Chapter 110 The Shadow of the Tyrant
Liu Xie waved his hand and said, "Good news has been heard from the Western Regions. Now he has taken down Wusun and Dayuezhi, and the recovery of the Western Regions is just in front of him. In less than four months, the Western Regions can be restored... All the ministers, please use this cup to pay tribute to the soldiers who died in the Western Regions who died in bloody battles..."
Liu Xie said, raising his glass to the sky, then poured his glass horizontally in front of him, then raising another cup, and said, "The second cup, I wish those living soldiers who are still fighting bloody in the Western Region. They have written a new chapter of my great man with their passion, and I wish them!"
The Western Regions were about to be recovered. Even if Liu Xie wanted to hide this news, there was no way. It was impossible for the princes to send spies to the Western Regions. Therefore, even if he didn't say it, they would get the news. Instead of doing so, it would be better to celebrate it openly.
Sure enough, after Liu Xie's words were behind, the ministers were all a little stunned.
You should know that after Duan Xi stepped down from his last position of the Protectorate of the Western Regions ninety years ago, he no longer set up a Protectorate. Until Ban Chao's son Ban Yong, he served as the Protectorate of the Western Regions Chief Shixing, and then pacified the Western Regions. It has been seventy or eighty years since then.
In recent decades, the Han Dynasty has been in turmoil and the dynasty is almost collapsed, and the country cannot be stable. How can we regain the Western Regions?
Before, when Liu Xie let the Yuan-Cao fight and ignored it, how many people secretly called this young emperor stupid! At this time, instead of watching the tiger fight to get the bargain, they went to regain the Western Regions. Is the Western Regions so easy to regain?
But now... the ministers were speechless. They couldn't figure out why the Western Regions were so easy to recover? This makes no sense!
In the eyes of countless people, it is probably much more difficult to recover the Western Regions than to recover the Central Plains. After all, the Western Regions require Hu people and barbarians. Can you explain it clearly to them?
Since I can't understand it, I must fight hard. If I fight hard all the way, can this war be consumed?
But before everyone came to their senses, the Western Regions were defeated like this. Isn’t this a fantasy?
Not to mention that these people don’t believe it, even when the princes get the news, they can’t believe it’s the fact.
How big is the Western Regions? Even if you ride a horse all the way, you probably have to run for a month or two! In less than four months, how could they advance to the Wusun side? If both Wusun and the Dayuezhi Kingdom are taken down, then is Dayuan still far away?
Dayuan is naturally not far away. After taking over Wusun and Dayuezhi, Dayuan next to him will naturally not let go. However, at this time, their main force had turned around the Huns and Xianbei in the north. As long as these two nomadic peoples were taken down, it would be easier to go around and poke Yuan Benchu's ass.
From the current point of view, this plan has been half successful, and it doesn't matter if the other half of the winner is not successful. It's not that easy for Lao Cao to completely defeat Yuan Shao now. What's more, although Lao Yuan won less and lost more than Lao Cao at this time, his morale did not really fall to the bottom.
The Battle of Guandu is in a state of anxiety. If the Xu You and Xu Ziyuan did not surrender to Lao Cao as in history, Lao Cao would have a headache. Now Lao Cao is worried about his own food and grass problems. Although he can still support him for one or two months, what should he do after one or two months?
But he could not show his anxiety, because there was someone who was more troubled than him. That person was Xun Yu. Xun Yu did not take charge of Xudu as he did in history, but he was also planning the food and grass logistics.
When Xun Yu heard that Liu Xie took down the Western Regions, he could not believe that this was true at the first time. However, the news sent back from the detailed work confirmed that this was the fact. He also told the bloody things that Liu Xie did in the Western Regions to the Chinese story.
Hearing that all aliens were allowed to learn Han culture, Lao Cao's eyes lit up, and finally he stroked his hands and laughed, "What a bold move! In this regard, it's not as good as that!"
Although Lao Cao said this, everyone could not think so. Because Lao Cao has not yet fought against foreign tribes, so naturally everyone could not say such words.
But it has to be said that in many previous wars against foreign races, even if the Han Dynasty won, few people forced the sinicization of foreign races. Many people even think that what qualifications are those foreign barbarians who have the qualifications to learn Shangbang culture?
Liu Xie's move completely abandoned all the subconscious rules. This reminded Lao Cao of a man, the ancient tyrant, Ying Zheng!
The same book and the same car!
It is similar to this forcing foreigners to learn Chinese culture!
From this point of view, Lao Cao saw Liu Xie's huge ambition! At the same time, it can be seen from the side that the young emperor who awakened in the gentle village in Chengdu would definitely not be so easily drunk. His actions were just to paralyze his opponents.
But such news is a joke in Liu Biao's eyes.
Can Liu Biao not know how many soldiers and horses Liu Xie has? Even though there were no casualties and injuries when he fought with Ma Teng and Han Sui before, he had a full plan and was enough to give him 200,000 soldiers and horses! In fact, the news that Liu Biao got was that after Liu Xie recovered Xiliang, he only selected less than 30,000 young, strong Qiang and Hu iron cavalry from the tens of thousands of iron cavalry, and the rest of the others were sent home to open up land and farm.
Thirty thousand people, plus the previous 80,000, only 110,200, and about half of them were still baggage troops. The young and strong men who left behind to guard Xiliang and Chang'an and rebuild Luoyang, the Western Expedition Army sent by Liu Xie, plus baggage troops, were only about 70,000 to 100,000.
Such a small amount of troops seems to be a lot, but is it enough to disperse to such a large place in the Western Regions? The number of people who control strings alone has nearly 100,000. What about other countries in the Western Regions? Why can he take over the vast land of the entire Western Region in such a short time?
So Liu Biao was unwilling to believe it. He believed that this was a rumor released by Liu Xie, with the purpose of causing panic in Jingzhou and then waiting for an opportunity to attack Jingzhou.
What Liu Biao didn't know was that in fact, the fact that Liu Xie sent only 50,000 troops to the west was actually only 50,000, and there were no baggage troops, and they all went into battle lightly.
Of these, 25,000 were the original Qiang and Hu Iron Cavalry, 10,000 out of the other 25,000 were the Southern Barbarians, and the remaining 15,000 were the Feiyu Army, and 3,000 were the Heavy Armor Army. The rest of the soldiers were either guarding Xiliang or helping in Luoyang.
It can be said that Liu Xie's actions were extremely extreme. But now, under the leadership of so many powerful generals, this extreme approach fully demonstrated its extraordinary charm, which was an unstoppable and unstoppable domineering aura! (To be continued.
Chapter completed!