Chapter 188: The Northern Huns' Embarrassment
"Get out of here, I won't kill you!" Li Jue felt bored with the previous battle and felt that this group of trash was even worse than the Yellow Turban Army.
"General...thank you very much..."
A guy who seemed to be the leader expressed his gratitude to Li Jue in poor Mandarin.
"General...who are you? Where are you from?" After expressing his gratitude, he also asked where Li Jue and others came from.
Li Jue thought about it and realized that he didn't seem to have any title in the Central Plains, not even a proper official position.
"I'm the newly appointed Captain Wu Ji. Go back and tell that damn Wusun King that our Han army is back." Li Jue said in a low voice. In fact, without the imperial court's appointment, he was a worthless Captain Wu Ji.
The little Wusun leader seemed to understand something from Li Jue's words, and happily led Li Jue and others into the city.
After Li Jue and his companions followed the surrendered Wusun cavalry into the Wusun city, they were a little bit unbelievable.
The city of Wusun is not small, with a population of hundreds of thousands. They may not be able to take it down by force.
As a result, after the Wusun people learned that they were Han troops, they immediately acted as traitors and surrendered the city.
Even the Qiang people were much stronger than the Wusun people. When the Western Liang Cavalry was strong, the Qiang people dared to fight against them.
Mere reputation alone cannot scare the Qiang people. As long as the Qiang people sense your weakness, they will dare to fight back.
Once, when Wan Peng was leading new recruits of the Xiliang Iron Cavalry to a tribe to collect food, the Qiang people felt that Wan Peng was not worthy of the task, and a fierce fight broke out between the two sides. Wan Peng was beaten away.
Although that tribe was later conquered by Li Jue and his men, that's how the Qiang people were. They were not afraid at all.
The actions of the Wusun people were completely incomprehensible to them. After entering the city, the Wusun city lord told him that they were all good citizens who admired the Han Dynasty, but the previous Wu Ji commander was not strong enough, so they had to be subordinate to the Wusun. Now that the royal army had arrived, they naturally lined the streets to welcome them.
Li Jue sat in the main seat with a bit of annoyance, enjoying the delicious food and fine wine brought by the Wusun people. There were also dancers dancing, and those who didn't know would have thought they were Wusun nobles.
In one battle, less than two thousand people were killed, but a city of hundreds of thousands of people was directly captured. Li Jue felt that his brain capacity was not enough.
"According to this progress, we will be able to break into the so-called capital of Wusun the day after tomorrow, right?" Guo Si took a big bite of the meat in his hand, and then looked at the Wusun people in confusion as they prepared food and fodder for them.
"Never mind, maybe this is the custom in the Western Regions. The law of the jungle is not bad." Zhang Ji, who always considered himself a smart man, gave up thinking and stared at the dancing beauty intently. She was not as pretty as his wife, but she had a different flavor.
By the time Jiang Wei and Zhang Xiu had made plans to conquer the Western Regions, Li Jue and others had already entered the capital of the Wusun Kingdom with the auxiliary troops who had inexplicably joined them along the way.
The battle scene is roughly like this: the Xiliang cavalry launches a charge, the enemy begins to disperse, and the auxiliary troops begin to clean up the battlefield.
Li Jue chopped off the head of the so-called Wusun king with a knife and threw the crown to a Wusun man who followed them.
"You, yes, you. You will be the King of Wusun in the future. Remember to pay me back all the tributes you owe to the Han Empire."
The Wusun people who were called out put the crown on their heads tremblingly, their hearts filled with fear of the Han Empire. Just over 3,000 people directly destroyed the most powerful Wusun in the Western Regions.
When the news of the conquest of the Wusun Kingdom spread throughout the Western Regions, the entire Western Region was in an uproar. Not to mention the eldest brother, it was not just the Wusun family that did not pay tribute to the Han Dynasty. The 36 countries in the Western Regions had not paid tribute for decades.
Previously, these kings of the Western Regions had planned to join forces to attack the Central Plains. After all, silk was so profitable. However, the bulk of the profits went to Wusun, and they also wanted to share the profits.
The original Wu Ji Commander was too weak, so they thought that the Central Plains was no more than that.
They had just heard that Captain Wu Ji had been replaced by a new group of people, and before they had time to discuss how to respond, a group of people rushed over and directly defeated the most powerful Wusun, scaring them so much that they quickly expressed their surrender.
The kings of many countries began to pay tribute, as they did not want to be beheaded like the King of Wusun.
