Daqin Engineering Corps

Chapter 4

The 3000 people under Wang Ben's command had actually left the mountain ahead of time, but Wang Ben did not rush to attack.

On the one hand, it is because the soldiers are exhausted physically and mentally after trekking all the way and need to rest.

On the other hand, Wang Ben knew that it was much more convenient to move at night than during the day.

Wang Ben had already inquired about it before... The Yue clan did not have the habit of curfew. In fact, not only the Yue clan, nomads and the Western Regions usually did not have the habit of curfew.

This is normal. Most nomads use tents as their homes. Tents can also shelter from the wind and rain. They can go in and out in all directions. Even if they want to lock people at home at night, they can’t lock them up, so curfews don’t make much sense. .

In the absence of a curfew system and no city gates, it is not too easy to sneak into Shazhou. You only need to wait until ten o'clock in the evening, and the herdsmen who are grazing outside and the people who are farming will be able to mix in when they return to the city...

Most of the water-deficient areas in the Western Regions belong to oasis agriculture, so the area of ​​oasis is usually small and there is no "nomadic" condition, so it is usually semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural, but the level and degree of farming are much lower than those in the Central Plains.

As for who was sent to sneak into Shazhou, it goes without saying, of course it was the 1000 people led by Xiang Liqing.

These 1000 people dressed like nomads and spoke the Dangxiang language.

And Shazhou is a place where various nomadic peoples gather together. Now that they have a bad relationship with Qin, they are especially concerned about Qin people dressing up as people who can speak Qin language.

Therefore, Xiang Liqing and his group have an innate advantage. They don’t need to dress up to enter the city in a big way. It’s normal for them to even bring weapons... They are nomadic these days. Livestock gone!

The difficulty lies in how to get Xiang Lishi and the Shenwu Army to act in unison.

For this, Wang Ben spent a lot of effort. He pointed to the map over and over again and said to Liqing:

"You have to deploy your troops here, here, and here."

"Using the explosion sound of 'thunderbolt fireball' as the sign, we should cooperate from the inside and the outside to take down the enemy."

"At the same time, a white cloth should be tied on the left shoulder, understand?"

Xiang Liqing said in a difficult way:

"The captain is saying that we will be divided into five places?"

"If there is only one place, I still know how to command."

"But it's divided into five places, I'm afraid they won't be able to do it..."

Wang Ben couldn't help sighing.

To say that they are really barbarians is barbarians, so what kind of marching and fighting is just a swarm of bees chaotic and disorderly.

So it's easy to get in, but it's hard to get them to cooperate with the Qin army.

If one is not good, he will fight with Qin Jun.

After thinking about it, Wang Ben said:

"Not like this!"

"Each of you bring a fire pocket, and when the 'thunderbolt fireball' sounds, set fires everywhere. If you see someone with a knife or an arrow, as long as it is not the Qin army, you will chop it down!"

Xiang Liqing nodded and said:

"It's easy, so it's settled."

That night, King Yueshi was having fun drinking fine wine.

During this period of time, he had been depressed because the Qin army was approaching the city, and he even suspected that he was in the wrong team and chose the wrong side and regretted it.

In fact, King Yuezhi was anesthetizing himself, and he also vaguely knew that things would not be so simple, especially the Xiongnu would not easily let go of this opportunity to hurt both the Yueshi and the Qin army, so the Yuezhi would not have any good results in the end .

It's just that people often choose to deceive themselves when they don't want to face reality.

For example, King Yuezhi at this time, he would rather hold a glimmer of hope that things will develop in a good direction: the Xiongnu and the Yuezhi joined forces to defeat the Qin army, and the Xiongnu stuck to the covenant... So the Yuezhi went to two powerful enemies at the same time. There is no more war.

Therefore, no matter how he persuaded him, King Yuezhi always said:

"The Huns are a big country on the grasslands, and they will not abandon their covenant."

These words left him speechless.

In fact, it is not that there is no way to argue anymore, but that the matter has come to this point. Even if King Yuezhi understands that the Huns are not sincere and will renege on the covenant in the future, it will not help.

What's more, the Huns may renege on the covenant in the future, so why not the Qin army?

If both are likely to betray the alliance, it is better to choose to believe in the stronger Xiongnu.

So there is a saying that is right, "It takes one's own strength to strike iron." What really matters is one's own strength.

Otherwise, it can only become a pawn in the struggle of other countries, and it will be abandoned at any time after being used.

Although the reason is very simple, even in modern society, there are still many countries and regions that want to do the opposite and only want to hold the thigh of a powerful country.

Just when King Yuezhi was having fun, he suddenly heard a few violent noises in the distance.

King Yuezhi was just taken aback for a moment, but he quickly dismissed it as thunder and ignored it.

However, it didn't take long before a personal guard rushed in to report:

"My lord, something is wrong, Qin Jun is calling!"

King Yuezhi was startled, and after gathering his composure, he cursed:

"It's nonsense. The Qin army was blocked by our army on the Sanwei Mountain. How could it get here?"

The guard hurriedly explained:

"Your Majesty Mingjian, but those are indeed Qin Jun."

"The south has been breached by them. General Totton requests reinforcements!"

King Yueshi didn't believe it, he walked out of the tent with a flick of his hand, and said in his mouth:

"These useless things are just thieves who came to steal sheep, but they were so scared that they regarded them as Qin Jun..."

However, King Yuezhi froze in place before he finished speaking, because looking to the south, there were already fires everywhere, screams and exclamations were repeated, soldiers and people fled in a mess.

This is obviously not a riot that a petty thief can cause.

King Yuezhi didn't think too much, and shouted:

"Come here, order me to immediately bring troops and horses to quell the chaos!"

Immediately, someone responded.

