Chapter 269: The Mysterious Army
The long road is long for me to break through, with a body of courage and warmth, to find myself and true feelings, and don't regard it as my hometown when I stop.
Welcome the sun and the moon and the wind, please wash my madness with the breeze, and get drunk and lie free in the coming day, and no longer use my knife and gun.
In the song, Qin Feng led his 20,000 expeditionary force to cross mountains, rivers, grasslands, and deserts.
He followed the footsteps of the Qiang Canal and went all the way to the west.
In a month's time, I drove 5,000 miles, and I didn't see the shadow of the Qiang Canal. This came from the early start of Qiangqu, and Qin Feng got the emperor's order and prepared for the expedition, which was delayed for half a month.
Horses gallop through the wilderness, sometimes without a road.
Qin Cao Yuan Liu had a hard life, often with red eyes, unshaven beard, and tired appearance.
On this day, the army pursued to the junction of Wusun and Cheshi in the north of the Western Regions, and then to the west to "Yilie", that is, the western part of the Ili grassland in Xinjiang in later generations.
Qin Feng ordered the army to rest temporarily in the middle reaches of the Ili River, and there were many traces of the Huns stationed on both sides of the river, which showed that Qin Feng did not chase down the Xiongnu King Qiangqu.
Cao Cao squatted by the river, stretched out his head like a giraffe, washed his face with sweet river water, and after sneezing, he suppressed and said: "Damn Qiangqu, can you run like this?" ”
Liu Bei, who was lying on the side, plunged into the water, and when he came out, he shook his big ears and said, "General Cao, do you know what ethnic group the Huns are?" ”
Cao Cao was stunned, "Prairie people." ”
"Wrong." Liu Bei smiled, then stretched out a hand, and said after turning the serpentine shape in the song: "It's a nomad, a nomad, the focus is on a nomadic word, understand?" ”
Cao Cao's face immediately darkened.
However, what Liu Bei said also makes sense, nomads are good at running in wild places. Qin Feng and them, in this regard, are indeed slightly inferior. This is also the reason why they have not been able to catch up with Qiangqu. Many times, it was the traces of the Qiangqu running away that were discovered, and only then did they find the way west in the wild wilderness.
Less. The big tent of the Chinese army was settled.
Qin Cao, Yuan and Liu entered the account.
"Brother Zijinxian, if you chase after you like this, I'm afraid that even if you catch up, the four of us won't be able to go back." Cao Cao's face ****.
Qin Feng didn't have a good face, and said, "Your Majesty has ten permanent attendants by his side. If we don't chase after us, we won't end well when we go back. ”
Cao Yuan Liu was silent when he heard this, gritted his teeth one by one, and couldn't wait to eat the ten permanent servants.
At this time, Dian Wei brought in a person from the Western Regions and said, "My lord, I found the locals, but I didn't understand their language and couldn't communicate. ”
Qin Feng beckoned. "It's okay, I understand, bring it in."
"You know?" Cao Yuan Liu looked at Qin Feng with a burst of surprise.
After a while, an uncle in the costume of the Western Regions walked in, and Qin Feng said kindly to the visitor: "This uncle, don't be afraid, we are the army of the Han Dynasty." Ben Shuai asks you, have you ever seen a team of Huns passing through here? ”
Uncle of the Western Regions was frightened, and his language was different. At this moment, when he found that Qin Feng was speaking the Western Regions, he immediately felt a sense of closeness, and hurriedly said: "This general, just half a month ago. Indeed, a large group of people passed through here. I killed people when I saw them, and I robbed them when I saw them, but fortunately I ran fast ....... ”
Qin Feng hurriedly asked again, "Where did they go?" ”
Uncle of the Western Regions said: "Those people entered the hinterland of the Western Regions, burned and looted all the way, and the rest of the villains didn't know." ”
Qin Feng was relieved. And he let the man go. When I looked back at Cao Yuan Liu, I saw that the three of them had grown their mouths and looked incredulous.
Cao Cao was the first to close his mouth and exclaimed; "Zijin, do you know the Western Regions?"
