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The cold and cold wind of the northern grassland blew the earth, and the cows and sheep were crowded in the sheltered valley to keep warm. The huge and narrow valleys were the lifeline they depend for survival, and the temperature here was lingering five or six degrees below the freezing point.

Once you leave the valley, the temperature drops sharply by twenty degrees in the storm and blizzard. What’s even more terrifying is the endless snow on the northwest desert, which will become the most terrifying place of death. Countless herders suffer from snow blindness and die in despair in the heavy snow.

This valley is one of the most suitable wintering spots within a radius of hundreds of miles. Every year, countless grassland tribes come here to gather together to keep warm. Businesses passing by will choose to rest here in order to survive this painful and long winter.

The herdsmen set fires and guarded their sheep pens in a daze. Some people looked at the passing figures with their waist knives vigilantly. The Western Regional music played by strange instruments came from afar. The passionate men held the instruments and sang and danced around the woman. The roasted lamb on the fire squeaked out the grease and exuded a strong smell of meat.

This valley that can't be seen at first sight is the pearl at the foot of the Qilian Mountains. It is an important habitat for the ancient Rong people who were half farming and half pastoral in ancient times. It is called the starting point of the eastward migration of the Zhou people who were Shaodi by the Shang Dynasty, and it is also an important transit place for the Xia people who came from the west during the Fuxi period.

Yin Wu, the first stop for the Western Regions to the west to the various countries, and the last stop for the Xiongnu Youxian Wangting.

Lu Heng pulled out a sharp steel knife of sixty rigorous and dipped it in clear water to sharpen the knife on the bluestone. This knife is a guy he cherishes as precious as life. In his words, it is something that people who eat can't throw away.

The squeaking sound of sharpening the knife attracted the attention of the herdsmen. Many herdsmen came over to ask about the price of the steel knife. They were frightened by Lu Heng and drove them away.

"Bah! A bunch of barbarians wanted to replace my sword with a few sheep, and I spitted on him with saliva."

"Lu Touer spoke so humorously. I thought you had drew a knife and cut those martyrs! It turned out that this sentence was useless after holding it in for a long time."

Lu Heng rolled his eyes and was completely immune to Feng Shou's ridicule. This kid had a bad mouth and spoke terrible words, and except for this, everything else was pretty good. No one in the caravan could escape his "poisonous tongue" attack except Gan's father, including the somewhat naughty Ridamu.

Gakhura and his brothers went out early. In Yinwu, he looked for Xiao Yuezhi brothers who were scattered near the Qilian Mountains. This was the place where the Yuezhi people lived for generations and the birthplace of the ancient Rong tribe.

The caravan picked a very good terrain, just next to the river crossing the valley. The cliffs against the valley were very safe. Zhang Qian and Sima Tan hid under the cliffs and quietly dug out the map album of the iron meat treasured.

“Where should we go?”

Sima Tan walked to him and sat cross-legged: "Any question? Of course, I was walking on the flat northern line. I specifically inquired about the news that from here, I went west more than a hundred miles away, and then to the Xicheshi Kingdom, Beilu Kingdom, and Mi Kingdom entered the Wusun Kingdom. Through the river valley of the Wusun Kingdom, you can reach the Dayuan Kingdom."

"No, this road is very unsafe." Gan Zhangqian shook his head.

"Why? This road is obviously the best way to go."

"Because Wusun Kunmo was the adopted son of Maodun Shanyu, he was the adopted son of Maodun Shanyu. The most favored younger brother of the old Shang Shanyu and the strong supporter of the Junchen Shanyu. The most powerful Wusun King of the 240,000 cavalry of the Xiongnu during the Maodun Shanyu era."

Sima Tan couldn't say a word when he opened his mouth.

The Wusun people were the hardcore of the Xiongnu. After his father was killed by the Yuezhi people, Liejiaomi was adopted as his adopted son by the Huns' great khan Maodun. With the support of the Maodun Shanyu, he defeated the proud Yuezhi people with the few remaining family backgrounds of Wusun, regained his own territory, and became the largest power in the Western Regions.

A few years ago, when Liejiaomi's wife died, the military minister Shanyu immediately sent his sister to be his wife. Liejiaomi, the uncles, accepted the gift without hesitation. Even the prince Liejiaomi was born to the wife of the Huns. Now the relationship between the Huns and Wusun countries is extremely good. Choosing to go to the northern line to cross Wusun is simply seeking death.

