Tien Shan.

Lying in the middle of the Western Regions, a towering mountain range divides the north and south of the mountain into two distinct climatic zones, the south is rainless and hot and arid, except for a few oases in the desert where caravans can rest, the rest of the place is a treacherous place where humans cannot survive, and the situation in the north is completely different.

Although the great cold snap and heavy snowstorm from Siberia visit this area several times a year, the abundant snowfall and strong winds just make up for the lack of climate in the inland area, and the pastures in the cold pastures can still nourish thousands of people here, even if they grow slowly.

The people of the Otsuki tribe moved all the way west, and the place where Zuihou arrived was here: the Bogur Steppe.

Bai Guangji, Jin Xi's Aries tribe group, is in the 21st of January from the Altai Mountains to the Bogul grassland, during which more than 20 days, the Aries tribe and the Xiongnu's tail chasing cavalry several times, although Zuihou are regarded as forcing back the opponent, but for this Hexi Qiang has paid a heavy price of more than 500 soldiers killed.

The march is essential.

It's about speed.

Today's Aries tribe has nearly 50,000 people, of which about 40,000 are women and children, but there are less than 10,000 men, and among these 10,000 people, there are many wounded soldiers.

In the battle of Jaisangbo, the vitality of the Aries tribe was greatly damaged, and those tribes that broke up on their own were only concerned about their lives, and even directly threw the women and children of the clan to Jinxi, which is also the reason why the Aries tribe moved slowly when it returned to the east.

Bai Guangji was anxious, and along the way, he tried to advise Jin Xi several times, hoping that she could make a ruthless decision, leave this group of women and children, and lead the soldiers and strong women in the tribe to go first, but Jin Xi hesitated again and again, and still refused Bai Guangji's advice.

Sorcery.

It is to convince people, to make people feel awe and surrender from the heart.

Over the years, Jin Xi has been able to become a witch king from a witch girl because of the support and love of his clan. And this kind of support is the reward of her long-term and uninterrupted care for her people, if she abandons the old and weak in her clan and runs away first, then her heart will never be at peace.

Jin Xi's stubbornness and persistence, Zuihou made the Aries tribe pay a heavy price, in the Ili Valley, the Aries tribe was unexpectedly plotted by the Dayue tribe, in order to drag this group of Yuezhi people, the remaining 500 warriors of Hexi Qiang were surrounded by nearly 10,000 Yue tribes, Bai Guangji led the troops to rush left and right. After a day and a night of fierce fighting, all the Qiang soldiers in Hexi were killed.

On the 23rd day of the first month, at noon.

The five children surnamed Bai who guarded Bai Guangji fought to their deaths one after another.

Bai Guangji was also injured in several places all over his body, a large amount of blood loss made his face like gold paper, and his body riding on the war horse was also crumbling, if it wasn't for the obsession in his heart to support, he was afraid that he would also fall down with the soldiers of Hexi Qiang.

This day in the Western Regions.

The blue one makes people not see the slightest cloud, which reminds him of the mountains and rivers of Fufeng and Feng Ling, his hometown when he was a child. Just when Bai Guangji was in a trance, the sword of a strong man was raised high.

When he saw his strong soldiers beheading the stubborn enemy chieftain of Zuihou, the king of Yuezhi and the Xiongnu envoy Sumeru Buda daxiao at the same time.

Sumeru Buda, the envoy of the Huns, has changed a lot in ten years. His beard was paler, but his cunning was still as bad as it had been.

Behind the Dayue Branch's encirclement and annihilation of the Hexi Qiang and Aries tribes is Sumeru Buda. Under his persuasion, the king of Yuezhi seems to have forgotten the fact that the head of his predecessor is still drenched by the Xiongnu Dadan Yu Maodun every day. The reason for this is mainly that the current King of the Great Moon Branch is far from the King of the Moon Branch who unfortunately died in battle. Even in their predecessors, they were bloodily killed for the throne.

A tribe with a large population and a lack of protection from warriors is a coveted sturdy yellow sheep in the competition of the grasslands.

In the face of this great temptation, the Yuezhi people could no longer restrain the greed in their hearts.

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Heaven and earth are vast.

The storm that swept through the great northwest, after raging the wastelands around the Altai Mountains and the Tianshan Mountains, continued to move rapidly southward, and the entire Hexi County was soon shrouded in snow and haze.

