Chapter 2604 Three Passes of Yunnan and Guizhou, Six Battles of Shu Barbarians
Chapter 2601: Three Passes of Yunnan and Guizhou, Six Battles of Shu Barbarians
Yizhou County originally had 16 counties, but after repeated competition between Shu Han and the Southern Barbarians, coupled with the newly built cities that were immigrated to each other, it was eventually developed into 23 counties, and it was also divided into three counties: Yizhou, Jianning and Yunnan.
The three counties in the southernmost part of Jianning and five counties in Yunnan belong to the Southern Barbarians, and Chiyou also merged these eight counties into Dian County, set the capital in the original Changgu County, and renamed it Kunming.
There are eleven counties in the southern country, including only Dian County, Lijiang and Qiannan County bordering Shu Kingdom. However, Chiyou put the capital of the king in Dian County, which shows that he never gave up his ambition to invade Shu.
The total population of the southern country is 2.6 million, less than three million. If we gather the national strength, we can only support a large army of 200,000.
However, Shu Han had a population of 630. Before the extreme expansion, it had already had an army of 250,000. After the expansion, it was unknown how many troops there were.
In terms of the power comparison between the two countries, it is almost impossible for the southern country to annex Shu. At most, it can only occupy southern Shu and may not be able to defend it.
But this time, the Qin Dynasty started a war against Shu in Hanzhong, attracting most of the Shu army to the north, which is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the southern country.
Naturally, Chi You would not miss such a good opportunity, so he directly dispatched 150,000 troops and divided his troops into three groups to attack Shu.
Chiyou personally led a 100,000 army and set out from Dian County to attack Jianning and Yizhou counties;
Gonggong led 30,000 to attack Xiwang County from Qiannan County.
As for the 20,000 troops in Dali and Lijiang, Dali Prefect Duan Siping led the army, and set out from Dali County to attack Yongchang County.
After many years, Chi You led his army to attack Shu for the sixth time, with 150,000 elite troops from the Southern Kingdom, and his troops were divided into three groups to attack, and his momentum was far beyond any previous one.
But it also has certain risks.
There were 200,000 troops in the southern country. Chiyou sent 150,000 to attack Shu, and the remaining 50,000 remained in the rear. Such a military deployment was actually a bit risky.
The national strength of Shu is much stronger than that of the southern country. If the southern country cannot win quickly, and once a protracted war is formed, the troops lost by the Shu army can be replenished quickly, but the southern country is not able to do so. Even if the troops can be replenished, the equipment and food will definitely not be able to be replenished.
Although Chiyou knew that he could not fight a protracted war with Shu, he still left a total of 50,000 troops to defend and release him, because of the Chu State in the east.
The two counties of Qiannan and Qujing in the eastern part of the southern country, and the Yulin County of Guangzhou in the Chu State, and Jiaozhi County of Jiaozhou, are separated by a hundred miles of mountains and dense forests.
The State of Chu also knew that the Southern Barbarians were not easy to mess with, so over the years, they had never sent troops to the Southern Kingdom.
But Chu and Shu are allies. If Liu Yu can''t hold on, he will inevitably ask for help from Chu.
Once the Chu State chooses to support Shu State and send troops to the southern state, it will obviously not be able to stop the elite of the Chu army by relying on the hundreds of miles of mountains, secret orders and swamps.
It is precisely because of this that Chiyou left behind 50,000 defenders and distributed them to 30,000 defenders in Qiannan County and 20,000 in Qujing.
If the State of Chu is really determined to send troops, it will not be reserved. The two states of Jiaoguang may have a capacity of 100,000, and relying solely on 50,000 southern defenders is obviously not an opponent.
Chi You knew this very well, but he was not afraid.
The 50,000 Southern Army was naturally not the opponent of the 100,000 Chu Army, but the two counties of Qiannan and Qujing were surrounded by mountains, easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Chiyou had already let Liu Xiu go.
Since the alliance between Shu and Chu, Chi You has been worried that the two countries will join forces to siege the Southern Barbarians. After all, the strength of the two countries is not much stronger. If they really join forces to invade, the Southern Kingdom may not be able to escape the end of destroying the country.
Fortunately, the internal struggle of Shu did not stop before Liu Ji''s death, while the Chu State was devoted to the Central Plains, and did not even have any interest in barbarian areas such as Nanzhong, Annan, and Siam.
Although Chu was not interested in Nanzhong, Chi You had to guard against Liu Xiu coming one day in the future. After all, if Chu and Shu jointly send troops, the southern country would be in danger of destruction.
