Chapter four hundred and forty-eight three battles between Qin and Xiong
Although Li Yuan's voice was not loud, his tone was as gentle as possible. For him, the survival and development history of these foreign nations was just a record in history textbooks, but now, they are living people who are living in this era.
The Qin generals who listened were all serious. What Li Yuan said was like pushing a window for them. They thought they were already standing at the top of the world, but when they suddenly turned around, they found that there were higher and more dangerous peaks outside the window waiting for them to conquer and climb.
Li Zuoche thought something.
This resourceful descendant of the famous general of Zhao suddenly realized that his past insights were so naive and insignificant in the face of huge and unfamiliar information.
Cao Xin opened his mouth wide, stared at his unbelievable eyes, and muttered to himself.
The great Western powers, powerful infantry phalanxes, stone-throwing chariots and spearmen, have many similarities with the Xiaoyuezhi soldiers under his command, but what can this prove? On the unknown battlefield, no one can know the answer whether the cavalry of the Qin State is powerful or the infantry of the West is stronger.
The collision between Eastern civilization and Western civilization.
Which one has the upper hand is a historical puzzle.
Civilizations have their own advantages.
The strong enemies will continue to advance or retreat, and whether they advance or retreat will be tested again and again on the battlefield in the future.
Luo Jia, Li Zuoche, Cao Xin, Ji Xin and other generals were speechless for a long time and looked solemn. After fading from the initial fanaticism, they found that for the Qin army on the journey to the west, their future opponents were not weak, but more powerful and more difficult than the other. Compared with this, the Huns who tried their best to flee west were nothing.
"Cough!" Li Yuan coughed heavily, pulling the generals immersed in his imagination back to reality: "Okay, the generals of the Qin Dynasty cheered up and looked up. At the end of the west, there was a wider land and more difficult enemies. With the wealth and glory we had in our dreams, any place we could reach was the iron hoof trampling of my Daqin. Are you ready?"
Li Yuan shouted loudly.
This question was like a thundering day.
He pulled Luo Jia and others back from the shock of knowing the unknown world.
"The Qin Dynasty is invincible!"
"Your Majesty's magical martial arts!"
The sincere shouts made Li Yuan feel satisfied as if he was a teacher. More importantly, through this explanation, the minds of the Qin generals were unprecedentedly unified. In the past, they just followed Li Yuan's footsteps blindly, but now, many of them have their own goals.
"Your Majesty, please give the order. No matter what task, I, Cao Xin, will never frown." The big and thick one-eyed one-eyed one-eyed shouted the first one.
"Old Cao, what are you calling? You are more than one of you here?" Before Cao Xin finished speaking, he triggered another battle among the generals.
"Everyone is quiet, I'll order it now!" Li Yuan took a long breath and shouted: "Luo Jia obeyed the order, your cavalry immediately went out and marched along the way to Tianchi in the Yili Valley. The pasture there was green grass in full bloom. If the troops in Helianbi wanted to rest, the place they chose must be there-!"
"Cao Xin, Ji Xin, your two men are on the left and right wings of the cavalry, and they will be provided by the vanguard troops along the way. At the same time, food security must be protected to prevent the destruction of the Huns and thieves."
"promise--."
"promise!
Cao and Ji looked at each other excitedly and took orders to go down.
Then, Li Yuan held the last tiger talisman in his hand and solemnly handed it to Li Zuoche: "General Li, your army is the back team. I will allocate the Jiangdong Army to you--."
Long-distance expedition.
The most important thing is that in addition to the sharp enough spear of the vanguard troops, whether the shield of the rear team is strong is equally important. The Jiangdong Army may have some shortcomings in attack power, but in terms of defense, Li Yuan believes that Huan Chu will not disappoint him.
Li Zuoche and Huan Chu nodded in agreement. The initial battle was of great importance. Li originally used the Luo Jia cavalry with strong attack power as the vanguard. This was understandable. As the war expanded, they did not worry about not having a chance to show their skills.
After giving a series of orders, Li Yuanjiran stood up, threw the horse whip in his hand heavily on the sand table, and shouted: "You guys, a real man was born in this world. You should carry a three-foot sword and kill the enemy's heads, so that you can live up to your great life. You are willing to work with me to wipe out the barbarians and strengthen my reputation--."
"promise!"
"Da Qin, Da Qin!"
In the king's tent, the morale of the Qin generals was once again led to a high point by Li Yuan's words. This is the courage of the king and the confidence accumulated by the Qin people over the years.
The army moved together.
Luo Jia, who was determined to be thousands of miles away, rushed to the front line for the first time. After being excited, he made an appointment with Cao Xin and Ji Xin, he led more than 30,000 elite cavalry in the headquarters to travel more than 600 miles a day and night toward the Yili Valley area where the Wusun Kingdom is located.
