Chapter 275: Entering the Western Regions!

A horse from the Northwest Plateau carried Captain Wu Yong from the Jin army camp at Yumen Pass all the way through the desert, leading 6,000 cavalry troops to pursue the fleeing Hexi Xianbei leader Bald Fa Wu Pill. Since Hexi Xianbei was driven out of the Hexi Corridor by the Jin army, Bald Hair Maru had no choice but to lead his troops to turn around and flee to the Western Regions.

Zhang Liang, the governor of the Northwest Metropolis, was unwilling to let go of the other party easily, but he knew what kind of shame this guy had left for the Great Jin Dynasty, so Zhang Rail commanded the army to stay at Yumen Pass to rectify the 200,000 Xianbei people stranded in the Hexi Corridor area, and according to the policy of the Jin Dynasty, the Hexi Xianbei nobles were executed and the original establishment was disrupted, and the 'grassland uniform land system' was implemented to divide them into households, and at the same time a part of the Qiang people were relocated to dilute the Xianbei people in Hexi.

And Wu Yong led the 6,000 cavalry army to follow closely behind the bald hair pill for more than ten days, until he chased to the east of the Prison Lan Sea. At this time, the bald hair pill in front didn't want to run anymore, his sons and grandsons were all killed by the Jin army, his wives and concubines were all captured by the Jin army, and he was the only one left in the entire Xianbei high-level in Hexi.

Even if he fled to the Western Regions, he would not be able to save the fate of the Xianbei Clan in Hexi, because he knew very well what the countries of the Western Regions were. If the other party doesn't arrest him and give it to the Jin army, it will be regarded as burning high incense, counting on the other party to avenge him, it is better to hope that the Jin army will show mercy to his subordinates.

Bald Hair Maru looked at the subordinates who only had 3,000 horsemen around him, and couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, Hexi Xianbei Dadanyu, who once commanded 300,000 troops, but now after the defeat of Hexi, there are only more than 3,000 people left around him.

"Xianbei warriors, we have no way back! In order not to be ridiculed by future generations, we are all cowards. This single Yu decided to turn back and fight to the death with the Jin army! Hexi is over, our homeland has been taken away by the Han people, and our relatives have become slaves of the Han people, and we can't run away anymore! We want to go back, and we want to be with our loved ones who died in battle! "Bald Hair Pill has a tragic face.

Behind him stood three thousand cavalrymen, some with a look of despair on their faces, others with a look of indifference, apparently they had long expected this outcome. Then the Xianbei people stopped their horses, and they gently stroked their horses while wiping the sabers in their hands. Everyone fell silent and waited for the arrival of the Jin army.

Wu Yong grabbed the horse's reins with one hand. While holding a telescope to observe the Xianbei cavalry lined up in front, it seems that the last remnant of the Xianbei army in Hexi on the grassland will not see the sun tomorrow.

Wu Yong leaned over and whispered a few words to the soldiers beside him, and after a while, he only heard a few distant and powerful horns sound, and after the horn sounded, he saw a heavy sound of horses' hooves, and about three thousand cavalry swept past the Jin army. Forming a sparse line of skirmishers, they rushed towards the Xianbei people. They were all wearing black leather armor and helmets. Wielding a shiny saber in his hand......

At a distance of less than 200 meters from the Xianbei people, the cavalry of the Xiang army took off the 'standard' horn bow on their backs and then quickly set up arrows and stretched the bow, facing the Xianbei people more than 100 meters away. Shoot down more than a hundred Xianbei cavalry who were at the forefront and had the worst luck.

It can be seen that the Jin army is too far ahead of other countries in this era in terms of equipment, and this Xiang army in the Western Regions did not carry firearms considering the problem of logistics and supply, and all of them were mainly cold weapons, even so, it was not comparable to the Xianbei people.

The bald hair pill in his eyes did not have any psychological fluctuations, I saw him raise his right hand and slash down hard, the trumpeter of the Xianbei people immediately blew out a long sound, and the strong trumpet echoed leisurely on the grassland with the sun, and the heavy horse hooves of the Xianbei people immediately sounded, and more than 3,000 Xianbei people rushed towards the Jin cavalry with their sabers.

The Jin army, who had just finished shooting, had already discarded the horned bow, but the sabers were drawn out one after another, and the sabers shone in the sun. The Jin cavalry in front was the first to rush into the middle of the Xianbei cavalry, and they pierced through the gap in the Xianbei cavalry formation like sharp swords.

In the hands of the Jin cavalry, the long-bladed saber slashed through the Xianbei people on both sides like a flash of lightning, leaving a deep blood mark. At the same time as the blood splashed, the Xianbei cavalry screamed and fell off their horses wherever the Jin cavalry passed.

At the same time, the remaining 3,000 Jin cavalry also quickly outflanked the left and right flanks, so that the Jin army began to bleed the Xianbei cavalry from three directions.

Bald Hair Maru's face had turned pale, and he watched his clansmen and cavalry fall into the encirclement of the Jin army in an instant: six thousand people besieged three thousand, and he was more and more inclined to one-sided slaughter, he gritted his teeth and waved his hand with the remaining hundreds of cavalry to look at Wu Yong, the main general of the Jin army, and rushed forward. It's a pity that when he was halfway through, he was stopped by the Jin army and cut the charging Xianbei cavalry in two, and then intercepted and killed.

