Chapter 319 A thousand suns
At dawn before the war began, the sky was still dark purple, decorated with a few stars, and the surface of the Hot Sea Lake was covered with pale fog, like the turbid air exhaled by monsters.
More than ten miles east of Chigu City, in the camp where the Crazy King Army occupied almost the entire plain, Ni Mi was kneeling on the dead grass covered with dewdrops, making her final prayer to the god worshipped by the Wusun people.
The Greek-Indian city-state established after the Great Xia Kingdom fled south and believed in Buddhism, but had just been introduced to the Great Yuezhi north. Although a few monks arrived in places such as Khotan, they were not yet prosperous. The Fire God, which was disgusting with the customs of the Sogdians, was not favored by Wusun.
They continue traditions and worship nature and ancestors, especially the sun.
Ni Mi raised her head, and the rising sun was rising, shining on the Rehai Valley, evaporating the fog that was floating in the air.
In the legend of Wusun, the sun is a bow-hunter riding a horse and galloping on a sky grassland called "Cangtanger". There, the grass is blue, and the thunder and lightning are the scorching rockets emitted by the sun.
The King of Wusun is called "Kunmi". In Wusun language, Kun means "sun", "mi" means thousands, and Kunmi means "one thousand suns".
"But everyone knows that there can only be one sun in the sky!
Ni Mi was sometimes violent and sometimes sober. He knew very well about the history of Wusun and knew that the current split situation was all caused by the wolf king hunting Jiao Mi's momentary softness.
Liejiaomi had more than ten sons, and the prince died early. Before his death, he told Liejiaomi that "my son Cen Zuo must be the prince."
Cen Zuo is the father of the Crazy King, Jun Xumi.
The old wolf king softened his heart and agreed.
However, Lie Jiaomi's neutron Dalu was powerful and he separated more than 10,000 cavalry, fought east and west, and captured the Rehai Valley for Wusun, which was very popular. When he learned that Lie Jiaomi established Jun Xumi as the crown prince, he was furious and led his brothers to set up a new branch. Lie Jiaomi also divided troops to Jun Xumi, so Wusun was essentially divided into three.
If Dalu hadn't died before the hunt for Jiaomi, the civil war would have probably broke out long ago, so there wouldn't be any delay until today.
Dalu's son, Weng Guimi, inherited his tribe and inheritance. In order to bridge the conflict between the two tribes, the Wolf King set a strange rule: after his death, Jun Xumi succeeded to the throne, after Jun Xumi died, Weng Guimi succeeded to the throne, and after Weng Guimi's death, Jun Xumi's son, Ni Mi, inherited Wusun again.
Wusun seems to be unified, but in fact, division always exists.
"The Wolf King is wrong, and my father is wrong, too."
Ni Mi stood up and asked his subordinates to wear armor for him. In his opinion, the Wolf King should have cruelly destroyed Dalu and cleared the trouble for Jun Xumi. Jun Xumi should not follow the last wish of the dead, but should have killed Weng Guimi!
Weng Guimi wanted to violate the Old Testament of the Wolf King and support Yuan Guimi, the grandson of the Han family, to succeed to the throne. Unfortunately, he was interrupted by the invasion of the Huns before he could finish it and died of a disaster.
Now, Ni Mi decided to correct the mistake left by the Wolf King, and end the decades of grudge between the Dalu Group and the Cen Zu Group on the sacred seaside, and reunify Wusun!
The Crazy King wore Sky's Thai-style scale armor, nailed metal sheets on the leather vest, and had round heart armor on his chest, and a bronze helmet with a pointed top tightly covered the top of his head.
A short sword was hung on the right side of his waist, and the sword sheath and the hilt were carved with complex and gorgeous patterns in gold foil, in some Persian style, with an axe that could be wielded with one hand on the left.
The Wusun people stumbled in the cold air. The Qihe warriors who followed Ni Mi checked their bows and arrows, extinguished the campfire, followed Ni Mi, jumped up on the Western Ji war horse that could not breathe out the heat, and prepared to set off.
The Crazy King also delivered his pre-war speech.
He pointed to the slowly rising sun: "I, the crazy king Nimi, the Kunmi of Wusun, is the summer sun, hot and powerful."
"Although Yuan Guimi also calls himself Kunmi, he is not the sun, but the moon, as weak as a woman, unable to illuminate the sky of Wusun, and even more so that he can't bring warmth to Reha."
The Crazy King turned around immediately and looked at Yuan Guimi's camp beside Akagu City. There were also many riding shadows and ready to fight.
"I will kill him and rob the white wolf skin and black crow crown left by the wolf king! Tell the Wusun people who are the orthodox Kunmi!"
The Crazy King was still very popular with the hearts of the old subordinates. Every time he said something, tens of thousands of Wusun people would burst into loud cheers, and the sound was so high that it could be heard in Chigu City.
The Crazy King laughed and looked at the top of Akagu City with a vulture look. Princess Jieyou must be watching the battle on it too?
