Chapter 575: The Battle for the Overlord of the Western Regions
Originally, this time, the Broken Capture Army took advantage of the opportunity of the Great Wan Kingdom to attack the Gaochang Kingdom, and annexed the five provinces and five vassal states of the Gaochang Kingdom at once, and also got about nine million people, which is already a very good result, but Liu Ji was still a little dissatisfied with this, after all, the harvest of the Great Wan Kingdom far exceeded the Broken Army.
This made Liu Ji, who has always only taken advantage of and never suffered losses, felt a little uncomfortable.
However, Liu Ji did not intend to let the situation expand further, Dawan was not ready to start a war with the Broken Army, and the Broken Army was also not ready for war with Dawan, so both sides were very restrained, and there was no conflict because of the seizure of Gaochang State's territory.
However, an incident that happened on March 10 suddenly made the army of the Broken Captives and the army of the Great Wan Kingdom tense, and the smell of gunpowder on both sides immediately became stronger.
On the afternoon of 10 March, in Namangan Province, the former northern governor of Gaochang State, which was occupied by the Broken Army, a cavalry unit of the Dawan Kingdom suddenly appeared, and this cavalry force of the Dawan State attacked a small village on the western border of Namangan Province.
Of the more than 50 members of an infantry squad of the Western Regions Army stationed in this small village, only three ordinary soldiers managed to escape to a forest and survived, and the remaining soldiers of the Broken Army were all killed, and more than 300 villagers in this small village were almost slaughtered, and all the young women were insulted to death.
In a study room in the former Gaochang King's Palace in Gaochang City, Liu Ji asked Lian Po, the commander of the Western Regions Army, with a gloomy face: "Are you sure that the army of the Great Wan Kingdom did it?" ”
Lian Po said in a deep voice: "Lord, the cavalry that attacked that small village is the standard dress of the Dawan cavalry, but we don't know if it is the real Dawan cavalry." ”
Liu Ji sneered and said: "According to the three surviving soldiers, this Dawan cavalry has at least five hundred horses, and at this time, the cavalry troops that can appear in Namangan Province and have more than five hundred people, in addition to our Broken Army, only the army of Dawan can send out, and immediately issue an ultimatum to Dawan State, so that Dawan Kingdom will hand over the murderers who killed our Jin soldiers and civilians within five days, otherwise our Broken Army will do it itself and avenge the dead soldiers and people!" ”
After a pause, Liu Ji continued: "In addition, according to the order of the Governor of the Western Regions, all the troops of the Broken Army in the Protectorate of the Western Regions will immediately enter a state of combat readiness, if the Great Wan Kingdom refuses to hand over the murderer, then our Broken Army will wrestle with the Great Wan Kingdom to see who is the real overlord of the Western Regions!" ”
At this time, in addition to Lian Po in the study, there were also Zhang Liang and Xue Rengui, the commander of the Western Frontier Army, this time Liu Ji took the four elite cavalry troops of the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuanjia Soldiers, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the White Horse Congyi to the Western Regions Protectorate, and only brought Zhang Liang, a top civil servant, to give advice for himself, and also brought a few generals with peerless military strength, as well as more than a hundred puppet bodyguards.
Zhang Liang pondered for a moment and said, "Lord, there is no reason for the Great Wan Kingdom to provoke our Broken Army at this time, will there be any conspiracy in it?" ”
Liu Ji waved his hand and said: "No matter if there is any conspiracy in this Grand Governor, now that the soldiers of the Broken Army and the people under the rule of the Western Regions Protectorate have been slaughtered, someone must be responsible, if Dawan Guo says that it is not their country's cavalry troops, then Dawan Guo will find out the real culprit to this Dadu Governor to prove the innocence of Dawan Kingdom!" ”
Zhang Liang, Lian Po and Xue Rengui looked at each other at this time, and they heard that Liu Ji was using the topic to play!
Xue Rengui hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord, if our Broken Capture Army fights with the Great Wan Kingdom at this time, is there some lack of preparation?" ”
Liu Ji said indifferently: "We are not well prepared, Dawan is also not well prepared, now the four elite cavalry of our Broken Army are here in Gaochang City, once it really starts, in fact, our Broken Army still has a lot of advantages, at least these four elite cavalry can be put into the battlefield quickly." ”
As Liu Ji's power grows bigger and bigger, Liu Ji's ambitions also rise, and the entire Gaochang Kingdom has long been regarded by Liu Ji as his own meal.
Now Liu Ji's dissatisfaction with Dawanguo in his heart was completely detonated by the sudden attack.
