Chapter 851 Bu Dugen: No one knows Runxue better than me
At this time, everyone in Shule State who maintained a tough policy towards the Han was dumbfounded.
No one expected that Zhenzhong City, which could not be broken by 30,000 troops twenty-seven years ago, could not hold out for even a morning twenty-seven years later and was captured by six thousand Han troops. The entire defenders were annihilated.
The army marched towards Shule City.
The situation became extremely critical, and the kings and ministers of Shule State panicked. Some were ready to escape, some wanted to surrender, some suggested that the king prepare to defend the city, and some even prepared for street fighting. The entire royal city was in chaos.
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However, the Han army did not panic at all. They arrived at Shule City step by step and took up the posture of attacking the city. They gave the King of Shule one last chance and asked him to open the city gate and surrender within an hour. This way he could still survive, otherwise the city would be destroyed.
That day was the day when he fled.
King Shule was greatly frightened. He was thinking about things and could not make a decision. He wanted to resist, but was afraid that he would not be able to defeat him. He wanted to surrender, but there was strong opposition from others. He wanted to uphold the dignity of the country and could not surrender at will. He also wanted to negotiate terms with the Han army.
As a result, after arguing and arguing, Zhang Fei lost his patience. With a wave of his hand, fire rained down from the sky. After the army galloped for a day, Shule City was captured by the Han army. The Han army destroyed Shule State, a powerful country in the Western Regions, at a relatively small cost.
A few days.
King Shule was lucky and did not die. Instead, he fled westward through a secret passage in the city and under the protection of his personal followers. He crossed the Poison Country and entered the Dawan Kingdom, where he began his exile career.
Others don't have as much luck.
According to the tradition of Han military campaigns, the solution for an enemy who refuses to surrender after fighting to the end is to remove all the ruling class, men, women, old and young, and all those who hold positions, leaving only the common people, erasing their civilization and heritage.
To facilitate assimilation and management.
Therefore, after the First World War, the captured Shule officials were completely liquidated. Regardless of whether they advocated fighting or surrendering, they had no ecological niche in the future planning of the Han Empire.
Therefore, their deaths did not cause any loss to the Han Empire.
The fate of the Shule Kingdom was that the Han Empire established Shule County under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate and was administered Han Empire-style management under the county system. Does anyone have the guts to raise objections to this?
The demise of the Shule Kingdom once again shocked the surrounding countries in the Western Regions. Their fear of Han envoys and Han armies reached its peak, and they no longer dared to raise any objections to the Han Empire's demands.
After that, Gumo and other three countries immediately submitted their credentials to the Han envoy Dong Zhuo, expressing their willingness to surrender to the Han Empire, and for the first time took the initiative to propose the idea of sending envoys to Luoyang to pay homage to the emperor.
Dong Zhuo agreed with this and had no objections, as did Zhang Fei. However, after the Shule Kingdom was pacified, Zhang Fei's eyes did not continue to the west for the time being, but turned to the north - the Wusun Kingdom.
The Wusun Kingdom was a great power during the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty.
During the battle for the Western Region between the Han and the Xiongnu, Xianbei, it became the object of competition between the two sides many times. It also had a large population and combatants, and was able to survive in the cracks of the two major power groups for hundreds of years.
But later, as the situation evolved, the Wusun Kingdom, like the Cheshi Kingdom, could no longer maintain a unified state, and divided into two rulers, called Da Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi, each with their own
The ruled area actually split the unified Wusun Kingdom.
Amid constant civil strife, the Wusun Kingdom, which had been strongly co-opted by the Western Han Empire during the Western Han Dynasty, also declined.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, both the large and small Kunmi tribes were not very strong, their military strength was weak, and they failed to have any significant impact on the situation in the Western Regions. However, after Liu Bei swept across the grassland that year, the situation experienced some subtle changes.
Liu Bei's power across the grassland frightened the remnants of the central Xianbei and western Xianbei forces that had not been wiped out by Liu Bei at that time. They felt that they could not resist Liu Bei's next attack, so before Liu Bei launched his next attack, they turned in full force and headed west.
He fled all the way from Bingzhou and Liangzhou to the Wusun Kingdom.
At that time, a series of civil strife and battles occurred among the Xianbei forces moving westward. In the end, Budugen, the grandson of Tan Shihuai, one of the former central Xianbei masters, became the winner and became the leader of the entire Xianbei army.
The only leader of the Xianbei people group who moved to Xianbei, more than 200,000 surviving Xianbei people obeyed his orders.
After they arrived in the Wusun area, they originally planned to continue moving westward to completely avoid Liu Bei's troops. However, heavy snow fell and many people froze to death. They had no choice but to survive in the Wusun grassland area.
The place where they stayed was in the territory of Wusun Dakunmi. Dakunmi was surprised and worried about this, so he sent someone to contact the Budugen Group and asked them about their reasons and intentions for coming here, so as to judge whether to attack them.
