At the junction of Tonghai and Song Dynasty, horses were stationed at the pass.
"Ha, these Song people finally sent envoys to surrender. I thought they were going to fight to the end."
In the meeting hall, all the Chu army generals gathered. At the very top, Qinghezi couldn't help but let out a chuckle as he held the credentials handed over by the Song State.
“The Song Kingdom was originally weak and was at the end of the Three Kingdoms in the Southwest. The reason why it resisted so hard before was just because it was a fluke that Nanzhao and Dali were still resisting.
Now that the Nanzhao Kingdom has surrendered, one of the three southwest kingdoms has gone, and we, the Great Chu, have gained one of them. There are only two countries left, so naturally they are no match for me.
That Song Jun came from a Linhai family and was best at specializing in business. Seeing that the situation was over, he certainly would not stubbornly resist and risk his life here. "
On the left hand side below, Li Liang, the defense envoy of Yulin County, sneered at this time: "Our Dachu has generous conditions for him. As a subjugated king, he can still get half of the county to be granted the title of country. If it were in the past, how could it be possible? Such a good thing?
Now the world has changed, and the land in the south is worthless, so the king gave it to these small countries.
If he continues to be ungrateful, he really deserves to be killed by a sword. "
Regarding the great changes in the world, after the war with Ning Guo, Lu Yuan had successively informed all the innate masters in the country for more than a year.
The purpose of this is naturally to unify people's hearts and make everyone aware of the seriousness of the matter, so that they can gather all their strength and go north to fight for the future land of Zhongzhou.
Obviously, after more than a year of hard work, the results this time are pretty good.
That's it.
Lu Yuan treated the southwestern countries so favorably, and the senior officials of the Chu State who knew the truth had no objection at all.
It's just a piece of bad land that can only be operated for a hundred years, or even decades.
Even if the Chu State was conquered, it would be impossible to manage and develop it within a few decades.
And when it was finally developed, natural disasters from the four poles also came.
The land south of the Yangtze River may become a place boiling with poisonous fire in the future.
After decades of hard work, everything finally comes to nothing. Only a fool would do this kind of loss-making business.
Instead of doing this, it is better to drive out these bad lands one after another and let the owners of small countries manage the barbarian people on their own territory.
Da Chu, on the other hand, stood on top of them to collect grain and taxes, and at the same time removed their soldiers, horses and innate masters to contribute to Chu's future battles in Zhongzhou.
This method of restraining tribute is the most time-saving and cost-effective method.
"Now that both Nanzhao and Song have submitted, there is only one Dali Kingdom left in the southwest.
Although this country is strong, it has four innates and more than two million barbarians.
But with one country and two counties, if you want to fight against the counties in the southwestern, Lingnan, and western parts of Chu, it is just a mantis arm to block the attack.
If King Dali knew better, he would have sent envoys to surrender after hearing the news of Song's surrender. "
Next to him, Han Hu, the defense commander of Tonghai County, also said with a smile.
"Having said that, no one can guarantee whether the Dali people will really be stubborn and refuse to surrender.
Just in case, you still have to force him. "
Qinghezi nodded slightly after listening to his subordinates' words, but for the sake of caution, he pondered for a moment, turned to look at Li Liang next to him, and ordered: "General Li, I will appoint you as the defense envoy of Jiuzhen County. From now on, you will lead the army." The soldiers and horses of the headquarters went to Jiuzhen County to take up their posts.
After arriving in the country, he took over the soldiers and horses of Jiuzhen County in the Song Dynasty and stabilized the place.
At the same time, he supervised the remaining troops of the Song Dynasty and ordered them to raise troops in Yinsheng County, a feudal country, to threaten the Dali Kingdom's territory from behind and force it to surrender. "
When Dali surrenders, in addition to handing over Jiuzhen County, it is natural that the soldiers and horses in hand will also be handed over.
Now, after more than a year of recovery, and after the previous defeat of Yulin, the Song Dynasty's internal troops have reorganized into a force of 100,000.
Among these 100,000 people, 80,000 are from Jiuzhen County.
Naturally, it was impossible for Chu State to let Song State take away these soldiers and horses.
Therefore, it was necessary to send a general to Jiuzhen County at this time.
While receiving troops and horses, handing over the place.
While monitoring the Song Dynasty, he was prepared for any unexpected events.
Looking at his subordinates, the only one who is most suitable for this matter at this time is Li Liang.
After taking over Jiuzhen County, Yulin County was located behind the hinterland of Chu State, no longer bordering the enemy country, and was basically at peace.
In this case, of course the three forbidden armies and 60,000 troops originally commanded by Li Liang and stationed here cannot be wasted.