In the first month after arriving in the Western Regions, Li Jue was once again crawling on the ground doing nothing. They really could not have imagined that the Western Regions were so weak. They had not had enough fun yet, so they directly flattened the Western Regions.
"It's so boring. Here I have power, beauties, and BMWs, but I don't have any rivals!" Guo Si banged his head against the wall.
He was really confused. Their life in the Western Regions was obviously much better than in the Central Plains. There were people to serve them when they ate and slept, but they felt that it would be better to go back to Liangzhou to fight the Qiang people.
"How about we continue to fight outward?" Fan Chou thought of an idea. They still remembered Parthia and Kushan on Guo Hao's original world map.
"Bo Yue and the others said that it will take some time to integrate this place. We'd better not run around during this period." Li Jue was speechless. Although they were stupid, they were well-informed. What else could they do since Jiang Wei, a smart man, said so?
In fact, what was even more speechless were Zhang Xiu and Jiang Wei. The two of them painstakingly studied the situation in the Western Regions for a long time and planned to unify the Western Regions in half a year. However, before they even started to send troops, the tributes from various kingdoms began.
When they inquired, they found out that Li Jue and his men had already unified the Western Regions, and their previous plans seemed like a joke.
Then the two men began to integrate the strength of the various kingdoms in the Western Regions. They did not care whether these kingdoms could continue to develop, and they directly began to engage in militarism. Although they looked down on the combat effectiveness of these kingdoms, they still managed to piece together an army of 100,000, and all of them were elite troops.
However, their fighting power and fighting will were simply hard to describe. Even Zhang Xiu felt that he could kill these so-called 100,000 elite troops with only 4,000 people.
But it is different for these 100,000 troops acting as auxiliary troops for the Xiliang Iron Cavalry. Although everyone does not understand the principle of why the Xiliang Iron Cavalry can enhance the strength of the auxiliary troops, it is not important to Li Jue and others. It is enough for them to be able to fight. As for why they can fight, they don't want to know.
Just when Li Jue and others were bored and waiting for Jiang Wei to organize the army, the Northern Huns in the north received news from their spies in the Western Regions.
"Chanyu, news has come from the Western Regions that the Han Dynasty has begun to pacify the Western Regions!" asked a sturdy man with his upper body naked. Although it was cold and snowy outside, he did not seem to feel the slightest bit of coldness.
"Damn Han Dynasty!" There was a cold light flashing in Alati's eyes. The Western Regions was one of their money bags. Without the Western Regions, the survival of their tribe would be more difficult.
But he said nothing, just kept suppressing his anger in his heart. They couldn't afford to offend the Han Dynasty now. The last time the Northern Huns' Royal Guards were annihilated had already reminded him that they did not have enough strength to face the Han Dynasty.
If those mad dogs of the Han Dynasty were to discover that the Northern Huns had such a huge tribe, they would definitely come and destroy them at all costs.
By that time, they would really have no way to survive except to seek refuge in empires such as Rome, Frost and Assyria, Great Britain, and Parthia.
No empire would allow a powerful army that does not belong to it to roam around in its territory.
The four great empires all knew that the Northern Huns were squatting near the Mesopotamian Valley, and they also knew that the Northern Huns were entrenched in the territory to the north, but no one was willing to provoke the Northern Huns. On this Eurasian continent, there were only a few forces that could fight, and once a war broke out, it would be a bottomless pit.
The Northern Huns knew their own situation. Their current predicament was obvious, that is, they did not have a suitable land for them to recuperate.
The situation in the north where they are now located is extremely difficult. It is already difficult for them to just maintain their current lives, let alone make a comeback.
Even though they absorbed a large number of nomadic peoples in the Far North as subordinate races, they still could not return to the grassland where their Xiongnu Empire was born.
Among the forces entrenched in Eurasia, the Huns' combat effectiveness is at least in the top five, but they cannot withstand the ravages of war. Once a war breaks out, the most they can do is to drag the weakest empire to destruction together.
As the Chanyu, Alati knew very well that if the problem of survival could not be solved within a hundred years, the descendants of the Xiongnu Empire, which was once the world's number one empire, would have to say goodbye to the world.
This is also the problem that Arati is worried about. Originally, the priest of the tribe predicted that there would be a piece of land suitable for their survival after crossing the ocean.
However, the pioneers they sent out were simply unable to make any progress. The endless monsters and chaotic situation over there were similar to those on the Eurasian continent.
