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Chapter 1607 Hexi Hexi 2

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    On the Qilian Mountains, snowflakes are falling.  On the distant mountain tops, ancient glaciers stand still.  Staring at the glaciers hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago, Huyandangtu took a step forward.  The boots stained with blood left a deep dark red mark on the snow.  At this moment, up and down the mountains, the sound of fighting continued, just like before.  It¡¯s just that the roles have to be reversed.  One of the main forces in the coup that year, the men of the Qu family and their slaves, were now in ruins.  After the Han army put pressure on Juyan, Qiqu Qiediao took away the main force of the Qiequ clan, Wanqi, leaving only more than 3,000 troops in and around the Qilian Mountains - among these more than 3,000 people, there were  Almost two thousand people defected during this coup.  The main force of this coup was the Qiang people and the Luhou, Ruolu, Xiutu and other tribes from more than 500 miles around the Qilian Mountains.  It¡¯s funny to say.  In order to regain his power, the Shanyu of the Jintian clan could only rely on those past vassals, slaves and even hostile forces.  Holding the riding whip, Huyan Dangtu didn¡¯t know whether his choice was correct.  But he knew that this was his only chance.  Taking advantage of the heavy snowfall in the middle of winter to recapture the Qilian Mountains and support them in Dan, they immediately reached an agreement with the Han Dynasty and led Han troops into Hexi.  This is called borrowing help from teachers to suppress.  As for, will the Han army stay and not leave when they come? ???????? But this is beyond our control!  There is one thing that Huyan Dangtu can be sure of: the Han army and their emperor will definitely not reject the good intentions from him and Yu Shan.  It was impossible for the civil servants of the Han Dynasty to ignore him and his masters.  During these two years of dormancy, Huyan Dangtu also studied and understood the truth.  He knew that for the Han people in the south, loyalty was a noble virtue that could never be ignored.  There is a famous story in the Han Dynasty - the orphan of the Zhao family. It tells the story of a loyal minister and righteous man who protected his young master in times of danger and was praised by the world.  "Kill! Kill all the rebellious Qiequ traitors!" Huyan Dangtu drew out the long knife from his waist and ordered: "Today we must control the entire Qilian Company, then gather our troops, send envoys to the Han Dynasty, ask for reinforcements, and borrow troops!  " On Bingchen (ninth day of the ninth day) in the winter of October of the ninth year of Yuande, the Xiongnu left general Huyan Dangtu and the Hexi Qiang tribes seven, Xiutu, Ruolu and Luhou launched a coup in the Qilian Mountains and bloodbathed the Qilian Mountains, leaving behind  Qilian's Qiequ clan, Dangyang clan and other Qiequ Qiediao Nanxinfu tribe were all killed.  All men taller than the wheel will be killed!  Qilian Mountain was bleeding for three days.  However, due to the wind and snow, the outside world did not know that something had happened in Qilian Mountain.  After taking control of the Qilian Mountains, Qiqu Qie Diao Nan immediately led his tribesmen to hold a heaven-sacrifice hall at the northern foot of the Qilian Mountains, reprimanding Qi Qu Qie Diao Nan and King Zhelan for all their treachery and disobedience, and respectfully welcomed the Shanyu of the Western Huns.  Yu Shan.  Fifty miles west of Heli Mountain, on the banks of the Ruoshui River, there is a Han army fortress.  This place was originally a camp of the Gu Qiang people. The terrain was difficult and the water was weak. In the autumn of last year, the Bo people defeated the Gu Qiang people who were entrenched here and captured all their people. Then the Han army built a small fortress here.  It was continuously fortified and expanded throughout the autumn, and was named Jiasai.  It means the first fortress on the front line of the Han army.  After several months of reinforcement and expansion, the defense of Jia Fortress is now in shape.  There are three beacon towers and two arrow towers built in the fortress, and the city wall is more than one foot high, which can withstand the enemy's surprise attack.  A strengthened Sima force was stationed in the fortress.  There is a Modao team and several crossbow teams. There are also several wells in the fortress, and enough food and grass for Sima to eat for several months is stored.  After the fortress was established, the Han army firmly controlled the upper reaches of Weowui River and had the ability to spy on the lower reaches of Weowui River and even Juyanze.  Any enemy coming from Juyan or other directions must first capture Jiabao before they can continue to advance towards Heli Mountain. ?????????????????????? Otherwise, keeping the armored army is equivalent to burying a nail in the wall for yourself.  On this day, Wang An, as usual, held up his telescope and patrolled the vast wilderness, searching for any people or animals that might appear in his sight.  Since the beginning of winter, there have been a steady stream of Western Huns herdsmen and slaves fleeing from Juyanze to areas controlled by the Han Dynasty.  These people could not stand the high-pressure rule and cruel exploitation of the Western Huns, so they risked their lives and fled.  Wang An likes people like this the most!  Because it means political achievements, it also means thatHonor.  The more people who return to Yi to vote, the more achievements and achievements he will make.  