Chapter 2775: Han people''s coalition forces conquer Central Asia, Li Cunxiao vs Niu Mowang (I)
Chapter 2772: The Han coalition forces conquer Central Asia, Li Cunxiao vs. Niu Mowang (I)
The scale of the Western Regions War is not small, with the anti-Sui coalition forces of 255,000, and the three Yang Ji and Li families of 70,000. The total force involved exceeds the 300,000 army. The scale of such a war is not small even in the Central Plains.
But no one expected that the hasty war in the Western Regions would end so hasty.
Almost a few days before the Qin army won the victory in the Battle of Sui, Yang Shuang defeated the anti-Sui coalition forces of 200,000 Yang Ji and Li families head-on by Wang Ben, and achieved a brilliant record of beheading 40,000 enemies and capturing 60,000 prisoners.
Under such a great victory, Yang Shuang naturally wanted to expand the results of the battle, but she received news that Yang Guang died in battle, Daxing surrendered, and Gao Huan asked him for help and requested response.
After learning the news, Yang Shuang, Li Siyuan and Ji Chang had to give up the idea of ??expanding the results of the battle and pursuing victory after some discussion.
Because the Lianghai two prefectures have fallen into the hands of the Qin Dynasty, and the 200,000 Qin troops are now staying in Liangzhou.
"Most of the Qin Dynasty''s troops are now used on the eastern front. Before destroying the six kingdoms of Wei, Song, Ming, Shu, Chu, Wu, and completely completing the great cause of unification, even if Li Jing wants to launch troops against the Western Regions, the Qin court will definitely not agree.
But if we dare to ignore the threat of the Qin Dynasty and forcibly destroy the fifteen countries in the Western Regions and take over the Western Regions by themselves, even if the Qin Dynasty is unwilling to do so, we must send troops to the Western Regions to balance the situation in the northwest.
If that is true, what we have to face will not be the weak Western Regions army, but the Qin army of 100,000 or even more. ”
Ji Chang gently stroked his long beard and said to Li Siyuan and Yang Shuang.
Yang Shuang and Li Siyuan couldn''t help but fall into silence when they heard this. The Sui Kingdom is now in name only. It is impossible for them to stop the sanctions of the Qin Dynasty.
Although they now hold 150,000 troops, nearly half of them are weak Western Region surrendered troops, and they are vulnerable to the main force of the Qin army.
In the Western Regions War, although there were only 15,000 Qin troops in the 25th Western Regions coalition, Wang Ben recruited troops on the spot and formed a new army shortly after.
But it was this 5,000 Qin army that caused great trouble to the three coalition forces. Nearly half of the coalition forces'' war losses were fought by this 5,000 Qin army, and the other 240,000 coalition forces occupied the other side. This shows how weak the Western Regions army is.
So, if possible, Yang Shuang, Ji Chang and Li Siyuan would rather face the 400,000 Western Regions Army than the Qin army of more than the 50,000 Qin army.
"Let''s get a standstill first, digest the results of the battle before talking about other things. With our current strength, we can''t confront the Qin army head-on." Li Siyuan said.
Ji Chang and Yang Shuang also nodded in agreement, so the coalition forces of Yang Ji and Li stopped advancing, and Yang Shuang even returned to Xiliang to pick up Gao Huan.
The fifteen countries in the Western Regions were all panic because of their defeat, but what they never expected was that after the Sui army won the great victory, they not only gave up the pursuit and maximized the results of the war, but also took the initiative to stop the war, which made the fifteen countries in the Western Regions feel extremely incredible.
Although the anti-Sui coalition forces still have 100,000 troops left, their morale is extremely low due to their continuous defeats and they cannot compete with the 150,000 coalition forces. If they continue to fight, they will definitely not last long.
Therefore, the three coalition forces took the initiative to cease the war at this time, which was equivalent to saving the lives of the fifteen countries in the Western Regions.
