Gongsun Zan suddenly froze and raised his assault weapon. In the distance, there were about a dozen people standing, holding war drums and flags. However, they could not make any sound and sat on the ground to rest. Gongsun Zan bent his bow and
Shooting, the arrow flew out and hit the chest of the enemy in the distance. The soldier was directly shot down by this powerful force and became silent.
Seeing this, the others jumped up in fright, beat the war drums, and fled towards the rear. Gongsun Zan was afraid that they would attract reinforcements, so he quickly led the other soldiers through the mountain pass one after another, without pursuing these people.
He cautiously looked around and advanced slowly. By the time more than two thousand soldiers from the Heroic Battalion walked out of the mountain pass, those people had already disappeared.
"Captain, there is no doubt that they are suspected soldiers. The noises we have heard these days seem to have been caused by these people... They pretended to have deployed a lot of troops here. I think, in fact, this Huazizi
Mo is just an empty city!" Sitamu said, and he asked: "Should we send someone to let the army enter?"
"No, we can't determine the situation here just by relying on a few soldiers. If there is an ambush and the army rushes in, wouldn't something big happen? It's better to explore the surroundings. As long as there are no ambush around the mountain pass, after the army enters,
, being able to camp here, even if there is an enemy army here, we will not be afraid..."
"Here you go!"
Sitamu held up his hands and said, originally, if the search was spread out, the harvest would be greater, but Gongsun Zan did not dare to take such a risk. If there were an enemy army, they would be scattered and unable to command, and would be easily defeated individually. Therefore, Gongsun Zan would rather
Not wanting to waste more time and take risks, they searched extremely seriously. They did not miss any place near the mountain pass that could hide troops.
.......
In Marakanda, Niseka, who had not received a reply from Jia Xu for a long time, was still a little sad. Sitting in the study, he could not stand the book. He sighed helplessly. Han and Kuishang went to war. Let his
His heart was very complicated and his thoughts were confused. On the one hand, he was a Kushan native and a member of the Kushan royal family. He did not want to see the Kushan defeat and the decline of his family and country.
In addition, he has lived in the Han Dynasty since he was young, has been influenced by Confucianism, and has been familiar with the scriptures. These have changed his past thoughts. In his heart, he admires the saints and identifies with and belongs to the Han culture. Of course, he does not want to
The Han army suffered heavy losses, tens of thousands of soldiers died in a foreign land, and their bodies were wrapped in horse leather. He did not want to see such a scene.
As a great Confucian, he has compassion for the people, and he does not want to see the people on either side suffer.
In his life, he had never hated war so much.
After walking out of the study, he wandered around the courtyard. It was already late at night and he couldn't hear any sound. Niseka stood in the courtyard, but he was thinking about how to end the war and how to convince Jia Xu. He was thinking,
There was a sound coming from the outer courtyard. He turned around and saw that a servant came over with Subati. Nisekya quickly stepped forward to pay his respects.
Subati asked: "Sure enough, the prince has no intention of sleeping..."
"Yeah..." Nisejia sighed.
"How about going for a walk?" Su Po asked.
Nishejia nodded, and asked someone to bring a thick cloak, and hung it on Subati's body. He supported him and walked out of the mansion. Outside the mansion, the cool breeze was blowing, which was refreshing, and Subati
He also comforted Niseka and talked about some past events. Niseka listened attentively and agreed from time to time.
"I think the Han army has already sent troops to the north. I think there are a lot fewer soldiers in the city..." Subati said.
"Well, General Dong has already set off...Actually, I really don't want the war to end here. If I can convince the king's nephew...sigh..."
"Do you still remember that the late king once toured various places, and you were there at that time. He didn't want to take you there, but you kept crying. In desperation, he took you with him and asked me to serve you. At that time, I originally
I dressed up happily. I wanted to be able to show off with the late king, but I didn't expect that I could only take care of you, the little guy. You also indulged me, and the clothes I wore at that time can no longer be worn..." Su Po
Ti said.
Niseka smiled, but he could no longer remember those things.
"At that time, the late king had been here, right on this city wall..." Supoti looked around, and at some point, the two of them had walked to the city wall. There were not many guards on the city wall. Dong Zhuo led
A large number of soldiers left, and only one battalion of soldiers remained here. However, the two exits were guarded by Sun Jian and Dong Zhuo, so there was no need to worry about anyone raiding Maracanda.
"Brother, he is a great king, but it's a pity..."
Subati walked to the edge of the city wall, looked at the land outside the city that was sprinkled with silver light, smiled and said: "This place is still as beautiful as before..."
Niseka looked over and nodded.
Subati suddenly asked: "Prince, are you from the Kushan people or from the Han Dynasty now?"
"Well? I am, of course, from Kushan..." Niseka was stunned and replied without thinking.
Subati stared at him for a long time, his lips trembled, and he asked: "Then, why did the prince betray Kushan?"
"I'm doing this all for the common people of Li, why have I ever betrayed you?"
