In the absence of food, grass and supplies and armor and equipment, in the case of the Zhao army's multi-way attack, the Wusun army was routed. The Wusun army in various places was transferred to the east, so the large army in the south that went north from the Qiuzi country moved extremely quickly, and everywhere it went, the pitiful and unmotivated Wusun army was basically wiped out.

Soon, the Zhao army going north cut off the retreat of the Wusun army in the east. Originally, the Zhao army could trap the fifty or sixty thousand Wusun troops until the grain and grass were exhausted and they were broken in one fell swoop. But Zhao Xun didn't want to drag on too long, so as not to cause extraneous complications. Therefore, the armies of all walks of life besieged it together.

Because of the help of the residents of Gaochang Kingdom, the retreating Wusun army fought almost separately and was separated between the four cities. After using the Zhao army's siege equipment and the artifact of the earth-shattering thunder, the Wusun army was quickly defeated. In the end, only four or five thousand Wusun troops escaped successfully, and the rest of the army was wiped out. Among them, nearly 30,000 were captured by the Zhao army. The reason why there are so many is that the situation is 'forced', and the second is the appearance of the earth-shaking thunder, which makes this Wusun soldier lose the heart to resist.

And the Zhao army also needed such strong slaves, whether it was to build a city or gallop roads, etc., these laborers were needed.

However, the Zhao army did not stop there, but the army went west, directly chasing Suye City on the side of Suye Water in the territory of Wusun Kingdom, and used this as the dividing line between Great Zhao and Wusun Kingdom. With the efforts of 30,000 Wusun troops to work day and night, it took three months to expand Suye City into an important city in the Central Plains Mansion City without rain. And Wusun Kingdom, which has suffered heavy losses, can only bear this and dare not argue with it.

Suye City, that is, the Broken Leaf City in Zhao Xun's memory, was once the westernmost town of the four towns of Anxi. The current Western Regions are not as desolate as they are remembered, nor are they full of yellow sand. Perhaps, this place has not been desertified. Expanding Suye City into a giant city, Zhao Xun hopes that he can completely integrate the unstable territories in his memory into Dazhao and never divide them.

"After Suha Castle is Atami, and we will build two more castles on the side of Suba Castle as flanks. In any case, in the future, this will be the western border of our Dazhao. You can only advance, not retreat! Zhao Xun pointed to the location on the map and said steadily.

Situ Liang said in a deep voice: "Rest assured, the Wusun Kingdom was wiped out by us with more than 70,000 soldiers, which almost reduced the Wusun Kingdom by half of its military strength. Now, it is up to the state of Wusun to consider that the other nations and nomads to its north and west will move his mind, rather than wanting to rush revenge. In addition, our Great Zhao soldiers showed their might this time, and the Wusun Army was defeated, so it is time to pass back the strength of our Great Zhao. ”

"And the 30,000 slaves of the Wusun army and the conscripted Gaochang State are now building cities everywhere. In the near future, in addition, in the Western Regions, a network of cities will be formed, and the nomadic residents and the people living in chaos will also live around the city as the center, just like the Han people. ”

Zhao Xun nodded and said, "Very good, but when building every city, a secret 'door' must be left, which will exist as a top secret." Although the territory occupied by us has gradually stabilized, accidents are not inevitable. ”

Situ Liang naturally understood what Zhao Xun meant, and nodded at the moment.

"Zhang Yuanjing, Wei Zilin, the two of you will speed up the rectification of Qiuzi Kingdom, Gaochang Kingdom and the surrounding small countries. If it is really 'forced' as a last resort, then it can only be solved by force, then use force. When they are afraid, they know that they are afraid. As for the Suye River valley and Atami that occupy the Usun Kingdom, the Wusun people will either follow our military orders and disperse and move to the eastern Gaochang Kingdom to settle down, or they will ...... Let them withdraw from the Wusun Kingdom. Zhao Xun originally intended to dispose of them completely, but for ordinary residents, Zhao Xun still gave up the butcher knife.

