In later generations, the northern part of Qindi belonged to the Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, and the modern style was mostly grasslands and deserts, and there were always towering and steep peaks in the grasslands of Pingchuan or in the distance of the Gobi, with villages one by one, and even modern factories would also appear there.

However, in the pre-Qin period and the Han Dynasty after that, whether it was Beidi County in the Qin Dynasty, or Beidi and Liangzhou in the Han Dynasty, there were not many people in that area, and the land belonged to the Chinese regime, but the people who actually lived on that land were nomads.

During the Qin period, there were some herding tribes belonging to the Qin State, and they maintained the habit of living by grass, and most of their bloodlines were descendants of Yiqu and Rongdi, but they regarded themselves as Qin people in their concepts and spirit.

In the late Eastern Han Dynasty, the land full of grasslands and Gobi has basically been occupied by the Qiang people, and most of the areas are also the status quo of Han and Qiang mixed settlements.

The combined forces of the Han and Qin marched northward, leaving the Qinzhi area and entering the plain area, where they advanced directly from Luoshui to the northwest, and in modern times this area belonged to the center of Yanchi and Huanxian, and now this area is a deserted grassland.

Originally, there was a group of grazing Qin people living in this area, and Meng Tian sent a large number of scouts in the hope of finding those people, but the result was obviously disappointment.

"The Xiongnu and other Hu people were once active in this area, and those people should have migrated to Longxi County, and the population that did not migrate was either killed or captured by the Huns." Li Liang also acted as a liaison officer, talking about the intelligence spied by the Han army.

Meng Tian also had an expectation of one in ten thousand, the scouts patrolled the surrounding area as a routine military affair, and it was the best if they could find it, and there was no loss if they couldn't find it. He knew one thing from Li Liang's attitude, the Han army attached great importance to intelligence. If you already know about this area, you must see it as a battlefield.

Facts have also proved that the Han army has understood the terrain of this area to a certain extent, and the water source can always be found in time on the march, which area is suitable for camping and which is not suitable are very clearly divided, and their own territory is not more familiar than the people on the Han side, which makes some people in the Qin army feel both embarrassed and a little melancholy.

The combined army of 320,000 Han and Qin marched almost 50 miles a day, and the mighty army stepped across the plains and the Gobi area, until it was about 250 miles away in a straight line in the direction of Fertile Field, and was blocked by a desert section.

"This desert is about 100 miles wide and more than 200 miles long. At the other end of the desert is in the direction of Kuhara. To the west is the source of the Yellow River. According to the information we received before, the Xiongnu and other Hu people stopped near the source of the Yellow River, and the straight-line distance from us should be more than 150 miles. ”

Throughout the winter, Touman's army stopped at the source of the Yellow River, mainly because there was enough water for the army to use, and the other reason was that the water and grass at the source of the Yellow River were also very abundant, which was an ideal stop for the Hu army carrying millions of cattle and sheep.

Cattle and sheep and other livestock are the military food of the Hu people, if they are hungry and skinny, it will invisibly reduce the food of the Hu people, and because it is autumn, it has been in a state of movement, and the war horses have also lost fat strictly. It just so happens that there is no snow in this area this year, so it is time to fatten the horses, cattle and sheep first, knowing that there is a risk.

Touman led the army to stay in place, and the Han army in the direction of Fertile Field had fought hundreds of battles with them, large and small, and at the beginning, the Han army had dispatched tens of thousands of troops. In the back, there are basically no more than 1,000 people.

As soon as the Han army opened, it was worried that the Huns and other Hu people would disappear again, so they subconsciously dispatched a large number of troops to entangle, and later found that the Hu people showed no signs of moving, and the Han army itself did not have the strength to fight a decisive battle. The dispatch of small troops was harassment, and it was also the accumulation of experience in cavalry warfare with the Nahu.

Correspondingly, Touman and other Hu leaders also found that the Han army did not have the strength to fight a decisive battle. At one time, there were calls for the army to defeat or disperse the Han army, but it was clear that the Hu people were also in a situation where horses, cattle, and sheep did not have an advantage, and the mention of launching a decisive battle was not enough.

