On April 20, it was very dark, but the fires inside and outside Kucha City lit up the night sky, and terrified faces reflected in the streets and alleys on the city.

Kucha claimed to be a great power. Before the Han Dynasty and the Huns came, I was the only one in the Western Regions. Kucha City was the heart of the Western Regions.

Therefore, the Kucha people were stronger than Gumo who immediately tied their kings and threw them out to surrender after being besieged. The news of its fall of the city had already been heard, and they were ready in advance, and Ding Zhuang was mobilized to resist.

After all, everyone knows the temperament of nomads. Once Kucha falls, this most prosperous city in the Western Regions may fall into a catastrophe.

Kucha has the highest and thickest three-level city wall in the Western Regions, with tens of thousands of people and two thousand soldiers. Ding Zhuang gathered together and the number was similar to that of Wusun. Because Kucha had copper and iron, the equipment was quite exquisite, it might be able to defend for a while and defend the main force of Kucha led by Zuo Li Fu Jun Guyi to return to the rescue.

Perhaps, the powerful Huns will also help Kucha.

But the outer city only lasted for less than a day.

When night was about to come, a fire lit on the mountains in the northern suburbs of the city, and the city immediately responded that there was a fire at the southeast and northwest corners at the same time.

There was little rain in Kucha, very dry, and the raging flames ran around the dry red willow branches and poplar pillars, spreading very quickly. Some people even spread rumors that the Han army had entered the city, which immediately triggered riots in the outer city. The Wusun people also seized this opportunity and launched a strong attack!

Ren Hong and Han Gandang did not get involved, but only watched both sides with interest from a distance...the chickens pecked at each other.

The city attack and defense technology needs to be tempered by war. The so-called city during the Shang and Zhou dynasties was just a slightly higher earth encirclement, and people could climb up, so they didn't have to worry about the art of siege.

However, when the princes and ministers of the Spring and Autumn Period built their city walls higher and higher, so high that they surpassed the etiquette system, and Confucius was angrily trying to "fall the three capitals", the corresponding offensive equipment came out in time. The Gongshu squad made a cloud ladder, while Mozi re-created various defensive tools with his color.

The offensive and defensive technique was tested in the tragic Warring States Period. The seven heroes fought each other and tens of thousands of people attacked the city, attacked the water, attacked the fire, and attacked the acupoints. They were really useless to do everything.

But the Western Regions are much simpler. Kucha is the tallest city wall, right? But it is only three meters high, which is only five or six meters, which is similar to an ordinary county town in the Han area. The garrison equipment at the top of the city is also very monotonous, not as high as the Central Plains in the Spring and Autumn Period.

So what Ren Hong saw was the straightforward offense and defense of both sides.

The Wusun people had no experience in siege, but they could not withstand the number of people and had excellent archers. First, more than a thousand people dismounted and shot, standing more than a hundred steps away, the curved Scythian bow aimed at the head of the city. The range of this bow was extremely long, and the arrows in the sky made the Kucha people unable to raise their heads.

They are not like the Han soldiers, wearing heavy armor, and can chat and laugh in the rain of arrows.

At this time, under the command of the right general of Wusun, nearly a hundred Wusun people carried huge wooden boards tied up by dozens of poplar trunks and howled towards the city wall.

Looking at this simple scene, such a sentence appeared in Ren Hong's mind.

"Attacking Kucha County will be a strategic turning point in this comprehensive war between Han and Hun!

In the plan of the right general of Wusun, the bridge was built directly by wooden boards, and the Wusun cavalry rushed up to the general, and the outer city was taken down.

It is easier said than done. The wooden boards are too thick, the Wusun people walk very slowly, and the Kucha people are still colored, and arrows keep falling. Fortunately, most of them are nailed to the wooden boards, and only occasionally kill several people.

Seeing that the Wusun people were about to put the wooden board on the city wall, and the rain of arrows outside the city was a little slow, the Kucha people stood on the wall with red eyes and holding long soldiers in their hands to block it, but the Wusun people's melee troops were dispatched.

They charged at the city wall. When they were almost in front of them, the short spear in their hands suddenly threw it up and knocked down the Kucha people.

With a rumbling sound, the wooden board was placed on the city wall. Before the Kucha people could push it down, the first team of Wusun knights actually rode their horses to the wall!

Once the city walls are out of protection, the Kucha people are no match for Wusun at all. Soon, the entire circle of the city walls is occupied.

The Wusun people occupied high places, and arrows could shoot to every corner of the outer city. The ordinary Kucha people organized to fight scattered and returned to their homes. They ran everywhere in the streets and alleys, and behind them were Wusun knights who were chasing horses.

When Ren Hong climbed to the top of the city, he happened to see a Wusun knight stabbing the escaped Kucha man to death from behind, and then came down to brutally cut off his scalp and hung it on his waist bloodily as a medal for this battle.

As for the soldiers of Kucha, the surrendered, the dead were dead, and the rest fled into the second city wall in a hurry.

Unfortunately, the city wall didn't last long, but it opened itself before the Wusun people planned to break open the city gate.

A fire broke out inside, and the Kucha people who wanted to resist fell to the ground in a row. The one who knelt out was a Kucha right commander who was "Baili". He led the Kucha nobles to open one of the doors and begged for surrender to Wusun and Han envoys.

"Ren, the reason why Kucha helped the Huns offended the Han Dynasty, Wusun, were all Guyi and the King of Kucha! It has nothing to do with our martial arts!"

Bai Li is an old acquaintance who was taken hostage by Ren Hong. Unfortunately, she was useless. Instead, she was shot by the Kucha people's own arrow and was covered in wounds. Ren Hong also thought he was burdened and threw it away halfway, but she didn't expect that she didn't die.

