All Heavens and Worlds Modified History System

Chapter 413 Journey to the Western Regions

The Hexi Corridor is located between the east-west running Qilian and Beishan mountain ranges.

At the end of the western section is a narrow valley.

The terrain here is extremely dangerous, with a valley sandwiched between two mountains. To the east is Suzhou, the gateway to Guanzhong, and to the west is the Western Regions.

There is no doubt that the Qin State built a pass in such a dangerous place.

There are mountains on both sides, and people directly quarry stones to make earth cement and various gravel, and use kilns to make bricks and tiles, etc.

Horse-drawn trains brought in a large amount of building materials, including steel bars and other good things, and a magnificent pass was built at this pass.

Chen Ran asked Zulong to personally write the name of this important pass.

Zulong said modestly and asked Chen Ran if he had any good suggestions.

Chen Ran's response was straightforward: "Then let's call it Jiayuguan."

In this way, Jiayuguan was built here.

New building materials and methods were used, and more importantly, a large number of captured Hu people were busy working as coolies. This made it possible to successfully build this pass at a speed that was unimaginable in that era.

The gate of Jiayuguan is different from other city gates. It has three gates.

There are triple gates, with slag cement asphalt roads on both sides and an extremely spacious and tall horse-drawn railway in the middle.

Meng Yi's army set out from here and marched westward.

Soon they seized a large area of ​​land in the west.

This place was originally the territory of the Wusun people. After the Qin people took it over, they set up counties and prefectures according to the rules of the Central Plains. This place was set up as Dunhuang County.

It is located in a river valley in the middle and lower reaches of a big river. It is rich in cantaloupe, so it was set up as Gua County. The place was later called Guazhou.

After setting up a forward base here, Meng Yi's army continued to march westward. After more than 200 miles, they arrived at the end of the Tianshan Mountains.

According to the map provided by Chen Ran, there are two roads starting from here, north and south.

If you go north, you will get Tianshan North Road, and if you go south, you will naturally get Tianshan South Road.

There is abundant grass and water here, the climate is humid and the rainfall is not small.

It is completely different from the extremely dry environment two thousand years later, where evaporation is ten times the rainfall.

Meng Yi assigned personnel to set up a pass on each of the two major roads leading to the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains.

The pass in the north was named Yumen Pass.

The pass near the south was named Yangguan.

While urging the prisoners of war to build the pass, reinforcements led by Meng Tian arrived here one after another.

According to Zulong's order, the brothers Meng Tian and Meng Yi will divide their troops here and attack along the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains respectively.

Meng Tian led his army northward to attack the former state of Cheshi.

Meng Yi went south, marching along the Lop Nur, which was rich in grass and fertile land, and finally arrived at the Kingdom of Loulan.

Here, they encountered the first real resistance since their journey westward.

The Loulan people mobilized three thousand troops!

That's right, an army of 3,000 people. They also invited thousands of reinforcements from several nearby countries to fight a decisive battle with the Qin army on the shore of Lop Nur.

This is a huge coalition force with a total of nearly 7,000 people.

Don't laugh. In the Western Regions, an army of more than 7,000 people is already a powerful army capable of destroying a country.

Even in Japan more than a thousand years later, more than 7,000 people were enough to destroy a country.

Although the Huns warned these small countries in the Western Regions before leaving that the Qin people were very powerful and it was best to avoid fighting with them as much as possible.

But in this era when communication basically depends on shouting, these small countries in the Western Regions could never imagine how powerful the Qin Dynasty, which unified the world, was.

At the beginning, they faced only a few hundred Qin reconnaissance cavalry.

They were not unfamiliar with cavalry. The Huns who came from the east and briefly ruled the Western Regions were mainly cavalry. They could even mobilize tens of thousands of cavalry.

The power at that time really scared the countries in the Western Regions.

Fortunately, the Huns did not stay for too long. After learning that the Qin army was heading west, they extorted some countries in the Western Regions and then continued their journey westward.

In the words of their Great Chanyu, "To fight against the Qin people, we must stretch their supply lines, harass the exhausted Qin army as much as possible, and finally lay siege."

The countries in the Western Regions did not understand this, nor did they think carefully about why the powerful Huns fled immediately after learning that the Qin army was coming.

They still fought according to the previous Western Region model, and 7,000 troops were enough.

After hundreds of Qin cavalrymen slowly retreated, they even cheered with joy.

However, this joy did not last long.

When the Qin army formations appeared in sight in a mighty manner.

When the Qin army's iron armor shone brightly under the sunlight.

When the Qin army became so large that there was no end in sight, the morale of the Western Region coalition forces was declining at a rate visible to the naked eye.

"How can there be so many people?!"

There was no suspense at all in the ensuing battle.

Tens of thousands of Qin's elite troops defeated the Western Region coalition forces with great ease.

The fleeing soldiers soon saw tens of thousands of Qin cavalry rushing to chase them.

They were desperate, and those who were still alive chose to surrender, and no one managed to escape back to the city. Meng Yi took over Loulan without a single blow.

It is called a country, but in fact it is similar to a county in Middle-earth.

