Chapter 791
The Three Kingdoms is indeed a fascinating era. Eighty percent of the magnificent wars are the Central Plains Civil War, but the monarchs of the Three Kingdoms have launched foreign wars against foreign races, such as Cao Cao breaking Karasuma, cutting Tadun, and Wuqiu thrifty In the Battle of Goguryeo, Zhuge Liang of the Kingdom of Shu pacified the Nanman, and Sun Quan of the Kingdom of Wu dispatched the Wei Wen Fleet to bring Taiwan under the rule of China for the first time. , Hiding in the Central Plains as an otaku.

Compared with the Han people who killed themselves, Wang Hou was obviously more interested in external expansion. He finally finished the battle of Hanzhong and led the large army out of Yumen Pass. He was in a particularly comfortable mood.

However, compared to his happy mood as a man who cooks shit behind the tomb of the Western Army, the situation in the Western Regions is really not optimistic at this time. The Eastern Han Dynasty dismissed the Western Regions Protectorate for decades, and the influence of the big Han in the Western Regions has declined sharply. At this time, the northern Xiongnu had fled to nowhere, and the southern Huns were lingering in Jiuyuan. The oasis power built on the oasis of the Western Regions began to dominate and become stronger.

Later, there were only two strongholds of Luntai and Yumenguan in the Changshi Mansion of the Western Regions. In fact, these Serbian countries had already been ordered not to move. In the past two years, Wang Houzhong opened the Silk Road to make money, and sent a large number of caravans to the Anxi Empire. The lucrative profits seduced the jealousy of the countries at the northern and southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, which constituted the source of wars against the Han in various countries.

but!Anyway, the Han ruled the Western Regions back then, not by reasoning. The majesty of the Tianhan did not bring back countless delicious Bowanghou Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, but from Li Guangli, the first idiot general of the Han Dynasty!
After Zhang Qian traveled to the Western Regions that year, he reported to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that Dawan had a Pegasus horse, which sweated like blood and could run thousands of miles. Cast gold into a golden horse, and go to Dawan to buy a bloody horse.

Then the blood-sweat horse is also a national first-class protected animal in Dawan. They don't want to sell it. The envoy they sent was also a young man. He immediately scolded the king in a rage, smashed the golden horse with a hammer, and turned around with the envoy. .

It's a pity that the envoy has the temper of the post-[-]s, but he doesn't have the background of the post-[-]s era. He offended the king with a large amount of property. King Dawan ordered his subordinate King Yucheng to cut down the entire team of Han teachers and bring Chang'an to Chang'an. All the wealth was collected and scraped into his own treasury.

Just like the later generations of Huarazmo who cut down Genghis Khan's business group, it provoked the anger of a generation of arrogant Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. Just as he wanted to support his favorite concubine, Mrs. Li's family, he promoted the idiot Li Guangli to the general of the Second Division and sent troops to attack Dawan.

The war went extremely unsatisfactorily. Nearly 1 Han troops went out of the fortress twice, and only more than [-] survived to return to the Han through Yumen Pass. The bones of more than [-] Han soldiers were exposed in the wilderness, which was extremely tragic.

It is precisely because of this tragic sacrifice that the iron might of the big man has been achieved!Even if Dawan, a powerful country in the Western Regions thousands of miles away, the big man will be broken if he says it is broken, this is how he has established a particularly powerful prestige in the countries of the Western Regions.

Now that more than 200 years have passed, with the alternation of the Han Dynasty and the recent civil strife in the Han Empire itself, this deterrent has obviously weakened to the extreme. As time goes by, the shelf life of Tiewei is approaching.

Therefore, this time Wang Hou went out of the fortress. On the one hand, he helped Cao Zhang rebuild the Great Protectorate of the Western Regions, fulfilled President Cao’s political requirements, and supported the third son of the Cao family to gain military exploits and build a team. On the other hand, he also wanted to reawaken these small countries in the Western Regions. The fear of being dominated by Tianhan comes here!

But it is the same as the difficulties Li Guangli encountered 200 years ago. This country is not free of postage, and it is really difficult to march. When you leave Yumenguan and go to Loulan, the first stop of the Han Dynasty, there are no rivers to serve as river transportation, and there are only vast expanses. In the Gobi, under the scorching sun of autumn tigers in September, thousands of armored cavalry were so tanned that the inside of their armor was like a steamer. The infantrymen with spears untied their armor and kept slapping their hands.

It is estimated that Cao Zhang's intestines are green with regret now. It is not good to find any excuses in front of Mr. Cao. He had to find excuses for the Protectorate of the Western Regions. After walking for a long time, the water in his kettle was emptied.

But this kid also has the potential to be a successful person, that is, he wants to save face, and he can bear it for the sake of face. Although his head is getting big from the sun, he still carries the banner of protecting Cao in the Western Regions, and marches in the recruitment pass in person In the western knight formation, the cavalry led the cavalry and kept rushing forward against the wind and sand.

And this guy is as good at fooling around as Mr. Cao, isn't Cao Cao looking for plums to quench his thirst!This kid walked around, seeing the low morale, suddenly shouted excitedly.

"That's right! I just remembered! There is a kind of big melon in Loulan. The flesh is yellow and soft. The flesh of the melon is sweeter than sugar. Put it in water for a while, take it out on a hot day and cut it open. Eat it, the coolness is so refreshing!"

"Brothers, work harder! Now is the time for the melons to ripen. Let Loulan be taken down. You can eat melons as you please. I approve!"

His voice immediately evokes the army's memory of melons. Many landlords and cavalry began to salivate when they thought of the juicy appearance of the big yellow cantaloupe. The original marching slogan of the army also changed from the previous one. Wei Wuwei has become a big melon, and the morale of the entire army has actually increased a lot.

It's a pity that the army didn't know that the Loulan they were going to had no melons at all. Melons are a specialty of Hami, which is now the territory of Pu Lei, a small country in the Western Regions. Just like the plums that Cao Cao promised back then, there were no melons at all.

But with the encouragement of this kind of morale, it took five days to brave the scorching sun and the scorching heat, and the former army of the Dadu Protectorate still went straight to Loulan City with exceptional tenacity.

The Loulan city of later generations has long been turned into a sea of ​​sand, even a no-man’s land. Starting from Dunhuang, you have to go around Hami first, and then go south to the Loulan ruins tourist area. There are no direct roads.

But now, Loulan City is still in the last period of vitality. There is a saltwater lake Lop Nur East Lake nearby, and the Kongque River is used for irrigation to maintain the beauty of this desert oasis.

This was originally the capital of the Loulan Kingdom, but during the tug-of-war between the Han Dynasty and the Huns in the Western Regions, the Han Dynasty moved the capital to Yuni City on the banks of the Kongque River in the south, and changed the country's name to Shanshan. It was not until last year that the outpost of the Central Plains communicating with the Western Regions was recaptured by the Shanshan Kingdom's troops.

But it was really because of this relationship that Cao Zhang didn't even spend any effort to recover Loulan City. He placed the iron cavalry in the south of the city. Before Zhang Yun commanded his infantry to form a siege formation, Loulan City had already opened the city and surrendered.

The first battle to reopen the Protectorate of the Western Regions was accomplished so easily!It's just that looking at Loulan City, Cao Zhang couldn't feel happy...

(End of this chapter)

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