Plunder like fire!

In the face of the large-scale attack of the Xia army from all walks of life, no matter who it is at the moment, it can only be described in these four words!

After capturing Shanggu County and Qi County respectively, the Xia army in Zhuo County and Sanqi County inexplicably stopped attacking, so that the Sui army that confronted them could calmly recruit three or four hundred thousand young men to continue training the army, and also relieved the warrior clans south of the river.

However, Ji Xiang's offensive to attack Mayi and Yanmen was extremely sharp, and the weak troops of the two places soon fell into the hands of Ji Xiang's nearly 200,000 cavalry, and then Ji Xiang's army continued to go south and easily captured Loufan County, which had threatened the safety of Taiyuan County.

The geographical location of Taiyuan County is extremely important, once any nomadic forces in the north enter the Fenshui Valley from here, then they can quickly go down the river and seize the entire rich land in Hedong, which can already be regarded as the relative henchmen of the Great Sui Empire.

Fortunately, because Taiyuan County is located at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin, it is stuck at the end of a canyon area in the south of Fenshui, and there are three places in front of it: Mayi, Yanmen, and Loufan as buffers, so when this part of the Xia army was successfully blocked by the Sui army with superior numbers.

Of course, because of the strong position of the Xia army, the Xia army and the Sui army at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin were mainly based on the gorge at the northern end of the Taiyuan Basin as the dividing line, and the vast land to the north became the territory of the Xia State.

Although the offensive of this Xia army was blocked in Taiyuan County, Ji Xiang was not annoyed, after all, this Xia army had already taken Lou Fu County with tens of thousands of partial divisions, and forced nearly 200,000 Sui troops in Taiyuan County not to dare to go north, the results were still relatively good, and now Ji Xiang's main focus is on attacking the Hetao area with Yang Wu.

Wang Ze attached great importance to the land of Hetao Ji Xiang and Yang Wu were both very clear, so after Yang Wu led the army to conquer Dingxiang County, he mainly rushed west along the north bank of the Yellow River, while Ji Xiang crossed the Yellow River from the west of Mayi into Henan and began to attack Yulin County after handing over the defense to the Xia State infantry army that came later.

When Han Zigao led more than 200,000 Xia troops to capture the entire Hexi Corridor, Yang Wu also led a large army to occupy Wuyuan County, and continued to follow the Yellow River to the land of the West River, where the Sui Empire did not have many troops at all, and was simply unable to stop the fierce offensive of the Xia army.

Ji Xiang also conquered Yulin County at the same time as Yang Wu's capture of Wuyuan County, and then continued to lead the army south.

At this time, the only tens of thousands of Sui troops in the entire Henan region of the Hetao area had already received the news of the Xia army's attack, because most of the Henan land was a gentle grassland with no natural danger, so these Sui troops could only retreat to the inner Great Wall to defend the city.

Therefore, Ji Xiang swept the entire Henan region in a short period of time, although the Sui army here has withdrawn, but there are still some Turkic tribes and some other Zahu tribes attached to the Sui Empire, and even Ji Xiang also found a part of the small tribes formed after the Khitan and Kumo Xi people who were destroyed by the Xia State escaped.

However, most of these small tribes have hundreds or thousands of people, and the largest tribe is only four or five thousand people, and they have no ability to resist the Xia army at all.

Soon, Ji Xiang relocated the captured nearly 100,000 tribesmen to all parts of the Xia Kingdom, anyway, now the population of the Xia Kingdom is nearly 30 million people, and it is completely possible to assimilate these tribes, and there is no need to reduce their influence by killing as in the past.

Although the Sui army could withdraw to the inner Great Wall to defend the Xia army, there was still a city north of the inner Great Wall that they had to defend, that is, Shuofang County, which was located in the upper reaches of the Luyan River, which was exactly two or three hundred miles north of the Inner Great Wall.

Originally, there were not many Sui troops defending the front line of the Inner Great Wall, but they suffered great losses because of the attack on the Xia State, even if Yang Jian urgently recruited hundreds of thousands of troops after returning to Guanzhong, but most of these troops had not completed basic training, and there were still some deficiencies in defending Guanzhong, so where was he willing to send them to northern Xinjiang.

Therefore, the Sui army stationed in Shuofang County did not even have 10,000 people, and when they learned that it was impossible for the Sui army to come to the rescue of them, the hearts of these Sui soldiers suddenly cooled, after all, the front-line battle was the soldiers at the bottom, and in the face of the wild offensive of the Xia army, they thought that they were abandoned and angrily chose to surrender.

Originally, Yang Jian always believed that the main force of the Xia army would go all the way south from Hebei, first seize the rich land north of the river, and then cross the river south to capture Luoyang, and then attack Guanzhong.

But now I didn't expect that the Xia army in Hebei had not moved, but hundreds of thousands of Xia cavalry had successively captured the Hexi Corridor and Hetao and Henan, which greatly threatened the stability of Guanzhong from the north and northwest, and even Yang Jian knew that there were already many eunuchs in Chang'an City who were arranging for their children to go south to the land of Bashu to escape the war.

