Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 2776 Han Allied Forces Conquer Central Asia, Li Cunxiao VS Niu Mowang (1)

Chapter 2772: Han Allied Forces Conquer Central Asia, Li Cunxiao VS Niu Mowang (1)

The scale of the Western Region War is not small. There are 255,000 anti-Sui coalition forces and 70,000 Yang Ji and Li family coalition forces. The total force involved exceeds 300,000 troops. The scale of such a war is not small even in the Central Plains. .

But no one expected that the Western Region War that started hastily would end so hastily.

Almost a few days before the Qin army won the battle against the Sui Dynasty, Yang Shuang used a coalition of 60,000 Yang Ji and Li Sanjia to defeat the 200,000 anti-Sui coalition forces of fifteen countries led by Wang Ben, and gained the opportunity to kill four enemies. The brilliant record of capturing 60,000 people and 60,000 prisoners.

With such a great victory, Yang Shuang naturally wanted to expand the results, but he received news that Yang Guang had died in battle, Daxing had surrendered, and Gao Huan had asked him for help and assistance.

After learning the news, Yang Shuang, Li Siyuan, and Ji Chang had to give up the idea of ​​expanding the results and pursuing the victory after some deliberations.

Because the two states of Lianghai have fallen into the hands of Qin, and 200,000 Qin troops are waiting in Liangzhou now.

“Most of the Qin’s troops are now used on the eastern front. Before the six kingdoms of Wei, Song, Ming, Shu, Chu, and Wu were destroyed and the great cause of unification was completely completed, even if Li Jing wanted to launch troops in the Western Regions, the Qin court would definitely not agree.

But if we dare to ignore the threat of Great Qin, forcibly destroy the fifteen countries of the Western Regions, and annex the Western Regions to ourselves, then even if the Great Qin court is unwilling, we must send troops to the Western Regions to balance the situation in the northwest.

 If that happens, what we have to face will not be the weak Western Region Army, but a hundred thousand or even more Qin Army. "

 Ji Chang gently stroked his long beard and said to Li Siyuan and Yang Shuang.

Yang Shuang and Li Siyuan couldn't help but fell silent after hearing this. The Sui Kingdom was now in name only, and it was impossible for them alone to withstand the sanctions of Qin.

Although they currently hold an army of 150,000, nearly half of them are weak surrendered troops from the Western Regions, and they are simply vulnerable to the main force of the Qin army.

In the Western Regions War, although there were only 15,000 Qin troops in the Twenty-Five Western Regions Allied Forces, it was Wang Ben who recruited troops on the spot to form a new army.

But these 15,000 Qin troops caused great trouble to the three coalition forces. Nearly half of the coalition's battle losses were caused by these 15,000 Qin troops. The other 240,000 coalition troops occupied the other side. This shows how weak the Western Region Army is.

 So, if possible, Yang Shuang, Ji Chang, and Li Siyuan would rather face the 400,000 Western Region Army than face the Qin Army of more than 50,000.

"It's better to cease the war first and digest the results before discussing other matters. With our current strength, we are still unable to 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's three families stopped advancing, and Yang Shuang even returned to Xiliang to meet Gao Huan.

The fifteen countries in the Western Regions were all in panic because of the defeat, but what they never expected was that after the Sui army's victory, they not only gave up the pursuit to maximize the results, but also took the initiative to stop the war. This made all the fifteen countries in the Western Regions It feels extremely incredible.

Although there are still 100,000 troops left in the anti-Sui coalition today, their morale is extremely low due to continuous defeats, and they are simply unable to compete with the 153,000 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 is equivalent to sparing the lives of the fifteen countries in the Western Region.

Soon, news came from Liangzhou, which made the fifteen countries of the Western Regions understand that the three coalition forces did not stop fighting because of their good intentions, but because of Yang Guang's death and the fact that the two states of Lianghai were occupied by the Qin army, they were afraid The Qin army will send troops to the Western Regions, so they have to cease the war. This is equivalent to indirectly helping Da Qin to protect the country.

