Great Han Empire

Chapter 366 Princess Wusun Song

"The Journey to the West"

Author: Scarlet Coral
Chapter 1 Wusun Princess Song
The desert is full of smoke, and on the desolate ancient roads of the Western Regions, the dust is flying. An almost endless supply troop is slowly marching towards the sunset.

"My family marries me to the sky,
The king of Wusun from a foreign country.

The dome is the room and the wall is the wall.

Feed on meat and butter as pulp.

I always think about my heart hurt,
Wish to return to his hometown for the yellow Hu. "

Hundreds of soldiers Zhao Guang hummed the song his mother used to lull him to sleep when he was a child, urged the horse, and ran slowly along the team.

"Okay, you're far away, how can you sing such sad girls' nursery rhymes? If there's anything unpleasant, tell me about it?" Behind Zhao Guang, an extremely majestic black-faced man with a With a playful smile on his face, he asked loudly.

"The army is marching, and those who make loud noises will be punished with flogging." Zhao Guang did not turn his head, "As the leader of an army, Captain Pang, please respect yourself."

"I'm so self-respecting, I'm flogging a bird, I've had military meals for more than four years, and you need a newcomer to point out such a trivial matter? Come on, what are you singing about? Otherwise, you will be despised by officials and disrespectful of the leader of the peak!" Sin, dragged to Guaner Youying (the criminal law of the army, piercing arrows in the ears, and escorting Youying)."

Zhao Guang smiled bitterly and said, "Brother Pang Da, Ling Tang is the great Confucian of this dynasty, so didn't you mention Wusun Princess Song in the previous dynasty?"

"Didn't you say it's so strange? A man gets fame right away, so what's the point of learning those vain words? My Pang family has been a rough man since my ancestors, and I don't have as many rules as your Zhao family! I think you learned from your bookish brother." Stupid!", Hei Lian blushed a little, and turned up the volume again.

Just as Zhao Guang was about to retort, dozens of riders rushed forward, leading a knight in white armor to rein in the horse, and said with a smile: "I think it's true that you, Pang Heizi, can't learn. You pretend to be a rough person without learning? You don't want to make progress!"

"How can I be a rough man? Stop talking nonsense, what's the road ahead?"

"There are chariot scouts in the small forest ten miles ahead." The knight took off his helmet, showing a handsome face, took the map handed over by the knight beside him, and pointed it to Pang and Zhao to watch "The Western Expedition Army can't afford to have food and fodder." Misfortune, just to be on the safe side, I think we will stay on the slope in front of us today, so we can figure out the enemy's movements first, how about that?"

"I don't pay attention to a few chariot masters and bandits. According to what you said, the whole army camps, and everything here is left to you to arrange. Ziyuan, go and order two hundred brothers. I will take a few brothers Go meet them." The big black man put on his helmet nonchalantly, held a long knife, urged his horse, and left in the dust.

Seeing that he left regardless, the knight shook his head, "Ziyuan, life is not easy with such a superior, right?"

Zhao Guang nodded: "That's right, Brother Li, if you hadn't reminded Brother Pang all the time, he wouldn't know how much trouble he caused."

"Hehe, your words are really bad. Don't look at him as a normal person, but he is a good player in battle. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is both wise and brave. As a general, Botong beat me, Li. There are a lot of letters." Li Xin smiled, "Even if there are tens of thousands of troops in this western expedition, there are very few young generals who can stand shoulder to shoulder with Pang Hui Pang Botong. Didn't your father, General Zhao, say that? , but Botong is most like his father."

"Bad face, what are you still talking about, don't delay my business!" Li Xin said that the "intelligent and brave" general who "has the style of his father" was dissatisfied in the distance, and he reined in the circle .

"This muddled man! Once you encounter a fight, you can't wait for a moment!" Li Xin stepped forward to straighten Zhao Guang's helmet and patted his breastplate, "Go, all the dozens of riders here are from Changshuiying , you take them with you, and bring all of Pang Heizi's personal soldiers. Don't panic when encountering an enemy and fight, remember to follow Heizi closely!"

