sweeping the world

Chapter 765 Vulnerable

Shanshan people used to be called Loulan people. Before the Huns and Han people entered the Western Regions, the Loulan people actually had a good time.At that time, the Loulan people could kick Qiemo, Shanguo, Shule and other countries with their feet, and punch Qiuci, Weixu, Jingjue, Ronglu and other countries, as if they were a small overlord in the eastern part of the Western Regions.

The decline of the Loulan people started when the Huns entered the Western Regions. While raiding the Western Regions, the Huns cultivated two countries, Shache and Cheshi. Shache was cultivated repeatedly but failed to become stronger, but Cheshi began to rise.

The Cheshi who emerged after their rise were rampant in the Western Regions as thugs of the Xiongnu. They overthrew Beilu and Yuli successively, annexed the territories of the two countries, then expanded to the south and eliminated Gaochang, and expanded to the east and bumped into Pulei. After deciding the outcome, they went south again to attack Shanguo, but Shanguo asked Loulan for help.

At that time, Shan Guo had become Loulan's younger brother, and the younger brother was beaten up, and the elder brother naturally wanted to stand out. As a result, Lou Lan and Che Shi fought on the land of Shan Guo.

A total of just over 1 wars was nothing more than a county-level armed conflict for Zhu Xia civilization, but the scale of 1 people fighting in a place like the Western Regions is already quite large.The war involving more than [-] people between the two sides shocked almost the entire Western Regions at that time. The end of the war was naturally won by the Huns who added BUFF. Loulan also began to decline after that war.

Lou Lan was taught a lesson by Che Shi first, and then Che Shi called his father, the Huns, to bully him, and Lou Lan was almost paralyzed.

The Loulan people who were paralyzed began to suffer bad luck. The countries that were beaten and kicked in front had revenge and complaints. It was only after the Han army entered the Western Regions that the tragic fate of the Loulan people was changed and the Loulan people trembled again.

If you want to say who the Loulan people who changed their name to Shanshan people miss the most, it must be the Han people. It’s not how good the Han people are to them. Cool.

When the people of Shanshan knew that the Han people were about to enter the Western Regions again, they were different from the other Western Region countries who were full of sadness and rejection. They had long been prostrate on the ground and shouted "Daddy, come quickly", but they were not sure about the Han people in today's era. Will he favor Shanshan people like his ancestors?

Chi Zhelu was able to command his subordinates easily because he already had a high prestige in the horse bandit regiment. Furthermore, the horse bandits would not have so many worries at all. There would be no difference between dying and who would do it. To beat the Han people is to fight, but to fight the Western Regions There is no reason not to fight when people can survive and make a fortune.

Agappa can be easily changed, because the Shanshan people were originally forced to join the coalition forces, and what they want is to fall into the arms of the "Han Chinese father" again.Faced with Rorschach's suspicion, the Han people really started to march and attack, and they had to fight if they didn't want to.

The performance of this generation of Shanshan people is very miserable, but that is what it should mean.Shanshan has been divided for decades, and has also weakened for 200 years. It retains a bright shell (uniform uniform) left by the Han people, but the inside is worse than slag.

Maybe the Shanshan people can't be blamed for being too incompetent, because they met the Di people who had lived in the Central Plains for a while?The Di people who were able to escape from the Central Plains were originally Fu Hong's elite troops, and they moved from the Central Plains to the grasslands, and traveled thousands of miles to join Xigaoche. If they were not good enough, they would have been wiped out.

Liu Rui was paying attention to the coalition camp in the north. Judging from the movement, he could rule out that it was an act, but he didn't know why the coalition broke out.

"A cavalry group is trying to break out of the camp by attacking the gate."

"Send people to try to respond. If it is not advisable, don't take risks."

"promise!"

The Han army detached another cavalry force, the number should be about three hundred, and their movements were naturally caught by Luo Xia.

Looking at the numbers, Luo Xia didn't pay much attention to them. His attention was still on the eastern camp, where the Han army had rushed into the camp and bumped into the Weili people and Shule people.

"Shule is now one of the great powers in the Western Regions. Together with the remaining Wan people, it has embraced the lap of Daxia?" The Daxia Fu Jian mentioned is actually Hunite, and the so-called remaining Wan people are not the former Dawan people. , are some of Greek descent.He stared at the fighting area: "How long can they block?"

