Although the generals do not have to go into battle, they always get the most rewards for their merits and deeds after the war. In the face of the same scene, there are always people who are happy and some people who are sad. The battle that was now unfolding on the open ground made the face of a Hun man more and more ugly.

I have long understood the truth that those who come are not good and those who are good do not come, and I also know that it is not easy to defeat the army of the Eastern Han Dynasty. But there was a disadvantage at the beginning, which he did not expect. The phalanx of the Han army is a bit like an iron wall, and the Xiongnu's men and horses are constantly being hit and bleeding. Disadvantageous division is a major taboo in warfare, and the general trend often determines the final outcome of the war.

The king of Nanhuyan, under the banner of the wolf, has always been famous for his wisdom and courage throughout the Xiongnu tribe, and he does not want his reputation to be ruined in this war. Originally, the king of Zuoluli asked him if he wanted to stop the Han army in Yiwulu City together. He didn't want the king of Zuolu to share the fruits of victory, and said that he didn't need to hold a knife to kill chickens.

However, at this time, King Nanhuyan had not regretted rejecting King Zuoluli. Because judging from the scene, the Huns were not without advantages. The number of soldiers and horses was greatly greater than that of the other side. If they fought alone, the individual combat effectiveness of the Hun soldiers was stronger than that of the Han soldiers. At present, it is only because the Han army used the correct strategy and tactics, and the phalanx formed mainly by chariots is like a moving fortress. The arrows and outstretched spears shot from the fortress made it impossible for the Hun army to take advantage of its large numbers.

The King of Southern Huyan now regretted sending Mobode out to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and it was really a wrong decision not to have the best archer of the Northern Huns to change the tide of battle with his magic arrow. He constantly gave orders, shouted loudly, and told the generals of the tribes to rush forward with their soldiers. It's just that each rush, in addition to causing greater casualties, does not reverse the passive situation.

King Nanhuyan was finally anxious, he pulled out the sword at his waist, and said to a few followers who followed him, I don't believe it, we can't beat those who farm on horseback. Several of his entourage saw that he was going to go into battle in person, and hurriedly stepped forward to stop him. Several entourages said that if he went up in person, in case there were three long and two short, the entire Hun army would be finished.

The words of the entourage are not unreasonable, but the king of Nanhuyan understands the psychology of their Huns better. On the grassland, the status and authority of a king are not established by words, but by courageous actions. When the soldiers see their generals rushing to the front, each of them becomes less afraid of death. He's still very confident. Because of the disadvantage of the Han army in numbers, although it does not mean that as long as there are more people, it will definitely win, but in the era of cold weapons, most of the time it is difficult to win with fewer people, so population is often the decisive factor for whether a country is strong or not.

A low and long horn sounded on the battlefield, and the big-shouldered and round-waisted King Nanhuyan raised his scimitar, shouted, and rushed towards the Han army on the opposite side. The blue wolf banner followed closely behind him. The men and horses who had been beaten by the Han army seemed to have suddenly woken up from their slumber, got rid of their scattered blindness, and quickly assembled their formations, like streams that converged into a rushing torrent in the blink of an eye. Under the leadership of the king of Nanhuyan, towards the phalanx of the Han army, it was overwhelming.

As expected, the situation on the battlefield changed dramatically in an instant!

The raging flood was indeed a bit terrible, too fierce for even a strong fortress to resist. The phalanx of the Han army was broken one after another. At this time, the Han soldiers had no strength to continue to advance except for parrying.

If you don't advance, you will retreat, this is an eternal truth. War is brutal, and when you can't stop a big knife from slashing at you, you instinctively dodge and retreat. When everyone has to make this choice, it often determines who is the winner and who is the loser. The face of Dou Gu, who was still smiling on his face just now, immediately became serious and solemn.

He looked at the Hun general with some surprise, they didn't expect him to swing his sword into battle himself. It is taboo for the lord of an army to take such a risk. Everyone knows that once the main general makes a mistake, it will inevitably be the defeat of the whole army. However, the Huns never read military books and did not talk about the art of war. Never playing cards according to common sense, making desperate bets, and fighting like gambling are also their usual ways. And this method is often very effective. For many years, it was difficult to win a war with the Huns, without a big advantage in troops, and then met a desperate general who was not afraid of death, and the consequences of this war could not but be worried.

