The Heroic Biography of Little People

"I didn't expect the resistance here to be so weak. It seems that the people here don't like the Kucha people's rule over them."

Looking at the Nancheng that had just been captured, and looking at the reported damage in his hand, which can be regarded as "minor" for the siege battle, Li Shushi felt somewhat unclear about the team around him.

"This is not surprising. After all, Gumo has not been attached to Kucha for a long time. The local nobles and the officials sent by Kucha have not yet reached an agreement on the redistribution of benefits. If it is not for the current King of Kucha It’s still kind, and there isn’t too much tyranny, so perhaps Master Zhou will be able to see the scene where the people of Gumo are welcoming the army with pots of milk.”

Regarding Li Shushi's question, Ban Fu took it for granted, appearing extremely calm.

Gumo Country is a stop that Li Shushi must pass along the way along the Aksu River, and it is also the first oasis that the army arrived at when they came out of the Tiers Mountains in the Tianshan Mountains.This is a very important stop on the ancient Silk Road and one of the important birthplaces of Western Region culture, and because of the clear Aksu River, which is also the upper reaches of the Tarim River, the agriculture here is quite developed in the entire Western Region. Supplemented by animal husbandry and various natural stone mines, the lives of the people here are still quite affluent.

If it weren't for their powerful neighbor Qiuci, maybe this place could become a "paradise on top of the plug".

Gumo now has about 5000 households, a population of about [-], and about [-] soldiers.Of course, most of these soldiers were natives of Gumo, but most of the generals who commanded them were from Kucha.Therefore, in the face of the sudden tens of thousands of troops, most of Kucha's troops were directly oiled on the soles of their feet, and the few hundred people commanded by a small number of generals with backbone were really not enough for Li Shushi's men to stuff their teeth. Even if they plan to drive the Gumo people to be cannon fodder, it's useless.

There are two main cities in Gumo, one is Shicheng located in the upper reaches of the Aksu River in the north of Gumo, and the other is Nancheng, which was once the seat of the kingdom, located in the lower reaches of the Aksu River.However, in Li Shushi's eyes, these two cities are nothing more than two large docks similar to those in the north. Although the defense is commendable, they cannot stop his army at all.

Coupled with the inaction of most Gumo people, Li Shu did not spend too much time in Gumo.

"I think that if a county is set up in Gumo, Gumo will be divided into two counties with Shicheng and Nancheng as the center. The first county magistrate will be decided by Bangong. After that, my big man's "Three Interaction Laws" will be implemented. These two This county will belong to the Kucha County or the Kucha Kingdom. If the king is willing to be like the kings of the vassal states of our Han Dynasty, then we can’t keep him rich. I think the resistance of the local people should not be affected by this. So big, then set up a school, and even let the talented people in it work in the big man. It’s like the four counties in Hexi. Although they are weak, they can’t give up. I don’t know if Ban Gong thinks the idea of ​​learning is true.”

Because these things have already involved management issues after the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions.Logically speaking, Li Shushi does not have much right to speak, but because of his original plan, he made such an "exceeding authority" move.

"I thought I could give it a try. But I was also worried that this would strengthen the resistance of other countries, and even unite against the extension of my Han's rights in the Western Regions. I was even worried that it would cause worries and doubts in Wusun and Kangju. .”

"Then they are not worried about the annexation of small countries by those big countries in the Western Regions, why should they worry about us annexing those countries?"

"Even if Kucha completely annexes Gumo, Wensu, Weitou and other countries, it is only a country with a population of 30 to [-] and tens of thousands of soldiers. It’s impossible to talk about it. It’s just that if it’s me, I’m afraid the situation will be completely different. After all, the strength of the big man is not invincible to other countries in the Western Regions. The reason why the big man couldn’t fight here for a long time was because of his status The guest army cannot stay for a long time, but if the host and guest are reversed, then the Han army with long-term combat capabilities and very familiar with the local geography will be a nightmare for all countries in the Western Regions."

