Chapter 241: The White Tiger Army's First Defeat
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read_content_up; In the Western Regions of Great Qin, compared with the Yuzi period who was smooth on the sea road and the great general Feng Zheng who already had the will to die in the vast jungle, the White Tiger General Du Teng has been very depressed recently. www.biquge.info even if you can, after taking the Western Regions from the White Tiger Army, Du Teng has been very depressed.
Of course, if Du Teng knew that there was a word called egg pain in later generations, then Du Teng would definitely put this word on his lips every day. Tell everyone that I'm in pain right now.
Since the third year of the Second Dynasty liberated more than 100 small countries in the Western Regions, which had been hard to wipe out, from the Wusun people and incorporated them into Great Qin, Du Teng has been stationed in Yachecheng.
Shache City is the capital of the Shache Kingdom, and of course it is also the only city in the Sheche Kingdom. At this point, the foundation of more than 100 countries in the vast Western Regions is in such a state.
A city is a kingdom. This is the habitual thinking that the people of the Western Regions have inherited for thousands of years.
In the third year of the Second Dynasty, after all the kings of the Western Regions moved into Xianyang City and were given knighthood by the Great Qin Emperor, the Second Emperor of the Great Qin Dynasty, Hu Hai, issued an edict to establish the Western Regions County with the largest number of Great Qin counties and the largest area in the vast Western Regions.
It has been eight years since the establishment of the Western Regions County.
In eight years, the changes between the cities in the Western Regions have been enormous.
From the beginning, more than 100 countries formed offensive and defensive alliances with each other, hostile to each other and fought against each other from time to time, to now the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions under the rule of more than 100 countries have become the subjects of a powerful empire, the people of Great Qin, this sudden change made the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions extremely unaccustomed to it at the beginning.
After all, after thousands of years of conquest, this place in the Western Regions, surrounded by grasslands and water sources, I don't know how many wars and massacres have occurred.
Small countries are far from reaching the point where they immediately forget their past hatred. Don't become a family that loves each other.
Therefore, in order to maintain the stability of more than 100 large and small cities in the Western Regions during these eight years. The 100,000 White Tiger Army has been stationed in the Western Regions County for eight years.
This is not counting the 10,000 guards recruited by Hu Hai from Xianyang to garrison Loulan City in the Western Regions County.
The first county warden of the Western Regions was Lu Jia, the former secretary of the Ministry of Rites, appointed by the emperor. From being directly promoted from the fourth rank of Sicheng to the first county of the Western Regions County, the largest county in Great Qin, although it seems that he has only been promoted by a small rank in terms of official rank, Lu Jia has become the hottest political star in Great Qin.
Western Regions County, in the eyes of many people in Daqin, is a fat shortage.
Especially three years ago, in response to the request of Hu Hai, the second emperor of Great Qin, the great merchants from more than ten counties of Great Qin, united to form the first merchant group of Great Qin, and went west along the newly built Longxi Chi Road and successfully reached Central Asia. Caravans from the far west began to appear in Daqin one after another.
In the past two years, there has been an endless stream of foreigners who have come from the West to purchase silk, jade, and bronze artifacts from the powerful Eastern Great Qin Empire.
Inadvertently, the "Silk Road" has appeared in the eastern and western continents hundreds of years in advance in Huhai.
Caravans coming and going. It is necessary to pass through the Longxi Chi Road to enter the territory of Daqin to the west or east, and more importantly, Loulan City and Zihe City, which were originally small cities by the Puchang Sea, are the only way for these merchant caravans and even huge merchant groups to go east or west.
The prosperity of commerce will inevitably bring economic prosperity. What's more, Daqin has long had a commercial tax one. As the county seat of the Western Regions, Loulan City is now the largest city in the Western Regions. Just collecting the commercial tax of the merchant groups from the West who want to enter the Great Qin trade is already a lot of money.
Hu Hai had already revised the law on the commercial tax of Great Qin a few years earlier. Great Qin imposed heavy taxes on merchants. But this heavy tax is only one time. For example, the goods are shipped from Xianyang, and before leaving Xianyang City, the owner of the merchant group must report the specific things and how many goods are transported to the Xianyang Command.
Then the Xianyang Command Government levied about 10% of the commercial tax on the goods in accordance with the Great Qin Commercial Law. This 10 percent is 10 percent of the total price of the goods.
After the caravan paid the tax, the Xianyang Command would issue a certificate and affix the official seal.
With this book, the caravan could travel through more than fifty counties of Great Qin without paying any taxes. Provided, of course. If the magistrate of the other country does not match the quantity of goods in the book at the time of inspection, then a fine of high enough to bankrupt most of the merchants will be imposed on the charge of smuggling.
Soon after the opening of the trade route to Central Asia through the Western Regions, the Ministry of Households set a separate tax on goods leaving the Great Qin Kingdom. Of course, the tax was not set later. Rather, it was decided after gathering a large number of big businessmen who carried out export trade to study and examine the income that can be obtained from each export.
After all, the production of Daqin is a luxury in foreign countries.
