Chapter 773: The Destruction of the Withering Imperial Army
Boqi ...... It's really a good name for his grandmother, Ben Gongzi almost smiled crookedly, and it was easy to twist his smile and continue to listen to what those staff officers said.
These two should belong to the cousins of Jieli Khan, but they are the first major forces to jump out to support Jieli as Khan, and it is precisely because of their charcoal in the snow, coupled with the bravery of the ******civil strife and the confrontation with the Western Turks that they later put down the civil strife for Jieli, so they obtained this fertile pasture.
In addition to their own tribes, there are a number of subordinate tribes. In addition, there are nearly 750,000 Han Chinese in the Hetao area, of which nearly one-third are slaves, and the status of the remaining Han people is not much higher than that of slaves.
At least more than half of the grain they grow will become the pockets of the Turkic administrators, and in addition, the Turks have never regarded the Han people in the Hetao region as the same race, and all the dirty work is left to them.
In the past, the total number of Han Chinese in the northern part of Yan'an was at least nearly two million, but after years of war, as well as the invasion of Turkic and other nomadic peoples, a large number of people fled to Guanzhong with their families. And the people trapped in the Hetao area can only survive with difficulty.
The number of 750,000 far exceeds that of the Turks, but the problem is that among these 750,000 people, the few wealthy people or high-ranking officials and nobles are in cahoots with those Turkic wolves, such as those who are now assassins and other officials, all of whom are appointed by the Turks to control the Han people.
Well, the more I think about it, the angrier I get, but thankfully, we're finally getting started. The benefits of taking the Hetao are not only limited to winning a piece of fertile land, but more importantly, it has become a bridgehead for future invasion of the grassland, and a bigger reason is that it can include all the land in the Hetao and become the control of the Hetao area, and at the same time, it is also conducive to the future of our Chinese Empire from the northwest of Liu Wuzhou, the capital of Liangshi, with the main force from the Central Plains, to encircle and annihilate these two independent forces.
“…… Now, General Wei and the troops of the two armies have left Longxi for two days, and it is expected that they are now approaching or should land in this area. The staff officer was still there, spitting and explaining to the civil and military ministers who came to watch.
At this moment, there is also a group of staff members who are making nervous calculations, and the sound of the abacus is crackling non-stop. This is the temple calculation, in fact, it is the product of the combination of the use of the oriental temple calculation and the wargame of the invention and creation of zào.
In the case of detailed information, the accuracy rate of the temple calculation can be close to 70%. Of course, there is still 30% uncertainty, which is mainly the on-the-spot performance of the commanders, such as the last time Yaoguang girl led the cavalry into the swamp, such an uncertainty, not to mention ancient times, even if it is calculated by the galactic computer in the 21st century, it cannot be 100%.
Although no information has been received yet, according to the results of the deduction, today, after Wei Yunqi and his army boarded the boat in Lingwu County, they should have landed less than 20 miles away from the city of Dengkou, which is the southernmost city in the Hetao region and is controlled by the Turks, and there are about 30,000 Han people living inside and outside the city, and the Turks themselves will not exceed 10,000.
That is, the defenders here will not exceed three thousand. However, this represents the first battle of the Chinese Empire's march towards the Hetao region, and everyone is waiting for the good news.
Under the calculations of the General Staff, only one division of troops was needed to occupy the city within an hour, and as for the 3,000 Turkic defenders, it would not cause too many casualties to the elite of the long-trained Chinese Revival Army.
In the afternoon of the same day, good news came. In the early hours of this morning, the Chinese Revival Army rushed to the north of Dengkou City and disembarked, and after that, it outflanked the Turkic tribes and cities stationed there.
In front of the outrageously powerful soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Revival Army, the Turks only made a tentative breakthrough, and after throwing down more than 500 corpses, the Turks adhered to their usual nature of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and expressed their submission very happily.
After that, they continued to march north along the river, and on the night of the second day, the vanguard army had already arrived at the crossing of the Yellow River next to the city of Jiuyuan, Wuyuan County. Under the guidance of Nei Ying, who had already received the news, it took less than an hour for the forward troops to form a position on the beachhead, and then another division of troops landed in the east of Feng'an City, and attacked Feng'an City by night.
Jiuyuan City also fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire's Revival Army in the middle of the night, before those Turks could react. What is ironic is that Ashina Boqi, one of the cousins of Jieli Khan, is in this area.
And the life in the city is his favorite, this night, he is located in the Jiuyuan City of his own concubine's house sleepy, when he slept until midnight, when he heard that Jiuyuan City was sneak attacked, he thought that the slaves were making trouble again, but he had just put on his clothes and put on his armor to prepare to quell the rebellion, a fierce Chinese Empire Revival Army knight has been under the guidance of the fine work, surrounded the house.
