145 The tragic King Wusun
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In the end, Wu Xumi asked for an extra 420,000 taels of gold from Wu Wu's thoughtful place, and left 80,000 taels of gold by himself, and the remaining 340,000 taels of gold was handed over to Wu's sudden profits to protect the whole country and hide the use of the world.
In this way, almost all officials in the Dayuan palace can get the stolen money. The amount depends entirely on your status in Dayuan.
Only Wu Wu was kept in the dark until his death. The extra gold had been embezzled by the ministers whom he considered loyal. The entire palace hall was in power. It was no wonder that he was beaten by thousands of Monroe people and begged for mercy like his grandson.
Three days later, Xia Yu received the food and grass from Dayuan, as well as 10,000 Western Regions coolies who escorted the food and grass, and successfully completed the task assigned by Bai Qi and embarked on the journey back to the Pamir Mountains.
Yuezhi and Dayuan were generally quite sensible and did not choose to resist, so there were no excessive killings in their country except for losing some cattle, sheep and wealth.
But Wusun, two hundred miles away from Dayuan, is facing a cruel struggle.
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"Puchi..."
On the ninth day of the second month, outside Wusun City, a Wusun general was broken through the neck and carotid artery by the Han soldiers opposite him with the ring-headed knife in their hands. The splattered blood made a sizzling sound.
The Wusun general covered his neck desperately, staring at the Han soldiers opposite him, and finally bent his knees, feeling the heat in his body exhausted, and fell in pain in the pool of blood. His body twitched a few times, and then he fell into a dark and cold abyss.
The Han soldier didn't even look at the dead Wusun general, then raised the blood-stained sword, placed it on the arm armor at the bend of his left knee, rubbed it for a while, leaving the blood on the cold and boiling iron armor.
Looking up again, I saw the outskirts of Wusun City full of corpses, and a broken flag hangs weakly in the middle of the battlefield.
"Ahhhhh..."
"Aowu~~"
Stimulated by the smell of blood, the crows circled around the battlefield, waiting for the people below to leave to enjoy a delicious meal; a few wild dogs emerged from somewhere, making numb screams of scalp.
The whole picture is like a picture of Shura Purgatory, bringing people an unprecedented visual impact and despair.
Those who died were all soldiers from the Wusun Kingdom, with a total of 80,000 people. In eight days, they fell on this dry land like wheat under the attack of the Han army's powerful crossbow and iron cavalry formation.
When the Han army began to collect grain in the Western Regions, most countries wisely chose to compromise, but the Wusun Kingdom did the opposite and chose to confront the Han army.
At the beginning, after Tian Yan led 5,000 infantry and cavalry to the Wusun country, he did not make things difficult for the Wusun Kingdom, but sent an envoy to the city to negotiate with the Wusun King Ao Dongcheng.
As a result, Ao Dongcheng agreed to give the food and supplies he asked for on the surface, but when the envoy left, he quickly summoned a large army to meet at Wusun City.
Tian Yan, who noticed that the situation was not right, immediately sent an envoy to negotiate. However, what came back was the news that the envoy's head was hung on the head of Wusun City. Together with the envoy, more than 3,000 Central Plains people who had lived in the Western Regions for a long time were buried in the city. Ao Dongcheng executed them all because they would have an affair with the Han army.
This completely angered Tian Yan and directly led his army to fight with the Wusun army.
At first, Ao Dongcheng saw that the number of Han soldiers was small, and he thought that his 30,000 troops were enough to deal with such a situation. Moreover, the other 50,000 troops were still on the way, and even went up to the city to see the Han army running away with their heads in their arms.
As a result, the battle formation formed by 30,000 Wusun cavalry and Han infantry cavalry. As soon as Fu fought, the Han army tortured the Wusun army like chopping melons and vegetables, and wiped out tens of thousands of Wusun people in one battle.
Looking at the scene of Wusun soldiers flowing blood all over the ground, Ao Dongcheng understood that he might have made an irreversible mistake.
Ao Dongcheng is a hard-core follower of Mengluo, and his wife Tuoba Ning is also a princess of the Mengluo royal family. It can be seen how much the Mengluo Empire attaches great importance to the Wusun country.
After marrying the Mengluo Empire, Ao Dongcheng completely became arrogant and looked down upon, thinking that he was the spokesperson of the Mengluo people in the Western Regions. Even if Bai Qi slaughtered the Western Regions two years ago, he could not make him feel scared. He simply thought that it was just the luck of the Central Plains people.
But now, the bloody scene outside Wusun City completely awakened him, and the rumors about the slaughter of the people were true.
However, after the initial defeat, Ao Dongcheng did not give up resistance because he knew that there were still 50,000 Wusun cavalry coming, and more than ten times the strength was enough to surround the Han army to death.
However, reality once again gave Ao Dongcheng a heavy blow.
The simple armor with leather as the main defense means faces the Han army armed to the teeth, the bows and arrows mainly made of bones against the powerful Han crossbows, and the scattered attacks against the dense battle formations, which is no longer possible to make up for the number of people.
At the late stage of the war, a group of Han soldiers even saw a scene of chasing thousands of Wusun soldiers slashing.
The Wusun Kingdom was defeated in this battle. Eighty thousand people blew the last drop of blood in the underworld of Wusun City, but they still did not receive a trace of victory.
