The Sacred Ding Chapter 264: Ride to aid
The situation in West Qiang is about to change badly, and Baishiyu hasn't prepared anything yet.
Although Fan Dachun, Deng Tonger, Han Wendang, Guo Hongpan and others have bred fanatical admiration for Chen Hai's military talents, but at this moment, hearing the latest changes in the situation, I still feel great pressure.
Who would have thought that it was the family of the Queen Zhang of the Western Qiang Kingdom, colluding with the Black Mountain bandits and seeking the throne of the Western Qiang Kingdom?
From Tie Liuling, all the way to the west, Wushaoling, which stretches for 12,000 to 3,000 miles, stretches across the south of the Xixia Corridor, blocking humans from entering the more desolate extremity of the South Gate—and the western end of the Xixia Corridor, It is the Pinglu Oasis that is more than nine hundred miles long from east to west and about four to five hundred miles deep from north to south.
In the Pinglu Oasis, lakes and rivers are the most majestic and expansive Pinglu Lake. It is four hundred miles long from east to west and tens of miles to more than a hundred miles wide from north to south. The Qianghu people are also called Pingluhai.
Mostly Qianghu people. After thousands of years of development, there are more than 60 cities with a certain scale and a population of more than 100,000 built around Pingluhai.
At this time, the Western Qiang State, which ruled the Pinglu Oasis, was one of the three vassal states in the eastern region of Jinzhou. When the national power was the strongest, the population exceeded 10 million, and it owned more than 200,000 scooters and elite riders.
Twenty years ago, there were more than 60 cities in the Pinglu Oasis. Almost 90% of them were captured by Dayanxi conscription horses. There are only a few cities in the deep mountains of the northwestern foothills of Wushaoling. In the hands of the Qiang and Hu nobles.
Although the Dayanxi conscription horse was finally defeated and Ye’s successful restoration of the country, after 20 years of rest and recuperation, the population recovered to 5-6 million, and the repaired and rebuilt city was only more than 40. seat.
Even so, the Ye family ruled the Pinglu Oasis, and it was still one of the three hegemons of the Eastern Region of Jinzhou. In addition to the guards and horses of Zhucheng, the Ye family directly controlled more than 100,000 elites.
The Ye family wanted to take a rest for a long time, and even did not hesitate to marry, in exchange for a brief peace with Hexi, but in the Pinglu Oasis, too many people couldn’t let go of the tragic death of Dayan twenty years ago. The hatred of slaughter.
It is not difficult to imagine that once Zhang Xiong, Zhang Jun and others collude with Kong Peng and other thieves to successfully subvert the Ye clan, the Pinglu Oasis will soon receive a large number of small and medium-sized clans who resent the Ye clan. Become a new royal power in the Pinglu Oasis. Once the Zhang family is firmly seated on the throne of the Western Qiang Kingdom, the army will soon be assembled and pushed towards Baishiyu.
At that time, Zhang Xiong and Kong Peng are both figures in the Dao Dan realm, and they are all the tigers and wolves. They are not within the reach of ordinary horse thieves. They want to defend the scattered more than 20 with less than 20,000 soldiers and horses. A small oasis will be impossible.
Even if they want to guard Baishiyu, it is difficult.
The protective wall of the Baishiling city pool was built just over knee height at this time, and the place was only 20 miles deep. Once the surrounding oasis was captured by the Zhang family and the Heishan soldiers, their soldiers and hundreds of thousands of people would withdraw. Is it meaningless to come to Baishiyu to hold on?
For the time being, I don’t care about the amount of food needed by hundreds of thousands of people. With only 20,000 or 30,000 horses and 100,000 animals, how much forage can be supplied in an oasis as small as Baishiyu?
In the eyes of Fan Dachun and others, at this time, the tribesmen will be transferred to Moyue Lake, and 20,000 soldiers will be added to 140,000. Guarding Moyue Lake has a greater chance of winning.
The area of Moyue Lake Oasis is five or six times that of Baishiyu. The water plants are more beautiful, and the time it can hold is much longer than that of Baishiyu; and they only need to hold on until the Black Mountain invaders have insufficient food and the enemy army It will naturally go away.
After all, the Pinglu Oasis is three thousand miles away from Moyue Lake and is separated by a sea of sand. It is extremely difficult to ensure the food supply of thirty to fifty thousand elite soldiers.
It was too passive to retreat to Moyue Lake. After discussing for a long time, Chen Hai finally decided that the people, livestock and extra horses of the tribes should be transferred to Moyue Lake as soon as possible. Deng Tonger presided over the matter; After Han Wendang and Guo Hong sent 10,000 horses and 10,000 slaves to explain the bravery, he stationed at Baishiyu to continue building and training. He and Ning Chaner, Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others led five thousand fine rides to Songyang Lake, save Ye Qinglin's remnant...
"Kong Peng led 20,000 fine horses on Songyang Lake to besiege Ye Qinglin's 3,000 remnants. We only had 5,000 cavalry to help. We were almost exhausted when we rushed to Songyang Lake, and I didn’t even know the period. , Will Ye Qinglin's remnant be completely wiped out? Is this trip too dangerous?" Fan Dachun asked hesitantly.
Two cavalry are chasing in the boundless sea of sand, and the Jing Juejun’s previous offensive advantages will not be fully realized. The gap between the forces of the two sides is too large, and it is difficult for them to win.
What's more, before they rushed to Songyang Lake, the remnants of Ye Qinglin were probably annihilated. They rushed over, besides being hit by the Black Mountain invaders, what could they do?
