Three Kingdoms Eschatology

With the pawns of both sides fighting together, the Wei army began to gain the upper hand more and more.Sima Jin was shot several times, but when he was about to face death, he became terrified.He was covered in wounds, and when he stumbled backwards to escape, he was pierced through the head by a heavy arrow.Before Sima Jin died, the Jin army on the top of the cliff had collapsed and fled like headless chickens.The Wei army in the back chased and killed them bravely.Although the top of the cliff is relatively flat, the way to go is a rugged mountain road. There is no way for the Jin army to escape. The Wei soldiers who were chased up were all killed. In the end, most people could only choose to kneel down and beg for surrender.

Zhang Yun at the bottom of the cliff saw that the above had succeeded, and waved his hand: "The tiger and leopard riders follow me to kill the enemy." Then he rode his horse and led two thousand tiger and leopard riders to kill along the canyon.In the canyon, two thousand Jin troops were waiting in formation. Behind the heavy antlers and horses, there was a dense Jin army formation. They heard the thunderous roar of horseshoes, and they raised their spears like a forest.But at this time, huge boulders and trees fell from the top of the cliff. These were originally prepared by Sima Jin for the Wei army, but now they are used by the Jin army themselves.

Only then did the Jin army in the canyon at the bottom of the cliff realize that the top of the cliff had been lost. Under the bombardment of the rolling wood and rocks, they would not dare to fight again, and they all ran back.Zhang Xi's tiger and leopard cavalry passed through the obstacles of the antlers and horses without any hindrance, and chased them away...

Chapter 805 Kyushu Decisive Battle

Xin'an Jin Kingdom Palace on Kyushu Island.In Sima Yi's study --- Qinzheng Hall, he was reclining on the soft bed and listening to the servants report one by one the military intelligence pond newspapers from all over the country.

The more Sima Yi listened, the more he frowned, because all the news was bad.Why did the Liang army sailors land at a certain location on the east coast and captured a certain castle? What happened when several galley warships of the Liang army broke into the Ariake Sea and sank more than ten warships of the Jin army. connection.

Sima Yi, who was getting more and more depressed, was about to ask the servants to step down, when he was quiet.Another servant rushed into the Qinzheng Hall in a panic and reported urgently: "Report to Your Majesty, the Wei army has broken through the Xuanyue Pass..."

Before he finished speaking, Sima Yi's eyes lit up.This Xuanyue Pass is the gourd mouth that Wei Jun said.Sima Yi expected Wei Jun to break through Xuanyue Pass. What he cared about was whether the battle hit Wei Jun as he planned.But the servant's next words made him feel like five thunderbolts.

"..., Sima Jin, the chief general of Xuanyue Pass, was killed in battle and died for the country. Our army's defenders were defeated, and there were not many left..."

Sima Yi interrupted the servant with a dark face, "Don't say that. Just tell me how many casualties have been caused to the enemy?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the pond report failed to state exactly how many casualties the enemy suffered in this battle. This pond is located fifty miles behind Xuanyue Pass, and the defenders of our fortress collected information and submitted it. .However, this pond newspaper recorded the description of the defeated soldiers based on its containment, saying that the enemy army broke through Xuanyue Pass in only three hours..."

Sima Yi suddenly revealed a murderous look on his face and said: "Impossible, Xuanyue Pass cannot be lost in just three hours anyway. These defeated soldiers must have lied about the military situation, and they should be executed!"

Seeing that Sima Yi was angry, the waiter continued, muttering, "The pond newspaper also said that the enemy army used a giant lift-off lamp to capture the cliff tops on both sides of the Xuanyue Pass Canyon, and then broke through the pass."

After hearing this, Sima Yi believed it was a fact, and heaved a heavy sigh.Obviously, even without the battle damage of the Wei army, it is impossible for the Wei army to suffer much loss based on the battle and time alone.His soldiers and horses at Xuanyue Pass and the lives of his brother Sima Jin were wasted in vain.

It took a long time for Sima Yi, who was panting heavily, to calm down, and shouted to the waiter: "How is the army gathering?"

