Ride along the Tianshan South Road and gallop westward, passing Wulei City and going straight to the city of Qiuzküci). Seeing their exhaustion and hurricity under the armor of the sergeants, the soldiers and civilians of the Qiuci Kingdom did not dare to stop them on the road, and stood aside one after another, watching these horses gallop through Wulei City in the rolling yellow dust, rush into Quci City, and then stop until they were in front of the gate of the Qiuci Palace.

"Please tell the king of Xiangze, the country of Yanqi is urgent! Urgent! The leader gasped for a moment before calming his breath, and then hurriedly said to the palace guards.

Now is the critical moment of Beifu's crusade against the Western Regions, and the whole of Qiuzi Country is paying attention to all the battle reports and news ahead without exception, and Yanqi Country is the front line of Beifu's Western Expedition, so the guards did not dare to be sloppy at all, hurriedly responded, and then hurriedly ran to the palace.

After a while, the palace, which was still solemn and quiet just now, immediately became panicked and lively, and a chaotic sound of footsteps came from behind the palace gate, and before the palace gate was opened, a loud voice came from afar.

"What's wrong with Yanqi now? What's going on? ”

"Uncle! Uncle! ”

As soon as the palace door opened, a man in gorgeous clothes hurriedly walked out surrounded by more than a dozen chamberlains and guards. And the Yanqi cavalry and others, who had been waiting anxiously outside the palace gate for a long time, first discovered the appearance of this comer, and the cavalry led by them immediately rushed forward and rushed straight to the man in fancy clothes, so panicked that the attendants and guards on the left and right were in a hurry, and scolded repeatedly.

"Ah, why are you, Longpu, why are you here in person? What happened to Yanqi? King Qiuzi finally understood that the beggar in front of him was his nephew, and quickly waved his hand to stop the guards' movements. At that time, he followed the customs and habits of the countries of the Western Regions. married his two younger sisters to King Gui'a of Wusun and King Long'an of Yanqi, and used marriage to consolidate the power of the Kingdom of Qiuzi.

"Uncle, please save our Yanqi Kingdom for the sake of your relatives!" Long Pu fell to the ground, howling and crying.

Xiang Ze chuckled in his heart, knowing that the situation was not good, he hurriedly beckoned the chamberlains and guards to help Longpu into the palace, and sent people to quickly summon the prime minister, generals and other important civil and military ministers.

"Pu'er, tell me. What happened to Yanguo now? Didn't the local military report say some time ago that the Beifu Army was besieging the Cheshi Guojiaocheng? Why did you hit Yanqi all of a sudden? Xiang Ze asked worriedly.

Longpu had already washed and changed his clothes. Although the stains were removed. But the look on his face still looked so tired and nervous.

"On July 12, the Beifu army gathered in Gaochang City, first raised troops to besiege Jiaohe City, the land of Cheshi, and 150,000 soldiers and horses surrounded the entire Jiaohe City, and sent a message to persuade the king of Nongqi to surrender. Five days later, the king refused to surrender and remained in retreat. So the Beifu army beat drums and invited to fight. Half a day of trapping. Long Pu said gloomily.

"How is that possible? The circumference of Jiaohe City is several miles, the wall is high and the city is strong, and the Cheshi country has 8,000 households, 30,000 people, and 5,000 victorious soldiers. General Guizi shouted loudly.

Truly. Although the Cheshi Kingdom has been repeatedly attacked by the former Han and the Later Han. But it also fell under a protracted siege. This time in the western expedition of Beifu, the soldiers and horses went directly out of Gaochang City, and the Cheshi country, which was not far away, naturally became the front line of the Anti-Japanese War in everyone's hearts. Since it's cannon fodder. Everyone hoped that he could hold on for a longer time and consume as many soldiers and horses as possible of the Beifu Army. Therefore, Qiuzi, Wusun and other countries also provided a large amount of grain and grass to the Cheshi, and promised that as long as the Cheshiguo insisted on more than a month, the reinforcements would arrive, and the spiritual and material support was finally given.