Soon, the news from Liangzhou came, which made the fifteen countries in the Western Regions understand that the three coalition forces did not truce the war because of their kindness, but because of Yang Guang''s death and the two Lianghai prefectures were occupied by the Qin army. They were afraid that the Qin army would send troops to the Western Regions, so they had to truce the war. The Qin army was equivalent to indirectly helping them save their country''s fortune.
In this regard, the fifteen countries in the Western Regions naturally cheered, but soon fell into internal struggle.
Although Yang Ji and Li''s coalition forces took the initiative to cease the war, it was obviously impossible for them to vomit out the land and population they had seized.
All the fifteen countries in the Western Regions paid a heavy price, and the three coalition forces could make a comeback at any time, so they all urgently needed to restore the damage to the war.
But they were already scared by Yang Shuang and did not dare to swing the strong, so they could only swing the weaker, and squeezed the inside and back and forth.
This civil war came quickly and went faster, and it ended in just half a month.
After experiencing the disastrous defeat of the Western Regions War, the losses of all countries were extremely serious and they could not fight for too long.
But in just half a month, the four countries including Shule and Kucha, and even Dekangju, one of the five powerful countries, were destroyed in this turmoil and annexed by the three kingdoms of Dayuan, Daliang and Khotan.
Xiliang and Loulan were worried that they would end up with the same consequences. Moreover, after experiencing the disastrous defeat in the Western Regions War, they could understand that they could not protect themselves by relying solely on their own strength. So they took the initiative to submit a letter to the Qin Dynasty and ask for their own orders to be a vassal state in order to protect themselves.
Ji Xiaolan naturally accepted the request of Xiliang and Loulan to surrender, and Dayuan, Daliang and Khotan did not dare to attack the vassal states of Daqin, so the civil strife ended.
At this point, there were only ten local forces in the Western Regions, among which the seven countries including Xiliang and Loulan were all vassal states of the Qin Dynasty. Although the three kingdoms of Dayuan, Daliang and Khotan did not surrender to the Qin Dynasty, their alliance with the Qin Dynasty was closer.
During the civil war in the Western Regions, the Qin forces led by Ji Xiaolan were not idle either. They not only sent envoys to regulate the relationship between the countries in the Western Regions, but also separated from the relationship between Ji Chang and Yuwen Tai, as well as Yang Shuang and Yuwen Xian through the plan of disagreement.
Yuwen Tai performed well in the Western Regions War, and his military power continued to expand, which also aroused Ji Chang''s fear and wanted to find an opportunity to deprive him of his military power.
After Ji Xiaolan learned about it, he wrote a letter to Yuwen Tai, promising that as long as Yuwen Tai turned to the Qin Dynasty, he would sign him as the prefect and grant him a title of gold and title, but he deliberately let the letter be intercepted by Ji Chang to deepen the rift between the two.
As for Yuwen Xian, he was already in a bad relationship with Yang Shuang, and Ji Xiaolan didn''t need to go through a lot of trouble, and the relationship between the two was automatically cracked.
Under Ji Xiaolan''s discord, Yuwen Tai led his army with Yuwen Xian to choose independence before Ji Chang took action, but hesitated whether to turn to the Qin Dynasty.
Yuwen Tai knew that cooperating with Daqin was tantamount to seeking a skin with a tiger. Sooner or later, he would be swallowed by Daqin. However, he betrayed Ji Chang and completely offended the Ji family. There was no place in the three alliances.
Just when Yuwen Tai was in a dilemma, Gao Huan also led his army to independence from the Sui Kingdom and took the initiative to seek cooperation. So the two weak new warlords united together in an attempt to protect themselves.
In this way, the ten countries in the Western Regions, the five major warlords, and the Qin Dynasty, combined into four major forces.
The strongest of them is naturally the alliance of Yang Shuang, Ji Chang and Li Siyuan; the alliance of Dayuan, Daliang and Khotan is closely followed;
The seven major vassal states, including Daqin, Xiliang and Loulan, rank third. Although their comprehensive strength is weaker than the two above, due to the existence of the Qin army in Liangzhou, it is the least unprovoked among the four major forces;
Although the strength of Yuwen Tai and Gao Huan is the weakest, it cannot be ignored. It is an existence that all three forces need to win over.