Therefore, Qinghezi directly asked him to go to Jiuzhen County, while accepting the surrender of Song State, and handing over matters such as territory, household registration, soldiers and horses, and treasury.
On the one hand, as a military governor, he urged Song State to send troops to help encircle and suppress Dali State.
"I will obey my orders."
When Li Liang heard this appointment, his expression was not abnormal at all, and he accepted it directly.
Now, as Lu Yuan no longer pretends, many senior officials in the Chu Kingdom have gradually become aware of the close relationship between the Qing and Huang lineage masters and their own king.
Therefore, Li Liang did not dare to be disrespectful at all when facing Qing Hezi, who was probably his master's clone or someone else.
At this time, I don't think there is anything wrong with directly appointing or removing a county's defense envoy when facing the opponent.
The King's clone, doesn't this mean that the King is here in person?
And if the king wants to appoint or remove the defense envoy of a county, that is not a matter of saying a word. Who dares to object, who can object?
"Okay, the matter of the Song Kingdom is settled like this. The Nanzhao Kingdom also sent people to urge their three vassal kings to quickly raise troops and go to the border of the Dali Kingdom to respond to our army from the west."
After making the arrangements, Qinghezi felt much more relaxed, with a hint of contempt on his face: "I want to see if Dali State dares to hold on under the pressure of my half-million-strong army with enemies from the northwest and south. .”
Although the soldiers and horses from Xichuan County invited from the north helped to subdue the Nanzhao Kingdom, they quickly withdrew because Huang Xin wanted to deal with the Xiliang Kingdom.
However, with the assistance of the Nanzhao Kingdom that had just been split up, and the Song Kingdom that was in the process of splitting up, the number of soldiers and horses that Qinghezi could gather in the southwest and Lingnan areas reached an exaggerated number of half a million.
And there are eight innate masters.
Whether it is soldiers, horses, or the number of experts, it is already twice that of Dali Kingdom.
To put it bluntly.
Now even if the Dali Kingdom refuses to surrender and wants to resist, it won't take much effort for Qinghezi to attack and destroy the opponent.
The overall situation in the southwest has been decided at this time.
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Naturally, Dali did not dare to resist.
They are just tough, not stupid.
In this situation of heavy siege and heavy troops pressing down on the situation, the head will naturally not be so iron-clad, but will also know how to adapt and surrender.
In fact.
After hearing the news of Song's surrender, the envoys sent by Dali to discuss surrender were already on their way.
It's just that we have just set off, and we can't reach Ma Zhuguan where Qinghezi is yet.
have to say.
After the Chu State defeated the four countries of Lingnan and Jiangdong and seized the entire Yangzhou hegemony, facing this unification and the great prestige of the motherland, there were too few people left who dared to resist.
Now that they are planning to conquer the southwest, even if they are as strong as Nanzhao and Dali, they are still afraid of surrendering and do not dare to resist in the face of the military might of Chu.
You know, it has only been six or seven years since the Chu Kingdom last conquered the barbarians.
This little time is not enough for people to forget everything.
Many people from the southwestern barbarians still have deep memories of the brutality and terror of the Chu soldiers.
At the beginning, the Chu State, which only had three counties, could not be resisted by the southwestern countries. At this time, the Chu State was many times stronger than before. How could Nanzhao and Dali dare to resist?
The reason why I surrender so readily now.
The current rise in Chu's prestige is one thing, and the intimidation of the troops left behind by the expedition to the southwest is also another thing.
But no matter what.
As the Three Kingdoms surrendered, the big country was dismantled, leaving only a small country with half a county in the southwest, which could no longer thrive.
Chu State's rule here is almost stable.
So when Qinghezi has finished taking care of all the affairs in the southwest and handed in the memorial in August.
Lu Yuan just explained that the four prefectures in the northern half of the county presented by Nanzhao would be merged with Hehe County to form a complete county of ten prefectures.
River Valley County, located in the western border of Chu State, not only borders Xichuan and has a passage, but also has a passage connection with Nanzhao State in the south.
When they attacked the Xichuan Kingdom by surprise, they used the Tibetan people from Daohehe County to catch Ji Hui off guard, which led to the destruction of the Buddhist Kingdom.
Now that Nanzhao surrendered and gave up its northern land, Lu Yuan naturally wanted to be optimistic about this pass leading to Xichuan, so he simply merged this place with Hehe County.
In addition to merging counties and resolving affairs in the southwest, Lu Yuan continued to appoint Qinghezi as the general manager of the southwest, managing the two counties of Qianzhong and Tonghai in southwest Guizhou, as well as the eleven small vassal states.
