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When Li Kuang led the first batch of folk Xiaoguo to embark on the journey to the Western Regions, the season had already reached the end of spring of the new year.
They marched at this time, naturally because there was no rain in the northwest this year, and it would not be the kind of sin that suffered in the continuous rainy season of late spring and new autumn, and it was also because there was no rain that they set off as soon as possible.
In the new year, it rained only a few days in the early spring in the northwest, and except for the heavy rain at the beginning, the following days were hazy drizzle, which did not actually alleviate the drought.
Then the purpose of transferring the brave and daring warriors in the northwest from the northwest as soon as possible is to reduce the probability of possible turmoil, and even if there is real turmoil, it will not go anywhere because the brave and daring fighters are gone.
"The hussar general sits in the northwest to deter Xiaoxiao, and the chaos in the northwest has been contained."
Ji Chang is the prime minister, and he had to take care of everything before the complete separation of the military and the government, so he reported to Liu Yan: "Li Kuang's department drove Bailongdui and left, and the Western Regions Coalition Army stayed in Bailongdui without any changes.
The Taiwei Department speculated that the battlefield would be around Puchanghai. ” The Western Regions is not a region with many water systems, and it can even be said that there is a great lack of water sources, and Puchanghai is the place with the most rivers.
It is not difficult to speculate on the reason why the Western Regions Coalition Army set the east side of Puchang Sea as a battlefield, it is nothing more than to wait for work and then grasp sufficient water sources, and the Han people in the past must compete for water sources, which means that the initiative in the war is in the hands of the Western Regions Coalition Army.
"The coalition forces are damming the river to cut off the water to the east of Puchanghai, and our army will face a water shortage dilemma when marching to the east of Puchanghai."
Xu Zheng stood next to a hanging map of mountains and rivers, pointing to the map, and introduced to Liu Yan: "Here, it is the last time our army replenishes the water source.
The army is prepared to the maximum extent and can store half a month's worth of water. ” The larger the size of the army, the more water will be consumed, and although it can be stored in advance with various tools, water is not so easy to store, whether it is in pottery or wooden barrels, once the water is stored for a long time, moss will grow, and then there are some other reasons that will cause the water to be inedible.
Li Kuang led his troops to approach the garrison of the Western Regions Coalition Army stationed around Puchanghai, it is impossible to set up the camp too close, it must set aside a certain amount of battle ground, and then it is not possible to set up a camp anywhere, and it is not easy to predict what the situation will be on the central side.
The people of the Western Regions have already known that most of the migrating tribes have been concentrated in Bailongdui, and a large number of people in the Western Regions have seen the Qiuzi people make a bid to go to Bailongdui for the head of the Han people, which has caused the coalition army of only 30,000 or 40,000 to expand rapidly, and it is known as an army of 100,000 to the outside world.
The price code offered by the Qiuci people is very exciting, if it is converted into copper coins, an ordinary Han person's head can find the Qiuci people to receive a thousand copper coins, and the head of the Han soldiers is worth 5,000 copper coins, and the price code of the Wu Chief, Shi Chang, Tun Chief, Military Marquis, and School Captain is subdivided, and the price of Li Kuang, the general, is as much as 1 million copper coins.
If you talk about any national righteousness to the people of the Western Regions, all the people of the Western Regions will scoff at it, but there is no need to talk about the bounty.
There are too many nationalities in the Western Regions, wars and vendettas happen every day, because there are many small countries without strong political constraints, there are really not too many outlaws, and even all countries in the Western Regions have the habit of raising horse thieves, and there are many people who want money and don't want to die.
"One hundred thousand" Liu Yan returned to his place and sat down, and said slowly: "Turtle Zi" To say that there are 100,000 troops in the Western Regions, Liu Yan actually doesn't believe it.
He didn't know how many people there were in the Western Regions, and he guessed that it would be about one million at most, and the people mobilized this time were Shanshan, Jimo, Jingjue, and so on The total number of one million people, it is impossible for everyone to be young and strong who can fight in battle, do you want the elderly, children and women to use data to reason, one million young people in the Western Regions can have 150,000 even if it is many, one-third of the people in the Western Regions have all gone to Bailongdui, it sounds like a joke.
"Well, it doesn't count."
Xu Zheng also laughed, but then said: "But since Qiuzi can pay to hire people from the Western Regions, will he also pay to hire people or troops from the countries in the west?"