The Qin Dynasty will not care about the Western Regions in the short term. Under the checks and balances between the four forces in the Western Regions, a subtle balance has been formed between them.
The interests of the four forces are different. The Three Kingdoms Alliance wants to protect themselves, the Qin Alliance wants to maintain the status quo, but the three alliances and the two surnames all want to expand, but the current Western Regions are just a powder keg, and no one dares to become the fuse, so the goal shifts to Central Asia further west.
"Brother Yuwen, are you sure you want to fight the West?"
Gao Huan looked at Yuwen Tai with some concern and said, "According to the information, the middle section of the Silk Road west of the Western Regions has five empires and twenty-two kingdoms, and their strength is not weak. With the fact that our two families have all invested in it, they may not be able to make any splashes."
Yuwen Tai said with disdain, "The countries outside the Central Plains are all uncivilized barbarians. No matter how many of them are, they are just a group of sheep. How could they be the opponent of the group of wolves?
The 15th Western Regions countries have a total of 250,000 troops, but have they been beaten by Yang Shuang''s 70,000 troops? ”
In this era, everything in the East is ahead of the world, so the Han people''s national pride is overwhelming and they do not take any race except the Han people seriously.
In the eyes of most Han people, Han people are the first-class superior ethnic group in the world, with the Chinese-style races such as the Mongolian, Qing, Southern Barbarians, Qiang, Yue and Japanese rank second, while all other races are ranked third.
As a Han Chinese, Gao Huan naturally agrees with this theory, but he would not be so arrogant that he thought that with his own little family background, he could grow and grow under the eyes of the two major empires of Persia and Kushan.
Yuwen Tai saw Gao Huan''s concerns and continued to persuade: "We are not going to provoke the five empires. Those twenty-two kingdoms can destroy one or two countries at will, which is enough for our two families to digest for a while.
Brother Gao, among the four major forces in the Western Regions today, you and I are the weakest ones. If you don’t find a way to grow, you will be annexed by the other three Sus sooner or later in the future.
Besides, even if we don’t send troops, the Yang Ji and Li families will send troops. Once the three families seize the initiative and the Western countries are prepared, it will be more than ten times more difficult for us to send troops.
It is better to take the lead before the three companies send troops, so that we can seize the opportunity and attack each other in a sudden way. ”
Hearing Yuwen Tai say this, Gao Huan thought about it over and over again, and finally put down all his concerns and decided to send troops to the west with Yuwen Tai.
Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai families had eleven cities and more than 100,000 people in the Western Regions, so it was naturally impossible for them to abandon all this. Therefore, after discussion, they decided to dispatch 10,000 troops, totaling 20,000 troops to surprise the Great Yuezhi Kingdom.
Central Asia has five empires, nine kingdoms, and thirteen small countries. Among the twenty-two countries except the five empires, the Great Yuezhi Kingdom is the only country that has not yet surrendered to the five empires, so it is naturally the first choice for Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai.
After a long war of annexation, Central Asia finally stabilized for a short time, but now it has been targeted by the losers in the Central Plains War and is about to rekindle the war.
Ten days after Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai sent troops, Yang Shuang, Li Siyuan and Ji Chang also formed a 50,000 coalition to fight westward, but they did not expect that Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai would dare to fight westward, and they also seized the opportunity in front of them, which greatly increased the difficulty of this Western Expedition.
The sphere of influence of the Great Yuezhi Kingdom once entered the Western Regions during the Western Han Dynasty and even wanted to dominate the Western Regions. However, as time went by, the Great Yuezhi Kingdom had long withdrawn from the Western Regions, and he did not expect that the forces in the Western Regions would take the initiative to attack themselves.
Unprepared, Dayuezhi was successfully attacked by Gao Huan and Yuwen Tai. She was defeated step by step and suffered heavy losses. She had to ask for help from her surrounding allies, Jinzhang and Delhi.
