Chapter 372: The Eastern Fan Clan Who Helped a Lot
After Tengxi Mutu, the Zuoyi king of the Dangxiang clan, returned to the Shun Jue'an army on behalf of all the more than 200 tribes of the Dangxiang clan, He Ruobi and other five cavalry captains immediately sent three waves of people to send the news back to Chengyin City on a fast horse, so that the lord Liu Ji could know, and let Liu Ji make the next arrangements for the tribes of the Dangxiang clan. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
As for why the three waves of people were sent, it was because returning to Ju'an County and Yongjing County from the territory of the Dangxiang clan had to pass through a large grassland controlled by the Lou Fu clan, which was more dangerous.
Liu Ji learned the news that more than 200 tribes of the entire Dangxiang tribe were all surrendered, and did not feel much surprised, the grassland has always believed in the law of the law of the jungle, and now the five cavalry battalions of the grassland army took advantage of the flood to wipe out most of the combat strength of the various tribes of the Dangxiang tribe in a war, and if the more than 200 tribes of the Dangxiang tribe did not surrender, then the Jing'an army would also destroy them all.
In addition, even if the Jue'an army spares the more than 200 tribes of the Dangxiang tribe, other nomads on the grassland will definitely come out to pick up the bargain and annex these tribes of the Dangxiang tribe, in that case, the Dangxiang tribe will have to completely disappear from the grassland.
Liu Ji immediately discussed with Su Lie, the commander of the Grassland Legion, and decided to keep the more than 200 tribes of the Dangxiang clan as they were for the time being, and after the Lou Fu tribe was also subdued, he would thoroughly study how to deal with the problems of the more than 200 tribes of the Dang Xiang clan.
However, the Jin slaves and Hu slaves in these more than 200 Dangxiang tribes must all be handed over to the Grassland Legion for resettlement.
Liu Ji handed over the grassland legion to be fully responsible for the conquest of the Lou Fu clan, and Liu Ji was ready to rush to the Western Regions as soon as possible with the guard battalion.
If Gao Changguo can be defeated in the Western Regions this time, and the grassland army will take all the territory of the Lou Fu clan in the grassland, then it is foreseeable that although Liu Ji's strength has not swelled into a behemoth, the general forces should not easily provoke Liu Ji, so it will be difficult for Liu Ji to absorb a large amount of soul points in a short period of time, after all, if he doesn't fight a big battle, there will not be so many dead people for Liu Ji to absorb soul points at once.
Liu Ji now has more than 800,000 soul points in his hand, because he can only summon top generals for the time being, and because of the success rate of summoning top generals, Liu Ji has been saving up his soul points, ready to keep them for later use, and in less than a month, the time limit of one hundred and eighty days of the system will be over, and then Liu Ji can add a large number of first-class, second-rate and third-rate generals to enhance the overall strength of the Ju'an army.
In order to use the opportunity to summon first-class generals, second-rate generals and third-rate generals after the time limit of the system is over in the future, Liu Ji hopes to take advantage of the battle between the Jue'an Army and Gao Changguo to accumulate more soul points.
After the end of the battle at Qishankou, the twelve newly formed infantry battalions of Gaiyan, Zang Gong, Ma Wu, Liu Long, Li Cunqiao, Li Cunxin, Li Cunjin, Li Siben, Fu Cunxian, Li Cunxian, Shi Jingsi and Kang Junli, because a large number of soldiers were transferred to the other seven infantry battalions, so that now the total strength of these twelve newly formed infantry battalions is only more than 45,000 people.
With a wave of his hand, Liu Ji assigned all the 12 infantry battalions mentioned above, which were seriously lacking, to the Grassland Legion, so that he could use the young and strong Jin people rescued from the Dangxiang clan to supplement these 12 infantry battalions.
This time, the five cavalry battalions of He Ruobi, Wen Chou, Yan Liang, Zheng Wei, and Wang Ji got a large number of troops from the Dangxiang clan, and most of them were cavalry, and the other ten cavalry battalions of the Grassland Legion also had 160,000 people, Liu Ji and Su Lie discussed it and decided that the Grassland Legion would still maintain the establishment of fifteen cavalry battalions for the time being, so that the strength of each cavalry battalion might exceed 30,000 people.
