Chapter 336: Appear, Anxi Four Towns—20
In order to make this operation smoother, Suning also specially summoned Li Yu, who had been in Caizhou on a snowy night.
Li Yu was one of the few stars who could shine in history in the bleak era of the middle and late Tang Dynasty. In the early days of the dynasty in which they lived, the Tang Empire's armies had also extended their territory to the west of the Pamirs. Although this benevolent brother had never crossed this snowy plateau himself, he was more experienced in this area than all the East China Sea soldiers present.
So Suning still chose to believe him!
And he didn't disappoint Suning in the end!
After several days of arduous climbing, Suning's army finally swept the northern edge of the Pamirs and stormed the Sogdian nomadic territory under the Kushan Empire from the direction of Kangju and Dawan.
Their target was naturally the capital of the Kushan Empire, located southwest of the Hindu Kush Mountains, Gaofu!
His post-1800 name was Kabul, which was clearly more famous than the vulgar one. But no matter how famous the name is, they have the only mountainous area in Afghanistan as a cover, so it is actually a very difficult thing to take it in one fell swoop, after crossing the Pamir Plateau and successfully launching a surprise attack, the army of several thousand people of Suning and others did not encounter resistance from too much bridge, the chiefs and elders of the Sogdian Department seem to have long guessed the possibility of the Han Dynasty to launch a military attack, so they just closely guarded their pastoral area, and then sent someone to inform the emperor in the capital, As for taking the initiative to meet the Han Dynasty, they would definitely not do this kind of thing.
Suning instructed that the Sogdians were cunning beings, and the most suitable thing to do should be businessmen, and they were also one of the most famous components of the ancient Silk Road, and in the next few hundred years, they would become one of the biggest profiteers of the trade, but the current Suning could not make good use of them, which made Suning a little disappointed.
However, his death did not last long, because launching a surprise attack from the Pamirs was only the first part of his plan, although most of the military strategies of others pay attention to winning with the right match, however, for him, the real surprise is often not according to common sense, and the so-called right match to win by surprise has long become common sense in military science.
So this time, the surprise attack force led by him personally became the main force to attract the enemy's main force. When the emperor of the Salmon Frost Empire learned that an army of the Han Dynasty was gathering north of the Hindu Kush Mountains and attacking their capital, he hurriedly ordered the troops from all over the country to move closer to the capital.
However, Suning led this cavalry force, did not immediately move, rushed to their capital at full speed, and then slowly and leisurely along the Hindu Kush Mountains, while advancing, while doing business, of course, their business was a kind of business, because they could not carry expensive goods, over the towering Pamir Plateau, so the goods they sold were all stolen from the nearby nomadic tribes, and the Sogdians had long been a little unaccustomed to their behavior, The Sogdians immediately sent an army of 6,000 men to try to warn the expeditionary force from the Han Dynasty, and although they were not ready for a decisive battle, they still dispatched most of the elite of the tribe in order to be on the safe side, but at this time, a surprising hoplite cavalry suddenly rushed from the other direction of Dawan and Kangju, that is, from the direction of the Instant Noodles Plateau.
Wei Qing led his 30,000 cavalry at lightning speed into their territory from the north of the Sogdian Division, and to the northwest of the Sogdian Division, Khorezm also raised the banner of rebellion, and they launched an attack on the Sogdians, who were still loyal to the Emperor, so that all of a sudden, the main force in and out of the dormitory was attacked by the enemy from both directions at the same time, and within a few days, most of their territory came into the enemy's control. This forced them to urgently retreat, and the elite troops that had already pounced on Suning were ready to resist the assault from the north with their few thousand men.
The result is self-evident, their strength is too disparity, although the territory they control is very large, and the number of cattle and sheep they have is also very large, but everything is no longer theirs, because they have lost their most precious thing, freedom!
Although Khorezm also received a large territory from the Suvut region, most of the land became Suning's spoils, and Suning immediately began to carry out its own policies on these lands, some of whom began to be forced to do heavy manual labor, while most of the children were urgently recruited into the newly established school for Suning-style new education!
Of course, most of the people were still tied hand and foot, sent back to Kang Junbo and Dawan Guo'er, immigrants from the mainland also flocked to this place in a steady stream, and all kinds of production activities began to be carried out wildly in this land, as if he was already an inseparable part of the two systems.
All these actions made the emperor hiding in the capital a little angry, so the emperor of the Kushan Empire, whose name was extremely difficult to pronounce, simply abandoned the capital of the city high and deep, and rushed towards the direction where Suning was located with the imperial troops gathered around him. What he didn't know, however, was that this was exactly what Suning wanted to see.
In the spring of 188 AD, after a long period of confrontation and preparation, Suning Jin Invincible Shepherd, Gemini, and Aries three jiedu envoys, with a total of 100,000 troops, launched a final attack on the opposite Kushan Emperor.
The Yueshi people had no intention of giving up, they were ready to fight to the death, but at this time, an urgent military intelligence from the capital went to hit all their military deployments, because their impregnable capital had fallen into another enemy army at this time, this enemy army was not the Eastern Han army brought by Suning, but from their west, from their old enemy, the Rest Empire.
I wish your father another decisive victory, because of his persuasion the Rest Empire decided to cooperate with the Eastern Han army to launch a military campaign that was preparing for the Upper Empire, and it didn't take long for them to cross the not-so-long buffer zone and appear near the capital of the Kushan Empire. Only then did the ministers of the Kushan Empire realize that they, like the Sogdians, had fallen for the trick of diverting the tiger from the mountain.