The main general, Dou Gu, hurriedly let the war drums beat, trying to boost the morale of the officers and soldiers and repel the counterattack of the Huns. However, the flood had become a trend of bursting the embankment, and under the leadership of the Xiongnu general King Nanhuyan, who took the lead, the Han army had no way to immediately reverse the trend of being slaughtered.

At this moment, Geng Zhong, the deputy general standing beside Dou Gu, reminded the lieutenant whether he could use the strategy offered by Geng Gong. Dou Gu glanced at the deputy general Geng Zhong, as if to say, I am not old yet, so there is no need to doubt my memory. Besides, the entire battle was commanded by him, and how to win this battle, it can be said that he thought more than anyone else.

Originally, he was already planning to raise the order flag, but after listening to the words of the deputy general Geng Zhong, he waited for a while. He didn't want his deputy to think that it was his reminder that made him make a decision. He said, wait a little longer. However, just after waiting a little longer, I don't know how many Han soldiers fell in pools of blood. Since ancient times, a general's momentary hesitation will cause unknown consequences.

Fortunately, Dou Gu Duwei has not yet arrived home in a daze. His moment, just a moment, he finally slowly raised the triangular order flag in his hand. The flag swung back and forth in the air a few times before suddenly falling. At the same time that the order flag fell, Geng Gong, who was already anxious, immediately rushed out first. King Nanhuyan was astonished to find that from the woods on the open northern hills, a group of men and horses were shot like arrows.

Geng Gong had a banner of the Han army on his back, and he was wielding a shining single-edged Han sword in his hand, and Wan Fu was excited to follow the commander's horse at the moment. I couldn't see the horse clearly, but I could only see the flesh and blood flying everywhere under the raised iron hooves, like chaotic raindrops. Where the light flickered, the crowd fell like weeds. King Nanhuyan could only see a military flag of the Han army, flying in the rain of arrows and swords. In order to allow more people to see the military flag on his back. Geng Gong was not sitting on the back of a horse, but with his feet on the stirrups, and the whole person seemed to be standing on the back of a horse.

This gesture not only allowed more people to see the flag on his back, but also made his movements more flexible. A three-foot-long Han sword became an extended part of his arm. Both from both sides and from the front. In the face of anything that tries to get close to it, it always preemptively stabs that thing. The speed faster than the blink of an eye, the sharp and faster blade, and the martial arts he had studied hard for ten years, were exerted to the point of being superb. In the era of cold weapons, if your strength is strong enough, your movements are agile enough, and your steel knife is fast enough, then it is a common thing to use one as ten. Even if there is a group of people, as long as they encounter such a person, it is very likely that this group of people will not be able to escape.

And such a person, if he is not a person, is a group of people, hundreds of people, thousands of people. Then it is not impossible for them to crush an army of tens of thousands of people. It seems that this is really the case. The small flag on his back summoned the cavalry that followed behind him, numbering only three hundred people, and every cavalryman under his command became as brave and invincible as he saw this small flag.

The situation on the battlefield has changed again. Forced to retreat, the Han army stopped and began to regain the phalanx. The cavalry led by Geng Gong did not let them go because of the hesitation of the Huns. He had already made up his mind. From the moment he rushed out of the woods, Geng Gong's goal was very clear, that is, to take down the king of Nanhuyan. Capture the thief and capture the king first, this is what every book of war will say. If you don't even understand this, no matter how big Geng Gong's ambition is, it can only be a pipe dream. There were constantly Hun infantry and cavalry surrounding him, but he didn't want to entangle with them too much. He pounced directly on the king of Nanhuyan under the banner of the Xiongnu army.

The rest of the Han army was the same as the general. Seeing the courage of Geng Gong's cavalry, they were all greatly encouraged and let out a loud shout. Brandishing his broadsword and spear again, he swooped back at the flood of Huns. The Xiongnu army was cut off by Geng Gong's waist and lost the motivation to rush forward.