Therefore, long before Ying Hao became emperor, Chiyou had been strengthening the defense in the east. Not only did he build a large number of Wubao and camps in Qiannan and Qujing counties, but he also selected three dangerous places to build checkpoints in the east.
These three passes are named by Chiyou: Qixing Pass, Shengjing Pass and Loushan Pass. Because they are located in Yunnan and Guizhou, they are also called Yunnan and Guizhou.
The southern part of the central region is too poor, and the southern country needs to devote itself to restoring the war and damage, so naturally there is no resource to build the new pass.
Therefore, even after three years of construction, the three passes have not been completely repaired. Only one was built, and the other two were only semi-finished, but they were much more defensive than those Wubao.
Relying on the three passes of Yunnan-Guizhou in the east and the major defensive fortifications built, Chi You was confident that he would rely on 50,000 defenders to block the 100,000 Chu troops, but it would be fine if he could last for one or two years.
It was also once that Chi You dared to lead a 150,000 army with confidence and boldness, and divided into three groups to attack Shu.
Since Zhang Yi accidentally exposed his identity when he was on a mission to the Southern Kingdom, Liu Yu speculated that the Qin Dynasty and the Southern Barbarians might join forces, so he naturally expected the attack on the Southern Barbarians.
Liu Yu not only notified the prefects of the southern Shu county in advance to make them prepare for war in advance to prevent sneak attacks from the Southern Barbarians, but also sent Zhou Bo to lead 30,000 elite troops, as well as Zhang Fei, Liu Xun, Wu Lan, Shi Jingtang and other generals to go south.
There were already 70,000 defenders in the six counties in southern Shu Han. In addition, Zhou Bo''s 30,000 troops, the total strength had reached 100,000. Even if the field battle could not defeat the 150,000 Southern Barbarians, there was still no complete problem in defending the city.
Liu Yu did not want to fight the Southern Barbarians from the beginning, but was preparing to defend the enemy until Chiyou finished his food. The Southern Barbarians would retreat their troops at that time. After all, he had fought with the Southern Barbarians before.
But the combat effectiveness of the Southern Army that invaded this time was completely different from that of the previous Southern Barbarian Army. It would naturally not work for Shu to adopt the old countermeasures.
In the past, the South Central was short of iron and the metallurgical technology was extremely backward, so the equipment of the Southern Barbarians was very simple.
Except for an iron knife or a wooden gun with an iron spear head, the soldiers of the Southern Barbarian Army basically have no other equipment, and armor is a luxury that only generals have.
As for the unique vine armor in the South Central, although it has strong defense, its disadvantages that can be burned at a glance are also fatal. After Chi You suffered from the loss of vine armor once, he never used the vine armor army again.
But since the Southern Kingdom and Daqin traded, they have bought a large number of weapons and equipment in the original Zhao, Yan, and Han national standards from Daqin through maritime trade.
Today, the Southern Army not only has a steel knife, but also has an armor popularity rate of 15%.
Among the 200,000 Southern Army, 30,000 people were wearing armor, which was naturally incomparable to the Central Plains countries, but compared with the previous Southern Barbarian Army, it was an unprecedented progress.
In addition to the update and iteration of weapons and equipment, the Southern Army''s siege methods have also undergone great changes. The siege equipment used is more diversified, and the equipment such as well as wells, strong crossbows, catapults, etc. can be said to be full of equipment.
The Shu army''s impression of the Southern Barbarian Army was still stuck before the Fifth Shunan War. How could they know that after more than two years of cultivation and training, the Southern Barbarian Army had been reborn and turned into the current Southern Army.
The Southern Barbarian Army and the Southern Army are just a word difference, but they cannot be compared.
Chi You, who had poorly equipped Southern Barbarians, could train them into a strong army with no worse combat effectiveness than Shu Army.
Now, the 200,000 Southern Army, which has been equipped with a large amount of excellent equipment and has been trained for two years, has naturally become much stronger in combat than before.
Chi You personally led 20,000 vanguard troops and marched for a hundred miles in two days. He attacked the city without any stop. Even though the Jianning defenders were prepared, they were still caught off guard. Four cities fell in just three days.
Wu Yi, the prefect of Jianning County, learned that the other four counties had fallen, was surprised by the performance of the Southern Barbarians, but he was not too panicked. While gathering down the defeated troops, he asked Zhou Bo, who was stationed in Yizhou.
