Liu Xie waved his hand and said: "Good news has come from the Western Regions, now that Wusun and Dayue have been taken, the recovery of the Western Regions is just around the corner, four months, in less than four months, the Western Regions will be restored...... Ladies and gentlemen, please use this cup to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in the bloody battles in the Western Regions......"

Liu Xie said, raised his glass to the sky, then poured it sideways in front of him, then filled another cup, raised it and said: "Second cup, to those living soldiers who are still fighting bloody battles in the Western Region, it is they who have written a new chapter of my Han with their blood, respect them!" ”

The Western Regions are about to be recovered, even if Liu Xie wants to hide this news, there is no way, it is impossible for the princes not to send spies to the Western Regions, so even if he doesn't say it, they will get the news, rather than this, it is better to celebrate it openly.

Sure enough, after Liu Xie's words, the ministers were all a little dumbfounded.

You must know that the Protectorate of the Western Regions, after the last Duanxi stepped down ninety years ago, he no longer set up the Protector, until Ban Yong, the son of Ban Chao, served as the Protector of the Western Regions, and then leveled the Western Regions, and now it has been seventy or eighty years.

In recent decades, the Han Dynasty has been in turmoil, the dynasty has almost collapsed, and there is no peace in the country, so how can we talk about recovering the Western Regions?

When Liu Xie let Yuan Cao's war go and ignored it before, how many people secretly scolded this young emperor for being stupid! At this time, instead of sitting on the mountain and watching the tiger fight, he ran to recover the Western Regions, is the Western Regions so easy to recover?

But now...... The ministers were a little speechless. I can't figure it out, how could the Western Regions be recovered so easily? It doesn't make sense!

In the eyes of countless people. It is estimated that it will be much more difficult to recover the Western Regions than the Central Plains, after all, all the Western Regions are barbarians, can you reason with them?

Since I don't understand, then we must fight a hard war, and after a hard war all the way, can we afford to consume this war?

But just yet, before everyone came to their senses, the Western Regions was actually defeated like this. This. Isn't it a fantasy?

Not to mention that these people don't believe it. Even when the princes got the news, they couldn't believe it was true.

How big is the Western Regions? It's just a lap on horseback, and it's estimated that it will take a month or two! In less than four months, how could they have managed to advance to Wusun's side in one go? If both Wusun and the Otsuki clan are taken. Is Dawan still far away?

Dawan is naturally not far away. After taking down the Wusun and Otsuki clans. Dawan next to him naturally won't let it go. However, at this time, their main force had already turned to the Xiongnu and Xianbei in the north, as long as these two nomads were taken down, it would be easy to stab Yuan Benchu's ass in a roundabout way.

this plan. From the current point of view, half of the success is already achieved, even if the other half of the victory does not succeed. It is not so easy for Lao Cao to completely defeat Yuan Shao now. What's more, although Lao Yuan won less than Lao Cao at this time, his morale did not really fall to the bottom.

The battle of Guandu is in the midst of scorching, and if that Xu Yu Xu Zi is far from surrendering to Lao Cao as in history, Lao Cao will also have a headache. Now Lao Cao is worried about his food and grass problem. Although it can be supported for a month or two, what will happen after a month or two?

But he couldn't show his anxiety yet, because there were still people who had more headaches than him. That person is Xun Yu, Xun Yu is not in charge of Xudu as he was in history, but he is also making overall arrangements for grain and grass logistics.

Hearing that Liu Xie took down the Western Regions, Xun Yu couldn't believe it was true for the first time. But the news that Hosaku came back confirmed that this was true. He also told Liu Xie about the bloody things he did in the Western Regions and the sinicization.

Hearing that all people of different races should learn Han culture, Lao Cao's eyes lit up, and he laughed at the end of his palm, "What a bold move!" In this regard, it is better to be some! ”

Although Lao Cao said so, everyone couldn't think so. Because Lao Cao has not yet fought against foreign races, this kind of thing naturally cannot be said.

But I have to say that in many previous wars against foreign races, even if the Han Dynasty won, few people forced those foreign people to sinicize. Even many people feel that those foreign barbarians are qualified to learn Shangbang culture?

Liu Xie's move completely threw away all those subconscious rules. This reminded Lao Cao of a person, the tyrant of the ancient won the government!

The book is the same text, the car is the same track!

It is similar to this forcing foreigners to learn Han culture!

From this point of view, Lao Cao saw Liu Xie's huge ambition! At the same time, it can be seen from the side that the young emperor who awakened in Chengdu in the gentle township will definitely not be such a person who is so easily drunk, and what he does is just to paralyze his opponent.

And such news, in Liu Biao's eyes, is a joke.

How many soldiers and horses does Liu Xie have, can Liu Biao not know? Even if there weren't many casualties when he fought with Ma Teng and Han Sui before, but if he was full of battles, give him 200,000 soldiers and horses, it's enough! In fact, the news that Liu Biao got was that after Liu Xie recovered Xiliang, he only selected less than 30,000 young and strong Hu iron horsemen from the hundreds of thousands of iron horses, and the rest of them were sent home to open up wasteland and farm.

30,000 people, plus the previous 80,000, it is 1120,000, about half of which are still baggage soldiers, and then remove those young men who left behind to guard Xiliang and Chang'an, as well as rebuild Luoyang, the western expeditionary army sent by Liu Xie, plus the baggage soldiers, is at most about 7 to 100,000.

With such a small number of troops, it seems like a lot, but is it enough to disperse to such a large place in the Western Regions? In Wusun alone, there are nearly 100,000 people who control the strings, but what about other large and small countries in the Western Regions? How could he take over the vast land of the entire Western Regions in such a short period of time?

So Liu Biao didn't want to believe it, he even believed that this was a rumor released by Liu Xie, the purpose was to cause panic in Jingzhou, and then wait for an opportunity to attack Jingzhou.

What Liu Biao didn't know was that, in fact, the soldiers and horses sent by Liu Xie to the west were actually only 50,000, and none of the heavy soldiers were sent, all of them went into battle lightly.

Among them, 20,000 and a half are the original Qianghu iron cavalry, 10,000 of the other 20,000 are Southern Barbarian soldiers, and the remaining 15,000 are Flying Rain Army, 3,000 are heavy armored troops, and the rest of the soldiers are either guarding in Xiliang or helping in Luoyang.

It can be said that Liu Xie's doing this is an extremely extreme practice. But now, this extreme approach, under the leadership of so many fierce generals, has fully demonstrated its extraordinary charm, which is an indomitable and unstoppable domineering! (To be continued......)