Chapter 450: Hire Your Soldiers First, Then Your Country—5
In fact, the Baicheng Dynasty was not as terrible as imagined, and the four great empires that existed in the world at the same time at that time, this dynasty also fell into a very serious crisis, its territory has been divided by most of the princes, but only some remote and powerful princes, completely out of the control of the central government, but this does not mean that they can gather a sufficient number of troops to attack at any time. So it wasn't until Suning subdued all the city-states in the river basin that he finally relented and decided to gather a sufficient number of soldiers to resist the invading force from the north.
In its original history, it was the Kushan Empire that played this role, but that vast empire did not last long before it collapsed. Without catfish in India, the states soon fell into internal chaos, for example, Naga, who has now bordered Suning's power, is one of several important forces that have broken away from the central control of the Baicheng Dynasty, but this regime is more familiar, when Suning's power penetrated into North India, he has already announced his surrender, although he has not completely handed over control of his land, but has been willing to become a vassal of the Suning regime.
Of course, Suning would not be stupid enough to make a move with this vassal at this time, and he even took the initiative to win over the other party and promised that in the future war, part of the land of the Baicheng Dynasty would be allocated to Naga for management.
This made them very excited, and even took the initiative to ask Ying to send troops to assist the Liangzhou system in attacking central India. Of course, Suning will not refuse their kindness, which allows their hidden ambitions to expand rapidly, but this is also what Suning is willing to see, because as long as the war starts, they will pay more things, and the internal control will also be rapid and rapid, which will also be a good opportunity for Suning, of course, whether this opportunity should be seized depends on the specific situation at that time, fortunately, for the Indian conquest, it will be a long campaign, Suning has time to slowly analyze every message encountered.
When the right opportunity arises, he doesn't have to worry that he won't be able to take it.
On the contrary, it was the complex decaying empire on the other side that made him feel that the situation was too complicated to grasp. The Emperor of the New Zealand Empire gathered a sufficient number of troops and united as many princes as he could, promising a large number of fiefs and rewards.
Although most of the specific contents are empty checks, because their emperor actually regarded the land under Suning as a fief and offered rewards to the princes of all walks of life, and in the land controlled by the Yangzhou system, a large amount of wealth has begun to accumulate, at least after the extensive promotion and application of advanced production technology, it has produced a large number of agricultural and sideline products by virtue of the local superior geography and climate, and the light industry has also developed rapidly here, and the accumulation speed of wealth is enough to make the surrounding countries feel envious. So this has become an important condition for the emperor to entangle Humen, but unfortunately, the information he has is also very limited, and he can't describe Suning's two systems perfectly, so he can only use artistic means to beautify them, but in this way, the princes who are close to the Liangzhou system feel the emperor's strong malice.
This is precisely because the alliance of princes was an internally divided force from the beginning.
Dealing with such a fragmented force, the soldiers who rushed from the distant Great Qin Empire did not think that they were incompetent, and according to the latest information from the front, the emperor of Wei Zhi seemed to have made a fatal mistake.
"Straight to the north, crazy? It's ......"
"I think it's the same, now we are in the northeast, and there is another brother army in the northwest, they even have a large number of navies, which can completely attack the coastal areas of the Baicheng Dynasty, although they have been divided by the local princes, but it does not mean that they cannot enter the hinterland of the dynasty through the control of the princes, I really can't imagine what their emperor has in mind to make such a serious mistake? Isn't their fragile state worried about our back-and-forth raids? ”
On a clear map of South Asia, the army commanders from the Western Qing Empire have discussed no less than ten kinds of combat strategies, of course, this is just their usual exercise, if they want to translate it into a practical action plan, they also need to get Suning's approval, this is the misfortune of a mercenary army, after all, only those who hire them will really consider the interests of the entire Liangzhou system, how to conduct the next war, I am afraid that only Suning's heart will retain the complete tactical intent.
Sure enough, the news from Suning quickly proved that most of their plans were not feasible, because Suning had prepared another strategic plan according to the situation within the Liangzhou system.
What's new inside the Liangzhou system? One of them is that the number of troops they stationed in the Transoxiana Plain and the mountains of Afghanistan is too small to deal with a large-scale enemy team, and Lanzhou 91 will station its main force at the scene of the battle with the Persian Empire, although with the help of barbed wire and cement fortresses has greatly reduced the number of defensive forces, but for the large-scale conquest in the Ganges Valley and the northwest Indian region, the number of soldiers saved has also been greatly consumed in the boundless battle, At least in the course of the conquest of the Ganges River Valley, which the Indians regarded as a holy river, they had dispersed most of their forces for storage, and those fertile lands could not be wasted in vain, so the work of military cantonment was also carried out rapidly, which wasted a lot of troops, especially some soldiers who had just joined the army and were supposed to be intensively trained, were sent to the local cantonment units for intensive labor, and now most of them were recruited from the local soldiers. However, Suning is still not ready to put these soldiers whose loyalty still needs to be improved into his battle sequence.
Therefore, the forces that the Soviet Union was able to mobilize were actually very limited. For this reason, in the course of this battle, the number of soldiers who are the main combatants will never be too large.
