Green Ridge, the mountains are towering, the snow covers the mountains, and the cold wind is biting.

The Han army's banners were shattered, hunting in the cold wind, and the remnants of the Han army, less than 50,000 people, marched among the snow-capped mountains of the lofty mountains, and from time to time soldiers fell from the mountain road into the bottomless cliffs.

The foreman of the Western Regions Metropolitan Protection General Ban Chao led the war horse and marched on the narrow mountain road, exhaling white air from time to time.

King Wusun's temples were white, and snow fell on his fur hat.

The cavalry of the Wusun Kingdom hung their heads.

Without the marching general Gao Xianzhi to lead the troops, the Han army suffered heavy losses when they crossed the Green Ridge.

The Han army was defeated in Dawan, and the remnants of Ban Chao had to enter the Pamir Plateau and return to Luntai City, the capital of the Western Regions.

At the height of the unification war of the Han Empire, generals such as Yelu Dashi, Batu and Shibi Khan attacked Dawan, mobilizing 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, 150,000 Turkic cavalry, 400,000 Kushan soldiers, and 150,000 Indian Mughal soldiers, totaling 800,000.

The population of Dawan is only 2 million, and it is difficult to say whether there are 800,000 Qingzhuang, and it has completely fallen.

Prince Yan and Di Qing originally led 50,000 Mongolian cavalry to support Guishan City, but the 50,000 troops were a drop in the bucket in the face of Yelu Dashi's increasing military strength.

Guishan City was besieged by Badu, the teleportation array of Dawan Kingdom was cut off, and when Chutian finally cleaned up Liu Bei and Tongque, he was no longer able to send reinforcements to Dawan Kingdom.

At this time, there were only two ways to send troops to Dawan Kingdom, one was to start from Ili and enter the Selju Empire, and the other was to start from Luntai City and cross the Green Mountains.

Neither way is too late.

The strength of Jerodashi was still increasing.

Ögedei ruled Central Asia, which had a small population but a surprising proportion of nomadic cavalry, as well as the South Asian subcontinent, which had a large population, and fully supported Yelu Dashi to take the chess pieces deployed in Central Asia by the Western Regions Protectorate, and constantly sent reinforcements to Yelu Dashi.

Ban Chao, Chen Tang, Prince Yan, and Di Qing had no reinforcements, so they had to choose to abandon Guishan City and return to Luntai.

Batu and Shibi Khan made every effort to prevent Ban Chao and others from returning to the Han Empire, in an attempt to completely annihilate the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions Protectorate in Dawan.

However, Ban Chao still joined forces with Prince Yan, Di Qing, Chen Tang, and King Wusun to break through the 600,000 troops of Batu and Shibi Khan, and enter the mountain roads of the Pamir Plateau.

The battle in the cold winter was extremely tragic, and there were less than 50,000 Han troops and Wusun cavalry in Guishan City.

Prince Yan walked on the edge of a cliff that could only accommodate one person with a wooden cane, and if he was not careful, he would be crushed.

Prince Yan looked around at the Han army that stretched for hundreds of miles in front and back, tasted defeat, and sighed from time to time.

There may be a gap between famous generals, but Batu is not a good stubble, with 600,000 troops, besieging Guishan City, Prince Yan is not an opponent.

The most fundamental problem was that the Great Wan Kingdom was too far from the hinterland of the Han Empire.

Yelu Dashi can get reinforcements as soon as possible, and once the teleportation array of Dawan Kingdom fails, it will be difficult for the Han Empire to support Dawan Kingdom.

"During the Tang Dynasty, the Anxi Protectorate lost control of Central Asia, mostly because Central Asia was too far away from Chang'an, and it was blocked by the Pamir Plateau and the Tianshan Mountains......"

At this time, Prince Yan deeply felt the influence of terrain on the process of civilization.

The existence of the Tianshan Mountains, the Altai Mountains, and the Pamir Plateau blocked the communication between China and the western civilizations, and Alexander's expedition and the great Arab conquest generally came to an abrupt end when they reached the Tianshan Mountains, and China had no desire to go west, and the Han and Tang dynasties had limited control over Central Asia.