Previously, in order to resist Han Zigao's more than 200,000 troops, Yang Jian urgently mobilized more than 200,000 Sui troops originally stationed in Longyou to urgently deploy defenses, but now there are 200,000 Xia troops in the north who threaten the land of Guanzhong, and even this Xia army is more threatening than the Xia army that occupies the Hexi Corridor because there is no natural danger of the Yellow River.

This was the period when the Sui Empire's forces were at their weakest, and the Xia army seized the opportunity very well.

After some thought, Yang Jian, who was helpless, finally decided to take the general Shi Wansui as the general of the Shuofang march, and mobilized 150,000 people from the Sui army across the river from the Xia army to go north, and he also gritted his teeth and transferred 100,000 recruits from his newly recruited army in Guanzhong to Shi Wansui.

At the same time, Yang Jian ordered the general Yang Yichen to be the general of the Longyou Road march, presiding over the important task of defending the Xia army in Hexi, at this time the Sui army here in Jincheng was less than 100,000 people, if it were not for the surge of the Yellow River during this time, it would not be possible to stop the Xia army from crossing the river.

At this time, Yang Jian had no troops to adjust, and after some struggle, he urgently transferred more than 100,000 Sui troops stationed in the original Tuyuhun hometown to return to Longyou to support Yang Yichen.

Previously, in order to maintain the ability to control the four counties of Tuyuhun, the Sui Empire had been deploying more than 100,000 troops on this grassland, making hundreds of thousands of herdsmen and nobles on this grassland tremble.

In the nearly 20 years since the Tuyuhun was conquered, this fertile grassland has provided hundreds of thousands of excellent war horses for the Sui Empire.

Although the homeland of Tuyuhun was also very important to the Sui Empire, and the rapidly rising Tubo on the Qiangtang was also eyeing this fertile grassland, at this time, even Guanzhong, the hinterland of the empire, began to be threatened by the Xia State, and Yang Jian couldn't care so much for a while.

Yang Jian already had some intention of demolishing the east wall and making up the west wall at this time, which the entire Guanlong Xianbei military aristocratic group saw very clearly, but these people did not intend to help, if Yang Jian could win the Liaodong battlefield, it would be easy to say, but now once defeated, their patience will disappear.

With the intentions of these military aristocratic groups, they have long been impatient with Yang Jian's practice of elevating the status of the Han people, and now they have no action just because they are afraid and jealous of Yang Jian's superb political skills, and no one knows whether the object of their joint rebellion is Yang Jian's cronies.

So these people continued to quietly observe the situation, and then patiently waited for the next opportunity to come, because they knew that Yang Jian was already old, and after a big defeat, he would inevitably fall ill, and a sick old lion would not let the hyena be afraid.

In addition to the 20,000 Sui troops in Xiping County (Xining), the remaining 120,000 Sui troops entered the estuary adjacent to the Yellow River along the Huangshui River and threatened from the rear of the Xia army.

In any case, the Xia army in the Hexi Corridor finally could no longer threaten Jincheng County in a short period of time, and the land of Guanzhong became stable again, which also eased the nervous hearts of Guanzhong officials and heroes.

It's just that the matter here in Tuyuhun is not over, and people with insight know that once more than 100,000 Sui troops leave Tuyuhun, the local tribes will inevitably have troubles.

Sure enough, not long after the Sui army left Tuyuhun, the local tribes quickly rebelled under the instigation of Tubo, and under the support of more than ten big nobles and nearly 100 small and medium-sized nobles, Fu Yun, the youngest son of the last Khan of Tuyuhun, established himself as Khan, and then re-established the country of Tuyuhun.

As soon as Tuyuhun returned to the country, Fu Yun organized nearly 100,000 cavalry, and despite his lack of strength, he successively captured the three counties of Heyuan, Xihai, and Douhe, which were garrisoned by only 1,000 people, and launched an offensive against the most important Xiping County (Xining).

Although the Sui army was defeated in front of the Xia army, this did not mean that the combat effectiveness of the Sui army would be weak, and the 20,000 Sui army in Xiping County took the initiative to go out of the city to fight, and actually defeated the Tuyuhun army in a battle, annihilating more than 30,000 people, and the remaining more than 60,000 Tuyuhun cavalry fled.

Although the attack of the Tuyuhun army was repelled by the Sui army of Xiping County, and the Sui army kept its last county in Tuyuhun's hometown, the loss of the entire Tuyuhun hometown was inevitable in this case.

In this battle, Tuyuhun found that the Sui army was still the object worthy of awe, but after taking control of power, these Tuyuhun people, who were afraid of the Sui army's combat effectiveness, were reluctant to continue to bow down and be grandsons, so their eyes turned to the newly rising Tubo.

Although Fu Yun, the Khan of Tuyuhun, was also worried about the ambitions of the powerful Tubo, the ignorant Tuyuhun nobles thought that the center of Tubo was in the Shannan River Valley, thousands of miles away from the Great Snow Mountains, and that it was a big deal for them to give the Tuboans more gold and silver goods, as well as the slave population.

In this mentality, Fu Yun was powerless to stop it, Tuyuhun and Tubo soon formed an alliance, not knowing that they were the Tuyuhun nobles who were seeking skin with the tiger warmly welcomed the 50,000 cavalry sent by Tubo, but they didn't know that the Tubo people had long been worried about the grassland and hundreds of thousands of herdsmen in Tuyuhun.