Compared with Mobei, the eastern grassland has a better environment, but the eastern grassland is closer to Daqian.

Wei Qing's 30,000 elite rode out of the fortress and went straight to the Xiongnu Zuoxian King. At this time, the wind and snow are everywhere, and the grassland is endless, so it is very easy to get lost.

Fortunately, the cadres were well prepared, and the progress of the army was quite smooth. The army marched all the way north, destroying all the small tribes that passed by. Finally arrived at a location where he could launch a surprise attack on King Zuoxian.

"General, our army has suffered thousands of casualties on this march." Although the army was prepared before departure, the winter was cold on the grassland, and many people still died on the march.

Wei Qing sighed slightly when he heard this, and then sorted out his emotions and said: "Write down the names of the soldiers, and report them to the battlefield after this battle, and I will bear all the responsibilities alone." Let the brothers rest well, and make great achievements today! ”

Zuo Xian Wang Ting.

King Zuo Xian was discussing the matter of sending troops with several captains and captains, "Great King, Da Shan Yu has already given an order, and this time we are responsible for plundering the east of Yunzhong. ”

"These places are much poorer than Shuofang and other places, and the soldiers are elite, so they are not so easy to gnaw!" A person next to him said.

"By the way, in the past two days, two or three people from other tribes have come to report that their tribe has been attacked by the Qianren, and the Dawang Qianren seem to have the intention of going out of the jam, so we have to guard against it!"

"Hahaha, the dry man is out of the jam, is the brother drinking too much, even we have to be careful in this weather, let alone the dry man? Those tribes should have encountered small groups of border troops who came out to retaliate. The other said nonchalantly.

"But I heard the man say that a thousand men have dispatched at least five thousand cavalry, how can it be that they are just attacking small tribes?"

"Five thousand cavalry? This is even more unlikely, how much grain and grass do 5,000 people want? At this time, they are not afraid of getting lost? The prime minister next to him smiled.

King Zuo Xian laughed loudly when he heard this: "My royal court is more than a thousand miles away from the Qianren, such a distance, the cadres don't know the road, they don't know the grassland climate, how dare they come?" Even if he is lucky enough to come here, he must be sleepy and lacking in horses, and there are tens of thousands of troops on his side, and it will be up to me to lead the army to capture him! ”

After speaking, King Zuo Xian laughed, and at this time, a figure covered in blood rushed into the big tent, lay on the ground and cried bitterly: "King, the cavalry of the cadre army has raided the royal court from the northwest!" ”

King Zuo Xian, who was laughing, was stunned for a moment, the smile on his face stiffened, and he hurriedly asked, "Raid by the dry army?" How did they come from the Northwest? ”

At this time, a shout of killing came from afar, and Zuo Xianwang's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly led people out without caring about anything else.

As soon as he rushed out of the camp, he saw smoke and dust rising from a distance, and the dull sound of horses' hooves also sounded, and countless Qianguo cavalry rushed to kill. A rain of arrows fell from the sky, and a large number of Hun cavalry were directly killed by arrows.

"Your Majesty's great victory, Changping Bo Weiqing led the army to break through the court of the Xiongnu Zuoxian Wang, captured the Hun Xiaowang thirteen, Du Wei, 31 people from ten thousand households, and captured the Xiongnu Zuoxian King alive. The army traveled thousands of miles, beheaded 10,000 people, captured 23,000 Huns, and hundreds of thousands of cattle and sheep. ”

"Hahaha, God bless the great Qian, the Huns should be destroyed!" Wang Jing was very happy, and then asked, "Can the Marquis of Wu'an be summoned back?" ”

"Your Majesty hasn't yet!"

Wang Jing looked at the Kanyu map in front of him and said, "The Xiongnu Right Xian King is farther away, and the time is longer. ”

When Luoyang received the battle report, the cavalry general Li Xiao had just defeated King Hutu, 30,000 cadres and King Hutu battled, most of the Huns were leather armor, only a few people had iron armor, and they encountered 30,000 ironclad cavalry, how could they stop it?

