Daqin's tentacles are everywhere.

Gushi City.

Located in a mountainous area in the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains, the low-lying terrain here and the intersecting river flows under the city, forming a small natural oasis.

As an outpost of the Qin State to explore the Tianshan Mountains and even the Green Mountains, the status of Gushi City is extremely important, it is not only an important post on the Northern Silk Road, but also an important chess piece for the Qin State to enter the Western Regions.

Ji Xin has been guarding this westernmost city of the Qin State for seven years. Back then, the young lieutenant of Chu State in front of the Tiger Prison gradually faded away from naivety and became a little more mature under the imprint of the wind and sand of the years.

It's not just Ji Xin who is ripe.

is still in the city of Gushi, and it is also growing rapidly at a speed that can be seen by the naked eye. After several years of development, the scale of Gushi, an oasis city at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, is much larger than before, and in terms of urban population alone, the resident population of Gushi City has grown from less than 5,000 people seven years ago to about 50,000 today.

The Qin army was stationed.

With black clothes and black armor, a solemn face, and an invincible reputation, those robbers in the Western Regions, even if they lent them ten guts, they would not dare to rob the caravan in Gushi City. With this layer of protection, no matter where the caravan came from, they would use Gushi as a fulcrum on the Silk Road.

Gushi City, modeled after the structure of Chang'an, has four straight avenues in the east, west, south and north. The crisscrossed streets and alleys, as well as the busy and crowded markets, all show that the future of Gushi is infinitely bright and bright.

Thanks to the abundant intelligence and information resources, the abnormal changes within the remnants of the Xiongnu were soon learned by the Qin army guarding the Western Regions, this sudden change made the Qin general Ji Xin in Gushi City immediately alert, the Qin army was about to march westward, but the Huns were the first to move, and it is still unknown what changes this will bring to the Qin army's westward expedition.

The aunt is 800 miles and expedited post.

Piles of beacon fires are burning non-stop. At the same time, outside Chang'an City, on the Qin Military Academy in the Gaoling area, Shenwu Emperor Li Yuan was inspecting the team, and the Qin soldiers recruited from all over the country were being inspected before the expedition.

Compared with the situation during the War of Unification, when there was a shortage of troops and could only rely on the quality of elite soldiers to win, Li Yuan's command can now be described as strong and strong.

In the Northland, the cavalry is much more useful than the infantry. Li Yuan also made great efforts this time and recruited the elite cavalry of the two major ranches to participate in the battle.

Cao Xin, the bearded Qin general, led his troops, ranking first in the west, and he had been promoted to the leader of the Longxi Army, with nearly 50,000 soldiers under his command, including the warriors of Xiaoyue, Di, Lou Fu and other ethnic groups. The strength of the tribe has increased greatly.

Cao Xin selected 15,000 strong cavalry soldiers from the 50,000 Longxi army as the pioneers, and this cavalry team composed of the descendants of the grassland peoples would become the vanguard of the Western Expeditionary Army.

to the size of the school field. After accommodating 50,000 generals, it was already crowded, and standing next to Cao Xin's Longxi army was another unit that was in the vanguard. The Hexi Army, known for its ability to fight well.

Hexi and Longxi are separated by a large river, and in terms of origin, they are still the same root from each other. Luo Jia, the general of the Hexi Army, also had a good relationship with Cao Xin, but on the issue of who was the vanguard of the Western Expedition, Luo Jia and Cao Xin were not compatible, and in this Western Expedition, Luo Jia mobilized nearly 30,000 soldiers and horses, including more than 10,000 cavalry, and in the middle of this team, there was a cavalry that was particularly eye-catching.

Ghost Aries Tribe.

This long-lost steppe tribe, after seven years of recuperation in the weak water area, finally gradually regained its vitality, and in the process of continuous integration and growth, the Aries tribe under the leadership of the female leader Jin Xi, with a more open attitude to accommodate people from different races, this integration and openness made the Aries tribe gradually evolved from a nomadic to a semi-nomadic and semi-agricultural nation.

Due to the strength of the troops, the number of troops sent by Jin Xi this time is not large, counting about 3,000 cavalry, which is nothing in the entire Hexi army, but its importance is irreplaceable.

The Aries tribe returned east from the Altai Mountains. Along the way, after many hardships and hardships, no army of the Qin army was more familiar with the terrain and landform west of the Green Ridge. Therefore, the warriors of the three thousand Aries tribe will take on the heavy responsibility of the most important scout force in the vanguard.

Back then, Li Yuan's insistence on taking in the remnants of Jin Xi was incomprehensible, but today, seven years later, many people who had doubts at the beginning suddenly realized that Li Yuan had already saved this thought, and when they thought of this, many people were even more in awe of Li Yuan.

In addition to the 25,000 cavalry pioneers of the Hexi Army and the Longxi Army, the east head is a full 50,000 imposing Youyan Qin cavalry.

It has been nine years since the Qin State destroyed the Yan, and Han Xin has attacked the Xiongnu Qiuli tribe in the north in the past nine years, slaughtered the Goryeo Peninsula in the east, and then swept the Xiongnu nest at the eastern end of the Hannan River.

Of course, now that the western expedition is imminent, Han Xin is also in high spirits and decides to follow in Li Yuan's footsteps and go to distant and unknown places in the west to open up a new journey. Under the common ideal, Li Yuan, Han Xin, and many Qin generals who followed them were full of excitement and fanaticism in their eyes.

More than 70,000 cavalry troops, this scale is the largest number since Li Yuan founded the country, two cavalry troops, one from the west, one from the east, of course, these cavalry are not all of the Western Expeditionary Army, the rest of the Central Position in the school field, is the real main force in the Western Expeditionary Army.

A full 150,000 foot cavalry, these soldiers and horses from the counties in the interior of Qin, they will take on the important task of connecting the front line and the rear, many of them are coming to Chang'an for the first time, on the way to come, they are full of longing, resolutely bid farewell to their hometown, defected to Li Yuan's command, and threw themselves into the indomitable westward expedition.

From Jiangdong, the heroic Huan Chu who is in the prime of life.

Feng Xuan, a famous general of the Qin army from Lingnan.

There are also Ma Jin and Zhou Ping, many generals of the Qin army who do not have many opportunities to appear, but are eager to prove themselves on the battlefield, and they all look in awe, eagerly looking at the same person on the high platform. (To be continued......)