The servant immediately responded: "Hui Sheng said, according to the memorials submitted by General Sima Lang and former general Sima Tong, besides [-] veterans from the Central Plains, there are [-] Japanese soldiers in Xin'an, not counting the Japanese soldiers on Shikoku Island." soldiers, and three or four thousand Japanese soldiers should be on their way."

"I pass on the edict to order those Japanese soldiers who haven't arrived to speed up their journey. They must arrive before the enemy army reaches Xin'an, otherwise they will be killed without mercy!"

"promise"

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Two days later, Wei Jun arrived near Xin'an City.When Cao Chong was able to see the walls of Xin'an City from a distance, his soldiers had already reported that the road ahead was blocked by the Jin army's company battalion, and they began to line up after seeing the Wei army approaching.

This news surprised Guo Jia.He originally thought that the Jin army would stick to the city, and at most, in order to prevent the city from being besieged, they would set up a camp outside the city to form a corner with the city.But now Sima Yi chose to use the most impossible tactics, posing as an army duel.

At this time, Xu Chu was also beside them. After hearing this, he said: "Your Majesty, Prime Minister. Isn't it a great thing that the Jin army is going to face us in a decisive battle? It saves us from attacking the city and can fight Depends."

Guo Jia said with a cold smile: "When you encounter such a cheap thing, you have to think about whether there is anything strange about it, especially when our opponent is someone like Sima Yi." The whole army stopped advancing ten miles away from the enemy camp and set up camp. Don't pay attention to the enemy's formation."

In the end, he and Cao Chong Xu Chu rode away to the front army surrounded by all the guards.When they reached the front, they found that in the open field, the Jin army had formed a large formation of considerable width from left to right.The left wing of the formation stretched all the way to the sea of ​​the Ariake Sea.With a distance of seven or eight miles, the group ran from the westernmost end of the Jin army formation to the easternmost end, and then ran back to the original place from the easternmost end.It was found that the Jin army's formation was three or four miles wide, and there were more than [-] soldiers on foot and horses, but nothing else was found.

At this time, the Jin army on the opposite side probably saw that the Wei army had begun to set up camp and had no intention of moving forward, so they retreated to the camp amidst the sound of horns.Guo Jia had already stationed the horses and looked towards the camp for a while, but he still couldn't figure out what tricks Sima Yi could play.He also sent dozens of scouts to the place where the Jin army camp had hundreds of battles to observe any abnormalities on the ground.If the two armies are in battle, this is where the Wei army's army is located.Soon, the result of the report still found nothing unusual.

Cao Chong reminded from behind: "President Guo, why don't we ask the soldiers to raise the lift lights and look down from the sky to see if we can find anything."

Soon, a behemoth rose slowly within fifteen miles of the Jin army's camp.Guo Jia stood in the hanging basket and looked down. The land was very flat, and in the distance were neatly lined up Jin army camps.Guo Jia looked around again. Although this is a basin surrounded by mountains on three sides and the sea on the other side, this basin is quite large. Even standing at such a high height, the distant mountains only show a little ridge shadow on the horizon.Guo Jia shook his head, and inadvertently turned his gaze to the sea to the west.Cao Chong beside him suddenly noticed something, and said to himself, "It's weird, why is there no sign of a ship in such a big sea? The scouts reported earlier that the main warships of the Jin army's navy are here." And it has been blocked by Wei Wen's navy, it is impossible to escape."

Guo Jia laughed out loud when he heard this, and said to Cao Chong: "Your Majesty has observed carefully and reminded the minister. The minister will know what Sima Yi is planning. He will definitely put his soldiers on board and wait for the Liang army to fight. At that time, he suddenly landed from the rear of our army. In this way, our army will be defeated. It is a pity that he wanted to cover up the situation, and withdrew all the ships on the sea, and there was no one left, but the king noticed the abnormality."

Cao Chong nodded and said, "In this case, we still need to ask Wei Wen for help in this battle. I will send someone to contact Wei Wen's navy in Feizhou."

Two days later, Sima Yi, who was sitting in the camp of the Jin army in person, saw that the Wei army had not attacked for a long time, and couldn't bear his temper anymore, walking back and forth in the camp of the Chinese army.Just when he was restless, the sound of horns came faintly in the distance, and soldiers had come to report that Liang Jun was forming an array.

