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Chapter 1139: The Battle of Dawan(1/2)

As soon as the local administrative power in Hexi fell into his hands, Zhang Yue immediately charged with favoritism, dereliction of duty, corruption and other crimes, and eliminated hundreds of unobedient local officials at designated locations.

Among them, there were two prefects and a county lieutenant.

Of course, he has no right to deal with these people.

Therefore, they could only be summoned to Heicheng Pass on the Day of Emperors and put them under house arrest in disguise.

At the same time, he sent someone to Chang'an to present the bullet stamp.

After doing these things, the whole of Hexi immediately became silent.

Zhang Yue's authoritarianism was completely settled in the Hexi region.

However, Zhang Yue felt that it was not enough!

Because, this is just a false authority, but it sounds nice on the name.

Local officials and local institutions are still not his people. If you want to make trouble, you can do it anytime!

Therefore, Zhang Yue immediately started preparing to carry out public examinations in Hexi to select talents and enrich the local area.

At the same time, he ordered people to return to Chang'an, and asked Dong Yue to mobilize a group of scholars as soon as possible to support the border.

Just as Zhang Yue was about to leave Juyan, go to Hehuang, and deal with the issue of the affiliated vassal states in Hexi, Tian Shui sent someone to send him back his first observation report on the battlefield in Dayuan.

Zhang Yue finished reading the report, put it together, handed it to Fang Wei, and instructed him: "Put it away, I will order someone to copy it, send it back to Chang'an, and transfer it to Shiqu Pavilion for archive!"

"No!" Fang Wei took the order and left.

Zhang Yue sighed with some emotion: "The ancestors of Wanren would probably never dream of what they are today!"

Once upon a time, the Macedonian Empire swept across Europe and Asia, and the soldiers were approaching the Indus River, and whipped the Brahmins.

His pioneer even crossed the Palacio Mountains, crossed the medicine and killed water, and established the Alexander East City in the hinterland of Dayuan to boast about his martial arts.

Even more than a hundred years ago, Antioch III's expedition almost rewrites the history of Alexander's conquest.

However, in Dayuan, the crown established by the descendants of the Macedonian Greeks has become a battlefield for melee between many countries.

The Huns and Wuheng cavalry rage within their territory.

The historical castles were burned in the midst of war.

Countless people were captured by the Huns and Wusun cavalry, and then classified according to gender, age, and appearance by counting and dividing the nobles.

Just like herders divide cattle and sheep into circles according to male, female, size, and hair.

The defeated and the captured were strung without dignity by ropes and drove them to the Western Regions of the Huns.

Along the way, crying sounded throughout the world.

According to Tianshui's description, "Tears are like rain, and they are endless, and medicine kills water and is sad for it."

But this is the best outcome for these people.

Moreover, it was the treatment that the Han family received after they intervened.

Otherwise, at least most of these prisoners would die!

Now, with the Han battlefield observation team led by Tian Shui, at least the Huns dare not take any action at will.

If this is the case, Zhang Yue would not sigh.

The key is that Tian Shui reported that in the Dayuan army, an army that was obviously not Dayuan was found.

The Huns even captured many prisoners. After interrogation, they learned that they were cavalrymen from Kangju.

This made the Huns furious and decided to put Kangju on the next target after destroying Dayuan.

The prisoners of war in Kangju also revealed another fact to the Huns that they were invited by the Yuezhi people to intervene in the Dayuan War.

So, the Hun nobles heard it and were like drinking strong wine.

He became excited on the spot. According to the information observed and explored by Tianshui, the Huns were stepping up their interrogation of prisoners of war and collecting information about the Yuezhi.

Some of the Huns even said something in private that made Zhang Yue frightened: "Why have to fight the Han to death? It's better to ask Yuezhi to attack him in the west and seize the land, people, and livestock. Wouldn't it be fun?!"

If this person's remarks become the mainstream thoughts of the Huns.

Zhang Yue knew that the Xiongnu migration westward would probably arrive sooner or later!

Once the Huns begin to move westward, can the Yuezhi monk in the Weishui River Basin stop these guys?

The answer is probably not.

After all, even if the Huns were defeated and fought repeatedly in front of the Han army, it seemed that they were no longer enough to threaten the Han Dynasty's East Asian hegemony.

However, the Huns were monsters who had been raising poison for a hundred years in the East Asian monster room.

