When I was in Qin Dynasty, I lost contact with the wave

Chapter 672 The orthodox Wu family is in the Wu country!

"I heard that it was the deputy general and the assistant general who ordered the army to rest. Are they looking down on the warriors of our Wu country?"

Faced with such exaggerated questioning, even Feng Wuzhe and Cao Shen were a little frightened. Wasn't this a clear accusation of destroying the unity of friendly forces? How could anyone be allowed to accuse them of this?

Feng Wuze knew that he was not good at speaking, so he glanced at Cao Shen. Cao Shen understood and took the initiative to explain: "Why do you say that, brother? Everyone in the world knows that the men of Wu are brave. The brothers of Wu took the initiative to help our army. We are grateful to them. How can we look down on them?"

However, in the face of Cao Shen's smiling welcome and praise, these herdsmen of the Wu State did not appreciate it at all.

"In that case, why should the march be stopped because of us?"

"what?"

Cao Shen was a little confused. Before he could ponder the meaning of the words, he heard the leader, a man from the Wu clan, continue to say: "We are following the army not only because the clan leader married your commander, but also because you want to beat up those bastards from Wusun who have fathers but no mothers!"

It was an older and calmer member of the Wu clan who held down the agitated Wu men and explained the confusion to everyone in detail.

The Wusun Kingdom seemed to be just a slightly larger country among the thirty-six small countries in the Western Regions. It was purely a matter of selecting a general from among the short men, but this short general was not a soft persimmon that everyone could bully.

Originally in history, the Wusun Kingdom that Zhang Qian visited was the overlord of the Thirty-Six Kingdoms in the Western Regions, with a population of 630,000 and 188,000 soldiers, which was basically equivalent to a later Shu Han.

Of course, Wusun at this time had not yet developed to such a level, but it still had 70,000 elite soldiers. Among them, 20,000 stayed in the Qilian Mountain grassland, the Wusun base camp, and 50,000 elite soldiers followed the Wusun King Nan Doumi.

Although an army of 50,000 was not impressive in the Warring States Period when the army often numbered 100,000, it was still considered one of the best among the wolf kings of the grassland.

Moreover, the Wusun soldiers were extremely brave and maintained good relations with the Xiongnu. The Wusun King Nan Doumi and the Xiongnu Chanyu Touman once swore an oath of blood to become brothers.

As Touman led the rise of the Xiongnu and formed a three-way confrontation on the grassland with the two major grassland overlords, the Yuezhi and the Donghu, he was naturally a powerful figure of the time. The Wusun, who was valued by Touman, was naturally worthy of Meng Tian's attention, so 50,000 golden fire cavalry came out in full force.

The Qin State has always been able to defeat the larger force with the smaller one, and it relied on suppressing the Western Rong to grow and expand. Using 50,000 troops against 50,000, and conducting a rapid march and surprise attack, it was enough to show respect for the Wusun.

In addition, there were several Suzaku carrying the heavy armor of the Golden Fire Cavalry soldiers and the horse armor of their war horses. There were also 20,000 herdsmen from the Wu State who had settled in Beidi County. They temporarily took care of the horses for the Golden Fire Cavalry to rest and carried enough dry food for the 50,000 Golden Fire Cavalry to eat for five days. They also served as guides for this Golden Fire Cavalry.

The reason why the Wu people served as guides for Meng Tian's left army was quite ironic, because the current Wusun Kingdom was established by the part of the Wu people who did not want to submit to the Qin State and migrated westward.

According to the family tree, Nan Doumi should be called Wu Nan Dou, but according to seniority, Nan Doumi has to call Zhang Ji's concubine Wu Nan Luo aunt!

("Mi" is the abbreviation of "Kunmi", which is the pronunciation of Sun. In ancient Kunmo, Turkic or today's Uyghur and Kazakh society, "Kunmi" can be interpreted as "Son of Heaven". The rulers of Wusun used the theory of gods to control their subjects. All the names of Wusun rulers have the word "Mi" after them.)
However, despite sharing the same ancestors and clan, the relationship between the Wu clan and the Wusun clan was like that between the Qin and Zhao clans. The relationship between the two countries could be described as not friendly and good neighbors, but rather irreconcilable.

The Wu State believed that they were the legitimate Wu State and that the Wusun State was just a rebellious and independent state. The Wusun people, on the other hand, believed that the Wu State were spineless people who surrendered to the Qin State and were traitors who betrayed the glory of their ancestors. As they were blessed by the Eternal Heaven, they were able to win battles time and time again and established a powerful state on the Qilian Mountains grassland that was no less powerful than the Wu State in its heyday!

In order to distinguish themselves from the cowards who surrendered to the Qin State, they were named Wusun.

The orthodox lineage of the Wu family is in Wusun!
This is the truest thought of the Wusun people!
Therefore, even though Wu Shiluo, who originally planned to encourage the people of Wu to lead the Qin army by giving out money, had not yet taken action, the people of Wu had already petitioned to be the vanguard of the Qin army.

The older Wu clan member even shook Cao Shen's hand and said excitedly: "General, please tell General Meng that no matter who wants to beat up those Wusun bastards, our Wu clan will help them!"

However, this is indeed a bit modest.

The Wu State is now half pastoral and half farming. To be honest, do you really think the grassland herdsmen like the life of being homeless, often worrying about survival and having to go south to plunder?

Who doesn't want to live in peace? Ever since the King of Wu became sworn brothers with King Huiwen of Qin, he began to be assimilated by the Qin State little by little. Although he got more pasture, he was still obsessed with the kind of peaceful and prosperous life where he could live just by relying on farmland.

Although grains are not as delicious as meat, they can fill your stomach!
The reason why semi-pastoralism was maintained was to provide war horses to the Qin State.

The Wu people, who were half pastoral and half farming, were able to mobilize 20,000 of them to serve as the vanguard of the Qin army. This was almost sending out all the young and strong people in the tribe who were proficient in horse riding.

What a deep hatred this must be!

For a time, Meng Tian, ​​Feng Wuzhe, Cao Shen and other generals could not help but discuss the matter in their hearts, but finally accepted the good intention of the Wu State, and ordered people to make a black flag for the Wu people, with the words "Yi Cong" inscribed on it, which meant to obey orders and was called "Wu Shi Yi Cong".

After that, the Qin army rested for two days in a row. Twenty thousand Wu clan volunteers and fifty thousand golden fire cavalry left Beidi County and set foot on the land that the Central Plains dynasty had never set foot on in large numbers!

(End of this chapter)