Sima Yi was overjoyed and hurriedly ordered the whole army out of the camp to set up an army formation.After a while, the two armies set up a huge army formation facing each other in the wilderness.But no one attacked first.

Chapter 806

In the wilderness ten miles northwest of Xin'an City, the Wei and Jin armies that had been facing each other for more than half an hour finally began to move, slowly approaching each other amidst the continuous sound of horns.

Among them, the Jin army's army formation is composed of [-] infantry, [-] war cavalry, and [-] Japanese soldiers.The Wei army consisted of [-] infantry and [-] tiger and leopard cavalry.In terms of numbers, the Jin army has a superiority in strength.However, the Wei army had a small number of Liang troops brought by Xu Rong to help out, especially the three hundred long archers were enough to offset the Jin army's three thousand cavalry.

In the formation of the Wei army, Cao Chong stood on a command vehicle and looked at the opponent with a canopy in his hands. He found that a lift-off light was also raised behind the opponent's army formation. Of course, this lift-off light was not the same as Liang Jun's, but It's the papery kind of Cao Pi back then.

When the two armies were separated by hundreds of battles, all the trolleys with ballistas on both sides stopped, and the ballista players began to load and bombard.The difference is that the Wei army had hot bombs and stone bombs, while the Jin army did not have hot bombs and used more stones and crossbow guns.It seems that they used the ballista more as a trebuchet.

Fireballs, rocks, stones, and crossbows arced through the air and fell into the opponent's formation.In the Wei army formation, from time to time, crossbow spears pierced through shields and then pierced infantry armor, and there were also tragic images of boulders smashing infantry in front of them into the air.In the Jin army formation, there were also many people whose heads were blown off by stone bullets, and burned into burning people by the flames of detonation.The screams and wailing filled the entire battlefield, but it did not prevent the two armies from continuing to move closer.

Wei Jun suddenly shot a three-foot-long heavy arrow from behind the formation.These heavy arrows, like small crossbow guns, easily pierced through the bamboo armor of one Japanese soldier after another. The reason why most Japanese soldiers were hit by the arrows was because Sima Yi arranged them at the forefront of the army formation as cannon fodder.

The Jin army's formation stopped because of the Japanese soldiers in front of it. The direction of advance was stopped, but it did not affect the Wei army's formation to continue to move forward.Sima Yi snorted coldly and said: "Send the order, the two-winged cavalry attack!" At the same time, Cao Chong also ordered the three thousand cavalry on the two wings to meet each other.

Among the five thousand war cavalry of the Jin army, there were three thousand tiger and leopard cavalry, while among the three thousand war cavalry of the Wei army, there were only one thousand tiger and leopard cavalry.The strength of the former is far greater than that of the latter. Logically, under such circumstances, the Jin army should arrange the cavalry into multiple rows to take advantage of their numbers.But they actually used the way of scattered cavalry to charge. In this way, the cavalry of both sides would fight in a melee, and the strength of the troops was superior, so they could not give full play to their numerical advantage.But in this way, it can try to prevent the opponent's war cavalry from piercing behind him.

Zhang He, who was in command at the front, saw the cavalry fighting on both wings, and his side showed signs of decline, so he hurriedly said to Xu Rong beside him, "Brother Xu, please transfer the longbowmen to the two wings to support our cavalry!" The horse goes away.

On the left wing, a tiger and leopard rider of the Wei army had just beheaded a regular rider of the Jin army, but he didn't know that a lance spear was stabbing him in the head.But when the spear blade was only three feet away from his head, it fell to the ground and rolled to the ground together with its owner.And its owner's neck was pierced by a three-foot-long arrow.

The longbowman can still accurately shoot the enemy's cavalry rider in the melee, thanks to the distinct difference between the livery and armor of the two sides.This is related to Sima Yi's usurpation of the throne. After Sima Yi usurped the throne, because of a guilty conscience, he tried to erase the memory of Wei Guo in all aspects of his subordinates, so the uniforms in the army were greatly changed. The original black uniforms became light yellow pure linen livery.Even tiger and leopard riders are no exception.

