Sweep the World

The Han army launched an offensive. At that moment, the war became a big show of surrendering and holding Han's father's thigh. The Han army basically did not encounter decent resistance, and it took only seven days to fully control the Bailongdui.

"It is not only reasonable, but also expected." Xi Yan has been very busy recently. He is so busy that he lacks sleep and has obvious eye bags, but his spirit is extremely excited: "Without our own hands, Guizi and those who want to resist to the end The people in the country were all hit by the Western Regions. Our troops are only going to the end."

Xie An is already standing at the head of the Duhufu that was originally established in the Western Jin Dynasty.

The Western Han Dynasty, the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Cao Wei Dynasty, and the Western Jin Dynasty all established Duhufu in the Western Regions. In the Western Han Dynasty, the Duhufu did not actually have many garrisons. It is a name.

The city of Haitou was established during the Yuan Dynasty in the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was completed around 60 BC. It was originally a city in Loulan that had not been renamed Shanshan. It was taken over by the Han people after Zhizhi was eliminated. Since it took over, it has become the main garrison location of the Togo Prefecture.

There were more than four hundred years from about 60 BC to 350 AD. The Haitou city Xie An saw was definitely not the one during the Han and Yuan emperor’s period. It may have been moved, and the city was also moved from behind. People repeatedly build or repair.

It must be said that the city of Haitou is really small. It has square walls as a defensive chain. There is a city gate on each side. The wall is about two feet high and one foot wide. Most of the areas are rammed earth. The structure, near the city wall is built with gravel mixed with soil.

Different from the city in the hometown of Zhu Xia, the city tower in the hometown of Zhu Xia will have a roof of eaves style, while the city at Haitou is built with shacks. Called Chengtou.

Haitou is located to the west of Puchanghai, right in the middle of Beihe and Ajida River. Standing on the east side of Chengtou and looking eastward, you can see the salt field of mine field mode, but looking inward is irregular. Randomly located houses.

Pu Changhai was originally the largest salt-producing area in the Western Regions. After the Han army in the Western Han Dynasty captured it, it was simply named Yanze. The salt and iron collected in the Western Han Dynasty were centrally controlled. The salt production of Puchanghai was sold to the Western Regions by the government. It even provided places such as Xiliang and Longxi, which created a lot of wealth for the central center of the Western Han Dynasty.

By the time of Cao Wei, while contending for hegemony with Shu Han and Dongwu, Cao Wei spent a period of time in the Western Regions. The reason is that there are not many salt-producing areas under the control of Cao Wei, and the importance of this salt-producing area in Pu Changhai has been highlighted. During the period of Cao Pi, he did not spend much time in order to maintain the stability of Xiliang, but later he gave the Sima family a wedding dress.

"We have found Leshi in Duhujing, Julucang, and Shaxijing. According to the stele, we also dug out some underground warehouses, and found solidified salt layers." The places Xi Yan said have a lot of history. The significance is basically an immediate station for the expansion of the Han army to the west. It originally existed as a source of water for the army, but was later changed to a salt storage place: "The enemy has no effective resistance, and the salt production facilities in Pu Changhai are not damaged."

Xie An nodded slightly, even if he knew it in response.

There is no shortage of salt in Han. After the method of sun-dried salt was researched, the salt fields in the coastal areas were really not too many. At one time, they were so large that they had to be fished for consumption.

Different from the previous dynasties, the Han country under Liu Yan's rule would have a stable supply of salt even in the interior, and because salt is really too good to produce, the result is that the price of salt is also low enough. It is a common thing to marinate, and on the other hand, it ensures that there is no shortage of meat on the table of the Han people.

In the era when there was no refrigerator, the difficulty of eating meat was due to the difficulty of preservation. Whether it was breeding or hunting, it would be wasted if it was not eaten quickly after being slaughtered. There are not many ways to preserve meat. Pickling, sauce and air-drying are one of the two rare options. Natural drying depends on the local climate, it must be cold enough to dry, or it should be rotten. Pickling and making sauce must first have salt. Pickling consumes the most salt, while sauce consumes oil, spices, and Chinese herbal medicines.

In today's Han, eating sea salt has become one of the most affordable ways. Before the inland areas were eaten rock salt, and sometimes even rock salt is not available.

"The job is already making arrangements." Xi Mian said that after the war, he collected some dead cattle, horses, and sheep: "There is enough salt in Pu Changhai, so that food will not be wasted."

