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February in the Central Plains is already the season when grass grows and birds fly. If the weather is clear, there will be a faint smell of early summer. In the Western Regions, the shadow of spring has just been seen.

At the end of February, after the last heavy snow melted, countless rivers and streams from both north and south of the Tianshan Mountains began to flow gurgle. After soaking the snow water, the vast Gobi and desert grasslands began to usher in spring. In just seven or eight days, the desolate and bitter and cold desert mountains and ridges were all covered with green grass and wild flowers. The earth instantly felt like a large colorful blanket was covered with.

With the arrival of spring, the countries and tribes in the Western Regions, which had been silent for almost half a year of severe winter, became popular. Farmers began to plow and weave, herders began to graz, flocks of antelope, bison, and wild horses galloped between colorful mountain meadows and grasslands, and countless ferocious beasts and wolves also began to wander and hunt on the mountains and grasslands, and the goshawks soared in the sky, like lonely hunters, with sharp eyes patrolling between the grasslands and snow-capped mountains, and sometimes dived down like sharp arrows. When they soared into the sky, there was a hare or a newly born antelope cub under the sharp claws.

Everything here is extremely beautiful, and at the same time, it is a wilderness that is rarely visited. Apart from the wandering flocks of sheep and the songs of the distant herders, there is basically no figure.

With the Tianshan Mountains as the boundary, the Western Regions are divided into two. In addition to the large grasslands and farmlands with abundant water and grasses raised in the Yili River Valley, there is also a vast desert area, which forms a characteristic that is very different from the Central Plains in climate and environment. In addition, the high and cold Pamirs block the transport of Western water vapor. Therefore, the entire Western Regions are mainly drought and desolate. The countries in the Western Regions are scattered north and south of the Tianshan Mountains and around the desert, living along the river, building cities and grazing livestock, which has given birth to a unique Western Region culture. The food, clothing, housing and use here are completely different from those in the Central Plains.

Here, one year can only be counted as two seasons. Spring and autumn are very short, and winter and summer are extremely long. It seems that before anyone can fully feel the breath of spring, the scorching summer has arrived in an instant. The wild grass and flowers all over the mountains are like being pulled upwards. They are lush and green in half a month. In the blink of an eye, the desert becomes a pasture with lush grass.

At the boundary between the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains, there is Gu Shi, a great country in the Western Regions. Gu Shi is a Hu language, which means a country in Linze. It builds a city and lives in scattered in an area of ​​nearly 10,000 miles. The population is about 300,000. Because it occupies the most abundant and fertile river valleys and basins, the grazing, farming and weaving agriculture is developed.

There is a salt lake in the northwest of Gushi. The nomadic people living by the water in the nearby grasslands and deserts often come here to pick up salt on the desert. Salt is a common necessity for humans and animals. Every day at sunset, you can always see flocks of wild horses and bisons coming to the lake to drink water, which formed an extremely magnificent scene. Thousands or even tens of thousands of wild animals and beasts gathered together, and they were at peace with each other in the beautiful sunset. After drinking water, they left in groups.

This scene is staged day after day, so it naturally attracts many races that rely on hunting for a living, and of course, those trapped men who are ill-intentioned to wild horses are indispensable.

Every day at sunset, a group of wild horses come from the sparse meadows and forests on the northern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, with a population of about 300. The head is a group of horse-colored horses with no slight hair. The neck and limbs are slender, the body is slender and symmetrical, the muscles are well developed, and the four hooves are huge. When running, it is like a sharp arrow. In an instant, it can leave the horses traveling far behind. Among these wild horses, it stands out as eye-catching as a flock of cranes.

If anyone knows this horse, he will definitely be very excited, because it is an extremely rare sweat-blooded BMW in the Western Regions.

This sweat-blooded BMW appeared after the autumn of the year. Because he was sick, he was left with the Dayuan people who went east to Xianyang, and then he mingled with a group of local wild horses. Unexpectedly, he gradually recovered his health. Then, with his handsome appearance and fluent foreign language, he became the tall, rich and handsome among the local wild horses, captured the hearts of a large group of mares and became the leader, and led his huge harem to run and forage on this beautiful field all day long. The appearance of this horse has also caused countless tribes who like horses to notice its existence.

Although Gushi built cities and farming like the Central Plains, grazing is also an important way of survival as farming. As the main livestock for travel and transportation, horses are also very interested in horses. In order to catch this horse, Gushi has many experienced horse catchers constantly searching for this horse on the grassland. Two hundred miles away from Gushi, there is also a huge nomadic people here, with very complex racial composition, including Yuezhi people, Wusun people, Seed race people, and even the Huns and people from the Western Regions.

