sweeping the world

Chapter 762

Of course, there have been powerful countries in the Western Regions, but those powerful countries were basically established by outsiders, and the locals (countries) have always been bullied by outsiders.

The former Dawan was established by the descendants of Greece. They relied on the legacy of Macedonia...that is, the spear formation and the use of cavalry, and they could easily beat any country in the Western Regions.

The Wusun people are not actually natives of the Western Regions. They live around a mountain called Hunxie near Qilian Mountain. The entire Qilian Mountains were conquered, and a Hunxie king was sealed, so the Wusun people had to change the leader's name to Kunmo (also known as Kunmi).

Another country that can be called Xiaoqiang in the Western Regions is called Cheshi. The problem is that Cheshi itself is not very good. It is because he has always been valued by the Huns that he is considered a local Xiaoqiang.

The Western Han Dynasty calculated that there were 36 countries in the Western Regions. Some countries must have not been recorded. That is because the Western Regions are a messy place. Thousands of people dare to establish a country, and hundreds of people dare to become kings. Zhuxia is really unwilling to record only A kingdom of hundreds of subjects.

In fact, after the Western Han Dynasty entered the Western Regions, it did not form effective control at the beginning. There was a Western Region Protectorate and officials were arranged, but only a small number of troops were garrisoned and farmed. Only the countries near the farms were radiated and could be controlled. , It can only deter small countries.

The Western Regions were truly under the tight control of the Han Dynasty during the Han Dynasty. It was because Chen Tang had done the work of "taking the banner of Shehou" and "beheading the head of the Zhizhi", which completely and severely frightened all the countries in the Western Regions. The Protectorate has finally broken away from its empty name and become an authority that can truly manage the Western Region.

During the time when Wang Mang usurped the Han, the Han people once lost control of the Western Regions.At that time, chaotic wars broke out among the Han people again. Who would control the Western Regions thousands of miles away after fighting among themselves.At that time, the people of the Western Regions were aware of the civil strife among the Han people, and they repeatedly attacked the garrison of the Protectorate of the Western Regions, and the Northern Huns also made their debut later.

The Protectorate of the Western Regions has not received reinforcements for a long time, and the garrison of the Protectorate of the Western Regions has become less and less under the isolation and helplessness of the Protectorate of the Western Regions. What kind of fate has not been recorded.

The Western Han Dynasty collapsed, and after 17 years of civil war, Liu Xiu regained the ruling power on behalf of the old Liu family. At the beginning, there was no room to manage the Western Regions.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty (after the eighth year AD), Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu was busy with domestic wars and had no time to take care of the Western Regions. The situation in the Western Regions was chaotic.In the Western Regions at that time, most of the countries in the North Road were subordinate to the Xiongnu, while the countries in the South Road attacked each other and fought endlessly.The Northern Xiongnu took the opportunity to conquer the northern states of the Western Regions and Khotan, a great country in the Southern Regions, and used the manpower and material resources of the Western Regions to continuously harass the border of the Eastern Han Dynasty.In order to completely repel the attack of the northern Xiongnu, open trade routes outside, and secure the border inside, the Eastern Han Dynasty adopted the strategy of "conquering barbarians with barbarians". Starting from the 16th year of Emperor Yongping of the Han Ming Dynasty (AD [-]), it began to send troops to the Western Regions.

In February of the 16th year of Yongping, Emperor Han Ming ordered Dou Gu and Geng Zhong, the commander-in-chief of Fengche, to lead an army to defeat the northern Xiongnu in Pulehai (now Balikun Lake, Xinjiang), and captured the strategically important Yiwulu.In order to further liaise with the countries in the Western Regions and isolate the Northern Huns, Dou Gu sent Ban Chao and Guo Xun to lead 1 officials to the Western Regions.Ban Chao first worked hard to get through the countries in the Southern Road that were weakly controlled by the Huns, surrendered Shanshan, controlled Khotan, attacked Shule, and drove out the northern Huns in the Southern Road of the Western Regions, making the countries of the Southern Road successively subordinate.

At the same time, in order to prevent the Northern Huns from making a comeback, in November of the 17th year of Yongping, the Han Dynasty sent Dou Gu, the commander-in-chief of Fengche, and Geng Bing, the commander-in-law of the son-in-law, to march west again to defeat the Baishan tribe of the Northern Huns in Puleihai. The front and rear of the car division belonging to the Northern Huns were also demoted, the southern road was basically opened up, and the east and west stations of the northern road were also controlled by the Han Dynasty.In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Protector of the Western Regions and the Second Colonel Wu and Ji were re-established.

