Chapter 415: Yue's Invasion of Zhao
After arranging the State of Chu, Zhao He originally thought that these foreign affairs should come to an end for the time being, but he was ruthlessly slapped in the face by facts.
A memorial from Beidi County to Handan and submitted from Handan made Zhao He frown.
"The King of Yuezhi led 20,000 cavalry to cross the Yellow River to invade Beidi County, and now he is approaching the Great Wall toward that city..."
Zhao He gently tapped on the table, looking for memories of Yuezhi in his mind.
The Yue clan is a nomadic people and is the mortal enemy of another famous homeless ethnic group in Chinese history. The current active area should be in the Hexi Corridor, which is later Gansu Province, which is only separated by the Yellow River from the Beidi County controlled by Zhao State.
In history, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions to find Yuezhi, and wanted to unite with the Yuezhi people to fight the Huns.
However, at that time, the Yuezhi people were chased and fled from the Hexi Corridor to the Western Regions by the Huns, and had long lost the courage to compete with the Huns. In the end, Zhang Qian's goal of joining the Yuezhi was not achieved, but after going around, they established a connection between the Han Dynasty and the countries of the Western Regions, making great contributions to the westward advance of the Chinese people.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, records of the Great Yuezhi were quite rare. In addition to knowing that in the Yuezhi, there were also Xiumi, Shuangmi, Kushan, Pangdun, and Wudi, all the five tribes of the secret, the more specific situations were not clear.
But thinking about it is true. Since King Ping moved eastward, the Chinese princes have been fighting over the theme of fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains. Who has time to study a country that is thousands of miles away from the Central Plains?
Even when Zhao He traveled through time, there was a Lin Hu between Zhao and Yuezhi. Zhao He's focus of traveling through time is basically on unifying the six kingdoms, and he ignored Yuezhi.
Unexpectedly, Zhao He didn't go to find Yuezhi, but the Yuezhi people came to the door.
Zhao He couldn't help but wonder: "Aren't the Yuezhi people afraid of death? Or are the Yuezhi people ignorant of the power of my Zhao State?"
Twenty thousand cavalry sounds quite strong, but it is not a big problem for Zhao State.
After destroying Lin Hu's annexation of Yiqu, Zhao State can now easily pull up a cavalry of more than 50,000.
On weekdays, Zhao State had to maintain a scale of 25,000 cavalry just to guard the long border. If the 5,000 heavy cavalry in Handan City was included, it would be the permanent army of 30,000 cavalry.
This number of cavalry alone can easily defeat the Yuezhi people, not to mention the infantry craze that Zhao State is several times more than the cavalry organization.
So the Yuezhi people were impatient to live and came to Zhao to provoke him?
Zhao He was silent for a moment and signed his opinion on the intelligence: "Let Le Yi lead the army to fight back on the spot, and the troops in Shangjun, Jiuyuan, Beidi and Guanzhong are all under the jurisdiction of Le Yi. It is necessary to repel Yuezhi and promote the power of our Great Zhao army!"
Just as Zhao He's order was heading towards Guanzhong quickly, the Yuezhi King had already led the 23,000 cavalry behind him to cross the former Qin Great Wall from the northernmost side of Jitou Mountain (Liupan Mountain).
The Yuezhi King is in his thirties this year, and he is the age of a man with the most energetic energy. He is very tall, and the same is true for the horse under his crotch.
If Zhao He could see the portrait of the Yuezhi King, he would find that the Yuezhi King did not look like the East Asians in later generations, but was more inclined to Europeans.
Ten thousand horses galloped, and the rolling smoke spread across the sky. From a distance, it looked like a long dragon, very shocking.
"Wow!" The King of Yuezhi pulled the reins of the horse, and the horseman stood up under his crotch, and then landed steadily.
Behind the Yuezhi King, the Yuezhi cavalry army stopped one after another.
King Yuezhi looked around and said to a middle-aged man beside him who looked obviously aristocratic, "Qiu Juque, this is the place you agreed with the Qin people, right?"
The middle-aged man named Qiu Juque is the leader of the Kushan tribe among the five Yuezhi tribes. According to the Yuezhi people, it is called "Xihou".
The Kushan tribe ranks third among the five tribes, so this person is also the top three ministers in the Yuezhi Kingdom. This time, the joint efforts between the Yuezhi and Qin Kingdom were facilitated by this person's strong persuasion.
After hearing the Yuezhi King's inquiry, Qiu hurriedly replied: "Back to the king, this place is indeed the place that Bai Qi agreed with us. If nothing unexpected happens, Bai Qi's messenger should be waiting here."
The Yuezhi King snorted softly, and a dissatisfied expression appeared on his face: "This Qin people are so arrogant. I have already arrived in person. How could his envoy not greet him in advance?"
Qiu Ku was dumbfounded when he heard this, and didn't know how to answer for a moment.
Several other ministers also agreed, which made Qiu Ju look even more embarrassed.
Yuezhi and Qin actually had friendship and interactions. The reason is very simple, because both sides have common enemies, namely Yiqu, Lin Hu and Qiang people.
However, with the destruction of the Hu Qiang people in Yiqulin in recent years, the direct border between Qin and Yuezhi, and the exchanges between the two countries were less, but civil frictions occurred from time to time.
Like many nomadic farming frictions, most of the time, Yuezhi, who was nomadic, took the initiative to attack the Qin border area.
However, since Yuezhi also focused most of her attention on the Xiongnu in the northeast and Wusun in the west, she basically had no big moves in the direction of Qin, and rarely dispatched more than a thousand cavalry in small fuss, so Qin had no time to take care of it under the pressure of Zhao.
Xihouqiu of the Kushan tribe once went on a mission to Xianyang City as a member of the Yuezhi mission before taking office. He was shocked by the prosperity and Chinese culture in Xianyang City. He developed a great affection for Qin State. After his succession, he even planned to imitate the Qin State to implement military merits and titles in the Kushan tribe, but was stopped by the Yuezhi King after he learned about it.
Qiu Ju was about to say something to hide his embarrassment and calm the anger of the Yuezhi King. Suddenly his eyes lit up and he pointed to the front of him, "Look, the envoy of the Qin people is here!"
When everyone heard this, they looked up and found that a few horses were galloping towards the horses and knights not far away. One of them was holding a black flag of Qin, which was quite conspicuous.
The Yuezhi King snorted softly and said, "Let them come here."
The King of Yuezhi married Qiu Juke's sister. The Kushan tribe has always been the most hard-core supporter of the King of Yuezhi. Otherwise, the King of Yuezhi would not have followed Qiu Juke's persuasion and dispatched four troops to go east and south to aid Qin. Since he had seen the Qin envoy appear, the King of Yuezhi would not have done anything to himself and gave his brother-in-law a face.
But after a moment, the Yuezhi King suddenly wanted to pull his brother-in-law's head off and kick it as a ball.
"You said, your Qin general Bai Qi has withdrawn his troops from Guanzhong?"
Chapter completed!