Soon after Yingxuan arrived in Hanhai.

Meng Tian, who was far away in the Western Regions, annexed most of the area south of the Tianshan Mountains to Great Qin.

However, when it came time to regain the last thirty-six countries in the southwest, it was met with strong resistance.

And even after several wars.

There are a lot of enemies that shouldn't be in the intelligence.

Meng Tian sent people to investigate in-depth many times for this reason.

In the end, I learned that the two parts of the southwest of the West Night and the Zihe have the same root and origin.

After the West Night Department was attacked by Bai Zhong.

Knowing that they were invincible, Zihebu took the initiative to surrender to the Zhangzhung Dynasty in the south.

The Zhangzhung Dynasty was located in the southwest of the Kunlun Mountains (northern part of the Tibetan Plateau, bordering Kashmir and connecting India and Pakistan. ）

Located on the high ground, it is condescending in all directions, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Their support also made it difficult for Bai Zhong to advance an inch, and he had to retreat back to the country that had already been captured.

In the West, the main army led by Meng Tian also encountered resistance when fighting against the three kingdoms of Xiuxun, Donate Poison, and No Thunder.

As if they had been prepared in advance, these small states asked for reinforcements from the Western kingdom of Bactria (the kingdom of Bactria).

{The Kingdom of Bactria became independent from the "Tiaozhi" (Seleucid dynasty) and was located in the western Pamir region in the northwestern part of the present-day Tibetan Plateau, in Afghanistan.} }

Because of the problem of domestic grain and grass.

The more than 300,000 troops under Meng Tian either returned to China or were stationed in Henan, Yuejun, and the central and eastern parts of the Western Regions.

This time to the west, I thought it was just to occupy some small countries that were powerless to resist.

Without adequate preparation, he brought a total of 50,000 troops.

Now that the troops are divided around, they are a little stretched.

Meng Tian frowned and hesitated, because he didn't know the national strength of this Zhangxiong Dynasty and the Great Xia Kingdom.

He didn't dare to be too greedy for merit, otherwise if the army was defeated, not only would he not be able to complete the task of occupying the Western Regions.

It is also possible to provoke a strong enemy when Daqin's logistics are weak.

These areas that have been beaten by His Highness and have no power to fight back will be seized again.

I'm going to lose face.

The generals on his side were still shouting angrily.

"A small country with a big sesame seed, why do you have so many allies!"

Meng Tian asked.

"How much grain and grass are left?"

The general said with a slightly ugly face.

"There weren't many before leaving, and if it weren't for the forcible conquest of small countries along the way, it would have been exhausted long ago."

"Even now, it won't last a few days."

"Unless more are sent from home, I'm afraid I won't be able to defeat the last four countries."

Meng Tian sighed.

It was a very decisive order.

"Even so, he will no longer go west, and return the Western Night Kingdom to Zihe."

"The east side of the Three Kingdoms of Hugh, drug donation, and no thunder also gave up a hundred miles."

"Leave 20,000 soldiers to garrison, and the rest of the army will quickly turn back."

"With the seeds brought back by His Royal Highness, the domestic grain will definitely be rich this year, and it will be safe to march west when the soldiers are strong and strong."

When Bai Zhong and the others heard this, they sighed helplessly, and now they can only do this.

In the next few days, after Meng Tian had made some settlements, he sent envoys to make peace with the four countries.

And emphatically promised that "he" would never attack Shikoku again within ten years.

Although the Neutron United States of the Four Nations had complaints, they could not influence the tide of the war with their thousands of men.

Meng Tian's army of 50,000 was as unshakable as elephants, and they were unable to return to the sky.

If it weren't for the several reinforcements of the Zhangzhung Dynasty, the Zihe Department would have been wiped out long ago.

Now, the Zhangxiong Dynasty has no intention of continuing to provoke Great Qin, and they are also worried about this sudden appearance of a huge force, and some news came back from the Qiang tribe in Qinghai some time ago.

gave them a general idea of what was going on in the East.

That chaotic land has been completely unified at this moment.

No one knows exactly how much strength there is.

The Zhangzhung dynasty also urged the sub-kingdom to agree to a period of peace between the two sides.

And the other three countries due west are similar.

In the northern region of Great Xia, the border with Dawan.

The king of the Yue clan, who had fled west for a long time, had a solemn face.

"Has the news of Great Qin been informed of the King of Great Xia?"

The veteran who had already returned from the capital of the Great Xia Kingdom bowed his head.

"I have told everything that my subordinates have completely shown that a weak tribe is surrounded by the war between the two sides and has nowhere to go."

The King of the Yue Clan nodded with satisfaction.

But the veteran continued.

"It's just the king, this time I dedicated all the gold to Great Xia, but my clan only got a small pasture, which is difficult to maintain for a long time, is it worth it?"

The King of the Moon Clan did not answer him.

Instead, he looked at the Great Xia Kingdom in the south, and said a little distractedly.

"How do you know that this is the only thing you get back?"

