At this time, the Shule Kingdom, which maintained a hard-line policy towards Han, was dumbfounded.

No one expected that Zhenzhong City, which could not be broken by 30,000 troops 27 years ago, could not hold out even one morning after 27 years, and was broken by 6,000 Han troops, and the defenders were completely annihilated, and the Han army strode towards Shule City.

The situation became so critical that the kings and ministers of the Shule Kingdom panicked, some were ready to flee, some wanted to surrender, some advised the king to prepare to defend the city, and some were even ready to fight in the streets, and the whole royal city was in chaos.

The Han army did not panic at all, arrived at Shule City step by step, made a siege posture, and gave the king of Shule one last chance, asking him to open the city gate and surrender within an hour, so that he could still live, otherwise the day the city was broken, it was the time for him to die.

The king of Shule was greatly frightened, thinking about it and thinking about it, it was difficult to decide, he wanted to resist, he was afraid that he could not fight, he wanted to surrender, and some people strongly opposed it, he wanted to adhere to the dignity of the country, he could not surrender at will, and he also wanted to negotiate terms with the Han army.

As a result, the arguments came and went, Zhang Fei had no patience, waved his big hand, fire and rain fell from the sky, and the army galloped for a day, Shule City was broken by the Han army, and the Han army destroyed the Western Regions power Shule State at a relatively small price, only a few days before and after.

King Shule was lucky enough not to die, but fled westward through the secret passage in the city, under the protection of his personal entourage, crossed the country of donations, entered the border of the Dawan Kingdom, and began his exile.

While others don't have as much good luck.

According to the tradition of the Han army, the solution to the enemy who did not surrender in the battle was to get rid of all the ruling class, men, women, and children, and all those who held positions, leaving only ordinary people, erasing their civilization and heritage, so as to facilitate assimilation and management.

Therefore, after the First World War, the captured Shule officials were completely liquidated, whether they advocated war or surrender, they did not have any ecological niche in the future planning of the Han Empire.

Therefore, their death did not have any loss for the Han Empire.

The fate of the Shule State was that it was set up by the Han Empire as Shule County under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate, and was administered by the Han Empire under the county system.

The demise of the Shule Kingdom once again shook the surrounding states of the Western Regions, and their fear of the Han envoys and the Han army reached their peak, and they no longer dared to raise any objections to the demands of the Han Empire.

After that, Gumo and other three kingdoms immediately submitted their credentials to the Han envoy Dong Zhuo, expressing their willingness to submit to the Han Empire, and for the first time took the initiative to send envoys to Luoyang to worship the Son of Heaven.

In this regard, Dong Zhuo agreed, and there was no objection, and so did Zhang Fei, but after the pacification of Shule State, Zhang Fei's eyes did not continue to the west for the time being, but to the north-Wusun Kingdom.

The Wusun Kingdom was a great power during both the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.

In the battle for the Western Regions between the Han and the Xiongnu and Xianbei, it has become the object of competition between the two sides for many times, and it also has a large population and combat soldiers, and has been able to survive in the gap between the two major power groups for hundreds of years.

However, later, as the situation evolved, the Wusun Kingdom, like the Cheshi Kingdom, could not continue to maintain a unified state, and divided into two rulers, called the Great Kunmi and the Little Kunmi, each with its own ruling area, which actually divided the unified Wusun Kingdom.

In the midst of continuous civil strife, the Wusun Kingdom, which was originally able to be strongly co-opted by the Western Han Empire during the Western Han Dynasty, also weakened.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the two divisions of the Great and Small Kunmi were not very strong, and their military strength was weak, so they failed to have any significant impact on the situation in the Western Regions, but after Liu Bei swept the grassland, the situation showed some subtle changes.

Liu Bei's majesty across the grassland frightened the remnants of the central Xianbei and western Xianbei that had not been swept away by Liu Bei at that time, and they felt that they could not resist Liu Bei's next attack, so before Liu Bei launched the next attack, they turned around in an all-round way and fled to the west, all the way from Bingzhou and Liangzhou to the area of Wusun Kingdom.

At that time, a series of civil strife and strife also occurred in the process of moving westward in the entire westward migration of the Xianbei forces, and in the end, Budugen, one of the former Xianbei adults in the central part of the country and the grandson of Tanshi Huai, became the victor and became the only leader of the entire westward moving Xianbei group, and the more than 200,000 Xianbei people who survived obeyed his orders.

After they came to the Wusun area, they originally planned to continue to move west to completely avoid Liu Bei's troops, but the heavy snow fell and many people froze to death, so they had no choice but to survive in the Wusun grassland.

The place where they stayed was in the territory of Wusun Da Kun Mi, and Da Kun Mi was surprised and worried about this, so he sent someone to contact the Budugen group and ask them why they came here and their intentions, so as to judge whether to attack them.

