Chapter 241 The first defeat of the White Tiger Army
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In the Western Region County of the Qin Dynasty, compared with Yu Ziqi, who was sailing smoothly on the sea route, and General Feng Jie, who was already determined to die in the vast jungle, White Tiger General Du Teng has been very depressed recently. It can even be said that
, Du Teng has been depressed since the White Tiger Army took over the Western Region.
Of course, if Du Teng knew that there was a word called "ball pain" in later generations, then Du Teng would definitely talk about it every day and tell everyone that he now has a pain in the ball.
Du Teng has been staying in Yarkand since the third year of the Second World War when he liberated more than a hundred small countries in the Western Regions from the Wusun people and merged them into the Qin Dynasty.
city.
Shache City is the capital of the Shache Kingdom, and of course the only city in the Sheche Kingdom. This is basically the same situation in the hundreds of kingdoms in the Western Regions.
A city is a kingdom. This is the habitual thinking of people in the Western Regions that has been passed down for thousands of years.
In the third year of the Second Emperor's reign, all the kings of the Western Regions moved to Xianyang City and were given titles by the Emperor of Qin to provide for their retirement. Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, issued an edict to establish the Western Regions Commandery in Daqin, which had the most counties and the largest area in the vast Western Regions.
Up to now, it has been eight years since the establishment of Xiyu County.
In eight years, the changes among the cities in the Western Region were huge.
From the beginning, more than a hundred countries formed offensive and defensive alliances to be hostile to each other and conquered each other from time to time. Now, the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions under the rule of more than a hundred countries have become the people of a powerful empire, the people of the Qin Dynasty. This sudden change began at the beginning
At that time, the people of all ethnic groups in the Western Regions were extremely unaccustomed to it.
After all, after thousands of years of conquest, this area of the Western Region, surrounded by grasslands and water sources, has witnessed countless wars and massacres.
The various small countries are far from being able to immediately forget their past hatreds, let alone become a family that loves each other.
Therefore, in order to maintain the stability of more than a hundred large and small cities in the Western Region during these eight years, one hundred thousand White Tiger troops have been stationed in the Western Region County for a full eight years.
This does not include the 10,000 guards Hu Hai recruited from Xianyang to garrison Loulan City in the Western Regions County.
The first governor of Xiyu County was Lu Jia, the former chief minister of the Ministry of Rites appointed by the emperor. He was directly promoted from the fourth-grade chief minister to the governor of Xiyu County, the largest prefecture in Da Qin. Although the official rank seemed to be only a small promotion.
Although he was on the first level, Lu Jiaqu suddenly became the hottest political star in Qin Dynasty.
In the eyes of many people in Da Qin, the Western Region County is a lucrative position.
Especially three years ago, in response to the request of the Holy Emperor Hu Hai, the second emperor of the Qin Dynasty, giant merchants from more than ten counties in the Qin Dynasty united to form the first business group in the Qin Dynasty, and headed west along the newly built Longxi Chi Road and successfully
After arriving in Central Asia, caravans from the far west began to appear in Daqin one after another.
In the past two years, there has been an endless stream of foreigners coming from the west to purchase silk, jade, and bronze from the powerful Eastern Qin Empire.
Inadvertently, the "Silk Road" had appeared in the East and West continents hundreds of years earlier in the hands of Hu Hai.
The caravans coming and going must pass through the Longxi Chi Road to go west or east into the territory of Daqin, and more importantly, the small towns such as Loulan City and Zihe City, which were originally on the Puchang Seaside, cannot go east or east.
It is the only way for merchant caravans and even large business groups to go west.
The prosperity of commerce will inevitably bring about economic prosperity. What's more, Great Qin has already had commercial taxes. Loulan City, as the county seat of the Western Regions, is now the largest city in the Western Regions. Just levy taxes. Think about it from the West.
If you want to enter the Daqin trade business group, you can already make a lot of money from the business tax.
Hu Hai had revised the laws on commercial taxes in Daqin a few years ago. Daqin imposed heavy taxes on merchants. However, this heavy tax was only once. For example, when goods are shipped from Xianyang, the owner of the merchant group must be transported before leaving Xianyang City.
It is necessary to report to the Xianyang Lingfu the specific items transported in the cargo and the quantity of the cargo.
Then the Xianyang Lingfu levied a commercial tax of about 10% on the goods in accordance with the commercial laws of the Qin Dynasty. This 10% was 10% of the total price of the goods.
After the caravan pays the tax, the Xianyang Lingfu will issue a document and stamp it with the official seal.
With this document, the caravan can travel through more than 50 counties in the Qin Dynasty without paying any taxes. Of course, the premise is that if the number of goods in the foreign county does not match the number of goods on the document when inspecting the goods, then it will be charged with smuggling.
Impose fines high enough to bankrupt most merchants.
Soon after the trade route to Central Asia was opened through the Western Regions, the Ministry of Revenue set a separate tax for goods leaving the gate of Qin. Of course, the tax was not set subsequently. Instead, it convened many people who carried out export trade.
The big businessmen made the decision after studying and checking the income they could get from each export.
After all, Da Qin's products are like luxury goods abroad.
