On the eighth day of September, there are still seven days until the Blood Soul Sect can appoint a young sect leader.
Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou came to the ancient city of Loulan.
That's right, it's the Loulan of the Western Regions that the Chinese people are most familiar with.
The Chinese people know Loulan mainly because of a poem.
Qinghai is covered with long clouds and dark snow-capped mountains, and the lonely city looks out to Yumen Pass in the distance.
The yellow sand will wear golden armor in a hundred battles, and Loulan will never be returned until it is broken.
Wang Changling's song "Walking in the Army" made Loulan, who was not powerful, the representative of the Western Regions in the minds of the people of China.
As one of the thirty-six countries in the Western Region, Loulan has a small land area and its main activity area is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Kongque River and the small river basin.
The ancient city of Loulan is their capital, surrounded by the Kongque River and the creek, and there are thirty-three affiliated city-states, large and small.
The famous Xiaohe Cemetery in the Western Regions was created by the Loulan Civilization.
Xiaohe Cemetery has two major symbols.
First, the Loulan beauty from ancient times was unearthed.
Secondly, Xiaohe Cemetery is a group of ancient tombs of ancient ancestors. In front of each tomb, there is a long piece of wood. The piece of wood is very strange, carved into the shape of a male reproductive dragon.
It can be seen that in the ancient times of the Western Regions, the reproductive capacity of human beings was not high, and they were very eager to reproduce.
A few years ago, the Xiaohe Cemetery was discovered. Many scholars from the Middle Earth and the Western Regions speculated based on the large male reproductive Longyang tree stump that this might be the site of the daughter kingdom that had disappeared in the Western Regions for many years.
With the unearthed beauty of Loulan, the mystery of Xiaohe Cemetery was unveiled.
However, the ancient Loulan Kingdom does have some connections with the former Daughter Kingdom.
There is a legend in the Western Regions that the real ancient country of Loulan was destroyed long ago by the exquisite ancient country in the Western Regions.
At that time, not all the ancestors of the Daughter Kingdom followed His Majesty the King into the Kunlun Wonderland.
Some of the people of the Daughter Kingdom were left behind. Since there was no Zimu Spring, they could not have children. In desperation, they merged with a nomadic tribe in the Western Regions.
This tribe claimed to be descendants of Loulan, and later built the Loulan Kingdom that now stands in the Xiaohe River Basin and Kongque River Basin in the Western Regions, and it has been passed down to this day.
As for whether it is true or false, it has been too long and no one can tell clearly.
The city wall of Loulan is not high, and it is not as high as other big cities in China, let alone the capitals of the imperial courts in China.
The four-foot-high city wall is still an earthen wall. It can block the cavalry from the Western Regions. As long as the enemy has a siege ladder, this earthen wall is just a decoration.
This has something to do with the character of Loulan people.
The Loulan people have a relatively weak character and are not warlike. Among the thirty-six countries in the Western Region, their population ranks relatively high, but their overall strength lags behind.
Dawan in the east, Jingjue in the west, Chechi in the south, and Gushi in the north, they would all be teased every day when there was nothing to do.
The teasing mentioned here is not teasing Loulan's beautiful young lady, but aggression.
Over the years, the Loulan Kingdom has been a weakling, falling on both sides and taking refuge in whoever comes over.
Therefore, several surrounding countries often come here to grab gold coins and virgins.
But don't be too impatient.
As the saying goes, if a dog is anxious, he will jump over the wall.
Hundreds of years ago, there was a greedy king in Dawan who asked the Loulan Kingdom to pay an annual tribute of 500,000 gold coins, 300,000 cattle and sheep, and 100,000 virgins to Dawan.
Loulan wanted to bargain, but the greedy King of Dawan didn't take Loulan seriously at all, and even warned that if Loulan didn't agree, he would send troops to snatch it away.
The Loulan Kingdom was enraged and mobilized the people of the whole country and mobilized 100,000 warriors to defeat the Dawan Kingdom's army. In the end, they even broke into the territory of the Dawan Kingdom, which was only a hundred miles away from the city of Dawan.
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The King of Dawan was frightened and quickly sued for peace.
According to the usual practice, the city-states that finally broke in and occupied dozens of Dawan Kingdom will not be returned easily.
Even if it is returned, Dawan will still have to pay the price in blood.
But when the Loulan army heard that King Dawan had surrendered, they said nothing and immediately turned around and went home.
Then, every year, as usual, he paid tribute to Dayuan with gold coins, cattle, sheep, and virgins.
Those who didn’t know better thought they had lost.
"This is Loulan.
Although the people of Loulan are kind and cowardly, the women of Loulan are extremely beautiful! They are tall, with slender waists, skin whiter than the snow on the Tianshan Mountains, and eyes as blue as the most flawless sapphires in the Western Regions..."
When approaching the ancient city of Loulan, Ye Xiaochuan, dressed in a loose black robe, told Ye Xiaochuan the civilization and stories of Loulan.
He was not interested in the Loulan people's character, but he admired the Loulan beauties very much.
Yun Qiyou sneered at this.
She didn't know why, but she just hated Ye Xiaochuan for praising other women.
Be careful, when you enter Loulan City later, you will drag an old Loulan woman to expose the lies of Loulan beauty.
It was already dusk when we entered the ancient city. The bustling ancient city of Loulan looked very depressed. There were almost no pedestrians on the streets and the roads were full of messy debris.
There was a fat woman, with a dozen old, weak, women and children, driving seven or eight camels, their heads covered with veils, obviously going out of the city.
Yun Qiyou pointed at the fat woman and said, "Is this the Loulan beauty you love?"
Ye Xiaochuan said in surprise: "It shouldn't be. I came to Loulan last year. There were so many beauties on the streets here, and their clothes were very revealing, with their waists exposed. Why is it like this now?"
Just then, the fat woman passed by and said, "Sister, may I ask, what happened here?"
When the fat woman saw the black robes worn by Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou, with patterns of flames and skulls painted on them, she knew they were disciples of the Holy Fire Sect.
She spoke a somewhat broken Chinese language and said: "The war has started again, and we... the Blackwater River... have to cross."
Ye Xiaochuan understood.
News of the coming second wave of catastrophe had reached the Western Regions a few days ago.
The Demon Cult has issued an order for all countries in the Western Region and tribes on the grasslands to implement their previous strategies and tactics and retreat to the Blackwater River in the rear.
Along the way in the past two days, we can indeed see some people from the Western Regions driving camels, cattle and sheep towards the northwest. However, the entire city is still the royal city of a country. In a short period of time, they can almost run clean.
First time seeing it.
This also shows that Loulan people are timid and cowardly by nature, and ran away as soon as they received the news.
But this is also good news. At least Loulan people understand the situation clearly and will not be a nail-biter.
I'm afraid that some people in the city feel that the Western Region is far away from the main battlefield in Middle-earth and the heavenly army is unlikely to attack, so they refuse to leave.
That would definitely lead to a miserable death.
More than 70% of the ancient city of Loulan had been covered. When it got dark, Ye Xiaochuan and Yun Qiyou found a tavern and inn.
Not to mention, it’s quite lively inside.
There are not many ordinary people drinking and eating meat here, and almost all are disciples of the demon sect wearing black robes.
You can tell by looking at the blood drops on their clothes that most of them are disciples of the Shura Sect, a lineage of the Demon Sect.
No wonder.
The main altar of the Shura Sect is hundreds of miles away to the west of the ancient city of Loulan. This is the sphere of influence of the Shura Sect. It is not surprising to meet so many disciples of the Shura Sect here.