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Chapter 770 The Extremely Lucky Xie An

Xie An's striker arrived half a day earlier than scheduled, and they joined Li Kuang's troops in the early morning.

Troops would arrive early in the morning, marching overnight as a matter of course.This happened because Xie An received Li Kuang's report and decisively made the cavalry in the army not consider the physical strength of the horses, and adopted a galloping mode of marching.

Before the arrival of the follow-up troops, Li Kuang didn't just sit and watch the allied forces of the Western Regions change by themselves. He sent troops to test it out. The people of the Western Regions did resist, but let the Western Regions Corps capture some camps of the Allied Forces.

When Li Kuang received the news that troops were sent to defeat the allied forces and capture some of the eastern camps, he was extremely confused about what the Western Regions were doing, especially since the Western Regions Corps had just launched a tentative attack, and the Bailongdui coalition camps had another internal strife. The good man also contacted the Western Region Corps later.

The envoys sent by the Shanshan people were very unscrupulous. When they saw the Han people, they immediately knelt down and called Dad. Their behavior and attitude made all the Han people present stunned.

An invasion... oh, it's a recovery, to be able to meet the "sons" who had been separated for decades, but those "sons" were too fucked up, to do it by themselves without contacting in advance.

The Corps of the Western Regions was able to easily capture the eastern camp of the coalition forces because of the cooperation of the Shanshan people. Not only did the Shanshan people rush to hug the thighs of the Han fathers, they also dragged some Qiemo people and Jingjue people.

In Bailongdui, not only Shanshan people, Qiemo people, and Jingjue people came to hug the thighs of the Han people and call them father, crying and praising the Han people. The father finally came. , which made Liu Rui, who led the advance, dumbfounded and at the same time a little at a loss.

The Han people will defect to the Shanshan people. After entering the Shanshan border, tribes continue to come to hug their thighs, and they have already made enough psychological preparations before.The reason why the Shanshan people were caught off guard was that they didn't talk about any strategy, and they didn't even contact each other beforehand.

"If the Shanshan people had contacted in advance, we could have achieved greater results under our operation!" Fan Jin was very dissatisfied with the 'reckless' behavior of the Shanshan people, and felt that the stage for showing his strategy was wasted: "Their brains are too weak. Muscle!"

Xie An sat in the first seat to listen to the report.He actually didn't anticipate the development of the situation. It's not that he didn't think that there would be people from the Western Regions defecting, but the way the people from the Western Regions defected was too random, and he didn't even consider whether defecting would be accepted by the Han people.

"We have controlled the east of Bailongdui and formed a confrontation with the enemy." Fan Jin was standing next to a military map and introduced the latest situation to Xie An on the map: "Take the people from Kucha, Shule and Yu The three big countries headed by Tianren are still resisting, and they rely on this wetland."

The military map generally shows the current distribution of the enemy and the enemy in Bailongdui, and the terrain is also marked.With the existence of those "sons" who rushed to call their fathers, the Han people have a more detailed understanding of Bailongdui.

There are wetlands in the Western Regions?The Central Plains country's impression of the Western Regions is that Gobi is everywhere in the corners, but in fact it is not the same thing.The area of ​​the Western Regions is very large, as vast as one and a half of the Central Plains. Most of the area is grassland, and there is no shortage of very high mountains. There are wetlands and even swamps around some large lakes.

"Swamp?" Xie An nodded slightly: "General Hussars went to attack the disobedient Gaoche, and after entering the enemy's territory for more than two hundred miles, he found a boundless swamp."

Did Ran Min lead troops to invade Xigaoche?Li Kuang and the others didn't know the news in advance, but they had guesses about Ding Lingren's involvement in the Western Regions, and basically the blame was thrown to Ran Min.

Outside the Great Wall... generally refers to outside the Great Wall. There are also a lot of wetlands and swamps on the grasslands, especially in areas with abundant rain all year round. There are relatively few swamps in the southern part of the desert. It is not only covered with forest areas and wetlands, but also has a wide area of ​​swampland.

There is a legend that the first retreat route chosen by the Northern Huns was the current territory of Xigaoche. They were blocked by swamps before changing their route to the Western Regions. Those who continued westward also continued to encounter swamps.