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Underwater in Yili.
The rich snow-capped meadows make the pastures here lush in spring and summer, and long nutritious pastures grow day by day. The juice from the leaves of grass stems is tender and water is oozing out. For the cattle and horses of the Huns who came from the ice field grasslands further north, this is paradise.
Defeat the Great Xia.
Occupy Wusun.
Helianbi, who annexed Huyanxie tribe and led himself to the Great Shanyu, was full of energy. In fact, he did not expect that conquering Daxia's indifferent tentative attack would allow the Hun tribe to obtain sufficient supplies on the eve of continuing to move westward.
Daxia and Wusun.
Over the years, enough nutrients have been absorbed from the silk arteries, and these nutrients are now all cheaper than Helianbi and his tribe. After a brief rest in the pastures here in Tianchi, the Huns could easily embark on the long distance of the Western Expedition, and their conquest would leave the Qin army far behind.
As long as he imagined the scene where Li Yuan and his huge and powerful army could only follow him and eat dust, Helianbi couldn't help but smile.
If you march normally from Chang'an to Yili Valley, it will take a month. Even if the Qin army advances quickly, it will take more than twenty days. With this time, the Xiongnu tribes can rest in the Tianchi Ranch, and then move westward and sweep rest.
The successive victory made Helianbi gradually lose his calmness.
The weakening of the Huns' power also made their intelligence work lose their agility. During Maodun's administration, the Huns lurked in the secrets of Chang'an and were omnipresent, selling court officials, opening shops, and establishing intelligence networks. These various means allowed the Huns to grasp the changes in the Qin State in a timely manner.
However, after Li Yuan took office, the attack on the enemy was unprecedentedly strengthened. Not only the secrets of the Huns, but also the detailed works of Chu and Han were difficult to escape the cleaning storms in Chang'an.
The long-term loss of enemy intelligence made the Huns rely on "hearsalism" from merchants to guess, and Helianbi's slackness comes from this.
In fact, the speed of the Qin army's western expedition was far beyond Helianbi's imagination. Therefore, when the black flag of the Qin army appeared on the east coast of Tianchi, the Huns were panicked and almost couldn't complete the basic formation.
Tianchi (Sailimu Lake).
It is a mountain lake formed by injecting the Ili water flowing out from the depths of the Pamir Plateau. The ice and snow water flows all the way to the northeast and into the cold water lake. The three battles between the Huns and the Qin Kingdom began here.
On the shallows on the lakeside, the Great Chanyu Helian wall was covered with a fishy red cloak, with two wild pheasant tail feathers on their heads, and the sweaty and bloody horses riding under their strides looked like a ball of fiery red from a distance. The conquest of Wusun allowed the Huns to possess the extremely precious strategic material of war horses.
The only thing that made Helianbi a little dissatisfied was the weapon in his hand or a bronze spear. Although its sharpness has not been reduced, it is not as good as the iron weapons of the Qin army in terms of tenacity. The renewal of weapons marks the strength of a country, a nation's productivity and production technology. At this point, the unresolved Xiongnu people cannot be compared with the Central Plains people who lived in groups.
If only Luo Jia and his 30,000 troops were alone, Helianbi didn't take it seriously. But unfortunately, just when he decided to attack the Qin army's vanguard, he heard the news that Li Zhongxiang, the Western Regions Alliance, who came from Shule, arrived.
The two Qin troops gathered together, with a total of 80,000 infantry and cavalry. Such an elite army was not a mob like Wusun Daxia, and Helianbi was as big as a fight.
On the other side, the Qin army infantry and cavalry lined up. Li Zhongxiang, the famous Western Region Divine Arrow General in the Qin army.
In the Western Regions, there are the names of Xiao Li and Da Li.
The Big Li refers to the Emperor Shenwu Li Yuan, and the Xiao Li refers to Li Zhongxiang, who has been guarding the Western Regions for more than ten years, putting more than 30 small city-states together, and has cultivated the most powerful army in the Western Regions.
Li Zhongxiang has not been idle in the past few years. He has left his footprints everywhere on the oasis of Tarim. He has resisted Yuegua and Di Qiang to the outside world. He mercilessly conquered the Qin countries. Among them, the most unlucky one is the Kingdom of Khotan.
This great power on the Southern Silk Road was destroyed by Li Zhongxiang three times in a row because of his competition for dominance with Loulan. The old King of Khotan and the old King of Loulan have always been incompatible, but when Loulan was seriously ill, he tried to unite with more than ten countries on the Southern Silk Road to become independent.
Chapter completed!