Liuzhou is located between Northern Liang and the Western Regions, and is the throat of Northern Liang and the Western Chu Region.
Li Yishan forced Hong Jia to flee northward and drove 100,000 survivors to Liuzhou.
The survivors used three abandoned old military towns as gathering places.
After years of development, it has grown from the original number of 100,000 to 178,000.
Most of these refugees are desperadoes, or people who were subjugated during the Spring and Autumn Period. Moreover, these three cities are quite barren. They are located to the west of Beiliang, south of Beimang, and north of the Western Region. They are still considered ownerless lands.
Poor mountains and harsh waters bring out unruly people, and this sentence is suitable to describe these refugees. These desperadoes are extremely brave and good at fighting. Not to mention young and strong men, even women and children of seven or eight years old dare to fight against the army if they are ruthless. The development of this kind of character is mainly related to their living environment. It is too poor to support hundreds of thousands of people. Therefore, only by being a villain and learning how to deceive others can you have a chance to fill your stomach and avoid starving to death.
But after the Liangmang War, Xu Fengnian, the crown prince of Northern Liang, entered Liuzhou and joined forces with Xu Longxiang to gather these 100,000 troops.
Since defeating the 200,000-strong Beimang army led by Dong Zhuo with less and more, Liuzhou has suffered heavy losses, but its foundation is still there.
After this battle, Xu Fengnian moved them to Lingzhou, which was the most prosperous place in Northern Liang and was not affected by the war.
On the one hand, it is to fulfill the promise.
On the other hand, it is also to break the refugees into small groups and absorb them into Beiliang as soon as possible.
In the later stages of the Liang-Mang War, Xu Xiao conquered Beimang and formally took over the political affairs of Beiliang. Xu Fengnian also incorporated Liuzhou into the Beiliang system.
With Yue Pengju, the newly promoted leader of the Liuzhou cavalry camp, as the commander, and Wu Jinqing, a rising star from Northern Liang, as the deputy commander, he led 3,000 Liuzhou cavalry into the Western Regions.
Because Beimang and Liyang promoted the extermination of Buddhism, Landuo Temple, a major force in the Western Regions, took the lead in returning to Beiliang.
Beiliang also gained 20,000 monk soldiers.
Later, various ethnic groups in the Western Regions also chose to join the Beiliang army because they were dissatisfied with Beimang's harsh four-class system.
The Beimang soldiers and horses stationed here were also cut off due to their defeat in the battle between Liangmang and Beimang.
The commander-in-chief stationed here, Wanyan Zongbi, was the first member of the Wanyan family of the Beimang clan, so naturally he was not willing to sit still and wait for death.
Assemble Beimang's troops in the Western Region, a total of 60,000 people, to suppress the various ethnic groups in the Western Region that move against them.
Finally, in the battle against Kucha.
Encountered Yue Pengju and Wu Jie leading 30,000 troops composed of monks from Landa Temple and soldiers from various ethnic groups in the Western Regions to support Kucha City.
The two sides fought here for a day and a night, and finally ended with Yue Pengju personally leading 800 fine cavalry into the enemy formation and killing Yan Zongbi.
After this battle, there was no more Beimang power in the Western Region, and all the Western Region returned to Beiliang.
Yue Pengju and Wu Jie led 3,000 cavalry into the Western Region. After this battle, they recruited soldiers from all ethnic groups and surrendered soldiers from Beimang, and increased their troops to 50,000.
In the second year of Xiangfu, Xia, four hundred years after the fall of the Dafeng Dynasty, the Western Regions again came under the rule of the Central Plains.
In the name of the King of Beiliang, Xu Fengnian temporarily established the temporary Anxi Protectorate in the Western Regions, subordinate to Beiliang Dao.
After Li Yang was summoned, the Anxi Protectorate was officially established.
Yue Pengju, the former leader of the Liuqi camp, served as the chief protector and established the Beiwei camp.
Lieutenant General Wu Jie was appointed as Deputy Protector and established a strong crossbow battalion.
He also built castles and military towns in the four cities of Qiuci, Yanqi, Khotan, and Shule, which were located on the strategic routes of the Western Regions, for the purpose of deploying troops in Beimang.
It is also governed by the Protector of Anxi, and is referred to as the Four Towns of Anxi.
