To the north of the Tianshan Mountains, Yang Yi's march was smoother.

Dawan is a serious country, and Kangju is a nomadic country.

The north is nomadic and the south is agricultural.

Migrate with the change of seasons, go south to the area of medicine and water in winter, and go north to "Fannei" in summer, and the two places are thousands of miles apart.

The essence of the country is all in the area of medicine and water.

At its peak, it had a population of 600,000 and an army of 120,000, and its capital was the city of Khotan (present-day Tashkent).

In the third year of Emperor Jianzhao of the Han Yuan Dynasty, the Western Regions Protector Gan Yanshou, and the deputy captain Chen Tang led the troops of the Western Yue Pamir to attack Zhizhi Shan Yu, and killed Zhi Zhi in Zhizhi City, which stabilized the situation in the Western Regions, but Kangju was strong and strong, and the surrounding forces were not very good, and he was hostile to the Han army for a long time.

Later, Guishan became stronger, unified the Dayue clan, and the Kangju power weakened.

Later, the Bada people were separated, one migrated westward and the other eastward, and Kangju became even weaker.

If Kangju was a simple nomadic country, with the huge Central Asian steppes, there was no trace of them, and the Qin army would indeed be difficult to deal with them.

But their national capital and important cities are killing water, and people can go after the water and grass, but the city can't.

Yang Yi drove his troops down the medicine to kill the water, regardless of the gains and losses of a city and a pond, burned their pastures, trampled on their fields, and took away everything that could be taken away, and burned all the things that could not be taken away.

The city of Kangju obviously cannot be compared with the Central Plains, the city wall is relatively low, and it has been corroded by hundreds of years of wind and rain, and it has long been dilapidated.

The key is that they are in a panic situation, and the male and strong men either died on the battlefield of Yashui or were captured by the Qin people.

Some of the defeated troops who fled back in panic just spread the fear of the Qin army.

After Zhao Xiong's foot soldiers arrived, they drove the captives to attack the city, breaking three cities in a row, one of which did not surrender to the death, and the city was still fighting in the streets, causing more than 1,000 casualties of the Qin army.

Yang Yi is not Du Pre, he does not have the compassion of Confucianism, and in a fit of anger, he ordered the city to be slaughtered.

The medicine killing water was stained red with blood, and the floating corpses floated downstream with the river.

Fear seeped westward.

The cities downstream were terrified, fled for the wind, and rushed to their capital, Khotan.

There are too many people, and there are lost cows, sheep and people everywhere along the way.

Kangju organized a force of 20,000 foot cavalry to support, and when he encountered Li Zhen's iron cavalry, the slain man turned on his horse.

"The last general can lead an army to kill them all, and break the courage of the Kangju people!" Li Zhen surrendered his hand and asked for his life.

Yang Yi looked at the panicked fleeing crowd and thought for a while, "No need, these people will still be our slaves in the future, not only can we not kill, but we must drive them into the city of Khotan and drag them down!" ”

The geometry of grain and grass in the city of Khotan, the amount of grain and grass, and the number of people, have long been leaked out by merchants and fine workers.

Xiahou Xu's eyes lit up, "Your Highness's clever plan!" ”

Kangju was defeated one after another, and countless cattle, sheep, grain and grass were lost, and the grain and grass in Khotan City must be insufficient.

How many days can a person eat a horse chew?

However, there are also many smart people who see that Kangju is at the end of the road, the Dawan people are too busy to take care of themselves, and the Sassanids are difficult to support in the short term, so they can only choose to surrender to the Qin army.

The more captives gathered, the more they gathered.

By the time they arrived in Khotan, there were more than 20,000.

Yang Yi unhurriedly drove them to build fortifications, deep ditches and high fortifications, and put on a posture of besieging to death.

The city of Berthan counted on the rescue of the Kangju people on the steppe.

Reinforcements did come, in addition to the Kangju people, there were also Xianbei people, Gaoche people, etc., nearly 100,000 people who were pressed by black.

