Both armies are fast horses, not only the servant army is accustomed to the grassland desert battle of the Qiangrong tribe, and after several years of war, the soldiers of Daqin have also begun to get used to this rapid grassland rush fighting method, plus fully equipped stirrup saddles and sharp sabers and crossbows, so the army attacks like a wind and clouds, between ten days, Li Xin conquered Yiwu, and the king of Loulan surrendered directly.

In the face of the great Qin soldiers who swept the Yue clan and Wusun, the strong and strong King Tunan did not dare to bend his edge, and could only flee like a wolf, and Loulan, who had been greatly injured by King Tunan twice, was powerless to resist at all, and after learning of the arrival of the Qin army, King Loulan directly took his tribe and his wife and concubines out of the city to meet the kneeling.

Loulan is different from Wusun, is a semi-agricultural and semi-nomadic tribe, should be regarded as a branch of the Qiang people, occupies the edge of the desert a rich oasis of water and grass, here not only lakes and rivers, but also a large number of grasslands and tamarix, Hu Tong composed of woods, at this time in April, in a vast desert, suddenly appeared this flower red grass green green trees, the scenery and the Central Plains are very different from the Western Regions country, so that the Qin army who came to fight felt very surprised.

However, looking at the mud city wall in front of him that was not too tall and the king and tribe of Loulan who were not much better dressed than the ordinary people of the Central Plains, Jiang Hu and the generals of Changshi were all cheeked.

There were less than 3,000 soldiers on their knees, all of them ragged, and there were all kinds of weapons, not two of them were exactly the same, bones, sticks, sharpened sticks, bows and arrows, and so shabby, like children's toys.

"General, why is this a king too?" A lieutenant asked with a puzzled face.

"Sort of, the grains in the Western Regions are not very small, and it is also a bit of a skill to be able to build such a muddy yard!" Jiang Hu said lightly.

"General, this Loulan Wang's crooked melon and cracked dates, a few mothers-in-law look quite peugeot, much more iconic than Yue's little lady!" One of the lieutenants licked his mouth and drooled a little.

"Remember the latest military law promulgated by the Marquis of Qinghe, you must not rob the people's property for no reason, you must not abuse women for no reason, you must not kill the tribal leaders who surrender for no reason, and you must not occupy their wives and concubines and daughters!" Jiang Hu turned over and dismounted and said.

"It's so boring, I've traveled thousands of miles, and I can't even a girl!" A lieutenant muttered sullenly.

"Don't worry, this Loulan King will definitely arrange a few women for you at night, but remember, you must not be forcibly bullied, the general once said, we must be subdued, win with virtue, hehe......"

"Hehe, don't worry, general, just be able to **!" A group of lieutenants couldn't help but laugh along.

"Okay, let's repair it for a few days after entering the city, and it is rumored that King Liang will arrange for officials to come and receive Loulan!" Jiang Hu stepped forward to help King Loulan into the city hand in hand.

After entering the city, the king of Loulan held a lively welcome banquet in the palace, and opened the palace treasury, and dedicated the collected gold and jade and some strange snow leopards, lions and tigers that were not seen in the Central Plains to Jiang Hu, these things are considered trophies, and they were registered with the army commander and military officials after counting, most of which were transported back to Daqin to the emperor, and some of them were distributed according to the military merits.

These gold and jade and various specialties certainly made Jiang Hu and a group of generals very happy, but in fact, everyone was most interested in the mounts of Loulan civilians and soldiers, all of which were camels, which were very suitable for long journeys in the desert, so Jiang Hu ordered King Loulan to collect a large number of camels and start equipping the army, and at the same time reorganized the Loulan servant army of 2,000 people to further strengthen the strength of the Qin army.

And when he arrived in Loulan, Liangwang Yinggao was basically a little out of reach, but he only appointed some subordinates and staff to come to assist in management, and the main focus was still on the territory of Yueshi and Wusun, helping Emperor Daqin to guard the Hexi Corridor.

At the end of April, Jiang Hu once again waved his army to attack westward, and soon five or six tribes and states with a number of only tens of thousands of people, such as Ruoqiang, Jimo, Xiaowan, Jingjue, Ronglu, and Khotan, and the remaining ten tribes all surrendered when they heard the wind, and the army reached a country called Daxia at the western end of the desert, and the army led by Li Xin also conquered more than ten small countries such as Yiwu, Shache, Xinli, Yanqi, Qiuzi, and Shule all the way to Dawan.

From the end of February to the end of April, more than 40 countries were conquered in just two months, adding up to a total population of more than one million, and the gold and jade and various specialties offered by various tribes have been countless, but because it is more than 8,000 miles away from Xianyang, most of the things cannot be transported back, and the troops began to disperse and garrison, Li Xin and Jiang Hu temporarily set up their respective barracks after contacting the two armies. The conquered and surrendered states of the Western Regions were ordered to provide food and grass and began to reorganize their armies, and the total number of the two armies had expanded to nearly 50,000.

