Chapter 771

The Han army launched an offensive. At that moment, the war became a big play of scrambling to surrender and holding the legs of the Han father. The Han Army basically did not encounter decent resistance. It took only seven days to fully control the white dragon pile.

"Not only reasonable, but also expected." Chi Ying is very busy recently. He is so busy that he lacks sleep. He has obvious bags under his eyes, but his spirit is extremely excited: "we don't have to do it ourselves. Kucha and those who want to fight to the end are all attacked by the people of the western regions. Our troops are just going to finish."

Xie'an has stood at the head of the capital guard 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 capital protectors in the western regions. In fact, there were not many garrisons in the capital protectors in the Western Han Dynasty. The capital protectors in the Eastern Han Dynasty had an established Han army. Cao Wei and the Western Jin Dynasty did not have much spare power to manage the western regions, but only occupied a reputation.

Haitou city was established during the Yuan Dynasty of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It was completed around 60 BC. It was originally a Loulan city that had not been renamed Shanshan. It was taken over by the Han people after the suppression of Zhizhi. Since taking over, it has become the main garrison of the capital guard.

From about 60 B.C. to 350 A.D. for more than 400 years, the Haitou city seen by Xie an must not be the one in the period of emperor yuan of the Han Dynasty. It may have been moved, and the city has been built or repaired again and again by the people behind.

Yes, the city in Haitou is really small. There are four walls as a defense chain, and there is a city gate on each side. The city wall is about two feet high and one foot wide. Most sections are rammed earth structure, and the vicinity of the city gate is built with gravel and concrete.

Different from the cities in Zhuxia's hometown, the city towers in Zhuxia's hometown will have cornice style roofs, while the city on Haitou side is covered with shacks, so there is no way to call it the city tower, but the city head.

Haitou is located in the west of Puchang sea, just in the middle of Beihe River and AODA flood. Standing at the east end of the city, looking east, you can see the salt field in the mine field mode, and looking inward, there are irregular houses.

Pu Changhai was originally the largest salt producing area in the western regions. After the Han army occupied it in the Western Han Dynasty, it was simply named Yanze. The Western Han Dynasty took salt and iron as the central control. Pu Changhai's salt products were sold to western countries by officials, and even provided places such as Xiliang and Longxi, but it created a lot of wealth for the central control of the Western Han Dynasty.

During the Cao Wei period, while competing for hegemony with Shu Han and Eastern Wu, Cao Wei spent part of his energy in the western regions. The reason is that there are few salt producing areas controlled by Cao Wei, and the importance of puchanghai's salt producing area is highlighted. In Cao Pi's period, in order to maintain the stability of Xiliang, he didn't spend less time, but he made wedding clothes for Sima's family.

"We have found Le Shi in Duhu well, gulucang well and Shaxi well. According to the stone tablet, we have also excavated some underground warehouses and found solidified salt layers." The places mentioned by Chi Ying are of great historical significance. They are basically the immediate garrison points for the expansion of the Han Army to the West. They originally existed as a water source for the army, but later they were changed into salt storage areas: "the enemy has no effective resistance, and the salt production facilities in puchanghai are not damaged."

Xie an nodded slightly, even if it was a response.

There was no shortage of salt in the Han Dynasty. After the salt drying method was studied, there were really not too many salt fields in the coastal area. At one time, there were so many that they had to catch seafood to consume.

Different from previous dynasties, the Han country under Liu Yan's rule would have a stable supply of salt even inland. Moreover, because the salt is really easy to produce, the salt price is too low. As a result, pickling has become a common thing. On the other hand, it ensures that there is no shortage of meat on the Han table.

In the age of no refrigerator, the difficulty of eating meat is due to the difficulty of preservation. Whether it is breeding or hunting, it will be wasted if it is not eaten quickly after slaughter. There are not many ways to preserve meat food. Pickling, sauce and air drying are one of the few options. Natural air drying depends on the local climate. It must be cold enough to dry, or it should rot. Salting and making sauce must first have salt. Salting consumes the most salt, while sauce consumes oil, spices and traditional Chinese medicine.

In today's Han country, eating sea salt has become the most affordable way. Inland areas used to eat rock salt, and sometimes they can't even eat rock salt.

