The Persian advance legion is crossing the Congling Mountains and marching towards the Shule Kingdom at the westernmost tip of the Western Region.
The Chu cavalry army commanded by Yan Liang has left Jingjue and is heading towards the hinterland of Khotan.
The Khotan Kingdom contributed a lot in the battle of Gaochangbi, sending tens of thousands of cavalry, but in the end they suffered heavy losses, and almost no one escaped back to the country.
Suffering this heavy blow, the Khotan Kingdom can be said to have suffered a great loss in national strength. The military strength of its affiliated Jingjue Kingdom can be said to be their only effective force to prevent the Chu army from advancing westward.
Once the Jingjue Kingdom was destroyed, the gates of Khotan were wide open and there were almost no troops to defend them.
Yan Liang took Pang De as the vanguard and led 20,000 cavalry to sweep westward. There was panic in all parts of Khotan. However, when the Chu army attacked, either Kaicheng surrendered or all the soldiers and civilians abandoned the city and fled.
Pound easily captured the auxiliary city-states of Koumi, Ningmi, Xicheng, Ronglu, and Pishan with almost no effort.
Within seven days, Pound's army had completely defeated Khotan.
The Khotan king did not dare to resist the Chu army and was unwilling to surrender, so he took more than ten thousand of his tribe and fled westward to attach themselves to Shule.
Yan Liang told Pang De's army to continue moving forward and sweep away any enemy who dared to resist.
Yan Liang himself led the army and followed up later. Moreover, he took Fu Hong, mother and daughter, with him on the Western Expedition.
Na Fuhong had always regarded the Persians as their saviors and thought that the Persians were their saviors. Yan Liang wanted her to see with her own eyes how their saviors were wiped out by him.
Yan Liang wants to completely destroy them mentally and physically and make them surrender to him physically and mentally.
On the southern route of the Western Regions, the Chu army was making good progress, and on the northern route of the western regions, the 20,000-strong northern route army commanded by Wen Chou and Xu Shu was also overwhelmingly powerful.
Since the division of troops in Nanhe City, Wen Chou's army has conquered Tagan City, Shicheng, Wensu, Weitou and other Kucha city-states. The Kucha Kingdom, whose strength was severely damaged in the battle of Gaochangbi, is simply vulnerable.
Under Wen Chou's offensive, the king and nobles of Guici Kingdom, as well as a large number of soldiers and civilians, also fled their country and took refuge in Shule.
For a time, there were five major countries in the Western Regions and more than thirty city-states, four of which had been destroyed. The Shule Kingdom, located at the westernmost end of the Western Region Basin, seemed to have become the last refuge for the Western Regions people.
Yan Liang shows no mercy. Shule Kingdom is one of the targets that must be eradicated.
He then sent an order from Pegasus to Wen Chou, ordering him to continue to advance westward. The two armies would join forces in Shule State and attack from the north and south to annihilate the last hope of the people of the Western Regions.
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South of Shule, Shacheng.
Thirty miles south of the city, on the Gobi road leading to the oasis, a mighty army was advancing fiercely.
The flying horseshoes covered the sky and the sun, and the dust and fog filled the sky. The red flag of Dachu flew proudly.
Pang De galloped on his horse and was at the forefront of the army.
His 20,000 cavalry have swept through the entire Khotan, and in front of them is Yarkand, the southern gate of Shule Kingdom. As long as this city is captured, the red flag of Chu can be planted on the land of Shule Kingdom.
The emperor's army was not far behind. Pound, the pioneer, was not willing to let the emperor take action. He had planned to wipe out the entire Shule Kingdom by himself and take the greatest credit in pacifying the Western Regions.
Obviously, judging from the current situation, Pound is fully capable of this.
According to previous intelligence, there were only less than 2,000 soldiers and horses from Shule Kingdom in Shache City, and the people in the city were in panic, making it difficult to hold on.
Perhaps, by the time the army arrived, Shache City had already been deserted and everyone had escaped.
Pound thought this in his mind and asked the army to move forward faster.
After running for more than half an hour, the terrain ahead became increasingly flat, the Gobi desert gradually receded, and green spaces gradually emerged.
We are about to enter the oasis, and Shache City should not be far away.
Suddenly, there was a huge cloud of dust and mist right in front of us, and thunder rumbled, as if a group of soldiers and horses were coming in for a killing spree.
Pang De frowned and thought to himself: "What's going on? Do the people of Shule still dare to take the initiative to go out of the city to attack? Humph, if they dare to take the initiative to attack, I will kill them without leaving a single piece of armor behind."
Pang De was not suspicious and ordered the army to slow down, form a formation, and prepare for a battle.
Marching is different from fighting on the battlefield. The long snake-like marching formation is not conducive to combat. Pound is good at cavalry combat. Even if he does not take the enemy seriously, he will not underestimate the enemy in combat.
In a moment, 20,000 cavalry formed an iron wall formation and advanced steadily towards the enemy.
The two dust storms were getting closer and closer, and the enemy's flag became more distinct.
When Pound saw the enemy clearly, his brows furrowed.
The killing army was huge and numbered tens of thousands of people.
Moreover, they are all cavalry!
The Shule Kingdom suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Gaochangbi. How could they suddenly gather tens of thousands of cavalry?
As he got closer, Pound became even more surprised.
Because he discovered that the flag the enemy was attacking was not the flag of Shule State at all, but the fire cloud flag written in incomprehensible bird script.
