Every nation will have its own identity, or character.

A nation that has been in a hegemonic position for a long time, even the most humble people in that nation, has its own "starting point" in terms of vision and thought, especially when facing aliens.

It has always been a weak nation, and even the vision of the upper class will be limited, let alone talk about ambition. They will be superior to others in their own nation, and when facing the hegemonic nation, the civilians of the hegemonic nation can show pride and self-confidence than them.

Since the title of "Han people", it has gone through difficulties at first, but soon entered the era of "one Han as five hu".

The Han people used the corpses of countless enemies to establish their hegemony, and even used a once nomadic empire as a stepping stone to declare their strength to the known world.

In a certain historical stage, those countries (nationalities) that know that there are Han people, the first thought that comes to mind of Han people must be the idea of "ah, it turned out to be Han father".

Despite the demise of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the three major groups as separatist forces were still able to suppress the surrounding alien races, relying on intrigue and forbearance to steal the ruling power of the Sima Jin family, and relying on their previous prestige to continue to take away the surrounding alien races.

Sima Jin took all the glory achieved by the Han people for granted, and they thought that they were still able to run amok, and the alien race did not dare to jump at first given the strength of the Han people.

When the aliens found out that the same race was just renamed the Jin people, there was no deterrence of the name "Han people", and the Jin family didn't look very powerful, so they tried it a little bit, and really overturned the Jin room to the ground, and found that those guys named the Jin people were not so great as they turned out.

After becoming a Jin person, they encountered unimaginable suffering, and the people in the occupied area, sometimes death is a relief, and most of the time they live is worse than death. Those who fled to the south, they tried to get up, tried to fight hard, but no matter how they rose up and worked hard, it was useless, those who had the will still chose to struggle, and some of the collapsed people began all kinds of absurd behaviors.

"Why do we dare to attack so little?" Ba Dong was a little stunned by a young man's question, thought about it and replied: "Because we are Han!" ”

The young man was still young, probably eighteen or nineteen years old. The family had just migrated from Donglai County to Anxi Prefecture, and it had been less than four months since they settled down, and a call for work came from the family.

People under the age of 20 grew up in a completely different environment from the previous generation, and the sensible stage is when the Han people stand up again.

When they were young, although they had a hard time, at least they were not inferior to beasts, and they could always hear adults talking about where Wang Shi had won the victory and how many Hu people had been eliminated.

By the time they reached adulthood, they already knew that their country was the most powerful country in the world, and that the Han people were the greatest people in the world.

"Yes, we are Han." Tai Shiming nodded like a chicken: "A Han person can beat five Hulu, and a miscellaneous Hu who is inferior to Hulu can beat at least ten!" ”

In Zhuxia, Hulu was the most vicious enemy, generally referring to the nomadic people from the steppe.

Now there is no Hulu, the whole grassland has become the pasture of the Han people, because the textile industry has become a new industry, more and more Han people feel that they can make a fortune even if they go to the grassland even if they simply herd sheep and sell wool, and more and more Han people go to the grassland to raise sheep, and the result is that there are gradually villages inhabited by Han people on the grassland.

"It's good to have a heart, it's just ......" Ba Dong is still happy to teach Xinding a lesson with the attitude of a senior: "Go to the battlefield and take it easy." ”

"Uncle Ba, I'm not stupid." Tai Shi Mingle said hehehe: "I won't rush to the enemy by myself with a hot brain." ”

Ba Dong is from Bashu, if you count according to the lineage, his ancestors are Ba people. I don't know which generation they started from, they became Han Chinese, and when the Li family became a Han and ruled Bashu, they re-became Ba people, and waited for Bashu to be liberated by Liu Yan and chose to continue to be a Han Chinese.

Their family migrated to the Anxi Protectorate in the fifteenth year of Yuan Shuo, and before that, Badong was the first batch of folk Xiaoguo to participate in the recovery of the Western Regions.

Because he made meritorious deeds and became a knight, the land reward he received was allocated to the Western Regions, and Ba Dong took his family over.

