The forwards of Xie An's department arrived half a day earlier than scheduled, and they met Li Kuang's department in the early morning.
The troops would arrive early in the morning, and of course march overnight.
In this way, Xie An received Li Kuang's report, and decisively made the cavalry in the army not sympathetic to the physical strength of the war horse, and adopted a wild march mode.
Before the arrival of the follow-up troops, Li Kuang did not just sit and watch the changes on the side of the Western Regions Alliance, he sent troops to test, the Western Regions people resisted, but they actually let the Western Regions Corps capture part of the camp of the coalition army.
When Li Kuang received that he had sent troops to defeat the coalition army and capture part of the eastern camp, he was extremely confused about what the people of the Western Regions were doing, especially since the Western Regions Corps had just launched a tentative attack, and the Bailongdui coalition army camp was infighting again, and the Shanshan people also contacted the Western Regions Corps later.
The envoys sent by the Shanshan people were very undisciplined, and when they saw the Han people, they knelt down and called Dad in an instant, and the behavior and attitude made all the Han people present stunned.
An invasion, a reconquest, was able to encounter the "sons" who had been separated for decades, but those "sons" were too fucked up to do it themselves without prior contact.
The Western Regions Corps was able to easily capture the eastern camp of the coalition army, naturally with the cooperation of the Shanshan people, who not only rushed over and hugged the thighs of the Han father, but also pulled some of the last and the best people.
Bailongdui is not only Shanshanren, and the last and the best people come to hug the thighs of the Han people and shout Dad, crying and shouting praise for the Han Dad, and the horse thief group hired by the Qiuzi people is even more abandoned in batches to surrender to the light, which makes Liu Rui, who leads the breakthrough, cry and laugh at the same time, and at the same time is a little helpless.
The Han people will defect to Shanshan people, because after entering the Shanshan country, there are constantly tribes coming to hug their thighs, and they have been psychologically prepared before. will be caught off guard because Shanshanren's defection has not been talked about at all, and there is no contact at all in advance.
"If Shanshan people contact in advance, we can achieve greater results under our operation" Fan Jin was very dissatisfied with Shanshan's reckless behavior, and felt that he had wasted the stage for his strategy: "Their brains are too lacking in tendons" Xie An was the first to sit in the first seat to listen to the report.
In fact, he didn't anticipate the development of the situation, not that he didn't think that there would be people from the Western Regions defecting, but the way the people from the Western Regions defected was too arbitrary, and he didn't think about whether the defection would be accepted by the Han people.
"We have taken control of the east side of Bailongdui and formed a standoff situation with the enemy army."
Fan Jin stood next to a military map and introduced Xie An to the latest overview of the map: "The three major powers, led by the Qiuzi people, the Shule people, and the Khotanese people, are still resisting, and they rely on this wetland. ” The military map roughly depicts the current distribution of friends and enemies in Bailongdui, and the terrain is also marked.
With the existence of those "sons" who rushed over to call their fathers, the Han people had a more detailed understanding of Bailongdui.
There are wetlands in the Western Regions, and the impression of the Central Plains in the Western Regions is that the Gobi is everywhere, but in fact, it is not the case.
The area of the Western Regions is very large, as vast as the Central Plains, most of the area is grassland, there is no shortage of mountains with very high altitudes, and some large lakes are surrounded by wetlands and even swamps.
"Swamp" Xie An nodded slightly: "The hussar general went to crusade against the disobedient high chariots, and when he entered the enemy's territory for more than two hundred miles, he also found a boundless swamp. ” Ran Min led his troops to invade Xigaoche, Li Kuang and the others didn't know the news in advance, but they had a guess about Ding Lingren's involvement in the Western Regions, and basically the pot was lost to Ran Min.
Outside the Great Wall, there are many wetlands and swamps on the grassland, especially in the area of abundant rain all year round, the swamps in the south of the desert are still few, and after the desert, the north of the desert is then to the northwest, where there are not only woods and wetlands, but also really have a wide area of swampland.
There is a legend that the first retreat route chosen by the Northern Xiongnu is the current territory of the West Gaoche, they were blocked by the swamp before turning the route to the Western Regions, and the later ones who continued to the west also kept encountering the swamp.
Regardless of whether the legend of the Northern Xiongnu frequently encountering swamps is true, some aspects also show that it is really not an easy thing to go west from the Central Plains, and it is normal to encounter the Gobi, and there are indeed too many deserts and swamps, resulting in only one Hexi Corridor being safer.
