On June 17, a letter from Tocharian Yi Junjie arrived in Shule. Brought the latest news from the Tocharian region.

Schuller's strategy of raising food was frustrated.

On the evening of the 17th, after consulting with his subordinates, Shule Jiedu ordered Jia Huan to order the army out of the Green Ridge to attack the Tocharian countries. Raise a large army to please the subordinate! Use the swords and firearms of the Zhou army to win food and dignity for the Zhou army!

Because, the truth is only within the range of the cannon.

Shule, who was in the midst of a hurricane rush, immediately mobilized. Grain, gunpowder, cotton clothes are shipped in points. Camels, horses, cattle and sheep are preparing. The government issued an order to hire a man to transport the goods, and the daily wage was 1 silver dollar. The recruits in the barracks were given orders to go out after rigorous training.

War is coming!

Three days later, on the morning of June 20. Clear. Autumn is high and cool, blue sky and white clouds.

In the barracks south of Shule City, drums rumbled. On the school field, one group after another of soldiers lined up, and then directly from the front of the point general's platform, stepping on neat steps, walking through the majestic military music, stepping out of the barracks, and heading to the front line.

On the platform on the north side of the school field, Jia Huan is seeing off Shen Qian, Yang Ji, Huang Guan and other generals who are about to go on the expedition.

Jia Huan was wearing a stone blue scribe's shirt, with a jade pendant hanging from his waist, his posture was upright, and his bearing was calm. He held a wine bowl to salute the generals and said: "Sun Tzu has a saying in the Art of War: the Lord cannot be angry and raise a division, and he will not be discouraged and cause war. However, there are some battles that have to be fought! I wish you all a victory! In Tocharo, play the majesty of my Great Zhou. ”

Shen Qian was twenty-one years old at the time, dressed in a white robe, with a handsome face with starry eyes, a general's sword hanging from his waist, a slender and heroic posture, and said loudly: "I will live up to the expectations of the king." With the generals drinking, coming down from the platform, there were already attendants leading the good horses over, Shen Qian turned over the horse, and said in a deep voice: "Go!" ”

The generals mounted their horses, melted into the ranks, and followed the 30,000-strong army out of the barracks, cities, and mountain passes.

The general will support the west to go on the expedition, and the Pingming flute army will march!

Jia Huan was on the school ground, watching the generals and the army go away, and his heart was calm.

He knew that the avenue outside the camp, the street in the city, and the official road outside the city were lined with fathers, wives, and children who saw off the soldiers. How many of these soldiers who have just taken off their old clothes and put on their war robes can come back?

However, he was stationed in Shule and was responsible for the food for the Battle of Beiting!

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Shen Qian led an army of 30,000 from the Wuyun Pass to the famous Wakhan Ancient Road and arrived at the Humi Kingdom on the banks of the Wuhu River.

Pang Ze in Khotanese led the newly recruited 20,000 soldiers out of the Green Ridge to defend and capture, crossed Lianyun Fort, and then along the bank of the Wakhan River, and arrived at the Protector Country.

The two armies will converge in the capital of the Protectorate, Segarchen.

On June 28, Pang Ze arrived at Lianyunbao with the front army. Looking at this precipitous castle nestled between mountain peaks and valleys, the stretches of the Hindu Kush mountain range block the view, and as far as the eye can see, it is full of peaks and snow.

Pang Ze sighed to his entourage: "What a dangerous place! No wonder the Tang and Tubo disputes, this is a strategic location. ”

He had already given up his obsession because of Shen Qian's meritorious service in the Western Regions, and did not want to return to the capital to participate in the imperial examination. I want to make a career. This time, Ziyu sent him to recruit 20,000 troops and follow Shen Qian, a famous general of the Zhou army, to attack Tocharo, which made him feel that the opportunity to show his strength was coming.

As a student, he was awarded the rank of Shule Military Judge in the army.

Several of the attendants laughed and said, "The huge man is very knowledgeable, and he talks about the past and the present. "The Wusi-Tibet region was the capital of the Zhou Dynasty, and the minister stationed in Tibet participated in the management on behalf of the central court. Lianyunbao has a dangerous terrain, but in fact it has no great military value.

The original Xiao Bolu and Da Bolu were both places where the herdsmen of the Great Zhou lived.

Pang Ze smiled, beat the horse forward, the horse's hooves stepped on the valley road, and chanted with great interest: "You don't see the snow and the sea by the horse, and the flat sand is reckless and yellow into the sky..."