"Couldn't it be the whole Great Xia?"

The words of the Yue Clan King surprised the generals.

But then, the king of the Yue clan laughed at himself.

"Driven here by Great Qin, this king has no face to face his ancestors."

"If you can't find a piece of land where you can continue before you die."

"Even if this king dies, it's hard to look at it!"

The general hurriedly answered.

"The king just fell for the Huns, and he was insidious and unscrupulous, and sooner or later he would be punished by heaven."

"There are still nearly 100,000 people in our clan, and tens of thousands of soldiers."

"You can live no matter where you go."

The general paused for two more breaths.

"But the people have been displaced along the way."

"Finally, we can settle down for a while, and immediately start a war against Great Xia."

The general raised his head and looked at the Yue Clan King with anxiety.

"Is it too much of a hurry?"

"After all, Great Xia also has a population of more than 100,000 people."

The King of the Yue Clan smiled when he heard this, shook his head and said.

"You're afraid that I'll go to war again!"

Then the King of the Moon Clan sighed.

At the age of thirty, it is as if all the edges and corners have been rubbed away.

Said with a calm face.

"I'm not the fool I used to be."

He turned around and looked at the dense dome behind him, his right hand behind his back clenched into a fist.

"I am carrying the lives of 100,000 people."

"They are responsible for every decision!"

King Yue closed his eyes.

"The people who died because of my ignorance are watching me every night."

"If I make the slightest mistake, they'll be dragged to hell."

"Now I just want to find a land for my people to live in."

"What glory, what fame, what power is just floating clouds!"

When the general heard this, his face was full of relief.

Their king has finally grown up.

But then the King of the Moon Clan took a breath.

Then he raised his head again and looked at Southern Great Xia.

"It's the best pasture."

"That is, the news of the decline of Great Qin has been informed."

"After a while, you will take half of the horses in your clan to Great Xia again."

"Ask the king of Great Xia to send troops to the Western Regions."

"Join us in attacking Great Qin and recapture the land of the Western Regions and Dunhuang!"

The veteran's face changed suddenly, and the words that could be blocked were not yet spoken.

The king of the Yue clan closed his eyes and said with some pain.

"Then send someone to collect the information strength of Western countries and send these to Daqin."

"Tell the First Emperor that Great Xia has the intention of going east."

The veteran's face froze, and then he reacted.

"King! You're trying to drive the tiger and the wolf! ”

The Yue Clan's face was full of helplessness.

"Or else?"

"Let the clansmen fight to the death again?"

"Draining our family?"

"My Yueshi can't stand the slightest toss."

"What if you take refuge in the enemy of the sea of blood?"

"As long as I can live, I am willing to be a dog!"

The words of the king of the Yue clan made the old man almost teary-eyed.

Their king finally bowed down for the sake of his people.

The time of his moon clan has finally come.

……

In the south of the Yue Clan, in the capital of Great Xia.

King Osidmus is gathering his close ministers for counseling.

In the middle of the main hall are dozens of boxes.

It was full of golden gold.

If Ying Xuan sees it, I'm afraid that I will have to come here for a while.

With one hand on his chin, Osidmus sat on the throne and spoke casually.

"You've heard it too."

"This newcomer to the Yue Clan is really kind."

"Just for a small piece of pasture, all the gold of the whole clan was given."

"He also said that he was willing to block the threat of Northern Dawan for us."

"Everyone, tell me what you think!"

Among the ministers below, the first to stand up was the prime minister.

"Wang, my subordinates just have another piece of news for you to use to prove this."

With a slight wave of his left hand, Osidmus allowed the Prime Minister to continue.

"The 20,000 soldiers we sent to the east to support have already received good news at this moment."

"Successfully blocked the Qin people who were expanding westward."

"There was no damage to the army, but it was evacuated back after a slight contact with the Qin people."

"He even took the initiative to promise not to wage war again for ten years."

After the words were finished, the prime minister did not comment, and directly stood back again.

These words made the ministers in the palace whisper.

It didn't take long for the Minister in charge of Finance to speak.

"Even the Qin people who can be stopped by small countries such as Xiuxun, drug donation, and no thunder."

"It seems that it is indeed as the Yue clan said, after hundreds of years of Qin's civil war, there was a great war with the Xiongnu."

"The national strength has been exhausted."

"I don't dare to provoke a strong enemy again."

But that's not the end of the story.

The official in charge of criminal law interrupted it.

"If the Qin people are really fighting a fierce war with the Xiongnu, China's strength will be exhausted."

"Then how could they destroy the thirty-six kingdoms all the way."

"That chauffeur and turtle are not weak."

"Obviously, this is just a conspiracy."

"I can't say that the Qin people have a temporary truce, it's just a delaying tactic."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer pale and said with some displeasure.

"Then why do you say the Yue Clan is doing this?"

"Even if you buy a larger area, you won't need so much gold."

"Are they stupid to do this?"

Seeing that the two who didn't deal with each other were going to quarrel again.

The prime minister finally stood up and said something.