"In addition, it is necessary to weaken the influence of the kings of each country on the nations, and even to weaken and gradually erase the existence of the nations, and to strengthen and strengthen the existence of the prefectures. If the people here can no longer remember the names of the countries in their mouths all the time, then the reduction of the country and the establishment of states here can be implemented. ”

Zhang Yuanjing said with a smile: "Cut the country and build a state!" Just thinking about it makes people 'excited'. ”

Zhao Xun thought that this land in the Western Regions would become a desert Gobi land in the future, and suddenly said: "In addition, the land of the Western Regions will be afforested, and there will be local policies and strategies for planning grazing and cutting down trees, and it must be continued. In addition, in areas where desertification occurs, we need to plant trees as the highest criterion for evaluating the merits of officials. The king did not want this to be a desert in a few years. ”

Although Situ Liang and the others did not know the situation here hundreds of years or thousands of years later, they also knew what the desert meant. Moreover, they have long been aware of the significance of Zhao Xun's afforestation in Xiazhou and northern Liangzhou in the past, and naturally they will not relax.

"Okay, guys, now we have taken half of this land in the Western Regions, no, it should be three-fifths of the territory. The rest, too, is not a big problem. But slow work does not mean that we can completely control this place. Next, we need to trim, and the army needs to be trimmed. Fortunately, this Yanqi country has begun to integrate into us after the efforts of the past few months, and the cities in various places have almost been built. However, both the Qiuci Kingdom and the Gaochang Kingdom have just begun, especially the Qiuci Kingdom, because it was resolved peacefully, so the original army in its country was still very large. Most of the original officials in various places also existed. ”

"It's not a good thing for us. However, we should not be too impatient and take advantage of the opportunity to trim and swallow these two countries slowly. This Gaochang country is closer to us, and it is located on the north side of Yanqi country, surrounded by us on both sides, and its west is Suye City. Therefore, this Gaochang country should be regarded as the primary goal. ”

Zhang Yuanjing said in a deep voice: "There is no problem with Gao Changguo, most of the original army and official system of Gao Changguo were killed in battle. At present, the three prefectures and fifteen counties planned in Gaochang are all newly recruited and integrated with the local garrison army after the cantonment troops relocated from Liangzhou. The officials are also based on the officials left over from Gao Changguo, and I am a big Zhao official. In addition to the area around Suye City and Atami, the territory of Gaochang Kingdom has now been planned as four prefectures and nineteen counties. ”

In the area occupied by the Zhao army, the area of the prefecture and county was much larger than that of the Central Plains. One of the most important reasons is that there are far fewer people here than in the Central Plains, and the towns are much smaller and farther away.

"After planning, the country of Qiuzi will be transformed into a land of three provinces and seventeen counties. However, it is precisely because Gao Changguo is descending with the flow that we have to be careful about the actions here, and we may have to be much slower. ”

Zhao Xun said in a deep voice: "Slow, it doesn't matter, as long as you are moving forward." For those who insist on not cooperating, they will all be removed, and it is better to let them disappear than to keep them for us to make trouble. As for scruples, there is no need to scruple too much. Part of the original army of the Qiuzi Kingdom has been absorbed by us, and we can break them up and integrate them into the garrison troops and the young men recruited from the territory of the Gaochang Kingdom to form a garrison. For the rest, they will be the strikers of our drive south. ”

If it was just to capture here, Zhao Xun would have followed the example of the 'Meng' Yuan Empire, fed the war with war, and swept the countries of the Western Regions with cavalry. Today's Zhao army, the north is suppressing the Turks, and the northeast is even more fighting, and those various nomadic peoples are either integrated into the Great Zhao Han people, or have not completely swept away history. Whether it is a war horse or a person who is good at riding and shooting, there is no shortage of them. In the land of the Western Regions, a region where there are no fortified cities, the tactics of fighting to nourish the war and riding 'shooting' can still be implemented. However, what Zhao Xun needs is the stability of this land in the Western Regions and the complete integration into Great Zhao, not just plundering and enslaving here.

After several years of preparation, after more than half a year of conquest, the Zhao army finally occupied more than half of the land in the Western Regions, wiped out the three major countries in the north, defeated the Wusun Kingdom in the northwest, and 'forced' it to retreat to the west. Zhao Jun's actions got perfect results.

While the Zhao army was operating in the Western Regions, the Central Plains were also in full swing. Whether it is Murong Cheng, the king of Qi, or the current king of Shu who inherited most of the foundation of the former king of Yong, or the king of Tang who occupied Jingzhou and the king of Chu who occupied Xuzhou, they all rose up in the Central Plains. Especially after the war between the Zhao army and the Western Regions countries in May, the princes of the Central Plains could no longer calm down. Each other, vertical and horizontal, fighting each other. Suddenly, the entire south began to fall into a 'chaotic' battle, while Zhao Di in the north was still as calm as a mountain and completely silent.

