Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2292: The Battle of Yuan and Jin, the Dilemma of Xizhou

In fact, although Wang Yu suffered a small loss in the Dabie Mountains, it was not a big deal at all.

It wasn't even a defeat.

In a battle, what matters is the final outcome. If we fail to capture the hill the first time, can it be considered a defeat?
This is equivalent to a siege war. If you fail to capture the city the first time, you take a break and then attack a second time. Can this be considered a defeat?

It can only be said that Wang Jian suffered a temporary defeat due to some absolutely unforeseen problems.

Moreover, Wang Jian quickly changed the initial action plan so that the troops could retreat safely. Therefore, the crisis of Xie Ai's army in Dabie Mountain still existed.

As long as Wang Jian's main force was intact, the crisis of Xie Ai's army would not be resolved.

It's just killing and injuring a few thousand people, what's the big deal!
Even in the entire southern war, Wang Yu is now almost certain to win.

Although under Zhu Yuanzhang's strategy of mobilizing all the people to fight, there was finally an outbreak in the Jianghuai region.

However, this method only treats the symptoms and not the root cause, and cannot last long.

Moreover, as long as these people are organized, for Li Xiang, they are soldiers rather than civilians.

Since he has become a soldier, Li Xiang dares to give the order to massacre.

At worst, killing him would destroy nine out of ten houses, and the whole world would be terrified. If they were scared, then even if this situation happened again in the future, those people would naturally collapse one by one on the battlefield.

As long as we take over the Jianghuai region, cross the river from the Jianghuai region and the Jingbei region at the same time, and launch attacks on the Yangzhou region and the Jingnan region at the same time, and cooperate with Wu Qi and Yang Su in Jiaozhou to directly put Jingnan and Yangzhou in a state of being attacked from both sides, then it will be easy to destroy Zhu Yuanzhang, right?
Not to mention, after the Battle of Jiaozhou and the Battle of Jingbei, Zhu Yuanzhang had lost half of his main forces.

What really worried Li Xiang was not the war situation in the south, but the war situation in the north with the Yuan and Mongolians. That was the real test for their Jin army.

The Yuan Dynasty and Mongolia marched south with all their might. Almost all famous generals such as Murong Ke, Mu Huali, Zhebie, Subutai, etc. were mobilized. The pressure was much greater than what it is now.

In the current northern battlefield, all of the four counties of Liangxi, except for Dunhuang City and Yumen Pass, have fallen into Temujin's hands.

Although the situation on the Liangzhou battlefield had stabilized with the arrival of Wei Qing's troops, the crisis had not actually been resolved.

After all, because Temujin led the main force to block the four counties of Liangxi, Wei Qing's troops could not reach the battlefield of Xizhou at all.

The Xizhou battlefield is the one that faces the most challenges.

Before, Wei Qing and Meng Tian might have been able to send Ma Yuan's troops to secretly reach Dunhuang County from the grassland, but something like this would only happen once. If it happened again, do they really think Temujin was incompetent?

If you dare to come a second time, it would be like offering yourself to Temujin to eat!

Moreover, even if they wanted to sneak troops across the grassland to other places, they had to rely mainly on cavalry. The current war situation in Western Province could not be affected by a small-scale cavalry. A large number of main forces were needed. If such a large-scale main force wanted to pass through the grassland, how blind would the people on the grassland have to be to let them pass?

The battlefield in Xizhou at this moment was indeed extremely unfriendly to Su Dingfang.

After Murong Ke joined the battle, Murong Chui also joined the battle. Moreover, he went directly behind Su Dingfang and bit him hard on the back.

There is no doubt that Murong Chui's troops were indeed used to guard against the Kushan Empire in the beginning.

However, the Kushan Empire's troops suddenly withdrew back to the Kushan Empire at this time. Although Murong Chui did not know the reason behind this, he knew that this was indeed a great opportunity for them, the Yuan Mongols.

With the addition of his troops and their use on the battlefield in Xizhou, the impact behind this is self-evident.

What Murong Chui didn't know was that the troops used by the Kushan Empire to guard against the Mongols had to be recalled for a reason.

Half a century ago, the Kushan Empire had already begun to show signs of decline. However, after the current Kushan King Potiao came to power, the Kushan power expanded in Central Asia and once regained control of Khwarezm, which reversed the original weakness.

However, during this period, the Kushan Empire still had their enemies. The Kushan Empire under the leadership of Poteo allied with the Armenian Kusnois to fight against the Sassanid Empire.

It is necessary to join forces with another family to fight the enemy. It can be seen that the strength of the Sassanid Empire is definitely superior to that of the current Kushan Empire.

Indeed, in the history of Persia, the Sassanid Empire once left a significant mark and was indeed a powerful force.

It was precisely because of this incident that the Kushan Empire temporarily let go of the Mongol Empire and withdrew their military forces.

It’s like after provoking the Kushan Empire, Genghis Khan was unwilling to continue marching westwards and provoke the Parthian Empire again.

The same was true of the Kushan Empire. After going to war with one empire, it was absolutely unwilling to go to war with another empire at the same time.

Therefore, while they were withdrawing their troops to use more of them for their own battles, they were also trying to show goodwill to Temujin, who was waging a war.

Between two evils, choose the lesser one. As a last resort, the Kushans had no choice but to bow to the Mongols and temporarily give up their Central Asian interests.

Of course, after they defeat the powerful enemy, if Temujin and the Jin Empire have almost consumed each other, Bodiao will naturally regain its interests in Central Asia.

Just as the Great Jin now knows that there is an empire called the Kushan Empire, although there is not much communication due to various reasons, the Kushan Empire also knows that there is an empire called the Great Jin, but it also does not know much about it.

But the only thing they knew was that this imperial force was definitely the number one enemy of the Yuan Dynasty Mongolian Empire and had once made the Yuan Dynasty Mongolian Empire suffer terribly.

On the Xizhou battlefield, the troops that Su Dingfang could mobilize were obviously at a serious disadvantage compared to the troops that Murong Ke could mobilize.

At this time, Murong Chui's troops attacked again. Although Su Dingfang, who had also discovered the situation of the Kushan Empire, had made preparations, he was unable to stop Murong Chui due to insufficient troops. He could only watch Murong Chui break through his numerous obstacles until it affected his front battlefield, forcing him to retreat.