Xie An still has done his homework in advance, knowing that the Western Regions is not considered Wusun in the division, and the current big countries are Qiuci, Shule, Khotan and Yanqi, among which Qiuci is rich, Shule is barbaric, Khotan is cultured, and Yanqi is strong in national strength and military.
"We've hosted some Wusun people."
Li Kuang received the Wusun people who wanted to go to Chang'an, each representing their own tribe: "They have mentioned that the territory of Yueban in the west is also full of swamps. ” Xie An didn't want to know what kind of country Yue Ban was now, and that was something he needed to know before moving westward in the future.
Before the Han State marched into the Western Regions, it actually did not expect that it would be the Qiuzi people who raised the banner of resistance against the Han Dynasty, and the original judgment was that Yanqi would become the leader of the anti-Han Dynasty.
The fact is that it has embarrassed quite a few people, Yanqi has not said anything so far after the invasion of the Han Kingdom, but the previously ignored Qiuzi is jumping up and down.
The reason for ignoring Qiuci is very simple, the Han people know that Qiuci was still in the civil war the year before, that is, after Luo Yun killed the Dragon Society, the inevitable contest between the old and new forces in the process of the Bai family's return to power.
A country that has just completed the change of power, in terms of Zhuxia's governing philosophy and practices, shouldn't it be buried in the country to clear the remnants of hostile forces and stabilize the new regime's control over the local area, but the Han people obviously don't know much about the strange place in the Western Regions, the thinking of those strange people.
"Ben will have the permission of the Son of Heaven, and he has already sent envoys to Yanqi and Cheshi."
Xie An has just arrived, and it will take some time to sort out the situation he is facing, but there are some things that have been prepared before he came.
He glanced at the people in the tent and said, "The contradiction between Yanqi and Qiuzi should be exploited. ” Lang Jiang can also call himself a general, but that is a self-proclaimed name to his subordinates.
Although Xie An is not yet a general of Zhengxi, he is only a lieutenant general, and there is nothing wrong with claiming to be a general.
Li Kuang also thought about contacting Yanqi before, but he didn't communicate with the center, and secondly, he was not qualified to do that only as the commander of the vanguard army, and he agreed with Xie An's arrival with such a move.
Yanqi is a country with a very long history, and Yanqi already existed before the Western Han Dynasty entered the Western Regions.
It's just that Yanqi at that time was a small country the size of a bean, and it was a subject country as a driver.
During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Cheshi was constantly pressed to the ground and beaten by the Han people, and the Western Han Dynasty beat the Cheshi into pieces, and Yanqi was developed in the late Western Han Dynasty.
At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yanqi seized the opportunity to occupy Bosten Lake in the Qinhai Sea, annexed the mountain country, subdued Weili and Wei Xu, and even turned over and stiffened the front of the chariot division, and began to drag it up from then on.
It was during the Cao Wei period that Yanqi began to become a great power.
At that time, there was only one rear left in the Che Division, and Gaochang was the station of the Wuji Lieutenant, and the Che Shi people who were subdued by the Han people killed and annexed Pu Class, and subdued the Wu greedy people, the Mi people divided into two parts, the Bilu people, and the Yiwu people, and became a big country that did not lose to Wusun, but the good times did not last long because the Cheshi people themselves buried a good situation in the internal turmoil, and also gave the Yanqi people the opportunity to continue to expand.
Until the Sima family usurped the throne, the Central Plains had no interest or energy to take care of the Western Regions.
During that period, not only the Yanqi people trembled, but all the countries with some strength and ambition began their own expansion path, several times of attack and annexation, the Western Han Dynasty still could count the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions, to the Eastern Jin Dynasty I don't know if there are still twenty, can be regarded as the Western Regions of the big country that is Yanqi, Qiuzi, Khotan and Shule are not counted as Wusun in the division.
"Yanqi not only control the Qin Sea, they also control the territory north of the Kuruktag Mountain Range."
Xi Su is now Xie An's marching history, and it should be time to show his sense of existence: "There is no capital, there are several big cities of Yiwu, Liuzhong, Jiaohe, Weixu, Tiemen, and Wuyi. ” There are many ethnic groups in the Western Regions, some are simple nomadic people, and some are simple farming peoples, and there are more ethnic groups that are both herding and farming.
Xi Su did his homework in advance, because he was the eldest son of the Xi family, Xi Jian's previous connections could be used, and he was also Wang Xizhi's wife and brother.
With Xi Jian's relationship, and because Wang Xizhi was selected by Liu Yan as a doctor of literature, some people in the north will also give Xi Su face, and it is quite simple to check the information in the Western Regions, that is, no one dares to guarantee that the information must be in line with the facts.
