Chapter 688: History of the Conquest of the Western Regions

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In the fourth year of the Han Dynasty, in autumn and August, the general Fu De of the Western Expedition, since the defeat of the traitor Han Sui, gathered his people, thinking that he was the vanguard of the Western Regions, and then assisted by the general Cheng Gongying, who continuously attacked the territory of Han Sui, and sent a message to the countries of the Western Regions, so that they would descend to the Han at the same speed, otherwise the Han Dynasty would have the courage to resist and not leave an inch of grass.

After the countries of the Western Regions received the letter, except for the small countries such as the Mountain Country, they did not say a word, and the rest of the countries did not surrender, clamoring for the Han army to understand who was the lord of the Western Regions.

In September, due to the strength of the country, Shanshan, Shule, Wusun and other countries, the 100,000 horses and horses that were put together marched into the siege of the city under the city of Liuzhong, the residence of the former governor of the Western Regions.

Liuzhong City is a big city in the Western Regions, its city is the ancient traffic channel of the Western Regions, the land is fertile, it is suitable for Tuntian, when the Emperor Gongzong Xiao'an of this dynasty, the son of Ban Chao, who is also the long history of the Western Regions, will garrison the troops here, since then, Liuzhong City has been used as the station of the Western Regions Long History House.

Now, the coalition forces of the Western Regions are besieging the city here, and the purpose is naturally self-evident, they want to capture this city, and use this city as a fulcrum to drive out the Han army, transport military supplies, so as to rely on their superior forces step by step, the territory taken by the Han army is captured one by one, and the Han army is driven out of the Western Regions.

In the face of this scenario, the Han army naturally will not sit idly by, at this time, with the integration of Han Sui's department, there are still more than 18,000 Han troops under the command of Fu De, and more than 23,000 Han Hu miscellaneous troops surrendered by Han Sui's department, although in terms of numbers, may not be as good as the Western Regions coalition army, but in terms of combat power, whether it is Fu De or Han Sui's soldiers and horses, they are much stronger than them.

In the face of the strong enemy of the alliance forces of the Western Regions, the Han army was divided into two routes, one way with Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao and other generals, led 2,000 cavalry and Han Sui to surrender the army, and defended Liuzhong; On the other hand, he was directly led by Fu De, and went out of Wuji Lieutenant City to surround the enemy's rear, and the allied forces of the Western Regions besieging the city were caught off guard.

Captain Wuji, who was placed in the first year of the early Han Dynasty, was in charge of the affairs of Tuntian in the Western Regions, and was the prefect of the Tuntian of the Western Regions, and was also an important assistant to the governor of the Western Regions to monitor the Western Regions. Its governance is located in the Wuji school city next to the Gaochang wall, because the Han Dynasty set up the Wuji school captain here to take charge of the Tuntian affairs, so it is called "Wuji school captain city".

Because Wuji Xiaowei City is adjacent to Liuzhong City, Liuzhong City is in the southeast of Wuji Xiaowei City, and the two are at each other's corners, this time the allied forces of the Western Regions besieged Liuzhong City, and the Han army in order to avoid being discovered by the coalition forces, detoured to Ayding Lake in the northwest of Liuzhong City, preparing to give the enemy a fatal blow.

In fact, as the Han army expected, Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao and other generals had enough troops to defend the city, and even if the 100,000 allied troops of the Western Regions were numerous, they could not quickly overcome Liuzhongcheng for a while, and the two sides could only confront each other in Liuzhongcheng.

Although during the confrontation, the coalition forces of the Western Regions also continued to send scouts to find out whether there were Han reinforcements outside Liuzhong City, but Fu De led the army to make a detour of 300 miles, completely avoiding the scouts of the coalition forces of the Western Regions, and by the time the coalition forces found out, it was already too late.

