A thousand-year-old family begins with one fighting against ten thousand.

Under Wei Liang's leadership, the imperial army advanced with unstoppable momentum, achieving victory after victory on the battlefield.

The allied forces of the Western Xiongnu and the Parthian Empire retreated again and again.

Although the Han Dynasty was powerful, it was almost impossible for it to destroy the Western Xiongnu.

After all, the Western Xiongnu were too far from the Han Dynasty's homeland, and the size of the Western Regions was simply not enough to support the army's material consumption.

However, many of the surrounding vassal states of the Western Regions have now grown up and are able to provide a steady stream of food and weapons to the reinforcements.

With sufficient logistical support, the Western Xiongnu were like grasshoppers in autumn, unable to hop around for more than a few days.

Relying on the advantage of having a population of soldiers, the Western Xiongnu led their herdsmen in a continuous retreat.

They also took the opportunity to sell out the Parthian Empire, causing heavy losses to the Parthian Empire's reinforcements.

The remaining remnants of the defeated army retreated to the Parthian Empire. This was the first time the several non-cooperative royal families within the Parthian Empire had truly witnessed the might of the Han Dynasty's army.

Before this, although they knew that the Han Dynasty was powerful and had once destroyed the Northern Xiongnu, who were almost as strong as them.

But ultimately, it didn't feel real; the battlefield was thousands of miles away from them, invisible and intangible.

Based on other people's descriptions, they always felt that it was because the Northern Xiongnu were somewhat incompetent; if it were them, the war would never have turned out so badly.

However, after they actually faced the Han Dynasty head-on, they realized that it wasn't that the Northern Xiongnu were weak, but rather that the Han Dynasty was too strong.

This is similar to a certain bald man; before the Korean War, the US always thought the bald man was trash.

They control most of the country, inherited the war legacy of Japan, and have the support of the United States. Ninety percent of the country's economy is in their hands, and even their army is several times larger than China's.

They couldn't even win against this, and they couldn't even last four years before being driven out of mainland China.

Even after the Korean War, only one of the ten super-combat rabbits from the rabbit army was deployed, yet it defeated the combined forces of several small animals organized by the eagle.

This battle made the US realize just how strong China really is; the bald guy's defeat was not unjustified.

The immense threat from the Han Dynasty brought the seven royal families, each with their own agendas, back together under the emperor's command.

The united Parthian Empire experienced a surge in strength, continuously expanding its legions and reinforcing its border defenses based on its accumulated resources.

After being betrayed by the Western Xiongnu, the Parthian Empire stopped paying attention to this unreliable ally and focused on strengthening its own defenses.

No matter what, the Western Xiongnu were comparable to an empire; they weren't so easily destroyed.

They fought with Rome for over a century, yet neither nation was destroyed.

Not to mention that the Western Xiongnu were a nomadic people; if they couldn't win, couldn't they just run away?

Even the Northern Xiongnu led their people to the northern wilderness, letting the Western Xiongnu and the Han Dynasty fight it out first.

Meanwhile, with the war with the Roman Empire coming to an end, the Parthian Empire recalled its troops from the western border.

At the same time, envoys were sent to sign a peace treaty with the Roman Empire. After all, the ambitions of the Han Dynasty were well known, and with the emergence of the feudal system, the biggest problem between the Han Dynasty and Rome was no longer distance.

Even if my great Han dynasty cannot rule it, I will still make your territory my fiefdom.

The tyranny of the Han people was almost ingrained in their bones.

They were never a match to begin with, and now, without the Parthian Empire as an ally, the Western Xiongnu were even less of a match for the Han army.

But they had no choice but to sell out this ally. Back then, if they hadn't sold out the Parthian Empire, the Western Xiongnu would have been surrounded and wiped out by the Han Dynasty.

The fact that most of the core royal family members were wiped out is no different from the extermination of the entire clan.

After a full year of fighting, even though the Western Xiongnu traded space for time, they still ended up in dire straits.

Most of the Western Xiongnu territory had been conquered, leaving only the northernmost part of their land.

They decided to fight the Han Dynasty to the death in this place.

Seeing that the Western Xiongnu were about to be destroyed, the Aisha Empire could no longer sit idly by.

They originally thought the Western Xiongnu could hold out for a few years, but they didn't expect them to be so useless, only lasting a year.

They knew the Han dynasty was strong, but this was just too outrageous.

That was a vast empire with tens of millions of people.

Even if they were unwilling, they had no choice but to send troops to the rescue.

The Western Xiongnu were still valuable to them, as they could help them tie down the military forces of the Han Dynasty.

If the Western Xiongnu are destroyed, they will be next.

Therefore, the Western Xiongnu cannot die now. Even if they have been betrayed by the Western Xiongnu, they still have to bite the bullet and go to save them.

This feeling is as disgusting as eating a dead rat.

However, they did not choose to go directly to the battlefield, but instead tried to contain the Han army on its flanks.

There was another empire's 20-strong army right next to them, which even the Han army could not ignore, and they mobilized a large number of troops to defend it.

This resulted in a significant reduction in pressure on the Western Xiongnu at the front lines, with the main battlefield consisting more of allied forces from various vassal states than the elite troops of the Han Dynasty.

This was also Wei Liang's way of deliberately honing the armies of these vassal states, since they had always been fighting weaker states and had never fought against these top-tier empires.

Now that the Western Xiongnu have been nearly defeated, these countries can become even stronger by honing their skills.

With such a half-dead empire, there aren't many opportunities to be its adversary.

Meanwhile, Wei Liang was also waiting for an opportunity. Emperor He of Han had once again dispatched a reinforcement army, which was about to arrive on the battlefield.

This reinforcement will completely block the Western Xiongnu's retreat, ensuring they will never have the chance to escape to the far north like the Northern Xiongnu and survive.

In recent years, as the population of the Han Dynasty increased, people began to explore the wild and remote frozen lands further north of the Gobi Desert.

As the explorations moved further north, Han Chinese gradually discovered traces of the Northern Xiongnu.

It's unbelievable that the Northern Xiongnu, who were so badly defeated and driven to this godforsaken place, were still able to survive.

As expected of the Han Dynasty's formidable enemy, their resilience is truly terrifying.

The Han Dynasty would never repeat the same mistake. It had prepared an army long ago, ready to cut off the Xiongnu's retreat route.

The commander of this army was a very famous general in the original history, Dou Xian, the second Marquis of Champion in the original history.

He led an army of 30,000, making a large detour from the northern grasslands, and circled around to the rear of the Western Xiongnu.

If the Han Dynasty hadn't thoroughly explored this area over the years, such a long distance would have been enough to drive anyone to despair.

Without a map, it is absolutely impossible to find a location accurately.

In the autumn of the third year of Emperor He of Han, Wei Liang, who was at the front line, received a message from Dou Xian that they had arrived at the battle site.

Wei Liang beat the drums to rally his troops and launched a full-scale attack.

The Western Xiongnu initially thought this was a routine battle and, as usual, dispatched tens of thousands of troops.

The army quickly realized that the Han army was unusual; it was launching a full-scale attack!

The leader of these tens of thousands of troops was terrified. To think that they were to fight against the entire Han army with just these tens of thousands of troops was really giving him too much credit.