Chapter 2715: Yang Guang’s desperate move caused trouble for the Qiang Order
Xining and Xianmei were also captured by the Qin army, and the news that the Haizhou and Xiliang reinforcements were blocked and would not be able to come to support Daxing in the short term was naturally blocked by Yang Guang.
After all, it won’t work without a blockade.
Outside Daxing City, 110,000 Qin troops surrounded the city, but the Sui soldiers inside Daxing City did not show any cowardice.
The reason why the Sui army had high morale and dared to fight the Qin army was mainly because most people felt that Daxing City could definitely be defended.
After all, Daxing is the strongest city in Liangzhou. It has high walls and thick walls, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. In addition, there are 45,000 defenders and tens of thousands of civilians in the city, and they have enough food and grass to last a year, while Haizhou and Xi Ryo's reinforcements are coming soon.
Under such circumstances, even if there were as many as 110,000 Qin troops outside the city, more than double the total number of Daxing defenders, they still did not think that the Qin army could capture Daxing.
Among the many conditions mentioned above for being able to defend Daxing, everything else is secondary. Only the reinforcements from Haizhou and Xiliang are important.
Once the Daxing defenders know that the connection between Daxing City and Haizhou and Xiliang has been completely cut off by the Qin army, and reinforcements from both places cannot come, it is obviously impossible for the Daxing defenders alone to repel the Qin army. It's just a matter of time.
By then, even if the Qin army does not take the initiative to attack, there will probably be chaos within Daxing. After all, no one wants to die.
This is also the reason why Yang Guang had to block the news.
But Yang Guang could block the news from his subordinates, but he couldn't hide it from Gao Jiong, Yang Su and other senior officials. Firstly, he couldn't do this, and secondly, he couldn't hide it either.
After Gao Yan and Yang Su knew about it, they suddenly realized that they had many doubts about the Qin army's action. Now that they learned that Haizhou and Xiliang had also been attacked, all the unhappiness in their hearts came under control. All the solutions were solved at once.
No wonder the Qin army dared to open the western front battlefield and send troops to attack the Sui State at the same time that the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties were at war. It turned out that the game had been set up long ago, and the Sui State was lured into the plan step by step, and finally it was a gamble that this one blow would kill it.
Although Great Qin is also gambling, if it succeeds, the threat from the west will be gone. Even if it fails, it will still cause heavy damage to the Sui State, so Great Qin will not suffer no matter whether it succeeds or not.
On the other hand, the Sui Kingdom, even if it could escape this disaster, would definitely be severely damaged, and if it could not escape, it would lose all its territory outside the Western Regions.
Therefore, while Da Qin could afford to gamble, Sui simply could not afford to gamble.
There was one thing that Gao Jun and Yang Su were puzzled about at first, but they soon figured it out.
The four-pronged Qin army that defeated the Sui Dynasty had at least more than 200,000 troops. If these troops were used on the eastern front battlefield, it would basically be a flat situation. The three kingdoms of Wei, Song, and Ming had little power to fight back.
Gao Jun and Yang Su didn't understand it at first, but they quickly figured it out.
That's because the Qin Dynasty has absolute self-confidence. Even if it doesn't use the more than 200,000 troops in the west, it can still destroy the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties by relying only on the troops on the eastern front.
Facing an opponent like Da Qin who has deep knowledge and is good at hiding, even Gao Jiao and Yang Su are completely helpless because they have no idea if Li Jing has any other back-ups.
Yang Guang hoped that Gao Jun and Yang Su would give him some advice. Even if they couldn't solve the current predicament, they could at least stop being passive. However, seeing that both of them were frowning in thought and not saying a word, Yang Guang became more and more worried. Starting to feel disappointed.
Yang Guang even felt that he was in some danger. After all, this was already an almost unsolvable situation. How could it be solved by mortal wisdom?
Yang Guang can now finally understand the powerlessness Zhang Jiao felt when he was trapped and died in Luoyang.
The last time the trapped dragon situation occurred was during the Yellow Turban Uprising.
Gui Guzi, Ying Hao's master, used the whole world as a chessboard, the entire Yongzhou as bait, and millions of soldiers and civilians as pawns. In the end, he trapped the great sage Zhang Jiao to death in Luoyang, completely interrupting the rise of the Yellow Turbans.
Zhang Jiao almost overthrew the great Han Dynasty. It is understandable for Guiguzi to deal with him in a trapped dragon situation, but Yang Guang is just a Xiliang prince. Compared with Zhang Jiao, he can only be regarded as a dragon at best.
