"A hundred miles west of the Penchi River, a large force of enemy cavalry was found" "Lighting the Beacon" The Penchi River is to the west of the Green Ridge and is no longer part of the Green Ridge.
The Han Empire used to say that the northwest frontier was the Western Liang, and after the recovery of the Western Regions, the official name was called the Anxi Protectorate, but the people used the name of the northwest frontier in the former Western Regions.
The northwest Xinjiang is far larger and wider now than it was when it was still in the west, but the living environment is much worse.
Also, the Western Regions was originally an environment full of deserts and Gobi, and those small tribes relied on oases to establish their own political power, and almost every big oasis supported a kingdom, and the small oasis allowed people to build a small city-state.
The good place is to be controlled and occupied by the strong, and this is a matter of course.
The kingdoms and city-states of the past have been wiped out under the force of the Han Empire, and there are no longer so many forces, and even if there are still forces, they belong to the category of horse thieves.
The previous Western Regions Protectorate, and now the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, have never relaxed the suppression of bandits, that is, there are so many horse thieves who really don't use much strength to eliminate, usually the kind of horse thieves who hide in the desert at every turn, and the Han army will kill this kind of horse thief when they find it, but they will not follow up the desert circle.
For the Han army, the natural environment was far more dangerous than the enemy army.
Fighting or something, the Han army is confident that it can face enemies of any level, but nature The last time Li Kuang led his army to conquer the Hunnit, let's not talk about how many enemy troops were killed and how many supplies were plundered, but it was artificially created a buffer zone of nearly 300 miles.
According to their own needs, the Han army either was within their own borders, or they simply did not regard the Hunnite as a sovereign state, and built beacons wherever it was suitable, or even built fortresses when the terrain was good enough.
Further west of the Penchi River, there is actually a basin, and on that side is a place where you can see green as far as the eye can see.
The Hunnites were forced by the threat of the Han army to retreat more than 300 miles, and they retreated almost to the west bank of a river called the Amu Darya River.
The original owner of the land fled, then the land became a borderless land, and the Han and Guiyi Hu people in the jurisdiction of the Anxi Protectorate looked at it, and it was almost like: Well, such a good land, what a pity if you don't plant and graze something The result was good, the Han people repeatedly tested the attitude of the Anxi Protectorate, and when they saw that the Anxi Protectorate didn't want to care at all, they seemed to have to run over.
With the Han people as the beginning, the Guiyi Hu people said that what the Han people did, we must follow, and then Hulala also ran to a large group of people.
"The information is from the Han people with water, and our scouts are suitable."
"How many" "No less than 80,000 infantry and cavalry have been discovered, and there are still an unknown number of enemy troops operating in the rear."
"The Hunnites are looking for death" The beacon fire of the fortress has been lit, and the beacon or fortress and fort in the rear are constantly lit in the form of relays to transmit military information to the rear.
A long time ago, such scenes often took place in various sections of the Great Wall, and once you saw the beacon fire rising into the sky every few miles from the Great Wall section, it represented the invasion of the Hulu army.
It's just that the region has changed, but the meaning is the same.
The Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate was located in Gumo's shogunate, and Li Kuang was slightly stunned after receiving the report.
"The Hunnites took the initiative to launch an offensive" Li Kuang couldn't understand it at all, and wondered: "Are they giving up on themselves?"
Last time, they entered the territory of the Hunit, and the number of Hunite troops killed was not the most important thing, it was they who almost beat most of the Hunit into white ground.
Almost half of the territory of the altar jars were broken, even a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic country like Hunit would not be as miserable as the loss of half of the territory of the agrarian people, but it was really not far from paralysis.
Fortunately, Hunnette is a semi-agrarian and semi-nomadic country, and at the same time, the western part of the agricultural area was not ravaged by the Han army, otherwise there was really no need to wait for the second attack of the Han army, and it was really killed at one time.
How long has it been, it should not even be a year, and the Hunnites have something wrong to take the initiative to provoke a war "What's going on" Li Kuang has been busy with the affairs of the Hu people recently, and he has not paid enough attention to the half-crippled country of Hunnit: "Is there anything I haven't noticed?"
