Chapter 2316: The War in the Western Regions, Wang Ben vs. Yang Su
Chapter 2313: The Battle of the Western Regions, Wang Ben vs. Yang Su
Is it possible for the Qin Dynasty to send troops to help the Western Regions?
Of course it is impossible.
Ji Xiaolan knew this well, so he decisively refused the requests from various countries to send troops. However, he later said that the tactics of the Western Regions were too backward and the commander''s ability was insufficient, which was the main reason for the defeat. He also proposed that the general of the Qin Dynasty help the countries in the Western Regions command the army.
Ji Xiaolan''s words naturally aroused dissatisfaction among the generals of the Western Regions, especially Ling Xiao, who is known as the number one general in the Western Regions.
Let Han generals come to command the army in the Western Regions? This is not the first case, it has happened before.
The second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the reign of Emperor Ming of Han, Ban Chao followed Dou Gu to attack the Northern Huns, and later was ordered to go on a mission to the Western Regions.
In the next thirty years, Ban Chao almost subdued more than 50 countries in the Western Regions with his own strength, established the Western Regions Protectorate for the Han Dynasty, and proposed a plan to use barbarians to control barbarians, personally commanded the Western Regions coalition forces, and defeated Kushan, Wusun and other countries.
In order to commend Ban Chao''s merits, the court issued an edict to grant him the title of Marquis of Dingyuan with a fief of thousands of households, and later generations also called Ban Chao "Ban Dingyuan".
In addition, Ban Chao sent Gan Ying to Rome to send him a mission to the West Sea (Persian Gulf) and returned. This was also the earliest exchange between the East and the West.
Ban Chao is not only a hero of the Han people, but also highly respected by the people of the Western Regions. However, the greater the achievements of Ban Chao, the more incompetent the people of the Western Regions are.
The army in the Western Regions cannot defeat the Kushan and Wusun, but instead needs to rely on outsiders to command it to win. Isn’t this the generals of the Western Regions directly talking about the incompetence?
This is an indelible shame for soldiers in any country.
More than a hundred years later, the Western Regions have once again encountered an invincible opponent, that is, General Yang Su, the Sui State.
Even Ling Xiao, known as the number one general in the Western Regions, commanded a total of 100,000 troops, and with an absolute advantage in military strength, he still lost to Yang Su''s 30,000 Western Liang Iron Cavalry.
The envoy of the Great Qin proposed to let the generals of the Great Qin command the Western Regions army to resist the Sui army?
Don’t worry about whether the Qin Dynasty is kind or not, but in the eyes of the Western Regions generals, letting other countries command their own troops is a shame in itself.
Such a shame is enough once. If you do it again, how can the generals of the Western Regions accept it? Of course, I tried my best to oppose Ji Xiaolan''s proposal.
As for Ling Xiao, who is known as the number one general in the Western Regions, although he was dissatisfied with Ji Xiaolan''s contempt for the generals of the Western Regions and was unwilling to release command from the bottom of his heart, it is also true that no one in the Western Regions was Yang Su''s opponent.
The Western Regions coalition has experienced two major defeats. If it is experienced one major defeat, it will be completely helpless. Perhaps it will be completely annexed by the Sui State in a short time. This is something that Ling Xiao cannot accept even more.
Compared to the destruction of the country and the race, it was just a command of the army by outsiders, and it seemed that there was nothing unacceptable.
Although Ling Xiao no longer objected, it was impossible for him to give in to the command of the Western Regions army without understanding it at all, so he suggested to Ji Xiaolan that he had exchanged his military tactics with the Qin general.
Ji Xiaolan naturally would not refuse, so he asked the guard general Wang Ben, his son Wang Li, and his nephew Wang Xuance to go and exchange military tactics with Ling Xiao.
Wang Ben, Wang Li, Wang Xuance and Ling Xiao communicated for a whole night, and no one knew what they were talking about. Only after that night, Ling Xiao praised Wang Ben, not only supported Wang Ben to command the army, but even said something like "Those who defeated Yang Su must be Wang Ben."
After all, Ling Xiao is the number one general in the Western Regions. His firm supportive attitude has caused many opponents to change their attitude, but many people still oppose it.
However, the generals who opposed this time proposed to compete with the Qin generals, claiming that only by defeating them can they be qualified to command them.
Ji Xiaolan naturally would not refuse such a request for beating, so he sent Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong.
After this battle, the generals of the Western Regions not only lost to Meng and Ruan, but were even beaten to almost doubt their lives.
Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong are too strong and have reached a high level of being able to compete with the Sui army''s generals.
Gao Ang, this is a name that makes the people of the Western Regions hate him. There are no less than fifty generals in the Western Regions who died under his gun, including the first, second and third-ranked generals in the Western Regions, and they were killed in battle when they joined forces to fight against the enemy.
