In the third year of the founding of the country (78 AD), Ban Chao led a coalition of 10,000 people from Shule, Kangju, Khotan, Jumi and other countries to attack the stone city of Gumo, attacked in one fell swoop, and beheaded 700 people.
In order to take advantage of the victory to defeat the countries in the Western Regions, Ban Chao asked Emperor Zhang of Han for troops. This loose and reasonable, bold statement has to be excerpted:
Ban Chao portrait
The subject stole that the former emperor wanted to open the western city, so he attacked the Xiongnu in the north, and sent foreign countries to the west, and Shan Shan and Yu Zhen immediately xianghua. Present-day Jimi, Shache, Shule, Yueshi, Wusun, and Kangju wish to return to the annexation, and want to work together to destroy Guizi and pingtong Han Dao. If you get the turtle, then one percent of the people in the western region have not served.
The subject prostrated himself to his own thoughts, and the pawn was a small official, and he was willing to serve gu ji to the end of the realm, and a few Zhang Qian abandoned himself in the wilderness. Former Wei Dynasty Masters, Shangneng and Ji Zhurong, the subjects of the Great Han, and the use of a leadless knife to cut? In the past, the speakers were known to take the Thirty-Six Kingdoms, which was called the broken right arm of the Xiongnu. The kingdoms of the present Western Regions, from the place of the sun, are not oriented, the size is happy, and the tribute is endless, but yanqi and guizi alone have not obeyed.
Thirty-six ministers and officials were sent to the realm and were prepared for hardship. Since the lonely Shoule, in the past five years, Hu Yi has a number of feelings, and the subjects know it quite well. Asked about the size of his city, they all said "Rely on Han and Yi Tian, etc." If it is effective, the onion collar can be passed, and the onion collar can be cut.
Now it is advisable to worship Bai Ba, the attendant of Guizi, as his king, to send hundreds of horses on foot, and to join the soldiers of the various countries, and between the years, the turtles can be birds. Yi Di attacks Yi Di, and the good one who counts is also. The subjects saw that the fields of Shache and Shule were fertile and extensive, and the grass and pasture were spared, no better than Dunhuang and Shanshan, and the soldiers could be self-sufficient in grain without spending China. Moreover, the two kings of Gumo and Wensu were especially placed by Guizi, who were not his species, but were even more disgusted with each other, and they were bound to have a downward reaction. If the two kingdoms come to descend, the turtle will break itself.
May the subordinates be subordinated to the chapter and act according to reference. Sincerity is ten thousand, and there is no hatred in the dead. Chenchao District, Temun Deity, Stealing Ji Wei Zombie Servant, Seeing the Pacification of the Western Regions, His Majesty Lifting the Thousand Years of Hope, Recommending the Ancestral Temple, Bu Daxi was in the world!
Han Zhangdi Stills
After studying Ban Chao's sonata, Emperor Zhang of Han was greatly encouraged and believed that the Han Dynasty could succeed in the Western Regions, so he agreed to Ban Chao's request for additional troops. At that time, Xu Gan, a Pingling man who had Zan and Ban Chao pacified the Western Regions, stepped forward, and Emperor Shangshuzhang voluntarily went to the Western Regions to assist Ban Chao in making meritorious contributions.
In the fifth year of the founding of the people (80 AD), the Eastern Han court took Xu Gan as a false Sima and led more than a thousand people to the Western Regions to help Ban Chao pacify the kingdoms.
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Previously, due to the withdrawal of eastern Han forces, the Shache state surrendered to Guizi, and the Shule capital Fanchen also supported the rebellion. After Xu Gan led more than a thousand Han troops to the western region, Ban Chao immediately joined Forces with Xu Gan and attacked Fan Chen, the rebellious capital of Shule.
The Han army won the victory in one fell swoop, killing Fanchen, beheading more than a thousand ranks, and obtaining countless livestock.
After Ban Chao and Xu Gan attacked Fanchen, they wanted to continue to attack Guizi. Among the western region states at that time, the Wusun state was strong, and Ban Chao wanted to borrow the strength of the Wusun state to attack the western region and the Xiongnu united states. Therefore, he went to Emperor Zhang of Han and asked the emperor to send envoys to comfort the king of Wusun and ask them to send troops to join forces with the Han army in the western region to break the enemy.
Emperor Zhangdi of Han agreed to Ban Chao's request, and in December of the eighth year of the founding of the first year (83 AD), Bai Banchao was made a general of the general Shi, approved that he could use the banner of the Han Dynasty generals, and appointed Xu Gan as the military commander, and sent the chancellor Li Yi and others to escort the Wusun emissaries in Luoyang back to China. Li Yi and his party went to Wusun with a large number of gifts of gold to reward Wusun and Kunmi, and went to Wusun to discuss the joint army between the Han Dynasty and Wusun.
Portrait of Emperor Zhangdi of Han
After Li Yi arrived in Khotan, just as Guizi attacked Shule, he himself was afraid to move forward, so he went to Emperor Shuhan and told him that the Han Dynasty could not pacify the Western Regions. At the same time, he also denigrated Ban Chao's character, saying that Ban Chao "loved his wife, held his beloved son, and was happy with foreign countries, and had no internal concerns." ”
Emperor Zhangdi of Han was not a emperor, and knowing that Ban Chao had worked hard in the Western Regions for so many years, he immediately issued an edict rebuking Li Yi: "If Ban Chao loves his wife, embraces his beloved son, and thinks of more than a thousand people, how can he be in the same heart with (Ban) Chao?" ”
While rebuking Li Yi, Emperor Zhang of Han also played a trick and ordered Li Yi to obey Ban Chao after he arrived in the Western Regions. In fact, Emperor Zhang's intention was to give Ban Chao a chance to kill Li Yi to relieve his anger.
Ban Chao was a hero of great knowledge, and he did not leave Li Yi behind, but sent Li Yi to return to Luoyang with Wusun's attendants. To this end, Xu Gan persuaded Ban Chao: "Li Yi previously slandered you by Emperor Shangshu and wanted to defeat the country's important affairs of pacifying the Western Regions, so why don't you leave him in the local area and dispose of him according to the emperor's will?" You can send someone else to escort Wusun Proton back to Luoyang..."
To this end, Ban Chao exclaimed: "What is the ugliness of what it is!" To (Li) Yi destroyed (my class) Chao, so now send it. Introspection is not guilty, what a compassionate person! Happy to stay, non-loyal ministers also. ”
From this, it can be seen that Ban Chao's heart is broad-minded, he attaches great importance to state affairs in everything, does not repay personal revenge, does not consider personal grievances, and is indeed a loyal subject of the Han Dynasty.