The Three Kingdoms broke and fled, and the Tang army was like a bamboo, packing up the golden ou.

In early February, the Tang army entered Guangzhou, crossed the Qiongzhou Strait, and took Qiongzhou. All the Guangdong and Hainan of later generations were in the bag.

Wu Yan, the general of the Tang army, continued his westward expedition, occupying the southern part of the Liang State (later Guangxi), and then invaded Sizhou, defeated Tian Jinxian, and conquered the southern part of Guizhou in later generations.

And Xiao Bei led the army west into the important town of Ezhou, and the general who defended Ezhou was a Tang State agent, although there were 30,000 troops to defend, but he couldn't wait to open the city to "surrender".

Xiaobei went all the way to the west, and the cities along the way took the initiative to surrender. When they arrived in Gangneung, Gangneung City had been controlled by the great spy Gao Lang, and the 50,000 Liang troops guarding Gangneung "surrendered".

The ministers of the Hao clan who were imprisoned by Gao Lang and others all became prisoners.

Shao Zhong's more than 10,000 Dongting sailors "surrendered".

The important town of Xiangyang also took the initiative to "surrender".

In fact, even if Xiao Yan's entire army was wiped out in Jiangxi, there were still 200,000 troops guarding Liang State, but there was almost no resistance under the role of local spies.

The resistance is mainly carried out by wealthy families from all over the country. But their force has been wiped out in Jiangxi, how can they still resist? Either the resistance of the mantis arm was suppressed after the car, or it surrendered obediently.

The situation in Dali is similar. After the Dali court fled, there was a power vacuum between Cangshan and Erhai, and the armed forces of the leaders of various ethnic groups were submerged in Yizhou, and there was no longer any strength to resist the Tang army. Everywhere the Tang army went, all parts of the country also surrendered one after another.

Tang Junqiu did not commit any crimes, not only did not burn, kill and loot, but also took the initiative to appease the people everywhere and kill the bandit waterways.

The focus of the Tang Army's operations has shifted to public order warfare. Li Luo ordered the Tang troops in various localities to form anti-bandit teams to disperse and kill the bandits that had become more and more rampant in recent years.

It is conservatively estimated that there are more than 1,000 bandits and thieves in the territory of the Three Kingdoms, which is simply as many as a cow's hair. Many of these armed forces are composed of deserters, ranging from dozens of small ones to hundreds of large ones.

These thieves all over the place are also a big trouble for the newly arrived Tang Army.

After all, bandits generally haunt mountains, forests, and rivers, occupy advantageous locations, and are local snakes who are familiar with the place, and many of them have hidden identities, or are colluded with all parties? It's not easy to deal with.

Especially the people in the poor and remote places? Quite a few usually farming? Farmers are bandits, and they are in cahoots with giants? In cahoots.

Often intertwined and complex? There are many implications. Of course it's okay for GIs to kill all the way through? But will kill a lot of people who shouldn't be killed in vain? It's not Renjun's doing.

Therefore, law and order warfare and regular warfare are fundamentally different things.

Cui Xiuning personally formulated the "Regulations on the Suppression of Bandits" and issued them to the Tang Army to guide them in carrying out the military campaign of suppressing bandits.

Meantime? A lot of spies and sergeants also set off with the army? Assist the army in suppressing bandits.

The "Regulations on the Suppression of Bandits" stipulate how to learn about the situation from the local people, how to explore the thieves' dens, how to dig out the people who collude with the thieves, and how to identify the thieves or the people. It is also called for the help of the local people to eliminate banditry.

Cui Xiuning also classified the thieves according to the size and nature of the thieves? Different levels have different methods of repression. For those thieves who do many evils, they must be decisively put to death. Those who are half-civilians and half-bandits, and who do not have much of a crime, can be arrested and imprisoned, or serve hard labor.

The Tang army suppressed the bandits and pacified the people while suppressing the strong and strong, and at the same time stationed local officials to pave the way for the next Juntian Order.

A large number of scholars from poor families who passed the imperial examination last year were sent to the new yamen as officials one after another.

For the Tang Kingdom, the southern form is very good, and the progress is rapid and in full swing.

But at this time, the north was not idle. After nearly a year of preparation, the army of the Yuan Dynasty was mobilized to the Amdo region (south of Qinghai) and made a detour to the south of Tubo, and suddenly turned around and went straight to the Western Regions!

Li Luo had already received the information, so it was not surprising.

Kublai Khan supervised the country with the crown prince Zhenjin, and the privy envoy Boyan was in charge of the defense of the river, and he personally commanded the army to the west.

In order to confuse the Western Dao Khanates, the slogan of the Yuan court's southern expedition was loud and earth-shattering. Even the ministers of the Yuan court, the vast majority of them thought that it was really a southern expedition.

Kublai Khan, on the grounds of the southern expedition, had already gone to the northwest a month ago.

The Western Khanates thought that Kublai Khan was going to conquer Li Luo personally, so they didn't take it seriously at all, and they were still fighting with each other.

These big men of the golden family didn't think that Kublai Khan was not going to the south, but to the west, and he wanted to do things outside and inside.