Qin Feng smiled slightly and said, "I understand a little." ”
"When did you learn it?" Liu Bei couldn't believe it.
Qin Feng said with a smile: "When I traveled the world in my early years, I also came to the Western Regions, and I learned the dialect of the Western Regions from the locals. ”
"Wizards ......." Cao, Yuan, and Liu were shocked. At first, they didn't believe that Qin Feng would be able to travel the whole world at a young age, but this time they believed too much when they saw that Qin Feng could speak the language of the Western Regions.
In fact, Qin Feng has indeed not traveled too many places in his life, but he has traveled too many places in his previous life. In his previous life, as a diligent emperor, he dealt with the peoples of the world under his rule, so he learned many national languages. For example, Western languages, Norse languages, Roman languages, Indian languages, Egyptian languages, and so on. Wherever he ruled, he would learn the languages of the local peoples, and so on.
If Qin Feng spoke so many foreign languages, even later linguists would be out of reach, and the studious Emperor Kangxi would have to stand aside.
Dian Wei and Xu Chu immediately showed a smug look in front of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei, that means, my lord is much more powerful than your eldest brother, see if you can blow Liu Bei.
Gao Shun admired his lord even more, and Xun Yu hurriedly took out a pen and paper to record these.
After half a day's rest, Qin Feng led the army and began to enter the Western Regions.
The news of the arrival of the army spread among the countries of the Western Regions.
20,000 cavalry, 20,000 fine cavalry!
Many years ago, it was only 5,000 iron cavalry, which made the countries of the Western Regions understand what Tianwei was, and now there are 20,000 cavalry, and the countries of the Western Regions are shocked.
The nearest Wusun Kingdom and Cheshi Kingdom immediately sent envoys to Qin Feng's army to meet them.
The next day, Qin Feng was in the army and met with the envoys of Wusun and Cheshi.
The envoys of the two countries bowed to the shrine and began to cry. And Qin Feng's words were sharp, and then, the faces of the envoys of the two countries changed greatly, and they only left.
After the envoy left, Cao Cao scratched his head, and on behalf of Cao Yuan Liu and the generals, asked, "Brother Zijin, what did you say to them?" For a brother is not to understand a word. ”
The two envoys said that the Huns plundered the countries of the Western Regions, and the countries could not resist and suffered heavy losses. After the Huns plundered them, they went all the way west. They were afraid that the Huns would return, and asked our army to be able to destroy the Huns. ”
Qin Feng said solemnly: "This marshal warned them that no matter what happens in the Central Plains, the Western Regions will always be the territory of China. And the army of the imperial court will soon return to the Western Regions, and those who obey will be sheltered, and those who do not submit will be wiped out. ”
"Well said!"
Qin Feng's words inspired the national pride of Cao Cao and others.
Liu Bei fanned his ears and said, "Handsome." Why don't you let these people from the Western Regions pay tribute? ”
Qin Feng said unhappily: "There are many ringworms, you and I have traveled all the way, and I have also seen many ruins of villages and towns after the Huns plundered. The people of the Western Regions have been killed and robbed, and now they are all robbed. As a **** country, let's not make matters worse. ”
When Liu Bei heard this, he was very embarrassed.
Five days later, Qin Feng's army passed through the Great Wan Kingdom.
The envoys of the Great Wan Kingdom came to pay homage to Qin Feng, crying about the atrocities of the Huns, and asked for the protection of the Han Dynasty. Moreover. He also brought a military intelligence that was very useful to Qin Feng.
This information is that the Xiongnu king Qiangqu led his men into the land of the Kangju people, and fought with an unknown powerful army for control of the "Zhizhi City" on the banks of the Talas River.
"Mysterious army?" Cao Yuan Liu is full of question marks.
"Aren't you a Kushan?" Qin Feng asked the messenger.
The messenger said, "It's not the Kushans, it's rumored to be an army from the other side of the sea. ”
Qin Feng understood that the sea that the envoy was talking about was the Caspian Sea. The army coming from the west of the Caspian Sea gave Qin Feng a bad premonition.
However, no matter what lies ahead, Qin Feng will definitely continue to march.
