Chapter 2774 The Silk Road on the Road, the Five Great Warlords of the Western Regions
Chapter 2771: The Silk Road on the Road, the Five Great Warlords of the Western Regions
There were many major wars that broke out in the Battle of Sui Dynasty, especially in the early stages. Because Li Jing planned it properly, it was basically a smooth game, winning one battle, and winning one battle was easy.
It was not until 100,000 Tubo troops came to aid and Yang Guang introduced the Qiang ruling and recruited 100,000 Qiang troops that the battle between Qin and Sui Dynasty had some turmoil, and the major battle was basically concentrated in the later stages.
[Battle 8, Battle of Huangyuan (Defense of the City)
Qin army 25,000 vs Tubo army 100,000
Result: The Qin army was defeated (note: voluntarily abandoned the city), killed seven thousand enemies, and suffered seven thousand damage to themselves;
Battle 9, Battle of the former Bison Mountain (field battle)
The Qin army 65,000 vs. The Sui Tuqiang coalition forces 180,000
Result: If you don’t decide the winner, you will kill 35,000 enemies and lose 20,000 to yourself;
Battle 10, Battle of Huangyuan Road (field battle)
The Qin army 50,000 (actual investment of 3,000) VS Tubo army 40,000 (actual investment of 30,000)
Result: The Qin army won, killed 10,000 enemies, and suffered 400 losses;
Battle 11, Battle of the Later Bison Mountain (Field War)
The Qin army is 85,000 vs. 200,000 Sui Tuqiang coalition forces
Result: The Qin army won, killed 65,000 enemies, lost 15,000 of them, and captured 120,000;
Battle 12, Battle of Yushu (Surprise Attack)
Qin army 20,000 vs. Tubo army 30,000
Result: The Qin army won, killed 6,000 enemies, lost 500, and captured 24,000;
Battle 13, Battle of Wuwei (strong attack, fraudulent surrender)
Qin army 60,000 vs Sui army 20,000
Result: The Qin army won, killed five thousand enemies, lost ten thousand of them, and captured ten thousand of them;
Battle 14, Battle of Daxing (siege, ambush)
Qin army 63,000 vs Sui army 50,000
Result: The Qin army won, killed 28,000 enemies, lost 1,500 of them, captured 7,000 of them, surrendered 15,000 of them;
Battle 15, Battle of the United States (defense, field battle)
Qin army 70,000 vs. Sui and Qiang coalition forces 100,000;
Result: The Qin army won, killed 55,000 enemies, and lost 35,000 to itself;
Battle 16, Yumen Pass Chasing Battle (Chasing)
The Qin army was 15,000 VS the Sui and Qiang coalition forces 50,000;
Result: The Qin army won, killed 8,000 enemies, captured 20,000 prisoners, and lost 2,000 to themselves;
According to statistics, the ''Battle of Qin and Sui'' wiped out a total of 240,000 enemies, captured 213,500, and lost 100,240 for themselves. After deducting casualties, a total of 3,511 summoning points were rewarded.
The host has a total of 6215 summoning points before the war, and the current host has a total of 9726 summoning points. 】
The 300,000 troops of the Sui and Qin army, dominated by Li Jing, achieved a record of 450,000 enemies (250,000 Sui army, 100,000 each of the Qiang army and Tubo army), of which 240,000 were killed directly, and 210,000 were captured.
In this battle alone, the Qin Dynasty completely defeated the Sui and Qiang tribes, and also severely damaged the vitality of the Tubo Kingdom. There was no force in Guanxi that could challenge the Qin Dynasty.
Such a result was brilliant, but the Qin army also paid a huge price, losing nearly 100,000 troops, accounting for one-third of the total number of troops.
Although after treatment, nearly half of them can recover and return to the army.
But the treatment of injuries, the pension of the soldiers who died in battle, and the resettlement of 210,000 prisoners of war are undoubtedly a huge expense.
After the Qin army captured Liangzhou and Haizhou, although there were many gains, they were obviously not enough to make up for these expenses. Before completely digesting Liangzhou and Haizhou, it was impossible to be self-sufficient. In the end, the Qin court would definitely have to pay for the money.
