During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, he set up the Western Regions Protectorate, commanded the countries east of Dawan, and supervised the nomadic countries such as Wusun and Kangju.

After more than 200 years, the Western Regions three links and three unique, the capital of the palace was also set up from time to time to ban, to the Eastern Han Dynasty Emperor Yanguang two years, with Ban Yong as the long history of the Western Regions, pacified the Western Regions, and then replaced the Western Regions with the Western Regions Long History Mansion.

As can be seen from the names of the two, the Metropolitan Protectorate focused on the military, and most of them were military generals serving as the Metropolitan Protector, which was intended to be occupied by force and actually controlled.

The Changshi Mansion focuses on political affairs, and the actual control is actually only the Haitou City and Gaochang in Loulan, and the north and south of the Tianshan Mountains are actually out of control.

In the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty, even Liangzhou was ready to be abandoned, so naturally there was little interest in the Western Regions.

However, the countries of the Western Regions were also frightened, so they still recognized the Central Plains as their suzerain.

The restoration of the capital of Great Qin greatly shocked the countries of the Western Regions.

It is equivalent to no longer hiding his ambitions, and the name has been changed from the Western Regions Protectorate to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, but where the "Protector" is is depends on how much appetite Daqin has.

Du Pre gave an order, the countries of the Western Regions should have come, and there were not many who really dared to betray Great Qin.

Most small countries want to be a wallhead, not a bird.

The Qin army may not be able to defeat the Sasanian, but it is still okay to destroy them.

From the perspective of the Central Plains, there are so many forces in the Western Regions, and there are not many who can really be called Shangguo.

Most of them occupy one or two oases, with two or three cities, tens of thousands of people, and four or five thousand soldiers.

In fact, it is more appropriate to call them city-states, and a single country has no strength to fight against Great Qin at all.

After a meeting, as last time, the countries gathered another 40,000 troops.

Yin Chun said angrily: "The soldiers last time were still some of them, but now they are all old, weak, sick and disabled!" ”

Du had expected that the countries of the Western Regions would not dare to resist on the surface, and they would always play some tricks secretly, which showed that they were not optimistic about this battle at all.

One is because of the last fiasco, and the other is because there are only 7,000 soldiers in Great Qin's westward march this time, plus the soldiers of Gaochang and Yin Wu, a total of less than 20,000.

"Not really, there are still some pawns available." Du Yu said tepidly, "If the first rat does not come, so as not to meet the enemy army and scatter in a hurry, it will drag down our army." ”

The twenty-seven countries of the Western Regions, naturally, not all of them are against Great Qin, but some people still take out their family funds.

Especially in Khotan, Loulan, Shule and other countries.

After picking and choosing, they gathered a barely usable army of fifteen thousand, and let the others go back with their king.

This time the alliance was just to ask them to make a statement.

It doesn't matter if the yang is against the yin, or if you are ready to move, as long as you still abide by the edict of Daqin, you will still be a dog leg in the Central Plains.

In fact, Yang Zheng was not interested in some remote and small countries in the Western Regions at all.

There are many countries with a total population of 10,000 people, and they are too scattered, and Great Qin does not have the energy to annex them.

Besides, if they are annexed, they will be kept eating, drinking, and Lazar...... There is a cost to rule, and you can't do things that are not proportional to the inputs and benefits.

The Han Dynasty was so strong, and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty had such a great desire for land, he didn't do it.

The current Daqin would not do such a thankless task.

Like the Han Dynasty, Great Qin's policy was to control some core areas in order to maintain trade routes.

Occupy the trade road, and the goal will be achieved.

Many countries have seen it, and there are many countries that have not seen it, just like people, there is an intellectual gap.

Khotan was the first to see it, so it has been very positive.

Moreover, Khotan is located in the southwest corner of southern Xinjiang, and has always maintained the trade route from Tianzhu to the Central Plains, and has common interests with Daqin.

Du Pre directly dispersed the soldiers and reorganized, with the Qin army's Liangjiazi as the officer, and the person who knew the Chinese dialect as the adjutant, and set up the left and right two battalions.