By night, more than 16,000 cavalry of the Han army, thousands of horses galloped into the barracks of the coalition forces of the Western Regions, did not get the scout news, and was still immersed in the siege of Liuzhong City, and the Han army in the city did not dare to go out of the camp The relaxed atmosphere of the coalition army suffered a big loss. suffered a huge defeat from the Han army.

Originally, the coalition army of the Western Regions was different from the army of the Central Plains, and the coalition army of the Western Regions countries, which had no rules and no effective defensive measures, was quickly rushed into the camp by the Han army's iron cavalry, and the soldiers who were unable to react were hacked to death by the Han army.

Seeing the movement outside the city, Dong Zhuo, Cao Cao and others quickly judged that it was Fude's reinforcements coming, and immediately opened the city gate to send troops, and together with the Han army outside the city, they jointly attacked the coalition forces of the Western Regions.

In this battle, the Han army won a great victory, lost more than 1,000 soldiers, captured and killed more than 10 generals of the Western Regions, and beheaded more than 30,000 people, most of them were in the chaos, trampled on each other, captured more than 20,000 people, and the remnants of the coalition forces of the Western Regions fled in a hurry, and disappeared, this battle can be described as a great victory.

After this battle, the countries of the Western Regions were frightened, and they all went to the Han army to beg for peace, but they were rejected by Fude, and they went to the Western Regions earlier, and Fuquan said that the Western Regions would enter the territory of the Han Dynasty.

Moreover, even if Fu De was willing, the Han army under his command who went out to fight outside the territory probably would not agree to Fu De's agreement, and after the Han army rested, they continued to conquer the strategy of the Western Regions.

At the end of September, the Han army led troops to attack Shanshan, this battle, Fu De in addition to leaving enough men and horses, to monitor Wusun, Qiuzi and other foreign countries, he led 10,000 Han cavalry, and the Western Regions servant army of 40,000 people, known as 100,000, all the way to the long distance, mighty to kill Shanshan.

It stands to reason that the former Han Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate was located in the territory of Qiuci Kingdom, and Fu De should first seize the relatively neighboring Qiuci Kingdom and reopen the Western Regions Protectorate, so as to take the momentum of the strong Han army, and should not choose the remote Shanshan Kingdom as the target.

However, Shanshanguo, as the initiator of cutting off the Silk Road on the road to the Western Regions, is now the main opponent of the Han Dynasty into the Western Regions, in order to show the determination of the Great Han Kingdom to conquer the Western Regions, Fu De decided to use Shanshanguo, which can be said to be the sworn enemy of the Great Han Kingdom, and also one of the great powers of the Western Regions, as a negative teaching material for the Han Dynasty to deter the Western Regions countries, so that they know that anyone who offends the Tianwei of the Han Dynasty will have a fate.

At the beginning of October, the Han army besieged the capital of Shanshanguo, which frightened Shanshanguo, the previous two wars, the loss of tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, for Shanshanguo such a big country in the Western Regions, it can be said that the vitality was greatly injured, there was simply not enough soldiers and horses to be sent out to fight with the Han army in the field, so they could only converge the army, hold the capital to the death, and ask for help from other Western Regions countries.

However, other countries in the Western Regions also lost a lot of troops in the first two defeats, and the land of the Western Regions did not have much population in total, and the tens of thousands of wars like the previous two could only be encountered in a few years or even more than ten years, and now they have been launched twice in a row, and they are both defeats of the countries in the Western Regions, and the losses are serious, how can these countries in the Western Regions with a small population can afford it?

Therefore, they also do not have enough troops to support Shanshanguo, after all, there are not enough troops, and there are fewer troops, which is obviously to give credit to the Han army, so they can only sit back and watch the demise of Shanshanguo.

The Han army besieged the capital of Shanshan for half a month, with the servant army of the Western Regions as the main force of the siege, attacking the city day and night, and the sky above the capital of Shanshan, the arrows were endless day and night. In mid-October, the capital of Shanshan was broken, and on the day of the city's breaking, the main general Fu De ordered the Han army to slaughter the city on the grounds that Shanshan had been disrespectful to the Han Dynasty for a long time and damaged the Tianwei of the Han Dynasty.