Even the equipment and description of the enemy cavalry are completely different from those of the Western Region Army.
All these factors made Pound feel deeply suspicious.
Just when Pound was wondering, the two armies had already advanced towards each other, and were only a stone's throw away from each other.
The enemy army on the opposite side did not slow down at all, but instead launched a fierce attack before the Chu army accelerated.
"Could it be...the Persian army!"
Pound's heart suddenly shook, and this astonishing thought flashed through his mind.
Scanning the incoming enemies carefully, Pound immediately confirmed that his judgment was correct.
The Shule Kingdom never had such a powerful cavalry force, and the enemy in front of them was also very different from the people in the Western Regions. There was intelligence in advance that the Persians were approaching the Western Regions, so the enemy in front of them must be the Persian vanguard.
"The Persians came so quickly, they have already reached Yarkand!"
Pound's nerves immediately became tense. The Persians arrived too suddenly, and the situation in front of him seemed to be unfavorable to his own army. He immediately thought of withdrawing his troops first and joining the emperor's main force.
With the next breath, Pound rejected the idea of retreating.
"The Persian army came from afar and thought they could catch us off guard. If I retreat without a fight, wouldn't I be fueling the arrogance of the Persian army? Before the two countries start a war, I will let Chu lose his energy first!"
His thoughts were whirling, and in the blink of an eye, Pang De had suppressed his surprise, his sword-shaped brows were deeply furrowed, and his fierce fighting spirit was igniting wildly.
Pang De pointed his sword forward and roared: "Warriors of Chu, the Persians are right in front of you, follow me and kill them, and show off the majesty of our Chu. Kill——"
Amidst the loud shouts, Pound clapped his horse, brandished his sword, and rushed out at high speed.
Behind him, 20,000 large Chu cavalry galloped out with thunderous killing sounds, rolling toward them.
If they were still a little surprised when they first discovered that the incoming enemy was not Shule people, but the mysterious Persian Legion, then now, that little bit of surprise has long been swallowed up by the fanatical fighting spirit.
Because they are the warriors of Da Chu. They are the warriors of the holy king Yan Liang. In this world, only the enemies are frightened by them, and there is absolutely no reason for them to fear the enemy.
"kill--"
"kill--"
Twenty thousand cavalrymen, without hesitation, charged forward like a giant steel spear.
Facing the front, the fierce Persian army was also shocked by the "arrogance" of the Chu army.
Minos, who was running wildly on horseback, had a light of surprise flash across his proud face.
After he led 30,000 Persian cavalry across the Congling Mountains, he quietly entered the Shule Kingdom. Under the leadership of the local Zoroastrian personnel, he reached an alliance agreement with King Hundu of Shule.
Minos ordered Hundu, the lord of Shule, not to spread the news of the arrival of the Persian army. He rushed from Shule City to Yarkand overnight in order to catch the Chu army by surprise.
Minos originally thought that when his 30,000-strong army suddenly came out, it would be a great shock to the Chu army, and the Chu army would probably choose to retreat temporarily in shock.
He did not expect that the Chu army was not timid at all, but instead rushed forward even more arrogantly.
"The Eastern army has such discipline and fighting spirit. It is indeed not an ordinary enemy."
Minos sighed in his heart, but the arrogance on his face became more and more arrogant. He snorted: "I, Minos, travel across Persia. No one can defeat me. Today I finally encountered a decent enemy army. Very good. Let me kill him."
Have fun."
With a wild laugh, Minos charged out with his iron spear, shouting: "Mighty warriors of Great Persia, for the sake of His Majesty Hades and for the holy war of Zoroastrianism, kill all the evil Eastern pagans, kill -"
Thirty thousand Persian knights fell into madness in an instant, roaring the word "holy war" in their mouths, and rushed towards the Chu army.
A moment later, two huge cavalry armies crashed into each other on the oasis.
It was an epic collision between two civilizations.
Without the emergence of Yan Liang, a time traveler, the empire in the East would not have been able to expand westward in this era.
If Yan Liang had not appeared, Sima Yi would not have fled westward, and the Persians would not have expanded eastward at this time in response to Sima Yi's instigation.
Then, this encounter between the two major civilizations would not occur in the Western Region.
At this moment, the Chu Empire in the East and the Persian Empire in Central Asia, two completely different civilizations, and their war machines finally collided.
The blood mist soaring into the sky, the broken limbs splashing everywhere, the sound of weapons breaking, and the sound of people jumping on their backs and horses tumbling, all intertwined into a terrifying Shura song.
The collision did not result in a winner. The two civilization's first troops quickly became entangled and began a fierce melee.
The Persians are a semi-nomadic country, and cavalry is a branch of arms they are proud of. The equipment and quality of their knights are truly the best in the world.
Although Da Chu was a farming country, under the control of Yan Liang, the iron-blooded emperor, he wiped out the barbarians on the frontiers and turned the pastures that bred excellent war horses into the territory of Da Chu.
After years of bloody battles and training, Da Chu's cavalry are also elites in hundreds of battles.
Even in terms of discipline, Da Chu's army had an advantage.
It is precisely for this reason that although Pound's army is at a disadvantage in terms of military strength, it is not at a disadvantage at all.
In the rebellious army, Pound's sword danced like a wheel, and the heads of the Persians were flying all over the sky.
The iron spear of Minos was also superb. When the spear passed by, a Chu soldier was stabbed off his horse.
In the thick fog of blood, the two top generals of civilization locked onto each other almost at the same time. (To be continued...)