The Han army wanted to accumulate enough experience in cavalry warfare, so why didn't the Hu people want to understand the cavalry combat mode of the Han army? The two sides became in a strange state, as if they had a tacit understanding, and continued to engage in small-scale confrontations.

Touman led his army to entangle with the Han army, while Maoton, on the other hand, was busy making contact with the ethnic groups that had migrated from the west.

There are many and mixed ethnic groups that migrate from the west to the east, the largest ethnic group has hundreds of thousands of people, and some of the smallest ethnic groups do not even exceed 100 people, and their appearance is even more strange, with yellow skin and black head and strange facial features, there are also white people with golden eyes and body hair, and there are black people who are completely black except for the white balls of the eyes and teeth.

The ethnic groups that migrated to the East were not only racially confused, but also did not seem to be much better in terms of ethnic relations. It took a lot of effort for Maudun to understand that these migrating ethnic groups did not coexist peacefully along the way, it can be said that those people migrated all the way and fought all the way, and I don't know how many people died in the battle on the road, and it was not long ago that a resolution was reached not to attack each other, so as to maintain a relatively peaceful situation.

The simple reason for those people not to fight each other is that their enemies or enemies are already approaching.

Maudun was very curious about what kind of powerful existence the West had to drive nearly seven or eight hundred thousand ethnic groups to flee eastward, and his efforts were answered.

There seem to be many powerful countries in the west, and the current country with a relatively large territory is Seleucus, but Seleucus seems to be only a relatively large territory, and the military power is a country called Parthia.

The Parthians who pursued the eastward migration were the Parthians, who united several kingdoms or forces such as Bactria, Arakshiya, Rakshashira, Palpalmaises, and Kashmir and pursued the fugitives.

It must be noted that Bactria is actually a remnant of Alexander's crusade, so the full name of Bactria is also called the "Greek-Bactrian Kingdom", that is, the Osidmus dynasty. However, although Bactria was a kingdom left by Alexander the Great, it was not recognized by the Greeks.

The rest, such as Arakshiya, Rakshashra, Palepamaises, and Kashmir, are now allies of the Parthians, but were later defeated by the Parthians and the Kingdom of Bactria. Eventually, Parthia also invaded parts of the Seleucid Empire, while the Kingdom of Bactria annexed Araxia, Rakshasila, and Palepamises, and only the Kashmiris migrated eastward.

Parthia was currently in the midst of a period of expansion, holding off the Alans, Amcai, and Albanians in the west, and seeking more allies in the east.

In the contemporary historical stage, the Parthians also seem to be playing some kind of strategy of long-distance friendship and close attack, and the rise of a country is bound to trample on the corpses of many ethnic groups, and regard a very large number of countries and ethnic groups as stepping stones, and it is obvious that those ethnic groups that migrate eastward are the victims.

Of course, the eastward migration of the peoples was not simply a stepping stone to Parthia. There are quite a few countries or forces that need to expand. In addition, further west, the eastward expansion of the Hellenic Union was the main cause of the changes in the Central Asian region, and it was the result of the pressure that the Hellenic Union put on the countries of Central Asia.

Maudun also heard from some ethnic groups that the Greek alliance was not the end of the world to the west, and that there was a rising power in the farther west, that power was called Rome, but the Romans seemed to be at war with a country called Carthage, and did not look eastward for the time being.

The extreme western location is in addition to Rome. Presumably the area north of the Greek confederation was filled with a variety of nomadic peoples, the most powerful of which were the Sarmatians and the Gallo-Celtic rivals of the Romans.

In fact, if history had not changed, those ethnic groups who fled from the West to the East would have settled in a vast area that would later be named the "Western Regions" by the Chinese ethnic groups. Evolved into one city-state or kingdom after another, and eventually these kingdoms would be defeated by the Huns one by one at a certain time, and became the backyard of the Huns to collect taxes and recruit soldiers.

Mao Dun also heard about the Yue people from those who migrated from the tribes, and the Yue people are still migrating westward. Stopping at a large inner lake (Lake Balkhash) as if at war with a tribe called the Northern Sakya?

