On July 29, Dong Zhuo persuaded King Dawan for the last time to abandon the Kangju Kingdom and join the Han Empire to become Liu Bei's good son.

However, King Dawan didn't hear the slightest hint of "lay" in Dong Zhuo's words, so he still didn't make up his mind.

On the first day of August, Zhang Fei got the news, so he informed the whole army and prepared for battle.

He decided that he would lead the Han army on the northern route and the Han army on the southern route by Zhao Yun, and the two armies would march together to wipe out the resistance of the Dawan Kingdom, and the final destination of the division would be Guishan City, the capital of the Dawan Kingdom.

They will meet in Guishan City, and then completely wipe out everything in Dawan Kingdom, and turn Dawan Kingdom into the [Dawan County] of the Third Han Empire.

On the third day of the first month of August, the multinational coalition army swore to march and launched a two-way surprise attack on the Dawan army and the Kangju army that had been assembled on the front line.

On the fourth day of August, the 30,000 main forces of the Dawan Kangju coalition army on the front line collapsed and were completely annihilated by the multinational coalition forces, and the door of Dawan was opened.

On the sixth day of the eighth month, Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun formally divided their troops and attacked in two directions, sweeping many cities in Dawan along the way, effortlessly quelling their weak resistance, and attacking the city all the way, making rapid progress.

Dawan claims to have a population of 300,000, an army of 60,000, and more than 70 cities, but most of the so-called more than 70 cities are similar to some larger settlements and villages in the eyes of the Han army.

But because this capital is built on a mountain, it has some flavor that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and Li Guangli's first attack on Dawan failed to do so, which is also related to the geographical location of this city.

However, it was the turn of the Han army to deal with these larger village "cities", and directly burned them in fierce fire oil tanks, and under a round of bombardment, there were almost no "cities" that were not breached.

The speed of the Han army's advance far exceeded the imagination of the Great Wan Kingdom and the Kangju Kingdom.

They didn't expect that the 30,000 main forces on the front line would collapse so quickly, nor did they expect the Han army to attack the city so quickly, and the speed of the march was so fast, and even when the Han army was only five days away from Guishan City, Kangju's second support army had just set off from the mainland and rushed to the aid of Dawan.

On August 29, the fourth year of Zhenguan, the vanguard of the Han army under Zhang Fei arrived at the foot of Guishan City first, and after reconnoitering the terrain and defeating the reconnaissance troops of Dawan Kingdom, he reported the news to Zhang Fei, and at that time, Guishan City was even hurriedly preparing to defend the city.

From top to bottom, the ruling clique of the Great Wan Kingdom was very skeptical and incomprehensible about the rapid progress of the multinational coalition forces, and could not imagine how they could penetrate their territory so quickly and make them so embarrassed.

Their national defense, their army, is it paper-paste?

How could it be that it was completely impossible to stop the advance of the enemy army?

With so many cities, so many obstacles, so many defenders, can't you even stop them for a day?

So when it came time for the defense of Guishan City, Dawan was in a state of confusion up and down, and they couldn't react at all, and the multinational coalition forces began to attack the city, and it rained fire and rain from the sky, and they realized that something was wrong as if they had just woken up from a dream.

But at this time, there is no point in summing, they have missed too many opportunities.

Although the troops guarding Guishan City were elite and loyal enough to hold out until Kangju reinforcements arrived, they only lasted four days and could not hold on.

The attack of the fierce fire oil tank and the attack of a large number of long-range weapons made the defense of Guishan City crumbling, and four days later, the defense of Guishan City was broken, and the first army to rush in was the Han army, and the second army to rush in was the army of Qiuzi Kingdom.

The multinational coalition army broke into the city, the defense of Guishan collapsed, and the important ruling groups of the entire Dawan Kingdom were wiped out in the city, and their retreat had long been cut off by the Han army, and there was no possibility of escaping at all, so the street fighting after the city was broken was still fierce.

The army of Qiuzi State was not well equipped, and was killed and wounded by the palace guards of Dawan Kingdom in the street fighting stage, and the army of Shanshan Kingdom also charged forward in order to perform, and was surrounded by the army of Dawan Kingdom, killing more than 100 people, and actually retreated for a time.

In the end, it was the Han army that went up, put an end to the palace guards of the Dawan Kingdom, conquered the inner city of Guishan City, and captured all the lords of the Dawan Kingdom.