If you continue to attack to the west, you will have to conquer Dawan and Daxia, and according to the information of the inquiry, through a narrow area in the plateau snow mountain, you will face a western country called Kangju, and Kangju, also known as Qiangqu, is a nomadic tribe migrated from the ancient Qiang tribe, according to the information provided by the countries of the Western Regions, Kangju is powerful, with a population of hundreds of thousands and more than 100,000 soldiers.

"General Jiang, according to the order of the general, we have completed the task of conquering the countries of the Western Regions, and now we are far away from the Central Plains, and if we continue to attack to the west, weapons and supplies will not be able to keep up, once we clash head-on with Kangju, it may be very disadvantageous, and continue to rise more and more to the west, snow falls in the snow-capped mountains and deserts in all seasons, and the legend is that there are snow ghosts that devour all things and the yin wind that snatches people's souls......"

In the barracks, Jiang Hu and Li Xin summoned their respective lieutenants and army commanders, as well as some servant army leaders, to discuss the next military deployment.

"Di Daohou is right, after more than two months of long-distance attack, our army is now sleepy and tired, it is indeed not easy to continue to attack westward, the messenger has not returned yet, I better wait until the general's order arrives before acting!" A long history opened.

"Also, the Western Regions are full of deserts and dry climates, and there are many soldiers who are sick and unaccustomed to the water and soil, and if they continue to fight, I am afraid that there will be huge casualties......"

"And now the weapons are seriously damaged, the arrows are almost exhausted, the land of the Western Regions lacks coal and iron ore, and the accompanying craftsmen and craftsmen have no time to make it, if the countries of the Western Regions rebel, I am afraid that the back road will be cut off......"

A group of military officials and captains also opened their mouths, and they all said that it would be detrimental to the army to continue fighting.

"This Great Xia has a population of more than one million, covers a vast area, and I heard that there are more than 100,000 soldiers, and now we must have discovered the movements of our army and prepared for it, and it will definitely not be able to overcome it in a short time, if it falls into a stalemate, it will be very unfavorable to our army......" Jiang Hu said with a frown as he looked at a map of the Western Regions spread out on the ground.

The map of the Western Regions was naturally made by the emperor and sent to the Mengtian military camp, and the origin of these maps is naturally Chen Xu's masterpiece, otherwise the people of this era would not know the geography of the Western Regions anyway.

However, even if Chen Xu was generally aware of some place names about the Western Regions in later China, he could only roughly mark simple topographic structures such as the Kunlun Mountains, the Himalayas, the Tianshan Mountains, and the Tarim Basin.

However, it was precisely because of this simple map, which was not clear and clear, that Li Xin and Jiang Hu did not waste time and detour, but divided their troops to attack along both sides of the Tarim Basin, and swept away the countries of the Western Regions in a short time.

And the Great Xia in front of him is actually the Da Yue clan in later generations, but on this time and space line, the Da Yue clan has no chance to appear, because the Da Yue clan actually moved west after being attacked by the Huns, and conquered the country established by the Yue clan after the Great Xia, and now the Huns were gently crushed to death by Da Qin before they became a climate, and the Yue clan was even short-lived, and it was not the turn of the Huns to bully it, and they were pressed to their knees by several rogue generals of Daqin with lightning speed.

The control area of Bactria no longer belongs to the territory of China in later generations, and it is already a huge agricultural civilization in Central Asia such as Afghanistan and Turkumanstan, and the commerce is very developed.

According to the news, Great Xia is adjacent to a large western country called body poison, because body poison people like to raise peacocks, so this country may be the Peacock Dynasty mentioned by the Marquis of Qinghe, and the strength of the Peacock Dynasty is very strong, I heard that their warriors are all elephant beasts, almost invincible.

Elephant beasts Li Xin and Jiang Hu are no strangers, now there are many in the Lingnan regions of China, the size is huge, even the strongest horses and elephants are like the difference between strong men and children, especially elephant beasts have thick and long noses, can roll up more than 1,000 catties of weight at a time, and thick skin and rough flesh ordinary bows and arrows can not cause damage at all, if you encounter hundreds of thousands of enemies riding elephants, it is estimated that tens of thousands of troops will collapse directly......

After discussing and discussing, in the end, Jiang Hu and Li Xin also had to accept the reality in front of them, before they thoroughly figured out the details of these Western countries such as Great Xia and Kangju's body poison, they still didn't act rashly, they had to go deep into the Western Regions alone for nearly tens of thousands of miles, and once they caused heavy casualties, all the achievements would be in vain.

As an excellent general, he naturally would not take risks so easily.

So after the discussion, Li Xin and Jiang Hu each arranged for the army commander Shi and the generals to return to their own military camps to start repairing, and slowly wrote down the situation and current situation of the conquered Western Regions countries to arrange for messengers to pass it back, and at the same time let the Western Regions countries form caravans to transport a large number of booty and Western Regions specialties to the Central Plains, especially requiring the Western Regions countries to collect a large number of local crop seeds, because this is also a requirement of the emperor's edict. ()

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