Wen Yuan didn't know what was happening in Hechi City, and at this time he was still more than two hundred miles away from Hechi. And when he arrived here, Wen Yuan suddenly ordered the army to stop and set up camp.

There is no other reason, it is someone from the Western Expeditionary Army!

The westward expedition is also the most important thing for Wenyuan, and it is also one of the strategic policies that Wenyuan has the most influence on the future historical pattern. The key to how much influence Wen Yuan can exert on this world in this life depends on the outcome of the Western Expedition, and this is also the most variable.

Therefore, compared with the Western Expedition, the unification of Huaxia is not so anxious in Wen Yuan's heart, after all, there is a strong foundation, and reunification is only a matter of time before Wen Yuan is confident.

Therefore, as soon as he heard that an envoy from the Western Expeditionary Army was coming, Wen Yuan immediately ordered to set up camp, and he wanted to have a good chat with the envoy of the Western Expedition.

This time, the person who came from the Western Expeditionary Army to report the military situation to Wenyuan was sent by Lu Bu, the leader of the Western Route Army, and there was also a Qiang envoy with him. Wen Yuan first asked the Qiang envoy to rest aside, and asked impatiently about the situation of his expedition to the west.

In the face of Wen Yuan, who is now high on the top, the messenger naturally knows everything, and tells the progress of the Western Route Army for most of the past six months.

Not to mention, Lu Bu's Western Route Army made quite good progress, Lu Bu marched all the way to the west from Wuyuan County, crisscrossing more than 3,000 miles, and went straight to Yanshou City in Jiuquan County, exterminating more than 20 tribes of different races along the way, and more than a dozen Qiang tribes surrendered. Along the way, the Western Expeditionary Army captured countless cattle and horses, and after absorbing several Qiang tribes, the strength of the Western Expeditionary Army was not weakened, but strengthened!

All right! Such a virtuous circle is exactly what Wenyuan wants to see! On the one hand, the Western Expeditionary Army maintained its combat strength, and on the other hand, the leaders of the various ethnic groups who participated in the Western Expedition also made a lot of money, thinking about the more than 20 tribes that were exterminated and surrendered, how many wealth, cattle and sheep could be shared by these tribal leaders who followed Lu Buxi's expedition, and even the captured women and children were probably a lot! These tribal leaders who responded to Wen Yuan's call to go west together have now solved the food problem that plagued them, and the tribe has grown a lot, and it is estimated that they are all smiling from ear to ear at this time!

Of course, what Wen Yuan wanted was this kind of happy scene, after several months of campaigning, the Western Expeditionary Army increased its strength instead of decreasing, and it was self-sufficient in military rations. This shows that Wen Yuan's original prediction of the Western Expedition was correct, if it can continue like this, maybe this Western Expeditionary Army can really reach the far West, and it may even be possible to create the epic glory of the Mongolian knights sweeping through Eurasia a thousand years in advance!

And these tribal leaders who are dependent on themselves have also benefited from the western expedition, and they will naturally be more obedient to Wen Yuan's will, and will work harder to kill and plunder, but this is not the catastrophe in the Central Plains a hundred years later, because under the guidance of Wen Yuan's "greatness" and the wise command of the Han court, these aliens who later committed a lot of sins put their energy into dealing with aliens in different camps.

Wen Yuan and the alien tribes who participated in the Western Expedition have benefited, and those alien tribes that stand in the way of the Western Expedition are unlucky! When dealing with the Xiongnu in Bingzhou, Wen Yuan made a rule, but there were tribes that resisted the imperial court and refused to surrender, and those who were taller than the wheels were killed regardless of age or age! Now, in consideration of the needs of their own development of their "alien allies", this rule has been slightly changed later.

Now, as long as the Western Expeditionary Army passes, if the surrounding tribes refuse to come and surrender within three days, it can be regarded as hostile, and all the men, old and weak in the tribe who are taller than the wheels, will be killed! And the women and children who remained were naturally divided among the allies.

