In some ways, as a ruler, Lu Zhe is suspicious, but from a more practical aspect, Lu Zhe is very open-minded and generous, and he will not feel jealous because a group of important ministers have good personal relationships, so Xiao He has no need to make the illusion that he is not in agreement with anyone, and Xiao He will make Lu Zhe think more if he does more.

If Lu Zhe only wants to dominate the world and become the emperor behind closed doors, then he really doesn't want the people under his command to be monolithic, after all, once a group of important ministers are united, the imperial power will be greatly weakened, so that the ruler will be restrained or threatened. But he didn't want to close the door after dominating the world, and what he hoped was to create a great era in his lifetime, so that a center of sincere unity would meet the requirements, and a group of centers of sincere unity would play an amazing role in efficiency, not to pull each other back.

The difference in the system is also one of the reasons why Lu Zhe will not worry about the entanglement of important ministers, not to mention that various officials will constantly change their positions over time, the military also has a set of supervision system and brainwashing ~ brainwashing methods, and the finances are even more tightly grasped by him. If this is the case, Lu Zhe can still worry, then there is really no need to do anything, and he can quickly kill the group of people who follow him from the end of the world.

The Chinese ethnic group has a lot of knowledge because of the peak of civilization, but many times people with knowledge will always be cranky, Xiao He is obviously the one who thinks more, but he can't be blamed, from Xia to the end of the ancient pre-Qin, those high-ranking kings really didn't have less suspicion of courtiers, and loyal courtiers would still be killed by the king for one reason or another, not to mention that there were some people who really made the king feel jealous?

Compared with the gradually becoming more complex imperial officialdom, the Hu people in the grasslands such as the Xiongnu are not much simpler, but the Hu people's behavior after the contradiction is much simpler, for example, Touman is more and more suspicious of Mao Dun, Mao Dun simply ignores Touman, Mao Dun and a group of people start a new business in the Western Regions.

What has Morton been doing lately? He has never been idle, and has led troops loyal to him to the east and west of the Western Regions. Plundering all the materials that can be plundered, plundering all the people who can be plundered, and recently it has been on the bar with Qiuzi and Khotan.

Qiuci and Khotanese are both transliterations, whether the names of the ethnic groups are ancient or officially named recently, no one knows and no one wants to figure out, only that Qiuci and Khotanese are both white-skinned people, and the language between the two forces is not uniform, and even there are differences in clothing and hair combing.

The language is not uniform and there are differences in various clothing and hair accessories, and it can be guessed that whether it is Qiuzi or Khotan, it is probably a multi-ethnic fusion, and it is a combination in the form of tribes.

It's not just Qiuzi or Khotan. There are too many ethnic groups living in the vast and vast land of the Western Regions, some of whom have lived there for generations, and many of whom have fled from the west.

The number of indigenous ethnic groups that originally lived in the Western Regions can still be counted, so many ethnic groups fled from the west, and the rule that originally belonged to the indigenous people of the Western Regions was overwhelmed, and that land cannot be described with such a simple word as "chaos", it should be said that it is chaotic to the end.

The ethnic groups that fled from west to east were large and small, and the local natives in the Western Regions were also strong and weak. It's nothing more than being startled when you encounter a stranger, and then you will use the knife after a little observation, and if you can beat it, you will be annexed, but if you can't beat it, you will be eliminated or annexed. The most primitive law of the jungle is staged.

There are many forces in the Western Regions, and the natives also have their own contradictions, and the various ethnic groups that have migrated from west to east are not united, and the two sides have been a contest from the beginning. In the contest of annexation and annexation, it is not known how many of the original famous ethnic groups have perished, and how many new ethnic groups are being raised.

The Huns intervened in the Western Regions...... Perhaps it should be said that Mao Dun intervened in the Western Regions. When he led the army into the Western Regions, the balance between the natives of the Western Regions and the fleeing people was broken, and there was also interference from Wusun's side, and the situation in the Western Regions did not become clearer but more complicated.

Of course, Mao Dun has no ambition to conquer the Western Regions as his backyard now, and his mind is still relatively simple, nothing more than attacking those weak tribes, robbing them, capturing them, and using all means to strengthen himself.

At first, Mao Dun seemed very rough and direct, no matter what kind of race he encountered, he would fight first and then say, if he could beat it, he could directly swallow the population and everything that could be swallowed, and he couldn't pat the horse's ass and run away. Later, Mao Dun suddenly discovered that the situation in the Western Regions was fishing in troubled waters, and it was also realized that the increasingly frequent robberies had aroused the vigilance and resistance of quite a few tribes in the Western Regions, so it could be regarded as a strategy to turn to one side to fight one side and win one side.

