Chapter 578: The Great Counteroffensive (1)

After the defeat of millions of Sui troops in the Liaodong battlefield, Liaodong City, which was originally in the center of the battlefield, suddenly became the de facto military center of the entire Xia State, and it was even a posture that it could not be settled, so many Xia ministers knew that the next shift of the political center of gravity of the Xia State to the west would be inevitable in the future.

After defeating the Sui army, the expansion direction of the Xia State was only the Sui Empire in the west, so Wang Ze decided to gradually move Xingzai to Liaodong City, and for the convenience of command, the Xia State Privy Council was the first Xia State institution to move here from Zhenhai City.

At the same time as the relocation of the Privy Council, Wang Ze personally took command and quickly transmitted orders to the hands of Xia troops in various places through various means of communication.

First, the army composed of the Second Army, the Fourth Army, the Fifth Army and the other three National Guard Corps quickly crossed the Liao River and successively surrounded the more than 200,000 Sui troops and tens of thousands of Su troops who were trying to resist stubbornly in Yan County and Liucheng County.

Although there were still a considerable number of Sui Empire loyalists among the besieged Sui army, Tu Diji, the great leader of the Su Dynasty, was also quite unwilling to surrender to the Sui Empire, and they also hoped that the Sui Empire would once again mobilize a million troops to launch a second attack on the Xia army.

In this way, the Sui army not only did not have to surrender, but could even serve as a powerful internal response in the encirclement of the Xia army, like a nail to contain hundreds of thousands of Xia troops.

However, the defeat of the millions of Sui troops in Liaodong had completely shattered the confidence of most of the Sui soldiers, so under the dual dual role of the Xia army's powerful offensive and psychological warfare, the two counties were successfully conquered with the assistance of the Sui army, which greatly reduced the casualties of the Xia army.

The more than 200,000 Sui troops with low morale and no fighting spirit died less than 20,000 in the battle when these two cities fell, but in stark contrast, most of the Su Mo people, who were deeply favored by the Sui Empire, were killed in the battle, and even the great leader Tu Diji also died in this battle.

Of course, the small number of Sui army deaths also has a deep relationship with the fact that the Xia State is also a country established by the Han civilization, and the service to the Sui Empire is similar to that of the Xia State, which is also a big reason why the Sui army's deaths are even lower.

With Yan County and Liucheng County falling into the hands of the Xia army, it means that the entire corridor between Liaoxi and Beiping County in the lower reaches of Luanshui has fallen into the hands of the Xia army, and from then on, the Xia army can safely link Liaodong and Zhuo County together.

Similarly, the fall of Liaoxi also meant that more than two million Han people from Liaoxi to Zhuo County also became people under the rule of the Xia State, and because Yan County and Liucheng County were located on the border, the number of Han people here was not much, which was two or three hundred thousand people.

However, the population of Zhuo County, Anle County, Beiping County and other counties within the Great Wall is larger, each county has nearly 500,000 people, especially the population of Zhuo County is 780,000 because it was not subject to Wang Yong's great migration.

However, Wang Ze did not intend to give these Han people the status of Xia nationals so soon.

He planned to first disrupt the migration of more than two million Han people of the original Sui Empire, and arrange them to Xia and Nanyang counties respectively before giving them the status of nationals, because only in this way could the influence of the native families of the Sui Empire be better weakened.

The powerful influence of the powerful families is not only because of their high positions and cultural monopolies, but also because they use the huge interests brought by their family's control of official positions and complex clan ties to gather a large family population.

The huge population of these clans, coupled with the even larger number of dependent people, many tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people, is a great force in the local area.

You must know that at this time, even if the number of people in the Sui Empire is as high as forty or fifty million, but an ordinary county is generally hundreds of thousands, and a clan with tens of thousands of people in the local area and high-ranking officials as the backstage has no place where the government is willing to provoke.

This is the great reason why the scholars have a huge influence in the Central Plains Empire in the past few hundred years, and Yongjia has traveled south to nearly a million scholars, clansmen and dependent people, which is a true portrayal of this situation.

The Sui Empire has tens of millions of people, and if the Xia State destroys the Sui Empire in one bite, it will face the hidden danger of the Qin State attacking the Six Kingdoms, and there will inevitably be the possibility of collapse if the country with a small population annexes a country far more than its own population.

After capturing Zhuojun, Xia was faced with the problem of how to transform and annex the Sui Empire, and the success of Xia's actions in Zhuojun and other former Sui Empire counties meant that Xia had different strategies for the Sui Empire.

After the Xia army seized Yan County and Liucheng County and quickly cleared the remnants of the Sui army in western Liaoning, Huang Rui, who had been guarding against the withdrawal of the Sui army in Beiping County, seemed extremely disappointed, after all, the dishes were ready, but your guests couldn't say that they couldn't come, and the previous series of preparations were all in vain.

However, Ji Xiang seemed very excited, because Wang Ze's order required him to cooperate with Huang Rui to attack Shanggu County first, and completely annihilate the more than 300,000 Sui army soldiers gathered there.

Even if the combat effectiveness of these Sui troops is not strong, it is still a great threat to Zhuo County, after all, Shanggu County is less than 200 miles away from Zhuo County, and if the Sui army mobilizes a large number of cavalry, it can even attack outside Zhuo County in one day.