At that time, Bu Dugen considered that the Xianbei people were poor and hardworking and could not afford to fight, and were worried about being destroyed and annexed by the Wusun regiment, so he took the initiative to form an alliance with Dakunmi and live in a corner of the grassland. If any enemy came to attack Dakunmi, he was willing to do so.
Lead the tribe to help Da Kunmi fight.
It's a coincidence that since Wusun split during the reign of Emperor Xuan of the Han Dynasty, the relationship between Da Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi has been bad. From time to time there will be frictions, disputes, and occasionally some wars. At that time, Da Kunmi happened to be
When a dispute broke out between Kunmi and Xiao Kunmi.
So Da Kunmi asked the Xianbei people to provide military help. Bu Dugen gathered 5,000 capable fighters to follow Da Kunmi to fight. He defeated Xiao Kunmi's troops in one fell swoop and helped Da Kunmi win a piece of grassland with abundant water plants.
, Bu Dugen then obtained Dakunmi's permission to let them stay on the grassland to regain their strength.
In the following years, Bu Dugen was also honest. While silently licking his wounds and regaining his strength, he went all out to meet Da Kunmi's war needs, and helped Da Kunmi defeat Xiao Kunmi and Kangju's attacks many times.
——Facing the alliance between Da Kunmi and the remaining forces of Xianbei, Xiao Kunmi would not sit still and wait for death. He turned around and hooked up with Kang Ju and asked Kang Ju to be his helper.
The Kangju Kingdom has long since lost its strength as it was during the Western Han Dynasty. With the gradual rise of the Kushan Empire and the invasion of Kangju's traditional forces, the Kangju Kingdom has gradually declined. However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Kangju still has a certain strength.
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So when Liu Bei was concentrating on quelling the domestic rebellion, the two forces of Kangju and Xiaokunmi, and Xianbei and Dakunmi fought against each other. Until the Han Empire's strategy of returning to the Western Regions was promoted, these two forces
Only then did the forces finally begin to pay attention to the movements of the Han Empire.
The Han Empire was a silent one. It made a big splash and disappeared for more than ten years. As soon as it came back, it showed extremely strong fighting power. It destroyed all the countries in the Western Regions that could be fought in minutes. It fought those who needed to be beaten and won over those that needed to be won over.
, the whole invincible God of War model made Wusun and Kangju extremely fearful, and the Xianbei people were even more frightened.
They thought that the Han Empire had forgotten them and would not even interact with them anymore, but they did not expect that after so many years, they finally found a place to lick their wounds, but the Han Empire still came after them.
Bu Dugen was quite frightened. Considering that he could not fight against the Han army with his strength back then, let alone now, he felt that if there was some kind of confrontation with the Han army now, he would save Xianbei with great difficulty.
The fire that came down will be completely extinguished.
So he planned to discuss with Da Kunmi, and he would lead his tribe to continue running westward to a place where the Han army could never catch up.
Anyway, as long as the people are still there, the horses are still there, and the fighting power is still there, they will definitely be able to find a place with abundant water and grass to survive.
But Dakunmi didn't want to.
Thanks to the joining of the Xianbei forces in recent years, he has been able to gain the upper hand in the confrontation with Xiao Kunmi. If the Xianbei forces withdraw, he will have to face Xiao Kunmi and Kangju forces alone, and he will be hung up and beaten.
,How can he accept it under such circumstances?
So he discussed with Bu Dugen, if nothing else, survive this time, and the Han army might not come. Even if the Han army did come, they would face the three forces of Wusun, Kangju, and Xianbei. No matter how you look at it, they would not be able to survive this time.
Will not fall into decline.
"I'm ready. If the Han people are coming, then I will form a temporary alliance with Xiao Kunmi to get things done. They are not fools. They also know that when the Han people come, we will not have a good life, so we
A union is possible.
As long as our alliance is achieved, we will have 50,000 or 60,000 soldiers and horses. With so many soldiers and horses, we can fight the Han army. What are you afraid of? The Han army has come all the way, can it really fight against us?"
Bu Dugen listened and lowered his head silently.
"Back then, we had 700,000 to 800,000 tribesmen, and only 100,000 of them could join the army to fight. But Liu Bei only used one Northern Expedition with 50,000 to 60,000 men to nearly wipe out our tribe. For this reason, I traveled thousands of miles to come here.
to here.
I came here just to avoid the Han army, but the Han army couldn't avoid it. They came again and became stronger than before. How could I lead my people to fight to the death with people who couldn't beat them? The Han army wouldn't kill them.
If you kill me, my tribe will kill me."
"This... Great Chanyu, isn't it?"
Da Kunmi looked at Bu Dugen with a horrified look on his face: "The Han army is indeed strong, but it is not that it has never suffered defeats. On the land under our feet, the Han army has also suffered defeats. Why did you lose it once?"
