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In February in the Central Plains, it is already the season when the grass grows and the warbler flies, if the weather is clear, there is already a faint breath of early summer, and in the Western Regions, the shadow of spring has just been seen at this time.

At the end of February, after the last heavy snow melted, inside and outside the desert, countless rivers and streams in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains began to flow, soaked in the snow water, the vast Gobi and desert grasslands also began to usher in spring, just seven or eight days, the barren mountains and mountains that are desolate and bitter cold on weekdays are all green grass sprouts and wild flowers are blooming, and the earth is instantly covered with a large piece of colorful blanket.

With the advent of spring, the countries and tribes of the Western Regions that had been silent for almost half a year of harsh winter have also become hot, farmers have begun to plow and weave, herdsmen have begun to graze, herds of antelopes, bison, and wild horses have galloped between colorful alpine meadows and grassland rivers, countless fierce beasts and wolves have also begun to roam and hunt in the mountains and grasslands, and the goshawks soaring in the sky are like lonely hunters, with sharp eyes patrolling between the grasslands and snow-capped mountains, sometimes swooping down like sharp arrows, and when they rise in the sky, There was already a hare or a newborn antelope cub under the claws.

Everything here is beautiful, but at the same time, it is a wild place that is inaccessible and there is hardly a person to be seen except for the wandering sheep and the empty herdsmen's songs.

With the Tianshan Mountains as the boundary, the Western Regions are divided into two, in addition to the large areas of grassland and farmland with abundant water and grass cultivated in the Ili River Valley in the southern foothills, there is also a vast area of desert, which constitutes a climate and environment that is very different from the characteristics of the Central Plains, and there are alpine green mountains that block the transport of water vapor in the west, so the entire Western Regions is mainly arid and desolate, and the countries of the Western Regions are scattered in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and around the desert, living along the river, building cities and grazing livestock, and thus giving birth to a unique Western Regions culture, where food, clothing and housing are completely different from the Central Plains.

Here can only be counted as two seasons a year, spring and autumn are very short, winter and summer are extremely long, it seems that no one has fully felt the breath of spring, the hot summer has arrived in an instant, and the wild grass and flowers all over the mountains are like being pulled up to grow, half a month has been verdant and green, and the desert has become a grassy grassland in the blink of an eye.

At the place where the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are divided, there is the Gushi of the Western Regions, Gushi is the Hu language, which means the country of Linze, building cities and dwelling, scattered in the area of nearly 10,000 miles, with a population of about 300,000, because it occupies the most abundant and fertile river valley and basin of water and grass, so the grazing and weaving agriculture is developed.

There is a salt lake in the northwest of Gushi, and the nomads who live in the nearby grassland desert often come here to pick up salt on the barren beach, and salt is a common necessity for people and animals, and at sunset every day, you can always see herds of wild horses and bison coming to the lake to drink, thus forming an extremely magnificent scene, thousands or even tens of thousands of wild animals and beasts gather together, and they are safe with each other under the beautiful sunset, and then leave in groups after drinking water.

This scene is played out day after day, so it naturally attracts many races that rely on safari for their livelihood, and of course, those who have bad intentions towards wild horses.

Every day at sunset, there is always a group of wild horses from the sparse meadows and forests at the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the number of about 300 horses, led by a group of chestnut horses without the slightest miscellaneous hair, the neck and limbs are slender, the body is slender and well-proportioned, the muscles are developed and the hooves are huge, and they run like a sharp arrow, and they can leave the horses far behind in an instant, and there are as eye-catching as standing out in this group of wild horses.

If anyone knows this horse, they will be very excited, because this is a sweaty horse that is extremely rare in the Western Regions.

This sweaty BMW appeared after the autumn of last year, because of illness was left in the aunt by the Dawan people who went east to Xianyang, and then mixed with a group of local wild horses, I didn't expect to slowly recover health, and then with his handsome appearance and fluent foreign language became the rich and handsome among the local wild horses, captured the hearts of a large group of mares and became the leader, leading its huge harem to run freely and forage in this beautiful field all day long, and because of the appearance of this horse, It also made countless tribes who like horses pay attention to its existence.

Although Gushi is the same as the Central Plains to build a city and cultivate, but grazing is also as important as farming to survive, horses as the main livestock for travel and transportation, the tribesmen are very interested in horses, in order to catch this horse, Gushi has many experienced horse catchers constantly searching for this horse on the grassland, and two hundred miles away from Gushi, there is also a huge nomadic people, the ethnic composition is very complex, there are Yueshi people, Wusun people, Sai people, and even the Huns and people from the Western Regions.

Although the composition of this nomadic people is complex, but the Yueshi people are the head, there are almost 30,000 adult men, and everyone is equipped with simple saddles and stirrups, although the weapons are messy, but the combat effectiveness should not be underestimated, there are seven or eight nomadic people of all sizes in the north of the Tianshan Mountains have been conquered by these people, and the total population has exceeded 100,000 people, which is not too weak compared to the Gushi.