Just as the cavalry from both sides were fighting together, the infantry of the two armies finally collided.The shield wall collided with the shield wall, spears, and swords stabbed at each other through the gaps in the shields, slashing away.All of a sudden, the killing sound shook the sky.The screams and screams were also mixed in, and soldiers fell in a pool of blood constantly.

At present, both the cavalry on the two wings and the infantry in the middle are in a stalemate.The sound of killing on the three or four mile-long front was loud, and the smell of blood was overwhelming.At this time, hundreds of Liang Jun soldiers suddenly appeared behind the battle line and set up portable ballistas.A small fireball soared into the sky, and after crossing a high-angle arc trajectory in the air, it fell unbiasedly into the crowd of the Jin army, and the blazing flames immediately disrupted the formation of the Jin army.The stalemate began to be broken, and the victory began to tilt towards Wei Jun.

Sima Yi became anxious at this moment, and kept looking behind Wei Jun, but the scene he expected did not appear there.Looking at the sea again, there is no shadow of a mast or sail on the horizon.He murmured in his heart, based on the time, the Jin army navy who was ambushing in Yichu Bay at this time should have received the order long ago, and now appeared behind the Wei army with [-] Jin army infantry.

How did he know that at this time his navy was being hunted down by the Wei Wen fleet in the southern part of the Ariake Sea.Hundreds of warships have been rammed and sunk.The heads of Jin soldiers who sank and floated were everywhere on the sea.But the warships of the Liang army ignored them, instead they sailed straight to the coast, landed on the coast five or six miles away from the battlefield, and then unloaded nearly a thousand Wei army tiger and leopard cavalry loaded on the ship.

Just when Sima Yi was anxious about why his ambush hadn't appeared yet, he heard the sound of galloping horses coming from behind him.He turned his head to look, and suddenly his face turned pale with shock. He saw thousands of tigers and leopards of the Wei army lined up in a horizontal line, sweeping towards the rear of the Jin army.With trembling lips, he said: "Quickly order Xiahouba on the two wings, Sima Tong to lead the cavalry to resist the enemy!"

But there is still no time, even if the time is too late for the cavalry of the Jin army on the two wings, it is impossible to safely withdraw from the battlefield at this time to meet the Wei cavalry coming from the rear.

Half a quarter of an hour later, the cavalry of the Wei army rushed into the crowd of the Jin army, and the riders brandished their sabers and began to slash and kill.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Sima Yi instinctively rode his horse to escape to the east, but soon a burly man rode his horse and stopped him. The other party laughed and said, "Sima Yi, do you still recognize someone?" How could Sima Yi not know the other party, it was Xu Zhu.Before he opened his mouth to answer, his head was chopped off by the opponent's big ax...

Half a month later, the Wei army, which took advantage of the victory, quickly regained the entire territory of Kyushu Island, and the big and small Wa countries that were originally affiliated to the Jin army on Shikoku Island also surrendered.The entire Kyushu, to be exact, the entire Yingzhou was basically pacified by the Wei army.

In the spring of the 12th year of Xiuwu, Cao Chong officially married Taiyu, the queen prince of Yamatai.This also marked the official merger of Liang State's subsidiary vassal state Wei State and Yamatai.Feng Yu also sent people thousands of miles to send them a big gift and an imperial edict.

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In the Siwu Hall of Daliang Palace in Chang'an, Feng Yu was chatting with Zuo Prime Minister Zhuge Liang.

"Your Majesty, the King of Wei now monopolizes Yingzhou. If he pacifies Ezo and completely unifies the Dongying Islands in the future, his strength will double, and he will have the power to compete in the Central Plains. Are you really not afraid of changes in the future?"

Feng Yu said with a faint smile: "At least not within two or three generations. Because they cannot build a navy according to my edict, and the imperial court has set up multiple naval bases in key places such as Seto and Tsushima, completely controlling the sea. In addition The large, icy and snowy island to the north was also controlled by the Beifu army. As for two or three generations, after more than a hundred years, my Central Plains might not necessarily have the surname Feng, and I can control his land in Dongying. But no matter who occupies the Central Plains by then, it will be controlled by It should be regarded as a part of the Kyushu of the world, rather than a place where the outside world is born."

