More than 100 years ago, after the end of the three-year war between the Great Jin and the Gaochang Kingdom in the Western Regions, the defeated Great Jin withdrew from the Western Regions, but at that time, the four capital protectorates established by the Great Jin Dynasty in the Western Regions, the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate and the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, were cut off by a number of Gaochang armies because of the road to the Great Jin, so that the millions of Jin people and garrisons of the four Metropolitan Protectorates did not have time to withdraw to the territory of the Great Jin. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, Gao Changguo would not let go of the four capital protectorates symbolized by the Great Jin Dynasty's rule in the Western Regions, so he gathered heavy troops and prepared to clear the last four strongholds of the Great Jin Dynasty in the Western Regions.

At that time, Jinshan City and Mengchi City, where the Jinshan Protectorate and Mengchi Protectorate were located, were not conducive to defending the city, so the army and people of the Jinshan Protectorate withdrew to Anxi City, where the Anxi Protectorate was located, before the army of Gaochang State surrounded Jinshan City, and the troops and people of the Mengchi Protectorate withdrew to Kunling City, where the Kunling Protectorate was located.

After that, the army and the people of the four capital protectorates, relying on two easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack cities, blocked the repeated attacks of the Gaochang army, and it was not until more than 60 years ago that Kunling City was captured by the Gaochang army, but the remnants of the Jin people in Kunling City also broke out of the siege and withdrew to Anxi City.

Therefore, although Anxi City is the location of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, it concentrates the descendants of the four Great Jin Prefectures in the Western Regions, and even in Anxi City, the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate and the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate still exist, but the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate is the head, and the Anxi City only claims to be the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

On June 21, 427 of the Great Jin Dynasty, dozens of powerful figures in Anxi City gathered in a council room of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, including Zhao Shiwang of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, Feng Zhongkun of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Shanshi of the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, and Sun Xibao of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, as well as more than a dozen civil officials in charge of the livelihood of the people in Anxi City, as well as 36 generals of various prefectures, including nine guerrilla generals and 27 partial generals.

According to the regulations of the Great Jin Dynasty more than a hundred years ago, the four protectorates in the Western Regions have the right to appoint partial generals and even guerrilla generals on their own, so it is not surprising that thirty-six generals appeared here at once.

Zhao Shiwang, the protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, said loudly: "You must have known that Yu Yan, the daughter of the Protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, took three hundred elite soldiers of the Protectorate of Anxi this time, and finally successfully broke through the blockade of the six military forts of the Gaochang people from the lofty mountains between the Demon Snake Fort and the Tianma Fort, and brought back the righteous army of the Dongfan tribe, conquered the fortress of the Demon Snake Fort, and opened up the road to the outside world in our Anxi City. ”

After a pause, Zhao Shiwang continued: "There are two choices in front of our Anxi City now, one is to return to the Great Jin Dynasty with the Dongfan tribe, and the other is to continue to stay in Anxi City, only send an elite army, and return to the Great Jin Dynasty with the team of the Dongfan tribe, and tell the imperial court about the situation that our four protectorates have persisted in the Western Regions for more than a hundred years. ”

As soon as Zhao Shiwang's words fell, Feng Zhongkun, the capital protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, sighed and said: "As far as I know, although Yu Yan's niece brought back the righteous army of the Dongfan clan this time and also took the Demon Snake Castle, but Yu Yan's niece promised the Dongfan clan that our entire Anxi City army and civilians will return to the Great Jin Dynasty with the Dongfan clan, so if we only send an elite army and return to the Great Jin with the team of the Dongfan clan, it will inevitably be a little discredited, so it is better to take this opportunity to leave the Western Regions with the four of us!" ”

Anxi City currently has a total population of nearly 500,000, of which about 200,000 are Qingzhuang, in order to resist the Gaochang people, half of these 200,000 young people have been incorporated into the army of the four capital protectorates, even if the other 100,000 Qingzhuang usually work while carrying out military training, once a war occurs, the army of Anxi City will instantly expand from 100,000 to 200,000.

Of the 100,000 troops in Anxi City, 60,000 were subordinate to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, 30,000 were subordinate to the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, and as for the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate and Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, there were only 5,000 troops each.

Kunling Protectorate and Mengchi Protectorate because Kunling City was broken by the Gaochang army more than 60 years ago, the loss is very large, more than 60 years have passed, Kunling Protectorate and Mengchi Protectorate still have not recovered.

Originally, more than a hundred years ago, the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate was the weakest among the four Metropolitan Protectorates in the Western Regions of the Great Jin Dynasty, but because the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate had moved to Anxi City, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, its strength was preserved, and now among the four Metropolitan Protectorates of Anxi City, its strength ranks second.