At that time, Bu Dugen considered that the Xianbei people were poor and hard, unbearable to fight, and worried that they would be destroyed and annexed by the Wusun regiment, so he took the initiative to form an alliance with Da Kunmi, and lived in a corner of the grassland, if there was any enemy to attack Da Kunmi, he was willing to lead his people to help Da Kunmi fight.

Coincidentally, after the split of Wusun during the period of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the relationship between the big Kunmi and the small Kunmi has not been good, and there will be friction and disputes from time to time, and occasionally some wars will break out, and at that time, it was the time when the dispute broke out between the big Kunmi and the small Kunmi.

So Da Kunmi proposed to ask the Xianbei people to provide military help, and Bu Dugen gathered 5,000 capable fighters to follow Da Kunmi to fight, defeated Xiao Kunmi's troops in one fell swoop, and helped Da Kunmi fight for a piece of grassland with abundant water and grass, Bu Dugen then got the permission of Da Kun Mi to let them stay on the grassland to restore their strength.

In the years that followed, Bu Dugen was also honest, while silently licking his wounds and recovering his strength, he went all out to meet the needs of Da Kunmi's conquest, and helped Da Kunmi defeat the invasion of Xiao Kunmi and Kangju many times - Xiao Kunmi would not sit still in the face of the alliance of Da Kunmi and the remnants of Xianbei, so he turned his head and hooked up with Kangju and found Kangju as a helper.

With the gradual rise of the Kushan Empire and the invasion of Kangju's traditional forces, Kangju gradually declined, but the emaciated camel was bigger than the horse, and Kangju still had a certain strength.

Therefore, during the period when Liu Bei concentrated on quelling the domestic rebellion, the two forces of Kangju and Xiao Kunmi, Xianbei and Da Kunmi pushed each other and confronted each other, until the promotion of the Han Empire's strategy of returning to the Western Regions, these two forces finally began to pay attention to the movements of the Han Empire.

The Han Empire belongs to the non-sounding is enough, a blockbuster, disappeared for more than ten years, as soon as it came back, it showed extremely strong combat effectiveness, and destroyed the Western Regions countries that could be fought in minutes.

They thought that the Han Empire had forgotten about them and would not even have any more intersections with them, but they didn't expect that after so many years, they finally had a place to lick their wounds, and the Han Empire still chased after them.

Bu Dugen was frightened, considering that he couldn't fight against the Han army with his strength back then, let alone now, he felt that if he had some confrontation with the Han army now, the fire he had saved for Xianbei would be completely extinguished.

So he planned to discuss it with Da Kunmi, and he wanted to take his people to continue running west, running to a place where the Han army would never be able to catch up.

Anyway, as long as the people are still there, the horses are still there, and the combat strength is still there, they will definitely be able to find a place with abundant water and grass to survive.

But Da Kunmi was unwilling.

Thanks to the joining of the Xianbei forces over the years, he was able to faintly gain the upper hand in the confrontation with Xiao Kunmi, if the Xianbei forces withdrew, he would have to face Xiao Kunmi and the Kangju forces alone, and he would be hung up and beaten, how could he accept it in this case?

So he discussed with Bu Dugen, not to mention anything else, survive this time, and the Han army may not come, even if the Han army comes, it will face the forces of Wusun, Kangju and Xianbei, no matter how you look at it, they will not fall into decline.

"I'm ready, if the Han people are coming, then I will make a temporary alliance with Xiao Kunmi and get things done, they are not stupid, they also know that once the Han people come, we will not have a good life, so our union is possible.

As long as our alliance is reached, it will be fifty or sixty thousand soldiers and horses, so many soldiers and horses can fight with the Han army, what are you afraid of? The Han army has come from afar, can it really confront us? ”

Budugen listened and bowed his head silently.

"Back then, we had 780,000 people, and more than 100,000 could join the army and fight? However, Liu Bei only used one Northern Expedition, 50,000 or 60,000 people, and almost wiped out my clan, so I traveled thousands of miles to come here.

I came here just to avoid the Han army, but the Han army couldn't dodge, they came again, and they became stronger than before, how could I take my people to fight to the death with people who couldn't fight at all? If the Han army doesn't kill me, the people will kill me. ”

"This ...... Big order, isn't it? ”

Da Kunmi looked at Bu Dugen with a shocked expression: "The Han army is indeed strong, but it is not without defeat, just on the land under our feet, the Han army has also fought defeats, why don't you believe that you can defeat the Han army after a defeat?" ”

"Of course, the Han army has lost battles."

Bu Dugen shook his head and said, "But Liu Bei has never lost a battle. ”

"Liu Bei......"

"He is now the emperor of the Han people."