Today Bai Li took the initiative to surrender. Ren Hong thought that the three small villages after Kucha had been dismembered may be able to leave him a place.

Ren Hong then asked Bai Li: "Where are King Jiangbin and Guyi in Kucha?"

"Reporting to Renjun, Jiangbin was in the palace, and Guyi personally led the main force to help the Xiongnu servant Daigo Ada besiege Luntai." Bai Li did not dare to look up at Ren Hong. On that day, Guyi and the others thought that this was just a little Han envoy and insignificant, but they never thought that it was this person who brought destruction to Kucha.

"Luntai is still here?" Ren Hong was most concerned about this point. Don't be a step late when you arrive.

Bai Li smiled and said, "Don't worry, the great Han soldiers are brave and well-armed. Gu Yi has repeatedly attacked hard but has not stepped on the city wall."

He looked at the chaotic scene in Kucha City and begged: "I hope Renjun can restrain the people of Wusun, don't......"

It was too late, and they belonged to different people from Xihou Wusun. They began to disband on their own without regard for the battle. They went to plunder the Kucha nobles who lived in the middle city in groups, and even the right general of Wusun could not control them.

Ren Hong spread his hands: "Emperor Bai Du, you can't stop the bloody wolf when you see it. I can't help you. I can only keep your family safe."

Kucha City was originally a condition that Ren Hong and Wusun agreed upon, and among them, women of gold and silk were allowed to plunder. If the Wusun people were not allowed to taste some sweetness, they would probably not be willing to help when they went to Luntai, Quli and dealt with the Huns.

He wants the horse to run and the horse to not eat grass. How can there be such a cheap thing? It’s not that Ren Hong is cold-blooded and ruthless, but that everything must be given priority to the interests of the Han Dynasty.

At this time, he lowered his head and found that a dragon horse flag that Kucha people were proud of was trampled under his feet by carrots.

Seeing its tail swing, Ren Hong knew that this was the prelude to shit.

Ren Hong dismounted and slapped the radish, drove it to the side, and bent down to pick up the Kucha flag, blew away the dust on it, and stretched it out.

This flag is made of Han silk, with a dragon horse embroidered on it: the body of the horse and the dragon scales are eight feet and five inches tall, with wings similar to the lobster, and it is not lost when it is swayed on the water, and it is very energetic.

The ancestors of the Kucha people were said to be able to tame the evil dragons in the northern dragon pond and turn them into horses. Using this as a mount, they conquered many tribes on the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and established the Kucha country. This city will be famous for Buddhism, grottoes and music and dance in the future, and will be famous for thousands of years.

Ren Hong shook his head: "The Wusun people will leave soon, take away gold and luxury goods, and leave this land. The wounds of the war will heal. When the Han army settles in, Kucha will usher in peace and glory in the future. However, since you have chosen the wrong way, you can only end here."

He walked to a burning building and threw the flag into ashes.

"The destruction of Kucha will make the entire Western Regions remember Su Ziqing's words."

"Nanyue killed Han envoys and slaughtered into nine counties; King Wan killed Han envoys and slaughtered in the north of Tou County; Korean killed Han envoys and slaughtered in the immediate future."

"Today, Kucha wants to kill Han envoys, but they are finally destroyed!"

...

The city of Kucha was in chaos, and the Wusun people were completely in chaos. If they could not grab the nobles, they pointed their finger at ordinary households in the outer city, like wild wolves who were completely out of control.

Less than four or five hundred elites remained. They followed Yuan Guimi and Princess Yaoguang, and walked into the Kucha Palace, which had been opened in the door as a winner.

It was a month later that Yao Guang came to the Kucha Royal Palace again.

When she was holding Jiang Bin hostage, the road was so long. Although her face was calm, there were Kucha people holding sharp swords on her sides, and she might go on a business trip at any time.

If Ren Hong and the military officials and soldiers were not rescued, they would have been almost shot and killed by the Huns at the last moment, and their efforts were in vain.

But when I rushed in today, I felt that the road was very short, and I would arrive after a while.

There are still many green peacocks in the garden. In order to raise these magnificent creatures, the Kucha people specially cut their wings so that they can fly to the branches at most.

Now, the timid peacock is frightened by the chaos in the city and runs around or jumps up and down the branches. Many Wusun people see such a beautiful bird for the first time and think that their tail feathers are good things for decoration. They stop, hold bows and arrows in their hands, and shoot at the peacocks as if they are hunting.

The wailing sounded, the feathers flew, the neck was stained with blood, and the dying was hung on the ground. Then the Wusun people walked up to him and took his feet to bake, or the tail feather was pulled out on the spot.

It was like everything that was happening in Kucha outside the palace.

But the Wusun people's surprise at Kucha City ended here. After entering the palace, they realized that this was not as gorgeous as the Han envoy said. They were decorated with Langxuan's gold and jade, and were as bright as a god's residence. They were immediately disappointed.

The gold you can grab this trip should be much less than you imagined.

But Yaoguang knew that for her elder brother Yuan Guimi, there was something in the palace that was more precious than gold, which could allow her brother to gain respect from the Wusun people.

Although the Kucha Palace is not big, it is in chaos at this moment. More than a hundred servants and servants are running around, and people may be hidden in every corner. The Wusun people have a headache. Where can I find the Kucha King?

“He’s easy to identify.”

Yaoguang glanced around, whether it was a slave or an official, her hair was only as close as her neck. She couldn't help but think of the prince who was very attentive in front of her, dancing the Kucha dance, and her long hair was floating.

"Look! Find every corner of the palace."

She gritted her teeth and ordered: "The one who has long hair is King Jiangbin of Kucha!"

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Chapter completed!