It also attracts more and more attention from above!  There is no other way. In the future, the Han Dynasty will develop Heli Mountain and Guzang Mountain and manage Juyan and Hexi.  For the labor force, the more the better!  Even the agents and scouts sent out to investigate the enemy's situation and obtain information were tasked with deceiving the Western Xiongnu tribe into surrendering.  It¡¯s just a pity that as the wind and snow get heavier and heavier, there are almost no people coming to vote recently.  Not even a single person has come in the past two days.  This made Wang An feel a little melancholy.  Looking at the vast and empty wilderness, Wang An put down the telescope in his hand and planned to go back and have a sip of wine to warm up.  But at this moment, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a figure struggling in a corner of the snow on the other side of the Ruoshui River.  He quickly raised his telescope and looked over, only to see a barbarian man wearing a sheepskin jacket who seemed to be injured and fell in the snow not far from the river bank.  "These damn Western Huns!" Wang An cursed secretly.  The Western Xiongnu kingdom was small and had few people, and it faced military pressure from the Han and Northern Xiongnu. Therefore, since its establishment, it has ruled Hexi with high pressure and cruel exploitation.  According to those Hu people who fled to Heli Mountain, in the Western Xiongnu country, starting from the autumn of the previous year, Shan Yuting ordered each tribe to send a male to Shan Yuting to serve as a soldier.  Relying on this policy, the Western Huns raised 70,000 cavalry that was seriously inconsistent with their population!  (You must know that the total population of the entire Hexi region, even including the Qiang people, does not exceed 500,000!) In order to maintain such a large army and Shan Yuting's own luxurious life, Shan Yuting can only suck the bones out of the lower class herdsmen.  Use all means to squeeze it.  It is said that the tribute of an ordinary herdsman in the Western Huns has tripled compared with before.  Since last summer, it has doubled!  This means that most ordinary herdsmen¡¯s hard-earned income for a year is not enough to pay tribute!  But Shan Yuting would not be polite to them. Once the tribute could not be paid, at least the livestock would be taken away to pay off the debt, or at worst, all the herdsmen of the household would be demoted as slaves.  Some of them were even exported to the Han Dynasty, bought back by merchants and brought back to the country.  The price of these Hu slaves is quite cheap.  A piece of burlap can buy a male slave in the Western Huns. If it is a small slave, you can even buy two!  Thinking of this, Wang An felt a little sympathetic, so he shouted to the arrow tower: "Wuzhang Zhang! Wu Zhang! You take people to the north on the west bank of Ruishui to bring that barbarian back See if you can save him.  Live" Each of these Hu people who defected to the Han Dynasty was a very good labor force.  He is also the best pioneer of the future reclamation group.  For these people, Heli Mountain has repeatedly ordered all frontier barriers to ensure the survival of the other party and rescue them as much as possible.  A man in cotton-padded clothes from the archery tower poked his head out and said, "Okay! Wang Sima, I'll take the people there right now!" With that, he led a few soldiers out of the archery tower and stepped down the tower.  , and then paddled out on the sleigh from the gate of the fortress.  Half an hour later, they brought back a Hu man who seemed to have been knocked down by hunger and cold.  On this barbarian, they found a sheepskin with Chinese characters written on it.  The sheepskin was immediately sent to Wang An. Wang An did not dare to neglect, so he personally took the sheepskin to the Han army camp in Heli Mountain.  Two days later, Ju Meng saw the sheepskin.  "Something happened to the Western Huns!" Ju Meng immediately changed his expression after reading the content on the sheepskin: "The Huns' former left-general Hu Yandangtu launched a coup in the Qilian Mountains, bloodbathed the Qiequ family in the Qilian Mountains, and claimed to have 'saved Shan Yuyu'  In the midst of fire and water, they are now asking for help from my Han familyasking the emperor to send troops to help them pacify the country" "Is there a fraud in this matter?" It happened that Dao Jian was also drinking at Ju Meng's place, and he was suspicious after hearing this.  road.  "Regardless of whether it's a fraud or not" Ju Meng said with a smile: "With this sheepskin, our army will have a good reputation!" There is no need for the excuses the emperor made, the Han army can directly fight'  Under the banner of being invited to quell the chaos, he passed through the Juyan Gorge openly.  Maybe the defenders of Juyan Gorge will be on the spot without firing an arrow!  However, now is the mid-winter season, and it is impossible for the Han army to rush deep into Juyan and even Hexi in such a season.  This is a bit regretful.  "Immediately order people eight hundred miles away to rush and send this sheepskin to Beidi County!" Ju Meng handed the sheepskin to someone.The staff officer ordered: "In addition, summon all the captains of the army to discuss the matter immediately!" "No!" After a whole autumn of gathering, the Han army is now between Heli Mountain, Guzang Mountain, Ruoshui River and Qiang River.  More than 20,000 troops were gathered.  At the same time, a large amount of food and grass was also stored.  