That's right, the Yueshi people have been fleeing westward since they were divided into large and small Yueclans. When they fled to Lake Balkhash in modern times, they seemed unwilling to flee anymore, and after a twenty or thirty-year war with the Northern Sagas over the land, the Yueshi defeated the Northern Sakya and inhabited, and this was not the ultimate fate of the Yueshi people.

Almost in the historical process of the land of China into the Eastern Han Dynasty, that is, around 100 BC, the Yueshi people once again took their footsteps...... the Yueshi people migrated again under the oppression of the Eastern Han Dynasty to establish the Western Regions Protectorate, leaving the Balkhash Lake area to the southwest, this Yueshi people defeated Bactria, and defeated the defeated Northern Sakya people, and then successively destroyed the Greek-Indian Kingdom, Kashmir, Odambarro, Agaria, Sandong Kingdom, Youdesia, Karma Tea Kingdom, The Sorashtra, the Corpse Kingdom, the Abira, the Bhakya Dynasty, and even the Sunga Dynasty, which invaded the local regional powers, finally spent nearly 150 years on the corpses of countless kingdoms to establish the prosperous Kushan Dynasty.

In the historical period of the establishment of the Kushan Dynasty, the once powerful and invincible Xiongnu had been beaten by the Han Empire, and some of the Xiongnu became vassals who submitted to the Han Empire, and the other part of the Xiongnu started the road of escape to the west, which was the so-called Northern Xiongnu and Western Xiongnu.

The Parthians gathered a group of allies to follow the fugitives and march eastward, and they encountered a large tribe called Wusun on the way, and the two sides seemed to have fought a great battle in the steppe and the Gobi, and the final result was that the Parthian allied army was defeated by the Wusun, and the defeated army had fled back, and this was unknown to the groups that migrated eastward.

For the first time, Mao Dun knew that the world was so vast, and his horizons were broadened, but it was of little use for the moment, and he might be able to make up his mind in his heart, after the Xiongnu became strong, he must destroy those countries with stinky and long names, but for now, the most important thing is to attract more cannon fodder and aggressive Han army to fight.

What do those ethnic groups who fled from the west to the east think about the rise of a country called Han in the Eastern world? Perhaps at first moment, they felt hopeless, subconsciously thinking that it was another powerful empire that would drive them out, after all, the stronger the country's possession of the land, but they had to go to find a habitat, and they didn't feel that the powerful Han State would stay on the sidelines and watch like that.

Maudun described the same ethnic groups, and in Maudun's account, the Han state led by Lü Zhe was also a vast and vicious country, and their tribe called "Youxiong (Xiongnu)" was a victim of Han expansion.

Everyone's a victim, isn't it? So in order to survive and have a place to live, should everyone join forces?

Maudun's statement was accepted by some ethnic groups, and if it hadn't happened later, those ethnic groups that migrated from the west might have really been entangled in fighting the Han army.

Guizi and Cheshi were two of the more numerous of the eastward migrating groups, and they had found a suitable habitat in a local area of the Western Regions without much effort, and if they did not know that the Parthian pursuers had been defeated by the Wusun, they would not have planned to continue their migration eastward. For the time being, the two tribes are divided into two factions, one is that they are tired of fleeing and have a good habitat and do not plan to flee again, and the other is that they have a fierce fear of the pursuers and insist on staying as far away from the pursuers as possible.

While the Qiuzi and the Cheshi were arguing endlessly, the envoys of the Maodun side and the Han army had contact with two ethnic groups one after another.

Of course, the people sent by Maudun made another slander of the Han State, repeating how vicious the Han State was, and that if they did not unite to resist, they would die and die.

No one knows what the envoys sent by the Han army said or promised when they arrived, but in the end, the Qiuzi and Cheshi people did not fall to the Huns or join the Han army, and became unreliable neutrals.

There are not many or few ethnic groups that have been deceived into the coalition army, and after gathering young and strong, they can organize an armed force of about 70,000 people, and some ethnic groups that have not joined the alliance will definitely be drawn into the war if they do not stop moving eastward.

The Woye Han army had an understanding of the situation, which was one of the reasons why they repeatedly forced them to call for help from the rear.

And now that Sima Xin and Meng Tian have slowly approached the source of the Yellow River, they don't know what will happen in the face of such a complicated situation...... (To be continued......)