Chapter 5 The Kushan Empire, Zhaowu City
The sun rises, and golden light shines on the grassland, and layers of green grass tips are covered with a thin halo.
The girl was wearing a skirt and armor, holding a sword and standing with her long golden hair dancing in the wind, and her elegant figure was like a magnificent picture in this field.
The girl has been here for a whole night. The grassland on the moonlit night is extremely desolate and cold, and the wild beasts that often appear make it even more dangerous and are not something that ordinary people can tolerate. However, the girl uses it as a test place for the training of her mind.
The horse croaks.
The sound of more than a dozen war horses galloped throughout the surrounding fields.
More than a dozen knights held long swords in their hands, rode on horseback, and quickly rushed towards the girl's place.
The cloak roared in the wind, and the armored knight turned into a stream in the Mercedes-Benz, with only that bright look, with perseverance and fearlessness.
"Chief, the king is calling you back."
More than a dozen knights formed a circle and surrounded the girl. They drew out their long swords, inserted them into the soil in front of them, and knelt down on one knee.
These people are the most powerful warriors, willingly gathered around the girl, charging into battle, and being brave and meaningless.
The girl opened her eyes that had been closed all the time, and her green eyes were filled with a pleasant luster.
That night, the girl forgot a lot of things, including her past identity and the country that should have belonged to her. Since she pulled out the sword in her hand and left the fantasy country that made her soul peaceful, the girl has understood her mission and responsibility, in order to respond to the king who is looking forward to herself and the existence that will never be forgiven.
"let's go!"
The knight brought the war horse to the girl. The girl pulled up the long sword in the soil, carried it beside her, rode the war horse, and headed towards the distance.
The buildings in the city are square, and both the inner architectural style and layout are arranged in a golden ratio.
According to legend, a great king once conquered here with his army, destroyed the primitive civilization here, and brought about the tradition of a distant place.
The buildings, laws, military systems, and even customs that are now preserved in this city are said to have come from the hometown of that king.
However, the king died young, and the land of the past and the city of today have changed hands several times.
The palace of the Queen of Yuezhi is located in the center of the city. Rows of long stone pillars surround the rectangular palace. After a hundred years of war, it has endured wind, frost, rain and snow, and has long been dilapidated.
"Alia, are you here?"
In the palace, the Queen Mia, who was wearing a goose yellow dress, a plush cloak and a golden crown on the throne, saw the girl coming, walked down from under the throne happily, ran to the girl in three steps and two steps, raised the girl who was about to kneel down, held her hand, and walked forward side by side with her.
When Xihou, the Kushan tribe of the Yuezhi rebelled and was defeated by Aliya. With the help of Aliya, the princess of the Great Yuezhi took advantage of the situation to control the Kushan tribe. In order to avoid the edge of the Qin army and the coalition forces of the Western Regions, the Queen of the Great Yuezhi led her tribe to retreat westward, crossed the majestic mountains, walked through the desolate highlands, and came to the fertile land today.
The journey was not smooth. After the conquering king passed away, his generals took over his vast territory in the east and established a huge dynasty called Seleucid.
But now a hundred years have passed, the dynasty is no longer glory, the isolation of the region and the corruption within it have caused rebellion among the subjects. Whether it is the indigenous people within the dynasty or the people who migrated from Macedonia within the dynasty, they are not willing to be under the rule of the dynasty.
Parthia and Bactricia successively independent, Egypt to the west of Seleucid and the rising Rome also endangered the dynasty's rule.
Through ten years of migration and struggle, the Yuezhi moved westward and left the Western Regions. He fought with the first-time Bactrice for several years, and finally obtained a large area of land in the cracks between Daqin and Bactrice. The girl Alia also established her own powerful knight order during the battle along the way.
The attitudes of the surrounding countries are completely different when it comes to this emerging force. Bactricia naturally wants to get along with it, while Parthia is ambiguous.
