Qu Chang was not qualified to participate in the Yuanmen Military Conference, and Zhao Han'er, Han Dangdang, Zhang Yaoli and Xin Qingji could only enjoy the cool in the pine forest next to the camp.Xin Qingji had just turned sixteen, and was promoted to Qu Chang by Ren Hong, and there were many disobedient people in the ranks, saying that because Xi'an Hou and Xin Wuxian were colleagues, they specially took care of their sons, which made Xin Qingji very eager to prove himself and prove Xi'an Hou's vision.In the battle of Horsehair Mountain, Xin Qingji's Longxi Qu was not as good as Jincheng Qu, but Gan Yanshou, who was the same age as him, was commended.It stands to reason that there is no need to envy the small team leader, but Xin Qingji is eager to stand up and get the admiration of everyone.So when he crossed the Tianshan Mountains, he hoped that what would happen next was a big battle, comparable to the battle of General Wei's Henan to defeat King Youxian!
It turned out to be a miss.At present, there are rumors that the two generals of Pu and Qiang Crossbow may withdraw from the army, which makes Xin Qingji very anxious and pacing back and forth under the tree.However, Zhao Han'er and Han Dangdang's two old partners were not in a hurry, Zhao Han'er was still adjusting his other bow, and Han Dangdang found Yiwugua and was gnawing there.At this time, there was a commotion in the distance, but I don't know if it was a quarrel or what, Shaoqing, the captains and captains of the various departments went out one after another, Xin Qingji saw his father Xin Wuxian patting Ren Hong's shoulder out, talking and laughing.And the Marquis of Xi'an, who was still holding the flag of General Pu's Fu Festival, came over and waved at them: "Immediately gather all the songs, count the grain and prepare to go, and together with Captain Xindu, we will be the vanguard of the Xingjun again!"
”Xin Qingji was overjoyed: "Prince, where are we going to attack?"
”Ren Hong didn't answer first, and pointed at Han Dang, who still had melon seeds on his face, and said, "Is Yiwu melon sweet?"
”"Sweet.""
Then do you know where the grapes are sweetest in this vast Western Regions?"
Everyone looked at each other, and Zhao Han'er raised his hand and said, "I heard that it's the driver." ”"That's right."
Ren Hong turned over the turnip, and he almost named it "Grape" at the beginning: "Just go to the driver!"
”On the map drawn by the subordinate country, more than 1,000 miles to the west of the Pushi Sea, it is naturally the Cheshi country, that is, the Turpan of the later generations.Ren Hong and Xin Wuxian, as the Xingjun and heel troops of Zhao Chongguo's army, one after the other, this time they were only separated by more than ten miles, and left Pu Zhihai to go west.On the first day of camping, gnawing on naan by the bonfire, Ren Hong told Yang Yun and Qu Chang about the Cheshi with the beef and mutton that the crossbow general had previously distributed: "The Cheshi is located in Chongyao, which is the only place for the Xiongnu to enter the Western Regions, and it is a big country in the Western Regions second only to Qiuci. ”Speaking of this, a certain cavalry lieutenant who often boasted that he had destroyed Qiuzi by himself was listening, and touched his chin unnaturally, while Xin Qingji and the others really cast admiring glances.Ren Hong continued: "The Che Shi is loyal to the Huns, the successive Che Shi kings have married with the Right Xian King and the Right Valley Li King, and the Xiaowu Emperor manages the Western Regions. ”Cheshi is a city of the country, because of the good dog of the Huns, was annexed by the Huns alone, and annexed many city-states in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and its capital city name is "Jiaohe", located in the Turpan Basin at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which can be called the granary of the Western Regions, the right part of the Xiongnu previously attacked the iron gate, relying on the food supply of the Cheshi.Yang Yun said: "I see, no wonder you said under the Yuanmen that the Huns can run, but the Che Master can't."
There are cities and farming, and they are the same as the Han people, and they are relocated to the land.Now that the autumn harvest in the Western Regions has only passed, a large amount of grain has just entered the warehouse, and the Huns can drive the cattle and sheep, load the felt tent on the car and move it quickly, but the chariot master can not leave the city and grain. ”Ren Hong said with a smile: "However, and the chariot master has always boasted that the capital city is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he will never abandon the land unless he is forced to do so." ”"The strong crossbow general went to the north of the Tianshan Mountains, and the chariot division was in several cities in the north of the mountain, breaking the inferior land, east and west, and the Pu general went to the south of the Tianshan Mountains, and the capital of the chariot division was crossed by the river."
In the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, the small states around Turpan and Urumqi in later generations, such as Cheshi, Beilu, East and West, etc., have been the slave states of the Xiongnu for more than 100 years, and can completely become the advance base of the Han army, and solve the problem of military rations by the way, and the wounded and sick can also be placed on the spot.It's like finding an adult and beating your child first!
You deceived my little brother Wusun, I killed your little brother Cheshi, the backyard cried everywhere, see if the Huns can go back!
