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From the north to the south of the Tianshan Mountains, two Qin armies attacked at the same time.

Having fewer troops has the advantage of having fewer troops, and supplies are relatively simple.

Du Yu regained Shule with little effort, and captured [-] prisoners in the narrow Congling mountain pass. Even Prince Lan Yu of Dayuan was captured alive, and more than [-] Sasanian generals and nobles from Dawan were captured.

Livestock food and grass piled up like mountains.

This battle made the countries in the Western Regions tremble with fear. Afterwards, Du Yu sent the fierce general Tian Zhang to lead [-] troops to sweep across the thirteen countries that had betrayed the Great Qin.

The Dawan at this time is no longer the Dawan of the past.

The country is sluggish, the king is old, and the princes have seized the throne.

Lan Yu had the advantage, and originally wanted to take advantage of this Eastern Expedition to make military exploits and inherit the throne when he returned home.

But suffered such a disastrous failure.

The morale of Dawan was destroyed by the First World War, and the most elite army in the country was wiped out. The impact on people's hearts can be imagined.

Coupled with the exaggeration of the great Qin's meticulous work, if the country stubbornly resists, when the Qin country arrives, no dog or dog will be left behind, and all will be slaughtered, and the atmosphere of subjugation will be permeated everywhere.

The fear of the Central Plains spreads everywhere.

Although Li Guangli, the general of the second division, failed to destroy Dawan, he slaughtered several cities, leaving a terrible memory in the local area.

The rich and powerful lords rushed to flee to the river, but their carriages were obviously not as fast as the Qin army's light cavalry, and it might not be effective to escape to the river.

The rioters broke out and looted everywhere.

Before the Qin army arrived, the city was filled with people and black smoke billowed.

Xi Zuo has long been waiting in front of the city gate.

Many cities surrendered voluntarily in order to avoid massacres.

There were also some big cities that refused to surrender. Du Yu drove the captives to attack the city, and then hung Lan Yu on the flagpole and pushed him up to attack the city with the Qin army.

After entering the Dawan Basin, food is no longer a problem.

Dawan couldn't even organize a decent resistance team, and the country was in chaos, allowing the Qin army to attack the city and seize the territory.

Du Yu did not hesitate to capture the thief first, and ordered Ma Xun to lead [-] Qin troops as the vanguard to attack Guishan City, his capital.

Du Yu and King Yang Jing of Khotan led the army behind.

The capital city was besieged, and in the eyes of many people, the situation was over, and the merchants of Dawan Kingdom were the first to surrender.

They have good eyes and ears, and they are the biggest beneficiaries of the Silk Road. They have a lot of secret contacts with Zhen Fusi, and Dawan's information is sent out one by one from them.

He also cooperated with the Xuanyi envoys to create speeches about the subjugation of the country, which made people panic.

The household registration of a Qin person makes them willingly betray their homeland...

Soon, a Dawanyi Congjun army was organized, with a total of 5 horses.

The merchants sacrificed their livers and lungs to Daqin, contributed all their private troops and servants, and fooled many herdsmen and farmers who had no land.

Various methods made Du Yu eye-opening and amazed.

"The people in the city are standing still. The Great Qin King's Master has not committed any crimes all the way. Surrender quickly and avoid being slaughtered. The General Protector has promised that as long as you leave the city, you will be the people of Great Qin from now on!"

The elites of the Great Qin Dynasty were scholars, and they were powerful gentry.

The elites in Dawan are merchants.

No matter how powerful the gentry is, there is a little bit of shame...

At least on the surface, it won't make things too extreme. After all, after reading the sage books for so many years, I still need to save face.

Merchants, on the other hand, have no scruples and can sell anything for profit...

Daqin's unification of the Western Regions, Dawan, and Hezhong is precisely in their interests. The commercial taxes set by Dawan and Sasan are more than twice that of Daqin.

After the business tax is paid, there are customs duties, tolls...

The court of the Sassanian Dynasty had far less control over the region than the Great Qin Dynasty, and each region had to pay another tax.

