In order to contain the Qiuzi army in the city, Shile ordered to spread wooden people outside the city, and the army set up a battalion in the south of the city, with deep ditches and high fortifications, nailed wooden stakes, put on armor, put on helmets, and planted flags all over. The real main army turned to the west of the city to meet the Wusun coalition army.

Qiuzi is at the foot of the Tianshan Mountains, the undulating peaks of the Tianshan Mountains in the north, spanning the east and west, majestic and magnificent, magnificent, the peak is covered with snow, and the silver light is shining. To the south, there is a vast expanse of yellow sand, which runs through the sky. The 50,000 cavalry of the Qiang tribe fought a decisive battle with the 300,000 Wusun coalition army.

In this decisive battle, the Wusun coalition army was completely unable to resist the impact of the Qianshan cavalry, and the 50,000 Qianzu cavalry killed 300,000 Wusun coalition troops crying wolves and howling, and the corpses were all over the field. In this battle, Shile defeated the main force of the Wusun coalition army, beheaded 30,000 people, the Wusun people fled in disarray, and the army of the vassal countries in the Western Regions dismounted and surrendered.

Shile broke hundreds of thousands of enemies in the first battle, leveled the Tianshan Mountains, and shook the western Xinjiang. The news of the crushing defeat of the Wusun army reached the city of Qiuci, and the king of Qiuci immediately packed up the treasures and abandoned the city and fled. After the cavalry of the Qiang tribe entered the capital of Qiuzi, they plundered it on a large scale, especially these earthen buns from the steppe suddenly saw the magnificent royal palaces of the Persian Sassanid Dynasty and the Kushan Empire in India, which were very different from the Central Plains.

So far, all the northern countries of the Western Regions have fallen into the hands of Shile, and Shile garrisons Qiuzi, Yanqi, and Cheshi, both grace and power, to appease the people of the Western Regions. Soon the news of Shile's conquest of the Northern Western Regions reached Chang'an, Guanzhong, and this news also made the Great Jin Dynasty speed up the pace of conquest of the Western Regions.

Northwest, three reports a day: Shile recruited the troops, and it seemed that he had the intention of continuing to go south to the southern road of the Western Regions. From the Han Dynasty. The Western Regions is the main road where the East and the West meet, and it is also a region with a very developed economy and culture.

This rich place in the Western Regions is also the lifeblood of powerful nomads, otherwise Tuoba Pugen would not have ordered Shile to lead his army westward. Since the Great Jin Dynasty blockaded the steppe trade, Tuoba Xianbei could only obtain a large number of iron, silk, gold and silver, and craftsmen from the Western Regions.

It's just that at this time, although the Great Jin has decided to intervene, it has not yet sent reinforcements. However, the Governor's Mansion of the Western Regions has begun to gather troops. The purpose was clearly to deal with Shiler. If Shi Le wants to control the Western Regions, it is inevitable that he will clash with the Great Jin. However, Shi Le's strength is strong, and he may not be able to deal with the cavalry of the Qiang tribe with the strength of the Western Regions Changshi Mansion alone.

To this end, Zhang Bin, in his capacity as the first assistant to the cabinet, convened some ministers to discuss the military situation in the Western Regions. During the discussion, all the ministers believed that Shi Le did not dare to infringe on the interests of the Great Jin Dynasty in the Western Regions. What the other party is trying is nothing more than Qiuzi, Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule. And some brain-dead ministers use it as "desert wilderness". It is recommended to take the initiative to abandon Gaochang and other places and negotiate peace with the Shile Ministry.

"The land of size is all obtained by the soldiers' lives. Encore discarded and laughed at the barbarians? If there is anyone who dares to renounce the land and make peace, he will ask His Majesty to behead him! As soon as he heard this kind of remarks, Zu Ti's anger immediately came up.

"Fang Jin's Great Jin Kingdom is rich and strong, like the sun in the sky, the Qian clan jumps off the beam clown, why be afraid?" On the issue of opposing the abandonment of the Western Regions, the position of Shoufu Zhang Bin is also very firm.

In fact, long before Sima Shu set off on his southern tour, he had already ordered the Privy Council to start formulating a plan to recover the Western Regions, so as soon as he received the news of the changes in the Western Regions, the cabinet immediately appointed Zhang Fang, the envoy of the Northwest Jiedu, as the governor of the Northwest March, to lead the Western Armies of the Great Jin Dynasty Yumen.

General Ma Xian commanded the headquarters and served as the deputy governor of the Northwest March, with a total of 126,000 men. In addition, Ma Xian also used the influence of the Great Jin Dynasty in the Western Regions to reach an agreement with the Western Regions countries to jointly send troops, and Cheshi, Yanqi, Shule, Khotan, Shanshan, Shule and other countries decided to send 100,000 troops to cooperate with the Great Jin to conquer Shile.

In addition, the counties west of Jincheng have already secretly prepared a large amount of military rations and baggage, which they began to prepare several years ago.

The army began to move in early February, and although it tried to keep it secret, as soon as it reached the Hexi Corridor, everything was no longer a secret. The Hexi Corridor is a necessary place for the mobilization of soldiers, horses, grain and grass, and here, every day, there are a large number of caravans from all over the Western Regions, and naturally some people report what they have seen and heard to Shile.

At this time, Shi Le had already integrated the Northern Dao of the Western Regions and completed the pre-war preparations, and when he heard that the Great Jin was preparing to intervene in the Western Regions, he immediately decided to strike first.

On January 25, Shile reorganized the Northern Province of the Western Regions and gained 200,000 troops to attack Shule, and Shule's army was overwhelmed, and nearly 30,000 remnants of Wusun's army retreated to Wusun.

On January 27, under the instigation of Shile, Shule rebelled blatantly, colluding with more than 10,000 cavalry of the Qiang nationality to attack all parts of Shule.

