Chapter 824 confrontation between the two armies
The Qin people immediately made the big tent explode.
Everyone, including the Yuezhi King, stood up in panic at almost the same time.
A tribal leader sitting near the door grabbed the reporter's mind and shouted: "Tell me quickly, how many Qin people have come? How far is it to gather in the royal court?"
"Qin people...the Qin people came hundreds of people, less than fifty miles away from the royal court..." The informant was rolled up.
"Huh, I'm scared to death, only a few hundred people!" Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and the leader of the questioning also let go of the informant to the ground.
"King, the Qin people dared to despise my Dayuezhi. A few hundred people dared to come to my royal court and let me kill them all!" After saying that, King Nantu, who had a sinister face, walked out of the account with great strides.
"Slow down!" The King Zuo Ping spoke, and then he turned around and looked at the King of the Huns and said, "Brother Wang, the Qin people only sent hundreds of people from afar. I'm afraid they didn't want to fight with us. I think it's better not to do it easily. Let's see what their purpose is?"
"King, King Zuo Ping is right. The Qin people sent so few people to come, so they must have a purpose. If we kill them, they will inevitably cause big trouble!"
Several other tribe leaders looked at the Yuezhi King together.
"You are right. Daqin and my Yueshi have no grudges. Occasionally, there are caravans. If they kill them rashly, they will inevitably anger the Emperor of Qin. We cannot compete with Daqin at the moment. Let's go ahead and line up to greet them. I want to see what the Qin people want to do?"
"Yes, king!" All the leaders bowed and bowed together, and then left the tent, and summoned nearby guards.
With a few long and low horns sounded, the sound came from a distance for more than ten miles. After a short period of loss of consciousness, all the Yue clans who were working and grazing within a hundred miles were heard of the news. Countless strong men quickly took their bows and arrow weapons and turned over and headed straight for the king's tent.
A group of more than 300 people in black helmets and black armored Qin troops escorted ten carriages. Under the leadership of a group of terrified Yuezhi people, they were riding their horses straight towards the lake. Although there were only 300 people, they were long and full of gorges, flags rolled up, and horse hooves were neatly trampling on the ground, shaking the empty grassland like rolling thunder. As they marched, flowers and plants broke and grass mud splashed everywhere, shattering a muddy road on the grass where flowers and plants were blooming, with majestic momentum and terrifying momentum.
“Woo~~Woo~~~”
Accompanied by a faint sound of low horns, what followed was the sound of horse hooves as anxious as thunder, which gathered into a tsunami and came towards us.
"Mr. Li, it seems that the Yuezhi people have discovered our whereabouts!" The escorted captain walked to Li Shun's carriage to report.
"Well, we have been here for nearly two thousand miles. This is where the Yuezhi royal court is located. There must be a sentry to report to the Yuezhi King. I don't know the Yuezhi King's attitude at the moment, so that everyone can prepare for battle. If a battle occurs, you don't have to deliberately protect me and the carriages and horses, and quickly send people out of the battlefield and return to Xianyang to report to Your Majesty!"
"Here~" the captain held his fists and then turned around and shouted loudly. The team that was originally galloping quickly slowed down. All the imperial guards began to sort out their bows and crossbows and swords, and their faces became extremely cold.
These three hundred people are not ordinary imperial guards, but the imperial guards responsible for protecting the emperor. They are all brave soldiers selected from one hundred miles from the Qin army. Each of them is a warrior who survived the battle. They are all lords, and at least they are made at second level. Many of them are cut off from the Northwest Camp and filled with fresh blood from the imperial guards. They have just fought with the Donghu of the Xiongnu and are very familiar with the new style of pawn equipment and steel weapons. Therefore, even if there are only 300 people, they are all murderous and have no timidity at all.
"Li...Mr. Li, what do you mean?"
An official who followed Li Shun looked at the flags of the Yuezhi people vaguely in front of him and the smoke and dust rolling in, and said stammering the sweat on his forehead.
"I mean we may all die here today!" Li Shun replied with a pale face.
"Ah?!" Several officials and interpreters who accompanied the carriage were so scared that they almost fell off the carriage.
"What are you afraid of? A man is a real man, and he will die if he dies!" Li Shun secretly wiped the sweat from his forehead.
"But...but I...I don't want to die yet..." An official's cheeks twisted like a shoehorn in horror.
"Hmph, the army is in conflict, and you can't help but die. But I want to remind you that we are the envoys of the Emperor of Qin, and our heads can be cut off and blood can flow, but our momentum cannot be lost. If anyone wants to surrender and turn the lord, beg the King of Yuezhi to spare his life, I will kill his dog head first, Yuezhi, barbarians, why fear!"
Li Shun pretended to be calm and shouted loudly, pressing the four grenades hidden in his clothes.