If the original Juyan battle plan is followed, this kind of force is enough to defeat the enemies of Juyan.  But, now we want to destroy or control the Western Huns.  This strength is not enough!  Because, the Juyan area alone is as big as five Beidi counties!  This is just a conservative estimate!  As for the entire Hexi area, it is two to three thousand miles of land, with all kinds of terrain including canyons, plains, hills, deserts, and plateaus!  The Northern Huns are more likely to be hiding behind Mazong Mountain and Xingxing Gorge, ready to move.  According to intelligence, the Northern Huns are now gathering troops to the Western Region. These troops may go westward, but they are not sure they will go south.  "If the Northern Huns join the battle" Who will win, there's no telling!  ¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ Just a few days after the Han army received the information, Juli Lake offshore also received information about the uprising of the Western Huns.  It is funny to say that nowadays, such changes have occurred in the Qilian Mountains, but Qiequ Qediaonan, the left general of the Western Huns, and Zhelan Wang Gutu, the right general, are still buried in their bones.  On the contrary, both the Han and Northern Huns got the information.  There is no way - in the Western Huns, no one is optimistic about it and it is difficult to solve it.  As for Gu Tu¡ªif he had taken control of Yu Shan first, he might still be taken seriously.  However, he is now leading Zhelan's main force to monitor the situation in Juyan, and it is difficult to do so, which has disappointed many people who are interested.  In this life-and-death situation, to disappoint people is to be abandoned.  No one would have the patience to wait for the Zhelan people to take control of the situation.  Everyone knows that the survival of the Western Huns is not determined by the Western Huns themselves.  The Han and the Northern Xiongnu will end up either way, and the Western Xiongnu will surely perish!  Nowadays, the Han army is sharpening its sword and everyone knows the drunkard's intentions.  Those who were unwilling to surrender to the Han Dynasty naturally had no choice but to move closer to the Northern Huns.  "Huyan Dangtu can actually do such a thing!" Goulihu sighed after learning what happened: "He is quite a person" But it's a pity that this hound is the hound of a military official.  He cannot tolerate this remnant of the previous dynasty!  After hesitating for a moment, Goulihu immediately ordered: "Go and tell King Sun Zhu that I have ordered him to lead his troops near Xingxing Gorge and wait for orders!" "Your will is the great support of Gutu!" A nobleman took the order and left.  .  King Ri Zhu was a relatively important nobleman in the Xiongnu system. Since ancient times, he could not be appointed to anyone other than the twin clan.  But in today¡¯s Xiongnu system, the so-called Sun Chaser King has become a synonym for the miscellaneous king.  In other words, this order from Juli Lake has already shown his attitude - whoever wants to go south to die will go alone.  He won¡¯t go anyway!  The current Huns are far from enough to fight against the Han army!  There are less than 10,000 Han cavalry, and if there are more than 10,000 Han cavalry, they will be invincible!  Now in the direction of Heli Mountain, the Han Dynasty has assembled at least 20,000 cavalry. By spring, this number will definitely double!  Tens of thousands of Han cavalry are enough to destroy and eliminate the little wealth he finally accumulated.  "Anyway, even if the Han Dynasty occupied the Hexi Corridor, it would probably take three to five years to invade the Western Regions.  So, he was not in a hurry at all.  ???¡­¡­¡­¡­¡­ Half a month later, on November Yimao (the second day of the lunar month) in the winter of the ninth year of Yuande, Liu Che also received the sheepskin urgently delivered to Chang'an from Heli Mountain.  In order to deliver this sheepskin to Chang'an, the cavalrymen who delivered the order took over one after another, traveling day and night. More than a dozen horses were killed and two people were even frostbitten. There was no way in this weather that the homing pigeon system was basically useless.  Back to the delivery system of the past.  Fortunately, in recent years, the straight roads within the Great Wall have been fully maintained, so even in winter like this, knights can gallop.  Otherwise, I¡¯m afraid it will take more than half a month!  After reading the contents on the sheepskin, Liu Che was already overjoyed!  This is pie delivered to your door!  No matter whether what Yangpi said is true or not, the Han army can send troops immediately!    Although it is winter now, it is difficult for the army to move.  But this does not prevent the Han army from sending troops!  Liu Che believes that as long as there is a Han cavalry, they will plant their battle flag on the Qilian Mountains - no matter what method is used!  Then, the victory of the Battle of Hexi has been decided!  Maybe we can capture part of the main force of the Northern Huns in Hexi!  Therefore, Liu Che immediately issued an order, ordering Wei Chi to set off from Chang'an to Heli Mountain immediately. At the same time, he issued an edict to Yizong, the governor of the Anbei Protectorate, ordering Yizong to immediately concentrate all his forces and mobilize the militia and militiamen from all counties in the north from now on.  The peasants worked with the slave workers to clear the roads and clear away the snow.  In this way, as long as the weather gets warmer, the Han army can enter a state of war immediately!
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