In the Cold War period at the turn of the AD, the strength of a country and the ability of its leader were the most important factors.

The Qin State unified the six countries because of the power of the First Emperor to win the government, and also lost its kingdom because of the reckless actions of the second Hu Hai. Now, the revival of the New Qin Dynasty has further proved Li Yuan's lofty status that no one can replace.

This is the case with Qin.

The same goes for Western countries.

It has been more than thirty years since the Wusun Kingdom moved to the Ili Valley. Among these thirty years, the first twenty-five years were miserable days of oppression and bullying. Only in the last five years, under the wise leadership of the new king Liejiaomi

Next, Wusun chose to form an alliance with Qin, a powerful country in the east, and defeated the Yueshi who had oppressed him for several years in one fell swoop.

Occupying the fertile Ili River Valley, their power spread to the western foothills of the Tianshan Mountains. Just as Wusun continued to move towards the goal of becoming stronger, their wisest king, Liejiaomi, died of serious injuries.

When the bad news came out, the whole country of Wusun was in great panic.

The young new king and the broken army could not stop the Huns from attacking like tigers. In desperation, Wusun's prime minister hurriedly sent several envoys to the east to ask for help from Qin.

This day in late May.

Several Wusun envoys traveled through thousands of rivers and mountains, and arrived at the Kongque River area at the foot of Tianshan Mountain in embarrassment. Here they were pleasantly surprised to see a large flag with a scarlet bottom and black as ink.

"Da Qin, the heavenly soldiers of Da Qin are here." The Wusun envoy was so surprised that he almost rolled forward and rushed forward. After suffering the destruction of the Huns, the Wusun people were like separated children meeting their long-lost relatives.

Same.

This feeling of being separated from home is unique to every ethnic group that was forced to migrate from the Hexi area. Whether it is the Wusun or the Dayue clan, it is this unique emotion derived from their blood.

Let these descendants of Hexi always have admiration for Eastern civilization.

In the border area between Daxia and Wusun, there are nine small countries that also come from the foot of the Qilian Mountains, including Kang State, Shi State, Mi State, and Cao State. These small countries are not strong now. But after more than 800 years,

, the nine Sogdian Zhaowu surnames they represent have left a heavy mark in Central Asia.

The situation in the Western Regions changed dramatically.

The Qin army that was marching to the west could not help but speed up its march. The first part of the Qin army to reach the west of the Tianshan Mountains was the scouts of the Aries tribe.

Back then, Li Yuan insisted on rescuing the Aries Guifang tribe. Now it's time to repay the kindness. This time, the Witch King Jinxi did not accompany the army. The one who led the scout team in her place was the number one warrior in the tribe. At first, he was just

Lin Geer, one of the young children.

Lin Geer has a strong appearance and has the heroic spirit of his ancestors. In the past few years, he first joined the Hexi cavalry team of the Qin State. Not only did he develop his horsemanship skills, but he also grew into a grassroots troop leader.

Military Marquis. As for Jin Xi, he placed the prosperity and reproduction of the tribe as the most important thing in his life.

The Baiyang tribe now lives in the weak water area of ​​the Qilian Mountains. The momentum of its tribe's recovery is extremely gratifying. The increasingly abundant material life, the growing and reborn cattle, sheep, and humans all show the tenacity of this small grassland tribe that has gone through many hardships.

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Facts also make every Aries person understand that if they want the tribe to prosper further, the Aries tribe can only integrate itself more into the Qin State. Faced with the choice between civilization and ignorance, the Aries people have taken the most critical step.

Even if the result of this integration is to be eventually assimilated by the civilization of the Central Plains, they will have no regrets.

Participate in the battle.

This is the necessary reward for the Aries tribe.

A total of two thousand brave Baizhan tribesmen were all young men in green, and they were all warriors in the Long March eastward a few years ago. When Lin Geer led these warriors from the Aries tribe to follow

When the Wusun envoys came to the Ili Valley, what they saw was the miserable state of the Wusun capital.

The capital of the countries in the Western Regions.

Different from the blue brick and stone walls, deep ditches and high trenches of the Central Plains, the farming people of the Central Plains have a preference for cities. This is unmatched by any nation on the planet. This deep-rooted belief is integrated into the blood, and there is

The Great Wall is a giant dragon that symbolizes Eastern civilization.

In the Western Region, there are many countries, and wars among the grassland peoples fighting for the right to survive occur one after another. The birth and death of a country are as common as the rising and setting of the sun. The nomadic people here are bold and unrestrained by nature, and they do not like small details, so they build houses accordingly.

, I am not interested in technical work such as city walls. Although Liejiaomi has sent Wusun people to learn some city-building techniques from Da Qin over the years, they can only build a few earth walls.

Such a defense was obviously unable to stop the wolf-like Huns. The loess wall that was no bigger than a man was jumped over by a tall horse. The most eye-catching place in the royal city, King Wusun's only three-story earth building, was also there.

They were burned to rubble in the fire. As for the unlucky little prince who had just been on the throne for more than ten days, his head was beheaded by the Huns and hung on the flagpole of the city gate as a deterrent to the Wusun people.

of authentication.

Anyone who has anything to do with the Qin State will have their country destroyed and their clans exterminated. Everyone, male, female, old and young, will die.

