Chapter 260: Take charge of the sixth Western Regions

By mid-October of the fourth year of Wude, nearly half of the towns in the Kingdom of Khotan in the Western Regions were visited by groups of soldiers. The people of Khotan hated these soldiers like wolves and feared them like tigers.

Because wherever these troops pass, there will be a wave of bloody storms. In the past few days, there will be a faint smell of blood in the air in the Kingdom of Yutian. Even the wind in the desert cannot blow away the condensed bloody scent. Some people even later said that in the early days of October, when they wake up in the morning, they can see red mist condensed in the distance. If people pass through these mists, they can condense red blood beads. During this period, the scavengers in the desert ushered in the happiest day of their lives. In the country of Yutian, there are scenes of massacre everywhere, and human corpses are everywhere on the ground, and there is no need to find food, let alone grab them with their companions. Even on such days, vultures in the sky can eat human flesh with wild dogs on the ground.

On October 17, the king of Khotan had long been unable to sit still. He had ruled out several special envoys and expressed his willingness to withdraw from the land of the occupied Shule Kingdom and compensate King Shule for the losses. However, for these things, it was obvious that King Shule had expressed too late. If he had received Liu Shan's letter, there would be such a result. Others gave him the opportunity, but he was not sure. Who said that the opportunity was like this. He didn't catch it when he was supposed to catch it, but it was too late to catch it. Perhaps, the opportunity was the tail of the fish. If he caught it, it might be a big fish. If he couldn't catch it, then there would be nothing. And for King Shule, if he couldn't catch it, it would be a destruction of the country and the family would be destroyed.

It was not until this time that King Khotan realized how arrogant and arrogant he had been before. He thought that if he occupied a few small countries in the Western Regions, he could be arrogant. From then on, he would be proud of the world, unify the Western Regions, and even face several countries around the Western Regions. In fact, the Kingdom of Khotan was such a big country. The King Khotan, who had not seen a truly powerful legion, could no longer cry even if he wanted to cry.

Faced with the massacre of Liushan's army, it was not that King Khotan did not organize defense and interception, but the fact is that even the various legions to which Liushan belonged to whom Liushan was divided, the Khotan army could not intercept, let alone defeat the other side. The fact is that the defeated were all the troops of Khotan.

The Khotan army was the worst in the face of the Turkic cavalry. These troops were cold-blooded and bloody, and there was no such thing as accepting prisoners. Often after defeating their opponents, murder competitions began to be held. At the beginning of the pursuit, there was no time to stop. On the road of pursuit, human corpses and horses were paved with roads. After these troops came back, a series of heads were tied around the necks of war horses with ropes. Some of the heads were still warm, and red blood was dripping down from the broken neck. These heads were military achievements, and the heads of soldiers were much more valuable than ordinary people.

Compared to facing the more elite Liangzhou Legion, these Khotan troops were a little better. Although the opponents were pursuing, the pursuit was usually only a short distance. However, when facing such an army, the Khotan army felt very inferior. They often had not yet rushed to the opponent and chopped off an enemy's head, and were defeated by the opponent's long-range force. However, after all, you can still escape in front of such an opponent.

In just a few days of interception and stopping, the Khotan army actually lost more than half. However, the opponent's losses were pitifully small. Such a war was simply disproportionate and was not like a war. In front of the opponent, the Khotan army was almost not much different from the civilians. The only difference may be that the army fled faster when facing the enemy's inability to the enemy. In this case, the King of Khotan had almost given up on resistance, and resistance was meaningless.

When Gutian suffered a national disaster, the countries around him had realized a terrible fact. Faced with the Liushan army that came from the Turkic grassland, the countries in the Western Regions were as weak as thin and hungry children, even more pitiful than African refugees, and their opponents were a strong giant, not only a giant, but also a giant wearing armor and holding exquisite weapons.