These three or four grenades were given to him by Chen Xu before leaving, and he taught him how to use them in detail. Originally, Chen Xu wanted to give him a hand gun, but after thinking about it, he gave up. Without long loading and familiarity, the hand gun was not as good as a light crossbow. It was mainly because it was troublesome to load after a shot. Unfamiliar people couldn't handle it in ten minutes, especially when they were riding on horseback.
"Mr. Li said it right. Yuezhi and the Huns are generally barbaric races that eat raw meat and drink blood. The swords, guns, bows and arrows are like rotten thatchs, and they can't make armor. They are afraid that they will do anything. If there is a real conflict, their subordinates will lead their arm to kill directly towards the place of the Yuezhi King's banner. The Yuezhi people will inevitably panic. You can turn the front of the carriage and escape from the battlefield..." said the captain next to the carriage.
"Don't act rashly later. Follow my orders. I think the Yuezhi King will definitely not attack as long as he is not stupid!" Li Shun reminded him.
"Here!" The lieutenant bowed and took the order, and the officials and the interpreters who were sitting in the car relaxed a little.
The sound of the trumpet in front became clearer and clearer. Amid the sound of horse hooves like thunder, a stream of dust covering the sky and the sun was getting closer. Soon, you could see countless flying flags, and then you could see the Yuezhi army surging like a tide.
The two sides are less than five miles apart.
"Stop~" the captain raised the red tassel spear in his hand.
“南~~”
In an instant, the three hundred imperial guards strangled the reins almost at the same time. The horses under their crotch raised their front hooves and neighed, then stopped, and arranged them into two neat arrays.
‘Bow~~” The captain issued the order again, and only a uniform sound was heard. Both rows of imperial guards raised their long bows almost at the same time, and long arrows with tail feathers were placed on the bowstring.
"Woo~Woo~~"
As the Yuezhi army got closer, five or six thousand people rushed to less than three miles in a messy and loose array. Behind the Yuezhi army, more than ten flags of different colors could be seen, gathering a large black flag in the middle.
"Sir, that black big flag must be where the Yuezhi King is undoubtedly."
The captain's face was slightly twitching, his face was extremely cold and majestic, and his hands holding the gun were slightly trembling.
People will die when fighting, and it is not a good idea to say that it is fake. If the other party only has two or three thousand people and still have the power to fight, even if the Yuezhi people fail in the end, they will definitely suffer severe damage. However, there are more than 6,000 people on the other party, and the lieutenant who is familiar with the situation in the Hun and Hu can also see that today is not the time to come, and he encountered a tough guy, because there are more than ten flags of other tribes around the Yuezhi King's banner. In other words, today they are facing not only the army of the Yuezhi King's Court, but also the army of other tribes.
"Captain, today's situation is a little bad!" A hundred generals next to the captain also licked their lips very nervously and whispered.
"Haha, that's true, but we are not soft persimmons. We will listen to my orders later. If the battle begins, except for leaving a garrison to protect Lord Li from the battlefield, everyone else will follow me to attack the position of the big flag. Killing the generals and seizing the flag Yuezhi will inevitably be in chaos!"
"Here~" several generals around bowed and scattered.
The sound of hooves rolled in like thunder. The Yuezhi army was less than two miles away. It seemed that a great war was inevitable with its fierce appearance.
"Arrow~~" the captain raised his gun and yelled again.
"Crash~~" The three hundred imperial guards pulled their longbows almost at the same time, and the shiny steel arrows emitted a cold light in the sun.
"Shake the envoy's flag~" Li Shun stood up nervously from the carriage.
"Shake the flag~~" the captain roared.
Behind the team, an imperial guard began to wave the flagpole that was more than two meters long in his hand. A black dragon flag shook violently back and forth. As the flag swayed, a few short and sharp horns sounded behind the Yuezhi army opposite. The rapidly galloping Yuezhi army quickly slowed down and finally stopped about one mile away. Then the army dispersed on both sides. The big flag and more than ten faced tribal royal flags emerged from the army. An old man in a robe stood in front of the army with a group of tribal leaders in various outfits.
The scene suddenly became quiet, and both sides rode their horses and did not move at all. The three hundred imperial guards were still in the state of full moon in the longbow. In the other side's army, countless riders had already pulled their longbows, and the two sides confronted on the grassland with bright spring flowers and plants.
One side was strong and the horses were strong, and five or six thousand people scattered and occupied a three or four-mile area.
There were only three hundred people on the other side, and they were scattered in a row less than half a mile.
The gap between the two sides is clear at a glance. If the battle begins, three hundred people will be instantly submerged by the other party.
"Wang Tongyi, with the flag bearer, he told the King of Yuezhi that we are just messengers coming on the order of the emperor, not to fight with them!"
Looking at the scene in front of him, Li Shun's fear slowly calmed down. The Yuezhi King must have no intention of attacking them. The greatest possibility of this is to show off his mighty intimidation.
As the imperial guards slightly spread a gap to both sides, the general interpreter wearing a seventh-rank official robe slowly came out with two imperial guards holding big banners.
Chapter completed!