What's more. Although the export trade takes a long time, it is a two-way deal. The ordinary items brought out of Daqin were sold at a high price to the local tyrants and nobles in the West. Acquire Western native gems and other items at low prices, and then bring them back to Daqin for sale. Although it sometimes takes a year, the rewards are huge.
Now, all the noble families of Great Qin have organized joint merchant groups to cross the Tianshan Mountains, pass through the Pamir Plateau, and enter Central Asia to earn the gold of Central Asian slave owners and tyrants.
The Great Qin Silk Road has two routes in the Western Regions, the starting point of both routes is Loulan City, one goes north, passes through Zihe City, goes north along the Peacock River all the way to the Tarim River, and then turns south to reach Yachecheng, crosses the Tianshan Mountains and crosses the Pamir Plateau into Central Asia.
The other is to the southwest, starting from Loulan City, passing through Milan City, Ruoqiang City, Jimo City, Niya City, crossing the Keriya River and finally reaching Yache City, and then crossing the Kunlun Pass, crossing the Pamir Plateau into Central Asia.
There are two lines, the easternmost end is the starting point of Loulan City, and the westernmost end is the car city. And Shache City is also the westernmost city on the territory of Great Qin.
This is also one of the main reasons why Hu Hai has always stationed the 100,000 Jingrui of the White Tiger Army in the Western Regions County.
The occupation of the Western Regions is actually the main purpose of opening up the road to Central Asia. At the same time, before the Great Qin entered Central Asia, let the Great Qin trade with the slave countries of Central Asia, so that the Qin people could see for themselves the world they had described.
Shiche City is the southernmost city in the Great Qin Territory, but it is not the westernmost city in the Great Qin Territory east of the Tianshan Mountains. Outside the car city, in a basin at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, there are three cities, which are the westernmost cities of Daqin.
It's just that these three cities were not captured by the White Tiger Army. Of course, it was not captured by the unscrupulous Wusun people before.
Du Teng personally led the 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 foot soldiers of the White Tiger Army to garrison the small Shache City, in fact, the main task was to prevent the small clans in the Western Regions from invading the Western Regions County and cutting off the trade routes.
It is three cities, but in fact, it can be three kingdoms, three kingdoms that are incompatible with more than 100 small countries in the Western Regions. They are the kingdoms of Yanna, Woksha and Kolora.
It's just that now the three small kingdoms have merged into one kingdom at the same time.
The kingdom of Ia!
That's right, the king of the Oya Kingdom is a woman, and she is also the woman who was rejected by Hu Hai on the spot in the main hall of Xianyang Palace, the former princess of Loulan Kingdom, Ia.
If it weren't for Du Teng's capture of Brake City, I'm afraid Hu Hai would never know that the somewhat conceited and over-the-top alien beauty Ia, who was rejected by himself, would become the last stumbling block for Great Qin to occupy the entire Western Regions.
When Du Teng captured Shache City, he soon discovered the three small cities entrenched at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Without any hesitation, Du Teng immediately sent three White Tiger Army, each with one captain, that is, five thousand soldiers, to collect the city.
After the White Tiger Army defeated the unstoppable Wusun army, it traveled all the way west, and it often only needed more than 1,000 people or even a team of 500 lords to attack and plunder the city, which was enough to take a city.
Sending 5,000 troops to capture a small city was already a prudent move by Du Teng after he got the brakes and the king jingjing. In his opinion, the 5,000 White Tiger Army was enough to defeat or even crush the Wusun people who were three or even four times their size.
However, none of the countries in the Western Regions could resist the attack of the Wusun people's 10,000-strong troops.
As a result, the three armies retreated at the same time.
This is the first time that the White Tiger Army has been defeated on the battlefield since the formation of the White Tiger Army. In Du Teng's view, a small city that retreats without success is defeated.
However, Du Teng was not impulsive, there are still defeats in one city, and it is a bit abnormal for two cities to be defeated, not to mention that the three-way army is defeated and retreats back.
After asking the leading lieutenant general, I learned that the army had just arrived outside the three cities and had not yet attacked the city, but a dense snake chao appeared in front of the army. And the dense poisonous snake is obviously controlled by man. The three-way White Tiger Army used Qin crossbows to save at the same time, but in the end, they still didn't carry the overwhelming snake chao, and retreated back in embarrassment.
If it is a fight with people, I am afraid that even if the fifteen thousand White Tiger soldiers are killed, no one will choose to retreat, but if they fight with the beasts that seem to make people's hearts palpitate, if they win, it is okay, if they don't even see the shadow of the enemy, but they are all buried in the belly of the snake, it is really too embarrassing to die.
Being able to drive poisonous snakes and resist the attack of the Great Qin Jingrui army was the first time Du Teng had heard it. Although Du Teng, who did not give up, personally led the army and chose a small city to tempt, the snakes of the three cities appeared at the same time and almost did not surround Du Teng and the others.
After repeated defeats, and did not find any place to go, Du Teng had no choice but to write 800 miles to Hu Hai to give Hu Hai all the 1510 recitals that happened in Yachecheng.
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