sweeping the world

Chapter 1018
"A hundred miles west of the Panchi River, a large group of enemy cavalry was found!"

"Light the beacon fire!"

The Penchi River is to the west of Congling and is no longer part of Congling.

The Han Empire used to say that the Northwest Territory was Xiliang. After the recovery of the Western Regions, the official name was Anxi Dufu, but the folks used the name Northwest Territory to the former Western Regions.

Today's Northwest Xinjiang is far bigger and wider than when it was Xiliang, but the living environment is much harsher.

That’s right, the Western Regions were originally an environment full of deserts and Gobi. In the past, those small tribes relied on oases to establish their own regimes. Almost every large oasis supported a kingdom, and small oases allowed people to build a small city-state.

A good place is controlled and occupied by the strong, which is a matter of course.The kingdoms and city-states in the past have been wiped out under the force of the Han Empire, and there are no longer so many powers. Even if they still have power now, they still belong to the category of horse thieves.

The former Protectorate of the Western Regions and the current Protectorate of Anxi have never relaxed their suppression of bandits, but there are some horse thieves who can be wiped out with little effort, usually the kind who hide in the desert at every turn. The horse thieves in the area, the Han army will suppress this kind of horse thieves when they find it, but they will not follow the desert to go around in circles.

For the Han army, the natural environment is 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 an army to conquer Hunnit, let alone how many enemy troops were killed and how many supplies were looted, but a buffer zone of nearly [-] miles was artificially created.

According to their own needs, the Han army either built beacons within their original national borders, or simply did not treat Hunnite as a sovereign country. They built beacons wherever they were suitable, or even where the terrain was good enough. fortress.

To the west of the Penchi River is actually a basin, and compared with Anxi Duhufu, it is a place where you can see green everywhere.

Under the threat of the Han army, the Huns retreated for more than three hundred miles, and they shrank almost directly to the west bank of a river called the Amu Darya.

The original owner of the land fled, so the land became unowned. The Han people and Hu people in Guiyi in the Anxi Duhufu prefecture looked at it and said: Well, such a good land, don’t plant (graze) it. What, what a pity!

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 take care of it at all, they rushed over as if they were having fun.

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 away a large group of people.

"The information came from the Han people with water, and our scouts have verified it."

"how many?"

"No less than [-] cavalry have been discovered, and there are still an unknown number of enemy troops active in the rear."

"The Huns are courting death!"

The beacon fire of the fortress has been lit, and the beacon towers or fortresses and fortresses are constantly lit in the form of relays in the rear to convey military information to the rear.

A long time ago, such scenes often happened in various sections of the Great Wall. Once you saw the beacon fire rising to the sky every few miles from the section of the Great Wall, it represented the invasion of the Hulu army.

It's just that the region has changed, but the meaning is the same.

The Anxi Protectorate's Mansion was located in Gumo's shogunate, and Li Kuang was a little taken aback after receiving the report.

"The Hunnites took the initiative to launch an offensive?" Li Kuang couldn't understand it at all, and asked wonderingly, "Are they giving up on themselves?"

The last time they entered the territory of Hunnit, the number of Hunnit troops they killed was not the most important thing, but they almost turned half of Hunnit into white ground.

Almost half of the territory's pots and jars were smashed, even in a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic country like Hunnit, it would not be as bad as the loss of half of the border of the farming people, but it is really not far from paralysis.

It is also fortunate that Hunnit is a half-agricultural and half-nomadic country, and at the same time, the western part of the farming area has not been ravaged by the Han army. Otherwise, there would be no need to wait for the second attack of the Han army, and it would have been killed in one go.

How long has it been?It should be less than a year, what is wrong with the Hunnites, and they want to start a war on their own initiative! ?

"What happened?" Li Kuang has been busy with the affairs of the Hu people in Guiyi recently, and he didn't pay enough attention to the half-disabled country of Hunnit: "Is there anything I didn't notice?"

