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Chapter 260 Ban Dingyuan (900 monthly tickets plus updates from last month)
The second point is about Hu Biao and others, some things about the posthumous names.

After that battle, the Khotan Kingdom was completely terrified, and the lord Guangde sent the prince to Luoyang as a hostage, and completely surrendered to the big man.

But Ban Chao considered one thing:
Hu Biao and others, without the court's order, wantonly recruited troops in private, and tossed so many troops, which definitely violated the taboo of the court.

After all, in the feudal dynasty, the most sensitive thing was treason.

It's not whether you want to or not, whether it was caused unintentionally, but whether you have the ability.

Just hiding a certain amount of armor in private is a capital offense, not to mention Hu Biao and the others pulled out more than 1000 soldiers with sharp armor and dared to die for them.

So after such a thing is exposed, it is definitely not a good thing for the posthumous names of Hu Biao and others.

Based on such considerations, regarding the bloody battle between them and the Huns, in Ban Chao's report to Dou Gu, the emperor and the court, all of the above can be said to be silent.

The only thing mentioned is that Hu Biao and Hu Yitong, Marquis of the Han Dynasty, are known for their courage and wit.

It is a pity that during the quelling of the chaos in the Khotan Kingdom, 31 soldiers including Yang Dongli, Taqi, Xufeng, Fengrui, etc. under his command were killed in battle with the Huns envoys.

Please Your Majesty donate a lot of rewards and generously comfort these great men and warriors.

So everything that Hu Biao and the others did was finally written by historians in the Central Plains, and in some partial history books, there were some extra words and phrases recorded.

For example:
Hu Biao, courtesy name Yitong, was born in Changsha County. He was known for his courage and wit. When Yongping followed Banchao envoy to Khotan in 16 years, he died in battle as a military officer and was posthumously named Army Sima by Emperor Ming.

Being kicked, all the people in Youzhoujin were dedicated to the country, loyal and brave. When Yongping followed Banchao envoy Khotan in the 16th year of Yongping, he died in battle as a team leader, and was posthumously named a military officer by Emperor Ming.

Ruifeng, a native of Henan County...

As for the Huns, nomads like them have any historians to speak of. For such a battle with low overall casualties, they were quickly forgotten.

Only around Hongbai Mountain, those small tribes who sent cannon fodder to follow the bald bandits.

Only one generation after another told their descendants that the leaders of the bald bandits looked fierce, but the deal was very fair.

It tells how beautiful and kind-hearted Goddess Ali is.

Telling about the bloody battle that made the sun and the moon darken, and how luxurious they lived when they followed the bald bandit.

And with the prevalence of natural disasters, wars, and plagues in the Western Regions.

As a result, these tribes have gradually and completely disappeared one by one in the long river of history. Everything that Hu Biao and the others have done has been completely covered up under the long yellow sands of the Western Regions.

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The third is about Ban Chao's follow-up, a legendary life; the death of Hu Biao and others did not affect Ban Dingyuan's follow-up story and glory.

The second year was the 17th year of Yongping.

The Huns supported the king of Kucha to become the king. After the king of Kucha sent troops to break through the kingdom of Shule, he not only killed the old king, but also named the king of Kucha as the new king.

It can be regarded as allowing the Huns to indirectly control the Shule Kingdom.

Hearing the news, Ban Chao led his men to stop ninety miles outside the capital of Shule, and sent his guard Tian Li to ride alone to Shule to recruit Douti.

At that time, Tian Lu saw that Dou Ti had no intention of surrendering, so he directly hijacked Dou Ti and left the city.

Later, Ban Chao reappointed the nephew of the old lord, Zhong, as the new lord, and the Shule Kingdom was immediately pacified.

In the 18th year of Yongping, Emperor Han Ming died.

Yanqi State took advantage of the fact that the Han Dynasty had a great funeral, besieged and killed Chen Mu, the governor of the Western Regions; Qiuci, Gumo and other countries also repeatedly sent troops to attack the Han Dynasty's vassal state Shule.

Ban Chao and Shule Wang Zhong were the horns of each other, echoing each other from head to tail, defending Panlu City, and persevering hard.

In the first year of Jianchu, Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty Liu Da came to the throne. The court believed that Chen Mu was dead, and worried that Ban Chao would be alone in the frontier and could not support him, so he ordered Ban Chao to return to the country.

