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Chapter 430: Western Expedition
The second year of Emperor Yang You of the Sui Dynasty.

Many Buddhist temples were built in the areas controlled by the Sui Dynasty, mainly enshrining Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Buddha, and Happy Buddha, and supplemented by Ksitigarbha Buddha, Sunlight Buddha, Moonlight Buddha, and a large number of Arhats.

Obviously, Maitreya Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva also knew that it would be difficult for them to take on Dayu and completely swallow up Jiuzhou with their strength; even if they succeeded, they might be taken care of by other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas due to heavy losses.

After all, Buddhism is not a peaceful place; everything is about benefits!
But with the help of these Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, the situation is different.

At least in terms of high-end combat power, the Buddha's advantage has been eliminated.

In order to obtain the help of these Buddhas and Bodhisattvas, Maitreya and Guanyin had to spend a lot of money. They not only promised to improve their status, promised to let them become Buddhas, but also promised to divide the land of Kyushu with them.

According to their distribution plan, Maitreya Buddha, Avalokitesvara Buddha and Joyful Buddha can get two states, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva can get one state, and Sunlight Buddha and Moonlight Buddha can each get the poorest state.

Such temptation is enough for them to take risks.

After all, the Buddha's promise was only for everyone to fight for a state, which might not be won necessarily. But if you join the rebellion of Maitreya Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva now, you can immediately get at least one county, and you can immediately gain the benefit of entering the territory of the Sui Dynasty without being massively backlashed by the luck!
Who wouldn't want to grab such an opportunity?
The situation of all the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the West is similar. They have been stuck in the same realm for who knows how many years. Some of them have even seen their strength decline as their lifespan draws to a close.

But as long as they can obtain enough luck, incense and resources from the human race, it is a foregone conclusion that they will be able to advance to another level. It is even possible to advance to two levels, and even reach the legendary realm of immortality!

Of course they are willing to take a chance!

Especially for people like Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva, Sunlight Bodhisattva and Moonlight Bodhisattva, if they continue to follow the Buddha, they will never get ahead. However, after changing their allegiance, a breakthrough in strength is foreseeable.

As for why they missed the Brahma Buddha who was going to the East to carry out the mission, it was because Brahma Buddha was very close to Shiva Buddha and Vishnu Buddha, and they were not of the same kind. In addition, the Joyful Buddha was in a competitive relationship with Shiva Buddha, so it was naturally difficult for them to cooperate.

Secondly, they were afraid that Brahma Buddha would ask for too high a price. As a person who already had the status of Buddha, he could not be won over without the territory of two states. This also meant that if they won over Brahma Buddha, they would not have enough resources to win over other Bodhisattvas. Moreover, no one could guarantee that Brahma Buddha would not secretly win over Shiva and Vishnu and become the host.

Thirdly, if he is not won over, the only Buddhas left in Lingshan will be the ignorant Buddha, the Past Buddha who is not in agreement with the Buddha, and the Brahma Buddha trio. The power balance is unbalanced, and there is no guarantee that the Brahma Buddha trio will not have other ideas. By then, if Lingshan is in turmoil, no one will have the time to take care of them.

The Buddhist community in this world is itself an alliance of losers, so it is normal for them to engage in intrigue and filth.

The Buddha, who is far away in the West, obviously did not expect things to develop to this extent.

To be honest, from the beginning, the Buddha had the idea of ​​letting Maitreya Buddha and others hit a wall. After all, their missionary work had never been successful when Kyushu was at its most chaotic, let alone now.

Until this time, in the Buddha's concept, Kyushu was still the world of the Sui Dynasty.

It was because of the emergence of Emperor Xin's destiny as the Emperor of Man that stimulated him, which made him cooperate with the Emperor of Heaven and decide to intensify the invasion of the East.

But even so, he did not expect that Maitreya Buddha and Guanyin Bodhisattva would take advantage of the precarious situation of the Sui Dynasty and successfully make the Sui Dynasty cooperate with them, and then use the opportunity of cooperation with the Sui Dynasty to persuade the Laughing Buddha and others to set up their own camp.