The swords held high by the Huns shone with a frightening cold light under the sun, moon and stars. Helianbi's plan was very clear. He wanted to use Wusun as an example to warn all the tribes in the Western Regions to alienate Qin.

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Under the Gushi City.

The headquarters of the Qin Army is located.

The Qin State's Western Army marched westward in three ways this time. The southern line troops were led by the new King of Loulan and the coalition commander Li Zhongxiang, from Loulan, Jingjue, and Khotan, and advanced along the Kunlun Mountains to Shule and Yuehu.

The northern line troops were commanded by the deputy commander, King of Yan Han Xin. The Youyan cavalry set out from the Beihai and Hannan River areas, bypassed the Altai Mountains, and penetrated directly into the Huns' habitat north of the Altai Mountains. As for the middle route army, Li Yuan

He personally commanded and marched along the foothills of the Tianshan Mountains toward Congling and the Yili River Valley.

The Aries scouts urgently sent back the news that Wusun was destroyed, which greatly surprised the Qin generals who were immersed in optimism. In their impression, the Huns were just a group of wild dogs that were beaten and fled in all directions.

No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't make any big waves, but he didn't expect that after He Lianbi annexed the Huyan tribe, he suddenly became so arrogant.

In the king's tent of the Chinese army.

Li Yuan quickly summoned the generals of the Central Army to discuss countermeasures. The fall of Wusun State not only left Qin without a trustworthy ally, but more seriously, the Qin Army in the Western Expedition also lacked a trustworthy ally.

With its foothold to the west of Congling, there was no reliable local tribal support, and the Qin army came from afar and was not familiar with the place. It became even more difficult to establish a long-term foothold in Central Asia.

"Your Majesty, we cannot let the Huns do whatever they want. We must find them quickly and defeat them, so that all those who trust us in Da Qin will understand that only we can save them——!" Ji Xin stood among the generals and said in a deep voice.

, with a look of regret on his face.

As the general of the Qin army who has the most contact with Lie Jiaomi, Ji Xin still admires this young and suffering foreign ally, not only in terms of personal feelings, but also because of Lie Jiaomi's admiration for Eastern civilization, and this

When this kind of admiration rises to the level of the king of a country, he is also the leader of the people's trends and thoughts.

"The Huns occupied Wusun and Daxia in just two months. With the wealth and slaves of these two countries, Helianbi's strength has skyrocketed. We must not underestimate the enemy and advance rashly?" Unlike Ji Xin,

Luo Jia, Cao Xin, and Li Zuoche, who came from the Qin-Hungarian border, all looked solemn.

Out of concern for the situation of the Huns, the appearance of the name Helianbi alerted these battle-hardened generals.

Once Liejiaomi died, Qin's spokesperson in Central Asia would be gone. This was a very fatal point. The generals of the Qin army started talking about it.

"Everyone is silent. The Wusun Kingdom has been destroyed. We have lost our intended allies. This is a difficult problem posed by the Huns. What should we do? Each of our generals must have a good understanding of the vast area west of Congling before answering.

History, let’s see who our opponent is?” When everyone had different opinions, Li Yuan’s voice rang like a bell and a drum.

What is the place to the west of the Western Regions? Which nation and which country rules it? This is a mystery to the conquerors from the east.

If Li Yuan was not a person who traveled through time, then he would have been similarly confused. And if this confusion continued, it would cause strategic differences for the Qin army.

"Go west, keep going west, all the way to the east coast of the Mediterranean, until you meet the end of another civilization." Since the Western Expedition, Li Yuan has had such a thought in his heart.

The powerful Qin in the East.

Rome of the West.

Will we meet?

History has not given an answer. The farthest journeys recorded by Easterners in historical records of this era were Zhang Qian's three missions, and the places he set foot on were only in the Congling area.

Under the eyes of all the generals, Li Yuan slowly told the history of civilizations in the Western Regions, Central Asia, West Asia, and Mesopotamia. The successive histories of these foreign countries were like pages of old books.

People feel emotional and excited at the same time.

Congling.

In ancient Chinese legends, the biography of Emperor Mu records that "the mountain is tall and has green onions on it," hence the name. Its geographical location actually refers to the Pamir Plateau area.

In a traditional sense, Congling is also the dividing line between Eastern civilization and Western civilization. The power of the Qin State developed in the Western Region east of Congling and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains. However, in the Central Asia area to the west of Congling, another ancient civilization, the Persian Empire, developed.

The influence is more powerful. Of course, the Persian Empire is now in the sunset. As its successor, Anxi still has its frame, but its strength is no longer the same as that of the most powerful period that defeated the ancient Greek civilization.

If we point from Parthia to the west, the Pan-Hellenistic Seleucid Empire that split from the Macedonian Empire still has the remaining power. Antiochus III, who has just ascended to the position of emperor, looks a bit like a renaissance emperor. The war launched by him

In the eastward campaign, the company was victorious, and the Parthians and Yuehu people were beaten into a state of disarray.

To the west of Seleucus is the rising Roman Republic. During this period, Rome had not yet reached its peak imperial era. Its consul was Scipio, who had just defeated Hannibal in the Second Punic War.
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