In addition, after Beiliang captured Nanjing in Beimang, he implemented benevolent policies in the three prefectures of Beimang and abolished the four-class livelihood system. Following Zhang Julu's Liyang New Deal, he removed the three prefectures and turned them into roads, and temporarily established Youyun Road. , administration is unified.
After the cultural and martial arts of Xu Xiao and Xu Fengnian, Beiliang has become a behemoth occupying eight states.
After gathering more than 200,000 surrendered soldiers in Beimang, the military strength reached nearly 500,000 in one fell swoop.
There are 250,000 cavalry and 250,000 infantry, half each.
After a few years of cultivation, Beiliang will be able to completely digest the five states of Gusai, Longyao, Orange, Liuzhou, and Xiyu, plus the accumulated civilian power of the three original states of Beiliang, and have millions of troops.
Liyang's original intention was to gain strength in this Liangmang war.
If the wildness is defeated, then the wildness will be conquered; if the coolness is defeated, then the coolness will be withdrawn.
Regardless of the outcome of this battle, Li Yang should be the party that benefits the most.
But what was unexpected was that instead of benefiting from it, Liyang actually lost troops and generals due to the chaos in Western Chu.
Guangling and Nanjiang roads were also lost, and even Jiangnan Road was completely corrupted by the death of King Huainan, the defeat of King Jing'an, and the intrusion of Zhang Bianyuan.
Lu Xiangsheng had been defeated in consecutive battles and had now retreated to Huxin County to reorganize his troops and fight again.
What's even more ironic is that Liyang killed Zhang Julu and suspended the implementation of the New Deal in order to appease all parties.
Over there, Beiliang and Western Chu were sparing no effort to implement the New Deal, and even carried out drastic reforms.
However, the two parties also made different adjustments due to their different national conditions.
Gu Jiantang, who was supposed to take advantage of Beimang's defeat and send troops, was careless because he wanted to prepare for the conquest of Beimang, and was attacked by Wang Sui.
Thanks to Gu Jiantang's timely response, the soldiers suffered no losses.
But a fire burned millions of stones of food and grass for the two Liao border troops.
Gu Jiantang went on the defensive because he wanted to guard against Wang Sui's surprise attack by his adept troops.
By the time it was discovered that the food and grass had been burned, it was too late to put it out.
It is not known how Wang Sui found out where the grain and grass were stored by the border armies of the two Liaos.
Because millions of stones of grain and grass were burned, the frontier troops were unable to break out of camp, thus missing the opportunity to march north to Beimang.
Due to the rebellion in Western Chu in Liyang, most of the food and grass were transferred to the southern front.
It will take at least two years to replenish the supplies for the two Liao border armies for their northern expedition.
Now, Li Yang can only postpone the use of troops against Beimang and miss this rare opportunity for the Northern Expedition.
We can only concentrate on destroying Xi Chu first.
No one could have imagined that in less than two years, Liyang, which had been left in a great situation by the late emperor, had fallen into a situation where the north and the south could no longer take care of each other.
Li Yang's current way to break the situation is to end the war with Xi Chu as soon as possible.
After the Western Chu was defeated, he went all out to march north, conquered the five states of Beimang, and regained his advantage.
For this reason, Zhao Zhuante increased Chen Zhibao's troops to 50,000, for a total of 60,000.
This white-clothed soldier immortal has become the key to Li Yang's victory.
In the Song Mansion in Shenhuang City, the capital of Western Chu, three generations of the Song family, Song Wenfeng, who was in charge of the province, Song Qingshan, the Minister of Rites, and Song Maolin gathered together, seemingly discussing some important matter.
Song Wenfeng held in her hand the latest report of the return of Xie Xijie and Kou Jianghuai to the court, but there was no sign of being a courtier of the Great Chu on her face.
He said in a deep voice: "Zhao Bing, who is famous all over the world, was so helpless that he was beaten by three juniors until he was unable to fight back. In less than three months, he died and his country was destroyed."
Song Wenfeng's son Song Qingshan said: "My father has been working for the Chu country for a hundred years, and he is willing to bear the infamy for thousands of years so he has contact with Zhao Bing. It also plays a role in relaxing the other party. Otherwise, Xie Xijie and the others would not be able to attack southern Xinjiang." It was so easy to get it. The letters to and from southern Xinjiang were burned together with my confidants. This great Chu court will be the world of my Song family in the future."
(There is a Diaoyutai in Snow World, located in Xiangfan.)