After conquering Shanggu County, Ji Xiang also had to lead his army west along the Sanggan River to seize Mayi and Yanmen, and at the same time Yang Wu, who had successfully defeated the Turkic Daliye Protector army, would also lead more than 200,000 cavalry, including Wang Dong, to march west along the grassland north of the Great Wall to quickly seize the very important Dingxiang County, and then continue to attack the land of Zhanhetao in the west.

At least Wuyuan County in the west of the Hetao and Yulin County on the south bank of the Yellow River in the east of the Hetao were among the sites he had to capture, and in Wang Ze's plan, the Hetao was also an extremely important strategic fulcrum similar to Beihai.

Under Wang Ze's order, the Xia army, which had been suppressing its strong combat effectiveness, finally exerted its huge combat effectiveness, and in the spring of the forty-first year of the Xia calendar, the entire Sui Empire along the Great Wall was immersed in the flames of war, and various important places along the Great Wall were conquered by the Xia army one after another.

At the same time that the land of Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures was seized by the Xia army in later generations, the 300,000 elite Xia troops who came down from the battlefield in Liaodong boarded thousands of large transport ships and quickly crossed the sea to the south, and unexpectedly captured Donglai County in Jiaodong by sea, cutting off the back route of the 300,000 Sui troops of Yan Rong's department who were still attacking Weihai County.

Although the grain route of Yan Rong's army was often attacked by the Xia army on the Long Island Islands and other coastal islands, it was just that the strength of these Xia troops was weak and they had not been able to conquer any county and county, so they had not been looked down upon by Yan Rong.

In his opinion, as long as he conquered the defense line of Weihai County and completely wiped out the more than 100,000 Xia troops here, then the Xia troops on those coastal islands were just like Haikou soldiers, but he never expected that the Xia army would not go south, and once they went south, they would find their lifeblood as soon as they went south.

At the same time, the news of the defeat of the millions of Sui troops in Liaodong also reached his ears, if it were not for the complete cutting off of the grain road, the million Sui troops in Liaodong would definitely not be so easy to fail.

Seeing that he was about to follow in the footsteps of the Sui army in Liaodong, Yan Rong, who was shocked, withdrew his troops from the front line of Weihai County as soon as possible, and then led his troops to quickly withdraw to the west, trying to recapture Donglai County and withdraw to Qingzhou as soon as possible to continue to deploy defenses.

At the same time that Yan Rong's headquarters was cut off by the Xia army, the first fleet of the Xia army also went south to launch a comprehensive attack on the naval forces of Yuanjingshan and Zheng Xiaoru based on Jiaozhou Port (Qingdao), so the Sui army, which had originally formed a coordinated offensive posture of land and sea, was immediately disrupted.

Over the years, the Xia army has long been extremely familiar with landing and warfare, even if Yan Rong came here on the third day after the Xia army conquered Donglai County and concentrated his forces to counterattack, at this time, the Xia army set up a solid defense line in Donglai County through a huge maritime capacity, and even long-range firepower was stronger than the Sui army.

All kinds of artillery, muskets, rockets, and thunderbolts seemed to be unpaid for this part of the Sui army, and the Sui army could not even get close to the defense line of the Xia army, and after five or six days of fighting, the Sui army, which suffered heavy casualties and suffered heavy casualties, finally collapsed under the all-out offensive of the Xia army.

As the commander-in-chief, Yan Rong was unwilling to be defeated and committed suicide, nearly 100,000 heroic Sui troops died in Jiaodong, and the remaining 1560,000 Sui soldiers surrendered, and at the same time, the First Fleet that went south also completely annihilated the Sui army northbound fleet hiding in Jiaozhou Port.

After the Xia army crossed the sea and went south, after defeating Yan Rong's department, it quickly cleaned up the remnants of the Sui Empire in the counties of Jiaodong, and then quickly marched westward along the Jiaoqi Avenue built by Wang Yong at the beginning, and conquered Gaomi, Beihai (Weifang), Qingzhou, and Linzi all the way to the west to occupy Qi County (Jinan City).

After recovering the entire land of Sanqi, the Xia army did not continue to attack to the west or north, but defended on the spot, but after all, Sanqi and Zhuo County were only separated by Hejian and Bohai counties, so the Sui Empire scholars and Haoqiang in these two places fled one after another, and even the neighboring Pingyuan County and other Hebei Prefecture counties also had a large number of scholars fleeing.

However, north of the river is the rich land of the Sui Empire after all, whether it is the scholar clan Haoqiang or the Futu sect is not willing to lose their foundation here, but the defeat of the Sui Empire in Liaodong makes them unable to believe the Sui army, so the Futu sect here has increased the number of monks and soldiers, and the Haoqiang have also begun to train private soldiers.

Because most of the original county soldiers in the Hebei counties of the Sui Empire gathered in Shanggu County, and now they have been completely annihilated by the Xia army, so at this time, the county officials were unable to control the local area at all, and even some county guards maintained an encouraging attitude towards this in order to prevent the Xia army from attacking, ignoring the momentum of the repetition of the rebellion of the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Han Dynasty.

Emperor Wen of Sui, Yang Jian, couldn't care about the changes in the prefectures and counties north of the river at this time, and now he could only watch the Xia army conquer cities in northern Xinjiang.

Zhuojun fell, and the Xia army marched forward with the battle with Sanqi along the Great Wall, and at the same time, the war in Mobei was also abrupt.