Chapter 438 Bloodbath in the Country [Subscription Request]

Wuqituo reacted very quickly and immediately realized something was wrong.

The road is surrounded by mountains on both sides and gradually widens out after leaving the canyon.

They were numerous and powerful, blocking the exit, leaving the other side with nowhere to escape.

And with their numbers, they suddenly rushed out. The more than 100 people on the other side were surprisingly calm, not showing any panic at all.

This is obviously not normal.

However, although Wuqituo found something wrong, he remained quite calm.

He brought 1,500 men with him, but only half of them managed to escape.

The remaining half is behind the hillside, ready to respond at any time.

With ten times the number of people as the enemy, we can stabilize the situation no matter what.

Wuqituo's face darkened: "I told you to unload the goods, but you are all deaf."

Xu Chu waved to the Wei army behind him.

The Wei soldiers worked in groups of two and began to move the boxes from the carriages.

Xu Chu looked towards the side of the cliff.

On the cliff in front of them, there were four heads of Wei's border troops that had been killed before. They had been dried by the wind and were dark brown in color, which was quite scary.

"Did you kill those Wei soldiers?"

A Wusun soldier who could speak Chinese immediately repeated it.

Wu Qituo's heart skipped a beat, and he whispered to his attendants:

"Watch my gestures later. The enemy is most likely the Wei army. Kill them and withdraw immediately. There must be more Wei troops behind us."

Several officers around him nodded one after another.

At this time, the Wei army was opening the boxes after taking them down.

Wusun soldiers were approaching on both sides, preparing to double-team them from the flanks.

"Are you the Wei army?" Wuqituo asked.

"That's right." Xu Chu said.

"Fire arrows!"

Two rows of Wusun archers suddenly rushed out from the slopes on both sides.

They used the nomadic longbows and fired at them all at once.

But at the same moment, the Wusun soldiers approaching from both wings began to run back.

The reason was that when the Wei army opened the box, what they took out was actually a Qin crossbow.

Whoosh-whoosh!

The two sides shot at each other, and thousands of arrows flew through the air.

The power of the Qin crossbow is the strongest among all the cold weapon crossbows used in China over the past thousand years.

The more than one hundred people from Cao Wei were equivalent to the combined strength of more than one hundred generals.

They are the real ace elite of Wei!

The entire army was organized into combat formations of three people, taking turns to provide cover and launch the offensive.

Hundreds of heavily-armored Tiger Cavalry soldiers rushed out together, like an eagle catching a rabbit, dodging the enemy's arrows while launching a counterattack.

Boom!

Hundreds of people pushed off the ground together, leaped up, and pounced on their opponents.

One of them grabbed a Wusun soldier who was closer and punched him in the throat.

The opponent's throat was pierced instantly.

Xu Chu moved and appeared beside Wuqituo.

The action was so fast that the surrounding Wusun soldiers had no time to react.

Wuqituo was quite skilled, the whip in his hand was like a snake, winding towards Xu Chu.

His foot, which was hanging on the side of the horse, stretched out with lightning speed and hit Xu Chu's chest directly.

boom!
Xu Chu grabbed the horse whip and pulled it forward, and Wuqituo naturally pulled back to take it back.

Unexpectedly, Xu Chu let go, and Wuqituo was deflected by the force of his own retreat, and his kick collapsed.

Xu Chu's fist pressed forward and hit him in the chest.

The force of this blow was so heavy that it was like an iron chisel being smashed into Uchituo's body by the huge hammer.

He was wearing a layer of inner armor, but both the inner armor and the armor were pierced through by the force of the punch.

A fist-shaped bulge was left on his back and his heart burst.

"Kill my Wei army and let you pay with your life."

Xu Chu grabbed Wuqituo's body with one hand and dragged him off the horse.

Several Wusun soldiers who came up from the surrounding areas were quickly killed by Xu Chu.

In the canyon, there were cries of killing.

The Tiger Cavalry of the Wei Army are "hunting down" the Wusun people.