Not only the people rely on food as their heaven, but the army’s demand for food is also a bottomless pit. Compared with the people, the army lacks food but can easily evolve into disintegration. Xie An knows that there will be more than 200,000 troops behind him, and he has a clear understanding of getting more food to reserve.

Haitou has now become a military city, with five thousand standing army troops stationed in it, including another ten thousand standing army and the Western Region Corps, and servants are stationed around it.

Since it is to be used as a military city, the messy building layout in Haitou City must not be kept. Currently, it is being demolished and some new barracks have begun to be constructed.

They left Yangguan in late autumn. If the current climate is not biased towards hot, the Western Regions should be the season of heavy rain and snow.

In the age without a thermometer, it is naturally impossible to accurately measure the temperature. By the end of autumn, the temperature in Bailongdui should be about ten degrees, and the temperature will be even lower after the arrival of winter. Xie An should consider the issue of overwintering.

Although it is about to enter the winter and is also preparing for the winter, Xie An really has no plans to stop military operations. He has asked Li Kuang to prepare.

Three days later, Li Kuang would govern the standing army of a division and the troops of the 30,000 Western Regions Corps and continue to march west. Their goal is the border of Qiuci, or the way of advancing both land and water.

Puchanghai is a large lake. Except for the great water of the Amanda in the south, the Beihe River in the north extends very long to the west.

After the Beihe extends westward for more than six hundred miles, it will be connected to a river called Dunxishui. Dunxishui connects to the Qinhai. Xie An arranged for Li Kuang’s subordinates to advance both by land and water, and along the Beihe river all the way to the west. It has the meaning of intimidating Yanqi people.

Qin Hai is currently in Yanqi’s sphere of influence. The messenger Xie An sent to Yanqi has not yet returned a message, so it is necessary for the army to deter him. There is no doubt that he is forcing Yanqi to stand in line. , If you want to be an enemy, you don’t mind to do it immediately.

That’s right, Xie An didn’t want to waste time to engage in long diplomatic relations. It was the Han army’s easy effort to conquer Bailongdui and gave him full confidence. After that, there really won’t be so much time and idle time to make peace with the Yanqi people, and take the Western Regions earlier. Solved and presented a victory to the center, he would be promoted to General Zhengxi as soon as possible. After becoming a general in the West, he can justifiably plan the construction of the forward base, and then spy on the Hunyite and Yue, so as to prepare for the future westward advancement.

Han has been fighting on multiple fronts before it was established. In the early days, under the pressure of Shijie Zhao, he went to the Korean peninsula to bully Goguryeo and Baekje. Later, Shijie Zhao, Murong Yeon, and the small court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Let’s start working with Li Chenghan. Not to mention that Xie An felt that there was something wrong with fighting Qiuci and Yanqi at the same time. No one at the top of the army had any concerns. Compared with their previous opponents, Qiuci and Yanqi seemed to them. Just two countries that can be easily cleaned up.

Xie An withdrew his gaze from Yantian outside the city and looked at Fan Jin, who was in charge of diplomatic relations: "Have you contacted Wusun people?"

Wusun was the first country in the Western Regions to send an envoy to Han, and was also received by Lu Yi.

According to Liu Yan's intention, Lu Yi agreed to Wusun's request to re-become a vassal of Han, but he didn't canonize which Wusun was Kunmi.

More than one envoy from Wusun arrived in Chang'an, there were seven in total, and each of them was so eager to be recognized by the Han nation, that is, begging for the title of king for their tribal leader.

Lu Yi's reply to the seven envoys was not altered. He said that he did not understand Wusun's current situation, and it was difficult to decide who would become Wusun King. While allowing Wusun people to nominate him, he must have deserving credit.

Fan Jin gave an ugly smile and replied, "No."

Xie Anyun nodded lightly and did not blame.

The Han army occupied Bailongdui, but there was still a thousand miles away from the Wusun people. The Han people wanted to go to Wusun territory, either through the border of Qiuci or through the border of Yanqi. If you take the North River and turn Dunxian water into Qinhai, you can continue to enter Wusun country by water, but Qinhai is the territory of Yanqi people.

Dunxie water is also divided into two parts, south and north, and people in the Western Regions are divided into Xia Dunxie water and Shangdunxie water. Xia Dunxie water connects Beihe and Qinhai, while Shangdunxie water can directly enter Wusun. The one on the border.