Although Zhao Xun began to repair in the Western Regions, it did not mean that he would withdraw his troops and return to the division. He is still waiting for the Central Plains War to continue, so that they can fight the real fire, fight the irreparable hatred, and completely cut off their idea of uniting with each other, which should facilitate his final conquest of the Central Plains.

Zhao Xun set up his base camp in Qiuci State, on the one hand, to provide the most powerful support for Zhang Yuanjing and others to reform in Qiuci Country, and also to deter everyone in Qiuci Country. Of course, there is another intention, Zhao Xun needs to understand the situation south of the Qiuzi Kingdom, so as to facilitate the next action of conquering the remaining countries in the Western Regions.

After the defeat of the Wusun army, the Zhao army still continued to defeat the defeated troops of the princes from all over the country from afar, formed a garrison, and marched to the Western Regions. In addition, the Han people who were willing to move into the Western Regions, Zhao Xun also gave them preferential conditions. All of a sudden, on the galloping road in Liangzhou, in addition to the team transporting grain and grass materials to the west, there were caravans and people who followed the caravan and a small number of people escorted by the town army.

In the eyes of the southern princes, this shows that the Zhao army is in the midst of a war with the countries of the Western Regions, and it is a good time for him to destroy other countries and strengthen himself. However, they didn't realize that Zhao Jun was moving the inhabitants and stabilizing the rule of the Western Regions.

September, harvest season. For the people of Zhaodi, it is indeed the harvest season, but for the people in the southern princes, it is not very easy. The princes of all walks of life fought each other, and the money and food they needed naturally depended on the people to provide them. And the soldiers of war naturally need to be recruited from among the people. The high taxes and the continuous recruitment of young and strong laborers in the family made the people in the southern princes begin to be dissatisfied with the princes in various places. Many people also began to flee to the north, or to the south, into Qiongzhou Island.

In September, the news from the Western Regions made the people of Zhao cheer together, and the pressure on the southern princes doubled. Prince Zhao led a large army to the Western Regions, and more than 20 large and small countries in the north of the Western Regions were all included in the territory of Great Zhao to restore the lost territory of Dayan in the past.

Especially the people of Liangzhou, since Dayan lost the land of the Western Regions, and the land of Shanshan and the two provinces was occupied by the people of the Western Regions. After that, the countries of the Western Regions saw the weakness of Dayan, and plundered Liangzhou one after another, harming countless people. In addition, countless businessmen are also among the unlucky.

Therefore, after King Zhao recovered the land of the Western Regions, opened up trade routes, and established the supreme authority of Great Zhao, the people of Liangzhou and merchants from all over the country rejoiced. In particular, the merchants of Zhao Di were even more eager to take the caravan and march westward. Even if they were guarding the relocated people for free, they couldn't wait to get the list of the first to trade westward.

But the merchants of the other princes were not in such a good mood, and in the past half a year, the southern princes had been 'chaotic' and 'chaotic' enough. Murong Cheng, the king of Qi, took the lead in marching north to conquer Li Chi, the king of Chu, who also occupied the four provinces. Subsequently, Situ Che, the king of Shu, waved his army to the east, taking advantage of the Qi army's northward advance to attack the Qi army in the land of Jiangzhou.

Before the king of Qi turned back, Tang Xian, the king of Tang who occupied Jingzhou, also took advantage of the battle between the Qi army and the Chu army to wave his army to the south to attack Jiangzhou, which had been occupied by the Shu army. So, before the King of Qi waved his army to rescue, Situ Che, the king of Shu, who had already regarded Jiangzhou as his own, began to mingle with the Tang army, but left the passively defensive Qi army aside, who made the Qi army in Jiangzhou the weakest?

And they all thought that Situ Hao, the king of Luoyang, and Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, who were trapped in the place, actually made a move at this moment. The two united, one from Wuguan on the south side of Chang'an, and the other directly south from Luoyang to attack Jingzhou Nanyang Mansion. The two made a joint attack and began to attack the northern part of the Tang army, which suddenly put the Tang army in a three-sided attack.

In view of this, Tang Xian understood his disadvantages, and immediately united with Murong Cheng, the king of Qi, and was willing to unite with the Qi army to fight against the Situ brothers, and Tang Xian even expressed his willingness to take Murong as the leader. Although Murong Cheng also hated Tang Xian's sneak attack on him in the past, he was more aware of his current situation. immediately agreed to form an alliance with Tang Xian to fight against the Situ brothers. As a result, Tang Xian gave up his ambitions for Jiangzhou and began to wave his army north to deal with the crusade of the kings of Luoyang and Hanzhong.

