Chapter 1065

Congling mountains, towering mountains, snow capped mountains, biting cold wind.

The banners and banners of the Han army were broken and hunting in the cold wind. Less than 50000 of the Han Army's remnant soldiers marched in the snow capped mountains. From time to time, soldiers fell from the mountain path into the bottomless cliff.

The commander of the western regions led by the commander Chao was marching on the narrow mountain road, exhaling white breath from time to time.

Wusun's temples were white, and snow fell on his fur hat.

The cavalry of Wusun was dejected.

There was no marching General Gao Xianzhi to lead the troops. The Han army suffered heavy losses when they crossed the Congling mountains.

After the Han army was defeated in Dawan, the remnant soldiers of banchao had to enter the Pamir Plateau and return to Luntai City, the capital of the western regions.

During the worst period of the war of unification of the Han Empire, generals such as yeludashi, Badu and Shibi Khan attacked Dawan state, employing 100000 Mongolian cavalry, 150000 Turkic cavalry, 400000 kusana soldiers, and 150000 Indian Mughals, totaling 800000.

The population of Dawan state is only 2 million. It is hard to say whether there are 800000 young people or not. It is totally occupied by the enemy.

Prince Yan and di Qing originally led 50000 Mongolian cavalry to support Guishan City, but the 50000 troops were not enough to meet the increasing military power of yeludashi.

Guishan city was besieged by Batu, and the transmission array of Dawan state was cut off. When Chu Tian finally cleaned up Liu Bei and Tongque, he was unable to send reinforcements to Dawan.

At this time, there were only two ways to send troops to Dawan state. One way was to start from Ili and enter the selzhu empire. The other was to start from Luntai city and cross the Congling mountains.

It's too late for either way.

The strength of yeludashi is still increasing.

Wokuotai ruled Central Asia, which had a small population but an alarming proportion of nomadic cavalry, and the South Asian subcontinent, which had a large population. They fully supported yeludashi in taking the chess pieces deployed in Central Asia by the governor of the western regions, and constantly sent reinforcements to yeludashi.

Ban Chao, Chen Tang, Prince Yan and di Qing had no foreign reinforcements, so they had to give up Guishan city and return to Luntai.

Badu and Shibi Khan tried their best to prevent ban Chao and others from returning to the Han Empire, attempting to annihilate all the troops and horses in Dawan, the capital of the western regions.

However, banchao joined hands with Prince Yan, Diqing, Chen Tang and King Wusun to break through the 600000 army of Badu and Shibi Khan and enter the mountain road of Pamir Plateau.

In the cold winter, the war was extremely fierce. There were more than 100000 Han troops and Wusun cavalry in Guishan City, and less than 50000 people were left in the end.

Prince Yan was walking on the edge of a cliff that could only accommodate one person with a wooden stick.

Prince Yan looked around the hundred Li Han army before and after, tasted the defeat and sighed from time to time.

There may be a gap between the famous generals, but Badu is not a good opponent. He supports 600000 soldiers and besieges Guishan city. Prince Yan is not an opponent.

The most fundamental problem is that Dawan was too far away from the hinterland of the Han Empire.

Yeludashi could get reinforcements as soon as possible, but once the transmission array of Dawan state failed, the Han Empire could not support Dawan state.

"During the Tang Dynasty, Anxi Prefecture lost control of Central Asia, mostly because central Asia was too far away from Chang'an, and the Pamirs and Tianshan Mountains blocked it..."

At this time, Prince Yan was deeply aware of the impact of topography on the process of civilization.

The existence of Tianshan Mountain, Altai Mountain and Pamir Plateau blocked the communication between China and the Western civilization. Alexander's expedition and Arab conquest generally came to a sudden end in Tianshan, and China had no desire to march westward. The Han and Tang dynasties had limited control over Central Asia.

The existence of the Silk Road enabled ancient China to communicate with Central Asia, West Asia and the west, but the scale was not large after all.

In the Lord, huo'an, the governor of the western regions, attacked Dawan twice in a row and lost control of Dawan twice in a row. It can be seen that the influence of the terrain is still not small.

"If Dawan is lost, we can only attack Central Asia from Ili..."

Prince Yan didn't know Chu Tian's ideas. He probably guessed that Chu Tian's ambition was not only to unify the Han Empire, but also to have a war with wokuotai, which occupied Central Asia.

After the fall of Dawan state, Yili River valley was left, which was connected with Central Asia.

Therefore, Chutian's strategy of marching into Central Asia has not been completely bankrupt.

The Yili River Valley is the hometown of Wusun state. The control power of the western region's capital to Yili River Valley is far more than that of Dawan state.

"No Maybe Yelu Dashi will send hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Ili River valley if he wins Dawan state... "

I think of a prince.

Yeludashi and Badu tried their best to attack Dawan state in order to capture Dawan state and prevent the Central Plains army from being transmitted to Central Asia.

Yili River Valley is also a threat to the Central Asian forces. Yeludashi will attack Yili Valley in a large scale.

In the northern part of the city, Huo and wanchi were captured by the enemy, and they became one of the enemy's main forces.

Huo Qubing simply led the cavalry to invade the territory of selchu Empire and fled back to Ili from the north, which was different from the direction of banchao's retreat.

