall man with heavy hair and a short beard.
"The Han army has annexed too much land in the past two years, and there are simply not enough soldiers to protect the land they occupy."
Luo Tingbo said disdainfully: "If the Han army comes in small numbers, we will eat them. If they come in large numbers, we will act according to the general's orders."
Qi Gudu nodded slightly.
Zhuodu sent them here to lay bait and use a conspiracy to take advantage of the Han Dynasty to conquer Kangju, Dayuezhi and other lands one after another, and attack Kangju first before they had time to digest and set up a defense line.
Because Kangju had surrendered, the Han Dynasty must send troops to protect it in order to maintain its dominance.
Therefore, attacking Kangju would cause little loss to the Xiongnu. The Han had no choice but to save them, thus achieving the purpose of containing the Han army and taking the initiative in the battle situation.
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In April, the green grassland has not yet bloomed.
The great shaman's team entered a camp.
"General Yudu."
In the tent, Boguna saw the demon-like majestic Yudu: "The first battle has begun, how will the Han people react?"
Another general from the Tianhun Department in the tent responded: "The Han army's response will not be that fast. We will not know until later."
Yudu said in a rich voice: "Huo Qubing is well versed in military affairs and is not so easily fooled.
With his military talent, he may have judged my intentions in advance.
He always had ambushes around Wusun. On the contrary, the team was very dangerous. It could change from a pack of hunting wolves to a trapped beast stepping into a trap at any time. "
The deputy general frowned and said:
"General, do you mean that Huo Qubing deliberately used Kangju people to lure Luo Tingbo's troops to go deeper?
Abandoning several cities in Kangju just to eat our troops, Huo Qubing used his troops so ruthlessly? "
"It's not that he wants to give up on the Kangju people, but the land currently occupied by the Han Dynasty is vast and cannot be tightly defended across the board, so a choice must be made."
Yudu's face was as sharp and angular as cast iron, calm and unruffled.
On the march map in front of him, there were three red lines marked between the Western Huns and Kang Ju, which were obviously his military routes.
The three groups of soldiers and horses advanced to the Western Region together, and the reality and reality were intertwined.
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The Grand Bazaar is a city four hundred miles north of the royal capital of Kangju.
Luo Tingbo led his troops into Kangju. According to the plan, the Grand Bazaar was the last target of their first phase of march.
"After defeating this city, our troops can directly attack the capital of Kangju.
However, according to the general's instructions, we must withdraw immediately, otherwise we may encounter the soldiers and horses of the Han army and fall into a bitter battle. "Qiwu Ancient Capital said.
Luan Tanbo licked his lips: "Since this is the last battle, go in, grab more things, and then withdraw."
Inside the Grand Bazaar.
In a watchtower-like building, Li Gan squatted here.
The concentric lotus leaves in his hand glowed slightly, and a military order came over: "Lure the Huns soldiers into the city before you take action!"
The order came from Huo Qubing.
Li Gan responded quickly.
Li Gan was puzzled as to how Huo Qubing could determine the enemy's direction and attack the Grand Bazaar.
You must know that the Huns' march was irregular, and there were dozens of cities in the northern border of Kangju. The other party's goal was revealed by Huo Qubing.
Tsk... Li Gan smacked his lips and ordered the Han troops under his command to hunker down carefully and not to leak any clues.
The sun is shining brightly.
The Huns soldiers had already revealed their traces outside the city and suddenly launched an attack.
They broke through the city in the same way as before, dragging down the walls and rushing into the city like a whirlwind.
Luan Danbo laughed wildly: "Every tribe, rush in and take the loot for yourself!"
The Huns troops behind them suddenly agreed and rushed to enter the city first.
But when Luo Tingbo also rushed into the city and fought with the defenders, what rushed out of the buildings in the city was not ordinary people, but a large number of Han troops.
There's an ambush!
How did the Han army know that they were going to attack here and ambush them in advance?
But Luan Tengbo was not afraid.
"How many Han troops can be ambushed in such a small city? Don't even think about ambushing me!
kill! "
call out!
There was a flash of cold light in front of him, and Luan Tingbo reacted very quickly. He shot the riding whip in his hand and tried to swat the incoming arrow.
The Huns rode their horses day and night, using their whips like an extension of their arms.
The forearm muscles are bulging, and the riding whip is like lightning. At the same time, he also raised the leather shield in his other hand to resist.
The riding crop struck the nock of the arrow.
But the speed and strength of this arrow were both beyond Luan Tanbo's expectations.
After the arrow was drawn, the angle was slightly off, and it grazed past the leather shield of Luan Tanbo. With a hiss, it shot into the body of a Hun soldier!
The soldier screamed and fell from his horse, killing him immediately.
From the top of a building in the city, Li Gan, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, walked out holding a bow.
He was ordered to station in Dawan. After Kangju surrendered, he received the order to go north from Dawan to Kangju, so there was an ambush in front of him.
However, Li Gan only had 3,000 Han troops in his hands. Even if he combined with Kangju's defenders, it would be easy to defeat 6,000 Xiongnu troops, but it would be difficult to annihilate them all, so he designed to lure them into the city.
After Li Gan appeared, he stepped on the building from the roof and rushed towards the opponent. He fired his bow continuously while running, taking the lead and aiming at Luan Danbo.
Buzz!
Luan Tingbo avoided the first and second arrows in succession, but was hit in the shoulder blade by the third arrow in the three-star shooting technique.
