At dusk on March 18, 388 in the Daliang calendar, the allied commander, Duke Aisezi, learned that the 80,000-strong army of the Shaye Kingdom had arrived, so he asked the third prince of the Gul Kingdom, Magaji, who was the host, to go to the village gate to welcome the Shaye Kingdom's general, Pizt.
As for Duke Aisezi, he actually has quite a bit of grudges with the army of Shaye Kingdom.
Duke Aisaizi, who is 59 years old this year, has more than 40 years of military experience, and the most disastrous defeat in his military career was against the army of Shaye.
One of Duke Aisezi's sons also lost his life in that disastrous defeat. The general commanding the Shaye army at that time was Sun Hao's uncle Liu Dongqi.
Duke Esaizi has never forgotten the pain of losing his son over the years.
Since the Shaye Kingdom sent 80,000 troops to join the coalition this time, and he was chosen as the commander-in-chief of the coalition, Duke Aisezi himself could not convince himself that he could not severely damage the Shaye Kingdom's army.
Unfortunately, before Duke Aisaizi could realize his wishful thinking, the Liang army, disguised as the army of Shaye Kingdom, rushed into the camp of the coalition forces. The third prince of Gule Kingdom, Magaji, who was originally welcoming the Shaye army at the camp gate, was beheaded by Guan Yu with a single blow.
After Sun Hao took action, the hundreds of thousands of troops from the Liang Kingdom's Western Region Army Camp, which had been prepared for a long time, also rushed towards the coalition camp...
Although the Liang State's Western Region Army took the initiative in this battle, the fierce battle lasted until noon of the next day due to the tenacious resistance of the Wensu and Puwan armies.
In the end, this battle, which determined the fate of the entire Western Regions, ended with a great victory for the Liang State's Western Regions Army.
The 300,000 Güler troops in the coalition were mostly newly conscripted white civilians, so their combat effectiveness and fighting will were extremely low.
In addition, the third prince of the Gule Kingdom, Magaji, who led the troops, was killed by Guan Yu at the beginning of the battle, causing extreme chaos among the 300,000 Gule Kingdom troops.
Almost half of the officers and soldiers of the Gule State deserted. Of the remaining approximately 150,000 officers and soldiers of the Gule State, more than 80,000 were killed and more than 70,000 became prisoners of the Liang army.
The losses of the 80,000 troops of the four small countries in the Western Regions were not heavy, totaling less than 20,000, because the generals of the four small countries in the Western Regions fled with their troops when they saw the situation was not good.
What really caused trouble for Liang's Western Region Army were the 200,000 troops of Wensu and the 120,000 troops of Puwan.
After a bloody battle that lasted one night and one morning, nearly 180,000 of Wensu's 200,000 troops were killed, and nearly 110,000 of Puwan's 120,000 troops were killed.
Only Duke Aisezi, who led less than 20,000 Wensu cavalry, and General Dagati of Puwan, who led the remaining 10,000 Puwan heavy cavalry, successfully broke through.
Apart from some seriously injured soldiers who were unable to move, the Liang State's Western Region Army captured almost no prisoners from the Wensu and Puwan countries.
Due to the tenacity shown by the armies of Wensu and Puwan, Sun Hao's troops suffered considerable losses. The left guard of the Western Region Army alone lost more than 8,000 soldiers.
The Black Armor Cavalry, Beiwei Cavalry, Tiger and Leopard Cavalry, Xiliang Iron Cavalry, White Horse Volunteers, Wei Wuzu, Qin Ruishi, Xiandeng Death Soldiers and Modao Soldiers who participated in the battle in an organized manner lost a total of more than 10,000 people.
The four cavalrymen of wind, rain, thunder and lightning, the Blue Wolf Cavalry and the Tiger Soldiers lost a total of more than 1,600 people.
Of course, the results of the war were also quite brilliant. The spoils could be described as piling up like mountains. More than 100,000 war horses alone were seized.
Because there were so many gold and silver coins seized, Sun Hao, who felt the pressure of military expenditure greatly reduced, also absorbed some of the seized gold and silver coins into the "Hero Converter".
The coalition forces' disastrous defeat outside Lishui City caused the armies of several Western Region countries that had originally rushed to join the war to stop their marches.
For example, the 70,000 troops sent by Yanzi State, the 50,000 troops sent by Shache State, and the 50,000 troops sent by Qumo State directly chose to turn around and prepare to withdraw to their own countries.
The Western Regions Army of Liang State took the opportunity to capture all the remaining fifty-odd cities in the western part of Gule State. From then on, the entire territory of Gule State became the territory of the Western Regions Protectorate of Liang State.
When Xizhou Mu Dong Zixiao learned that Sun Hao had led his army outside Lishui City and defeated the 700,000-strong coalition force of Western Regions countries, he immediately sped up his journey with dozens of other Xizhou officers and soldiers.
On April 3, 388 in the Daliang calendar, Dong Zixiao, the governor of Xizhou, and his entourage arrived in Ganyang City.
That evening, Pizhou Governor Chen Fengshi held a welcoming banquet for Xizhou Governor Dong Zixiao at the provincial government office.
After the welcoming banquet, Chen Fengshi invited Dong Zixiao to a study in the back house of the provincial government office.
"Zixiao, it's been almost two years since we last met. I never thought that Prince Yong'an would let you take on the role of Governor of Xizhou.
Although the Grand Commander of the Western Regions Protectorate is young, he's no pushover and extremely mysterious. The Imperial Guards haven't figured out where his hundreds of thousands of elite soldiers came from.
Chen Fengshi and Dong Zixiao stayed in the same inn when they went to Beijing to take the imperial examination. Later, they both became second-class Jinshi, so they had a good personal relationship.
Dong Zixiao first took a sip of his teacup before speaking, "Brother Chen, Prince Yong'an asked me to be the governor of Xizhou because he hoped I could control Sun Hao in some ways and prevent Daliang from having another vassal state.
By the way, the court just sent me a new imperial edict. Taking into account the reactions of the Western Regions, the court decided to change the name of the Western Regions Protectorate to the Zhenxi Protectorate, and also changed Sun Hao's official seal to the Zhenxi Grand Commander's seal."
Chen Fengshi said approvingly, "The imperial court has really thought it through. If we call it the Western Regions Protectorate, it will inevitably make those Western Regions countries think that Daliang has ambitions for the entire Western Regions.
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