Talmu narrowed his eyes slightly, and Ganbul paced back and forth angrily, still mumbling,
"Tomorrow I will lead my troops to build another camp. I can no longer mix with your Loulan army. Otherwise, tomorrow you hungry and impatient pariahs will attack our camp..."
"Loulan... is going to die..."
Talmu breathed a long sigh of relief and closed his eyes.
"What nonsense are you talking about? How can any commander think that he is going to subjugate his country? Are you crazy? You still have hundreds of thousands of troops, and your country has not been invaded!"
"Haha, these hundreds of thousands of troops are bound to die. After we die, there will be no more available people in Loulan. Will you Hami, Che Shi and other congresses let Loulan go? Will you not take this opportunity to invade?"
"Who the hell is invading you? Who is invading you?"
Ganbul immediately became anxious and said quickly,
"What is your country like? There is famine everywhere, crops rotting in the fields, and not even a single young adult population.
What is the purpose of aggression? Isn't it just to seize resources, food and population?
Do you have any of these in Loulan country?
When we invade your country, we have to give food and money to help your people survive. We also have to move our own young people to your country, weakening our national strength in disguise.
Your king is a fool, are our kings too?"
Talmu chuckled,
"Yes, you are right. Even if you don't invade, even if you stay on your own and are unable to fight anymore, Loulan Kingdom can rest and recuperate.
But is there still national power to recuperate? Loulan's national power has completely collapsed. All the active men are here. The crops in the fields cannot be harvested. This winter, more than half of the people will starve to death, and the rest can barely survive.
How will you survive next spring?
By then, people all over the country will starve to death. Where can we go to Loulan?
Is it possible that you countries will be kind enough to rescue me? Or are you counting on Buddhism?"
Ganbul was silent for a moment and said,
"Then you just watch your country perish? If I were you, I would go back with the army now, chop off the king's head, become the king yourself, and then let these soldiers disarm and return to the fields, quickly grab some food, and survive
After this year, there is still hope to cheer up next year.”
"Before that time, your country will invade."
Talmu smiled,
"Besides, can we still go back? Now we don't have any food in our hands. We have to cross the entire Hami country on two legs and return to Loulan. We will starve to death halfway.
What should I take back home? Do you rely on the cantaloupe grown by your Hami melon farmers?
Or are you not worried about my army plundering your country's food? Don't forget, people are hungry and can do anything, and any bullshit alliance is nonsense in front of the belly."
"If you dare to plunder my country, I will lead my troops to destroy you first!"
Ganbul blew his beard and stared.
"So, you see, I can't walk through. If I stay here, I'm waiting for death. What can I do? It's even more impossible to rob your Hami country. When the time comes, your Hami country's king will definitely send troops to annihilate us, and he will also
It gives you a reason to retaliate against Loulan for sending troops to our country."
Talmu had already seen through everything. It could be said that from the moment Loulan sent troops, their country was destined to perish.
Ganbul was silent again, he couldn't think of any good way.
After a while, Talmu looked at Ganbul and said leisurely,
"Ganbul and Yumen Pass will definitely not be defeated. We will definitely lose, but the difference is whether we can lose more valuablely and lose more decently. If I can give you a victory, can you
Make a deal with me?"
"Deal? What deal? Can you win the battle? How?"
Ganbul looked at Talmu suspiciously.
"Yes, win the battle. I will give you a victory with the lives of hundreds of thousands of Loulan people."
Talmu's tone gradually became colder, and his eyes flashed with a crazy light.
"what are you up to?"
Ganbul suddenly had a bad premonition.
"You, an army of 100,000 people, cannot retreat and will definitely die. If you dare to retreat without the support of your camp, the cavalry from Yumen Pass will immediately chase you out and kill you.
But staying here forever is not an option.
I will select 50,000 elites and withdraw them to the mainland. The remaining people will be sent across Yumen Pass to plunder the cities and villages in the eastern part of Yumen Pass and within the borders of Dachuan.
When the time comes, they will be hungry and impatient, and they will definitely kill people and rob things when they see them. Dachuan will not tolerate their land being trampled by them like this, and they will definitely send troops to kill them.
My people are all scattered to plunder. When the time comes, Dachuan's soldiers and horses will definitely be broken into pieces to kill them.
When the time comes, your army of 100,000 will fight the enemy again, using superior force to continuously eat away at the opponent's small force.
The enemy is in Yumen Pass and we cannot attack them, but outside the city, it is not certain who will win and who will lose."
Ganbul was shocked by Talmu's plan. After being stunned for a while, he said,
"But if this happens, all your hundreds of thousands of people will die."
"That's better than all the troops dying. If they are really dead, then Loulan will really be destroyed. The destruction of the country is not terrible, but I don't want all the people to die. This is the only way to renew Loulan's life.
It’s a way to take a breath.”
"But...but, even if my hundred thousand men are able to defeat Okawa's troops at first, but after the enemy slows down and sends a large army to encircle and suppress me, I will still lose."
"I said, we will lose this battle. In fact, we have already lost. It's just a matter of losing in a disgraceful way.
Can you withdraw your troops and return to your country? If you cannot withdraw, your monarch will not agree, and neither will the enemy on the other side.
I've said it before, you 100,000 people are actually dead since you arrived here. I just gave you a decent way to die.
Besides, your 100,000 people are dead, there are still many armies in the country, there are still 50,000 armies in the south, and the young and middle-aged people in your country are still there, what are you afraid of?...
If you don’t lose and you don’t die, how can the king of Hami think that this battle can’t be fought? He will still send troops in a steady stream, and more people in Hami will have to die."
Ganbul was silent. He sat on the chair and covered his face with his hands. After thinking for a long time, he raised his head, his eyes were already red.
"Okay, I can lead the troops in the final charge and exchange lives with Dachuan.
But, how are you going to return home with 50,000 elite troops? Can you go back?"
Talmu smiled slightly and said leisurely,
"You're going to die, why are you keeping the food? Give it to me."