Chapter 2595: Coercive countries, Yangping in World War II (Part 2)
Chapter 2592: Coerce the countries, Yangping in World War II (Part 2)
The Qin Dynasty naturally could not remain indifferent to the death of Liu Bian and the fact that Liu Yu was about to succeed to the throne and become emperor. Otherwise, what should we do if the monarchs of Wu, Chu and other countries follow suit?
Therefore, the Qin Dynasty must express its attitude no matter what, that is, focus on attacking all forces that proclaim themselves emperors.
If other forces were to be emperor, the Qin Dynasty would have sent troops directly long ago. Even if it was to temporarily suspend the military expansion plan and postpone the battle of unification, it would still be willing to do so, but only in the face of Shu Kingdom, it could not do this.
The difficulty of Shu Road is not blown up. Before completely taking over the Central Plains and Xiliang, it will definitely be disturbed by forces from all sides. It is basically impossible for the Qin Dynasty to concentrate its efforts to destroy the country.
Therefore, even if the Qin Dynasty declares war on Shu directly, it is likely that it will be the same as the Yuan Dynasty. It can only weaken its strength and cannot destroy the country. Instead, it will affect the pace of the Qin Dynasty''s unification, which is not worth the loss.
Since it is impossible to destroy Shu Kingdom at present, the Qin Dynasty can only suppress Liu Yu''s arrogance as much as possible.
Didn’t you, Liu Yu, invite all forces to prepare to hold a world-renowned imperial ceremony that gathers all major forces?
Then I can’t even go to anyone you invite. You, Liu Yu, are just having fun in Chengdu.
The increase in troops and conduct military exercises at Hulao Pass was Ying Hao''s attention. The purpose was naturally to threaten Cao Cao, but he did not expect that this move would be surprisingly good, and even Zhao Kuangyin was scared.
After the Wei and Song dynasties refused, the only forces that clearly accepted the invitation from Shu were Chu, Sui and Ming dynasties.
Chu and Ming are both mortal enemies. If they are just threats, they are unlikely to let them back down, so Ying Hao will not waste his time.
As for the Sui Kingdom, it was just a small country in Xilong after all, with weak national strength. In addition, the northwest region, except for the Tibetan Tubo, there was no force that could help.
So, in the face of the threat from the Qin Dynasty, how confident can Yang Guang have? There is a high probability that you will still make a decision that can avoid conflicts, so you can avoid them as much as possible.
As soon as he thought of this, Ying Hao smiled and ordered: "Send orders to Liangzhou Governor Meng Tian, ??and ask him to increase his troops to Wuwei County by 50,000 to train and act. Where is Kan Ze?"
"I''m here."
Kan Ze, who stood behind Zhang Yi, the Minister of Rites and Foreign Minister, quickly stood up after hearing this.
Ying Hao said, "Just using acting as a threat may not scare Yang Guang. So Kan Ze, I ordered you to go to Sui State to go to the Sui State to be a mission to Yang Guang and Chen Mingli. Yang Guang is a smart person, and he will know how to choose."
"I obey the order."
After watching Kan Ze leave, Ying Hao said again: "Whether it is the Wei and Song dynasties or the Sui dynasties, it will be my mouth-watering food from the Qin Dynasty sooner or later.
Now that the expansion of the army has not been completed, the new army has not completed training, let them survive for a while.
By the day when the new army is formed, it is the time when the four countries of Wei, Song, Ming and Sui fall. ”
Zhang Liang, Minister of War, stood up and said, "Your Majesty, the main purpose of Liu Yu''s pro-Emperor this time is to inspire pro-Han people and anti-Qin forces. I believe that in addition to intimidating the Wei and Sui countries, thunder means must be implemented against Shu."
Ying Hao naturally agreed with Zhang Liang''s words, but at the current stage, the possibility of destroying Shu is almost gone, and even capturing Hanzhong will cost a considerable price, and it will also be a unified process, so it is really not worth the effort to send troops.
Zhang Liang naturally knew Ying Hao’s concerns, but he had a different view.
"Your Majesty, when Liu Yu ascended the throne and became emperor this time, I, Qin, can threaten Wei and Sui, but if I leave Shu, I will definitely be accused of bullying the weak and afraid of the strong. Whether or not I can seize Hanzhong after sending troops is one thing, but whether or not I will send troops is another thing."
As soon as Zhang Liang''s remarks were made, they immediately aroused dissatisfaction from many ministers such as Wang Meng, Liu Ji, and Guo Jia.
