Of course, there have been powerful countries in the western regions, but those powerful countries are basically established by outsiders, and local people (countries) have always been bullied by outsiders.
Once Dawan was founded by Greek descendants. They can easily sling any western region country by relying on the legacy of Macedonia... That is, the spear array and the use of cavalry.
In fact, Wusun people are not indigenous people in the western regions. They live around hunxie mountain near Qilian Mountain, and their leader is also called hunxie. However, they were forced to leave hunxie mountain. Later, the Huns defeated the Yueshi people, occupied the whole Qilian Mountain, and sealed a hunxie king. As a result, Wusun people had to change the leader's name to kunmo (also known as kunmi).
Another country that can be called a small power in the western regions is called a car division. The problem is that the car division itself is not very good. It is because it has always been valued by the Huns that it is a local small power. Without the Huns, the car division is nothing.
The Western Han Dynasty calculated that there were 36 countries in the western region. It must be that some countries were not recorded. That's because the western region is a messy place. Thousands of people dare to build a country and hundreds of people dare to be king. Zhuxia is really unwilling to record a kingdom with only a few hundred subjects.
In fact, after the Western Han Dynasty entered the western regions, it did not form much effective control at the beginning. It was the establishment of the western region capital guard office and the arrangement of officials, but only a small number of troops were stationed and stationed in the fields. What has radiation and can be controlled is only the countries near the fields, or it can only deter small countries.
Whether the western regions were really tightly controlled by the Han Dynasty was in the period of emperor yuan of the Han Dynasty, or was it because after Chen Tang worked out the cause of "the flag of the Marquis of the Yi Dynasty" and "cutting the head of the Zhizhi branch", he completely and severely deterred all countries in the western regions. Only then did the western region's capital guard have its name and become an authority that can really manage the western regions.
When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the Han people once lost control of the western regions. At that time, chaos broke out among the Han people. Who would manage the western regions thousands of miles away. At that time, the people of the western regions noticed the civil strife of the Han people and repeatedly jointly attacked the garrison of the capital guard of the western regions, followed by the northern Huns.
The western regions capital guard has not been reinforced for a long time, and there are fewer and fewer troops stationed in the western regions capital guard. However, the western regions capital guard has persisted for ten years, and only dozens of people have fled back to Xiliang. What fate they have after that has not been recorded.
The Western Han Dynasty collapsed. After 17 years of civil war, Liu Xiu regained rule on behalf of the old Liu family. At the beginning, there was little room to take care of the western regions.
Early Eastern Han Dynasty (after 8 AD), Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was too busy with the domestic war to take care of the western regions. The situation in the western regions was chaotic. At that time, most of the countries in the North belonged to the Xiongnu, while the countries in the South attacked and fought against each other. The Northern Xiongnu took the opportunity to conquer the countries in the north and Khotan, a big country in the south, and used the manpower and material resources of the western regions to harass the border of the Eastern Han Dynasty. In order to completely repel the northern Xiongnu The Eastern Han Dynasty adopted the strategy of "controlling foreigners with foreigners", and began to send troops to the western regions in the 16th year of Yongping (AD 73) of the emperor of the Han and Ming Dynasties.
In February of the 16th year of Yongping, Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty ordered Fengche Duwei Dou Gu and Geng Zhong to lead the army to defeat the northern Xiongnu in pulihai (Balikun Lake in the new Xinjiang) and capture the strategic place Yiwulu. In order to further contact the western countries and isolate the northern Huns, Dou Gu sent ban Chao and Guo Xun to send 36 officials to the western regions. Ban Chao first worked to get through the southern countries with weak control of the Xiongnu, subdued Shanshan, controlled Khotan, attacked Shule, expelled the northern Xiongnu forces in the southern road of the western regions, and successively annexed the southern countries.
At the same time, in order to prevent the northern Xiongnu from making a comeback, in November of the 17th year of Yongping, the Han Dynasty sent Feng Che Du Wei Dou Gu and his son-in-law Du Wei Geng Bing to march to the west again, smashing the white mountain of the northern Xiongnu in the Pu class sea, and demobilizing the front and rear of the Che division belonging to the northern Xiongnu. The South Road was basically opened, and the East and West stations of the northern road were also controlled by the Han Dynasty. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the guards of the western regions, he Wu and Ji were re established.
The competition between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the northern Huns for the western regions lasted from the 16th year of Yongping (AD 73) to the death of emperor Hanling, that is to say, from the establishment to the extinction of the Eastern Han Dynasty, they actually did not completely control the western regions.
