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Loulan can only be regarded as a medium-sized country in the Western Regions, and this Loulan is not the same thing as the Rouran in the future, it is actually the Loulan that disappeared in a moment in history.

According to legend, the disappearance of Loulan was overnight, and the entire country disappeared completely from the king to the commoners, but the history books did not give an explanation, but it was generally believed that it was due to a lack of water. However, the lack of water led to the destruction of Loulan, and it should be a long time to slowly perish, not disappear overnight!

The time node of Loulan's "disappearance" is the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in the Central Plains, and some historical books speculate that it is because the Xianbei Wei State sent an army and killed Loulan overnight, but even if Loulan was really killed by the army of the Xianbei Wei State, the Loulan of the Northern and Southern Dynasties actually has little to do with the Loulan of the ancient pre-Qin period.

Why? It's not because there is a Han generation of Fu Jiezi who broke Loulan and beheaded its king, as the real "Loulan" has actually been wiped out by the Han Empire, the reason why there is still the existence of Loulan Country behind is that the Hun Huyan Shan Yu found a king and grandson of Loulan Country to re-establish it, so there is the existence of Loulan Country again.

Loulan has a reputation for vacillating, and the vacillation here refers to the position of the camp. Long before the Xiongnu invaded the Western Regions, they often took refuge in the powerful triangle of Wusun and Wan, and Shache, and used their actions to get the greatest benefits. After the fall of Wusun, Loulan soon fell to the relatively powerful Wan Kingdom.

Mao Dun invaded the Western Regions, and the first place he stopped was Loulan, he did not attack Loulan's city-state, but scattered his troops to sweep the wilderness, and tossed Loulan to the point that it was really enough.

Loulan was attacked by Maoton's department, and of course it was to ...... to the thighs That is, Wanguo is in an emergency. Wanguo sent an army to rescue Loulan, but the more than 20,000 troops of Wanguo and Loulan were besieged by at least 130,000 people near the end of the mountain.

After Mao Dun besieged the 20,000 troops of Wanguo and Loulan, he sent people to the Guishan City of Wanguo to find the king of Wanguo, and asked to hunt with the king of Wanguo.

Can hunt? Hunting between good friends is nothing more than hunting and drinking together, but inviting each other to hunt between leaders and chiefs is actually a kind of war ultimatum. Mao Dun besieged the main force of Wan and sent an invitation to the king of Wan to hunt, which can be regarded as a kind of coercion, because hunting actually has the meaning of an alliance between the leader and the chief.

The main force of the country was besieged, and the Xiongnu were violent, and there was a tendency to destroy the main force of the besieged Wan State in a moment. Without much thought, the king of Wan agreed to make an alliance with Maudun. It was an alliance rather than a hunt, which means that the king of Wan agreed to an alliance with Maudun.

Wan can be regarded as a big country in the Western Regions, but how big a "big country" is actually needs to be discussed. The "big" of Wanguo is actually the strength of a county in the Central Plains Dynasty, which is the strength of a county in terms of population, military strength, and economy. The elite of Wan Kingdom is besieged, and it is likely that it will be annihilated in the next moment, once Wan Guo loses that elite army, maybe there is no need to send troops to destroy Wan State, and the city-states and kingdoms in the Western Regions around Wan Country should be like evil wolves. pounced on it and tore Wanguo, who had lost its main force, into tears and devoured it cleanly.

Loulan is holding Wanguo's thighs, Wanguo and the Xiongnu have become allies, Loulan is the younger brother of Wanguo, and there are Maodun troops raging in the territory. Does Loulan have extra options? No! Therefore, the king of Loulan followed in the footsteps of the king of Wan very happily and became an ally with Mao Dun.

Talking about the past of Loulan Kingdom, Li Xin and the others were teasing.

"Isn't it because of Loulan's wall grass that we chose it as a target?" Li Ren chuckled and said, "Once something happens to the grass on the wall." Those who want to reach out to help are hesitant. ”

Li Xin smiled "hehehe".

