"Okay, I'm thinking of your extenuating circumstances, so I'll leave your bodies intact."
After Latiya finished speaking, the joyful expressions of Wutou and others suddenly turned pale, and a snake head from a jade ring hanging around their necks quickly came out and bit them on their necks.
The desert black snake is one of the most terrifying poisons in the desert. Wutou and the others were paralyzed on the ground without saying a word, and died soon after.
Latiya casually took back a few black snakes, and the senior general asked the soldiers to carefully carry out the corpses.
There were only two people left in the room. The senior general finally couldn't hold it back and said to Latiya: "Sister, no, Your Majesty, I don't understand why Loulan must be captured. The Huns were extremely powerful at the time, and they only used Loulan as a buffer for the big men.
,Why must we take down Loulan?"
The speaker was Latia's brother Yeke, the former heir to the throne. Latia was sent to the Han Dynasty as a hostage, and Yeke became the only heir to Yarkand, but in fact the old king of Yarkand preferred Latia.
After Latia came back, the old king was already seriously ill, because Yeke had no desire for power, and Latia, who was relatively smart, wanted to take over the throne. The old king, who liked Latia, passed the throne to Latia.
.
"I said that we people in Yarkand cannot be enslaved by any empire, not even the Han Empire. We must have the equal right to dialogue with them. Why should we be..."
"Sister, you have already used this reason."
Ye Ke interrupted Latia's words loudly. After a while, he took a breath and said in a deep voice: "Sister, I know that you were sent to the Han Dynasty as a hostage, suffered a lot, were hunted down, and were held hostage.
, being looked down upon. You feel aggrieved.
My father was reluctant to let you leave. After you went to Han Dynasty, my father blamed himself for his illness. Soon he became seriously ill and passed away after only seeing you for the last time. Therefore, you don't want Yarkand to be weak or bullied by the big empire.
Because of this, I have always supported you, and have supported you since the very beginning of the attack on Kucha.
But what you are doing now is irrational. We don’t need to attack Loulan. We, Yarkand, are already strong and we can talk to the Han as equals. Why do we still have to attack Loulan?
Not to mention the heavy losses in this attack on Loulan. In addition to the losses in Haitou City, plus the losses in Wutou in the desert, and the losses in the riots, nearly 20,000 soldiers have been killed. This is a huge number of casualties that has never been seen in the Western Regions.
Number of people.
Now we have provoked the Han army. If we had not attacked Loulan, we would have had a buffer against the Han. Now we have provoked the Han army. If we face the Han army directly, how much will we lose?
Sister, if you have been to the Han Dynasty, you should know how powerful the Han Dynasty is. They can easily have dozens or millions of troops. As for us, how many troops does my sister have? There are 5,000 cavalry and 50,000 new infantry. Now there are 20,000 dead. The remaining
How can we fight against 40,000 people?
Sister, you have magic. You can confuse the people of all countries, but in the face of thousands of armies, what use are your magic?"
Ye Ke took a deep breath, and said with some helplessness and reluctance: "Sister, stop it. Now that the Han army is coming, we have to give up Loulan City, and we should use Loulan as a buffer against the Han Dynasty. Don't forget, the Yuezhi Empire is in the process of rectification.
If the army wants to attack us, the Yuezhi is a big empire."
A disdainful expression appeared on Latiya's face: "The Yuezhi are nothing, they are just a rotten elephant. If a country like this wants to attack us, let's cross the green hills first. Don't worry, even if the Yuezhi army really
Those who can cross the green mountains and cross the desert to enter our Yarkand, I have also prepared good gifts for them."
The Kushan Empire established by the Yuezhi rose and declined quickly. Especially after Hubisaka II succeeded to the throne in 183, the Kushan Empire declined sharply. Kangju, Khwarezm and other places successively separated from the Guishan Empire.
Frost control.
At first, the Dayuan Kingdom was completely controlled by the Kushan Empire, but after 190, the Dayuan Kingdom began to de-Kushanate, and now it is only a Guishan vassal in name, and does not need to pay tribute to many horses.
Not to mention whether such an empire would send troops to a vassal state that existed in name only like Dawan, even if it did, Latia would not be afraid of such a declining country sending troops.
The Kushan Empire was indeed thousands of times larger than Yarkand, but the Kushan Empire had to face both the Parthian Empire to the west and the Shendu Kingdom to the east, so it was impossible for the main force to cross the green mountains.
"So what if the Yuezhi doesn't come? Sister, I just want to ask you, why did you attack Loulan? Liu Zhang, the king of Shu in the Han Dynasty, is not easy to deal with. If we must develop our power under his nose, what happened to Ban Chao back then?
Things will happen again, even worse, and Yarkand will be destroyed, you know, sister."
Ye Ke became excited. In his opinion, attacking Loulangen was a wrong move, but why were so many people trying to persuade him to no avail? Most of those who tried to persuade him were killed by Latiya.
It was because Yarkand offended Hanwei that even though 50,000 people from Kucha came to the aid, they were still defeated by Banchao. The Yarkand people still have nightmares to this day. Therefore, even though the Han Dynasty declined and the civil war intensified, Yarkand was located in a remote area, but they were still defeated by Banchao.
hostage.
But now he has offended again, and his words are thorough. Based on Ye Ke's understanding of Liu Zhang, this man is obviously much colder than the original Han Emperor. We don't know what the result will be, so Ye Ke is naturally excited.
But Ye Ke was excited, and Latiya was even more excited. She suddenly turned around and looked at Ye Ke coldly: "Ye Ke, see clearly who you are talking to. I am the king. Let me tell you, not only will I destroy Loulan
, I will not let go of the Han troops who come this time, and none of them will leave Yumen Pass in the east."
Latia said and walked out, walked to the door, turned around, and said solemnly to Ye Ke: "Remember, this is the last time, don't call me sister in the future."
When Latiya disappeared from the door, Ye Ke smashed his sword on the table: "You are crazy, you are crazy, sister, do you have to cause the destruction of Shache?"
Ye Ke remembered that before going to the Central Plains, although this sister was not weak, she was not as cruel and fierce as she is now. Since coming back from the Central Plains, she seemed to be a different person.
Did she really suffer so much injustice in the Central Plains?
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"Your Majesty." Xu Tianshi glanced weakly at Latiya who came out. In front of the people of other countries, he is the spokesperson of the Queen of Shache and the Witch God. In the eyes of the people of Shache, he is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people.
National Preceptor.
But only Xu Tianshi himself knew that he was nothing in front of this queen who was more terrifying than a witch. If he didn't go his way at all, he would definitely be killed by her.
"It seems that the effect is not very good." Latiya looked at the dispersed Loulan people and said lightly.