The surrender of Zhang Pingcheng made a good start for the Western Expedition led by Li Zhaoliang. 20,000 soldiers of Yuanzhangpingcheng, countless grain and grass materials, and a large number of copper coins have made great contributions to the army on the road in the future.

The army of more than 100,000 did not enter the city, but passed through the city directly, and came to the west gate of Zhangping City, before starting to set up a large camp. After being supplemented by more than 100,000 people in Zhangping City, plus more than 200,000 people in the current Dingxing County (more than 10 cities in the original Dingxing City), the population of nearly 400,000 is enough to support the army for a long war.

After the surrender of the 20,000 troops in Zhangping City, Li Zhaoliang smoothly organized them into the 51st Association of the Beichen Army Infantry Army and the 52nd Association of the Infantry Army. Subsequently, 170,000 men and horses, after resting in Zhangping City for one night, once again faced the morning sun and went on a distant journey.

The 170,000 troops were divided into two routes, one way was the 100,000 army led by Li Zhaoliang himself, and continued to fight towards the west of Zhangping City. On the other hand, Lin Hu led 70,000 horses and horses directly north to see if he could join the main army of the Western Expedition.

To say that in a large-scale war, after the two armies set off in separate directions, they attacked the city all the way until they converged, which is the real royal road. The army is all gathered together, although it is a little more difficult to command, but it is better than dividing the troops into two ways and the hundreds of thousands of troops directly have no news.

In this way, the two armies captured the cities in the west and north respectively, and conquered the cities along the way, breaking everything!

After the more than 400,000 troops led by Xiao Chen rested for a few days, they were finally willing to move their feet. Hundreds of thousands of horses and livestock moving together is very spectacular and very conspicuous. At the same time, the enemy army west of Julin City naturally learned the news of the 400,000-strong army.

Andrew is a German player, born with a very old-fashioned personality, every day is neat and neat, and the serious look on his face is as if everyone wants to scold twice. But today, Andrew's face has lost its usual composure and seriousness.

400,000 troops are coming!

Anyone who hears it will be stunned by the huge number, after all, it is 400,000 people, not 40,000! What is the concept of 400,000 people together, Andrew doesn't know, everyone lives in an era of peace, where have you seen 400,000 soldiers in armor piled together!

However, Andrew has seen the spectacle of 100,000 heads of cattle and sheep piled together. I saw it in the big ranch of my own boss, and tens of thousands of white sheep piled up on the blue earth, and the whole world suddenly turned white. Add to that tens of thousands of brown cows, with a white world on one side and a brown world on the other, looking at a few spectacular!

However, now Andrew's mind is full of headaches when he thinks of the 100,000 cattle and sheep he has seen before! 100,000 cows and sheep can make such a spectacular whole, so what about 400,000 people! Especially, 400,000 soldiers in the same armor! Wouldn't that scare people to death!

In other words, this is just the idea of Andrew, these Europeans, if a Chinese player is here, he will definitely not be surprised, at most a few words of Chinese. After all, everyone's civilization history is different.

When Europe was in the Cold Weapons period, the population of the entire continent together was not necessarily as large as that of China in the same period. Even at the time of the world war, China's population always occupied the first place in the world, and it always occupied a quarter of the world's population. This is true even now!

It is precisely because of the population limitation that Europe has not always had a strong nation like China. During hundreds of years of war, Europeans had already divided into countless races, and then countless city-states and states were formed. As a result, Europe, which does not have a large Han Chinese population, is divided into dozens of countries.

Europe, naturally, cannot afford to fight a big war in this situation!

At the height of a country, when it had a population of several million at most, it was extremely powerful. However, in the period of cold weapons, a population of several million people could feed at most two or three hundred thousand soldiers. These soldiers need to be stationed in domestic cities and frontiers, and the troops that can be taken out at one time will naturally not be too many.

In contrast, the Han are more bullish. Counting to the 5,000-year history of China, almost every era of the Han nationality in China will have a super strong cattle man.

From the tribal era, the Yellow Emperor destroyed Chiyou in one fell swoop, and then annexed the power of Emperor Yan, which was the first time to complete the unification of China. Over the next few thousand years, the three most powerful tribes, as well as countless smaller tribes, melted into one large super tribe.

