In the bright sunshine, there is a soaring figure flying across the sky, there is a long eagle chirping, sharp eyes staring at a prey below into a cluster of barren reeds, occasionally the wind blows, the dead grass in the stone crevices swaying slightly, at the same time, a little gravel also rises with the wind, a desolation, there are camel bells from afar.

A white figure drove two camels through the golden sand, wrapped all over, only the two eyes that were exposed looked forward from time to time to discern the direction, and soon a low city wall was getting closer and closer in his sight, and the slight debris came with the wind and sand, was peeled out, and flew into the sky.

When the camel riders walked into the city gate, the sounds of people, horses, and camels mixed together and poured into their ears, and it was a different world from the harsh environment outside.

Detention Mi.

It was once one of the countries of the Western Regions, located in the south of the Khotan River, west of the Jingjue Country, guarding the trade transit in the east and west directions at the foot of the Kunlun Mountain, sitting on the South Silk Road, the military strength was not strong, and it was finally merged by the Chi clan of Khotan, but on this day, the crowd of people who came and went in the whole city, the face was panicked, and the merchants who used to shout hard also looked depressed, and many people gathered, or scattered, and walked away in a hurry.

In the crowd, most of them were whispering, and outsiders rarely understood what they were talking about, but at this time there were also words about the 'Han Dynasty' mixed in with the obscure sentences.

"...... news from the Jingjue City in the east, the Han Dynasty army is coming here, will it come over......?"

"The people of the ....... caravan also said the same, the Han Dynasty has not been here for many years, and this time it suddenly came, and there may be a war on the Shanshan City side."

"No...... The former king of the Cheshi has always been friendly to the Han Dynasty. ”

"Would you rather have a man on your head? Hearing about the civil strife in the Han Dynasty, even if he sent someone over, I am afraid that the king of Nanmi would not be so timid. ”

"Che Shiguo is on the side of Jiaohe City in the Tianshan Mountains, and it is still far away to Shanshan, I think it is difficult for the king to lose the city, and this time the Western Regions Protectorate is going to be rebuilt."

"..... this...... It is indeed possible...... I can't stay any longer, go west, and look at the situation again. ”

"The king of Khotan may also send troops......

In the midst of the people's small words, some people took action, and began to move to Pishan with the old and young people of the family dragging a cart full of grain, and the people of Kumi City scattered near the city outside the city heard the news in a panic, and as time went on, they also followed the westward migration to escape the war.

Chi Li'an, the king of Khotan, stood on the Pishan Tulou like a goshawk gathered his wings, squinting his eyes at the people from the east outside the city, but there was another scene in his mind, trying to judge what the purpose of the Han people who had re-entered the Western Regions in the rumors, and how Khotan would choose.

Facts are impermanent, this is what his father Wei Chi Anguo told him before he died, the powerful Han Dynasty has always been restrained in the Western Regions, and it also made them understand that the huge empire in the East is not only a vast territory, but even makes them understand what is a great military might, and now when they are about to face the Han Dynasty again, the image of the Han people once resurfaced.

"To fight or not to fight?" Wei Chi Li'an's beard trembled slightly, pursed his lips and looked at the scorching skylight, and then called left and right: "Give me the king's order to convey the ...... of gathering troops in the cities of Hetian, Luopu, Moyu, Qule, Ronglu, and Humi."

As he spoke, someone hurried up the stairs behind him to deliver a letter from afar, the contents of which made people's scalps tingle.

On May 12, the Han army came out of Yumen Pass and killed them in a straight line with a surprise attack.

Seventeenth, Gongsun Zhi ordered the army of more than 100,000 people who had rested for several days to move westward, spreading like a fire burning the forest, and directly attacked Shanshan who resisted in half a day, purged the officials and families of the former country of the Cheshi, and beheaded them all in front of the city gate.

Twenty, the rear team of foot soldiers and Han cavalry converged, and after a day's rest, the day of May 21 was killed. At the same time, the last 2,000 soldiers went out of the city to meet the enemy, and when they heard the news of the fall of Shanshan halfway, they hurriedly returned to the city to hold on.

