One of the powerful countries in the Western Regions, Wanguo, has merged with Maodun's department!

Li Xin's killing of the king of Loulan was the main reason why Wanguo completely fell to Maoton, and Wanguo also fell to Maoton, Xiuxun, donating poison, and Shule. They saw the aggressiveness of the empire, and they were also frightened by Li Xin's behavior, and they were afraid that the next person to be cut off in the palace would be themselves, so they chose to stand on the opposite side of the empire without hesitation.

Loulan was one of the vassals of the Wan State, after Li Xin killed the Zhi Wu another, he led a group of improvised patchwork troops to block the Wan army that came to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and the two sides broke out in the Khotanese River area, and the countries that were involved in the war were Khotan, Humi, Qule, Ronglu and other countries.

It was a relatively wide-ranging battle, but the battle lasted less than ten days before it ended with Li Xin's troops being defeated and retreating.

In fact, the troops led by Li Xin were very chaotic, and the soldiers were from the natives of the Western Regions, and there were less than thirty imperial figures as officers. This improvised patchwork force was very chaotic from weapons and equipment to anything, and in the face of the Wanguo army that was holding its breath and indignant and fully armed, Li Xin didn't seem to work hard to command the army, how could he be undefeated?

Li Xin told his nephew Li Ren that he had gathered a group of natives from the Western Regions to fight the Wan army, on the one hand, to buy some time for the upcoming imperial army, and on the other hand, to make the kingdoms, city-states, and tribes in the southern Western Regions have a grudge against the Wan State after they saw blood.

Li Xin, who had such an idea, often deliberately created the intensity of the fight, how could a temporary patchwork force fight too fiercely? Trust has not yet been established between the subordinates, because the soldiers come from many and mixed sources and will be cautious. Fighting a light war or a downwind battle can still support it, but in the face of a fierce war, there will only be mutual fighting, shirking, and finally simply looking for an opportunity to run away.

The troops led by Li Xin were defeated. The army of Wan was directly through the territory of Khotan and Hu Mi all the way to chase, and when the vanguard of 3,000 Wan pursued to the territory of Ronglu, they encountered an imperial cavalry of 500 people, and the two sides started a battle on the edge of the Gobi.

Because of the relationship that supported the collapse not long after, many forces in the southern Western Regions who were originally a little afraid of Li Xin had actually alleviated their fear of Li Xin in their hearts, and they were already looking for an opportunity to clean up Li Xin. They had already discussed, and once they retreated, they would humiliate Li Xin. As for killing or something, firstly, they are not so stupid, and secondly, they don't dare.

A group of people who discussed how to humiliate Li Xin. Their calculations were dashed by a sudden encounter.

The 500 Imperial cavalry was facing the imposing Wanguo cavalry head-on, and under the prying eyes of countless people, they raised their crossbows and fired crossbow arrows when the distance between the two sides was 200 meters, and then the cavalry team grabbed the cavalry spears and formed a sharp array in the continuous charge.

It was a clean slaughter. It was the slaughter of the cavalry of the five hundred empires against the cavalry of the three thousand Wan countries. The Imperial cavalry was directly chiseled through the charge. Then he inserted into the waist of the chaotic Wanguo cavalry in a small detour, and under several roundabouts and chiseling, the Wanguo cavalry collapsed without accident, followed by a scene in which a small number of imperial cavalry chased and killed the Wanguo rout.

The 500 Imperial Cavalry that appeared in the end of the region was a ranger of the Western Expeditionary Corps, and they were one of the many pioneers in the entire Western Expeditionary Corps, and there were more than 40,000 robes behind them who had already marched into the southern part of the Western Regions.

Wan has always been a powerful country in the Western Regions, subduing many kingdoms, city-states and tribes in the western part of the Western Regions, and is a well-deserved regional overlord.

A country that can become a regional hegemon. Its military strength must not be bad, but it is invincible in the western part of the Western Regions. With 3,000 to 500, and most of them were wiped out like a grandson in the frontal battlefield, only less than 200 horsemen escaped, and the rest were either killed or captured, and the natives in the southern part of the Western Regions were completely stunned from the beginning to the end.

Li Xin returned to Loulan and did not meet Meng Tian, he asked his nephew Li Ren to meet Meng Tian.

Li Xin didn't see Meng Tian because he was in a kind of self-esteem, but in fact, he didn't feel embarrassed?

For Li Xin to send his nephew instead of himself, Meng Tian was also relieved in his heart. Both of them used to be generals under the command of the First Emperor, and they fought together more than once, and the two of them once went up and down in their official positions, and now one is a villager in the opposition, and the other is a general of the empire to conquer the west, and they are embarrassed to meet each other. It's better not to see.