However, King Yuezhi didn't expect one thing... With the speed of Yuezhi's soldiers collapsing, they would have already killed the enemy before the restless soldiers and horses rushed to the enemy.

This is also due to the torches burning outside the Yuezhi King's tent... These torches look like beacon lights in the dark night. Before the Qin army started the battle, they saw the bright lights here from a distance, and faintly heard them. The sound of singing and dancing.

How can ordinary people light a fire and enjoy singing and dancing at night?

So don't think about it, it's either rich or expensive here.

Wang Ben immediately led a team of troops to deploy directly in front of the lights.

As soon as the battle started, Wang Ben took the lead and led the team to kill directly towards the light.

When Wang Ben and others rushed to the light, they saw a group of Yueshi cavalry fleeing in a hurry protecting a man in an animal skin cloak.

How could Wang Ben let them succeed? He threw out a "thunderbolt fireball" casually, and then used the power of the explosion to go forward to capture people.

Just when Wang Ben was about to catch someone, suddenly a crossbow arrow came over and hit the target's back...

Chapter 4 and Three

It was King Yuezhi who was killed by an arrow.

Shen Bing's idea was actually to keep King Yueshi alive.

The reason is as mentioned before, the Qin army has to face not only the Yuezhi, but also the 36 countries in the Western Regions.

How Qin Jun treated the Yuezhi, the 36 Congresses of the Western Regions took it for granted.

For example, Qin Jun did what he did to Yueshi, so he would do to us.

Therefore, Shen Bing always uses the "Huairou Policy" as much as possible, killing if he can, and cooperating if he can.

Then swords don't have eyes on the battlefield, let alone at night with extremely poor visibility.

When Wang Ben stepped forward to check, he saw that the Yuezhi king had already vomited blood and could not speak... The crossbow arrow happened to pass through the gap between his ribs from his back and hurt his lungs, and the blood soon flooded from the wound His lungs suffocated him to death.

This injury cannot be saved even in modern times, or it is too late to save it, let alone thousands of years ago in ancient times.

As soon as King Yuezhi died, the Yuezhi army was even more unwilling to fight, and each fled in panic and shouted.

Xun Dunxihou received the order for reinforcements and was rushing from the north, but he heard the news that King Yueshi was dead while still on the way, so he could only sigh and ordered the troops to retreat westward.

The general asked suspiciously for a while:

"Where else can I retreat to?"

After a pause, he replied coldly:

"Withdraw to a place that can accommodate our troops!"

In fact, he didn't know where he was going to retreat, but he knew that the current situation in the Western Regions was not peaceful... Qin Jun and the Xiongnu were fighting for hegemony in this land, so the countries in the Western Regions must forcibly stand in line.

It's okay if you stand on the right side, but if you stand on the wrong side, you will end up like Yueshi.

If the remnants of the Yuezhi want to survive, they must flee far away from this land of injustice.

Xun Dunxihou was very lucky. They crossed the Western Regions and walked through the Wakhan Corridor (also known as the Afghan Corridor) to the west to attack the Great Xia Kingdom and surrendered the country to establish the Lan's City... The Lan's City is now Bari Hei in northern Afghanistan. .

To be precise, there is almost no "attack" and "surrender".

Because there was no big chief in the Great Xia, the cities and towns set up their own small chiefs who were not under each other's control, which was like a mess.

Even if only thousands of remnants of the Yue clan moved here, they could easily subdue them and turn them all into subjects.

This is something.

King Yuezhi died, and the most powerful Xundun Xihou gathered up the remnants and fled westward, and the rest of the Yuezhi soldiers in Shazhou surrendered.

So Shazhou was under the control of the Qin army.

The first thing Wang Ben did was to consolidate the defense and send soldiers to control all the cattle, sheep and livestock in the hands of the Qin army.

For the people of the Central Plains, food is "grain", but for the Western Regions, this food is more cattle, sheep and livestock.

However, it is basically impossible to achieve this, because the cattle and sheep in Shazhou can almost be described as "innumerable".

It is said that there are more than [-] cattle and sheep for King Yuezhi alone.

These cattle and sheep are divided into seven pastures outside the city, and two of them were driven away by Xun Dunxihou... This is the capital for Xun Dunxihou and his party to escape, otherwise they would have died before they left the Western Regions. Was starved to death.

Qin Jun can only say that he controlled most of the livestock and drove them to Shazhou.

The reason for rushing to Shazhou is because things like cattle and sheep are different from food.

If the food is seized and the enemy does not want to get it, that's easy.

Just pile up the firewood around the grain and get ready to start the fire.

But cattle and sheep, and there are tens of thousands of cattle and sheep at every turn... They can't be burned, and they can't be killed, and even if they are cooked and killed, they can still be eaten, and they will still be used by the enemy.

So it can only be concentrated in Shazhou and then try to defend it so that it will not be snatched by the enemy.

As long as these cattle and sheep are firmly controlled by the Qin army, it will only be a matter of time before the main force of the Yuezhi in Sanwei Mountain is defeated.

In fact, there is no need to do this at all.

Because when the news of Yueshi's death and the fall of Shazhou reached Sanwei Mountain, the Yueshi defenders immediately lost their morale and fled in all directions.

At this time, Qiujiu played another role. He led the generals of the subduing army to persuade them to surrender in Sanwei Mountain... Sanwei Mountain was more than 100 miles long, but Qiu Jiu couldn't persuade him alone.

The reason for persuading surrender is very simple, just like what Shen Bing said to Qiu Jiuque:

"Qin Jun has no intention of being an enemy of the Yueshi."

"The real enemy of the Yuezhi is the Xiongnu."

"Now there is another chance, and that is not surrendering to Qin to resist the Xiongnu together!"

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The Yuezhi's hatred for the Xiongnu was far higher than that of the Qin army.