In the palace of Dawan City, the capital of Dawan Kingdom, Yeman, the king of Dawan Kingdom, slapped the book case in front of him fiercely, and then shouted angrily: "The army of the Breaker is too deceitful!" Dare to threaten our Dawan Kingdom, not to mention that the cavalry is not our Dawan Kingdom, even if it is done by the cavalry troops of our Dawan Kingdom, what can it do? ”
Sha Feige, the prime minister of the Dawan Kingdom, said with a solemn face: "Your Majesty, according to the investigation of the various cavalry regiments of our Dawan Kingdom around Namangan Province, it has basically been ruled out that this matter was done by our Dawan State cavalry troops. ”
King Yeman snorted coldly: "Does that Liu Ji think that our Dawan Kingdom is really afraid of the Broken Army when we sit back and watch the Broken Army annex the five provinces and five vassal states of the Gaochang Kingdom?" Since the Broken Army is going to fight, then our Dawan Kingdom must accompany us to the end this time, just to completely drive the power of the Jin people out of the Western Regions! ”
Prime Minister Shafige pondered a little and said: "Your Majesty, if the Broken Army really intends to provoke trouble, then this war with the Broken Army, our Dawan Kingdom will not be able to dodge, it is best to carry out wartime mobilization throughout the country now, and in addition, we need to send some additional troops to the various provinces and vassal states of the former Gaochang State." ”
King Yeman frowned, "The army of our Dawan Kingdom, in the territory of the eleven provinces and seventeen vassal states of the former Gaochang Kingdom, currently has a total of twelve cavalry regiments and twenty-two infantry regiments, with a total strength of more than three million and four million, accounting for almost half of the strength of our Dawan army, plus the one hundred and seventy thousand Gaochang troops that have been recruited, that is, the army of five million and one million, is it not enough to deal with the Broken Army?" ”
After the end of the last war between the four major powers in the Western Regions and the broken army, Dawan deeply felt the lack of its cavalry strength, so the establishment of each cavalry regiment was expanded from 50,000 to 100,000, and the establishment of the infantry regiment of Dawan has always maintained 100,000.
Prime Minister Sha Feige couldn't help but smile awkwardly when he heard that King Yeman had calculated the number of Dawan troops in the territory of the former Gaochang Kingdom and said: "It's really that the name of the Broken Army is too loud, and the ministers are a little out of shape, our Dawan Army does have enough troops in the territory of the eleven provinces and seventeen vassal states of the original Gaochang Kingdom to deal with any enemy provocation!" ”
King Yeman suddenly remembered something, so he asked Prime Minister Shafige: "Our Dawan Kingdom gave Mandala a huge amount of gold to let Mandala assassinate Liu Ji, the commander of the Broken Army, but why is Liu Ji still alive until now?" ”
Prime Minister Shafige immediately said: "Your Majesty, Mandala can be said to have done its best to assassinate Liu Ji, but they all failed, and Mandala suffered heavy losses. ”
"The gold of our Dawan Kingdom is not blown by the wind, since the mandala can't kill Liu Ji, then what does the mandala have to explain to our Dawan country?"
"Your Majesty, Mandala has not given up the business of assassinating Liu Ji, and the people of Mandala have promised their ministers that if they don't kill Liu Ji within three months, Mandala will compensate us for double the amount of gold in Dawan Kingdom."
"If the mandala can really kill Liu Ji and cause the Broken Army to be leaderless, it will be very beneficial to our Dawan Kingdom!"
In the face of the accusations of the Broken Army, the Dawan Kingdom did not admit it, and the attitude of the Great Wan Kingdom was very tough, and he was not afraid of the threat issued by the Broken Army.
Seeing that the attitude of the Great Wan Kingdom was so tough, Liu Ji was not accustomed to the Great Wan Kingdom, and directly sent the four elite cavalry units of the Tiger Ben Army, the Xuanjia Army, the Tiger and Leopard Cavalry and the White Horse Congyi, as well as a large number of troops from the Western Regions Army and the Western Frontier Army, to launch a comprehensive attack on the Dawan Army entrenched in many provinces and vassal countries of the former Gaochang State, and a war for the hegemony of the Western Regions began.