"The southern line is not easy to walk. We must cross the Sea of ​​Death along the Peacock River to Loulan, pass through the Qiemo Kingdom, Jingjue Kingdom, Khotan Kingdom, Shache Kingdom, and Shule Kingdom. We need to circle the Sea of ​​Death all the way around, which is a huge test for our caravan."

Zhang Qian himself was not sure. According to the description in the diary handed over to him by Cao Shi, these three lines are especially the most dangerous.

Wusun is a place of death that must not be touched. The huge desert on the southern front is named the Sea of ​​Death. The most terrifying mobile desert in the legend is described in the album as the terrifying sea of ​​sand that will surely swallow up the Western Regions countries in a thousand years, but what you hear from the herdsmen is another matter.

The Sea of ​​Death is only one-third of the size of the map album. The desert is crossed by several large rivers. There are nearly a thousand oasis scattered. Although most oasis only has a few hundred people to live in for a long time, only 20% of the oasis can remember more than 3,000 people, and a few large oasis can live in tens of thousands, but if all oasis are counted as a scale of hundreds of thousands.

The southern line is not as terrible as imagined, but the road is far away. The real difficulty is the middle line. This road is also slowly advancing along the northern part of the Sea of ​​Death. This road is said to be the road with the most horse thieves and bandits.

Zhang Qian closed the map album and said, "The situation on the southern line is not clear. We should not try it easily. It is safer for us to go to the middle line. After passing the Cheshi Kingdom, passing the Yanqi Kingdom, Kucha Kingdom, and Gumo Kingdom to Shule Kingdom."

At this time, Gan's father and a few people squeezed into the crowd, dropped the steel knife on their waists and hips and turned on the kettle and drank it hard.

"What's going on outside?"

"Youxian Wangting sent five teams of 100 people to search the valley wildly. At their speed, they only need to search for half a year. In another half a year, we have already gone to the world." Gan's father said with a smile.

Everyone laughed. The Huns' whimsical thoughts were a bit stupid. All the bow and arrow horses that died in vain were abducted. When the herdsmen found the bodies, they had almost been eaten by scavengers. This blow almost knocked the right wise king of the Huns.

Five hundred-man teams went to the valley to search for people. There were at least tens of thousands of herdsmen and merchants who were away from the east in the valley, and countless cattle and sheep in the valley were counting. It was a dream to expect the herdsmen to cooperate with the Huns to find a group of strange caravans who didn't know their appearance and didn't know their origins.

"Our yellow sheep was about to take off. The yellow sheep was probably already in the belly of the herdsmen at this moment. Even the yellow sheep disappeared and saw how they found us."

"And there are camels, be careful of 200 camels."

"It doesn't matter. There are many camels in the valley. They bought camels to cross the Sea of ​​Death and head south to the Kingdom of Loulan. Those people will set off in less than half a month. The herdsmen told me that in a few days when the wind and snow stopped, the temperature will quickly rise to spring, and good days on the grassland and desert will soon come."

"Beware that the Huns are coming."

A small number of people lowered their heads and pretended to take a nap. Others skillfully picked the legs of lamb, as if they were just herders of ordinary origins.

After a while, a team of 100 people held a large bow with a long waist and hip, looking left and right, showing off their power, as if a lion was patrolling the territory. They were the elites under the tent of the Right Xian King. They were the strongest group of people in the Huns by Zhao She.

The Hundred Cavalry Chief of this team is named Hamuke. He is the strongest man in the top three under the tent of the Hundred Cavalry Chief of the Right Xian King. He is a traitor to the Yuezhi people, and he is also the most promising warrior to be promoted to the Thousand Cavalry Chief of the King.

He should have stayed in the royal court to play with his wife and children, but his good mood was messed up by a massacre of Yin Wu, forcing him to trek to Yin Wu before the blizzard came. During the coldest two months, like ordinary herders, he always didn't want to move a step in front of the fire. It was not until the temperature gradually rose that he remembered the unfinished mission.

"Search it for me! You can't let go of every grass or tree in the valley. Even if you dig three feet into the ground, you have to search them."

The Hun cavalry turned over and dismounted and broke into the herdsmen's crowd. They held long swords to intimidate the herdsmen, asking them to explain their identities clearly and where they came from. If they were not clear, there must be problems.