Eighty thousand Wusun soldiers are all the main forces in Ao Dongcheng's hands. Now these 80,000 people have become cold corpses under the Han army's butcher knife, making Ao Dongcheng feel that the sky is about to collapse.
"It's over, the Lone King's Wusun Kingdom, it's over..."
Ao Dongcheng, who was slumped on the top of the city, shook his head in tears.
He knew that this time, the Wusun Kingdom completely angered the Han army opposite, and the culprit of all this was himself.
"Breaking the city gate opens, you will be free!"
In the final stage of the war, Tian Yan commanded the coolies captured from various parts of Wusun as cannon fodder, and asked them to use the crash cart they made to attack the Wusun city gate.
In order to survive, these Western Regions coolies gritted their teeth and pushed the collision car toward the Wusun city gate under the whip of the supervision of Han soldiers.
"Boom~~"
There was a loud noise, and the few Wusun defenders who were left behind the Wusun city gate were trembling when the car crashed into the city gate. The moment they collided, they felt that the whole earth was trembling.
They had already been filled with fear, but they had no way to retreat, so they could only hold on behind the city gate to welcome the Han army's turbulent anger.
one time……
Two strokes...
Three times...
"Boom~~"
I don’t know how many times the collision car was chiseled. When I finally hit the thick log onto the gate again, the city gate that had already been shaking finally collapsed with a burst of dust, which attracted the vision.
"Kill~~"
As the city gate was broken, Tian Yan roared and the cavalry rushed towards the city gate with one horse.
Seeing that their mission was completed, the coolies immediately evacuated from both sides, making way for the Han cavalry.
The Wusun guards were already scared. Facing the whistling Han cavalry, they had no courage to escape, and were eventually overturned by the cavalry who rushed into the city gate.
Wusun City is broken...
When Ao Dongcheng was escorted by the guards, he returned to the palace tremblingly when the siege car hit the city gate.
As soon as he entered the palace, he ordered people to block the gate of the palace, so that all the women and guards in the palace could use weapons to guard the palace gate, in order to prepare for a desperate attempt.
However, after learning that Ao Dongcheng wanted to resist stubbornly, Tian Yan decisively ordered people to collect grease and firewood in the city and set fire directly to the palace.
Faced with the raging fire, the palace guards and palace maids all went in a mess, and they had no intention of resisting the Han army.
Ao Dongcheng, who knew that the situation was over, instinctively wanted to swing his sword and commit suicide, but when the sword edge cut open the skin of his neck and the dripping blood fell to the ground, he realized that he had no courage to commit suicide at all.
And so, he hurriedly changed into a slave's clothes, covered his true face with a pot of ash, intending to escape.
The palace walls of the royal palace finally collapsed under the burning fire. Han soldiers rushed into the palace and killed all those who held weapons, both men and women.
Ao Dongcheng, his wife and a bunch of concubines were also captured and captured in the Han camp.
However, Ao Dongcheng was regarded as a slave and was separated from Tuoba Ning.
Seeing that Ao Dongcheng could not be found, Tian Yan immediately wanted to vent his anger on Tuoba Ning, and even let all the soldiers humiliate Tuoba Ning and Ao Dongcheng's wives and concubines in public.
At the critical moment, the official who was a marching record could not bear it anymore and stepped forward to dissuade Tian Yan in time, which made the general who was blinded by hatred wake up temporarily and ordered all these women to be detained and sent to Bai Qi for a while.
After the city was broken, the people of Wusun City were completely affected. After looting the city, Tian Yan gave an order to burn the Wusun City, which had existed for more than 200 years, resulting in countless people in the Western Regions burning to death, and most of the remaining people were homeless and became refugees.
On the way back to the Pamir Mountains, Ao Dongcheng, who was a coolie, pushed a carriage full of wheat hard. He had never suffered such suffering, who had been living a life of luxury.
As night fell, looking at his bloody bubbles, he vowed in his heart that one day he would cut Bai Qi and the Han Dynasty in the East to pieces.
"Give……"
Ao Dongcheng, who was thinking of revenge, was suddenly interrupted by a Han soldier. Looking at the small half of the Hu cake handed over to him, he didn't reach out to pick it up.
"Hurry up! What are you going to be slow? If you don't eat, you'll starve to death if you don't eat!"
The Han soldiers were obviously unmanageable. Seeing that Ao Dongcheng had not received the cake, they simply threw the small half of the cake into the hands of another coolie.
The coolie took the cake and felt like he was getting a treasure. He hurriedly squatted to one side and started eating it voraciously.
Out of anger at the Wusun Kingdom, Wusun coolie only had half of the food rations a day, and there would be no more. If you don’t eat it, you would never be able to eat any food in a day.
Ao Dongcheng, who was still immersed in the pain of destroying the country, was obviously not hungry now, and he was extremely repulsive of the food eaten by these inferior people.
Just as he was determined to restore the country, a coolie next to him suddenly shouted loudly: "You are...You are His Majesty the King?"
Ao Dongcheng was shocked and hurriedly wanted to deny it, but heard the coolie who recognized him shouting loudly at the Han soldiers: "Hey~ King Wusun is here, here, I found King Wusun!"
"It's over, it's over..."
Chapter completed!