In fact, in the military system of the Great Jin Dynasty, there are generally only more than 3,000 people in a battalion, and there will be no more than 4,000 people at most, and the general is the commander of a battalion, and the three battalions to five battalions form a brigade, and the guerrilla general or the general Zhenyuan serves as the commander of a brigade, and the three brigades to five brigades can also form a guard, and the general of the conquest and the general of the cavalry serve as the commander of the guard, and the 800,000 forbidden army in the capital of the Great Jin Dynasty is divided into 16 guards.
As for the highest-ranking hussar general in the Great Jin Dynasty, there are only three in the Great Jin Dynasty at present, namely the hussar general Xiao Su, the hussar general He Guangzong and the hussar general Li Hong, all three of whom are from the thirteen top families of the Great Jin Dynasty.
Liu Ji is only a guerrilla lieutenant in the Great Jin Army, according to the Great Jin military system, the army under his command can only have one brigade, so the largest establishment of the Ju'an Army has always been a battalion, even if each battalion of the Ju'an Army is seriously overstaffed, Liu Ji has no intention of upgrading the battalion to a brigade, although now Liu Ji has some disapproval of the Dajin Imperial Court in his heart, but Liu Ji is a courtier of the Great Jin Dynasty after all, and there are some superficial things that still need to be taken into account.
Like the Westward Expansion Legion and the Grassland Legion, they are only temporary formations, and there is no such establishment as a legion in the Great Jin Army.
Su Lie led the fifteen cavalry battalions and twelve infantry battalions of the grassland army with serious shortcomings, and after entering the grassland, Liu Ji led the guards battalion to the Western Regions.
Liu Ji with 19,000 soldiers of the guard battalion, in the Great Jin Dynasty 427 June 17, arrived at the capital of Gaochang Smosco Province of Ilgu City, the commander of the westward army Lian Po, personally at the gate of the city to welcome Liu Ji to the city lord's mansion, the guard battalion in the battle of Qishankou, has not been on the front line of the battlefield, but there is no loss.
"My lord, our westward legion has captured all thirty cities in the Rude Inner Province, Costa Province and Nakarek Province yesterday, and now we have taken six of the fifteen provinces within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governor's Mansion of Gaochang Kingdom!" Lian Po said to Liu Ji respectfully.
Liu Ji said with a smile: "It seems that the Dongfan clan who wants to return to the east has really helped us a lot, is there any news of the Dongfan clan?" ”
Lian Po nodded and said: "According to the news just sent by Heishuitai, the Dongfan tribe has broken through the encirclement of the million-strong army of Gaochang State after paying a heavy price. ”
In an oasis hundreds of miles south of Almaz Province in the Gaochang Kingdom, where the troops of the Dongfan tribe are resting, this oasis is not large, only about two or three square kilometers, and the whole oasis belongs to an independent city-state, this city-state is called Tunla City.
The population of the entire city of Dunla is less than 500 people, and there are many small city-states like Dunla City in the Western Regions, which are generally attached to the wings of various large countries, and the small oasis where these independent city-states are located is basically not interested, which gives the Western Regions the opportunity for many independent city-states to exist, and the city of Dunla is a subsidiary city-state of Gaochang State, and the Eastern Governor's Office only sent a tax officer here.
When the Dongfan team arrived at the oasis where the city of Dunla was located, the city of Dunla, which consisted of only about 20 soldiers, simply opened the gate of Tuweizi, and then the tax collector of the Eastern Governor's Mansion and his five family members were personally beheaded by Nangong Jing, the commander of the Dongfan Protector Army.
In fact, now Nangong Jing is not only the commander of the Protector Army, but also the new patriarch of the Dongfan clan, and Nangong Jing's father, the previous patriarch Nangong Honghai, has been killed in the process of breaking through.
Seeing that Nangong Jing cut off the heads of all six members of Gao Changguo's tax officer's family, including a child about ten years old, Zhao Yuyan opened her mouth and did not say the words of persuasion, she knew that the current Nangong Jing was eager to kill all the Gaochang people.
Although the Dongfan tribe snatched a large number of horses and camels from the Gaochang people, so that the old and young women and children in the tribe could ride horses or camels, thus ensuring the speed of the entire Dongfan team, the eastern governor of the Gaochang country, Haner Apudu, mobilized more than one million troops this time, and finally surrounded the Dongfan team in a small desert oasis between Huhesa Province and Lisakos Province within the jurisdiction of the Eastern Governorate.