The words of Feng Zhongkun, the protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, made Zhao Shiwang's brows furrow, where there are people, there are disputes, and the four Metropolitan Protectors of Anxi City can unite as one when facing the Gaochang people, but behind closed doors, the four Metropolitan Protectors are not as harmonious as they seem.

Zhao Shiwang was actually a little annoyed by his daughter's assertions, and he sent Zhao Yuyan to contact the Great Jin court, but Zhao Yuyan made an assertion and formed an alliance with the Dongfan tribe, promising that the soldiers and civilians of Anxi City would return to the Great Jin Dynasty together with the Dongfan tribe.

For returning to the Great Jin Dynasty, Zhao Shiwang is still very much looking forward to it in his heart, but the premise is that the Great Jin Imperial Court has the will of the Great Jin Dynasty to let the four capital protectorates return to the Great Jin Dynasty.

For more than a hundred years, whether voluntarily or involuntary, the soldiers and civilians of the Anxi Protectorate and the other three Protectorate have been guarding the last territory of the Great Jin Dynasty in the Western Regions, in order to guard the only remaining Anxi City of the Four Protectorates, for more than 100 years, more than a million people have died, Zhao Shiwang's grandfather, father, uncle, brother, and son have all died on the walls of Anxi City, for Zhao Shiwang, Anxi City is not to say that you can give up.

Before this meeting of the four capital protectors, Zhao Shiwang received a secret report that Feng Zhongkun, the capital protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, secretly contacted Li Shanshi and Sun Xibao, the capital protectors of the other two capital protectors, and prepared to jointly put pressure on Zhao Shiwang to get Zhao Shiwang to agree to give up Anxi City, and even Feng Zhongkun also contacted some generals of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate.

Sure enough, after Feng Zhongkun finished speaking, Li Shancheng, the capital protector of the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, followed and said: "Now our Anxi City is facing the dilemma of water shortage, if this water shortage situation has not been alleviated, or it is getting more and more serious, then the hundreds of thousands of people in our Anxi City will have no way to live, and now taking advantage of the Dongfan clan to capture the Demon Snake Castle, leaving Anxi City should be the most correct choice." ”

Sun Xibao, the protector of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, said with a smile: "Since Yu Yan's niece has already agreed to the Dongfan clan, we can't let the people of the Dongfan clan say that our Anxi Protectorate is untrustworthy, and the Bendu Protector agrees with the return to the east!" ”

Zhao Shiwang sighed and said: "The return to the Great Jin Dynasty is the expectation of our four capital protectors for more than a hundred years, but it is a pity to give up Anxi City like this, as long as Anxi City is here, the Great Jin Imperial Court has to recognize the merits of our four capital protectorates, otherwise even if hundreds of thousands of our four capital protectors return to the Great Jin, the imperial court may not pay more attention to us, alas, Bendu Protector is also a little embarrassed!" ”

Feng Zhongkun, the protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, said urgently: "Zhao Duhu, if there is no shortage of water in Anxi City, it is not indispensable for us to continue to defend it, the problem is that more than half of the wells in Anxi City have dried up, and even a few streams flowing down from Pu'e Peak have dried up. ”

At this time, several guerrilla generals also spoke out one after another in favor of leaving Anxi City, and even Zhao Wenliang, the guerrilla general of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, also persuaded Zhao Shiwang: "Father-in-law, now is the best time for our Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to return to the Great Jin, once it is missed, it will be very difficult for our Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate to return to the Great Jin Dynasty in the future." ”

The guerrilla general Zhao Wenliang is not only Zhao Shiwang's righteous son, but also the current first brave general in Anxi City.

"The matter of returning to the east, Bendu Hu still has to think about it again, now the first problem of our Anxi City is to hold the Demon Snake Castle, even if the four of us want to leave Anxi City, it is not a moment and a half to leave, so the importance of the Demon Snake Castle, Ponthu does not need to be elaborated." Zhao Shiwang said in a deep voice.

At present, the Demon Snake Fort is controlled by the Dongfan tribe, but the determination of the Dongfan tribe to return to their homeland is very firm, so the army of Anxi City must be ready to take over the Demon Snake Fort.

After discussion, the next four protectors decided to take over the Demon Snake Fort first after obtaining the consent of the Dongfan clan, in case there was any accident.

After the meeting of the four Metropolitan Protectorates, Feng Zhongkun, the Protector of the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate, Li Shanshi, the Metropolitan Protector of the Kunling Metropolitan Protectorate, and Sun Xibao, the Metropolitan Protector of the Mengchi Metropolitan Protectorate, came to the Jinshan Metropolitan Protectorate in Anxi City together.