The people in the team all laughed at Tai Shiming. Their team is Tai Shi Ming, a young man who is less than twenty years old, and the rest are at least thirty years old, and the sons of a few people are older than Tai Shi Ming.

They were all Han Chinese who chose to migrate to settle in the Anxi Prefecture, some of them had been here for three or four years, and some had been here for less than a year.

When they came to settle in the Ansai Prefecture, they were told that they would be called up in case of war, and they had no objection to this, and they should even be said to be happy.

Not everyone is staring at migrating to the Anxi Protectorate, and the land they originally owned can be exchanged for at least three times, mainly because of the opportunity to be called up to the battlefield.

In the Han Empire, there was no special ability, and the best way to change one's destiny was to go to war.

It is really too difficult to select into the regular army, and temporary conscription has become another option, and the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate will be the most likely area for war to break out no matter how you look at it, and there are far more opportunities to be temporarily drafted than in the hinterland.

Those who desperately wanted to change their fate, knowing that there were too few opportunities to stay in the hinterland and be temporarily drafted, gritted their teeth and applied to the government to move to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

There is never a shortage of people who want to change their fate, and there are relatively few people who really have the courage to take steps to seize the opportunity, and by the seventeenth year of Yuan Shuo, the number of Han people who settled in the Anxi Protectorate reached 70,000, with a population of nearly 400,000.

This data is actually breaking through the highest point in history, and it has been a long time...... In other words, since the Han people set foot in the Western Regions, more than 50,000 Han people who settled in the Western Regions occurred in the Western Han Dynasty and were forcibly migrated by the government.

Li Kuang ordered the conscription of Han people as soldiers in the area under the jurisdiction of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, and according to tradition, one person per household was recruited, and in less than half a month, a Han auxiliary army of more than 70,000 people was gathered.

The regular army of the Anzai Prefecture would march to the front, and some of the garrison tasks in the rear would be given to the auxiliary units.

In addition to ensuring law and order, the remaining auxiliary troops also need to cooperate with the relevant administrators of the Anxi Prefecture to forcibly recruit the people of the Western Regions.

This time, the plan of the Anxi Protectorate was to pull up 200,000 cannon fodder from the Western Regions, just because the previous time the Western Regions suffered too heavy losses, and it was necessary to prevent the uncooperation of the Western Regions.

"They don't dare mess around." Li Kuang still has considerable confidence in this: "Those who have the courage to mess up are basically dead." The people of the Western Regions who did not die were either cowardly or reluctant. ”

In fact, there is another kind of people from the Western Regions, which is the kind of people from the Western Regions who obey the Han people and are willing to be dogs to the Han people and obtain benefits.

The people of the Western Regions who have received benefits, they are happy that they have made a fortune, and they have become a privileged class when they become dogs of the Han people, and while groveling to the Han people, they can also be powerful and blessed to the rest of them.

Speaking of which, the people of the Western Regions hate the most are not the Han people, but the same people of the Western Regions. The Anxi Protectorate will not drop his share to personally go down to do things that anger and resentment of the heavens, and will only send those jobs to the "two devils", what they want is to enjoy the results, and let the people of the Western Regions carry the hatred themselves.

To a certain extent, the Han people who migrated to the Anxi Protectorate played the role of "good people", they accepted the girls of the Western Regions, and were willing to take care of the girls' maiden families to some extent. Isn't that a good person?

The people of the Western Regions were not originally a "family", they had their own country and race before, the Han people were fighting for life and death before they came, and the Han Empire had such a policy, it was destined that the people of the Western Regions could not become a "family" at all, and the difference was that there were more dead people.

The source of the Pench River is from the Aral Sea, at the junction of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in modern Central Asia. It is a saltwater lake, and the river that extends out of it is not known for some reason, except for those near the Aral Sea, the rest is actually fresh water.

The Amu Darya and Syr Darya rivers are the largest river systems in the region, and the Pench River is one of the tributaries of the Amu Darya.

The east and west banks of the Penchi River look like two worlds, the east bank is mostly a piece of loess at a glance, but the west bank has a patch of greenery.