It is worth mentioning that there are also some hard-boned people in this group, who led their families or guards to fight against the elite of the Han army with knives when the city was broken, and they had an indomitable posture.

Then they were all killed by the Han army.

Most of the rest are soft eggs, and they don't even have the courage to hold a knife, and after the Han army entered the palace, from King Dawan down, men, women, and children all knelt on the ground and begged for their lives.

Of course, whether it is surrender or death in battle, the result is the same anyway, according to the Han Empire's regulations for the destruction of the country, their end is doomed, and there will be no difference.

What?

Do you think you've been wronged?

Why did you go earlier?

The kingdom of Dawan no longer exists, but the war continues.

Kang Juguo's reinforcements were coming towards Guishan City, Zhang Fei sent Zhao Yun to lead the army to the northwest to meet Kang Juguo's 20,000 troops, and he stayed to take care of Guishan City, rectify order, clean up the battlefield, collect some very important things, and then report the good news to Liu Bei.

More than ten days later, in early September of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Zhao Yun defeated the reinforcements of Kangjuguo, led the Han cavalry to break the Kangju cavalry, and completely annihilated it and won a complete victory.

Originally, according to the advice of the Wusun people, the Han army thought that the Kangju army should be a very capable type, and the situation of the previous Xiongnu, Xianbei and other people in their heyday should be similar, and they were opponents that needed to be treated carefully.

But during the battle of Wusun, the Han army found that the Kangju army was not so strong, and it felt more similar to the Huns and Xianbei people they had faced, and it didn't feel like a big deal.

Although there are many cavalry, the cavalry lacks harness such as Takahashi saddle, so it is not as good as the Han army, which can completely free hands and make many difficult tactical movements, and it is also difficult to operate many excellent horse weapons for hand-to-hand combat.

In terms of the quantity and quality of weapons and equipment, the Kang army also lagged behind the Han army in an all-round way.

The bows and crossbows they used were inferior to the Han army in range and strength, and the quality and quantity of armor were inferior.

The Han army mostly used iron armor, while the Kangju people mostly used light leather armor, which had good defense against some horse soft bows, but there was no defense against the Han army's special horse hand crossbows, and a large area was shot down by the Han cavalry in the first round of confrontation.

However, their soft bows could not inflict the same damage on the Han army, and the armor and helmets of the Han army protected the cavalry well, so in the following hand-to-hand combat, the Han army also occupied the advantage of numbers and equipment.

In that battle led by Zhang Fei, the Kangju army was defeated in the face of the excellent combat quality and equipment of the Han army, and almost all the troops were annihilated.

Because of the annihilation of the whole army and the lack of escapees, Kangju has always lacked understanding of the equipment, combat methods and capabilities of the Han army, and only knows some sporadic content, such as the Han cavalry is very brave and can make many difficult tactical movements, etc., other than that, there is little understanding.

In this battle, the nobles in the eastern part of Kangju did their best to organize more than 20,000 troops to support Dawan, hoping that they could resist for a while longer, and it was best to use the advantage of the mountains to drag down the Han army.

As long as they can stabilize the battle line, the eastern nobles will have a way to bargain with the western nobles, engage in some interest exchange or something, in exchange for their support, but if they can't even stabilize the battle line, the western nobles will definitely not agree to send troops, and no matter how much King Kangju persuades, it is impossible.

Therefore, the eastern nobles are actually very concerned about the results of this support army.

But alas, their expectations are doomed to be disappointed.

Zhao Yun led 20,000 Han troops to meet Kangju's reinforcements, and soon after the encounter, a battle began.

During the battle, Zhao Yun found that Zhang Fei's experience was true, the Kangju people did look strong, but in fact the combat level was very poor, and the original Xianbei people and Qiang people were almost on the same level, slightly stronger than the Southern Xiongnu.

It can be said that they have a relatively stable logistics and equipment system, but the level of political power is not very high, and the technical strength is not strong, and the manufacturing level of iron weapons is equivalent to that of the Han army when it had not yet carried out technological innovation, so for the Han army after the sixth generation of technological innovation, their weapons are inferior.

The Han army's bow and crossbow are stronger, the long knife is stronger, the armor is stronger, and more importantly, the better horse harness, the existence of these things makes the Han army have strong combat effectiveness and defense, and it belongs to the monster-level players who are full of technical points at both ends of the attack and defense.

