According to the Book of Han and the Legend of the Western Regions, when Liu Chexi conquered the Xiongnu, the countries of the Western Regions claimed to have '36 countries', of which the vast majority were nomadic tribes and some were castle countries.

It sounds very lofty.

As a matter of fact.

Yang Chuan knew this well, the so-called 'Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions' was only about 30 tribes, and before Huo Qubing swept through the Western Regions, they were all vassals of the Huns, and they couldn't afford to set off a few waves.

When the Xiongnu Youxian King was disabled, these large and small tribes straightened their waists and felt that they could do it again.

As a result, Yang Chuan secretly ordered a few thousand iron horsemen of Ah Tie to 'reorganize' the entire Western Regions.

Immediately afterwards, after beating Huo Quai, who was the king of Youxian, he waved his army south from the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains and cleaned up again......

"There were once thirty-six countries, but now there are very few left."

On the shore of Sugan Lake, Yang Chuan drew in circles on a huge parchment map, and made more than 30 forks: "You see, this is the real strategy, and the best way to deal with those Huns and Hu people who do not obey discipline is iron hooves, scimitars, horse lances and thunderbolts. ”

Ah Tie squatted in front of the map, leaned down, and was surprised: "In the end, it is the champion Hou, our thousands of soldiers and horses combed back and forth, killed more than 60,000 people, and destroyed 37 Hu Ren castles.

Outcome.

As soon as the champion Hou arrived, the group of grandsons became more and more well-behaved one by one, not only giving a lot of gold, grain, and little women, but also giving their young and middle-aged men to the champion Hou, and they became the servants of the Han Dynasty......"

Yang Chuan opened one eye and closed the other, looking at Ah Tie with some tiredness.

This cowardice, always comparing himself with Huo Quai, is simply too shameless.

Regardless of Huo Quai's reputation in the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions, with that guy's ruthlessness, the countries of the Western Regions were already crippled by Ah Tie, if they dared not comply, wouldn't they be eaten and wiped clean by the five thousand Yulin orphans?

The style of the Yulin Army has always been simple and rough.

When an order is given, it is often centered on a certain place and kills all the creatures within a radius of one or two hundred miles.

The countries of the Western Regions will not be able to accept it.

Now, even if you take it, it's useless.

Because, after these few months of calamity, the so-called 'Thirty-six Kingdoms of the Western Regions' in history has long existed in name only and disappeared.

"Wuqiang is gone, Loulan is gone, and Momo, Xiaowan, Jingjue, Ronglu, Humi, Qule, Khotan, Pishan, Wujiao, Xiye, Zihe, Puli, Yinai, Wulei, Nandou, Dawan, Taohuai, Xiuxun, Donating Drugs, Shache, Shule, Yutou, Gumo, Wensu, Qiuzi, Yuli, Weixu, Yanqi, Gushi, Moshan, Zheng, Huhu, Quli, Wulei...... It's all gone. ”

Yang Chuan glanced at the dense [forks] on the map, and sighed again, if there is hell in this world, he Yang Chuan, Huo Quai, Ah Tie, Cao Xiang.

These people will inevitably fall into the eighteen layers of hell and will never be able to turn over.

Just the two 'Hexi Wars' and the five-month-long 'Western Regions War', slaughtering more than one or two hundred tribes of the Huns, Qiang, Di and Hu people in the Western Regions?

According to a rough calculation, after these battles, the Hexi Corridor and the countries of the Western Regions have lost more than one million deaths due to various reasons.

Millions!

How many people can there be in these two places?

This thing is really well documented, the red-faced Sima Qian has a 'secret file' of the Western Regions countries in hand, and he once told Yang Chuan in detail that at the beginning of Liu Che's ascension to the throne, the population of the thirty-six countries in the Western Regions was only about 400,000.

Of course, this is only for those who have a household registration, and those ordinary herdsmen and slaves are not human beings and are not counted.

For example, there were 81,317 in Qiuzi, 32,110 in Yanqi, 24,500 in Gumo, 20,04 in Humi, 19,300 in Khotan, 18,647 in Shule, 16,373 in Shache, and 14,100 in Shanshan.

In addition, the population of 'medium countries' such as Yuli, Wensu, and Cheshiqian is about 5,000 or more, and the number of people in Weisu, Pishan, Jingjue, Wuqing, Qule, Xulu, Jimo, and Xiaowan is more than 1,000, and the 'small countries' such as Shan Huan have only 100 or so people, which is actually a medium-sized tribe.

The terrain of the Western Regions is complex, with mountains, basins, plains, grand canyons, lakes and seas, often boundless primeval forests.

With such a complex and changeable topography, it is determined that the 'Thirty-six Kingdoms' in this place will not be very powerful, but it is also very difficult to completely dominate it.