A trapped dragon situation where you have to kill the real dragon to deal with the dragon? Yang Guang himself felt that Li Jing thought too highly of him, and he really didn't deserve it.
Yang Guang laughed at himself, but it was impossible for him to surrender for no other reason. He had a grudge against Da Qin for killing his father, so there was no way he would surrender. Moreover, with his ambition, he would never surrender to anyone.
After the meeting, Yang Guang locked himself up again, racking his brains to think of how to break the situation, but the more he thought about it, the more angry he became.
Ying Hao not only murdered his father, but now he also wanted to destroy his own Sui Dynasty. This was simply too much bullying.
The strong resentment and unwillingness made Yang Guang's skill "Family Hatred" advance.
[Ding dong, Yang Guang's skill 'Family Hatred' has been upgraded to 'National Hatred'.
National Vengeance: Advanced from 'Family Vengeance', at the cost of one year's lifespan, all attributes in the five dimensions will be slightly longer;]
The conditions for activating 'Family Hatred' are two years of life and the permanent reduction of 1 point of charm and 1 point of force in exchange for permanent +1 to commander and political attributes.
On the other hand, for 'National Enmity', at the cost of one year's lifespan, you can get a little longer each of the five dimensions of all attributes. Not only will the effect be stronger, but the side effects will also be much smaller;
National hatred and family hatred, although they are both hatreds, are two completely different minds, so the gap between them is clear at a glance.
[Ding dong, Yang Guang's skill 'National Enmity' is activated, his lifespan is reduced by one year, and his five-dimensional attributes are permanently +1;
Current Yang Guang: Commander 100 (+10), Force 79 (-6), Intelligence 94 (+4), Politics 100 (+10), Charisma 98 (+3)]
Due to a misunderstanding, Yang Guang believed that his father Yang Jian's death was caused by Li Shimin. In addition, he was expelled from Guanzhong by Li Shimin. Under various stimulations, he hated Li Shimin deeply and launched a total of 8 "family hatred". 'It's all aimed at Li Shimin.
In other words, Yang Guang has shortened his life span by 16 years
Now Yang Guang has launched another "national feud", and the target is naturally Ying Hao. In total, 17 years of his life have been lost.
In the official history, Yang Guang only lived to be 49 years old, and now that he is in his thirties, his life span has been reduced by another 17 years. Based on this calculation, he may not have many years left to live.
[Ding dong, Yang Guang's skill 'National Enmity' is activated, his lifespan is reduced by one year, and his five-dimensional attributes are permanently +1;
Current Yang Guang: Commander 100 (+10), Force 80 (-5), Intelligence 95 (+5), Politics 100 (+10), Charm 99 (+4)]
Stimulated by the threat of national subjugation and the revenge of killing his father, Yang Guang actually launched two "national feuds" in a row. However, this time only the three attributes of force, intelligence and charm were improved, while the two attributes of commander and politics were not improved.
Obviously, there is a limit to the 'national hatred'. After raising one's personal attributes to the gold level, even if one's lifespan is shortened, one cannot add more. Only by relying on oneself or great achievements can one continue to improve.
Yang Guang had no way to break the situation before, but when his political attributes exceeded 100 and his intelligence attributes reached 95 points, a crazy and bold idea appeared in his mind, and this method was to break the boat.
Yang Guang had always lacked courage before, but when faced with the situation of being trapped in a dragon, this situation of a narrow escape, he decided to go all out and fight, so that he could live up to his name as the King of Sui.
The next day, Yang Guang summoned Gao Jun, Yang Su, Cheng Gongying, Ban Gu, Zu Jue, Li Delin and other think tanks to discuss the feasibility of his desperate plan.
Everyone was stunned after seeing Yang Guang. They had just disappeared for a night, and Yang Guang's hair was already half white. God knows what kind of psychological process he went through that night?
Although Yang Guang's hair was half white, his mental state was very good, his eyes were full of determination, and he immediately told everyone that he had thought about it all night before he came up with the solution.
But after everyone listened, Cheng Gongying, Ban Gu, and Li Delin immediately stood up and clearly expressed their opposition.
Although Gao Jun, Yang Su, and Zu Jue did not object directly, their faces were full of shock and confusion. They were obviously frightened by Yang Guang's plan.
What strategy did Yang Guang propose to break the situation that caused such a huge reaction among his advisers?
The solution Yang Guang wanted to break the situation was to issue an order to relieve the Qiang.
Yang Guang believes that if he wants to break Daxing's trapped dragon situation, he must break the Qin army's blockade of Haizhou and Xiliang. As long as reinforcements arrive in Daxing, Daxing's trapped dragon situation will naturally be solved.