Chapter 807 The Fort Under the Suleiman Mountains

Xiuwu 12 years.After the settlement of Yingzhou, Daliang has become a huge empire stretching thousands of miles from Yingzhou in the east, Beiming in the north, Aral Sea in the west, and Java in the south.Although in such a territory, Daliang actually implemented the prefecture and county system only in the thirteen prefectures of the former Han Dynasty plus Main Prefecture and Dongqing Prefecture, and the rest of the territory was managed by feudal states and vassal states.But they are all under the actual control of Daliang, because whether it is on the coast of the Aral Sea where the sun sets, Yingzhou Shikoku Island where the sun rises, or the perennially frozen North Ming coast, or Java, which is like summer all the year round. , there are strongholds of the official army directly under the Daliang court and officials who monitor the local foreign states and feudal states.

You must know that such a large area was conquered by Feng Yu in less than 20 years.After many of Daliang's new frontiers are controlled and occupied, it does not mean that there will be long-term peace and stability.Still need more time to digest and consolidate, adjust them.Feng Yu then changed the name of the country to Wenzhi, which means to stop fighting and rule the world by Wenzhi.

Time flies, and it is the third year of Wenzhi in a blink of an eye.In the past three years, Daliang has never added a new territory, nor has there been any new foreign expeditions.But this does not mean that Feng Yu has enjoyed three years of leisurely imperial life.On the contrary, these three years have been more laborious than his previous 12 years.

The selection of officials from the fifteen prefectures managed by counties and counties, avoiding the monopoly of local power by local tyrants and aristocratic families, the deployment of standing army soldiers, the distribution of farmland, the customization of commercial taxes, etc., are undoubtedly a huge workload.Of course, it is impossible for Feng Yu to do these things himself, even if most of the decisions are made by Zuo Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, hundreds of officials above the fourth rank will supervise the implementation, and thousands of officials will execute them, but it still consumes Feng Yu's endless energy. energy.

In addition, there are also a large number of foreign lands, and several major ambassadors' mansions have things to do.Especially Beifu and Xifu.In order to quickly control these two vast areas, Feng Yu delegated power to the top officials of the two prefectures to do so.But this has also caused the local forces in these two regions to be intricate. It is as difficult as smoothing out a mess to achieve a good balance and long-term stability.Fortunately, in the end, Feng Yu consolidated Daliang's rule in these two areas with the help of his knowledge of the two generations and a group of capable civil servants.Lu Bu, Ma Chao and their generals were also recalled to the hinterland of the Central Plains, and a new group of generals and officials were replaced to occupy Beiming City and Lanshi City.

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On New Year's Eve in the third year of Wenzhi, the snow-covered city of Chang'an is already filled with a festive and festive atmosphere.There is a fortress at the mouth of the Xindian River thousands of miles away.

It is said to be a camp, but after years of construction, it is actually a military town.The facilities in the city are all available, and there is also a built-in port, which leads to the water outside the city through the waterway water gate.There is a regiment-organized Liang Jun infantry and a squadron of the Liang Jun Western Fleet.However, although this Liang Army Corps is a land combat force, it belongs to the Western Fleet under the command of Lin Tao.Therefore, the command of the entire military town, whether on foot or on a warship, is in the hands of the general named Xihekou.

There is a Wubao more than eighty miles north of Xihekou.This dock happened to be stuck on the seaside gap at the southern end of the Suleiman Mountains, which is one of the only two mountain passes from the Persian plateau to the Shendu subcontinent.Another one is the Hindu Kush Mountains.

There are more than [-] Liang army soldiers stationed in Wubao all the year round, and they are directly under the jurisdiction of Xihekou army town in the south.

At this time, the dock is also full of festive atmosphere.It was lunch time, and Liang Jun soldiers sat in groups in the compound, basking in the sun while eating.They were all recruited from Daliang local soldiers from the Central Plains, not from the local aborigines.

An old soldier among a group of soldiers put down the porridge bowl in his hand, took a bite of a fat pancake, and said vaguely to another young junior: "Xie Sandan, do you want to eat after the Chinese New Year?" After the service period is over, you can return to the Central Plains."

The man named Xie Sandan counted with his fingers: "That's right, it's the beginning of spring, so I have been here for three years, and my service period has expired. I can go back to my hometown."

