Vol 2 Chapter 2718: Yang Xingmi joins forces to discuss Qinling Mausoleum, revealing its beauty but

Vol 2 Chapter 2718: Yang Xingmi joins forces to discuss Qinling Mausoleum, revealing its beauty but

Chapter 2718 Yang Xingmi joins forces to discuss Qinling Mausoleum, showing beauty but becoming a caged bird

Chapter 2714: Yang Xingmi joins forces to discuss Qinling Mausoleum, showing beauty but becoming a caged bird

Meng Tiannan's offensive on Haizhou's side was actually smoother than that on Li Mu's side.

The Sui State's garrison in Haizhou never expected that the Qin army would send troops to Haizhou, and their preparedness was even more lax than that of Liangzhou.

After Meng Tian entered Haizhou from Wudu, he marched for more than 300 miles without encountering a Sui army post. He did not encounter Sui soldiers until the Honggu Shandi boundary, but they were also very loose and were defeated with a single arrow.

 After that, Meng Tian attacked the key areas in the northern part of Haizhou, and encountered almost no strong resistance. He basically attacked, fled, attacked and fled. It was not until he entered the boundary of Xining County that he encountered some decent resistance.

The chief governor and governor of Haizhou in the Sui Dynasty were Yang Xingmi, the founding king of Southern Wu, and Yang Xiong, the king of Guande in the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Xingmi is known as the "No. 1 of the Ten Kingdoms". Yang Xiong, Gao Jun, Yu Qingze and Su Wei are also known as the "Four Nobles in the Court". Both of them are outstanding men in both civil and military affairs.

 But even if the two of them guard Haizhou together, the defense on the northern front is still extremely lax. The main reason is actually that the main energy of the Sui army is used to defend against other things.

  Where is Haizhou? It was the original habitat of the Qiang people, and in addition to the Qiang people, there were also dozens of foreign ethnic groups such as Hui, Tu, and Salar.

 The national structure is extremely complex and the contradictions are extremely acute.

 The Qiang people in this time and space are very lucky, but also very miserable.

 Fortunately, a group of heroes from Yelu Abaoji were implanted and worked hard to rule. They subdued the various tribes and unified the Qiang land in a very short period of time.

 Unfortunately, the opponents faced by the Qiang people were too strong. No matter during the Dong Zhuo period or his successors such as Li Yuan and Yang Jian, the Qiang people could not win on their own.

Under the continuous weakening of Dong Zhuo and others, the Qiang people became weaker and weaker, and were eventually eliminated by the third-generation successors of the Liang clan, Yang Guang and Li Shimin. After the fall of Li Tang, the Qiang people were established as Haizhou by Yang Guang.

The Qiang people in Haizhou can be said to be inseparable from each other with the Baiyue people in Jiaozhou, the Shanyue people in Yangzhou, and the major barbarian peoples in Jingnan.

The situations of these foreign races are very similar. They were all exterminated by the Han people, but their endings were completely different.

After the Baiyue, Shanyue, and Jingnan barbarians were destroyed by Liu Xiu and Sun Jian, both of them integrated, digested, and completely transformed these foreign populations into their own support.

 But the Qiang people are different from these races.

Haizhou has seven counties. It has experienced two periods of division between the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and two periods of independent rule by the Sui and Tang Dynasties. No matter which period, the Sui and Tang Dynasties invested a lot of financial and material resources.

 However, because Yelu Abaoji unified the Qiang people and ruled the Qiang people, the Qiang people awakened their national consciousness.

 The foreign tribes of Baiyue, Shanyue, and the barbarians in Jingnan did not have the consciousness of their clans, so they were easily assimilated after they were conquered.

But the Qiang people are different. After awakening their national consciousness, if they want to assimilate the Qiang people, the difficulty is not at the same level as that of Baiyue Mountain.

Coupled with the heavy killings of the Han people when they destroyed the Qiang people, the two groups accumulated too much hatred, so rebellions and uprisings broke out in Haizhou from time to time.

Although every rebellion is quickly and easily extinguished by the Han people, and gradually there are fewer and fewer Qiang people rebelling, there are always Qiang people who will continue to stand up.

 It is difficult to build, but easy to destroy.

Every alien uprising in Haizhou will cause great damage to Haizhou's various constructions. It will be destroyed while developing, so the development of Haizhou will naturally be slow.

This is also the main reason why the Qiang people have been exterminated for many years, and the Sui and Tang Dynasties also invested a lot of manpower and material resources, but Haizhou is still extremely poor and backward.

In a land as big as Haizhou, although there is not much arable land, it is extremely rich in mineral resources. In addition, the population is also not large. The recorded population in the seven counties alone is 600,000 to 700,000, and the hidden resources of various ethnic groups and villages The population will only be larger than this number.

 This shows that the potential of Haizhou is not small.

