Chapter 6663 Luck

Chapter 6663 Luck
Originally, it was not so easy for Fu Ward to escape. After all, he led more than 2,000 men, and the Qiang army surrounded him from all sides. Even though he had stayed in the Zhangzhung Dynasty for so many years and disguised himself as a useless Zhangzhung servant without any flaws, it was not so easy for him to escape facing the Qiang army's blockade on all sides and the situation of being identified in batches.

But the Qiang people's "elite" scouts had very sufficient evidence to prove that the Kushan elite had fled on horseback, so after receiving the news, as long as the Qiang leader was smart, he would definitely mobilize people to capture the Kushan elite on horseback.

Of course, they would definitely doubt whether Fu Ward was deliberately creating confusion to divert their attention, but considering that their own military strength was more than twenty times that of Fu Ward, there was no need to think about it and they could just send out 50,000 to 60,000 troops to chase and kill him.

In this way, there will definitely be loopholes in the blockade of Zhangzhung, and what Fuward has to do is to take advantage of these loopholes and escape with the private soldiers of the Zhangzhung nobles. After all, the Han Dynasty's treatment of the Zhangzhung nobles was too harsh and bloody, and basically they were all killed.

But to be honest, after learning about the outrageous actions of the Zhangzhung nobles, Fu Ward fully understood the Han Dynasty's large-scale killing of the Zhangzhung nobles. Because as a normal person, standing on the standpoint of human beings, Fu Ward also felt that it was necessary for him to beat these bastards to death.

All kinds of outrageous magic weapons seem a bit too much in Fuward's opinion. Killing people is not enough. The operation of making magic weapons by you can no longer be simply described as "killing people". It completely highlights the dark bottom of human beings. It is too normal to be chased and hacked.

Therefore, it was completely reasonable for Fuward, who pretended to be a Zhangzhung noble, to flee northward with a large number of servants and elite troops when the Qiang soldiers approached the Zhangzhung capital. After all, as a Zhangzhung noble, it would be strange if he did not seize the time to escape before the city was broken after realizing that the Qiang people were going to give him a complete ascension.

Moreover, considering the biodiversity of the Zhangzhung nobles, it was completely reasonable for them to let their own serfs who did not even have armor to cover the rear and hold back the Qiang people when they were being chased, and then they continued to run away with some of the serfs. Of course, it was also reasonable for the Qiang people to continue chasing them.

If the pursuit continued for three to five days, Fu Ward, who was divided into three groups heading north, would definitely be exposed. After all, the number of Xiangxiong serfs under his command was limited. After they were all used up, he would naturally mobilize his own core elite troops. After his strength was exposed, the Qiang people would definitely pursue him frantically.

Fortunately, the Qiang people's numbers and capabilities were sufficient to find any traces of Fu Ward's escape to the south within three days. Then, as Fu Ward had estimated, the Qiang people pushed their military advantage to the limit and dispatched 50,000 to 60,000 people to hunt down the branch team heading south.

In this way, Fuward, who was heading north, successfully jumped out of the first layer of encirclement and entered the Qiangtang grassland. What he had to do next was to wait for Sidney to lead the half of the troops heading south, and while the Qiang people completed the encirclement in the southwest, he would jump out of the encirclement from the previously determined position.

Of course, this operation is very difficult, and there is a high probability that they will encounter a Qiang blocking team. However, according to the mobility of Sidney and his elite camel cavalry, it is very likely that they will be blocked by a Qiang team when they rush to the vicinity of the designated gathering location near the Qiangtang grassland.

By that time, Fu Ward was in the north, Sidney was in the south, and a Qiang army of five to six thousand people was intercepting in the middle. As long as the fighter plane was not too bad, Fu Ward would most likely be able to lead most of his elite troops to break through the Qiang blockade and enter the Qiangtang grassland.

However, this was also the most dangerous moment, because although such a reunion successfully escaped the first layer of encirclement of the Qiang people, it would also attract all the attention of the Qiang people. Even if there was a time difference, Fu Ward would have to quickly escape the second layer of encirclement and wait for the main force led by Lin Dai to chase him from behind. Under the pincer attack, unless Fu Ward turned into a military soul on the spot, he would die suddenly on the same day or the next day.

There are too many Qiang people, and as long as Lin Dai has a sound mind, he will definitely hold on to the highly mobile cavalry with one man and three horses tightly, and will not release them until there is confirmed news. The super high mobility brought by one man and three horses means that if Fu Ward cannot quickly seize the opportunity to jump out of the second blockade, he will definitely be caught up.

After all, Qiangtang is a grassland. Only by entering the northern Tibetan Plateau can Fuward rely on infantry to escape the Qiang people's pursuit. Only by successfully crossing the second blockade and entering the plateau and mountainous areas of northern Tibet can he launch the subsequent plan to enter Kushan.