Zhao Chang was actually at a loss, what he knew about Hunnette was still retreating some time ago, and he really didn't understand what kind of madness Glenbardes had to gather a large army to take the initiative to invade.
Glenbardes is the current king of the Hunnette, the Huns and related nomads are called Shan Yu, and the Alans and those who are predominantly agrarian are called kings.
Hunit itself is a multi-ethnic country, with nomadic tribes in the east and agricultural areas in the west.
Every year when the winter is about to begin, some leaders of sufficient weight will be summoned by Glenbardis to the plains of the southeastern part of the Aral Sea, which can be regarded as a relatively serious "grand court", but it is Glenbardis in order to distribute the tax revenue to the chiefs, and the second purpose is to discuss some big and small matters.
"There are 80,000 foot cavalry that have been discovered, and there are also unknown enemy troops" Li Kuang felt that this was very wrong: "Last time we annihilated 70,000 or 80,000 Hunnite troops, the number of Hunnites who died in the war will not be less than 300,000.
They can amass 80,000 paces, or more."
Zhao Chang also felt that something was wrong.
According to the intelligence of the Anxi Protectorate on Hunnit, Hunnit is a country with a population of about 1.23 million, and there are no so many young adults before, almost 23 out of 10 young adults in the entire country, and at least 80,000 or even more have been recruited in less than a year "Glenbardis does this, even if they can win a small victory, what" Li Kuang said according to his own understanding: "For a country like Hunnette, the young and strong can still exist."
Not to mention the Hunit, if it were the young and strong of any country, three or four out of ten would basically not be destroyed by the outside, and the country should also become a mess, and it was destined to perish.
"Glenbardes is a capable man," Zhao Chang said with a sigh, "at least he can do this." ” In the face of the last fiasco, he was unable to sit on the throne, and was even kicked off the throne and beheaded, but Glenbardes was still the ruler of the Hunnet.
There is a time lag to be mentioned here, the news of the domestic riots has not yet reached the Anxi Protectorate, Li Kuang and Zhao Chang studied for a long time, would not have thought that Hunnite was not crazy, but with the support and "blood replenishment" of Rome, Sassanid and other countries.
The army marching in the territory of Hunnette has been discovered by the Han army with 80,000 cavalry.
The 80,000-strong infantry was not entirely a Hunnite army, but in fact a considerable number came from various allied countries.
If Li Kuang knew that the countries led by Rome and Sassanid had formed an anti-Han axis, then the puzzle of why Hunnite fought back in less than a year, and could still form at least 80,000 cavalry, and even be able to maintain military logistics, and so on, would have been answered.
If we count it in time, the current time node is the fourth day after the slave rebellion in Wuyang County.
If the planning steps of the anti-Han alliance were to be followed, the action of forming a coalition army would have preceded the instigation of slaves in the Han Empire to revolt, that is, before those slaves revolted, in fact, the countries were already secretly mobilizing troops.
The Persians took the lead and hit it off immediately after approaching the Romans, and the two countries did not make much action after reaching an agreement, but planned the direction of production first.
Many Han Chinese have now gone abroad, but when it comes to going to a certain country, it is really difficult to establish an efficient intelligence system in a short period of time.
The problem is that the Persians and Romans are not stupid, even if they want to make any big moves, they choose to do it in a remote place, so they will not do it under the noses of the Han people.
Waiting for the Han Chinese to discover the changes between Sassanid and Rome will take time, even if they want to pass the news back.
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It would take at least two months to send information back to the Han Empire from Sasanid by sea, and at least a year by land.
In the case of Rome, no one knows how much time it will take to travel by land, because no one has ever traveled by land.
If you want to get the news back from Rome by sea, it will take you two or three months a year, and whether it will be a year, two months or three months, depending on the weather conditions on the route.
Sassanid and Rome had reached an agreement probably in the fifteenth year of the Yuan Shuo, and they spent a year and a half preparing in their own country, and only in the early seventeenth year of the Yuan Shuo did they come into contact with other countries.