"Your Majesty, Shangshu Zhang''s words are reasonable. You cannot simply stop sending troops just because it is difficult to fight in Hanzhong. Even if you are just pretending, you still have to send troops." Wang Meng said.
"How can you just act like a show? If you want to send troops, you can take Hanzhong in one go."
Zhang Liang raised an objection, and then said directly to Ying Hao: "Your Majesty, I suggest that you can join forces with the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou to send troops together to attack Shu Kingdom from north to south."
As soon as this statement was spoken, Ying Hao''s eyes suddenly lit up, but Zhang Liang continued:
"In the three years of maritime trade between the Southern Barbarians and our Daqin, they not only bought enough weapons and armor to equip more than 100,000 troops, but also bought a lot of war horses and plowing oxen. Not only did they recover the losses of their previous defeats, but their military strength and national strength were greatly improved.
My Great Qin supports the development of the Southern Barbarians so strongly, but I just want the Southern Barbarians to restrain part of the power of Shu Kingdom. Now is the time for the Southern Barbarians to repay my Great Qin''s kindness. ”
"Shangshu Zhang said this is right. The Shu Kingdom has not yet completed its expansion. If the Southern Barbarian King is willing to send troops and attack Shu Kingdom from north to south with our Great Qin, there is still a great possibility of taking Hanzhong in this battle." Guo Jia agreed.
Ying Hao nodded and said, "The two beloved friends are reasonable, but whether to fight or act in detail depends on whether Chi You is willing to send troops.
Where is Zhang Yi, the Minister of Rites? ”
Hearing His Majesty call him, Zhang Yi immediately stood up and said, "I am here."
"Shilarious Minister Zhang, I sent you to the Southern Barbarians to contact the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou, and jointly send troops to attack Shu Kingdom from both sides."
Hearing Ying Hao''s words, Zhang Yi did not agree immediately, but said, "Your Majesty, in the past three years of maritime trade, the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou took advantage of it, and from this we can see that this person is extremely greedy.
Although it is also beneficial to the Southern Barbarians to cooperate with our Great Qin to send troops, the greed of the Southern Barbarians will definitely put forward certain conditions, and it is unlikely that it will be possible to send troops if they are empty-mouthed. ”
"Your dear is reasonable."
Ying Hao groped his chin and planned to drag the Nanman into the water, but he was also speechless.
In his eyes, Chiyou should be the image of being arrogant and domineering, but what he showed in the process of sea trade with Daqin was full of fine-grained images, and he always tried to get rid of Daqin.
For example, Chi You wanted to buy 10,000 yuan from Daqin and fight swords, but Daqin gave him 100 shields. To buy five thousand oxen, one hundred more war horses will be given.
If you buy 100,000 stones of grain and grass, you will give away 300 stones of salt, etc.
Chi You didn''t take too many small gains like this.
Perhaps the Southern Barbarians were too poor and backward. After learning about the prosperity of the Qin civilization, Chi You also wanted to develop the Southern Barbarians to this extent, but the Southern Barbarians were still in a semi-tribal civilization. If they want to completely overestimate the agricultural civilization, they naturally need massive resources to support them.
The Southern Barbarians must not only restore war losses, but also develop and grow, so they naturally cannot provide so much money, so they can only find ways to take advantage of the Qin Dynasty.
Chi You didn''t want to do this, but there was no way. The Southern Barbarians were too poor. What''s wrong with sacrificing his personal reputation in order to develop the entire ethnic group?
Ying Hao, considering that the Southern Barbarians are allies, and the position where the Southern Barbarians are important to succeed the throne, can indeed restrain many troops of Shu after becoming stronger, so he naturally would not care about this little profit, so he turned a blind eye.
With the support of the Qin Dynasty, the Southern Barbarians made rapid progress in the past three years, but the foundation was too poor after all, and all aspects had to be taken into account, so the growth rate of national strength was naturally not as fast as that of Shu.
"If we join forces with our Qin Dynasty and attack Shu Kingdom from north to south, the Southern Barbarian King is definitely willing, but with his greedy personality, if he wants to send troops, he may still need to tempt him."
Zhang Yi said helplessly, approaching the Southern Barbarians, who will not get up early when they meet their ally, and even the Qin Dynasty can only lose money to change their peace of mind.