In fact, as long as Fuward could enter the plateau and mountainous areas in northern Tibet, the Qiang people would pose little pressure on him. All he had to deal with was the non-combat damage caused by the extreme climate.

As for why Fuward, who also has cavalry, is worried about not having enough time, it is very simple. On the one hand, the mobility is determined by the slowest personnel in the legion. On the other hand, the yak cavalry under Sidney will definitely be exhausted during the subsequent high-speed march.

From the very beginning of implementing this plan, Masinde had calculated the mobility of both sides. This was almost the only area where Fuward could completely overwhelm the Qiang people. The elite camel cavalry, even without camels, far surpassed the Qiang people in terms of endurance and mobility. The only thing to consider was the elite Qiang cavalry of the Qiang people, with each man having three horses.

Fu Ward's years were not spent in vain. Although he had not considered running away earlier, he had also thought about how to fight the Qiang people, how to cross the blockade of the Han army, and how to improve his own combat effectiveness. The core talent of camel cavalry is quality sharing, which means that the soldiers have one-fifth of the quality of the camel. Relying on this talent, the camel cavalry soldiers can display amazing combat effectiveness even if they don't have any fancy tricks.

In the past few years in Tibet, Fuward has dug deep into this elite talent. While further developing the talent to share one-third of the qualities, he has also developed a new way to use it, which is to allow the mount to acquire certain qualities of humans.

At that time, Fuward's idea was to let the mount obtain another elite talent of the rider, that is, to rely on the special effects of the elite talent to give the mount a real elite talent. In this way, he could be regarded as an alternative achievement of three talents, and with Rahul's Peacock Legion as a reference, the comprehensive strength was definitely among the best. However, this idea undoubtedly failed.

Logically speaking, it is logical to let others obtain an elite talent by relying on the special effects of the elite talent, but this logic is only achieved by one legion in the whole world, and that is the sacrifice talent of the 11th Loyal Claudius.

Huangfu Song looked at the elite talent of the 11th Legion of Rome for a long time and felt that it was completely different from the sacrificial talent he had learned.

Under such circumstances, there is basically no hope for Fuward to develop it.

But sometimes, as long as you are on the path to success, even before reaching the final result, there will be some so-called failed products. These failed products also have their own value. Fuward's failed product is that when camel riding qualities are shared, the rider's characteristics can also be shared with the mount when sharing the mount's qualities.

Theoretically speaking, if a rider has a very thorough understanding of a certain elite talent and repeatedly shares this trait with the mount, the mount will master this elite talent on its own.

As a veteran of the battlefield and a Northern Noble officer who had seen peacocks wreak havoc on the battlefield, Fu Ward realized almost instantly how to use this thing. However, Fu Ward had never had the opportunity to use this trait before. This time he simply shared human endurance with the yak, and then put a circle of warhorse hooves on the yak.

There is no other meaning, it is just a disguise to let the Qiang people realize that Fu Ward still has an elite cavalry that has not been used. This is Fu Ward's real main force.

As a nomadic people, the Qiang people would naturally believe that cavalry is the main force. Considering that the famous Fuward Legion is camel-ridden, with the presence of war horses, there is no problem in exerting 80% of its combat effectiveness.

So this cavalry that has never appeared before appeared at this time, and it was confirmed that the opponent was indeed the elite Kushans, so it was self-evident what the opponent would be.

As a nomadic people who have survived since ancient times, the Qiang people are very clear about the limits of horses. Unless they have special talents, the distance a warhorse can maneuver at high speed is limited. Even when traveling long distances, if they cannot change horses, the mobility of a warhorse is not as good as that of a human on foot.

Therefore, when the Qiang people were setting up the encirclement, they would definitely consider the situation when the camel cavalry broke through. They would even infer, based on Fuward's talent structure, how long it would take and how far the camel cavalry could run when their talents burst out in the final stage.

This concerns how the Qiang people should blockade and surround the camel cavalry. Fuward believes that this thing, which has long been integrated into the instincts of nomadic peoples, will definitely drive the Qiang people to make the most correct judgment.

However, the camel riders led by Sidney were actually yaks. The explosive power of cattle is not as good as that of war horses, and their mobility is relatively average, but cattle have very good endurance. And if they share the endurance of humans, the mobility of yaks as mounts will be even more outrageous.

Apart from other things, under the condition of reasonable distribution of physical strength, although the maximum speed is still far away from that of a warhorse, considering the burst and endurance of a warhorse without the blessing of talent, it can only run for dozens of miles in one breath, and then needs a long time to rest. The yak can run forward non-stop. In this way, the yak will have a great advantage in the distance moved throughout the day.

