Chapter 770

The forward of xie'an's Department arrived half a day earlier than the scheduled time. They met Li Kuang's department in the early morning.

The troops will arrive early in the morning and March overnight, of course. In this way, xie'an received a report from Li Kuang and decisively asked the cavalry in the army not to care about the physical strength of the war horse and adopted the galloping mode of marching.

Before the arrival of the follow-up troops, Li Kuang did not sit and watch the changes of the western region coalition forces. He sent troops to test. The western region people resisted, but he even let the western region Corps capture part of the coalition camps.

When Li Kuang received that he sent troops to defeat the Allied forces and occupy part of the eastern camp, he was very confused about what the western people were doing. Especially, the Western military corps had just launched a tentative attack, the bailongdui allied camp had another infighting, and the Shanshan people also contacted the Western military corps.

The envoys sent by Shanshan people were very unscrupulous. When they saw the Han people, they immediately knelt down and shouted for their father. Their behavior and attitude surprised all the Han people present.

An invasion... Oh, it's recovery. I was able to encounter "Sons" who had been separated for decades. Those "Sons" were so fucking that they did it themselves without contacting in advance.

The western regions Corps was able to easily capture the eastern camp of the coalition army with the cooperation of Shanshan people. Shanshan people not only rushed to hug the Han father's thigh, but also pulled some Qiemo and Jingjue people.

Bailongdui is not just Shanshan people, Qiemo people and Jingjue people who come to hug the Han people's thighs and shout for their father. They cry and praise the Han people. Finally, the Han people's father is coming. The horse thieves hired by the Kucha people are abandoning the secret in batches, which makes Liu Rui, the leader of the army, cry and laugh. At the same time, he is also at a loss.

The Han people will turn to Shanshan people. After entering the Shanshan border, tribes continue to hug their thighs. They have had enough psychological preparation before. It was the defection of Shanshan people who were caught off guard. They didn't say anything about the strategy, or even didn't contact at all in advance.

"If Shanshan personnel contact in advance, we can achieve greater results under our operation!" Fan Jin was very dissatisfied with the "reckless" behavior of Shanshan people and felt that he had wasted the stage for showing his strategy: "their brains are too short of roots!"

Xie an was sitting in the first seat to listen to the report. In fact, he did not anticipate the development of the situation. It was not that he did not think that there would be western people defecting. The way of western people defecting was too casual. He did not consider whether they would be accepted by the Han people.

"We controlled the east of bailongdui and formed a confrontation with the enemy." Fan Jin stood next to a military map and introduced Xie an to the map: "the three big countries led by Kucha people, Shule people and Khotan are still insisting on resistance, and they rely on this wetland."

The military map generally shows the current distribution of the enemy and ourselves in bailongdui, and the terrain is also marked. With the existence of those "Sons" who rushed to call their father, the Han people knew more about the white dragon pile.

There are wetlands in the western regions? The impression of the Central Plains on the western regions is that there are Gobi everywhere, but it's not the same thing. The area of the western region is very large. It is as vast as the Central Plains for one and a half. Most of the region is grassland, without lack of very high-altitude mountains. There are wetlands and even swamps around some large lakes.

"Swamp?" Xie'an nodded slightly: "the Hussars general went to fight against the high vehicles. He found an endless swamp more than 200 miles into the enemy's territory."

Ran min led his troops to invade Xigao car? Li Kuang and others didn't know the news in advance. They had a guess about Ding Ling's involvement in the western regions. Basically, the pot was lost to ran min.

Beyond the Great Wall... Generally speaking, there are many wetlands and swamps on the grassland, especially in the area with abundant rainfall all the year round. There are few swamps in Monan. After passing the desert, Mobei goes to the northwest, which is not only covered with forests and wetlands, but also has a wide range of swamps.

There is a legend that the first retreat route chosen by the northern Xiongnu was the current territory of xigaoche. They turned to the western region only when they were blocked by the swamp, and those who continued to the West also ran into the swamp.

No matter whether the legend about the frequent encounter of the northern Huns with swamps is true or not, some aspects also show that it is not easy to move from the Central Plains to the West. It is normal to encounter the Gobi. There are indeed too many deserts and swamps, resulting in only one Hexi Corridor, which is safer.

