(570), The Vanishing Legion
- After today's incident, Xie Lianyi can't continue to stay in Dongfeng Tower. Shi Yi acted as a guide and took Yi Wen to leave from the side door of the backyard of Dongfeng Building, and went to Xie Lianyi's private house in Kyoto.
Speaking of this private house, Shi Yi is not unfamiliar, because this is the house where he used to be the second soul and recuperate for several months at the beginning of his awakening.
After a few years, Shi Yi has now adapted to his current body. Although he still can't understand how the thing of being reborn after death and soul piercing II can be realized in him, after the test of life in the past few years, at least he has to accept this fact.
Even in the previous life, not to mention the game environment, even if the military holographic simulation environment has not been disclosed in the slightest technology, it is impossible to simulate the world situation so realistically.
During the three years of studying in Xuelu, he was roughly out of the control of Dongfeng Building and had some free space, and Shi Yi also used his own way to carefully conduct a series of studies on the many doubts in his heart, and the confirmed results surprised him.
The era I am in now also had a period of chaos at the beginning, cleared by a war that lasted more than a hundred years, and this land began to be ruled by the Great Cause Empire. Hundreds of years later, it was divided into the Southern Continent Zhou Empire, and the Bitter Cold Northern Wild Goose Kingdom.
From the middle of the Southern Zhou Dynasty to the middle of the Southern Zhou Dynasty, the civil system gradually became stronger than the military system, and the drawbacks gradually appeared, but the root cause of this drawback was mainly because the Southern Zhou monarch was slack in state affairs, and the Yan Kingdom in the north did not relax and strengthen itself for a day. And from the beginning to the end, he adhered to the strategy of strengthening the country by force.
On the river, if there is adversity, do not want to forge ahead, even if you can maintain the original foundation. Standing on the side of the overall situation, this boat is actually retreating on its own. In the tone of the small neighboring countries gradually becoming stronger, if the Southern Zhou only thinks about the current situation, there will be a crisis of being surpassed or even covered by other countries.
However, the Zhou Empire has been in operation for more than 300 years, even if there are no outstanding achievements in the middle and late periods. It's just standing still, and the foundation accumulated by such a big country is also thick enough, and it is by no means easy for foreign neighbors to pry open and annex in one go.
To the surprise of the people of the whole country, the final fall of the Zhou Empire was not destroyed at the hands of the enemy, and the mediocrity of the monarch was only to weaken the national strength, and what really dealt a fatal blow to the empire was the rebellion of the border army.
The territory of the Zhou Empire was divided into three major states and regions. And there are three major state armies. The Sichuan Legion in the west has the strongest combat power, because the terrain of Sichuan is complex, most of the bandits like to settle here, and the Sichuan Legion has always been in more than one battle, the hardest, and the loss is also large. Dongzhou Linhai. There were few battles, so the Dongzhou Army lacked actual combat training in a corner of the country, and its comprehensive ability ranked last in the Sanzhou Army.
As for the Zhongzhou Legion...... At that time, the imperial capital was located, and it had not yet moved to Huyang, Dongzhou, and set up the imperial capital in Zhongzhou for more than 300 years. Even now, the new emperor Jinghuyang, who had worked hard for ten years by the Southern Zhao monarch, still could not surpass it.
However, it was precisely because of the relocation of the capital in the last years of the previous dynasty that the stable Golden Triangle pattern was loosened and dispersed.
The imperial capital moved eastward. The Sichuan Legion, which is the most powerful in the Sanzhou Army, has begun to loosen its grips, not only that, but it was possible to connect with the Zhongzhou Legion through Guò, and the news went directly to the northern frontier army of the Imperial Capital, because the Imperial East moved east. The message needs to turn a corner, and the internal delivery system has more stagnation.
If the reigning monarch of the Zhou Empire had been more diligent, he might have seriously considered the huge loopholes in military management brought about by the relocation of the capital, but then again, if he had been diligent, he would not have moved the capital.
The existence of loopholes, coupled with the Wang clan of the northern frontier army, plus the Sichuan Legion, had long had a grudge against the immoral rule of the Zhou Empire, and the collapse was imminent.
When the Wang clan crossed the defense line of the Second Army of Zhongzhou with the elite descendants of the army that had been trained in northern Xinjiang and was about to enter the core cities and counties of Zhongzhou, Emperor Zhou Ling, who had just rolled out the guard of honor in the new emperor capital of Dongzhou, had just received the news.
Because of the escort to move the capital to the east, Emperor Zhou Ling took away half of the elite soldiers in the Zhongzhou Legion, if you judge this matter from the perspective of Emperor Ling, there is nothing wrong with it. Half of the Zhongzhou Legion originally belonged to the descendants of the imperial family defending the imperial family, and most of the military generals in various places were held by the royal family, and the ownership was as meticulous as a net.
