Lord of the Gaming World Chapter 1065: The Fall of Dawan
Cong Ridge, a towering mountain, covered by heavy snow and biting cold wind.
The banners and flags of the Han army were shattered, and they were hunting in the cold wind. The remnants of the Han army, which were less than 50,000 people, marched in the snow-capped mountains. From time to time, soldiers fell from the mountain road into the bottomless cliff.
The chief guard of the Western Regions is leading the war horse, marching on the narrow mountain road, exhaling white breath from time to time.
King Wusun's temples were white, and snow fell on his animal skin hat.
The Wusun cavalry was downcast.
Without marching general Gao Xianzhi leading the troops, the Han army suffered heavy losses when they crossed the Congling Mountains.
The Han army was defeated in Dawan, and Ban Chao's remnants had to enter the Pamir Plateau and return to Luntai City, the Protectorate of the Western Regions.
When the Han Empire's unification war was at its worst, Yelu Dashi, Batu, Shibi Khan and other generals attacked the Dawan Kingdom. They used 100,000 Mongolian cavalry, 150,000 Turkic cavalry, and 400,000 Kuishan soldiers. 150,000 Indian Mughal soldiers, a total of 800,000.
The population of Dawan Kingdom is only 2 million, and it is hard to say whether there are 800,000 young people, and it has completely fallen.
Prince Yan and Di Qing originally led 50,000 Mongolian cavalry to support Guishan City, but the 50,000 troops were a drop in the bucket in the face of Yelu Dashi's growing army.
Guishan City was besieged by Batu, and the teleportation formation of Dawan Kingdom was cut off. When Chutian finally took care of Liu Bei and Tongque, he was unable to send reinforcements to Dawan Kingdom.
At this time, there are only two ways to send troops to the Dawan Kingdom. One way is to start from Ili and enter the Seljuk Empire, and the other way is to start from Luntai City and cross the Cong Ridge.
Both ways are too late.
Yelu Dashi's army is still growing.
Okuotai ruled over Central Asia with a small population but an astonishing proportion of nomadic cavalry, as well as the South Asian subcontinent with a large population. They fully supported Yelu Dashi to take the chess pieces deployed by the Protectorate of the Western Regions in Central Asia, and kept sending them to Yelu Dashi. reinforcements.
Ban Chao, Chen Tang, Prince Yan, and Di Qing had no other reinforcements, so they had no choice but to abandon Guishan City and return to Luntai.
Batu and Shibi Khan tried their best to prevent Ban Chao and others from returning to the Han Empire, in an attempt to wipe out the troops of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in Dawan.
However, Ban Chao still joined forces with Prince Yan, Di Qing, Chen Tang, and King Wusun to break through the 600,000 army of Batu and Shibi Khan and enter the mountain road of the Pamirs.
The battle in the cold winter was extremely fierce. In the end, there were less than 50,000 soldiers left in Guishan City from the more than 100,000 Han troops and Wusun cavalry.
Prince Yan leaned on a wooden staff and walked on the edge of a cliff that could only accommodate one person.
Prince Yan looked around the Han army that stretched for hundreds of miles in front and back? Tasted defeat? He sighed from time to time.
There may be a gap between famous generals, but Batu is not a good thing? With 600,000 troops? To besiege Guishan City, Prince Yan is not an opponent.
The most fundamental problem was that Dawan was too far from the hinterland of the Han Empire.
Can Yelu Dashi get reinforcements as soon as possible? And once the teleportation array of the Dawan Kingdom fails, the Han Empire will be unable to support the Dawan Kingdom.
"During the Tang Dynasty? Anxi Duhufu lost control of Central Asia? Mostly because Central Asia was too far from Chang'an, and was blocked by the Pamirs and Tianshan..."
At this time, Prince Yan deeply felt the influence of terrain on the progress of civilization.