Its combat power is so strong that no one can defeat it except the Han Dynasty!

What about the Yuezhi people?

Back then, they were defeated generals of the Huns.

Now, it has been nearly a hundred years since the Yuezhi moved westward.

They established their own rule in the Weishui River Basin, but the enemies around them were too weak.

The only Daxia Kingdom that could be fought against was already in chaos for decades when the Yuezhi people arrived.

Other so-called opponents are enemies like San Ge and Kangju, who do not even have the ability to practice for the Yuezhi people.

Zhang Yue remembers that in history, in the early years of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Kushan Empire in its heyday provoked the Eastern Han Dynasty with an army of 70,000, and then Ban Dingyuan led less than 2,000 Han troops to the ground and repeatedly rubbed them.

So, it’s not that Zhang Yue looked down on the Yuezhi people.

In fact, in the eyes of the monsters in the East Asia monster room, they looked like a group of primary school students playing with pesticides, purely a croaker pecking at each other.

I'm afraid that if you don't even look at the qualifications for a formation duel, you will be hit by a six-point shot.

Therefore, Zhang Yue had to postpone his trip, stay in Juyan, and closely monitor the changes in the situation.

As expected, only a few days later, Tian Shui's second report was sent to Juyan.

Although these two reports are only a few days apart, their dates are half a month apart.

In this new report, Tian Shui reported to Zhang Yue the latest progress of the Huns: in the eighth autumn, the Huns defeated Ershi City and killed the city guards. They were surrendered 7,000 soldiers and captured more than 20,000 people. So they collected 300 miles near Ershi City and sought more than 3,000 horses from Dayuan.

"August month Xinmao?" Zhang Yue converted: "It was twenty days ago, August 23..."

In other words, the Huns' movements were very fast, so fast that they surprised Zhang Yue!

It took less than two months from Xiayu Chengcheng to Xiaershi City!

During this period, Zhang Yue called him to stop for half a month.

It seems that the fortress of the Dayuan people was not as strong as they thought in front of the cannons, shields and cloud ladders learned from the Han family.

After the Ershi was defeated, the rule of the Dayuan people in the entire Yaoshui River Basin had already been disintegrated.

Now, the Huns' army can unscrupulously approach Guishan City, the last legacy left by Alexander in East Asia, the expedition of the East.

To be honest, Zhang Yue is deeply suspicious of whether the people of Dayuan can persist.

"As Ershi City was lost, Guishan City lost its fulcrum on the north bank where medicine killed water..." Zhang Yue found the Dayuan map, studied it carefully, and thought: "I'm afraid that the atmosphere of surrenderism in Dayuan will continue to rise..."

More than ten years ago, the people of Dayuan knelt down to the Han army on the expedition.

Now, if the Huns exerted enough pressure, Zhang Yue felt that there was no reason for the Dayuan people not to kneel down for the second time.

Even though the Kangju people gave them reinforcements, it seemed that the Yuezhi people also made some promise.

However, if the Dayuan people were desperate about the future of the war, then surrender was inevitable.

Moreover, with the example of Yu Chengcheng in front, Zhang Yue felt that the Dayuan nobles in Guishan City probably did not have the determination to resist to the end!

If the Huns complete the strategy of destroying Dayuan within this year, this would be extremely unfavorable for Zhang Yue.

So, after just thinking for a moment, Zhang Yue made a decision.

He immediately sent people to Dayuan and conveyed his instructions to Tianshui, and made stricter restrictions on the war actions of the Huns.

In the name of benevolence and righteousness, and in the name of morality, he should hold back the speed of the Huns' march as much as possible.

But this can only delay, but cannot fundamentally alleviate the pressure of Dayuan people.

Therefore, the envoy also brought Zhang Yue's second instructor to order Tian Shui to contact Wusun Kunmowengguimi.

It implies that the Han family will support Wusun, who is a "relative" and "ally".

It also implied that the Wusun people would fully support Wusun's "just cause" in Dayuan in terms of economy, arms and materials.

When necessary, the Han authorities will grant Wusun Kunmo the full responsibility of disposing of Dayuan.

There is no doubt that this is sow discord.

It was a naked war instigation!

It is a strategy to break up the alliance between the Wusun and the Huns and fight.

Will the Wusun people bite the hook?

Zhang Yue judged that as long as the Wusun people were not stupid, they would undoubtedly bite this hook.
To be continued...
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