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Chapter 1681 The Situation in the Western Regions

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    ????????????????????????????: 100-foot building, west of Fenghuo City, the sea is alone in the autumn breeze at dusk.

    It also played the flute Guanshanyue, and there was no golden girlfriend.

    ??Thousands of miles of desert, filled with long stretches of yellow sand.  Crossing the river from Jincheng, the further west you go, the more boundless desolation you see.  Heaven, earth and time, in this vastness, there is only infinite vastness.

    In front of Yumen Pass, a group of cavalry with black flags and black armor slowly stopped in front of the pass.  Huang Mingliao reined in his horse and looked up. The Jade Gate Pass was the same scene as before, unchanged.

    "Soldiers, go home!"

    A group of soldiers also shook off the fatigue of the long journey and poured into Yumen Pass (Yumen Pass was moved from the northwest of Dunhuang to Jinchang County in Guazhou east of Dunhuang in the Sui and Tang Dynasties) with joy and joy.

    It has been more than seven years since Huang Mingliao led 15,000 men and horses across 4,000 miles in the westward expedition to Yiwu in May of the fourth year of Daye.

    In seven years, Huang Mingliao has grown from a young man who just turned 23 to a strong man.

    In the past few years, Huang Mingliao has been fighting against the Western Turks.

    In the sixth year of the Daye, the Ni Chuluo Khan of the Western Turks arrived in Luoyang to pay a pilgrimage to the emperor. Huang Mingliao occupied Khan Futu City, and the war between the Sui Dynasty and the successor of the Western Turks, Shekui Khan, began.

    Huang Mingliao was not strong in the Western Region at the beginning and did not have many resources in his hands.  In fact, Yang Guang has no plans to expand the Western Regions on a large scale, so there are not many resources tilted toward the Western Regions.

    The General Administration Office of Xizhou, where Huang Mingliao is located, governs four counties, Dunhuang, Yiwu, Qiemo, and Shanshan.  Among them, Qiemo and Shanshan are just two small countries with a population of only a few thousand.

    Later, Huang Mingliao wrote to ask for the dismissal of the two counties on the grounds that it was inconvenient to manage.  So Yang Guang merged the two counties into Qiemo and Shanshan counties and included them in Yiwu County. He also established Shicheng Town and Boxian Town in the two counties, which belonged to the General Administration of Xizhou.

    In the first few years of Huang Mingli's stay in the Western Regions, the situation in the Western Regions was relatively stable.  Under the attack of the Great Sui Dynasty, the Western Turkic Shekui Khan, and the Tiele people, the overlord of the Western Region Ni Chuluo Khan suddenly fell. All forces were snatching resources and re-dividing their forces, and basically did not interfere with each other.

    Therefore, Huang Mingliao occupied Puleihai and established Pulei County and Beiyiwu Town here.

    After that, Huang Mingyuan spent more than two years occupying Khan Futu City and the surrounding areas, defeating the remaining Western Turkic forces stationed here.

    The city of Khanfutu was renamed Jinman County, and Luntai County and Xipu Lei County were added.  From Yiwu County to the west, Qinghai Town (now east of Shawan County, Xinjiang and west of Manas River), Shenxian Town (now south of Jimusar County, Xinjiang), Xianquan Town, and Dushan Town (now Mulei Kazakhstan, Xinjiang) were established.  The ruins of the ancient city opposite the oil depot in the Autonomous County), Shabo Town (today¡¯s Shuanghe Ancient City of Jimusar, Xinjiang), Fengluo Town (today¡¯s northeast of Santai Town, Jimusar, Xinjiang), Yele Town (today¡¯s ancient city of Santai and Bajiadi, Xinjiang),  Juliu Town (now the ancient city of Liuyun, Tianchi Township, Fukang, Xinjiang), Zhangbao Town (now the ancient city of Changji, Xinjiang), Wuzai Town (now the ancient city south of Manaslou, Xinjiang), Yehe Town (now the east of Kuitun, Xinjiang), Heilongjiang Province  The fourteen border towns of Shuizhen (now Wusuxi, Xinjiang), Xilin Town (now Wusuxi Gurtu, Xinjiang), and Donglin Town (now Sikeshu Township, Wusu, Xinjiang), all north of the Tianshan Mountains, Shatuo  The vast area south of Qi (now the Gurbantunggut Desert in the Junggar Basin of Xinjiang) extended its influence westward to Huangcaobo (now the Xinjian Lake Aibi).