[Dingdong, after testing, the Battle of Wild Bison Mountain includes: the Battle of Wild Bison Mountain before and after, and the Battle of Yushu. These three battles are the same battle, involving a total force of 400,000, which has exceeded 200,000;
After statistics, the Battle of Wild Bison Mountain killed a total of 16,000 enemies, captured 144,000 prisoners, and lost 35,000 to themselves;
The battle loss ratio of this battle is 7.1:1, rating: S, reward: one gold random summoning card. 】
[Dingdong, after testing, the Battle of Xianmei includes: the Battle of Xianmei’s defense of the city, the Battle of Xianmei, and the Battle of Wuwei. These three battles are the same battle, involving a battle standard with a total force of 200,000;
After statistics, the Battle of Show America wiped out a total of 60,000 enemies, captured 10,000, and lost 40,000 to themselves;
The battle loss ratio of this battle is 1.75:1, rating: C, reward: one bronze random summoning card. 】
Although there were many wars in the Battle of Sui Dynasty, there were only two major battles that could form the standard of battle. There were only two battles, Wild Bison Mountain and Xianmei, but the casualties were the largest in these two battles.
After dozens of battles against the Sui Dynasty, the Qin army accumulated a total of 100,000 casualties, but the casualties in these two battles alone reached 75,000, accounting for three-quarters of the total casualties.
This shows the tragic extent of the Battle of Wild Bison Mountain and the Battle of Showing America.
[Dingdong, the Qin Dynasty successively occupied the six counties of Jincheng, Wuwei, Zhangye, Dunhuang, Jiuquan and Zhangye, and was located in the 10 counties of Liangzhou, one of the thirteen prefectures of the Han Dynasty, and 128 counties of 1 vassal states. Reward: a golden summoning card, and a random attribute point of 1 point;]
[Dingdong, Daqin successively occupied seven counties of Xining, Haidong, Haibei, Hainan, Huangnan, Guoluo and Yushu, all based on 7 counties and 73 counties of Haizhou, the sixteen prefectures in China. Reward: one golden summoning card, 1 random attribute point;]
[The current host has: 9726 summoning points, 2 random attribute points, two gold summoning cards, one gold random summoning card, and one bronze random summoning card;]
In the Battle of Sui Dynasty, the Qin side won a great victory, and won the thirteen counties in two states and 1.8 million new population.
Of course, for Daqin, the increase in territory and population was second to the point. The biggest gain was actually the opening of the Silk Road.
The six counties of Liangzhou were in the Sui Dynasty. Except for Jincheng and Wuwei, the other four counties were extremely barren, and the seven counties of Haizhou were not very wealthy.
In such a barren land, it is already the limit to maintaining a 150,000 army, but under the limit of the Sui State''s expansion of its army, it actually supported a total of 300,000 army.
What did Yang Guang rely on to support the 300,000 troops? It''s naturally the Silk Road.
The Sui Dynasty was barren, lacked resources, and limited commercial potential. It was impossible to maximize the interests of the Silk Road. However, just a part of it was developed, it had already increased its fiscal revenue and became a Kansai small bully.
The Qin Dynasty has eleven states, and its resources, population, and business are dozens of times stronger than the Sui State.
If the Silk Road is dominated by the Great Qin, under the strong national strength and huge market, this gold trade route will explode dozens of times the value before.
Therefore, the Qin army had only two things to do next, one was to sort out and digest the two prefectures of Lianghai, and the other was to prepare for the development of the Silk Road and trade with the Western Regions and the Western countries. Li Jing also knew that the value of the Silk Road was immeasurable, so he planned to launch a major cleaning directly to digest the Lianghai Prefectures as quickly as possible, so as to open the Silk Road without any worries. However, he did not expect that the plan was stopped by Wang Meng from Luoyang before it even started.
Li Jing is a military general, so he adopts the simplest and most efficient method. However, it is really pleasant to manage a big country like cooking a small freshman. But what would the Central Plains think after knowing it?