Yeludashi mobilized the cavalry of selchu Empire to besiege Huo Qubing. Huo Qubing's ability to fall into fear was increased by virtue of his "fenglangjuxu" (cavalry attribute + 10%, damage to alien + 25%, alien morale decline rate + 25%, the probability of falling into fear increased; cavalry march speed + 10%, forced army speed + 15%; in grassland, Gobi, desert, mountain and other terrain, morale is not easy to decline, non war After the victory, the morale recovery speed is + 25%, which can break through the blockade of yeludashi in a row, and then fight in the Seljuk empire.A troop of Han cavalry patrolled the fortress in Yili River Valley. The snow was falling heavily and the snow was more than feet deep.

Suddenly, the commander of the Han Army saw a black line on the horizon, followed by cavalry all over the mountains.

"Inform the general that the unknown cavalry appears, and the number is about tens of thousands...!"

"Yes

The Han cavalry in the Ili River Valley watched carefully the cavalry entering Dawan country getting closer and closer, and fell into panic.

"It's the flag of our western regions."

The cavalry of the Han army soon found that the large number of cavalry was not nomadic cavalry from Central Asia, but their own troops and horses of the western regions.

"Don't take it lightly. It may be the camouflage of the nomadic cavalry in Central Asia."

The cavalry team of the Han army was on guard until Huo Qubing, whose armor was broken, appeared.

Huo Qubing broke through under the siege of several hundred thousand troops of yeludashi, bypassed Tianshan Mountain and retreated to Ili.

However, Huo Qubing was also severely injured, with tens of thousands of cavalry and over 10000 left.

"General Huo, how did you come back from the Seljuk Empire?"

Han Jun Duwei found that he was Huo Qubing, the first general of the western regions.

To the west of the Yili River Valley is the territory of the selzhu empire. Huo Qubing marched more than 1000 Li and withdrew from Dawan to ILI, which greatly surprised the Yili garrison.

"Dawan state has been broken, strengthen the defense of Ili River Valley."

Huo Qubing was concise and comprehensive, and entered Ili for replenishment.

The garrison in the western regions of the Ili River valley was terrified when they learned that the kingdom of Dawan was captured by yeludashi with 800000 troops. So they raised troops and built a large number of fortresses, earth fortresses and arrow towers at the mouth of Yili River Valley to guard against Yelu Dashi.

Huo Qubing's more than ten thousand cavalry recuperated and recovered their physical strength and morale.

Huo Qubing's cavalry has less than three arrows left on average because of the continuous war.

Dawan state, Guishan City, Badu of the golden tent khanate, and Turkic Shi Bi Khan called together the nobles of Dawan state.

The king of Dawan, who was supported by huo'an, was captured.

A large number of nobles of Dawan state shivered in the face of the sabers of Mongolian and Turkic cavalry.

Dawan is comparable to the buses in Central Asia. Any powerful civilization can conquer Dawan.

The aristocrats of Dawan state did not remember how many times they had been conquered.

Now, the nephew of Badu and wokuotai is in charge of Guishan city.

Shi Bi Khan said to Badu, "this man is Huoan's confidant. He is kind to the Han Dynasty. If he is not killed, he will become a disaster in the future."

"Come on, drag it down and split up."

Badu ruthlessly ordered the execution of the king of Dawan, and then supported a new king to come to power.

Chanfeng, an aristocrat of Dawan state, who was selected as the new king by Badu, looked pale at this time.

The king of Dawan is not so good.

Every time Dawan was conquered, the king could not escape from being killed, and the death rate was very high.

This king is just a puppet. In front of Badu, Shibi Khan and others, the king of Dawan needs to kowtow and walk on thin ice.

Moreover, once the Han Empire conquered Dawan for the third time, cicada Feng could not escape being killed.

Other aristocrats of Dawan were secretly glad that they had not become king.

Cicada Feng trembled and said to Badu: "I have no virtue and incompetence. I can't be king."

Badu made a wink, Badu's younger brother bieer brother pulled out his saber and put it on cicada Feng's neck: "you have no choice."

Cicada Feng sweating profusely, finally had to say: "Xie Dahan."

Badu took charge of Guishan city and turned Dawan into its own fiefdom. The captured population was rewarded to his ministry to win over the hearts of the people.

Although the golden tent Khanate was destroyed by Chu Tian and yekaterina, and zuchi, the son of Tiemuzhen, died in battle, Badu took part of the remaining military generals and went to wokuotai.

The news of the fall of Dawan Kingdom reached the Han Empire. At this time, Chu Tian was in Xiacheng, preparing to usurp the throne.

Chu Tian thought that it was not necessary to continue to maintain the Han Dynasty.

Only a few of the senior ministers of the Han Dynasty lived to this day. Huangfusong died in battle, Lu Zhi died, Zhu Ju lived in seclusion, and Wang Yun was killed. Chu Tian usurped the throne without any obstacles.

Although Xunzi and others were still inclined to the Han Dynasty, the generals of other dynasties had great power of speech, and Xunzi could only accept his fate.

It's just a matter of course.

One of the important purposes of Chutian's gathering the obedient princes to Xiacheng was to establish a new empire and launch an expedition.

This new empire is not only the thirteen prefectures in the Han Dynasty and the western regions, but also the thirteen prefectures, plus the six protectorates of the western regions, the southern part of the desert, the northern part of the desert, Eastern Liaoning, Korea, and Tibet.

The new empire territory is equivalent to having 19 states. This is not the limit of the Empire.

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