Based on this data, Yang Chuan roughly guessed that the number of people in the entire Western Regions, plus the number of ordinary herdsmen and slaves, the overall population was about 1.2 million.

Seven or eight out of 10,000 people died within a few months.

The Western Regions, with a radius of two or three million miles, are now almost a no-man's land......

If these few of them don't go to hell, who will?

Fortunately, after this battle, as long as Liu Che and his bullshit Han court do not die, take good care of it, and take care of it, the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions, these two or three million miles of territory, from now on, will be part of the territory of the Han Empire, and no one can divide it.

Between Dunhuang and Luding City, how many thousand miles?

The reason why Yang Chuan rushed here to establish an unprecedented 'Western Regions power' by the Sugan Lake was not to be an enemy of the Han court, but to use it as a support point to play a supervisory role while cooperating with the Han Empire for a win-win situation.

The Han Dynasty, fundamentally speaking, is a Shura field for a group of old thieves to fight, and the sentence 'rotten Chang'an City' is not enough to explain the filth and dirtiness in it.

Once the world is decided, there is no threat from the Huns, including Emperor Liu Che, who knows what outrageous things those old thieves will do.

The snow-hidden general Wei Qing is just the tip of the iceberg.

According to the original plot trend, in the next few decades, it was the scourge of witchcraft, and the second division general went west, repeatedly defeated and battled, and finally, a good hand of cards was played to a pulp, and the last bit of the Han Empire was played.

It's so angry when you think about it.

To this end, in the name of a country of Dunhuang, cooperation, win-win, confrontation and trade, coexisting with the Han Empire is a clever move.

Anyway, as long as Wei Qing and Huo Qu are ill and don't make a move, those civil and military generals of the Han Empire will not be able to defeat Yang Chuan today......

……

In the second year of Motoka, mid-August.

Sandwiched between the Qilian Mountains and the Altun Mountains, the Sugan Lake is beautiful, with abundant water and grass, flocks of cattle and sheep, and some unknown flocks of birds, flying around in the sky.

They are the masters of this sky.

By the way, there are many wild beasts, as big as tigers, brown bears, steppenwolves, cheetahs, small as some roe rabbits, snakes and insects, which often appear in groups when the weather is fine.

Snow-capped mountains, forests, grasslands, lakes, seas, rivers, wetlands, plus boundless grasslands, deserts and the Gobi Desert, the diverse natural environment makes this land a paradise for birds, beasts, fish and insects.

It's a pity that in the spring, Yang Chuan was so busy doing things that he didn't have time to observe them at all.

So, I missed the opportunity to learn 'various poses'.

Of course, the reason why those birds, insects, fish and beasts are so arrogant is because Sister Leopard and several stupid eagles of Yang Chuan's family are well-trained, and in addition to normal hunting, on weekdays, they will not harass those who fly in the sky and run on the ground.

But.

As soon as Huo Qu fell ill, everything changed.

Huo Quai's several stupid eagles, one by one, burned the buns, and soon conquered the dozens of golden eagles in the vicinity and became the younger brother of the family.

This large group of golden eagles, once dispatched, will be divided into four or five teams, rampage in the sky, outflanking, and encircled, even if the wolves encounter their gang of cowards, they will not get good, and dozens of them will be hunted at every turn.

It only took three or five days for the birds and beasts in the area of Sugan Lake to leave.

As for where they go to forage, this is not Huo Qu's disease, and naturally it is not the matter of that group of stupid eagles, anyway, they are the scum of a group of birds, and they are all evil.

Huo Qu's disease is too.

This guy spent a full four months leading 5,000 Yulin orphans to open and close in the Western Regions, cleaning over and over again.

In the end, the vast land was finally turned into a no-man's land.

"The woman and the children remained."

Facing Yang Chuan, Huo Qu grinned shamelessly: "Ben Hou understood what you Yang Chuan meant from the beginning, didn't you just kill all the men who could pick up bows and arrows?"

Rest assured, as long as 70,000 or 80,000 military households are relocated, the population will soon grow, and according to the ratio of one man and two little women, the population will reach one million in another ten years. ”

Yang Chuan sighed secretly and didn't say anything.

War, always.

Especially in the early wars, the era of cold weapons, the wars of one ethnic group against other ethnic groups were always wars of extermination.

This is true of the Huns, the Han people, the Qiang people, the Di people, and the Hu people of the Western Regions.

In such an environment, the women are very self-conscious, and they do not bother to pay attention to which ethnic group they belong to, anyway, as long as they have a mouthful of hot food to fill their stomachs, they will generally accept it and commit themselves to the victors in the war.

At this point, Huo Quzhi did a good job.

He kills only men who can take up arms and draw bows and arrows, and he does not care about women and children.

This reminded Yang Chuan of some Hu people hundreds of years later, after they entered the Central Plains, they not only killed men, but also killed the elderly and children.