On that day, the sky above the capital of Shanshan was filled with blood, and the Han army slaughtered the city three times, and the people and animals were slightly exhausted. In the old way Fuquan treated foreign races, all men who were taller than the wheel were killed, and the young women and children were rewarded with all the soldiers.

Among them, none of the men of the Shanshan royal family were spared, even if they were swaddling children, they were also Dong Zhuo fell to the ground, and the rest of the royal women, and the selected Shanshan beauties, were all guarded by Fude, escorted to the Beijing Division, and dedicated to the imperial court.

Three days later, the Han army sealed the sword, Shanshan national capital, blood flowed like a river, it is rumored that Fu De asked people to dig mass graves outside the city, burned to fill the corpses, it took nearly a month. And these corpses also provided fertile land for the Han Dynasty to settle here in the future.

Shanshan was slaughtered by the Han army, and when the news came out, the countries of the Western Regions were terrified, and there were constantly countries that helped Shanshan to block the Silk Road on the road, and sent envoys to Fude to sue for peace.

It's just that these peace envoys were all driven out by Fude, and he knew that Fuquan's conquest of the Western Regions was for the future immigration of the Han people and the importance of reducing the pressure on the population of the Central Plains, how could he spoil the Han Dynasty's expansion plan?

After leaving enough troops to stay in the capital of Shanshan State, which has basically become a dead city, Fu De's soldiers were divided into two routes, one was led by Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao to lead two thousand Yuzhou horsemen, and the Western Regions servant Hu cavalry of 8,000 people, with a total of 10,000 troops, to attack the two countries south of Shanshan State, and Xiaowan, both of which are small countries in the Western Regions, with few troops, and the first two Western Regions countries were defeated, and the losses of the two countries were not small, and it was not difficult for Dong Zhuo and Cao Cao to conquer them.

As for the other way, it is Fu De himself commanded, leading 8,000 Han cavalry, and 25,000 servants of the Western Regions, all the way to the north, crossing the mountain country, and then to the west, directly taking Qiuzi, threatening to recapture the capital of the Western Regions of the Han Dynasty.

Hearing that the Han Heavenly Army attacked Qiuzi, the mountain country was panicked, very afraid that the Han army would not carry out Shanshan atrocities against them, although the mountain country a few months ago, it was also considered to help our Han army, but that help, the mountain country did not dare to believe that the Han army would let them go, especially the previous Han army edict to the Western Regions, asking the countries in the Western Regions to surrender and be vassals of the Han, they refused at the time, I don't know if it will cause the Han to retaliate.

After some discussion, the mountain country finally chose the law that they had been living in the Western Regions, and took the initiative to send an envoy to the Han camp to choose the name of the country to surrender to the Han Dynasty, and the king took the land to join the Han Dynasty.

To be honest, when Volde learned the news of the mountain country, he was also a little surprised, after all, it is rare for the lord of a country to take the initiative to surrender to the people so simply.

However, later he thought about the rules of a small country like the Mountain Country that could survive in Dahan over the years, and he was relieved. There is a saying in later generations, "a weak country has no diplomacy", a small country like a mountain country, this is the case, since it can no longer be a stalemate with the Han Dynasty, it is impossible to continue to work against the Han Dynasty, and the country will be destroyed, so it is better to take advantage of the situation when it is still unclear, choose a good strong person to take refuge.

As far as the mountain country is concerned, there is no doubt that whoever is strong in the Western Regions will take refuge in him. Now that the Han army has changed the situation of attacking the Western Regions in the past, the national strength is said to be thriving, and it is obvious that it can rule for a long time in the occupied Western Regions, even if it may not be able to occupy the entire territory of the Western Regions for a while, but at the very least, where their mountain country is located, it must be the place under the jurisdiction of the Han in the Western Regions.