However, the Qin army's troops in Xining and Xianmei are not small. Although the specific number is unknown, there are at least about 100,000.
Even Haizhou, which had 100,000 reinforcements, could not expel Meng Tian and support Daxing in the short term after the arrival of the Tibetan army led by Lun Qinling.
In addition, the Sui State has now spent all its resources and has no troops to mobilize and nothing to borrow.
Yang Guang thought about it all night and found that only the Qiang people could get help, so he decided to issue an order to relieve the Qiang people and use the Qiang people to consume the Qin army.
What is the Qiang Order? As the name suggests, it naturally lifts various restrictions on the Qiang people.
After the Qiang people were exterminated by the Sui and Tang Dynasties, because the Qiang people were really wild and untamed, both the Tang and Sui countries established extremely strict bans on the Qiang people to control them, such as:
Qiang people were not allowed to marry Han women, take part in imperial examinations, engage in business, or leave ten miles around the village;
One person rebels and the whole family sits together;
and prohibitions such as not joining the military without permission.
These bans were harsh and even insulting, but they were mostly intended to control the Qiang people.
There were Qiang people in the Sui army, and there were quite a few of them, as many as 70,000 to 80,000, all of whom were prisoners of war taken during the process of exterminating the Qiang.
However, in order to control the Qiang people, Yang Guang still enacted a ban on the Qiang people not being allowed to join the army without permission. This was to prevent the Qiang soldiers from accounting for an excessive proportion of the Sui army and thus shake the Sui rule internally.
Even with such a strict ban, the Qiang people have never stopped rebelling, but it has to be admitted that there are indeed fewer and fewer Qiang people rebelling.
What does this mean?
It shows that those bans are useful. After the Qiang people got used to it, they gradually accepted the rule of the Sui State.
Today's Qiang people are like a wild and untamed wild horse. After several years of training by two generations of horse trainers in the Tang and Sui Dynasties, they are finally being tamed by the Sui Dynasty.
But if the Qiang relief order is introduced at this time and the ban on the Qiang people is lifted, it will be equivalent to untying the reins of a wild horse that is about to be tamed.
The heart is like a galloping horse on the plains, easy to let go but hard to take back.
Once the reins are untied, it is difficult to put them back on again.
Therefore, once the Qiang Order is issued, the Sui State's long-term governance of Haizhou will return to before liberation, Haizhou will no longer be owned by the Han people, and the Qiang people will become the masters of this land again.
This is the main reason why Cheng Gongying, Ban Gu, and Li Delin objected.
In Yang Guang's view, he destroyed the Qiang people, and he has the right to decide how to deal with them.
However, in the eyes of Cheng Gongying, Ban Gu and others, the destruction of the Qiang was not the work of Yang Guang and Li Shimin, but the Hundred Years War between the Han and Qiang, and then the battles of Liangzhou Sanming, Dong Zhuo, Yang Jian, Li Yuan and others. Li Shimin and Yang Guang completely wiped out the Qiang people.
The Qiang people have been a scourge in the northwest for more than a hundred years. Countless ancestors have shed their lives and blood. Even the Han Empire was dragged down. Only then did you, Yang Guang, deal with this threat.
But now that Yang Guang wants the Qiang people to rise again, won't he let the sacrifices of his ancestors be in vain?
How could Cheng Gongying, Ban Gu, and Li Delin, who were natives of Liangzhou, agree?
The opposition of Cheng Gongying and others could not shake Yang Guang's determination, because in his view, Haizhou and the Qiang people were like peaches that were about to ripen but were not yet ripe.
Yang Guang couldn't even protect himself now. He had no time to wait for the peaches to mature, and Da Qin was here to pick the peaches.
Although the unripe peaches were astringent, they could quench thirst, but if he didn't eat them, it would only be an advantage for Da Qin.
Yang Guang would rather cut down the peach tree than take advantage of Ying Hao, so even though he knew the hidden dangers of Jie Qiang Ling, he still decided to make a desperate move.
"You don't need to persuade me. As soon as the order to relieve the Qiang comes out, our army will immediately increase the number of 60,000 to 70,000 Qiang troops, and we will definitely be able to break the Qing army's blockade of Daxing.
As for what will happen after the Jie Qiang Order is promulgated, we have to wait until the Qin army is defeated. If we do not defeat the Qin army, our Sui Dynasty will have no future. "
Yang Guang's words are also the views of Gao Jiao, Yang Su and others. After all, in their minds, even if the Qiang people are a threat, they are not as big a threat as the Qin army. They should focus on repelling the Qin army first.
(End of chapter)