In other words, the Qiang people set up an encirclement to deal with the highly mobile war horses, but when faced with the camel cavalry headquarters riding yaks, the yak cavalry would break through the encirclement before it could close.

Of course, when Sidney chose to return north, he could not hide the fact that he was riding a yak, and would definitely be discovered by the Qiang people. Then the Qiang people's blockade line would be adjusted to a certain extent. But considering the overall mobility difference, unless Sidney was too unlucky, he would not be surrounded by more than two Qiang blockade teams at the same time when he jumped out of the blockade.

However, the yak used as a mount must have been run to death after being treated like this by this group of people.

During the subsequent retreat, the camel riders could only rely on their own legs. Of course, considering the quality of the soldiers, they still had an advantage over ordinary Qiang troops, but they were much worse than the elite Qiang cavalry that Lin Dai had been suppressing.

And the most crucial thing is that even if the combat effectiveness of that elite Qiang cavalry is not as good as Fu Ward's headquarters, as long as they catch up with Fu Ward, Fu Ward will not have to run away. The Qiang people will definitely stick to Fu Ward like a dog-skin plaster, delaying Fu Ward's marching speed, and then let tens of thousands of main forces surround Fu Ward from all directions and completely kill him.

Considering that after crossing the first encirclement, Lin Dai would definitely summon the nearby Qiang people to blockade, because Fu Ward's position in the Qiangtang area would definitely be exposed when Sidney jumped out of the encirclement, Fu Ward, who was fixed, would face the second blockade and there was no way he could use tactics to get past the Qiang people like he did with the first blockade.

That is to say, the second encirclement can only be fought head-on, and it must be resolved quickly without any delay. This is why Fu Ward stopped there after arriving in Qiangtang, because with only more than 2,000 people, it is possible for him to break through the second encirclement at this time as long as his luck is not too bad, but if he wants to break through quickly...

Stop dreaming. It's nonsense for two thousand people to break through the northwest blockade of at least ten thousand people, or thirty or fifty thousand if you're unlucky. No matter how powerful Fu Ward is, it will be difficult for him to break through the Qiang tribe's young and strong men who are prepared to die in battle.

Therefore, Fu Ward had to wait for Sidney to reunite with him, even though their position would be exposed and there would be some casualties when they reunited. However, the efficiency of more than 4,000 people breaking through the blockade of 10,000 people was more than twice as high as that of 2,000 people breaking through the blockade of 10,000 people.

On the seventh day of blocking Fuward's southward detachment, Sidney encountered the third team heading south. After joining forces, he decisively headed north. Then, on the same day, he happened to meet the fourth camel cavalry heading south. After that, he no longer considered whether he was exposed and ran all the way to the north.

"The camel rider is actually a yak!" Zhang Ji was stunned at first after receiving the news, and then instantly realized what Masinde meant when he specifically told Fu Ward not to have a war horse before leaving.

"They put a layer of hoods on the yaks' feet, which made us misjudge the opponent's mount based on the footprints. They must have a special talent that can enhance the mobility of yaks." Lin Dai expressed his judgment angrily, but it was already somewhat too late.

What was shared in the early days was human mobility. With human mobility plus the mobility and endurance of yaks, there is no problem with the marching speed of cavalry. Of course, the most important point is that the mobility of the Qiang people without war horses is indeed not high.

"Lin Dai, you continue to chase and kill Fu Ward, I'll go find Mashind." Zhang Ji felt that it was necessary for him to talk to Mashind. The other party had not left yet. Although he was far away from here, as long as he had not left, it meant that the other party was still concerned about something.

"When Zhuzhi received the news, he had already sent people to notify the troops in the north of the first layer of encirclement, but I don't know if they can make it in time." Lin Dai said with a somewhat ugly expression.

"It's enough to notify them. Now we just need to do our best. Even if Fu Ward breaks out, there is still a second encirclement. It's okay. Even if they all break out, there are still local legions stationed in Xinzhou." Although Zhang Ji had a bad feeling in his heart, he tried to comfort Lin Dai as calmly as possible, and kept telling himself that it didn't matter whether Fu Ward died at the hands of the Qiang people or not. As long as the Qiang people didn't suffer too much loss, it was a victory. The rest was just a matter of winning more or less. It was all a win!

"I'll pay attention. I'm now notifying the leaders of the second encirclement to strengthen the blockade." Lin Dai said with a gloomy face. Only with Zhang Ji's comfort did his expression get a little better, at least he could barely smile.

After trying his best to appease Lin Dai and make him realize that as long as the Qiang people did not suffer too much loss, it would be a success. Then Zhang Ji immediately went to the Fa Qiang tribe in the east to find Masinde.