Tens of thousands of troops were defeated in a battle, and King Hugh Tu fled with the remnants of his army in embarrassment. Li Xiao captured tens of thousands of prisoners and 100,000 cattle and sheep in the first battle.

Next, Li Xiao did not stop at all, chasing and killing all the way, and King Hutu, who was fleeing for his life, wanted to regroup his troops several times, but was defeated by Li Xiao's troops, and finally could only run all the way.

The army pursued and killed for 300 miles, and then temporarily withdrew the troops. Their horses carry less weight and are easier to raise, and although they are less explosive than Shuofang horses, they have greater endurance for long-distance runs.

Not catching King Hugh Tu made Li Xiao very unhappy, which means that this battle was not successful. Immediately, he sent people to Luoyang to report the victory, and on the other hand, he continued to organize people to continue the pursuit.

King Hun Tu was defeated in this battle, and only a few soldiers fled west, Li Xiao guessed that he was going to flee to the royal court of the Hun Evil King, and the Hun Evil King had a good relationship with the Hun Tu King, and he was likely to ask the Hun Evil King for help.

After Li Xiao defeated King Xiu Tu, a gap was opened in the Hexi Corridor. Li Xiao continued westward along the Hexi Corridor directly.

Li Xiao captured a lot of Hun captives to inquire about the situation, and during this period, he even captured a Xiaoyue tribe, and the Xiaoyue tribe and the Xiongnu tribe were feuding.

At that time, the Yueshi tribe and the Huns competed and were defeated by the Huns, and even the king of the Yueshi was killed by the Huns, and the Huns made their heads into wine vessels.

Xiaoyue's own dry food people joined, Li Xiao couldn't ask for it, plus Xiaoyue's familiarity with the environment and geography here, Li Xiao just needed this.

There is no need for Li Xiao to urge them at all, these people are not afraid of death every time they fight.

"General, the Hun Evil King is more than a thousand miles away from here, and the front is the Hanhai Desert, if the distance around the grassland is even farther, and the Hun Tu King leads people to escape, I'm afraid the Hun Evil King has already taken precautions." The head of the Satsuki clan said respectfully.

"Then go to the Hanhai Desert, the soldiers are fast, and they will arrive first!" Li Xiao said.

"General, the desert is difficult to navigate, and the water source is scarce, and it is difficult for the army to pass, if it is discovered, it is very likely that the whole army will be wiped out!" The head of the Satsuki clan said.

Li Xiao thought for a while, and suddenly thought of an edict given to him by His Majesty when he first set out on the expedition, and quickly found it, and after a brief look, he was overjoyed, and immediately wrote a letter quickly, and then shouted outside.

"Someone!"

"The subordinates are here!" A herald approached and bowed.

"You take ten people, one with three horses, and the rations of the half-moon, go here through the Hanhai Sea, and hand over these two letters to the city lord of Tianci City!"

"Yui!" The man took the letter, then selected ten elites, and rode out of the camp to the northwest.

After seeing the herald leave, Li Xiao did not delay, and immediately said: "The army prepares supplies, passes through the Hanhai Desert, and then raids the court of the Evil King. ”

"Yui!" The generals shouted in unison.

The desert march was extremely difficult, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Li Guangli, the general of the Second Division, to expedition to the Western Regions, but before the 100,000 army arrived, half of the troops were reduced, and later they were defeated and surrendered.

100,000 elite Han troops in hundreds of battles were buried like this, this kind of incompetence of one general exhausted the three armies, it can be said that it is a crime that deserves death.

Although Li Xiao is bold and reckless, he is not ignorant of soldiers. At the same time, he was bold and careful, and divided the soldiers into several parts and passed through the Hanhai Desert in batches.

Each group is led by someone who is familiar enough with the road, and it is also equipped with a marching Sinan.

The army marched all the way, because the weather was cold, and it was not hot in the desert, but every night, the cold was biting. If the warmth is not good, it is easy to frostbite and freeze to death.

