Zhao Tuo led the main force of the Qin army back. When he arrived at the main battlefield where the rear army ration team was located, he received this news that surprised him.
It was different from the previous situation where he set up a scheme to trap Shuangmiyue clan.
The battlefield situation here is that the Yuezhi surrounded the Qin army's food team. The Yuezhi people took the initiative in the war and could fight and leave whenever they wanted.
Seeing reinforcements from the Qin army, the Yuezhi people saw that the situation was not good and could just flee.
In Zhao Tuo's plan, the Qin army's cavalry was not large in number. It was possible to rush back to relieve the chariot formation and join forces with the Qin army's infantry to repel the Yueshi cavalry.
But it is very difficult to annihilate the Yuezhi cavalry, let alone capture the enemy leader.
When Fan Kuai personally escorted a middle-aged man in red robe over, all doubts in Zhao Tuo's mind disappeared.
"General, Fan Kuai was lucky enough to live up to his command and capture one of the Yuezhi's Xihous."
"This is his golden crown, specially dedicated to the general!"
Fan Kuai stepped forward, holding a gorgeous golden crown in his hands and presenting it to Zhao Tuo.
His voice was as loud as thunder, and the Marquis of Guishuang Xi was so frightened that he thought Fan Kuai was asking him to kneel down, so he knelt on the ground with a thud and kept uttering the Yuezhi language of begging for mercy.
Zhao Tuo glanced at the pale-faced Marquis of Guishuang, who kept begging for mercy, and ignored him for the time being.
Zhao Tuo reached out and took the golden crown from Fan Kuai's hand. He played with it and said with a smile: "What a great Fan Kuai. He can achieve such great achievements when he first enters the battlefield. He is really a fierce general. He will be the pillar of our Qin army in the future."
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Li Shiqi also came up and said in wonder: "You Fan Goutu, you are really a lucky general. You can capture the Yuezhi Xihou on the first battlefield. I think after this battle, your
I’m afraid the title will have to be upgraded to many levels.”
Hearing the compliments from the General and Li Shiqi, Fan Kuai chuckled, with some expectation in his eyes.
Since joining the Qin Army, he has also learned the rules of the Qin people. All senior generals of the Qin Army must have corresponding titles. Without titles, there will be no officials.
This time he made a great charge and captured Yuezhi's Marquis Xi from the tens of thousands of troops. He was easily promoted and honored, so he was naturally very happy.
Fan Kuai said: "This is all due to the general's command. If the general did not use his troops like a god, Fan Kuai, a dog-slaughterer, would not be able to show off his power on this battlefield."
Zhao Tuo nodded slightly, Fan Kuai was a rude person, but he was very discerning, he was not arrogant when he was successful, and he spoke very measuredly.
After praising Fan Kuai a few more times, Zhao Tuo's eyes fell on the Marquis of Guishuang in front of him.
The Marquis of Guishuang murmured a lot, and after finishing speaking, he fell on the ground, stretched his head and kissed the toe of Zhao Tuo's shoe.
Seeing this scene, all the Qin people around were amazed. They didn't expect that the Yuezhi people actually liked to lick people's feet.
"General, this Guishan Jihou said that he is willing to surrender to us. As long as the general lets him go, he will lead his troops to withdraw from Henan and return to Hexi."
"He also said that after returning, he will definitely convince the Yuezhi King that in the future, the entire Yuezhi will pay tribute to our Great Qin, offering horses, cattle and sheep every year, and will never dare to be enemies of our Great Qin."
Zhao Tuo could not understand the Yuezhi language, but Li Shiqi did. After more than half a year of self-study, he was able to communicate in the Yuezhi language, and at this moment he was acting as the translator for Zhao Tuo and the Marquis of Guishuang.
"Pay tribute as a vassal?"
Zhao Tuo laughed dumbly.
The Marquis of Guishuang is quite knowledgeable. He knows that what the Central Plains dynasty likes most is for barbarians from the borderlands to pay tribute to them and offer tribute as a sign of submission.
