The news that the eldest princess of Jiangdu was canonized as the princess of Anyang spread out of Dunhuang and spread all over the world on the second day. Perhaps it was the title of this princess who was the same as the queen but slightly lower than the queen's rank, which was quite useful in various countries, and soon many kings surnamed Liu announced that they had canonized a beloved woman as a princess.

On the tenth day after the King of Anyang and the eldest princess of Jiangdu officially got married, the officials of Anyang State and above 1,000 stones came to Jingyang Palace. This time, not only did several generals stationed on the border appear, but there were even the queens of the Northern Xiongnu, Wuya and Wusun Kunmo, as well as Cai Yu, the left minister of Dawan.

Huo Guang was wearing a crown robe and sat on the top, looking at the hall of nearly 100 people in the hall, he couldn't help but feel a sense of arrogance in his heart. Now he can finally say that the fierce generals under his command are like clouds, and the ministers are like rain.

"Dongfang wins, Gaoyou." Huo Guang sat steadily, and a majestic voice came out of his mouth, first calling two names that were not thunderous in Anyang Kingdom.

"The end will be." Two young generals came out and knelt down on one knee.

Dongfang Sheng is the eldest son of Cangwu Jun Dongfang Sheng, this is a person who Huo Guang knew as early as Chang'an, but at that time Dongfang Sheng was only a four or five-year-old child. However, this Dongfang Shuo, who inherited poetry and books, did not teach his son to become a generation of Confucians, but because when he was in Hanoi County, Dongfang Sheng followed Li Ling to dance with knives and guns, and later grew up to be a military general who charged on the battlefield.

As for Gao You, he is the eldest son of the Gao who inherited the title of Yancheng Jun.

"Alone with the two of you as the vanguard, each leading 5,000 elite iron horsemen. The first battle with the rest of the heavy cavalry will be handed over to the two of you! Huo Guang's majestic voice continued to sound. Today, the day before the official Anyang national soldiers came out of the two levels.

However, with the passage of time, several of the original generals of Anyang Kingdom, such as Zhao Ponu, Fulu Zhi and others, have become old, and even Li Ling, the number one general under Huo Guang, is not as healthy as a few years ago. These people are barely able to be generals, but they are a little powerless to charge for the vanguard.

Fortunately, Anyang is not without successors, Gaoyou Dongfang Sheng and the two are the two young generals after Shangguan Li Ling, and there are also some young generals, as long as time passes, after the baptism of several wars, maybe they will stand out a few famous people in the world.

"The last general commands." Gao You and Dongfang Sheng hugged their fists and responded.

"Dongfang Shuo" Huo Guang called Dongfang Shuo's name this time.

"The minister is here." Dongfang Shuo is over fifty years old, but he seems to be very good at health preservation, and he still can't see his old age, and even looks like a few years ago, but now Huo Guang looks similar to Dongfang Shuo's age. Now the Dongfang family is also a first-class big family in the land of Hexi, and there are not only court kings like Dongfang Shuo who are in charge of the first courtyard, but also high-ranking generals like Dongfang Sheng, and at the same time, some family children also serve in the army or yamen.

"You lead 50,000 foot soldiers to set up defenses on the west bank of the river, and you will be in charge of Wuwei." Huo Guang's order turned out to be to let Dongfang Shuo lead the troops again. Huo Guang knew that Dongfang Shuo was good at guarding, and assigned him a defensive task. This task did not clearly state anything, but everyone in the palace knew that Huo Guang asked Dongfang Shuo to sit in Wuwei, and it was no one else to prevent it, it was the general of the Han Zhenjun who was brought out by Dongfang Shuo, Wang Yuanyou, Marquis of Yangwu, and the 60,000 troops under Marquis Yangwu who were stationed in Anding.

Now there are 250,000 troops in Hexi, of which there are about 180,000 cavalry, and the remaining 70,000 are foot soldiers, which means that Huo Guang only left 10,000 people to guard each of the two passes, and then let Dongfang Shuo deploy 50,000 troops in Wuwei County, and the rest almost poured out to start a war with the Rest Empire.

"Du Yannian, you stay in Dunhuang and be responsible for the dispatch of grain and grass for the army." Huo Guang continued to arrange.

"Obey." Du Yannian also got up to receive the order.

"The soldiers of the Northern Xiongnu and Wusun are the left and right flanks, and the lone relatives lead an army of 100,000 for the middle army, and we have to fight until Ctesiphon, the capital of the Anxi Empire, our western ally Sulla, has begun the eastern crusade, and in the past half a year, the army of the Anxi Empire has been defeated and retreated." Huo Guang stood up and said, he had received news from Sulla a few days ago, and Rome's huge crusade had begun a long time ago.

