On January 11, 195 of the Han calendar, when the grassland coalition forces and the Han army were engaged in a fierce battle face to face, Sun Hao led 200,000 Great Snow Dragon Cavalry to suddenly charge into the battlefield, causing the grassland coalition forces, which had been barely holding on, to finally collapse thousands of miles away.

The grassland coalition army had a strength of up to 8 million, but nearly 5 million were killed, and the ground was littered with corpses.

Nearly 2.4 million cavalrymen from various ethnic groups on the grassland, seeing that there was no hope of breaking out, chose to surrender to the Han army. Only about 600,000 to 700,000 people managed to escape.

The Han army also suffered heavy losses, including cavalry from the Western Qiang, Dangxiang, and Xiongnu tribes, and the Guiyi Army. The Han army suffered 600,000 casualties, of which more than 550,000 were killed in action.

However, most of the casualties came from the Guiyi Army and the cavalry from the three tribes of Western Qiang, Dangxiang, and Xiongnu.

The imperial guards, imperial guards and garrison troops that participated in the battle lost a total of only over 100,000 people.

After this battle, the Han army captured tens of millions of war horses, and also seized about two million cattle and 20 million sheep.

The cattle and sheep were brought by the armies of various ethnic groups on the grassland and served as rations for the armies of various ethnic groups on the grassland.

In addition to livestock, the other spoils of war of the Han army could also be described as piling up like mountains.

The Xianbei Khan Helai Heng, the Khitan Khan Yelu Rong and the Rouran Khan Husutu were brought to Sun Hao with their hands tied behind their backs.

Sun Hao looked at the three khans kneeling before him and said in a cold voice, "I now give you two choices: either submit to the Han Dynasty from now on, or let me lead my army to wipe out your entire people from the grasslands."

As soon as Sun Hao finished speaking, the Xianbei Khan He Laiheng, who was kneeling on the ground, hurriedly said, "Your Majesty, our Xianbei people are willing to submit to the Han Dynasty forever.

If you break this oath, we, the Xianbei people, are willing to suffer the calamity of genocide and extermination."

Upon hearing the Xianbei Khan Helai Heng's oath, the Khitan Khan Yelu Rong immediately said, "Your Majesty, the Khitan people are also willing to submit to the Han court.

If the Khitan people ever betray the Han Dynasty, we are willing to be annihilated.”

Only the Rouran Khan Husutu remained kneeling on the ground in silence, although he knew that if he did not surrender, the disaster of genocide might soon befall the Rouran tribes.

However, the Rouran people had finally managed to break away from the control of the Liang people. Now Hu Sutu was unwilling to let the Rouran people bow down to the Han people who were of the same lineage as the Liang people.

"Could it be that the Rouran people are unwilling to submit to the Han Dynasty?" Sun Hao asked in a gloomy tone.

The Rouran Khan, Husutu, sighed inwardly and said bitterly, "Your Majesty, my Rouran people are willing to submit to the Han Dynasty and become its henchmen on the grasslands."

Sun Hao then said: "I don't need you to become my Han Dynasty's lackeys, you just need to be my Han Dynasty's obedient citizens.

Next, our Great Han will establish Qingzhou on the grasslands, and from now on the entire grasslands will be our territory."

It was not until the end of the 195th year of the Han calendar that Sun Hao led his army back to the capital.

During this year, the Han army conquered almost the entire grassland, increasing the population of the Han State by about 180 million.

According to Sun Hao's plan, a total of 213 new cities will be built in the grassland, that is, Qingzhou. Together with the 27 cities built previously, the entire Qingzhou will have 240 cities to consolidate the Han Kingdom's rule on the grassland.

This time when Sun Hao returned to Beijing, he brought back a full four million Guiyi troops.

As the Han army continued to draw large numbers of cavalry from the surrendered grassland tribes and incorporated them into the Guiyi Army, by the time the Han army defeated the last few powerful grassland tribes that united to resist the Han army, the total strength of the Guiyi Army had exceeded eight million.

Taking into account the high military expenditure and the fact that the war on the grassland had ended, Sun Hao planned to lay off at least half of the Guiyi Army.

But at this moment, the Seven Flags Guards brought a shocking news. Several countries in the Western Continent, under the collusion of the Heavenly Religion, were preparing to once again march eastward to the Western Regions to eliminate the Mosha Religion believed in by the countries in the Western Regions.

At present, apart from the areas controlled by the Han Dynasty, there are only six countries left in the Western Regions, namely, Parthia, Yanzi, Anlu, Wuli, Xiuye and Moshan.

Among them, the Parthian Empire was the strongest, with a population of about 70 million, and its territory even spanned the eastern and western continents.

The strength of Yanzi Kingdom was second only to Parthia, with a population of more than 30 million. Anlu Kingdom had a population of about 18 million, Wuli Kingdom had a population of about 15 million, Xiuye Kingdom had a population of about 10 million, and Moshan Kingdom had a population of about 8 million.

However, after the restoration of the Parthian Empire more than two hundred years ago, it abandoned Moshaism as its state religion. After it successively annexed the twelve principalities of the Western Continent and became a powerful country spanning the Eastern and Western Continents, it chose Heavenly Religion as its state religion.

Today, the Parthian Empire considers itself to have become a Western country and has long since stopped identifying itself as a Western Region country.

This time, under the collusion of the Heavenly Church, the Parthian Empire also joined the so-called Western Continent Eastern Expedition Army.

The five Western Regions countries, namely Yanzi, Anlu, Wuli, Xiuye and Moshan, may not be able to withstand the militarily powerful Parthia, not to mention that armies from many countries in the Western Continent have also joined the Eastern Expedition.

As a result, these five Western Regions countries sent requests to the Han Dynasty to jointly resist the Western Continent's Eastern Expedition Army.

It was precisely because of the Western Continent's Eastern Expeditionary Army that the disbanding of the Guiyi Army was suspended. Sun Hao even mobilized a full four million Guiyi Army soldiers and prepared to take them to Xizhou to fight against the so-called Western Continent's Eastern Expeditionary Army.

In a bedroom of the Anyang City Imperial Palace, Zhen Luo held up a list of selected women and said to Sun Hao with a wry smile, "Your Majesty has just returned, and he hasn't even had time to confer titles on the selected women before he has to lead his troops to the Western Regions again.

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