Chapter 348: Crusade against Sri Buddha's Death
Everything is to prevent trouble, although Wang Ze's troops are relatively tight now, but he still decided to send an army to join forces with Sun Xing's first fleet to attack the kingdom of Sri Buddha, and now Wang Ze needs to consider which army to send to Nanyang.
But after thinking about it, Wang Ze suddenly found that he no longer had an army that could be sent to Nanyang, and all the troops in his hands had been of very important use.
In fact, this is a very normal thing, even if it is the only super empire in the world in later generations, Mi Di, only boasts to people all day long that he can deal with and win two battles at the same time, and he has not said that he can deal with three battles, and the battles that Wang Ze is facing now are more than two or three battles!
Counting from the northernmost Beji land, which was being contested with Goguryeo, there were several battlefields here alone that held back most of Wang Ze's forces, including the Jiangchuan First Army against Wanshui (the middle reaches of the Heilongjiang River), the Xuning Second Army in the Nanshui (Songhua River) Valley, and the Zhonghu Army in Zhenhai.
Coupled with Hu Bingchang's cavalry, 'grizzly' troops, and 'wolf's teeth' troops, Wang Ze had to retain nearly 90,000 troops to cope with Goguryeo's expansion to the north in the past two years.
The Third Army, the National Guard, and the White Wolf Battalion in the counties of the East China Sea were responsible for defending against the possible attack of Goguryeo and Silla again, and they could not be transferred unless absolutely necessary.
At the same time, in the land of Sanqi to the west of the sea, his father Wang Yong had to fight against the Northern Qi and had to take away the 40,000 people of the Blue Wolf Army, and Wang Ze had to ensure the supply of his father's weapons at any time, and even some strategic materials had to be supplied.
In addition, Wang Ze must also ensure that in case of emergencies such as the freezing of the Yellow River again, he must be able to send troops to rescue his father as soon as possible, which will also contain Wang Ze at least 40,000 blue wolf troops and thousands of sailors.
Immediately after that, He Liang was suddenly attacked by the Nantianzhu people in the Western Ocean, and not only did he need Du Sheng's troops to go to support, but I am afraid that after Du Sheng and He Liang retaliated against the Nantianzhu people, they also needed to send a part of their troops to the Western Ocean to support these two people.
In the end, coupled with the Nanyang cities that are also in urgent need of military support, for a time Wang Ze actually had to face the military support of four battles at the same time, even if the old beauty of later generations encountered such a situation, it is estimated that he will be blind, although the strength between Wang Ze and the old United States is not the same, but the reason is the same.
For this kind of more important matter, of course, Wang Ze wants to discuss it with Qi Yangku, Liu Xin, Xiao Jing, Lu Wen and others, even if several people were officials in charge of cultural governance in the past, but now that they are the Shangshu of the Central Senate, they also have the right to participate.
However, Xiao Jing was a little timid after all because of his attempt to escape privately, and basically did not express too many opinions on this kind of military affairs, although Lu Wen had knowledge, he was not as good as a few others, because it was mainly Yang Ku and Liu Xin who expressed some opinions.
Unexpectedly, after reading the information of the West and the South Seas, Yang Ku and Liu Xin both felt that now that Du Sheng had started a war against Nan Tianzhu, it was better to send an army to deal with the affairs of the West first, and then take action against the death of Sri Buddha, who started a war without authorization, in order to avenge his invasion of Surabaya City.
Faced with the different opinions of the two scholars, Wang Ze was silent for a long time, but after thinking for a long time, Wang Ze still strongly advocated sending troops.
In his opinion, now that Sri Buddha has passed away, he dares to make a move against Surabaya City, undoubtedly feeling that his strength is inferior to him, and if he has not made any movement after being invaded, it will inevitably give the Nanyang countries a feeling that they are very bullied.
Although at the beginning, Sri Buddha sent troops very quickly and preempted the other countries, but when the second wave of armies attacked again, the countries of the South Seas watched his movements.
Originally, these countries were all sighing, a piece of fat everyone wanted to move, but unfortunately he was in front, when Sri Buddha died after the unexpected defeat of the army, on the one hand, these countries were afraid of the strength of Surabaya City, but also ready to move.
You must know that these countries in Nanyang are all countries that do not pay attention to benevolence, righteousness and morality, and only talk about the law of the jungle, in case these countries feel that they have a advantage to take advantage of Surabaya City, and see that they do not have any retaliation and send troops to attack together, so even if Sun Xing leads the fleet to guard the cities in Nanyang, I am afraid that it will not be able to withstand the joint attack of these countries.
In this way, Wang Ze might as well launch a counterattack against Sri Buddha's country as soon as possible, show his attitude through retaliatory strikes, and show his strong strength, and strangle all possible signs in the initial embryonic state.
But after talking about all the problems in a long circle, things still come back to the original problem: the lack of troops.
So far, Wang Ze has only Zheng Kui and Han Zigao in the East China Sea who have no combat missions, but if these two departments are transferred, once there is any accident in the East China Sea or in the land of Sanqi, Wang Ze has no extra troops to deal with emergencies. Night Night Chinese
In the end, Liu Xin saw that Wang Ze had made up his mind, and gave an idea, since the militia selected to Nanyang has now begun to move to the local area, it is better to select some outstanding militia from these people as grassroots officers, plus some other local ordinary Han people young and strong to form the Nanyang garrison division.
