Chapter 602: Heroes compete for supremacy
The 50,000 Tibetan army led by Qinling Rilong was completely annihilated.
In addition to the annihilation of this Tibetan army, all the Tibetan armies north of Jishi Mountain were attacked to varying degrees by the Xia State, and the Tubo army in Heyuan, Caohan, and Douhe counties was basically wiped out, and the Tubo army in Xihai County ran fast and lost only one-third.
However, in order to wait for the return of the Qinling Ri Lane before the Tubo Zanpu Nangri Zanzan, he was raided by the main cavalry of the Xia army that leaped thousands of miles, although he barely resisted and kept the main army, but he also lost nearly 30,000 people, and had to urgently withdraw to the south of Jishi Mountain for defense.
In this round of all-out attacks by the Xia Kingdom, the Tubo people lost nearly 120,000 troops, and also lost more than 200,000 troops, not only lost the original Tuyuhun homeland, which was very important to the Tubo, but more importantly, the Tubo people, whose strength had been greatly reduced, lost their own deterrent.
Tubo originally had less than 300,000 troops, which was still a powerful army formed under the condition that all the people were soldiers, and this time it lost 120,000 troops, which means that the Tubo people actually lost nearly a quarter of the young and strong men at one time.
After losing so many troops and subordinates, the strength of the Tibetans was severely damaged, and they would be very sad in the days to come.
After the Xia army defeated the army of Nangri and Zansuo, and wiped out all the Qinling Ri Alleys that had created boundless slaughter in Guanzhong, they did not go further south to cross the Great Snow Mountain to attack the heartland of Tubo.
Because the Xia army is not very suitable for the operation in the plateau area after all, it can barely maintain the combat effectiveness of the army in the relatively low altitude of Tuyuhun hometown, even if this is the case, there are still a large number of Xia soldiers who have various plateau diseases, and the Wanli Qiangtang south of Jishi Mountain at a higher altitude is not something that the Xia army can set foot in at present.
Although the Xia State failed to attack Jishi Mountain, with the support of the Xia State, Yangtong, Zhangxiong, Dongqiang Women's State and other countries continued to fight with the Tubo people, so that the Tubo, whose strength had been sharply reduced, was unable to restore its national strength at all, and the Subi, Dangxiang and other tribes that were previously annexed by the Tubo also regained their independence.
Under such successive blows, the number of Tubo territories and tribes that had suffered serious setbacks continued to shrink, and in just one year, they returned to the state when they only occupied the Yarlung Zangbo River Valley.
At this time, the Xia Kingdom had no time to pay attention to Tubo for the time being, and after the entire Tuyuhun hometown was captured by the Xia Kingdom, it not only added a large area of excellent grassland to the Xia Kingdom again, but even this is an extremely important strategic place, from Caohan County and other places can better threaten Lintao, Jincheng and other places.
As long as Lintao County is captured, the Xia army can easily attack the land of Guanzhong and Bashu based on here, it can be said that this is a sharp blade behind the Xia State to threaten Li Tang's regime, and Tubo, which was originally able to unite with Li Tang, was completely cut off after losing here.
Wang Ze learned the lessons of the Sui and Tang dynasties during the occupation of Tuyuhun, when the Sui and Tang regimes treated the Tuyuhun tribes with great favor, but as soon as there was any disturbance, these ungrateful tribes would immediately bite back and massacre the Han people in Hexi.
Therefore, after defeating the Tibetans and occupying the Tuyuhun homeland, all the tribes in the entire Tuyuhun homeland were either slaughtered by the Xia army, or had to leave here under the forced orders of the Xia state, and were relocated to the pastures of Yanfuzhou (Australia), Xinqingzhou (New Zealand) and other places, where there was a large amount of pasture that needed these experienced herdsmen.
Although the altitude of Tuyuhun is relatively high compared to the Hexi Corridor, it is still a place that everyone can tolerate, and under the attraction of the Xia State government with a large number of pastures and other excellent conditions, more than 200,000 Xia herdsmen still voluntarily signed up to migrate here.
More than 200,000 herdsmen scattered in this vast grassland still seem extremely sparsely populated, but Wang Ze is not ready to increase the number of local herdsmen, after all, the ecological environment on the plateau is still too easy to be destroyed, as long as the land can be firmly controlled, there will be fewer herders.
Taking advantage of the chaotic war in the Guanzhong land of the Sui Empire, the Xia State used its power in the Sui Empire to continuously encourage the people of the Sui Empire in Guanzhong to flee westward in large numbers, and most of these people were resettled by the Xia State along the Hexi Corridor to the counties of the Western Regions and the land in the river, which was too far away from the Xia State and the Central Plains, and there was a great lack of people to fill it.
A large number of people in Guanzhong fled westward, while the people in Hebei fled north to the Xia territory north of Hutuoshui, the people south of the river fled to the east to the sea, and the people of the Sui Empire in Jianghuai crossed the river to the south, hoping to find their own comfort in this troubled world.
With the death of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, the last rope that maintained the Sui Empire was completely broken, and the war in the Sui Empire was in full swing.