Although Maitreya Buddha, Guanyin Buddha and others have not left the scope of Buddhism, in fact they have established their own Eastern Buddhas and are no longer Western Buddhas.

Mahayana Buddhism and Theravada Buddhism are both Buddhism, but we can’t say that they are completely different things, right?

Not only that, these rebels also ordered their followers to launch even more brutal massacres against Buddhist temples suspected of worshipping other Buddhas, directly severing the tentacles of other Buddhas and Bodhisattvas in the Sui Dynasty.

The Buddhist rebels now have everything ready and are just waiting for the true bodies of the Buddhas to arrive.

Before that, they only needed to remotely control the believers to stop Dayu's attack at all costs.

The ideas of the Buddhist rebels are all very good.

In their view, as long as they reach the territory of the Sui Dynasty, with their strength, they will be able to change the fate of the Sui Dynasty, and their own fate will also change accordingly.

But how many good things in the world can come true as you wish?

While the Buddhist rebels were acting in secret, Dayu was not idle.

Because the Sui Dynasty was united and concentrated its strength to use the advantages of the land on all sides for defense, it made it difficult for Dayu to break through the defense line. The Sui Dynasty did not want to use its main force to fight a consumption war in such a place, so Dayu decisively changed its strategy.

The Dayu army adopted a strategy of large-scale detour, relying on the previously pacified Dongtujue territory, and marched westward.

Jia Xu, Dian Wei, Guo Jia, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun, Wei Liao, Yue Fei, Pang Tong, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Wanyan Chen Heshang, Zhe Yanzhi, Su Lie and others led a large army and a large amount of baggage, and flattened the Xueyantuo like fallen leaves in the autumn wind, and invaded the Western Turks.

The Xueyantuo was a tribe of the eastern Gaoche. Most of them roamed in the southwest of the Altai Mountains and the Irtysh River area, while a few stayed in the Yudujin Mountains.

After Dayu destroyed the Eastern Turks and the main force retreated to rest and prepare for the next torrential attack, the leaders of the Qibi tribe of Xueyantuo, Qibi Geleng (Yiwuzhenmohe Khan) and Yishibo (Yesi Khan), thought they had an opportunity and wanted to break away from the rule of the Western Turks, expand eastwards and collect the legacy of the Eastern Turks.

As a result, these unfortunate Turks encountered the army led by the murderous Jia Xu himself, which happened to become the military achievement of Dayu and the ghost of Jia Xu.

This Western Expedition was led by Jia Xu himself, and he was accompanied by Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Guo Jia, Pang Tong, Zhao Yun, Zhang Liao, Wei Liao, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing and others, which is enough to show the importance that Dayu attached to the Western Expedition.

In Dayu, Jia Xu's expedition to the west can almost be regarded as Dong Huang's personal expedition.

The reason why Dayu attached so much importance to it was not only because Dayu wanted to make a detour against the Sui Dynasty, but also to deal with the Western Regions and Buddhism.

The chaos of Buddhism in the Sui Dynasty attracted the attention of Jia Xu.

Taking into account the intelligence obtained previously, Jia Xu had reason to judge that both Buddhism and the Sui Dynasty were going to make a desperate attempt.

Jia Xu's inference was also supported by the cabinet.

In order to prevent the Buddhists from taking advantage of the good fortune of the Sui Dynasty to revive, descend on the Central Plains and destroy it, Jia Xu suggested to directly cut off the source of the trouble and sever the land connection between the Sui Dynasty and the Buddhists.

To this end, Dayu dispatched several troops and launched attacks from multiple directions.

Jia Xu's group had the most people and the heaviest task.

Jia Xu needs to eliminate the Xueyantuo and Western Turks, stabilize the Western Regions, guard against attacks from secular Buddhist countries and the entry of Buddhist masters - there is no need to be afraid if they really enter the country, as long as they take the route of faith and incense, and enter the territory of Dayu, the backlash of the power of luck alone will be enough to weaken them beyond recognition.