As an ace division, no matter how greedy the emperor is, the comprehensive combat effectiveness of this legion is not weak. With the armaments and weapons that are far better than those of the Sichuan Legion, and close to the feet of the Son of Heaven, military discipline does not dare to slack off. But...... If it is time to fight hard, among the three major state armies of the Zhou Empire, the Zhongzhou Legion has always been pressed on top of the head by the Sichuan Legion, and it can only be in second place, which is also the reason.
Therefore, half of the soldiers of the Zhongzhou Army have to fight against the descendants of the Northern Frontier Army, although it is dangerous to win steadily, but the expected result is the same for the Northern Frontier Army on the reverse journey, but until ...... The news that the Sichuan Legion suddenly disappeared overnight came to Zhongzhou, and these did not have the opportunity to escort the capital to the east, but stayed in Zhongzhou.
The terrain of Sichuan Prefecture is strange and dangerous, and the state army stationed here has not leaked a single piece of information, and it will directly and automatically disintegrate, which is even more strange than the strangeness of Sichuan Ridge. The most important thing is that the land of Chuanling has become a rebellious border army like no one, and has become a natural fortress for garrisons, even if the bloody battle of Zhongzhou is lost, and the remnants of the soldiers enter Chuanling to hide, they can also save the spark of the border army to regenerate at the right time.
In the midst of this chaos, the automatic disintegration of the Sichuan Legion, from the perspective of the overall situation, is obviously a help to the rebellious border army.
But later, the rebellious border army narrowly won, and the Wang family finally won the hegemony, and the vanished Sichuan army never appeared again. If this disappeared legion really intended to help the Wang Clan's border army, why didn't this brave legion return to the military array when the chaos was settled? In other words, if the Wang family wants to do the work of unloading and killing donkeys, the more than 100,000 people of the Sichuan Prefecture Legion will not make any movement if they want to wield a knife to cut.
Could it be that this behemoth army, which once spread its name of courage for most of the Zhou Empire, really disappeared and evaporated?
With his own habits of seeing things, it was difficult for Shi Yi to believe this inference, but since even the Soul Piercing II had happened to him, and even the world he was in now had changed, Shi Yi felt that he needed to change some of the habits he had developed in his previous life, whether it was his lifestyle or thinking attitude.
The army is composed of the people's livelihood, a behemoth army will be disintegrated and disappear without a trace, I am afraid that there is only one way out of returning to the people, and they will hide without leaving any trace, I am afraid that the troops will be stationed for the people in the land of Sichuan that they have defended and fought for, where there is a familiar atmosphere, and the people there are also familiar with their existence.
In addition, the intentional maintenance of the imperial court is also an important link. If the imperial court really made up its mind to find this legion in the land of Sichuanzhou, it would take several years, and I was afraid that it would not be able to find any clues?
And this problem is now obvious, and it seems that the royal court has never done this.
This legion, which accounted for one-fifth of the total strength of the regular army of the previous dynasty, did not help the Wang family's rebellious border army with a clear banner, nor did it help the orthodox imperial court at that time when it needed help, was it really just because it was just the right time to return? No, even if the soldiers of this legion were tired of war for a long time, and once they broke out, they would not look so neat.
This kind of extremely strange change must have been achieved by human guidance. It's just that Shi Yi still can't imagine that there may have been a conspiracy more than ten years ago, how convincing the bargaining chips shown to each other by the leaders of the two parties would be to make this conspiracy come to fruition, and the result of the conspiracy has been tempered for more than ten years and has not deteriorated yet.
In addition to a part, it may be due to the fact that the people of this era still have a relatively traditional system of etiquette and religious law in terms of the code of conduct, which restricts the speed of the deterioration of the covenant, or it may also be because the original goal of the covenant is still in the progress stage and has not been fully achieved.
As the saying goes: it is easy to share hardship and hardship, but it is difficult to share wealth and prosperity. Of course, such a major event for the country will not be hastily formulated, so from a certain point of view, the will of the two sides to cooperate will also appear stronger before the major event is accomplished.
If this kind of speculation becomes a reality, Shi Yi really can't help but admire some of the people who launched this strategy.
If this matter collapses, the consequences will be unimaginable.
And in the era when there is no radio and the other party cannot be informed in advance, the person who can take the intentions of both parties so accurately and plan this matter...... It should be said that it is a team of strategists, which is really terrifying.
In ancient times, when there was no high technology as an auxiliary tool, the wise man could be more useful, and the wise man could be regarded as the most cherished resource for those who fought for power.
But when Shi Yi first came to this era, he often felt at a loss, because what he had learned in the more than ten years of education he had undergone in his previous life was very small in this era. This is an era when there is almost no zài industry, and there are many natural resources that he has seen in his previous life, but in this era, I wonder if there is no zài, or a different name, or maybe it has not been developed? In short, in his opinion, the available resources are sorely scarce.
As for the borrowing of historical knowledge, it is basically equivalent to saving zài. In this era, there is no pre-civilization of the Xia, Shang and Zhou, although before the current Zhaoli Dynasty, there is indeed a Zhou, but it is obviously completely unrelated to the Zhou Dynasty he knew in his previous life-