As for the three counties of Nanhai, Yulin and Jiuzhen in Lingnan, Qingxuanzi was transferred back from Jian'an County and made him the general manager of Lingnan and the defense envoy of Yulin County, responsible for the defense of the southern border of Chu State.
In addition, considering the increasingly severe situation in the north, Lu Yuan sent a clone Huang Yun from Yuzhang County to Xiangyang County to serve as the general manager of Jiangbei, overseeing Xiangyang County. Under his command were Zhou Qing and 130,000 troops. .
In this way, with Huangxin in the west, Qinghezi in the southwest, Qingxuanzi in the south of Lingnan, and Huangyun in the north of the Yangtze River, the nine counties and eleven countries under the jurisdiction of the four major defense areas of the Chu State were basically under stable control.
With these four clones watching, Lu Yuan could basically sit back and relax.
So after dealing with the internal problems, he turned his attention to the current anxious war in the northwest.
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The yellow weeds are covered with frost, and the vision is desolate.
On the vast grassland, two armies were fighting fiercely in the east and west.
The Tibetan cavalry wearing animal skins, braided hair, holding short bows, and wielding machetes, and the other side were also dressed in various colors, rarely wearing armor, holding lances or swords, and a group of Xiliang people dressed as ordinary people. The knights charged back and forth.
Just from their clothes, it can be seen that at this time, only the herdsmen of the Tibetan people and the militia of the Xiliang Kingdom were fighting, and they were not the elite soldiers of the two armies.
Even on the battlefield, the number of Tibetan herdsmen was slightly larger, with more than 5,000 horsemen, while the Xiliang militiamen only had more than 3,000 people, which was a big difference in strength.
But at this time, the two armies were catching each other and killing each other. The Tibetan herdsmen were obviously inferior to the Xiliang militiamen in terms of riding, shooting and martial arts.
Even in terms of perseverance and endurance, there is a clear gap.
At this time, the fighting lasted only a moment, and the Tibetan people lost nearly a thousand people, while the Xiliang militiamen only lost more than 500 people. Gradually, they could not hold on and began to collapse.
In this tentative confrontation, the Xiliang army gained the upper hand.
"This Xiliang Kingdom is worthy of being a powerful country in the northwest. These majestic men are really elite, and they are no worse than the soldiers and horses of the prefectures and counties in the central Chu Kingdom.
No wonder the Tibetan people were beaten and retreated steadily, and they still wanted to ask for help from the Chu State. It was really not unfair. "
In the eastern camp, the flags of the Chu Kingdom and other flags with different banners were flying. Where the soldiers were guarding, Huang Xing led a group of generals from the Chu Kingdom and watched the battle between the Tibetan herdsmen and the Xiliang knights in the distance. He couldn't help but Greatly admired.
Unlike ordinary people who are half-people and half-herders, the Xiliang Kingdom has a complete national structure and is also half-nomadic and half-agricultural. The country can support far more standing soldiers and horses than the Tibetan people who outnumber them.
In the Battle of Helong in the past few years, every spring and autumn, although the Tibetan people could pull out four to five million, or even six to seven hundred thousand horses, the momentum was huge and boundless.
But among the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, more than 80% were temporarily recruited Tibetan herdsmen.
The total number of Tibetan knights who can truly be completely out of work is only over 100,000 in total.
You know, these are elite soldiers made up of tens of thousands of Tibetan people.
Judging from this ratio, it is almost equal to one hundred Tibetan people to support one retired soldier.
This kind of production efficiency is really far behind compared with the countries that are competing for hegemony in Kyushu today.
In countries such as Chu, Wei, and Liang, three households basically raised one soldier, that is, fourteen or five people raised one retired soldier.
The conversion rate of population, soldiers and horses is six or seven times that of the Tibetan people.
With such a huge production gap, it is no wonder that the Tibetan people have been fighting against Helong in recent years. Two to three million soldiers have been killed here, but there is still no progress.
Instead, they were defeated repeatedly by the Zhou people and suffered heavy losses.
Had it not been for the sudden intervention of the northern Wei State in the end and attacked the capital region of Zhou State, forcing the Zhou people to send troops and horses to return for reinforcements and abandon the northwest.
Otherwise, I am afraid that all the Tibetan tribes at this time will still be huddled in the snowy fields in misery, going down the mountain to die day after day. Let's bleed dry on this river.
However, even if the Zhou people left, the Xueyuan Tibetan people who occupied Helong County were not proud for long.
Because the Xiliang people, who were as fierce as the Zhou people and poorer, came.
