Since the founding of Xiyong, the war on the Western Front has been unsatisfactory.

In the vast Gobi, there are many countries in the northwest, but it is also located around the most barren desert.

To the north, the Badain Jaran Desert, Tengger Desert, Mu Us Sandy Land, while to the south, the Qaidam Basin, to the northwest, the Tarim Basin, and the Jungar Basin.

The reason why it is called the Hexi Corridor is precisely because this narrow area is a green passage interspersed with large barren areas around it.

The region is multi-ethnic, with constant contradictions, and a large number of local armed forces of a warlord nature entrenched. If it is solved by force alone, it means that a lot of human and material resources need to be invested. Even the powerful former Empire did not fundamentally solve the problem.

Although several emperors of the former Dahua Empire sent troops to the west several times and even took the north of the Tianshan Mountains, they only opened up the trade route, but did not completely include the entire area. This place has been a place for hundreds of years, and it has been a world of robbers, bounty hunters, and knife hands.

Although Xiyong controlled the Hexi Corridor and even went to war in the Western Regions, once he passed the Yumen Pass, even the army usually retreated in the military fortress built.

If people pass by in the barren land, they must be in groups.

Lonely people, let alone become the target of bandits, and the gray wolves in this wasteland will follow them from time to time.

The previous battle gave Yao Shan a new understanding of Xiyong's military strength, and he also had great confidence in exterminating the Red Lotus Sect, but he was disappointed after passing the Yumen Pass.

This time when he went to Guazhou, Liu Yingqi, the general of Xiyong, didn't even receive him, saying that he was busy with affairs, and only pushed it to the vice president to receive him. Regarding the extermination of the Red Lotus Sect, his attitude was to wait for Dajian's army to reach Tianshan, then he Xiyong would also send troops to help, but now, Dajian has no news, so Xiyong will not send troops for the time being.

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This made Yao Shan eat a closed door.

Later, when I arrived at Yumen Pass, I had a friend who settled here, so I went to visit. After meeting and talking, he knew that the rampant Red Lotus Sect in the Tianshan Mountains was more powerful than he imagined!

Why?

"Believe in the Lord of the Religion and have eternal life!"

The Red Lotus Sect Leader Yu Huaqing has a deep influence in this part of the Western Regions, don't think that the Red Lotus Temple is so easy to break through.

In the Tianshan Mountains, there are more than 100,000 followers of the Red Lotus Sect alone. And the Red Lotus Temple is a place where believers gather.

These monasteries give to the people and provide shelter for the passing caravans, as well as the surrounding people, so in the minds of the locals, the Red Lotus Sect is even their official residence, and Yu Huaqing is their god and their emperor.

In a place in the Tianshan Mountains, Dajian has lost control for more than ten years, and the surrounding small countries in the Western Regions dare not encroach upon, not to mention that Dajian has been fighting a war to recover territory, even Xiyong is also eyeing the continuous expansion to the northwest. In recent years, those small countries have been cut off from trade routes, their economies have declined, and their national strength has become weaker and weaker, and they have no strength and ability to resist the tiger and wolf army in the Central Plains.

However, local cults like the Red Lotus Sect have taken advantage of the opportunity to flourish. The nobles of the countries knew that Yu Huaqing was ostensibly the leader of the Red Lotus Sect, and what they did was to help the people and protect others. But behind the scenes, it is the bandits who are secretly connected to the party. Not only that, but the loss of control of the Tianshan Mountains in recent years has also led to lawlessness around them. Yu Huaqing was born in martial arts, and he actually cultivated killer forces in the Tianshan Mountains, snatched those children from their relatives since they were young, and used cruel means to cultivate and create groups of cold-blooded killers who killed people without blinking.

And after Yu Huaqing had these resources in his hands, he started the business of a rental killer!

He hired the killers he cultivated as mercenaries to others, earning the black money of licking blood from the knife edge.

This is also something that the surrounding countries are afraid of. If you pay for his killer and kill the other party, the other party's widow will spend all her wealth and hire him to kill you! This kind of thing is not uncommon in the Western Regions, and everyone talks about it.

It is said that there are thousands of Red Lotus killers trained by Yu Hua Qingguang, these killers have no feelings, and they are not even afraid of death, and they often don't care about their lives for a small goal!