In a council hall of the Holy Fire Sect Holy See in Dawan City, Holy Fire Sect Pope Fico said excitedly to Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese of the Holy Fire Sect and Bishop Berbayi of the Northeast Diocese: "The war between the Great Wan Kingdom and the Broken Army has officially broken out, and this Pope has been waiting for this day for too long!" ”
Now that the Eastern Diocese and the Northeast Diocese of the Holy Fire Cult have existed in name only, and the two holy places of the Holy Fire Cult have become the territory of the Broken Army, the homeless Bishop of the Eastern Diocese of the Diocese of the East, Os, and the Bishop of the Northeast Diocese, Bishop Berhayi, as well as other Holy Fire personnel in these two dioceses, have to temporarily return to the Holy See of the Holy Fire Cult.
Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese sighed and said: "Now that the strength of the Broken Army is getting stronger and stronger, I think that even if the Great Wan Kingdom does its best this time, it will be unpredictable between the two, and it is not easy to drive the power of the Broken Army out of the Western Regions." ”
Bishop of the Northeast Diocese Berhayi immediately said: "I think that the power of the Broken Army in the Western Regions this time is likely to be uprooted by the Dawan Kingdom, you must know that the last time the four major powers of the Western Regions and the Broken Army fought the Great Wan Kingdom, the Great Wan Kingdom did not do its best, this time it is different, the Great Wan Kingdom and the Broken Army have a huge conflict of interests between each other because of the joint division of the Gaochang Kingdom, and the Great Wan Kingdom has to work hard!" ”
Pope Fico suddenly asked Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese: "Is there any news from the Mandala?" Mandala received so much gold from our Holy Fire Sect, why did he still let Liu Ji, the commander of the Broken Army, live? ”
Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese said: "His Majesty the Pope, Mandala said that in order to assassinate Liu Ji, two groups of elite killers have been dispatched, but these two groups of Mandala killers have failed. ”
Pope Fico snorted coldly: "What does that mandala mean?" Do you want to covet the large sum of gold of our Holy Fire Cult? ”
Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese shook his head and said: "Mandala does not dare to be greedy for the gold of our Holy Fire Sect at all, Mandala has promised that if Liu Ji is not killed within three months, Mandala will compensate our Holy Fire Sect twice the gold." ”
Pope Fico is very obsessed with killing Liu Ji, after all, his only descendant, the former head of the Holy Fire Sect's Holy Land Guard, Gayasi, died at the hands of the Broken Army, and most of Pope Fico's revenge for killing his son was counted on Liu Ji's head.
Pope Fico then said: "As long as the mandala is not trying to pay the bill!" In this war between the Great Wan Kingdom and the Broken Army, our Holy Fire Sect must fully support the Great Wan Kingdom, and if we don't drive the Broken Army out of the Western Regions, our Holy Fire Sect will not be at peace for a day! ”
Bishop Oss of the Eastern Diocese and Bishop Berhai of the Northeast Diocese have no opinion on the Holy Fire Cult's full support for the Dawan Kingdom, if the Dawan Kingdom can really drive the Breakers out of the Western Regions, the two bishops can return to the holy land occupied by the Breakers with the personnel of their respective dioceses.
In a small oasis about 300 miles west of Namangan Province, hundreds of cavalry of the Dawan Kingdom were resting here, and these hundreds of cavalry were the real culprits who attacked the small village on the western border of Namangan Province.
"Viscount Kahnde, our plan has succeeded, the people sent to inquire about the news have returned, and the Broken Army has taken the initiative to attack the provinces and vassal states of our Gaochang Kingdom occupied by the Dawan Kingdom, and these two murderers who let us perish the Gaochang Kingdom have finally begun to kill each other." A general in armor sighed to Kahnde, the captain of the cavalry guards under the command of Yunus, the former prime minister of Gaochang Kingdom.
It turned out that these hundreds of Dawan cavalry were just impostors, and their real identities were the cavalry guards of Yunus, a famous general of Gaochang Kingdom.
"Beguchi, since the Broken Army has started a war with the Dawan Kingdom, and we have completed the deathbed trust of General Yunus, where do you say that our hundreds of people should go next?" Captain Kahnde asked in a deep voice to his deputy, Beguchi.
"Viscount Kahnde, now that the Gaochang Kingdom has perished, and General Yunus has also committed suicide, there may be only one team left in the entire Gaochang Kingdom, so it is better to ...... Let's go our separate ways! ”
Kahnde then lowered his voice and said, "I'm afraid that someone will leak our secrets when we disperse. ”
Beguchi's face changed, "You don't want to ...... Viscount Kahnde, many of these horsemen have followed the two of us for years! ”
"I believe in myself but in you." Kahnde said in a deep voice.
In the end, Kahnder and Beguch poisoned hundreds of their men to death at dinner, and then the two of them spent several days burying hundreds of corpses and hundreds of slain horses, and then the two disappeared into the vast desert.