At this time, Dou Jiande's power increased dramatically with the support of the Xia army, and he had occupied almost the entire land north of the river, and was constantly fighting with the Wagang army south of the river, Wang Shichong, and the Li Tang regime in the west of Taihang Mountain in Hebei, hoping that he could become the one who seized power.
After Wang Shichong captured Luoyang and occupied the land of Heluo, he was a relatively powerful force among the rising stars, although the Wagang army that occupied Xingyang County was helpless for a while, but soon Li Mi defeated Wang Bo of the soft persimmon and seized the land of Huaiyang, Qian County and Runan County in the hands of Wang Bo.
After Zhang Xutuo and Yang Tong and others were destroyed by the Wagang army, Wang Bo had a good life, but when he saw the Wagang army coming to grab his own territory, he was fortunate to escape quickly when he saw that the situation was not good, and soon seized Nanyang and Xiangyang to the west, and there was a tendency to go further south along the Han River.
Xu Yuanlang, who started in Pengcheng, was sandwiched between the Wagang Army, Du Fuwei and Xia Guo, although he couldn't defeat any of the surrounding forces, but he still had a relatively nourishing life with a good army of fifty or sixty thousand combat effectiveness, although expansion was impossible, but no one wanted to provoke him at present.
Compared with Xu Yuanlang, Du Fuwei was more bullish in the Jianghuai, Li Zitong went south to eliminate Shen Faxing and occupied the entire Jiangdong land, but Du Fuwei defeated Li Zitong and seized the vast rich areas including Jianghuai, Jiangdong and later northern Zhejiang, and even established power in Danyang County.
After Li Zitong was defeated by Du Fuwei, he led his army to flee westward, and developed rapidly in Jiujiang and Jiangxia (Wuchang), and once again had tens of thousands of troops, which can be regarded as a relatively powerful force in this area, but it is still much worse than when he occupied Jiangdong before.
With the war between Du Fuwei and Li Zitong in the land of Jianghuai, a large number of people in the Jianghuai region went south again, because Wang Ze had helped the Southern Dynasty to carry out many large-scale migrations in the past, even if he had not set foot in Jiangnan for a long time, but many people in the Jianghuai region still knew that as long as they fled to Lingnan, they could survive.
Therefore, as the situation in the north and the Yangtze River basin is getting worse and worse, more and more people are going south, and these people are not only going south along the Hunan and Jiangxi rivers, but they can be seen in any place to see people who are firmly going south, even in the coastal Huiji area, there are a large number of people going south along the coastline.
After the Feng brothers were willing to annex Lingnan, Wang Ze gave them very high treatment, but it was impossible to retain all military power and the like, and the rule here basically copied the style of the Xia State itself, and the military and government were separated, all of which were directly managed by the Xia State Council, and the army was also dispatched by the Xia State Privy Council.
In fact, Wang Ze also discussed with the Feng brothers that he could give them a good fief and let them take their families overseas to continue to establish their own country, after all, their ancestors were also one of the founders of Northern Yan during the period of the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms.
Feng Huo was still very moved by Wang Ze's suggestion, but Feng Ang simply refused, because he thought that under the current situation, he would rather be a phoenix tail than a chicken head, and it would be even better to develop in the Xia Kingdom than to stand on his own, not to mention that his family has such a close relationship with the royal family of the Xia Kingdom.
After receiving the news that a large number of people had fled to Lingnan, the Xia generals and Feng brothers in Lingnan thought that the time was ripe for the Northern Expedition, so the more than 100,000 Xia soldiers here divided into two routes, one way quickly crossed Shi'an County, and successively captured Lingling and Hengshan Counties along Xiangshui, and the other way was to seize Guiyang County and Nankang County in the upper reaches of Ganshui.
At the same time as the action of the Xia army in Lingnan, there were also 100,000 Xia troops in Yizhou, which quickly regrouped and crossed the sea to the west, and successively captured Yongjia County and Jian'an County, so that the Xia army had captured the entire south of the Yangtze River, Liangguang, Fujian and Zhejiang, and later the southern part of Hunan and Jiangxi provinces.
If you add the entire Vietnam and the Nanyang Islands in later generations, the Xia State has successfully turned the entire South China Sea into its own inland sea, except for Yizhou, which is located in the southwest region, which has not yet bordered the Xia State, all the other Sui Empire territories have been surrounded by the Xia State.
After occupying Xiangshui, Ganshui, Fujian and Zhejiang, the Xia army did not continue to attack the prefectures and counties in the north, they only agreed with the princes of various places not to harm the local ordinary people, and as long as they helped those people to move freely to the Xia Kingdom, they could get a lot of assistance, whether it was food or weapons.
Originally, the people of the Sui Empire did not have the habit of migrating like the people of the Xia Kingdom, and if they were allowed to migrate overseas to survive in peacetime, it would be impossible to kill them, but now in order to save their lives, going overseas seems to be a good note.
From the defeat of the second attack of the Sui Empire in the 46th year of the Xia calendar, until the next two or three years, the Xia State actually evacuated millions of people from the Sui Empire, if you count the number of people killed and wounded because of the war, by the 49th year of the Xia calendar, all the people in the Sui Empire were only about 20 million.