Fighting without bloodshed

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Fighting without bloodshed

After entering the Han army camp, the chief translator had been trembling with fear, and his attitude was even more humble.

"Bang!"

As soon as he entered Zhao Guanghan's camp, he knelt down and kowtowed in front of Zhao Guanghan and said: "The general's civility and military skills are unparalleled in the world... I don't know why the general is here..."

After listening to the envoy's intermittently finished words, Zhao Guanghan and his subordinates couldn't help but look at each other and smile...

The next day, after the morning meal.

The Han army immediately left the camp and formed a formation about two miles outside Qiemo City.

Zhao Guanghan ordered the infantry to line up in the center, and the cavalry to line up on both wings, assuming an offensive posture.

The Qiemo people in the city also hurriedly climbed up the low city wall under the leadership of the king, the protector lord, and the left and right captains.

Along with them were several caravan leaders who were stranded in Qiemo City.

After the Han army formed its formation, Zhao Guanghan rode his horse and led Qiemo's translator to the foot of Qiemo City.

"Listen carefully, second and third sons, I will leave the city and surrender within a quarter of an hour...!"

King Qiemo looked at the Han army outside the city with an ugly expression.

"Now, what can I do..."

Qiemo Youduwei was extremely dissatisfied with the Han army outside the city.

He asked loudly, "A small country with few people has always been on good terms with its neighbors and has never offended the Han people. Why are you invading our borders?"

After Zhao Guanghan listened to the translator's translation, he ordered the translator to pass on the message, "King Qiemo colluded with horse thieves and attacked and killed Han officials. His crime should be punished..."

The people in Qiemo in the city were in an uproar when they heard this.

King Qiemo did not care about his fear and stuck his head out from the low tower.

"The general misunderstood, the general misunderstood... How could the weak people of Qi Mo country dare to collude with horse thieves... let alone attack Han officials... I hope the general will notice clearly!"

Zhao Guanghan sneered and ordered back, "Bring it up!"

Immediately, a group of strange-looking people were pressed up, it was those strange group of horse thieves.

"Eh!"

"Darobidans!"

A caravan leader on the city wall made a surprised sound.

"Why are there Darabidans here? Could it be that these Qiemo people are really connected with horse thieves..."

Originally, these merchants thought that the Han army's accusation of the Qiemo people colluding with the horse thieves was just an excuse to attack Qiemo.

But when they saw these Dharubida people, they became suspicious.

The reason for this is that we have to talk about the origin of this Dharabitha people.

The Dharabids are an indigenous ethnic group originating from the Tamil Nadu region.

Their civilization originated very early, even much earlier than the Zhuxia civilization.

When most parts of the earth were still in the ignorant Stone Age, they created the extremely splendid ancient Indian civilization.

Unfortunately, disaster struck when the nomadic Aryans entered India.

The arrival of the Aryans not only brought war, but more seriously, viruses came with it.

Under the intrusion of the virus, a large number of Dharubida people died.

The splendid ancient Indian civilization was destroyed by the virus and the Aryans.

The remaining Dharubida people were either reduced to pariah status, or were forced to move south or flee to other areas.

The area controlled by the Han army was thousands of miles away from the living area of ​​the Dharabitha people.

According to common sense, it is unlikely that the Han army would come into contact with the Dharabitha people.

The merchants watching in the city were doubtful.

The group of Dharubida people had been suppressed under the city.

"King Qiemo, these people have confessed that you ordered them to attack Yang Changshi...what else can you say now?"

Zhao Guanghan did not give King Naqiemo a chance to explain, and immediately rode back to the military formation after speaking.

The group of Darabidans were also escorted back to the camp.

"Cavalry attacks!"

Following Zhao Guanghan's order, the cavalry on both wings began to move slowly towards Qiemo City.

"Ruzhi Naihe...Ruzhi Naihe..."

King Qiemo looked at the slowly advancing Han cavalry and suddenly became confused.

"Boom, boom, boom!"

The Han cavalry began to speed up, and the ground began to tremble.

Everyone in Qiemo on the top of the city turned pale, with fear on their faces.

The remote Qiemo people have never experienced a real war.

Seeing that the Han army was approaching 50 steps below the city.

King Qiemo finally gave the order to surrender in despair.

Unfortunately, his order was a little late, as the Han cavalry had already fired the first wave of arrows.

"ah……"

A scream sounded from the top of the city.

"end!"

Zhao Guanghan issued an order to stop the attack.

Fortunately, the Han army was well-trained and immediately stopped the attack after receiving the order.

However, despite this, the wave of arrows just now also took away the lives of more than ten Qiemo people.

But this was not something the Han army considered. People would always die in war.

Looking at the open city gate, Zhao Guanghan showed a smile on his face.

"Second and third sons, come in!"

The Han infantry approached Qiemo City with neat steps.

When Zhao Guanghan arrived at the city gate with his infantry, King Qiemo was already kneeling on the ground with his men.

"kill……"

"No killing..."

Zhao Guanghan looked at King Qiemo kneeling on the ground and fell into a dilemma.

By killing King Qiemo, the Han Dynasty could directly wipe out the country of Qiemo, but the disadvantage was that the people of Qiemo would silently resist the rule of the Han Dynasty in the future.

If you don't kill King Qiemo, it will hinder the Han Dynasty from annexing Qiemo.

…

In the end, Zhao Guanghan still did not kill King Qiemo. This was not because he was soft-hearted.

But he finally realized that this kind of thing was completely beyond his authority.

No matter how small the Qiemo Kingdom is, it is still a country, and no matter how small the Qiemo King is, he is still the king of the same country.

To kill a surrendered king, you must at least be disciplined.

Since Zhao Guanghan didn't kill King Qiemo, there was no need to torture him.

He was just confined to the palace.

Three days later, Han Ye led two hundred Han cavalry to escort King Qiemo, the Protector Marquis, the left and right captains, and several leaders of the group of Darabidans to leave Qiemo City and return to Luntai.

Zhao Guanghan also began to send people to search for iron ore throughout Qiemo!

…

In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of the first year of Taichu.

Han Ye and his party finally made it back to Luntai before the New Year.

"Thank you for your hard work, Mr. Han!"

"Serve wine for the second and third sons..."

Outside Luntai City, Zhang Yue personally greeted the soldiers returning from the expedition.
To be continued...