The Kangju cavalry has the kind of heavy cavalry that charges into battle, but it is more of a nomadic light cavalry, and the light cavalry and heavy cavalry under the blessing of the high technology of the Han army belong to a state of being fully crushed.

After one round of confrontation and two rounds of impact, he was almost dead.

The only thing that is commendable is that their will to fight is not bad, compared to those small countries in the Western Regions, they can obviously hold out for a longer time, and not be carried away by a wave.

Zhao Yun quickly understood the level of the Kangju army, and sighed lightly, feeling that the realm of Dugu seeking defeat was so complicated......

In this world, is there still an opponent of the Han army?

Then he waved his hand, and the whole army pressed up, and broke the Kangju reinforcements in the valley, chasing all the way for more than ten miles.

Kangju reinforcements died in one place and surrendered in another, and few generals below the main general escaped, and most of them were caught.

Zhao Yun didn't have much feeling for these strange guys who had "yellow beards" and "different pupils", so he cleaned up the battlefield and took these strange-looking guys away.

What awaits them is the end of becoming official slaves, and a series of civil engineering projects of the Han Empire in the Western Regions require their "love to join".

At present, the Han army has no intention of launching an attack on the Kangju country, but intends to fully annex the Dawan Kingdom, bring the Dawan Kingdom into the scope of rule, and then slowly manage the Western Regions, straighten out the Western Regions, and then further win the hegemony of Central Asia.

Although Liu Bei has the intention of managing hegemony in Central Asia, in every sense, he has to make room and time for the operation of the Western Regions, the development of the Western Regions takes time, and the war achievements of the Han army also need time to consolidate.

Therefore, in October of the fourth year of Zhenguan, when he learned that the Han army had successfully conquered the Dawan Kingdom, Liu Bei knew that this first round of pioneering and enterprising had achieved a phased victory, and then it was a period of internal operation that lasted for several years.

In the next three to five years, he will focus on the domestic market, operate the existing territory, lay a solid foundation, and then seek external breakthroughs.

The strategy of returning to the Western Regions succeeded somewhat too quickly, to the point that the strategists in Luoyang were not ready, and in more than a year, they regained control of this vast land.

Of course, their control is not in the air.

In this battle against the Dawan Kingdom, out of the importance of logistics, Liu Bei sent Xun You with the elite team of the Privy Council to the Western Regions to help rectify the logistics, and to connect with the logistics officials of the Western Regions, and strive to do a good job in every link of logistics.

And Xun You and the others are obviously super capable overflowing, not only tidying up the logistics affairs, but also making a familiar face with the royal families and officials of the small countries in the Western Regions, deepening their understanding of each other, and also giving orders and commanding them in a certain sense.

The two sides deepened their understanding in this logistics affair, and the small countries in the Western Regions knew the strong national strength and execution power of the Han Empire, and the Han Empire also basically understood the internal situation of the small countries in the Western Regions.

Therefore, in October of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Liu Bei simultaneously ordered to invite the monarchs of the small countries in the Western Regions to come to Luoyang to meet him in person, negotiate with him, establish the relationship between the suzerain, and determine the division of monarchs and ministers, and invite them to Luoyang to spend the New Year by the way.

As a result, more than a dozen countries in the Western Regions that still existed, such as Shanshan, Pu, Cheshi, Yizhi, Moshan, Weisu, Wusun, Qiuzi, Gumo, Wensu, Weitou, Wulei, Puli, Xiye, Zihe, Wuxi, and Humi, were all invited to Luoyang to participate in the event.

At the same time, Liu Bei also announced that he would officially establish the Western Regions Protectorate, announced the positions of Zhang Fei and Zhao Yun, and announced the official establishment of the four counties of Yuli County, Shule County, Dawan County and Yusha County.

These four counties represent the many countries that were wiped out in the Han Empire's strategy of returning to the Western Regions because of arrogance and inability to see the current situation.

Cheshi Houguo, Yanqi Kingdom, Wusun Xiaokun Mibu, Shule Kingdom, Dawan Kingdom, Khotan Kingdom, Shache Kingdom.

These seven large and small countries did not accept the "kindness" of Han Tianzi to renew his favor to the Western Regions and had to resist, so Han Tianzi was furious and decided to eliminate them, reshaping the political situation in the Western Regions, rearranging the political status quo of the entire Western Regions, and completely controlling the Western Regions.

All of this seems so justifiable.

(End of chapter)