Regardless of whether the legend about the northern Huns frequently encountering swamps is true or not, some aspects also show that it is not an easy task to go west from the Central Plains. It is normal to encounter the Gobi, and there are indeed too many deserts and swamps. As a result, only one Hexi Corridor is considered safer.

Xie An did his homework beforehand, knowing that the Western Regions are not considered Wusun in the process of splitting. The current big countries are Kucha, Shule, Khotan, and Yanqi. 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 their own tribe: "They mentioned that the territory of Yueban to the west is also full of swamps."

Xie An doesn't want to know what kind of country Yueban is now, that's what he needs to know before continuing westward.

Before the Han Dynasty marched into the Western Regions, it actually did not expect that it would be the people of Kucha who raised the banner of anti-Han. The original judgment was that Yanqi would become the leader of the anti-Han.The fact is that it embarrasses quite a few people. Yanqi has not expressed anything so far after the invasion of the Han Dynasty, but Qiuci, who was ignored before, is jumping up and down.

The reason for ignoring Kucha is very simple. What the Han people knew about Kucha was still in civil war the year before, which was the inevitable contest between old and new forces when the Bai family came back to power after Luo Yun killed the Longhui.A country that has just completed the transition of power, in terms of Zhuxia's governance philosophy and practices, shouldn't it be buried in the elimination of the remaining hostile forces in the country and the stabilization of the new regime's control of the local area?But the Han people obviously don't know much about this wonderful place in the Western Regions, and the thinking of those weird people.

"With the emperor's permission, I have already sent envoys to Yanqi and Che Shi." Xie An just came, and it took some time to sort out the situation, but some things were already prepared before coming.He glanced at the people in the tent, and said: "The conflict between Yanqi and Qiuci should be used."

General Lang can also call himself General, but that is to refer to his subordinates.Although Xie An is not General Zhengxi but General Zhonglang, he claims that he is perfectly fine.

Li Kuang also thought about contacting the Yanqi people before, but firstly he did not communicate with the center, and secondly, as the commander of the vanguard army, he was not qualified to do so. He agreed with Xie An's move after his arrival.

Yanqi is a country with a very long history. Before the Western Han Dynasty entered the Western Regions, Yanqi already existed.It's just that Yanqi at that time was a small country with the size of a bean, and it was a vassal country of Cheshi.

During the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty, Che Shi was constantly pressed on the ground and beaten by the Han people. The Western Han Dynasty split the Che Shi into pieces, and 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 Shanguo, overwhelmed Weili and Weixu, and even stood up and stood up in the front of Cheshi.

It was during the Cao Wei period that Yanqi began to become a big country.At that time, there was only one rear part of Cheshi. Gaochang was the resident of the Wuji Captain. The Cheshiren who were subdued by the Han people killed and annexed Pulei, and subdued Wutangren and Miren (divided into two parts). People from China, Bilu, and Yiwu have become a big country that can't lose to Wusun, but the good times don't last long because the Cheshi people's own civil strife ruined the good situation, and it also gave the Yanqi people the opportunity to continue to expand.

After Sima's family usurped the throne, the Central Plains had no interest or energy to manage the Western Regions.During that period, not only the Yanqi people trembled, but every country with some strength and ambitions started its own expansion path. After several attacks and annexations, there were still 36 countries in the Western Regions in the Western Han Dynasty. By the time of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I don’t know if there were still [-]. The ones that can be regarded as big countries in the Western Regions are Yanqi, Qiuci, 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 Yin is now Xie An's marching commander, and it should be time to show his presence: "There is no In the capital, there are Yiwu, Liuzhong, Jiaohe, Weixu, Tiemen, and Wuyi."

There are many ethnic groups in the Western Regions, some are pure nomads, and some are pure farming. There are more ethnic groups that are both herding and farming.

Xi Yin did a good homework in advance, because he is the eldest son of Xi Shi, Xi Jian's previous connections can be used, and he is also Wang Xizhi's wife and younger brother.

With Xi Jian’s relationship, and because Wang Xizhi was selected by Liu Yan as a Ph. fact.