Although this nomadic people are complex in composition, they are headed by the Yuezhi people, with almost 30,000 adult men, and everyone is equipped with simple saddles and stirrups. Although the weapons are messy, their combat effectiveness cannot be underestimated. It turns out that there are seven or eight nomadic peoples north of the Tianshan Mountains, all of which have been conquered by these people. The total population has exceeded 100,000, which is not much weaker than Gushi.

The leader of this group of people was a man in his forties, with black hair and black beard, a sinister face, and often wore a long robe, and his appearance was similar to those of the Central Plains. If someone familiar with the Yuezhi, he would definitely know this guy, Bi Kun, the King of Nantu who defected to the Yuezhi.

After being defeated by the Qin army, the Yuezhi surrendered. King Nantu led more than 10,000 subordinates to break through the night and then fled westward. Along the way, the Dunhuang tribe of Yuezhi robbed a large number of people and livestock and then defected to Wusun. As a result, the Qin Dynasty just stood firm and the Wusun came one after another. Wusun was quickly crushed into a slag. King Nantu had to escape into the desert. In the next half year, the Qin army divided into two groups to lead the Wusun servants of Yuezhi to sweep across the desert. Dozens of countries in the Western Regions surrendered to the iron hoof of the Qin Dynasty. King Tunan was extremely frightened and led a group of tribesmen to flee northwest in the desert. Finally, he finally escaped from the Qin army's encirclement, and then found a place with abundant water and grass on the edge of the desert north of the Tianshan Mountains to stop to cultivate and nourish.

The Nantu King tribe, who had fought several times with the Qin Dynasty, had seen the power of stirrup saddles, so they began to make stirrup saddle equipment tribes. With the advantages of equipment, the Nantu King defeated several powerful nomadic tribes in the next few years. Not only did he gain a large population, but he also obtained a large number of cattle, sheep and horses. He soon rose again to dominate the desert pastures of tens of thousands of miles, calling himself the Great Yuezhi King.

During the expansion of the Great Yuezhi, in addition to the King of Xiumi and some tribes who followed him to escape, he also met another important figure who the Great Qin wanted to capture, the Hun Prince Maodun.

At the beginning, King Nantu was unwilling to let Yuezhi surrender to the Qin Dynasty, so he arranged for people to let Maodun go. Maodun fled west with a hundred subordinates, hiding east and Tibet all the way into the Western Regions, and then continued to gather some of the Hun tribes and local bandits and hooligans who fled to the Western Regions. Over the years, he also gained a foothold near the Tianshan Mountains and became a considerable force. However, facing the two armies conquered by the Qin Dynasty, Maodun could only run to the more barbaric grasslands northwest with his tail, and then joined King Nantu.

Under the leadership of King Nantu and King Xiumi, with the cooperation of some tribal leaders such as Maodun and Wusun, the Great Yuezhi continued to expand its territory and conquered the alien races. Now, four years have passed, and it has finally grown into a huge tribe that dominates the country.

Whether for the Huns or for the Yuezhi and Wusun people, horses are their favorite things.

Although there are many horses on the grassland, for these grassland peoples, the truly good horses are in the wild. The more fierce the wild horses are, the more good horses they think are.

After spring, a group of wild horses suddenly broke into the territory of the Yuezhi people, coming and going freely like the wind. The chestnut horse was surrounded and chased by countless hunters, but returned empty-handed countless times.

This horse is not only beautiful, but also has strange speed, strong explosive power and long-lasting endurance. Even the best war horse of the Great Yuezhi can only follow behind the butt to eat dust in front of this wild horse. Therefore, this wild horse was gradually praised as a Tianma by the Yuezhi people, and it is the most precious gift given to the Great Yuezhi people by the Horse God.

In order to capture this extremely majestic horse, King Nantu organized a powerful horse-catching team to follow for several days, and prepared to set up an ambush on the edge of the salt lake two hundred miles away from the border of the Great Yuezhi. He must completely capture and tame the chestnut BMW. The leader of this horse-catching team is Maodun, and the number of people participating in the roundup reached thousands.

It can be said that this is the largest horse-catching operation in history. Even Maodun was the prince of the Huns, he had never seen such a mobilization of a horse.

However, in everyone's opinion, if you can succeed, you will definitely be worth the money.

Being able to have such a good horse would be like having another life. In a crisis, the horse can escape and ascend to heaven.

Although Maodun and King Tunan are not the same as each other, they have beenhaved in a normal manner over the years. Now, the identity of the prince of the Huns is no different from a wild dog in the eyes of King Tunan. He can only keep trying his best to please him, and he is very respectful and tame on weekdays, mainly because the difference in strength is too big and he has to bow his head.

When King Toonan arranged a large number of people to capture the wild horse, Gushi Guojun, not far from the salt lake, still knew about the horse very early and had arranged for people to round up the horse. But like the Yuezhi people, they returned in a defeat every time, mobilizing many troops several times, even touching the horse's hair.
Chapter completed!