The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire - Chapter 92

[Chapter 91: The Chaos in Xiliang 3]

Therefore, it is impossible to extract strong men from those commoners and use them as cannon fodder to supplement their own consumption.

The reason why those Xiliang troops can support them now is that the Qiang people behind them are afraid that the Han Dynasty will settle accounts after the autumn.

Before liquidating them, they were the first to provoked the guilt of the rebellion, so they continued to send money, soldiers and food to the Xiliang army, so that they could drag on as long as possible, until the Han Dynasty was impatient and gave up on pacifying Xiliang, or Recruit.

But even so, the support for the Xiliang Army is not too much.

After all, the Qiang people had invested more than 100,000 men in him to participate in the rebellion.

It was just that the troops who came to suppress the rebellion by the Han Dynasty killed them all at once, and only escaped back to him, only a few hundred people.

The strength of the Qiang people, whose total population is less than one million, has been severely damaged, and the whole clan is only left with his 200,000 men. In order to ensure the survival of their own ethnic group, how many soldiers and horses can be sent to assist the Xiliang army!

At most, he is all-powerful, and no matter how much more his own ethnic group survives, it may not be guaranteed.

That way, even if you successfully defended against the Han Dynasty’s attack, but your own ethnic group perished, what’s the point of all this!

Therefore, after more than half a year of war, the entire west of Tongguan can be said to be depopulated and can no longer withstand any toss.

And the reason why those Kwantung gentry have been defeated in those Xiliang armies, and they did not pose any threat to the court, even when those Xiliang armies would surrender with a single order, they did not spare the Xiliang armies , but also to continue to pursue fiercely.

I just want to take this opportunity to smash the entire area west of Tongguan, so that there will be no people living there and no roosters.

Since ancient times, the basis of any regime has been sufficient population.

If you don’t have enough people to support you, even if you have a large territory, you cannot effectively rule and use it.

Naturally, the power of that regime is not so strong.

After the Mongolians unified the grasslands, they did not have many soldiers and horses. After they conquered other countries with large populations, they had enough strength to carry out the war to conquer the Eurasian continent.

At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, it only occupied the entire Liaodong. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, which occupied the whole of China, its strength was not strong.

But after he entered the customs, he got the support of the Han forces in San Francisco headed by Wu Sangui, and immediately began his great cause of pacifying China and unifying the world.

These two powerful empires that once united China only gradually became stronger after they gained the support of many Han Chinese-led forces.

And the current situation of the gentry in Guanzhong Xiliang is also the same.

After this one-year-long war, the people’s livelihood in the entire Guanzhong has been withered, the fertile fields are deserted, and the people are fleeing everywhere. It can be said that the situation before the war will never return.

Now as long as he delays the war for two or three months and consumes a few more men in the pass, the last trace of vitality in this pass will also be exhausted.

At that time, there will not be enough men to grow food, and the fertile land will be abandoned due to the long-term war. The people of Liangzhou in Guanzhong will have no food and will starve and die, and the population will be greatly reduced.

Without a sufficient population, the Guanzhong Generals would no longer be able to organize a strong army, nor would they have enough food to support their gentry to continue to exist.

And Guanzhong will gradually lose its cultural heritage, degenerate into a barbarian land like the pre-Qin period in the Warring States Period, and be completely abandoned and isolated from the mainstream culture of the Central Plains.

At that time, Guanzhong will fall into a long road of reproduction and recovery. When you think about it, a county has only a few hundred people, a county has only a few thousand people, which is equivalent to a province in China with only tens of thousands of people. What is the concept?

How long will it take them to get back to their pre-war state and even go further?

In China, the state of Qin in the pre-Qin period took him as long as 300 years to restore the Guanzhong area, the homeland of the Western Zhou Dynasty after the Quanrong Rebellion.

For such a long time, it has only recovered the grand situation of 300 years ago, and the Central Plains region has long surpassed the economic level of 300 years ago after the development of the past 300 years.

