Earlier, there had been a tendency to exude chaos, and at the end of spring, a group of people led by the Satsuki clan in the northwestern part of Wusun united with some slaves and began a formal rebellion.

There is nothing wrong with it, it is rebellion, because when the Xiaoyue people were in difficulty, it was Wusun who extended a hand of friendship, and the Wusun people gathered a part of the Yueshi people who had nowhere to go and were in a miserable condition, and the Wusun people did not divide those Yueshi people into the slave class, this situation was in Wusun...... In other words, any nomadic people are unusually tolerant of things, but it is the tolerance of the Wusun people that harms themselves.

The Yueshi people originally inhabited the Hetao area, the Bahan Mountains, the Ulan Mountains and the Nuoping Plains. This was a once powerful and aggressive nomadic tribe that had been a great enemy in the northwest of Qin in the early days of King Yingzhu of Xiaowen, and the two sides fought more than once around Didao (Longxi County).

Later, in the era of King Yingchu of Zhuangxiang of Qin, the main battlefield of the two sides began to move around Yinshan, but at that time the Xiongnu also began to grow, and Zhao also began to notice the situation on the grassland and sought to expand its territory to the north, and Zhao did expand successfully, and the northern half of Daijun was actually snatched by Zhao from the Hu people in the grassland.

In fact, at this stage from 290 BC to 247 BC, it was the time when the Yueshi and the Huns fought the most fiercely. It was precisely the Yueshi and the Huns who fought more fiercely, Qin and Zhao, two warring states directly bordering the northern grasslands, that the two sides could draw troops to fight to the death, and the Changping War took place in the context of the two countries being able to ignore the threat from the north.

The newly rising Xiongnu were not the opponents of the old steppe overlord Yueshi at first, but in 247 BC it was reversed, and the battle for supremacy in the western steppe was reversed by the Yueren king being killed in a major battle with the Huns, after which the Yueshi began to weaken.

The war between the Xiongnu and the Yue clan was reversed, and the Qin State was not idle at that time, and the Qin State took advantage of the Xiongnu and the Yue Clan to send troops to seize the land south of Yinshan Mountain.

The Qin state captured the south of Yinshan. The Yueshi is in an unfavorable stage of the war, so naturally there is not much reaction, in fact, the Yueshi people don't even have the strength to parry the Huns, so even if the Yueshi people hate the Qin people and take advantage of the danger of others, they will not choose to open another front.

The battle for supremacy in the western steppe between the Yueshi and the Xiongnu ended with the Yueshi people being defeated and fleeing. The escape of the Yue people was not completely at first, some of them fled back to the Han Mountain and Yin Mountain, and this part fought a few battles with the Qin army, and then it seemed that they had reached an understanding with the Qin State or something. The two sides recognized the territorial boundary demarcation and had a very brief period of peaceful coexistence.

The Huns' gain of control of the western steppes actually stopped for a while, and they were digesting the fruits of victory...... The main thing is to annex the large and small tribes of the western grasslands, as well as to restore the number of livestock consumed in the war on the looted grassland, and it is about two years or so that they embark on the journey of crushing the Yue people again.

In fact, before the Xiongnu did not re-march against the Yueshi, the Yueshi people had been divided into two parts with different opinions.

A large part of the Yueshi people thought that they could not kill the Huns, and it was better to find a new pasture life far away from the fierce Huns, and they also really put their ideas into action, leaving behind the tribesmen who were unwilling to go far and embarking on the road to the west. And does not intend to return to the East.

A small part of them are the Yueshi people who want to stay in their homeland and the Huns, because most of the Yueshi people have migrated westward, there are relatively few Yueshi people left, whether it is the Huns on the grassland or other Hu people, or Qin, Zhao and other Warring States, they are all called the part of the Yueshi people who stayed behind are called Xiaoyue.

The Xiaoyue people actually didn't hold out for long, and when they learned that the Xiongnu had once again gathered the herdsmen on the steppe to prepare to attack them, it was no surprise that internal conflicts arose again. This time, the contradiction is actually still entangled in the immediate desperate fight. Or temporarily retreat and recuperate, and then fight to the top. These Yueshi people who wanted to retreat temporarily were different from those who didn't want to come back before, and they still wanted to return to their homeland.

