The sun rose, and the golden light shone on the grassland, and the layers of turquoise grass tips were covered with a thin halo like a wave. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The girl was dressed in skirt armor, standing with a sword, her long golden hair dancing in the wind, and her elegant posture was like a magnificent picture in this wilderness.

The girl has been here all night, the grassland on a moonlit night is extremely cold, and the wild beasts that often haunt it make this place even more dangerous, and it is not for ordinary people to bear. The maiden, however, uses it as a test place for the exercise of the mind.

The horse neighed.

The galloping sound of more than a dozen war horses resounded in the surrounding fields.

More than a dozen knights, with swords in hand, rode on their horses and hurried towards the girl's place.

The cloak hunted in the wind, and the knight covered in armor turned into a streamline in the gallop, only the bright eyes were glowing with determination and fearlessness.

"Chief, the king is calling you back."

More than a dozen knights formed a circle around the maiden. They drew their swords, stuck them in the dirt in front of them, and knelt down on one knee.

These people are the most powerful warriors, willingly gathered around the girl, charging into battle, brave and useless.

The girl opened her eyes, which had been closed, and there was a pleasant glow in her blue eyes.

That night, the girl forgot a lot of things, including her past identity and the country that should have belonged to her. Ever since she had drawn her sword and left the peaceful Gensokyo, the maiden had understood her mission and duty, in response to the king who was expecting her and the one who would never forgive her no matter what.

"Let's go!"

The knight brought the horse for the maiden. The girl drew her sword from the dirt, carried it at her side, mounted her warhorse, and headed off into the distance.

The buildings in the city are square, both the internal architectural style and the layout are arranged according to the golden ratio.

Legend has it that a great king once conquered here with his army, destroying its primitive civilization and bringing with it traditions from faraway lands.

The buildings, laws, military systems, and even customs that remain in this city today are said to have come from the king's hometown.

It's just that the king died young, and the former land and the current city have changed hands several times.

The palace of the Queen of the Moon Clan is located in the middle of the city. Rows of long stone pillars surround the rectangular palace, which has long been dilapidated after a hundred years of war, weather, rain and snow.

"Aria, are you here?"

In the palace, Mia, the queen of the moon clan wearing a goose-yellow dress and a plush cloak and a golden crown on her head, saw the girl coming, happily walked down from under the throne, ran to the girl's side in three steps and two steps, lifted the girl who was about to kneel, held her hand, and walked forward side by side with her.

At the beginning, the Marquis of the Yue's Guishan tribe rebelled and was thwarted by Alia. With the help of Alia, the princess of the Otsuki clan took advantage of the situation to take control of the Kushan Division. In order to avoid the edge of the Qin army and the allied forces of the Western Regions. The queen of the Otsuki clan retreated westward with her people, crossing the majestic mountains and walking through the desolate highlands to the fertile land of today.

The journey wasn't all smooth sailing. After the death of the conqueror, his generals took control of his vast territory to the east and established a vast dynasty called Seleucus.

It's just that now a hundred years have passed, the glory of that dynasty is not there, the isolation of the region, and the internal ** have caused the rebellion of the subjects. Both the indigenous people within the dynasty and the people who migrated from Macedonia from within the dynasty were not willing to be under the rule of the dynasty.

Parthia and Bactria became independent, and Egypt to the west of Seleucus and the rise of Rome threatened dynastic rule.

After ten years of migration and struggle, the Yue clan moved all the way west, left the Western Regions, and competed with the fledgling Bactria for several years, and finally obtained a large piece of land in the gap between Great Qin and Bactria. And the girl Alia also established her own powerful knight order in this battle.

The attitudes of the surrounding countries towards this emerging power are completely different. Bactria was naturally quick to get along with it, while Parthia was ambiguous.

As for Seleucus, the attitude was subtle. On the one hand, it did not recognize the independence of Bactria, and in its official map, the lands occupied by the Yueshi remained in Seleucid territory. On the other hand, the Seleucid war in the west has already died down, and the ambitious Antiochus III has been working on eastward expansion since his accession to the throne, recovering the lands that Seleucus had lost in the east for decades.

