Daqin Fusu: It is difficult to start the battle

Chapter 88 Sunrise in the East
Hexi Grassland.

The pure white Qilian Snow Peak, dense forests and alpine meadows stand proudly between the sky and the earth.

Although winter is approaching and the grasslands are no longer as lush as in summer, Zhaowu City (Linze County, Gansu Province), which was built along the river, is full of people, with merchants driving camels everywhere.

Around the city, there are countless tents and herdsmen grazing sheep.

Here is the royal court of the Yuezhi who expelled the Wusun people, subdued the Huns, and dominated the entire land of Hexi.

Unlike the Central Plains people who built houses and settled down, the Yuezhi people only used rammed earth and logs to reinforce the city walls. Except for the shacks where cattle and sheep lived, most of the buildings in the city were temporary tents.

On the hill in the center of Zhaowu City, there are five and eight hana (Note 1) felt bags, which are the residences of the five She (xī) hou.

And in the center of the hill, a rug of twelve hana stands quietly like a huge palace. This is the king's tent of Yueshi Wang Zhuoli.

At the foot of the hill, a beautiful girl in a moon-white gown, pink, glossy and fat came lightly.

Her hair is black and shiny, with more than a dozen small braids around the top of her head, and the back of her head is braided into a big braid, which hangs down to her hips. When she walks, the ends of the braids gently pat her buttocks, and sometimes in that graceful arc. Swaying from side to side, it looks very tempting.

This is the royal court of the Yuezhi people, but she is wearing the clothes of the Qin people. Although it is a bit out of harmony, it does not attract attention, because most of the noble girls in the city are dressed like this.

At this time, the Yue clan controlled [-] strings, dominated Hexi, controlled the transfer station of the Silk Road, and became rich by buying and selling.

In Yuezhi's aristocratic circle, it is usually upper class to wear Qin people's clothes and speak Qin people's language.

But to be precise, the current Silk Road is still the 'Jade Road'.

From Xia, Shang, and Zhou until Qin merged with the six countries, "Kunshan jade", that is, Hetian jade, was transported from the Western Regions and became the favorite exotic treasure of the Central Plains people.

The girl walked straight into the king's tent, but the guards at the door turned a blind eye to her.

This is because the young girl is the only daughter of King Yuezhi, [péi] Muya, if there is no accident, she will become the queen of the Yuezhi people after this Yuezhi king passes away!

The tent is covered with a soft and thick wool carpet with gorgeous and complicated patterns, and there are several plates of dried fruit on the desk in the tent. Zhuo Li is sitting cross-legged behind the desk, looking at something seriously.

Muya's deerskin boots stepped on the soft carpet without a sound, and she walked up to Zhuo Li, but Zhuo Li hadn't noticed yet.

"Dad!"

Mu Ya suddenly stamped her feet and shouted, Zhuo Li, who was startled, raised her head, and Mu Ya giggled.

"You naughty woman!"

Seeing that she was his beloved daughter, Zhuo Li couldn't help shaking his head and smiling, then he closed the parchment and threw it on the desk.

Muya walked around the desk, put her arms around his neck, and said coquettishly, "Father, when will the caravan of the Qin people come? I've been wearing this skirt for a long time..."

Zhuo Li patted her little hand dotingly, subconsciously looked at the parchment on the case, with a meaningful smile on the corner of his mouth, and shook his head slightly: "I'm afraid the caravan of the Qin people will not be able to come this year!"

"Ah? Why?" Muya's eyes widened, her full lips parted and closed slightly: "I've been saving beautiful jade for a long time, and I'm just waiting to change some new clothes with the people of Qin, what if they don't come!"

Zhuo Li laughed in astonishment: "The Qin people were robbed by the Qiang people a few days ago, and now they are preparing to take revenge, so they closed all the commercial roads in Longxi... If you want to trade with the Qin people, you may have to wait until this time next year! "

"It's disgusting! Qiang people are disgusting ghosts!" Muya stomped her feet angrily, and then said, "Abba, why don't we send troops to attack the Qiang people!"

"Why?" Zhuo Li asked.

"Of course it is to teach the Qiang people a lesson for the Qin people, and let them shepherd the sheep honestly and not rob the Qin people. In this way, we can get nice clothes from the Qin people!"

Seeing the daughter whose mind is full of beautiful little skirts, Zhuo Li felt a little regretful, wishing he had had another son or daughter...

However, as the king of the Yuezhi people, he will not let go of this heaven-sent opportunity.

"Yeah, you're right!" Zhuo Li said perfunctorily: "Abba has already sent troops to the south, and when the Qin people finish teaching the Qiang people, let's teach the Qiang people a lesson!"

"This one is called praying mantis catching insects, with birds behind!"

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On the south bank of Deshui, the Qin army, who was regarded as a praying mantis by King Yueshi, was now arrayed according to the undulating mountain.

To the west of the Qin army, tens of thousands of Qiang people were crying in the bleak cold wind.

When going down to the stronghold last night, Li Xin issued the password to destroy this court food.

So before dawn, the soldiers of the Qin army, who were waiting for the battle, pulled out of the camp and approached the temporary camp of the Qiang people.

The Qiang people had no choice but to fight in a hurry and lined up facing the east. Therefore, under the rising sun, they could hardly see the appearance of the Qin army in the distance.

On a hill with relatively the highest terrain, there stands a building car about two feet high, which is the command platform of the Qin army.

Li Xin took a bamboo tube more than a foot long from the soldier behind him, carefully pulled it apart, and raised his hands before his eyes.

This is the binoculars that Fusu polished with natural crystals in his spare time.

The front and rear ends of the bamboo tube are detachable spiral mounts, just to fix the polished lenses.

Although the transparency is worrying, and no matter how the focus is adjusted, the farthest can only be seen a few kilometers, but in this era, it is undoubtedly a Zentraedi technology.

Because of the busy work, he took care of the second concubine every day, so of the two telescopes made by Fusu himself, one was given to Meng Tian who went north, and the other was in the hands of Li Xin.

Li Xin adjusted the length of the bamboo tube until the sunburn on the faces of the Qiang warriors in the distance could be clearly seen.

"Oh, I found you!"

Through the binoculars, he saw a figure wearing a ghost mask and holding a bronze long axe.

This is the heroic chieftain of Xianling Qiang.

Li Xin called Meng Ying, who was wearing heavy armor, and pointed out to him the location of Xian Ling Qiang Hao Chief.

Meng Ying was a little excited, commanding the armored cavalry, what he was about to perform next was the task of sealing the throat with a sword, beheading the general and capturing the flag.

He knew in his heart that Li Xin was using this to repay the kindness of the Meng family.

"I will not disgrace my life!" Meng Ying yelled, clasped her fists in salute, and left, her heavy steps making the stairs creak.

On another mountain in the distance, Han Xin commanded thousands of civilians to set up eighteen trebuchets facing the Qiang people.

He was slightly puzzled. This place was about two hundred steps away from the Qiang people's main position, that is, 1000 feet away. Whether the stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet could hit was a big problem.

Note 1: Hana, a Chinese word, means the structure of a yurt.

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pps: Due to lack of information, the names of King Yuezhi and his daughter were made up by the author.However, Yueshi's surname comes from Bai Xu, the leader of "Yuzhi (Yueshi)" in "Mu Tianzi Biography".

As an aside, the person who drove the chariot for King Mu of Zhou back then was named Zaofu, the ancestor of the Zhao family, the real Zhao family.

(End of this chapter)