As for Seleucci, the attitude was very subtle. On the one hand, it did not recognize the independence of Baktria. In its official map, the land occupied by the Yuezhi was still in the territory of Seleucci. On the other hand, Seleucci's war in the west had already been extinguished. Since the ambitious Antioch III, he has been committed to expanding the east and regaining the land lost in the east for decades.
In this case, Seleucau would naturally be happy to have a force that could contain Baktria in the east.
As for the south, since the death of the Mauryan king Ashoka, the domestic politics of the Mauryan dynasty was not stable, and the monarch who had just succeeded to the throne was not well received. He never cared about Yuezhi, a small force nowadays.
To the east of the Yuezhi is the Western Regions of the Great Qin Dynasty, and Dayuan and Wusun are among them.
Dayuan turned a blind eye to Yuezhi's attitude. Anyway, the land controlled by Yuezhi never cut off trade with the Western Regions.
Since Wusun was defeated by Zhang Han and led 10,000 cavalry between the Qilian Mountains ten years ago and surrendered to the Qin Dynasty, he has repeatedly rebelled and repeatedly suppressed for several years. Wusu moved westward and was adjacent to Dayuan.
Yuezhi and Wusun were both defeated by Qin, lost their land and lost their country, and felt a deep pain.
Therefore, the young prince who was newly succeeded by Wusun has always wanted to unite with Yuezhi, advance eastward, and resist the Qin Dynasty.
This is also the reason why Queen Yuezhi recalled Alia.
"Alia, the experience of the past ten years is like a dream. I still can't believe that we have established our foothold and have our own territory in this strange area."
Queen Yuezhi has a slender figure, and her wheat-colored skin exudes a youthful atmosphere under the almost transparent goose yellow beard skirt. As she grows older, Mia's appearance becomes more and more beautiful. Her innocent smile and kind heart attract warriors to come and submit.
Alia smiled: "Your smile is the treasure guarded by our knights."
"By the way, Aliya Wusun's new king sent an envoy to form an alliance with us and deal with our common enemy Daqin. What do you think?"
Speaking of this, Alia stopped her pace and said softly: "Mia, my queen. Do you want to return to your former homeland and restore the glory of the Yuezhi?"
Mia also stopped, and the graceful aura exuded by herself was enough to make any man fall under her skirt. The Queen of Yuezhi remembered the gentle-smiling boy in the Zhaowu King City many years ago, and was also the culprit who caused her to leave her hometown. Her eyes became extremely firm and she clenched her hands.
Mia looked at Aliya and said, "I want to go back, I want to regain the hometown of Yuezhi, I want to defeat Qin, our Yuezhi's destiny enemy. I want that man to lower his high head in front of me. But I understand that I can't do it alone. I need your help, Aliya."
Facing the girl's hope, Alia responded: "I understand that we can join forces with Wusun, but we cannot move eastward now."
"Why?" Mia didn't understand. Alia sent a large number of troops to the border not long ago, so why do she say that she could not advance eastward?
"The King of Wusun is eager to take revenge, but now the Great Qin is just like the Japanese side. It is not a wise move to join forces with him to advance eastward. Moreover, the news from the caravans on the trade route. Qin is launching a large-scale battle against the Hu tribe in the north, and the scale of dispatching troops alone is hundreds of thousands."
"Hundreds of thousands!" At this time, Mia screamed in surprise, and her confidence in vowed to restore the country was also stagnant. Although the Yuezhi soldiers were good at fighting and advanced westward, they had few opponents, but the number was only about 10,000.
Compared with the two, there is a gap naturally.
"That's right!" Alia nodded and said, "We are still very weak now. Whether it is the Bacettes in the West or the Macedonians in the West, let alone the Qins in the East. The reason for alliance with Wusun is not to advance eastward, but to completely eliminate Bacette."
"Why?" Mia asked a little confused about Alia's ideas.
Alia said: "Only by mastering Bakrt's land can we control that trade route. The trade route connecting the east and west from Xianyang, the capital of Qin, can bring us huge benefits. A large number of cities and land can also provide us with countless food and grass. With food and grass and wealth, we can recruit soldiers and have the capital to advance eastward. The reason why I sent troops to the border of Dayuan was to show our army and majesty to the countries in the Western Regions, and to test it."
