The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1008 Recovering the Western Regions
In the autumn of 210 A.D. and the eighth year of Kaiyuan in the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor of the Song Dynasty, Lu Heng, had good news in Gaoping for several consecutive months!
The corners of Lu Heng's smile can reach the roots of his teeth, and he is cheerful every day, completely forgetting the haze of the previous month.

A lot of good news made Lu Heng feel better, his appetite improved, he ate well, and gained some weight thanks to the contribution of Lingzhou cattle and sheep.

The reason why the Great Song Emperor is in such a good mood is naturally that good things continue!

In May, Zhuge Liang broke through the Tianmen Formation and destroyed all the Liao army. In late May, Di Qing captured Puchanghai. In the same month, Yue Fei captured Pulehai and joined Lu Xun's army to capture Yinzhi, Pulei, Baishan and other places.

In early June, Princess Shuangyang captured Huanni, the original capital of Shanshan. Du Gao's army captured Yanqi, Weili, Weixu and other places around Qinhai.

Zhao Yun and Tai Shici commanded the Leiqi Battalion and Fengqi Battalion to attack Wusun. In the same month, Wusun announced that he would no longer belong to the Liao Kingdom.

In June, Yelu Abaoji returned to the chariot division of the capital. Lu Xun sent Yue Fei to capture the front of the chariot division to cut off the last link of the Liao Kingdom's intervention in the Western Regions, and he led the army to attack Jinmancheng, the last fortress in front of the capital of the Liao Kingdom.

Almost at the same time, Boss Cao won Xiaowan because of Xiao Huxuan's big gift package, and Yelu Dashi and Wumahai fled westward to Khotan, completing the cooperation strategy between Da Song and Cao Wei.

In July, Du Gao's army entered Kucha, Di Qing's army defeated Jingjue, Boss Cao took Nanshan, Zhao Yun, Tai Shici and Wusun's original noble allied forces confronted each other, Du Gao's army broke through Shanmo and Wensu and divided again.

Yue Sheng's army led an army to continue westward to attack Dawan, while Du Gao's army attacked Shule from the Congling River.

In the same month, Yelu Dashi and Wumahai gave up Khotan and fled to Congling and chose to fight Da Song here again. The Di Qing Army took over Khotan, and Boss Cao successfully captured Ronglu and Qule.

In August, Zhao Yun and Tai Shici defeated Wusun's legacy noble coalition forces and regained Wusun. In this battle, more than 5 heads were beheaded, more than [-] troops were collected and surrendered, and countless cattle and sheep were gathered. Obviously, Wusun was in Yelu Abaoji It was not very stable under the control of Wusun, and such a huge army was hidden. In the first battle, Wusun was determined to completely wipe out Wusun, a force that split China from later generations.

In the same month, Yue Sheng defeated Dawan, Du Gao captured Shule, Di Qing joined forces with Popishan, Shache and Du Gao joined forces, and the two armies swept across Puli and Deruo. Twenty thousand Liao soldiers were ready to fight to the death.

Boss Cao occupied Kunlun Mountain at this time, and went west to take down the final target, Wuchao.

Also this month, Lu Heng received an important news that Yelu Abaoji was ill and the capital was moved to Longcheng.

This news means that Yelu Abaoji has completely given up the Western Regions, but there is no way that the Western Regions have completely broken away from the control of the Liao Kingdom if they don't want to give up.

The Liao Kingdom, which lost control of the Western Regions, was placed too far ahead of Cheshi, and although Jin Mancheng confronted the Lu Xun Army with the support of Yelu Abaoji after returning to the Liao Kingdom, it is now in jeopardy.

Without Jin Mancheng, the last stronghold, the Che division of the capital would be completely exposed to the soldiers of the Song Dynasty, so it is better to make preparations in advance.

So Yelu Abaoji's decision was to move the capital. From the battle on the grassland against the Great Song Dynasty, it can be seen that the grassland is the home of the Khitan people. It is also an indisputable fact that the Song Dynasty had a large number of troops.