Bu Dugen said coldly: "If a fierce beast becomes the emperor of the Han people, then all the Han people are fierce beasts, the current performance of the Han army is exactly like this, we have no possibility of defeating the Han army, the only way is to escape far away, escape to a place where the Han army can't catch up, and never come back!" ”

Da Kunmi was a little nervous.

"How many generations of my ancestors have lived here, this is the place of my ancestors, if I abandon this place and take my people away, how many people will go with me? There's no way I'm leaving! ”

"Then surrender before the Han army and you become enemies, surrender, you have no grudge against the Han people, it is impossible for me to fight with the Han army, I will leave immediately, and you don't have to worry about the Han army attacking you for my affairs."

After saying that, Budugen turned around and left.

Daikun Yaichi reached out and grabbed the sleeve of Budugen's coat.

"Are you really leaving? Is it true that the Han people scare you that much? No chance of winning? Don't you know that no matter how powerful an enemy is, there will be weaknesses, and there will never be an enemy that cannot be defeated at all? ”

Budugen was furious.

"Of course I know, but you can't grasp it, his weakness, even if you know, you can't grasp it at all! What's more, you simply don't know! Can you tell me where the weakness of the Han Kingdom is? And then how do you want to catch this weakness?

At the beginning, those friends and enemies of mine all had the same thoughts as you, they all thought that they could control everything and defeat Liu Bei, and then what? All of them are dead, but I, who escaped, have survived until now! So, run, to live! ”

Da Kunmi was stunned and speechless.

Budugen then broke free from Da Kunmi's hand smoothly and walked straight forward, never stopping again.

Two days later, the Xianbei troops hurriedly left the camp and left the land where they had lived for several years, without the slightest nostalgia, and many of the clansmen did not even have any intention of complaining.

Hearing that Liu Bei was coming, the fear from their hearts instead prompted them to speed up their pace and leave Wusun Kingdom, as if there were terrifying fierce ghosts chasing behind them.

The Xianbei people soon fled.

It can be said that no one knows better than them when to run away and when to stop, and the strong desire to survive has caused these more than 200,000 people to burst out with endless migration power.

Da Kunmi was silent for a long time in the face of this situation, and then gathered his subordinates and announced to everyone that he wanted to send envoys to contact the Han army.

Soon after, Da Kun Mi sent an envoy to visit Zhang Fei, the chief general of the Han army, and conveyed to Zhang Fei in the name of Da Kun Mi of Wusun that Da Kun Mi's subordinates did not want to be enemies of the Han army, and informed Zhang Fei that all the Xianbei people had fled westward.

"What? The Xianbei people fled?! ”

Zhang Fei looked at Da Kunmi's envoy with round eyes, and the envoy trembled with fright.

"Yes, when they heard the prestige of the Han Emperor, they were terrified, and they didn't dare to be the enemy of the Han army anyway, so they fled, and now they have all left the land governed by Da Kunmi, Da Kunmi specially asked me to explain this matter to you, Da Kunmi and Xianbei people, there is no intention of collusion, but they are forced to form an alliance against Xiao Kunmi."

"This ......"

When Zhang Fei heard that the Xianbei people had run away, he first felt very angry and dissatisfied, but he quickly calmed down again, thought about it, and felt that the matter of the Xianbei people could not be forcibly counted as Da Kunmi's mistake.

Judging from Da Kunmi's current attitude, it is obvious that he does not want to be an enemy of the Han Empire, and it is really inappropriate to make Da Kunmi's department and the Han Empire an enemy for the sake of the Xianbei people.

In contrast, Xiao Kunmi, who was allied with the more distant Kangju State, and his subordinates showed a stronger confrontation, and this obvious contrast led Zhang Fei to think that the Han army could adjust its battle strategy a little.

Originally, in the face of the three major forces of Kangju, Wusun and Xianbei, Zhang Fei even planned to transfer the main force of the Western Regions Military Region to start a strategic decisive battle, and the first war established the Han Empire's complete control of the Western Regions.

But he didn't expect Xianbei people to be so cowardly, and ran away.

Rubbish!

Their attitude obviously affected the Great Kunmi, so that half of the forces on the Wusun side did not want to be enemies of the Han Empire.

In this way, the enemies of the Han Empire were left with Xiao Kunmi and Kang Juguo, and the pressure was reduced, so there was no need to mobilize the main forces of the Western Regions Military Region, and there was no need to bear huge military expenditures.

Basically, Zhang Fei felt that to deal with the forces of Xiao Kunmi and Kang Juguo, it should be enough to use his own 10,000 troops, plus the army of Da Kunmi.

So Zhang Fei treated Da Kunmi's envoy preferentially, and expressed to him the idea that the Han Empire was willing to get along with Da Kunmi, and at the same time hoped that Da Kunmi could help the Han Empire send troops against Xiao Kunmi and Kang Juguo to make them submit.

(End of chapter)