Chapter 12 Waiting for the Opportunity
The strength of the Dawan Kingdom has always been relatively strong among the countries of the Western Regions, and the legendary sweat and blood BMW has brought wealth and glory to Dawan, from the Han Dynasty to the rest, almost every country's king is proud of having a sweat and blood BMW mount, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has reached the point of almost obsession with the BMW.
Zhang Qian's visit established a good relationship between Dawan and the Han Dynasty, and the two countries developed together by learning from their strengths, and gradually, the king of Dawan was influenced by the conservative princes and became wary of the Han Dynasty. The results of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's conquest of the Xiongnu were enough to shock the entire Western Regions, and they all realized the strength of the Han Dynasty and the ambition of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to conquer the Western Regions.
Everything is contradictory, everything has a good side and a bad side, Dawan tasted the sweetness of Dahan's advanced technology, and at the same time was afraid of the invasion of the more powerful Dahan. The Dawan royal family did not believe in the so-called vassal state, and was unwilling to lose the majesty of the noble royal family, they were afraid of becoming slaves of the Han Dynasty and no longer had autonomy.
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was bent on getting a bloody horse, and deliberately built a pure gold horse to exchange with Dawan, so that there was both sincerity and face, and the Han did not take advantage of Dawan, and the king of Dawan would not embarrass the Han envoy.
People are not as good as heaven, the Han envoy lasted half a year through the desert, and finally came to Dawan to see the king, but what he got was an unexpected result. King Dawan and his princes and ministers wanted the golden horse, but they refused to hand over the bloody horse, on the grounds that the bloody horse was a national treasure of Dawan and could not be easily handed over to the Han Dynasty.
The Han envoys didn't understand the meaning of these words at first, and their Han Dynasty exchanged the golden horse for the BMW, which was to put it bluntly, and spent money to buy it. King Dawan's eyes were straight when he saw the golden horse, why didn't he want to exchange it for the BMW, besides, the sweaty BMW is not extinct, this excuse is really ridiculous.
The envoy wondered if the king didn't want the golden horse anymore, and who knew that the king of Dawan had the audacity to say that if the Han people wanted to leave safely, they had to leave the golden horse behind.
This is clearly a forcible seizure, and the dignified King Dawan actually followed the bandits all the way, bullying them The Han envoys were weak. The Buddha fights for a stick of incense, people fight for a breath, and the messengers represent the dignity of the Han Dynasty, and they can't be bullied even if they die.
Enraged, the Han envoy smashed the golden horse and rebuked the king of Dawan for his injustice, and the king ordered them to be put to death. The isolated envoys fought their way out of a bloody way, and escaped from Dawan with great difficulty, but they did not know that they escaped from the tiger's den and fell into the wolf's den, and when they were resting in the small country of Yucheng, they were chased and killed by the king of Yucheng, and finally all died.
It turned out that Yu Cheng was a vassal of Dawan, and he was originally a nostril-out, after the Han envoy escaped, Dawan greeted Yu Cheng on his side, as long as he saw them, they would all be wiped out, leaving no one alive, and they would never be allowed to return to Dahan alive.
The envoy of the Han Dynasty died unjustly, but fortunately, a guide from Loulan returned to Loulan alive and told the king of Loulan about Dawan's crimes. Loulan had long been a subordinate of the Han Dynasty, and when she learned of this appalling act, she dared to hide it for Dawan, and sent someone to Dunhuang overnight to report to the Han Dynasty.
The conflict between the Han envoys buying sweat and blood BMWs was just the fuse, which made the long-standing contradiction completely ignite, and King Dawan had already received a lot of benefits from the Han side, and he no longer needed to accept assistance from the Han side. So, taking advantage of the outbreak of the conflict, King Dawan killed the envoy of the Han Dynasty and decided to draw a line with the Han Dynasty, anyway, there is a difference between the two countries, even if Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is angry and angry, it is impossible to beat it with a whip, and the battle of the Xiongnu cost a lot of troops and financial resources, and it is impossible for Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to mobilize troops to attack Dawan.
However, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was not an ordinary person, he was a legendary emperor in Chinese history, and his thoughts were not something that ordinary people could estimate. Even if the battle of the Xiongnu made him exhausted, even if it was extremely reluctant to send troops again, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty still gritted his teeth and closed the battle book.
The two countries compete with each other, and do not kill the envoys. No matter where the envoy of the Han Dynasty goes, he will be courteous, even if it was the Huns back then, he did not achieve the point of killing them all. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could not tolerate this kind of shame and humiliation, Dawan was a powerful country in the Western Regions, but it was completely incomparable with the Xiongnu, and in the eyes of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was a country of projectiles that was not worth mentioning. The king of Dawan also dared to give him a horse, and he also dared to behead his messenger of the Han Dynasty, if he could endure this breath, he would not be worthy of being the emperor of the Han Dynasty.
"Those who commit strong men, although they are far away, will be punished" Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty even dared to fight the Huns, who were in great trouble in his heart, and he was afraid that a big Wan would not succeed! Li Guangli was immediately appointed as the commander to lead 6,000 Imperial Forest troops, and 20,000 prisoners were released as infantry, and a poorly prepared army entered the battlefield.
