"Old Qin, restore my rivers and mountains, there is Great Qin in the east, like the sun rising!" This stirring war song reverberated on the Silk Road and endured for a long time.

From Chang'an at the eastern end of the Silk Road to the Middle East in the eastern Mediterranean, the distance is no less than thousands of miles, and there are several countries of different religious beliefs on the way, as well as endless difficulties and dangers in the natural world, but all this is nothing in the face of the high morale and fearless courage of the soldiers of the Qin army.

In Anxi, Seleucid, Persia and other places, after the Qin army passed and occupied, more and more Qin people began to come to the West to pan for gold, the stable situation in the Central Plains, and the social and economic development created the continuous expansion of the population.

"What is there to be afraid of, where Emperor Shenwu can go, we can't go?" With such thoughts, many Qin people packed their bags and embarked on an unknown journey to the west.

Mid-September.

The Valley of the Two Rivers, the city of Babylon.

The Qin army crossed the Asian continent and finally chose the rich and beautiful Mesopotamian plain as the base camp of the Western Expeditionary Army.

Li Yuan's base camp was stationed in the city, and the elite of the 50,000 Qin army was scattered on both sides of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, and they brought one aboriginal town after another under the control of the Qin army in units of one colonel, one marquis, and one team. When Chang'an City ushered in the early morning, it had not yet woken up from the darkness, and there were not many people on the streets of Babylon City.

Due to the occupation of Persia, Macedonia, Sethigus and even Egypt, the ancient Babylonians who originally lived here have long been slaughtered, and all that remains are some mixed people who have no historical origin and no sense of belonging, between Persians, Egyptians, Serbs and Mesonians who have lived here for a long time. Different religious beliefs and contradictions between each other, the arrival of the Qin army was just one more participant for them.

The grain produced in the fertile plains of Mesopotania could provide the necessary supplies for the Qin expeditionary force, and as more and more Qin people arrived, the aborigines here would gradually fade out and disappear into history, until that time. The area around the two river basins may form the second homeland of the yellow race in the East.

After the Industrial Revolution, the white people in Europe have traveled all over Shijie and occupied most of the resources on the planet, while the Chinese, although they have created a civilization that has lasted for more than 5,000 years, have always stuck to their own one-acre and three-point land, and have never taken a step.

As a result, China in the 21st century has become more burdensome in its steps towards the ocean. All over the world, the Chinese have few reliable allies.

Therefore, what Li Yuan wants to do today is not a meaningless and arrogant move. Rather, it is to continuously expand the living space of races and nationalities, and to endow the descendants of Yan and Huang with the spirit of continuous progress, never satisfied, and dare to face all challenges, which is the whole meaning of Li Yuan's decision to go west.

I take the enemy if it is weak.

The area of the two river basins. The Arabs had not yet risen, and the people here were in an era of lack of faith, which gave the opportunity for the spread of Eastern civilization.

The strong occupation of the army. With the rapid spread of the Heavenly Master Dao, followed by the influx of a large number of new immigrants, it is believed that in the past ten years, the immigrant cities in the area of the Lianghe River basin controlled by the Qin army and inhabited by Qin people will gradually flourish, and this is what Li Yuan wants to see the most.

The Middle East of West Asia was a powder keg in the Middle East in later generations, and the wars between Arabs and Jews were endless, and all this was caused by the rich oil resources in the ground that people desperately wanted to obtain, as well as the historical feuds accumulated for thousands of years.

Li Yuan also has a soft spot for oil, a non-renewable natural energy source, to know that in the 21st century China, the situation of being trapped by oil still exists, and with the development of social economy, this situation is still intensifying, and to change all this, now is the right time.

The Qin people can take advantage of the opportunity of the victory of the Western Expedition to turn the Lianghe River Basin into another fertile land of the Qin State through repeated immigration, and as long as they gain a firm foothold in the Lianghe River Basin, then the oil resources here are the best supplement to the development of science and technology for the oil-poor Qin State.

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The western part of the Anatolian Peninsula.

At the northern tip of the Greek Peninsula, in the area of Bulgaria and Romania in later generations, Thracians were the main settled people there, most of them lived on both sides of the Eurasian Strait, and some lived on many small islands in the Black Sea, living a primitive life of half fishing, hunting and half farming.

195 BC, end of September.

The fleeing Huns fled here under the pursuit of the Qin army, and along the way, Helianbi's troops were separated on the way to the west, despair for the future, and dissatisfaction with Dadan's escape from the battle, which continued to accumulate, and finally made one after another Xiongnu tribes abandon the large army and choose to escape separately.

Among them, some chose to return east, hoping to return to the Mobei area where their ancestors lived, even if it had become the territory of the Qin State, it could not prevent them from returning. As for surrendering to the Qin people, although this made the Huns feel ashamed, as long as they can ensure the survival of all the people, this grievance is nothing.

In addition, some of the Xiongnu chose to go into exile to the north, where the natural conditions were even harsher, and the ice plains put forward stricter requirements for the reproduction of the tribes, but the Xiongnu obviously had no time to take this into account at this time, they only thought about how to get rid of the Qin army's pursuit all the way.

Helian Bi and the Bank of China said that the two brothers were brothers, trying to grab a port from the Thracians in the Eurasian Strait, and then led the army to continue to move westward, and the Thracians unceremoniously fought back against this group of robbers from afar, and a big war broke out between the two sides in the strait.

The outcome of the war was surprising.

The Huns, who had always performed well, suffered defeat in this battle. Da Dan was defeated by the Thracians in Helianbi, and more than 16,000 of his cronies were annihilated, and he himself was captured by the Thracians, and then taken to the Thracian place where he was beheaded.

As for another important figure who fled westward, Zhongxing said, he fled to drown at sea and eventually disappeared, and it is very likely that he died in the belly of a fish. (To be continued......)