As soon as the Xizheng Wenwen of Beifu arrived, he immediately mobilized the people to increase the height and reinforcement of Jiaohe City, and also mobilized thousands of elite soldiers from the subject countries of Jimi, and made all preparations for war. That's why King Nongqi had the courage to refuse to surrender in front of 150,000 Beifu troops.

But who would have thought that all these efforts would collapse in half a day. How can this not make the whole country of Qiuzi feel frightened and shocked?

"Since King Gui'a is the leader of the alliance, why didn't he organize the allied army to fight against the Beifu army in Gaochang. Beifu announced that the western expedition to Gaochang has been half a year, why haven't we done anything? ”

After being silent for a while, the one who spoke angrily was Bai Chun, the third son of Xiang Ze, although he was only fifteen years old, but he was familiar with military affairs, and he could be regarded as a well-known handsome man in Qiuci, and now he was leading a part of the soldiers and horses of Qiuci as a general.

"Chun'er, Hugh is talking nonsense!" Xiang shouted loudly. As one of the main consuls of the Anti-Beifu Alliance, Xiang knew very well that Gui Ah was bitter and could not speak. Gui'a had already made preparations, and had negotiated with various countries, and since April, he has gathered troops and horses from various countries to the line from Gaochang to Yiwu, relying on the natural dangers in the eastern part of Tianshan to resist the western expedition of Beifu.

Who knew that the western expedition of the Beifu Army gave people the feeling that they were not in a hurry in the first half and were slowly soaring, but as soon as they made a move, they went straight to the point. At the beginning of April, Xian Lingbo, the deputy commander of the march of the South Road of the Congling Mountains, led 50,000 cavalry troops from the three generals' palaces of Qinghai, Angcheng, and Pibo over the Altun Mountains, first entered the country of Jizhi, and then began to attack the state of Khotan.

The Beifu Qiang cavalry can be said to make peace in the Western Regions

The team is just as famous, but one is notorious and the other is famous. When Damu received the news, he immediately knew that something was wrong. Once the 50,000 Qiang cavalry entered the country, it was no different from the 50,000 swarms of locusts, and in these years of confrontation, Khotan and other countries in the southern Tianshan Mountains had not taken advantage of the Qiang cavalry in Beifu. So the urgent military reports were sent to Chigu Castle one after another, asking the alliance leader Guia to quickly mobilize reinforcements to save Khotan and other countries.

Before Gui'a could finish the emergency report, another news came from the north. Jiang Nan, the head of the march of the North Road of Longling in Beifu, led 60,000 elite Mobei cavalry troops directly into the Yueban country, and the Yueban country also raised 20,000 cavalry to cross the Sang Ila River into the territory of Wusun, and the goal was also very obvious, that is, the hinterland of the Wusun country - the Yilieshui (Ili River) basin.

This can scare Gui A enough, Yue and Wusun have been fighting for hundreds of years, the hatred between the two countries can only be described as deep as the sea and as high as a mountain, and thousands of lives have made Wusun and Yue like the two countries even ordinary herdsmen pinch when they meet. In the past, the strength of the Yueban Kingdom was far weaker than that of the Wusun Kingdom, so the Yueban Kingdom did not pose any threat to the Wusun Kingdom.

But now it's different, Yue has the big tree of Beifu, 60,000 elite cavalry troops in Mobei, continuously going south, that momentum, that strength, it makes people tremble when they think about it, there is the old nest of the Huns and Rouran, and the people who ride horses and wield knives are similar to the Huns and Rouran. Although it has now been returned to the Northern Mansion, the influence it has had on Wusun and the Western Regions for hundreds of years has been carved into the bones.

