Xie An's forward arrived half a day earlier than the scheduled time. They met Li Kuang's team in the early morning.

　　The troops will arrive early in the morning, and of course they will march overnight. This is how Xie An received a report from Li Kuang, decisively letting the cavalry in the army not be sympathetic to the physical strength of the horses, and adopted the marching mode.

　　 Before the follow-up troops arrived, Li Kuang didn't sit and watch the situation of the Western Region Allied Forces change on their own. He sent troops to test. The Western Regions resisted, but they let the Western Region Corps capture part of the Allied Forces.

When Li Kuang received the dispatch of troops to defeat the coalition and occupy a part of the eastern camp, he was very confused about what the Western Regions were doing. Especially when the Western Region Corps had just launched a tentative offensive, the Bailongdui coalition camp had another infight. The philanthropist also contacted the Western Region Corps.

　　The envoys sent by Shan Shanren were very unethical. When they saw the Han people, they knelt down and called to their father in an instant. Their behavior and attitude made all the Han people present at the scene astonished.

　　 An invasion...Oh, it’s a recovery. I was able to encounter "sons" who had been separated for decades. Those "sons" were a bit too **** and did it by themselves without contacting them in advance.

　　 The Western Region Corps was able to easily capture the eastern camp of the Allied Forces because of the cooperation of Shan Shan people. Not only did Shan Shan rush to hug the thigh of Han Dad, they also pulled a part of Qiemo and Jingjue people.

Bailongdui is not only Shanshan people, Qiemo people and Jingjue people who came to hug the thighs of the Han people and call for father, crying and shouting to praise Han people's father is finally here, and the horse thieves hired by the Qiucians abandoned the secrets in batches. At the same time, Liu Rui, who led the advance, was dumbfounded and at the same time a little at a loss.

　　The Han people will go to Shanshan people. After entering the Shanshan country, tribes will continue to hold their thighs, and they have already had enough psychological preparation before. It would be caught off guard that Shan Shanren's surrender didn't say anything about his strategy, and he didn't even contact him at all.

"If Shanshan people contact in advance, we can achieve greater results under our operation!" Fan Jin is very dissatisfied with Shanshan people's'reckless' behavior, and feels that the stage of showing his strategy is wasted: "Their brains are too lacking in roots. Tendons!"

　　 Xie An is sitting in the first seat listening to the report. In fact, he hadn't expected the development of the situation. It was not that he didn't think that there would be people from the Western Regions who would defect. It was because the way the people from the Western Regions defected was too casual, and he didn't even consider whether the defections would be accepted by the Han.

"We controlled the east of Bailongdui and formed a confrontation with the enemy." Fan Jin stood beside a military map and introduced Xie An's latest overview to the map: The three big countries headed by the Tian people are still resisting. They rely on this wetland."

　　 The military map roughly draws the current enemy and friend distribution of Bailongdui, and also marks the terrain. With the existence of those "sons" who rushed to shout for their father, the Han people had 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 there are Gobi everywhere, but it’s not the same thing. The area of ​​the Western Regions is very large. It is as vast as one and a half of the Central Plains. Most of the area is grassland. There is no shortage of mountains with very high altitudes. Some large lakes are surrounded by wetlands and even swamps.

　　 "Swamp?" Xie An nodded slightly: "General Hussar went to crusade against the tall carts. After entering the enemy's territory for more than two hundred miles, he found an endless swamp."

　　 Ran Min led troops to invade Xigao Che? Li Kuang and the others didn't know the news in advance, but they had guesses about Ding Ling's involvement in the Western Regions. Basically, the pot was thrown to Ran Min.

Outside the Great Wall...in general, there are many wetlands and swamps on the grasslands, especially in areas with abundant rain all year round. There are still fewer swamps in Monan. After passing the desert, you can go northwest of Mobei. Not only are there forest areas and wetlands, but there are really vast swamps.

　　 There is a legend that the first retreat route chosen by the Northern Huns was the current territory of Xi Gaoche. They were blocked by the marshland before turning to the Western Regions, and they continued to run into the marshland as they continued to the west.

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

Xie An still did his homework beforehand, knowing that the Western Regions are not considered to be divided Wusuns. The current big countries are Qiuci, Shule, Khotan, and Yanqi. Among them, Qiuci is rich, Shule is barbaric, Khotan has culture, and Yanqi. National power and military are strong.