"Prince, you shouldn't...shouldn't..." Subati said, his eyes gradually getting wet, he let out a violent roar, hugged Nisekya beside him tightly with both hands, and tried his best to
He threw himself forward. Even though Subati was old, he made such a desperate throw. Nishejia, who was standing on the edge of the city wall, did not react and was directly held by him and fell off the city wall!!
"Fuck you!" Someone shouted around, and dozens of soldiers were seen running out from the surroundings. They were all scouts arranged by Jia Xu to spy on them. After discovering that something was wrong, they rushed out quickly.
However, it was obvious that they were too late. Subati held Nisaka and fell from the city wall.
When the soldiers opened the city gate and arrived outside the city, Subati still hugged Niseka tightly. The two fell in a pool of blood. Niseka fell to the ground first, and his whole head exploded.
But Supoti's whole body was twisted, and blood was spraying from her mouth. Before the soldiers could react, she also lost her life. The soldiers panicked and hurriedly reported to Huang Zhong.
Huang Zhong ran outside the city wall and saw two lifeless corpses. He gritted his teeth and without hesitation, he quickly shouted to the soldiers on the side: "Send someone quickly to inform Duke Dong that the envoy is deceitful and he will kill him."
Come on Niseka! We must withdraw our troops quickly!!" The soldiers quickly took their horses and galloped away to Dong Zhuo's camp.
At this time, Gongsun Zan and Xiaoyongying had already camped on the top of the mountain, ready to rest. After nearly a day of searching, they found nothing strange. Gongsun Zan even took people up to several hills to look at the surroundings from a high place.
No enemies were found in the situation, and everything was dark green. Even so, Gongsun Zan still did not report to Dong Zhuo.
Just because Gongsun Zan still felt that something was wrong in his heart.
If this is really an empty city with no enemies, they should firmly guard the mountain pass. When they are about to cross the mountain pass, they should be attacked. After all, according to the words of the envoy, this is where food, grass and baggage are stored.
How could you not guard this crucial exit at the transportation point? Even if you arrange a hundred people to guard this place, you can still inflict heavy losses on the Han army!
This is really unreasonable.
Gongsun Zan thought to himself that at night, he did not dare to let down his guard and arranged sentry posts in many places. He was not asleep either. He would get up from time to time and look around. When he got up for the fifth time, he vaguely noticed that
No, in the distance, there seemed to be a dark shadow moving, like a tree blown by the wind, but he did not dare to look down upon it at all. He quickly woke up the soldiers of Xiaoyong Camp and slowly approached there.
Just as they reached the vicinity, "Whoa!", a shower of arrows flew over. Gongsun Zan had no time to dodge. An arrow hung on his arm, but several soldiers fell beside him. The Xiaoyong camp was shocked. Gongsun Zan gave an order, and everyone
They immediately dispersed, mounted their horses one after another, took the wounded soldiers with them, and hurried away. Countless torches were erected around them, and war drums were ringing!!!
Standing on the surrounding grassland were the Kushan soldiers. They were all covered with turf and lying in the bushes. Gongsun Zan had only been exploring low valleys and caves where it was easy to hide.
Human beings did not even explore the seemingly ordinary shrubs and pastures in the distance. The torches that kept lighting up around them, as well as the flying arrows, frightened the soldiers of the brave camp!
Among the Kushan army, a general stood up with an angry look on his face. He originally wanted to wait for the main force of the Han army to enter before launching a surprise attack and inflicting heavy losses. However, he did not expect that these Han army scouts would be so cautious.
, was so cowardly that he searched for a whole day without reporting it to the main force. In the end, he actually noticed him.
He has never seen scouts acting like this. They don't chase the enemy or explore the surrounding areas. They just go around the mountain pass and search continuously. Regardless, according to their searching posture, they will find out sooner or later, and he will also be discovered by them sooner or later.
We can only change our strategy. Instead of severely damaging the main force of the Han army, we can wipe out all these scouts. It will probably be a heavy blow to the Han army.
Just as he was thinking about it, when he looked at the enemy again, this group of people had already run away. They seemed to have already agreed on how to escape. They escaped from each gap that was not intercepted by soldiers, sometimes spreading out, sometimes closing up,
As they fled toward the mountain pass, General Kushan almost jumped up. Why did he feel that this group of people was so familiar with the terrain here!
If they also escape, it means that all Guishang's plans these days have come to nothing.
He yelled: "Raise the flag and cut off the mountain pass!!"
As he gave the order, the whole mountain pass was surrounded by blazing fire, dyeing the entire battlefield brightly. Dong Zhuo's army outside the mountain pass also noticed the situation inside. Dong Zhuo woke up quickly. The camp was outside the mountain pass.
, he no longer had to make arrangements, he immediately ordered to go to the rescue!
However, before that, rocks fell, and the originally narrow mountain pass was directly blocked by the Kushan people, and Dong Zhuo's army could not enter. Dong Zhuo was so angry that he quickly asked his soldiers to dig out the road and dig out it.