Do you not believe that you can defeat the Han army at all?"
"Of course the Han army was defeated."
Bu Dugen shook his head and said, "But Liu Bei has never been defeated."
"Liu Bei..."
"He is now the emperor of the Han people."
Bu Dugen said coldly: "If a ferocious beast becomes the emperor of the Han people, then all Han people will be ferocious beasts. This is exactly what the Han army is doing now. We have no possibility of defeating the Han army. The only way is to stay far away
Flee to a place where the Han army cannot catch up, and never come back!"
Da Kunmi couldn't hold himself any longer.
"My ancestors have lived here for generations. This is the place of my ancestors. If I abandon this place and take my people with me, how many of my people will come with me? I can't leave!"
"Then surrender before the Han army becomes an enemy of you. Surrender. You have no enmity with the Han people. It is impossible for me to fight the Han army. I will leave immediately. You don't have to worry about the Han army doing anything to you for my sake."
Attack."
After saying that, Bu Dugen turned around and left.
Da Kunmi reached out and grabbed Bu Dugen's sleeve.
"Do you really want to leave? Do the Han people really scare you that much? There is no chance of winning at all? No matter how powerful the enemy is, there will be weaknesses. It is impossible to have an enemy that is completely unbeatable. Don't you know this truth?"
Bu Dugen was angry.
"Of course I know, but you can't grasp his weakness. Even if you know it, you can't grasp it at all! What's more, you don't know it at all! Can you tell me where Han's weakness is? Then what do you want to do?
Seize this weakness?
At the beginning, my friends and enemies all had the same idea as you. They all thought that they could control everything and defeat Liu Bei. Then what? They all died, and only I who escaped survived until now! So, you can survive by running.
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Da Kunmi was stunned and speechless.
Bu Dugen then successfully broke free from Dakunmi's hand and walked straight forward without stopping again.
Two days later, the Xianbei tribe hurriedly broke out of camp and left the land where they had lived for several years without any nostalgia. Many tribesmen did not even complain.
When they heard that Liu Bei was coming, the inner fear prompted them to speed up and leave the Wusun Kingdom, as if there was a terrible ghost chasing behind them.
The Xianbei people fled quickly.
It can be said that no one knows better than them when to run away and when to stop. The strong desire to survive caused these more than 200,000 people to burst out with endless migration power.
Faced with this situation, Da Kunmi remained silent for a long time, then summoned his subordinates and announced to everyone his intention to send envoys to contact the Han army.
Soon afterwards, Da Kunmi sent a special envoy to visit the Han army general Zhang Fei. In the name of Wusun Da Kunmi, he conveyed to Zhang Fei that Da Kunmi's troops did not want to be enemies of the Han army, and informed Zhang Fei that,
The Xianbei people had all broken up camp and fled westward.
"What? The Xianbei people escaped?!"
Zhang Fei stared at Da Kunmi's special envoy with wide eyes, making the special envoy tremble with fear.
"Yes, when they heard about the reputation of the Emperor of Han Dynasty, they were frightened and uneasy. They did not dare to be enemies with the Han army no matter what, so they fled. 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 the Xianbei people have no intention of colluding, they are just forced to form an alliance against Xiao Kunmi."
"this……"
When Zhang Fei heard that the Xianbei people had escaped, he was very angry and dissatisfied at first, but he soon calmed down, thought about it, and felt that the matter of the Xianbei people could not be counted as Da Kunmi's fault.
Judging from Da Kunmi's current attitude, it is obvious that he does not want to be an enemy of the Han Empire. It would be really inappropriate to make Da Kunmi's department an enemy of the Han Empire because of the Xianbei people's affairs.
In contrast, Xiao Kunmi and his subordinates, who had an alliance with the more distant Kangju State, showed stronger confrontation. This obvious contrast made Zhang Fei think that the Han army could make some adjustments.
Battle strategy.
Originally, facing the three major forces of Kangju, Wusun and Xianbei, Zhang Fei even planned to transfer the main force of the Western Region Military Region to launch a strategic decisive battle, which would establish the Han Empire's complete control over the Western Regions.
But he didn't expect the Xianbei people to be so cowardly and ran away.
waste!
Their attitude obviously affected Da Kunmi, making half of Wusun's forces not want to be enemies of the Han Empire.
In this way, the only enemies of the Han Empire were Xiao Kunmi and Kang Juguo. The pressure was reduced, and there was no need to mobilize the main force of the Western Region 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 Ju, his own army of 10,000, plus the army of Da Kunmi, should be enough.
So Zhang Fei gave preferential treatment to Da Kunmi's envoy and expressed to him the Han Empire's willingness to get along well with Da Kunmi. At the same time, he hoped that Da Kunmi could help the Han Empire send troops to fight against Xiao Kunmi and Kang Juguo and make them surrender.