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The sky is gradually beginning to brighten, and in the direction of the Bailongdui Gobi in the east, a round of red sun is gradually rising. The residents of Loulan City are also trembling, ushering in the arrival of a new day, and the dark clouds of last night have turned into a scene full of colorful clouds in the morning.

The first thing to see the sunrise is the Loulan Palace at the top of the high hill. The second prince An Tuqi pushed open the window of the dormitory, yawned and rubbed his red and swollen eyes, and couldn't help but look at the eastern sky, last night, the killing shouts in the city made him both excited and a little worried.

Excitedly, the fierce battle drama he longed for was finally staged, Qin and the Huns, these two powerful opponents who were eyeing each other, competed in Loulan City, this is a rare and interesting thing, worrying that I heard my father say that Sister An Qinglan did not return last night, and it is very likely that she will be trapped in the Hun Post House, which makes An Tuqi, who has a good relationship between her sister and brother, uneasy.

"Hey, what's that?"

An Tuqi's hand rubbing his eyes stopped, and a pair of unworldly clear eyes stared at the western sky, not daring to blink for a moment.

"The city of gods, the city where the gods live." An Tuqi suddenly shouted, where he pointed to, the lower layer was a long desert of yellow sand, and above the colorful clouds, there was a floating prosperous city.

The square bluestone city wall unique to the Central Plains, the quadrangular city tower, and the moat outside the city gate, several boats docked by the river, near the wharf, you can even see the flags fluttering in the wine shop, the merchants driving the donkey carts, and the soldiers who are patrolling the city with bright armor.

Miracles.

With An Tuqi's shouting, there were more and more people in the palace who saw this mirage, and bursts of exclamations and cheers also woke up An Lu, the king of Loulan, who had just slept in the morning, and asked the attendants to report that the miracle had appeared, and the king of Loulan, who had reached his last years, rolled off the bed and fell to the ground excitedly.

This fall, as a result, made An Lu completely lose contact with the miracle, and the bones of an old leg were cracked, making An Lu scream in pain. He slapped the edge of the bed again and again, lamenting that he had missed the opportunity to communicate with the gods.

The mysterious city in the clouds only lasted a quarter of an hour before disappearing into the sky, and when the fog was blown away unobstructed and shone straight on the rammed earth walls of Loulan City, everything returned to its usual calm, but in the people of Loulan City, the killing last night and the appearance of the Divine City made them turn heads and ears one by one. The face was full of excitement.

Among the 12,000 inhabitants of Loulan City, nearly two-thirds of them are engaged in business-related activities in the family unit, and half of them are directly engaged in shops, buying and selling goods from the East and the West.

Among the remaining people, they are also mostly engaged in inns, wine shops, snack shops and other businesses, from this level, it is this silk trade route that communicates between the East and the West that allows Loulan City to exist, so. What these inhabitants most wanted was for the Qin state to defeat the Xiongnu and thus make the trade routes of the Hexi Corridor more smooth.

"Hey, did you hear that? Last night, Daqin's envoys captured the Huns' post house and killed many people, and the blood flowed into the Peacock River, making the fish in the river turn red. "In the wine shop. Early on, there were drunks who liked to drink with their tongues wide open and incoherently recounted what they had heard.

"Alimu, you're talking nonsense again. This Peacock River is frozen, and even if there is blood flowing down, it will still freeze, how can it still make the fish red. An old man from Loulan who bent his back scolded with a smile and said.

"Uncle Sukeba, you don't believe it, or wait for another month, when the river is opened, you can catch fish again and take a look." The drunken man Alimu glared at the red eyes and defended unconvincedly.

"Alimu, you drunkard, go home quickly, or if you lose the bet, be careful that your will come and scold again." Old man Su Keba smiled tolerantly and winked at everyone.

The ancestors of this Suliba were all fishing for a living in the Peacock River and Yanze area, and others don't know if there are red fish in the river, but he is very clear, Alimu bet with him, obviously looking for the wrong object.

After making fun of Alimu, the discussion in the wine shop about the city of miracles in the morning made the Loulan people excited again, compared with the panic in the palace, these ordinary Loulan people were much calmer, after all, the floating scene of the mirage had happened several times before, and the reason why this time was amazing was mainly because the time node was too coincidental.

This kind of controversy has occurred in every gathering place in Loulan City, linking the story of the Qin envoy's night attack on the Xiongnu Post with the Divine City, obviously for gossip people like Alimu, it is just a matter of the upper lip touching the lower lip, so it is rumored that in the afternoon, the envoys of the Qin State will be upgraded from warriors to heroes, and then to immortals.

At sunset.

An Qinglan, the princess of Loulan, brought the Qin envoys Bai Guangji and Li Zhongxiang into the palace to see the king of Loulan, and carefully reported what happened in the Xiongnu Post House.

An Lu, the king of Loulan, was frightened all night last night, fell again in the morning, and then, in the afternoon, he was very unfortunate to see Zong Rida's dead face, and he was so frightened that he couldn't move on the couch.

The people of Daqin can't be provoked.