The Yuan army of the Western Expedition had 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, 100,000 Han troops equipped with horses, 20,000 Goryeo troops, and 30,000 Japanese troops. The number is as high as 250,000.

Coupled with the Anxi Wang's headquarters stationed in Liupan Mountain, the number of Western Expeditionary Troops was as high as more than 300,000.

Since the rise of the Mongols, there have been many westward expeditions, but the army has never been as prosperous as this one.

Just when the Three Kingdoms attacked the Tang Dynasty, Kublai Khan's troops divided into three routes and went straight to the Western Regions!

The Eastern Route Army, led by Ananda, the king of Anxi, set out from the hometown of Tuyuhun in the Qilian Mountains, passed through the northern foot of the Altai Mountains, and entered Ruoqiang to attack the Ögedai Khanate. This was the route of the Tang Empire and the Western Xia to conquer the Western Regions.

The Middle Route Army was the main force, led by Kublai Khan, from the Qiang and Tang dynasties, west to Kashmir (in ancient times, belonging to Tibet, not India), through Aksai Chin, into Khotan, and attacking the Chagatai Khanate. This route was the route used in the history of the Tibetan Empire to conquer the Western Regions.

The Western Route Army, led by Timur, the king of Yunnan, descended the plateau, went west from Kashmir, took the Wakhan Corridor, and suddenly entered the Ilkhanate. In fact, the Ilkhanate was still ostensibly subordinate to the Yuan court, but Kublai Khan was still determined to use troops against it.

Otherwise, it will not be possible to truly unify the Great Mongolia.

With the exception of the more distant Kipchak Khanate (Golden Horde), all three khanates were attacked by the Yuan army.

In ancient times, it took a long time to prepare for a big war. The three khanates were bewitched by Kublai Khan's strategic deception and were not prepared at all. When they received the news of Kublai Khan's westward expedition, they were all shocked.

While sending messengers with arrows to various places to dispatch troops, the Khans hurriedly organized troops and horses to resist the Yuan army.

However, it was too late after all.

By the time the Yuan army swooped down from Tibet, their forces had not yet had time to be mobilized together, and their defensive preparations were also inadequate. And the Yuan army came from afar, but they came prepared.

First of all, the 100,000 troops of the Anxi King An Nanda of the Eastern Route Army came to Pajian Gushan in early March, and Haidu hurriedly organized 30,000 or 40,000 Khanting cavalry to come to block it in person.

According to the military strategy granted by Kublai Khan, An Nanda first invited 10,000 Japanese troops and 10,000 Han infantry to invite the victorious Haidu to attack.

When Haidu saw that Ananda was attacking with infantry, he thought that the opportunity was rare and immediately sent 10,000 cavalry to attack.

However, this is a trap.

When Haidu's cavalry attacked, the firearms hidden in the Yuan army were suddenly fired. The firearms of the Yuan army were not the same as those of the Tang army in terms of power, range and reliability, and they were a big step behind.

But suddenly as a killer weapon against Haidu, it is enough to make Haidu suffer a big loss.

20,000 Han troops equipped with inferior firearms were fired together, and the huge explosion and dense rain of bullets immediately caused the 10,000 cavalry in Haidu to suffer heavy casualties, especially the war horses.

Haidu's troops responded to the battle in a hurry, and their morale was not high, but they were suddenly hit in the head by such a sharp firearm, and they immediately panicked.

And the cavalry of tens of thousands of yuan, which had been prepared for a long time, took the opportunity to launch an attack on all fronts.

Haidu Khan was defeated, his troops were killed, more than 30,000 people surrendered, and he himself fled west with only a few thousand cavalry.

Ananda pursued all the way to the capital of the Ögedai Khanate, Yemili, and bombarded the city with artillery, capturing all the families of Haidu Khan.

In late March, Haidu gathered 50,000 cavalry to recapture the city. Ananda pushed the captured Haidu family members and officials to the top of the city to show the public, and then announced Kublai Khan's holy decree, declaring Haidu to rebel, and then bombarded the city with artillery, and finally sent cavalry to counterattack.

When the Haidu division saw the hostages and heard the holy decree, they were frightened by the firearms again, and the army was defeated again. But Haidu's ability to run away was not bad, and he led tens of thousands of cavalry and fled to the Chagatai Khanate in panic.

Haidu Khan, who claimed to control 100,000 strings and fought with Kublai Khan for many years, was defeated twice in less than a month, and most of his soldiers and horses surrendered to the Yuan court, and a few died in battle.

However, what Haidu didn't know was that the Chagatai Khanate was attacked by the main force led by Kublai Khan, and the situation was just as bad.

The Chagatai Khanate was second only to the Kipchak Khanate in strength among the four khanates, occupying most of the river and claiming to control 200,000 people.

But the problem was that the Chagatai Khanate was seriously ill-prepared for war. With such a large territory, it is absolutely impossible to concentrate all the troops in the short term.

In late March, Kublai Khan crossed the Tarim River and fought a decisive battle at Kucha and the 80,000 cavalry mobilized by Chagatai Khan Duwa. Before the war, Kublai Khan first conveyed a holy decree to Duwa, saying that he was ungrateful and a rebel of the Great Mongolian State, and asked him to surrender.