However, none of the men dared to go south to rescue, as if these people were not here to rescue, but as if they were coming to see the excitement.

Li Zhen would lead five hundred elite horsemen to challenge every day, and wherever the lance faced, the troops would flee in the wilderness, often chasing two or three thousand horsemen with their heads and rats.

After more than ten days of siege, the city gradually became unbearable.

Due to the absorption of a large number of defeated troops and civilians, the food and grass in the city are even more stretched.

The fine work in the city began to fan in various ways and create antagonism.

The defenders couldn't hold back and tried to break through.

However, in terms of defense, the Kangju people are much worse than the Qin people.

The northern tribes are still watching, and even the Kangju tribe itself does not dare to come to the rescue.

More than 2,000 corpses were left in the city, and they retreated in ashes.

In fact, in this era, the most ruthless are still the Han people.

The first person to engage in the Western Regions to eat Hulu meat is the Han general Geng Gong, the late Han Dynasty was in turmoil, there are often records of bones and cooking, but there are not many such records in the Western Regions, it is really to the end of the mountains and rivers, and it is to surrender out of the city.

Even the Huns, who were in full swing back then, surrendered to the Han Dynasty, and it was not a shame for the Kangju people to surrender to the Great Qin, in order to maintain the continuation of the ethnic group, dignity was not important in this era.

After a month of siege, the city finally couldn't bear it.

After receiving Yang Yi's promise not to slaughter the city, the hungry crowd opened the city gates and surrendered to the Qin army.

However, there were nearly 150,000 people in the city of Khotan, and the grain brought by the Qin army was obviously not enough to feed them.

The generals suggested that only the young and strong should be taken in, and the old and weak women and children should be left to fend for themselves.

Yang Yi was ruthless and ferocious on the battlefield, but outside the battlefield, he was still a little merciful, after all, as a prince, he also read a few Confucian classics back then.

"These people are now all the people of my Xia country, and they are alone as the king of Xia, and they should live their lives."

Then he ordered the cattle and sheep of the captives to be slaughtered, and a porridge shed was set up, and meat porridge was boiled to supply the captives.

If there are not enough cattle or sheep, they will kill pack horses and injure them.

After boiling for a month, the grain from the Seven River Basins was also sent along with the medicine and water.

Kangju was greatly moved by this move and called Yang Yi the king of benevolence.

The northern garrison saw that the city was broken, and the excitement was gone, and the spearhead of the Qin army was directed towards them, and they immediately scattered.

The capital was breached, the Kangju were effectively gone, and the remaining Kangju began to migrate westward.

The territory of the Xia Kingdom suddenly more than doubled.

Yang Yi was in high spirits, and then prepared to attack Hezhong, but unexpectedly received a military order from Du Pre, ordering him to stop the attack, consolidate the occupied city, and wait for the spring and summer of next year to attack from both sides.

This military order set off a ripple in the hearts of the monarchs and ministers of the Xia Kingdom.

Du Yu once went south with the prince to conquer Eastern Wu, and he was the prince's father-in-law, so he was naturally the prince's man.

After these two wars, the Xia Kingdom has expanded its territory and strength dramatically, becoming the most powerful force in the Western Regions!

With it is the human heart that swells.

People go to higher places, and water flows to lower places.

Even if Yang Yi didn't have this thought, the people under his command would inevitably have other thoughts.

The difference between being the emperor's courtier and being a courtier of the Xia King is self-evident.

Strength comes with ambition.

Now, the prince's father-in-law is giving them orders, which makes some people unhappy.

"This must be someone who can't see King Xia's immortal achievements!"

"Your Highness should take precautions as soon as possible!"

"King Xia is His Majesty's flesh and blood, why should he obey a foreign minister?"

……

The generals, you say a word to me, and there is a lot of dissatisfaction.

Yang Yi's gaze turned to Xiahou Xu.

Xiahou Xu and Yang Yi are sworn brothers, but they are also the prince's cousins, so Xiahou is naturally closer to the prince.