At the end of May, 100,000 troops had reached 30 miles of the city and rushed straight ahead.

When Chi Li'an, the captain of Khotan, received this news, and the whole city had fallen into a short battle, the rammed earth city wall was splashed with mud from the staggered blades, and the arrows with flames were nailed to the city's head, and the entire section of the city wall, a wooden ladder hung obliquely, and the arrows continued to shoot back and forth in the sky, and the figure with a knife in his mouth was like an ant colony climbing up densely, and a thick-eyed and deep-eyed soldier and his companions wanted to push the ladder down, and in the scream, suddenly an arrow from nowhere was nailed to the chest, The corpse fell over the wall, and under the wall, the Han pawn was still sprinting frantically upward.

The drums of war in the distance never stopped.

The white wolf flag stood in the phalanx composed of countless figures and hunted, the first to ride, the cloak was spread, the white wolf velvet swayed, urging the horse to take a few steps, he 'shouted', looked at the low earthen wall and raised his finger, and a low voice sounded from his throat.

"Give you two hours, take it."

"Yes—"

Soon the trumpet sounded.

The order to strengthen the offensive sounded from afar, and on the city wall, Yan Yan took a step forward and waved the big knife in his hand, and with a bang, even the people with armor split one of the last city defenders in half, and the warm blood splattered and sprinkled on the wall battlements. He glanced back at the formation, then turned around and slashed again.

In the hysteria, the screaming figure spilled a line of blood and flew upside down.....

"—Take the walls!"

There are also Loulan people shouting: "Hold on!" ”

However, they are facing the elite who have experienced infighting, and the pioneers who kick up the city are all strong and fierce martial arts, and the boiling sound of fighting spreads from both ends of the city wall, Yan Yan, Gao Shun, and Zhang Fei will launch the most fierce offensive towards the center of the city tower and advance to the past.

"Ahhh

The leopard's head and ring-eyed figure held the Zhangba snake spear in both hands and pierced into the chest of a Khotanese captain, roaring, pushing the other party into the pile, the muscles of both arms bulging, a fierce pick, throwing people into the air, the thick snake spear waved, the opposite formation of the gun forest smashed the staggered, several people were directly knocked down the city wall, or forced to death, the soldiers behind him peeked into the gap, killed in.

"Hahaha-"

"Happy!!" Zhang Fei gasped for a moment and laughed out loud.

In front of his field of vision, the enemy was constantly impacted, reducing the space, and the soldiers on the inner city wall were also killed and did not dare to come up again, in the sound of war drums, soon, the soldiers of the last city under the tightening of the city, some of them lost their weapons and chose to surrender, and the soldiers spread across the city wall, launching a second wave of ferocious killing towards the city.

Less than two hours, and finally lost.

……..

In the overwhelming military array, Gongsun Zhi, who was the governor of the western expeditionary army, did not take the end of the city, there was a happy expression on his face, and he did not plan to enter the city, he crossed the reins, and he raised his hand: "Order the three departments of the Huns Ahunya, Wuhuan Louban, and Xianbei to return to the mud, and immediately enter the detention of the army." ”

He looked at the Cheshi Guo Daxu who was cut down on the city wall, and raised a Han flag: "In addition, send someone to send a letter to Khotan, Shache, and Shule, just ..... one sentence."

"....... open the city gate and hang the Han flag!"

On the fourth day of the first month of June, the Han Dynasty sent the Xiongnu, Wuhuan and Xianbei to the west, divided into three cavalry, and attacked Khotan with radiation from the left, center and right, and swept all the way to the withering and decaying, five days later, nearly 50,000 grassland cavalry pushed the war to the boundary of Pishan City less than 20 miles.

On June 11, the soldiers who fled back to Pishan spread the horror and ferocity of this Han army more thoroughly, the entire population was only more than 80,000, and the king of Khotan, who had a strength of 30,000, received a letter from the Han people, the number of more than 100,000 troops, and the ferocious combat effectiveness, made him feel numb in his scalp.

This time, the Han army standing in the Western Regions is different from the past.