Yao Shan has a deep understanding of this, Yao Chengyan was seriously injured by someone and was not his martial arts failure, but it was really those people who were not afraid of death and dared to hit the knife!

Yao Chengyan stabbed one person to death, and the person didn't let go of his arm when he died, and the other person took the opportunity to give him a knife in the back, if he hadn't reacted quickly, that knife would have killed him! Yao Chengyan's first bloodthirsty time was to break the two arms of the person holding him, and cut them off from his body!

The blood splattered all over him!

That's it, he was still slashed more than a dozen times in a row, and he was also slapped in the back, it was pure luck that he survived!

As soon as I came out of the Jade Gate, I saw more than a dozen people kowtowing around a Dharma statue holding a lotus flower: "Believe in the master, get eternal life!"

At this time, Yao Shan felt the influence of the Red Lotus Sect in the local area!

The dozen or so swordsmen around him couldn't help frowning.

Walking on the road, he said to Yao Shan, if the government does not send troops to deal with the Red Lotus Sect, these people alone will be hitting stones with eggs, they do things for money, but they are not people who die for money, if so, they can return the money to Zongqing Mansion.

Yao Shan nodded, reassured them, and told them that this time they didn't come out to kill Yu Huaqing, but just take a look. And according to the news, the army of Dajian should have arrived in Ulan, because it is a special period, so it is relatively low-key, and it is impossible to borrow the Hexi Corridor, so it can only come through the Qinghai wasteland!

The crowd nodded.

According to the prior agreement, Dajian came forward to suppress the bandits, and these swordsmen would lurk, waiting for the government to attack the Red Lotus Temple where Yu Huaqing was located, arrest Yu Huaqing, and let Yao Shan carry his head to see Yao Chengyan.

Although things didn't go well, Yao Shan went according to plan. And told them that the original plan of this matter did not involve Xiyong, but only greeted Xiyong in advance, and this time Dajian's army came over in order not to touch Xiyong's nerves, and there were quite few people coming, only less than 20,000 people, and they couldn't get too close to Xiyong's territory, so as not to make Xiyong think that Dajian had the intention of sneak attack.

It's just that I didn't expect that after coming to Xiyong to meet the prince, Liu Ba was very concerned about this matter, and when he heard that it was to recover the Tianshan area, he was willing to help, and wrote a handwritten letter to the general Liu Yingqi, asking him to join forces with Dajian to recover the Tianshan area!

I was very happy about this incident, but when I came to Guazhou, I was splashed with a basin of cold water by Liu Yingqi.

After the group arrived at the Tianshan Mountain, they kept a low profile, observing what they saw and heard along the way, and roughly knew that the prosperity of the Red Lotus Sect exceeded their imagination, and Yu Huaqing even controlled the city below the Tianshan Mountain!

This made the morale of the crowd even more low.

As they spoke, they saw a group of red-robed guards riding over......!

Yao Shan was worried, but he didn't say anything, he came to a hotel to stay, and when he was resting, he pretended to be a passing caravan, and when he first came, he asked about the surrounding situation, but he didn't expect the innkeeper to be surprised and persuaded him not to go any further. Because now the Red Cult is at war with the two countries to the west, and they are losing one after another. If they go west and run into the Kumu people, I'm afraid that they will not be doing business, and there will be no people!

Those Kumu people hate the Red Lotus Sect to the core, if they go out like this, they will all be considered Red Sect people!

"Believe in the Lord and have eternal life......

It was a good thing for Yao Shan to get this news, and he went to Kulegh on the second day, which was the territory of the Kumu people, and after explaining his identity as the envoy of Dajian, the Kumu people warmly entertained them.

Only then did the knife men know that he still had a back hand.

It turned out that Da Jian's action against the Red Lotus Sect was not so simple as sending troops to suppress bandits, but he sent lobbyists over in advance. Give those neighboring countries a certain amount of money and food support, and encourage them to encircle and suppress the Red Lotus Sect! The chaos in the Western Regions must be calmed down, so before the Dajian army came, the surrounding countries had already begun to launch an encirclement and suppression, and promised a part of the land as a condition for this encirclement and suppression of the Red Lotus Sect!

