Chapter 387: The Great Yue Empire, An State, and Chu State (I)
With the large-scale recruitment of troops in the Great Liang Empire, the surrounding countries of the Great Liang Empire have become vigilant, and the Shengwu Dynasty, the Great Luo Empire, the Great Ji Empire, and even the Tang Empire, which has been fighting internally, have increased their troops in the border areas to prevent the Great Liang Empire. The army struck suddenly.
When the countries learned a little about the internal affairs of the Great Liang Empire, they were relieved, it turned out that there was a problem within the Great Liang Empire, and the large-scale recruitment of troops in the Great Liang Empire was to exterminate the Bright Sect entrenched in the northeastern Bincai Prefecture of the Great Liang Empire, and the high-level of the Shengwu Dynasty and the Tang Empire were relieved, if it was not necessary, the two countries were not willing to go to war with the warlike country of the Great Liang Empire.
However, the high-level of the Daluo Empire and the high-level of the Daji Empire were vigilant, because the two countries happened to be adjacent to Binzhou and Caizhou of the Great Liang Empire, and the two countries also learned about the Illumination Sect.
At the beginning, the Illuminati Sect had disappeared in the Guannei, and it was thought that the Illuminati had been destroyed by the Dali Empire, but now the Illuminati Sect has appeared in the Great Liang Empire, and almost controls the two states of the Great Liang Empire, which has to make the Daluo Empire and the Daji Empire vigilant, and at the same time mobilize more troops to the border.
In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed, and the tenth year of the Qin calendar has arrived.
The cold winter is coming to an end, and spring is a good time to start a war.
Many people thought that the Great Liang Empire's heavy encirclement and suppression of the Bright Sect was the first large-scale war of the year, but they did not expect that another large-scale war would start first, and everyone's attention was on the three countries of the Dayue Empire, Anguo, and Chu in the northwest of the land of Shenzhou.
The Dayue Empire, an empire with extraordinary strength, this "empire" is not the three nominal "empires" of Ji Luo and Zhao, but a genuine empire.
The Great Yue Empire was bordered by the sea to the north, An and Chu to the west, the Great Qin Empire and the Tang Empire to the south, the Northern Hundred Kingdoms to the east, and the Shengwu Dynasty to the southeast.
The Great Viet Empire covers an area of more than 3 million square kilometers, has a total population of more than 32 million, and has a standing army of about 1.2 million.
There are many grasslands and horse farms in the territory of the Great Yue Empire, so the cavalry troops in the army of the Great Yue Empire account for a large proportion, and among the 1.2 million standing army, the cavalry troops are as many as 400,000, so the country with the most cavalry in the entire land of Shenzhou, if necessary, the Great Yue Empire can expand the size of the cavalry force to more than one million, but I don't know how much strength it can have.
The belligerence of the Dayue Empire is not much worse than that of the Dayue Empire, since the founding of the Dayue Empire, after many years of crusade and westward discussion, there is now the vast territory of the Dayue Empire, basically the countries around the Dayue Empire have suffered from the invasion of the Dayue Empire, as long as the Dayue Empire finds an opportunity, it will gather a large army to go out, for example, at the end of the Dali Empire, the Dali Empire was in chaos, the Dayue Empire gathered an army to attack the Guannei, but unfortunately failed, the Dayue Empire suffered a lot of losses.
After years of conquest, the high-level leaders of the Great Yue Empire also understood one thing, the Great Li Empire, the Tang Empire, the Shengwu Dynasty, and the Northern Hundred Nations were all strong enough, and if these countries did not change their own strength, it would be difficult for the Great Yue Empire to get benefits from these countries.
For example, the current Tang Empire, the emperors and families within the Tang Empire have been fighting endlessly, but the military strength of the Tang Empire has not lost much (except for the troops lost in the previous attack on Guannai), once the Dayue Empire invades the Tang Empire, the internal struggle within the Tang Empire will be temporarily stopped, and the Dayue Empire will be repelled first.
In this case, the targets of the Great Yue Empire's conquest would most of the time be the two neighboring states of An and Chu to the west of the Great Yue Empire.
In the heyday of the Shengwu Dynasty, Anguo and Chu were the fiefdoms of the Shengwu Dynasty and the Duke of Chu respectively, and the surnames of the monarchs of Anguo and Chu are still Wu, even if the Shengwu Dynasty has declined, there is still a deep connection between Anguo and Chu and the Shengwu Dynasty.
Of course, if the Shengwu Dynasty wants to make An and Chu resubmit to the Shengwu Dynasty, it is to think too much, unless the Shengwu Dynasty rises again.
Anguo is located in the northwestern corner of the land of Shenzhou, with the Chu State in the south, the Dayue Empire in the east, and the sea on both sides.
With a total land area of about 850,000 square kilometers and a total population of more than 10 million, the standing army is generally around 400,000 and the militia is more than 700,000.
The state of Chu is located in the northwest of the land of Shenzhou, the north is Anguo, the south is separated from the Great Qin Empire by the Kucang Mountains, the east is the Great Yue Empire, and the west is the sea.
The total land area of Chu is about 800,000 square kilometers, with a total population of 9 million, a standing army of 350,000, and a militia of 600,000.
Whether it is Anguo or Chu State, if you take out one at will, it is the weakest country in the land of Shenzhou (not counting the 100 northern countries) Even if An and Chu are combined, the total area is nearly 1.65 million square kilometers, and the total population is less than 20 million, compared with the Great Yue Empire, the gap is very large.
Whether it is land area or population, the two are very different, Anguo and Chu became the main goal of the Dayue Empire, a few decades after the establishment of the Dayue Empire, the Dayue Empire set the strategic goal of turning the conquest of An and Chu into the four states of the Dayue Empire.
If the Dayue Empire can conquer An and Chu, the Dayue Empire can become the most powerful country in the land of Shenzhou.
The ambition of the Dayue Empire made the Dayue Empire actively wage war against Anguo and Chu, and when the Dayue Empire launched a war against Anguo for the first time, after the Dayue Empire got the news, it sent troops to support Anguo as soon as possible, and under the concerted efforts of Anguo and Chu, alas, although it did not completely defeat the invading Dayue Empire. army, but eventually also forced the Dai Viet Empire. The army withdrew from Angola.
Since the First War, the two Vo clans have formally signed an alliance agreement under which if the Great Viet Empire attacks either of the two countries, the other must come to the aid of the other.
In the next hundred years, every ten to fifteen years, the Dayue Empire will launch a large-scale war against Anguo or Chu, and sometimes the Anchu Alliance wins the victory and defeats the Dayue Empire, but most of the time it is the Anchu Alliance after several years of stubborn resistance that the Dayue Empire. The army drove away, for which both Anguo and Chu paid a heavy price. [.]