Under the leadership of the most outstanding commander of the West, he led the young Caesar as the spearhead, and used his hoplite phalanx to defeat the mighty Rest Iron Cavalry again and again, and now the supreme ruler of Rome was about to defeat Ctesiphon, the capital of the Rest Empire.

"Obey the order...."Everyone in the hall stood up, including Uya and Xutuomi.

A day later, a mighty cavalry team came out of Yangguan, and the target was Pu Changhai, the forefront of the rest army. This time, Huo Guang took Dongfang Sheng and Gao You as the vanguard, and let their cavalry directly confront the rest of the ironclad cavalry, and he was surrounded by Li Ling, Bai Zheng, Huo Tang and others, as for Zhao Ponu and others, they were left behind in the two passes.

The left flank of the 100,000 Hexi Central Army was the 30,000 Wusun cavalry led by Xutuomi, while the right flank was the 50,000 Hun cavalry led by Gou Lian, the first general under the Queen of the Northern Xiongnu.

Because of Sula's Eastern Expedition, the war on the Western Front of the Rest Empire broke out again, and the 250,000 troops of Olobazo in the Western Regions were forced to withdraw 100,000. Now Olobazo's Crusade Corps is inferior to Huo Guang's army in numbers.

In the northeast of Puchang Sea, there is a landform composed of gypsum mud and saline-alkali, and the salt crystals reflect the sunlight, forming a little silver light, like scales and armor, and from a distance, it looks like a white dragon cruising in the sand sea. And Olobazo chose the battlefield on this silver-white land known as the White Dragon Dui.

This was a battle destined to be engraved in the annals of history, and the battle lasted for three days and three nights on this silvery land. Hanyang steel is a new weapon that appears on the battlefield for the first time, and its excellent materials and forging technology ahead of its time bring out the characteristics of sharp and strong weapons to the extreme.

For the first time, the cavalry of Anyang Kingdom confronted the ironclad cavalry of Anxi on the battlefield without losing the upper hand. And without the decisive role of the ironclad cavalry, those archers and servant armies could not stop Huo Guang's army at all. Three days later, the silver-white white dragon pile had been stained red with blood, and corpses and broken weapons and armor were scattered all over the place. The total number of troops invested by both sides in this battle exceeded 300,000, and the number of casualties on both sides reached nearly 100,000. Whether it is the scale of the battle or the number of casualties, this battle has become a classic battle throughout the ages.

And this battle can be called a classic, and his real classics are not the number and scale. Rather, because this is a real head-on decisive battle, there is not much strategy, it is completely a frontal charge of the cavalry, and at the same time with the battle of the two wings, there is a long-range suppression of the bow and arrow phalanx, and a long-range salvo of ballistas. This is a head-to-head duel that completely relies on strength and war technology, countless cavalry formations, and varied small-scale tactics have been vividly used in this battle, and a large number of tactical applications have been passed down to future generations like textbooks.

It was a campaign that had been prepared for several years and consumed countless strategic materials. When the tens of thousands of ironclad cavalry of Olobazo were annihilated, and nearly 50,000 archers and servant armies were wiped out, he knew that the balance of war had tilted in favor of Huo Guang. Imperial Prime Minister Olobazo reluctantly issued an order to retreat westward, and once again ceded the Western Regions, which had been ruled for two years, to Huo Guang again.

And in this battle, most of the 10,000 elites under Huo Guang who were equipped with Hanyang steel weapons and light armor were also killed, and at the same time, nearly half of those excellent weapons were still damaged, after all, no matter how sophisticated the weapons and armor were, they still did not get out of the category of cold weapons, and high-intensity use still could not avoid damage.

In addition, among Huo Guang's 180,000 cavalry, as many as 40,000 were killed, although more than 20,000 of them were cavalry of the Northern Xiongnu and Wusun, but this also made Huo Guang feel distressed for a long time.

War is always brutal, and no matter how well prepared, there is bound to be a price. 100,000 people buried their bones in the White Dragon Pile, making this place a famous place of terror in later generations, and even adventurers more than 2,000 years later also claimed that they would hear the terrifying sound of shouting and killing and the wailing of unjust souls from the ancient battlefield.

A few days after the Battle of Bailongdui, Huo Guang began his journey to recover the Western Regions with a large army. This should be his second conquest of the Western Regions, but this time it is a little different from Bai Zheng's way of conquering a few years ago. This time, Huo Guang also issued another order, that is, to destroy all the written classics of the Western Regions conquered along the way, and even began to forcibly implement the policy of changing to Yiyu.

The original exotic culture that was as bright as the stars on the land of the Western Regions was all savagely destroyed by Huo Guang, and all the text patterns engraved on the buildings were scraped off, and even the utensils with words engraved were recast or directly destroyed. Within three months, all the people of the Western Regions changed their original costumes to Han style collared clothes, and at the same time, all were required to use Chinese only after one year.