On January 29, without any warning, Shi Le suddenly ordered Ma Qiu to command 50,000 troops to attack Gaochang in the Great Jin Dynasty, and the 3,000 Xiang troops responsible for guarding Gaochang were able to keep the city through a strong battle.

On the seventh day of the second month, Ma Xianji in Haitou gathered 30,000 allied troops to relieve the siege of Gaochang, but Shile's troops were strong, and the Qianzu field battle was more advantageous, and most of the allied troops were soldiers from various countries in the Western Regions, so he really didn't dare to pin his hopes on these people. Therefore, before the main force of the army arrived in the Western Regions, Ma Xian had no choice but to give up the plan of rescuing the army and resort to harassment by small forces to relieve the pressure on Gaochang.

On the 10th day of the first month of February, Shile almost concentrated all the mobile forces totaling 160,000, and turned back from Shule to attack Khotan, and Khotan heard that Shile was in person, and there was a great chaos, and no less than Khotanese nobles were already planning to surrender. Fortunately, the king of Khotan found out the clues and arrested all the more than ten conspirators, barely controlling the situation.

And Shi Le and the others also knew that the gains and losses of Khotan were very important, and once they lost, he would lose the opportunity to take the Southern Western Regions. On the contrary, once he took Khotan, the entire southern province opened its doors to him, and even the Jin army could not stop the hurricane of the cavalry. He can completely sweep the entire southern country and firmly block the Great Jin in the eastern part of the Western Regions. In the whole situation, Scheller will take the initiative.

In the face of Shile's coercion, the king of Khotan, knowing that the field battle was not the enemy of the cavalry, still gathered 50,000 main forces out of the city to attack it, and as a result, nearly 10,000 people were lost in the first battle, and all the generals asked for a temporary retreat. In desperation, the king of Khotan could only retreat to the capital.

Faced with the Khotanese holding on, the Shile army did not launch an offensive. At this time, 10,000 reinforcements sent by Shanshan State arrived in Khotan, and due to the large strength of the enemy, the reinforcements had to bluff and shout everywhere: "100,000 reinforcements have arrived!" "At first, Shile was unclear, but the defenders of the city were greatly inspired.

It wasn't until the second day that Shi Le found that the reinforcements were only 10,000 people, and he was immediately annoyed and angry, and he asked Wang Yang to lead 30,000 cavalry to fight against the Shanshan reinforcements who looked out of the city, but how could the Shanshan soldiers be the opponent of the wolf-like tiger cavalry, the reinforcements saw that the situation was not good, and turned around and ran.

Just when Shi Le thought that it was a sure thing to take Khotan, another strong enemy appeared, and this enemy was not the Great Jin that he had been wary of, but from the former Kushan Empire. The Kushan Empire was ruled by descendants of the Otsuki clan at this time. After the glory of the second century, the current Kushan Empire was greatly weakened and divided into several principalities, with the Otsuki clan occupying large territories in the north and east.

With the rise of West Asia and Persia, Kangju, Khorezm, and Dawan successively broke away from the Kushan Empire, which greatly reduced the strength of the Kushan Empire. In order to expand their strength, and also to deal with the invasion from the Gupta Empire in East India, they had to expand eastward, so they could not watch Shile control the Western Regions, once Shile cut off their connection with the Western Regions, the taxes of the Otsutsuki clan (the remnants of the Kushan Empire, collectively referred to as the Otsuki clan in the future) would be greatly reduced, so the Otsuki clan had to attack Shile from behind.

Although the Great Moon Clan is no longer as strong as the Kushan Empire, its strength is still stronger than that of these countries in the Western Regions. In order to rescue Khotan, the Dayue clan sent 200,000 troops, and in the face of such an opponent, Shi Le was also a little worried in his heart, and he was not sure at all about fighting alone.

At this time, his advisor Kui'an suggested that Shile establish contact with the Persians and jointly attack the Otsuki clan from the east and west. Shile thought so, and immediately sent a gift to Persia.

At its peak, the Persian king was known as the "King of Kings", and although it was destroyed by the Eastern Expedition of Alexander the Great of Macedon, the Persian state was revived in the third century AD, and the historical Sassanid Persian Dynasty was established, which has continued to this day with effective administration and strong armed power.

However, after the Persian westward expansion was blocked by the Eastern Roman Empire, the Persians had been planning to expand eastward, so they were ecstatic about Shile's request. The Persians had long wanted to wage war against the aging Kushan Empire, but they never had the opportunity, and now that the opportunity was ripe, the Persians were unwilling to give up anything.

As soon as he received a letter from Shile inviting troops to send troops, the de facto controller of the Persian Empire, the Persian nobleman and deputy governor of the Sassanid Dynasty, Psidore, in order to consolidate his rule in Persia, immediately sent 150,000 troops to the east to conquer the Great Moon clan.

Shile attacked from the east, while the Persians marched west. The Otsutsuki clan has long since lost its former strength, so she can't withstand the attack of such two major forces no matter what, and the results of two-front battles in history are often tragic, and the Otsutsuki clan is no exception.

In 313 AD, the thirteenth year of Hongwu, at the end of March, the Dayue clan was defeated in the decisive battle of the Three Kingdoms. After the main force of the Dayue clan was defeated, the Qiang people and the Persian alliance army took advantage of the victory to march, and the general situation was determined at this time, so Shi Le appointed Taobao to command the rest of the war, and he returned to the Western Regions to continue to command the war against the countries in the Western Regions.

While the situation in the Western Regions was changing, Sima Shu was still on his way around the world, and he stayed in Jiankang for about a month, during which time he dealt with many difficult problems. Sima Shu then took a naval warship and went to the last destination of this southern tour - Chengfang Port. (To be continued......)