After hearing the news, the whole country of Shule was terrified.

Seeing this, Ban Chao immediately cut off the idea of ​​returning to the country, broke through the Weitou country again, and beheaded more than 600 people before Shule was stabilized again.

In the first three years of the founding, Ban Chao recruited more than 1 soldiers from various countries to attack the Gumo Kingdom, beheaded 700 people, and isolated Kucha.

In the first five years of founding, Ban Chao wrote a letter to Emperor Zhang, analyzing the situation of the countries in the Western Regions and his own situation, and put forward the idea of ​​pacifying the countries in the Western Regions, which was the earliest strategy of "using barbarians to control barbarians".

Emperor Zhang was very satisfied with Ban Chao's strategy.

Xu Qian, a native of Pingling, had the same aspirations as Ban Chao, and asked to go to a foreign land to assist Ban Chao; the imperial court immediately appointed him as the acting Sima, and sent him to lead 1000 people to reinforce Ban Chao.

In this year, Wusun, a great country in the Western Regions, fell to the Han.

In the ninth year of the founding of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court sent He Gong as the acting Sima, and led [-] troops to reinforce Ban Chao. This year, the ruler of Shule rebelled and occupied Wuji City.

Ban Chao bribed King Yuezhi with a handful of glass beads and took back Wujicheng.

Afterwards, in the third and fourth years of Yuanhe, and the second and third years of Yongyuan, Ban Chao had all kinds of wonderful performances in the Western Regions.

Through his various methods, he finally made more than fifty countries in the Western Regions submit to the big man.

That doesn't seem right either!Because driven by interests, the barbarians of the Western Regions who regard alliance, refuge, and rebellion as their daily routine have caused too many troubles.

Every day when Ban Chao was in it was extremely wonderful.

Of course, it also involved countless hardships and difficulties, and ordinary people would have collapsed long ago; but even in the most difficult time, Ban Chao never thought of backing down.

Not only because of his arrogance when he abandoned his pen to serve in the army, but also because he always felt that behind him, Hu Yitong and other brothers who died in the battle must bear the dream of ruling the Western Regions for the country.

In the seventh year of Yongyuan, in order to commend Ban Chao's meritorious service, the imperial court granted him the title of Marquis of Dingyuan, with thousands of households in the city; later generations called it "Ban Dingyuan" because of this incident.

In the ninth year of Yongyuan, Ban Chao sent Gan Ying as an envoy to Daqin (Roman Empire), and Gan Ying returned to Xihai (Persian Gulf).

The reason for this is that they were deceived by the local natives on the shore, saying that it would take more than half a year to find a boat to cross the Persian Gulf to the Roman Empire.

Originally, Hu Biao and the others planned to tell Gan Ying about this point before leaving, but they didn't have time to say it because the system sent it in advance.

In the 12th year of Yongyuan, Ban Chao wrote a letter to Emperor He, requesting to return to his hometown,

His younger sister Ban Zhao also wrote to request that Ban Chao be recalled. After the memorial was delivered, Hedi was moved.

So Ban Chao was called back to the court. So far, Ban Chao has stayed in the Western Regions for 31 years. During this period, the dynasty in the Central Plains changed three emperors. He also changed from a middle-aged handsome guy to a gray-haired old man.

In August of the 14th year of Yongyuan, after spending more than a year, Ban Chao returned to Luoyang and was appointed as the captain of Shesheng.

After many years of fighting, Ban Chao's breast ribs were already sick, and his condition worsened shortly after he entered the court. When Emperor He heard about it, he sent Zhonghuangmen to condolences and gave him medicine.

In September of the same year, Ban Chao died in Luoyang at the age of 71.

It is said that before his death, he was still called by dozens of names such as 'Yi Tong', 'Yang Dongli', 'Feng Rui', etc. It turns out that he has never forgotten Hu Biao and others in all these years.

Feeling pity, the imperial court sent envoys to express their condolences and offered sacrifices. The rewards were extremely generous. The tomb is located in Mengjin, Luoyang, Henan today.

According to Ban Chao's last wish, 36 statues were erected in front of his tomb. It was the 36 people he took to the Western Regions at first.

What needs to be explained is that Hu Biao and the others were surprised to find that some of those statues were not different from their appearance, but also very similar.

Because Ban Chao drew their appearance after the First World War that year.

(End of this chapter)