Alati could only suppress himself and restrain himself constantly. He knew that once he made a wrong decision, the Northern Huns would face a catastrophe.
He also wanted to fight to the death with the Han Dynasty and die together with these mad dogs that kept chasing them, but he couldn't do that.
He was the Khan of the Xiongnu, and he was responsible for the millions of Xiongnu people behind him. He was often extremely angry, but he could not vent his anger at all, as he was afraid of the questions from his tribesmen.
Arati forced himself to divert his thoughts, fearing that he would lose his mind and lead his people to fight against the Han Dynasty, which would be the end of him.
Arati thought calmly for a while and decided to take the initiative to contact the Parthian Empire. Resisting the pressure from Rome would make the Parthian king agree to his request.
Having lost the purse of the Western Regions, they had no choice but to get some food, fodder and weapons from other places. Otherwise, a large number of Northern Huns would die by the end of this year, and the Northern Huns could not withstand such a blow.
"Go find someone to pass the message to the King of Parthia. We can send troops to help them, but Parthia must pay us with food and weapons."
The Parthian Empire had been suppressed by Rome for more than a hundred years and had no power to fight back, so it could only struggle to hold on.
If it weren't for the sudden rise of the British Empire in recent years, the Parthian Empire, which was actually an empire on the verge of collapse, would never have been able to withstand the Roman army.
Parthia and Shuanggui also received the news that the Western Regions had been recovered by the Han Dynasty, but one was at stake and the other was facing a confrontation between the North and the South. Let alone paying attention to the Western Regions, they could not even protect themselves.
Regardless of what was happening in the Western Regions, Guo Hao and Chen Xi lay on the inner wall of the palace and looked at a group of Confucian scholars sitting below.
Ever since he declared that he would do three things that day, these Confucian scholars have been sitting in silence at the gate of the imperial palace, without making any noise or commotion, just sitting in silence. They gather at dawn every day and retreat at curfew.
His reputation as a role model of the Han Dynasty had long since disappeared. All kinds of gossip spread like wildfire in Luoyang, and Chen Lin's previous essays were dug up and made into popular literature and circulated everywhere.
However, when the story was spread, a number of stories about Guo Hao's great achievements were spread everywhere, so everyone's view of Guo Hao became "a model of a Han man with a chaotic private life."
Guo Hao guessed that it must be the work of the descendants of one of the various schools of thought. After all, Guo Hao's policies favored them, and there were too many descendants of the various schools of thought who were unwilling to be left out.
"You two are really bored, coming to watch others sit in meditation!" Jia Xu was brought to the top of the city wall by Wang Yue, and he was speechless when he saw the two people looking down.
"Wenhe, you actually have time to come out today. Have you dealt with the animal husbandry problem?" Chen Xi looked at Jia Xu with a sigh. He didn't believe that Jia Xu could handle the animal husbandry arrangements in a short time. This was a trap he had dug specifically for Jia Xu.
He had felt that Jia Xu wanted to compete with him before, so when he assigned the task, he simply dug a hole for Jia Xu and buried him in it.
"There's news from Jizhou." Jia Xu glared at Chen Xi weakly.
Chen Xi, the eighteen-year-old boy, was trying to trick him, but he was careless and did not dodge.
I originally thought it was just an ordinary job, but after I tried it myself, I realized it was a huge pitfall.
Roads are being built all over the country, and the gap in cattle and horses is incredibly large, a gap of more than one billion. He feels that even if he put all his sons and grandsons in it, it would not be enough.
He had no way to shirk responsibility. Everyone in the court had their own things to do, so he could only stay in the pit for the time being and wait for others to free up their hands to help him out.
Even this guy Chen Xi has a lot of tasks, but Chen Xi can always complete a lot of work in a very short time, and then start to "investigate the people's sentiments."
"oh?"
"Wenyou has already settled the affairs with the aristocratic families in Jizhou, and also supported our own aristocratic family, but..." Jia Xu didn't know what to say. He didn't know why he always encountered this problem.
"Just what?" Guo Hao was curious when he saw Jia Xu hesitating . He had never seen Jia Xu so conflicted.
Wait...Guo Hao suddenly remembered what Jia Xu was hesitant about last time.
Jia Xu watched Guo Hao's expression change from recollection to shock and then to a completely dark face, and he knew that Guo Hao had guessed the whole story.
Chen Xi looked at Guo Hao's suddenly worsening expression in confusion. He had never seen Guo Hao like this before.
"What's wrong?" Chen Xi asked curiously, scratching his face.