In this case, Seleucus was naturally happy to have a force to contain Bactria in the east.

As for the south, since the death of the first generation of male lord Ashoka, the domestic politics of the Mauryan Empire have not been stable, and the monarch who has just succeeded to the throne has not been well-received. For the Yue Clan, which is still a small force now, it has never been taken to heart.

To the east of the Yue clan is the Western Regions vassal state of Great Qin, and Dawan and Wusun are among the great powers.

Regarding Yue's attitude, Dawan turned a blind eye. Anyway, the land controlled by the Yue clan has never severed trade with the Western Regions.

And Wusun, since he was defeated by Zhang Han and led 10,000 cavalry troops in the Qilian Mountains ten years ago and attached to Daqin, has repeatedly rebelled and been suppressed in the past few years. Wusu moved all the way to the west, adjacent to Dawan.

Both the Yue clan and Wusun were defeated by Qin, lost their land and lost their country, and they had painful pain.

Therefore, the young prince who was newly succeeded by Wusun always wanted to unite with the Yue clan and advance eastward to rebel against Great Qin.

This is also the reason why Queen Yue recalled Aria.

"Aria, the experience of the past ten years has been like a dream, and I still can't believe that we have established ourselves and have our own territory in this strange territory."

Queen Yue has a slender figure, and her wheat-colored skin exudes a youthful aura under the almost transparent goose-yellow beard skirt. As she grew older, Mia's appearance became more and more beautiful. That innocent smile and kind heart attract warriors one by one to come and join them.

Alia smiled, "Your smile is a treasure guarded by our knights. ”

"That's right, Aria. The new king of Wusun has sent an emissary who wants to form an alliance with us against our common enemy, Great Qin. What do you think. ”

At this point, Arya stopped and said in a soft voice, "Mia, my queen. Do you want to return to your former homeland and restore the glory of the Yue Clan? ”

Mia also stopped, and the graceful aura emanating from her body was enough to make any man fall under her skirt. The queen of the Yue clan remembered the gentle-smiling young man in the city of Zhaowu many years ago, and the culprit who caused her to flee into her homeland, her eyes became extremely resolute, and her hands were clenched.

Mia looked at Alia and said, "I want to go back, I want to recover the homeland of the Yue Clan, I want to defeat the Qin State, the opponent of our Yue Clan's fate." I wanted the man to bow his head high in front of me. But I knew I couldn't do it alone. I need your help, Aria. ”

Facing the girl's expectations, Alia responded, "I understand, we can ally with Wusun, but we can't go east now. ”

"Why?" Mia didn't understand why Alia couldn't go east now because she had sent a large number of troops to the border not long ago.

"King Wusun is vengeful, but the current Great Qin is in the middle of the day, and it is not wise to join forces with him to advance eastward at this moment. Moreover, the news came from the caravans on the trade routes. The state of Qin was waging a large-scale campaign against the Hu tribe in the north, and the size of the army alone was in the hundreds of thousands. ”

"Hundreds of thousands!" At this time, Mia screamed in surprise, and the confidence that she had just vowed to restore the country also froze. Although the warriors of the Yue clan are good at fighting and marching westward all the way, there are few opponents, but the number is only about 10,000.

The comparison between the two naturally compares the gap.

"That's right!" Aliya nodded and said, "We are still very weak now, whether it is compared to the Bhakts in the west, or the Macedonians further west, not to mention the Qin people in the east. The reason for the alliance with Wusun was not to advance eastward, but to completely eliminate Bakett. ”

"Why?" Mia asked, a little confused by Alia's train of thought.

Alia said, "Only by mastering Bhakt's land can you control that trade route. The trade route connecting the east and west from Xianyang, the capital of the Qin state, could bring us great benefits. A large number of cities and lands can also provide us with countless food and grass. Only when we have food, grass and wealth can we recruit soldiers and have the capital to advance eastward. And the reason why I sent troops to the border of the Great Wan Kingdom was to show our army and majesty to the countries of the Western Regions, but also to test it. ”

"Temptation?"