"The strength of the empire is becoming more and more known to the city-states and kingdoms of the Western Regions." Li Ren was proud when he said this, he had served in the Wehrmacht for four years, and the empire was powerful and a contributor today. "Even if there are people who want to move lightly," he said. It is also time to consider whether it will be the target of the Empire's attack. ”

"After the Western Regions sent troops into the Western Regions, they played a majestic role." Li Xin is face sighed with emotion, and said: "Fragmentary news shows that Maodun, who was originally majestic in the Western Regions, was forced to retreat into Changchi and Beishan. ”

"Uncle, nephew is expected to shrink as a last resort, otherwise if he shrinks, the city-states and kingdoms in the Western Regions that were originally subservient to him will definitely stand in line again." Li Ren patted the falling snow on his shoulder and said, "I just don't know what those grass-like natives of the Western Regions think of the empire?" ”

Maudun's early entry into the Western Regions was strategic. He fought and pulled, and soon brought many Western Regions city-states and kingdoms to their knees, obtained much-needed supplies from various countries, and had territory to rest on, and in just a year or two, his strength was not much smaller than that of Touman, who was trapped around the source of the Yellow River. In some ways, if the Xiongnu on the steppe are not included, the strength of Maudun at that time was even stronger than that of Touman who was trapped in the land of projectiles.

Touman wants to fight a decisive battle with the imperial army, and sends someone to beckon Mao Dun to bring troops to join the battle, Mao Dun suggested that Tou Man should not fight with the imperial army again, and should lead people to retreat in the direction of the Western Regions, Tou Man may be because he can't get by with face or think that he can win the imperial army, so he scolded Mao Dun, Mao Dun didn't want to lose a bad reputation and could only take the army to the rendezvous.

How many troops did Maudun bring to the battlefield from the Western Regions? At that time, he already had no less than 130,000 horses, but the troops he brought over to join Touman were only more than 20,000, and among the 20,000, there were nearly 8,000 reinforcements from various city-states and kingdoms in the Western Regions.

In the early confrontation, Mao Dun deliberately sent his elite troops to fight against the imperial army, with the intention of showing his muscles to the city-states and kingdoms of the Western Regions. However, Mao Dun still misestimated the combat power of the Imperial Army, and the battle that would easily get a big victory did not appear, and even had to go all out to fight an even match with the Imperial Army, which really made Mao Dun's heart extremely furious.

Previously, Mao Dun was majestic in the Western Regions, and the cavalry under his command was in mourning, and the natives of the Western Regions knelt down to ask for surrender wherever the army went. The victory in the Western Regions may have made Maudun's heart swell, thinking that his army was already elite enough, where could he expect that it would be so difficult to win at war with the Empire's army?

Knowing that the Imperial army was not as easy to deal with as he imagined, Maudon began to act of not working hard. Later, the empire advanced on all fronts, and Mao Dun also received news that an imperial cavalry corps made a detour to the Western Regions, and even if he didn't want to leave a bad reputation, he had to lead the army back to the Western Regions.

Mao Dun originally wanted to let those people from the Western Regions who went to the source of the Yellow River together fight with the empire, but the change of the situation was not so much, the plan was not only bankrupt, but also because the strong side of the imperial army was seen by many people in the Western Regions, forcing him to send a lot of envoys from the Western Regions for the imperial army to kill, and on the way back, he killed a lot of people from the Western Regions who sensed that they had different intentions, until in the end, he simply killed the Western Regions people in the team without doing anything.

Mao Dun, who returned to the Western Regions, did not introduce much about the battle situation at the source of the Yellow River, only saying that all the people from the Western Regions stayed there. He took people back to the Western Regions to collect grain and grass, and also gathered a group of men and horses again, and it was not long before he would go to the source of the Yellow River again, and promised benefits to many kings in the Western Regions, saying that it would be like if he defeated the empire.

"The result?" Li Ren looked at Yu Duli, who was constantly smiling bitterly, and asked, "Do you really believe that the Xiongnu will defeat the empire?" ”

Wei Duli's face was extremely bitter, and he said, "We have never heard of the Empire. ”

This is a fact, in ancient times, transportation was not convenient, and information exchange was also very sluggish. Basically, they don't go out of the countryside, not more than fifty miles away, and there are many people who don't have more than ten miles in their lives.

The distance between the Western Regions and the Empire is very far, if not far away. How long has it been since the empire was founded? Before the establishment of the empire, the various wars were busy fighting civil wars and did not spread their prestige to distant places, and some countries in the Western Regions may have heard of the strength of the Qin State from the Yueshi people. But the empire that has just been established......

Whether a country is strong or not in any year is linked to the army, and if the army is strong, the country's prestige can spread farther, and the more countries are destroyed, the more people who hear about it will tremble. No doubt. There were not many countries annexed or annexed by the empire under the rule of Lü Zhe, and even the Wei Guo, which had survived for thousands of years, was not destroyed in the hands of the Qin State and was swallowed by him.

