Chapter 1226: The Ghost Talent

The yellow sand fell, and the battlefield, which stretched for over a hundred miles, was a mess.

Everywhere one could see warhorses that had lost their masters wandering in the boundless desert.

The wind and sand that rose from time to time gradually covered the bloodstains on the ground.

It is foreseeable that in a few days, the corpses here will all be buried by the yellow sand.

Teams of Liangzhou cavalry traveled across the battlefield, collecting the ownerless warhorses and lost weapons, loading them onto carriages, and transporting them toward Lijue Pass.

And from the direction of Tianshan to Lijue Pass, teams of dejected Wusun soldiers, like herds of cattle, sheep, and horses, were driven by the Liangzhou Army and escorted toward Lijue Pass.

Thousands of Wusun soldiers formed a long dragon from the Tianshan mountain range.

After Mohutu dismounted and surrendered, the war had already ended.

Originally, the Wusun cavalry was not the opponent of the Liangzhou cavalry.

If they had kept fighting, it would also be a dead end.

Therefore, when Mohutu ordered the surrender, the Wusun soldiers felt relieved instead.

After their warhorses and weapons were taken, they were escorted all the way toward Lijue Pass.

In the Liangzhou Army camp inside Lijue Pass, Duan Yu was currently sitting in the main tent with his generals and many advisors, discussing politics.

And the defeated Mohutu was tied up, kneeling among the crowd, hanging his head low.

"What is Han Sui's next plan."

Duan Yu, sitting in the main seat, looked at Mohutu and asked.

Mohutu, who kept his head low and dared not look at Duan Yu, trembled his lips: "He... he... he said, he said to let this small one go to Guici, to find the King of Guici, Bai Hui."

"Said that this small one defeated the General several times, and Guici would certainly stand on this small one's side to fight against the General together."

"He also said... said the General came from afar, and transporting grain and grass is difficult; as long as it is dragged on for a few months, the General will be short of grain and grass, and will withdraw the army."

"Let this small one and the King of Guici, Bai Hui, coordinate from inside and outside, to form what... form what angle... to resist the General."

"After the General withdraws the army, then pursue."

"That is called a pincer attack," Xun You added from the side.

"Yes yes yes, that is a pincer attack," Mohutu nodded quickly in response.

The gazes of Jia Xu, Xun You, and Cheng Yu all looked at Duan Yu.

It must be said that Han Sui's plan was indeed good.

The biggest problem they are facing now is the problem of transporting grain and grass.

Two thousand miles of road, too far.

And this is not the Central Plains, where there are cities along the way to replenish.

This Western Regions is an endless desert.

Like the Cheshi Kingdom they conquered before, and those few small countries, the population is only a few thousand.

Even with the strength of the whole country, eating all the people of the Cheshi Kingdom would not be enough to feed these tens of thousands of Liangzhou troops.

They can only transport grain and grass from the direction of Liangzhou.

Besides grain and grass, there are various military supplies.

Weapons, armor, these all need to be replenished after the war.

Thirty-five thousand soldiers, just the grain needed every day requires forty to fifty thousand catties.

This does not count the warhorses; the consumption of a warhorse is several times that of a soldier.

Besides the thirty-five thousand combat soldiers, there are auxiliary soldiers and supply soldiers.

And from the start of the war until now, more than a month has passed.

Just for grain and grass, nearly one hundred thousand shi have already been consumed.

And as they go deeper into the Western Regions, this number will gradually double.

Transporting from Liangzhou to Lijue Pass, a distance of more than a thousand miles along the way, the corvée laborers transporting grain and grass will consume half of the grain and grass being transported on this road.

This is still in the situation where Liangzhou has many cattle and horses, and there are ox carts and horse carts to transport grain and grass, so the speed can be faster.

Under normal circumstances, corvée laborers can walk about forty miles a day.

Just transporting grain and grass along this road takes nearly a month.

People eat and horses chew, and there are some losses on the road.

One hundred thousand shi of grain and grass, when delivered here, might only have three or four thousand shi left.

If it were to be dragged on for a few months, their progress this year might stop here at Lijue Pass.

As for the pursuit Han Sui mentioned later, that is a matter for later.

But wanting to break the Guici and Wusun coalition army, which uses cavalry to harass from the outside and city defense to block the Liangzhou footsteps, is basically unlikely.

Guici is not Cheshi, with a population of over one hundred thousand, and combat soldiers can mobilize more than twenty thousand.

With elite soldiers and sufficient grain, it is difficult to break.

However, Han Sui calculated everything, but he did not calculate that Yimei had actually been discovered long ago.

"Lord, according to his statement, Guici's previous stance was not firm and did not stand on the Wusun side."

Xun You bowed and said: "This subordinate feels that Han Sui knew we were luring the enemy, so he deliberately followed the plan, using our feigned defeat to let Guici think they could defeat us."

"In this way, the King of Guici, seeing the power of the Wusun army, will change his stance and form an alliance with Wusun."

Mohutu nodded quickly: "Yes yes yes, yes yes yes!"

"That is exactly what Han Sui said," Mohutu confirmed.

Duan Yu rubbed his chin gently. ===== CHAPTER 1228 =====