Day 1062 Tianshan (2)(1/2)
Weili, a small kingdom north of Tianshan Mountains.
The population is only 30,000, and the soldiers are only 2,000.
It is a typical pocket kingdom in the Western Regions. During the Dayuan War that year, the Weili Kingdom encountered the same fate because it was close to Luntai and was destroyed by the Han army. Its king escaped into the basin after Tianshan Mountains and survived.
After the Han army established Luntai, it withdrew from the country. The Huns supported King Weili to restore the country for the sake of surveillance and restraining Luntai.
However, after restoring the country, Yuli was greatly injured in his vitality and became a puppet of the Huns.
The territory has been greatly reduced, leaving only less than one-third of the previous ones.
It is almost a city and pastoral areas and farming areas that are dozens of miles away.
At this time, the Huns army entered Qulicheng, the capital of Weili King.
Li Ling personally led his men to climb the city tower, climbed high and looked into the distance, staring at the vast earth in the distance, and was in a bad mood.
He led his army in Luntai and waited for the Han army for twenty days!
For this purpose, he made sufficient preparations and designed several sets of strategies, intending to eat one or two rash Han cavalry in the Luntai area.
As a result, what I didn't expect was that Li Guangli changed his previous personality of beating and chasing him hard and became an old-fashioned and hard person.
After the Han army left Loulan, they stayed north of Loulan for a full ten days.
During this process, various Han troops gathered towards this area, and then formed a dense formation, slowly rubbing towards the Luntai step by step.
Faced with the Han army's fighting style, the Huns were so disgusting from top to bottom!
Because, this is no longer a war, but obviously it is necessary to fight with the Huns to consume!
But the Huns really couldn't afford to spend it!
The tens of thousands of cavalry and the coalition forces of the Western Regions, which were feared by the ancestors, gathered in the Luntai area, to eat, drink, defecate and scatter, and consumed the few savings of the Huns in the Western Regions every day.
In this regard, the nobles who were afraid of the ancestors were as uncomfortable as if they had eaten Xiang.
If Li Ling hadn't pressed it, they would have been impatient to take the initiative to go to war with the Han army.
Even so, for the Huns, the current situation is also dangerous and terrible!
"Does the king really want to evacuate Wei Li?" A man wearing a traditional pointed felt hat from the Western Regions walked to Li Ling timidly and asked.
This person is Chanzhe, the king of Weili Kingdom.
Chanzhe is a transliteration, which means "dwarf king" in Yanshe-Weili culture.
This is true. Chanzhi may be less than six feet tall. If he is a little lower, he can be a disabled person.
"It's impossible not to withdraw..." Li Ling sighed and said, "The current situation forces us to give up Wei Li!"
There was no way, in order to capture Luntai, the Huns mobilized the power of all the servants in the entire Western Regions.
This caused two results.
First, the huge army needs a large amount of food and grass to maintain every day. As the weather turns colder, the grass and trees wither and yellow, the supply of forage for livestock decreases, which causes huge logistical pressure - livestock that do not have enough forage to eat will rapidly reduce milk production and the probability of injury will continue to increase.
If you stay in this area, Li Ling suspected that all the livestock of the Huns would be killed!
Secondly, due to the war, the main force of the Huns was withdrawn, thus creating a vacuum in the border areas between the Wusun and the Huns.
Although the Wusun people did not dare to blatantly intervene or even respond to the Han army, they cooperated with the Han army.
But these guys took advantage of the opportunity and took advantage of the situation and provoked them wildly.
In just two months, the Wusun people eroded the more than 200-mile pastures on the border with Yanshe, and even controlled the entire near sea marsh, and even approached the border of Weishu Country.
And these places were taken down by the Huns for forty years from Wusun.
In other words, Wusun took advantage of the Han-Hungary War and spent two months to destroy the Huns' efforts forty years!
Especially the capture of the near-shore marsh made the Wusun people master the strategic location of the water basin from then on.
"Then when will we come back?" Chan Zhe asked stupidly.
As a hardcore pro-Huns faction, Chanzhe's own fate is bound to the Huns.
Because he knew that if the Huns were defeated, then King Weili would definitely be replaced - if he was his younger brother who was a proton in Chang'an!