If it had been during the Shang and Zhou dynasties, if Marquis Xi of Guishuang had made this statement, maybe the King of Shang and the Emperor of Zhou would have made an oath of alliance with him and then let him go.
But times have changed.
The people who ruled the Central Plains were no longer the Yin Shang and Zong Zhou who followed the feudal system, but Qin Shi Huangdi who wanted to take all the land in the world into his pocket.
The emperor, to borrow a well-known saying, said this to the barbarians surrounding Da Qin on all sides:
Wherever the sun and moon shine, and wherever rivers reach, it is the land of Qin.
I come, I see, I conquer.
Whether it is Henan or Hexi occupied by the Yuezhi people, they are the targets that the Qin army wants to conquer this time.
Naturally, it was impossible for Zhao Tuo to agree to the conditions of the Marquis of Guishuang and let him go.
Not to mention the cunning of the barbarians, this guy may sound nice on the surface, but when you let him go, he may immediately gather your troops and organize the army to fight again. How can you easily believe it?
"Guishuang..."
Zhao Tuo squinted his eyes and looked at Guishang Xihou who was kneeling in front of him, licking his shoes and pleading.
If he remembered correctly, the Kushan Empire was one of the four great powers in Europe and Asia in history.
Ranked with the Han Dynasty, Rome and Parthia.
Its empire had a vast territory, occupying most of Central Asia, ruling a population of tens of millions, and even went south to conquer half of India.
The Kushan Empire itself was built by the Kushan tribe of the Great Yuezhi after they conquered the other tribes.
If nothing else, the founders of the empire should be the descendants of the Guishan Jihou kneeling in front of Zhao Tuo.
Now Zhao Tuo led his troops to the west to capture the Guishang Jihou alive, and severely damaged the power of the Guishang tribe, which greatly reduced the strength of the Guishang tribe among the Yuezhi tribes.
In this grassland where the weak can prey on the strong, even if the remnants of the Kushan tribe can return to Hexi, they may be easily annexed by other tribes in the future.
Even if Zhao Tuo was ruthless and sent cavalry to pursue him, he might be able to completely wipe out the Guishan Yueshi in Henan.
"In this case, wouldn't the Kushan Empire be gone?"
Zhao Tuo felt his influence.
With a single thought, he can kill the world power that will dominate Central Asia in the future, and with it, change the history of the entire Central Asia, India and other places.
As far as he knew, the Kushan Empire was an important node on the Silk Road and the largest country promoting Buddhism in the world in the future.
Buddhism flourished due to the belief of King Kushan. In its original history, Buddhism entered northwest China through the Kushan Empire and eventually flowed into the Central Plains. During the Han and Three Kingdoms periods, more than half of the foreign monks traveling in the Central Plains came from Kushan.
If the Kushan Empire disappeared, even if another great empire was reestablished by another nation, the direction of the entire history of Asia would probably be very different.
Zhao Tuo secretly marveled that he could not only change the history of China and Kyushu, but also affect Central Asia and further affect the entire world.
Suppressing the strange feeling in his heart, he faced the plea of the Marquis of Guishuang.
Zhao Tuo said calmly: "Take him down first and imprison him separately from Marquis Shuangmixi."
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The soldiers immediately stepped forward and pulled down the pleading Marquis of Guishuang.
At this time, Chen Ping, who had been silent until now, came up and offered advice: "General, now that we have captured the Jihou clan for two months, I see that they are all willing to surrender and survive. I think this can be used."
"It is better to let them surrender the Yuezhi people captured in this battle for our use, and then send the surrendered Yuezhi people out to gather the remnants of the defeated Kushan and Shuangmi tribes in the name of the two Jihou."
"In this way, we can get tens of thousands of Yuezhi cavalry. After subduing these people, the general can use it to help them fight for the Yuezhi King and march into Hexi!"