"Nightmare is just a nightmare. In the past, the big man didn't want to waste more power in the Western Regions because he couldn't make ends meet. Now if we can manage the Silk Road, this land will no longer be a tasteless "tasteless to eat, but a pity to discard it." gone."

"But this will also be a reason for the Wusun and Kangju people to feel uneasy."

"As long as we don't attack Shule to the west for the time being, and focus on stabilizing these two routes leading to Wusun, there will be no problem."

"In this way, there is no need to think about it. It's great that Master Zhou can help."

"Why do I suddenly have a feeling of being used by you as a gun?"

"This is definitely an illusion of Master State Shepherd, not to mention it is also for your great wish, Master State Shepherd."

Therefore, because of a series of chain reactions, Li Shushi and Ban Fu's plan for the Western Regions has undergone new changes.

The work of splitting the hometown of Gumo into two counties went very smoothly. After all, most of the people who wanted to object had been dealt with by the Kucha people, and the remaining Kucha captives naturally had no chance to object.

Of course, all of this is just a plan now. After all, both Li Shushi and Ban Fu need to race against time to launch an attack on the local area of ​​Kucha. It is impossible for them to give the Kucha people time to react and mobilize.

So leaving hundreds of powerful troops from Dunhuang, Li Shushi's army left Gumo's hometown along the Tarim River.

Although there are only hundreds of troops, Li Shushi is not worried that Gumo will be attacked by others.After all, Li Shushi's new plan is not something unbearable to the Gumo people, let alone Li Shushi's promise to bring them the advanced culture of the Han people, and even those who show talent among them can go to other Han people in the Western Regions. Being an official in a region or even being an official in the territory of the Han Dynasty, the temptation of such a condition is obviously not something that a mere King of Kucha can offer.

In fact, Li Shushi's method somewhat imitated an example he was familiar with. Sima's Jin State used this method to quickly grasp the hearts of the people in Shu after the destruction of Shu. After all, Shu State occupied almost the entire Yizhou.However, the upper-level official positions have been dominated by Liu Yan, Liu Zhang, Liu Bei, and their descendants from other places for a long time, which has aroused the dissatisfaction of the local tyrants in Shu, so that the Sima family showed a little solicitation. The intention is to successfully make the local tyrants return to their hearts.

Whether there are other versions of similar stories Li Shushi is not very clear, but as long as there is an example, it is enough.

What's more, his more important goal in front of him is to capture the country of Kucha to frighten the entire Western Regions.

In this way, with Wusun and Qiuci as examples, the work of Ban Fu will be easier in the future.Borrowing a favorite phrase used in ancient books, it depends on how to spread it. Anyway, those guys are nothing but grass, and if they are facing a super hurricane with a central wind force reaching level 17, it’s okay to uproot them and send them away thousands of miles away. questionable.

It has to be admitted that the soldiers of Kucha Kingdom are actually not weak in terms of individual combat ability, or compared to the strongest frontier soldiers of the Han Dynasty.In addition to those veterans in the frontier or those who have the ability to advance and change jobs, there may be a great chance of winning.And this is definitely not Li Shushi's rhetoric to flatter the other party to cover up his failure.It is Li Shushi's personal experience.

In fact, his opinion was unanimously agreed by all the generals including Lu Bu and Ban Fu.

But even such a strong personal combat power still cannot escape the fate of defeat when facing the Bingzhou Army in the wild.

Even Li Shushi felt that even if he was in command of the battle, there was basically no possibility of losing in the case of an equal number of people.

Maybe someone will find it very strange, maybe someone has already guessed the crux of the problem.

Yes, these Kucha soldiers really paid too much attention to the cultivation of personal combat effectiveness.And ignore the overall military formation.

This may have a lot to do with the battles among the countries in the Western Regions.