In this regard, the fifteen kingdoms of the Western Regions naturally cheered, but soon fell into the internal fighting.

Although the Yang, Ji, and Li three-family coalition forces took the initiative to cease fighting, the land and population they had captured were obviously impossible to spit out again.

 All the fifteen countries in the Western Regions have paid a heavy price, and the three coalition forces may come back at any time, so they all urgently need to restore the battle damage.

 But they had been frightened by Yang Shuang and did not dare to swing the sword at the strong one, so they could only swing the sword at the weaker one and squeeze a wave of blood from inside.

This civil war came and went even faster, ending in just half a month.

 After experiencing the disastrous defeat in the Western Region War, all countries suffered extremely serious losses and could not fight for long at all.

But in just half a month, Shule, Qiuci and other four countries, and even Dekangju, one of the five great powers, were all destroyed in this turmoil and annexed by the three countries of Dayuan, Daliang and Khotan. .

Xi Liang and Loulan were worried that they would end up in the same fate. Moreover, after experiencing the disastrous defeat in the Western Region War, they finally understood that they could not protect themselves by relying on their own strength alone, so they took the initiative to petition Da Qin and asked for orders to become tributaries. country to protect itself.

Ji Xiaolan naturally accepted the request of Xi Liang and Loulan to become vassals, but the three kingdoms of Dayuan, Great Liang, and Khotan did not dare to attack the vassal states of Great Qin, so this civil strife ended.

At this point, there are only ten native powers left in the Western Regions. Seven of them, including Xiliang and Loulan, are all tributaries of Great Qin. Although Dawan, Daliang, and Khotan have not surrendered to Great Qin, their alliances with Great Qin have also become stronger. close.

During the civil war in the Western Regions, the Qin forces headed by Ji Xiaolan were not idle. Not only did they send envoys to adjust the relations between the Western Regions, they also used alienation tactics to drive a wedge between Ji Chang and Yu Wentai, as well as between Yang Shuang and Yu Wenxian.

Yuwentai performed brilliantly in the Western Region War, and his military power continued to expand. This 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 Yuwentai, promising that as long as Yuwentai fell to the Qin Dynasty, he would be made a prefect on behalf of the court and bestowed with gold and titles. However, he deliberately let the letter be intercepted by Ji Chang to deepen the relationship between them. Cracks between people.

As for Yu Wenxian, he was already at odds with Yang Shuang, and there was no need for Ji Xiaolan to go to great lengths for the relationship between the two to automatically develop a rift.

Following Ji Xiaolan's estrangement, Yuwentai and Yu Wenxian led the army to choose independence before Ji Chang took action, but he hesitated on whether to fall to the Qin Dynasty.

Yu Wentai knew very well that cooperating with Great Qin was tantamount to seeking skin from a tiger, and sooner or later all the scum would be swallowed up by Great Qin. However, he betrayed Ji Chang and had completely offended the Ji family. There was no place for him in the alliance of the three families.

Just when Yuwentai was in a dilemma, Gao Huan also led his army to become independent from the Sui State 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 sixteen forces of the ten Western Regions, the five warlords, and the Qin Dynasty combined vertically and horizontally to form four major forces.

The strongest among them is naturally the alliance of Yang Shuang, Ji Chang, and Li Siyuan; the alliance of Dayuan, Daliang, and Khotan follows closely behind;

Da Qin and the seven major vassal states such as Xiliang and Loulan are ranked third. Although their overall strength is weaker than the two above, due to the existence of the Liangzhou Qin Army, they are the least provoking among the four major forces;

Although the Yuwentai and Gao Huan alliances are the weakest, they cannot be ignored. They are entities that all three parties need to win over.

 The Qin Dynasty could not take care of the Western Regions in the short term. Under the checks and balances of the four forces in the Western Regions, a delicate balance was formed between them.