The Western Regions are currently roughly divided into five parts. The mountains on the north side of Bailongdui are the territory of Yanqi, the northwest of Qinhai is the territory of the Kucha people, the Khotan River basin is the territory of the Khotan people, Congling and its surroundings are the territory of the Khotan people. The territory of the Shule people, and the north of Tianchi (Issyk Lake) is the territory of the Wusun people.The rest of the countries or tribes are actually vassals or vassals of the above five major countries.

Now there are three big countries that are going to fight against the Han, namely Qiuci, Shule and Khotan. The people of Kucha are the nominal leaders, but the reason why Shule and Khotan are going to end is actually under the amicable instigation of Hunnit , the remaining people from the Western Regions are vassals or employed by the above three countries.

"Shanshan people's territory is not small." Xi Min brought a map of the Western Regions that was originally kept in the treasury of the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He pointed to the hung map and pointed to the territory belonging to Shanshan: "South of Pu Canghai, The east of the West Kunlun Mountains (called Nanshan in the Western Han Dynasty), the west of the basin (Qaidam Basin), and the north of the main Kunlun Mountains are all the old territories of Shanshan."

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

That map was drawn during the Western Jin Dynasty. Before the Western Jin Dynasty, the Shanshan people had always been supported by the Han people. Even the garrison of the guard house set up by the Han army was located in Shanshan. Shanni and Yidun led to the Shanshan Kingdom occupying such a large territory.

The Shanshan people did not say that the success of the Han people is also the failure of the Han people, but in fact, after the power of the Han people faded in the Western Regions, Shanshan was indeed besieged by various countries in the Western Regions, and the Shanshan people themselves were not united, which led to the current fragmentation.

"The people of Shanshan welcome us very much." Xi Min was not talking nonsense. Before they arrived, the people of Shanshan were scrambling to see Li Kuang, but Li Kuang's level was difficult to operate flexibly.He looked at Xie An and said with a smile: "General Zhonglang has already decided to take over the territory of Shanshan, and told Chang'an to start farming."

Xie An has no reason not to make good use of the Shanshan people, not only the people, but also the land, forest areas, livestock and other resources.He clearly knew that Liu Yan would not just want to regain the Western Regions, but would continue to conquer the West, so it was extremely correct to build the Western Regions into a forward base.

Of course, there are large-scale natural disasters happening in the country of Han. In a short period of time, resources will never be consumed to build the Western Regions, and even resources from the Western Regions will be plundered to supplement the country. Xie An dare not implement the plan to go to the left with the center.Just in order to continue westward in the future, he can arrange some things first, such as using manpower from the Western Regions to farm fields is one of them.

This time Xie An came with a standing army, this standing army was only the main force of the reinforcements, and there will be a second batch of semi-official and semi-civilian troops coming later.What he knows is that the semi-official and semi-civilian troops will reach about 20, or even more. In addition to the people in the disaster area seeking to survive, they are the young and strong who are eager for military merit, wealth, and slaves.

Adding up all the troops, there will be more than 20 armed forces under Xie An's command system. There have been many discussions on the promotion of Xie An's official position at the center. No one objects to Xie An's promotion, but at least there are still If you can get the credit, inflicting heavy damage on the enemy in Bailongdui is only the most basic. When you enter Kucha and wipe out this country that dares to reward the heads of the Han people, that is the time when the center promotes Xie An as General Zhengxi .

If Xie An is promoted to General Zhengxi, then the four "Zheng" level generals will be considered complete. Everyone is looking forward to whether the center will use the "Town" level generals next.

Xie An had learned about the general situation of the Bailongdui enemy army, and basically had plans for how to fight in the future. What caught him off guard was the news of the chaos breaking out in Yancheng, the capital of Kucha.

Yancheng, the capital of Kucha, is nearly [-] miles away from Bailongdui. When the news reached Xie An, no matter what happened there, the dust would definitely be settled.

What Xie An knew was that the Di people, the Ding Ling people and other people who took advantage of the fire looted Yancheng. The current King of Qiuci, Bai Chun, was slaughtered in the turmoil, and the royal family of Qiuci also died in various ways.

After confirming the news, Xie An couldn't have too many thoughts at all, so he immediately launched an attack on the Western Region coalition forces in Bailongdui.

(End of this chapter)