"That's right, the countries of the Western Regions are not a whole, and many of them are only subservient to the Qin State's military force and obscenity, and are not really subservient. That's what we can ally with. ”

"I see." Mia shook her head, her face was a little discouraged, and smiled: "Aria, compared to you, I am a fool. If it weren't for you, I might have died that night, or I might have become a puppet played by the Bun Nest. ”

"Don't say that, king. You have a power in you that most rulers today don't have. The tenderness of your powerful heart is able to give hope to all and to redeem those who are lost. With this power, you can unite the people of the kingdom. We need your strength to gain a foothold here, and even to defeat that unforgivable being in the future. ”

"Really?" Mia smiled cutely, "Aria, I'm glad you said that.

……

Zhaowu City, the Imperial Western Regions Long History Mansion.

Zhang Han is dressed in armor and stands in the pavilion in the backyard, from where you can overlook the scenery around the city.

Behind him, a black-clothed general figure flashed, bowing his head with his hands bowed.

Zhang Han turned his head slightly and asked, "How is it?" ”

Since four years ago, Ying Ziyi has been degraded in the clouds. Zhang Han was sent to the fief by Ying Ziyi to command the soldiers and horses in the fief.

Xiao He, Li Zuoche, Zhang Han. Ying Ziyi's three important ministers were in charge of the financial, administrative and military affairs of the fief.

"Our spies in the Western Regions have sent news one after another, and after hearing the edict of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the kings of the Western Regions have set off one after another. But there are still some kings who still turn a deaf ear. ”

"Humph!" Zhang Han snorted coldly and asked, "Who are they?" ”

"King Qiuzi, King Wusun, King Cheshi, and King Dawan are also guilty of the Yue Clan, so they don't have time to come."

"How's the preparation for war?" Zhang Han's eyes revealed murderous aura and asked.

"There is news from Lord Xiao He's side, the horse harnesses, armor, and grain and grass used by the 30,000 cavalry have been prepared and can set off at any time."

"Good!" Zhang Han said slowly: "I must let the kings of those Western Regions countries understand that if they don't want to continue to stay on that throne, then I, Great Qin, have the ability to replace them at any time." What about the situation on Yue's side? ”

The black-armored general looked embarrassed and replied, "The road is far away, our spies have not yet sent specific information, and the caravans in the Western Regions in the past have only said that the Yue Clan has established a country in the West. ”

"Whether it's the Yue's or the Huns! The eternal hegemony of the empire is absolutely not to be touched. ”

The partial room behind the main office of the Changshi Mansion.

Xiao He and Li Zuoche knelt on both sides of the stove, boiling hot water. In the cup in front of the two of them, tea leaves wafted, exuding an aftertaste. The two are different from Zhang Han, they are both from the Six Kingdoms. Therefore, it is also closer.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has taken advantage of this Yue Clan's invasion to strengthen his rule over the countries of the Western Regions." Xiao He said with a smile.

"The countries of the Western Regions are small and small, but they occupy the main roads, water sources, grain and grass on the silk trade routes, which are of great significance. They are like sheep that tend to be submissive to the strong. But it is precisely because of this that these small countries will waver between my Great Qin and the Yue's Wusun Dawan and other big countries in the Western Regions. However, the Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, so the establishment of counties is not in line with reality. Li Zuoche took a sip of tea and said slowly.

"Therefore, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince's purpose is to make the kings of the Western Regions have an irresistible impression of my Great Qin's military might, so that they will completely surrender."

"That's right." Li Zuoche said with a smile: "Although the countries of the Western Regions are weak in strength, they can easily gather an army of 100,000 when they are gathered, and they are a force to be reckoned with. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince meant that the government affairs of the countries in the Western Regions were managed by themselves, but the guards of each country and even the taxes on the trade routes were completely controlled by Zhaowu City. This is also the reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to gather the kings of the Western Regions. ”

"Is this possible?" Xiao He paused and said suspiciously.

"Those big countries in the Western Regions are naturally unwilling, but among the countries in the Western Regions, many small countries even have only one city. There are a lot of them, and we can start with these places. (To be continued.) )