Zhao Guangnuo repeatedly took the order and left, but his heart was completely occupied by the excitement of the first battle.Since I joined the army last year, I have trained for three months, and taught martial arts for three months. I set off from Chang'an City and escorted the luggage here for more than two months. The legends of the Central Plains and the battle experiences narrated by the brothers spit all over the place, yearning in my heart, and I can hardly hold the horse in my hand.The man's fame and fame can be taken immediately, how can I lose to others, my dignified Changshan Zhendinghou Zhao's man?Fame begins now!

Two hundred cavalry, riding tall horses from Bingzhou and Liangzhou, carrying round shields, wearing leather armor, holding jujube lances, and hanging swords around their waists, roared towards Xiaolin who appeared on the chariot rider's horse .Walking to a distance of a hundred steps, Pang Hui waved one arm, the team slowed down, spread out into a formation of crane wings on both sides, and surrounded the Huangyang grove.Not long after, I saw dozens of chariot cavalry in different clothes rushing out of the small forest. Seeing that there were so many Han soldiers, I felt a little bit shy.

Pang Hui said with a sneer: "The chariot master and dog thief must have their eyes on our luggage. Today, even a ride will not let it go. I will lead half of the brothers to charge from the front, and Ziyuan will outflank it from behind. Remember to save a life!" Long Dao, "Big Han Tianwei, there is no barbarian without me, kill!"

"Big Han Tianwei, with me there is no barbarian, kill!" The cavalry held their horses flat, lowered their bodies, and the formation changed into a formation of sharp arrows, and began to charge. During the movement, the hundred cavalry were like one person, without any hindrance .This dynasty has been famous for its iron cavalry since the Great Sima and Jinyang Hou Li Hong started his army in Hebei; A lot of effort has been put into the breeding of horses, breeding, selection and training of knights, casting and configuration of equipment and weapons. Now, the iron cavalry of the big man is worthy of the emperor's sentence: "My strong son, there is Emperor Xiaowu again." The iron cavalry is powerful." More than enough.And Pang Hui came from a prominent general, he was brave and good at fighting, and he also took on the important task of escorting food and grass to the west. The cavalry under his command were naturally the best of the best.In Pang Hui's words: "One of the soldiers under my Pang Heizi has ten young masters from the Yulin Army!"

Seeing the menacing Han Qi approaching, the opponent hurriedly shot a few arrows, but missed the sight too much, occasionally hit, but couldn't penetrate the armor lined with cooked cowhide iron plates, a wave of arrows let go, and the Han Qi had already come close.Pang Hui took the lead and shouted, "Follow your grandpa Hei's knife!" With a swiping of the knife, he cut the rider in front of him from shoulder to waist, shouted "Get up!" He lifted it up, knocked down another fan rider beside him, turned his head and stabbed him, and killed him again.The other chariot cavalry were taken aback by Han Jiang's ferocity, and were immediately tied into meat skewers by dozens of horses following him.The battle turned into a one-sided massacre from the very beginning. Dozens of chariots and cavalry fell off their horses as soon as they met each other. Only a few of them had the idea of ​​fleeing from the beginning. They didn't want to run not far, but these lucky ones bumped into another group of people led by Zhao Guang.

"It's not fun!" Zhao Guang pierced the opposite general's thigh with a single shot, and took advantage of the opportunity to pick him off the horse.Although he successfully completed Pang Hui's task of "keeping a life alive", Zhao Guang didn't feel any sense of satisfaction in his heart: he didn't even get a single enemy leader in the first battle after finally waiting.I often heard from my uncles that my father was 17 years old when he followed Da Sima to pacify Zhang Niujiao in Hebei. When he first went into battle, a silver gun took the lives of many yellow scarf soldiers. In comparison, I am really poor!

Pang was overjoyed when he met Zhao Guang and caught him alive.He knows very well that his soldiers are like his generals, needless to say they are brave and resolute in battle, but often they can't stop when they can afford to kill - keeping alive often depends on whether the enemy's life is tough or not.So he praised Zhao Guang a few words, which greatly improved the self-pity and self-pity of the young people.Pang Hui looked at Che Shibing, who was tied like a rice dumpling, trembling, and kept talking to the crowd, spat disdainfully, and told a toothless general beside him, "Old Huang, We don’t need to bother with this piece of trash, bring it to Sima Li, he’ll be able to ask some useful questions.” Turning his head and waving his hand; “Brothers did a great job! Extra meal tonight, clean up these offal, and send the team back to the camp. "

Everyone simply buried the dead body, packed up the booty and horses, and rushed back.At this time, a simple camp has been set up on a leeward slope, and the wagons are neatly arranged in a circle, forming a deer village, with grain and hay piles, livestock groups, and simple tents arranged in an orderly manner.Army Sima Li Xin has a family background and is very familiar with military management. It took only an hour for Pang Hui to go out. He had already arranged for the assembly of the luggage team, garrison, unloading, setting up camp, and arranging posts. , The camp is full of the smell of food.

