In the Cold Weapon period of the alternation of the Common Era, the strength of a country, the ability of the leader is the most important factor.

The Qin State unified the six countries because of the strength of the first emperor's victory, and also lost the country because of the recklessness of the second Hu Hai, and now, the revival of the new Qin proves that Li Yuan has no one to replace the lofty position.

This is true of the state of Qin.

The same is true of the countries of the West.

It has been more than 30 years since the Wusun Kingdom moved to the Ili Valley, and in these 30 years, the first 25 years were the difficult days of being oppressed and bullied, only in the last five years, under the wise leadership of the new king Hunt, Wusun chose to ally with the powerful Qin State in the east, and defeated the Dayue clan that had oppressed him for several years in one fell swoop.

Occupying the fertile valley of the Ili River and the western foothills of the Shili Mountains, their most wise king died of his wounds as the Wusun continued to advance towards their goal of becoming strong.

When the bad news came out, Wusun was in turmoil.

The young new king and the broken army could not stop the Huns who pounced like tigers, and in despair, the minister of Wusun sent several envoys east to Daqin for help.

This day at the end of May.

Several Wusun envoys trekked through thousands of rivers and mountains, and arrived at the Peacock River at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains in embarrassment, where they were pleasantly surprised to see a large flag with a crimson background and black as ink.

"Great Qin, Great Qin's Heavenly Soldiers are here." The surprised Wusun envoy almost rushed up, and after suffering the devastation of the Huns, the Wusun people were like lost children seeing their long-lost relatives.

This feeling of being separated from home is unique to every ethnic group that is forced to migrate from the Hexi area, whether it is Wusun or the Dayue clan, it is precisely this unique emotion that comes from the blood, so that these Hexi descendants always have admiration for the civilization of the East.

In the border areas of Bactria and Wusun, there are nine small countries that also come from the foot of the Qilian Mountains, such as Kangguo, Shiguo, Miguo, and Caoguo, and these small countries are not strong now. But more than 800 years later, the nine surnames of Sogdian Zhaowu they represent have left a heavy mark in Central Asia.

The situation in the Western Regions has changed dramatically.

The Qin army that conquered the west couldn't help but speed up the pace of marching, and the first Qin army to reach the west of the Tianshan Mountains was the scouts of the Aries tribe.

Back then, Li Yuan insisted on saving the kindness of the Aries Ghost Fang tribe, and now it's time to repay it. This time, the witch king Jin Xi did not accompany the army, and the one who led the scout team in her place was the first warrior in the tribe, Lin Ge'er, who was only a member of the young children.

Brother Lin is fat. In the past few years, he first joined the Hexi cavalry team of the Qin State, not only trained a body of horse kung fu, but also grew into a grassroots military marquis. As for Jin Xi, the prosperity and reproduction of the tribe are put in the most important position in life.

The Baiyang tribe is now living in the weak water area of the Qilian Mountains, and the momentum of its tribal recovery is very gratifying, and the increasingly rich material life, the growing and new cattle, sheep, and people all show the tenacity of this small grassland tribe that has endured hardships.

The facts also make every Aries person understand. If the tribe wants to prosper again, the Aries tribe can only integrate itself more into the Qin State. In the face of the choice between civilization and ignorance, the Aries people have taken the most crucial step, even if it is the result of this integration. It was finally assimilated by the Central Plains civilization, and they have no regrets.

Take part in the campaign.

It is a necessary reward for the Aries tribe.

The 2,000 brave soldiers of the hundred battles are all young men in the prime of life, and they are all warriors in the Long March to the east a few years ago. When Ringor led the warriors of the Aries tribe to follow the Wusun envoys to the Ili Valley, they saw the miserable state of the Wusun king's capital.

The capital of the Western Regions.

Different from the blue brick and stone walls, deep ditches and high moats of the Central Plains, the Central Plains farming people have a preference for the city. It is incomparable to any other nation on this planet. This deep-rooted belief is integrated into the bloodline, and there is the Great Wall, a dragon that symbolizes the oriental civilization.

In the Western Regions, there are many countries, and wars between the grassland peoples for the right to exist have broken out one after another, and the birth and demise of a country are as common as the sunset. The nomads here are bold by nature, and they don't like small sections, so they are not interested in building houses and city walls.

Such a defense is obviously impossible to stop the wolf-like Huns, the loess wall of less than one person was jumped over by a tall horse, and the most eye-catching place in the royal city, the only three-story tulou of King Wusun, was also burned to ruins in a fire. As for the unlucky little prince who had just ascended the throne for more than ten days, he was directly beheaded by the Huns and hung on the flagpole of the city gate of the earthen wall, as a proof of deterrence of the Wusun people.

Anyone involved in the Qin State will be annihilated, and the clan will be punished, regardless of men, women, and children, all will die.