"I will send his head to the tomb of the fat king, and ride their wife and mother in front of the father and son, the princess of the great man!"
The Wusun people still respect Princess Jieyou, especially the nobles who joined later and were not Nimi's close friends. They felt that the Crazy King really did this and the cheers were slightly less.
But the Crazy King didn't care. He had ordered the Marquis Ruo Axi, who assassinated the fat king, to take five thousand people to guard the valley entrance from the Yilishui into the Rehai Basin. Nimi was an excellent leader. He had experienced many wars with Kangju and Yuezhi. He was definitely not a child like Yuan Guimi who had never fought several times, and knew the principle of keeping the retreat.
When he was able to seize Qihe with his troops when he was in a row, he would still be incompetent.
The Crazy King called his half-brother's name again: "Wu Ju Tu, take ten thousand people and watch the Han army outside Chigu City. Don't attack, just watch it. If he doesn't move, you won't move."
The arrival of the Han army was unexpected. During the more than 20 days when Fei Wang was assassinated and Ni Mi arrived, Xieyou asked someone to build a Sheep Horse City outside Chigu City. Fu Jiezi's two thousand Han soldiers were preparing horses and soldiers inside, and at this moment they set out to form a formation to protect Yuan Guimi's left wing.
Because of their excellent armor and soldiers, Ni Mi dared not be careless about them.
The remaining more than 40,000 people were divided into thirteen wings and went out with him. Ni Mi hereby specifically stated to the Marquis of Xi: the entire army shall adopt his crow feathers and be unified in advance and retreat, and shall not act without authorization. After all, this is an unprecedented war on this land since the Wusun attacked the Yuezhi a hundred years ago.
The horn shook the sky. Although the Wusun people did not have a tight array, they also followed their respective noble leaders and divided them into thirteen wings and slowly approached the western Chigu City. Their pointed hats were like mushrooms jumping after the rain.
The Crazy King took his personal guards and rode his horse through the various divisions, heading towards the front of the battle formation. Every time he passed by, he could bring cheers.
His mount was armed to his teeth, and in addition to the horse-faced vest, there were also tanned and dried scalps hanging on the harem. In Wusun, Nimi was one of the people with the most decorations, demonstrating his invincibility of bravery.
When he arrived at the front of the front, the Crazy King could clearly see Yuan Guimi, the more than 20,000 cavalry of the right general leaving the camp to face the enemy, and they were also divided into thirteen wings and the same Wusun pointed leather hat, but the front was much thinner than theirs.
The Crazy King smiled and rushed forward. He came to the center of the battlefield, just in time for the opponent to see clearly, but he could get his own protection at any time. He then inserted the spear in his hand heavily on the ground, pointed at the opposite side, and shouted a few words.
The Wusun people behind him also shouted:
"Yuan Guimi!"
"Fight!"
...
"Fight!"
The thirteenth wings of the Crazy King shouted provocation unevenly. Yuan Guimi gritted his teeth and was about to step forward. He responded to the duel between Kunmi and Kunmi and Sun, and the sun. This was the rule of Wusun, but was stopped by the right general.
"Kunmi, can't go!"
The number of scalps hanging on Yuan Guimi's horse harness was only a fraction of Ni Mi's. One of them was from King Kucha - this was brought back by Yuan Guimi and Ren Hong after destroying Kucha.
The right general knew that Yuan Guimi's bow and horse were not very powerful. Not to mention the violent and violent Ni Mi who killed people, even his sister Yao Guang could beat Yuan Guimi to the ground for teeth.
At this time, it would only make the war end early. The right general did not think that Yuan Guimi could come back alive.
But if we do not respond to the battle, we will be regarded as weak by the Wusun people. The morale that was slightly revived because of the arrival of two thousand Han reinforcements, may fall to the bottom again.
If Ren Hong is there, maybe Yuan Guimi will take off Kunmi's outfit and send the most powerful warrior to wear it and gamble. It would be nice if he had the chance to get close to kill Nimi. For the desert fox, he would be more deceptive.
But after all, the people present were Wusun people. They followed the rules and honors of nomads. The right general had to come forward in person and signed up to want to fight on behalf of Yuan Guimi.
But Ni Mi was not stupid either. Seeing that Yuan Guimi was not here, he left proudly, leaving only the spear on the ground.
The Crazy King Army began to laugh at the timidity of the "King of Han" and they all fought back one after another, but the few people suffered a loss and their voices were covered. After all, Kunmi, the side of the side, did not dare to take the challenge first, and gradually lost the confidence to curse.
The camp of the "Han King" was filled with a declining atmosphere of pessimism and sluggishness. They had already experienced the assassination of the fat king and had long lost their belief in this war, and the fact that the Han army had arrived failed to change the disadvantage of the number of people.
What's more, today's right general asked them to cooperate with the two thousand Han army arrays outside Chigu City to take a defensive position and not to attack easily. These soldiers who usually only know how to attack can only wait for the enemy to attack at this time.