Subsequently, Shang died Zhou Xing. The 800-year-old Zhou Dynasty made many descendants of Yan and Huang integrated, and also made the Han nationality have a prototype. Within hundreds of years after Zhou's death, there were Spring and Autumn Periods and Warring States Rebellions in the world.

Until the emergence of the First Emperor, the powerful Qin Dynasty swept Liuhe and dominated the world. The entire Han nationality has also begun to enter the real stage of development, and the policy of writing the same text and the same track of the car has slowly pushed the development of the Han nation to the peak!

After more than ten years of Qin dominating the world, the world was in turmoil again, and Liu Bang led his men to kill many princes in the world and create the Han Dynasty. Since then, the Han nation has also had the name Han.

Since then, the Han nationality has entered the stage of development for hundreds of years, and its population has grown from 20 million at the end of the Qin Dynasty to 60 million. This, of course, refers to the number of people living in the household, excluding the servants of the princes and ministers and the tenant farmers of the landlords. Hmm~ If you really estimate the population of the Han nationality at that time, it would be at least seventy or eighty million.

After all, in the later Three Kingdoms period, there was a century-long war. Due to the occurrence of various natural and man-made disasters, the Han nationality still has a population of 30 or 40 million. You must know that Cao Wei has a population of nearly 20 million, plus millions of people in Yizhou, a fruitful place, and Jingzhou also has a population of several million, although Jiangdong is not a big place, it can still support three or four hundred thousand people.

According to the strategy of ancient conquest, an army of three or four hundred thousand would need at least nearly five million troops to feed. Otherwise, Cao Mengde would not have pulled out hundreds of thousands of troops to fight Eastern Wu in one go, precisely because Cao Mengde had a large population in his hands. Therefore, he is not afraid, even if these hundreds of thousands of troops are all dead, with a huge population base, at most twenty years, he can still pull up hundreds of thousands of horses!

In the same way, after a hundred years of war in the Three Kingdoms, the Han people under the rule of the two Jin Dynasty were not much better than the Three Kingdoms period. It's still a mess, the princes of the world are all around, plus foreign barbarians invade. But even so, it was the Han people who survived to the end, and those barbarians were still killed.

The reason for this is the population base of the Han nationality!

The tens of millions of people in the two Jin Dynasty periods, although they were divided, were also taken up by barbarians. But it is still more than the barbarian population, and after decades of survival, the population gap immediately widened a large part. In the past hundred and ten years, no matter how many barbarians have been killed by the Han people.

In the final analysis, no one has ever been able to annex the Han people, whether in ancient or modern times! The Manchus took advantage and ruled the Han with a population of several million, but only by a few millions. Later, it was not assimilated by the Han people.

The little devil after is strong no! Powerful! The United States, which is so powerful that it is the world's largest economic and industrial power, must not use its huge resources and industrial manufacturing power to kill little Japan. But even so, millions of elite Japanese troops, carrying not too advanced weapons, still did not succeed in destroying China.

If the Japanese army at that time used the weapons of the First World War, then the Chinese army used the weapons of the 19th century. The two sides said that the weapons could not be compared at all, and said that the courage of the soldiers and soldiers would mean that the Chinese could overwhelm Little Japan. Even the Germans who fought all over the world were defeated in the same way in terms of bravery, under the crotch pants of the Japanese!

But even so, Little Japan still hasn't defeated China, why! Or is it because China has a large number of people, a population of 40,000, which is enough to scare every country in the world.

Therefore, if you talk about the 400,000 army, the Chinese will be stunned at most, and then they will be like no one. Is 400,000 a lot? In the eyes of Europeans, it is naturally more, but in the eyes of Chinese, it is almost the same! During the Warring States period BC, none of the seven powerful countries could take out three or four hundred thousand.

But in Europe at the same time, it would be against the sky to be able to come up with a regular army of 150,000. Even if it was a large-scale war and a crusade that later generations talked about, many of them were militias, and even Christians were directly following the army to grab things. Even so, it's only a million people, what is it!