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At present, the Western Regions is roughly divided into five parts, the mountain range on the north side of Bailongdui is followed by the territory of Yanqi, the northwest of Qinhai is the territory of the Qiuzi people, the Khotanese River valley is the territory of the Khotanese people, the Lengling and the surrounding areas are the territory of the Shule people, and the north of the Issyk-Kul Lake of Khotanese is the territory of the Wusun people.
The rest of the countries or tribes are actually vassals or vassals of the above five great powers.
Now there are three great countries that are against the Han Dynasty, namely Qiuci, Shule and Khotan, the Qiuci people are the nominal alliance leaders, but the reason why Shule and Khotan ended up was actually under the command of Hunnite and Yue, and the remaining Western Regions people are vassals or hired by the above three countries.
"Shanshan's territory is not small."
Xi Su brought a map of the Western Regions that was originally preserved in the treasury of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and he pointed to the location of the territory belonging to Shanshan on the map that was hung up: "South of Pu Canghai, West Kunlun Mountain is called Nanshan in the East and West Han Dynasty, west of the Qaidam Basin in the basin, and north of the main Kunlun Mountain, all of which are the old territories of Shanshan. ” Everyone looked at the map and could clearly judge the distribution of the territory, and it seemed that the territory of Shanshan people was really not small.
The map was drawn during the Western Jin Dynasty, before the Western Jin Dynasty, the Shanshan people had been supported by the Han people, and even the Han army set up the capital protectorate station in Shanshan, and supported the Shanshan people to annex Xiaowan, Ronglu, Wuqiang, Huni, and Yidun, so that there was a Shanshan country that occupied a huge territory.
Shanshan people did not say that the Han people were defeated by the Han people, but in fact, after the power of the Han people subsided in the Western Regions, Shanshan was indeed besieged by various countries in the Western Regions, and then the Shanshan people themselves were not united, which led to the current fragmentation.
"Shanshan people welcome us very much."
Xi Su was not talking nonsense, before they arrived, Shanshan people rushed to see Li Kuang, but Li Kuang's level was difficult to operate flexibly.
He looked at Xie An and said with a smile: "General Zhonglang has already intended to take over the Shanshan territory and tell Chang'an to carry out Tuntian. ” Xie An has no reason not to use Shanshan people, not only people should make good use of them, but also the resources of land, forest areas, livestock and so on.
He clearly knew that Liu Yan would not just want to recover the Western Regions, but would also continue to conquer the West, so it was extremely correct to build the Western Regions into a base for advancement.
Of course, a large-scale natural disaster is happening in the country of the Han Kingdom, and it will definitely not spend resources to build the Western Regions in a short period of time, or even plunder the resources of the Western Regions to supplement the country, Xie An does not dare to implement the plan to the left with the center.
It's just that in order to continue to advance westward in the future, some things he can arrange first, such as using manpower from the Western Regions to carry out tuntian, which is one of them.
Xie An came over with a standing army this time, this standing army is only the main force of reinforcements, and there will be a second batch of semi-official and semi-civilian troops coming later.
What he knew was that there would be about 200,000 troops of a semi-official and semi-civilian nature, and possibly even more, and in addition to the people in the disaster areas who wanted to survive, it was the young and strong who longed for military merit, wealth, and slavery.
All the troops combined, there will be more than 200,000 armed people under Xie An's command system, and there have been many discussions on the promotion of Xie An's official position on the central side, and no one opposes Xie An's promotion, but at least there is still the credit that can be taken, so giving the enemy a heavy blow in Bailongdui is only the most basic, when will the country that dares to reward the heads of the Han people be destroyed, that is when the center promotes Xie An to the general of the expedition.
If Xie An is promoted to the general of Zhengxi, then the four "Zheng" level generals are also complete, and everyone is looking forward to whether the center will use the "town" level generals in the future.
Xie An learned the general situation of the enemy army in Bailongdui, and basically made arrangements for how to fight next, but what caught him off guard was that the news of the outbreak of chaos in Yancheng, the capital of Qiuzi Kingdom, came over.
Yancheng, the capital of Qiuzi Country, is nearly 1,500 miles away from Bailongdui, and when the news reaches Xie An, no matter what happens there, the dust will definitely settle.
What Xie An knew was that the Di people, Ding Ling and the rest of the people who were taking advantage of the fire to loot Yancheng, the current king of Qiuci, Bai Chun, was slaughtered in the turmoil, and the Qiuci royal family also died.
After confirming the news, Xie An couldn't have too many thoughts at all, and immediately launched an attack on the Western Regions Alliance forces in Bailongdui
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