The sharp sound of Qin crossbows cutting through the air was as dense as falling rain.

The Wusun soldiers were initially quite brave because they had more numbers.

However, when the Wei army pounced, they organized several sieges in succession, but were dispersed and killed by the Wei army every time.

The Wusun soldiers who came up from a distance were repelled by the rapid shooting of Qin crossbows.

The strengths and weaknesses quickly became clear.

In addition, the leader Wuqituo was killed, and the Wusun army soon began to flee!
"No need to chase them, let them run, we will kill them later."

Xu Chu shouted: "First, skin these people alive to commemorate the dead frontier soldiers."

The heavy cavalry immediately withdrew and captured more than a hundred Wusun prisoners who were wounded but not dead.

These people were forced to kneel in a row, and the Wei army punched them in the face, beating them to death!

All the bodies were hung up and also in the canyon.

A few Wei soldiers opened the wooden boxes on their horses' backs, and found them full of lime.

The four heads of the Wei soldiers on the cliff were taken down and placed in a box.

Xu Chu and his companions came all the way here and brought back several heads after entering the Tianshan Gorge.

Including these four now, all the heads of the dead border soldiers have been recovered.

Half an hour later, the sound of horse hooves was heard from behind.

A light cavalry unit under Cao Cao's command, numbering over a thousand men, with heavy cavalry horses and armor, approached.

A group of heavy cavalry, assisted by light cavalry, put on heavy armor and mounted their special giant war horses. Cao Cao, accompanied by Dian Wei, also rode from the rear to the front of the canyon.

Everyone else thought that he would stay at the center and not come to the front line, including Huang Zhong and Taishi Ci.

Otherwise, the two would definitely try their best to stop him and would not let the leader of a country go to the front line.

Cao Cao came secretly.

He wanted to test the actual combat capabilities of the mythical military strategy.

It is actually unnecessary for the king to lead the army in person, except in very few special circumstances.

However, there are many examples of emperors leading their own troops to war throughout the dynasties.

In later times, Li Shimin, during his military command, went alone to Luoyang, which was then in a hostile state, with only one general accompanying him.

After the two were discovered, they were chased by thousands of enemy soldiers. The buttocks of the horses they were riding were full of arrows, which shows how dangerous the situation was!
But the next time there is a war, Li Shimin will go again and still be on the front line.

After he became emperor, he traveled thousands of miles to fight Goguryeo and led the army in person.

Fighting is addictive. Being on the front line, commanding thousands of troops, the feeling of blood boiling and fighting the enemy is heart-stirring.

This has nothing to do with whether you consider the overall situation or not.

It was also because he always took the lead in every battle, and his civil and military subordinates supported and admired him almost blindly.

Cao Cao had the same mentality. If he had the opportunity to command troops, he would do it by any means necessary.

At this time, he came to the front of the army, looked at the more than 1,100 light and heavy cavalry, and said:

"Wusun, Kushan, and Kangju have united to bully our Wei and kill our Wei army. Today, I will bring the heads of the slain soldiers and let the Wusun people bury them with their lives.

"Eighteen of our soldiers have died. I want Wusun to bury them with 180,000 men and bloodbath their country!"

"The Wusun is a tiny country, yet they dare to slaughter our Wei army. We should kill their leader and show our military prestige!"

These words made more than a thousand Wei soldiers straighten their backs and at the same time develop a determination to die.

If one of them dies, the other side will have ten thousand people to accompany him, so what is the regret in dying!
"Dye the flag of the Wei army with the blood of foreigners. Let's go!"

Thousands of soldiers are brave.

Cao Cao personally pushed for the plan to conceal the truth and sneak through Chencang. A thin layer of mist rose around the entire army, making it seem so illusory that it almost disappeared out of thin air.

The entire army marched westward, and even the sound of horse hooves became so quiet that it could only be heard at a very close distance.

The mythical military strategy was put into action, and the whole world became helpers of the Wei army, helping them to hide their traces.

