Chapter 342: The Situation in Haixi
In the spring of 173 of the calendar, in the Kushan country, which had been silent for a winter, finally broke out in the northern provinces with an army of 100,000 troops, to eradicate his brother and the forces gathered under his banner, but he still underestimated his brother, and his brother had no intention of fighting him head-on, and all the important cities under his control were built and reinforced, and the food was prepared to defend them, and all the cavalry that could fight in his hands were sent out to harass and attack the grain route of Lengyan Kasserga. After three months of intermittent fighting, Lengyan Jia knew that his brother was planning to spend time with him, to see whose foundation was enough, although he occupied the royal capital, and the treasury fell into his hands, but the population of nearly 400,000 in the royal capital was not fake, and now his decree was only valid in the royal capital and the surrounding areas, and those local officials either watched or hooked up with his brother, and the longer the war was fought, the more unfavorable it was for him.
After returning to the royal capital, he really began to pass through the provinces closest to the royal capital as Li Ang and Murong Ke expected, but after he ate two provinces close to the royal capital and the area was not very large, Helian Bobo and Xue An, who had been dormant under his brother, stabbed him with 50,000 cavalry and burned several granaries near the royal capital, in this way, in the next whole year, He could not start a large-scale war, so he could only send troops to defend his existing territory. After returning to the royal capital, the furious Lengyan Jia, under the misdirection of Liu Yu and Chen Baxian, came to investigate the nobles and ministers in the city again, although he found many traitors who secretly communicated with his brother. But he never knew. It was Liu Yu and Chen Baxian who really leaked his defenses, so that Helian Bobo and Xue An were in a no-man's land, avoiding the important and light. Almost no damage was made to burn down his grain reserves. Under such calculations, the battle for the throne of Guishan has become evenly matched, and no one can help anyone.
Just when the Kushan were actually divided into two countries to confront each other, the Huns ignited the war again on the northern border of Daqin. Because the Great Qin broke through the Turks and gained a large territory when Li Ang was the general, but no people were willing to migrate, so it has always been in a state of no official governance, and although the Turks and tribes attached to the Great Qin are the mainstay, they are not much different from independence, and the Turks who were later annexed rebelled. Plotted against the garrison of 3,000 tigers and leopards, and attracted the Beiting Protectorate to raise a large army to conscript, but he didn't expect these Turks to play wolf pack tactics with the Great Qin Army on the vast grassland, and a group in the east. The West gang is not very numerous. In the end, the Beiting Protectorate decided to follow the example of Emperor Taizu to build a fortress fortress in the grassland, and in the Turkic homeland, build a fortress fortress group that spans thousands of miles, and gradually purge the Turkic rangers in it, but did not expect the Huns to intervene and join forces with the Turks, raise troops and Daqin to compete for power on the steppe, and at the same time start a war with Daqin on two fronts.
Relying on the fortress role of the Great Wall in the integration of attack and defense, the Great Qin Army and the Huns began a large-scale battle on the prairie, and finally the Great Qin stabilized the battle line in the Beihai line, relying on the fortress group built on the prairie in the era of Emperor Taizu as a place for supplies and grain, and the Huns stalemate, in the war of nearly two months, both sides suffered no less than 100,000 casualties. Cao Anmin originally wanted to use it to reinforce the new army in the middle of the river, and finally all of them were allocated to the northern frontier, and nearly 500,000 troops confronted the Huns on the vast grassland, and at the same time a large number of supplies and food were transported to the fortress group under the escort of heavy troops. The Huns, who drew technology from Rome, were not barbarians who were beaten by Emperor Taizu and fled westward in panic.
In this way, the entire Great Qin stretches from Central Asia to the border line of Siberia, if you count the people and auxiliaries, no less than 1.5 million people, it can be said that almost seventy percent of the military strength of Great Qin is on this border line, if it is not for the strong foundation of Great Qin, the tradition of martial arts since the founding of the country has not been lost, I am afraid it will be difficult to support such a large scale of army for a while, but in this way, it is difficult for Great Qin to expand the army on a large scale in a few years, and can only continue to increase troops to the front line one after another, in order to use national strength to drag down the Huns.
Although Li Ang can't come to these two battlefields in person, Cao Anmin has an order, and the battle reports of these two places must be sent to him for him to be a counselor, and Li Ang can also directly cross the military hall to carry out a military deployment of less than 30,000 people to the Anxi Metropolitan Protectorate, but it must be reported to the military hall afterwards, but this order is a secret decree and cannot be used easily.