It seems that there is such a possibility In the Zhuxia civilization, the army is the important weapon of the country, and the ministers and important generals cannot be mobilized privately, and it is even more ridiculous to send troops to fight in foreign countries out of the temptation of goods, but there are not as many countries as the Zhuxia civilization There are not many countries further west in the Western Regions, and there are small countries such as Kangju, Xiangcai, Suge, and Tuoli, and there are also large countries such as Yueban and Hunnite further west.
A small country in the Western Regions, a small few thousand people can be called a country, a medium-sized country is between 10,000 and 30,000, and a population of more than 50,000 is considered a big country in the Western Regions, such as Cheshi, Qiuzi, Khotan, Shule, and other countries with a population of more than 100,000 are superpowers in the eyes of many small countries.
Therefore, the method of identifying the strong in the Western Regions is very simple, whoever can pull out as many troops as it is, even if it is strong, there is also the former Han Empire that the army alone can pull out 30,000 Li Guangli to conquer the battle of Dawan, or attack the Western Regions all the way, and the people of the Western Regions at that time were really scared.
God, just 30,000 troops are equivalent to the population of more than 30 small countries, and just one expeditionary force is equivalent to the population of medium-sized countries, so what a behemoth the Han Empire should be What kind of region you live in and what kind of country you are in will give people a survival mentality.
The people of the Western Regions are sandwiched between several strong people, either bullied by the Huns, or the Han people come to establish a management system, and after the Huns and the Han people disappear, there will be someone in the west who comes, and sometimes Ah San will also come to join in the fun, so the people of the Western Regions have developed the habit of serving the strong.
There is no doubt that compared to the declining Wusun people, the Cheshi people who have long seemed to be immortal, the Shule people who are busy with the plateau people, and the extremely rich and active Qiuzi people are now the overlords of the Western Regions.
"So the Qiuzi people are very appealing in the Western Regions" Liu Yan has never taken a certain country in the Western Regions in his eyes, it is not a strategic contempt, it is history that has repeatedly proved that as long as the Central Plains is powerful, no matter what country in the Western Regions is really vulnerable.
He was curious: "The friendship between the people of Qiuzi and the many countries to the west is good enough to hire regular troops" It is just a speculation that the army of the big country hired by Qiuzi to resist the westward advance of the Han Chinese, there is no evidence that can be used, and there is no relevant information for the time being, but it is speculated from the number of coalition troops gathered in Bailongdui.
In fact, the Han State did not have an intelligence system for the Western Regions, since the Han State wanted to attack the Western Regions, the procedure of collecting a variety of intelligence in advance would naturally not be forgotten, and then the Zhang Liangguo had also made various arrangements for the Western Regions.
This time, Liu Yan had to attack the Western Regions, resulting in the "first move" not being in place, which can be regarded as an unexpected action.
It turned out that the intelligence system belonging to Zhang's Liangguo had been received by the Han State, but the problem was that the northwest's sense of belonging to the Han State was not strong, resulting in the Han State not knowing whether to believe the information sent back by the spies who originally belonged to Zhang's Liangguo.
Under the premise of unreliable intelligence, the correct way is to ignore the intelligence, and let the commanders of the army operate on their own, and the center of the rear gives the front-line generals the greatest autonomy, waiting for the harvest, or getting reinforcements.
Isn't that how a superpower can afford to lose, it's not a matter if it loses once or twice, and it doesn't have to lose.
This time to enter the Western Regions, out of the tendency to stop losses far more than military considerations, as long as the contradiction can be vented to the outside, in fact, it is considered a success.
"Killing the enemy is also a military feat, not only people from the counties and counties in the northwest, but also many people from other places."
Ji Chang's attitude towards this is actually rejection, but he can't open his mouth for any opposition under the needs of the general environment: "Xie Ai reported that there are more than 200,000 people in Yangguan. ” Liu Yan's generosity this time is unprecedented in more than ten years, the people who opened the party went to the Western Regions, and the official gave the greatest convenience and help, killing the people of the Western Regions can rely on the first-level meritorious service, and the captured people of the Western Regions can also be sold to the government office for money, and the seizure can also be kept for themselves, which is definitely the first time in history that it happened in the Zhuxia civilization.
It is a great temptation to exchange foreign heads for military merits, not to mention that there are all kinds of ways to make a fortune, and the crowds of people who feel that they are going to go in droves all over the country have become torrents.
"The Han people have never shied away from their desire to make meritorious contributions, and this is also true if money and other things are not illegal."
Liu Yan is still very complacent, people with some ability go abroad to make a fortune, and there will be fewer people who will make trouble in China, and those people will still return to China to spend when they make a fortune: "It is better for bloody men to vent outside the territory than to bleed in internal fighting." ” Not all those who go out will be able to make a fortune, and there will definitely be many people who are buried in foreign lands, and there is really nothing to say about this.