Xiao Yue's clan and the dark guard are responsible for leading the way, but fortunately, the map in Li Xiao's hand is accurate, and the dark guard has also passed on this road many times, and each oasis is marked, so that the army can pass smoothly.

But even so, there were still deaths on the march. Expeditions and raids by successive armies have killed and wounded along the way, so choosing a thousand-mile raid is not only a test of the soldier's will, but also a squeeze on his body. The body is not strong enough to hold it at all.

Daqian's troops this time were all elite, and the morale was high just after defeating King Hugh, which gave Li Xiao the confidence to lead his army through the Hanhai Desert for a surprise attack.

Li Xiao led the army all the way forward and destroyed all the small Hexi countries that submitted to the Xiongnu along the way. Collect its supplies for use by the Great Army. This time, he not only wants to defeat the Evil King, but also completely open up the Hexi Corridor.

The army marched quickly, crossed the thousands of miles of the Han Sea, and came to the vicinity of the court of the Evil King. At the same time, three thousand light horsemen came from the northwest.

Since Wang Zhuo established the Tianci City, the Tianci City has continued to grow and develop, and has been fighting against the Huns for many years, and when he learned that the Great Cadre army was coming, he immediately sent his son to command 3,000 cavalry.

The court of the evil king, the king of Hutu led the remnants of the army to ask for help, and when he learned that the 30,000 cavalry of the cadre army were out of the pass, the evil king of Hun was also shocked. However, the request of King Hutu to lead an army to attack was directly refused.

"King Hutu, my king's tent is more than a thousand miles away from your king's tent, if you attack with a large army now, after crossing more than a thousand miles, the army is tired, and the cadres can recuperate, how can they be the opponents of the cadres at that time?"

"Those cadres should be allowed to lead the army across more than a thousand miles, and when they are exhausted, I will lead the army to attack, and I will be able to destroy them in one battle!"

When King Hutu heard this, he also felt that this method was better, so he immediately feasted with the evil king and waited for the dry people to come slowly.

It's just that the Evil King and the King of Hutu didn't know that the Qianren did not come up from the grassland, but ventured through the desert to the other side of the Evil King's tent.

Li Xiao looked at the stigma on Wang Bo's eyebrows, and said respectfully: "Li Xiao has seen the son. ”

"General Li is exempt!" Wang Bo hurriedly stepped forward to support him, and then said: "This expedition, the general led the army across the thousands of miles of Hanhai, we admire, this battle is at the disposal of the general!" ”

"Thank you, Shizi!" Li Xiao said happily.

After a brief discussion between the two, the army rested for a day, and before dawn the next day, the army directly launched a sneak attack and attacked the court of the Evil King dozens of miles away.

The vast majority of people in the court of the Evil King were sleeping, and the deafening shouts of killing sounded, and everyone had no time to react, and the King of the Evil King couldn't imagine how the cadres would attack from behind.

The Qianjun army was like a broken bamboo, the army was like entering a no-man's land, the Huns were killed like chopping melons and vegetables, and the king of Hutu and the evil king of Hun were captured by the army before they even had time to escape.

——

In the fourteenth year of the Mandate of Heaven of Daqian, Li Xiaobing went out of Longyou, first broke the king of Xiu, and then destroyed the evil king, crossed the thousands of miles of Hanhai, and completely opened up the Hexi Corridor, and since then Daqian began to control the Western Regions, and the Western Regions have become an inseparable part of the Chinese nation.

After the Daqian Dynasty entered the Western Regions, the Xiongnu Empire inevitably declined, controlling the Western Regions, and the Daqian could attack the Xiongnu from east to west, and the demise of the Xiongnu Empire entered the countdown.

The opening of the Hexi Corridor marked the beginning of the Silk Road, and from then on, the silk of Daqian accompanied the camel bell to the distant Mediterranean. From this day on, the East and the West began to communicate. ——"The Exchange of Eastern and Western Cultures: The Silk Road"

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