Xie an did his homework first. He knows that the western regions are not the Wusun in the split. The current big countries are Kucha, Shule, Yutian and Yanqi. Kucha is rich, Shule is barbaric, Yutian has culture, and Yanqi has strong national strength and military strength.

"We have received some Wusun people." Li Kuang received Wusun people who wanted to go to Chang'an, each representing his own tribe: "they mentioned that Yueban territory in the west is also full of swamps."

Xie an doesn't want to know what kind of country Yueban is now. That's what we need to know before continuing to the West in the future.

Before entering the western regions, the Han state actually did not expect that the Kucha people would raise the banner of anti Han. The original judgment was that Yanqi would become the leader of anti Han. The fact is that it has embarrassed quite a lot of people. Yanqi hasn't said anything so far after the invasion of the Han state, but the previously neglected tortoise is jumping up and down.

The reason why they will ignore Kucha is very simple. As the Han people know, Kucha was still in the civil war the year before, that is, after Luo Yun killed the dragon club, the white family will inevitably compete with the old and new forces in the process of coming back to power. A country that has just completed the alternation of power, according to the governing philosophy and practice of Zhuxia, shouldn't it be to eliminate the hostile residual forces buried in the country and stabilize the local control of the new regime? But the Han people obviously don't know much about the wonderful place of the western regions and the thinking of those wonderful people.

"With the permission of the emperor, he has sent envoys to Yanqi and Cheshi." When Xie an came, it took some time to sort out the situation, but some things were ready before he came. He glanced at the people in the account and said, "the contradiction between Yanqi and kuci should be used."

Lang Jiang can also call himself Ben Jiang, but that's a call to his subordinates. Although Xie an is not a general of the west, he is just a Zhonglang general. He claims that there is nothing wrong with him.

Before, Li Kuang also wanted to contact Yanqi people, but he didn't communicate with the center. Secondly, as the commander of the vanguard army, he was not qualified to do so. He agreed with such a move after Xie an's arrival.

Yanqi is a country with a very long history. Yanqi existed before the Western Han Dynasty entered the western regions. But Yanqi at that time was a small country with a big bean and a vassal state of Cheshi.

Cheshi was constantly beaten on the ground by Han people during the western and Eastern Han Dynasties. The Western Han Dynasty split Cheshi. Yanqi developed in the late Western Han Dynasty.

At the beginning of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yanqi seized the opportunity to occupy Qinhai (Bosten Lake), annexed the mountain state, subdued Wei Li and Wei Xu, and even turned over to straighten the front of the Cheshi. From then on, he began to pull up.

Yanqi began to become a great power during the Cao Wei period. At that time, there was only one rear of the chariot division. Gaochang was the residence of Wuji school captain. The chariot division who was subdued by the Han people killed and swallowed Pu, and subdued the black greedy people Mi people (divided into East and west parts), Bi Lu people and Yiwu people have become a big country that has not lost to Wusun. However, the good time is not long. The civil strife of the Cheshi people behind has not only ruined the good situation, but 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 manage the western regions. During that period, not only Yanqi people trembled, but all countries with some strength and ambition began their own road of expansion. After several attacks, killing and annexation, there were 36 countries in the western region in the Western Han Dynasty. By the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I don't know if there were 20 countries that could be regarded as big countries in the western region, that is, Yanqi, kuci Khotan and Shule (not counting the split Wusun).

"Yanqi not only controls Qinhai, they also control the territory north of the mountains (Kuruktag mountains)." Xi Ying is now Xie an's long marching history. It should be time to show his sense of existence: "there is no capital, but several big cities such as Yiwu, Liuzhong, Jiaohe, Weixu, tiemen and Wuyi."

There are many ethnic groups in the western regions. Some are simple nomads and some are simple farming ethnic groups. There are more ethnic groups who are both grazing and farming.

Chi Ying has done a good job in advance. Because he is the eldest son of Chi, Chi Jian's previous contacts can be used. In addition, he is also Wang Xizhi's wife and brother.