Before Wu Yi could wait for Zhou Bo''s reinforcements, Chi You brought the vanguard troops to the city.
When Wu Yi saw the appearance of the southern army outside the city, he was shocked.
The weapons and equipment of the Southern Barbarian army are so sophisticated, and even catapults and siege crossbows are used. Is this still the poor Southern Barbarian?
Wu Yi immediately realized that the situation was not good, so he quickly sent a letter through Fei Ge, urging Zhou Bo to come and support, and also mobilized the people of the whole city to defend the city, and the people in the city naturally responded in groups.
Wu Yi was the first to surrender to Liu Yu, but later he turned against Liu Ji because of Liu Yu''s weak power. He then continued to oppose Liu Yu, and even sent his clan brother Wu Ban to siege and kill Liu Yu during the palace revolution.
But in the end, in the internal struggle between Shu Han, Liu Yu survived to the end and became the last winner of Shu.
After Liu Yu took power, in order to reassure the Yuan Shu faction, he did not personally calculate the people who betrayed or offended him. After all, he could accept Xing Tian, ??who killed his younger brother Liu Daolian, and let alone the traitor Wu Yi?
Although Liu Yu did not kill Wu Yi directly, he obviously would not reuse Wu Yi. However, considering that Wu Yi''s ability is not bad and the Shu Han who is in a mess is in a hurry to find talents, he transferred him from Chengdu and demoted him to Jianning as the prefect.
Wu Yi knew that Liu Yu didn''t like him and had no shame to continue being by Liu Yu''s side. For him, it was good to be sent to Shunan. At least he didn''t have to worry about being afraid, so he also worked very hard to manage Jianning County.
Two years ago when Wu Yi served as the prefect of Jianning, the population and economy of the five counties in Jianning had grown a lot, and the people of Jianning loved this prefect very much, so there would be so many people responding when Wu Yi mobilized the people to defend the city.
At this time, there were 8,000 defenders in Jianning City. With 10,000 responding people, a total of 18,000 people were able to participate in defending the city.
Wu Yi felt that relying on these 8,000 people to hold on until Zhou Bo’s reinforcements arrived, the problem should not be too big, but he was soon slapped in the face.
[Dingdong, Chiyou''s skill "Soldier Master" effect 1 is activated. When serving as the chief general, all the generals under his command will +1, and the entire army will have +1; when participating in the war personally, the entire army will have +1, and when half of the casualties are over, the entire army will have +1;
The current commander of the Southern Army +1, and the force +1;
Commander Chiyou rose to 103 and his force rose to 113;
Commander Duan Siping rose to 96, and his force rose to...
The commander of Gonggong rose to 95…
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This is the main reason why the previous Southern Barbarians clearly had so much worse equipment than the Shu army, but their combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the Shu army.
Chiyou forced the combat effectiveness of the entire Southern Barbarian Army with his own strength.
Chiyou did not personally participate in the siege, but commanded the 20,000 vanguard army under his command. However, the offensive of these 20,000 troops was too fierce. In the first round of siege, people climbed to the top of the city, and then more and more people rushed up.
Wu Yi personally led his men to siege and kill the barbarian soldiers who came up, but this time the barbarian soldiers were too difficult. He fought for two hours but didn''t kill them all, but instead made the barbarian soldiers wait from other places.
Wu Yi wanted to lead his army to break through, but Chi You was outside the city, and he had cavalry around him. It was like seeking death to leave the city at this time, so he could only retreat to the city for street fighting and struggled to support him.
Seeing that the army invaded the city, Chiyou was unable to take down the Shu army in the city for a long time, he joined the war himself, which increased the southern army a little force, and resisted the Shu army no longer supported it. He began to flee in groups, but where could he escape?
In the end, nearly 8,000 people put down their weapons and chose to surrender to Chiyou, and Wu Yi was captured by Chiyou, who had no other skills.
"Wu Yi, I know the grudge between you and Liu Yu. Liu Yu cannot reuse you anymore. You don''t want to waste your time in Jianning. I wonder if you are willing to surrender to me and serve my southern country?"
Chi You''s wise and noble men surrendered Wu Yi. After all, Wu Yi was the head of the Wu family in Yizhou. If he conquered him, he would be equivalent to taking over the Wu family.
Wu Yi said with disdain, "I want me, Wu Yi, to serve you and other barbarians? It''s just a dream. Being captured today is just a death, so there is no need to say too much."
(This chapter ends)