Chapter 291 A man should carry a seven-foot sword in his lifetime to ascend to the throne of the emperor!

Chapter 291: A man should carry a seven-foot sword in his lifetime to ascend to the throne of the emperor!

The Kingdom of Shule, whose king ruled Shule City, was 9,350 li away from Chang'an. It had 1,510 households, 18,647 people, and 2,000 soldiers.

Shule City is located at the intersection of the southern and northern roads of the Western Regions. Since ancient times, it has been the main entrance and exit for east-west transportation.

Whether you go west out of the Pamir Mountains, enter the northern route of the Western Regions, or go into the southern route of the Western Regions, Shule is ultimately a place that cannot be avoided.

At this time in the vast desert,

A large army appeared, carrying the flag of the King of Chu, coming from the direction of Dayuan and preparing to return eastward.

Those are the Han army.

In fact, the so-called large army consisted of only more than 20,000 soldiers.

"Is it the Han army?" The King of Shule was watching from the top of the city, feeling a little anxious.

"It's the Han army! My king, let's go out and greet them!"

"Yes, open the city gate quickly. We can't neglect the Han envoys. Qiuci, Gumo, and Dayuan are all examples of our past."

……

Hula~
The city gates were opened. Even though the Han army was still far away from Shule City, the King of Shule had already opened the city gates to welcome them.

They are neither blind nor deaf, and they have a clear grasp of the general situation in the Western Regions.

After the fall of Qiuci, Shule knew full well that they would soon return to the embrace of the Han Dynasty and return to their original status.

What they didn't expect was that the Han army would attack Dayuan and break more than 30 cities in a row, causing rivers of blood. When the Dayuan royal city was broken, its king fled.

The Battle of Dayuan was a hundred times more brutal than the one fought by General Li Guangli hundreds of years ago.

However, it was at this time that the Kushan king personally arrived and sent an army of 200,000 across the Pamir Plateau and arrived in Dayuan...

At that time, the King of Dayuan knelt down and kowtowed to the Kushan monarch, begging for protection with tears in his eyes.

At that time, the King of Wusun also sent 50,000 soldiers southward into the territory of Dayuan.

At that time, the Northern Xiongnu, who were living in Kangju, took the opportunity to lead their 10,000 cavalrymen south to Dayuan.

At that time, the Southern Xiongnu Zuo Xian Wang also led 30,000 people across thousands of miles and finally arrived in Dayuan...

All parties gathered at the foot of Ershi City.

The Kushan Empire was the Great Yuezhi that once existed in the Liangzhou area. They were bullied and humiliated by the Xiongnu and their land was taken away. They were forced to migrate westward and then became completely prosperous.

Wusun, once a fence-sitter between the Han Dynasty and the Xiongnu, finally stood completely on the side of the Han Dynasty and dealt a fatal blow to the Xiongnu.

The Northern Xiongnu were pursued by the Han army for thousands of miles, and finally could not even stay in the Western Regions. They could only flee to the northwest and live in Kangju.

The Southern Xiongnu, the running dogs of the Han Dynasty, seemed to have made a mistake in choosing sides and had to travel thousands of miles to try to make up for it.

Hundreds of years ago, Dayuan was disrespectful to the Han Dynasty and was massacred tragically.

Now they are disrespectful to the Han people and will be slaughtered even more miserably...

Love and hate, entanglements and disputes, hundreds of years of disputes, all parties are present...

……

In the marching ranks of the Han army,

Under that royal flag, with King Liu Wu of Chu at the center, there were not only Chen Dao, Gao Shun and others, but also some nobles from the Western Regions.

They were dressed in extremely gorgeous clothes, but were extremely respectful to Liu Wu and the other Han army generals.

"Kushan King, please don't be unhappy. We are taking you back to your hometown in Liangzhou..."

"That's right. You have abandoned your ancestors and even disowned your own people. You actually mobilized an army of 200,000 to cross the Pamir Plateau and join forces with the Huns to fight against us!"

"Have you forgotten how you were bullied by the Huns?"

The Kushan King was helpless and speechless, but more importantly, he was at a loss as to what to do.

The army crossed the Pamir Mountains and wanted to take the opportunity to sweep across the Western Regions and fight back to Liangzhou. Unexpectedly...

Along the way, these Han soldiers taught him how to worship his ancestors when he returned home.

Everyone is talking...