The New Year's Day has just passed.

This Spring Festival, for the first time, the Qin State set the Spring Festival holiday as fifteen days in a statutory way, and the long holiday also gave the Qin people, who were known for their rigor, a rare opportunity to relax.

The huge business opportunities in Chang'an have made profit-seeking businessmen from the Western Regions, Wusun, Dawan and other countries rush to come, among which there are even big Hu businessmen like Wushi Lu, who have established themselves in the East Market early, and have begun to expand their shop branches to Luoyang, Jixian, Handan and other places in the Kanto region.

At the same time, the galloping road from Yongqi to Jincheng and Gaizang City was also completed in November last year under the work of tens of thousands of Kwantung prisoners of war day and night, which made the eastern end of the Silk Road more smooth.

Cover the east of the city.

A Qin army marched in the wind and snow, and the fierce brimmed Daxu was curled by the wind, but the eyebrows of the sergeant holding the flag were dyed snow-white, but he held it up and held it high above his head.

"Daqin-! This is the car of the Warrior King! A man from Guanzhong, who had taken refuge on the side of the road, looked shocked and whispered.

"King Wu, how can you rush so urgently on this snowy day, could it be that there is a big change in Hexi?" Hearing the exclamation of his companions, the bearded Hu Shang who accompanied him had a change of heart.

"What did Brother Wu think of?" The man in Guanzhong asked.

"Hehe, it's just some speculation, there's no basis, let's go, it's better to get to the previous station earlier than to be frozen in this snowstorm." Hu Shang replied with a smile.

Hexi Corridor.

Connecting Guanzhong and the Western Regions, the importance of its geographical location is self-evident, but in this winter, the soldiers and horses in Hexi and Longxi garrisoned by the Qin army are frequently mobilized, which does not indicate that the Qin State is ready to start a war with the Huns in Hexi, if this is the case, the Hexi trade route may be unsmooth in a short period of time, and once the transportation of goods is blocked, its price will inevitably rise several times.

Hu Shang's business mind was flexible, and he thought of this layer faster than his companions in Guanzhong, but he obviously didn't want to say what he realized about this layer of business.

The merchants on the side of the road whispered to themselves, and the speeding Qin army had disappeared into the long wind and snow, and in the spacious carriage covered with thick fur, the martial king Li Yuan squinted his eyes slightly, while closing his eyes to recuperate, while still thinking about the emergency military situation in the Western Regions that came from Hexi one after another.

The Great Moon Branch and the Huns have joined forces!

This unexpected change made Li Yuan's layout in the Western Regions suddenly difficult, although the Yuezhi tribe was greatly damaged under the blow of the Huns, but this is compared with whom, compared with the Xiongnu and Great Qin, the Yuezhi is nothing, but if it is compared with the Western Regions countries, the Yuezhi is a huge liliang.

Qin's allies in the Western Regions are mainly the thirty-six countries of the Western Regions headed by Loulan, but most of these small countries are distributed in the oases south of the Tianshan Mountains, and some small countries such as Jingjue are only one city in size.

In addition, after the battle of Hexi Qiang, Jin Xi finally woke up in the lesson of blood, she personally led the surviving Aries Ghost Fang tribe warriors more than 5,000 people to break through the encirclement and interception of the Yuezhi people, and arrived at the westernmost border of Hexi County of Qin State - Dunhuang City on the 27th of the first month.

After the Jin Xi people arrived in Dunhuang, they did not directly enter the territory of Qin, but chose to attach themselves to the Luobu Daze area between Loulan and Qin.

When the Guirong Aries tribe was the strongest, the total population was about 100,000, which can be called a large tribe in the Altai Mountains and the Irtysh River Valley, among which there were more than 50 small tribes attached to it, and after this unprecedented catastrophe, there was no one in ten tribes that accompanied Jin Xi to return to the east, among the 5,000 people, there were only more than 600 healthy women, and there were only more than 20 children under the age of 10.

With the current situation of the Aries tribe, not to mention restoring the strength of a strong clan, it is difficult not to be annexed, Jin Xi is also worried about what kind of attitude the Qin State will treat them, after all, whether it is the previous ghost party or the current white sheep, there is no friendship between the Qin State and the Qin State. (To be continued......)