The existence of the Silk Road allowed ancient China to communicate with Central Asia, West Asia, and the West, but the scale was not large after all.

In "Lord", Huo An's representative of the Western Regions Protectorate captured Dawan twice in a row, and lost control of Dawan twice in a row, which shows that the influence of the terrain is still not small.

"If the Great Wan Kingdom is lost, then it can only attack Central Asia from Ili......"

Prince Yan didn't know what Chu Tian was thinking, and he probably guessed that Chu Tian's ambition was not only to unify the Han Empire, but also to have a war with Wokotai, which was dominating Central Asia, sooner or later.

The kingdom of Dawan fell, and the Ili River valley remained, which was connected to Central Asia.

Therefore, Chutian's strategy of advancing into Central Asia has not been completely bankrupt.

The Ili River Valley is the hometown of the Wusun Kingdom, and the control of the Western Regions Protectorate over the Ili River Valley far exceeds the control of the Dawan Kingdom.

"That's not right...... Maybe Yelu Dashi will take the Dawan Kingdom and raise hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Ili River Valley......"

Prince Yan thought of a possibility.

Yelu Dashi and Batu did their best to attack the Dawan Kingdom, aiming to take the Dawan Kingdom and prevent the Central Plains army from being transmitted to Central Asia.

The Ili River Valley is also a threat to Central Asian forces, and it cannot be ruled out that Yelu Dashi will attack the Ili River Valley on a large scale.

In the northern part of Dawan Kingdom, because important Dawan cities such as Guishan City and Ershi City fell successively, Huo Qubing became a lone army and was surrounded and suppressed by Yelu Dashi, Batu and others.

Huo Qubing simply commanded the cavalry to attack the territory of the Selju Empire and fled back to Ili from the north, which was different from the direction of Banchao's retreat.

Yelu Dashi mobilized the cavalry of the Sailzhu Empire to besiege Huo Qubing on a large scale, and Huo Qubing relied on the characteristics of "Sealing Wolf Juxu" (cavalry attribute +10%, damage to alien races +25%, alien morale decline rate +25%, and the probability of falling into fear increases; +10% speed for cavalry marches, +15% speed for forced marches; Marching in the grasslands, Gobi, deserts, mountains and other terrains, morale is not easy to decline, and non-combat attrition is reduced; After winning, gain +25% morale recovery speed), travel thousands of miles, break through the blockade of Yelu Dashi in succession, and turn to battle in the Seljuk Empire.

The valley mouth fortress in the Ili River valley was patrolled by a team of Han cavalry, and the snow was falling heavily, and the snow was more than a foot deep.

Suddenly, the captain of the Han army saw a black line appear on the horizon, followed by cavalry all over the mountains.

"Inform the general that unknown cavalry has appeared, numbering about tens of thousands ......!"

"Yes!"

The cavalry of the Han army in the Ili River valley cautiously watched the cavalry entering the Dawan Kingdom getting closer and closer, and fell into a panic.

"It's the banner of our Western Regions Protectorate!"

The Han cavalry soon discovered that a large number of cavalry were not nomadic cavalry from Central Asia, but the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions Protectorate.

"Don't take it lightly, maybe it's a camouflage for the nomadic cavalry of Central Asia."

The cavalry squad of the Han army was on guard until Huo Qu's disease, whose armor was broken, appeared.

Huo Qubing broke through under the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops in Yelu Dashi, bypassed the Tianshan Mountains, and retreated to Ili.

However, Huo Qubing was also severely injured and seriously wounded, with tens of thousands of cavalry, and more than 10,000 left.

"General Huo, how did you come back from the Selzhu Empire?!"

The captain of the Han army found out that it was Huo Quai, the first general of the Western Regions Protectorate.

To the west of the Ili River Valley, which is the territory of the Serju Empire, Huo Qubing marched more than 1,000 miles and withdrew from Dawan to Ili, which surprised the Ili defenders.