Ren Hong predicted with the worst possibility that even if the main force of the Xiongnu thousands of miles away did not care whether the Che Shi and other states were alive or dead, they did not turn back after hearing the news, and insisted on crippling Wusun, and eventually all the client states in the Western Regions would fall into the hands of the Han army, especially the loss of the most important Che Shi, and the gains outweighed the losses.And if the Han army can get the chariot division, this land that the Han and Hungarians have repeatedly fought for five times in history is enough for the Duhu to send troops to Tuntian to promote the strategy of the Western Regions, even if Wusun is defeated by the Xiongnu, the Han Dynasty will not lose in the overall situation.It's just that it's easy to deduce a strategy on sand, but it's very difficult to implement it.Yang Yun remembered one thing: "I remember what my grandfather recorded in his book that when he was filial piety, because the envoy Wang Huishu suffered for Cheshi and Loulan, he wrote about military affairs.So Zhao Ponu, the marquis, broke Loulan with 700 soldiers and captured the king of Loulan. ”He looked up at the vast sea of sand in front of him after leaving the oasis of Iwulu, and his face was worried."
But to break the car division, he used tens of thousands of people!"
The Hami Basin to the Turpan Basin is by no means unimpeded all the way, first of all, it is necessary to pass through the big sand sea called "Mohe Yan Moraine", its barren degree, second only to Bailongdui, 800 miles long, no flying birds, no beasts, no water and grass.As far as Yang Yun could see, there were high platforms everywhere, tower-like loess cliffs, the soil was covered with gravel pebbles, there were no plants, no animals, not even lizards and insects in the Gobi, the ground was scorching during the day, shrouded in a layer of turbid air like smoke, and the bad wind was full of sand, scattered like rain.Along the way, you can see the bones of mules, horses and camels, and even the corpses of Han soldiers, presenting a very terrifying scene.After nightfall, the bones of the Han soldiers who died on the road with Zhao Ponu decades ago lit up with a little phosphorus fire, like a demon raising a fire, as bright as stars, as if to warn them not to go deeper into the desert, so frightened that the Liangzhou sons and daughters, who had always been unruly, also worshipped the god Taiyi on the ground and prayed for protection.But Ren Hong patted Xin Qingji, who was distracted, and led them to look at those phosphorus fires: "That's the first to come first, pointing out the way forward for us latecomers." ”Fortunately, although the Great Sand Sea is long, the width is not large, and there are envoys and officials in the army who have been to the Cheshi as guides, and it took five days and four nights to finally come.Thanks to Ren Hong's remedies for relieving the heat, although there are some characters, the spirit of the army is still there, at least it collapsed after a trip to the desert, but the horses fell a lot, and even the radishes were a little unable to keep up their spirits.The rest of the road is much easier, as long as you walk along the foot of the reappearing Tian Shan, there are always some river oases with melting snow to replenish them.On the eleventh day after they left, a huge crimson hill appeared in front of them, and from their vantage point, it occupied almost half of the sky, and under the scorching sun, the sandstone scorched and flashed, and the hot air flow tumbled upward, like a blazing flame, and the tongue of fire lifted the sky.It is like a soldering iron baked red by the sun, imprinted on this barren land, emitting bursts of hot smoke."
Flaming Mountain."
Of course Ren Hong knows this mountain, and Journey to the West seems to be the scene taken here, right?
Licking his dry lips, he pointed at it and said, "After the mountain, it's the driver!"
”It took them half a day to get around the Flaming Mountain, and finally saw the vast oasis that they had not seen for a long time, and the soldiers were all a little deformed by the sun, and it was autumn, but they seemed to smell the birds and flowers in the oasis.The Cheshi people were extremely vigilant and found their arrival when the Han army arrived, and their first reaction was not to surrender, but to resist and retreat to the capital, after all, they were hardcore allies of the Huns.Ren Hong and the others easily broke through a typical charioteer's circular barrier, which contained a lot of Hu cakes, so that the soldiers who had been on a diet for several days could eat the snow water of the Tianshan Mountains, and there were indeed many vineyards in the oasis.But when they arrived at the foot of the Jiaohe River, the capital of the Cheshi, Yang Yun suddenly understood why 700 people broke Zhao Ponu in Loulan, and tens of thousands of people besieged the Cheshi Kingdom for a long time.What appeared in front of them was not an ordinary castle.It is the island in the middle of the two rivers, which has been scoured for tens of millions of years, so that the riverbed has been continuously lowered, forming two deep valleys, forming a natural barrier for this island, which is more than ten zhang high and more than 30 meters!
The capital of the chariot masters was built purely on the island, the walls were attached to the cliffs of the island, and the houses inside were in order, and you could see the chariot masters standing full of defenders from a distance.Jiaohe City is like a tall warship, standing tall in the river, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it is no wonder that the Cheshi people dare not surrender.And the Han soldiers couldn't help touching their heads and sighing, even Luo Yanshou raised his head and sighed: "This city" is actually taller than Chang'an!
”Yang Yun was also a little difficult, he looked back at the Han army striker who was lightly armed, and found that it was really not easy to make a name for himself in a foreign land, and every step forward, he could refresh his cognition of this world, and said in a low voice: "How to attack this?"
He didn't know that Ren Hong had traveled in Xinjiang in his previous life and had come to the ruins of this city, so he smiled at the moment: "Actually, it's not difficult!"
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