The Six Arts of the Gentleman in the Bright Moon of Qin Dynasty

Chapter 1190 The Tragedy of Dayuezhi [Please subscribe*Please vote]

King Dayuezi didn't know how Luo Bing and Bingzhou Blood Cavalry crossed the Tianshan Mountains and how they appeared silently behind them, but marching in such cold and snowy weather, the non-combat casualties were definitely a terrifying number.

Therefore, Luo Bing must give an explanation and honor to these surviving and dead soldiers, instead of just accepting their surrender and then returning with a whimper!
Although the King of Dayuezhi knew about it, he was unable to stop it.

The tribal system was modeled after wolf packs.

When the wolf king is young and strong, all wolves will obey his orders. But once the wolf king is old, the young wolves will stand up and challenge the wolf king's majesty.

The same is true for the Dayuezhi. The current King of Dayuezhi is like an old wolf king who can no longer control the wolf pack under his command.

Although the royal court still has the ruling power, the ones challenging the Wolf King's authority are not the young wolves from the original pack, but another more powerful wolf pack from outside.

Therefore, on the night after the Prime Minister of Dayuezhi proposed surrender, the chief of a peripheral tribe took his soldiers and left the army, found the main force of Luo Bing and chose to surrender.

“???” Luo Bing was stunned when he saw the leader of the Dayuezhi tribe who appeared at the camp gate with his weapons confiscated.

The King of Dayuezhi had been searching for them for so many days but couldn't catch up with them. Finally, he found them, and it turned out that this group of people who came to surrender were able to catch up with them and find them.

"How did you find us?" Luo Bing raised his doubts.

This must be prevented. If these tribal leaders can find them, then King Dayuezi may be able to find them too.

After crossing the Tianshan Mountains, they suffered heavy losses, so in order to avoid unnecessary casualties, the Luo soldiers were unwilling to engage in a decisive battle with the Dayuezhi.

The tribal chief shook his head. They were just trying their luck.

It's better to escape than to wait for death in Dayuezhi.

At least they are out. Even if they can't find Luo Bing's headquarters, they can use fighting to support their own wars and plunder the forts built by the various armies in the Western Regions.

Their tribe was not big, and one or two fortresses might not be able to support the huge army of the Great Yuezhi, but it was enough to support their small tribe.

And he was lucky enough to find Luo Bing's headquarters.

"So that's it!" After listening to the explanation of the leader of the Dayuezhi tribe, Luo Bing also understood.

It was pure luck.

However, Luo Bing could also imagine that there were many Dayuezhi tribesmen like the surrendered tribal leader, and it was very likely that many of the forts he had set up were now being harassed and attacked by these defeated soldiers.

"Pass the order, all troops move to the nearest large fort!" Luo Bing would never let the Western Region soldiers be lost in vain.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for the Protectorate of the Western Regions to operate, and the officers he sent out would find it difficult to suppress the Western Regions soldiers under them.

After another three days, the Great Yuezhi were completely out of ammunition and food. Almost all the tribes outside the royal court broke away from the control of the royal court. They broke out on their own, looking for ways to return home, or looking for the Luo soldiers to surrender.

"It's ridiculous! If they had followed the orders of the King of Dayuezhi, dispersed and broke out, looking for us and fighting us to the death, they might have dragged us to death!" The Chief Secretary shook his head.

If these tribal leaders who came to surrender had a little courage to start a war with them, then with their continued efforts, they might be able to help the main force of the Dayuezhi royal court find their location and delay them.

Unfortunately, no!
Not all armies have such courage and determination.

At least, in this era, there are only a few armies with such execution ability and centripetal force, and it just so happens that these few armies are all in China.

Although the fort was moved, the Dayuezhi tribes that came to surrender also provided Luo Bing with the latest and most detailed intelligence about the Dayuezhi royal court. Therefore, Luo Bing is still in control of the movements of the main force of the Dayuezhi royal court.

"The movements of the Dayuezhi tribe are somewhat strange!" The Chief Secretary sorted out the information provided by the Dayuezhi tribe and said with a frown.

The Dayuezhi royal court did not continue to move westward and escape from the battlefield. Instead, it rushed all the way into the Western Regions and headed eastward.

"Zhaowu City?" Luo Bing looked at the information provided by the latest leader of the Dayuezhi tribe.

The location of Zhaowu City cannot be found on the map at all.

"Here!" The leader of the Dayuezhi tribe flattered Luo Bing and helped him mark the location of Zhaowu City on the map.

"Huh? Are you kidding me?" Looking at the Zhaowu City marked by the tribal chief, Luo Bing was frowning.

No wonder the location of Zhaowu City cannot be found on the map, because Zhaowu City is too far away. Now it is not called Zhaowu City, but Zhangye!

"I dare not deceive the angel. This place was once the ancestral land of our Great Yuezhi. It had many names. It was called Black Water City. We called it Zhaowu City. Now it is named Zhangye by the Kingdom of Heaven."

The tribal chief hurriedly explained.

"Zhangye was once the royal capital of the Great Yuezhi?" Luo Bing was even more shocked.

He was a little confused. When they opened up the Hexi Corridor, they did not encounter any obstruction from the Dayuezhi.

It only took them 6,000 people to open up the Hexi Corridor. If Zhangye was really the ancestral land of the Dayuezhi, how could they not have discovered it?

However, Luo Bing had to believe it, because when they opened up the Hexi Corridor, the road seemed to have been repaired, so they were able to open up the Hexi Corridor so easily.

"We are a nomadic people of the grassland. When the Kingdom of Heaven occupied the Jade Road, we happened to be living by following water and grass and migrated away from Zhaowu City." The tribal chief said embarrassedly.

They were also very confused at that time. They went out to roam, and when they came back, their home was gone!
What was even more frustrating was that Bingzhou not only occupied their ancestral homeland, but also launched a national war on their ancestral land, fighting a fierce battle with the Huns in their homeland.

When they saw how fierce the battle between Bingzhou and the Huns was, they naturally did not dare to go back.

What's more, their king was assassinated by Jing Ke at that time, leaving them leaderless. They dared not go back and could only abandon their ancestral land and migrate westward.

"So, at the beginning, Zhangye was your tribal land, and Ruoshui (Heishui) or the entire Alxa region was actually yours, not the Huns'!" Luo Bing's mouth twitched.

Back then, due to the language barrier, they often didn’t know who the owner of this land was!

Just fight and that's it.

It’s scary to think about it.

If the people who besieged him were not the two Xiongnu kings, but the Great Yuezhi who returned from following the water and grass, the consequences would be...

"So we were also very confused back then!" the leader of the Dayuezhi tribe said in a low voice.

The Huns' King Tuhe and King Hunxie did not take them seriously at all and regarded them as two dogs guarding their homes, so they dared to migrate with their entire clans in search of water and grass. However, they did not expect that Bingzhou would fight the Huns to the death on their territory without asking for their opinions at all.

After Bingzhou finally killed King Hunye and King Tuhe of the Xiongnu who were guarding their home, they found themselves facing an army of 500,000 strong from Bingzhou, stationed on the banks of their Heishui River, blocking their way home.

(End of this chapter)