Secondly, Jia Xu also needed to make a big detour, capture the Longxi counties and Tuyuhun, send out surprise troops to disrupt the Sui army's defense line, and work together with the troops in Dayu, Bingzhou, and Henan to force the Sui army to retreat into Sichuan or surrender.

Such a grand strategy places extremely high demands on logistics and military quality, but what Dayu lacks the least is military morale; in terms of logistics, sufficient preparations have been made this time. Almost all of Dayu's mechanical beasts that can be used for transportation have been allocated to Jia Xu; and a large number of vassal troops have participated in the battle, which can be said to be a strong army.

Next, Dayu even planned to build a railway. The appearance of Dayu's army caught the Western Turks off guard.

The leader of the Western Turks at this time was Shekui Khan.

In history, Shekui Khan was also a powerful ruler. He suppressed the Xueyantuo internally and expanded the territory externally. His territory extended from Jinshan (now Altai Mountains) in the east to the sea (now the Aral Sea) in the west. All the countries west of Yumen Pass were subordinate to him.

However, this time and space was obviously not yet the peak era of Shekui Khan. He had been on the throne for less than two years. His predecessor, the Khan, was also his uncle. He was detained by Emperor Yang of Sui a year before his eastern expedition, and was forced to follow him in the expedition, where he died in the chaos.

At the Beisanmi Mountain in Qiuci (the mountains in the area around the Qikebash River in the north of Kuche County, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region today), where the royal court of Shekui Khan was located, Shekui Khan led the last of his cavalry and launched a final charge against the Dayu army.

Huo Qubing, who had his own navigation, sneered, urged his warhorse, and led his subordinates to launch a massacre.

Huo Qubing's military tactics were characterized by speed, accuracy and ruthlessness, but he was not very good at commanding large-scale battles involving an army of more than 100,000 men, nor was he very fond of logistics.

His most suitable position is still forward or surprise player.

In comparison, Zhang Liao, Yue Fei, Wei Qing and others are more comprehensive.

But it is impossible for a commander to lead a large army as fast as Huo Qubing's troops.

Huo Qubing is like a jungler with accurate judgment. He can suddenly appear and kill the enemy's C position every time.

This time, the Western Turks were caught off guard again. The Western Turkic Khan Shekui was still mobilizing troops to the front line of the Xueyantuo to prepare to fight against the Dayu army, but in the end, his old nest was gone, and all his men were gone.

Huo Qubing's unique talent in the field made him invincible, and other generals of Dayu were not to be outdone.

The troops led by Guo Jia, Yue Fei and Wei Liao captured Suiye and reached Qianquan (now the area from Kumalek to Mielki north of Tashkent in Central Asia), and established Mengchi Protectorate in Qianquan.

Historically, the Tang Dynasty also established the Mengchi Protectorate, whose jurisdiction reached the Caspian Sea.

After Guo Jia, Yue Fei and Wei Liao's troops established the Mengchi Protectorate, the next step was to continue the westward expedition to pacify the Shi Kingdom, An Kingdom, Xicao, Bi Kingdom, Tocharistan and other countries.

The troops of Pang Tong, Wei Qing, Zhe Yanzhi and Wanyan Chen Heshang had already counterattacked to Yizhou, Shazhou, Suzhou and Ganzhou in the Sui Dynasty.

Gansu is actually named after Neiganzhou and Suzhou.

The arrival of Pang Tong and Wei Qing's troops here had already shocked the Sui Dynasty. However, when the Sui court in Chang'an received the news that Dayu had taken over Ganzhou and Suzhou, the Sui Dynasty's Liangzhou was actually no longer safe.

The Sui Dynasty was shocked three times in one day, and at the suggestion of the national teacher Xiang Haiming, Li Jing was urgently dispatched to stop Pang Tong and Wei Qing's troops and guard Liangzhou.

Dian Wei, Huang Zhong, Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and other troops were led by Jia Xu himself, and they marched into Shule, Qiuci, Khotan and other places, established the Anxi Protectorate, and eyed Persia and Lesser Bolor.