"Nantun Xieshui has a checkpoint established by the Yanqi people." Xi Yan didn't know if he was trying to justify Fan Jin, and said: "Any ship that wants to enter the Qin Sea through Nantun Xieshui needs to be released by the Yanqi people."

The gate where Nantun Xie Shui enters the Qin Sea is called iron gate by Yanqi people. In fact, it is not a gate made of iron or something. The name "iron gate" means "solid as golden soup", but it is actually a gate. The water village across the river.

The Yanqi people knew the strategic value of the Beihe River, and they knew enough that the Beihe River entered the Qinhai Sea through the Nandun Xie Shui, and they controlled the iron gate very strictly. From the southern part of the Western Regions into the Yanqi country, it is very dangerous to walk through the mountains. Basically no one can walk, and the army is not suitable for incursions through the mountains.

The northwest of Han is naturally connected to the border of Yanqi, but it’s not easy to enter the border of Yanqi directly from the northwest of Han. First, you have to pass a section of the Gobi area, which is about ten miles away, and then enter the desert area. In the desert, it is directly facing the mountains and Tianshan.

Therefore, when the Han people expand westward, they really can’t directly plunge into the area currently occupied by Yanqi. Otherwise, they don’t have to enter the Shanshan border first and then turn such a big turn when dealing with Cheshi’s current eastern border. The Hebei River and Dunxianshui went to war.

No matter it was before or now, the north of Yumen Pass is a forbidden area where it is best not to go, because the Gobi and desert are naturally blocking the way. Zhu Xia's difficulty in expanding westward was not only because of the long road, but also because it was really difficult to walk along the way, and it also demonstrated the important value of the Hexi Corridor.

By the way, Hexi in the pre-Qin period in the ancient times is not the same place as the Hexi after the Han Dynasty. Hexi in the pre-Qin period refers to the area west of the southern section of the Yellow River between the two provinces of Shan 1 West and Shaan 1 West. Hexi in the Han Dynasty is the Jiuquan of modern Gan 1 Su , Zhangye, Wuwei and other places.

Xie An would ask the Wusun people that after a few days he has learned that Shanshan people are completely mud and can be used as guides or labors, but expecting Shanshan people to go to the battlefield will definitely pit him. He didn't want the Han people to lose too much in the Western Regions, so they needed cannon fodder troops. Under the premise that the Shanshan couldn't do it, the importance of the Wusun people was highlighted.

Horse thieves? Xie An is not at ease with the horse thieves. There is no such thing as being rebellious. The horse thieves are not tied by nation or country. To put it bluntly, it is difficult to grasp any handle. How to control becomes a difficult problem, unlike tribal or state control. The site or family can make people afraid to rebel easily.

"The young men of the Western Regions Corps came to the Western Regions for many reasons, but there is no responsibility for soil expansion." Fan Jin told the truth: "Before, there were allied troops from Bailongdui blocking the way, so they can settle down and fight. The coalition forces in Bailongdui were wiped out in ashes, thinking about rushing into the world of Huahua."

Xie An can understand that although the young and strong are organized~www.wuxiamtl.com~, they are really not a formal organization. They are forced to fight and fight. Everyone wants to take off the reins and enjoy themselves. He can suppress this for a while, but it will definitely be a big trouble if it takes a long time.

Shanshan's border is to be built by Xie'an as a forward base, so it is definitely not possible to grab a special grab within Shanshan's border, because this has already caused complaints, forcing him to arrange for Li Kuang to enter the west at the same time. Make some openings to allow some people to leave the establishment by drawing lots.

There were 10,000 Han people who left Bailongdui. They did not break away in an organized way, but went west on their own accord or on the basis of friendship or the Xiangdang. The first place to spread Huan was West Kunlun Mountain, west of Nanshan Mountain, which is called Qiemo. A gathering place for people.

At the end of the day, it still exists as a country, that is, a vassal state without diplomatic power and independent transfer of power. It obeys Khotan and Qiuci on two boats, and participates in the anti-Han coalition forces. Their sphere of influence is to the north of West Kunlun Mountains, and is separated from the Shanshan border by the Amanda Great Waters. It is adjacent to Jingjue and Khotan to the west, and is connected to Qiuci in the north.

Most of the people who escaped in Bailongdui were retreating to Qiemo territory. The group of Han who were allowed to leave the army by Xie An, they just caught the ruined soldiers and reaped their heads into the Qimo realm.

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