Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2718 Yang Xingmi teamed up to discuss Qinling, showing beauty is already a bird in a cage

Chapter 2714: Yang Xingmi teamed up to discuss Qin Ling

Meng Tiannan's offensive in Haizhou was actually smoother than Li Mu's.

Sui's garrison in Haizhou never expected that the Qin army would send troops to Haizhou, and their defenses were even more lax than those in Liangzhou.

After Meng Tian entered Haizhou from Wudu, he marched for more than [-] li without encountering a Sui army sentry post. He didn't meet Sui soldiers until the border of Honggushan, but they were also very loose, and they were dealt with directly with one arrow.

Afterwards, Meng Tian hardly encountered any strong resistance when attacking the major areas in the northern part of Haizhou. He basically attacked, fled, and fled. It was not until he entered the border of Xining County that he encountered some decent resistance.

The chief governor and governor of the Sui Dynasty in Haizhou were Yang Xingmi, the founding king of Southern Wu, and Yang Xiong, the Guande king of the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Xingmi has the reputation of "No. 1 of the Ten Kingdoms". Yang Xiong, Gao Jiong, Yu Qingze, and Su Wei are also known as the "Four Nobles in the Court".

But even if the two guard Haizhou together, the defense on the northern front is still extremely lax. The main reason is that the main energy of the Sui army is used to defend against others.

Where is Haizhou?It was the original habitat of the Qiang people, and besides the Qiang people, there were dozens of other peoples such as the Hui, Tu and Salar.

The ethnic structure is extremely complex, and the contradictions are even more acute.

The Qiang people in this time and space are very lucky, but also very sad.

Fortunately, Yelu Abaoji and a group of heroes were implanted here, and with great efforts to govern, they overwhelmed the tribes and unified the Qiang land in a very short period of time.

Unfortunately, the opponents faced by the Qiang people are too strong. Whether it is Dong Zhuo's period or successors like Li Yuan and Yang Jian, the Qiang people cannot win by themselves.

Under the continuous weakening by Dong Zhuo and others, the Qiang people became weaker and weaker, and were finally wiped out by Yang Guang and Li Shimin, the third-generation successors of the Liang family, and were established as Haizhou by Yang Guang after the death of Li Tang.

The Qiang people in Haizhou, Baiyue in Jiaozhou, Shanyue in Yangzhou, and the major barbarians in Jingnan can be said to be difficult brothers.

The situations of these foreign races are very similar, they were all exterminated by the Han, but the ending is completely different.

After Baiyue, Shanyue, and the barbarians in Jingnan were wiped out by Liu Xiu and Sun Jian, both of them absorbed and digested these alien populations, and completely transformed them into their own help.

But the Qiang people are different from these races.

There are seven counties in Haizhou, and it has experienced two periods of partition between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the Sui Dynasty's dictatorship. No matter which period, the Sui and Tang Dynasties have invested a lot of financial and material resources.

However, Yelu Abaoji unified the Qiang people and awakened their self-national consciousness during the period of ruling the Qiang people.

Baiyue, Shanyue, and the barbarians in southern Jing, these alien races did not have a sense of ethnicity, so they were easily assimilated after being conquered.

But the Qiang people are different. After awakening their national consciousness, if they want to assimilate the Qiang people, the difficulty is not at the same level as that of Baiyue Mountain.

In addition, the killing of the Qiang people by the Han Dynasty was too heavy, which caused the two peoples to accumulate too much hatred, so rebellions and uprisings broke out in Haizhou from time to time.

Although every rebellion was quickly and easily suppressed by the Han people, and gradually fewer and fewer Qiang people rebelled, there will always be Qiang people who continue to stand up.

It is hard to build, but easy to destroy.

Every alien uprising in Haizhou will cause great damage to Haizhou's various constructions, and it will be destroyed while developing, so the development of Haizhou will naturally slow down.

This is also the main reason why the Qiang nationality has been exterminated for many years, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties also invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but Haizhou is still extremely barren and backward.
In a land as large as Haizhou, although there is not much arable land, it is extremely rich in mineral resources. In addition, the population is not large. The recorded population of the seven counties alone is 70 million, while the hidden population of each ethnic group and village is Only more than that number.

It can be seen from this that the potential of this land in Haizhou is not small.

If Yang Guang can liquidate the population of Haizhou, completely subdue the hearts of the people, and digest Haizhou, then the national power of the Sui Kingdom will definitely be greatly improved, and it will definitely not be the weakest country among all the countries.

But the reality is that Yang Guang can't count the hidden population of those Qiang tribes at all, because they are the foundation of Sui's rule of Haizhou.

