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

Chapter 1191: The morale of the army collapsed [Please subscribe*Please vote]

"No wonder I was wondering why the Great Yue Clan was so stubborn back then, and they seemed to be unwilling to leave!"

Luo Bing finally understood why Dayuezhi joined forces with Xiongnu in that great battle. It was not the Xiongnu who sought an alliance with Dayuezhi, but rather the Dayuezhi who sought the Xiongnu.

It turns out they didn't find the right person in the first place.

Just by putting himself in the shoes of Dayuezhi, Luo Bing could also feel the frustration and helplessness of Dayuezhi.

First of all, they did not provoke anyone, they just went out to roam according to their ethnic customs. In Chinese terms, it means that I went out to farm and then returned home. Then a robber came to the village and fought with my neighbor for my property in front of me. Then he killed my parents and drove me out of the village.

"We seem to have become robbers..." Changshi touched his nose and said weakly.

"You can't blame us for this. It's their fault for not telling us what happened in the first place!" Luo Bing said weakly.

The Dayuezhi were wronged. Have you given us a chance to speak?
"Besides, it's because we can't understand what they say. If they spoke the same language as us and used the same characters, wouldn't there be so many misunderstandings?" Luo Bing found an excuse.

"Let's get back to the present. The Dayuezhi are going to cross the Western Regions and return to Zhangye, which is also known as Heishui City and Zhaowu City. Are they going to die on their own hill?" Luo Bing was puzzled.

These are not just a few people, nor dozens of people, but an army of tens of thousands.

Is the purpose really that simple?

"No!" The Chief Secretary also didn't believe that the Great Yuezhi would return to their ancestral land with the idea of ​​dying in their own hill.

"That is their ancestral land. If we really let them return to Zhangye, we might be the ones who lose our eyes!" Luo Bing suddenly reacted.

Although the Hexi Corridor was ruled by them for many years, if the Hexi Corridor was really the tribal land of the Dayuezhi that had been operated for hundreds of years, once the Dayuezhi returned to the Zhaowu City they mentioned, then would Zhangye City belong to their Bingzhou or the Dayuezhi?
Therefore, even if there was just a slight possibility, Luo Bing would not let them return to Zhangye alive and cause turmoil in the Hexi Corridor.

Moreover, this road is not easy to travel. Not only does it have to cross the entire Western Regions, but to reach Zhangye, there are also Yumen Pass, Dunhuang, and Jiuquan Pass and two cities established by Bingzhou ahead.

What's more, in order to reach Yumen Pass, one must first pass through Cheshi City, the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

Once the Dayuezhi passed through Cheshi City, not only would the Protector-General of the Western Regions be held accountable, but even Luo Bing, as the General Zhenxi, would also be held accountable by the Beiye Royal City.

This is like the enemy passing through the county city, then the entire county will be guilty of losing the city.

Neither the Protector General of the Western Regions nor the Luo Bing could shoulder this responsibility.

He even allowed the Great Yuezhi to run rampant in the Western Regions, causing turmoil. He and the Protector-General of the Western Regions were both brought back to the royal city to be held accountable.

"Without food and supplies, how can they cross the desert?" The Chief Secretary shook his head.

Even if the Dayuezhi wanted to return to Zhaowu City, the conditions in the vast desert would not allow it.

"If we delay, something unexpected will happen. No one knows why they are crazy and what they will do!" Luo Bing shook his head and decided to withdraw the formation and completely keep the Dayuezhi in the territory of Daxia. There was no way they could reach Dayuan.

"Could this be a plot by the Great Yuezhi? They want us to have a decisive battle with them when we are at our wit's end, and to decide the outcome in one battle?" The Chief Secretary suddenly thought.

In the past, people in Bingzhou were barefoot and not afraid of wearing shoes. The king led the army in person and the soldiers fought to the death.

Now the situation has reversed. The Great Yuezhi have become barefoot, and they have begun to cherish their lives.

"A trapped beast will still fight. We still have to be careful and disrupt their progress immediately!" Luo Bing was also a little worried that this was a plan of the Dayuezhi.

Now that they have a better life, it is natural for them to ensure the safety of soldiers as much as possible, rather than letting soldiers sacrifice in vain in such a meaningless struggle of wills.

The chief secretary nodded to show that he understood. The saying "kindness is not good for the army" did not mean that they should not value the lives of soldiers. "Don't they dare to fight us head-on?" The King of Dayuezhi felt aggrieved and helpless.

It is obvious that the initiative is in Luo Bing's hands, and Luo Bing is also qualified to mobilize the entire Western Region army. He is superior to them in both manpower and elite level, and can definitely fight them in a fair battle.

But Luo Bing chose this disgusting kite-fighting method, constantly consuming and eroding them.

Every day, some soldiers fell behind, some soldiers starved to death, and some soldiers escaped...

King Dayuezi could only watch helplessly but could do nothing.

The baggage camp was attacked, the logistical supply lines were cut off, and the various armies sent out to plunder began to lose contact one by one.

It goes without saying that the tribal armies that went out were either completely annihilated by the main force of Bingzhou, or they simply surrendered.

In short, they could no longer contact these armies, and it was impossible for them to get supplies from them.

"Can we really go back?" The entire Dayuezhi royal court fell into despair.

The reason why they still followed King Dayuezi was because King Dayuezi promised to take them home, back to their tribal land. However, looking at the distant map, they could not see the Heishui River in their hometown, nor the towering Qilian Mountains.

Looking around, there was only endless desert and white snow; even the oases were occupied by forts.

If the nobles lost their homes, they would still be nobles, but as ordinary people, if they lost their homes, they would really have nothing.

So they are truly sad. They don’t know why, but they just follow the king to roam and can never go back.

A country they had never heard of suddenly appeared, killed their king, destroyed the Xiongnu and Donghu who once dominated the grassland with them, occupied their homes, and they had no choice but to keep migrating westward.

"Why haven't you thought about it? The nobles are the nobles, and we are us. Bingzhou wants to kill the nobles, not us."

"It is the Great Yuezhi that Bingzhou wants to drive away, not us."

News spread among the lower-level soldiers of Dayuezhi, shaking the morale of the army.

"If we surrender to Bingzhou, Bingzhou will not look down on us because our lives are worthless and will not be too harsh on us!"

"We can even return to our ancestral land and continue our nomadic life!"

"Investigate, investigate for me, who is spreading the rumors!" King Dayuezi was very angry.

House seemingly endless rain.

The morale of the army, which he had gathered with great difficulty, collapsed in an instant at this moment.

"There are too many of them. There are spies bribed by Bingzhou who have infiltrated the army. There are so many of them that we can't investigate them at all!" The Prime Minister of Dayuezhi was also powerless to save the situation.

There are too many people spreading rumors.

Once they suppress it by force, it will only backfire.

What's even more terrifying is that Bingzhou used every possible means to make the relatives of the soldiers who had originally stayed in Zhaowu City write letters to them, telling them how good their lives were now and advising them not to become enemies with Bingzhou.

(End of this chapter)