"I'm already making arrangements." Chi Ying said that after the war, he collected some dead cattle, horses and sheep: "there is enough salt here in puchanghai, so we won't waste those food."

Not only the people depend on food, but the army's demand for food is also a bottomless pit. Compared with the people, the army's food shortage can easily turn into collapse. Xie an knows that the troops under his command will be more than 200000. He has a clear understanding of getting more food for storage.

Haitou has now become a military city, in which 5000 standing troops are stationed, including another 10000 standing troops, western regions corps and slave troops are stationed around.

Since it is to be used as a military city, the chaotic building layout in Haitou city must not be left. At present, it is doing the demolition and leveling, and some new barracks have begun to be built.

It is late autumn for them to leave Yangguan. If the current climate is not hot, the western region should be in the season of rain and snow.

When there was no thermometer, it was naturally impossible to accurately measure the temperature. In late autumn, the temperature in bailongdui should be about 10 degrees. After winter, the temperature will be lower. Xie an should consider the problem of wintering.

Although it is about to enter the winter and began to prepare for the winter, Xie anzhen does not intend to stop military operations. He has asked Li Kuang to prepare.

Three days later, Li Kuang would continue to march westward under the jurisdiction of a division's standing army and 30000 troops of the western region Corps. Their goal is the border of Kucha, or the way of land and water.

Puchanghai is a big lake. Except for the great water in the south, the North River in the North extends very long to the West.

After the Beihe River extends more than 600 miles to the west, it will connect with a river called dunhong water, which is connected with Qinhai. Xie an arranges Li Kuang's department to go both land and water, and all the way west along the Beihe River, which means intimidating Yanqi people.

Qin Hai is now the sphere of influence of Yanqi people. Xie an's envoy to Yanqi hasn't sent a reply, so it's necessary to deter the army. There is no doubt that he is forcing Yanqi to stand in line. If he wants to be a friend, he will climb over and obey orders. If he wants to be an enemy, he doesn't mind working immediately.

There's nothing wrong. Xie an didn't want to waste time on long diplomatic relations. It was the Han Army's easy capture of the white dragon pile that gave him full confidence. Moreover, he really didn't have so much time and leisure to make a false deal with Yanqi people. If he solved the western regions early and presented a good report to the center, he would be promoted to the general of the western expedition one day earlier. After becoming the general of the western expedition, he can honestly plan to build a forward base, and then spy on hunit and Yueban, so as to make intelligence preparations for the continued westward advance in the future.

Before the establishment of the Han state, it had been fighting on multiple lines. In the early stage, it carried the pressure of Shijie Zhao state and went to the Korean Peninsula to bully Koguryo and Baiji. Later, it was simply Shijie Zhao state, Murong Yan state, the small imperial court of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and Li Chenghan together. Not to mention Xie an's feeling that there was something wrong with fighting Kucha and Yanqi at the same time, and no one in the other military leaders had any concerns, Compared with their former rivals, Kucha and Yanqi are two countries that can be easily cleaned up.

Xie an took his eyes back from the Yantian outside the city and looked at Fan Jin in charge of diplomatic relations: "have you contacted the Wusun people?"

Wusun was the first country in the western regions to send a mission to the Han state, and was also received by LV Yi.

According to Liu Yan's wishes, LV Yi agreed to Wusun's request to become a vassal state of the Han state again, but did not canonize any Wusun as kunmi.

Wusun had more than one mission to Chang'an, but there were seven. Each of them couldn't wait to get the recognition of the Han state, that is, begging for the king's name for his tribal leader.

LV Yi's reply to the seven messengers did not change. He said that he did not understand the current situation of Wusun, and it was difficult to decide who would become the king of Wusun. While letting the Wusun people elect themselves, he had to take the credit.

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

Xie an nodded quietly without blaming.

The Han army occupied bailongdui, but it was still a thousand miles away from the Wusun people. The Han people wanted to go to Wusun territory, either across the border of Kucha or across the border of Yanqi. If you take the Beihe River and turn to dunhong water to enter Qinhai, you can continue to enter Wusun by water, but Qinhai is the territory of Yanqi.

Dunhong water is also divided into South and North. The people of the western regions are divided into lower dunhong water and upper dunhong water. The lower dunhong water connects the North River and the Qinhai sea, and the upper dunhong water is the one that can directly enter the territory of Wusun.

