After the war, the Yan army carried out a brutal purge of the royal families of the Western Regions, and all the royal families who participated in the armed struggle against the Yan State were systematically killed by the Yan army, leaving only a few nobles and a large number of ordinary people. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

The Yan Kingdom killed more than 10,000 people in total, and the royal power of the entire Western Regions was severely damaged.

At the same time, the Yan army began to attack all parts of the Western Regions on a large scale, just as Wei Shuo expected, the places where the armies of all roads passed were all swept away, and the countries of the Western Regions such as Wusun, Shule, and Shache were captured by the Yan army.

In most parts of the Western Regions, where the Yan army has fully gained the upper hand, only Gaochang is still in crisis.

Since the second year of Taining, in early April, Afu to Luo combined with the Che Division Houguo to gather 60,000 soldiers and horses to besiege Gaochang, the situation in Gaochang suddenly became critical. The defenders of the city waited day and night for reinforcements from the imperial court, and after a month, the reinforcements finally arrived.

The Battle of Qiuzi had just ended, and Yao Yisheng, under the assignment of Wei Shuo, personally led the cavalry back to Gaochang.

In order to let the reinforcements rush back to Gaochang as soon as possible, Wei Shuo selected six thousand horses from the captured war horses, and equipped each cavalry with two war horses, which they rode in turn along the way.

Originally, when they learned that the reinforcements of the Yan army had arrived, Ah Fu Zhiluo and Che Shi Hou Wang did not have thousands of cavalry in their eyes, they sent 20,000 cavalry to meet them, and their main force still stormed Gaochang City.

In the eyes of the two, the 6,000 Yan army is not enough for the impact of the 20,000 cavalry, and those few men and horses will soon be defeated.

However, what Afu Zhiluo didn't expect was that the battle ended very quickly, and in just half an hour, 20,000 cavalry were actually beaten back by 6,000 Yan army iron cavalry, and no less than 5,000 people were lost.

Just before Afu Zhiluo and the former king of the chariot division could figure out the reason for the defeat, the reinforcements of the Yan army had already rushed into the camp of the army.

At this time, Ah Fu Zhiluo and Che Shi Hou Wang were completely blinded, and they couldn't understand what Yan Jun meant? Is it possible to kill yourself? The two thought that no matter how powerful the Yan army was, there were only so many people, but they had nearly 60,000 horses, and they could crush the Yan army to death.

Indeed, it is indeed too reckless to rush into the camp of 60,000 men with only 6,000 men and horses.

Although there have been many sneak attacks by a small number of troops in history, they are basically sneak attacks at night, but this part of the Yan army is in broad daylight and open fire.

However, recklessness is sometimes courage, and courage can inspire others.

This Yan army has just won a brilliant victory, and its momentum is at its peak.

As the saying goes: one drum, then decline, three and exhaustion!

What's more, Gaochang has been besieged for more than a month, and it has already reached the point of life and death, and there is no way to delay the army. A variety of factors combined to prompt Yao Yisheng to use this momentum to teach the other party a hard lesson before the enemy reacted.

The reinforcements of the Yan army shouted loudly while rushing: "The main force of the coalition army has been defeated, the main force of the Yan army is about to return to help, and the destruction of the countries in the Western Regions is imminent, why don't you surrender quickly?" ”

Sure enough, the courage of the reinforcements shocked the enemy for a while! Looking at the red-eyed, wolf-like opponent, many timid enemy troops avoided it.

After severely dampening the enemy's morale and alleviating the situation in Gaochang, Yao Yisheng immediately led his army to flee.

Looking at the Yan cavalry in the distance, they were so angry that Ah Fu Zhiluo and the queen of the Che Division jumped like thunder, but it was impossible for them to give up attacking Gaochang to deal with Yao Yisheng, so they could only watch the back of the Yan cavalry gradually disappear.

Although the first battle failed to crush the enemy army, the enemy had to temporarily stop the attack on Gaochang City.

In the evening, Yao Yisheng's department once again suddenly made a move to attack the combined forces of Gaoche and Cheshi, and Afu Zhiluo and Cheshi Houwang did not dare to be careless, and immediately led the troops to counterattack.

However, the performance of the Yan army in this battle was completely different from yesterday, and they almost retreated without a fight. But when the coalition forces wanted to stop, the Yan army attacked again. This went back and forth several times, and successfully provoked the anger of the high-speed car people and the car masters, and the enemy army was so angry that they smoked.

In the face of the harassment of the light cavalry of the Yan army, the coalition army is really annoying, everyone is cavalry, they can't catch up with it, they can't get rid of it, they can't get rid of it, it's really annoying.

And taking this opportunity, the 3,000 cavalry that had been hidden in Gaochang City suddenly attacked the Ximen coalition army, and the coalition army suffered heavy losses by surprise, and was easily torn open by the Yan army.

Seeing the chaos in the rear of the coalition forces, Yao Yisheng immediately ordered the army to launch a counterattack, and under the front and rear attacks, the enemy army suddenly collapsed.

It is advisable to win and chase after the poor!