"Even if the Zhang clan succeeds in subversion, it will take time to fully control the Pinglu Oasis; even if the main figures of the Ye clan are all swept away by the Zhang clan, the soldiers and horses loyal to the Ye clan will not be completely annihilated. We Rescuing Ye Qinglin did not value the two or three thousand remnants in his hand, but only Ye Qinglin was able to call on the remnants of the Ye clan to gather at Baishiyu or Moyue Lake. Only Ye Qinglin was able to make Pinglu Oasis. The great city masters will not rush to the Zhang family and the Black Mountain bandits to serve as a tiger..." Chen Hai said.
The Zhang clan currently has only 40,000 soldiers and horses in his hand, plus the Black Mountain bandits, only 60,000 soldiers and horses. They overthrow the Ye clan’s royal family and have to leave a certain amount of force to sit in the royal capital. In a short time, they can divide up half of the soldiers. The horse crosses the boundless sea of sand to attack Black Mountain or Moyue Lake.
Chen Hai guards Moyue Lake or Black Mountain, really not afraid of 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses straddling two to three thousand miles of sand to attack.
The Pinglu Oasis has five or six million people and more than forty cities. Once the Zhang family is fully controlled, the number of soldiers and horses that can eventually be recruited will be far more than 60,000. Then they will be in Black Mountain or Moyue The lake will truly fall into a dilemma.
Hundreds of thousands of horses are still easy to move within a range of thousands of miles. In the end, if he wants to evacuate the 1670,000 horses, mainly civilians and slaves, across the vast sand sea into the Hexi, even if there is no chasing soldiers, he will not be halfway. Know how many people will die to do it.
What's more, Hexi does not lack this man and horse. If these people withdraw into Hexi, their influence on the Pinglu Oasis and the entire eastern region of Jinzhou will be lost.
If this were the case, he might as well just rob Dong Ning directly at first.
If you don't want to lose the many good moves he has won at this time, the only way is to bring Ye Qinglin or other core figures of the Ye family to Baishiyu. As long as the Ye’s banner does not fall, not only can the Ye’s remnants be gathered in Baishiyu (Black Mountain), but also the many city owners of the Pinglu Oasis can be called to secretly resist Zhang’s collusion with the Black Mountain bandits. At least these city owners will not rush If you vote for the Zhang family, then you can force the Zhang family to rush to attack Baishiyu without controlling the Pinglu Oasis-otherwise it will be difficult for the Zhang family to secure the throne of the West Qiang Kingdom.
"If you can help me defeat the conspiracy of Zhang's and other rebellious officials and consolidate the Ye's royal family's rule over the Pinglu Oasis, what wish can't be achieved?" Chen Hai sat before the long case, his tiger eyes staring brightly. With Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan, Deng Tonger and others.
"Can I ask Hexi for help?" Deng Tonger asked.
Fan Dachun and Han Qingyuan are also looking forward to Chen Hai. They both look forward to making outstanding achievements, but they also think that if Hexi can send troops, the odds of winning will be much greater.
Chen Hai shook his head and said, "Hexi sends troops, and Tibet and Qiang will have an excuse to send troops. How the war will develop at that time is beyond everyone's expectations. Therefore, even if we ask for help from Hexi, Hexi Will ignore it."
The Dongs are eager to marry Dong Ningxi, just to solve the worries of the west, and never want to fall into the endless war in the west. Before the situation became clear, there was even a tendency to fall further into chaos. Chen Haineng concluded that the Dong family would only choose to sacrifice Dong Ning, Ran Hu and other children for the sake of the overall situation.
Chen Hai also said: "The Zhang family was forced to start in advance, and the preparations were insufficient. At this time, the Black Mountain bandits should rush to the West Qiang country~IndoMTL.com~ meet with Zhang’s soldiers and horses to control the situation in the West Qiang country. We rushed to Songyang Lake. If Ye Qinglin’s remnant army has been annihilated, the Montenegrin army will not pay attention to us for the time being; if we rush to Songyang Lake and Ye Qinglin’s remnant army is still there, the Montenegrin army is more likely. Will withdraw westward ahead of time and will not entangle with us-you don't have to worry too much..."
Although Fan Dachun hopes to detect changes in the situation in Xiqiang and send troops, Baishixia is more than two thousand miles away from the king of Xiqiang, and it is difficult for Lingying to approach the hinterland of Xiqiang for reconnaissance. At this time, he can only bet on Xiqiang. Soldiers and horses loyal to the Ye clan in the country are not so easy to be annihilated by rebellion.
Everyone discusses and discusses, and also feel that if you don't want to passively guard Moyue Lake, take the initiative to attack Songyang Lake, which is a good choice.
Fan Dachun's subordinates and the Jianyong who combined the tribes who are good at cavalry warfare together, there are no five thousand elite cavalry, what is missing is to draw from the horse infantry, gather up five thousand cavalry, and go out from Baishiyu overnight to cross The vast sea of sand swept eastward.
In order to ensure sufficient physical strength and combat power, the grassroots military officers are allotted hundreds of low- and medium-level elixir, and ordinary horsemen are allotted two catties of stone quercetin—this is also the key to the victory of the elite army.
Horse thief, the boss has no shortage of low-level elixir, but he will never be willing to distribute the low-level elixir of Shique honey to ordinary horse thief to nourish blood and restore the stamina that was violently consumed during the march.
Don’t want the horse thief to be stingy. Chen Haiqing smashed all the villages, and the seized Shique honey was only 20,000 catties. For a force march of five thousand warriors, it would consume half of it, even if it occupied the land of three counties. Hexi Dong's family may not be willing to consume so much.
Han Jian and other Han children received the military order and waited halfway. On the third day, they joined with the main force of five thousand cavalry led by Chen Hai, Fan Dachun, Han Qingyuan and others, and then went to Songyang Lake together. .