Chapter 468: Jiangnan Undercurrent

The imperial court had just ordered to cross the sea to aid the Yan Kingdom, and not long after that, there was a problem in the Western Regions. Compared with Liaodong, the Western Regions are far away, and the roads are difficult, so it is impossible to send a large army to it.

The last time the imperial court sent tens of thousands of troops to the Western Regions to conquer Dawan, although it won a complete victory, but the logistical pressure was so great that it almost emptied the treasury of the Daqian at that time, and there were countless casualties along the way.

Now if you want to do it again, the court can't get the food at all.

"Your Majesty, the five countries of the Western Regions each have 3,000 to 5,000 soldiers, and the Western Regions Protectorate has 5,000 troops, if the people are transferred, it will not be a problem to organize an army of 100,000, and the imperial court will send another 5,000 troops to support, presumably it should be able to stabilize the situation in the Western Regions." Chao thought for a moment and said.

Although both the Dawan Kingdom and the Wusun Kingdom are known as 100,000 troops, the vast majority of these 100,000 people are people's husbands or people's strong armies, and there may not even be 30,000 people who are really strong and persistent.

How do these barbarian kingdoms compare with the elite of the Great Qian? In real history, one Han was a five-hundred-hundred-hundred-thousand-hundred-

The five thousand elites, combined with the Western Regions Protectorate and the five countries of the Western Regions, are enough to deal with the Great Wan Kingdom and the Wusun Kingdom. It's just that you have to face the vastness of the Western Regions, and if you want to settle down, you need enough people to garrison it.

"Five thousand elites, does the imperial court still have grain and grass?" Wang Yi asked.

"Your Majesty, Taifu can't allocate enough grain and grass for the 5,000 troops to expedition to the Western Regions for the time being." Dasi Nong Road.

Although it is said that 5,000 troops will be dispatched, but the Western Regions are thousands of miles away, and the army needs 100,000 stone are not enough. In addition, a large number of people are needed to transport all the way, and if you want to go on an expedition to the Western Regions, even if you have 5,000 people, you will need to spend at least 300,000 stone of grain and grass in the end.

Even in the end, more people were killed and wounded on the road than those killed in battle.

"Your Majesty, you can order the nobles, heroes, and local governments along the way to supply grain and grass!" Prime Minister Zuo Chao said directly: "The trade route in the Western Regions is cut off, and they are the ones who will be most affected, as long as the imperial court orders it, they will provide grain and grass." ”

Wang Yi thought about it and felt that there was no problem, so he issued an edict to Guanzhong, Hexi, Longyou Haoqiang, Xungui and the local government to raise grain and grass to supply the army to go west to quell the rebellion.

As for which army to send, Wang Yi thought about it, and finally felt that Yu Linwei should be dispatched. The five countries of the Western Regions are all feudal states of the royal family, and they can be regarded as the royal family's own land.

Wang Yi sent his younger brother Wang Gu to lead an army of 5,000 and 10,000 people to the Western Regions to quell the rebellion. All the needs of the army along the way were supplied by the counties along the way.

Hexi Longyou because of these years of immigration, a large population, these years have not experienced a catastrophe, there is no problem in supplying the army, after arriving in Dunhuang, there are Liangguo and Tianci City, enough for the army to go to Qiuci, Beiting.

After deciding to send troops, the imperial court soon issued an edict, and in just a month, 5,000 troops set out from Luoyang.

In the fifth year of the Great Qianjianxing, the Western Regions rebelled, and the imperial court sent the general Zhao Wang Chao to lead an army of 5,000 to the Western Regions.

Just when the north of Daqian was plunged into war, some states and counties in the south also became ready to move. Some people saw that the imperial court had been plagued by disasters year after year, and began to secretly declare that the mandate of heaven was about to end, which is why the heavens would send down so many disasters.

The imperial court drew grain and grass from the south and bought grain at a low price, because the south also suffered from floods, and many places were short of grain. The imperial court's tough purchase of grain frustrated many people's desire to make a fortune. In the hearts of these people, if they don't make money, they are losing.

In addition, some treacherous people added fuel to the fire, so some people who were not sober began to secretly instigate the people to make trouble. It's just that this kind of death has just been killed, and it will be wiped out by the county soldiers like a falling leaf in the wind, and there is no need for the court to mobilize the army.

Although these were quickly exterminated, after learning about the situation in the south, the imperial court sent embroidered envoys and inspectors to the south to inspect and check all places.

After decades of development, especially after the emergence of a large number of those schools, the powerful people in various places also changed their styles and began to change to the families of scholars and eunuchs.

The situation on the ground is much more complicated than it was a few decades ago. Even if the imperial court has been cleaned up in about 20 years, there are more and more nobles and families in the world.

This time something happened in the place, and the imperial court planned to take this opportunity to clean up a wave.

Wang Yi selected three scholars from the palace who were proficient in general affairs, practicing Legalism and Confucianism, appointed them to inspect the imperial history, sent them to the south, and sent several teams of embroidery envoys to go together.

The inspectors sent by the imperial court have all been trained, and most of them are young people, who are in a period of blood, and they can't rub sand in their eyes.

After receiving the order, the inspectors soon came to the counties of Jiangnan.

The imperial army crossed the east by boat, and after decades of development, the imperial court's sea ships were far from being comparable to the original. Tens of thousands of troops took hundreds of warships from Dengzhou to the sea, and then crossed the sea to the Liaodong Peninsula.

Tens of thousands of troops landed on the Liaodong Peninsula, although the Xianbei people had already invaded the Yan State, but did not dare to go deeper, but concentrated the main force near the Liaoze Corridor and the eastern Lelang County, wanting to separate the Yan State and Daqian, and then attack from the east, west and north.

300,000 Xianbei Iron Horsemen are enough for them to complete this layout. The whole country of Yan is combined, and the soldiers are only 50,000, so they can only barely hold on to the city. The Xianbei people attacked the city several times.

As a result, he hit his head in front of the city wall and broke his blood, and was even taken advantage of the opportunity by the Yan cavalry to counterattack, and the Xianbei people suffered heavy casualties for a while. After two lessons, the Xianbei people also learned wisely, and began to only besiege and not attack. Then attack towns that are not protected by walls, or that are low.

After these Xianbei people conquered the town, they moved all the people out of the city, and the adult men and the elderly were thrown directly into the battlefield, forcing them to attack, and the women and children were taken captive.

By the time the reinforcements came here, tens of thousands of Yan people had already been taken captive. After Huo Fu learned the news of the Xianbei people, he immediately prepared a large army, and this time 20,000 of the 50,000 troops across the sea were cavalry.

At this time, the Xianbei people thought that they had blocked the passage of Liaoze, and the army of Daqian could not come, so after besieging the army of Yan in several cities, they scattered the remaining troops to plunder.

More than 100,000 Xianbei people were scattered in Liaodong, and after Huo Fu read the information, he immediately led 20,000 cavalry to attack the Xianbei people.

The Xianbei people were scattered in their own places, and they didn't expect that Daqian would be able to come across the sea, and if they didn't have any defense, how could they be the opponent of Daqian's iron cavalry. More than 100,000 troops are scattered all over the country. The 20,000 iron cavalry of Daqian swept through Liaodong like a storm of falling leaves, and those Xianbei people fled in embarrassment by the iron cavalry of Daqian.

Even with the cooperation of Yan Guo, he directly cooperated with the outside and broke Xianbei and beheaded tens of thousands.

(End of chapter)