He has always ignored his subordinates' behavior of looting herdsmen. The severe cold and devastated him all winter, which made him feel unhappy as a fair judge. These Huns had been in a valley for most of the winter. Looting some finances was the best way to vent their anger.

Hamuk was about to leave when he accidentally caught a glimpse of the people in the corner and asked casually: "Where did you come from? What's your name?"

“We are the business travelers passing by.”

"Hmm? Passing by?" Hamuk became suspicious and looked at this strange caravan.

Looking around, there were all the strong men in the caravan. Everyone had a long waist and a knife carrying a strong bow. They were big and round waists and had a strong aura all over their bodies. There was no sheep or a woman in the caravan. Such a combination was really strange, as if it was not an ordinary caravan, but a warrior going to fight.

Hamuk turned around and said inadvertently: "Where are you going? Why are there no women in the caravan?"

While speaking, several Hun warriors snatched Lu Heng's steel knife and pulled out the scabbard, they were shocked by the dazzling light. The sharp blade of the sharp blade body could see that even a fool could see that this knife was a rare treasure.

"Good knife!"

The Hun warrior took back his scabbard and turned around and left. Suddenly, a big hand was holding the collar, and he threw it out in a dizzy and heavy manner.

The Hun was thrown into a dizzy way, and Lu Heng walked up to take back his steel knife, ignored the tense Huns, shouted in the Huns, "You search for your people and then snatch my knife and be careful I'm not polite!"

Dozens of men stood up immediately, each of whom touched the hilt of the knife at his waist. The Huns also found that the situation was wrong and immediately pulled out the arch of the knife. In an instant, hundreds of people on both sides were entangled and confronted each other.

"What are you doing? Put your knife away quickly and put it away! Do you want to die?"

Lu Heng pulled out the steel knife and pointed it at the Huns warriors, not afraid of their bows and arrows aimed at them, because dozens of strong bows behind him were aiming at the heads of the Huns warriors. As long as there was a slight change, he would immediately shoot the person on the opposite side into a hornet's nest.

Hamk was sweating profusely, and he felt several strong murderous auras locked him tightly. The intensity of each murderous aura reminded him of the strongest thousand-riding captains under the tent of the Right Xian King.

He is still just a warrior with a quasi-thousand rider captain, and is still a big gap from the strongest thousand rider captain. After being stared at by several strong men with a thousand rider captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain captain cap

"Are you..."

Hamuk's throat seemed to be pinched by a big hand. The strength on his body was rapidly losing. His light filled the distance to a strong man of Yuezhi who looked similar to him holding a strong bow in his hand. The strong murderous aura felt like a needle. The strong sixth sense told him that he would die soon. The murderous aura was no longer a simple murderous aura, but a death aura that relied on the ground of death.

"A strong man of the top ten thousand cavalry." Hamuk's Adam's apple surged and his throat was dry and smoked. There were many parallels in the top ten thousand cavalry in the top ten thousand cavalry, but there were also many incredibly powerful killing machines. They were the strongest men selected from hundreds of thousands of agile warriors, and each had incredible powerful power. A strong bow and an arrow could not withstand the strongest wild boar in the grassland jungle, even the most solid pig skin and skull of the wild boar could not withstand the instant kill of the strong bow.

That kind of power is incredible. Every time he thinks of it, he will be frightened. He will have nightmares at night, which is so terrible.

"How could there be a strong man with the highest level of ten thousand cavalry? Who would this person be?" Hamuk had limited knowledge, and several figures of Huns' saber flashed through his mind. Suddenly, he thought of a missing Huns' saber.

That man was the same branch of the Yuezhi people. That man was once the most proud grassland eagle of the Yuezhi people who surrendered to the Huns, but his tribe was annexed and destroyed by the greedy King Lu Hou and several major tribes, and that man disappeared from then on in the vast desert.

Hamuk's mind had not yet turned around, he suddenly heard a loud shout.

"Warriors under the tent of the Right Xian King, put away your weapons. This is not the place where you gallop, this is not the territory where Kunlun plows, this is the place where Zoroasted shines!"

Gakuro suddenly broke into the crowd. His eyes like falcons locked on the captains of the Huns and said slowly: "The shame of the Yuezhi people. The lackeys of the Huns, you should not come here. This is the territory of our Yuezhi people. You are despicable of the Holy Fire."