Under the guidance of this bloody rule, the Western Expeditionary Army slaughtered nearly 100,000 Qianghu men who resisted at the beginning! Because in the beginning, not many tribes were willing to surrender. Some of them refuse to submit to others, or refuse to give up the grasslands where they have lived for hundreds of years. As a result, after a bloody killing, at least two dozen large and small tribes disappeared forever on the Moxi grassland!

After the killing, these Qianghu people finally knew that they were afraid! The Western Expeditionary Army's troops passed, and one tribal leader after another bowed down at Lu Bu's feet in fear, and then became a member of the Western Expeditionary Army, turning the head of the gun and starting to deal with the tribes that were in the same situation as them before.

Even, the "new comrades" who turned their guns killed more fiercely and plundered more crazily! I can't hate to scrape the ground where I can't go, and don't let go of a grain or a cow or sheep! No way, who called their predecessors and big brothers have captured a huge amount of wealth and population, and they are all very rich, can these newcomers not be red-eyed and hot? It is also because of the addition of such a group of fresh blood, although the Western Route Army under the command of Lu Bu has achieved quite brilliant results, the fighting spirit of the soldiers is still high!

It's just that now it looks like winter is about to begin, even if you want to continue fighting, you have to wait for the next spring, as for the hundreds of thousands of troops along the way, this winter will temporarily set up a village on the Moxi grassland to rest, anyway, the people on the grassland live in water and grass, and it is the same wherever they nest in winter.

Now that the smoke is temporarily gone, Lu Bu naturally wants to send someone to report to Wenyuan, Lu Bu's Western Route Army is closer to Hanzhong so it arrives earlier, and the Eastern Route Army of Liyi is estimated to arrive later because it wants to sweep Mobei.

After settling the messenger sent by Lu Bu, Wen Yuan summoned the Qiang envoy into the camp, this Qiang messenger was sent by the Qingqiang tribe, the largest tribe in Lu Buxi's expedition to Shun Qiang, and was also a representative jointly elected by more than a dozen Shun Qiang tribes. This envoy came to see Wen Yuan this time, first, to offer tribute to express his submission to the great Jin King, and then to take this opportunity to express his determination in front of Wen Yuan - to put it bluntly, he came to ask for war!

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“…… Dear King, in short, you can rest assured, under your divine power, we, the Qiang people, will gather at least 60,000 brave and skilled knights in the coming year to join this glorious holy war! We Qiang people are your sharpest spears, where you point, we will fight! ”

At this time, Wen Yuan listened with great interest to the Qiang envoy's spittle and passionate speech.

I can't help but say that it took a lot of thought for the Qiang tribes to send this envoy, fluent in Chinese and with a strong Guanzhong official accent, all the rhetoric quoted from the scriptures and classics to say that the head is the Tao, and even in the end, he used the word "holy war" without shame, which made Wen Yuan almost laugh secretly!

Holy war? This word seems to come from the religious wars waged by Christianity against Islam in the Middle Ages, but I can't imagine that because of a westward expedition, this word actually appeared in the far east six or seven hundred years earlier! However, this war is indeed a racial war, a war of strangulation into which hundreds of peoples across the East and West will be dragged into, and it is not wrong to describe this nature as a "holy war". It's just that Wen Yuan and the Huaxia people, who provoked this racial war, are more just the guides or spectators of this war.

Wen Yuan squinted his eyes and smiled kindly as he listened. This kind of peace made the Qiang envoy feel flattered like a spring breeze, and felt that this Jin king of the Han Dynasty was simply a great and benevolent king of kings! At this time, he was undoubtedly more confident in the coming year's expedition to the west, and of course, in private, he was more concerned about how much his tribe could gain from the expedition in the coming year......

The Qiang people invested so many cavalry, and the people sent to them spent so much saliva, of course Wenyuan knew that he was happy to see the Qiang people join the camp of the Western Expedition so hard. Wen Yuan immediately said that in the coming year, the Western Expeditionary Army will launch a more vigorous attack, and the results will be more brilliant, and for the new "allies", he will treat them like old friends, and he will be fair and impartial in the distribution of interests after the war......

As a result, both Wenyuan and the new "friend" were happy, but at this moment when they were all happy, an unpleasant thing suddenly happened!