    Shekui Khan watched the Sui power expand westward bit by bit, but had no choice.  He was constrained by the lack of internal unity and did not dare to offend Sui Dynasty easily, so he let it go and waited for the opportunity.

    Huang Mingliao also knew that he could not compete with the Western Turks, so his power was no more than the Tianshan Mountains and he could only develop north of the Tianshan Mountains where the Western Turks were weak.

    In order to help Huang Mingliao manage the Western Regions, Huang Mingyuan wrote to Yang Guang several times, asking him to relocate the landless people in Guanzhong, Hedong, Henan and other places, and to recruit surrogate sons-in-law, subordinates, bandits, and subordinates to move to the Western Regions and enrich the Han people in the Western Regions.  strength.  Since the fourth year of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial court has organized four immigrations, moving more than 60,000 Han people to the Western Regions.

    These Han people were all strong men. When they arrived in the Western Regions, Huang Mingliao helped them marry and settle down, and soon they became 60,000 households.  In addition to the more than 10,000 soldiers brought by Huang Mingliao, by the 10th year of Daye, there were more than 80,000 Han households in the Western Regions.

    On the other hand, the Western Turkic Khan Shekui quickly gathered the strength of the Western Turkic tribes and expanded his power rapidly. His territory reached Tianshan Mountain in the north, Gaochang in the east, and the Aral Sea in the west. All countries west of Yumen Pass were subordinate to him.  Shekui Khan established the Khan's court in the Sanmi Mountain north of Qiuci, and his goal was directly towards the Western Prefecture of the Sui Dynasty.

    Huang Mingliao knew that in order to dominate the Western Region, both sides must have a battle.  It would be difficult to win based on the strength of the Sui army alone. The best way is to recruit friendly forces to jointly fight against the Turks.

    And the best friends are Tiele people.

    The Tiele tribe is mostly in Mobei, but there are also some in the Western Regions. The most powerful ones are the Qibi tribe and the Jin tribe at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains.Xue Yantuo tribe to the south.  In order to fight against the Turks, the Tiele people even established a tribal alliance with the Qibi and Xueyantuo tribes as the main ones.  Yi Shibo became Ye Zha Khan and set up his tent in Yanmo Mountain.

    Afterwards, the Shekui Khan became more and more powerful, and the two tribes had to cancel the Khan position and return to the rule of the Western Turks.  However, the Tiele people have never forgotten their independence, and the Turks are also worried about the Tiele people. The two sides are trying their best to confront each other.

    The Xue Yantuo tribe is better off, and its main nomadic areas are north of Shatuo Qi and west of Jinshan.  After the rise of Xizhou, the Xueyantuo tribe was separated from the Western Turks.  However, after the defeat of Luo Khan in Nipuchu, the Qibi people returned to the Yingsochuan grassland for nomadic life. This place is located at the junction of the Western Turks, Gaochang and Sui Dynasty, and is only a stone's throw away from the Sanmi Mountain of the Turks' Yazhang. Therefore,  Encountered attacks by the Western Turks, its power gradually weakened.

    In the seventh year of the Great Cause, Qibi Geling, the leader of the Qibi tribe, died of illness due to internal and external troubles. The rest of the people elected Qibi Geling, the son of Qibi Geling, as the khan.  Qibige was only twenty years old at the time and lacked prestige. He could not suppress the tribes internally and could not resist the Turkic invasion externally, so the tribes dispersed one after another.

    At the end of the seventh year of Daye, Shekui Khan led his troops to raid the Qibi tribe and defeated them, making the Qibi tribe even weaker.  Qibige had no choice but to lead his troops to leave Yingsuo River and retreat to Tanhan Mountain again.

    Seeing this, Huang Mingliao knew that it was time to drive out the Qibi tribe, so he sent Jiang Yunhui as an envoy to the Qibi tribe to discuss forming an alliance.

    Qibi Gezheng was worried about the affairs of the tribe. He was very happy when he heard that the Sui Dynasty was willing to form an alliance with him.  He hoped that he could use the Sui Dynasty to resist the eastward advance of Shekui Khan, so he professed his vassalship to the Sui Dynasty and accepted the canonization of the Sui Dynasty.

    The Tanhan Mountain where the Qibi tribe is located is the boundary between the Sui Dynasty and Gaochang, and the Qibi tribe just becomes the southern barrier of the Sui Dynasty.

    After that, Huang Mingliao recruited the Wuxi and Zhiyi tribes south of Tanhan Mountain, plus Gaochang, who was also in fashion and surrendered to the Sui Dynasty, to build an alliance to fight against the Western Turks.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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