The combat effectiveness of the Xianbei cavalry has long been lost as strong as when it swept through Hexi, and under the continuous blows of the Jin army, Hexi Xianbei has lost the courage to fight head-on with the Jin army. Therefore, this Hexi Xianbei remnant only struggled for an hour and could no longer support it.

After besieging and killing the Bald Hair Pill, Wu Yong was ordered by the imperial court to enter Haitou, the residence of the Changshi Mansion of the Western Jin Regions!

The grasslands in June are very charming, with the snow melting on the snow-capped mountains, and the streams and rivers that flow along the grasslands before flowing into the Peacock River, the Tarim River, and the Shule River, and finally into the Gulanhai (present-day Lop Nur).

The clear and pure snow water moistens the Tarim Basin along the way, the grass grows extremely lush under the moisture of the river, the cattle and sheep grow happily under the blue sky and white clouds, and several eagles on the snow-capped mountains sweep the sky from time to time to inspect everything in the world with the eyes of a king.

The Tarim Basin, the ruling center of the Western Regions, is the most prosperous place in the entire Western Regions, and there are dozens of large and small countries such as Qiuzi. The Great Jin Dynasty Western Regions Changshi Mansion is located in the east of the Tarim Basin, on the northwest shore of the Gaolan Sea, and the Loulan ruins.

When Wu Yong encircled and suppressed the remnants of Xianbei in Hexi, Captain Ma Xianzheng led nearly 10,000 Jin cavalry and tens of thousands of Qiang people to carry out a sweep of the Hexi tribes that had always refused to obey the 'Wanghua', especially to completely eliminate the power of several major tribes of the Qiang people in Hexi, and integrate these Qiang people with the Xianbei people.

At present, Zhang Liang, the assassin of Liangzhou, is really happy in his heart, and there were less than 500,000 people in Liangzhou under his rule. However, after this rectification, the entire Liangzhou alone belonged to more than 300,000 Qiang people, plus the captured 200,000 Hexi Xianbei, the population was about to exceed one million, and finally more than 100,000 Hexi Qiang people, so that the people under Liangzhou suddenly exceeded 1.1 million.

With so many Hu tribes, Zhang Liang did not dare to be careless, and while asking for help from the imperial court in the rear, he began to organize Hu soldiers. He transferred more than 1,000 grassroots officers and non-commissioned officers from the 30,000 cavalry of the Jin army to join the newly established 'Huren cavalry', so that the total number of cavalry of the Jin army in the northwest reached more than 80,000.

In order to completely control the Hexi Corridor and the grassland territory hundreds of miles to the north, and build it into a solid barrier in the northwest of the Great Jin Dynasty, Zhang Liang strictly followed the policy formulated by the imperial court and began to implement the 'grassland equalization system' in various places to break the ruling foundation of the grassland aristocracy.

In the future, these tribes living on this grassland will not only fully accept the Sinicization education, but also accept the gospel of Lingbaojiao, from today they will re-strive to be a 'Han people', and in the future, as long as they are at ease for the Jin Dynasty to herd horses and defend the border, the men of each household will learn to ride horses from the age of five, and learn archery from the age of six.

After Zhang Liang equipped the 50,000 newly established cavalry of the Xiang Army with grassroots non-commissioned officers and officers, he received an urgent report from Wu Yong from the Western Regions, which described in detail the specific situation of the countries in the Western Regions. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, after a long period of mutual annexation, the countries of the Western Regions gradually formed a situation of seven countries competing for power, namely Shanshan, Yanqi, Qiuzi, Shule, Khotan, Yuli, and Cheshi.

At present, there are three forces in the Western Regions: one is the local forces of Cheshi, Yanqi, Khotan, Shule, Qiuci and other large countries in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains; One is Wusun in the north of the Western Regions, which extends to Cheshi in the east, Qiuzi in the south, Kangju in the west, Xihaizi in the north, and Xihaizi in the north, the capital of the country, with 650,000 troops and 180,000 soldiers;

There is also a special Han force in the Western Regions, which is currently entrenched in the territory of Gaochang County, Liangzhou Prefecture, the former Jin Dynasty, and confronts the Yuli, Yanqi and other countries in the south. Later, the Central Plains court declined, and the Han forces here had to unite in order to save themselves, and after the fall of the Changshi Mansion in the Western Regions of Haitou, they became the only representatives of the Han people in the Western Regions.

In the past, among these three forces, the Han Gaochang force was the weakest, and Liuzhong in the southeast of Gaochang City was in the most sensitive and delicate place of the three forces, so the relationship there was also very complicated. In Liuzhong, there were not only chariot divisions and cavalry roaming nearby, but also Yanqi's tax collectors.

In the past, the Han Gaochang was not strong enough, so they could only turn a blind eye to this situation, as long as the other party did not involve his core interests, the Gaochang people would not overreact.

However, as the Jin army attacked the Hexi Corridor with all its strength and gradually regained the lost territory, the prestige of the Han people once again resounded throughout the Western Regions. In this way, the forces of the Gaochang Han people outside Gu Guhang finally became invigorated, and they looked forward to the Central Plains Imperial Court recovering the entire Western Regions day and night, so as to vent all the grievances they had suffered over the years.

Especially after the Jin cavalry defeated the Xianbei people in the prison Lanhai, the news came out that the Western Regions were shocked! The Han Chinese forces in Gaochang also began to harden their hearts and minds, not only driving away the Yanqi tax collectors who were walking in Liuzhong City, but also confronting the cavalry of the Cheshi.

In short, with the Jin army stationed in the Western Regions, the situation in the Western Regions has become more and more complicated! (To be continued......)