After dinner, Pang Hui wiped his body with boiling water, took off his armor, changed into a cloth fir, lay down comfortably in the tent, drank milk tea, and chatted with Zhao Guang and several tooth generals and hundred generals. Competing with knives and guns, bragging about strange people and anecdotes, just about to enter Hong Kong, Li Xin, who was in full armor, turned his tent from the outside and sat down angrily: "I worked hard to set up the tent, you old men go out and have a good time." When I come back, grab someone alive and throw it to me, just ignore it, and just sit here leisurely and carefree, and I am the only one who is working hard?"

"Hey, what do you mean, those who are able work harder, those who are able work harder!" Pang Hui stood up with a smile, and poured a bowl of milk tea for Li Xin, "Come on, let's drink it while it's hot. It's made from tea leaves from your hometown Wujun." The tea soup, mixed with the goat's milk outside the Great Wall, has a special flavor. I said, Lao Li, once you make a move, the car master must have confessed to you the secrets of the [-]th generation of his ancestors, right?"

Li Xin drank the milk tea in a few sips, wiped his mouth: "Good tea, you bastard actually hid such private goods." After speaking, he sighed, "I said Berton, this time we are in serious trouble .”

As soon as this remark came out, the laughing people in the tent immediately fell silent, and everyone stared at Li Xin's next words, not daring to make a sound.Pang Hui knew that his brother never joked about big things, so he sat up straight immediately, and said solemnly, "What's the trouble? Could it be that the Cheshi people have already learned about the movement of our supply team? Have an army ready to stop us?"

"That's not the case. According to the prisoner, the Cheshi people don't know our army. What we encountered today was just a routine sentry arranged by them, so when you went to search for the enemy, they didn't move. "Everyone in the tent unconsciously breathed a sigh of relief. The land of the Western Regions has produced very little grain since ancient times. In order to manage the Western Regions these years, the imperial court has restored the military station of the Colonel Shuji near Gaochang City (now Turpan, Xinjiang). It is not enough to support the consumption of the tens of thousands of troops in the Western Regions. This time, our team escorted [-] shi of grain out of the fortress.When Li Xin said this, he flicked the ground with his fingers, and changed the topic, "But the troubles in front of us are not necessarily small. There are indeed [-] troops stationed near Yiwu (now Hami, Xinjiang) in front of Che Shiren, and there are other servants close by. Wan, and at this time, Che Shi Wang is there to make an alliance with the Wusun Kingdom, and it is said that several nobles from the Wusun Kingdom have arrived!"

"Ah, Wusun Kingdom, according to the Han Dynasty, Wusun has 12 households, 63 people, and 18 victorious soldiers. They don't plant trees in the fields, follow the animals to drive water and grass, and are the same as the Xiongnu. The country has many horses and rich people. Up to four or five thousand horses. The people are vicious, greedy and untrustworthy, and there are many bandits and robbers, the most powerful country." Zhao Guang blurted out after doing a lot of homework on the countries of the Western Regions before he set off.

Pang Hui nodded approvingly for Zhao Guang's extensive knowledge, thought for a moment, and asked Li Daodao, "It's such an important matter in the country that it should be kept secret. How did that little soldier know so clearly?"

"It's a coincidence that this pawn had an affair with the maidservant of the headman, and he often went in and out of the big tent secretly. Although the nobleman Wusun came secretly that day, he was actually seen by him!" Li Xin spread out a sheepskin map, "Uncle Tong, although this Yiwu is not on the road of our army, but there is a large army on the side, there must be a sentry post, and there are countless scouts. We must be more careful. This is one; Not as good as before, but there are still tens of thousands of riders. If the rear of the riders really join forces with Wusun to attack the two countries, the pressure on our army's Gaochang camp will inevitably increase, and the situation in the Western Regions will change drastically in the near future! You are the general , you make up your mind, how should our supply team deal with it now?"

(End of this chapter)