Duwa was shocked and frightened, and the generals were also hesitant. After all, Kublai Khan was the Great Yuan Emperor, and although they opposed Kublai Khan, they still felt the difficulty of resisting directly in the face of Kublai Khan's own army.

But Duwa decided to fight anyway. If he doesn't fight, he can only be sent to Dadu, and his khanate will also be annexed by Kublai Khan.

Thus, the Kucha War broke out.

It was the largest cavalry battle in the entire world in decades.

Kublai Khan used the tactics he learned from Li Luo to use firearms to severely defeat the morale of Duwa, and then used cavalry to encircle and cover the Han army with infantry formations.

Finally, some generals began to betray Duwa and surrendered to Kublai Khan with thousands of cavalry.

On the third day, Duwa was forced to have no choice but to launch a decisive battle.

The result can be imagined, Duwa was defeated, tens of thousands of dead and wounded, and tens of thousands surrendered. It was Duwa himself, who was also shot in the ear by the Goryeo general Gao Ming, and finally fled with only a few thousand cavalry.

Kublai Khan rode north, crossed the Turks River, and approached the capital of the Chagatai Khanate: Apple City (Alimari).

And Duwa saw that Apple City was not defended, so he could only flee west with his family and the officials of the Khan Court. While gathering other soldiers and horses.

fled into the Haidu of the Chagatai Khanate, and was shocked to hear that Duwa was defeated and fled westward, and he did not dare to go to Apple City again, so he could only flee westward as well.

So, Kublai Khan was in the south, and the king of Anxi was in the north, and the two ancestors and grandsons pursued to the west. Haidu Khan and Duwa Khan fled west together.

At the beginning of April, Duwa Khan, who had fled to the important town of Hengros in the middle of the river, finally gathered more than 80,000 soldiers and horses around him, and then he was shocked.

When Haidu Khan heard the news, he also fled to Hengros, and the two armies converged, leaving only 100,000 men.

In mid-April, Kublai Khan's army finally reached the east bank of the Hengros River, less than ten miles away from the city of Hengros.

At the same time, Kublai Khan, who was in danger of victory, sent fast horses to tell his grandson, King Ansi, that his army should not be used to join Hengrus, but to cross the Ili River, bypass Lake Balkhash, and attack the Kipchak Khanate, attracting the main force of the Kipchak Khanate to the east.

Kublai Khan knew very well that it was too late for the Ögedai Khanate and the Chagatai Khanate, and that Duwa and Haidu were defeated, and he was trapped in Heng Rus, and he could no longer turn over his palm.

His decree is flying out every day, and the nobles of the two khanates have been sent to the imperial court. The tide of Duwa and Haidu has gone, and there is no need to worry about the rebellion of the tribes.

The Ilkhanate did not dare to resist the imperial court, as long as the troops of the king of Yunnan arrived, as long as he received the news of the defeat of Duwa and Haidu, the Ilhan could only obediently withdraw the feudal domain, and then march west with the army.

Next, the three-way army marched west together to attack the strongest Kipchak Khanate.

After months of labor, he finally saw the hope of the unification of the Great Mongolia!

He will establish six provinces in the territories of the four khanates. The four khanates will cease to exist! Thousands of miles of territory and tens of millions of people will be under the control of Dayuan!

Kublai Khan looked at the city of Hengros not far away and showed a cold smile.

He suddenly thought of Li Luo, and the old smile suddenly faded slowly.

Speaking of which, the reason why he was so easily connected to the big victory was that he was "stained" with the light of this traitor.

He used the cover of Li Luowei in the southern expedition to confuse Haidu and them, and used new tactics combining new firearms and cavalry to defeat the courage of Haidu and others.

If he didn't have new firearms, he wouldn't have led his army west at such an advanced age.

"Spread my will and ordered the Japanese soldiers and Goryeo soldiers to build pontoon bridges. Within half a month, I will see Haidu and Duwa crying like babies, kneeling in front of my horse and begging for forgiveness! ”

"Wow!" The Mongol general ordered the Japanese and Goryeo soldiers to build pontoon bridges and prepare to cross the river.

"O good literati of mine, write down a few holy decrees, shoot into the city of Hengros, and tell your Mongol warriors that I am the Great Khan of the Great Mongolian State, since they still think that they are the descendants of the blue wolf and white deer, and since they want to honor the great Genghis Khan, they should be loyal to me and to their Xue Chan Khan!"

"Tell them that their territories will not decrease, that their slaves will not decrease, that what they will receive will only be more. Let them make an informed choice! Either wait for my reward and forgiveness, or wait for my wrath. If they make the wrong choice, then the Immortal Heaven will not bless them! ”

The Mongolian Hanlin who accompanied the army immediately obeyed: "Wow! ”

Immediately, they wrote the Mongolian Decree, which was beautifully written, and as long as they read it, it was like the melody of the song on the grassland.

ps: Today's chapter needs to check a lot of ancient map information, and I can only go here tonight. This chapter is a big background, but I don't want to write it in the expense line, so I can only explain it briefly through the summary language. Crab support, good night everyone, ask for tickets!

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