There is no doubt that the natives of the Western Regions have no common interests with Maudun, after all, Maudun is burning and killing and plundering as locusts, and it is already seriously infringing on the interests of the natives of the Western Regions, so how can the natives of the Western Regions come together with Maudun?

There are pros and cons to everything, and Mao Dun is infringing on the interests of the natives of the Western Regions, so isn't it helping those ethnic groups to migrate from west to east? Tentative contact, finding common interests, and coming and going, Maodun also came together with some of the migratory ethnic groups.

This time, Mao Dun is helping a group called the Wan people to seek revenge, and the targets of revenge are Khotan and Qiuzi, the total strength of the two camps is not too much, at least compared to the tens of millions in the east, the total number of people on both sides is less than 40,000 people.

Maodun and Wan side and Qiuci and Khotan have been fighting for four days, from the next door to the oasis, and from the oasis to the grassland, 40,000 people continue to swim and continue to fight, the fierce Hun cavalry and the Wan side of the good, Maodun this camp is not very hard, has been the remnants of less than 10,000 people Qiuci and Khotanese coalition army forced to a nameless foot of the mountain.

"Two thousand reinforcements from the flanks," Mao Dun was wearing a set of armor, the style was a kind of sewn armor, and if you carefully identify it, you can see that it is imitated from the armor of the Han army: "Give 200 cavalry to the Balielan masonry." ”

The Han army's turkor cavalry showed strong strength when fighting the Hu people, and often defeated the Hu cavalry head-on with a small number of people, which made a deep impression on Mao Dun.

Mao Dun was learning all the knowledge that was beneficial to him, he took the lead in borrowing the stirrups of the Han army and then equipped his own riding equipment, and later began to imitate the armed assault cavalry of the Han army with certain conditions, but limited by the lack of smelting technology and metal materials, the troops that can be equipped with metal armor are very limited.

Many people are skeptical that Maudun deliberately took out a small amount of valuable metal to make armor, and the steppe people did not have their own smelting technology. It is also not its own technology, not to mention the mining of minerals, the grassland song tribe has always lacked metal weapons, and many herdsmen who were conscripted as soldiers actually used sharpened wooden sticks as spears.

In the first two years, Touman entangled the tribes on the grassland to go south, and in the first year, there were considerable gains because of the civil strife among those people in the south, but the looted weapons were basically armed with Touman's henchmen, and only a very small number fell into the hands of various tribes. They also grabbed a lot of metal, but unfortunately they didn't have the technology to melt it down and make it into a weapon, and the result was tantamount to blindness.

Before the Han army went north, Tou Man had discussed it with the Qi State. Come to a sincere cooperation to attack the Han army on both sides, so I also got a lot of metal weapons from the Qi country, but unfortunately the Qi country was so vulnerable, and then the cooperation with the Qi country was destroyed.

It has been defeated and retreated to the vicinity of the source of the Yellow River, and the number of troops in Touman has dropped sharply from nearly 300,000 before going south to less than 200,000, but the troops armed with metal weapons are somewhat considerable, reaching about 130,000.

It can be said that the Huns, who have 130,000 well-equipped weapons, have never been so arrogant, but they have not yet had time to be complacent. First he was tentatively defeated in a tentative battle against the weakened and dilapidated Qin state, and then he was trapped near the source of the Yellow River by the Han army.

Originally, it was not a good thing to be trapped at the source of the Yellow River, and Mao Dun even thought that the Han army would not make any stops, and gathered a large army to pounce on the generals with a thunderous attack. But he was clearly wrong.

At that time, the Han army was in a stage of difficult logistics scheduling, and it also did not predict the battle in the northern Xinjiang grassland and the Hetao, which was easily taken by the Han army, and the northern Xinjiang grassland (Inner Mongolia) was also captured by the Han army with a clear breeze sweeping the leaves. As a result, the logistics line was unexpectedly stretched longer and longer, and the Chinese mainland was blocked by the rainy season and the sudden outbreak of the flood season.

There were other things that Maudon hadn't expected, including the sudden emergence of so many ethnic groups to the west. The Western Regions turned out to be an easy place to conquer.

It wasn't that Mao Dun didn't know that there was such a place as the Western Regions, but he didn't expect that the force here was far weaker than he imagined, and he didn't expect that there would be so many things that could be plundered.