In this way, Wang Ze only needs to provide a large number of weapons and armor, which is not a difficult task for the current East China Sea at all, and the formation of the Nanyang garrison can not only make full use of the local people's own strength to protect the local security, but also train this newly established army through this war against Sri Buddha's country.
After thinking about it carefully, Wang Ze had to admit that this was a good idea, so that all the militia veterans and recruits would be softened together, and then a part of the army would be trained through war, and the combat effectiveness of the army of Sri Buddha was obviously not very good, so it was enough to train soldiers.
Thinking of this, Wang Ze ordered the establishment of the Nanyang Garrison Division on the one hand, and at the same time, in order to prevent Yizhou from being attacked by Nanchen again, Wang Ze also ordered to expand the Yizhou Infantry Barracks and establish the Yizhou Garrison Division.
Over the years, there were nearly 3,000 infantry troops in Yizhou, and later, in order to crack down on the mountain tribes that often invaded Yizhou, the National Guard was set up in each county.
So Liu Fu, who has been serving as the captain of the Yizhou Infantry Military Academy, naturally became the supreme commander of the Yizhou Garrison Division, but because of the lack of military exploits, there is only one rank of Captain Military Sima, and the four battalions under him are in addition to the first battalion directly under Liu Fu, the second battalion is led by Shang Shengmao, the eldest son of the old man of Shang because of his good martial arts and generousness, he is very popular with the soldiers.
Therefore, although he is forty years old this year, he still became the captain of the second battalion, the third battalion is led by Huang Sheng, who is from Yizhou and the Han people, and the fourth battalion is led by Lin Shengjin, a native of Nan'an County.
Compared with the Yizhou garrison, which mainly promoted generals from the local Han people, the Nanyang garrison division did not have the corresponding talents, and Zhou Qiang, who originally served as the deputy of Hanwen, became the supreme commander of this army, and this playmate of Wang Yong when he was a teenager is now in his forties.
In addition to the first battalion of the Nanyang garrison division directly stationed in Hancheng by Zhou Qiang, the second battalion stationed in Yecheng by Lao Sun (Zhao Yong's old department) Sun Wen served as the captain of the garrison battalion, and the third battalion was stationed in the north of Borneo in the dragon bay.
As for the fourth battalion, it was stationed in the city of Surabaya directly facing the kingdom of Sri Buddha, the kingdom of Chenla and the kingdom of Charentra, and Wei Sheng, the prisoner who had reported back from He Liang, served as the captain of the garrison battalion, and He Liang sent a total of more than a dozen ships to report the news, but only Wei Sheng was able to cross the sea safely, and in order to reward him for coming regardless of life and death, Wang Ze pardoned part of his guilt.
In addition to the Yizhou Garrison Division and the Nanyang Garrison Division, Wang Ze also ordered the establishment of the Pearl Islands Garrison Battalion, with Shen Buqi, a prisoner who had made meritorious contributions during the battle at Nantianzhu, as the captain of the garrison battalion.
It is said that it is to prepare for two armies, but in fact, as long as Wang Ze's weapons, armor and officers are in place, they will be formed very quickly, and when these two armies are formed, Wang Ze will also begin to prepare to attack the death of Sri Buddha.
Under Wang Ze's order, Zhou Qiang attacked the territory of Sri Buddha in the west of Borneo in the second month of the formation of the Nanyang Garrison Division, and at the same time cooperated with the Nanyang Garrison Division to fight with the 'Viper' troops led by Lin Jing with 1,000 people.
In addition, there are two battalions of the second battalion and the third battalion mobilized from the Yizhou garrison division, after all, the Yizhou garrison division has always lacked combat experience, and sending them to Nanyang to participate in the war in turn can be regarded as a good exercise.
The core of the kingdom of Sri Buddha was located in the southeast of the later island of Sumatra, and its capital was then called Bolim State, that is, the old port of the later Sumatra island.
In the original history, from the 7th century to the 12th century, the kingdom of Sri Buddha was dominant throughout the South Seas, and many governments in northwestern Sumatra and the Malay Peninsula became vassals of the kingdom of Sri Buddha.
The geographical location of Sri Buddha's country is even more unique, not only occupying a strategic place in eastern Sumatra, but also a very powerful navy and army, controlling the sea power between the Strait of Malacca and the Sunda Islands, dominating the shipping lanes from the Western Ocean to China, forcing ships to anchor and pay taxes, and mastering trade in the South China Sea.
In addition, its vassal states also paid a large amount of tribute to the deceased kingdom of Sri Buddha, and a large number of luxury goods, such as rhino horn, ivory, pearls, and incense, were gathered here and then transshipped to China and other places. Sri Buddha used the wealth of international trade to maintain a strong navy and force subjects into submission.
At its most powerful time, he even conquered the kingdom of Chenla for a time, and crossed the ocean to occupy Ceylon for a period of time, forcing Nan Tianzhu, also known as the state of Zhulin, to give up the territory of Ceylon.
However, all this happened after the original historical Tang Dynasty, and although the current Sri Buddha is a relatively powerful country in the South Seas, it still only controls Temasek (Singapore) in the southeast of Sumatra and the entrance to the strait.
Others, such as the central and western parts of Java and the Malay Peninsula south of the Kra Isthmus, had not yet become his territory, and he was destined to lose his future glory after Wang Ze sent a large army to defeat Sri Buddha.