If Yang Guang could liquidate the population of Haizhou, completely conquer the people's hearts, and digest Haizhou, the national power of the Sui State would definitely be greatly improved, and it would definitely not be the weakest country among the countries.

 But the reality is that Yang Guang cannot count the hidden population of those Qiang tribes at all, because they are the foundation of the Sui Kingdom's rule over Haizhou.

Once their fundamental interests are touched, it will only be counterproductive, and the situation faced by the Sui Kingdom will be even worse.

In addition, the Sui State only had five and a half counties in Xiliang, and the total population of Han people under its rule was only more than 1.2 million. With such a small size, it was obviously not that easy to digest a foreign population of more than 1 million. easy.

Yang Guang knew that his own strength was insufficient, so he could only boil the frog in warm water. This also destined that the Sui State's digestion of Haizhou would be protracted.

In the minds of many Sui people, Haizhou was simply worthless. Not only could it not provide the Sui State with much tax revenue and food, but it even required the Sui State to continue blood transfusions and deploy heavy troops to prevent the Qiang people from rebelling in order to maintain the Sui State's rule in Haizhou. , and this undoubtedly restrained a lot of energy of the Sui State.

So another voice emerged in public opinion in the Sui Kingdom, which was to abandon the policy of continuing to assimilate foreigners, and instead to completely conquer and destroy, make all foreigners who refused to be naturalized into slaves, and plunder all the properties of these foreigners.

At that time, the Sui Kingdom was in a stage of rapid development, and this voice received support from many people as soon as it appeared. After all, if this was true, the Sui Kingdom would gain hundreds of thousands of slaves and massive wealth for development.

This incident made a big fuss and alarmed the Sui court. The military headed by Yang Shuang also supported this move.

It can be said that as long as Yang Guang nodded at that time, the end of the Haizhou alien race had come, but it was only the last step, and Yang Guang's indecisiveness broke out again.

Yang Guang was very satisfied with the speed of development of the Sui State at that time. He was worried that the development process would be interrupted and that the matter would be too big to end. He was too timid to make a decision.

 Facts have proved that although Yang Guang was indecisive, he made the right choice this time.

The public opinion of completely destroying foreign races was actually promoted secretly by the people of Qin Dynasty in order to disrupt and interrupt the development process of the Sui Kingdom from within.

 Great Qin’s attacks on enemy countries were never just military destruction. They were also a sharp sword in terms of economy and public opinion.

However, although the purpose of Da Qin this time was not pure, it was indeed a great opportunity for the Sui State. If Yang Guang could seize it, he could solve Haizhou's hidden dangers. But unfortunately, Yang Guang lacked courage and would rather drink poison to quench his thirst than dare to pierce this layer of window paper and completely solve his own hidden dangers.

There are advantages and disadvantages to doing this, but in general, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages. After all, the Sui State cannot withstand such a hassle.

If there are really millions of foreigners who oppose Haizhou, then even if the Sui Kingdom sends out all the troops, it may not be able to suppress them in a short time, but it will easily give Da Qin an opportunity to take advantage of them.

It was with this in mind that Yang Guang did not dare to attack, but he was really worried about the foreigners in Haizhou, so he left 70,000 defenders in Haizhou.

 70,000 Sui army main force, what is this concept?

The Sui Kingdom made three western expeditions, and the largest one dispatched only 40,000 troops.

The Sui State united with Li and Tang Dynasty to destroy the Qiang, but only sent out 40,000 troops.

 The 70,000-strong army was almost double the total strength of the Qiang extermination force.

It can be seen that for the Sui State, it was actually more difficult to rule Haizhou and the Qiang people than to destroy the Qiang people.

The 70,000 defenders left by Yang Guang in Haizhou ensured the Sui's absolute rule in Haizhou. No matter where there was rebellion in any of the seven counties of Haizhou, the Sui army could extinguish the rebel forces as quickly as possible, and the Qiang There is almost no possibility of success.

Even so, there will still be Qiang people who launch rebellions, and the areas where the rebellions are mainly concentrated in the central and southwest parts. What these three parts have in common is that the number of Han people is sparse, and the Sui State's ruling foundation is relatively weak.

It is precisely because of this that most of Sui's 70,000-strong army in Haizhou were stationed in the central and southwestern parts. The total number of defenders in the northern and eastern regions was less than 20,000. How could they stop Meng Tian himself? Leading an army in a sneak attack?

When Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong learned that the northern region was attacked by unknown forces, they thought it was Qiang rebels.

After all, although most of the Qiang rebel areas were concentrated in the central and southwestern parts, some rebels who escaped suppression fled to the north and continued to cause rebellion.

Neither Yang Xingmi nor Yang Xiong took it seriously, and just sent more than a thousand elites to chase them. However, they soon received a message from Yang Guang and learned that the Qin army sent troops to attack the Sui Dynasty and attacked Yuzhong in a sneak attack. Yang Guang then The entire country's defenders were ordered to be on alert.