The heavy weight of the cavalry seemed to be suddenly alleviated as they were swept away by the military force.

The borders of Wusun generally tend to be higher in the south and lower in the north.

They built cities in the south, relying on the remnants of the Tianshan Mountains.

As it extends northward along the Ili River, it becomes a vast natural pasture with flat land, lush grass, and herds of cattle and sheep.

Their capital, called Chigu City, was built on the trade route heading west from the Tianshan Mountains.

It is about three or four hundred miles away from the exit of Tianshan Gorge.

There are two Acropolis nearby, with a total military force of more than 30,000, scattered around the capital, forming a protective force.

Wu Guimi, the king of Wusun, is fifty-one years old this year, with a long face and aquiline nose.

He received the news near evening.

His nephew Wuqituo was ambushed and killed by the Wei army in the Tianshan Gorge.

The afterglow of the setting sun shone into the palace.

Wu Guimi sat on the first throne and was furious.

It was outrageous that his own nephew was killed by the Wei army.

He had sent out orders for reinforcements to be stationed in the valleys of the Tien Shan Mountains, and had also sent the message to the Kushans.

"The people of Wei think that we Wusun are easy to bully."

Wu Guimi summoned several tribal leaders under his command, who were also his ministers, and said with a look of shock and anger:
"Send a message to the front army. Since the Wei people have no scruples and killed more than a thousand of our soldiers, we don't need to be polite."

A minister advised:
"Kunmo, the Great Wei founded the country in Han territory and unified the thirteen states. The powerful Xianbei people were defeated repeatedly in their hands.

Otherwise, the Xianbei wouldn't have been running around, contacting the Kushans, and had sent people to look for us before."

What the minister said was not something that Wu Guimi had not considered.

He has his own calculations.

It was precisely because the Xianbei had already contacted the Kushans, and with these two major allies at the forefront, that he had fewer concerns.

You must know that the current situation, in the eyes of the Kushans, Kangju, and even the Wusun, is still at the stage of mutual competition between countries, and is far from the point of large-scale war.

When Wu Guimi received the report, he naturally thought that the Wei army had retreated after committing the crime at the Tianshan Gorge.

He did not expect that the Wei army's killing of Wuqituo was just the beginning.

The same idea also existed in the Kushan Empire.

When major powers clash, border frictions are common.

But there are not many that actually go into full-scale war!
Unless it is a big team against a small one and victory is certain, they can fight without any scruples.

The Kushans considered themselves a powerful nation, and the Wusuns did not consider themselves weak.

What's more, he has two major allies.

So they didn't expect that the Wei army would directly raise an army and launch an all-out war.

That night, Wu Guimi returned to the palace in anger and did not go to bed until nearly midnight.

Little did he know that Cao Cao had deployed his mythical marching strategy and was so fast that he had already arrived in half a day.

After the Wei army left the Tianshan Gorge and entered the Wusun territory, the terrain gradually became flat.

Thick fog rolled around the entire army like a fog wheel, obscuring their breath and traces of their march.

The entire army came out of the Tianshan Mountains and headed north into the frontier area, avoiding the outer defense line of Wusun.

After nightfall, Cao's army turned back to the south and approached Chigu City built by the Wusun to the north of the Tianshan Mountains.

The combination of the mythical levels of concealment and sneaking into Chencang, blended with the night, is unprecedented in its concealment.

Cao Cao led his troops to approach Chigu City more than 30 miles away and successfully crossed its outer defenses.

By the early morning, the Wei army was getting closer to Chigu City.

A huge and mighty tiger lay on a low hill, staring at the city ahead with its green eyes.

The fierce tiger is Yin.

Cao Cao, who was next to it, had just pulled the reins of his horse.

In the front, Xu Chu was the vanguard, leading the fully armed heavy cavalry and rushing towards the city gate.

The whole army unleashed its might, and the fighting spirit was as raging as a raging storm!

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