Again, the people of the Satsuki clan who disagree with each other. The consequence of this disagreement is not only that they are divided into two groups of people, but that a large part of them are scattered and hiding, and they will attack the Huns from time to time, causing a lot of trouble to the Huns, but both sides are peoples on horseback, and there will always be a fight when a sneak attack is discovered. Once, twice...... I don't know how many times later, this batch of Xiaoyue clans who were unhappy with the Huns were quickly wiped out.

The Satsuki people, who thought they should retreat for a while to recuperate, managed to retreat to the Western Regions under cover for those who were unwilling to leave. But it is conceivable that the people of the Western Regions actually do not welcome the Xiaoyue people who come to the backlog of living space, and this part of the Xiaoyue people is actually very down-and-out, beating the water dog or something is the favorite thing for the people of the Western Regions. It has become inevitable that they will attack it in groups.

"That generation of Wusun Kunmo took in those down-and-out Xiaoyue people, in fact, under the guise of taking advantage of the hatred between those Xiaoyue people and the countries of the Western Regions, so that the Xiaoyue people could target and suppress the countries of the Western Regions."

Meng Tian's speech was not fast, and he also had a soft smile on his face. On his side were all the generals and colonels of the Western Legion, and on the opposite side were the envoys who had retreated to the territory of Wusun.

In fact, the envoy group was not out of a hasty retreat, but when it found that the 50,000 troops of Maodun and Wan arrived close to about ten miles from themselves, they left a part of their forces as a containment, and moved in a relatively fast but definitely not routing way.

The envoy met Wei Han's department on the way back, and the two groups of men and horses were only accepted by the leader and reached a consensus, Wei Han led the army to intercept the enemy, during which Han Xin and the 5,000 cavalry left behind to contain him, and the rest of the envoy continued to retreat.

As soon as they returned to the south of Wusun, Liu Bang and the others met the men and horses of the Western Expeditionary Corps, and after inquiry, they learned that Meng Tian had arrived at Wusun's side.

Meng Tian rushed to Wusun with only 5,000 cavalry, because the northwest of Wusun had been completely chaotic, and the Wusun aristocracy was the first to suffer.

The Wusun are nomadic tribes, and because they don't live in a certain place, they actually live in tents. Most of the Wusun nobles in the northwest of Wusun smelled burning in their sleep. Some managed to get out of the tent without becoming "roast pigs", and some did not escape.

Didn't the Wusun people perceive the instability of the Satsuki clan? Yes, and they are also wary of the Satsuki people, but they miscalculated the patience of the Satsuki people. They originally thought that the Otsutsuki clan was coming...... At least when they arrived at the border of Wusun, the Xiaoyue clan would launch a conspiracy, and they didn't expect that the conspiracy would be launched when Dayue was still a hundred miles away.

Some of the Wusun nobles who did not raise their vigilance were killed at the first moment of the rebellion. Even his family members were also slaughtered or tortured alive, but not all Wusun nobles were so stupid, or some Wusun nobles successfully suppressed the rebellion, and the reason why the Wusun royal court did not react in time was that the Wusun royal court did not respond in time.

"I'm really convinced!" Liu Bang knew that most of the Wusun people were uneducated, and some Wusun nobles were also stupid, but Bo Ximi was not a fool, but a little too smart. He asked the key directly: "Will the empire help Wusun suppress it?" ”

Meng Tian looked at Liu Bang with some surprise. The reason why he was surprised was that he didn't expect Liu Bang's political sense to be so sensitive.

Indeed, the empire now needs Usun. Then it is not possible to let Wusun fall into an internal rebellion that may perish, but the empire does not want Wusun to remain strong on the other hand, because the powerful Wusun is not easy to control.

"It doesn't hurt to tell you." With a chuckle on his face, Meng Tian said, "I came here this time to command the army to help Wusun suppress the rebellion, but only in the central, northern and southern parts of Wusun. ”

Liu Bang recalled the terrain of Wusun in his mind and found that Meng Tian's help was really targeted enough.

The northwest of Wusun is a swampy area, and in fact, there are not too many Wusun people living there, which is why the Xiaoyue clan and the slaves can disrupt the entire northwest of Wusun.

The central part of Wusun is a grassland with flat terrain. It is also the most important territory of Usun, which is used as a concentration of grazing animals. Not only are there a large number of livestock herdsmen, but the vast majority of the Wusun people also live on this plain.