Li Ling shook his head and said, "I don't know either!"
The Han army's strategy not only made the ancestors confused, but Li Ling also couldn't figure it out.
The Han army gathered together, and the main elites lined up, echoing each other and pressing each other step by step.
Faced with this kind of fighting style, let alone the Huns, Li Ling had no choice but to do anything!
Because the Han army's strategy seems simple, rough and brainless, but it is the ultimate kill against the Huns under the current situation!
More than 100,000 troops were united, let alone troops feared by the sages. Even the main force of the Mobei Shanyu Court was in person, they did not have the ability to resist head-on. They could only retreat continuously and use their vast depth to consume the perseverance, food, and patience of the Han army.
However, in the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, there are not so many depths for the Huns to use.
Therefore, the Huns' choice was to fight or not.
Fight, there is no confidence in winning!
It can even be said that there is no confidence!
Since the Han-Hungary War, the Huns have never gained the upper hand in the decisive battle of the main force of the large corps in front!
If you are not careful, it may be another decisive battle in Mobei.
Once you lose, you will lose the entire Western Regions.
If you don't fight, you have to run back south of Tianshan Mountain with your tail between your legs, shrink your head, and give up the entire Wei Li, a small part of Yan She and Kucha.
This is so uncomfortable that it makes people vomit blood!
Because, this will inevitably bring about a chain reaction!
Without the support of the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, Cheshi and Bailongdui on the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains will soon be controlled by the Hanting.
The Huns will give up control of the entire eastern and western regions.
With Wusun and Dayuan on the side, even Li Ling knew that if this was the case, within a few years, the Huns would have to go out of the Western Regions in shame with their tails.
Chan Zhe listened, looked at Li Ling incredibly and said, "What should I do if Xiao Wang?"
Wei Li Xiaoguo, let alone compared to giants like Han and Hun, even in Yan She, he was just a younger brother in front of Kucha.
Once the Huns left, the Weili Kingdom and him were like being roasted on fire.
His only way out was to follow the Huns to retreat into the basin south of the Tianshan Mountains.
However, if the Huns cannot come back and if they go there, their status may not be as good as a pawn, and they may not even be full of food.
In comparison, although Wei Li was young, he was at least a king, so there was no problem with being rich and having a good time.
Li Ling had no idea of caring about Chanzhe. To him, Wei Li was just a trivial piece.
The key is the Han army!
He must think of a way to break the deadlock and force the Han army to retreat!
However, Li Guangli's army is now in a group, which is obviously consuming national strength and the Huns.
Behind him was the entire Han Dynasty, the huge empire.
Even though this empire is no longer as powerful as the heyday of that time, it is not comparable to the Huns. What's more, the only part of the Western Regions of the Huns is going to war with it now.
"This strategy is definitely not Li Guangli's work..." Li Ling murmured to himself.
This is something he had understood for a long time, and it was not unfamiliar to Li Guangli.
He is impatient and has a big ambition, but he lacks the vision and strength of his predecessor Wei Qing and Huo Qubing, and his wrists and mind cannot tolerate others.
The Dayuan War, the Tianshan Battle, and the Yuwushui Battle all perfectly reflect his character.
Especially back then, the dispute between Li Ling and Li Guangli completely exposed this point.
Li Ling still remembers how Li Guangli put on his shoes and how he restricted and suppressed him.
If it weren't for this, Li Ling wouldn't have been surrounded by the Huns in Junji Mountain.
But the question is, who came up with this idea? Why did Li Guangli listen?
"No one in the four counties in Hexi can make Li Guangli obedient like this..." Li Ling thought: "The only person in the world who can suppress Li Guangli is Chang'an..."
The familiar emperor sitting upright in the Xuanshi Hall flashed in Li Ling's mind.
The lord he once loyal to is now his enemy.
Only that person can force Li Guangli to press his head and let him obey his orders!
However, that person's personality is not like this.
That guy is even more impatient than Li Guangli!
In other words, someone is giving advice to that person and successfully convinced the latter.
And in Li Ling's memory, there was no such person.
The last person who could make His Majesty obey his advice was the Grand Sima of the past!
To be continued...