If there is no special way, merchants will be eaten and there will be no bones left.

On the contrary, Daqin is extremely open-minded and fair.

Unify business taxes, protect business travel, and strictly prohibit local governments from increasing business taxes at will.

The most important thing is that Daqin recognizes the private property of merchants.

All businesses in the world are the same, bullish but not bearish. If the previous battle in Hezhong made them still have doubts, then this battle has completely proved the strength of Daqin.

Many Dawan merchants have been to Guanzhong, Daxing, Luoyang, Chengdu and other big cities, and they know how strong the Central Plains is.

It is no exaggeration to say that Daqin is the beacon of civilization in this era.

The Great Qin was not born in the sky, and eternity is like a long night!
Central Plains may have deficiencies, but it has been improving and moving forward.

And many dynasties in history lay flat directly, and every day is a day...

What's more, Daqin advocated Qinyi's family and did not reject their foreign business stocks. You must know that the caste system of Sasanian Persia oppressed even their own people.

It is self-evident what to do in this situation.

"What are the people in the city waiting for? Do you want to be massacred?"

The merchants' voices became louder and more excited, as if they had won the battle.

"Surrender, surrender!"

The volunteers surrounded the city and shouted.

The city is still hesitating.

Du Yu led the soldiers and pushed the captured catapults up. Unfortunately, this time they marched, they did not bring much fuel and fuel, otherwise there is no need to talk nonsense, but it is not a big problem to scare them.

Drums and horns blared.

Dozens of catapults fired fierce fire oil, followed by a dense rain of rockets.

Immediately, the city was ignited with monstrous flames.

After the fire burned for half an hour, the city gate obediently opened...

The city of Dawan was built quite solidly, with an inner city and an outer city. Hundreds of years ago, it could withstand Li Guangli's siege for more than forty days.

But Du Yu is best at attacking the mind, and he is particularly experienced in dealing with such things. He distributed the fields and pastures of the nobles to the low-level herdsmen and farmers, and the whole country rejoiced, from resisting the Qin army at the beginning to leading the way.

Some places simply organized uprisings to join the army and actively cooperated with the Qin army.

In many cases, the Qin army didn't even need to make a move. Yi Cong cooperated with the people in the city to break through the city.

Although there is still resistance everywhere, it has been unable to change the general trend.

The deputy king of Dawan, Qu Ke, led more than [-] troops to flee to Sassanid, announcing the official collapse of the Dawan Kingdom.

Du Yu appointed Lan Yu as the new king of Dawan in order to reduce the conflict in the middle school.

Immediately Xun became the governor of Dawan. The king of Dawan was obviously empty-handed and had no real power at all. All power was in the hands of the Qin army.

The Dawan Basin is the size of one or two counties in the Central Plains.

But this place is so fertile that it can be called the Land of Abundance. It is the birthplace of the Mesopotamia. The water network is densely covered. There are more than [-] cities in size. The soil is suitable for rice and wheat. There are Pu Tao wine and many horses. .

Later generations will only have such a large piece of land to support a population of 700 million.

It can be called the best foothold for Daqin.

The strategic location is excellent, with the Qihe River Basin to the north, Shule to the east, Daxia to the south (the Bactria area mainly controlled by the Serbian tribes is called Daxia in Chinese historical records), and the river to the west. Sending troops from this place is condescending to the surroundings.

The main reason why the Han Dynasty stopped at Tianshan was that Li Guangli did not fully control the place.

Du Yu did not send troops to Hezhong in a hurry, but strengthened the foundation, built cities and passes, and arranged defenses.

Changed Dawan to Xingqin Commandery, and set up four counties, each with Xuanyi envoy as county magistrate, Jin Yiwei as county lieutenant, and five hundred Qin troops guarding the area.

Take out the treasures in Dawan's general treasury, and reward the countries that accompanied them.

Khotan profited the most, and with Du Yu's permission, [-] Sasanian prisoners were distributed.