　　 "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 the Yueban territory to the west is also full of swamps."

　　 Xie An doesn't want to know what kind of country Yue is like now, that's what you need to know before going west.

　　 Before the Han Kingdom entered the Western Regions, it was unexpected that the people who raised the anti-Han banner would be the Kucha people. The original judgment was that Yanqi would become the leader of the anti-Han. The fact is that it embarrassed quite a lot of people. Yanqi hasn't said anything after the invasion of Han, but the neglected Qiuci jumped up and down.

　　 The reason for ignoring Qiuci is very simple. The Chinese people know that Qiuci was in the civil war a year ago. After Luo Yun killed the Longhui, the old and new forces were inevitable contests in the process of the Bai family regaining power. In a country that has just completed the transition of power, based on Zhu Xia's philosophy and practice of governing the country, shouldn't it be the removal of the hostile remnant forces buried in the country and the consolidation of the new regime's control of the locality? But the Han people obviously don't know much about the weird place of the Western Regions, the thinking of those weird people.

　　 "The general had the permission of the emperor, and has sent an envoy to Yanqi and the coach." Xie An came, and it took some time to clarify the situation, but some things were prepared before he came. He glanced at the people in the tent, and said: "The contradiction between Yanqi and Kucha should be used."

　　 General Lang can also call himself a general, but that is a claim to subordinates. Although Xie An is not a general of Zhengxi, but a general of Zhonglang, he claims to be completely fine.

　　 Li Kuang also thought about contacting Yanqi people before, but he did not communicate with the center, and secondly, being a commander of the vanguard army is not qualified to do that. He agrees with such a move after Xie An's arrival.

　　 Yanqi is a country with a very long history. Yanqi already existed before the Western Han Dynasty entered the Western Regions. It's just that Yanqi at that time was a small country with a big peas, and a vassal country as a car master.

　　 Cheshi was repeatedly beaten on the ground by Han people during the Western Han and Eastern Han Dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty split Cheshi and Yanqi developed at the end of the Western Han Dynasty.

　　 In the early leaves of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Yanqi seized the opportunity to occupy Qinhai (Bosten Lake), then annexed the mountain country, overwhelmed Weili and Weixu, and even turned over and stiffened the front of the driver, and since then began to pull it up.

　　 Yanqi began to become a big country during the period of Cao Wei. At that time, there was only one rear part of the Chashi. Gaochang was used as the resident of the Wuji captain. The Chashimen who were subdued by the Han killed and annexed the cats, and also subdued the Wuchenren and Miren (divided into two parts). The Bilu people, and Yiwu people have become a big country that does not lose to Wusun, but the good times are not long because the chasers behind them ruined the good situation in themselves, and also gave the Yanqi people the opportunity to continue to expand.

　　 After 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 ambitions began their own expansion. In addition to several attacks and annexations, there were still 36 countries in the Western Han Dynasty that could count the Western Regions. In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, I don’t know if there are still 20 countries. They are Yanqi, Qiuci, Khotan, and Shule (not counting Wusun in the split).

"Yanqi not only controls Qin Hai, they also control the territory north of the mountains (Kuruktag Mountains)." Xi Yan is now Xie An's marching history, and it should be time to show his sense of existence: "Nothing. As the capital, there are several big cities like Yiwu, Liuzhong, Jiaohe, Weixu, Tiemen, and Wuyi."

　　 There are many ethnic groups in the Western Regions. Some are purely nomads and some are purely farming. There are more groups that are both grazing and farming.

　　 Xi Yan did a good homework beforehand. Because he is Xi’s eldest son, Xi Jian’s previous contacts can be used, and he is also Wang Xizhi’s wife and brother.

With Xi Jian’s relationship, and because Wang Xizhi was selected by Liu Yan as a doctor of literature, some people in the north will also give Xi Yan a face. It is quite simple to check the information of the Western Regions, that is, no one can guarantee that the information will be consistent. fact.