The interests of the four forces are different. The Three Kingdoms Alliance wants to protect itself, the Great Qin Alliance wants to maintain the status quo, but the Three Alliances and the Two Surnames Alliance all want to expand. However, the current Western Region is a powder keg, and no one dares to be that one. fuse, so the target shifted to Central Asia further west.

“Brother Yuwen, are you sure you want to march westward?”

Gao Huan looked at Yuwentai with some worry and said: "According to the intelligence, there are five empires and twenty-two kingdoms in the middle section of the Silk Road to the west of the Western Regions, and their strength is not weak. With our two family backgrounds, Even if you put it all in, I’m afraid you won’t be able to make any splash.”

Yu Wentai said with disdain: "The countries outside the Central Plains are all uncivilized barbarians. No matter how many they are, they are just a group of sheep. How can they be the opponent of a group of wolves?

The fifteen countries in the Western Regions had an army of 250,000, but weren't they defeated by Yang Shuang's army of 70,000? "

 At this time, everything in the East is leading the world, so the Han people are extremely proud of their nationality and do not take any race other than the Han people seriously.

In the eyes of most Han people, the Han people are the first-class superior nation in the world, the Mongolian and Qing Nanman and the Qiang, Yue and Japanese and other sinicized races are second, while all other races are classified as the third class.

As a Han Chinese, Gao Huan naturally agreed with this theory, but he would not be blindly arrogant enough to think that with his own wealth, he could develop and grow under the eyes of the two great empires of Persia and Kushan.

Yuwentai saw Gao Huan's concerns and continued to persuade: "We are not going to provoke the five empires. If one or two of the twenty-two kingdoms are destroyed, it will be enough for our two families to digest it for a while.

Brother Gao, among the four major powers in the Western Region today, your family and my family are the weakest. If we don’t find a way to grow stronger, we will be annexed by the other three Su families sooner or later in the future.

Besides, even if we don’t send troops, Yang Ji and the Li family will send troops. Once they seize the opportunity and the Western countries take precautions, it will be ten times more difficult for us to send troops again.

It's better for our two families to send troops first before the three families do it, so as to seize the opportunity and catch the other side off guard. "

Hearing what Yuwentai said, Gao Huan thought about it again and again, and finally put down all his worries and decided to send troops to the west with Yuwentai.

Gao Huan and Yuwentai had eleven cities and hundreds of thousands of people in their territory in the Western Regions. Naturally, it was impossible for them to abandon all of them and go out in full force. Therefore, after discussion, they decided to each send out 10,000 troops, for a total of 20,000 troops, to launch a surprise attack. Da Yuezhi country.

There are five great empires, nine great kingdoms, and thirteen small countries in Central Asia. Among the twenty-two countries besides the five great empires, the Dayuezhi Kingdom is the only one that has not surrendered to the five great empires, so it is naturally a high-ranking country. Huanhe Yuwentai's first choice.

After a long annexation war, Central Asia finally stabilized, but now it is being targeted by the losers in the Central Plains War, and the war is about to resume.

Ten days after Gao Huan and Yuwentai sent troops, Yang Shuang, Li Siyuan, and Ji Chang also formed a coalition of 50,000 troops to march westward. However, they did not expect that Gao Huan and Yuwentai would also dare to march westward and seize the opportunity ahead of them. They gained an advantage, which greatly increased the difficulty of their 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 the years have changed, the Great Yuezhi Kingdom has long withdrawn from the Western Regions, and it was never expected that the forces from the Western Regions would take the initiative to come. Attack yourself.

The Da Yuezhi were unprepared and were successfully attacked by Gao Huan and Yuwentai. They were defeated and suffered heavy losses. They had to ask for help from their surrounding allies, the Jinzhang Kingdom and the Delhi Kingdom.

Neighboring countries learned that the forces from the Western Regions invaded the Yueshi and suffered heavy losses from the Yuezhi. They were worried that they would also be invaded, so they all increased their vigilance. However, whether it was equipment, commanders or generals, they were all very different from the Eastern army, so It is still difficult to resist the invasion of Yang Ji and Li Sanjia.