Luo Xia could not give a standard answer. It is not wrong that Shule, Qiuci, Khotan, and Yanqi are currently one of the great powers in the Western Regions, but there are still differences between the so-called big countries. For those with a lot of wealth, Shule and Yanqi are quite impressive in terms of military force.

Armed force is also divided into levels. For example, in such a corner of the Western Regions, the Shule people can easily defeat any small country in the Western Regions, but it is difficult to take advantage of Khotan, Kucha, and Yanqi. Advantage.

What Rorschach knew was that the Shule people kneeled and licked after being taught a lesson by the Hunnites. If they form an alliance with China, does it mean that the Shule people and the Han people are not at the same level at all?
Xu Lie was one of the first batch of Han troops to rush into the camp of the coalition army. The process of their assault on the camp was not very smooth. It was the forward who used the lasso to pull down the fence first. The cavalry rushed in, not staring at the gate of the military camp and storming.

At this moment, Xu Lie's body was already covered in blood, and there were even a few arrows sticking out of his armor. His mount was always galloping fast, and his lance was discarded in the first round of impact. , In the high-speed gallop, the saber is harvesting human life.

The cavalry of the Han army is equipped with standard lances only for officers. The young and strong who voluntarily entered the Western Regions have a variety of weapons. Most of them use sabers. The absolute minority of people use guns, and some use swords.

The coalition forces obviously didn't pay much attention when setting up camp. They didn't even pay attention to the fact that tents, shacks or debris could not be placed in the camp fence area. The first trouble the Han cavalry faced when they rushed in was not the defensive enemy soldiers, but the messy ones. Tents, shacks and sundries.

The Han cavalry set fire to the coalition camp before they entered it. They wanted to conquer the camp, but they did not come to harass them.Next, if you set a fire as soon as you rush in, who should you burn?If a fire breaks out in the front camp, do you want to let friendly troops in? How should you get out?

"Form the team, form the team!" Xu Lie waited for the surrounding area to clear up, shouted loudly to ask the surrounding friendly troops to move closer to him, and pointed his sword forward: "Crush them!"

Unfortunately for the Shule people and the Weili people, their camp was set up in the east. The camp of the Weili people has been plowed by the Han army like a plow. The pear people had already dispersed, and the camp where the Shule people were located was the next target of the Han cavalry.

The people of Weili are a small country in the Western Regions. The country is not strong and its people are not very good. It simply cannot withstand a round of charges by the Han cavalry.The Shule people think that they are different from the Weili people. The Shule people have a big country mentality. They are unwilling to flee without a fight, and they want to organize a wave of confrontation with the Han army.

Among the Shule people who organized the defense, there were not many cavalry. They did not have a uniform uniform, and they looked colorful from a distance.Some Shule people with shields were ordered to form a shield wall in front, and those without shields were also punched and kicked to make them stand more tightly.A small number of cavalry were placed on the left and right wings, but they rode on horseback and did not move.

The sound of rolling horseshoes can be heard everywhere on the battlefield, and only the Han army can shout the "Han army mighty" shouted out of the sound of rolling horseshoes. It is difficult for Xu Lie to organize any elegant formation. People seem to be the Han army, but the real Han army knows that even the local armed forces (county and county soldiers) in the country can't match it. If you want to play the formation of cavalry charging into the front arrow formation, you are just joking.

Xu Lie took the lead at the forefront of the entire charging group, and tried his best to lower his body on the horse's neck when charging. He had been visually measuring the distance to the enemy, and was surprised to find that he entered the range of the enemy's bow and arrow, but the enemy did not shoot.

There are indeed no archers among the Shule people, they are all close combat type soldiers.They are not a nation that is good at shooting in the Western Regions. They have always been famous for their ferocity in close combat.It didn't matter if they were not famous. Once they became famous, these barbarians gave up their bows and arrows and became determined to engage in close combat.

"shoot!"

The Shule people don't play archery, but the Han people do.

About one-third of the galloping Han army completed the bow and arrow shooting action on horseback, and then dropped the bow and picked up melee weapons again.

If mature stirrups and saddles hadn’t appeared, it doesn’t mean that there were no Han people who could play horseback riding and archery, but definitely a minority could do it. Horseback riding is a housework for nomads who grew up on horseback. Not all nomadic cavalry can play mounted shooting, but it is different with stirrups and saddles.