The Western Regions are currently roughly divided into five parts. The mountains on the north side of Bailongdui are followed by the Yanqi territory, the northwest of Qinhai is the territory of the Khotan people, and the Yutian River basin is the territory of the Khotan people. Congling and surrounding areas are The territory of the Shule people, and to the north of Tianchi (Isek Lake) is the territory of the Wusun people. The rest of the countries or tribes are actually the vassals or orders of the vassals of the above five major countries.

There are now three major countries that are going to fight against Han. They are Qiuci, Shule and Khotan. The Khuzi people are the nominal leader, but the reason why Shule and Khotan are dismissed is actually under the instigation of Hunite's kindness. , The remaining Western Regions are the vassal or employed of the above three countries.

"The territory of the Shanshan people is not small." Xi Yan brought a map of the Western Regions that was originally preserved in the treasury of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. He pointed to the map that was hung up and pointed to the territory that belonged to Shanshan: "South of Pu Canghai, To the east of the West Kunlun Mountains (called Nanshan in the Western Han Dynasty), to the west of the basin (Qaidam Basin), and to the north of the main Kunlun Mountains are Shanshan old territory."

　　 Everyone looked at the map and could clearly determine the distribution of the site. It seemed that Shan Shanren’s site was really not small.

That map was drawn in the Western Jin Dynasty. Before the Western Jin Dynasty, the Shanshan people had always been supported by the Han people. Even the Duhufu station set up by the Han army was in the territory of Shanshan. The support for the Shanshan people successively annexed Xiaowan, Ronglu, Yanqiang, It was through the mud and Iraqi shields that the Shanshan Kingdom, which occupies a vast territory, came into being.

　　 It is said that if the Shanshan people did not succeed, the Han people were also defeated by the Han people, but in fact, after the power of the Han people faded in the Western Regions, Shanshan was indeed besieged by the countries of the Western Regions, and then the Shanshan people themselves were not united, which led to the current fragmentation.

　　 "The Shan Shan people welcome us very much." Xi Yan is not bullshit, but before they arrive, Shan Shan people rush to see Li Kuang, but Li Kuang's level is difficult to operate flexibly. He looked at Xie An, and said with a smile: "General Zhong Lang has been willing to take over the territory of Shanshan, and he has reported to Chang'an to start farming."

　　 Xie An has no reason not to use Shanshan people. Not only do people want to use them, but also the land, forests, 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 Western Regions, so it was extremely correct to build the Western Regions into a forward base.

　　 Of course, a large-scale natural disaster is happening in the country of Han, and resources will never be spent on building the Western Regions in a short period of time, or even plunder the resources of the Western Regions to supplement the country. Xie Anke is afraid to implement the plan to go to the left with the center. Just to continue westward in the future, he can arrange some things first. For example, using the manpower of the Western Regions to carry out farming is one of them.

　　 Xie An brings a standing army here this time~lightnovelpub.net~ This standing army is just the main force of reinforcements, and there will be a second batch of semi-official and semi-civilian troops coming later. What he knows is that the number of semi-official and semi-civilian troops will reach about 200,000, or even more. In addition to the people in the disaster-stricken areas seeking life, they are those young men who desire military merit, wealth, and slavery.

Adding all the troops together, there will be more than 200,000 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 opposes Xie An’s promotion. If there is a deserving credit, then it is only the most basic to inflict heavy losses on the enemy in Bailongdui. When will the country that dare to offer a reward for the heads of the Han people be destroyed by the center? Time.

　　 If Xie An is promoted to the General of Zhengxi, then the four "Zheng" level generals are also complete, and everyone is looking forward to whether the center will use the "Town" level generals in the future.

　　 Xie An understood the general situation of the enemy in Bailongdui, and basically had plans for how to fight next. What caught him off guard was the news of the outbreak of turmoil in Yancheng, the capital of Qiuci.

　　 Yancheng, the capital of Kuici, is nearly 1,500 miles away from Bailongdui. When the news reaches Xie'an, no matter what happens over there, the dust must have settled.

　　 What Xie An knows is that the Di people, Dingling people, and the rest of the people who took advantage of the fire ransacked Yancheng. The current King of Qiuci, Baichun, was slaughtered in the turmoil, and the King of Qiuci was also dead.

　　 After confirming the news, Xie An couldn't have much thoughts at all, but immediately launched an attack on the Western Region Allied Forces in Bailongdui.