The Huns were indeed a bit rude, but they were never stupid or stupid. When the cavalry led by Geng Gong was still five hundred meters away from the king of Nanhuyan, he saw through Geng Gong's sinister intentions. King Nanhuyan is also an old fighter, of course he understands what Geng Gong wants to do, he didn't expect Geng Gong to be so powerful. He knew that none of his men would be this man's opponent, and to make this man put down the knife in his hand, he was the only one who went into battle. He thought so, and he did. Ignoring the obstruction of his entourage, he slapped his horse and rushed towards Geng Gong. One rushed over, the other met him, and soon they were approaching......

In the first battle between the Eastern Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, the Han army led by Dou Gu won the victory. This victory is unusual, but hardly a great one. After the battle, the results of the inventory of the battlefield were as follows: 1,600 Xiongnu people died, and more than 300 officers and soldiers of the Han army were killed. All the Huns stationed in Yiwulu ran away, and ran east along the Eastern Tianshan Mountains to the north of the Tianshan Mountains. It is closer to Mobei and the Altai Mountains and is the habitat of the Huns. However, as soon as they ran, Yiwulu, as an important gateway to the Western Regions, returned to the hands of the Han Dynasty.

After the war, the young Wanfu rode on horseback and looked west, Li Tong's eldest brother had been missing in the desert Gobi for almost a month, could he really be killed? It seems that among the victorious crowd, only Xiao Wanfu's heart is full of sadness.

At the same time, on the twenty-seventh day after the black storm, Li Tong and Mobode finally walked out of the Gobi Desert, and the Baiyang River was in front of them, and some oases appeared one after another along both sides of the river, and the scale of the oases became larger the further downstream. At three o'clock in the afternoon, a hill appeared due west. The mountain is not high, and the mountain stretches for only a few miles from north to south.

On the dunes, the wounded Mobodelema paused and stared at the mountain from afar.

"Head of the house, Iwulu City, we have arrived."

The blue sky is like washing, Li Tong panted and looked into the distance, and saw that on the bank of the Baiyang River, a nearly square white city wall with a length and width of about 100 zhang was built along the river, with the mountain as the west side of the barrier. There is a lake in the north of the city. The scorching sun hung high, and Li Tong noticed that hundreds of laborers wearing chains in the distance were ramming the hanging plates of the city wall on the east, south and north sides, widening and raising the city wall. The city wall is ten zhang high, three zhang wide, and the battlement wall is built on it, and the battlement wall is covered with crossbow arrow battlements.

Seeing this city that was still under construction, Li Tong was very excited. He knew that the ancient city that towered on both sides of the Baiyang River was the site of the ancient city of Ravchok, that is, the city of Yiwulu in the Eastern Han Dynasty. This is the area where the Xinjiang Construction Corps where the 16th Agricultural Reclamation Division was located in the original time and space, and in the original time and space, the 16th Agricultural Reclamation Division where he was located was still in the east of Yiwulu City, near the Balikun Hancheng established by the Qing Dynasty in the west of Balikun Lake. The main reason why Li Tong didn't return to the team in time was that he wanted to go to the place where he lived in his previous life, after all, the process of coming to this time and space was too weird.

However, before that, Li Tong planned to go to Loulan, he had to make meritorious service to get rid of his status as a prisoner, seek a birth, and preferably become an official of the Western Regions Protectorate, laying a solid foundation for himself to take root in the Western Regions, and Loulan was an opportunity for him to become famous.

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In the era of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, because of the war, Zhang Qian went to the Western Regions and saw a world he had never set foot in. This was probably the first official contact between the Western Han government and the Western Regions, but the main target was the Da Yue clan. When Zhang Qian made his second mission to the Western Regions, the official purpose became even more obvious, he brought more than a dozen deputy envoys, and after arriving in Wusun, these deputy envoys went to other countries to convey the signals between the Western Han government and various countries. When these deputy envoys returned to Chang'an, many of them brought back envoys from the countries they had visited, and in this way, the Han Dynasty formally established relations with the countries of the Western Regions.