In Jiaozhou, near the land of Qiongzhou Island, Zhao's Third Fleet took advantage of the chaos to occupy Guangzhou Prefecture and its surrounding counties, as a repair place for the Great Zhao maritime merchants. Although the king of Shu was extremely dissatisfied, he did not dare to offend Zhao Jun too much. In addition, many natives in the 'Jiao' Prefecture began to oppose the Shu army under the planning of the Qi army, which made Situ Che's control over the 'Jiao' Prefecture weaker and weaker. Therefore, the transfer of Guangzhou Mansion to the Dazhao Navy is also a 'forced' last resort, who let him have no navy at the moment, and he has no time to care about maritime trade? However, the loss of tax revenue made Situ Che hate Zhao Jun bitterly.

Situ Hao, the king of Luoyang, and Situ Fei, the king of Hanzhong, were invited by the king of Shu, that is, his brother, Situ Che, the heir of the king of Yong, to rule the land of the Tang king. The two originally intended to let the Tang army and the Shu army fight, and they seized the territory under the jurisdiction of the Tang army. As a result, when the king of Tang heard the news that the rear was attacked, he immediately returned to the division and retreated, and the king of Shu did not stop him, let him withdraw his army, but began to continue to attack Jiangzhou.

Situ Hao and Situ Fei immediately understood that this was played by Situ Che again. Of course, they didn't expect that King Tang would withdraw his troops so quickly, and Situ Che would let it so simply. As a result, the three sides fought in the north of Jingzhou for more than a month, and in the end, the war was stopped as a result of the loss of the Tang army in the north of Nanyang and Danyang. In this battle, all three sides suffered heavy losses. And Situ Hao and Situ Fei also had problems because of the division of the two places, and they could not continue to cooperate well with each other. Both of them have been given access to the south, which can be regarded as a successful start.

Tang Xian did not get the benefit, but lost the territory, how could he be willing, and immediately asked the Qi army for help. And Murong Cheng, the king of Qi, is also the enemy of the north and the south at this moment, how can he help deeply? 'Forced' as a last resort, Tang Xian even asked Zhao Jun in Yuzhou for help, with a great sense of attachment. And the Zhao army, which had already received the order of King Zhao, and sat on the mountain to watch the tiger fight, naturally would not send troops to help, nor would they participate in this quagmire. Immediately, on the grounds that Da Zhao was fighting hard in the Western Regions and had no time to take care of him, he rejected the Tang army.

Zhao Jun's reply also made the other princes breathe a sigh of relief, thinking that Zhao Jun's war in the Western Regions was not going well.

Before September, the entire southern part of the Central Plains was in a mess. Who is good and who is evil, each has its own words, so that the common people can't tell the truth from the false. Only in the north, but the wind is calm and the waves are quiet, and the people live and work in peace and contentment. And at this time, a team of men and horses was sent to expand the territory and regain the dignity that was deprived by foreigners in the past.

The southern princes ruled the land, and the people were miserable. Under the rule of Zhao Jun, the people had land for everyone, and every family had surplus grain, and lived a prosperous life. When all the princes of the world are fighting to the death, in order to expand their territory, they don't care about the people's livelihood. Da Zhao's soldiers and horses are expanding their territory. He made great achievements in foreign lands, so that the alien race not only did not dare to face it, but also made the alien race bow down.

Which is stronger and which is weaker, which is better and which is worse? Justice, evil? True or false? The scholars began to think, the capable officials under the rule of the princes everywhere began to think, and even some ordinary people began to think about their own way out.

It was precisely because of the tranquility in the north that countless people in the south began to flee to the north. The people of the land of 'Jiaozhou' even went directly to Guangzhou Mansion with their families to ask for the protection of the Zhao army and navy. And the places of Yongzhou, Jingzhou, Xuzhou, and Yangzhou that are 'handed' with Dazhao, countless people have migrated north. After these people were accepted by the Zhao army, many of the stronger ones would be resettled in the Western Regions.

The victory of the Zhao army also shocked the southern princes. However, the king of Zhao continued to stay in the Western Regions, and the Zhao army continued to stay in the Western Regions, and the continuous transportation of logistics materials to the west made the southern princes not only not stop the war, but continued to speed up the war.