The existence of the Tianshan Mountains, the Altai Mountains, and the Pamir Plateau blocked the communication between China and the western civilization, Alexander's expedition, and the Arab conquest? Generally, it came to the Tianshan Mountains? It stopped abruptly, and China had no desire to go west. The Han and Tang dynasties Control over Central Asia is limited.
The existence of the Silk Road allowed ancient China to communicate with Central Asia, West Asia, and the West, but the scale was not large after all.
In "Lord"? Huo An represented the Protectorate of the Western Regions to capture the Dawan Kingdom twice in a row, and lose control of the Dawan Kingdom twice in a row? It can be seen that the influence of the terrain is still not small.
"If Dawan falls, we can only attack Central Asia from Ili..."
Prince Yan didn't know what Chutian was thinking? He probably guessed that Chutian's ambition was not just to unify the Han Empire?
Dawan fell? What remains of the Ili Valley? Connected to Central Asia.
Therefore, Chutian's strategy to enter Central Asia has not completely gone bankrupt.
The Ili River Valley is the homeland of the Wusun Kingdom, and the Western Regions Protectorate's control over the Ili River Valley far exceeds its control over the Dawan Kingdom.
"No... Maybe Yelu Dashi won the Dawan Kingdom, and he will raise hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Ili River Valley..."
Prince Yan thought of a possibility.
Yelu Dashi and Batu did their best to attack the Dawan Kingdom, aiming to capture the Dawan Kingdom and prevent the Central Plains army from being sent to Central Asia.
The Ili River Valley is also a threat to the Central Asian forces, and it cannot be ruled out that Yelu Dashi will attack the Ili River Valley on a large scale.
In the northern part of Dawan Kingdom, because Guishan City, Ershi City and other important Dawan Kingdom cities fell successively, Huo Qubing became a lonely army and was surrounded by Yelu Dashi, Batu and others.
Huo Qubing simply commanded the cavalry to invade the territory of the Seljuk Empire and fled back to Ili from the north, which was different from Ban Chao's retreat.
Yelu Dashi mobilized the cavalry of the Seljuk Empire to besiege Huo Qubing on a large scale. Huo Qubing relies on the "Fenglang Juxu" feature (cavalry attribute +10%, damage to aliens +25%, alien morale drop speed +25%, falling into fear Probability increase; cavalry marching speed +10%, speed +15% during forced march; marching in grasslands, Gobi, deserts, mountains and other terrains, morale is not easy to drop, non-combat attrition is reduced; after winning, morale recovery speed +25%), Across thousands of miles, he continuously broke through the blockade of Yelu Dashi and fought in the Seljuk Empire.
In the Gukou fortress in the Ili River Valley, a team of Han cavalry patrolled, the snow was flying, and the snow was more than a foot deep.
Suddenly, the captain of the Han army saw a black line on the horizon, followed by cavalry all over the mountains.
"Notify the general, the appearance of unknown cavalry, the number is about tens of thousands...!"
"Yes!"
The Han cavalry in the Ili River Valley watched carefully as the cavalry entering the Dawan Kingdom was getting closer and closer, and panicked.
"It is the banner of our Western Regions Protectorate!"
The cavalry of the Han army soon discovered that the large number of cavalry that appeared were not nomadic cavalry from Central Asia, but their own soldiers and horses of the Protectorate of the Western Regions.
"Don't take it lightly, it may be a disguise of the Central Asian nomadic cavalry."
The cavalry squad of the Han army was on alert until Huo Qubing, whose armor was broken, appeared.
Huo Qubing broke through under the siege of several hundred thousand troops from Yelu Dashi, bypassed the Tianshan Mountains, and retreated to Ili.
However, Huo Qubing was also severely injured. He was seriously wounded. Tens of thousands of cavalrymen were left, and the remaining was in the early 10,000s.
"General Huo, why did you come back from the Seljuk Empire?!"
The commander of the Han army discovered that it was Huo Qubing, the first general of the Western Regions Protectorate.