"The kingdom of Dawan has been breached, and the defense of the Ili River valley has been strengthened."

Huo Quai's words were concise and to the point, and he entered Ili for supplies.

The garrison of the Western Regions Protectorate in the Ili River Valley learned that the Dawan Kingdom had been captured by Yelu Dashi with an army of 800,000 troops, and fell into panic, so they recruited troops on a large scale and built a large number of walled cities, earthen fortresses, and arrow towers at the mouth of the Ili River Valley to guard against Yelu Dashi.

Huo Quai's more than 10,000 cavalry rested, and their physical strength and morale recovered.

Huo Quai's cavalry, because of the continuous battle, each cavalry had less than three arrows left on average.

Dawan Kingdom, Guishan City, Batu of the Golden Horde, and the Turkic Shibi Khan, gathered the nobles of the Dawan Kingdom.

The Dawan king supported by Huo An, Wu Cai, was captured.

A group of nobles of the Dawan Kingdom trembled in the face of the sabers of the Mongolian cavalry and the Turkic cavalry.

The country of Dawan is comparable to the bus of Central Asia, and any powerful civilization can conquer the country of Dawan.

The nobles of the Great Wan Kingdom also did not remember how many times they had been conquered.

Now the master of Guishan City is Batu, the nephew of Wokotai.

Shibi Khan said to Batu: "This person is Huo An's confidant, friendly to the Han court, if he is not killed, he will become a disaster in the future." ”

"Come on, drag it down, and divide the corpses of the five horses."

Batu coldly ordered the execution of the king of Dawan, Wu Cai, and then installed a new king to power.

The nobles of Dawan Kingdom, who were selected as the new king of Badu, were sealed as dead ashes at this time.

The king of Dawan is not so easy to be.

Every time the kingdom of Dawan was conquered, the king could not escape the fate of being killed, and the mortality rate was extremely high.

This king is just a puppet, and in front of Batu, Shibi Khan and others, the king of Dawan needs to grovel and walk on thin ice.

Moreover, once the Han Empire captured Dawan for the third time, then Cicada Feng could not escape the fate of being killed.

The nobles of the other Dawan kingdoms were secretly glad that they had not become kings.

Cicada Feng trembled and said to Badu: "If you are not virtuous or incompetent, you can't become a king." ”

Batu made a look, and Brother Bei'er, the brother of Badu, pulled out his saber and put it on Cicada Feng's neck: "You have no choice. ”

Cicada Feng was sweating profusely, and finally had to say: "Xie Da Khan." ”

Batu entered Guishan City, turned Dawan Kingdom into his fiefdom, and the captured population was rewarded to his subordinates to win people's hearts.

Although the Golden Horde was destroyed by Chutian and Catherine, and Temujin's son Jochi was killed in battle, Batu took some of the remaining generals and took refuge in Ogedai.

The news of the fall of Dawan reached the Han Empire, and Chu Tian was in Xiacheng at this time, preparing for the usurpation.

The various princes of the Han Empire were submissive, and Chutian did not see the need to continue to maintain the Han court.

The veteran ministers of the Han court have survived to the present, and there are very few left, Huangfu Song died in battle, Lu Zhi died, Zhu Jun lived in seclusion, Wang Yun was killed, and Chu Tian usurped the throne with almost no obstacles.

Although Xun Yu and others are still inclined to the Han family, however, the civil and military generals of other dynasties have a great right to speak, and Xun Yu can only accept his fate.

Everything fell into place.

Chu Tian summoned the princes of submission to Xia City, one of the important purposes was to proclaim himself emperor, establish a new empire, and launch an expedition.

This new empire is not only the thirteen states of the Han Dynasty and the Western Regions, but the thirteen states, plus the Western Regions, Monan, Mobei, Liaodong, Goryeo, and Tubo, the six major capitals.

The Metropolitan Protectorate is at the same level as the state, and the new imperial territory is equivalent to owning nineteen states, which is not the limit of the empire.