The ruler of the Kushan Empire could only smile, because if these barbaric Han soldiers were unhappy, they would beat him up.

The Kushan King looked back at the King of Dayuan. The King of Dayuan was already a dead dog. His country was completely gone, and he himself had become a prisoner.

But it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. I thought that after arriving in the Central Plains, I could pray to the Emperor of Han, and maybe there would be hope of restoring my country.

Riding beside Liu Wu was the eldest son of the Wusun King, who was already the future ruler of Wusun. "King of Chu, look, the city of Shule should be ahead."

"Your reputation has spread beyond the Pamir Plateau. Now everyone in the world knows about it. The small city of Shule will certainly be very respectful."

Wusun, the largest country in the Western Regions, was ruled by a descendant of Princess Jieyou. It was the ruler of the Western Road of the Han Dynasty for hundreds of years and its most reliable and powerful ally.

Wusun sent troops to Dayuan, not because the Han Dynasty arrived in Dayuan, but because the Kushan Empire arrived in Dayuan...

The Kushan Empire was an empire, and the Han Dynasty was also an empire.

But the Han Dynasty is very far away. The core area, the place called Central Plains, is thousands of miles away.

The Kushans are different, there is only a Pamir Mountain barrier...

For its own interests, Wusun made friends with distant countries and attacked nearby ones, just as it had fought on the side of Han between the Han and Xiongnu. Now, it was between the Kushans and the Han, and was on the side of Han.

And after learning that the Northern and Southern Huns had also joined the battle, he sent all the cavalry in the country to join the battle.

After all, this war was just a strategic intention for the Han Dynasty, but a matter of life and death for Wusun. The 200,000-strong Kushan army crossed the Pamir Plateau and entered the Western Regions!
The Northern and Southern Xiongnu also met in Dayuan...

This made the Wusun people's nerves completely tense.

However, at the gate of Yishi City, the performance of the Han army completely resolved their crisis and also made the largest country in the Western Regions completely surrender.

Liu Wu remembered: "Shule City..."

Twenty-six men defended the lonely city, and thirteen soldiers returned to Yumen...

"The city in front of us was once defended by the famous Han general Geng Gong."

That is another story that shocked the world and made the gods and ghosts cry.

At this time,

Lu Meng suddenly rode up from behind and said, "King of Chu!"

"King Chu!"

"I'm afraid Taishi Ziyi is not going to make it!"

Liu Wu's face changed: "What did you say? Wasn't the military doctor getting better a few days ago?"

Lu Meng: "Alas!"

"King of Chu, Taishi Ci wants to see you."

Liu Wu immediately turned his horse around and rushed to the rear of the army...

When they reached a carriage, Liu Wu dismounted. It was a very luxurious and spacious carriage, which was originally the carriage of the King of Dayuan, but now became Taishi Ci's sick carriage.

There were two beautiful Hu concubines serving in the carriage, but Taishi Ci was already extremely weak...

"Chu, Chu, King Chu..."

"Alone."

"Ha, ha, ha... I still remember the first time I met the King of Chu..."

"It's in Shenting Ridge."

"At that time, Sun Bofu, the former lord of Jiangdong, challenged me in front of the battle line. I put on my armor, mounted my horse, and rode out of the camp with my spear in hand, shouting: Follow me if you have the guts..."

Liu Wu stepped forward, looked at Taishi Ci and said, "Taishi Ci is a truly powerful general. I can help him!"

“Ha, ha, ha, hahaha…” Taishi Ci laughed.

Smile without regrets.

"Back then, Zilie stopped thirteen generals from Jiangdong for me alone at Shenting Ridge..."

"Now, I am leading my 5,000 Danyang soldiers to defend the city of Ershi and hold back the 130,000 Kushan troops for the King of Chu..."

"It's settled now..."

Taishi Ci said this.
Liu Wu smiled bitterly: "Taishi Ci, what a brave general."

Suddenly, Taishi Ci perked up and grabbed Liu Wu's arm tightly.

Just listen to him:

"A man should carry a seven-foot sword in his lifetime to ascend to the throne of the emperor!"

"My ambition has not been fulfilled, what can I do but die?"

"What a pity, Zilie, I won't be able to see the day when you ascend the throne..."

Say it,
The big hand that was holding Liu Wu loosened.

Taishi Ziyi no longer had a breath left and died in Shule.

(End of this chapter)