The later princes fought disorderly, that is, after three-thirds of the world, Cao Wei sent troops to the western regions, but in fact, it was only to regain control of a small area to the east of the western regions, and the rest were powerless.
The Sima family after the return of the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty received the control territory of the western regions by the Cao Wei. The regions not controlled by the Cao Wei did not belong to the Western Jin Dynasty.
Sima's family created the "Yongjia rebellion" by themselves. The western regions were completely lost when they were beaten to death. Later, China sank, and the central plains were also lost to Hu Lu, so they went to "travel south in clothes".
"So we are the first Han people to re-enter the western regions after a lapse of 39 years?"
"I'm afraid the first Han people may not be. If the army is far older than 39 years, it may be more than 70 years."
There's nothing wrong. The Sima family established the Western Jin Dynasty. They can't care about the completely destroyed Central Plains. There's no spare time to care about the western regions. There's really no garrison in the western regions behind. There will be unofficial Han people to the western regions, but the army has never been sent.
Liu Rui narrowed his eyes and looked at the mountain map hanging on one side of the military tent. The tent was burning oil lamps. In fact, the light was not enough. Looking at the mountain map can only look at the outline.
The western regions are very large. In terms of area, they are larger than the whole Central Plains. Why did emperor yuan of the Han Dynasty write a close-up in history books? It was because his generation completed its control over the western regions that he had to mention Chen Tang when talking about the western regions. The same is true of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. During his reign, he regained control of the western regions for the Han Dynasty. Some executors of Dou Xian, Dou Gu, Geng Bing, Ban Gu, ban Chao, Guo Xun and so on also left a lot of marks in the history books.
"I'll wait..." Liu Rui looked at Fan Jin and said eagerly, "it's time to make a name in history!"
There's nothing wrong with it. As an army general who entered the western regions for the first time after decades, if he really wants to recapture the western regions, he will leave his name in the history books anyway. The difference is whether he has been replaced by a pen or his great achievements have been written in special books.
"If you don't see, the end of the Han Army, the weak crown is a prisoner, please have a long tassel; if you don't see, the class will be far away, and the Jedi will ride lightly to urge the clouds of war!" Fan Jin sang a passage: "who doesn't want to have today's endorsement, the great cause of the final army and ban Chao?"
Liu Yan felt that the PLA songs were inappropriate. He had to take some ancient ones. Before he crossed, my head, my regiment was on the air. When he heard that song, he was immediately attracted, so he changed it to the military song of his own army.
There are many military songs of the Han army. The above song is the most strange one. Other military songs are basically taken from the book of songs, such as Qin Feng. Wuyi, Qin Feng. Xiaorong and Qin Feng. Jianjia have also become military songs successively, and they are all part of national style.
Many poems in the book of songs. National style are actually military songs. Wu Yi is martial, Xiao Rong is affectionate, and Jian Jia has a far-reaching artistic conception. It is also handed down after the first emperor burned books and buried Confucianism. The rest are either inappropriate or simply incomplete.
In a word, the book of songs, national style, Qin style and no clothes is definitely the most popular song. The background is that the emperor of Zhou had to flee when he was attacked by barbarians. The Qin people responded to the call to send troops to serve the king. At that time, the Qin people sang "no clothes" to defeat the barbarians and protect the emperor of Zhou from reaching Luoyang.
"Naked" was created under the premise that Qin people could not even guarantee their basic life. In response to Qin Wang, in fact, many people didn't even have clothes. Then it was created to express their common hatred and take the actual situation at that time as the background.
After the fall of the Qin Empire, other poems in Guofeng were basically no longer used as military songs. The unique Wuyi has been inherited. Wuyi was used as military songs in the Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two Jin Dynasties, the Sui Dynasty, the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty. For example, the country established by Zhu Hu was not regarded as military songs. In fact, the fact that it was not sung is enough to explain the problem.
The final army of the Western Han Dynasty was not famous in later generations. In fact, when Liu Yan heard the lyrics, he knew who ban Dingyuan was, but he was completely unfamiliar with the final army. He did not know that the final army was a diplomat and politician during Liu Che's period until he went to check it. He had successively sent envoys to Xiongnu and South Vietnam, but was killed by South Vietnam minister Lv Jia before the war against South Vietnam in the Western Han Dynasty, He was only twenty-one when he died.
Reverence for the final army is not only beneficial and meritorious to the country when he was young, but also a person who dared to take responsibility in case of trouble. A simple description is that he has the spirit and courage of "volunteering".