In a room in the Jinshan Metropolitan Protector's Mansion, Feng Zhongkun said in a deep voice to the other two Metropolitan Protectors: "Zhao Shiwang seems to not want to leave Anxi City this time, what are the plans of the two of you Metropolitan Protectors?" ”

Li Shanzhi immediately said loudly: "Our Kunling Protectorate will return to the Great Jin Dynasty this time no matter what, the Kunling City where our Kunling Protectorate is located fell more than sixty years ago, and it doesn't matter if the Great Jin Imperial Court admits it or not, it doesn't matter if we don't recognize the merits of our Kunling Protectorate, Bendu Protector just wants to bring the remaining tens of thousands of people from our Kunling Protectorate back to the Great Jin Dynasty safely, and find a way to live for tens of thousands of people in our Kunling Protectorate." ”

Sun Xibao followed and said: "The situation of our Mengchi Protectorate is similar to that of Kunling Protectorate, it doesn't matter what merit is or not, the lives of tens of thousands of people in our Mengchi Protectorate are the most important, and our Mengchi Protectorate is also willing to follow the Dongfan people back to the Great Jin Dynasty, and staying in Anxi City will be a dead end sooner or later." ”

Feng Zhongkun clapped his hands and said: "Li Duhu and Sun Duhu's thoughts are the same as Feng someone's, our Jinshan Duhu Mansion is not willing to stay in Anxi City and wait for death, according to the current situation, the groundwater in Anxi City will soon be completely dried up, this time the Dongfan clan captured the Demon Snake Castle, it is to give nearly 500,000 people in Anxi City a glimmer of life, we must seize it!" ”

Li Shancheng sighed at this time and said: "But if Zhao Shiwang is unwilling to return to the east, it is not so easy for the three of us to leave Anxi City, after all, this is Anxi City of Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate!" ”

Feng Zhongkun sneered and said: "Whether the east returns to the east or not to the east is a matter of life and death for hundreds of thousands of people in our Anxi City, although Zhao Shiwang is the protector of the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, but at this time, he wants to tie the lives of hundreds of thousands of people to the future of their Zhao family with his own strength, that is absolutely delusional, and our hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Anxi City will not agree!" ”

Sun Xibao frowned and asked, "What does Feng Duhu mean, could it be that the matter of returning to the east spreads in Anxi City?" ”

Feng Zhongkun nodded and said: "Once the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Anxi City know that they can return to the Great Jin Dynasty, then no one in Anxi City will have no way to stop them. ”

After the meeting of the four capitals, Zhao Shiwang left his adopted son Zhao Wenliang behind.

"Wen Liang, before this meeting of the four capital protectors, did Feng Zhongkun go to you privately?"

"Father-in-law, Feng Zhongkun did find the child privately before, hoping that the child can support the soldiers and civilians of the four capital protectorates of Anxi City to return to the Great Jin Dynasty." Zhao Wen nodded and said.

"Alas, Wen Liang, do you know why your father wants to stick to Anxi City?" Zhao Shiwang sighed, with a helpless expression.

"Father-in-law, you also know that there is not much groundwater in Anxi City, and with this opportunity created by the Dongfan clan, why do you insist on holding on to Anxi City? The child really can't figure it out! ”

Zhao Shiwang said with a wry smile: "Our Anxi Protectorate has been holding Anxi City for more than a hundred years, do you think the imperial court will really not know?" You must know that the existence of our Anxi Protectorate is not a big secret in the entire Western Regions, and our Great Jin Dynasty has been trading with the countries of the Western Regions for many years, how can the imperial court not receive any news at all? ”

"Father-in-law, why didn't the imperial court send troops to rescue our Anxi City?"

"Our Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, as well as the other three Imperial Protectorates, if there is no accident, have become the abandoned sons of the imperial court, if we rush back to the Great Jin, I really don't know how the imperial court will treat our hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Anxi City?"

"Father-in-law, no matter what, the four of us have been loyal to the Great Jin Dynasty for more than a hundred years, and no matter how mediocre the current court is, it should be kind to the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Anxi City, and the 200,000 men in Anxi City are not vegetarians!"

"But once our four capital protectors in Anxi City return east together with the team of the Dongfan clan, with the grievances between our four capital protectorates and Gao Changguo for many years, Gao Changguo will inevitably mobilize a large army to intercept it."

"Father-in-law, the Dongfan clan still has nearly 100,000 troops, and the powerful Taishou of Ji'an County in the Great Jin Dynasty can already lead his troops to the hinterland of Gaochang Kingdom."