The revival of the Han Dynasty must start with Dong Zhuo

Zhuge Liang and Guan Yu also began to come into contact with the local states in the lower reaches of the Ganges.

"If we can get the support of these states, it will be beneficial to the Han Dynasty in the future!"

After all, the population of Kushan has reached tens of millions!

Whether it is to establish a state or set up a protectorate in the future, the cooperation of the local people is needed.

Therefore, proper communication with them is also an essential step.

Zhuge Liang brought a guide from the Pyu Kingdom to communicate with the chief of a native tribe.

In order to express his goodwill and avoid provoking the other party's resistance, Zhuge Liang used his words as carefully as possible to express the goodwill of the Han Dynasty towards these people.

However, these local states obviously did not quite understand Zhuge Liang's attitude.

It was the guide from the Pyu Kingdom who translated the other party's words, and Zhuge Liang was dumbfounded to hear the truth from the other party's mouth -

"Caste system?"

Only then did Zhuge Liang realize that there was such a bizarre system in the land of Kushan.

People are born into different classes, high and low, and this cannot be changed forever!

"This……"

Zhuge Liang seemed unable to understand.

What made Zhuge Liang even more incomprehensible was that the people of these local states admired this system very much!

In order to correct their distorted views, Zhuge Liang specifically brought up the history of the Dayuezhi and recounted it.

The original intention was to tell the people of these local states that they were not lowly people.

However, the logic of these native people was obviously too strong, and Zhuge Liang was unable to resist for a while.

"Are you saying that the Yuezhi people who now rule Kushan were actually defeated by the Han Dynasty?"

"No, actually, it's the defeated enemy of the defeated enemy... but it's okay to say that."

For a moment, the people of these princely states became more and more excited!
"Doesn't that mean... the Han people are a more noble caste than the Great Yuezhi people?"

"what?"

Zhuge Liang never thought that this whole topic would eventually lead to the issue of caste.

Zhuge Liang tried his best to communicate with the other party.

But soon Zhuge Liang gave up this impossible task...

No matter what you say to them, they will end up talking about caste and Buddhism.

It seems that apart from this, they have no knowledge of anything else!
In this case, Zhuge Liang could only communicate with the other party in a more understandable way -

"As long as we fight upstream, we can get the property of those people upstream!"

"At the same time, because the Yuezhi were defeated by the Han Dynasty, the Kushan caste system will have to be redefined in the future!"

They don't understand anything about etiquette, education, production and trade.

But they knew clearly about property and the caste system!
Immediately, several local tribes agreed to assist the Han army and took the initiative to help lead the way!
The Ganges, which was originally extremely dangerous, seemed exceptionally docile under the leadership of these local indigenous people.

The Han Dynasty's ships had an unimpeded journey and soon arrived at Pataliputra, the easternmost city of the Kushan Empire and the largest city in the middle reaches of the Ganges.

When the defenders of Hua City saw that the Han Dynasty’s boats were coming from the Ganges, they howled in horror!
The general defending the city quickly blew the horn to signal the enemy to attack!

In addition to the Han army boats on the river, there were also many people from the princely states in the lower reaches of the Ganges on both sides of the Ganges.

Seeing that the Han army had indeed arrived at the city, they all shouted in unclear Chinese: "Attack! Attack!"

However, when the defenders of Huashi City beat the war drums and drove the Kushan-style elephant cavalry to charge out of the city, the local people on the shore scattered in a hurry, completely losing their momentum...

"What on earth are these people here for?"

Sun Ce and Zhou Yu on the warship watched the performance of those people on the shore in silence and shook their heads helplessly.

But then they both looked at the city in front of them and the majestic elephant soldiers.

Cities...

It is called a city, but it is actually very low!
A city of this size would probably be equivalent to a county town in some remote area that was not the seat of government in the Han Dynasty.

However, the elephant soldiers made Sun Ce and Zhou Yu somewhat cautious.

After all, that terrifying figure really gave people a huge shock, forcing them to be cautious.

"Kong Ming had encountered this beast before in Pyu Kingdom. He said that this beast is most afraid of fire and noise."

Sun Ce gestured to the elephant's huge ears on both sides——

"With ears that big, it's no surprise that he's afraid of loud noises!"

And what a coincidence...

The most powerful weapon of the Han people today is filled with gunpowder and loud noises!
"Blast into the center of the elephant herd! Then charge directly into the city!"

In the Han fleet, the artillery that had been prepared long ago roared!