The rest of the people congratulated after hearing this, and some people even said: "On weekdays, I saw that you don't have much expenses, so the salary over the past three years must have accumulated a lot. Buy a few acres of land in my hometown and marry a wife."

It was Xie Sandan who blushed and said: "Whether to marry a wife or not, I didn't think much about it. The key is that after serving in the army, I can serve my parents with peace of mind." Then he changed the subject and said to the old soldier: "Leader Zhao, how many years have you been here as an old man, why didn't you see you apply for discharge and return to your hometown? Don't tell me you haven't earned enough money for all these years?"

The people next to him laughed and booed and said, "Old Zhao has been working here for more than six years. He is a recruiter, and his salary is three times that of ours. Except for drinking a little wine every day, he never sees him." He often goes to the nearby Hu people's city for recreation. With such savings, he must accumulate money and return to his hometown to become a small rich man in the countryside. But I don't see him planning to return to his hometown. Could it be that he has taken a fancy to some Guishuang woman here. "

When it comes to women, these soldiers immediately digressed, from bearded women and Han women to where are the beauties in the fifteen states of Middle-earth.Dui Zhao's expression became gloomy. He took a big mouthful of porridge and said: "The old man didn't go back to his hometown because he no longer has any family members, and he doesn't even know where his hometown is."

Everyone stopped talking when they heard it, and that old Zhao continued: "When I was young, there was a great epidemic in the Central Plains, and ten rooms were empty. My family took me, who was still young at that time, to join the refugee group, fleeing to the south to try to find a way out But in the end, there was only one person left, who could only be sold as a servant of a noble family in Jingzhou. Later, the current emperor moved to Jingzhou during the Jian'an period of the Han Dynasty, and the noble family was also defeated because of following Liu Bei. The army moved to the north and south, and Xin was saved from death in hundreds of battles. Then he was voluntarily assigned here, and stayed here for six years. This place can be said to be the longest place in his life. So the hometown of a certain person is here Naturally, he didn’t want to leave. When he reached a certain age and had to retire, he bought a house in a shop in the nearby Huren City and lived the rest of his life.”

Everyone sighed when they heard it.At present, Liang Jun's military system has been greatly reformed by Feng Yu.It is divided into recruiting soldiers and conscripting soldiers. The former is recruited in the form of voluntary recruitment, while the latter is an obligation that all eligible households in the Central Plains must undertake. The service period is three years.

The reason why the two military systems are parallel is because the army needs veterans, especially the lower-level generals.But if all the soldiers are served by veterans all the year round, then not many people are willing to serve as soldiers, and it is impossible to satisfy Daliang's maintenance of 30 regular troops.

Chapter 808 The Rising New Empire

In the dock, when these soldiers were about to finish their meal, two soldiers with mixed colors and blood suddenly broke in.That old Zhao recognized them as soldiers who were on patrol outside today, and suddenly turned pale with shock: "What's wrong with you?"

One of them endured the severe pain and said: "Quick! Anxi people, Anxi people are here!"

The young man named Xie Sandan was stunned and said: "Anxi people? Aren't Anxi people usually very honest? The nearest Anxi soldiers' stronghold is more than a hundred miles away. It took me a whole day to walk high. I have never seen them come in the past three years, but I went to them once and exchanged some supplies with them."

The two wounded soldiers said again: "Hundreds of Anxi soldiers came. We stopped them, and if they didn't say anything, they would treat me like a mess."

Before he finished speaking, Lao Zhao had already put aside the porridge bowl in his hand, walked quickly to the weapon rack, took the shield and the weapon, and shouted: "Half of the people went with me to have a look! The other half stayed at the In the castle!"

Not long after, Lao Zhao came to the pass with forty infantry and ten heavy cavalry.On one side of this place is a cliff facing the sea several times high, and on the other side is a mountain ridge towering into the Suleiman Mountains.There is a slope leading directly to Lao Zhao's Wubao, which can be described as an important place where one man guards the gate and ten thousand men cannot open it.Liang Jun would have built Wubao here if it wasn't for the inconvenience of getting water.

At this time, hundreds of Parthian soldiers were already standing there in groups, and a large number of Parthian laborers were wielding hoes and shovels, apparently wanting to break ground or something.