Once their fundamental interests are touched, it will only be counterproductive, and the situation faced by the Sui Kingdom will be even worse.

In addition, the Sui Kingdom only had five and a half counties in Xiliang, and the total population of Han people under its rule was only 120 million. With such a small size, it was obviously not that easy to absorb a population of more than 100 million people of other races.

Yang Guang knew that his own strength was insufficient, so he could only use the method of boiling frogs in warm water. This also meant that Sui Kingdom's digestion of Haizhou would take a long time.

In the minds of many Sui people, Haizhou is simply tasteless. Not only can they not provide Sui with much tax, food and salaries, but they even need continuous blood transfusions and deploy heavy troops to prevent the Qiang people from rebelling, so as to maintain Sui's rule in Haizhou , and this undoubtedly restrained a lot of Sui State's energy.

As a result, there was another voice in the public opinion of the Sui State, that is, to abandon the policy of continuing to assimilate foreign races, and to completely conquer and destroy them, to make slaves of all foreign races who refused to accept naturalization, and to plunder all the properties of these foreign races.

At that time, the Sui Kingdom was in a stage of rapid development, and as soon as this voice appeared, it won the support of many people. After all, if this was the case, the Sui Kingdom would obtain hundreds of thousands of slaves and a huge amount of wealth for development.

This incident made a big fuss and alarmed Sui Guochaotang, and the military headed by Yang Shuang also supported it.

It can be said that as long as Yang Guang nodded at that time, the end of Haizhou's foreign race would have come, but it was only a step away, and Yang Guang's indecision problem was committed again.

Yang Guang was very satisfied with the development speed of the Sui Kingdom at that time. He was worried that the development process would be interrupted, and he was also worried that the matter would be too big to end, so he was timid and dared not make up his mind.

Facts have proved that although Yang Guang was indecisive, he made the right choice this time.

The public opinion to completely destroy the foreign race was actually secretly promoted by the people of Daqin, in order to disrupt and interrupt the development process of the Sui Kingdom from within.

Daqin's attack on the enemy country has never been just a military destruction, but also a sharp sword in terms of economy and public opinion.

However, although the purpose of Daqin this time is not pure, it is indeed a great opportunity for Sui State. If Yang Guang can grasp it, he can solve the hidden dangers of Haizhou.

But it's a pity that Yang Guang lacks courage, and would rather drink poison to quench his thirst than pierce this layer of window paper to completely solve his own hidden dangers.

There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this, but in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, after all, the Sui Kingdom cannot afford such a toss.

If the millions of alien races against Haizhou are really true, even if the Sui Kingdom sends out all the troops, it may not be able to suppress it in a short period of time, but it will be easy for Daqin to take advantage of it.

It was precisely because of this that Yang Guang did not dare to act, but he was really worried about the alien race in Haizhou, so he left [-] defenders in Haizhou.

The main force of the [-] Sui army, what kind of concept is this?
The Sui Kingdom had three expeditions to the west, the most of which only dispatched [-] troops.

The Sui State united with Li Tang to destroy the Qiang, and only dispatched an army of [-].

The [-] army is almost double the strength of the Qiang General.

It can be seen that for the Sui State, ruling Haizhou and the Qiang people is actually more difficult than exterminating the Qiang people.

The [-] defenders left by Yang Guang in Haizhou ensured the absolute rule of the Sui State in Haizhou. No matter where there was rebellion in any of the seven counties of Haizhou, the Sui army could extinguish the rebel forces as quickly as possible. Human beings have almost no chance of success.

But even so, there will still be Qiang people rebelling, and the areas where the rebellion is mainly concentrated in the central and southwestern regions, and the common point of these three regions is that the number of Han people is scarce, and the ruling foundation of the Sui Kingdom is relatively weak.

It is precisely because of this that most of the [-] troops of the Sui Kingdom in Haizhou are stationed in the central and southwestern regions, and the combined defenders in the northern and eastern regions are less than [-]. Lead an army to sneak attack?

When Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong learned that the northern region had been attacked by unknown forces, they thought it was the Qiang rebels who did it.

After all, although most of the rebellious areas of the Qiang people were concentrated in the central and southwestern regions, there were also some rebels who escaped the suppression and fled to the north to continue their rebellion.

Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong didn't take it seriously, and just sent more than a thousand elites to hunt down, but soon received a message from Yang Guang, who learned that the Qin army sent troops to attack the Sui Dynasty and broke through Yuzhong in a sneak attack. Order the defenders across the country to be more vigilant.

