Chapter 146: The Southern Barbarian Rebellion
Three years have passed in the blink of an eye, Zhang Bin's eldest son Zhang Zhong is eight years old, and the second son Zhang Cheng is also seven years old.
Because Pang Tong had already led 30,000 navies to set off from Yamatai on 2,000-ton wooden battleships, accompanied by Yan Liang's 200,000 troops, and in the south, Zhou Tai, Jiang Qin and Zhou Yu led 1,000 warships and hundreds of thousands of troops to the South China Sea.
The million-strong army left the Western Regions, and it is estimated that it will not be able to wipe out the distant Great Qin and other small countries in less than ten years, and what makes Zhang Bin most depressed is that although the population has been increasing because of the encouragement of childbirth, it is now less than 100 million.
You must know that he is preparing to continue to move people with the occupation, and it is estimated that he will be able to resettle up to 30 million people in ten years, and this is still under the condition that he uses the dimensional warehouse to reduce the transportation of materials.
In the spring of the fourth year of the empire, Zhang Bin was still mobilizing troops to clean up the surrounding area, and an urgent report came from the four counties of Yongchang, Jianning, Qiqi, and Yuewang on the border between Yizhou and the wilderness.
These four counties are all in Yunnan and Guizhou in the later generations, Zhang Bin because of the rapid advance of the Quartet, here also stationed 100,000 troops to temporarily defend, and the guard general is the third-class general Cao Xing, who is rarely on the battlefield, and there are a group of first-class and second-class lieutenant generals such as Zang Ba, Liao Hua, **** Yi and so on, and obey the orders of Zhao Yun, the governor of the Southern Group Army, and Xun You, the military division.
When Zhang Bin ruled the world, the original governors were divided into seven, five governors in the southeast, northwest and northwest, plus the governors of the West Expedition and the Governor of the East, and the candidates for the governors and military divisions would be transferred every five years, and Zhao Yun and Xun You arrived in Yizhou last year to guard the situation in the south.
There were 100,000 troops in Jiaozhou in the south, 200,000 troops in Yizhou, and the navy and Jianye regiment belonging to the Southern Group Army had already moved south to capture those islands at this time, and the 100,000 troops in Jiaozhou were clearing up the rebellious Shanyue people and barbarian savages in the jungle.
Unexpectedly, dozens of tribes suddenly gathered in this southern barbarian land, and hundreds of thousands of troops began to attack four remote counties, fortunately, Zhang Bin made arrangements in advance, the food in the city was abundant and the weapons were excellent, and the southern barbarian army could not win the attack for more than a month, Zhao Yun and Xun You were leading reinforcements to the four counties at this time to prepare for a decisive battle with the enemy.
Zhang Bin looked at the battle report and squinted to the south, Yu Ban and others who sent troops from Jiaozhou had already fought to the area of Thailand and Laos in later generations, and built a large city in Jiaozhi County, which is now Hanoi, Vietnam, leaving 10,000 troops to control.
As long as he continues to advance westward, he can surround the barbarian land in two years at most, at the beginning Zhang Bin was ready to encircle the barbarians in a gradual encroachment way, and finally slowly advance to the middle to pacify this place, but now the barbarians suddenly burst out, knowing that he has an army of nearly two million and acting, what are these barbarians relying on?
"I'm going to go on a personal expedition and completely pacify the affairs of the south." Zhang Bin patted the dragon chair and said in a deep voice.
Xi Zhicai, Guo Jia and others were all stunned, although Zhang Bin likes to run with the troops and fight, but now that he is the emperor, what if he goes to the imperial drive to fight and get hurt, Xi Zhicai was about to persuade, Zhang Bin raised his hand to stop everyone from talking and said:
"I have made up my mind, the Qiang people on the plateau have been completely pacified and let most of them go down the mountain, and millions of hardy Central Plains people have migrated up, and the same is true on the grassland, this Southern Barbarian is the last trouble in China, pacify them and let the barbarians integrate into the world, this is my greatest wish, the east and the west are too far away You are not allowed to go, but this may be my last chance to fight, with this battle, it will not disgrace my prestige of establishing a country with war."
Xi Zhicai shook his head with a wry smile, but Guo Jia said with a smile:
"Your Majesty wants to take the expedition in person, then bring all the central legions, so that you can completely rely on the number of people to drown the barbarian army."
The Central Army has 400,000 people, 50,000 sword and shield soldiers, pikemen and archers, and the remaining 250,000 are all elite cavalry rotated everywhere.
Zhang Bin pointed to the map of the south and said:
"There are many hills and mountains in the south, and the cavalry does not have much effect, and Yizhou originally had 20,000 elite cavalry, so there is no need to continue to increase the troops, this time I only brought 3,000 iron guards, and now they are all one enemy and a hundred people, but they have a greater number of victories in this battle."
There are 3,000 iron guards, of which there are no less than 30 super-first-class generals, hundreds of first-class generals, and the rest are second-rate generals, this combination can be described as extremely domineering.
Zhang Bin never dismantled this army, and none of them had military positions and ranks, the three thousand iron guards were dead soldiers, and they had never had the slightest disagreement after many years of fighting, Qiao Yi and Hu Che'er had already served in other troops, only Zhang Bin's guard Dian Wei had been carrying this arm.
Hearing that Zhang Bin only brought the iron guard, everyone was not persuading, especially Huang Zhong of the military department, he can be described as the top few masters in the army, but he did not dare to say that he would win the iron guard with the combat power of dozens of super-first-class generals.
Decided to go, Zhang Bin also arranged everything as usual, especially after he had an accident, Zhang Zhong was also among the emperors of the Great Yan Empire, when he packed up and was about to leave the palace, Concubine Yan Zhu Ruhuo changed into her previous clothes and hurriedly ran out, seeing the woman's panicked appearance, Zhang Bin asked with a smile:
"What are you doing here? Do you want to go with me to pacify the Nanban? ”
Zhu Ruhuo stepped forward and grabbed his arm, muttered with a small mouth:
"Nanban, Nanban, I'm also a Nanban, this time you go to pacify Nanban, I won't follow my Zhurong tribe when you don't destroy it;
The people in the tribe are barbaric and don't listen to people's persuasion, I have to make a trip to let them join, otherwise I will offend you and my Zhurong clan, won't it be over? ”
Zhang Bin sneered, he had a Nanban wife, he nodded and said:
"Then let's go together, and I'll go to the Zhurong tribe with you when the time comes, but if they don't obey, I won't stop as long as I do it."
Zhu Ruhuo turned over and jumped on Zhang Bin's war horse, she sat behind him and whispered:
"I know that you are this character, I just went with me, if I don't go, God knows what the result will be."
Zhang Bin and others rode into Shu, because they were all masters and top war horses, half a month later they rushed to Yizhou to Chengdu, and then took a boat along the Yangtze River to Yunnan County, rested for a day, and three thousand iron guards rushed to Yongchang with Zhang Bin.
The barbarians of the remaining three counties have been defeated, but in Yongchang, seventy or eighty thousand barbarians surrounded the city, attacking day and night with almost no losses.
Arrived in Yongchang, Zhang Bin and the secret spies out of the city gathered for a while, he secretly looked at the satellite monitoring, Yongchang City is on a small plain, the city is only hundreds of zhang long and wide, the city wall is more than four zhang high because of the defense of the barbarians, and the 30,000 army has no loss under the strict defense of **** righteousness.