The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 90: Xiliang Rebellion 2

　　 After January, when all the high-ranking officials and nobles, the local tycoons tried every means to gather all the soldiers they could gather to Luoyang City.

　　 An elite army with a number of over 100,000 appeared. This army is well equipped and wears weapons and armors accumulated by those families for decades.

　　The personnel composition is mostly composed of those families, which have raised countless generations of family children and loyal servants. In terms of loyalty, these clans are extremely trustworthy.

　　With this level of protection, and those gentry have generously donated their bags, constantly donating the food in their homes that are already full of warehouses.

　　In addition to the wives and children of these soldiers, the family members have the nobles who take care of their reputation and the loyalty of the family servants. It can be said that this completely eliminates the worries of the future, so the morale is guaranteed and very high.

　　 So it can be seen from this aspect that the influence of these aristocratic families in the entire Han Dynasty is so deep-rooted and how much wealth they occupy.

　　 This is only a short time, and only the private soldiers of a part of the family in the counties and counties surrounding Luoyang are summoned. If the entire family of the Han Dynasty and all the private soldiers that can be mobilized are gathered.

　　 may be able to form an army with a number of more than 500,000, and unlike the ordinary county soldiers of the imperial court, they have some training foundation.

　　 and well-equipped, the combat is relatively strong and not afraid of death, this force is enough to shake the ruling foundation of any dynasty, and make that dynasty collapse overnight and become the dust of history.

　　Of course, a family with this kind of strength only survived the dynasties before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. The dynasties before this were often military imperialism, which was very aggressive and pioneering.

　　 Generally speaking, "empire" is a historical concept. It generally contains three basic characteristics: First, a unified and vast country (small countries have no empire); Second, authoritarian rule or high degree of centralization (democracy has no empire); Third, powerful military expansion (no empire without expansion) .

　　 And no matter how rich and powerful the dynasties after the Tang Dynasty are, there is no one that can be called an empire.

　　 The reason is that Zhong Yu believes that after the Song Dynasty, the power of the local government was highly concentrated in the central government, and the literati said that they began to slowly change from the former saber practice to poetry and poetry.

　　The literati, who belonged to the ruling class, slowly developed towards the weak scholars who had no power in their hands. Without the bravery of warriors, the country has gradually lost its pioneering nature and tends to be conservative!

　　 So at that time, most of the gentry raised some servants with wooden sticks and no sharp weapons, and the number of them was not large. At most, he sent a dozen or more people. Most of them were greedy for life and fear of death, and did not have allegiance to them. Heart.

　　 It was like before the Sui and Tang Dynasties. They raised some well-equipped and well-trained soldiers than the official army of the imperial court, and the number of them was hundreds of thousands, which is more than the number of the local army to maintain law and order.

　　 In this way, this 100,000 army marched towards Xiliang as the first wave of reinforcements to resist the Xiliang Army’s offensive. The main function was to maintain the immediate line of defense and occupy more footholds. Click it.

　　 Then there will be a second wave of gentry reinforcements with a strength of about 200,000, which will be driven to the Guanzhong area. Carrying out a large-scale counterattack after the battlefield has stabilized, the Kwantung family intends to take this opportunity to eradicate the Kwantung family in one fell swoop, so as to eliminate this serious problem for all the world's corporals.

　　 When the reinforcements arrived at Chang'an City, they quickly distributed to various defensive battlefields. After another expansion of the Xiliang Army, an army of more than 300,000 troops violently attacked the shaky defensive line. Stabilized again.

　　The battlefield has entered a stalemate stage. Although it is impossible for the court to counterattack with hundreds of thousands of people, it is a fantasy that the Xiliang Army wants to break through the tens of thousands of well-equipped and stable military defense lines.

　　 One month later, the second batch of gentry reinforcements, with a number of 200,000, reached the Great Wall as quickly as possible under the concerted efforts of all the gentry.

　　 The battlefield of Chang'an City, which received reinforcements, immediately began a large-scale counterattack. After a month of war consumption, both the defenders of the Great Wall and the siege troops of Xiliang were exhausted.

　　 At this time, I just got a new force of 200,000 people. How can I miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity? Don't take advantage of the time when the Xiliang army is exhausted and ready to cultivate, take advantage of the opportunity to sneak attack and defeat them in one fell swoop.

　　 Do you have to wait for their surging attack when they have finished their training and the army is rectified again and regained the most prosperous combat power?

　　 The 200,000 army swept past like a wave, and it would have long since reached the limit of the Xiliang army, it would be easily submerged like a reef.

　　 He left more than 200,000 Xiliang army and immediately defeated, beheading 100,000, leaving only more than 100,000 people fled to his hometown Liangzhou, ready to recruit troops again, regroup you, and counterattack back.

　　The court took advantage of the victory and pursued it, regaining countless counties and counties along the way. In the end, they confronted each other across the Weihe River in Tianshui County with the Xiliang Army, which had recovered its strength again.

　　In July of the first year of Zhongping, more than half a year has passed since Zhong Yu unified the entire south. Among them, the Han court finally discovered that it had risen to the south, a huge empire, and it was no less inferior to itself in terms of territory.

　　 However, at this time, the scorched Han court, who had been messed up by the Xiliangzhi, could no longer take into account the situation in the south, and could only station heavy troops in several heavy cities and guard them carefully.

　　 Although he doesn't think that the newly-rising empire in the south can have enough energy to attack him. I am afraid that he, like most empires that have just emerged, is busy building his own internal system and appeasing the local scholars.

　　 All energy has been devoted to the country built within the territory~IndoMTL.com~Where is there any more energy to attack the north? What about this powerful military self?

　　 You should know that most of the North is an endless plain, while the South does not have a good horse, so it does not have a strategic advantage.

　　 So despite being very angry and worried, I hate the rebellious thief in the south very much in my heart. But Lingdi was still very wise to put all his power into the Xiliang battlefield.

　　 I look forward to putting down the rebellion in this place as soon as possible, so that we can concentrate all our energy to recover and resist the southern attack.

　　Under the command of this policy and strategy, the Xiliang Army had already fallen below, and the situation suddenly became precarious.

　　 Batch after batch of reinforcements drove to Xiliang, knowing that he was already a matter of life and death for the sergeant, and resolutely led the local people in Xiliang to fight to the death.

　　 But the battlefield is still inevitably at a disadvantage. How can you resist the power of a state? The northern part of the Han Dynasty is far more powerful than the power of the eight states in Xiliang!

The 　　 battle line retreated from Tianshui to Jincheng County, Longyou County, and from these two counties to Wuwei County. Although the military strength was supplemented, it was from just 200,000 to more than 100,000, and then to Five or sixty thousand now.

　　 can barely resist the 200,000 troops deployed by the imperial court in Xiliang. Xiliang had a small population, and his registered population was only about 500,000. Even if the three counties of Guanzhong were added, the total population was only about a million.

　　 Before the Xiliang rebellion, he took 200,000 males from the entire Xiliang Pass to join the army. In order to resist the attack of the rebels, the court arrested him tens of thousands of people as cannon fodder.

　　After this consumption, the population of Xiliang and Guanzhong has been greatly reduced. It is estimated that he is only four to five million people, and the male doesn't know if there are still three to four million people left.