Not counting the country, Lu Zhe also waved the army to the south, and in more than ten years, he opened up a territory twice as large as the Central Plains, and then in recent years, he waved the army to the north again, and laid down a territory of grassland of the same size as the Central Plains. As for the newly opened territories overseas, to be honest, not only does the empire not feel anything, but even any country will not feel too much when they hear it, and they will even be surprised and ask, "Can you do it if you take the overseas land?" Something like that.

A ruler who can kill people is a qualified ruler, whether he kills his own people or foreigners, anyway, the ruler should have blood on his hands, and he did not kill tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of people during his reign, and whoever talks about this ruler will only be "Oh, it was him?" If you kill people, it will be "Wow! It turned out to be the great ......." It is human nature to bully the weak and fear the hard, killing one person is a criminal, killing tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands is a human male, and human males have always been used to fear.

"If we had known about the Empire, how could we have made such a choice?" Wei Duli has heard relevant rumors, before the empire was established, millions of people were killed in the south, and after the empire was established, at least 500,000 people were killed in the north, such a country, either it is as strong as it will be provoked, and it is absolutely stupid for the weak to provoke ~ force!

They were on their way to Mud City, Bailongdui was a little far from Mud City, and they had to pass through a swamp on the way, and according to Yu Duli, they needed to walk for two days.

Hunicheng is the royal city of Loulan, with a resident population of about 30,000, with the end of the mountain in the west, the big river in the north, the plain in the east, and the Gobi in the south.

In addition to the royal city of Loulan, there are three cities of Yixun, Cheer and Yage, and hundreds of towns and towns and other gathering places, according to the introduction of Wei Duli, the population of the whole country of Loulan has 160,000.

Four cities, hundreds of towns and townships, and a population of 160,000, such strength is the average level of three or five counties in the empire, and three or five counties are not even at the level of a county in the empire, so Li Ren was extremely puzzled when he saw Wei Duli's reserved face and waiting for praise.

If you want to go from Bailongdui to Mud City, you will pass through Yixun City, which is a city next to a large river, it has a rammed earth wall of about six meters, and a large wall outside the city gate is a market, and people gather together to look a little chaotic.

"A market in the city? How can there be so many houses for them to live in! Yu Duli was surprised: "The market is full of people, and the crowd is very complicated. In general, our city cannot be entered and exited at will, and the market can only be arranged outside the city. The cities on the Empire side allow people to enter and exit at will, don't you worry about some accidents? ”

The population of the cities in the Western Regions is generally not large, the ethnicity and nationality of the merchants are very chaotic, and the caravans that go to the merchants are generally at least dozens, and even thousands at most, one or two caravans may be nothing, but if there are ten caravans of a thousand people, there are really more than the residents in the city.

It must be explained that the Western Regions have never been peaceful, there are unimaginably many bandits and horse thieves, there have been many times when horse thieves disguised themselves as merchants entered the city and then ransacked, the city-state garrison is too weak to defend, it is precisely because of the security of the city, so the Western Regions really dare not let people enter the city casually.

"The safety of the caravan outside the city?" Wei Duli seemed to be stunned by the question, and said: "There are risks in going out to do business, and every caravan knows this very well. We provide a place for them to trade, and they pay us taxes, which do not include keeping them safe, and are fended off by their own samurai in the event of a horse thief. ”

Li Ren shook his head in his heart, and after thinking about it, he could understand, after all, not every country is like an empire, there are so many city-states and kingdoms in the Western Regions, and the snow in front of the door can't be cleaned, so how can he take care of other people's tiles.

Led by Lieutenant Du Li, Li Xin and other twenty-nine people were accepted into Yi Dun, and before entering, Yi Xun's city defense army still wanted Li Xin and others to temporarily hand over their weapons, but how could they tolerate such a thing? In the end, it was Wei Duli who considered that Loulan needed to obtain the understanding of the empire, and a horsewhip was waved "crackling", telling Yidun's city defense army to get out, and the matter could be regarded as a result that was satisfactory to Li Xin and others.

"The weapons of the imperial soldiers are their lives, and when we carry out military affairs, no matter what kind of situation or occasion we encounter, we must never leave our weapons." Li Xin looked at Yu Duli with blazing eyes and said, "Can you understand? ”

"Huh?" Wei Duli hesitated and asked, "In other words, even if you meet our king, you have to bring your weapons with you?" ”

Li Xin raised his head, as if he didn't even bother to answer.

Li Ren on the other side said with a smile: "Yes, this is the soldier of the empire!" (To be continued.) )