With Chi Jian's relationship, and because Wang Xizhi was elected by Liu Yan as a doctor of literature, some people in the north will also give chi face. It's still very simple to check the data of the western regions, but no one dares to guarantee that the data must be consistent with the facts.

At present, the western region is generally divided into five parts. Behind the mountains in the north of bailongdui is Yanqi's territory, the northwest of Qinhai is the territory of Kucha people, the Khotan river basin is the territory of Khotan people, and the Congling and its surroundings are the territory of Shule people, To the north of Tianchi (isek Lake) is the territory of the Wusun people. In fact, the other countries or tribes are the vassals or orders of the above five great powers.

At present, there are three big powers that end up against the Han Dynasty, namely Kucha, Shule and Khotan. Kucha people are the nominal alliance leaders, but Shule and Khotan end up under the instructions of hunit and Hyatt, and the remaining western people are the vassals or employees of the above three countries.

"The territory of Shanshan people is not small." Chi Ying brought the map of the western region originally kept in the Treasury of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He pointed to the map hung up and pointed to the territory of Shanshan: "the old territory of Shanshan is to the south of pucanghai, to the east of West Kunlun Mountain (called Nanshan in the Western Han Dynasty), to the west of the basin (Qaidam Basin) and to the north of main Kunlun mountain."

People looked at the map and could clearly judge the territory distribution. It seemed that the territory of Shanshan people was really not small.

That map was drawn during the Western Jin Dynasty. Before the Western Jin Dynasty, Shanshan people had been supported by the Han people. Even the capital guard residence set up by the Han army was in Shanshan. Supporting Shanshan people successively annexed Xiaowan, Ronglu, Qiang, jianni and Yidun, so that Shanshan country occupied such a large territory.

Shanshan people did not become the Han people, but the Han people lost, but in fact, after the strength of the Han people subsided in the western regions, Shanshan was indeed besieged by countries in the western regions, and then Shanshan people themselves were not united, resulting in today's fragmentation.

"Shanshan people welcome us very much." Chi Ying 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, "Zhonglang has decided to take over the territory of Shanshan and report it to Chang'an for land reclamation."

Xie'an has no reason not to use Shanshan people. Not only people should use them, but also the resources of land, forest areas, livestock and so on. He clearly knew that Liu Yan would not only want to recover the western regions, but also continue to conquer the west, so it was extremely right to build the western regions into a forward base.

Of course, a large-scale natural disaster is happening in China. In a short time, it will never consume resources to build the western regions, or even plunder the resources of the western regions to supplement China. Xie an dare not implement the plan with the central left. In order to continue to advance to the West in the future, he can make some arrangements first. For example, the use of manpower from the western regions for land reclamation is one of them.

Xie an came with a standing army this time. This standing army is only the main force of the reinforcements, and the second batch of semi official and semi civilian troops will come later. What he knows is that the number of semi official and semi civilian troops will reach about 200000, or even more. In addition to the people in the disaster areas seeking to live, they are the young and strong who are eager for military merit, wealth and slaves.

When all the troops add up, there will be more than 200000 armed people under xie'an's command system. There have been many discussions on promoting xie'an's official position in the center. No one opposes xie'an's promotion, but at least there are some credit that can be taken. Then it is only the most basic to inflict heavy damage on the enemy at the white dragon heap, When you enter Kucha and destroy the country that dares to reward the head of the Han people, that is when the Central Committee promotes Xie an to be the general of the West.

If Xie an is promoted to general Zheng Xi, the four "Zheng" level generals are complete. Everyone is looking forward to whether the center will use "Zhen" level generals next.

Xie an understood the general situation of the enemy in bailongdui and basically made arrangements for how to fight next. To his surprise, the news about the outbreak of chaos in Duyan city of Kucha came.

The capital of Kucha is nearly 1500 miles away from bailongdui. When the news reached xie'an, no matter what happened there, it must be the dust settled.

What Xie an knows is that the Di people, Dingling people and other chaotic looters looted Yancheng. The current Kucha King Bai Chun was slaughtered in the turmoil, and the Kucha royal family also died.

After confirming the news, Xie an couldn't have too many ideas at all. He made a quick decision to launch an attack on the Western allied forces in bailongdui.