Just after the Great Qin and the Huns fought
People are not willing to be lonely, and they casually found an excuse to start invading Greece, but he and Ran Min had already arrived in Greece last year, helping Contriano's father, almost using half force to threaten, half gold baht to bribe the Greeks to hold their citizens' assembly in the winter, passed the proposal of the joint navy, and issued a large-scale conscription order, after that, Chen Qingzhi went directly to Macedonia in northern Greece, while Ran Min went to Sparta to recruit soldiers, and formed a hoplite regiment with his Mo knife men as the backbone, To be honest, for the standing army of Greece, Ran Min doesn't look down on it at all.
Just when Greece began to mobilize, Daqin's Tomb Guard Corps in the Dragon City of Jerusalem also entered a state of war, they began to enter the Jewish coastal cities, fortified the city walls, and prepared to resist the attack of the Romans, and Daqin's Mediterranean fleet, the Inland Sea Fleet, also anchored from the harbor and went to the Aegean Sea to join the Greek navy, the Greeks' army was so bad that it was difficult to expect them to hold their coastal cities without a navy, As for the only elite Spartan hoplites in their country, they had to go to Macedonia to defend against the Roman invasion from the north. It can be said that the Mediterranean fleet of Great Qin this time abandoned the coastal defense of the Jewish state purely to hold Greece, the most important vassal state in the western part of the Sea, of course, in other words, they were convinced that the Guardian Legion could hold back the landing force of the Romans until the native fleet came to reinforce it.
The Romans have coveted the hegemony of Asia for a long time, but more than 30 years ago, the defeat to the Great Qin made them jealous, but as the Huns launched a war against the Great Qin and broke the myth of the invincibility of the Great Qin army, the dying Roman Emperor Olivier could no longer hold on, he hoped to regain the Roman Empire's past suzerainty over Asia before his death, so he dispatched all the Roman navy and half of the army to invade Asia Minor and Greece from land and sea.
For Greece, the Romans have complex feelings, Roman civilization originated from Greece, although they tampered with a lot, but this is always a fact, one hundred and fifty years ago, the Great Qin expedition to the west, and Rome is in a period of decline, at that time Greece in the support of the Great Qin, re-independent, it can be said that it has become the biggest thorn in the hearts of the Romans, on the one hand, they regard Greece as a traitor, on the other hand, they hope that Greece can take the initiative to return to Rome, after all, after the independence of Greece, the development of technology surpassed Rome, although not as good as the Great Qin, But if Greece can be brought back into its arms, then the Romans will narrow the distance between them and Great Qin in terms of weapons, and more importantly, Great Qin will lose this important vassal state in Hercynian and will not be able to contain them. However, it is a pity that since the Greeks became independent, they never thought of becoming a Roman province again, as the only vassal state of Great Qin in the western part of the Mediterranean, Greece can be regarded as the number one power in the entire Mediterranean region, except for the Jews who can compare with them, other ethnic groups and small countries have to contribute grain, gold and women to them according to the tributary system set by Great Qin, and they only need to be responsible for the food supply of the Great Qin's tomb protection army in Dragon City with the Jews, which is not the treatment that the Romans can give them.
What's more, in Greece, one of the most powerful city-states Sparta hated the Romans extremely much, during the Roman rule, countless Spartans were used as gladiators, became the playthings of the Roman aristocracy, this hatred in Greece regained independence, under the conscious guidance of Daqin, it became more intense, it can be said that even if Daqin's forces withdrew from Greece, the Romans did not kill the Spartans, they did not want to conquer Greece.
In such a situation, Rome wanted to conquer Greece, except by force, there was no other way, and this time the main target of the Roman army was Greece, but unfortunately the Romans did not expect that Li Ang sent Chen Qingzhi and Ran Min, a terrifying combination of generals.
As the commander of the strongest infantry, Ran Min got the Spartans in Greece, which is the most suitable source for heavy infantry training, and in just three months, he pulled up an elite army of 30,000 people, plus the 6,000 Mo swordsmen brought by him and Chen Qingzhi, that is, 36,000 hoplite assault infantry who can face the cavalry on the battlefield.
As a warlike people, the Spartans only fear the strong in their lives, and only if you defeat them face to face, they will really follow you, and Ran Min, as a military existence second only to Li Ang, is equivalent to the invincible god of war in Sparta, his bravery, his bold character, and the amazing amount of alcohol make the Spartans admire from the bottom of their hearts, and those Spartan elders also turned a blind eye to Ran Min's wanton recruitment of Spartans after accepting Contriano's bribes, They didn't have to offend the generals of Great Qin and Contriano, the heroes who were in the ascendancy in Greece, but they didn't know that in the end, Ran Min abducted all of Sparta.