Generally speaking, the power in the Western Regions can be called a big country36.Small forces are dotted all over the country.A small oasis may evolve into a city, and then gradually decline or even disappear after a hundred years.Therefore, even the largest populations in these countries are no more than a few hundred thousand, at most hundreds of thousands, and tens of thousands of soldiers can be recruited.In most countries, there are thousands of people supporting the facade, which can only be obtained by patchwork.And it is still at the expense of the production of various materials.

So instead of thinking about how to have as many soldiers as possible, it is better to hone an elite soldier, which not only does not take up too many people, but is also easy to use, and can also exert a stronger combat effectiveness in battle.

The initial melee among the countries in the Western Regions was carried out in such a state.

Originally, with the gradual annexation of various small forces and small countries, the large corps was still the main direction of development after all, and various training and combat methods that matched it would emerge as the times require. This can be said to be an inevitable law of history.

But who would have thought that with the establishment of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, this process would be stopped by the big man.

Although I fought a lot of battles with the big man, because more than a dozen countries participated in the war each time, the number of conscripts allocated to each country was not much, and in most cases, the armies of these countries were more like making up numbers to wave the flag, or For long-term siege, there are not many opportunities for real large corps to fight, so the lessons learned are far less than the four major alien mercenaries.

However, it has only been a few decades since the power of the Han people gradually withdrew from the Western Regions, and the mode of war has not yet reached the level of qualitative change. stage.

If the scale of the war is increased to more than a few thousand people, they may have already messed up by the time they fought halfway through.

For such a strange enemy, and he has not noticed the outflanking of the rear by Li Shushi's cavalry, one can imagine how many soldiers are left in Yancheng, the royal city of Kucha after World War I.

However, the individual ability of the soldiers of the Kucha Kingdom is indeed very strong. Although in such an unfavorable situation, they were able to send many soldiers back to Yancheng City during the scattered breakout. Such a performance is indeed worthy of it. Li Shushi commented on his combat effectiveness.

Yancheng, the royal city of Kucha Kingdom, can be said to be the most majestic city that Li Shushi has ever seen in the Western Regions except for Chigu City.This yellow-white city has quite tall walls, and it is the same as Chigu City.Possesses triple city walls.And looking down from the top of the mountain in the distance, you can also see that there are many large and small pagodas and temples in the city, and there are more than a thousand of them.

This made Li Shushi think of Du Mu's "Jiangnanchun", but here, maybe it should be changed to "840 temples in Kucha, how many buildings are in the dust" is more appropriate, but from this we can also know how prosperous Buddhism is here.

Since the Buddhist temples are already so magnificent, the palace of Kucha is even more magnificent.

"Looking at it makes me feel like I can't sleep until I grab a fortune." Lu Bu's eyes have turned into the shape of copper coins.

"Okay, now let's see our most powerful jade sauce, break the thick city wall with your hands~!"

"They're not that violent~ And you're willing to hand over such heavy work to a weak woman."

If you are a weak woman, then you won't find a strong man in the entire army, huh!

This is the common aspiration of all the men who were deeply "poisoned" by Su Xiaololi.

And when Li Shushi and Su Xiaoluoli were discussing how to break the city wall.Yancheng city wall.King of Kucha, Fant Babini, was also looking at the densely packed army below with a sad face, while the officials, big and small, behind him were equally silent.

In fact, the king of the Kucha Kingdom has done well enough, at least he has expanded the territory of Kucha to the largest state since the founding of the Kucha Kingdom, and at the same time, he did not release all his strength in the face of Li Shushi's army. .In fact, the previous battle was more like a temptation for him.Although the result of this trial is somewhat unforgettable to him.But this also made the strength of the troops in Yancheng far beyond Li Shushi's imagination at this time. That is to say, the king of Kucha made the decision to guard the king's city at the first time, and even the envoys who asked for help from all directions also heard that The Han army was dispatched immediately after the menacing attack.

leftover.It is to guard the city with one heart and pray that the Han people will also return without success this time.