The Western Expedition armies of Yang, Ji, Li, Gao, and Yuwen fought consecutively and successfully, which naturally made the Three Kingdoms Alliance of Dayuan, Daliang, and Khotan jealous. However, due to the disastrous defeat and internal strife in the Western Region War, they are still recovering. Among them, they were really unable to fight anymore, so they could only watch Yang Ji, Li Gao, and Yuwen's five families march westward.

At the same time, Yelu Deguang, who had taken refuge in Tubo, was gradually launching his plan to usurp the power of Tubo, but the plan did not go smoothly.

Songtsen Gampo is one of the few wise kings in the history of Tibet. How could he be unprepared for Yelu Deguang?

Songtsen Gampo actually knew from the beginning that Yelu Deguang was a wolf, but the battle to aid the Sui Dynasty failed miserably. Tubo lost its strongest army of 100,000 in one go, and completely offended the Qin Empire.

Tubo now only relies on the remaining 100,000 troops. Facing the more powerful Qin, it really does not have much security, so it can only seek skin from the tiger and accept Yelv Deguang, Liu Fang, Feng Longzhi and other remnants of the Sui army. Strengthen military strength to fight against the Qin Dynasty.

Songtsen Gampo overestimated himself. He thought he could suppress Yelv Deguang, but he did not expect that this would cause Tibet to suffer a great danger of annihilation.

 In the end, Tubo did not die at the hands of the Qin Dynasty, but died at the hands of "our own people" like Yelu Deguang, which is really disappointing.

The Great Qin's battle against the Sui Dynasty took only two months in total, from the time when the Great Qin sent out three troops to killing Yang Guang and completely occupying the two states of Lianghai. It can be said to be clean and extremely fast.

From the perspective of the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties, with the participation of the Qiang and Tubo, the scale of the Qin-Sui wars escalated, involving a total force of nearly 800,000 troops, of which the Sui side had nearly 500,000 troops, while the Qin side had only 300,000 troops. Wan, it stands to reason that this battle should take at least two or three years.

But what the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming never expected was that in the face of nearly half a million troops of the three kingdoms, the Qin Dynasty could completely defeat the Sui, Qiang, and Tu coalition forces in just two months, and captured the two states of Lianghai. The top leaders of Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties were horrified.

During the two months of the Qin-Sui war, many major events occurred in the Central Plains on the Eastern Front. The first to bear the brunt was the battle on the northern front in Yanzhou.

After Bai Qi led his army to cross the Yellow River, Le Yi retreated to Baima City and ordered Yin Zhou to abandon Yanjin, Wenshijin and other important places and retreat to Yan County.

Although these two measures saved the northern gates of Suanzao and Chenliu, they could not fundamentally solve the problem. The Qin army still raged in the northern part of Yanzhou, and a large number of cities fell.

Lecheng, Lejian, and Lejin led eight thousand elite troops to defend Puyang City. Jia Fu led his army to attack Puyang City. When they were about to break the city, Lan Yu and Niu Mowang led 40,000 Ming army elite troops to come to support them, forcing Jia Fu to withdraw.

After Niu Mowang was transferred from the Qingnan battlefield to the Yanbei battlefield, he soon shone in the Yanbei battlefield. Generals such as Wu Wenhua, Yu Yuan, Yu Hua, Qin Niu, and Jia Fu were all defeated at his hands. .

His Majesty Bai Qi was a single round by Niu Mo for a single round.

Niu Mowang's invincibility on the battlefield made the Wei army's battle situation in Yanbei slightly better. However, with the arrival of Li Cunxiao, the situation that had only improved suddenly took a turn for the worse again.

  I forgot the previous part, so I reviewed the previous content, which wasted a lot of time.

This chapter is from yesterday, there will be another update in the evening

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