Ashina Boqi, who only brought three hundred cavalry to the city to enjoy himself, withered directly. Especially in the early morning of the next day, after seeing thousands of brightly armored soldiers of the Chinese Empire's Revival Army outside the mansion waiting for an attack, Ashina Boqi resolutely carried forward the nomadic instinct of bullying the weak and fearing the hard, and immediately made people provoke white clothes as white flags.
The next step was much simpler, nearly 120,000 people of Ashina Boqi's tribe reluctantly put down their weapons under his call, and this piece of land fell into the hands of the Chinese Empire's Revival Army in the blink of an eye.
Since the beginning of the war, the casualties have not been even 500, and half of the main force of the Turks in the Hetao area has been taken.
Wei Yunqi received prisoners of war here, and on the other hand, he sent Li Daozong as the main and Wei Chigong as the deputy, commanding an army and another division, and continued to march along the river. With the help of the meticulous work in the Hetao area, he captured five cities in a row with a thunderous momentum.
And Ashina Bozhen, who was stationed next to the Jinhe Lake with abundant water and grass, couldn't help but be shocked when he received the news, but at this time, all the ships along the Yellow River were already under the control of our Chinese Empire, so the news of the occupation of the Wuyuan County area, which was located at the northwest end of the Hetao and surrounded by the Yellow River that diverged and then merged, could not be transmitted at all.
Therefore, in Ashina Bozhen's eyes, it is probably just a group of thieves who want to burn and loot under the name of the Chinese Revival Army. But when he gathered 20,000 Turkic cavalry and rushed to the occupied city, his eyes almost fell to the grass.
Those strong soldiers wrapped in iron armor, holding bright steel crossbows in their hands, sharp and cold eyes, and the blood-red royal banner fluttering high above the city, all showed their identities, they were the regular army of the Chinese Empire, and they were by no means a gang of ruffians and bandits.
What made this Ashina Bo even more desperate was that when he gathered a large number of soldiers and horses and rushed to the battle city one hundred and fifty miles away. Wei Chigong led two divisions of cavalry, and he had already avoided Ashina Bozhen's troops. Rushed straight towards the king's tent of Ashina Bozhen.
The two elite cavalry divisions of the Chinese Empire, with their sophisticated equipment and excellent technical and tactical level, are definitely not comparable to these steppe barbarians, and Ashina Bozhen took away 20,000 elite Turkic cavalry.
Near his tent, in addition to the 2,000 Turkic cavalry left behind, there were only those herdsmen who were in the process of receiving orders but had not yet had time to complete the assembly. After encountering more than 26,000 elite cavalry of the Chinese Revival Army, it was a complete tragedy.
The entire royal tent, from the discovery of the enemy attack to the time when it was broken by the Chinese cavalry to the front of the king's tent, did not even take an hour. Nearly 50,000 people were captured, and nearly one million head of cattle, sheep and livestock. After that, Wei Chigong left a division of cavalry to guard the prisoners of war. The cavalry leading a division turned back and pounced on Ashina Bozhen.
Ashina Bozhen is also one of the few wise people among the Turks, or rather, he is more suspicious. While sending troops to the south, a large number of scouts were also sent to various places to detect the enemy's situation.
And after the army arrived at the occupied city, after seeing the Chinese revival army at the head of the city, this guy did not rashly attack the city, but the whole army garrison camped ten miles north of the city to rest, while waiting for news from the scouts.
He knew very well that since the military of the Huaxia Empire had appeared in large numbers in this Hetao area, they must have come prepared, and according to his current situation, the Huaxia Renaissance Army came from the west by boat, but now they have not received the news from Wuyuan County, which can only show one problem, either Ashina Boqi and the Turks in the area of Wuyuan County have insomnia and disabled legs, or this place has been controlled by the Huaxia Renaissance Army, so there is no news coming out.
Now is not the time to care about his brother Ashina Boqi's situation. The scouts he had sent out when he sent out his troops were also frightened and rushed back to report it. The cities in this area have all fallen into the hands of the Chinese Renaissance Army, and judging from the information gathered alone, it is enough to prove that this is not a skirmish, let alone a military exercise or getting lost.
This is clearly a premeditated and prepared war of aggression. When Ashina Bozhen scolded his mother and hesitated whether to rely on the cavalry under his hand except for scimitars and bows and arrows to attack the city, a team of cavalry covered in blood and with crossbows on their backs fled from the royal tent in the north to here, telling the news that Ashina Bozhen's royal tent had been captured by tens of thousands of cavalry of the Chinese Empire.
In addition, there is also news that after the cavalry of the Chinese Empire broke the king's tent, it seems that they have not yet been satisfied, and they have already waved their troops in this direction.