Qiang Qin

In the period of cold weapons at the turn of the AD, the strength of a country and the ability of its leaders are the most important factors.

The Qin State unified the six countries because of the strength of the first emperor, and lost the country because of the reckless actions of the second Huhai. Now, the revival of the new Qin has proved Li Yuan's lofty status that no one can replace.

This is the case with Qin.

The same goes for Western countries.

It has been more than 30 years since the Wusun Kingdom moved to the Ili Valley. Among these 25 years, the first [-] years were oppressed and bullied. Sun chose to form an alliance with Qin, a powerful country in the east, and defeated the Da Yuezhi who had oppressed him for several years in one fell swoop.

Occupying the fertile Ili River Valley, their power spread to the western foot of Tianshan Mountain. When Wusun continued to move towards the goal of prosperity, their most wise king, Lie Jiaomi, was seriously injured and died.

When the bad news came out, the whole country of Wusun was devastated.

It is impossible for the young new king and the broken army to stop the Huns who are rushing like tigers. In desperation, Wusun sent several envoys eastward to Daqin for help.

This day in late May.

Several Wusun envoys trekked thousands of rivers and mountains, and arrived at the Kongque River at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in embarrassment. Here they were pleasantly surprised to see a big banner with a bloody red bottom and black as ink.

"Daqin, the heavenly soldiers of Daqin are here." Surprised and surprised, Wusun's emissary almost scrambled forward. After being devastated by the Huns, the Wusun people were like lost children meeting their long-lost relatives. Same.

This feeling of being separated from home is unique to every ethnic group who is forced to migrate from the Hexi area, whether it is Wusun or Da Yuezhi, it is also derived from this unique emotion in the blood. Let these descendants of Hexi always have admiration for the civilization of the East.

In the border area between Daxia and Wusun, there are also nine small countries from the foot of the Qilian Mountains, including Kang, Shi, Mi, and Cao. These small countries are not strong now.But after more than [-] years, the nine surnames of Zhaowu in Sogdia they represent have left a lot in Central Asia.

The situation in the Western Regions changed dramatically.

The Qin army who conquered the west couldn't help speeding up the pace of marching, and the first part of the Qin army to the west of Tianshan Mountain was the scouts of the Baiyang tribe.

Back then, Li Yuan insisted on saving Baiyang Guifang's kindness, and now it's time to repay it.This time, the witch Wang Jinxi did not accompany the army. Instead of leading the scout team, it was Lin Geer, the number one warrior in the tribe, who was only a member of the young children.

Brother Lin looks fat and tough.He has the brave spirit of his ancestors. In the past few years, he first joined the Hexi cavalry team of the Qin State. Not only did he practice his horsemanship, but he also grew into a grassroots leader of the army.As for Jinxi, he put the prosperity and reproduction of the tribe at the most important position in life.

The white sheep tribe is now living in the weak water area of ​​the Qilian Mountains. The recovery momentum of the tribe is extremely gratifying. The increasingly rich material life, the growing and newborn cattle, sheep, and human population all show the tenacity of this small grassland tribe that has gone through hardships .

The facts also make every Aries understand.In order for the tribe to prosper further, the Baiyang tribe can only integrate itself more into the interior of Qin.In the face of choosing between civilization and ignorance, Aries has taken the most critical step, which is the result of this kind of integration.Even if they were eventually assimilated by the Central Plains civilization, they would have no regrets.

Participate in the conquest.

It is a necessary reward for the Aries tribe.

There are a total of [-] brave soldiers of Hundred Wars, all of them are young and middle-aged men, and they are all warriors in the long march back to the east a few years ago.When Lin Geer led the warriors of the Baiyang tribe to follow the Wusun envoy to the Yili Valley, what they saw was the disastrous state of the Wusun king.

The capital of the countries of the Western Regions.

Different from the blue brick and stone walls, deep ditches and high moats in the Central Plains, the farming peoples in the Central Plains prefer cities.It is unmatched by any nation on this planet.This deep-rooted belief has been integrated into the blood, and there is the Great Wall, a thousand-mile dragon that symbolizes oriental civilization.

In the area of ​​the Western Regions, there are many countries, and the battles between the grassland peoples for the right to survival keep coming and going. The birth and death of a country are as common as the rising and setting of the sun.The nomads here are bold by nature and don't like trifles, so they are not interested in building houses and city walls. It can only build a few walls of earth.

This kind of defense is obviously impossible to stop the wolves and tigers of the Huns, and the loess wall that is less than a person is leaped over by a tall horse, and the most eye-catching place in the king's city, the only third-story earthen building of King Wusun, is also there. Burned to ruins in the fire.As for the unlucky little prince who had just ascended the throne for more than ten days, his head was directly chopped off by the Huns and hung on the flagpole of the city gate on the earthen wall as a proof to deter the Wusun people.

Anyone who has anything to do with the Qin State, the country will be destroyed, and the clan will be punished, regardless of men, women, or children, they will all die.

The swords held high by the Huns gleamed frighteningly under the light of the sun, moon and stars. He Lianbi's plan was very clear. This was to use Wusun as an example to warn all ethnic groups in the Western Regions to stay away from Qin.