Gui Ah is in a hurry, not to mention the regular army of Beifu, that is, the two roads of people from the north and south can make the countries of the Western Regions and themselves have a good drink, especially the 80,000 coalition troops in the north, and they go straight to the heart and vital point of the Wusun Kingdom. If the Wusun tribe were driven out of the Yilie River Valley, they would have to follow in the footsteps of the Dayue and the Cypriots to move westward

So Gui A urgently stopped the previous plan, mobilized all the more than 100,000 elite cavalry of Wusun to Zhiyilieshui, and waited for the battle, and no longer said anything about going east to the north of the country. Gui'a secretly sent a letter to the king of Yuguo, Damu, the king of Qiuzi, and the king of Shule, and told the three kings in the capacity of alliance leaders and relatives, asking them to quickly mobilize their own and their subjects to take charge of the defense of their respective war zones.

And Xiang is in charge of the middle line of the war zone from Qiuzi to Cheshi and Yanqi.

But Gui'a did this, so that the kings of all countries have their own ideas, and also let these royal families and nobles who were originally enthusiastic and ready to defend their families understand one thing, that is, when a catastrophe is coming, it is more reliable to take care of themselves. Therefore, after such a delay, the strategic deployment of various countries has to be readjusted, and each country has its own thoughts, and a new situation has been formed after a while.

The Khotanese State was busy dealing with the Qiang cavalry of the first Lingbo, and it was powerless to support the Qiuci State, and the Shule State was in the westernmost part of the countries, and it had no chance to directly confront the Northern Mansion for the time being, so it was there to grind foreign labor, and the promised 30,000 soldiers and horses had not passed the captain's head for two or three months. Qiuzi had no choice but to independently support the Eastern Front battlefield, which made Xiang Ze sigh very much, people's hearts were scattered, and the team was not easy to lead.

Bai Chun's words and everyone certainly heard the thick complaints, but everyone had no way to investigate this problem, and the most important thing now was how to deal with the problem.

Everyone was silent for a while, and then the prime minister of Qiuzi Natuo spoke: "After the Beifu army captured Cheshi Jiaohe City, why didn't you cross the Tianshan Mountains along the Tugu Valley (Bogduoshan West Valley, that is, now Dabancheng), pass through Jimi and Wuluo (now Urumqi) and go straight to Wusun, and then gather the Mobei cavalry, turn to Yilieshui, and go straight to Chigu?" ”

Speaking of this, Natuo shook his head and read: "Yining in the south, desert sea in the north; Iron riders are in groups, and white armor is connected. Reading the will of the martyrs, cherishing the great cause of the ancestors, the mountains will collapse, and the wind and clouds will change color. Today, he waved a million, went out of Yangguan, stepped on the Tianshan Mountain, hit the column, broke the Red Valley, and raised his prestige in the distant region. ”

The countries of the Western Regions learned Tianzhu culture while accepting Chinese civilization, so many people were not only proficient in Buddhism, but also liked Sinology.

"The blood of the iron gate is still there, and the misery is in front of you; The son's negligence is not gone, and his ambition is still in his ears. Today, the Beifu will be a volunteer soldier, carry out the heavenly punishment, spread the Ming Miles, know the inside and outside, and say: The power of China still exists! ”

Everyone silently listened to the text of the Beifu West Expedition, each thinking about their own thoughts, Zigong Shushu they knew that it was the former Han Chen Tang's share of the sparse, in which the sentence "Those who commit strong men will be punished even if they are far away" is still engraved in the hearts of everyone!

"Beifu's article has clearly pointed out that it is going to take Wusun directly, since Beifu has taken the chariot division and captured the Tianshan Pass, why not go north to gather the cavalry of the coalition army and attack the Wusun country in one fell swoop?"

Hearing Natuo's words, don't talk about others, Longpu's heart is already cool. Not long ago, he was still working closely with Wusun like a brother, but now the important ministers of Qiuzi are already questioning why Beifu didn't go directly to destroy Wusun? In this case, if it is difficult for him to save the country, will Qiuzi not save him when he dies?

was thinking wildly, Xiang Ze spoke faintly: "Beifu has mobilized nearly 300,000 infantry cavalry horses for this western expedition, if it is for a Wusun, can Beifu use so much effort?" Sadly, there are still people who have illusions! ”