Military law is also very simple, those who do not advance when they hear the drum will be killed, and those who will not retreat when they hear the gold will be killed.

After only more than ten days of training in Gaochang, he began to march to Shule.

Naturally, there were deserters along the way, who were captured by the Qin army scouts, and were directly beheaded for public display, with their heads hanging on the flagpole and advancing with the army.

At the sight of blood, the army immediately became extremely submissive.

The Qin army is so powerful, it is impossible for Dawan, Kangju, and Sasanan not to know.

Even if they don't know, someone will give them a message.

The other party has been waiting for this day for a long time, and in line with the principle of striking first to be strong, Dawan and Sassanid allied forces of 70,000 horses and horses, and suddenly killed Shule.

To the north of the Tianshan Mountains, 20,000 Kangju cavalry and 10,000 Sassanid cavalry slaughtered the Xia State violently, and Yang Yi rode 40,000 domestic cavalry to meet the enemy.

Shule Elementary School was caught off guard and was broken in an instant.

King Shule wept and begged Du to help him restore the country.

At this time, Du Yu's 40,000 horses had just arrived in Gumo, and it was too late to join forces with Khotan's 20,000 horses.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and the remnants of the former Wusun State in the Xia Kingdom took the opportunity to attack, intending to use the power of Sassanid and Kangju to restore the country, and the two cities in the country rebelled in response to the Sassanids.

The Wusun tribe under Yang Yi dispersed more than 10,000 people, and the remaining Wusun people were also panicked.

The situation in the Western Regions seems to be developing in a direction that is unfavorable to the Qin army.

But this is also reasonable, after all, they won the last time, and there are war dividends.

Normally, most people think that this time they will win.

The enemy commander is not a mediocre man, he strikes first, occupies a certain initiative, and the leading party secretly provides intelligence, and the Qin army not only has to deal with external enemies, but also has to deal with complex internal situations.

With so many advantages, it is impossible for the Sassanids to have no advantages.

Sassanid Persia had only just risen for forty or fifty years, and it was just in full swing that it conquered and conquered one powerful empire after another, and finally became one of the most powerful empires in the world.

They have their own civilization, their own heritage, comparable to ordinary nomadic nations, and are one of the traditional conquerors of this continent, known as the king of kings!

Of the four ancient civilizations, three of them, except for China, were destroyed by them.

Under the city of Gumo, the Sassanids and Dawan people are showing off their might.

Dawan was mainly cavalry, rushing back and forth around Gumo City, laughing and insulting loudly.

Five hundred of the Sassanid cavalry were in front of the battle, dressed in heavy scale or chain mail, a steel and glittering girdle, and a spear in one hand, with a short hammer or sword hanging from his waist.

And their foot soldiers are also quite distinctive, mainly longbows, a heavy infantry plus nine archers as a column, and a row of heavy infantry guarding nine rows of archers.

"Sassanid Heavy Rider!" The faces of the officers of the Western Regions changed drastically.

Yin Chun's face was not very good-looking, in the battle in the river, the government soldiers and the Sassanid army fought back and forth, and once had an advantage, but this kind of cavalry suddenly appeared on the battlefield, resulting in the final defeat of the Qin army.

There was no heavy cavalry in the local government army.

Du Pre's eyes fell on the hundreds of heavy cavalry, and next to him, there was a Peng official who knew about the affairs of the Western Regions and explained, "The Sassanid heavy cavalry are all children of a high caste, who have practiced martial arts since childhood, and are called immortals, or immortals. ”

"Insert the label to sell the first ear!" Tian Zhang next to him sneered.

"There is a folk proverb, there are no tigers in the mountains, monkeys are kings, and if the Sassanids only have such strength, they will definitely be defeated!" Gou Xi's eyes fell on their cavalry, and he keenly spotted their weaknesses.

Seeing the weakness, it was not only Gou Xi who patted his chest and said: "The last general is willing to lead three hundred old soldiers to attack it, and if he can't win, come and see him!" ”

The surrounding officers of the Western Regions were all surprised when they heard this.

Du looked at the poisonous sun above his head, "Command the left and right camps to defend the city, the old soldiers to rest, and the war horses to take care of their strength." ”