When the matter developed to this point, although Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong did not think it was the Qin army, they were already vigilant, so they quickly summoned the Haizhou garrison to prepare to rush to Daxing and deal with the living bandit.

What neither Yang Xingmi nor Yang Xiong expected was that while they were gathering their troops, major strategic locations in the north were lost one after another.

No matter how stupid Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong are, they know that this is definitely not done by the Qiang people. After all, even the Qiang rebels in Haizhou combined do not have this strength.

Then it is obvious who the opponent is. It must be the Qin army.

At this time, neither Yang Xingmi nor Yang Xiong knew the news of the fall of Heguan, so they were extremely puzzled by the Qin army's sending troops to Haizhou.

Because even if the Qin army occupied Xining County and cut off the connection between Haizhou and Liangzhou, the reinforcements from Xiliang would still be able to reach Daxing. So what is the significance of the Qin army's doing this?

In the consciousness of Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong, the Qin army started war with the Wei, Song and Ming Dynasties at the same time, and had already dispatched most of its troops. Now it is divided into two groups to attack the Sui Kingdom. There must not be many troops in the country.

But what Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong didn't know was that their judgment of the Qin army's strength was wrong, because the Qin army had been hiding its strength from beginning to end, so even if they started a war with Wei, Song and Ming at the same time, they could still collect 300,000 The army was divided into four groups to attack the Sui Dynasty.

Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiong felt that even if the reinforcements from Haizhou could not reach Daxing, the reinforcements from Xiliang could reach Daxing, not to mention that the Qin army had not yet captured Xining.

Although Yang Xingmi could not figure out Li Jing's true intention, the current situation in Xining was indeed not good. They could not just sit back and watch Xining fall into the hands of the Qin army, so they quickly led the army to support Xining, but unexpectedly they were still a step too late. .

Meng Tian personally led 15,000 vanguard troops, marched 300 miles in four days, and made a surprise attack on Xining City, the seat of Xining.

There were only 3,000 defenders in Xining City, and they could not withstand the fierce attack of the Qin army, which was five times more than their own. They finally held on for a day and were breached by the Qin army. The defender Yang Wo was also beheaded by Yang Ren.

Yang Wo, the guard of Xining City, was the eldest son of Yang Xingmi and the second king of Southern Wu.

 The eldest son died in the battle. As his father, Yang Xingmi was naturally furious. In anger, he immediately prepared to fight Meng Tian, ​​but was stopped by Yang Xiong.

Yang Xiong said that the enemy is hidden but we are clear. Without knowing the details of the enemy, it is not appropriate to rush to war with the Qin army. He suggested collecting intelligence about the Qin army first. .

Although Yang Xingmi was angry because of the death of his eldest son, he did not completely lose his mind, so he did not insist on having his own way. However, after collecting the information, he broke out in a cold sweat.

Although Yang Xingmi did not know exactly how many people Meng Tian brought, according to the intelligence analysis obtained, the Qin army had at least 50,000 to 60,000 troops.

With the fighting power of the Qin army, the combined total of 70,000 Sui troops in Haizhou may not be the opponent of the Qin army, let alone the Qin army still defending the city.

Yang Xingmi knew that it was impossible to recapture Xining from Meng Tian with the power of the Haizhou Sui army alone, so he prepared to wait for the upcoming Tibetan reinforcements.

The 100,000 Tibetan troops led by Qin Ling will arrive at Haizhou in the near future. The combined strength of the Sui and Tibetan armies is 160,000 to 70,000. It will not be too late to compete with Meng Tian at that time.

Yang Xingmi reported the news from Haizhou to Daxing through flying pigeons, explaining the reason why he could not lead his army to Daxing in a short time because Xining was captured by Meng Tian and the passage between Haizhou and Liangzhou was cut off.

Yang Guang's eyes suddenly darkened after receiving the news, and he almost fainted, because before receiving Yang Xingmi, he also received a piece of news from Xiliang, and it was also bad news.

Long Qie, the deputy governor of Liangzhou of the Qin Army, led his army to surprise and conquer Xianmei City. The connection between Zhangye County and Wuwei County was completely cut off, and the Xiliang reinforcements led by Gao Huan could not get through.

Therefore, the Qin army did not attack in two directions, but in four directions against the Sui Dynasty, directly cutting off all support from Daxing, turning Daxing into an isolated city and a caged bird.

Yang Guang no longer cared to analyze how many troops the Qin army dispatched and where they came from. He only had one thought in his mind, and that was that Li Jing was too ruthless. He targeted the Sui State's vital points as soon as he took action. , not giving him any chance to fight back.

 “Li Jing, Li Jing.”

Yang Guang looked up to the sky and roared, his face full of unwillingness and panic, as well as deep despair for a future with little hope in sight.

 (End of this chapter)