Old Zhao roared: "What are you going to do? This is the border of Daliang, and anyone who violates the border will be killed."

Of course, the other party could not understand his Chinese, but when they heard his shout, they immediately gathered and stood in several rows, ready to fight.After the translator brought by Lao Zhao translated the words into Persian, he answered a few words to the convenience.What he means is that Lao Zhao has any basis. This is the border of Daliang. Did Daliang have an agreement with his Sasanian monarch?

The old Zhao was taken aback after hearing this, and didn't know what to say for a while.It is true that the present is not the future, and there is no such set of international relations norms.Daliang and the Sasanian Dynasty are both Eastern dynasties, and they have no concept of borders. They both adhere to the principle that wherever the army can kill, that is the actual border.As for the ideal national border, it should be the whole world and the whole world.

But Lao Zhao immediately reacted and responded carelessly: "There is no need for evidence. Is it possible that the whole world is the king's minister, and the land is the king's land. Our sage is the Son of Heaven. Do you understand the Son of Heaven? He is the Son of Heaven, and the whole world It belongs to the Son of Heaven, including you, the Three Dynasties of Sasha, who are also my foreign kingdoms in Daliang. The whole world is his people, including you who have to prostrate three times and nine times when you see the Holy One. If you dare to violate the border of Daliang, it is a crime against the superior. .”

When the translator finally translated this passage to the other party, a bearded officer on the other side was furious at first, and then laughed wildly.Then he chattered a lot.

He said that the emperor of the Sasanian Dynasty is the king of kings and the master of the world, and everyone in the world must obey his orders.Now they are ordered by the emperor to build a city wall here, and anyone who blocks it will be killed.If he beat Lao Zhao and others dozens of times, if he didn't leave, he was about to strike.

Then the bearded man shouted one after another. Although Lao Zhao couldn't understand what he said, he knew that he was counting.The hundreds of Parthian soldiers behind him stood ready with swords and guns in hand.

Even in the case of completely unequal troop strength, Lao Zhao didn't frighten them at all because he had ten heavy cavalry.Before he could finish counting the beards, he had already swung the saber in his hand and said, "Brothers, kill!"

After finishing speaking, he took the lead in rushing towards these Anxi soldiers with his horse belly.The rear cavalry also followed closely behind, heading forward in a rush.The bearded man also shouted, and led hundreds of soldiers to rush down.The two sides immediately fought into a group.

The Liang Bing named Xie Sandan followed the daily training technique and stabbed quickly, and suddenly pierced through the chest of the Partisan who swung a knife at him from the opposite side.Because Xie Sandan was standing at the bottom of the slope, the opponent's weapon cut through the air, and blood flowed down the barrel of the gun to Xie Sandan's palm, which made him tremble when he killed for the first time.The moment he was distracted, a Persian scimitar sliced ​​into his neck, cut open his trachea and artery, and the blood sword gushed out.

While the infantry on both sides were fighting, Liang Jun's iron cavalry and cavalry spears came out, overturning rows of resting soldiers.The riders who had not had time to pull out their spears from the enemy's corpses swung their maces and knocked down countless Parthian soldiers.But their iron cavalry can't exert their daily combat power, because they are rushing up from the bottom of the slope, and they can't get up at speed.

Although the opponent's force was ten times that of his own, and the iron cavalry did not fail to show their advantages, under the brave charge of Liang Jun's infantry, hundreds of enemy soldiers were forced into confusion and retreated.

When Lao Zhao pursued to the highest point of the pass, he found that a large number of enemy soldiers came along the mountain road near the sea. Seeing that he had suffered heavy casualties, he hurriedly shouted: "Retreat, retreat quickly, and quickly carry the casualties to the mountain road." go back."

When they hurriedly retreated into the dock, thousands of Sasanian troops surrounded the dock like a tide. After a while, the rest soldiers didn't notice that a carrier pigeon soared from the dock.

Only half a month later, Feng Yu, who lived in the Chang'an Palace, received an urgent report describing the border conflict.As a result of the conflict, the Sasanian army was repelled by the Liang army from Xihekou Army Town one day after besieging Wubao.But they obviously didn't give up, and began to gather a large army hundreds of miles away, apparently intending to invade the Liang territory on a large scale.

