After hearing this, Liu Tan was suddenly enlightened. No wonder he suddenly felt that there were fewer people in the camp. Then he felt a little puzzled. What could have made Lu Xuan so anxious that he didn't even say goodbye to him?
He asked, "Did the little Kunmi say anything?"
The man said, "Little Kunmi left a letter for you."
Liu Tan dismounted and took the letter. The handwriting was very sloppy, and it was obvious that Lu Xuan was really anxious. However, the letter only said that some things had happened in the royal city and he needed to go back to deal with them. He would come to Liu Tan again after that.
Liu Tan couldn't help but frown as he read the letter. He had a hunch that something serious must have happened in Little Wusun. Compared to the previous time they were attacked, the first thing Lu Xuan should do after regaining consciousness is to return to the royal city to appease the people and handle government affairs.
But at that time he kept dragging his feet and didn't go back. It seemed that he only returned to the royal city once when Liu Tan ran away to build the city.
Liu Tan looked at the paper and wanted to know what happened to Lu Xuan, but he also felt that it was not good to interfere in other people's internal affairs.
He suddenly remembered the insults the Xiongnu cavalry had said to him earlier, turned to Miao Rui and said a few words, then asked, "What does this mean?"
Miao Rui was stunned at first, his expression filled with disbelief. After understanding Liu Tan's question, he cautiously said, "Your Highness...where did you hear that?"
Liu Tan asked, "What did the Xiongnu cavalry mean by that?"
Miao Rui said, "That's a threat. They say Wu Shilu has assembled a large army and is ready to attack the royal city at any time, and they told Your Highness not to be complacent. They also said Your Highness can't protect it. They are exaggerating."
No one took this statement seriously. If the gathering of a large army could make people alert, no one would take the latter part of the statement seriously.
They even attacked the royal city. Could they take Chang'an whenever they wanted? I'm afraid the Huns wouldn't even be able to get through Yumen Pass!
However, Liu Tan's expression changed instantly after hearing this. He widened his eyes and said, "Not good! Quick, quick, gather the troops. Have Li Buyan take a thousand men and stay behind to finish off the mess. Wei Buyi, take the rest and follow me!"
Bi Gao looked bewildered: "Your Highness?"
Liu Tan said, "This is what the Xiongnu cavalry said to Lu Xuan. The Xiongnu must have gone there if something happened in the Little Wusun Royal City!"
Miao Rui couldn't help but pull Liu Tan aside and said, "Your Highness, the Little Wusun is far superior to the Jie Kingdom. If the Xiongnu attack the Little Wusun, they will certainly send more cavalry, perhaps tens of thousands of soldiers. Bringing only 3,000 soldiers to aid the Little Kunmi may not be of much use."
Liu Tan looked at him and said, "You are so powerful and so good at predicting things. Do you want me to keep you at the border to predict the Xiongnu's movements?"
Miao Rui: ...
Liu Tan really couldn't help it. Everything Miao Rui did was a prediction. According to this line of thinking, he shouldn't have even attacked Jie Country. They were a country, and how could he defeat them with such a small number of people?
However, in reality, the scale of such a country is not even as large as the small villages and towns in later generations.
What's more, Liu Tan brought people there partly to see if he could provide support, but more importantly, to deliver medicine!
Lu Xuan came all the way here. Although the Xiongnu's decision to attack the Wusun should have nothing to do with him killing the Xiongnu cavalry, he still had to acknowledge and repay this favor.
Bigo walked up to Miao Rui and poked him: "What are you doing? Do you think you can stop His Highness?"
Miao Rui was completely desperate: "If anything happens to His Highness..."
Before he could finish, Bigo poked him again: "Shut up! Your Highness is so lucky, how could there be any mistakes?"
Miao Rui also realized that what he said was not right and couldn't help but slap himself, but he still went to pack up his things with a worried look on his face.
Although Liu Tan was very anxious and planned to march quickly, his little white horse seemed to disagree.
Liu Tan was reluctant to hit it hard. Seeing that the entire team was being dragged down by him, he had to leave behind a team of people to protect himself, and let Wei Buyi take the rest first.
Wei Buyi was silent for a long moment before he said, "Your Highness, where is the capital of the Little Wusun?"
Liu Tan: ...
You really asked the right person. Actually, he didn't know where to look.
So they went directly to their previous base. The Wusun soldiers stationed there might have evacuated, but the wounded were definitely still there.
After Liu Tan and his team arrived at the base, they found that the people in the small village had basically evacuated, and the remaining wounded seemed to be preparing to evacuate as well.
Liu Tan's heart tightened, thinking that the situation must have developed to a very serious level, otherwise even the people here would not be implicated.
Most of the people in Xiao Wusun knew Liu Tan. After seeing Liu Tan and even knowing that he came to help, many people cried out and said something at the same time.
However... Liu Tan didn't understand.
He was extremely anxious, but fortunately there was Miao Rui beside him. However, Miao Rui was also a beginner, and the Wusun language had different accents in different places. Miao Rui was sweating profusely, and finally he simply asked them about the location of the royal city, and only then did he get the accurate direction.
At this time, many ideas were running through Liu Tan's mind. He began to ask people to transfer the wounded to the new city first. The people of Xiao Wusun had also thought about taking these wounded big men away, but the wounded big men themselves refused to leave, and the language was not well communicated, so a stalemate occurred on both sides.
On the one hand, they wanted to take them to a refuge out of kindness, but on the other hand, they suspected that these foreigners were trying to cheat them.
At this moment, Liu Tan really understood the significance of Qin Shihuang's unified writing system. Language barriers can easily lead to many misunderstandings.
However, in this case, the number of people under his command was once again reduced a lot, because transferring the wounded also required people.
Liu Tan calmed himself down, looked around, pointed at the rammed earth house he had built earlier, and said, "Take out everything inside, find a place to bury it, and then smash it down!"
Even if other things were ignored, this one had to be destroyed. He didn't even want to give the distillation technology to Lu Xuan, so how could he leave it here and let the Huns take advantage of it?
Not to mention, his men may not be good at other things, but they are definitely good at destruction.
During this process, he asked people to get as many bags of quicklime as possible, which was probably the only most lethal thing he had at the moment.
After settling the wounded and evacuating the people escorting Xiao Wusun, Liu Tan led his men quickly to the Xiao Wusun royal city.
The capital of Xiao Wusun was located in an oasis. Lu Xuan had occasionally described it as a very beautiful place.
However, when Liu talked about the place, he only saw charred grass and some dead animals along the way.
The only thing that could comfort him was that no human body had been found so far.
He even thought that perhaps Lu Xuan had the situation under control, and perhaps the Wusun people had resisted the Xiongnu, so the losses were not that great.
However, in the middle of the night, when he arrived near the small Wusun royal city, he could only see the city engulfed in flames from afar.
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