The Khitan people can recover from the grassland, Yelu Abaoji decided to move the capital to Longcheng after thinking twice!
Of course, the move of the capital this time is not the kind of settlement and slowly moving the capital, it is more similar to Dong Zhuo's forceful and hasty move of the capital. Yelu Abaoji moved all the population in Cheshi to the grassland.

As for Yelu Abaoji's illness, he was defeated too badly and angry. In addition, the betrayal of Wusun and Xiao Hulu made the situation in the Western Regions completely out of control, forcing Yelu Abaoji to give up the Western Regions.

Fortunately, Shuluping was able to take charge of the overall situation during Yelu Abaoji's serious illness. In addition, the former was not very old and took a few days of hard medicine to recover forcibly, but the root cause of the disease was left behind.

Yelu Abaoji rescued Jin Mancheng many times to buy time for moving the capital. Lu Xun learned that Yelu Abaoji's ideas did not push too hard, but always maintained a threat to Jin Mancheng.

Cheshi forcibly relocated the population, gathered property, cattle and sheep, etc. The tragedy of Dong Zhuo's forced relocation of the capital more than ten years ago was repeated in the Western Regions, and a large number of Cheshi people were displaced.

During these riots, Yelu Abaoji's reputation also plummeted, which is the fundamental reason why Lu Xun did not rush to attack the city.

Lu Xun knew very well that this time the Song Dynasty could win the Western Regions but could not destroy the Liao Dynasty!

Forcibly biting the Western Regions out of Yelu Abaoji's hands, this is already the greatest victory.

The Liao people retreated to the grassland, and the current strength of the Song Dynasty was not enough to conquer the grassland.

Lu Xun loves Yelu Abaoji's self-destructive reputation!
Soon into late autumn, Yelu Abaoji also completed the migration of the population, burned down Cheshi, the capital of the Liao Kingdom, and withdrew from Jinmancheng and went north to the grassland.

The fire in Cheshi, the capital of the Liao Kingdom, burned on the snow-capped mountains for two days and two nights. After the fire was extinguished, Lu Xun's army took down a piece of ruins without any effort.

Although the city was destroyed and the population was relocated, Da Song took over the Tianshan Mountains, the northeast gateway of the Western Regions!

Almost at the same time, Yelu Dashi and Wumahan finally fought Du Gao and Di Qing's army in Congling, and they were defeated and returned. The last two fled to Guishuang.

The Song Dynasty completely captured Congling and Wulei, and Boss Cao took advantage of the situation to attack Wuju. In this way, the Song Dynasty completely recovered the Western Regions.

And Lu Heng's Song Dynasty became the second dynasty to recover the Western Regions since the Han Dynasty.

In October, Lu Heng, Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, ordered the abolition of the Western Regions Protectorate System, and merged the entire Western Regions occupied by the Great Song Dynasty into the Western Regions.

Divided into Northeast Tianshan states and merged into Cheshi County, Shanshan, Qiemo and Loulan merged into Shanshan County, Qiuci County, Dawan County, Shache and Shule merged into Shache County, Wusun County, Khotan and Jingjue Weijingjue County, Congling and Wulei merged into seven counties including Congling County.

The Western Regions area is very large, with a quarter of the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. In order to stabilize the Marshal Xuanwu of the Great Song Dynasty in the Western Regions stationed in Tianshan, the reconstruction of Cheshi in Tianshan Mountains will not be built as a capital city but as a military fortress.

Ma Teng, Marshal Luwu of the Song Dynasty was stationed in Wusun County, and Zhang Xiu, Marshal Zhang Xiu of the Kaiming Dynasty of the Song Dynasty was stationed in Dawan County to deter Linguo and Yelu Dashi from fleeing westward.

In the Song Dynasty, Marshal Di Qing of the Western White Tiger was stationed in Shanshan County, Zhang Liao's army was stationed in Congling County, Zhang Ren's army returned to Yumen Pass, Du Gao returned to defend Bingzhou, and Tai Shici and Zhao Yun guarded Lingzhou.

In order to better govern and develop the Western Regions, Zhuge Liang was appointed Prime Minister of the Western Regions, and his status was equivalent to that of the left and right prime ministers.

(End of this chapter)