When the matter developed to this point, although Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong didn't think it would be the Qin army, they were already vigilant, so they summoned the Haizhou garrison to rush to help Daxing, and by the way, get rid of the rogues.

But what Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong didn't expect was that while they were gathering their troops, the main places in the north fell one after another.

No matter how stupid Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong were, they knew that it was definitely not the work of the Qiang people. After all, even the Qiang rebels in Haizhou combined did not have the strength.

Then it is obvious who the opponent is, and it must be Qin Jun.

At this time, neither Yang Xingmi nor Yang Xiong knew the news of the fall of Heguan, so they were extremely puzzled by the Qin army's dispatch of troops to Haizhou.

Because even if the Qin army occupied Xining County and cut off the connection between Haizhou and Liangzhou, the reinforcements from Xiliang could still reach Daxing, so what is the significance of Qin's doing so?

In Yang Xingmi's and Yang Xiong's minds, the Qin army had already dispatched most of its troops to fight against the Wei, Song, and Ming kingdoms at the same time, and now they are attacking the Sui kingdom in two ways. There must be not many troops in the country.

But what Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong didn't know was that their judgment on the strength of the Qin army was wrong, because the Qin army had been hiding its strength from the beginning to the end, so even if they fought against the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming at the same time, they could still gather 30 troops , The troops were divided into four groups to attack the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong felt that even if the reinforcements from Haizhou could not reach Daxing, the reinforcements from Xiliang could reach Daxing, not to mention that the Qin army had not yet occupied Xining.

Although Yang Xingmi couldn't figure out Li Jing's real intentions, the current situation in Xining was really bad, and it was impossible for them to sit back and watch Xining fall into the hands of the Qin army, so they hurriedly led the army to support Xining, but unexpectedly they were still a step behind .

Meng Tian personally led a vanguard army of [-], marched [-] li in four days, and attacked Xining City, the seat of Xining, by surprise.

There were only [-] defenders in Xining city, and they couldn't resist the onslaught of the Qin army five times more than themselves. They finally held on for a day and were broken by the Qin army, and the defender Yang Wo was also beheaded by Yang Ren.

Yang Wo, the guard of Xining City, is the eldest son of Yang Xingmi and the second monarch of Southern Wu.

The eldest son died in battle, and Yang Xingmi, as the father, was naturally furious when he received the money. In his rage, he immediately prepared to fight Meng Tian, ​​but was persuaded by Yang Xiong.

Yang Xiong said that the enemy is in the dark and we are in the clear. Without knowing the details of the enemy, it is not appropriate to rashly start a war with the Qin army. He suggested collecting information on the Qin army first. .

Although Yang Xingmi was angry because of the death of his eldest son, he did not completely lose his mind, so he did not go his own way, but when he collected the information, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Although Yang Xingmi didn't know exactly how many men Meng Tian had brought with him, according to the analysis of the information obtained, the Qin army had at least [-] to [-] troops.

With the fighting power of the Qin army, the [-] Sui troops in Haizhou combined may not be the opponent of the Qin army, let alone the Qin army still guarding the city.

Yang Xingmi knew that it would be impossible to retake Xining from Meng Tian only with the strength of the Sui army in Haizhou, so he prepared to wait for the coming reinforcements from Tubo.

As for the [-] Tubo troops commanded by Qinling, they will arrive in Haizhou in a short time. The Sui and Tubo troops have a combined strength of [-] to [-], and it will not be too late to compete with Meng Tian.

Yang Xingmi reported the news from Haizhou to Daxing through Feige, and explained why he was unable to lead his army to Daxing in a short time because Xining was attacked by Meng Tian and the passage between Hailiang and Haizhou was cut off.

After Yang Guang received the news, his eyes went dark, and he almost fainted, because before receiving Yang Xingmi, he also received a news from Xiliang, and it was also bad news.

Long Qi, deputy governor of Liangzhou of the Qin Army, led an army to surprise and break through Xianmei City. The connection between Zhangye County and Wuwei County was completely cut off, and the Xiliang reinforcements led by Gao Huan could not get through.

Therefore, the Qin army did not attack in two directions at all, but attacked the Sui Dynasty in four directions, directly cutting off all support from Daxing, making Daxing completely reduced to an isolated city and a bird in a cage.

Yang Guang can't take care of the analysis now, how many troops did the Qin army dispatch, and where did they come from? He only has one thought in his mind, that is, Li Jing is really too ruthless, and once he made a move, he pointed at Sui's vital points , did not give him any chance to fight back.

"Li Jing, Li Jing."

Yang Guang roared up to the sky, his face was full of unwillingness and panic, and deep despair for the future with little hope in sight.

(End of this chapter)