This was An Lu's first reaction when he saw the murderous Bai and Li, and after listening to An Qinglan's story about the changes in one night, An Lu no longer had the idea of two ends of the first rat.

Last night.

The thirty-six heroes of the Great Qin, who killed the Xiongnu envoy Zong Rida and the following forty-one people, captured more than 300 people including Huai'en, the prince of Zizhelan, and stood in front of An Lu with such a record, everyone in the Qin delegation straightened their chests, and their faces were extremely proud.

This campaign.

Among the Qin envoys, ten were killed and six were wounded, and in the case of the disparity in numbers, Bai Guangji and Li Zhongxiang made the rampant Huns suffer with their fearless courage and courage.

Huai'en descended to Qin.

The eldest son An Gui is far away in Mobei, and An Qinglan and An Tuqi, who stayed in Loulan City, are all focused on Great Qin, and the balance between Qin and the Xiongnu began to tilt in the direction of Qin, especially when he heard that Li Yuan, the Marquis of Shenwu, who had the title of a famous general, led a large army to conquer Hexi, An Lu finally made up his mind.

"Bai Envoy Jun, Li Envoy Jun, the safety of my Loulan country depends on you, this king has sent people to Gushi, Khotan, Jingjue and other countries to send letters, asking them to send troops to meet, as for the commander of the coalition army, this king is the first to give in, but unfortunately I don't have this leg, so it's okay, Princess Qinglan will be the commander, please Li Envoyjun as the deputy marshal, lead the coalition army east out of Bailongdui, and the Great Qin army to attack the Huns in Hexi." An Lu's eyes rolled slightly, and he said with a smile on his face.

The countries of the Western Regions are united in the same branch.

Among them: Loulan is located in the easternmost head of the Hexi Corridor and the desert, and it is also the largest of the more than ten small countries nearby, as soon as the order of the king of Loulan comes out, all countries will more or less send troops to come, such a coalition army, in terms of combat effectiveness, is basically weak, and the discipline is simply impossible to compare with the Qin army, but for the small countries in the Western Regions, it is rare to be able to make up their minds to fight a decisive battle with the Huns.

Bai Guangji saw that Li Zhongxiang was a little stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward overjoyed, and said: "The king's arrangement is the most appropriate, but my brother Li is a rare fierce general in the Great Qin army. ”

Li Zhongxiang was blushing when Bai Guangji boasted about it, and there was An Qinglan's vein on the side, which made him not know what to say, An Qinglan as the commander is obviously just an ornament, if he is the deputy marshal, he can control this army, which is no less than a gift from God for Bai and Liliang, who have been suffering from Liliang.

The alliance of the Western Regions began to be formed, which made the Qin State finally have another hole card when fighting against the powerful Huns, although Bai Guangji and Li Zhongxiang were still a little dissatisfied, but in addition, it was impossible for him to conjure up a strong army.

In terms of troop allocation, this hole card has little impact on the Huns, but it is already a great luck for the current Qin State to be able to unite Loulan, Khotan, Gushi and other countries. Although the Western Han Dynasty in history repeatedly sent envoys to the Western Regions to seek allies, it has been ineffective. In the middle, Lao Liu, who mainly missed the opportunity to unite and wanted to fight a decisive battle with the Xiongnu after the civil war, lost to his opponent in the battle for the Hexi Corridor from the beginning. This loss was also completely cut off by the Huns from the Han and the Western Regions.

On January 23, the first part of the Qin cavalry approached Gushui and Wusheling Ridge, and encountered the Xiongnu's Xu tribe, the two armies clashed, Luo Jia led the Qin cavalry to kill more than 2,000 Xiongnu cavalry, chasing the dead for more than 100 miles to the west.

The defeat of the Suzhi tribe made the small Xiongnu tribes along the way no longer have the heart to fight, and they urgently reported to the Xiongnu Youxian King stationed in Yanzhi Mountain, and on the other hand, they moved closer to the largest city in the east of the Hexi Corridor.

Cover the Tibetan Castle.

In the past, the pastureland of the Yueshi people has become a place for the Huns to show off their strength. To the west of Gaizang Castle are two of the largest alpine pastures in Hexi.

Qilian Mountain and Yanzhi Mountain.

After the defeat of the Dayue clan and the Xiaoyue clan, the Xiongnu people lived in the vast area of weak water in the west, Juyanhai, east to Dahe, south to Qilian Mountain, and north to the desert, and the tribes obtained a lot of wealth in a short period of time, which created conditions for them to invade the Western Han Dynasty.

Now, Li Yuan waved his army to the west, this heavy punch steady, accurate, and ruthless hit the waist of the Huns who had not gained a stable foothold, and the Qin army's westward advance was like a bamboo, so that the various Xiongnu tribes scattered at the foot of the Qilian Mountains were panicked, and even they did not even have time to move away tents and other items.

On January 28, the vanguard of the Qin army arrived at the periphery of Gaizang City, and at the same time, the Xiongnu right virtuous king Zhelan Songhua, who heard that the war on the eastern front was tight, was furious, and personally led more than 50,000 warriors to meet the attack, and thus, the decisive battle between Qin and the Xiongnu for the Hexi Corridor officially began. (To be continued......)