Each of them was a little listless, like a wolf tied up by chains, roaring with minions hitting the ground, but could not move at all.
The right generals were helpless, and they wanted to delay until the Han army defeated the Huns and marched south, but the initiative in the war was on the side of the Nimi.
As Princess Jieyou said, evacuating Ate is not feasible, as it will cause our side to fall apart in an instant. We can only grit our teeth and bet that we can create miracles with the help of the Han army.
But with the current morale, can we really win?
Nimi was in Qihe for many years. He was the leader in the face of Kangju people and looting Dayuan and Sogdians. He had more combat experience than the right general, not to mention Yuan Guimi, who was commanding 20,000 people for the first time.
The night attack on the Crazy King Army last night also ended in failure.
Although the right general clearly stated that this battle was commanded by him, Yuan Guimi only needed to remain unmoved and stabilize the morale of the army, it did not make Yuan Guimi feel relaxed.
When the enemy ended the ridicule, the thirteen-winged forty thousand soldiers under the command of the Crazy King began to advance, either forward or backward, like thirteen ants moving on the ground, pushing towards oneself, Yuan Guimi was still asking himself:
"Can we win?"
He gritted his teeth and thought of his father who died tragically, his mother who had high hopes for him, and his brother and sister in the city, holding the sword in his hand tightly. It was the sword of the Fat King, which was given by King Absolutely decorated in a typical Persian style.
"able……"
Yuan Guimi kissed it heavily, hoping to gain some strength from the relics of his father.
"It must be!"
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The wall of sheep and horses is not high, but it is enough for Fu Jiezi to stand on it and observe the battlefield.
The legendary figure who killed the head of the Loulan king was now wearing red armor, long beard and chest, holding the handle of the ring head with his hands, and staring at the Wusun civil war.
Fu Jiezi firmly opposed the battle with Ni Mi at this time.
This was the second day after the Han army arrived. The soldiers had not yet recovered from the long-distance marching that crossed mountains and ridges. The morale of the Wusun people under Yuan Guimi was not very high. Two thousand Han reinforcements were not enough to cheer them up. Instead, the Nimi army was determined to win and its morale was strong.
But Yuan Guimi and the right general also had their own difficulties. Akagu City was not big, and could only allow thousands of people to defend, and could not squeeze out more than 20,000 people.
According to Fu Jiezi and Chang Hui's proposal, Princess Jieyou and Yuan Guimi and his troops temporarily retreated to the west, and it was not enough to keep the Han infantry in Chigu to resist Nimi's siege. After experiencing the assassination of Fei Wang, although some nobles were willing to reconcile Princess Jieyou with Yuan Guimi, they were already very sensitive and it was easy to issue retreat orders, but they were afraid that these nobles would be disappointed and fled, and Nimi ignored Chigu City and went straight to pursue the evacuees.
What's more, although Fu Jiezi, like Chang Hui, thought that Ren Hong would take another way to help, it was just speculation and could not be confirmed. Fu Jiezi didn't know about the meeting between Ren Hong and Xi Chongguo because it was too far apart.
Now, there is no perfect way to deal with it. When Ni Mi's army directly came over, they have no choice but to decide whether to fight or not.
But although Fu Jiezi took the risk to help Akagu Castle, he refused to let the soldiers die.
"The soldiers were tired, and at this time they drove them away from the Wusun people to die, which was to kill them, and they could only restrain themselves."
He only promised to let the Han army line up outside Yangma City to protect Yuan Guimi's left wing, and also restrained more than 10,000 cavalry Wusun people. Wujitu was also a cautious person. Sure enough, he stayed quietly two or three miles away from the opposite side. Fu Jiezi did not move, and he did not move.
The shocking horse hooves and shouts of killing sounded, and Fu Jiezi's eyes turned to the main battlefield. The Wusun people were also half infantry and cavalry. The cavalry was mainly light cavalry wearing only leather jackets, and pointed hats were their characteristics. Most nobles had armor, and their standards were different from those of the Central Plains, but similar to the Xiongnu, and had some styles of peace and rest.
As for tactics... In Fu Jiezi's view, although they are divided into wings and seek enemies to join the war in turn, once they get entangled together, it will be a big battle among the herdsmen.
Since the war began, Yuan Guimi's side was at a disadvantage.
The Crazy King Army drove like a whirlwind. Although the attack was disorganized, it was also very compact. The Thirteen Wings were like wolves constantly pounced on their prey, rushing towards Yuan Guimi Army one after another.
The Yuan Guimi army could only resist with difficulty. They were already few and had little people and seemed to be very smart. Some tribes were timid, while others attacked without permission despite their orders, and ended up being surrounded, and each wing was in a situation where the opponent beat the less.
This civil war between the Wusun people may not be very different in terms of armor and military skills, but due to the differences in control and dispatch and the number of people, the advantages and disadvantages are distinct.
"Mr. Fu, if you don't move, Yuan Guimi will really lose." Seeing that the battle situation is getting worse and worse for his side, Feng Fengshi was a little anxious.
Chapter completed!