"I heard that the Yueshi is because of the war between the Qin people and the Xiongnu."

"I was robbed of my ancestral land and had to move west."

"Moreover, the main reason is that the rise of the Xiongnu is too fast, which seriously threatens the living space of the Yue Clan."

"Of course, this is news from 36 countries, and whether it is true or not remains to be verified."

"And the fall of the Thirty-six Kingdoms seems to be due to the continuous erosion of the right part of the Xiongnu."

"As a result, their alliance exists in name only, and the Qin people are likely to take advantage of the opportunity."

The prime minister's words fell, and everyone was silent for a few breaths.

Osidmus raised an eyebrow.

Sit up straight.

"It doesn't matter how strong the Qin people in the east are."

"Our real enemy is Antiochus III."

"The sixth king of the Seleucid dynasty was ambitious at a young age."

"Gather the knights to train the cavalry, and constantly test our bottom line."

"It seems that I want to find an opportunity to recover the lost land of my ancestors."

"Even if it is really as the Yue clan said, the national strength of the Eastern Qin people is empty, and they will collapse at any time because of foreign enemies."

"We'll wait until Antiochus III's ambitions are dispelled."

"What's more, the nearest Zhangzhung Dynasty has not moved, so we are not in a hurry."

"Withdraw the army, and let the East let them go first."

Osidemus's words were a foregone conclusion.

After ordering the gold to be transferred to the treasury, the next topic began.

The Prime Minister stood up again and said to everyone.

"How to defend against the cavalry of Antiochus III."

"According to the current intelligence, these cavalry are his confidence to conquer us."

"As long as the cavalry is blocked, our soldiers will not be afraid of the rest of the army!"

But as soon as he finished speaking, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stood up and said.

"The only one who can stop the cavalry is the cavalry!"

"If we can get a lot of horses, it will be easy to stop the Seleucid army."

The Minister of Criminal Law followed up with a final sentence.

"Well, then you'll find enough horses for the soldiers to ride!"

"It's all nonsense, if we have war horses, why fear them."

Osidmus and the Prime Minister looked at the two of them quietly and did not intervene.

But the Chancellor of the Exchequer seemed to be angry, and then he said.

"And what if I find it?"

"Found it, do you dare to go to the battlefield?"

The Minister of Criminal Law sneered and was not afraid at all.

"Okay!"

"As long as you can find it, what if I go with the army to fight and serve the country?"

"Whoever has horses in the surrounding countries will sell them to you."

"Dawan is afraid that we will become strong and capture them."

"Not to mention Kangju."

"I see where you came from!"

The Minister of Criminal Law turned around and glanced at the palace ministers.

He looked like he was laughing.

But then, the Chancellor of the Exchequer stepped forward.

He bowed respectfully to Osidmus.

"King!"

"That Yueshi has a large number of good horses, and they are definitely a hundred times better than the horses of Seleucus."

"Now the Yue Clan has a request for us, as long as we discuss it a little, we can exchange it for enough horses!"

Osidmus was stunned when he heard this, and his face with a slight smile became solemn.

His brow furrowed, he sat up straight and leaned forward slightly.

"You said it, but it's true?"

"Is the Yueshi really willing to sacrifice horses?"

"That's their last confidence."

The Chancellor of the Exchequer replied hurriedly.

"The minister had the foresight for a long time, and when he greeted the envoy of the Yue Clan, he asked tentatively."

"The people of the Nayue clan did not explicitly refuse."

"It's just a pity for their ancestral land."

"He also said that if he could regain his ancestral land, it would be easy to raise more horses."

"But now that the ancestral land is lost, the horses in their hands are one less and one less."

"Wechen boldly guesses that if we are willing to send troops to help them recover the lost territory."

"I will definitely be able to exchange for enough horses, and I can also test the strength of that Great Qin."

"Where did the Xiongnu expand again?"

"If there is really a time, I, Bactria, will not be able to continue Alexander the Great's crusade!"

The Chancellor's words made all the ministers in the palace ponder.

Osidmus stood up even more.

He paced back and forth, then looked down at the Prime Minister.

Without speaking, the prime minister stood up and said in a deep voice.

"This move is indeed feasible, but after all, the Qin people have been in the east for a long time."

"Even if it is decaying, there should be a certain amount of savings, and it is prudent for Wei Chen.

"We should pull in some more people."

"For example, the Zhangzhung Dynasty."

"If we can advance eastward together, even if the worst result is that the Qin people do not decline."

"We can also evacuate easily, so that the closer Zhangxiong can block the anger of the Qin people!"

"Moreover, we can also agree that as long as we send troops into Great Qin, the Yue Clan will provide us with horses."

"Even if we fail, we won't lose money."

The Prime Minister's words made Osidmus very satisfied.

He looked up at the outside of the temple.

His eyes narrowed and he couldn't suppress his excitement for a while.

"I've heard for a long time that the East is extremely rich."

"If I can really go east, I Bactria will be able to achieve hegemony."

(End of chapter)

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