The troops have been stationed in the camp. The sentry posts that should be arranged and what response to what happens have been done. Only Liu Rui, as the front-line commander, and Shi Fanjin, the commander of the army, can have the time to talk about the past and look forward to the future.
Since I came to fight in the western regions, I must know more about the western regions. At least Liu Rui knows that Shanshan is the western region country most affected by the Han Dynasty, and some tribes such as Shule, Weili, Weixu and Qiemo can fight for it.
"Pull one group and fight another. It has always been the case that the Han people fought in the western regions." Fan Jin needed to do more homework: "the coalition sent troops to attack, and more than a thousand people found two or three hundred Shanshan people."
Chizhelu led the army out. The Han Army, which had been closely monitored, naturally had intelligence feedback. Not long after they left the camp, Liu Rui got the information.
Shanshan people were too close to the Han Dynasty, and it was the first western country close to the Han people in the Western Han Dynasty. It should be said that the Han people were really good at Shanshan, brought advanced farming skills, and helped Shanshan train the army.
Hundreds of years later, Shanshan changed its name from Loulan to its current name. It was not until the collapse of the Eastern Han Dynasty that Han officers helped Shanshan train the army. As a result, Shanshan's army has an obvious Zhuxia style.
The passage of time has made Shanshan forget a lot. The style is to serve. They are a rare ethnic group with obsessive-compulsive disorder in the western regions. No matter how poor they are, they will form a unified color for the army's robes. They have always been red as the main tone, which is naturally very easy to recognize.
"They'd better attack the camp tonight." Liu Rui didn't take off his armor. There were three shifts in the camp. One third of the soldiers kept awake. The peripheral camp was even deliberately emptied: "let them come and can't get out."
Fan Jin smiled demurely, but from the appearance, he was also looking forward to it.
Tonight is the crescent moon night. There are many stars in the sky without clouds, but the light provided is very limited.
The wind is blowing the grass, and the grass leaves make a sound of "唦 唦" after rubbing each other. Only in a wide distribution can we see a lonely tree, its branches swing with the wind, and it is like a monster in the dark.
Chizheru stood beside a dwarf tree with a reins. He looked at the past from a distance and saw a huge camp. A campfire was arranged every 50 meters around the fence, and then there was a wooden brazier every 10 meters. He could see that the tents were orderly arranged, and he could also see the patrols passing every other minute.
Standing next to them are agapa and rabadi, who are also holding the reins of their mounts. Behind a low hill not far behind them, dozens of cavalry dismounted and waited quietly.
"Look for all the countries in the western regions. No one can do this like the Han people."
Chizhelu said that there is a scientific way to build the camp, such as how to arrange the fences, and the tents are so neat. The reasonable arrangement of fences and tents is actually a line of defense in the camp, and such a large camp itself is also an array.
"How can you compare." Agapa smiled bitterly and said, "a small country with few people can't learn even if you want to learn."
Rabadi was silent. He was called a Sogdian in the western regions. In fact, the correct national name was a Serb.
At present, the Serbs are under the rule of the Persians. Rabadi did not grow up in the western regions, but waited for adulthood before coming to the western regions. He had seen the army of Persian Sassanian and the army of Romans, and had his own judgment score.
"No country in the western regions can do this." Rabadi was silent for a little while and said with some emotion: "even sassanne can't do it. I thought Rome was the most powerful country before. Now maybe we should add Han."
Chizheru asked casually, "do you want to test it?"
Agapag said nothing.
Rabadi "ha ha" smiled and said, "I refuse to go down with my own hands to test such a camp."
There is a campfire outside the Han camp, which obviously provides enough light and objects. If you attack, you can't get close to the camp at all. With such an arrangement, there is no reason why there will be no crossbow men on duty at night. Even if the cavalry impact speed is fast, at least three waves of arrow rain must be suffered in advance. Whether they can break through the fence is still unknown.
Chizheru looked at agapa and said with a smile, "what about you?"
Agapa hesitated. He had tried chizheru a little before. He had both expectations and worries in his heart. The expectation is that chizhelu and himself want to stand on the side of the Han people. Of course, he is also worried that chizhelu finds that Shanshan chooses to stand on the side of the Han people this time.
Chizheru punned, "give you a chance."
Agapa understood, but he really didn't have enough courage. The envoys sent to Chang'an didn't send back the message. It's unclear whether the Han people are willing to accept Shanshan again