Therefore, Qin Guocai has always been denounced as a barbarian by the princes of the Central Plains, refused to establish diplomatic relations with him, and did not recognize him as a member of the Chinese civilization.

The Guanzhong gentry wanted to imitate the Qin state and restore the grand situation in Guanzhong. At that time, the gentry in the Guandong area had already calmed down the war, and turned their vehicles to continue to suppress Guanzhong.

In August of the first year of Zhongping, after a month of war, the city of Aunt Zang, which had been dilapidated for a long time, was finally opened during another attack by the Han army in red military uniforms under the city.

The boundless Han army poured into the city to get their spoils as victors.

Many defenders in the city were all defeated and killed. Only the two leaders of Han Sui and Ma Teng fled with more than 10,000 people. Xi County, west of Wuwei County, continued to organize troops and horses to resist the attack of the Han Dynasty.

There were also screams of crying and screaming in the city. Because of the months-long war, the tired and tense mind in my heart could finally relax at this moment.

All the soldiers are wanton looting, the turmoil and things that they can see, they wantonly release the suppressed and twisted emotions in their hearts, and the surviving people in the whole city happen to be the best things to vent their anger.

In this way, the surviving residents in the entire city are in bad luck, and they have encountered something more terrifying than the military disaster in the past few months, the massacre of the city.

According to the investigation and statistics of relevant people, there were four or five thousand of his people in the city before the city was destroyed. After the city was destroyed, only 30 or 40 of him were left, and they stayed to clean the bodies.

The crimes and horrors of war are vividly reflected at this moment.

It is no wonder that any common people are saying that they would rather be a dog of peace than a troubled man.

All of these, the officers in the army did not prevent any actions, and even faintly agreed with what those soldiers did.

There are two reasons, one is that those soldiers really need to vent their anger, so that they can relax a little bit, and they won’t lead to mutiny like before, and then they will cry and laugh.

The second is that those officers are basically the Guandong gentry, will they not prevent any actions that weaken the power of the Guanzhong gentry?

And those soldiers are reducing the population of those Guanzhong gentry, making their power weaker and weaker, why not do it!

Therefore, the fate of the people in the city is doomed when the city is broken. If there is an accident, it will be a strange one.

The only thing that people in the city hated was that UU reading www.uukanshu.com did not go to the city to help the defenders defend together when they were defending the city.

On the contrary, it is the emperor of the imperial court who still believes in, the integrity that is not worth believing.

It was easy to give up any resistance, and they were brutally abused by those demons in human skins, and it was too late to resist now.

After the massacre of the city, the emotions of all the soldiers gradually stabilized, and the army of the Guandong family did not continue to advance, leaving him 50,000 people to come down and garrison in the Guanzhong area of Liangzhou.

As for those who have escaped, Han Sui, Ma Teng and the others are not in the eyes of those high-ranking nobles and nobles.

You must know that there are only three counties to the west of Wuwei County, and the total population is only 60,000. Let alone regroup and attack Liangzhou Guanzhong, it is probably impossible to support the more than 10,000 soldiers who escaped!

Therefore, in addition to leaving some soldiers to defend the territory, they transferred the anti-insurgency army, which had been fighting for more than half a year, back to the entire Guandong area of the imperial court.

And when the army of about 112,000 or 20,000 people returned to the Central Plains.

Zhong Yu vowed to expedition to the north in Jiangling City, and the elite army with a number of more than 500,000 was rested and ready to go.

As long as Zhong Yu gave an order, he would be able to drive to the Central Plains and completely bring an end to that decadent dynasty.

After more than half a year of sorting and dredging, the entire site south of the Yangtze River has been completely stabilized.

With the big killer of the seal, all the nobles do not want to overthrow this empire that can build a country for them and honor their ancestors.

This kind of treatment of the feudal establishment, but the Han Dynasty could not give and was unwilling to give it.

Then why did they abandon the bold and generous lord in front of them and go to the Han Dynasty, which was already a broken shoe, like a rotten ship that could sink at any time?

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