As for its capital city, Loulan, it was not even as good as a county town in Middle-earth.

Meng Yi knew nothing about the Loulan story or the Loulan girl. He just sent the captured King of Loulan to Xianyang City to join the dance troupe of a foreign monarch.

After that, there were many preliminary preparations, such as building city roads on a large scale, arranging beacon towers and post stations, clearing out the miscellaneous bandits in various places, etc.

Building a horse-drawn railway here, unlike in the heart of Middle-earth, requires first and foremost to avoid being destroyed.

After all, the route passes through a long uninhabited area and requires a safer environment.

Because Chen Ran has been traveling a lot in recent years.

With no one to advise him, Ying Zheng's style of behavior became more and more radical.

In order to deal with the line security issues in the Western Regions, Ying Zheng proposed a quick and neat solution.

Those are the local indigenous people of the Western Regions. Those who can be captured as laborers are kept as laborers, and the rest migrate to the heartland of Middle-earth.

Then immigrants migrated from Middle-earth to fill the original living environment.

This is a huge project, but the emperor's will must be carried out.

Meng Yi resolutely carried out the emperor's order. After the Qin army distributed the local population of Loulan, the men were left behind to work, while the elderly, the weak, women and children were sent to the hinterland.

When they parted, there was naturally crying and wailing everywhere, but unfortunately it was meaningless under the supervision of the Qin army.

After all, no matter how many tears flow, they cannot soften the hardness of weapons and armor.

After settling the Kingdom of Loulan first, Meng Yi quickly divided his troops into four parts and dealt with the nearby Western Regions countries, large and small.

Meng Tian, ​​who was located in the north of Tianshan Mountains, also performed similar operations.

The Qin army used local labor as much as possible to carry out large-scale infrastructure construction.

Although the advancement was slow, the foundation was laid firmly. By advancing along the railway line, sufficient support and logistical supplies could be obtained.

As more and more people migrated from the heartland of Middle-earth and villages gradually formed, local garrisons were also established in various places.

During the Warring States Period, especially at the end of the Warring States Period when the scale of war expanded rapidly, all citizens were soldiers in all places.

As long as he is a man, he must receive military training after he reaches adulthood and be enlisted in the army to serve. He usually retires after he turns 50.

With these migrated troops guarding the beacon towers, garrisons and supply points along the way, as well as patrols along the railway line, the field army of the Meng brothers will be free to continue fighting westward.

Along the way, the countries, large and small, north and south of the Tianshan Mountains were basically powerless in the face of the Qin Army.

Countries like Qiuci, Jingjue, Gumo, Shache, Shule, Khotan, etc., have all disappeared in the long river of history.

As for the small countries whose names have not been recorded, there are countless of them.

What surprised Meng Yi was that when he passed on the news of the conquest of the Jingjue Kingdom, the imperial teacher actually came.

And after arriving, they went straight to the Kingdom of Jingjue.

Although the Jingjue Kingdom was called a country, it actually had only a few thousand people and hundreds of soldiers.

When the Qin army took the city, it was almost effortless.

Like most of the countries in the Western Regions, this place is an oasis with abundant water and grass.

There are many business travelers coming and going, but there is nothing special.

The imperial teacher traveled eight or nine thousand miles all the way from Xianyang City, and now he's running around here. What is he looking for?
Meng Yi's doubts did not last long, because Zhao Gao, the emperor's envoy, also arrived soon after.

On behalf of the emperor, Zhao Gao asked Meng Yi to provide all possible help and work with the imperial teacher to find the secrets of the Jingjue Kingdom.

Meng Yi, who was very curious, temporarily put aside his military duties and followed Chen Ran to search around in this slightly independent oasis.

As for the result, naturally nothing was found.

Then, Meng Yi heard the national teacher say, "Liar, there is none at all."

"Nothing?" Meng Yi and Zhao Gao pricked up their ears almost at the same time, but unfortunately Chen Ran never mentioned this topic again.

After the imperial teacher went south to the south of the Pamir Mountains to look for the Kingdom of Women, Meng Yi thought that the matter was over.

Unexpectedly, a large number of envoys came from Xianyang City in groups and turned the Jingjue Kingdom upside down again and again.

Even the few thousand people of the Jingjue Kingdom were all escorted to Xianyang City under strict escort.

It was obvious that the king also wanted to know what the national teacher was looking for.

A few months later, the gloomy-faced national teacher came back again, saying the same thing: "Liar, you have nothing."

As expected, those people who came from Xianyang City ran south again and again to the Kingdom of Women in search of secrets.

Chen Ran came here naturally to find out whether the stories in the novels he had read were real.

The result is obvious. A novel is just a novel after all. Apart from the weird name, there is really nothing special about it.

But since I'm here, I might as well take it as a trip to relax and unwind.

Following Meng Yi's army, they crossed the Pamir Mountains and arrived at the Kingdom of Dayuan.

The Hellenistic town and the obvious white people here finally made Chen Ran feel better.

"I have to ask carefully whether the thing on that mountain really exists."

(End of this chapter)