The strong man following him was nearly nine feet tall, with white skin, deep eyes and high noses, and a mouthful of Yue Shi: "Hamuk, the descendant of Baharir, is a despicable traitor, and a blasphemer of Ahuramazda! Get out of Yinwu!"

"Juli's lackey, we don't welcome you! Please leave here!"

"Huns, this is not your territory, get out!"

Hundreds of white little Yuezhi people scolded each other, and in the blink of an eye, the lady surrounded a hundred Xiongnu warriors.

Hamuk's face was full of horror, as if he had seen a ghost: "Sharil, why did you appear here!"

"This is the hometown of the Yuezhi people. The Yuezhi people are the masters here. You, an uninvited guest, broke into the Yuezhi people's hometown and asked me why I was here. You must be crazy!" Shalier was nearly nine feet (203 cm) tall, and his low voice with great pressure was like an angry giant bear.

He was afraid.

"Get out! The Huns' lackey!"

"Get out! Yuezhi's traitor!"

The herdsmen spontaneously surrounded them, either old or young, with an indignation and deep hatred towards the Hun cavalry, and their former tribe relatives and friends, and now they have become shameful traitors to their enemies.

"What are you doing? Let's spread it out for me!"

The crowd was squeezed away, and the four Huns and hundreds of cavalry captains looked closely and said in shock: "Sharil! The leader of the Xiaoyuezhi people, how could you be here?"

"I warn you in the name of the leader of the Xiaoyuezhi people, get out of Yinwu immediately, you are not welcome here."

"You are not welcome here, get out immediately!"

"roll!"

The four Huns' cavalry were stagnant and looked around. The Huns' warriors were surrounded. As long as they tried, they would immediately fall into a sea of ​​people from all directions to attack, losing their war horses, losing their bows and arrows, and losing enough space for movement. The powerful grassland king was like an eagle with wings and a phoenix with hair loss, which was not worth mentioning.

"Let's go!"

The four people pulled up the dull Hamk and got into the crowd. The Hun cavalry fled quickly like an amnesty. Even if the Xiaoyuezhi people passing by were pushed by them, they would not dare to take revenge, as if they were stray dogs.

The Xiao Yuezhi people cheered and cheered. Sixty years ago, they were defeated to the Huns for the first time. Thirty years ago, their king died at the hands of the Huns. Twenty years ago, their new king could not bear the humiliation of the old Shang Shanyu and Wusun, and decided to abandon their hometowns that had lived for five thousand years and migrate westwards. As a result, the ten Xihous of Yuezhi were divided into five Xihous of Yuezhi.

From that moment on, the most dazzling pearl on the crown of the Rong clan was dim and the Rong people were no longer worthy of calling it Rong. They were just a group of pitiful and sad losers, leaving only pain and deep shame.

The Yuezhi people quickly fell. Sixty years ago, only a few tribes feared the Huns' soldiers and surrendered. Thirty years ago, a large number of tribes had surrendered. Twenty years ago, after the Dayuezhi people moved westward, the territory that the Yuezhi people in the Western Regions worked hard to maintain was completely collapsed.

The little Yuezhi people, the poor people abandoned by the Yuezhi King, had already dried up their tears. Faced with the cruel Huns, they had to bow their heads in compromise and continue to live in their hometown in a nominal half-obedient manner, but every Xiaoyuezhi people have a deep hatred for the Huns in their hearts.

"Great Ahuramazda! Bless the Yuezhi people to drive away the poisonous snakes sent by the evil Angora Manuel." Shalil shouted the name of the main god of Zoroastrianism, and thousands of Yuezhi herders behind him followed him to pray to the God of Light and Wisdom.

Shalil turned his head and stared at Ganfu deeply: "Gakuru said that you served the Han people in the East and sought to destroy the Huns' alliance. You finally came out of the way, my brother!"

"Yes, I understand completely that we cannot surrender to the barbaric Xiongnu. The ancestors of the Han people were Zhou and Xia people. He and our Yuezhi people are brothers of the same clan. They are more trustworthy and stronger. On behalf of the Han people, I ask your help, the great little Yuezhi king!" Gan's father used the etiquette of the Yuezhi people to return the gift. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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