It was just a round of arrows, less than a hundred arrows, and it didn't actually cause many casualties to the Shule people, but it was able to disrupt the Shule people's rhythm.

Almost three breaths after the arrow fell, Xu Lie had already slammed into it head-on, and the horse and shield made a dull crashing sound. If Xu Lie on the horse hadn't been tied to death, he would probably have been thrown out.

Xu Lie was the first to hit, followed by Pao Ze's continuous collision, and the shield wall organized by the Shule people collapsed in an instant.

How did the Shule people organize a shield wall?Their shields are not standard equipment. They vary in size and shape. They are not like the standard shields used by the Han army that can interlock and rely on the shield holder to hold the shield personally.

Not only can the shields not interlock, but the shield wall organized by the Shule people is only two rows thick, and there is no thought of using long weapons to form a hedgehog spike. Even if the infantry charges, let alone the cavalry, it can be easily destroyed. .

Luo Xia and Fu Jian, who had been observing from a distance, could see clearly that the Han cavalry broke down the shield wall of the Shule people in just one round of impact. It is time to end the charge, but the Shule people can only do that. When the subsequent Han cavalry rushed up, especially after someone shouted "more Han people rushed into the camp", the Shule people It collapsed by itself.

"At least it will cause a lot of damage to the Han people." Luo Xia had already planned to get down from the tower, and he did it when he thought of it, and said as he walked, "Although it's only a few dozen rides..."

After the Han army attacked, the nearly five hundred Shule people were really the best performers. They at least organized resistance and had the courage to resist the Han army's attack. They also caused casualties to the Han army. The rest of the people from the Western Regions... like The people in Weili collapsed immediately.

Xu Lie's horse died, and he untied the rope and stood up with the help of Pao Ze.

"A few of my ribs were broken." Xu Lie could clearly feel the pain from his left rib, which was the one he had suffered the impact just now: "How many people do we have?"

How would the soldiers who came to rescue know?
In the battle just now, all the Han people who rushed into the battle were wounded, the difference was that they were light or heavy. There were 22 people who died on the spot.

When cavalry confronts infantry, as long as the infantry can withstand the psychological pressure, even the unbearable infantry can cause certain casualties to the cavalry. The Shule people left nearly 200 people behind, but they left 22 Han people in this land forever. , although most of the Han people who died were crushed to death by their own horses...

"The north side has been breached." Fu Jian's attention was on the north side just now: "The chaos over there is intensifying."

Luo Xia could no longer use the altitude to observe the camp in the north, but any place was very noisy, so he chose to believe Fu Jian's words.

"The determination of the Han people to fight has been tested." Fu Jian stared at Rorschach expressionlessly: "If you choose to continue fighting, my clansman and I will stay, and we can also persuade Dingling people to stay."

Four hundred people from the Di tribe came, and two hundred people from the Dingling people came, so the total is 600 people.

Luo Xia brought 600 people from Kucha, 700 from Shule, 300 from Weili, 700 from Qiemo, 1000 and [-] from Shanshan, and the rest were Sogdians or horse thieves.

"Chizhelu's group of horse thieves and Shanshan people have rebelled, and the Sogdians can't believe it..." Luo Xia can still count, which accounts for about two-fifths of the coalition forces: "Weili people and Shule people People can’t use it either.”

Fu Jian still had no expression: "Then, what is your decision?"

In the final analysis, their coalition force came to test the quality of the Han army. The result was that there was no serious competition, and internal strife broke out. The part that was used as cannon fodder was lost by two-fifths first, and then the counter-insurgency and counter-insurgency tasks were removed later. Of the 2000 Kucha people who were defeated by the Han army, there were only less than [-] that could be used. Even Luo Xia himself had no confidence in the [-] Kucha people, and there was no need to think about what options they would have.

"The coalition army fled?" Liu Rui did not launch a charge, it was impossible, and he did not go to that point: "Arrange troops to pursue."

After making corresponding arrangements, Liu Rui looked at Chi Zhelu and the new leader of the Shanshan people, Waruge, who was elected.

Chi Zhelu and Varuge are full of fawning looks, they have just been brought to Liu Rui's side, and they have never had a chance to speak...

(End of this chapter)