Speaking of Li Guangli, Liu Ye is familiar, he is Li Yannian's brother, and the reason why he is reused is due to their sister Mrs. Li. Li Guangli is extraordinary, but he lacks the experience of leading troops to fight, and he can't compare with Wei Qinghuo, who has already gone to the immortal, plus the distance is long and the food and grass are scarce, and before he comes to Dawan, more than half of the dead and wounded have been killed. In order to get grain and grass, the Han army risked their lives and fought a beautiful battle with Yu Cheng, occupying the capital of Yu Cheng in one fell swoop, and the momentum was very good. Li Guangli understands that the current situation is not conducive to the Han army, and if he can successfully conquer Yu Cheng, he may still have the strength to compete with Dawan.
However, Yu Cheng's rescuers arrived in time, and the strong Dawan army surrounded the Han army, and the Han army, which was defeated and retreated, fled one after another, and the Han soldiers who fled back to Dunhuang were only a few hundred.
Li Guangli, the generalissimo of the expedition to the west, became the commander of the light pole, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was furious and did not allow him to enter the customs. However, the battle of Dawan still had to be fought, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty summed up the experience of defeat and mobilized troops from all over the country to rush to Dunhuang one after another.
After a year of preparation, Li Guangli led 200,000 troops to conquer Dawan again, and kept changing his route in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, intending to surprise Dawan. The small countries along the way were afraid of the prestige of the Han Dynasty, and took the initiative to open the city gates to greet them, no matter whose country the Han wanted to destroy, as long as they did not destroy them.
These small countries that know the current affairs have provided convenience for the Han army, and the road is smooth, but there are also a few small countries that do not know the current affairs, Luntai, who have to get along with the Han army, and if they don't give convenience, they will forget it, and they will humiliate the Han in front of Li Guangli. Li Guangli was anxious to find Dawan for revenge, a small country in Luntai dared to obstruct his way, if the Han army was forced to stop advancing, this western expedition may be more than auspicious.
Li Guangli was fed up with the humiliation of defeat, and he hated the people of the Western Regions who embarrassed him, and immediately ordered the slaughter of the city. After a day and a night of vicious fighting, the Han army easily took Luntai and killed tens of thousands of people.
The news of the "bloody Luntai" spread, and no one dared to stop the Han army, and Li Guangli successfully came to the first stop of revenge - Yu Chengguo. originally wanted to fight with the enemy happily, but unexpectedly, King Yu Cheng had already fled to Dawan, and Yu Chengguo became a veritable empty city.
failed to kill the enemy, Li Guangli burned Yu Cheng to ashes with a fire, and Yu Cheng completely disappeared in the Western Regions from then on.
The Han army fought a tough battle with Dawan, and thousands of Han troops attacked Dawan from all directions, banging the city gate every day from morning to night. The Han army attacked, Dawan defended to the death, and no one refused to give in, and fell into a difficult tug-of-war.
Fortunately, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty obtained quite useful information before sending troops, and Zhang Qian's envoy to the Western Regions recorded the customs and customs of the local countries, including Dawan. There is no water source in Dawan City, all of them are drunk and eaten from outside the city, someone noticed this detail, and reported it to Emperor Wu of Han, Emperor Wu of Han did not ignore it, and sent several water conservancy experts to accompany the army, and the result was that this detail achieved a key victory.
Dawan couldn't be attacked for a long time, so Li Guangli had to give up the idea of bloodbathing Dawan and sent those water conservancy experts to the front line. Food and water were the most important things for marching and fighting, and the lack of water was fatal for those trapped in the city. Although Dawan tried his best to hide the entrance to the river outside the city, it was discovered by the experts, thus cutting off Dawan's water source.
In the end, the princes and nobles of Dawan couldn't hold on, and they were unwilling to lose, but seeing that the defeat was decided, it was important to save their lives. In fact, the source of this war is just a bloody horse, if the king had agreed, where would today's catastrophe come about. The two countries are full of corpses in battle, and if Dawan is also slaughtered, it will really be worth the loss.
The members of the Dawan royal family secretly begged to see Li Guangli, and were willing to pay tribute to the Han Dynasty with a few sweaty horses, Li Guangli scoffed at this, and he insisted that the kings of Dawan and Yucheng be executed, otherwise Dawan must be eliminated.
At such a time, who cares about the life and death of the two kings, if they were not killed, Emperor Wu of Han would not have started a war. The princes and nobles reached an agreement and sent them to Li Guangli.
Li Guangli took revenge, and according to the instructions of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he appointed the Dawan nobleman who took the initiative to surrender as the new king, and Dawan officially became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. Next, Li Guangli selected thirty sweaty horses and thousands of good horses, and returned to Dahan with great scenery.
It took four years and two expeditions to the west, and the Han subdued Dawan, and at the same time, the national strength was also lost a lot, so he could only recuperate. Therefore, for Liu Ye, the current situation is unrealistic to expect the Han to start a war in the near future, and to prevent the expansion of the Xiongnu depends on maintaining a balanced relationship between the countries of the Western Regions, and this delicate relationship is not easy to maintain.
Liu Ye knew that her task was arduous, although she survived the open and secret battles, it did not mean that the road in front of her was bright and smooth. Someone in Dawan wants to assassinate her, and nine times out of ten it is the remnants of the old forces, they succumb to the Han on the surface in order to survive, but they are not convinced in their bones, and they are waiting for the opportunity to move, and they have to turn Dawan upside down.
They want to find a victim, an important person who is enough to provoke disputes, and Mrs. Wusun You, who is the princess of the Han Dynasty, is undoubtedly the best choice. Taking advantage of the chaos to fight for the benefits that are beneficial to themselves, these people are really selfish.
Liu Ye didn't know the other party's origins, but she knew that she wouldn't let the other party get her wish. If you want to deal with her, it depends on whether they have the ability to do it.