Li Ren was instructed by Li Xin to introduce the situation in the southern part of the Western Regions to Meng Tian.

The southern part of the Western Regions was briefly concorded after Li Xin killed the Zhiwu, and the weaker city-states and tribes were integrated, except for a few kingdoms that were unwilling to obey. However, this kind of integration is only on the surface, if Meng Tian has the heart, he can get some help on the basis of what he already has, and it can be regarded as a favor left by Li Xin to the Western Expeditionary Corps before he leaves.

Li Xin took the head of the king of Loulan and a copy of the booty, twenty-nine when he came, and twenty-nine when he left, and they embarked on the road back to the empire in a dashing manner.

Meng Tian entered the southern part of the Western Regions, and he chose the location of the army near Bailongdui.

There is a certain reason for choosing Bailongdui, it is a transportation place, surrounded by more than a dozen countries such as Shanguo, Cheshi, Loulan, Weixu, Yuli, Quli, etc., the main reason is that it is easy to get water here.

It is precisely because there is no shortage of water sources near Bailongdui that Bailongdui will become a trade center, and the green ridge side, which is as convenient as taking water, has become two of the three major trade centers in the Western Regions.

In fact, there is another reason why Meng Tian chose Bailongdui, he needs to echo the position of the troops who entered the Western Regions in the early stage, and then there are follow-up troops who have not kept up.

To the east of Bailongdui is the newly established Dunhuang County of the Empire, when the Western Corps entered the Western Regions, because the situation had not yet been clarified, the main battle force was carrying enough materials to start first, and then another baggage team was stopped at Dunhuang near the border of the Western Regions.

Waiting for the order of the central general of the empire to be transmitted to the Western Regions, the official establishment of the Western Shogunate, the troops in the original Western Regions sent to the Western Regions and the troops brought into the Western Regions behind Meng Tian, a total of about 130,000 soldiers were included in the sequence of the Western Shogunate.

The chief general of the Shogunate was naturally Meng Tian, the general of the Shogunate. The deputy general He Yi, the deputy general of the former Western Regions Dispatch Army, and Shi Luchen, the chief of the army, served as the original position. In addition to the important positions, the center allowed Meng Tian to appoint a subordinate position on his own. However, these positions were only valid in the Seishi Shogunate.

The shogunate originally had the right to appoint subordinates, but Meng Tian knew that the central government had reiterated it again because of the emperor's prompting.

The Qin feudal state has confirmed the fief, but the fief is currently owned by the aliens, and there are still 100,000 soldiers under the command of Fusu, who are currently driving towards the Hetao area, but the armed forces will not issue equipment until they arrive at the designated station.

Meng Tian was repeatedly hinted at that he understood one thing, that is, the emperor allowed the conscription corps to help Fusu open the way to the fiefdom within the permitted range. But it was only limited to opening up the road, and after Fusu arrived in the fiefdom, the Western Expeditionary Corps could no longer interfere.

Where is the fief of the Qin feudal state? It was to the west of the territory of Usun, where there were now Yueshi and Sakya.

The Yueshi have defeated the Sakyas. While they continued to kill and expel the Sakyas, they also gathered their forces and began to approach the border of Wusun.

If Fusu led people into the Western Regions, they would enter the west of Lake Balkhash by stepping on the road opened by the Western Expeditionary Corps, and they would face the Yueshi people, the old opponents of Great Qin. But because of the time difference. Before Fusu came over, the Yueshi people should have fought with the Wusun people first.

In fact, the Yueshi people have now begun to fight with the Wusun people on a small scale, and it is the Xiaoyue people within the Wusun who instigated some slaves to rebel against the rule of the Wusun people, and after stirring up the water into chaos, the Xiaoyue people who originally took refuge in the Wusun people and then united with the Dayue people who had migrated westward to encroach on some of the pastures that the Wusun people had lost control.

"I heard that the Xiaoyue clan was allowed to survive by the permission of Wusun Kunmo, and they did not appreciate the Wusun people who took them in, but regarded the kindness of the Wusun people to them as a misery after they were down." Meng Tian's face was full of sneer: "Now that Dayue has defeated the Sakya people, the Xiaoyue clan, who has been favored by the Wusun people, considers it an insult to be stingy. They are going to unite with the Great Moon to destroy this tribal alliance that has been kind to them. ”

Ascend Mien, fight Mi Qiu. There has never been a shortage of similar things, and the Wusun people will not be the first ethnic group to suffer from it, in fact, the Chinese ethnic group is the ethnic group that has repeatedly suffered this kind of revenge.

