The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 91

[Chapter 90 The Chaos in Xiliang 2]

After January, when all the high-ranking officials and nobles, the local aristocrats did everything possible to gather all the soldiers they could call into Luoyang City.

An elite army of more than 100,000 people appeared. This army was well-equipped and wore weapons and armor that had been accumulated by those aristocratic families for decades.

The personnel composition is also mostly composed of those families, who have raised countless generations of family sons and loyal servants. In terms of loyalty, they are extremely trustworthy for those noble families.

With this layer of protection, and the generous donations of those nobles, they continue to donate the food that has been piled up in their warehouses.

In addition to the wives and children of these soldiers, the family members are cared for by the loyal nobles who take care of their reputation and family servants. It can be said that the worries are completely eliminated, so the morale is guaranteed and very high.

So from this aspect, it can be seen how deeply rooted the influence of these aristocratic families in the entire Han Dynasty was, and how great the wealth they occupied.

This is only a short period of time, and it is only a part of the private soldiers from the surrounding counties and counties around Luoyang. If the entire noble family in the Han Dynasty is gathered, all the private soldiers that can be mobilized are gathered.

I am afraid that it can form an army with a number of more than 500,000, and it is not as wasteful as the army of ordinary county soldiers in the imperial court, and it has some training foundation.

And it is well-equipped, and the battle is relatively strong and not afraid of death. This force is enough to shake the ruling foundation of any dynasty, and make that dynasty collapse overnight and become historical dust.

Of course, an aristocratic family with such strength only survived in the dynasties before the Sui and Tang dynasties.

Dynasties prior to this were often military imperialists, aggressive and pioneering.

In the usual sense, “empire” is a historical concept.

It generally contains three basic characteristics: first, a unified and vast territory (small countries have no empires); second, autocratic rule or a high degree of centralization (democracies have no empires); third, powerful military expansion (without expansion, no empires) .

No matter how rich and powerful the dynasties after the Tang Dynasty were, none of them could be called empires.

The reason is that Zhong Yu believes that after the Song Dynasty, the power of the local government was highly concentrated in the center, and the literati began to slowly change from the saber sword and martial arts to the poetry and pairing.

The gentry literati who belonged to the ruling class gradually developed into weak scholars who had no power in their hands.

Losing the bravery of the warriors, the country has gradually lost its pioneering and tended to be conservative!

Therefore, at that time, most of the nobility kept domestic servants who were armed with wooden sticks and had no sharp weapons, and the number of them was not large. At most, he only sent ten to hundreds of people.

Like before the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they raised more well-equipped and well-trained soldiers than the regular army of the imperial court, and the number of soldiers could be in the hundreds of thousands, which was more than the local army maintaining law and order.

In this way, this army of 100,000 people headed to Xiliang as the first wave of reinforcements to resist the attack of the Xiliang army. The main function was to maintain the front line of defense and occupy more footholds.

Then there will be a second wave of gentry reinforcements with a number of about 200,000, which will be bound for the Guanzhong area.

To carry out a large-scale counter-offensive after the battlefield has stabilized, those Guandong families intend to take this opportunity to eradicate those Guanzhong families in one fell swoop, so as to eliminate this serious trouble for all scholars in the world.

When the reinforcements arrived at Chang’an City, they were quickly divided into various defensive battlefields. After another expansion of the Xiliang Army, an army of more than 300,000 people stormed the crumbling defensive line and stabilized immediately. down.

The battlefield has entered a stage of stalemate. Although it is impossible for the imperial court to counterattack with hundreds of thousands of people, it is even more unrealistic for the Xiliang Army to break through these hundreds of thousands of well-equipped and stable troops.

After another month, the second batch of gentry reinforcements, numbering 200,000, reached the Great Wall as quickly as possible under the concerted efforts of all gentry.

The battlefield of Chang’an City, which received reinforcements, immediately began a large-scale counter-offensive.

After a month of war consumption, both the defenders of the Great Wall and the siege army on the Xiliang side were exhausted.

At this time, a group of 200,000 new troops has just been obtained, how can they miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Don’t take advantage of the time when the Xiliang army is exhausted and ready to cultivate, take the opportunity to attack and defeat them in one fell swoop.

Do they have to wait for their turbulent attack when they have finished their cultivation and the army is reorganized again and regained its most prosperous combat power?

The 200,000 army swept over like a wave, and it would have long since reached the limit of the Xiliang army, and it would be easily submerged like a reef.

The Xiliang army with more than 200,000 people left was suddenly defeated, beheading 100,000 people, leaving only more than 100,000 people who fled to his hometown of Liangzhou, ready to recruit troops again, regroup and fight back.

The court took advantage of the victory to pursue, and recovered countless counties along the way.

Finally, in Tianshui County, they faced each other across the Wei River with the Xiliang Army, which had regained its strength again.

In July of the first year of Zhongping, more than half a year had passed since Zhong Yu unified the entire south.

In this, the Han court finally found itself in the south,

A huge empire has risen, and it is no less than itself in terms of territory.

However, at this time, the Han Dynasty, which had already been messed up by the Xiliangzhi, was unable to take into account the situation in the south.

Although he didn’t quite think that the newly rising empire in the south could have enough power to attack him.

I’m afraid he, like most emerging empires, is busy building his own internal system and appeasing local literati.

All the energy is devoted to the construction of the country within the territory, where does UU read www.uukanshu.com still have the spare strength to attack the north, where is this powerful military self?

You must know that most of the north is an endless plain, and the south just has no good horses, so it has no strategic advantage.

So even though he was very angry and worried, he deeply hated the rebellious thief in the south.

However, Emperor Ling was still very wise to put all his power into the battlefield of Xiliang.

Looking forward to quelling the rebellion in this place as soon as possible, so that I can concentrate all my energy on recovering and resisting the attack from the south.

Under the command of this policy and strategy, the Xiliang Army, which had already fallen below, suddenly became precarious.

Batch after batch of reinforcements went to Xiliang, knowing that their life and death were at stake in the gentry, and resolutely led the local people in Xiliang to fight to the death.

However, the battlefield situation is still unavoidable. How can you resist the power of one state? The power of the eight states in the north of Dahan is far more prosperous than the power of eight states in Xiliang!

The battle line retreated from Tianshui to the two counties of Longyou and Jincheng, and from these two counties to Wuwei County; although the force was supplemented, it was still from just 200,000 at the beginning, to more than 100,000, and then to the current five. sixty thousand.

It could only barely resist the attack of the 200,000 troops deployed by the imperial court in Xiliang.

Xiliang has a small population, and the population originally registered was only about 500,000. Even if the three Guanzhong counties were added, the total population was only about one million.

Before the rebellion of Xiliang, 200,000 of his men were entrained from the entire Xiliang Pass to join the army.

In order to resist the attack of the rebels, the court arrested tens of thousands of his people as cannon fodder.

After this consumption, the population of Xiliang and Guanzhong has been greatly reduced. It is estimated that there are only 400,000 to 500,000 people, and the man does not know whether there are still 30,000 or 40,000 people left.

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