"There are checkpoints established by Yanqi people in Nandun Hongshui." Chi Ying didn't know if he was defending Fan Jin. He said, "any ship that wants to enter the Qinhai sea through Nandun Hongshui needs the release of Yanqi."

The gate where Nandun Hongshui enters the Qinhai sea is called the iron gate by Yanqi people. In fact, it is not a gate or anything made of iron at all. The title of "iron gate" means "solid as gold soup". In fact, it is a water stronghold across the river.

Yanqi people knew the strategic value of Beihe River, had enough knowledge of Beihe River entering Qinhai through Nandun Hongshui, and had very strict control over tiemen. After all, there is a long mountain range (Kuruktag mountain range) in the south of their border. It is very dangerous to enter Yanqi border from the south of the western regions. Basically, no one will walk, and the army is not suitable for invading through the mountains.

The northwest of Han is naturally connected with the border of Yanqi. It's not easy to enter Yanqi directly from the northwest of Han. First, you have to pass through a Gobi area with a range of about ten miles, and then enter the desert area. After crossing the desert, you directly face the mountains (Tianshan Mountain).

Therefore, when the Han people expand westward, they really can't directly rush into the area currently occupied by Yanqi. Otherwise, when dealing with the Cheshi (that is, the current eastern border of Yanqi), they don't have to enter the Shanshan border first, and then turn such a big bend and cross the river (Beihe River and dunhongshui) to fight.

Whether before or now, the north of Yumenguan is a forbidden area that you'd better not go. Naturally, the reason is that the Gobi and desert block the way. It is difficult for Zhuxia to expand westward, not only because of the long road, but also because it is really difficult to walk along the way, which also reflects the important value of Hexi corridor.

By the way, Hexi in the ancient pre-Qin period is not the same place as 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 modern Shan 1 West and Shaanxi 1 west provinces. Hexi in the Han Dynasty is a modern Gansu 1 Su Jiuquan, Zhangye, Wuwei and other places.

Xie an will ask the Wusun people. Over the past few days, he has learned that Shanshan people are completely mud and can be guides or labor, but it will definitely hurt him to expect Shanshan people to go to the battlefield. He didn't want the Han people to lose too much in the western regions, so he needed cannon fodder troops. On the premise that the Shanshan people couldn't do it, the importance of the Wusun people was highlighted.

Brigands? Xie an is not at ease with the brigands. He is rebellious. What does not exist is that the brigands do not become a link with the nation or country. To put it bluntly, it is difficult to grasp what handle. How to control has become a difficult problem. Unlike the control of territory or family by the tribe or country, people can not easily rebel.

"There are many reasons why they came to the western regions, that is, there is no responsibility to expand the territory." Fan Jin told the truth: "previously, there were coalition forces in bailongdui blocking the way, and they could calm down to fight. The coalition forces in bailongdui disappeared and wanted to rush into the flower world."

Xie an can understand that although those young people are organized, they are really not a formal organization. They have to fight in battle. Everyone wants to get rid of the reins and enjoy themselves. He can hold it down for a while, but it will be a big trouble if it takes a long time.

Shanshan border is to be built into a forward base by xie'an, so it must not be able to rob in Shanshan border. Just because this has caused complaints, forcing him to open some openings while arranging Li Kuang's westward advance and allow some people to leave the system by drawing lots.

There were 10000 Han people who left bailongdui. They did not break away from it by construction, but went west according to their friendship or the local party. The first place to have fun was west of West Kunlun Mountain (called Nanshan in the Western Han Dynasty), which was the gathering place of Qiemo people.

Qiemo still exists as a country, that is, a vassal country without diplomatic power and independent belligerence. It stepped on two boats, obeyed Khotan and Kucha, and participated in the anti Han coalition army. Their sphere of influence is in the north of the West Kunlun Mountain, and is separated from the Shanshan border by the middle reaches of the Aranda river. It is close to Jingjue and Khotan in the West and Kucha in the north.

Most of the people who fled from bailongdui were the Han people who retreated to Qiemo and were allowed to leave the army by Xie an. They caught the defeated soldiers and reaped their heads all the way into Qiemo.