Nearly 10,000 Yan cavalry took advantage of the situation to chase out more than 30 miles, killed more than 10,000, captured more than 30,000, and the siege of Gaochang was finally relieved.

After the battle, Ah Fu Zhiluo and the queen of the chariot division gathered the military horses, and there were less than 20,000 people who ran away, and they suddenly wanted to cry without tears. Later, Ah Fu Zhiluo ignored the repeated retention of the queen of the chariot master, and immediately led the remnants back to the Gaoche tribe, and as soon as he arrived at the tribe, he immediately asked people to pack up and be relocated to the east and west.

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During the period when Yao Yisheng led his troops back to Gaochang, Yang Hu rashly rode the Wuxiang Infantry Coalition Army north to conquer Wusun. Originally, the main force of Wusun had been lost at the southern foot of the Tianshan Mountains, so that when the Yanghu army approached the Wusun country, the remaining Wusun army was almost immediately defeated, except for a small number of people who evacuated to the west, most of them were captured by Yanghu.

On the eighth day of the fifth month, Liu Yao and Fu Hong led the army to arrive at the Green Ridge, and thus the southern road of the Western Regions was returned to the Yan State.

Thirteen, Deng Yue entered Shule with 10,000 foot cavalry, and the king of Shule led his troops to resist.

Just when Deng Yue confronted the Shule army, Liu Yao suddenly led 3,000 cavalry to the south to kill, and the desperate King Shule had to raise his hands and surrender.

At this point, in addition to the recalcitrant resistance of the entire Western Regions, the entire large territory in the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains belonged to the Yan State.

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"King, in front of you is the Thousand Buddha Caves (now the Kizil Grottoes)!" The senior monk Fa Xian introduced.

When the Yan army was attacking the city everywhere, Wei Shuo rarely had the leisure to visit the Buddhist holy place of Qiuzi - Thousand Buddha Cave.

Standing on the majestic Ming Wudag Mountain, raise your eyes and look into the distance, only to see that the opposite mountain wall cliff is densely covered with grottoes, these stone caves are stacked on top of each other, row upon row, magnificent, and show a unique kind of peace and tranquility of Buddhism, like a layer of shining Buddha light under the golden sunshine.

"The light of the Buddha has gone away, and from now on the Western Regions will be the world of Yan and the teachings." Wei Shuo muttered to himself.

Monk Faxian, a senior monk who accompanied Wei Shuo, heard King Yan's whispering, and couldn't help but darken his face. Originally, he thought that King Yan suddenly proposed to visit the Thousand Buddha Caves, and he thought that the other party was going to open up to Buddhism. But he didn't expect that as soon as King Yan came up, he excluded Buddhism from the Western Regions, and it seemed that Buddhism, which had flourished in the Western Regions for hundreds of years, would decline.

"The era of the Thousand Buddha Cave began in the Later Han Dynasty, and my successive generations of Qiuzi kings have attached great importance to this place, and all dynasties have spared no expense and manpower to dig and repair it."

Wei Shuo was silent when he heard this, and walked into the largest cave in the cave, where the four walls, the roof of the cave, the corridor, and the frieze of the niche were full of colorful murals. If this grotto group is discovered in modern times, it will definitely be a major event that will cause a sensation in the whole country, but at the moment it has no value at all in Wei Shuo's eyes.

After visiting the Thousand Buddha Caves, Wei Shuo said to the monk Fa Xian, who was nervous all the way around: "Master Buddha Tucheng, who was born in the Western Regions, and I have had several encounters. ”

"Really? The King is merciful! Hearing this, Fa Xian immediately became excited, these days he and the other Shamen have been nervous, and they don't know when the butcher's knife will fall on their bodies. Now that he heard that King Yan was willing to let Buddhism live, how could he not be excited?

Wei Shuo waved his hand and continued: "Don't be happy too early, if the Buddha Sect wants to survive in the Yan Kingdom, it must follow the rules of the Yan Kingdom, otherwise it will ......."

"Please speak up, the king will obey!"

"First of all, every Buddhist monk must report to the government and accept the Buddhist knowledge assessment organized by the government, only those who pass the examination can continue to be monks, and other unqualified ones will be forced to return to the world."

"Eventually, the Buddhists occupied too much land, and the government would proceed to confiscate some of it and distribute it to the common people. The rest were distributed among different numbers of fields according to the number of people in each monastery. Monasteries are no longer allowed to accept land from ordinary people without permission, and once discovered, they will be closed and disqualified from preaching, or they will be directly imprisoned to serve their sentences. ”

"There is also a place in the Western Regions where you are not allowed to preach for the time being, and after twenty years, Buddhism will be stationed in the Western Regions to preach."

As soon as Wei Shuo's words fell, many monks and nuns at the scene were in an uproar, Fa Xian's face was bitter, and the catastrophe of Buddhism came after all. It seems that King Yan generously let Buddhism go to life, but in fact, how difficult is it to leave the Western Regions to preach in the base camp of teaching? It's just that to this day, Buddhism has no other way but to follow the rules set by King Yan. (To be continued.) )