In history, the Anxi Protectorate was under the jurisdiction of four towns: Suiye, Shule, Qiuci, and Khotan. Gao Xianzhi once defeated a Tibetan army of more than 100,000 with only 10,000 men, captured Xiaoboluo, and brought the king and queen (a Tibetan princess) of Xiaoboluo back to the Tang Dynasty to present them as captives.

After the Anshi Rebellion, the elite troops of the Anxi Army were recalled, but the Anxi Army still defended the glory of the Tang Dynasty. More than 40 years after the Anshi Rebellion was quelled, the last town of the Anxi Army, Qiuci City, joined forces with the Uighur Khanate to annihilate the Tubo army twice.

It was not until almost a hundred years after the Anshi Rebellion was quelled that the city of Kucha went under the banner of the Tang Dynasty to rebuild the Kingdom of Kucha and convert to Buddhism.

Anxi Protectorate, a heroic song.

However, what Jia Xu cared about was not whether it was tragic or not, but the relationship between this world and history, and the relationship between this world and mythology.

Jia Xu wanted to compare the map of this world with the historical maps he knew, and then analyze whether there were other gods in this world.

If there were only the so-called Buddhism and the Emperor of Heaven, the difficulty would seem too easy.

After all, Jia Xu is a man who has seen big scenes. Judging from the previous incarnations of Maitreya Buddha and Laughing Buddha, they are really weak gods.

He, Jia, has now reached the seventh level of mythology, and wherever he goes, the luck of Dayu is spread.

As for how to make every place you pass become a place covered by Dayu's luck, that is also very simple.

To put it bluntly, luck is related to people.

The total number of troops sent by Dayu on this expedition exceeded tens of millions!
These are the people in Dong Huang’s personal war space, and they are all contributors to Dong Huang’s destiny as the Emperor of Man.

Although more than 7 million of these people are only at the first level of mythology, with armor and war horses, it is still no problem for them to exert the combat power of the peak of the second level of mythology or even the beginning of the third level of mythology and the defense power of the third level of mythology.

In addition, there are many people who made breakthroughs while fighting and walking.

Most of Dayu's enemies had no armor or only had one layer of armor.

After defeating the enemy, the men who resisted were killed, and the women of marriageable age who were obedient were separated, and then they were put on the totem to force them to recognize that they were the people of Dayu;
Those who are obedient and surrender voluntarily must also unify under the flag of Dayu, accept Dayu's allocation to disrupt their tribes and rearrange their settlements, and must give up their beliefs, destroy the statues of the gods they believe in with their own hands, and then convert to believe in Donghuang. Anyone who fails to meet any of the above requirements will be executed immediately.

The last obedient ones who stayed behind had to learn Chinese, and their status, whether slaves, commoners or nobles, was determined based on their military achievements and their Chinese proficiency.

The deterrence of military force and killing, the strict hierarchy and the hope of breaking through the hierarchy to become a superior person can easily govern the ignorant and foolish people in these semi-slave societies.

After fighting his way through, Jia Xu built a logistics base in Shule to repair armor and manufacture regeneration cores. He also sent out a small army to attack Yutian, Qiuci, Anxi, Qiemo and other places.

It is worth mentioning that places such as Qiemo now nominally belong to the Sui Dynasty.

Before Emperor Yang of Sui launched an expedition to Goryeo in the east, he attacked Tuyuhun and won a great victory. It was at that time that places such as Khotan and Qiemo nominally belonged to the Sui Dynasty.

After conquering Shule and other places, Jia Xu realized through investigation that the water in this world is definitely deeper than he had imagined.

Because he has discovered traces of so-called gods from other pantheons. Not only that, he also speculated through numerous clues that although Buddhism in this world may also be in India and other places, the India in this world is definitely not as simple as the map of India in history.

The map of Tianzhu in this world is not only larger, but more importantly, Lingshan may also be a small world, but the exit of this small world happens to be in Tianzhu.

Even the entire Xiniu Hezhou may be one or several small worlds!

(End of this chapter)