It was a brutal cultural destruction, but it was a cultural invasion in a very short period of time. A large number of Huo clan disciples were sent to the Western Regions, and while they managed these places, they also savagely instilled the Han Chinese script and language into the land of the Western Regions.

This barbaric method naturally attracted the resistance of the aborigines of the Western Regions, but after the first attack of Bai Zheng, the Western Regions suffered from the enslavement of the Rest Empire for two years, and the population here has plummeted, and even many ordinary people have begun to become numb. Under the deterrence of the rolling heads, the numb people on this already scorched land also began to numbly accept different cultural indoctrination.

Just after the Battle of Bailongdui, Dongfang Shuo also came to Wuwei County with 50,000 Hexi foot soldiers, and he was accompanied by Huo An, the crown prince of Anyang.

The west bank of the river is now covered with tents, stretching for more than ten miles, like a barrier blocking the river. On the east bank of the river, there are also tents for more than ten miles, which are the Yangwu army under the command of Wang Yuanyou, the general of the Han Zhen Army. The day after Dongfang Shuo and Huo An arrived on the west bank of the river, this Yangwu Marquis also arrived here from Chang'an, and at this moment he was sitting in the big tent of the Chinese army.

"General, the prince of Anyang and Dongfang Shuo of Cangwu have appeared on the west bank of the river, as if they are observing the camp tent of our army." An officer who looked like a lieutenant in the Yangwu Army walked into the big tent of the Chinese army and knelt down on one knee in front of the Yangwu Marquis to report.

This army was brought out by Wang Yuanyou, and not long ago, Emperor Liu Jin gave this army a name for itself. And the commander of this army, Wang Yuanyou, also likes to let his officers and soldiers call him a general instead of a marquis.

"Then Ben should have gone to meet them, too!" Wang Yuanyou's body moved, the armor on his body clicked, he just got up casually, but it was as thick as a mountain uplift.

On the east bank of the river, Wang Yuanyou stood at the original ferry head surrounded by a large number of military officers and officers, which is the narrowest place in this section of the river, and the distance between the two banks is less than 100 zhang.

"Mr. Dongfang, that is the banner of Yang Wu Hou, is the silver armor man at the head Yang Wu Hou?" Huo An stood beside Dongfang Shuo, he saw a huge handsome flag embroidered with the word Yangwu, the flag came out of the Chinese army's tent, and finally stopped at the east bank ferry, and a military general wearing silver armor in the crowd was particularly conspicuous.

"It's him..... I haven't seen him for a few years, but he is becoming more and more famous. Dongfang Shuo stood on the ferryhead on the west bank, and the river wind blew his beard flying, making Dongfang Shuo not look like a military general, but like a literati and elegant guest looking at the scenery by the river.

"Mr. Dawang ordered Mr. to be stationed on the west bank of the river, if Yang Wuhou crosses the river, I don't know what good plan Mr. has?" Behind Huo An walked out a little Hun girl in a white dress, she raised her head curiously and asked Dongfang Shuo in front of her.

"Nian Jun, Mr. Dongfang should be the person who knows Yang Wuhou the best in this world, and Mr. must have already had a way to deal with it." Huo An looked at the Hun saintess beside him and said with a natural smile on his face. In just a few days, the two seem to be very familiar with each other.

"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince praised falsely, whether to cross the river or not is actually not Yuan You's decision. And we are not really a battlefield here....." Dongfang Shuo's voice looked a little messy in the wind, and his gaze stayed on Wang Yuanyou's body.

"Not here? Where is that? Huo An frowned slightly, he could hear from Dongfang Shuo's words that the confrontation between them and Wang Yuanyou on both sides of the river seemed to be just an illusion. And the game behind this seems to involve more people, not even his father and the Han Emperor......

On the east bank of the river, Wang Yuanyou also saw Dongfang Shuo and others, his eyes only stayed on Huo An and Nianjun for a moment, and then he kept looking at Dongfang Shuo. When Huo An asked where Dongfang Shuo's real battlefield was, Wang Yuanyou bowed to Dongfang Shuo from a distance across the river.

"In the Yonghe Palace...... Dongfang Shuo spit out a few words lightly, he saw Wang Yuanyou bowing, and also symbolically arching his hand towards the other side, his body was straight but he didn't bow.

When the Battle of Bailongdui ended, Huo Guang continued to advance westward, and troops were also arrayed on both sides of the river. Zhao Yinhua, who was dressed in pink and white, came to the Anyang Palace alone and walked straight into the Yonghe Hall where the princess Liu Xijun lived.