Zhao Chang was actually at a loss. What he knew was that the Hunnitt had been retreating a while ago, and he really didn't understand what kind of madness Glenbadis had gone so that he assembled an army to take the initiative to violate the border.

Glenbadis is the current king of the Huns. The Huns and related nomads are called Shanyu, and the Alans and those who are mainly farming are called kings.

Hunnit itself is a multi-ethnic mixed country. The eastern part is dominated by nomadic tribes, and the western part is dominated by agricultural areas. In fact, they do not have a strict system, and they usually manage their own affairs.

Every year when winter is about to enter, some leaders of sufficient weight will be summoned by Glenbadis to the plains in the southeast of the Aral Sea. The second purpose of dividing the tax share is to discuss some big and small matters.

"There are 30 horsemen that have been discovered, and there are still unknown numbers of enemy troops?" Li Kuang felt that this was not right: "Last time we wiped out [-] to [-] Hunnitt troops. The number of people will not be less than [-]. Can they gather [-] pacers, or even more?"

Zhao Chang also felt something was wrong.

According to the Anxi Dufu’s information on Hunnit, Hunnit is a country with a population of about 30 million. Before that, there were no so many young and middle-aged people, almost two to three out of ten young and middle-aged people in the whole country disappeared. , At least [-] or more were recruited in less than a year?
"If Glenbardis does this, even if they can win a small victory, so what?" Li Kuang said according to his own understanding: "For a country like Hunite, if [-]% to [-]% of its young men die, it can still exist. Go down?"

Not to mention the Hunnites, three out of ten young and strong people in any country will die, and they will basically not be destroyed by the outside world. The country will also become a mess, and the country is destined to perish.

"Glenbadis is a capable man!" Zhao Chang said with a sigh: "At least he can do this step."

If it were a king without executive power, he would not be able to sit firmly on the throne in the face of the last fiasco, or even be kicked off the throne and beheaded, but Glenbadis is still the ruler of Hunnit.

There is a time difference here. The news of the domestic riots has not yet reached the Anxi Protectorate. Li Kuang and Zhao Chang studied it for a long time, but they would not have thought that the Hunnitt had gone crazy, because there were Rome, Sassanid, etc. State support and "replenishment of blood".

Among the troops marching in the territory of Hunnit, there were 8 cavalrymen who had been discovered by the Han army.This [-]-strong cavalry is not all Hunnit's army. In fact, a considerable number of them come from various allies.

If Li Kuang knew that the countries headed by Rome and Sasanian had formed an anti-Han axis, why would he have counterattacked Hunnitt in less than a year, and could have formed at least [-] cavalry, and even maintained military supplies and logistics, etc. Puzzles will be answered.

If counted in terms of time, the current time point is the fourth day after the slave riot in Wuyang County.

If the planning steps of the anti-Han alliance were used, the action of forming a coalition force would be earlier than provoking the slaves in the Han Empire to riot, that is, before the slaves rioted, in fact, countries had already secretly mobilized troops.

The Persians took the lead, and after contacting the Romans, they hit it off immediately. After the two countries reached an agreement, they did not make much action. They planned the production direction first.

Many Han Chinese have gone abroad now, but if they go to a certain country, it is really difficult to establish an efficient intelligence system in a short period of time.

If Sassanian and Romans move too much, the Han people will notice some clues if they pay special attention. The problem is that the Persians and Romans are not stupid. Even if they want to make big moves, they still choose to be remote. If it is carried out locally, it will not be done under the noses of the Han people.

Waiting for the Han people to discover the changes in Sasan and Rome, even if they want to pass the news back, it will take time.

It would take at least two months by sea to transmit information from Sasanian to the Han Empire, and at least a year by land.

In the case of Rome, no one knows how long it will take by land. That's because no one has traveled by land.

From the sea route, it will take a year and two or three months to transmit the news from Rome back to China. As for whether it is two months or three months a year, it depends on the weather conditions on the route. .

