Chapter 262 Establishment of the second vertical alliance
Therefore, of the three major countries in the world, Qin State has been defeated, and Qi State is bent on its own place and refuses to move. Then the only country that is a threat to Yuguo will be turned over and over again, and it seems that only Chu is left.
In the previous alliance, although Chu State could not be said to have benefited the most, because the population of Wei State far exceeded that of Chu State.
Tao County, Dong County, Hanoi County, and Hedong County, all four counties, were brought under Wei Guo's command. You must know that even after the unification of the Qin State, there are only 36 counties and counties, including part of the expanded territories in the Baiyue and Hetao areas.
And Wei Guo won 1/9 of it in just such a war, which can be said to have benefited the most. Even Zhao Guo also got Shangdang, Taiyuan, and Yanmen three counties, but the population is relatively sparse, far inferior to Wei Guo.
As for the state of Chu, really counting it, it only got the land of Nanjun and Nanyang counties. As for Qianzhong County in the south, it is just an undeveloped and barren land, with a total population of only tens of thousands, not as good as a county in the hinterland of the Central Plains.
However, the harvest of Chu State is not in the population, but in the vast territory and strategic depth of Chu State.
This time Chu State not only won his original territory, namely Nanyang County, Nan County, and Qianzhong County. Except for Hanzhong County, it has completely restored the place in the heyday of Chu State, and compared with that time, it has captured the land of Wuyue. In terms of strength, there is still a winner.
In addition, Yelang Kingdom, located in the southwest of Chu State, was also recaptured under the attack of the 50,000 partisan army, with the help of the old ministers of the former Chu State.
Taking this opportunity, Chu State also extended its hand to the southwest of China, capturing half of YN Province and a small part of Guizhou Province, forming Yelang County.
Moreover, the population of this new Yelang County is more than 200,000, because of the development of the previous Chu army, which is more than 200,000, which can be regarded as supplementing some of the strength of Chu.
And in the south of Chu State, which is now Fujian Province, there is a Minyue State established by the survivors of the Yue State. This small country has always claimed to be the direct successor of the Yue State, and is hostile to the Chu State's enthronement, and often engages in some small actions, which deeply annoys the Chu State.
But this time, this small country is even more deadly.
He had seen the army of the Chu State go out to fight before, and many soldiers and horses were far away on the front line thousands of miles away, so they couldn't get entangled with the Qin State, the largest country in the world.
And this small country is under the idea of adding fire to the backyard of Chu State and involving a little energy of Chu State in Qin State. They sent one or two envoys to Minyue to lobby, and they actually convinced their king.
Let the king of Minyue State gather most of the country's troops, a total of 30,000 people, and go out to attack Chu State.
In the early days of the war, because Chu State did not expect that this small country, usually insignificant, would actually dare to offend Tianwei, so the precautions were not strict, but it really allowed the Minyue Kingdom to succeed for a while.
The 30,000-strong army of Minyue Kingdom went all the way out of the country, capturing more than ten cities in Chu State, and approached Shanyin County, the county seat of Kuaiji County in the south of Chu State.
All of a sudden, the state of Chu was shaken, and the king of Chu was even more furious, repeatedly reprimanding the southern guard for his incompetence.
However, the good luck of Minyue Kingdom came to an end. Shanyin County was a county after all. Even though Chu State was in a war period, many soldiers and horses were transferred to the north to participate in the war with Qin State.
However, Shanyin County still has 10,000 defenders, and they are well-trained and well-equipped. The 30,000 troops of Minyue Kingdom alone cannot take it down.
Not to mention, because some of the 30,000 people had to be allocated to stay in the occupied city, there were only more than 20,000 people left.
So the army of Minyue Kingdom, after being dazzled by the victory, soon smashed their halberds into the sand under the county seat of Shanyin, smashing their heads and bleeding.
More than 20,000 troops were directly wounded and more than 10,000 were disabled by the defenders, and the remaining 10,000 remnants also retreated directly, not daring to stay under the city wall at all.
Instead, they withdrew to a more majestic city in the rear, relying on the city wall, and switched from the previous attack to staying behind.
But it was too late for them to withdraw now.
Being provoked by such a small country, the king of Chu was very angry. He directly mobilized several counties and counties in the south, and mobilized the soldiers and horses there to form a 100,000 army to attack Minyue in the south.
The 100,000 Chu army was mighty and mighty, all the way south, relying on the advantages of equipment and some training, they directly flattened the remaining 20,000 Fujian and Yue troops.
Then, the remaining Chu army continued to advance, and soon invaded Minyue, which had no defense force, and captured all the more than ten cities in Minyue, and the king of Minyue was also in Miyagi Among them committed suicide.
The entire Minyue Kingdom, except for 1/3 of the people who fled to the mountains, resolutely refused to be the subjects of the Chu State, and played guerrilla warfare with the Chu State, was completely occupied by the Chu State.
After destroying this small country, Chu State also gained a population of about 130,000 and more than ten cities. The King of Chu ordered that Minyue Kingdom be classified as Minzhong County, and more than ten county-level administrations were established, which really started the rule of Chu State here.
At this time, in the south of Chu State, there was only one Baiyue land in the south of the Lingnan that could not be controlled.
However, this Baiyue land is not a climate nowadays.
Before that, Baiyue originally had Baiyue Kingdom, which ruled the traditional spheres of influence of Guangdong and Guangxi in the south of the Five Ridges. The population in the country was close to one million, and the army had 100,000 or 200,000 people. It was considered a big country.
It's a pity that there was a turmoil in this Baiyue, and its strength was greatly reduced. Then Chu State pulled South Korea to attack together, but it was completely wiped out, and the dragon was for the former barbaric country.
The entire country is torn apart, the current rulers are the patriarchs of various tribes, most of the original cities have been abandoned and destroyed, and the citizens have also entered the mountains and forests, becoming almost savages.
With such an existence, it is really a joke to say that they pose any threat to Chu State.
The current state of Chu, the reason why Baiyue has not been attacked, is that it is wild and has no value at all except for the population. What's more, the state of Chu is currently held back by many things, and it can't spare the time to clean up this Baiyue land.
And once the Chu State solves the troubles and digests the results of the current battle, this land of Baiyue will probably be swallowed by the Chu State.
It is precisely because of Chu's unique advantages that he is worried that this alliance is aimed at him.
It is precisely because of this that when Chu State heard that the Hezhong Alliance invited Chu State to join, they agreed without hesitation, even a little urgently.
At this point, the original six-nation alliance was formed again. The world is about to usher in violent turmoil and even more raging flames of war!