The Three Kingdoms is indeed a fascinating era, in which eighty of the magnificent war scores are the Central Plains civil war, but the monarchs of the three kingdoms have launched foreign wars against foreign races, such as Cao Cao broke Karasuma, cut the Don, Wuqiu thrifty battle of Goguryeo, Shu Zhuge Liang pacified the Southern Barbarians, Wu Sun Quan sent the Weiwen fleet to the first time to include Taiwan under the rule of China, even in the war, this era of China is still tenaciously spreading outward, unlike the later Song and Ming dynasties, hiding in the Central Plains as an otaku.

Compared with the Han people killing and killing themselves, Wang Hou was obviously more interested in external expansion, and finally finished the battle of Hanzhong and led the large army out of Yumen Pass, he was in a particularly comfortable mood.

However, compared to the happy mood of the person who cooked behind the tomb of the Western Legion, the situation in the Western Regions at this time was really not optimistic, the Eastern Han Dynasty had abolished the Western Regions for decades, and the influence of the Han Dynasty in the Western Regions had declined sharply, and at this time the Northern Xiongnu had fled to nowhere, and the Southern Xiongnu were in Jiuyuan to survive, and the oasis power built on the oasis in the Western Regions began to dominate and become strong.

Later, the Western Regions Changshi Mansion only had two strongholds of Luntai and Yumen Pass, in fact, it had already been ordered not to move the country of these Cypriots, in the past two years, Wang Hou opened the Silk Road to make money, and also sent a large number of caravans to the Anxi Empire, and the rich profits seduced the countries in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains to be red and hot, which constituted the source of the anti-Han war in various countries.

But! Anyway, the Han Dynasty ruled the Western Regions not by reason, and the majesty of the Tianhan Dynasty did not start by bringing back countless delicious Bowang Marquis Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, but from Li Guangli, the first straw bag general of the Han Dynasty!

That year, after Zhang Qian passed through the Western Regions, he reported to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Dawan had a heavenly horse, its sweat was like blood, and it could run thousands of miles without stopping, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty who really formed a cavalry and the Huns to fight was suddenly stimulated with infinite possessiveness, and sent envoys to cast a golden horse with gold to buy a bloody BMW in Dawan.

Then the sweat horse is also a national first-class protected animal in Dawan, people don't want to sell it, and the messenger sent is also a young man, who immediately got angry and scolded the king of the people, smashed the golden horse with a hammer, and turned around and left with the mission.

It's a pity that the envoy has the temper of the post-90s, but he does not have the background of the post-90s era, and offended the king with a large amount of property.

Like the later generations of Khorezm who cut down Genghis Khan's merchant group, it provoked the anger of a generation of Tianjiao Han Wu Emperor, and it happened that he also wanted to support his favorite concubine Mrs. Li's family to be a marquis, so he promoted Li Guangli to the general of the second division and sent troops to attack Dawan.

The war went particularly unsmoothly, nearly 80,000 Han troops went out of the fortress twice, only more than 10,000 people returned to Han through Yumen Pass alive, and more than 70,000 Han soldiers were exposed in the wilderness, which was particularly tragic.

It is precisely because of this tragic sacrifice that the iron power of the Han has been achieved! Even if the Western Regions power Dawan is thousands of miles away, the Han Dynasty will break it, which has established a particularly strong prestige in the Western Regions, which is also the root cause of the Han Dynasty being able to command the Western Regions with only a few thousand people.

Now more than 200 years have passed, with the alternation of the Han Dynasty and the recent civil strife within the Han Empire's own territory, this deterrent has obviously weakened to the extreme, and with the passage of time, the shelf life of Tiewei is approaching.

Therefore, this time, Wang Hou went out of the fortress, on the one hand, to help Cao Zhang rebuild the Western Regions Metropolitan Protectorate, complete the political requirements of Cao Zong, and support the third child of the Cao family to make war achievements and establish a team, on the other hand, he also wanted to reawaken the fear of being dominated by the Tianhan in these small countries in the Western Regions!

But like the difficulties encountered by Li Guangli two hundred years ago, this is not a big postal country, the march is really difficult, out of the Yumen Pass to the first station of the Han outpost Loulan, during the period there is no river can be used as a river transport, some are just a vast Gobi, under the scorching sun of the autumn tiger in September, thousands of ironclad cavalry are sunburned in the armor like a steamer, the rear team is used to the bitter cold of Liaodong Black Mountain Alliance infantry, and when they arrive here, it is also hot and dry, many infantry with spears have untied their armor and kept slapping their palms. Listen to the school bag

It is estimated that Cao Zhang's intestines are blue with regret now, and it is not good for Mr. Cao to find any excuse in front of him, so he has to find an excuse for the protector of the Western Regions, and he has only been gone for a long time, and the water in his kettle has been poured out.

However, this kid also has the potential to be a successful person, that is, to die to save face, and to carry it for the sake of face, although his head is big, he still carries the banner of the Western Regions to protect Cao, and personally marches in the queue of the Kansai knights, leading the cavalry to rush forward against the wind and sand.

And this product is as good at fooling as Mr. Cao, isn't Cao Cao looking at Mei to quench his thirst! The kid walked around, and seeing his demoralized appearance, he suddenly shouted excitedly.

"That's right! I just remembered! There is a kind of big melon in Loulan, the melon is yellow and soft, the melon flesh is sweeter than sugar, put it in the water to calm it, take it out and cut it on a hot day, eat it in one go, that cool and vigorous, it is simply fluttering! ”

"Brothers, work hard! Now is the time for the melon to ripen, lay down Loulan, the melon can be eaten as you like, Lao Tzu approved! ”

His voice suddenly evoked the army's memory of melons, and many landlord cavalry thought about the juicy appearance of the yellow cantaloupe, and suddenly their mouths began to salivate, and the army's original marching slogan also changed from the previous Great Wei Wuwei to a big melon, and the morale of the entire army was actually a lot higher.

It's a pity that the army didn't know that there were no melons at all in Loulan where they were going, and the melons were a special product of Hami, that is, the territory of Pu, a small country in the Western Regions, just like the plums promised by Cao Cao back then.

But with the encouragement of this kind of morale, it took five days to brave the scorching sun and the scorching heat, and the front army of the Metropolitan Protectorate was still extremely tenacious and went straight to Loulan City.

The Loulan city of later generations has already turned into a sea of sand, and even no man's land, starting from Dunhuang, you have to go around to Hami first, and then go south, in order to come to the Loulan ruins tourist area, and even the direct road is gone.

Today, however, Loulan is still in its last stages of life, with the saltwater lake Lop Nur East Lake nearby and the Peacock River as irrigation to maintain the beauty of this desert oasis.

This was originally the capital of Loulan State, but in the tug-of-war between the Han and Hungarian Western Regions, the Han Dynasty moved the capital to the mud city on the bank of the Peacock River in the south, and changed the name of the country to Shanshan, and the control of this city was transformed into the Han army, as an outpost of the Central Plains to communicate with the Western Regions, until last year, it was not until last year that Shanshan sent troops to retake it into their own hands.

But it is really because of this relationship, Cao Zhang's recovery of Loulan City did not even cost any blood and sweat, he arranged the iron cavalry in the south of the city, this Zhang Yun has not yet commanded the infantry under his command to form a siege array, Loulan City has already opened the city and surrendered.

The first battle to reopen the Western Regions Protectorate was achieved so easily! It's just that looking at Loulan City, Cao Zhang can't feel happy......