Feng Yu didn't dare to be negligent when he saw the Tang newspaper, and urgently ordered all the intelligence networks to collect information about Sassan.In a short time, I sorted out the general situation.It turned out that the Parthian Kingdom, which originally lived on the Persian Plateau, had long since perished and was replaced by the current Sasanian Dynasty.The monarch of the Sasanian Dynasty was named Ardashir, and he could also be called the hero of a generation.

The Parthian Kingdom was not destroyed by him, but he quickly reunited the entire Persian Plateau after the Parthian Kingdom fell apart with an iron fist. In addition, he also extended the actual control of the territory to the Mesopotamia and even the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea.Moreover, compared with Parthia, his dynasty has much more centralized power, which is different from the latter being a kingdom ruled by large and small lords.As a result, a huge new empire that stretched from the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Suleiman Mountains in the east suddenly appeared in the west of Daliang.

Feng Yu threw the document in his hand onto the desk and said, "There is another big battle coming, which is exactly what I want."

Chapter 809 Different War Goals

In the fourth year of Wenzhi, not long after the Spring Festival, there were signs of frequent mobilization of soldiers and horses in the entire Daliang Fifteen States.Regardless of the main roads, official roads, or country dirt roads, a large number of troops and horses can be seen passing by from time to time.In addition, the county governments of various counties have increased the quota for conscription this year.Fifteen states have increased their annual conscription from 7 in previous years to 10.

The grain stored in the treasuries of the states and counties also began to be distributed out in an endless stream.This is because some of the grain and grass materials that were originally transported from Xiyang to Daliang through Mainzhou were suspended, and they were diverted to the front line of Xihekou.Therefore, the distribution of grain reserves in the treasury is to make up for this gap.

Previously, at the first court meeting after the Spring Festival, Feng Yu had made clear to the ministers his determination to attack Sassan.In fact, he had not discussed with anyone, including Zuo Prime Minister Zhuge Liang, before.

However, Feng Yu's decision was expected by all the ministers, because the "border conflict" that happened at Xihekou had already spread to Chang'an City.Next, in the main hall of Chang'an City, the ministers quarreled endlessly over how many troops should be mobilized to attack the new Sasanian Empire, what scale the battle should be fought to achieve what purpose.

Right Prime Minister Pang Tong went out to Feng Yu and said: "Your Majesty, according to the information. This Sasanian Empire is far from the previous Anxi. It occupies hundreds of millions of acres of fertile land from the mouth of the Xindu River to the east coast of the Dijian Sea. The population is said to be There are nearly [-] million. The more important thing is that it is thousands of miles away from our Central Plains. The nearby Guishuang Hu soldiers' combat power and loyalty to His Majesty make them unsuitable for conquering Sasan, so the main force to conquer Sasan can only be the army sent by the imperial court In this way, if a large army is dispatched, it will inevitably be an expedition that will be futile in the end..."

Feng Yu, who was sitting on the dragon chair, raised his eyebrows and interrupted him: "Shi Yuan, I have already decided to attack Sasan. You don't need to persuade me."

Pang Tong hurriedly kowtowed to Feng Yu and said, "Your Majesty misunderstood what I meant. I didn't mean to persuade Your Majesty to give up the crusade against Sassanid. Instead, we don't need to send out a large army. Instead, we send two or three legions just like we used to pacify East Qingzhou. A large-scale expedition can be..."

Feng Yu interrupted him again: "This Sasanian is no bigger than Dongqingzhou. Its area is several times that of Dongqingzhou, and its population is more than ten times. The most important thing is that it is a new empire. The scattered state of the Korean natives. It is not feasible to expect a snowball-style conquest like the pacification of East Qingzhou and even the opening of the Beifu army."

Pang Tong smiled and replied: "But Your Majesty, if we don't completely occupy this Sasanian, but just teach it a lesson and force its lord Ardashir to surrender to me, I think that only three elite legions will The rest of us can complete it with the cooperation of the Western Fleet."

Feng Yu shook his head, and said firmly: "No, I'm not trying to subdue Sassan, but to bring it into my jurisdiction completely. After this battle, Sassan will no longer exist."