From the central part of Wusun to the north, there are at least seven desert areas, and the strange thing is that when there are so many desert areas, some of them belong to swampy terrain. There are not many Wusun tribes in this area, but this area is a natural defense line blocking Hujie and Ding Ling.

The terrain in the southern part of Wusun is the most complex. There is a long mountain range of North Mountain. However, it is actually worth speculating that Beishan is a mountain range, there are many peaks there, but there are actually gaps between the peaks, and each gap is either a valley or a flat land, but the terrain is relatively narrow because of the relationship between many peaks.

For the Empire. In addition to being able to contain the nomadic tribes such as Hujie and Ding Ling, who would cause the imperial army to hinder the attack on Junji Mountain, Wusun's greater use was to obtain enough excellent war horses, cattle and sheep from Wusun. As for the Wusun people forming an army to provide imperial drive? The Imperial Army continued to fight in the steppes and captured so many steppe people, and the servant army formed felt that it was quite cumbersome, and recently they all planned to disperse the servant army and transfer it to the hinterland of the empire as laborers.

To put it very clearly, it is too far from the hinterland of the empire to the Western Regions, although the Western Expeditionary Corps has livestock that can be used as food, but the replenishment of some ordnance and some plant-based food is already quite troublesome, and it is not willing to add an additional burden to anything.

"Wusun doesn't even have enough troops to support the defense of Hujie, Yueshi, and Ding Ling, where are the troops coming from to help us?" Lu Chen did not hide his dislike at all, and said: "Besides, even if the Wusun people provide soldiers to us, I am afraid that it is to obtain more ordnance. ”

"Well, Bo Ximi has talked about it before, saying that he is willing to provide 30,000 young men to escort the envoy to Kangju Country, and he can even follow the envoy to Central Asia all the time......" Liu Bang saw that the corners of Meng Tian's mouth hooked, paused and spread his hands, and said: "They really want to get weapons, and even hope to get rice from the empire." ”

Meng Tian glanced at Liu Bang and nodded: "Wusun now has about 20,000 good horses on the way to the empire, and they can get the weapons and rice they want." ”

Liu Bang was stunned when he heard this, and then immediately relieved, the empire has been increasing the number of cavalry recently, and the quality of the war horses bred in the horse-producing areas on the territory of the empire is really worse, it just so happens that the empire wants a weak but capable Wusun, so it is a suitable choice to exchange ordnance and food for the good of Wusun.

Previously, Wusun had also been selling horses, cattle, sheep, leather, etc. to the empire, but it was not directly exchanged for ordnance, but after the sale, it was obtained currency.

Wusun obtained the currency, and it was not difficult to buy food on the Empire's side, but it was complicated to buy ordnance.

The empire did not prohibit the production of weapons by the private sector, but what could be produced by the private sector was limited by certain "protective regulations", and the quality could not be compared with that of the state-run production bases.

Previously, only a very small number of Wusun people wanted to obtain weapons from the official authorities of the empire, and most of them were purchased from private weapons dealers. The scale of the empire's weapons dealers is not too large, so it is impossible for a weapon dealer to eat all the orders of Wusun, resulting in the fact that the Wusun people need to reach a deal at intervals with one merchant after another, and they have to agree on the type and quantity separately, for the Wusun people who have no culture, there is really nothing more painful than this situation, especially under the premise that they are very urgent.

"It's not that I'm worried about Hujie and Ding Ling's ...... this autumn, and now I have to count the Yue's family, I'm afraid that the Wusun people won't be able to withstand it." Lu Chen sniffed when he said this, and asked, "It's so fragrant, what does it smell?" ”

"I learned a hand from the people of the Western Regions." Liu Bang said a little proudly: "Roasted camels, it tastes very delicious." ”

Like, seemingly, maybe...... Meng Tian They entered the Western Regions relatively late, and the location where they came in was the central and southern regions, and the people in the Western Regions in those places were more or less plagued by mercenary groups, and the Imperial people who came from the front would be welcomed, and it was too late for Meng Tian to lead the army to hide, even if they received it, they didn't have the enthusiasm before, so they really hadn't eaten the camels roasted by the Western Regions.

Lu Chen cut the hump with a dagger, looked at the golden-colored grease and delicacy coming out, and said with a little dissatisfaction: "So, it's definitely the right thing to teach them a lesson!" ”

Liu Bang smiled embarrassedly, the people of the Western Regions will have inconsistent behavior, and it seems to have a lot to do with them? (To be continued.) )