The Dongfan tribe knew that they had been fighting with Gaochang State endlessly, so there was no luck at all, and after finding that they were surrounded by the army of Gaochang State, the Dongfan tribe immediately mobilized all the people who could take up arms, including the women of the Dongfan tribe, and then after two days of bloody battles, they finally opened a gap in the encirclement of the Gaochang army and broke out.
Before being surrounded by the army of Gaochang State, there were more than 600,000 people in the Dongfan tribe, including 220,000 people in the Protector Army, but after the successful breakthrough, there were less than 350,000 people left in the entire Dongfan tribe, and the old people in the tribe were basically lost.
When the Dongfan tribe broke out from the encirclement of the Gaochang army, the old people and the wounded in the clan all took the initiative to stay behind and cut off, and were finally beheaded by the embarrassed and angry Gaochang people.
Now there are less than 300,000 Dongfan people, only 110,000 men can fight, and the remaining nearly 240,000 are basically young women and children under the age of 14, but now nearly 100,000 Dongfan women are also all equipped with weapons.
The previous patriarch of the Dongfan clan, Nangong Honghai, was killed in the bloody battle of the breakthrough, and before Nangong Honghai was temporary, Nangong Jing was appointed as the new patriarch of the Dongfan clan.
After Nangong Jing cut off the heads of six Gaochang people, the anger in his heart calmed down a little, and he looked at Zhao Yuyan beside him, Nangong Jing took a deep breath and said, "Yuyan, I'm sorry, I lost my temper today." ”
Zhao Yuyan said with a wry smile: "I really don't know if it's right to contact your Dongfan clan to return to the Great Jin Dynasty together, this breakthrough is really too much of a loss." ”
Nangong Jing said in a calm tone: "When my father was dying, he told me that he was very relieved to die on the way back to his homeland, our Dongfan people have been oppressed and exploited by the Gaochang people for many years, if we continue to stay in Gaochang country, our strength will become weaker and weaker, and it is likely to disappear in the long river of years, so returning to our homeland is the only choice for our Dongfan people, even if there is no Yu Yan to contact you, our Dongfan people will eventually embark on the road of returning to the east." ”
After a pause, Nangong Jing asked, "Yu Yan, how far is this from the oasis where your Anxi Protectorate is located?" ”
Zhao Yuyan immediately said: "Nangong Patriarch, from here you only need to walk about two hundred miles of the desert to reach the oasis where our Anxi Protectorate is located, but I can't contact the people of our Anxi Protectorate, once the Dongfan Clan attacks a certain military fort, our Anxi Protectorate may not be able to send troops to form a two-sided attack with the Dongfan Clan." ”
Nangong Jing waved his hand and said: "Although our Dongfan clan has suffered heavy losses, the Protector Army still has 110,000 warriors, which is enough to capture a military fort of the Gaochang people and help the Anxi Protectorate open up the road to the outside world!" Yu Yan, which of the six Gaochang military forts do you think we should choose to attack? ”
Zhao Yuyan said almost without hesitation: "The six military forts besieging our Anxi Protectorate, namely Wuniu Fort, Golden Lion Fort, Red Eagle Fort, Julu Fort, Demon Snake Fort and Tianma Fort, the total garrison of Gaochang Kingdom should be about 100,000, the area of the Demon Snake Fort is the smallest, and the garrison should also be the least, I think we should take the Demon Snake Fort as the first target of attack." ”
Nangong Jing nodded and said, "That's good!" According to your opinion, after we arrived at the oasis where the Anxi Protectorate was located, we directly launched an attack on the Demon Snake Castle and fought for a battle! ”
At this time, Zhao Yuyan frowned and said: "The six military forts of the Gaochang people, in the face of the city wall on the side of our Anxi Protectorate, are built high and strong, and the six military forts are all built in the dangerous road of the Gorge Pass, so that our Anxi Protectorate has sent troops many times over the years, and has not conquered any of the military forts, but the city walls behind the six military forts are not too high, with the courage of the Dongfan Protector Army, it must not be a big problem to capture the Demon Snake Fort, I am just worried that the Gaochang army that is chasing us later, Can you give us time to take the Serpent Castle? ”
Nangong Jing said in a deep voice: "Yu Yan, you don't have to worry, I have pondered a strategy for the golden cicada to get out of its shell, and I am going to transfer a force from the Protector Army, take some unridden horses and camels, and go straight to the east to lead the Gaochang Army that is pursuing us away, and the main force of our Protector Army will take the women and children of the clan and rush to the oasis where the Anxi Protectorate is located." ”