Zhang Qian made two missions to the Western Regions, clarified the situation in the Western Regions, and learned that there were still many unknown countries and races in the vast area west of the Western Han Dynasty, including Shenzhi and Great Xia, which were not under the jurisdiction of the Han Dynasty. This discovery, coupled with previous disputes with the Xiongnu and other countries that were not subordinate to the Han Dynasty, broke the concept of "under the whole world, it is not the king's land". However, one of the consequences of the mission to the Western Regions was that the countries of the Western Regions sent envoys to worship one after another, and for the first time there was a phenomenon of "all countries coming to the court", so that for a long time China believed that Lao Tzu was the best in the world, and the others were either barbaric or ruined, and they were reluctant to put down their shelves and learn from others.

Zhang Qian's mission to the Western Regions caused great changes in the political situation in the Western Regions. The Western Regions itself was ruled by the Xiongnu, the Xiongnu set up servants in the Western Regions area, the Han Dynasty in order to defeat the Xiongnu, and the Xiongnu carried out a struggle for the countries of the Western Regions, and finally the Han Dynasty won the victory, in the second year of Shenjue (60 BC) set up the Western Regions Protectorate, since then, the official for the first time called this place the Western Regions, the specific meaning is the territory of the west.

The "state" mentioned here is also fundamentally different from the state in the modern sense. In the modern sense, the state has a complete administrative system and independent sovereignty, and the state form of the 36 countries in the Western Regions has three characteristics. First, some countries have a relatively complete administrative system, such as kings, prime ministers, generals, translators, armies, etc., but some are too small to form a complete system, at most they can only be regarded as a small tribe, a tent that is slightly larger than others, that is, the royal court.

Not to mention the era of the Thirty-six Kingdoms, it is the Qarakhanid Dynasty more than 1,000 years later, and the old sites they left behind are similar to all the houses, without obvious luxury, so that no one knows which of the buildings belonged to the royal palace. The armies of the countries in the Western Regions are basically victorious soldiers, that is, young and strong people who can fight, they are engaged in production activities in peacetime, and go to the front line when they fight, which is equivalent to reserve forces. Second, most of these countries did not have absolute sovereignty, and they had to pay taxes to the Xiongnu when the Xiongnu ruled, and they had to worship when they were subordinate to the Han government, and some had to send close relatives of the royal family as hostages to the Han Dynasty or the Xiongnu capital, and when necessary, they also sent troops to help fight the war. Thirdly, some of these countries were established by a single race.

The status of the so-called "state" of the countries of the Western Regions is equivalent to that of the vassal states of the Central Plains. The vassal states of the Han Dynasty were independent of the county system and were generally the size of a county or township in today's history. The number of countries in the Western Regions is constantly changing, which has two reasons: on the one hand, countries annex each other, resulting in the merger and division of countries, for example, the Kingdom of Khotan has successively annexed Qule, Jingjue and other countries; On the other hand, the intervention of foreign forces, mainly referring to the forces of the Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty, promoted the political changes in the countries of the Western Regions.

In the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the 36 kingdoms of the Western Regions were: Cheshi Qianguo, Cheshi Houguo, Cheshi Duwei State, Cheshi Houcheng Changguo, Pu Country, Pu Hou Guo, Mountain State, Yanqi State, Weisu State, Yuli State, Quli State, Wulei, Qiuzi, Wensu, Gumo, Yutou, Shule, Shache, Poison Donation, Xiuxun, Wulei State, Yinai State, Puli State, Xiyezi United Kingdom, Taohuai, Wuzhen State, Pishan State, Khotan State, Qule State, Humi State, Ronglu State, Jingjue, Xiaowan, Jimo, Shanshan, and Wuqiang.

In the eighteenth year of Yongping of the Han Dynasty, just two years after the outbreak of the Great War between the Han and the Huns, the instigation of the king of Nanhuyan, the son of the Huns, the die-hard king of the Huns, carved Tao Mogao, dispatched 20,000 iron horsemen to destroy the Shule State that was close to the Han Dynasty, and the troops were directed at the Khotanese State, which was also close to the Han Dynasty.

Khotanese Wang Guangde has passed the age of sixteen this year, but his brain power has not yet declined. He can still remember what others told him. Especially the matter of the Huns' cub Prince Qiuzi carving Tao Mogao to shoot his wife Su Bu Juci, he can't forget it, how can a person be so cruel? The woman holding the bloody arrow shaft in her hand was a famous beauty in the entire Western Regions. After Subu Juci married Mo Gao, he was quite famous.

