However, when the domestic situation has not yet calmed down, Lu Bu does not want to fight with the Kushan Empire for the time being.

The Haotian army has reached the Western Regions to help Wusun and Kangju deal with a new nation called Amcai that rises between the Aral Sea and Lake Balkhash.

They are a new race formed by the Masagetai people, who originally lived in this area and have a common ancestor with the Kangju people, and the first group of Xiongnu people who migrated westward for one or two hundred years.

The Xiancai people inherited the tall and burly body of the Masagetai people, and the tradition of brave and good fighting with the Huns, although they were still in the era of cold weapons, they were very brave and good at fighting.

Although the population is only one million, there are more than 100,000 people who control the strings, and the fight has made Wusun bitter, that is, in the past few years, the Han army has been stationed in Wusun, and it has been reined in.

However, the territory is vast, the environment is harsh, and the other side is a nomadic people, so the war did not go smoothly.

The domestic situation is becoming more and more powerful against the Han Dynasty, whether it is people's livelihood or national politics, the advantages of the Han are becoming more and more obvious.

In order to maintain a military strength sufficient to fight against the Han Dynasty, Wei and Wu inevitably embarked on the road of reckless military force, especially the Wei State, the territory shrank, the people had no sense of security, and the national capital Xiapi could be captured by the Han army and plundered.

This kind of bad influence cannot be eliminated in a short period of time, although the Wei State has moved Qian County as the new national capital, but it is impossible to change the minds of ordinary people.

As a result of the emergency mobilization order, the conscripted army, although most of them had regained civilian status and participated in production and reconstruction, tens of thousands of troops were still left in the army to replenish the Tiger Army and the state army, which had suffered a lot of losses.

According to Lü Bu's orders, the Han army repeatedly harassed the border areas of the Wei State, and the scope was extensive, from Jingzhou to Xuzhou, there were Han troops everywhere.

Many people who could not stand the oppression of Wei secretly fled to the areas controlled by the Han Dynasty, and were forcefully suppressed by the Wei army, and several major bloodshed occurred.

Therefore, the Wei State is in such a panic and turmoil.

Although Cao Pi has the ambition to reorganize the rivers and mountains, there is no way to rectify it, and the development of people's livelihood and the defense of the country are a pair of irreconcilable contradictions.

The only way out is peace talks, but Lu Bu did not give this opportunity at all, Lu Bu said that there were no peace talks, and Cao Pi had only one way to choose, that is, unconditional surrender.

Dahan occupies an obvious advantage, and is naturally full of confidence.

Although Wu was an ally, they were more focused on their own development, and many people in Wei would rather flee south to Wu and go to Nanyue to open up wasteland and farm, rather than stay in Wei.

The intelligence department of the Han Dynasty was also active, and launched a rebellion against all the civil and military ministers of the Wei State, even the small county magistrates, county lieutenants, and capital lieutenants.

Every day, Wei people defected to the Han Dynasty, and Cao Pi was furious every day, scolding the spy agency managed by Cheng Yu as a bloody dog.

In October 209, the Taishou Du of Dongping County of Wei surrendered, and 20,000 state troops surrendered with him.

This is the credit of the Han Intelligence Department, they took advantage of the relationship between Xu Shu and Du Xian's fellow villagers, and lured them to their advantage.

The most important thing is that the people from the Intelligence Department successfully brought Du Xun's family out of Qiao County, relieving Du Zheng's worries.

Du Raid's surrender made a bad start, and the county guard-level officials of Wei also began to defect, and after Du Raid arrived in the Han Dynasty, he received trust and reuse, and still served as his Dongping County Guard, without any impact.

Cao Pi was very depressed, but as a result, his temperament changed greatly, and he began to indulge in wine, government affairs were lax, and the ministers began to deviate from morality, which was quite a bit of a broken jar.

In January 210, the Lu County of Wei was too conservative and heqiao, affected and provoked by Du's attack, and also resolutely defected to the Han Dynasty and sacrificed the territory of the whole county.

Cao Pi sent the general Xiahoudun to lead the Tiger Ben army to Lu County and Dongping County, intending to recover the land of the two groups.

The equipment and combat power of the Tiger Ben Army were greatly superior to those of the state army, and Du Xun hurriedly asked Xu Huang, the assassin of Qingzhou, for help.

Xu Huang received a distress letter from Du Xi, and without saying a word, he led the army out of Qingzhou to rescue the two counties, after all, these places were already the territory of the Han Dynasty.

In February, Xu Huang's 13th and 14th Divisions entered Dongping County and Lu County successively, and had an encounter with Xiahoudun's Tiger Ben Army.

Both sides were firearms units, and it was another encounter, there was no preset position, and the two divisions had not yet been equipped with Ma rifles, and used the same front-loading flintlock pistols as the Wei army, but with rifled guns.

In addition to mortars, the Han army's high tactical literacy can be relied on, and this battle has also become a famous battle between the two new generation generals of the Han army.

These two people are not unknowns, on the contrary, they both became famous at a young age, and the biggest thing they have in common is that they both have a very powerful Lao Tzu.

They are Gao Qi, the brigade commander of the 37th Brigade of the 13th Division, and Lu Kang, the commander of his first regiment.

Although Gao Qi graduated from the military academy five years earlier than Lu Kang, Lu Kang was a full honor graduate after all, and he was directly sent to the Army University, and after graduation, he was a trainee battalion commander, and the starting point was one level higher than Gao Qi.

So the military positions of the two are only one level apart, but after all, they are good brothers, and they are also a good pair in combat command.

Because of his good performance in the Battle of Xiangyang, Gao Qi went from the post of commander of the special operations division to the advanced advanced training class of the Army University for one year, and after returning he was transferred to the commander of the 37th Brigade.

He brought the training standards of the special operations division to the 37th Brigade, and tortured the officers and men under him unspeakably, but the combat effectiveness was also rising.

The fly in the ointment is that the 13th Division, a non-main force, is slow to update its equipment, which makes Gao Qi, who is accustomed to using Ma's rifles, very uncomfortable, and there is no field artillery support.

Fortunately, the proportion of mortars in the current Han army has been greatly increased, from the original divisional artillery battalion to an artillery battalion with 30 mortars per brigade.

Lu Kang has been serving in the 13th Division since graduating from the Army University, starting as a trainee battalion commander and just promoted to regiment commander this year.

After the division commander Zang Ba entered Dongping County, the task assigned to the 37th Brigade was to assist Du Xi's state army in defending Wuyan City, the county of Dongping County.

The Wei army attacking Dongping County was a 30,000-strong tiger army led by Cao Zhang, of which 10,000 were tiger and leopard cavalry, and the other 20,000 were musket infantry.

Cao Chang already knew that the Han army had sent a thirteenth division into Dongping County to aid Du Zheng, but he felt that his 30,000 men were strong and fighting in a plain like Dongping County, which was very suitable for cavalry maneuvering.

After he entered Dongping County, he always wanted to seek the decisive battle of the main force of the Han army, and he had a strong desire to fight.

(End of chapter)