If you count the territory of the country, the Penchi River is actually a border line, the east bank belongs to the Han Empire, and the west bank belongs to the Hunette, but the last invasion of the Anxi Protectorate created a "no man's land" spanning 300 miles, and the Hunnites themselves shrank, but the Han people ignored the concept of territory and settled down.

"We've built three pontoon bridges before." Huo Dong lit the sand table, looked at Li Kuang and said respectfully: "If necessary, three pontoon bridges can be erected within seven days." ”

Placed in the big tent of the Chinese army is a sand table with a length of four meters and a width of three meters, which rigorously replicates the topography of the surrounding mountains and rivers, so that people can read the terrain and environment within 300 miles by looking at the sand table.

The narrowest part of the river is more than 200 meters wide, and the pontoon bridge was chosen to be a small width.

With the pontoon bridge, it is natural that a post will be built, and as many people come and go, settlements will form around the post.

Li Kuang arrived at the Penchi River with two divisions and 40,000 auxiliary troops, and did not choose to bring his troops to the west bank of the Penchi River at the first time.

"The enemy has arrived here." Huo Dong was referring to the fact that the front of the Penchi River was about forty miles away: "The terrain here is flat enough to accommodate a large army for garrisoning. ”

At the same time, it is also the upper reaches of the Penchi River.

The Penchi River is an inverted "U" shaped river on the map, which is very similar to the great river (the Yellow River) in the Han Empire, except that the Penchi River is not that long and the river is not that wide.

"The number of enemy troops that have been discovered has reached 150,000, and there are still an unknown number of enemy troops in the rear." Huo Dong frowned, smiled bitterly and continued: "The warning point we set up in front has played a role, but the information they passed back is a little messy. ”

That's a given, not every military unit in front can spot all enemy troops, and it may even be confusing the enemy troops found before with the enemy troops seen behind, and it is indeed difficult to report how many enemy troops there are.

"They didn't build a camp there." Huo Dong still pointed to the plain: "It's just that they haven't continued to move forward for the time being, they are constantly waiting for the follow-up troops." ”

Li Kuang had some impressions of that plain, if in terms of military value, it was suitable for the army to build a camp for stationing, but the surrounding area was actually a situation where there was no danger to defend, just because it was stationed next to the Penchi River, and it was necessary to pay attention to the other three sides.

"The army will not have less requirements for water." Li Kuang knew very well what the marching route of the army was: "Since they chose to march along the riverbank, the number will not be less than 200,000. ”

If there are too many troops, it is not necessary to rely on the transportation of water from other sources to meet the water needs. In this way, no matter what size the army is, the route of the march will definitely not be far from the riverbank, even if it is not to go to the shore.

Li Kuang thought for a while and arranged: "One division will go to the west bank to build fortifications, and the rest of the troops will camp on the east bank. ”

The generals naturally responded: "No! ”

There were originally 500 men at this outpost, and they would change their roles when the army arrived.

With a better understanding of the surrounding terrain, the officers of the outpost were split into units, essentially acting as guides.

Forty miles west of the Pench River, Malus and Eltaba received a report from the scouts.

"The Han army didn't come straight over." Malus looked pity: "I thought the Han people would kill without thinking." ”

Al Taba was constantly frowning.

There were quite a few teams they sent out to pay attention to the movements of the Han army, and they sent back information one after another, but a considerable number of teams seemed to have disappeared.

"They are Han soldiers, not barbarians." Malus took the performance of the Han army for granted: "Only barbarians would foolishly allow others to control their own movements, and as the undisputed number one power in the world, how could they be indifferent?" ”

In every war, the battle between the two armies will always be those soldiers who are responsible for spying, and they are not only tasked with spying on enemy intelligence, but also with the task of cleaning up their enemy counterparts.

"The main thing is that we can't cross the Wuhu River at all, or we won't be able to cross the Wuhu River (i.e., the Penchi River) at a faster pace, or ......" Eltaba cleaned up his mood: "Since the Han army has not been killed, we will not be able to cross the river and march east before they arrive." Is it here next, or is it? ”

The river is generally used as a natural danger for military purposes, and they are doubting whether they can fight it, and there are only 50,000 Han troops stationed there.