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When Jia Huan sent an army of 50,000 to conquer Tochar, the messenger he sent had already gone to Beiting. Although he obtained the rights of Shule, Broken Leaves, and the River, he did not include the permission to start a war against Tocharo. He needs to report to the Governor of Qi.

The wartime situation is special, and the governor of Qi will not have a gap with Jia Huan for this reason. The victory in the Battle of Beiting is the first priority.

Looking at the whole map of the Western Regions, Shule, where Jia Huan is located, is always on the side battlefield. The main battlefield has always been in the North Garden.

But..., this was only for the Zhou Dynasty.

In fact, at the beginning of the autumn of the nineteenth year of Yongzhi of the Great Zhou Dynasty, the two empires known to Jia Huan were under the clouds of war.

The Mughal Empire in India was actually in its last years, and they were defeated in a series of battles against the Mathalas. At one time, even the capital Delhi was under the threat of the Matra people. Only the rich Punjab, Sindh and other places are left to support it.

This situation is being heard by Yi Junjie and his party who are going south from Ashu City...

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The situation of the Persian Empire in the river, a little more complicated ...

Shule City.

After Jia Huan sent Shen Qian away, he once again ordered Zhang Sishui to recruit and train a new army. At the same time, he stepped up to ask for a flintlock pistol from the turtles. Flintlock pistols that are exceptionally completed by the craftsman will be rewarded. This was an agreement between him and the Governor of Qi.

In the evening, an autumn rain fell in the city, and in a restaurant outside the Shule Mansion in the city, Jia Huan and Guo Wei, the leader of the Guo family's caravan who came to do business, were eating wine. He was accompanied by two or three Guo disciples.

The drizzle soaked the houses in Shule City, and from the second floor of the restaurant, there were patches of black tile corners. Row upon row.

The second floor of the restaurant has long been emptied. Jia Huan was at the wine table near the window, looking at the rain, groaning slightly, and advised: "There is Lao Guo Lao in Samarkand to help me inquire about the news of the Shi family." If you can, send someone to Shule to get back to me as soon as possible. ”

A young man beside Guo Wei wanted to speak but stopped.

Guo Wei glanced at him, stopped him, and said with a smile: "Jia Envoy Jun is serious. Xiao Lao'er must do his best to bring back the news of the Shi family. ”

The target of their trip was actually Hengros on the northern route of the Silk Road, not Samarkand, the largest city in the river. Because, coming from the southern route of Dunhuang and Khotan, the merchants along the way told them that the river was facing the war of the Uzbeks.

Their goods can only be sold to Hengros.

However, Jia Huan had a request, and of course he was willing to go to Samarkand. The Guo family's business is not the most important, but helping Jia Huan do things is the most important. Because, Jia Huan will definitely make up for the Guo family's losses.

According to the merchants along the way, the cause of the war in the river was precisely because of the Shi family. Abbas the Great, the emperor of the Persian Empire, was forty-one years old and in the prime of life, and he loved beauty, silk, and art.

And the stone family, who had become famous in the river, was in the eyes of Kalimi, the governor of the river of the Persian Empire, and was ready to sacrifice her to the emperor.

However, the Shi family seemed to be aware of it, and did not go to Samarkand to perform, but transferred from the capital of the Stone Kingdom, Tuoxi City, to Hengros. On the northern route of the Silk Road, this section was under the control of the Uzbek Chingu Khan.

Kalimi, the governor of the Persian Empire, united with 30,000 Sogdian troops to capture the city of Hengros and bring the Shijia back to Samarkand. However, this aroused the wrath of the Khan of Chingu, who led an army of 50,000 along the Syr Darya, and after recovering the city of Hengrus, he pressed the river.

It is said that the Khan of Qingu was also very interested in the beauty of the Shi family.

Jia Huan nodded, raised his wine glass, drank a glass of wine with Guo Wei, and said, "I'm tired." "He knows all the news of the merchants. According to the latest news sent by Yi Junjie, the Uzbeks and the Sogdian army are fighting against each other in the important areas of water and land transportation in the river.

To say that Shi Yuhua is a red face and a disaster, with the posture of Helen and Cleopatra, which caused a war between the two countries, this is actually mostly involved in her.

In Jia Huan's view, most of it is the reason for the Silk Road. The economic interests of the two countries were involved, which is why the war broke out.

However, now that the two countries have met each other, the rumors outside cannot be stopped. It all fell on her. I don't know how many years later, will she be labeled by history as a "disaster for the country and the people"?

In the afternoon of the same day, Guo Wei led a caravan, in the rain, preparing to leave the green ridge from the pass of the southern vein of the Tianshan Mountains, go to Ningyuan Kingdom, and go to Kuzhanti along the medicine and water.