Xiliang, which emerged from the borders of the snowfields, grasslands, and Yongzhou, and was established at the junction of civilization and barbarians, from its geographical location, it was destined that this country must be founded by force.
Otherwise, under the prying eyes of a large number of barbarians and great powers, the Xiliang Kingdom would not be able to survive at all.
This is also true.
The harsh living environment has tempered the hard-working character of the people of Xiliang, and the threat of barbarians has cultivated the fierceness and ferocity of the people of Xiliang. This is a country of tigers and wolves just like the Great Qin in Lu Yuan's previous life.
With a population of four million, the Xiliang Kingdom supports 300,000 standing soldiers and horses, and about 500,000 half-farmed and half-trained militiamen. It can be said that every household is a soldier.
Such ferocious martial arts is unheard of even in the countries of Kyushu where the war is the most intense.
At this time, the Zhou people, who were almost defeated by the Wei State, were pushed to the point of despair. They desperately broke out the troops in the country and were able to maintain a million troops.
In terms of population, there are only twelve people supporting one soldier.
As for the Xiliang Kingdom, there are five people supporting one soldier.
Even if there are a large number of field troops, it is still an incredible achievement.
The most rare thing is that with this kind of militaristic method, the soldiers and horses raised by Xiliang Kingdom have surprisingly good combat power.
At this time, Huang Xin led the Chu army to Helong to reinforce the Fan people. After receiving the aid, the Fan tribe quickly gathered 400,000 troops and horses, and joined forces with the 100,000 Chu troops who came to attack the captured people. Hexi County captured by Xiliang Kingdom.
The two armies set up camps and faced each other in the wilderness.
Now, at Huang Xin's request, the Tibetan people sent cavalry to test the Xiliang Kingdom's background.
But now after the confrontation between the two sides, the five thousand Fan cavalry sent out were defeated by a mere three thousand Xiliang knights, which was really shocking.
What's even more shocking is that the Xiliang cavalry who performed well in front of them and were able to defeat the Tibetan herdsmen with a small number were actually just the opponent's militia.
Although the quality displayed by these Xiliang militiamen is still far behind the soldiers, they are no less than those of the standing prefectural and county soldiers in Chu State.
"I have always heard that the people of Xiliang are brave and endure hardships in battles. I thought it was just a boast. But when I saw them today, I was really amazed."
"No wonder the king wants to send us to rescue. With the strength shown by the Xiliang army, those Tibetan people are really no match for them."
"This time we are going to fight against the Xiliang Army. It looks like it will be a tough battle."
Take a peek and you'll know the whole picture.
The generals of the Chu State are also veterans who have fought for more than 20 years. They are extremely skilled in the art of war and have a keen sense of smell.
Although they had only seen the force of the Xiliang militia at this time, these veterans knew from their performance that the Xiliang army was indeed a formidable enemy.
Although his country is very militaristic, the soldiers and horses it has raised are not bad in combat capability.
Under the influence of the special environment in the northwest, the 300,000 standing soldiers and horses in the country will never be inferior to the soldiers of the major hegemons in the world.
Based on the current situation that the Chu army has undergone several rounds of expansion, a large number of new soldiers have been mixed into the team, and their combat effectiveness has been reduced.
When facing them head-on, the outcome is really hard to predict.
"Xiliang is a country of tigers and wolves. All the people in the country can fight. The only thing lacking is that there are few people and the country is poor.
Now if they were allowed to seize Helong and enslave millions of Tibetan people, they would have a prosperous land, a large population, and the foundation of their hegemony, and they would be able to achieve it in an instant.
By then, a hegemonic country will appear in the northwest of our great Chu state, and there will never be peace on the border. "
Huang Xin listened to the discussion of the generals with a stern expression: "So we must take advantage of the fact that their hegemony has not yet been achieved, the Tibetan people have not yet attached themselves to it, and He Long has not yet been conquered, to kill this disaster in advance, so as to eliminate future troubles for me."
As Lu Yuan's clone, he has a very deep understanding of the original body's thoughts.
If Lu Yuan only had a rough idea of the threat to the Xiliang Kingdom through the descriptions of the Tibetan people and the reports from the Imperial City Department, his experience was not very deep.
At this time, the clone personally led the troops, arrived at the Helong battlefield, and observed with his own eyes the strength of the Xiliang soldiers.
He has regarded the Xiliang army as an unprecedented enemy.
For the Xiliang Kingdom, targets that must be destroyed, or that must be absolutely attacked and weakened, are also included.
The Tibetan people, the state of Chu has been established, must not be allowed to perish in this land of Helong.
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