The next moment, dozens of iron bullets the size of a human head were fired at the elephant herd!

One elephant was caught off guard and had its head blown off by a cannonball. The red and white debris quickly splashed onto its colleagues around it!
For a while.

The elephant was frightened, and the people were frightened too!

Elephants have been the overlords of this land since ancient times.

As long as there are elephant soldiers, there is almost no enemy that cannot be defeated!

It is always these elephants that crush the enemies with their iron hooves. How could it be possible that the enemies could crush these elephants?
The soldiers on the elephants were equally unbelievable!
Compared to elephants, they are even more unable to adapt!

Because elephants are animals after all and have no cognition.

But people do!

When the Han people launched an attack using weapons that were far beyond their understanding, the Kushans' sky almost fell!
"The Han people...are invincible!"

As the trade between the Kushans and the Han Dynasty unfolded, the Kushans actually learned about the history of their predecessor, the Yuezhi people.

However, based on the pride of the Kushan Empire today, they all refused to admit their weak past selves.

As for the documents written down in black and white by the Han people, they all have the attitude of "not acknowledging it means it didn't happen", and they completely deny what happened hundreds of years ago.

after all.

How could the powerful Dayuezhi people be defeated by the Xiongnu?

And how could the Huns be defeated by the Han Dynasty?
If the Han people were really as invincible as the rumors said, then why couldn't they see any trace of them?
But today.

The roar of the Han artillery undoubtedly revealed the most unspeakable thing for these Kushans -

“History is all true!”

"The Han people are truly far superior to us Kushans!"

The trembling from the depths of their souls made these high-caste Kushans, who should have fought to the death, drop their weapons and run out of the city!

The frightened elephants were also running rampant, completely destroying the few Kushans who still had the will to fight!
When the native peoples who had fled before saw the mighty power of the Han army, they also rushed out from their hiding places.

They rushed into Huashi City with strange cries, and quickly looted the city. At the same time, they cleaned it up to welcome the new owner here.

Han people!

After only one round of artillery fire, and even before the second round, the huge city of Huashi was captured. Sun Ce was both excited and disappointed after the victory: "Gongjin, the Kushan Empire is a great country after all, how can it be so weak?"

Zhou Yu glanced at the people of the native state who were singing and dancing nearby and said, "Bofu, have you ever thought that it is not that the Kushans are too weak, but that our Han is too strong now?"

"Let me ask you, if there were no warships and artillery today, how would we fight this battle? How would we defeat the Kushan elephants?"

"and……"

Zhou Yu also affirmed the contributions of these native states:

"Even if these people do nothing, just walking along the river bank is a help to us."

"Although they cannot form a large army like us Han people, their numbers are astonishing and can give us courage!"

"Courage?"

Sun Ce's mouth twitched: "Gongjin, are you serious?"

"You saw what these people did just now. They all ran away as soon as the elephant appeared. Where did they get the courage from?"

Zhou Yu remained silent.

"But this is the first battle after all."

"The more wars we wage, the more they should know that the Han are invincible!"

"If we can gather hundreds of thousands of people to the Kushan capital, then this war will be easy!"

The Han people's artillery alone is far from enough to suppress the tens of millions of Kushan people.

But if there were these local people, using the Kushans to fight back against the Kushans, it would be a different situation!

"Bo Fu, you should pay more attention."

"If nothing unexpected happens, our fiefs are probably both in Kushan, so it would be a good idea to gather some people now."

"In the future, we will need people to cultivate the fields and build houses. We should start thinking about these things now!"

manor……

Zhou Yu knows how to motivate Sun Ce!

Sun Ce's eyes lit up immediately: "Gongjin is right!"

"But I have to say it, I feel like the people in these states are actually quite easy to govern..."

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Pataliputra is the easternmost large city of Kushan!
It is located at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers and can control the entire middle Ganges plain!
At the same time, because of its fertile land and dense population, it is also an important source of wealth for the Kushan Empire.

No one would have thought that such a city located at the rear of the Kushan Empire would be captured by the Han army that suddenly appeared!

But Bo Diao looked at the military newspaper in his hand and had to accept a fact -

"Kushan is being attacked from both sides!"

The Han Dynasty's Western Regions Protectorate was in the north, and the Annan Protectorate was in the east, like two strong arms, trapping the Kushan Empire tightly!

Some Kushan nobles were extremely frightened and requested Potiao to transfer the army in the north to the east to recapture Pataliputra!