"Let''s do this. As long as the King of Southern Barbarians agrees to send troops, the Qin Dynasty is willing to give 30,000 stones of food and grass, 3,000 swords, 100 armor, and 300 war horses to serve as military service." Ying Hao said.
Hearing Ying Hao''s words, Zhang Yi was overjoyed and said, "I am absolutely sure of such conditions and can convince the Southern Barbarians to send troops."
Ying Hao nodded with satisfaction. After all, for Daqin at this time, this little resource is only a drop in the bucket. If it can be exchanged for the Southern Barbarians to send troops, the reward will be dozens of times the effort.
"Immediately draft an order to order the Grand Governor of Yongzhou Li Jing to lead 100,000 Yongzhou troops to march into Yangping Pass, but don''t attack for the time being. Everything will be decided whether to go to war with Shu." Ying Hao ordered.
"No."
"By the way, how is the military expansion going on?" Ying Hao asked.
Prime Minister Wang Meng stood up and reported: "Report to Your Majesty, the 700,000 new army has been recruited, of which 350,000 were recruited from the reserve, and the other 350,000 were selected from the people through layers of selection."
Ying Hao nodded with satisfaction.
There are 300,000 county soldiers, constables and other reserves within the Daqin organization, and the total number of veterans is about 500,000, of which there are about 100,000 disabled, over-aged and unsatisfied conditions for enlistment.
If these people were eliminated, the remaining 700,000 people were screened. The selected 300,000 new troops were not only compared with the regular troops of the Qin Dynasty, but they were not worse than the regular troops of the enemy country.
As for the 350,000 new recruits recruited from the people, although their comprehensive qualities are not as good as those new troops who have formed a reserve force, we should know that there are as many as 2.1 million people who have signed up for the army this time.
From the 2.1 million people, 350,000 new recruits were selected, and one-sixth of the admission rate was definitely not too bad.
So, as of now, although these 350,000 new recruits are not as good as those of the reserves, they have great potential to win, and their combat power will definitely be stronger in the future.
"Of the 350,000 new troops recruited from the reserves, 200,000 were from the veterans, and the other 150,000 were from the reserves, and there were also 150,000 vacant places in the active reserves, and the 150,000 vacant places are currently preparing to fill the gap from the unselected people."
Hearing Wang Meng''s words, Ying Hao''s heart moved and asked, "How many new recruits were eliminated in the last round?"
Wang Meng didn''t expect Ying Hao to ask this, and suddenly he couldn''t remember it. He quickly looked through the booklet of the notes in his hand and replied:
"In the past, there were only three rounds of recruit selection, but this time, because there were too many people who signed up, there were five rounds of screening. Those who could enter the bottom three rounds met the previous enlistment requirements.
There were 600,000 people entering the last round of selection this time, of which 350,000 were passed, and the other 25 were eliminated for various reasons. ”
"If you say so, even if you make up for the gap of 150,000, there will be still 100,000 people left."
After thinking about it, Ying Hao said decisively: "These people who failed to be elected actually meet the requirements, and it would be a pity to just sever them like this.
Let’s do this, expand the total number of reserves to 400,000, so that these 250,000 people will be included in the reserves.
Let these act as county soldiers first, and maintain public order while training. If the regular army suffers serious casualties in the subsequent war, they can be directly supplemented from the reserve. ”
The expense of maintaining the reserve service is relatively small. The military expenditure of the reserve service is equivalent to 33,000 regular troops. The Qin Dynasty could fully afford it, so naturally the ministers had no reason to refuse.
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After the military exercise in Hulaoguan, the Qin Dynasty conducted a military exercise in Wuwei County. The Sui King Yang Guang immediately became nervous and even personally welcomed the arrival of the Qin envoy.
At the same time, Li Jing also personally led a hundred thousand troops to march into Yangping Pass.
Liu Er, the prefect of Hanzhong of Shu, learned that he was behind, and hurriedly increased his troops to Yangping Pass and asked Chengdu for help.
The move of Daqin made the world even more eye-catching, thinking that it was Liu Yu''s act of becoming emperor that completely angered Ying Hao, so Daqin suddenly launched troops against Shu, and everyone thought that the second battle of Yangping Pass in Qin and Shu was about to start.
But many people also believe that the Qin Dynasty''s move is still intended to deter it. After all, if he really wants to go to war with Shu, the Qin Dynasty would not only send an army of 100,000.
Little do they know whether the battle between Qin and Shu will start, but it actually depends on Chi You''s next decision.
(This chapter ends)