The most outrageous thing is that those beasts strung the Han women and children with ropes, and carried them with the army, and wherever the army went, they followed them, just like the cattle and sheep of the Huns at the moment.

Their fate is even more tragic than that of cattle, sheep and livestock.

According to some brief records in some historical books of later generations, those Hu people called those Han women "two-legged sheep", and when there was food, they were "comfort women", and when there was no food, they became food......

So, ah.

Rather than let those Hu people develop obscenely and eventually become the source of disaster for the Han Empire, it is better to exterminate them in advance, lest they ...... hundreds of years later

"Yang Chuan, for most of the past six months, you have been hiding here?"

"Okay, you're having a good dog day."

"Come on, come on, accompany Ben Hou to drink another bowl of wine."

The roasted whole sheep was cooked, and there was fine wine, Huo Quzhi opened his belly to eat and drink, and half of his face was covered with clear and bright grease.

He suddenly remembered something: "By the way, the three little women in your family have all given birth, I heard that Liu Man gave birth to a girl, Naren Tuoya gave birth to two mallets, and Weaver Niang gave birth to a mallet." ”

Yang Chuan smiled: "I know all this." ”

Huo Quzhi sighed, continued to eat and drink violently, and dropped a leg of mutton, five ribs, and a large plate of fried lamb tripe shreds.

As for the 'Ten Grains' brewed by Yang Chuan himself, he killed seven or eight bowls.

Call!

Finally, I was full.

It's time to get down to business.

Yang Chuan looked at the handsome Huo Quai, and silently poured a bowl of wine: "Go sick, come, drink this bowl of wine, we should break up." ”

Huo Quzhi didn't say anything.

His two Danfeng eyes were half-squinted, staring at Yang Chuan very seriously, and in the depths of his eyes, a trace of unconcealable sadness filled them, which seemed to be covered with a faint mist.

"There is no feast that will not be dissolved."

Yang Chuan picked up the wine bowl and drank it all, the expression on his face did not change, he looked light, and said lightly: "I have been here, I have loved, I have hated, everything is worth it." ”

Huo Quai: "Speak human words." ”

Yang Chuan choked on a sip of spirits, and his face was covered with tears and snot: "Go sick, I won't go back to Chang'an City, from now on, our brothers will be separated, you ...... Take care! ”

Huo Quzhi smiled and scolded: "Yang Chuan, can you speak human words on a dog day?" ”

"By the way, do you speak human words on a dog day?"

"In such a fog, be careful that Benhou hammers you to death!"

Yang Chuan originally wanted to create a faint sentimental atmosphere, but as a result, when he encountered Huo Quai's cowardice, he rolled up his sleeves in a few words, and it seemed that he really wanted to hammer people.

So, he had no choice but to start 'talking to people': "To get sick, my father-in-law wanted to come to the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions to garrison the army, but the emperor didn't agree. ”

Huo Quzhi took a sip of stuffy wine, and said angrily: "If you don't agree, you won't agree, anyway, the Huns are almost gone, and the entire Mobei is now your Yang Chuan's family, and we can't attack, it's better to hide in Chang'an City to retire." ”

After finishing speaking, he picked up the wine bowl, and there were three sips.

A bowl of spirits, three or two heart-stopping words, Huo Quzhi soon got drunk.

He staggered to his feet, pointed in the direction of Chang'an City, and scolded with a smile: "Yang Chuan, you once said that the rotten Chang'an City without a wild goose pagoda is really boring."

Boring.

It's really boring! ”

Yang Chuan lowered his head, pinched a piece of marinated beef tendon and stuffed it into his mouth, chewed it slowly, and said: "I faked my death and got out, the emperor didn't send anyone to search in the Western Regions at all, but he first took the three little women of my family back to Chang'an City, which was obviously suspicious of me."

Go sick, you think I can go back? ”

Huo Quzhi shook his head: "No, you can't go back." ”

"You don't know the emperor, once you have doubts in your heart, that person will be completely finished."

"And you don't have to go back."

"Yang Chuan, do you still remember that on the night when I feasted guests at your Zhuangzi, I once said that I was sick and envied your Yang Chuan's free body, and I wanted to leave and stay......

Yang Chuan tilted his face and remembered a conversation between the two in the moonlight.

At that time, both men were teenagers.

Drinking the hard-to-swallow mash wine, listening to the noise of the evil young people in Chang'an City, in Zhuyuantou Village, at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, Huo Quzhi was a sensitive, inferior and proud teenager.

The ...... of that night Sadness.

Yang Chuan chuckled, shook his head vigorously, and with the help of wine, he staggered to his feet, hugged Huo Quai's waist, and said very emotionally: "Go to illness, the wind that night was very gentle." ”

Huo Quzhi pushed Yang Chuan's claws away, and scolded with disgust: "Yang Chuan, please respect yourself!" ”

(End of chapter)