However, the only thing that reassures Fendt Babini is that this is not the hometown of Gumo. The people here support him because of his more benevolent rule. In terms of materials, Fendt Babi Mud is confident that it will last two years with these supports.

However, with the size of the army outside the city, it is obvious that they cannot afford to consume food and grass for two years.But it is also conceivable that after this war, other regions of the Kingdom of Kucha will be hit to varying degrees, and the Kingdom of Kucha will also lose the ability to continue to expand.

This makes the originally ambitious Fant Babi mud somewhat melancholy and unwilling.

The Han army slowly assembled various siege equipment outside the city.

Although it is not impossible to get the assembly completed immediately, and even relying on Li Shushi's golden gun cannon alone is enough, but in the end he still chose this method. After all, such an action does not need to cost too much, and it can also give the enemy a A "kill is coming" pressure.Even if such behavior is not expected to directly crush the nerves of the defenders, if the seeds of "the Han army is strong and invincible" can be planted in their hearts, it will also be beneficial to the recovery of Kucha after the war.

After all, compared to a peaceful solution, the way of war not only needs to consider the issue of fighting, but also needs to consider the issue of how to win the hearts of the occupied territories after the battle is over. After all, the land and products of Kucha are very suitable as the administrative seat of the Western Regions Protectorate. Not being able to get a stable base obviously has no good impact on Li Shushi and Ban Fu's plan for the Western Regions.

For this reason, the whole day was spent in such dawdling.

The time gradually came to the night of the day.

"Because I didn't expect it, I didn't prepare a lot of materials, and the stone bullets fired by other trebuchets are not good-looking."

"Then what are the trebuchets made during the day used for? Are they just wasted like this?"

"It's not bad to take down this city and put it on the city wall to defend the city. Or the city wall of the Western Regions Protectorate's Office. If it's not possible, let the soldiers do a drill. Practice makes perfect." ★ze~"

Facing the malicious and cute Su Xiaoluoli, no matter who she is, she has nothing to do, let alone Li Shushi, who still has a little bit of expectation.

Looking forward to what kind of power will be unleashed with the cooperation of the Golden Fire Cannon and Chuan Guoxi plus Su Xiaololi's shells.

I hope that the soldiers and civilians in Yancheng City on the opposite side will not be scared out of the air, after all, the power of this thing is beyond the control of Li Shushi himself.

Meteors rise, meteors fall, bringing a dull explosion.

Li Shushi's golden tin cannon did not seem to hit the city wall for the first time, but shot into the place between the first and second city walls. However, hearing the various panicked sounds in the city, the effect seems not too bad ?

Anyway, Li Shushi just needs to sit back and enjoy the experience.

Of course, while enjoying the experience, he can also relive the mysterious feeling when firing the cannonball, as if the cannonball he sent out has some kind of unique power and a mysterious trick, which will inevitably cause the greatest damage .

This feeling is wonderful and fascinating, as if you don't need to calculate the ballistics yourself to cause the most damage...

The biggest damage is the same...

So it is because the city wall is a dead object that the shells are allowed to fall on the heads of the crowd?

In any case, Li Shushi didn't want to admit that it was because his ability was too low to control this ability that finally caused such a result.

Therefore, the revolution has not yet succeeded, comrades, let's continue to work hard.

So all night, the people of Yancheng listened to the rumbling sound like thunder in horror, and because it doesn't rain often in Kucha, thunder is even more rare, the fear caused by such sound is even more frightening to them. Obviously, rumors that "the Han people invited gods to help them attack Kucha" have even begun to circulate in the city.

The outermost city wall of Yancheng seemed to be crumbling amidst the sound of explosions one after another.

ps: After watching the latest "Sword of Amber", we said that we would pay homage to Fei Yanda. This setting really made us feel tears in our eyes, knowing that we are still emotionally overwhelmed...