The Western Regions countries have become accustomed to relying on the strong. In history, the countries on this land have successively depended on many countries. Take the Western Regions in the history of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty as an example. This land is today like the Huns, who are powerful and seeking to win over the Huns, and tomorrow like the Han people, who are powerful and seeking to win over the Han Han. Sometimes, they even have to seek several countries a day. If they want to seek or decently join a certain country, it is not difficult to say about these countries.

At this time, Liu Shan's iron blood and coldness had completely scared these Western Region countries. A country as big as Khotan did not have the power to draw its sword when facing Liu Shan, let alone them.

At this time, the nature of the fence-bearing man is undoubtedly exposed. In just a few days, more than a dozen countries have defected to King Liu Shan of Han, which is an extremely rare phenomenon in world history. Often when weak countries face strong enemies, they all hold the idea of ​​"being broken than being broken". Even if they are really defeated, they will use joint methods to resist their opponents. Even if Liu Shan lived in such an unequal war in that era, those weak countries would resist to the end. However, this situation did not occur in the Western Regions at this time.

The cold blood of Liu Shan's army has deeply trembled the ruling classes of these countries. At this time, the King of Khotan wanted to surrender and be loyal, but there was no chance. They did not want to follow in the footsteps of the Kingdom of Khotan.

By late October of the fourth year of Wude, more than half of the more than 30 countries in the Western Regions had been loyal to the King of Han. The remaining countries were not that they did not want to be loyal, but that there were too many countries that were loyal to the King of Han at this time. These countries had various hatreds and contradictions with the remaining countries. At this time, they had backstage, assassinating the envoys of their opponents, robbing and killing the missions of their opponents, and using various means to intercept the path of loyalty to their opponents. Liu Shan was too lazy to care about this. If he really wanted to surrender to himself, he had to show some of his own strength. If even the envoys sent could not come to him, then Liu Shan was too lazy to care about such a country.

By the beginning of November of the fourth year of Wude, the Kingdom of Khotan had been surrounded by groups of troops like dumplings. The King of Khotan begged for surrender at the city, but at this time no one in the Liushan army was looking at the king. Even the military soldiers and the Huotou Army were too lazy to look at the king, in just one month, the King of Khotan fell from the top of the throne and fell into dust. In just one month, the person who was once high had become an angel falling from the sky in just a short time and was destined to be killed.

On the same day, under the siege of Liushan's army, the legion composed of the Western Regions launched a final attack on the Kingdom of Khotan.

After the Han Dynasty destroyed the city, the Western Regions countries were allowed to rob for three days.

Khotan is a great country in the Western Regions, with a wealth of country and a wealth of people. In the previous wars, he obtained countless treasures and beauties from other countries. At this time, these were all concentrated in the capital of Tantan.

Hence, King Khotan asked for surrender, and these things were given to King Han as defeated items to surrender. However, King Han did not accept Khotan's surrender at all, but issued such an order.

Kingsoft and beauty are ahead. These Western Regions coalition forces rushed forward like they had taken stimulants. The leaders of various countries issued various threats and temptations in their own army, hoping that their army would be the first to break the city and the first to break the city, so that they could grab the best things first.

The Liangzhou Hebei Legion had become a bystander at this time, killing people for nearly a month. At this time, the soldiers of these army were tired and too lazy to kill the capital of the Kingdom of Khotan. Although there were mountains of gold and silver in front of them, this was no longer the most important thing for the various legions under Liushan at this time.

In November of the fourth year of Wude, the Kingdom of Khotan fell, and the Western Regions were basically controlled by Liu Shan.

After controlling the Western Regions, the Liangzhou Legion began to return to defense, with the defense line in Dunhuang and Liangzhou. No one said that the purpose of this return to defense was discussed in front of the public, at least in the upper level of the Liangzhou Legion. However, a discerning person could understand who was defending this time.

In the winter of the fourth year of Wude, the special envoy of the King of Han went to Chang'an.

There is no record of this return to Chang'an in history, and there is no word about the special envoy of the special envoy in Chang'an and the completion of the tasks in Chang'an.
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