The west of the Ili River Valley is the territory of the Seljuk Empire. Huo Qubing marched more than a thousand li and evacuated from Dawan to Ili, much to the surprise of the Ili defenders.
"The Kingdom of Dawan has been breached, and the defense of the Ili River Valley has been strengthened."
Huo Qubing kept his words concise and entered Yili for supplies.
The guards stationed in the Western Regions of the Ili River Valley learned that the Dawan Kingdom was captured by Yelu Dashi with an army of 800,000 troops. Yelu Dashi.
Huo Qubing's more than 10,000 cavalrymen rested, their physical strength and morale recovered.
Huo Qubing's cavalry, because of the continuous battle, on average, each cavalry has less than three arrows left.
Dawan Kingdom, Guishan City, Batu of the Golden Horde, and the Turkic Shibi Khan, summoned the nobles of Dawan Kingdom.
The king of Dawan, Ma Cai, who was supported by Huo An, was captured.
A group of nobles of the Dawan Kingdom shivered in the face of the sabres of the Mongolian cavalry and the Turkic cavalry.
The Dawan Kingdom is comparable to the bus in Central Asia. Any powerful civilization can conquer the Dawan Kingdom.
The nobles of Dawan no longer remember how many times they have been conquered.
The nephew of Batu, Okuotai, is now in charge of Guishan City.
Shibi Khan said to Batu: "This person is Huo An's confidant and is friendly to the Han court. If he is not executed, he will become a disaster in the future."
"Come here, drag it down, and divide the body into five horses."
Batu ruthlessly ordered the execution of the king of Dawan, Ma Cai, and then brought a new king to power.
The nobleman of Dawan, who was chosen by Batu as the new king, was sealed with ashes.
Dawan's king is not so easy to be.
Every time the kingdom of Dawan was conquered, the king could not escape the end of being executed, and the death rate was extremely high.
This king is just a puppet. In front of Batu, Shibi Khan and others, the king of Dawan needs to bow down and kneel like walking on thin ice.
Moreover, once the Han Empire captured Dawan for the third time, Chanfeng would not be able to escape being killed.
Other nobles of Dawan secretly rejoice that they did not become kings.
Chan Feng trembled and said to Batu: "I have no virtue and incompetence, and I cannot become a king."
Batu winked~IndoMTL.com~ Batu's younger brother Bie Erge pulled out his saber and put it on Chanfeng's neck: "You have no choice."
Chanfeng was sweating profusely, and finally had to say: "Thank you, Khan."
Batu took over the city of Guishan, and turned the country of Dayuan into his own fief. All the captured people were rewarded to his subordinates to win people's hearts.
Although the Golden Horde was destroyed by Chutian and Yekaterina, Temujin's son Shuchi died in battle, but Batu took part of the remaining generals and took refuge in Okuotai.
When the news of the fall of the Dawan Kingdom reached the Han Empire, Chutian was in Xiacheng, preparing to usurp the throne.
The various feudal lords of the Han Empire surrendered, and Chutian believed that there was no need to continue to maintain the Han court.
The elders and ministers of the Han court have survived until now, and there are not many left. Huangfu Song died in battle, Lu Zhi died, Zhu Jun lived in seclusion, and Wang Yun was killed. There is almost no obstacle to Chu Tian usurping the throne.
Although Xun Yu and others still tended to the Han Dynasty, other dynasties had a lot of power to speak, and Xun Yu could only accept his fate.
Everything will fall into place.
Chutian summoned the surrendered princes to Xiacheng. One of the important purposes was to proclaim the emperor, establish a new empire, and launch an expedition.
This new empire is not only the thirteen states in the Han region and the Protectorate of the Western Regions, but the thirteen states, plus the Sixth Protectorate of the Western Regions, Monan, Mobei, Liaodong, Gaoli, and Tubo.
The Duhufu is at the same level as the state. The new empire is equivalent to having nineteen states, which is not the limit of the empire.