The struggle between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Northern Xiongnu over the Western Regions lasted from the 16th year of Yongping ([-] AD) to the death of Emperor Ling of Han.

Later, the princes fought in chaos, that is, Cao Wei sent troops to the Western Regions after the world was divided into three parts, but in fact it was only to regain control of a small area to the east of the Western Regions, and the rest was powerless.

After the Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, the Sima family took over Cao Wei's control of the Western Regions. The areas that Cao Wei did not control were not owned by the Western Jin Dynasty.

Sima's family created the "Yongjia Rebellion" by themselves. The Western Regions were completely lost after beating their lives. Later, the Shenzhou land sinking occurred, and even the Central Plains were lost to the Hulu, and they went to "Crossing the South".

"So, we are the first group of Han Chinese to re-enter the Western Regions after 39 years?"

"I'm afraid the first batch of Han people may not be. The age of the army is far more than 39 years, and it may be more than 70 years."

There is nothing wrong with it. Sima's family established the Western Jin Dynasty, and they couldn't take care of the completely smashed Central Plains. How could they have any spare time to take care of the Western Regions. There is really no garrison in the Western Regions.There will be unofficial Han people to the Western Regions, but the army has never been sent.

Liu Rui squinted his eyes and looked at the map of mountains and rivers hanging on the side of the military tent. Oil lamps were burning inside the tent, and the light was actually not very enough. The map of mountains and rivers could only be seen as an outline.

The Western Region is very large, larger than the entire Central Plains in terms of area.Why can Emperor Han Yuan capitalize close-ups in history books?It is because he completed the control of the Western Regions in his generation, and Chen Tang has to be mentioned 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 such as Dou Xian, Dou Gu, Geng Bing, Ban Gu, Ban Chao, Guo Xun, etc. also left a lot of trouble in history books. a sum.

"I'll wait..." Liu Rui looked at Fan Jin and said eagerly, "You should also leave your name in history!"

There is nothing wrong with it. As a military general who entered the Western Regions for the first time after decades, if he really retakes the Western Regions, he will leave his name in the history books no matter what. However, what great achievements he has made has been highlighted in the book.

"If you don't see me, the army of the Han Dynasty will end, and the weak-headed prisoners will wear long tassels; if you don't see me, the ban will be far away, and the light cavalry of Jueyu will urge the war clouds!" Fan Jin sang a verse: "With this endorsement, who wouldn't want to see the great achievements of the army of the end of the year and Ban Chao? "

Liu Yan also felt that the PLA songs were inappropriate, and he had to choose some old-fashioned ones. Before he crossed over, "My Leader, My Group" was currently on the air, and he was immediately attracted to that song, so he changed it and made it his own. Army song.

There are quite a lot of military songs of the Han army, and the above one is the strangest one. The other military songs are basically taken from the "Book of Songs", such as "Qin Feng. Wuyi", "Qin Feng. Xiaorong", "Qin Feng. "Feng. Jianjia" has also become military songs successively, and they are all part of "Guofeng".

Many poems in "The Book of Songs. National Style" are actually military songs. "No Clothes" is martial, "Xiao Rong" is affectionate, and "Jianjia" has a profound artistic conception. It was also handed down after the first emperor burned books and tortured Confucianism. The rest are either inappropriate. Or it's just scraps.

Counting it all together, "The Book of Songs. National Wind. Qin Feng. Wuyi" is definitely the most popular song. The background is that Zhou Tianzi had to flee when the barbarians attacked the country. The Qin people responded to the call to send troops to serve the king. It was singing "No Clothes" that defeated Yidi and protected Zhou Tianzi to reach Luoyi (that is, Luoyang).

"No Clothes" was created under the premise that Qin people could not even guarantee their basic life. In response to the big guy Qin Wang, many people didn't even have clothes.

The other poems of "Guofeng" were basically no longer used as military songs after the fall of the Qin Empire. The unique "Wuyi" has been inherited. "As a military song, the country established by Zhu Hu is not regarded as a military song. In fact, the fact that it is not sung is enough to explain the problem.

The Final Army of the Western Han Dynasty is not well-known 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 was a diplomat and statesman who served as envoys to the Huns and South Vietnam successively, but was killed by the South Vietnamese Prime Minister Lu Jia before the Western Han Dynasty was about to go to war with South Vietnam. He was only 21 years old when he died.

I respect Zhongjun because he was young and useful and meritorious to the country, and he was also a person who dared to take responsibility when encountering difficulties. A simple description is that he had the spirit and courage to "ask for a tassel".