This kind of thing, no one would be unwilling to do it, not to mention that Yu Huaqing was the one who was in trouble, and the nobles of these countries were not less affected by Yu Huaqing, and they all hated him to the core. The Kumu people are like this, their prince was killed by the Red Lotus Sect, can they not be angry?

The swordsmen naturally didn't know that Dajian's foreign combat was not like Xiyong's, which was all about opening the way with a big sword.

Paying great attention to strategy and skills is the advantage of Dajian's foreign warfare, and it can stand out in the chaotic war in the Central Plains, relying not only on the army, but also on strategists and lobbyists.

The external strategy has always been based on differentiation and disintegration, and slowly encroaching. The use of troops is a last resort.

It is the so-called soldier who surrenders without a fight.

Compared with the war in the northwest, eighty percent of the war was about face, and the war of Dajian was fought only after infiltrating, reconnaissance, and even dividing and disintegrating the enemy's interior in advance.

At present, the Dajian army has not yet come, and the war has already begun to be in full swing here!

Subsequently, everyone also met the other two small sect masters of Zongqing Mansion, Yao Yan and Yao Jing.

They also gathered here with dozens of swordsmen, and at once there were as many as 100 hired people, and then there were a large number of people from Dajian's army and Zongqing Mansion, as well as various swordsmen hired along the way outside the Guan, who were rushing towards Bosten Lake!

A battle to besiege the Red Lotus Sect and regain the Tianshan Mountains is quietly unfolding!

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sunset afterglow,

There is a neat line on the playground.

Rows of soldiers shouted slogans, stabbed forward with guns, and turned around. The action is smooth, and the shouts are earth-shattering.

Sitting on the high platform with his hands behind his back, he watched the soldiers drill, and the majestic-looking general looked at these Xiyong sergeants.

"Hah!"

Uniformity and high morale.

A general walked quickly up to the high platform, came to the general and whispered a few words, the general nodded, and then instructed the deputy general to preside over the drill, and he got off the high platform and returned to the barracks.

The room was dimly lit, and when he pushed the door in, a man sat quietly and looked at him with a cold face.

Liu Yingqi, the generalissimo of Xiyong, has been guarding the Xihe Corridor for decades, and as Liu Ba's younger brother, he is also the core figure of Xiyong!

Looking at Lian Kang, who had scars on his face, General Liu couldn't help but smile: "It seems that it is not easy for you to come here!"

"It's not easy, your precious nephew already knows my whereabouts!

"Haha!" Liu Yingqi laughed, turned his head and looked at Lian Kang coldly and said, "Who said that this Xiyong should be the rabbit cub?"

"Yes!" replied Lian Kang.

"He has done a good deed, if the great prince does not die, the prince may not be able to move this thought, the general should thank me, otherwise you don't know where to start!" Lian Kang, who was still cold, looked at Liu Yingqi with cold eyes.

"Lian Kang deserves to be Lian Kang, he didn't tell Zhao Su about such an important matter, but chose to act on his own!"

"The fewer people who know about this kind of thing, the better!"

"Well, yes, if others are afraid they won't be able to guess that Tingyu will attack Tingxuan, your news channels are very wide!"

"That's natural, we have a very secret person buried in Xiyong, he did things for Xiyong, and he accidentally became Liu Tingyu's person! That's why I can get in touch with this small part of Liu Tingyu's huge plan! General, when the opportunity comes, my sincerity is already there!"

“......”

After thinking for a while, Liu Yingqi nodded, and then said, "Okay, follow the plan, but one thing has to change!"

"What's the matter?"

"It's not the turn of the person named Yu Huaqing to intervene in this western matter, since he is dying, then I'll give him a ride!"

"No! his people are very important to me!"

"Ha, it's Zhao Su who ordered the suppression of bandits now, and the fight has already started in the west, if I don't go, Yu Huaqing won't be able to live!

Lian Kang frowned: "Are you afraid that he will share your interests! He only occupies the Western Regions!"

"Ha, people are ambitious, not to mention that now this jumping clown is now more and more ambitious! Lian Kang, you raised him well, but you were negligent at one point! The people under your hands are the same as you!"

"Too ambitious!"