The swords held high by the Huns shimmered in the sun, moon and starlight, and Jihua of Helian Bi already understood that this was to take Wusun as an example to warn the tribes in the Western Regions to alienate the Qin State.

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Under the city.

The base camp of the Qin army is located.

The southern front troops were led by Li Zhongxiang, the new king of Loulan and the commander of the coalition forces, and marched from Loulan, Jingjue, and Khotan to Shule and Yuehu along the Kunlun Mountains.

The troops of the northern front were commanded by Han Xin, the deputy marshal and the king of Yan, and the Youyan cavalry set out from the area of Beihai and Hannan River, bypassed the Altai Mountains, and penetrated directly into the habitat of the Huns located north of the Altai Mountains.

The news that the scouts of the Aries Department urgently sent back the destruction of the Wusun Kingdom surprised the generals of the Qin army who were immersed in optimism, in their impression, the Huns were just a group of wild dogs that were beaten and fled in all directions, even if they fluttered, they couldn't make any big waves, but they didn't expect that after Helianbi annexed the Huyan tribe, he suddenly became angry.

In the tent of the king of the Chinese army.

Li Yuan quickly convened the generals of the Central Route Army to discuss countermeasures, and the fall of the Wusun State not only made the Qin State lose a trusted ally, but more seriously, the Qin army of the Western Expedition lacked a foothold in the west of the Green Ridge, without the support of the local reliable tribes, and the Qin army came from afar, and the place was unfamiliar, and it became more difficult to gain a long-term foothold in Central Asia.

"Bixia, we can't let the Huns do whatever they want, we must quickly find them, defeat them, and let all those who trust our Great Qin understand that only we can save them——!" Ji Xin stood in the middle of the generals and said in a deep voice, with a look of regret on his face.

As the general of the Qin army who has the most contact with Hunt Jiaomi, Ji Xin still admires this young and suffering alien ally, not only in terms of personal feelings, but also in terms of Hunt Jiaomi's admiration for Eastern civilization, and this admiration rises to the level of the king of a country, and it is the leader of the people's trend and thoughts.

"The Huns occupied Wusun and Bactria in just two months, and with the wealth and slaves of these two countries, Helianbi's strength skyrocketed, and we must not take the enemy lightly?" Different from Ji Xin, Luo Jia, Cao Xin, and Li Zuoche from the Qin-Hun border all looked solemn.

Out of concern for the situation of the Huns, as soon as the name Helianbi appeared, it raised the vigilance of these battle-hardened generals.

As soon as Hunt Jiaomi died, there was no spokesperson for the Qin State in Central Asia, which was a very fatal point. The generals of the Qin army talked about it for a while,

"All are quiet, the Wusun Kingdom has fallen, we have lost our intended allies, this is the problem that the Huns have given us, what should we do? Every one of our generals, before answering, should have a good understanding of the history of the vast area west of the Green Ridge, and see who our opponent is. When everyone disagreed, Li Yuan's voice sounded like a bell.

What is the western side of the Western Regions? Which people, which country, ruled, was a mystery to the conquerors from the East.

If Li Yuan was not a person who had traveled through the times, then he would have been equally confused. And if this confusion continues, it will cause strategic differences for the Qin army.

"Westward, westward, all the way to the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, all the way to the end of the meeting of another civilization." Since the Western Expedition, Li Yuan has always had such a thought churning and rushing in his heart.

The strong Qin of the East.

Rome of the West.

Will they meet?

History does not give an answer. The farthest journey recorded by the Oriental people in the historical books of this era was Zhang Qian's three envoys, and the place he set foot was only in the area of Green Mountains.

Under the eyes of the generals, Li Yuan slowly narrated the history of civilization in the Western Regions, Central Asia, West Asia, and the two river basins.

Green Ridge.

In ancient Chinese legends, the biography of Mu Tianzi records that "its mountain is tall and has green onions", hence the name. Its geographical location actually refers to the Pamir Plateau.

In the traditional sense, the Green Ridge is also the dividing line between Eastern civilization and Western civilization, the Shili of the Qin State developed in the Western Regions east of the Green Ridge and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, and in Central Asia to the west of the Green Ridge, the influence of the Persian Empire, another ancient civilization, is more powerful, of course, the Persian Empire has now sunset, as its successor Although the shelf is still there, but the strength is no longer the same as the strongest period that defeated the ancient Greek civilization.

If you point to the west from the rest, the pan-Hellenistic Seleucid Empire that split from the Macedonian Empire is still there, and Antiochus III, who has just ascended to the position of emperor, has a bit of a Zhongxing emperor.

To the west of Sethiagous, the Roman Republic was in the process of rising, and Rome had not yet reached its peak of the imperial era, its consul was Sipis who had just defeated Hannibal in the Second Punic War, and in terms of conquest of the East, the Romans had already occupied the Greek peninsula and gradually extended the Shili range to the eastern part of the Mediterranean. (To be continued......)