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The war between the empire and Donghu ended, and it took five years to end the war from the fifteenth year of the imperial calendar (201 BC) to the twentieth year of the imperial calendar (196 BC).

This time the war between the empire and Donghu was not a war to destroy the country, but nothing more than to conquer all the nearby territories that were not so bad, expel those Donghu tribes, open the way to the "three thousand miles of fertile fields", and then accept the peace proposal of the king of Donghu.

The king of Donghu recognized the dominance of the empire over all the existing territories, and paid 1,200,000 sheep, 200,000 cattle, and 50,000 horses, as well as 3,000 carts of precious furs, timber, and medicinal herbs, 1,400 catties of gold, 50,000 catties of silver, and 20 beautiful women.

In addition to those indemnities, the king of Donghu also sent his eldest son to Chang'an as a proton, agreeing that the empire would set up the post of Donghu Zhonglang general in the territory of Donghu.

To put it bluntly, Donghu Zhonglang will be an official position in the management of Donghu, the first Donghu Zhonglang will be Zhou Wen, and the deputy is Shen Tujia, leading 30,000 soldiers and 20,000 auxiliaries to enter Donghu, and they will establish a city in the middle reaches of Nanshui (Songhua River) and set up as the seat of the shogunate, so the name of the city is also relatively straightforward, it is called the shogunate city.

Naturally, the establishment of a city is not an imperial man, but the use of prisoners in the war to build a city with local materials. According to the agreement, the food and military salaries of the empire were provided by Donghu until the city was built, and until the city was built, Donghu only needed to provide the garrison expenses of the army, but the captives would be released.

The city was built on the territory of the Donghu people, and the scale can refer to the Western Regions Protectorate established by the empire in the Western Regions, which covers an area of about 15 square kilometers, with a height of 8 meters and a width of 6 meters, and has the purpose of military facilities, and then the housing of the garrison and so on.

By the way, it has been three years since the empire established the Western Regions Protectorate, but in fact, the city garrison of the Metropolitan Protectorate is still under construction, and it will probably be completed in the twenty-second year of the imperial calendar.

The first Western Regions Protectorate was served by Luo Yao as the general of the Protectorate, Meng Tian was his deputy, and Changshi was Lu Chen. The formation of the Western Regions Protectorate is a cavalry corps, but it is not drawn from the National Defense Army, but re-recruited, and what is more special is that there are 3,000 of them for Wusun and the rest of the Western Regions. The 1st, 2nd, and 5th Cavalry Corps and the 11th Mixed Corps, which originally belonged to the Western Expeditionary Corps, have returned to the Wehrmacht sequence, and have been transferred back from the Western Regions.

The Western Regions Protectorate and the Donghu Shogunate have one thing in common, that is, the garrison expenses are not paid by the empire, for example, the Donghu Shogunate asks the Donghu people to pay, and the Western Regions Protectorate naturally asks the people of the Western Regions to pay. Stationed in the territory of another country, the cost of garrisoning is paid by the country where they are stationed, and they also pay for what is built, does it feel familiar?

If the Donghu people don't feel aggrieved or anything, the empire won't care at all. A group of veterans of the empire have been playing in that part of Liaodong for five years, and they really can't play anymore before they choose to stop. The people of the Western Regions were overjoyed that the empire had stationed troops in the Western Regions and established the Imperial Protectorate.

It's really cold in Liaodong, even if you bring enough warm items, it's still too cold in winter, and there are only two seasons a year when you can conduct military operations, in summer and autumn, and you can't do anything in spring and winter except cats in the camp.

During the five-year war, the troops of the Imperial Crusade actually did not pay much casualties when fighting Donghu, mainly because of the relatively large number of non-combat attrition. The fight against Donghu has not always been fought by a fixed army, and the emperor is Chen Bing on two fronts, using the method of taking turns to fight.

Most of the empire's legions have actually been idle, and there seem to be fewer and fewer targets around the empire, so it is actually a good choice to train troops in Nadonghu, but it's really too cold over there, and the purpose of training is achieved, but ...... The newly appointed Tai Lieutenant Ji Bu was also full of criticism.

The people of the Western Regions welcomed the Empire's garrison in the Western Regions very much, because in the first two years, Wusun fought against Hujie and Ding Ling alone, and Wusun won the early stage but then suffered a big defeat. As a result, Hu Jie and Ding Ling were killed in the Western Regions, and if it wasn't for Meng Tian leading the army to drive out Hu Jie and Ding Ling who had entered the Western Regions, I really don't know what the result was.

Before Meng Tian got the order of the center to make a move, many countries in the northern part of the Western Regions had been wiped out by Hujie and Ding Lingren, and Wusun, the former number one power in the Western Regions, also survived in the south by relying on the protection of the Western Expeditionary Corps, but most of Wusun's land was actually a lost reality.

Well, in fact, the empire deliberately sat back and watched Hujie and Ding Ling sweep through the western part of the Western Regions, and even when the eastern part of the Western Regions was attacked, it only sent troops to drive Hujie and Ding Ling people back to the north and west.

In addition, there is still Yue who stirs up trouble in the Western Regions with Hujie and Ding Ling, but the Yue's people have always nested in the western part of the Western Regions relatively smartly, and they have not been involved in the attacks of Hujie and Ding Lingren on other countries in the Western Regions.

After Hujie and Ding Lingren entered the Western Regions, they behaved extremely fiercely, and under the premise that the main force of the Wusun people had been destroyed, it was almost less than a month before they lost the force to defend the clan, and only the southern territory was left, and the rest of the territory was lost, and the clansmen were either killed or captured.

The second unlucky country in the Western Regions is the Che Division, they only resisted the Hujie and Ding Ling coalition for less than three months before declaring the country, and some of the other small forces were directly shot to death, but the Qiuzi people supported the Western Expeditionary Corps led by Meng Tian to launch an offensive against Hujie and Ding Ling.

Hu Jie's and Ding Ling's conquest in the Western Regions was very barbaric, and it was completely the style of the nomads. In fact, what they did was supposed to be done by the Huns, but now the Huns have been essentially divided.

The empire is also conquering the Western Regions, and the war with Wan has reached the final stage, and it is precisely with this excuse that Meng Tian has not supported Wusun for a long time. There is only one city left in Wanguo that has not been breached, in fact, it is not that Meng Tian can't defeat it, just look at the preparation to go north to support Wusun, and the last king of Wanguo will be broken in one day.

Only when you have experienced cruelty can you know what gentleness is, and only by letting the people of this poor place in the Western Regions see the brutality of Hujie and Ding Ling will you know that the empire is actually more civilized.

Of course, whether it is barbarism or civilization, the empire already has a new plan after beating the Donghu people down, that is, to change the new training place to the Western Regions...... (To be continued.) )