"Mobilizing troops now? What about the Western Region Protectorate in the north? Are you going to ignore it?"

It is a fact that the Han army gathered troops in Yili!
If the army in the north is transferred away, who can guarantee that these Han troops will not pursue them all the way and directly enter the Kushan territory?
When the Han army attacks from two directions, the Kushan Empire will be doomed!

The Kushan nobles looked ashen.

Hard to imagine.

Not long ago, they were still coveting the Western Regions, fantasizing that one day they would be able to return to their ancestral land of Qilian and completely wash away the humiliation of their ancestors.

But now, we are told that the Han army has appeared in the east, and even Hua City has fallen?
Bo Diao also had a gloomy face at this moment.

At this moment, he suddenly realized why he had previously thought that the Han army was weak.

If he had not seen that the Han army was "soft and easy to bully", how could he have transferred the army to the north in the hope of taking over the Western Regions in one fell swoop?
If the Han army was really "soft and easy to deceive", how could they have captured Hua City in such a short time?
"Cunning Han people! Even more cunning than the Xiongnu!"

"Our ancestors were driven away because they were simple and honest!"

Bo Diao found a reason for himself and his ancestors.

The reason for failure is that the Han people are too cunning!

We, the Great Yuezhi people, are like a white lotus, pure and ignorant, and are played around by these bad guys!

But no matter how much excuses we find, the battle must be fought!

The Kushan Empire had a vast territory, and the mobilization of military forces could not be accomplished overnight.

That's why Bo Diao said that if the army was transferred to the east now, it would most likely be completely surrounded by the Han army before it arrived!
Although the Kushans did not have any military tactics handed down from generation to generation, the Yuezhi people were nomadic after all, and they were very familiar with basic common sense.

"The army in the north cannot retreat!"

"Anyway, most of the troops in the north are cavalry, coming and going like the wind! At worst, we can just fight the Han army!"

"As long as we can defeat the Han army's Western Regions Protectorate, the Han army in the east will not be a concern at all!"

"During this period, the only thing we need to do is to appease the east as much as possible and not let the Han army's advantage in the east expand!"

Bo Diao quickly made arrangements——

"Send the Brahmin monks to the East to organize resistance."

"The Han army suddenly appeared in the east, they must have come from the Ganges waterway... As long as we wait until the rainstorm season, the Han army will surely collapse without a fight!"

The east is mostly made up of local states.

There, caste system is everything! And the highest Brahman is God!

Sending these Brahmin monks to govern is more effective than sending ten thousand troops!
"And I will personally go to fight in the north!"

Although the Kushan Empire had a vast territory, it still could not change the fact that it was essentially an empire established by nomadic people.

At this time, if Bodiao, the King of Kushan and Yuezhi, does not go to the front line to kill the enemy in person, I am afraid that his head will be chopped off soon!
Therefore, the Kushan nobles had no objection to Bo Diao's decision.

However, an old Kushan noble reminded Po Tiao: "If the war is not going well, please withdraw your troops as soon as possible!"

"Your Majesty, you must not repeat the mistakes of the Nameless King!"

The Nameless King was the Kushan king who had made great contributions to the Han Dynasty and requested to marry a Han princess.

After being rejected by Ban Chao, he sent a deputy king named Xie to lead 70,000 troops to the Western Regions to attack Ban Chao.

Ban Chao saw that the enemy outnumbered us, so he adopted the strategy of fortifying the city and clearing the fields, and staying behind closed doors without fighting. Xie attacked Ban Chao but failed, and searched everywhere but gained nothing, so there was a problem with food and fodder.

Ban Chao inferred that Xie would ask Qiuci for help, so he sent troops to ambush on the main road leading to Qiuci.

As expected, all the soldiers who asked for help from Xie were killed and their heads were hung up for Xie. Xie was terrified and knew that there was no way out, so he sent an envoy to Ban Chao to plead guilty and ask for his life. Ban Chao agreed. Since then, the two countries have been living in harmony.

This battle not only made the Han Dynasty realize that they should not be hasty in attacking the Kushan Empire, but also taught the Kushan Empire a lesson that they should not fight the Han Dynasty to the death.

Today, everyone is learning from history and reminding Bo Diao to let him know what are the priorities.

"understood!"

Although Bo Diao responded, his eyes began to wander, and it was obvious that he did not take the warning to heart.

"Don't worry! The Han Dynasty is a great country, and the Kushan Empire is also a great country!"

"The Kushan crisis will soon be resolved!" (End of this chapter)