Neighboring countries learned that the Western Regions forces invaded the Dayuezhi and suffered heavy losses, and were worried that they would be invaded, so they all became more vigilant. However, whether it was equipment, commanders or powerful generals, they were too different from the Eastern army, so it was still difficult to resist the invasion of Yang Ji and Li''s family.
The five families of Yang, Ji, Li, Gao and Yuwen won consecutive victories, which naturally made the three countries of Dayuan, Daliang and Yutian very jealous. However, due to the disastrous defeat and internal struggle in the Western Regions War, they are still in recovery and are unable to fight again, so they can only watch Yang Ji, Li, Gao and Yuwen’s five families of the Western Expedition.
At the same time, Yelu Deguang, who defected to Tubo, was gradually launching his plan to usurp the power of Tubo, but the plan was not going smoothly.
Songtsen Gampo is one of the few wise rulers in the history of Tubo. How could he be unprepared for Yelu Deguang?
Songtsen Gampo actually knew from the beginning that Yelu Deguang was a jackal, but he was defeated in the battle of Sui Dynasty. Tubo lost the strongest army of 100,000 at one time and completely offended the Qin Empire to death.
Tubo now relies on the remaining 100,000 troops. Facing the stronger Qin Dynasty, he really doesn''t feel much security, so he can only seek skin with the tiger. By accepting Yelu Deguang, Liu Fang, Feng Longzhi and other remnants of the Sui Kingdom, he can strengthen his military strength to fight against the Qin Dynasty.
Songtsen Gampo overestimated himself. He thought he could suppress Yelu Deguang, but he did not expect that it would have laid a great danger of destroying the country in Tubo.
In the end, Tubo did not perish at the hands of the Qin Dynasty, but instead died at the hands of Yelu Deguang and other "his own people", which is really sad.
In the Battle of the Great Qin Dynasty''s Sui Dynasty, from sending troops from the Great Qin Dynasty to killing Yang Guang, it took only two months to completely occupy the Lianghai Prefectures. It was clean and neat and extremely fast.
But from the perspective of the Three Kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming dynasties, with the participation of the Qiang people and Tubo, the scale of the Qin-Sui war escalated, involving a total force of nearly 800,000, of which nearly 500,000 were the Sui side, while only 300,000 were the Qin side. Logically speaking, this battle will take at least two or three years.
But what the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming could never have imagined was that in the face of nearly 500,000 troops of the Three Kingdoms, the Qin Dynasty could completely defeat the Sui, Qiang and Tu coalition forces and capture the Lianghai two prefectures in just two months, which shocked the senior officials of the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasty.
In the past two months of the Qin and Sui War, many major events also occurred in the Central Plains on the Eastern Front, and the first thing they were to bear was the battle situation on the northern front of Yanzhou.
After Bai Qi led his army to cross the Yellow River, Le Yi retreated to Baima City while ordering Shang Zhou to abandon important places such as Yanjin and Wenshijin and retreat to Yan County.
Although these two measures have preserved the northern gates of the Sour Zao and Chenliu, they cannot fundamentally solve the problem. The Qin army is still raging in northern Yanzhou, and a large number of cities are falling.
Le Cheng, Le Jian and Le Jin led 8,000 elite troops to defend Puyang City to the death. Jia Fu led his army to attack. When he was about to break the city, Lan Yu and Niu Mowang led 40,000 elite troops of the Ming army to support, forcing Jia Fu to withdraw his troops.
After Niu Mowang was transferred from the Qingnan battlefield to the Yanbei battlefield, he soon shined in the Yanbei battlefield. Generals such as Wu Wenhua, Yu Yuan, Yu Hua, Qin Niu, Jia Fu were all defeated by him.
The fierce generals under Bai Qi were actually challenged by Niu Mowang for a single round.
Niu Mowang''s invincible momentum on the battlefield made the Wei army''s battle in Yanbei slightly better, but with Li Cunxiao''s arrival, the situation that had improved took a sharp turn for the worse again.
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(This chapter ends)