"The Han army really has a lot to learn from." Mao Dun watched as the 2,000 troops joined the battlefield, similar to the cavalry of the Han army's assault cavalry, only 200 cavalry were like cutting tofu and easily cutting through the defense line of the Qiuzi and Khotanese people: "Let the Wan side attack from the front." ”

Since there was a herald to ride quickly to give the order, Mao Dun looked at the dusty and corpse-ridden battlefield with a relaxed attitude, listening to the wind and all kinds of sounds on the battlefield in his ears, but his mind was not here.

Whether the Wan tribe is called the Wan tribe or not is also unknown, anyway, the transliteration is what it is, the Wan tribe that Mao Dun knows is a member of a country called Seleucid, it seems that the Seleucid country was classified some years ago, and the Hellenistic Wan tribe was ruled by a guy named Theodotus I.

The Wan people were indeed divided into several stages, first in the Hellenization of the Macedonian king Alexander the Great's crusade, then because Theodotus I established Bactria to rule by himself~, and finally by the Yue people who moved westward.

At present, the Wan people who have migrated eastward are not all the people of Central Asia, and a considerable part of them still live in the land of the Fergan region, and this group of people who have migrated eastward is only a small part.

The Wan people have always been a tribe that raises horses, and the Wan people who moved east are almost 100,000 people who carry nearly 300,000 horses, and there are not only horse breeds called Ili horses by later generations, but even Kazakh horses and Arab horses have a lot, but the Ili horses are okay, and the Kazakh horses and Arabian horses have lost a lot in the migration because of the lack of adaptation to the soil and water.

Mao Dun befriended the Wan people, under the repeated cooperation between the two sides, Mao Dun gradually evolved into the status of a protector, and the Wan people also tried their best to configure war horses for the cavalry under the command of Mao Dun, and now the 10,000 Hun cavalry who launched an attack on the Qiuzi and Khotanese people are riding the war horses provided by the Wan people, and the cavalry equipped with armor is all at least tall Arabian horses.

It is also better than knowing that it is because of the air or something in this era, the war horse is much taller than the general in later generations, and the tallest Arabian horse has reached 1.8 meters, so that a Hun with an average height of no more than 1.6 meters can ride up, and the body of the war horse is even more huge.

The battle ahead was completely chaotic under the coherent reaction of the collapse of the flank of the newly joined 2,000 troops of Mao Dun, and the Wan cavalry strengthened the frontal attack, and the result of the battle could not be clearer.

It can't be said that the Qiuzi people or the Khotanese people don't work hard, but the two sides are a little bit like they are in a different "era", and the Hun cavalry who learned Lu Zhe's stirrup technique can make tactical moves on the back of the war horse more easily, and it is also thanks to the war horse provided by the Wan people is indeed quite good, but their opponent is a group of cavalry who will fall down if they are pushed a little on horseback, and they are forced to compress at the foot of the mountain without much detour space, and it is strange not to lose.

"I only now understand the mood of the Han army, they must be full of ridicule when they fight with us, as long as they get close and poke a little, no matter how elite our knights are, they can be poked off their horses because their feet have nowhere to borrow strength." Maudun patted his leather booted calf with his horsewhip: "One or two knick-knacks have changed the tide of war, and those in the south are even more terrible than before." ”

The news that Meng Tian led the army to attack Touman's department also spread to the Western Regions, and the information that Mao Dun understood was that Touman seemed to be fighting well with the Western Expeditionary Army led by Meng Tian, and even took advantage of some of them?

"Meng Tian's tactics are different from the enemy generals we have encountered before. The group of generals trained by Lu Zhe, they fought very directly, relying entirely on absolute strength to conduct a dignified battle, and they couldn't see the consistent conspiracy deployment and bait of the southerners, Meng Tian ......" Mao Dun looked at Huyan Shilan, who was sent by Touman not long ago: "Meng Tian is not a general trained by Lu Zhe, Meng Tian was already a prominent general in Qin State long before Lu Zhe rose." ”

What do you mean? Doesn't it mean that the Han army is very rough in the war, and you can't see the shadow of the kind of famous generals that belong to the Chinese civilization, but in fact, it is the weak side that will play hollow to make up for the shortcomings, Lu Zhe has an absolute advantage and prefers to crush strongly after deploying the strategy.

"I'm not going to wade into that troubled water," Mao Dun seemed to be trying to persuade Huyan Shilan, and as if he wanted to convince himself: "That's not what we should fight head-on at the moment, we can only wait for the opportunity, and wait for the opportunity to wait." (To be continued......)