Can you imagine the scene where Li Cunxiao + Sun Lingming + Jiang Song, who died at the hands of one person when the three of them joined forces to fight against the enemy?
Gao Ann almost broke the backbone of all the military generals of the Western Regions through just two major battles, and no one in the Western Regions dared to raise the courage to challenge him.
Now, two people appeared in the Qin mission, who could match high-profile existences, which shocked the Western Regions countries.
Such a peerless general can only act as a guard?
Have the powerful generals of the Qin Dynasty spread to this level?
As soon as this idea appeared, the countries in the Western Regions became more respectful of the Qin Dynasty. It can only be said that they are worthy of being the supreme country of the Celestial Empire.
The countries in the Western Regions did not want to be annexed by the Sui State, but their commanders were too incompetent. None of them was Yang Su''s opponent, and the generals were even more incompetent. The top three fierce generals joined forces but died at Gao Ang''s hands.
Now that the Qin Dynasty helped them provide commanders and powerful generals, the countries in the Western Regions naturally would not miss this last opportunity, so they elected Ji Xiaolan as the commander of the Western Regions coalition.
It is embarrassing to let outsiders command their own army, but it is better than destroying the country and the race.
Besides, this is not the first time that countries in the Western Regions have experienced such a thing.
Once you are born again and again, you will get used to it.
Don’t the monarchs of the Western Regions know that Ji Xiaolan is a civil servant and does not know how to command the army?
Of course I know it.
But since you know, why do you still have to let Ji Xiaolan be the commander-in-chief of the coalition?
Of course, it is because Ji Xiaolan is the chief envoy of the Qin Dynasty. Wang Ben, Wang Li, Wang Xuance, Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong are all his subordinates.
It is naturally undesirable to cross the commander of Ji Xiaolan and let Wang Ben serve as the commander of the coalition forces.
Besides, Ji Xiaolan''s coalition commander is destined to be nominal.
Ji Xiaolan and his party had only 300 people, and they did not play much role in the face of the Sui army. The main force of the fight against the Sui army was destined to be the local army of the Western Regions. Therefore, Ji Xiaolan, the commander of the Western Regions coalition, was destined to be a nominal commander. The day when the Sui army retreated was the day when he stepped down.
Since he is destined to be the nominal commander, it is naturally not important whether Ji Xiaolan knows whether he commands the army. As long as his subordinates understand, it will be fine. His subordinates will help him command the army.
Ji Xiaolan naturally knew this, so he calmly took up the position of commander of the coalition army, and then asked Wang Ben to command the army on his behalf, while Wang Li and Wang Xuance were responsible for assisting Wang Ben.
With the support of the kings of the Western Regions, Wang Ben did not have any accidents during the process of taking over the command. The handover was successfully completed, and there was no situation afterwards that he did not obey military orders. In this way, Ji Xiaolan became the nominal commander of the Western Regions coalition, but the actual commander was Wang Ben.
Wang Jian is still the prefect of a county now. Although he commands only 20,000 or 30,000 troops at most, Wang Ben, as his son, has the experience of commanding more than 100,000 troops ahead of his father.
After Wang Ben took over the command of the coalition forces, the situation of the Western Regions War also changed completely.
The main generals active in the war all became generals of the Qin Dynasty, while the previous local generals of the Western Regions became attackers and obeyed the orders of the Qin generals.
However, even with the support of Qin generals such as Wang Ben, the battle situation in the Western Regions has not achieved a major reversal. After all, their opponent Yang Su is not simple.
Yang Su was the commander when he was born at 98 points, but after so many years of battles, Yang Su, who had won so many battles, naturally could not make any progress.
In addition, the two big wins against the Western Regions coalition not long ago improved Yang Su''s foundation a little.
Current Yang Su Wuwei: Commander 100 (+2), Force 90 (+5), Intelligence 90 (+1), Politics 96, Charm 85 (+4);
Wang Ben and Yang Su have both command attributes of 100. Without counting the command commander''s amplitude, the command ability of the two of them is similar. The competition is naturally the auxiliary of their generals, the bravery of the generals, and the combat effectiveness of the army.
As for generals, although Wang Ben has assisted and commanded by Wang Li and Wang Xuance, Yang Su''s lineup is not bad, with Gao Huan and Gao Changgong assisting and commanding.
The commander of Gao Changgong was not high when he was born, only 89 points, which was obviously lowered by the system. However, he had extremely eye-catching performances in many battles such as the Battle of Destroying Qiang, the Battle of Hetao, and the Battle of Liangzhou, and made great contributions, so all five-dimensional activities were growing rapidly.