Sasanian and Rome probably reached an agreement in the 15th year of Yuanshuo. They spent a year and a half making preliminary preparations in their own country, and did not contact other countries until the early 17th year of Yuanshuo.

The attitude shown by the Han Empire was too domineering, and its behavior towards some countries could only be moderately reasonable or completely unreasonable.

If Sassanid or Rome came up alone and stood up to express their desire to resist the hegemony of the Han Empire, all the countries that were contacted would shake their heads.

They are not stupid either. No matter it is Sasanian or Roman, no matter how you look at it, you will be pushed to the ground and rubbed by the Han Empire. How crazy and crazy do you have to be to follow them into troubled waters?
If Sassanian and Rome were united, and some regional powers were added, it would be a model of two plus five, and the nature of the matter would be somewhat different.

Since the Han Empire appeared in the field of view of all countries, they knew that the Han Empire was very strong. Under the condition of one-on-one, any country would be rubbed against the ground. It was the kind that ignored how far the distance was, and the Han Empire could catch anyone. A beating reality.

The Persians have already said that under the premise that the war goes smoothly, the coalition forces of various countries may be able to enter the Western Regions, and take advantage of the complex terrain of Congling to engage in a tug-of-war over there.

All countries... including Sassan himself, in fact, everyone knows that things will not be so easy. They may be able to rely on surprise in the early stage to take advantage of it. conjecture.

The more reliable guarantee of the Persians is that even if they use the power of the whole country, they will at least keep the Han people east of Medes on land.

Medes is the central province of Sasanian, which means that the Persians have made relevant psychological preparations, and they may lose the eastern territory east of Medes after the war with the Han Empire.

Most of the eastern border of Persia is 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 as long as human beings could not stand the desert or Gobi that spans hundreds of miles, they had already built long and deep fortifications in the two narrow corridors of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.

If the first wave of troops officially started fighting with the Anxi Protectorate of the Han Empire, Sassan will mobilize the whole country in the next moment. Training the young and middle-aged in the country is a necessary procedure, and the next step is to force the Arabs who have the largest population. .

Sasanian's own population should be 6000 to 500 million, and it is not the first time that a million troops have been pulled up, which is a matter of life and death.There are at least 50 million Arabs in their territory. No matter how they pull cannon fodder, they can make do with [-] million, right?
Shapur II has already told Constantius that as long as the allies can keep up in terms of funds and military supplies, there is no pressure for Sassan to raise an army of 200 million people.He even said that pulling those other countries into the water, all countries can gather together a force of 50 people.

Of the [-] horsemen found by the Han army in the Persian army that had entered Hunnit, [-] of them belonged to Sasanian.This is also Shapur II's reassurance to Glenbadis, saying that Sassan is definitely playing for real this time, not to fool Hunnit.

At the same time, five legions in Rome have entered the territory of Hunnite, two of which are serious Roman legions, and the other three are auxiliary legions from vassal races.Their total strength has reached [-], which is actually not too small for Rome.

Some other countries and tribes have more than a hundred thousand together, and they belong to the kind of enemy army that has not been noticed by the Anxi Dufu for the time being.

Li Kuang and Zhao Chang have nothing complicated to consider now. Since Glenbadis doesn't want to live and initiates a war, the Anxi Governor's Mansion will of course gather troops to attack him. He must teach Glenbadis how to behave. .

What the Anxi Protectorate needs to consider is that it will not be a pleasure to face Glenbadis. This time, they will simply destroy the enemy troops who came to invade, or once again enter Hunnit.

"The Hunnites are crazy, and the Ding Lingren will definitely make some moves?" Zhao Chang stroked his chin and said happily: "They are brothers and sisters, and they have established a deep friendship in a short period of time. Glen Badis If you take action, you will never forget to get on the Xigao car."

Li Kuang had thought of this aspect a long time ago, and he was happy that there was a war to fight, but he really didn't understand why the other party went crazy.

(End of this chapter)