In the Western Regions, there are not people without talented people, nor have they ever imagined that they would form a unified country, but under the different interests of each country, it is not that simple to unify.
The people in the Western Regions, like most people in other countries, find it difficult to form a unified consciousness. Even if they are separated by a river or a mountain, they may eventually lose the foundation of natural unification due to some frictions accumulated over the years.
At the same time, no powerful states like Qin were derived from the Western Regions, so there was no chance to reach the threshold of unification until now. After all, Qin was unique because he had three or four consecutive smart and wise kings, so he could seize the fleeting opportunity in the long river of history. The royal family of the Western Regions obviously did not have such good conditions.
but……
Just like brothers often fight, but when they encounter foreign enemies, they will let go of their disputes and work together to the outside world. Now it seems that there is another opportunity to be placed in front of the Western Regions.
This is not the first time in the Western Regions to resist the Han people.
Not all countries in China, the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period were as good as the Qin State. The Protectors of the Western Regions were also good and bad, strong and weak. After all, they were a minority. In the era of Ban Chao's son Ban Yong, because of the Eastern Han Dynasty's strategic issues towards Guanxi, they even cut off their arms to suppress political enemies. The Protectors of the Western Regions were once changed to the Chief Historian of the Western Regions and lost control of the army.
It is obvious that in places like the Western Regions, there is no control of the army. The so-called Western Region chiefs are like staff members who do not lead the leader, and they have no power to speak. The officials in the court of the Eastern Han Dynasty never considered how much rebound the Western Region order that was finally built will cause after the collapse.
Ironically, the former instigated the Western Regions to resist the Han Dynasty, saying that unified order is garbage, and freedom is the more precious Kushan, but now it is beginning to advocate the benefits of unification...
The memories of the people in the Western Regions are always short-lived.
Because the people in the Western Regions have no writing.
Even if the pictures are vivid and vivid, they cannot carry the power of inheritance like words. Moreover, for some reasons, the pictures passed down in the Western Regions are often religious themes, and are rarely used for folk experience or wisdom.
It’s a pity that Bu Sen didn’t realize this. The so-called secret scroll is the fundamental reason why he was respected by the Western Regions and where he settled down. How could he spread the writing or the history of the Western Regions?
People who are not smart enough often think they are smart people.
Finally Busen agreed with Taxa's suggestion.
Maybe the cakes drawn are very sweet, or maybe the moths can't help but still blow the fire...
Some rumors spread quickly.
Darkness will eventually be expelled, and light will eventually come.
The final test of the Buddha is about to come.
The demon is coming, and only by joining hands can we deal with it...
These words, some of the beginning and end, but some meaningful words spread among the people of the Western Regions. When these people were talking about the tragedy in Qiuci City, sighing about the difficulties in the Western Regions, they would add one or two sentences at the end, and then everyone's expressions became a little intriguing.
Especially with the "Buddha" as the endorsement.
This is the power of religion.
In many cases when the explanation is not clear, you only need to say that this is the Buddha's true meaning, so that people in doubt can't speak. It's like the mysterious "header file" in later generations.
Haven't seen it before, but there are.
The documents cannot be taken out, but there is.
I don't know the details, but there is.
Therefore, the people in the Western Regions also seemed to be under the influence of these rumors. Although there was no basis for them, everyone was convinced that such a life would never last long and that a change would come soon.
Immediately, from Kucha out, the countries, cities, villages and tribes in the Western Regions were filled with an unusual atmosphere.
In those ordinary mornings and dusks, the people of the Western Regions grazed or worked as usual, and then went home to rest when the sun set, but these people were in a state of turmoil and uneasy. These people would take out their swords, guns and arrows again and again, sort them out, and then put them in their most advantageous position.
It seems everyone is waiting for something.
What are you looking forward to?
But what they don’t know is that the heart they expect is the heart that is unwilling to be mediocre, and the thoughts they are waiting for are the accumulation of resentment that has been bullied for many years.
The nervous dark clouds enveloped the entire Western Regions, becoming thicker and darker. It seemed that in the sky, between the clouds, and on every piece of land blowing by the wind, the smell of war had already been brought out.
The Kushans were still accumulating strength, but this smell was already blown into Xihai City first.
In Xihai City, not only Han people, but even in some places, Hu people occupy the majority.
I don’t know when it started, but some situations occurred in Xihai City…
The Hu people in the Western Regions began to consciously say something loudly and in a low voice around the Han people. Before, these Hu people did not speak Hu language when they communicated with each other, but were even proud of their correct Chinese words.
In some dim corners and alleys, Hu people stared at the lonely Han people, and when night came, Hu people ran around while the night was falling. Before, these Hu people were more law-abiding than Han people.
Among the shops in the city, some Hu openly took things in the shops of Han people without paying money, and was caught and beat the Han people, claiming that it was the Han people's discrimination against them... Cough cough, it was so many years of oppression, and now he just took it back a little bit.
