Chapter 1065: The Fall of Dawan

Congling, the mountains are towering, covered with heavy snow, and the cold wind is biting.

The banners of the Han army were shattered and rattled in the cold wind. Less than 50,000 remnants of the Han army were marching in the snow-capped mountains.

Ban Chao, the defensive general of the Western Regions, led his horse and marched on the narrow mountain road, exhaling white air from time to time.

King Wusun's temples were white, and snow was falling on his fur hat.

The Wusun cavalry were downcast.

Without the marching general Gao Xianzhi to lead the troops, the Han army suffered heavy losses when they crossed Congling.

The Han army was defeated in Dawan, and Ban Chao's remnant soldiers had to enter the Pamirs and return to Luntai City, the Protectorate of the Western Regions.

At the time of the most tragic unification war of the Han Empire, generals such as Yelu Dashi, Batu, and Shibi Khan attacked the Dawan Kingdom. Indian Mughal soldiers totaled 800,000.

The population of Dawan Kingdom is only 2 million, and it is hard to say whether there are 800,000 young and strong, 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 the ever-increasing military power of Yelu Dashi.

Guishan City was besieged by Batu, and the teleportation array 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 Dawan Kingdom. One way is to start from Yili and enter the Seljuk Empire, and the other way is to start from Luntai City and cross Congling.

Both paths are too late.

The strength of Yelu Dashi is still increasing.

Wo Kuotai ruled Central Asia, which has a small population but has an astonishing proportion of nomadic cavalry, and the South Asian subcontinent, which has a large population.

Ban Chao, Chen Tang, Prince Yan, and Di Qing had no 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 all the soldiers and horses of the Western Regions Protectorate in Dawan Kingdom.

However, Ban Chao joined forces with Prince Yan, Di Qing, Chen Tang, and King Wusun to break through the 600,000 troops of Batu and Shibi Khan and enter the mountain pass of the Pamirs.

The battle in the cold winter was extremely fierce. Of the more than 100,000 Han troops and Wusun cavalry in Guishan City, there were less than 50,000 left in the end.

Prince Yan leaned on a wooden stick and walked on the edge of the cliff that could only accommodate one person. If he was not careful, his body would be smashed to pieces.

Prince Yan looked around at the Han army team that stretched for hundreds of miles. Tasted defeat? He sighed from time to time.

There may be a gap between the famous generals, but Batu is not a good opponent? Six hundred thousand soldiers? Besieging Guishan City, Prince Yan is no opponent.

The most fundamental problem is that Dawan Kingdom is too far away from the hinterland of the Han Empire.

Can Yelu Dashi get reinforcements as soon as possible? And once the teleportation array of Dawan Kingdom fails, it will be difficult for the Han Empire to support Dawan Kingdom.

"During the Tang Dynasty? The Anxi Protectorate lost control of Central Asia? Mostly because Central Asia is too far away from Chang'an, and there are Pamirs and Tianshan barriers..."

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 Pamirs blocked the communication between China and the western civilizations. The Alexander expedition and the Arab conquest?

China also had no desire to go west, and the Han and Tang dynasties had limited control over Central Asia.

The existence of the Silk Road allowed ancient China to communicate with Central Asia, West Asia, and the West, but the scale was small after all.

In "The Lord", the Protectorate of the Western Regions represented by Huo An captured the Dawan Kingdom twice in a row, and lost control of the Dawan Kingdom twice in a row? It can be seen that the influence of the terrain is still not small.

"Dawan Kingdom falls, then 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?

The Dawan Kingdom fell? The Ili River Valley is left? It is connected to Central Asia.

Therefore, Chutian's strategy of entering Central Asia has not yet completely gone bankrupt.

The Ili River Valley is the former home of the Wusun Kingdom, and the Western Regions Protectorate's control over the Ili River Valley is far greater than that of the Dawan Kingdom.

"That's not right... Maybe Yelu Dashi will take over the Dawan Kingdom and send hundreds of thousands of troops to attack the Ili River Valley..."

Prince Yan thought of a possibility.

Yelu Dashi and Batu tried their best to attack the Dawan Kingdom, aiming to take down the Dawan Kingdom and prevent the Central Plains army from being sent to Central Asia.

The Ili River Valley is also a threat to Central Asian forces, and it cannot be ruled out that Yelu Dashi will aggressively attack the Ili River Valley.

In the northern part of Dawan Kingdom, because Guishan City, Ershi City and other important Dawan Kingdom cities fell successively, Huo Qubing became a lone army and was besieged by Yelu Dashi, Batu and others.

Huo Qubing simply commanded the cavalry to attack 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 relied on the characteristics of "seal the wolf and live in Xu" (cavalry attributes +10%, damage to alien races +25%, alien morale drop speed +25%, and the probability of falling into fear increased; Cavalry marching speed +10%, speed +15% during forced marching; marching in grasslands, Gobi, deserts, mountains and other terrains, morale is not easy to drop, and non-combat attrition is reduced; after winning, morale recovery speed +25%), across thousands of miles, Continuously broke through the blockade of Yelu Dashi, and fought in the Seljuk Empire.

At the Tanikou Fortress in the Ili River Valley, a group of Han cavalry patrolled, and the snow fell heavily, 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 and plains.