Although the Han army wanted to attack as much land as possible in the Western Regions and prepare for the future Central Plains immigrants, it was not really said that they would slaughter the Western Regions, after all, when the Central Plains immigrants did not arrive, the tens of thousands of troops who stayed in the Western Regions also needed people to farm the land and prepare logistics for the army, right?

Where did these people from the Western Regions come from? Naturally, they are voluntarily surrendered to the Hu people of the Western Regions, they will be under the military management of the Han army, they can only speak Chinese, the clothing is Hanfu, everything changes according to the customs of the Han people, and the Han army will also be under the orders of the generals of the various departments, the culture of the Western Regions countries, consciously extinct, even if it is a treasure and antique, these things with the culture of the Western Regions, must be destroyed as much as possible, and it is necessary to integrate the Western Regions culture into the Central Plains culture as soon as possible, so as to make the Western Regions an inseparable part of the Han Dynasty.

After the Han army took the mountain country without a single soldier, they rested near the mountain country for a day, and then left two hundred Han troops to stay in the name of helping to defend the city, Moshan City, the capital of the mountain country.

After that, Fu De ordered the mountain country to send 500 strong troops, and set out with the Han army, the mountain country hesitated, but because the people were under the eaves, they had to agree.

Fude's move is naturally to prevent accidents, and the mountain country throws a mouse into a trap and rebels, after all, all the countries in the Western Regions have precedents of active or passive rebellion, and they have to be guarded against.

Although the mountain country saw that the Han army was strong, and it had reached the point of surrendering itself, there should be no rebellion, but who knows if there will be an accident. And leaving 200 people to guard the capital of the mountain country, and sending half of the soldiers and horses of the mountain country and 500 people to go out with the army, is a threat to the mountain country.

After all, firstly, the five hundred strong people who are the foundation of the mountain country will definitely die, and secondly, there are two hundred elite Han soldiers in the national capital, even if the mountain country has two hearts, I am afraid that there will be no chance to succeed.

In this way, more than 30,000 Han troops, all the way to the direction of Qiuci, on the way through the country of Wei Li, this country is a medium country in the Western Regions, but also has some arrogance, it and Qiuci combined more than 40,000 troops, stationed in the capital of Wei Li, intending to rely on Wei Li Jiancheng and the Han army to confront.

In this regard, the Han army was not afraid, and Fu De ordered more than 20,000 Han army servants to pretend to besiege the city, and stepped up the manufacture of siege equipment, giving the defenders of the city the illusion that the Han army wanted to attack the city.

In fact, on the other side, Fu De ordered 5,000 Han cavalry to detour to Weili City and go straight to the interior of Qiuci Country, asking them to take advantage of the opportunity of Qiuci Country sending 20,000 troops and the empty domestic army to turn the country upside down.

Sure enough, the Han army took a fancy to the opportunity of the emptiness inside the Qiuci country, and hit the lifeblood of the Qiuci country, and the country could not deal with the Han army's iron cavalry at all, except for the big city of Qiuci country, there was no place where the Han army's iron cavalry could not go.

In the capital of Weili Kingdom, every day received a letter of help from Qiuci State, which led to the Qiuzi army in the city, and the army's morale plummeted, and although the Han army besieged the city, it never attacked the city, and the Qiuzi army that could not wait faced the domestic situation, regardless of the opposition of Weili up and down, finally decided to go out of the city and return to China for rescue.

The Qiuzi army easily broke through the siege of the Han army, on the way, encountered the Han army that had been ambushed for a long time 3,000 iron cavalry, and 15,000 Western Regions servants Hu cavalry, the Han army generals used their lives, defeated their army, covered nearly 10,000 kills, captured more than 4,000 people, and only lost more than 3,000 soldiers, and most of them were Hu people in the Western Regions.

Hou Fu De ordered the Hu people of the Western Regions under his command, pretending to be a defeated army in Qiuzi, and opened the city gate by fraud, and then the cavalry of the Han army poured into the city, and since then Weili City has fallen.