Among the vassals in the camp outside the city, the Hu people's vassals also became awesome, just as suddenly these Hu soldiers began to become unpredictable. They no longer obeyed their orders and had a bad temper. For trivial matters, the Hu people dared to swear at the Han military academy and even curse.
There are more and more frictions between the Han and Hu soldiers.
Fighting and fighting are constantly escalating, and the cause may be just a simple sentence, one look, and one collision. The tense confrontation between the soldiers on Hu and Han was constantly warming up and escalating in such an atmosphere, becoming more and more intense.
The bleeding event eventually occurred.
During a quarrel in line, several Han people fought with Hu soldiers. In the chaos, a Hu soldier was stabbed to death by someone with a knife, and blood flowed out. On the spot, other Hu soldiers began to scream, and then more and more Hu soldiers heard the sound and rushed from all directions.
At first it was just a fight between a few people, but it soon evolved into dozens and hundreds of people, and then the entire vassal barracks became turbulent...
Fortunately, Meng Hua was a little rational. He ordered the military academy officers of the Han and Hu people to separate the soldiers and barely maintain order. However, the soldiers of the Han and Hu people confronted each other, and were obviously not satisfied with Meng Hua's decision. Although Meng Hua suspended the deterioration at the scene at that time, the situation inside the camp outside the city actually became even worse.
The Han people and Hu people inside and outside Xihai City are isolated from each other, disagree with each other, and ignore them. The Hu people dare not go to places with many Han people, and similarly, the Han people dare not go to areas dominated by Hu people.
Meng Hua and Han Guo were comforting each other while urgently reporting the current tense situation in Xihai City. Both of them were actually very clear that in the land of the Western Regions, the number of Han people was not very large, and most of them were Hu people. Even if order could be maintained in Xihai City, the Han settlements outside Xihai City may not be guaranteed.
It was under such circumstances that Lu Bu and Zhang Liao returned to Xihai City with their men.
If it is a retreat, then of course, the most important thing is to escape with a life. Nothing can stop the pace of escaping. However, Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, especially Zhang Liao, did not want to turn the entire army into a betrayal dog. They only knew how to escape without caring about anything else. Therefore, they were more restrictive and cautious in the process of retreating to Xihai City. Of course, this also took longer to return, but the benefit was that the troops were more complete.
The downside is that rumors run faster than them.
The morale of soldiers collapsed, and it was difficult to be quick.
It was already a bit chaotic, with insufficient military rations and military salaries, and as a result, he was beaten by his own people and lost a general. In such a situation, if the morale can remain strong and not fall off, it would be absurd to open the door.
Or is it a pure undead unit, unaffected by morale?
Once morale collapses, even if there is good equipment, it will not be possible to continue fighting. After all, people are using equipment, not equipment users, so Zhang Liao took over the affairs of Xihai City almost in a hell situation.
In terms of people's livelihood, materials are scarce, prices are booming, and many things are short of people, which lead to meaningless looting by the public.
That’s right, the robbery of the Han people themselves.
Han Guo's original idea was to take out some official reserves to calm down some market prices and ease the public's sentiment, but what he did not expect was that when he took out these materials, he did not achieve the desired effect. As soon as these materials appeared on the market, they immediately triggered the Han people's robbery of these materials.
Of course, it is not about buying zero yuan, but about buying it in a crazy way regardless of its own demand. Even if it is not available for the time being, it still has to buy it back and garrison it. This makes it impossible for people to get it later...
This caused even greater panic.
Because the stores representing the government are sold out and closed.
Later, Han Guo learned his lesson and adopted a small batch of restricted sales model. Everyone could only buy a little. Although it did solve some of the shortage situation, there was no relief from the tension in the city, which increased panic. The first thing that all people do when they open their eyes every day is to queue up, various stores, and then after one round, the second round...
Those who still have some supplies at home can't help but participate in it under such circumstances, so there are always queues on the streets, and there are various secondary problems caused by long queues. Under the instigation of some people who are intentional or unintentional, conflicts broke out.
If the city inspector had not arrived with people in a hurry, the shop would have been smashed and the shopkeepers would have been beaten to death on the spot.
This is the case in the city, and the military camps outside the city are even more tense.
The confrontation between the Hu people and Han soldiers is already very obvious. The Han people do not believe in the Hu people, nor do they believe in the Han people. Although there are some Qiang people in Longxi among the vassals outside Xihai City, these Qiang people are even more embarrassed. Being between the Han people and the Hu people, they will neither get the trust of the Han people nor the recognition of the Hu people.
As for Meng Hua, being able to control the riots in the military camp was as good as his ability. As for reconciling conflicts, resolving disputes, unifying the morale of the army, etc., he was really powerless.
At the same time, in various parts of the Western Regions, the wave of rebelling against the Han people gradually became increasingly fierce, and even began to spread to the guard barracks around Xihai City...