You must know that during the Sui and Tang dynasties, when fighting with the Koreans, there were no millions of soldiers at that time. As for the people, it's even more, a minimum of three million, what a concept! If Europe were adjacent to China, and all these three million people would have one spear, maybe Li Shimin would have wiped out Europe long ago!

So, now Andrew is really scared. No way, the arrival of 400,000 troops, even the Chinese who have been nurtured by the 5,000-year history of China, have to worry for a while. But 100,000, that's almost not much of a deterrent. But once it exceeds 100,000, it will be a guy who is more powerful than a nuclear bomb in the cold weapon period!

But I was worried that the 400,000 troops that had already set off would not stop.

Andrew, who had been fighting with the evil dragon across the river, had to divide all the 100,000 horses he had in his hands into five cities.

I can't go head-to-head with the 400,000 Chinese army, because the difference in numbers is too great. If you really want to resist, your own 100,000 horses are not enough for others to abuse vegetables.

But the other four cities can't be lost in vain, otherwise the food alone will be enough to defeat themselves. All 100,000 troops were stationed in the city of Fanta, plus the hundreds of thousands of civilians inside. As long as the Chinese army besieged the city and did not attack it, it would not take two or three months to starve to death!

Therefore, it is better for the army to defend the five cities, at least the grain and grass in the remaining four cities must be transported to Fanta City, so that they can defend Fanta.

Unfortunately, Andrew is still not familiar with the Chinese Art of War, as well as the rest of the various art of war. I don't even know about the special capabilities of the Chinese army, otherwise I wouldn't have made such a bad decision.

As a nation, the history of the development of the Han nationality is a history of war. The perennial wars have taught the Chinese a lot of things, and the large number of wars has also made the Chinese army the best at attacking and defending cities and field battles.

There were not many troops, and they also divided their troops to guard five cities. In addition, he happened to meet the Chinese army, which is the best at siege cities, and Andrew deserved to be unlucky. Think about the Chinese army's various engineering weapons, even more than 20 meters of cities, or steep passes, can be knocked down. With a castle like this in Europe, which is only about ten meters high, what can it do?

Even if China pulls out a small county town, it may be as strong as an important European town. You must know that in siege warfare and siege warfare, the Chinese army is not only developed in siege weapons, but also has many weapons in defending the city, which guarantees that you will play straightforwardly!

In fact, it is.

Xiao Chen led an army of 400,000 to Andrew's sphere of influence, and then sent scouts to inquire. The dozen or so generals who stayed in the big tent of the Chinese army all laughed, and after that, even Chen Gong didn't bother to come up with an idea.

In this case, if you are using a stratagem to defeat the enemy army, it will be too much of a loss of face for Beichen Kingdom. Of the 100,000 troops, there were 40,000 horses in the city of Fanta, and the remaining four cities were less than 15,000 men.

Under Xiao Chen's order, 100,000 people were directly blocked around Fanta City. Subsequently, Wang Ping and Zhang Han each led 150,000 horses and attacked the four cities on the north and south sides of Fanta City.

Zhang Han is a god general, and his strength is undoubted. And although Wang Ping is only at the level of a historical general, under the super bonus of the Beichen army, he is much stronger than a god general leading a pile of garbage.

The four cities were taken in three days, and the 40,000 troops and Andrew who remained in Fanta could only watch the enemy troops blocking the city in vain, but there was nothing they could do.

However, Xiao Chen also let go very insidiously, the messenger for help in the four cities, and the messenger for communication. In this way, after losing all four cities, Andrew almost fell to his knees and cried.

The 60,000 horses and horses of the four cities were all kneeling before they could defend it for three days, so how long could the 40,000 troops in his own Fanta City be able to defend it?

Of course, although in the shortest possible time, four cities were conquered, more than 30,000 enemy soldiers were eliminated, and more than 25,000 prisoners were captured. 170,000 slaves were captured, and the rest of the grain and grass materials are still being calculated, but it is estimated that there should be a lot.

However, although four cities were taken, the casualties of the Beichen army were still not small. After all, the Germans still had a very strong fighting force.

20,000 soldiers were killed, more than 4,000 were seriously wounded, and more than 13,000 were lightly wounded.