What's more important is that although the export trade takes a long time, it is a two-hand transaction. The ordinary items brought out of Daqin are sold to the rich and noble people in the West at high prices. The local specialties, gems and other items from the West are purchased at low prices and then brought back to the West.
Returning to Daqin for sales. Although it sometimes takes a year to come and go, the income is extremely rich.
Nowadays, all the distinguished families in the Qin Dynasty have organized joint business groups to cross the Tianshan Mountains, pass through the Pamir Plateau and enter Central Asia to earn the gold of the Central Asian slave owners and tycoons.
The Great Qin Silk Road has two routes in the Western Regions. The starting point of both routes is Loulan City. One goes north first, passes through Zihe City, goes all the way north along the Kongque River to the Tarim River, and then turns south to reach Shache City.
, passing through the Tianshan Mountains and the Pamir Plateau into Central Asia.
The other one goes southwest, starting from Loulan City, passing through Milan City, Ruoqiang City, Qiemo City, Niya City, crossing the Keriya River and finally reaching Shache City, then crossing the Kunlun Pass and crossing the Pamir Plateau.
Central Asia.
Of the two lines, the eastern end is Loulan City, which is the starting point, and the western end is Sheche City. Shache City is also the westernmost city on the Daqin territory.
This is one of the main reasons why Hu Hai has been stationing 100,000 elite troops of the White Tiger Army in the Western Region County.
In fact, the most important thing in occupying the Western Region counties is to open up the road to Central Asia. At the same time, before Da Qin enters Central Asia, let Da Qin trade with various slave countries in Central Asia first, so that the Qin people can see this for themselves
The world that has been described.
Sheche City is the southernmost city in the Great Qin territory, but it is not the westernmost city in the Great Qin territory east of the Tianshan Mountains. Outside Sheche City, in a basin at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, there are three other cities, which are the westernmost cities in the Great Qin territory.
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However, these three cities were not captured by the White Tiger Army. Of course, they were not captured by the Wusun people who were difficult to defeat before.
Du Teng personally commanded the White Tiger Army of 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry to be stationed in the small city of Shache. In fact, the most important task was to prevent the small tribes from the Western Regions in the three cities from invading the Western Regions and cutting off trade routes.
Said to be three cities, it can actually be said to be three kingdoms, three kingdoms that are incompatible with the hundreds of small countries in the Western Regions. They are the Yana Kingdom, the Wosha Kingdom and the Koduluo Kingdom.
But now the three small countries have merged into one kingdom at the same time.
Kingdom of Oia!
Yes, the king of the Iya Kingdom is a woman, and she is also the woman who was rejected by Hu Hai on the spot in the main hall of Xianyang Palace, the former Princess of Loulan Kingdom, Iya.
If Du Teng hadn't captured Brake City, I'm afraid Hu Hai would never have known that the stunning alien beauty Iya, who was originally rejected by him and was a bit too conceited, would become the last stumbling block for Great Qin to occupy the entire Western Region.
After Du Teng captured Shache City, he quickly discovered the three small towns entrenched at the foot of Kunlun Mountain. Without any hesitation, Du Teng immediately sent three groups of White Tiger troops, each with one lieutenant or 5,000 soldiers.
Conquer the city.
After the White Tiger Army defeated the Wusun Army, which was difficult to defeat, they marched westward. It often only took more than a thousand people or even a small team of 500 leaders to capture a city.
Sending 5,000 troops to capture a small city was a prudent move by Du Teng after he received the warning from King Brake. In his opinion, 5,000 White Tiger troops were enough to defeat or even crush three or even four times his own.
Wusun people.
However, none of the countries in the Western Regions could withstand the Wusun's attack by an army of ten thousand people.
As a result, the three armies retreated at the same time.
This was the first time that the White Tiger Army had suffered a defeat on the battlefield since the formation of the Bashang Camp. In Du Teng's view, a small town that retreated without success meant it was defeated.
However, Du Teng was not impulsive. Some people said that defeating one city would be a bit abnormal, not to mention that all three armies retreated in defeat.
After asking the leading lieutenant, I found out that the army had just arrived outside the three cities and had not yet attacked the city, but a dense wave of snakes appeared in front of the army. However, the dense venomous snakes were obviously controlled by people. The three-way White Tiger Army
At the same time, he used the Qin crossbow to shoot, but in the end he still couldn't withstand the overwhelming tide of snakes, and retreated in embarrassment.
If they were fighting with each other, even if all the 15,000 White Tiger soldiers were killed, no one would choose to retreat. But fighting with that beast that looks so frightening, if you win, you will still be able to win.
It's easy to say that if you don't even see the enemy's shadow, but all of them are buried in the belly of the snake, then it is really too painful to die.
This was the first time Du Teng had heard of the snake that could drive poisonous snakes and resist the attack of the elite army of Qin Dynasty. Although Du Teng did not give up, he personally led the army and chose a small city to test, but snakes from three cities appeared at the same time and almost failed him.
Du Teng and others were surrounded.
After repeated defeats and unable to find any place to start, Du Teng had no choice but to write a letter from 800 miles away to report everything that happened in Shache City to Hu Hai. (To be continued)