The leader of this group of people is a man in his forties, with black hair and black beard, a gloomy face, often wearing a long robe, and his appearance and clothing are similar to those of the Central Plains.

After being defeated by the Qin army's design, the Yue's whole country surrendered, the king of Nantu led more than 10,000 subordinates to break through at night, and then fled all the way to the west, attacking the Yue's Dunhuang tribe along the way and robbing a large number of people and livestock after defecting to Wusun, as a result, just gained a foothold in Daqin, Wusun was quickly crushed into slag, Nantu King had to escape into the desert, the next half a year, the Qin army divided into two ways to lead Yue's Wusun's servant army to sweep the north and south of the desert, dozens of countries in the Western Regions are all subjugated to the iron hooves of Daqin, The king of Tunan was extremely frightened, and led a group of people to flee to the northwest in the desert, and finally escaped from the encirclement of the Qin army, and then found a place with abundant water and grass on the edge of the desert north of the Tianshan Mountains to stop and recuperate.

With the advantage of equipment, the Nantu King defeated several powerful nomadic tribes in the vicinity in the next few years, not only gained a large number of population, but also got a large number of cattle, sheep and horses, and soon re-emerged to dominate the desert grassland within a radius of tens of thousands of miles, calling himself the king of the Great Moon clan.

In the process of the expansion of the Dayue Clan, in addition to King Humi and some tribes who escaped with him at that time, he also met another important person that Daqin wanted to capture here, the Xiongnu prince Maodun.

At the beginning, the king of Nantu was unwilling to let the Yue clan submit to Daqin, so he arranged for someone to let Mao Dun go, and Mao Dun fled west with one hundred and ten men, all the way east to Tibet and after entering the Western Regions, through robbing and robbing the lonely Hu merchants and herdsmen, and at the same time constantly collecting some Xiongnu tribes and local bandits and hooligans who fled to the Western Regions, and also gained a firm foothold near the Tianshan Mountains in a few years, becoming a large force, but in the face of the two armies of the Great Qin to conquer the Western Regions, Mao Dun could only run to the more barbaric grassland in the northwest with his tail between his legs, Then he joined up with the king of Nantu.

Under the leadership of King Nantu and King Humi, with the cooperation of some tribal leaders such as Maudun and Wusun, the Otsuki clan continued to expand its territory and conquer foreign races, and now four years later, it has finally grown into a huge tribe on the hegemonic side.

Whether for the Huns, or for the Yueshi and Wusun people, horses were their favorite things.

Although there are many horses on the grassland, for these grassland peoples, the real good horses are in the wild, and the more fierce the wild horses, the better horses they are in their minds.

After the beginning of spring, a group of wild horses suddenly broke into the territory of the Yueshi people, coming and going freely like the wind, and the first chestnut horse was rounded up and chased by countless horse hunters, but returned empty-handed countless times.

This horse is not only beautiful, but also strange speed, explosive and durable, even if it is the best war horse of the Otsutsuki clan, in front of this wild horse, it can only follow the back of the butt and eat ashes, so this wild horse is gradually passed on by the Yue people as a heavenly horse, which is the most precious gift given by the horse god to the Dayue clan.

And in order to catch this incomparably powerful horse, King Nantu organized a most powerful horse hunting team to follow for several days, and then prepared to set up an ambush on the edge of the salt lake two hundred miles away from the border of the Great Moon Clan, and must completely capture and tame this chestnut horse, and the leader of this horse hunting team is Mao Dun, and the number of people involved in the roundup has reached thousands.

It can be said that this is the largest horse hunt in history, even if Mao Dun was the prince of the Huns, he has never seen such a stirring for a horse.

But in everyone's eyes, if you can succeed, it must be worth the money.

To be able to have such a good horse is tantamount to another life, and in times of crisis, this horse can escape with its owner and ascend to heaven.

Although Mao Dun and King Tunan are not the same heart, but these years have been behaving in a decent manner, now is different from the past, his identity as the prince of the Huns is no different from a wild dog in the eyes of King Tunan, he can only continue to please him, he is very obedient and tame on weekdays, mainly because the difference in strength is too great, and he has to bow his head.

And when King Tunan arranged a large number of people to prepare to capture this wild horse, Gushi Guojun, who was not far from the salt lake, still knew about this horse very early, and also arranged for people to round up this horse, but just like the people of the Yue clan, they returned every time, and the Xingshi moved the crowd several times, and even touched a horse's hair.

Therefore, as the weather gradually warmed up, the wild horses began to give birth to foals, and the range of the horses began to be fixed in the area around the salt lake no more than a hundred miles, and the king of Gushi once again sent a team of several hundred people to prepare to round up the wild horses while they came to the salt lake every day to drink water.