Current Gao Changgong Wudi: Commander 95 (+6), Force 102 (+6), Intelligence 84 (+3), Politics 69, Charm 97 (+2);
Commander 100 Wang Ben + 95 Wang Li + 97 Wang Xuance
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Commander 100 Yang Su + 96 Gao Huan + 95 Gao Changgong
In terms of the command ability of the army, the levels of the two sides are actually not much different, and Wang Ben just has a slight advantage.
In terms of powerful generals, although Wang Ben has 105 Meng Ben + 105 Ruan Wengzhong + 101 Ling Xiao, as well as many generals from the Western Regions.
But Yang Su was 106 high, 104 Wu Yunzhao and Shi Wansui, and Li Huanzhang and Yao Gonglin.
Gao Ang beat more than 50 generals of the Western Regions in a row. After his reputation spread throughout the Western Regions, he also broke his own bottleneck and his force reached 106 points.
So in general, Wang Ben’s side is at a disadvantage in terms of powerful generals.
As for the combat effectiveness of the army, although the Western Regions Alliance has a large number of troops, it is divided into various countries and poor equipment, and its comprehensive combat power is really not worthy of compliment.
In contrast, although the Sui army had a small number of people, they were united, well-trained and well-equipped, with the combat effectiveness of 30,000 troops, and even outweighed the 100,000 Western Regions coalition forces.
After comparing the gap between the two armies, Wang Ben found that the disadvantage of the Western Regions coalition was too great. Even if he commanded the 100,000 Western Regions coalition, he was not sure that he could defeat Yang Su head-on.
Since you can''t fight head-on, you can only attack indirectly.
Wang Ben learned from Ling Xiao''s lesson and was not prepared to defeat Yang Su on the front battlefield with his military advantage. Instead, he led an army with his son Wang Li, while restraining Yang Su''s main force, and at the same time sent his nephew Wang Xuance to lead the army and constantly raid the Sui army''s food route.
The Sui army had few troops, but they could not ignore the food roads in the rear, so they would definitely divide their troops to protect the food roads, so Wang Ben''s pressure would be reduced.
But even so, Wang Ben still did not fight with Yang Su, but instead used fighting generals, night attacks, poisoning, and drumming to continuously wipe out the spirit of the Sui army.
As the strongest combat power among the coalition forces, Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong have fought with Gao An successively, but because they are both power-type generals, their attack speed is relatively slow, and they really do not have an advantage in the face of high skills and speed.
Meng Ben and Gao An were defeated after 223 rounds, Ruan Wengzhong and Gao An were defeated after 252 rounds, and neither of them could defeat Gao An in a single battle.
After losing two consecutive times, Gao Ang also began to become arrogant. He even dared to fight one by one, but was tortured.
With Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong joining forces, Gao Ann was defeated after only twenty rounds. If Wu Yunzhao and Shi Wansui had not rescued in time, Gao Ann would have almost died under the men of the two.
After the two sides confronted each other for a month, Wang Ben clearly felt that the morale of the Sui army had declined and his combat effectiveness also declined. So he decisively led the carefully selected 30,000 elite troops to attack, and used Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong as vanguards. As a result, he defeated the Sui army in one battle and killed more than 8,000 Sui army.
This was the first defeat of the Sui army after invading the Western Regions. When the Western Regions coalition heard the news, morale rose sharply and self-confidence increased sharply. There was a disagreement with Wang Ben on whether to pursue it.
Wang Ben felt that Yang Su''s main force had not been damaged, so he decided not to pursue it for caution, but the generals of the Western Regions did not obey the military order and pursued it without authorization. As a result, they were hit by Yang Su''s ambush, lost 20,000 troops, and returned in a disastrous defeat.
This big defeat once again disappeared.
However, after this defeat, no one in the Western Regions generals dared not to obey Wang Ben''s orders, and the Western Regions coalition forces truly unified the command power.
In the subsequent confrontation, Wang Ben and Yang Su used their own means to confront each other, and fought for three consecutive months before the battle came to an end.
In the end, the Sui army paid the price of more than half of the regular army''s casualties and the entire army was wiped out.
The first year of Shenwu, October 4th.
Yang Su, with the remaining army and the robbed wealth, officially retreated from the Western Regions to Liangzhou.
Under Wang Ben''s command, although the Western Regions coalition repelled the Sui army, it only won a miserable victory.
The Western Regions coalition killed a total of 15,000 Sui troops and 20,000 servants, but the total number of casualties in various countries reached an astonishing 120,000.
Two-thirds of the soldiers were killed under the command of generals from the Western Regions, while three-quarters of the results were achieved under the command of Wang Ben.
In addition, among the 36 countries in the Western Regions, nine countries were destroyed by Yang Su, and now only twenty-five countries are left.
?The process of the Western Regions War is abbreviated. If Xiang described it in detail, there will be more than a dozen chapters.
This July is a really wonderful month.
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(This chapter ends)