After the Qin Dynasty destroyed the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming dynasties, would it also launch a major purge on the Central Plains forces like the Lianghai Prefectures?
The Qin Dynasty has not destroyed the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, so naturally we have to worry about some influence. Even if it is not to overstimulate the Central Plains forces, we cannot do anything to kill all directions in Liangzhou.
Besides, under Yang Guang''s operation and the propaganda of the Qin Dynasty, the Sui Kingdom had lost all people''s hearts. The Qin Dynasty could easily win the hearts of the people. There was no need to use such a fierce means of purge. At most, it would be just a little more time.
Under Wang Meng''s interference, although Li Jing stopped the purge, he increased the investigation of the remnants of the Sui State to strengthen the Qin Dynasty''s control over the Lianghai Prefectures.
In addition, Li Jing also made the following arrangements and arrangements for the 200,000 Qin troops in Lianghai Prefectures:
Meng Tian led an army of 60,000 to guard seven counties in Haizhou;
Li Maozhen and Xu Rong each led an army of 10,000 to guard Yumen Pass and Yang Pass;
Long Qi led a 40,000 army to command the four counties of Xiliang;
Li Mu led an army of 30,000 to help Hanzhong.
As for Li Jing himself, he personally led an army of 50,000 to Daxing, presided over the sorting and digestion of the Lianghai Prefectures, and the training and acquisition of 210,000 prisoners of war.
Before Li Jing attacked the Sui Dynasty, he had predicted various possible situations, but he did not expect that Yang Guang would be so crazy that he issued the order to resolve the Qiang. This move also upgraded the scale of the battle between Qin and Sui Dynasty. The total number of troops dispatched by the Sui Dynasty reached 400,000 or 500,000, which also allowed the Qin army to capture a total of 210,000 prisoners alone.
The Qin army suffered more than 100,000 casualties in this battle. Although nearly half of them were able to return to the army after recovering from injuries, the process would obviously be a bit long, and Li Jing obviously could not wait.
200,000 Qin troops were enough to guard the Lianghai prefectures, but the current military strength of Guanzhong and Hanzhong in the rear was not sufficient, while the Shu army was still confronting the Qin Dynasty in Hanzhong.
Therefore, it is imperative to recruit surrendered troops and supplement the vacancy caused by war.
After some discussion, Li Jing and his subordinates decided to reorganize 210,000 prisoners of war and finally reorganize them into 150,000 troops. While restoring the pre-war organization, they could also add 50,000 more troops.
In addition, after the wounded soldiers return, the Qin Dynasty will have an army of 400,000 in Yongliang by then, which is enough to attack Shu while defending Yongliang.
But as soon as this military expansion plan was handed over, it was collectively denied by Wang Meng and the six ministers.
The senior officials of the court, headed by Prime Minister Wang Meng, believed that the focus of the Qin Dynasty is on the eastern front and that all the country''s resources should be mainly to destroy the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, and that they cannot waste too much resources on the western front. Although Li Jing fought beautifully on the western front, he could not change the national policy of the Qin Dynasty.
Wang Meng only allowed the Yongliang Qin army to resume its pre-war organization and did not allow Li Jing to waste resources for additional expansion, so Li Jing could only give up the plan of expanding the army, and the reorganization of the 21 prisoners of war was reduced from 150,000 to 100,000.
However, after the wounded soldiers recovered from injury, the Qin Dynasty will have an army of 350,000 in Yongliang, which can be regarded as a disguised expansion of 50,000 troops.
Just as Li Jing was in full swing to rectify the two states of Hailiang and recruit prisoners of war, the situation in the Western Regions changed tremendously.
Yang Shuang was able to lead the army to pick up Gao Huan himself, which was enough to show that the Western Regions coalition was defeated, and it was defeated miserably.
Even with Wang Ben, a famous general, the anti-Sui coalition forces of the 15 Western Regions, were still defeated by Yang Ji and Li''s coalition forces.