But Carved Tao Mo Gao still shot her to death, not because she had any fault, but simply because Carved Tao Mo Gao wanted to use her to test whether his guards could absolutely obey his orders. It was for such an absurd reason that Su Bu Juci died.

In Mo Gao's view, if a general can't let go of tying himself to a woman's skirt, he will never have any success. The ambition of the carved pottery Mo Gao is to help his stepfather, Qiuzi Wang Jian, conquer the Western Regions, and this guy has no other hobbies other than this goal and galloping on the battlefield. Once, before he set out on an expedition, he said to his guards: "Wherever my voice flies, your arrows will be shot, and those who disobey the order will be killed." ”

The next day, Mo Gao and his guards were practicing on the school grounds, when Su Bujuji arrived. Carved Tao Mo Gao suddenly decided to shoot her with a Ming Di, and he stared at his guards with bloodshot eyes and shouted, "Listen to the orders of Prince Ben, shoot her, shoot her." ”

But no one in his guards dared to attack. Carved Tao Mo Gao personally raised an arrow and shot Su Bu Juci to death. Then, Mo Gao approached Su Bu Juci and kicked her soft body, her eyes bloodshot. Those who knew him well knew that this was a sign that he was going to kill again. Sure enough, after the incident, he put all his guards to death. This incident made him very famous in Qiuzi, and from then on, his troops did not dare to disobey his orders in the slightest under any circumstances, which was undoubtedly beneficial for him to march and fight. However, this incident also made the murderous name of the carved pottery Mo Gao spread throughout the Western Regions.

Today, the pale face of Subu Juci from his dying moment always appears in front of the eyes of Khotanese King Guangde, because the carved Tao Mo Gao sent the Marquis Mu Yashi, the left auxiliary state of Qiuzi, to propose to his daughter Princess Orida.

"Will you marry my daughter to that murderous devil carving Tao Mogao?" Facing the pressure of the Qiuzi soldiers, King Guangde was entangled in his heart. A woman with an arrow in his heart appeared in front of him again, but this time this woman did not seem to be the poor woman of Subjuci, but his daughter, the charming and charming Olidai! In any case, Guangde really couldn't stand it, and he shook his head firmly.

Today, the ministers of the court and the central government have persuaded Khotanese King Guangde to agree to this family business, and even the loyal auxiliary Marquis Xiu Mowang also said: "Qiuzi 20,000 iron cavalry drove south, and the Shule people were defeated, but they had no fighting spirit. Otherwise, the social security is not guaranteed, and it is impossible to save the pearls! ”

The words of another minister made the king of Khotan Guangde even more chilled. The man said: "The princess is young and cardamom, beautiful as jade, and Mo Gao is the prince of the Western Regions, and she is not unworthy." If they receive grace in the future, will they not be blessed? What the Auxiliary Marquis said is extremely true, and the king must obey ......"

"So, can my daughter only marry the demon king who kills people and is honest?" Lao Guangde muttered to himself, his heart was heavy.

Guangde has been in power for 30 years and has many years of experience in politics, so he can still calmly analyze problems at this moment. As a father, he would never let his daughter fall into the hands of the devil. But as a monarch, this matter cannot be decided hastily, let alone emotionally. After the Qiuci army defeated Shule, the Qiuci army has stood at the gate of Khotan, if you refuse to carve Tao Mo Gao's courtship, carved Tao Mo Gao will definitely go south, and Khotan may become a powder.

After retreating, Guangde, who was in a heavy mood, thought about returning to the harem, and as expected, not long after he sat down, he heard a disturbing commotion outside, and his wife, the hot-tempered and stubborn Queen Nabiham, came noisily.

"I will never say yes!" Queen Nabihan said angrily, "Guangde, you want to use my daughter to curry favor with Qiuzi, I can't push my daughter into the fire pit!" I will not say yes......" Queen Nabihan was so noisy outside that even the maid of the palace broke in before she could tell the news.

(To be continued)