The posture of the Han Empire was too domineering, and its behavior towards some countries was only reasonable and completely unreasonable.
If either the Sassanid or Rome came alone and stood up to say that they wanted to rebel against the hegemony of the Han Empire, one of the countries contacted would shake their heads.
They are not stupid, whether it is Sassanid or Rome, no matter how you look at it, they will be pressed to the ground and rubbed by the Han Empire, and how crazy they must be to wade into troubled waters If Sassanid and Rome were to unite and bring in some regional powers, probably a two-plus-five model, the nature of the matter would be a little different.
Since the Han Empire appeared in the field of vision of various countries, they knew that the Han Empire was very strong, and any country would be pressed to the ground and rubbed under the condition of one-on-one, which was the kind of reality that regardless of how far away the distance was, the Han Empire could beat anyone who caught it.
The Persians have already said that under the premise that the war is going well, the coalition forces of various countries may be able to enter the Western Regions and take advantage of the complex terrain of the green mountains to conduct tug-of-war there.
All countries, including Sassanid itself, in fact, know that things will not be so easy, they may be able to rely on surprise to take advantage of some advantages in the early stage, but in the Han Empire to carry out a tug-of-war or something, they will have this kind of conjecture when they lose their minds and go crazy.
The Persians were a little more reliable in guaranteeing that they would hold the Han Chinese at least east of the Medes on land, even if they had the strength of the whole country.
The Medes were the central provinces of Sasanian, which means that the Persians were mentally prepared to lose their eastern territories east of the Medes after a war with the Han Empire.
Most of Persia's eastern territory is the Gobi or desert, and only the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea have a suitable environment for survival.
They dared to make such a guarantee because human beings could not stand the desert or the Gobi, which spanned hundreds of miles, and had already built long and deep fortifications in two narrow corridors of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
If the first wave of the army officially started fighting the Han Empire's Anxi Protectorate, the Sassanid would immediately mobilize the whole country, and the training of the country's young and middle-aged people was a necessary procedure, and then the strongest Arab ethnic group with the largest population.
Sasanian's own population should be fifty or sixty million, and it is not the first time that a matter of life and death has been a matter of life and death, and it is not the first time that he has pulled up a million troops.
There are at least four or five million Arabs in their territory, and no matter how they pull cannon fodder, how can they make do with four or five hundred thousand Shapur II had already told Constantius that as long as the allies could keep up with them in terms of money and military supplies, there would be no pressure on the Sassanids to raise an army of two million men.
He even said that if other countries were dragged into the water, they would be able to raise a force of 500,000 men if they came together.
The Persian army that had entered the Hunnit, of the 80,000 foot cavalry discovered by the Han army, 30,000 of them belonged to Sassanid.
This is also Shapur II's reassurance to Glenbardes, indicating that Sassanid is definitely playing real this time, not to fool Hunnit.
At the same time, five Roman legions had entered the territory of the Hunite, two of which were Roman legions and the other three were auxiliaries from vassal races.
Their total strength reached 60,000, which was actually not a small amount for Rome.
Some other countries and tribes, together there are more than 100,000 people, and they belong to the kind of enemy army that has not yet been detected by the Anxi Protectorate.
There are no complicated aspects of the things that Li Kuang and Zhao Chang need to consider now, since Glenbardes does not want to live and takes the initiative to provoke a war, of course, the Anxi Protectorate is to gather troops to go up, and he must teach Glenbardis how to be a man.
What the Protectorate of Ansi needed to consider was whether they would simply destroy the invading enemy forces this time or attack the Hungate once again.
"The Hunnites are crazy, Ding Ling people must also have a move," Zhao Chang touched his chin and said happily: "They are difficult brothers and sisters, and they have established a deep friendship in a short period of time."
Glenbardes has action and will not forget to pull on the West High Car. ” Li Kuang had long thought about this aspect, and he was also happy that there was a war to fight, but he really didn't understand why the other party was crazy
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