The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 334

[Chapter 329 Chaotic Years]

???The sixth year of Emperor Yuan, December.

The year will soon come to an end, and the new year is approaching. This world is full of strife and will soon usher in new changes.

The war between Chu and Yue in the south quickly became clear.

Although the King of Chu brought back an army of 150,000 people, these were all elites who had experienced wars with Qin and Qi, and they were brave and good at fighting, far beyond what the rebels in those places could handle.

Therefore, wherever Master Wang passed, all hopes were extinguished and turned into peace.

The rule of Chu State gradually stabilized and resumed before the war.

However, the impact of the rebellion did not subside.

Locally, the rebels fought against the Chu army, and the damage caused was not to be mentioned.

The rebels alone, and the four counties now divided by them, brought incomparable humiliation and influence to the state of Chu.

That was the last place in Chu State, the place that was least affected by the front-line soldiers.

That is to say, these four counties have the most abundant population, the richest places, and the most young people.

According to internal estimates of Chu, the population of these four counties is about 1.35 million, of which about 400,000 are young and strong.

Coupled with the rebels who fled from Hengshan County to the south, the entire Yue Kingdom was able to gather an army of 500,000.

Moreover, given the wealth of the country of Vietnam, the equipment of this army will not be too bad, and it can barely reach the level of the regular army, unlike those refugees, who are no different from beggars.

Even if the army of 500,000 had no experience in warfare, and many of them were rookie recruits, it was not so simple to defeat them all.

Anyway, in the current situation of Chu State, the population still in the hands of the King of Chu is barely 4 million.

Among them, there are only about 800,000 young people because of the perennial war.

Although there are many veterans among them, and the war experience is quite rich, but in the final analysis, the strength is only twice that of the newly established Yue Kingdom.

Yueguo has the support of the natural danger of the Yangtze River and the advantage of local combat. The Chu army wants to cross the Yangtze River, and even wants to attack the territory of Yueguo, which has basically become empty talk.

What’s more, it is now in the middle of winter, even if Chu is in the south, it is quite cold and difficult to fight.

You can only fight after the next year, when the spring flowers bloom and the fields are cultivated.

Moreover, the Chu State no longer had any military rations to supply the army to fight.

If you want to gather another army of more than 500,000 troops, you don’t have three or five years of self-cultivation, but it’s a fool’s dream.

And after such a long time, the local rule of Yue State has long been ingrained. Originally, the local people still cherished the people of Chu State, and I am afraid that they will gradually plan the Yue State.

In this way, it became more difficult for Chu to recover Yue.

The 300,000 troops of Chu and Wei countries withdrew from the coalition, leaving only 400,000 of the coalition troops on the land of Qi.

The State of Zhao also had an army of 150,000 in the coalition. After seeing the withdrawal of Chu and Wei, the King of Zhao also requested to retreat under the pretext of rebellion in the country.

Zhong Yu kept it in every possible way, and because of his interests, he hoped that King Zhao could stay.

But King Zhao was determined after all, and insisted on leaving you so unfeeling. The 150,000 Zhao Jun kept 50,000 people, which was regarded as a kind of friendship support.

As for the rest, King Zhao brought back the Zhao Kingdom, ready to use the 100,000 Zhao army to stabilize the Chao Gang.

King Zhao was also frightened by the rebellion of Wei and Chu. Even if Zhao’s situation was very good and the rebellion gradually subsided, he did not dare to be careless, for fear that the rebellion would resume again, otherwise he would end up with Chu and Wei. It’s too late to cry!

Similarly, the reason why the armies of the three kingdoms were so anxious to evacuate was that they did not care about their sympathy at all, and it was also the reason why Cao Cao casually depleted their troops before, and also resented Zhong Yu and directly ordered the literati to be crushed and killed.

If it weren’t for Zhong Yu’s order to kill all these warriors and literati without regard to their background, it would not have caused the rebellion in the Three Kingdoms.

Therefore, although they did not dare to say anything on the surface, they still hated it secretly and didn’t want to stay here, for fear that they would end up with a plot.

As for Wei State, because King Wei’s army of 150,000 was withdrawn, it cooperated with Zhao State’s original anti-rebel army. Under the attack of the two sides, the rebel army in Dongjun was quickly defeated.

These rebels were not beheaded, but their leaders were beheaded.

It was the remnants who retreated to Tao County, the rebel’s lair, huddled up and built a defense to actively resist.

In other parts of the Wei Kingdom, sporadic rebellions were quickly quelled and generally stable.

Only the old nest of Tao County was difficult to conquer. In addition to the cold season, it was difficult for the army to be dispatched, so it became a stalemate.

In the state of Qi, there are still half of Linzi County, half of Langya County, and the whole of Jiaodong County.

The strength is no more than the Trinity before the war,

Great loss of strength.

And all the soldiers and horses of Qi State added up to only about 450,000, and most of them were fearful soldiers, unable to fight.

However, the coalition forces on the opposite side are not much better now.

With the withdrawal of troops from the three kingdoms of Zhao, Wei and Chu, only the three kingdoms of Yan, Han and Yu were left in the coalition.

com, plus the 50,000 people left by Zhao Guo, is no more than 350,000 troops.

Although the combat strength is better than the 450,000 people on the opposite side, if you want to stay behind such a large occupied territory of Qi State, you will have to disperse a lot of troops and horses.

The rest of the people wanted to continue to attack Qi, but it was impossible.

However, with the withdrawal of the army of the Three Kingdoms, although the coalition army was in trouble, the current chaos provided Zhong Yu with a fantastic idea.

Because of the appearance of the Yue Kingdom, the Chu State can be said to be abolished, and there is no longer any energy and thought to intervene in the original.

I am afraid that in the next time, if there is no accident, Chu State and Yue State will fall in love with each other and kill each other.

The same is true of Wei State. Originally, its own foundation, Dongjun and Taojun, the two most prosperous counties in Wei State, was only a little worse than the area where Daliang was located.

It has always been the source of soldiers and wealth of the Wei state. Now, after experiencing such a scourge of the rebels, Dongjun was directly beaten and disabled. The remaining Taojun is still in the hands of the rebels, and I don’t know when it will be recovered.

The state of Wei has long since lost its high spirits, and is now actively quelling the rebellion, and is now recuperating.

Although the state of Zhao is much better, Taiyuan County and its surrounding areas have also been damaged a lot by the war, and it will take a long time to restore the previous grand situation.

In other words, these three major countries have been completely abolished.

And now there are only two small states of Han Yan, and the now crippled state of Qi.

In this way, most of the goals on my side have been completed, and I can almost withdraw the troops to truce and return to the Imperial Kingdom.

However, Zhong Yu didn’t plan to leave like this.

Today, although countries have weakened a lot, and the wars in the world are still going on, the damage to the potential of the Central Plains is not the most ruthless.

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