He Yi was stationed in Wusun with a large army. When the Xiaoyue clan moved frequently, he kept reporting to Meng Tian and gave some suggestions.

Meng Tian actually didn't pay so much attention to the life and death of the Wusun people, if it weren't for the central government's request to support Wusun to a limited extent, he would have wanted to get a piece of the turmoil that Wusun was about to break out.

At present, Wusun has a great role in the empire, and in the Western Regions, Wusun can exist as a "leading party", and Wusun can also properly involve some of the troops of the grassland people.

Meng Tian agreed with the center's estimation that the existence of Wusun was indeed beneficial to the empire, especially the premise that the empire had no way to fully occupy the Western Regions for the time being, and it became a meaningful thing to win over and properly support Wusun.

He Yi also negotiated with Liu Bang with Meng Tian's consent, and asked the envoys to cooperate to some extent, such as moving the envoys to the west, taking the Beishan area where Maotun was entrenched.

Mao Dun has always been active in the Beishan Mountain Range area, and he has now gathered more than 300,000 people, except for about 100,000 steppe people, the rest of the members are from the natives of the Western Regions and refugees who have migrated from west to east.

As far as the non-productive Maodun Department is concerned, their eating, drinking, and Lasa generally rely on extortion and robbery, resulting in the fact that most of the kingdoms, city-states, and tribes in the Western Regions around Beishan have been wiped out, and some Western Regions forces that have not been destroyed are also miserable.

In the face of the continuous growth of the Maudun Department and the destruction of many forces, as well as the rapid weakening of Wusun, there were many forces in the central part of the Western Regions, and they formed the Central Western Regions Alliance.

The Central Western Regions Alliance is a military alliance composed of forces in the central Western Regions, such as Cheshi, Puzi, and Qiuzi, and the first time they formed an alliance was not to rush to the Maodun Division, but to march towards the territory of Wusun.

Wusun fought a series of battles, both victorious and losing, and there were frequent internal turmoil recently, and when the allied forces such as Cheshi pounced, they actually did not resist, but asked the imperial troops stationed in the territory to help defend against the enemy.

He Yi agreed to Bo Ximi's request, Wusun paid nearly 20,000 war horses, and the empire sent 10,000 troops out of Wusun's territory to pounce in the direction of Shan Heng.

When the coalition forces in the central part of the Western Regions were still arguing, not only did the imperial army make moves, but the Maudun Division, which had been entrenched in the Beishan region, also had its own actions.

Maudun's action was to send troops to frequently attack the villages of the Qiuzi people, and he was actually using such actions to cover up his exploration to the west, naturally because it had been ascertained that new troops from the empire had entered the Western Regions.

How much the empire attaches importance to Maudun, Maudun can be said to know it. More than once, he found that the empire was very interested in him, the same as the Hun troops, and the imperial army would rather give up the one that could be eaten casually, and would rather chase after his relatively difficult troops.

In fact, many times Mao Dun is very depressed, he can't understand if there is something wrong with the empire, or what has he done to the empire that causes deep hatred? The ones he did were what the steppe people would do, and there didn't seem to be anything too special, so once he was discovered, the imperial army would be like a chicken!

The coalition forces in the central part of the Western Regions were timid and retreated in the face of the imperial army, and while agreeing to the request that the imperial army should not march on Wusun, they sent people to contact Maudun, who had been dealing with before.

Maudun burned and plundered in the Western Regions, and seems to have destroyed many kingdoms, city-states, and tribes, but he does not seem to have a strong desire to occupy land.

The empire is different, and the people of the Western Regions can learn from a little inquiry that the people of the empire in the east are full of greed for land, and as long as the land occupied by the empire will not spit it out.

In fact, this is also the ideological difference between nomads and agrarian peoples......

Nomads are nomadic herders, so they don't have a strong sense of territory, for them the home is never fixed, as long as they have herding animals, they can call home anywhere.

The farming people are producing in the fields, and the hope of survival lies in the ploughing of the soil, and the loss of the land is equivalent to no survival guarantee, and the natural attachment to the land is incomparable.

More and more people in the Western Regions are aware of what kind of country the empire is, and they have a kind of panic about the empire with an incomparably strong desire for expansion~

With the idea of "helping the weak and the weak", and also with the sense that they should be prepared to guard against the danger of the empire, the people of the Western Regions have their own actions. (To be continued.) )