The gentle, harmless Hu herders around the checkpoint now looked at the Han people like looking at the cattle and sheep to be slaughtered. After the lonely soldiers died outside for no reason, the scouts sent by the checkpoint also increased from the five-man team at the beginning to twenty or thirty people before they could be dispatched, and they had to bear certain risks.
For the scouts who are mainly responsible for the project and detect surrounding trends, they originally needed concealment and long-term detection. Now that the number of people increases, the concealment is greatly reduced, and the detection rounds have also decreased.
The situation is already very obvious. Although the various states in the Western Regions have not yet officially turned against the Han people, they have actually begun to reject the Han people and a full-scale war may break out at any time.
In this case, Lu Bu, the Great Protector of the Western Regions, locked himself in the Great Protector's Mansion and refused to meet anyone...
Of course this is very Lu Bu.
In addition to surpassing the boundaries of mortals in terms of martial arts, Lu Bu is basically still in the category of mortals. It may even be that there are too many points added to the martial arts value, so he has to lower the points in other aspects to balance it.
The same was true in history when Lu Bu was besieged by Cao Cao in Xia Pi.
At this moment, Lu Bu's escapistry was once again attacked. He hurried into the Great Protectorate's Office. He neither expressed his opinions on many officials who had executed the Great Protectorate's Office before, nor had any thoughts on the current situation in the Western Regions. Lu Bu did not see anyone and locked himself in the room. Even if Zhang Liao went there, he was driven out by Lu Bu.
As a last resort, Zhang Liao could only stand up and assume this responsibility.
The first order issued by Zhang Liao was to let the Qiang leader of the vassal army, Ajiesha's former subordinate, come to meet.
"Aimaer, now I need you to bring all the Qiang soldiers to build an escort passage between Xihai City and Yumen Pass to protect the evacuation of the people..."
After Zhang Liao saw the leader of the Qiang people, he said straight to the point: "The Western Regions are already very dangerous now. I have ordered to summon these Han people scattered outside the city to farm. You need to take your subordinates and send them to Yumen Pass first as a guard!"
Aimaer was stunned for a moment, "General, are you going to... give up the Western Regions?"
Zhang Liao said: "What should I do next? The General of the Cavalry needs to decide, but the Han people outside are already facing threats and must temporarily avoid them before the situation completely deteriorates. The troops on my hands cannot be drawn out, so can you do this? Safely send these people to Yumen Pass?"
The Qiang people and the Hu people in the Western Regions are still somewhat close and far away. After all, the Qiang people and the Han people have been in love and killing each other for so many years, and there were not many hard-line Qiang people after Beigong's death, especially those like Aimaer, which can basically be said to have cooperated well with the Han people. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Bu was too chaotic this time, so many problems wouldn't have been involved.
But from another aspect, the Qiang people are Qiang people after all. If they are a little hesitant under any special circumstances, or if there is any problem in cooperation, then for the current situation in the Western Regions, which is already shaky, it is undoubtedly like a hidden bomb. It may not be exploded from beginning to end, but if it is exploded, it will be even worse. Therefore, with the overall consideration, it is better to let these Qiang people escort a group of Han people to evacuate from the Western Regions first, which can also reduce the pressure on people's livelihood and military.
Seeing that Zhang Liao had made a decision, Aimaer didn't say much, so he received the order very happily and went down to prepare.
As a Qiang person, Ai Maer actually realized that the atmosphere in the Western Regions had changed. Now Zhang Liao's order can avoid this whirlpool, so why not do it?
Meng Hua watched Aimaer leave, and he still didn't understand, "General Wen Yuan, why did you let them leave?" In Meng Hua's opinion, although the Qiang people may not be able to fully trust, if a war breaks out, it is still possible to act as some auxiliary work. Moreover, the troops in Xihai City are not very abundant. Will these Qiang people reduce their own strength by letting them leave?
Zhang Liao looked at Meng Hua, was silent for a while, and decided to explain to Meng Hua. After all, he learned a lot of things in this Lu Bu incident, actually it was a small matter at the beginning, but if you don’t explain or communicate, it will often become a big thing. "Most of the Qiang people are from Longyou and Longxi, so they are not very good at mingling with these Qiang people in the Western Regions... But Longyou has just been pacified, and if a large number of Qiang people die in the Western Regions, it will not be a good thing for the subsequent Longyou governance."
Meng Hua suddenly realized, but he was still worried, "General Wen Yuan was very worried... But these Qiang people left, and the camp outside the city..." The troops were fewer, and if they were making trouble, they might not be able to suppress them.
Zhang Liao nodded and said, "I was about to talk about this... These Hu people's vassals will let them choose their own choice, either follow the Qiang people back to Yumen Pass first, or dismiss themselves..."
"Severe?" Meng Hua widened his eyes, feeling a little disbelief.