"Fuward is about to break out of the encirclement." After seeing Masinde, Zhang Ji did not give the other party any room to ask questions and went straight to the point.

"Is that so? That's normal." Masinde said after a moment of silence. Before Zhang Ji could ask what was going on with Fu Ward, Masinde interrupted him and said, "Don't ask me about this matter. I won't interfere. I'm just waiting for a result here. Whether Fu Ward rushes out or dies, I will accept it."

Zhang Ji gritted his teeth and wanted to ask Mashind more questions, but Mashind interrupted Zhang Ji's thoughts as soon as he opened his mouth, making Zhang Ji unable to speak.

"Have some tea and wait here." Masinde asked Assam to pour a bowl of tea for the two of them. After pushing it to Zhang Ji, Masinde said calmly, "You can't change anything there. Just wait for the result here with me. Whenever something big happens, you must stay calm."

Zhang Ji looked at Masinde and felt a little angry, but he didn't know what to say.

"Anger can't solve any problems. You should think about what you should do." Mashind continued to persuade, and Zhang Ji drank the tea given by Mashind with a gloomy face. Then he felt dizzy for no apparent reason. Just as he was about to open his mouth to curse, he fell on the table.

"Really? Since this young man doubts me and hasn't made up his mind, he really needs a lesson. Go, carry him back and wait until he wakes up." Masinde said unhappily. He knew that Zhang Ji would come to him and would be angry, but considering that he had the endorsement of Chen Xi and Li You, he would definitely not betray the Han Dynasty, so when he doubted, he did not doubt it completely.

In that case, what else is there to say? Prepare a bowl of Ma Fei San and knock Zhang Ji down directly. When Zhang Ji wakes up, he will naturally calm down.

Zhang Ji slept for a whole day and a night. He had not had a good rest since he followed Lin Dai on the attack all the way. Later, he faced the exciting pursuit of Fu Ward, and he had not had a good sleep for many times. After being knocked unconscious by Masinde, the protection mechanism of his body was stimulated, and Zhang Ji woke up feeling refreshed.

"Awake?" Masinde received a notification from Assam after Zhang Ji woke up. Seeing the other party rushing towards him, he did not care. When the other party rushed into his residence, Masinde had already asked someone to set up a table of food.

"How dare you drug me!" Zhang Ji roared at Masinde angrily.

Ma Xinde glanced at Zhang Ji calmly, "Why don't you dare?"

Zhang Ji was stunned for a moment, then realized something, pulled out a chair and sat down. After smelling the fragrance of the food, Zhang Ji instantly felt hungry.

"Let's eat. We'll talk after you're done." Masinde said calmly, holding a small bowl.

"You didn't poison me this time, did you?" Zhang Ji asked with a sneer.

"You don't have to eat it." Masinde said with a smile.

Zhang Ji picked up the bowl and started eating the meat and dishes on the table. After eating, Zhang Ji calmed down.

"Whether Fuward can withdraw to Kushan is actually uncertain, and I can't be sure. If you want me to give a reason, you should have an idea when you consider that an old man like me is still waiting here for the result." Masinde said calmly after scraping the millet in the bowl.

"I think you know, but you don't want to say it." Zhang Ji looked at Masinde and said.

"It's meaningless to talk about the heart." Masinde sighed.

Zhang Ji was silent for a while, then stood up and bowed, "Thank you for your education."

"Would you like to wait here with me for the result, or go with the neighbors?" Masinde did not refuse Kai Zhang's salute. After accepting it, he asked.

"I'd better stay with Lin Dai and the others. No matter we succeed or fail, it will be a complete journey." Zhang Ji thought about it for a while and still felt that if he stayed with Masinde, Masinde might have some plans. Although he was not worried that Masinde would target them, Zhang Ji was still somewhat skeptical about Masinde's treatment of Fu Ward. What exactly did the emphasis on the absence of war horses imply? It is indeed worth talking about.

"Then go ahead." Masinde said indifferently, and Zhang Ji left quickly.

"Assam, there is a high probability that Fuward can run back to Kushan with half of his people." Masinde suddenly said after Zhang Ji left.

"Ah, isn't it a life-or-death situation, or even a zero chance of survival?" Assam said in disbelief.

"Fu Ward sent people to assassinate the governor of Xinzhou, and by accident he assassinated Doctor Liu. Even if the Han Dynasty investigators in Xinzhou Yanbian are aware of this, it is probably too late. After receiving the news that the central court officials were assassinated, the legions in Xinzhou Yanbian were probably forced to retreat. Fu Ward can take this opportunity to go down to Tibet and then go up to Tibet." Masinde said with some emotion.

"Is this his plan?" Assam was shocked that Fuward had such a long-term vision.

"It's luck," said Masinde.

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