"Notify the general that unknown cavalry have appeared, the number of which is about tens of thousands...!"

"yes!"

The cavalry of the Han army in the Yili River Valley watched carefully as the cavalry entering the Dawan Kingdom approached, and panicked.

"It's the banner of our Protectorate of the Western Regions!"

The cavalry of the Han army soon discovered that the large number of cavalry that appeared were not nomadic cavalry from Central Asia, but the soldiers and horses of the Protectorate of the Western Regions themselves.

"Don't take it lightly, it may be the camouflage of Central Asian nomadic cavalry."

The cavalry squad of the Han army kept on guard until Huo Qubing, whose armor was torn, appeared.

Huo Qubing insisted on breaking through under the siege of hundreds of thousands of troops at Yelu Dashi, bypassing the Tianshan Mountains and retreating to Yili.

However, Huo Qubing was also severely injured and seriously injured. Out of tens of thousands of cavalry, there were only a little over 10,000 left.

"General Huo, why did you come back from the Seljuk Empire?!"

The captain of the Han army discovered that it was Huo Qubing, the number one general of the Western Regions Protectorate.

To the west of the Ili River Valley is the territory of the Seljuk Empire. Huo Qubing marched more than a thousand miles and withdrew from Dawan Kingdom to Ili, which surprised the Ili defenders.

"Dawan Kingdom has been breached, strengthen the defense of the Yili River Valley."

Huo Qubing said concisely and entered Yili for supplies.

The garrison of the Protectorate of the Western Regions in the Ili River Valley learned that Dawan Kingdom had been captured by Yelu Dashi with an army of 800,000, and fell into panic. They recruited a large number of troops and built a large number of fortifications, earth fortresses, and arrow towers at the entrance of the Ili River Valley to guard against Yelu Dashi.

Huo Qubing's more than ten thousand cavalry rested, and their physical strength and morale recovered.

Huo Qubing's cavalry, because of the continuous battle, left less than three arrows per cavalry on average.

Dawan Kingdom, Guishan City, Batu of the Golden Horde Khanate, and Turkic Shibi Khan summoned the nobles of Dawan Kingdom.

Mei Cai, King of Dawan supported by Huo An, was captured.

Facing the sabers of the Mongolian cavalry and Turkic cavalry, a group of Dawan nobles trembled.

Dawan Kingdom is like a bus in Central Asia, any powerful civilization can conquer Dawan Kingdom.

The nobles of Dawan Kingdom also don't remember how many times they have been conquered.

It is Batu, the nephew of Wo Kuotai, who is now in charge of Guishan City.

Shibi Khan said to Batu: "This man is Huo An's confidant, and he is friendly to the Han court. If he is not beheaded, he will become a disaster in the future."

"Come on, drag him down and cut him apart."

Batu ruthlessly ordered the execution of King Meicai of Dawan Kingdom, and then supported a new king to come to power.

The aristocrats of the Dawan Kingdom, who were selected by Batu as the new king, were ashamed.

It is not so easy to be the king of Dawan Kingdom.

Every time Dawan Kingdom was conquered, the king could not escape 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 Kingdom needs to bow his knees and walk on thin ice.

Moreover, once the Han Empire captured Dawan Kingdom for the third time, Chanfeng would not be able to escape being killed.

The other nobles of Dawan Kingdom were secretly glad that they did not become kings.

Chanfeng tremblingly said to Batu: "I have no virtue or ability, so I cannot become a king."

Batu winked, and Batu's younger brother Bie'er drew out his saber and put it on Chanfeng's neck: "You have no choice."

Chan Feng was dripping with sweat, and finally had to say: "Thank you sweat."

Batu took control of Guishan City and turned Dawan Kingdom into his own fiefdom. All the captives were rewarded to his subordinates in order to win people's hearts.

Although the Golden Horde Khanate was destroyed by Chutian and Yekaterina together, and Temujin's son Jochi died in battle, Batu took some of the remaining generals and took refuge in Okuotai.

The news of the fall of Dawan Kingdom spread to the Han Empire. At this time, Chu Tian was in Xiacheng, preparing to usurp the throne.

The princes of the Han Empire surrendered, and Chu Tian believed that there was no need to continue to maintain the Han Dynasty.

Few of the elders and ministers of the Han Dynasty have survived until now. Huangfu Song died in battle, Lu Zhi passed away, Zhu Jun lived in seclusion, Wang Yun was killed, and Chutian usurped the throne with almost no obstacles.

Although Xun Yu and others are still inclined to the Han Dynasty, the civil servants and generals of other dynasties have a lot of power to speak, and Xun Yu can only accept his fate.

Everything will fall into place.

One of the important purposes of Chutian summoning the surrendered princes to Xiacheng was to proclaim himself emperor, establish a new empire, and launch an expedition.

This new empire is not only the thirteen prefectures of Han and the prefectures of the Western Regions, but the thirteen prefectures, plus the six prefectures of the Western Regions, Monan, Mobei, Liaodong, Koryo, and Tubo.

The Duhufu is at the same level as the state, and the new empire territory is equivalent to owning 19 states, which is not the limit of the empire.