Fortunately, the arrow was deflected and its damage was limited.
Luan Danbo was also brave. He pulled out the arrow shaft and rushed towards Li Gan.
The two sides started fighting fiercely in the city.
At the same time, the second line of Xiongnu soldiers commanded by Yudu appeared. The target of the attack was Wusun. They clashed with the defenders in Wusun, as well as the troops of the Chief Tu tribe who had entered the Western Region and had been operating around Wusun. .
On the same day that the two groups of Huns troops marched out, west of the border of Dayuezhi Kingdom, the armored army of the Parthian Empire suddenly advanced eastward.
In this area, the Han Dynasty almost emptied out the population of Da Yuezhi and transported them to the Han Dynasty to work as hard labor.
The Han troops stationed here were moving north and south due to war needs. They were restrained by the Xiongnu and Shendu respectively, leaving their defense empty.
The vacated Yuezhi territory was all fertile, and Parthia could occupy it without any effort.
Mithridates II was sure that the Han people would not dare to go to war with Parthia without being attacked on both sides.
After occupying the land of Da Yuezhi, he will gain huge strategic depth. Therefore, after weighing the pros and cons, Parthia chose to raise troops, take away the Dayue clan, and take it back as their own.
Kangju, Wusun, Dayuezhi, the Xiongnu, Shendu, and Anxi were connected to form a front.
Yudu took advantage of the situation on all sides and dragged all the Han defenders in this area into the battle.
The next day, the troops from the Hunxie King's Tribe and the Chief Tu Tribe gathered together and joined the battle with more than 30,000 troops.
Subsequently, the third group of Huns appeared and entered from the area of the original chariot division and Pulei.
The scale of the war in the northwest continues to increase, and fighting breaks out.
Yudu invested nearly 40,000 troops in the Western Region, gradually dragging the Han defenders in this area into the war.
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Chang'an.
"Your Majesty, there is news from the northwest that the Huns have sent out all-out troops to attack the Western Regions. Kangju and other places have invested 40,000 troops in the northwest." The person who came to report in person was Ru Bohu.
Sitting in the study were the emperor and Cheng Bushi, Li Cai and other ministers who were both civil and military.
The old emperor said: "None of these changes are beyond Lang Zhongling's pre-war predictions.
On the northwest war map that Qu Bing gave me, the cities that the opponent will attack are clearly marked. "
Ru Bohu said: "There is another piece of news that even Huo Hou did not expect. To the west of the Dayue clan, there was a Parthian empire that also chose to raise troops and occupied the Dayue clan. It was closely connected with the Xiongnu.
Zhang Qian had previously been on a mission to Parthia, and the news he sent back said that Parthia was very powerful. The armored troops under his command are invincible and are powerful enemies. With Parthia entering the game, my big man no longer has any advantage in the northwest. "
"Parthia..."
The emperor frowned.
The forces involved in the war in the northwest were indeed unexpected and disadvantageous to the Han Dynasty.
But what surprised Liu Che even more was that the world is so big. Are there so many countries and territories waiting for me to occupy?
If all these places are occupied, how strong will my men be? Even if they ride a horse for ten months, they will hardly be able to see the border of the country. How powerful they will be!
I have gathered the luck of the gods, and the direction to continue to break through seems to be clear.
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The Xiongnu commanded the large tent.
Boguna said: "The development of the battle situation is as expected by the general. The deployment of the Han army in the Western Region has been fully exposed.
We have just received news that Huo Qubing has also entered the Western Region and is leading his troops to advance rapidly towards Pulei in an attempt to quell the chaos.
The general's arrangements allow us to take the initiative. What next? "
Judu said: "The great shaman and my elite Heavenly Souls will act according to the plan and attack personally."
Boguna readily agreed.
The battle situation was completely in line with Yudu's prediction, which gave the Huns great confidence.
Yudu then left the camp in person.
The whole grassland was stirred up by a storm because of his appearance.
The 10,000 Heavenly Soul tribe members, plus 20,000 Xiongnu elites, seemed to be supported by the storm.
This is Yudu's unique marching method, which combines with the power of the prairie to advance rapidly from north to south.
Their team, led by Entuo, a general transferred from the far north by Puguna and Judu, appeared north of the Qilian Mountains the next day.
Compared with other soldiers and horses, this road is the most important strategic use of troops in Yudu.
The purpose of the several groups of soldiers and horses he used before was to test and mobilize the Han army. Then let the Great Shaman and Enshi lead the main force to attack the Hexi Corridor.
Youdu wanted to cut off the throats of the four counties in Hexi that the Han invested a lot of manpower and material resources to build, and cut off the connection between the Western Regions and the Han.
If Yudu's plan comes true, the Han Dynasty will directly return to the situation before occupying the Western Regions.
However, when Boguna and Enshi led 30,000 elite troops to the north of the Hexi Corridor, they were preparing to attack the four counties under construction by the Han Dynasty.
Huo Qubing was standing on a ridge of Yanzhi Mountain, looking at the great shaman Boguna who was leading his troops to kill him from a distance.
Next to him stood Fu Lu Zhi and Chen Qing.
"Mr. Zhongling, when shall we take action?"
"Let them come in first and then attack when there is no way to escape."
Huo Qubing said: "There is still a group of enemy troops that haven't shown up yet, but Yudu... has some tricks up his sleeve."
"Are there any more enemy troops?"
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