Now, there are only less than 100,000 people left in the coalition of 255,000 countries, and five other countries were beaten to directly destroy the country.
The forces of Yang Ji and Li’s coalition forces are increasing, and they have now expanded to 150,000.
Wang Ben commanded the 250,000 coalition forces, but could not defeat the 70,000 army that Yang Shuang pieced together. This hit him very hard. In addition, he was shot by Yang Shuang in the final decisive battle. He was seriously injured and could not get sick even if he was depressed.
After Yang Shuang rescued Gao Huan, she did not continue to attack the Western Regions. There are two reasons:
First, I don’t dare. After all, the 200,000 Qin troops are still staying in Lianghai and the other states. If Yang Shuang stops when she doesn’t see the good news, if Li Jing is summoned, it would be a death sentence.
Second, what the Sui Kingdom needs most at present is not expansion, but to stabilize the unstable people''s hearts and select a new Sui king.
Although Yang Shuang is the Yang family clan who holds the most military power, he is logically the best candidate for becoming the King of Sui, generals such as Gao Huan, Wei Xiaokuan, Yuwen Xian, Changsun Song, Gao Ang, and Gao Changgong also have military power in hand and may not be willing to continue to serve their loyalty to the Yang family.
Yang Shuang obviously knew this. If he was not careful now, the Sui Kingdom might be divided, so he was naturally cautious. He made various promises and took the initiative to delegate power in exchange for the support of the generals.
Under Yang Shuang''s encouraging efforts, Wei Xiaokuan and Changsun Song decided to support Yang Shuang.
Yuwen Xian was unwilling to serve Yang Shuang because he had offended Yang Shuang before, so he led his troops to surrender to Yuwen Tai, who was temporarily dependent on Ji Chang.
Yuwen Tai shined in the war in the Western Regions, and his troops rapidly expanded to 15,000. In addition, Yuwen Xian''s 5,000 army had a total force of 20,000. He was also considered a small warlord in the Western Regions, so he decided to leave Ji Chang and seek development on his own.
As for Gao Huan, he was rescued back to the Western Regions by Yang Shuang this time. Yang Shuang was kind to him. Logically, he should support Yang Shuang, but he also has his own ambitions, so there are many contradictions in his heart.
Under the sow discord of the spies of the Qin Dynasty, Gao Huan finally had the upper hand and chose to lead a 15,000 army to become independent and develop on its own in the Western Regions.
Gao Huan also wanted to bring Gao Changgong, Gao Ang and Gao Jineng, but only Gao Changgong and Gao Jineng chose to follow him, but Gao Ang still chose to be loyal to the Sui Kingdom.
As for Yelu Shilu, Yelu Xiuge, Yelu Xizhen, and the remnants of the three thousand Qiang troops who fled into the Western Regions with Gao Huan, after learning that Yelu Deguang had defected to the Tubo Kingdom, he decided to go to Tubo to join Yelu Deguang.
Yang Shuang used all his skills, but under the sow discord of the Qin Dynasty, it was still difficult to stop the division of the Sui Kingdom.
In the end, the Sui Kingdom''s forces in the Western Regions were divided into three parts, with Yang Shuang, Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai each occupying one, and the strongest of them was naturally Yang Shuang.
After Li Siyuan''s war in the Western Regions, his forces expanded rapidly, second only to Yang Shuang after the split.
Ji Chang''s power expanded faster than Li Siyuan, but due to Yuwen Tai''s betrayal, he was overtaken by Li Siyuan and ranked third among the Han warlords in the Western Regions.
The reverse boy Yuwen Tai and the newcomer Gao Huan ranked fourth and fifth respectively.
In addition to Yang Shuang, Li Siyuan, Ji Chang, Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan, the five major warlord forces that fled from the Central Plains to the Western Regions, there were also many forces such as the Qin Dynasty and the ten local countries.
The small Western Regions actually gathered sixteen forces of all sizes, which shows how chaotic the situation in the Western Regions is. It is no exaggeration to say that it is a regional small Warring States Period.
Next chapter officially returns to the Eastern Front
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(This chapter ends)