This news also shows that the Xiongnu King Qiangqu has stopped, which is excellent news for Qin Feng, who is chasing for thousands of miles. So he didn't stop. Immediately cross Dawan and enter the land of the Kangju people.
Kangju, like the Huns, was a nomadic people. Sphere of influence: South of the Aral Sea to present-day Afghanistan, east to Xinjiang, is its main area of activity. It can also be said that Turkmenistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Kazakhstan in later generations are all within the scope of its activities.
End of BC. The Kangju people rose in the steppes of northern Central Asia, and wore more than 100,000 armor during their prosperity. However, in the 1st century AD, Kushan annexed the Daitsuki clan in the later Kyrgyz region and became an empire. Kangju began to weaken. Surrender to the Kushan, just as the Huns surrendered to the Han Dynasty.
Later, the Kushan Empire followed the example of the Han Dynasty and set up the Duhufu in Lai Shui, which is the Zhizhi City on the banks of the Talas River. Every fall. The five little kings of Kangju all have to pay countless tributes to the Kushan Empire.
Today, the East and West are ruled by four powerful empires, from east to west, namely the Han Dynasty in East Asia, the Kushan in Central Asia, the Rest in Western Asia, and Rome in Europe.
Two years earlier, the Sabbatical Empire to the west of the Kushan Empire had been at odds with the expanding Roman Empire over the ownership of the plains of Mesopotamia. Thus, the First Mesopotamian War broke out between Anxib and Rome.
In the course of the war, the rising Kushans coveted the riches of Rome, and they crossed the "Caspian Sea" and launched a surprise attack on the Roman province of Armenia.
The Roman Senate was shocked and hastily signed an agreement with the Sabbatarian Empire to divide Mesopotamia equally. He also ordered Severus, the senator of the Roman Senate, who later built the Arc de Triomphe in Rome, to lead his Danube army to attack the invading Kushans.
Severus was the triumphant Emperor who would later end the civil war in the Roman Empire, and he led his elite Danube legions to quickly defeat the invading Kushans. And sent his generals, that is, the descendants of the Roman glory bloodline, Cornelius. Pompey, with 15,000 men of the Danube Army, crossed the Caspian Sea and entered the territory of Kangju, where he occupied the capital of Kushan, the city of Zhizhi on the banks of the Talas River.
In such a context, the Xiongnu king Qiangqu entered the territory of Kangju. The Huns soon swept away the Kangju tribes, which were already frightened rabbits.
The Xiongnu king Qiangqu learned from the Kangju people that the Zhizhi city on the banks of the Talas River stored countless tributes to the Kushan Empire.
When the Xiongnu king Qiangqu came to Zhizhi City, he pointed to Zhizhi City, which was occupied by the Romans, and said to his people: "Zhizhi City is the royal court city established by our ancestor Zhizhi Shan Yu. The wealth within, is the foundation of our rise. The land of the nomadic Kangju people is the place where we thrive. ”
The Huns who followed Qiangqu cheered, and they swore that they would seize the city established by their ancestors and develop it in this land belonging to the nomads.
It is worth mentioning that during the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Huo Qu was sick and chased and killed the Huns, and one of the Huns ran to Kangju. That was around 60 B.C., and at that time, the Kangju people had not yet developed. So, they coexisted peacefully with the Huns who came. And the Xiongnu leader who came here, "Hutu Wusi", established himself as Zhizhi Shan Yu and established Zhizhi City.
Subsequently, the Xiongnu king Qiangqu began to compete with the Romans for control of Zhizhi City. Qiangqu is worthy of being one of the ancestors of Attila, the "whip of God" in later generations. He used the cavalry of the Huns to teach the Romans a heavy lesson.
Descendant of the Glory Bloodline, Cornelius. Pompey had to retreat to Zhizhi and ask for help from the Empire.
And in this context, Qin Feng led his 20,000 cavalry troops and approached Zhizhi City.
At this moment, it seems that only history will know, and this will replace the battle of Talas between the Tang Dynasty and the Great Eclipse in later generations, and become the first direct collision of Eastern and Western origin civilizations in world history. (To be continued.) )