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You don't see,

Walking on the snow and seaside, the flat sand is reckless and yellow into the sky.

You don't see,

Qinghai Changyun dark snow mountain, lonely city looking at Yumen Pass.

Reading these poems, you have to admire the poet, and with just a few numbers, he vividly describes the bitter cold scene of the reckless and vast Western Regions.

Yumen Pass has long been abandoned, and this is a desert wasteland that has been barren by history.

The scene of "Jinshan saw smoke and dust flying in the west, and the Han generals went west" has not been seen for thousands of years since the Tang Dynasty.

Li Dingguo, who toured all the way west from Lanzhou and crossed the Hexi Corridor for 2,000 miles, stood on the collapsed Yumen Gate at this moment, blowing the painful wind and sand, holding the handle of the knife in his hand, his eyes squinted slightly, looking at the yellow sand directly outside the pass, and there was an inexplicable torrent surging in his heart.

Here, history is so heavy.

The thunderous cries, the rain-like horses' hooves, and the blood-infused blood were all smoked in the boundless yellow sand, but when the storm came, they echoed and stirred again and again.

That page of magnificent history, like a dead poplar tree, is exposed on the wasteland, immortal for thousands of years, silently telling endless sorrow.

How easy it is to go out of Yangguan, but it is such a difficult step. For thousands of years, those generals who took this step have gone down in history.

Li Dingguo was thinking, those Han generals who went out were all lonely.

Because, a thousand years have passed, and the iron hooves of the Han army have never set foot on the land of the Western Regions again.

"I don't see the ancients before, I don't see the people who come after, I think of the world and the world, and I am alone and crying!" Li Dingguo let out a long sigh.

Zhang Yuan, a personal soldier beside him, asked with a hint of yearning: "Dashuai, what is Tianshan like?" I have heard the story of General Xue Rengui, and the storyteller said that the general set the Tianshan Mountain with three arrows, and the strong man sang a long song into the Han Pass, which excited me the most. Handsome. Will we send troops to the Western Regions? Will you go to the Tien Shan? ”

A gust of wind swept in, and the yellow sand flew all over the sky, Li Dingguo looked west through the vast yellow sand, and replied calmly and affirmatively: "Yes!" With His Majesty's mind, sooner or later the Western Regions will be accommodated. ”

At this moment, on the horizon outside the pass, several fast horses galloped over, raising sand and dust like flying yellow dragons;

These Qin army scouts riding black-clothed Xuanjia rushed to the ruined pass and saw Li Dingguo at the pass. Immediately shouted urgently: "Great marshal, we have just found out that the Dzungar Department has broken through Yarkand City, and Abdullaha Khan is leading a small number of men and horses to flee towards Yumen Pass. The fifth son of Dzungar Batur Khan, Sangge, is leading an army to hunt down Abdul Raha"

This news immediately caused a commotion in the Qin army around Li Dingguo.

Yarkand Abdullaha Khan believes in the Montenegrin sect of Islam, while his son Yaolwa believes in the White Mountain sect of Yaolwa Nakshbandi religion, and the father and son are at odds;

Abdullaha Khan was dissatisfied with his son, who was against him, and wanted to deprive him of his power. Unwilling to be captured, and with the instigation of his subordinates, in November last year, Yaolewa, who was stationed in Hami, borrowed troops from the Dzungar troops north of the Tianshan Mountains. Son to father.

Batur Hun Tai Ji (Hun Tai Ji is a title in the Mongol royal family) of the Dzungar tribe can be said to be a man of great talent, Tong Guò a "Mongolian Oirat Code" integrated the Moxi Mongols, and also formed an alliance with Zasaktu Khan, one of the three major Mongol tribes in Mobei, and even Gushi Khan, who ruled Tibet, recognized his position as the head of the alliance.

In the twelfth year of Chongzhen, he took advantage of the internal strife in Yarkand Khan. Raise an army to attack the Yarkand Khanate, in an attempt to occupy the entire Western Regions.

It's a pity that the hasty army was not supported by other Moxi Mongol tribes. There was a setback.

This time, Yaolewa, the prince of Yarkand, took the initiative to borrow troops, and Batur Khan obtained the status of the head of the Moxi Mongolian tribes, where would he let go of this opportunity.

In the name of helping Yaolewa, he raised an army to attack Abdullaha Khan, and with Yaoleva, the leading party, in the past few months, the Dzungar army has swept through the entire Yarkand Khanate.