The troops have already been stationed in the camp, the guard posts that should be set up, and how to deal with what happens. Everything has been done. As the frontline commander, Liu Rui and the commander of the army, Shi Fanjin, can have time to talk about the past and look forward to the future.

Since he came to fight in the Western Regions, he must know more about the Western Regions.At least Liu Rui already knew that Shanshan was the country in the Western Regions most influenced by the Han Dynasty, and there were some tribes such as Shule, Weili, Weixu, and Qiemo who could fight for it.

"Bringing a group to fight a group, the Han people have always been in the Western Regions." Fan Jin needs to do more homework: "The coalition forces sent troops to attack, and more than a thousand people found two or three hundred Shanshan people."

Chi Zhelu led the army out, and the Han army who had been closely monitoring it naturally had intelligence feedback. Not long after they left the camp, Liu Rui got the information.

Shanshan people are too close to the Han Dynasty, and it was the first country in the Western Regions to move closer to the Han people in the Western Han Dynasty. It must be said that the Han people are really kind to Shanshan, bringing advanced farming skills and helping Shanshan to train over the army.

Hundreds of years passed, and 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 had a distinct Zhuxia style.

The passage of time has made Shanshan forget a lot. The style he said was serving. They are a rare ethnic group in the Western Regions with OCD. Tune, of course, is very recognizable.

"It's best for them to attack the camp tonight." Liu Rui didn't take off his armor. Inside the camp, there were three shifts and one-third of the soldiers remained awake. The outer camps were even deliberately emptied: "Let them come, can not go out."

Fan Jin smiled reservedly, but judging from his appearance, he was also looking forward to it.

Tonight is a crescent moon night, the sky is starry with no clouds, but the light provided is very limited.

The wind is blowing the green grass, and the grass leaves rubbing against each other make a sound of "唦唦". Only a solitary tree can be seen in a wide area. Its branches sway with the wind. In the dark night, it seems like a monster baring its teeth and claws. .

Chi Zhelu was holding the rein and standing next to a short tree. He looked over from a distance and saw a huge camp with campfires arranged every 50 meters around the fence. Every ten meters or so, there is a brazier set up by wood, and you can see the tents arranged in an orderly manner, and you can also see the patrols passing by every once in a while.

Standing nearby are Agappa and Labadie, who are also holding the reins of their mounts.Behind a low hill not far behind them, dozens of cavalry dismounted and waited quietly.

"If you search all the countries in the Western Regions, no one can do this like the Han people."

Chi Zhelu is talking about the scientific construction of camps, such as how to arrange the fences, and the tents are so neat. The reasonable layout of the fences and tents is actually a line of defense in the camp. The huge camp itself is also a formation .

"How can we compare?" Agapa said with a wry smile: "A small country with few people cannot learn even if it wants to."

Labadie remained silent. He was called a Sogdian in the Western Regions, but the correct ethnic name is a Serbian.

The Serbs are currently under the rule of the Persians. Labadie did not grow up in the Western Regions, but came to the Western Regions after he became an adult.He has seen the Persian Sasanian army, and he was also fortunate to have seen the Roman army, so he has his own judgment score.

"There is indeed no country in the Western Region that can do this." Labadie was silent for a while, and then said with some emotion: "Not even Sassanid can do it. I used to think Rome was the most powerful country, but now maybe We must add Han."

Chi Zhelu asked casually: "Do you want to test it out?"

Agappa said nothing.

Labadie laughed a few times and said, "I refuse to let my men go to test such a camp."

There are bonfires outside the camp of the Han people, obviously to provide enough light to see things, and there is no way to get close to the camp if they go to attack.With such an arrangement, there would be no reason why there would be no crossbowmen on duty at night. No matter how fast the cavalry charged, at least three waves of arrows would have to be rained beforehand. It was still unknown whether they could break through the fence.

Chi Zhelu looked at Agappa and said with a smile, "What about you?"

Agappa was hesitant. He had tested Chi Zhelu a little before, and he had expectations and apprehensions in his heart.The expectation is that Chi Zhelu and himself want to stand on the side of the Han people, and of course the anxiety is also worried that Chi Zhelu will find that Shanshan chooses to side with the Han people this time.

Chi Zhelu said with a pun: "Give you a chance."

Agappa understood, but he really didn't have enough courage, and the envoys sent to Chang'an didn't send the news back. It's not clear whether the Han people are willing to accept Shanshan again...

(End of this chapter)