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Auntie under the city.

The base camp of the Qin army is located.

This time, Qin's western army marched westward in three routes. The southern army was led by the new king of Loulan and commander-in-chief of the coalition forces Li Zhongxiang. From Loulan, Jingjue, and Khotan, they marched along the Kunlun Mountains to Shule and Yuehu.

The troops on the northern front were commanded by Deputy Marshal Han Xin, King of Yan. The Youyan cavalry set out from the Beihai and Hannan River areas, bypassed the Altai Mountains, and went straight to the habitat of the Huns in the north of the Altai Mountains. As for the Central Route Army, Li Yuan He personally commanded and marched along the foot of Tianshan Mountain to Congling and Yili River Valley.

The news that the scouts from the Aries Department sent back to Wusun State in an emergency surprised the generals of the Qin Army who were immersed in optimism. In their impression, the Huns were just a group of wild dogs who were beaten and fled. No matter how much he fluttered, he couldn't turn up any big waves, but he didn't expect that after Helianbi annexed the Huyan tribe, he suddenly became arrogant.

In the king's tent of the Chinese army.

Li Yuan quickly convened the generals of the Central Route Army to discuss the countermeasures. The fall of Wusun not only made Qin lose a trusted ally, but more seriously, the Qin army in the Western Expedition lacked one. At the foothold west of Congling, without the support of reliable local tribes, the Qin army came from afar and was unfamiliar with the place. It became more difficult to gain a long-term foothold in Central Asia.

"Your Majesty, we can't let the Huns do whatever they want. We must quickly find them and defeat them, so that everyone who trusts me, Great Qin, understands that only we can save them—!" Ji Xin stood among the generals and said in a low voice. , with regret on his face.

As the general of the Qin army who has the most contact with Lie Jiaomi, Ji Xin still admires this young and suffering alien ally, not only in terms of personal feelings, but more because of Lie Jiaomi's admiration for Eastern civilization, and this This kind of admiration rises to the level of the king of a country, and it is even more the leader of the people's trends and thoughts.

"The Huns occupied Wusun and Daxia in just two months. With the wealth and slaves of these two countries, Helianbi's strength has skyrocketed. We must not underestimate the enemy and rush forward?" Unlike Ji Xin, Luo Jia, Cao Xin, and Li Zuoche from the Qin-Hungarian border all looked dignified.

Out of a deep understanding of the situation of the Huns, the appearance of the name He Lianbi raised the vigilance of these battle-hardened generals.

Once Lie Jiaomi died, the spokesperson of Qin State in Central Asia would be gone. This is a fatal point.The generals of the Qin army talked a lot for a while,

"Everyone is quiet. The Wusun Kingdom has been destroyed. We have lost our intended allies. This is a difficult problem posed to us by the Huns. What should we do? Each of our generals must have a good understanding of the vast area west of Congling before answering. Let's see who our opponent is?" When everyone had different opinions, Li Yuan's voice sounded like a bell and a drum.

What is the west side of the Western Regions?Which nation and which country is ruling is a mystery to the conquerors from the East.

If Li Yuan wasn't a person who traveled through the ages, then he would be equally confused.And if this confusion continues, it will cause strategic differences for the Qin army.

"Go west, keep going west, until you reach the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea, until you reach the end of another civilization." Since the Western Expedition, Li Yuan has always had such a thought in his heart.

The strong Qin of the East.

Rome of the West.

Will we meet?

History has no answers.The farthest journey recorded by the Orientals in the historical records of this era is Zhang Qian's three missions, and the places he set foot are only in the Congling area.

Under the eyes of the generals, Li Yuan slowly described the history of civilizations in the Western Regions, Central Asia, West Asia, and Mesopotamia. People are emotional and excited.

Onion Ridge.

In ancient Chinese legends, the biography of Mu Tianzi recorded that "the mountain is tall and there are green onions on it", so it got its name.Its geographical location actually refers to the area around the Pamir Plateau.

In the traditional sense, Congling is also the dividing line between Eastern civilization and Western civilization. The power of Qin State developed in the Western Regions east of Congling and the north and south of Tianshan Mountains. The influence should be more powerful. Of course, the Persian Empire is now in the afterglow of the sunset. As its successor, Anxi is still on the shelf, but its strength is no longer the same as the most prosperous period that defeated the ancient Greek civilization.

If you point to the west from Anxi, the Pan-Hellenistic Seleucid Empire, which split from the Macedonian Empire, is still there. Antiochus III, who has just ascended the position of emperor, looks a bit like a rejuvenating emperor. After successive victories in the eastward campaign, the Anxi people and the moon guardians were beaten into a mess.

To the west of Seleucid is the rising Roman Republic. During this period, Rome has not yet reached the peak of the imperial era. Its consul is Zeppelin who just defeated Hannibal in the Second Punic War. As for the conquest of the east, the Romans had already occupied the Greek peninsula and gradually extended their sphere of influence to the eastern part of the Mediterranean. (To be continued..)