The Han people did not have the adventurous spirit at the beginning, as later generations said, but the government repeatedly restricted that adventurous spirit, Liu Yan did not want to guard the imperial foundation behind closed doors, and removed a variety of restrictions, what he had to do was to encourage the Han people to explore and take risks outward, and everything they got was considered in the pot.
"The Han should not rest on his laurels, nor should he think that the Central Plains is the world."
Liu Yan also knows one thing, it is not enough for the high-level to have enough knowledge, but the whole people have a clear understanding: "The official government has no basis for saying that there is no evidence, and if there is a fruit in a foreign land, the people will know about it." ” To put it bluntly, what are the benefits, don't all draw them to the official, and pioneering should be a kind of welfare for those who have the courage to go outside.
It is not that the successive dynasties have opened up their territories to the outside world, but all the benefits have been given to the emperor personally or the government, and the people only have to pay and sacrifice but have no benefits, so the people will be disgusted by the people.
"The Western Regions are like the Indochina Peninsula in the south."
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Liu Yan said with a smile: "Two places are where the Han people perceive the world. ” This time, the discussion of the Western Regions of the Little Dynasty meeting ended quickly, and the final conclusion was to wait for Li Kuang's immediate information, and the topic was turned to the side of the Pingman Captain's Department.
In the last year, Huan Wen had already made a detailed report to the center, and the entire southern part of the Gupta Dynasty was mobilized for the war, and many younger brothers wanted to do something against the Pingban Captain's Department.
The Gupta Dynasty, which carried out the southern mobilization, showed the essence of a regional hegemon, the number of troops recruited was seen as the population, the speed of launching warships reflected the industrial strength of a country, and how many younger brothers were willing to be pulled into the chariot belonged to the sphere of influence.
"Ah San has recently mobilized 300,000 people.
And this is only the southern mobilization.
"Xu Zheng is still quite surprised that the Gupta Dynasty has such a background, that is the number of people mobilized within a year, and there must be a follow-up.
He pointed to the location of Cuttack, pointing to the re-attached map of the mountains and rivers: "After this year, more ships have been added here every day. ” The Kushan Dynasty is not the master of Ah San, the problem is that the navy of the Kushan Dynasty is controlled by Ah San.
Since the Kushan Dynasty, Ah San's figure has been full of Ah Sanyang, and even the islands of South Asia are also indispensable Ah San's figure, they have been playing happily in Ah Sanyang for hundreds of years.
"It is reported that there are as many as 1,000 A-3 navies in Cuttak alone.
Cuttac had such a number of warships that the Han had to be cautious.
Xu Zheng did not hide his jealousy: "The Han has repeatedly clashed with Ah San at sea, and his advantage is that the ships are sharp, and the methods of naval warfare are much inferior to Ah San. ” The navy of the Han State stationed in the Pingman Captain's Department has also been increasing, and if you don't count the systematic warships, the number of large and small warships has reached more than 600, but the combat effectiveness is really not easy to say.
The naval battles between the Han Kingdom and the Gupta Dynasty were fought in many places and in varying numbers every day, unless the weather was bad.
The Han navy accumulated experience in naval warfare in the contest with the Gupta navy, but the Gupta dynasty used to learn from the Han warships to improve their combat ships according to the observation in the battle.
The most obvious example is that Ah Sanmen found that the bed crossbow layout of the Han warships was very scientific, and later painted gourds to build warships with the same arrangement, and more warships were carrying out similar modifications.
"It's inevitable to make progress with each other."
What Liu Yan said is that the layout of the warship's attack weapons is so obvious, and there will be a situation where the ship will be captured in the battle, and the warship does not have any technological locks at present, so it is really not too difficult to imitate.
"Land situation," he asked.
Xu Zheng had to ask people to change the map of mountains and rivers, pointed to the area marked as the country of Pi on the map, and said: "The enemy army has used this small state as a garrison, and the soldiers have reached the nearest thirty miles from the Pingman Captain's Headquarters. ” The original appearance of more than 200 miles between the Pingman Captain's Department and the Bi State was not only advanced by the coalition army led by Gupta, but the Han army was also constantly arranging defensive depth to the Bi State.
The primeval jungles and mountains are not so easy to wade, and it is clear that both sides have been fighting for nearly a year, but it is still a recent thing that there is really a confrontation in that area, and most of them are fierce battles that the scouts on both sides suddenly encounter.
Now that the tentative operation of the small group has taken place, the outbreak of the big war is not far away
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