"Test?"
"That's right, the countries in the Western Regions are not a whole, and many of them are just surrendering to the Qin army and tyranny, and are not truly surrendering. Those are the objects we can allied with."
"So that's it." Mia shook her head, her face was a little discouraged, and she smiled: "Alia, compared to you, I am a fool. If I hadn't been you, I might have died that night, or I would have become a puppet played with by Tuluwan."
"King, please don't say that. You have a power that most rulers today do not have. Your strong inner tenderness can make everyone feel hope and save those who are lost. With this power, you can unite people of all races in the kingdom. We need this power to gain a foothold here, and even to defeat that unforgivable existence in the future."
"Really?" Mia showed a cute smile, "Alia, I'm really happy to say that.
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Zhaowu City, the imperial chief official of the Western Regions.
Zhang Han was wearing armor and stood in the backyard pavilion, from which he could overlook the scenery around the city.
Behind him, a general in black flashed, and his hand lowered his head.
Zhang Han turned around slightly and asked, "How is it?"
Since four years ago, Ying Ziyi was exiled to Yunzhong. Zhang Han was sent to the fiefdom by Ying Ziyi and commanded the troops in the fiefdom.
Xiao He, Li Zuoche, Zhang Han and Ying Ziyi were in charge of finance, government affairs and military affairs in the fiefdoms.
"Our spies from various countries in the Western Regions have sent messages one after another. After hearing the imperial edict of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, the kings of the Western Regions have set off one after another. However, some kings still ignore it."
"Hmph!" Zhang Han snorted coldly and asked, "Who are they?"
"King Kucha, Wusun, Cheshi, and Dayuan also invaded the territory with Yuezhi and had no time to come."
"How are you preparing for the war?" Zhang Han asked with murderous aura in his eyes.
"There was news from Lord Xiao He that the harness, armor, and food used by the 30,000 cavalrymen are all ready and can set off at any time."
"Very good!" Zhang Han said slowly: "You must let the kings of the Western Regions understand that if they do not want to continue to stay on the throne, then I, Daqin, have the ability to replace them at any time. What about the situation in the Yuezhi side?"
The black-armored general looked embarrassed and replied: "The road is long, and our spies have not yet received any specific information. The passing Western Regions caravans just said that the Yuezhi had established a country in the West."
"Whether it is the Yuezhi or the Huns, the empire's eternal hegemony will never be affected."
The side room behind the Chief Office of the Chief Secretary.
Xiao He and Li Zuoche knelt on both sides of the stove, cooking hot water. Tea leaves floated in the cup in front of them, and the fragrance radiated. Unlike Zhang Han, they were both from the six countries. Therefore, they became closer.
"Your Highness the Crown Prince takes advantage of this Yuezhi invasion and seems to be about to strengthen his rule over the Western Regions." Xiao He said with a smile.
"There are small soldiers in the Western Regions, but they occupy the important roads, water sources, and food and grass on the Silk Road, which are of great significance. They are like sheep, and they often obey the strong. But it is precisely because of this that these small countries are swaying between our Daqin and the Great Qin Dynasty and the Great Western Regions of the Yuezhi Wusun Dayuan. The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and establishing counties is not in line with reality." Li Zuoche took a sip of tea and said slowly.
"So the purpose of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is to make the kings of the Western Regions have an irresistible impression of the power of our Qin army, so that they will completely surrender."
"That's right." Li Zuoche said with a smile: "Although the countries in the Western Regions have weak military strength, they can easily gather 100,000 troops together, which is a force that cannot be ignored. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince means that the government affairs of the countries in the Western Regions are managed by themselves, but the guards of each country and even taxes on the commercial road must be completely controlled by Zhaowu City. This is also the reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wants to gather the kings in the Western Regions."
"Is this possible?" Xiao He paused and said in confusion.
Chapter completed!