At this moment, Li Dingguo must immediately make a heavy decision, Abrakha Khan of Yarkand fled to Yumen Pass, to save, or not to save?

The pros and cons of this are very complex and heavy.

After arriving in the northwest, in addition to patrolling everywhere, he also constantly sent people to contact the Heshuo Special Department, hoping to stabilize Gushi Khan first, and even provoke a struggle between Gushi Khan and Dzungaria.

But no one who can occupy one side is a simple master, and Li Dingguo's desire to make a breakthrough in just two months is tantamount to a fool's dream.

Because of the failure to stabilize the Gushi Khan in Tibet, although the Western Regions are now fighting very lively, after the Qin army quickly dispatched troops to control the two islands in the Yumen Pass, they did not move and never took the initiative to interfere in the fight between the two tigers in the Western Regions.

If Abdullaha Khan is saved, in the future, Daqin will send troops to the Western Regions, and under his banner, he will definitely be able to get twice the result with half the effort.

But when troops are sent to the rescue, they will immediately have to collide with Moxi Mongolia.

Now the center of gravity of Daqin is the southwest and the south. Needless to say, the two major governors of Meng Ke and Ma Yongzhen, one in Liaodong and the other in Xuanda, are working hard to rectify southern Mongolia.

At this time, Hexi was on the defensive in the strategy of Great Qin.

Once this overall situation is broken, all of Daqin's strategies will likely be redeployed, and the focus will shift sharply.

Looking at the long yellow sand outside the pass, Li Dingguo's heart turned a thousand times at this moment, and all the soldiers and generals around him were looking at him, waiting for his decision.

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In the domed palace of Yarkand, the tall and burly Batur Khan sat on a royal chair studded with precious stones, and asked the dusty Zheerjin, "Is it true that Zasaktu Khan will be able to win on his own?" ”

Zheerjin replied respectfully: "Back to the leader of the Batur League, when I came, our Great Khan united with Khitat and had already achieved an advantage, defeating Gunbu twice in a row, and Princess Tuya used a strategy against Gunbu's subordinate general Koertai, I think now Gunbu has been defeated." ”

"If that's the case, of course it's good," Batur said. ”

"So the alliance leader agreed to attack Hexi and attack Qin on both sides with our Great Khan?"

"This is that Tuya's ploy, right?"

"This" is a little embarrassing, such a big thing, it is not a glorious thing for a woman to make suggestions.

Batur didn't ask, and said in a loud voice: "You go back and tell Sù Zasaktu Khan, don't always be swayed by a woman, otherwise he will suffer a big loss sooner or later."

However, Qin's means of annexing Horqin are indeed worthy of our vigilance. If the Qin State is allowed to take its time, sooner or later there will be no place for the Mongols. Let Qisaktu Khan send troops south, Ben Da Khan has swept away the remnants of Yarkand, and will join forces with Gushi Khan to attack Hexi.

Also, tell Sù Zasaktu Khan, there is nothing to be afraid of the muskets of the Qin State, don't forget that we are the descendants of the wolf god, as long as we are like wolves, we take more surprise attacks, night attacks, divide troops to lure the enemy, intersperse detours, and avoid the real and the virtual, you can make the Qin army's muskets useless. ”

"Thank you, Leader, for your advice."

In the city of Yarkand, there was still a cry, and the Mongols would slaughter those who dared to resist, and in order to prevent the Muslims from gathering, mosques were smashed and smoke billowed out.

One thousand and two miles east of the city of Yarkand, the fifth son of Batu Khan, the fifth son of Batu Khan, led 3,000 cavalry, swept across the edge of the vast and desolate desert, and the yellow dust raised filled the air, and the iron hooves were like thunder, and the murderous atmosphere was soaring.

In front of them, Abdul Rahakhan was running for his life, with only four hundred people left around him, all with chapped lips and discoloration, like a lost dog, at this moment, the world was so big, but there was no place for him.

The monk is like a wolf tracking his prey, always finding his tracks accurately and biting him again and again.

Disheveled! The body of another guard beside Abraha Khan was overdrawn and fell to the ground with a bang, and Abraha Khan did not dare to stop for a moment and walked away.

The vultures, which had been following them in the sky, immediately spun down in flocks, pecking at the fallen men and horses.

When it was closer, seeing that Yumen Pass was in sight, Abraham Khan's cloudy gaze finally revealed a ray of light.

At this moment, the sand and dust behind him swept in again, and the monks and horses were once again like ghosts, chasing them from the left rear out of thin air, and the momentum was thrilling

(To be continued......)