Only these military commanders from the Western Great Qin Empire, the plans they imagined before are estimated not to appear on the battlefield, because the number of troops that Suning can put into it is far lower than they imagined, but their group of mercenaries from distant regions will still honestly endure a war in the South Asian subcontinent. Because this is an important reason why Suning recruited them from the distant Great Qin Empire, otherwise he would not have spent a lot of money to hand over to the emperor who had just come to power, and then exchange it for the command of this mercenary army that can fight in battle.
Since gold, silver, and copper coins can't be spent in vain, then this group of soldiers from the Western Great Qin Empire must shed their last drop of blood on this distant battlefield.
However, his sinister intentions were not too straightforward, so as not to anger these future allies in front of him, although according to the historical records of his Su someone, the so-called sleepwalking, that night and one day will also tear his face, of course, the Han Empire, after all, is separated from the Great Qin Empire, and the trade between them has become an important source of money for each other at this time. Therefore, they will not have too serious diplomatic problems in the short term, so as long as they do not show excessive greed in the matter of workers, peasants and soldiers, then Suning will receive the absolute allegiance of this armed force.
In fact, the soldiers of the Great Qin Empire didn't think too much, they were willing to appear as mercenaries on this distant battlefield, and they were ready to deal with various situations, including even the betrayal of their employers, and treating them as something to add fuel and vinegar to the battlefield directly for consumption, for which they already had their own plans, some people thought that once they encountered this situation, they should flee as soon as possible, and some people thought that they should fight back against this despicable and shameless employer, But Suning's first measure after they just came here could only be to let them see the armed combat power of the Liangzhou system, which is not only a show of generosity and benevolence, because this army from afar needs to rest after all, but also a complete armed intimidation, because the engineering strength displayed by the Liangzhou system is definitely something that their group of soldiers from the Western Great Qin Empire dare not easily ignore.
However, for now, the soldiers from the Western Great Qin Empire still maintain their original peace of mind, and even Suning will think that he is not only a little redundant at the beginning.
For this reason, she decided to bring another piece of good news to the soldiers who had come from afar, and that was that they didn't have to. Fighting on the southern front in a harsh environment, he would return along the Ganges River valley to the area south of the Xindu Kush Mountains, which was mainly controlled by the Yangzhou system, where as the core area, many of the armies deployed were the aces of the Liangzhou system, and he left the attack of the Indian soldiers from the south every day with the most elite soldiers in the world.
This news is undoubtedly very sincere for the soldiers of the Great Qin Empire, since entering the Ganges River Valley, they have expressed serious discomfort to the hot weather in these places, fortunately, the local Han Dynasty people have made some changes to the local agricultural production environment with hard work, which allows the soldiers from the Western Great Qin Empire to eat watermelons here as a cool day, but this is also one of the few treasures that can make them resist the hot weather.
Although after spending more than a month here, they were confident that they would be able to win the battle against the local princely states, and this was an indispensable part of most of the plans they had formulated, when Suning brought them the news of Ke's return to the north, all the soldiers fell into a state of near madness, they hated to make this emperor of the Korean Empire their own emperor, to be loyal to the lotus root, knowing that the brutal North Africans would not care so much about the lives of his men.
Suning is happy to see them in this state, but unfortunately, in that distant country, there is a belief based on cognition, not superstitious religion, such a country is very difficult to defeat, and it is destined to leave an indelible mark on the history of human civilization, and it will be the biggest test in his life to start a war against such a civilized empire.
The more he was proud of the loyalty of these soldiers today, the more he would be troubled by the loyalty of these soldiers tomorrow, after all, they were two groups of men who were going to go on opposite sides after all, and although they were now sitting together with a smile and a leg of mutton sold to them by the local herdsmen in their mouths, they knew to each other that when those sharp swords slashed at the enemy, it meant that they would be closer to each other's edges.
After a few days of rest, their scouts finally brought them news of the enemy's approach. The emperor of the Baicheng Dynasty actually gathered a team of nearly 200,000 people, including people of all colors, obviously could not be from the same princely state.
But they all have the same purpose, or because of the same reason to come here, that is, the rich land behind their Zou Yun, no matter how barren and cold that land is in the records of their ancestors, it has now produced enough wealth for them to envy, although they don't know how this wealth came about, but for them, as long as they can control it, they don't believe that they can't find craftsmen who are good at those crafts, for some of the more ancient civilizations, The level of wages is generally suppressed more strictly, and in ancient India is no exception, only the Great Qin Empire in the West has performed slightly better, and other places have evolved social systems that oppress artisans, especially the fragile empire in the ancient East, which is so fragile that whenever the barbarians in the north rise, they will be as tired as the Great Qin Empire in the West.
But this time, they played the role of constantly expressing their danger to the heart of the other side like their former adversary, so that the relatively inexperienced emperor could not bear such a security threat, and had to gather a sufficient number of troops to fight them desperately.
However, in the history of ancient and modern China and foreign countries, it seems that only the famous Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty could do it, and it was also a national struggle based on self-defense, and for this degenerate empire composed of different ethnic groups that was about to decline, such a war was undoubtedly quite dangerous.
It's a pity that they don't believe this, so they launched a charge against the enemy's position, and Suning has already made sufficient preparations, and he is ready to use his actual actions to tell the other party that history, the summarized laws do not allow them to easily step on it.
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