The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire Chapter 91: Xiliang Rebellion 3

　　 Therefore, it is impossible to extract strong men from the people and use them as cannon fodder to supplement their own consumption.

　　 The reason why the Xiliang army is able to sustain it now is entirely because the Qiang people behind them are afraid. The Han Dynasty will settle accounts after the fall.

　　 took the lead in provoking the guilt of the rebellion before they liquidated them, so they continued to send money and food to the Xiliang army, so that they could drag it for as long as possible, until the Han Dynasty was impatient and gave up the peace of Dingxi. Cool, or recruit security.

　　 But even so, the support given to the Xiliang Army is not too much. After all, before the Qiang people invested more than 100,000 men in his rebellion.

　　 was nothing but the army that was later brought to counter the rebellion by the Han Dynasty. They killed them all and only fled back to him. There were only a few hundred people.

　　 The vitality of the Qiang nationality, whose total population is less than one million, is greatly injured. The whole clan is only left with 200,000 males. In order to protect the survival of their own tribe, how many soldiers and horses can they send to assist the Xiliang Army? !

　　 He is at best seven or eighty omnipotent, no matter how much his own race's survival is not guaranteed. In that way, even if you successfully resisted and even defeated the attack of the Han Dynasty, but your own tribe perished, what's the point of all this!

　　 So after more than half a year of his war, the entire west of Tongguan can be said to have a declining population, and can no longer withstand any toss.

　　 And the reason why the Kwantung gentry has already retreated in the Xiliang army does not pose any threat to the imperial court, and even if the Xiliang army will surrender with a single order, it will not be let go. The Xiliang army will continue to pursue and fight vigorously.

　　 just wanted to take this opportunity to smash the whole area west of Tongguan, so that there are no people in the area and no **** crowing in a hundred miles.

　　 Since ancient times, no matter the foundation of any political power, there has been a sufficient population. Without enough people to support you, even if you have a vast territory, you cannot effectively rule and use it.

　　 Naturally, the power of that regime is not too strong. After the Mongols unified the grasslands, there were not many soldiers and horses. It was after conquering other countries with large populations that he had enough power to conquer the Eurasian continent.

　　 When the Qing Dynasty first started, it only occupied the entire Liaodong. Compared with the Ming Dynasty, which occupied the entire China, its strength was not that strong.

　　 But after entering the customs, he won the support of the San Francisco Han forces headed by Wu Sangui, and immediately began his great cause of calming China and unifying the world.

　　 These two powerful empires that once united China only gradually became stronger after being trusted by many Han people.

　　 The current situation of the gentry in Guanzhong and Xiliang is the same. After this year-long war, the people's livelihood in Guanzhong has been withered, the fertile fields are barren, and the people are fleeing everywhere. It can be said that the situation before the war is no longer restored.

　　 Now as long as he delays the war for two or three months, and consumes a few more men in the level, then the last trace of vitality in this level will also be exhausted.

　　 At that time, there will not be enough men to grow food, and because of the long war, the fertile fields will be deserted. The people of Liangzhou in Guanzhong will be starved everywhere without food, and the population will be greatly reduced.

　　Without a sufficient population, General Guan can no longer organize a powerful army, and there is not enough food to support their gentry to continue to exist.

　　 and Guanzhong will gradually lose its cultural heritage and degenerate into a land of barbarians like the Warring States and Pre-Qin Period, completely abandoned and isolated by the mainstream culture of the Central Plains.

　　 At that time, Guanzhong will be caught in a long road of reproduction and recovery. When I think of it, there are only a few hundred people in a county, and only a few thousand people in a county, which is equivalent to a province of China with only tens of thousands of him. What concept?

　　 They want to return to their pre-war state, how long will it take to go even further? In China, it took him as long as 300 years for the state of Qin in the pre-Qin period to restore the Guanzhong area, the homeland of the Western Zhou Dynasty after the Qin Rong Rebellion.

　　 Such a long period of time has only restored the prosperity of 300 years ago, and the Central Plains region has far exceeded the economic level of 300 years ago after these 300 years of development.

　　 Therefore, Qin Guocai has always been denounced by the princes of the Central Plains as a barbarian, refused to establish diplomatic relations with him, and denied that he belonged to the Chinese civilization.

　　 and the Guanzhong clans wanted to imitate the Qin State and restore the grand situation in Guanzhong. At that time, the Guanzhong clansmen had already settled the chaos of the war and turned their cars to continue suppressing Guanzhong.

　　 In August of the first year of Zhongping, after a month of war, Aunt Zangcheng, who had long been dilapidated, was finally opened by the Han army wearing red uniforms under the city during another attack.

　　The endless Han army swarmed into the city to get their trophies as victors. Many defenders in the city were defeated and killed. Only the two leaders of Han Sui Ma Teng fled with more than 10,000 people. Xijun, west of Wuwei County, continued to organize troops and horses to resist the attack of the Han Dynasty.

　　 And there were screams of crying and crying in the city. Because of the months-long war, the tired and tense mind in my heart can finally relax at this moment.

　　 All the soldiers are looting wantonly, the disturbances and things they can see, they wantonly release the repressive and distorted emotions in their hearts, and the surviving people in the whole city happen to be the best items to vent their anger.

　　 In this whole city, the surviving residents were bad luck, and he suffered something more terrifying than the military disaster in the past few months, massacring the city.

　　According to the investigation and statistics of related persons, there were four to five thousand people in the city before the city was broken. After the city was broken, only thirty or forty people were left to clean the corpses.

　　The crime and horror of war are vividly manifested at this moment. No wonder any people are saying that they would rather be a peace dog than a chaotic world.

　　 All of these, the military commanders did not stop any behavior, and even vaguely agreed with what the soldiers did.

　　 There are two reasons. One is that the soldiers really need to vent their anger, so that they can relax a little bit tightly. They will not cause mutiny as before, and then they will cry and laugh.

　　 The second is that those chiefs are basically the Kwantung gentry, will they stop any behavior that weakens the Guanzhong gentry? And those soldiers are reducing the population of the Guanzhong gentry, making their power weaker and weaker, so why not do it!

　　 Therefore, the fate of the people in the city is doomed when the city is broken. If there is an accident, it would be strange.

　　The only thing that people in the city hate is that ~IndoMTL.com~ didn't all go up to the city to help the defenders defend together. On the contrary, it was the imperial master who still believed, that unbelievable morality.

　　 easily gave up any resistance. They were abused by the demons in human skin. Now it was too late to resist.

　　After the massacre of the city, all the soldiers' emotions slowly stabilized, and the army of the Kwantung clan did not continue to advance, leaving him 50,000 people to station in the Guanzhong area of ​​Liangzhou.

　　 As for those who have escaped, Han Sui Ma Teng and others did not put them in the eyes of those noble gentry, nobles and others. You know, there are only three counties to the west of Wuwei County, and the total population is only 60,000 people. Not to mention regrouping to counterattack Liangzhou Guanzhong, it is probably impossible to even feed the more than 10,000 soldiers who fled!

　　 So in addition to leaving some turf defended by soldiers, they transferred the counter-insurgency army that had been fighting for more than half a year to the entire Kanto area of ​​the imperial court.

　　 And when the army of about one hundred twenty thousand people returned to the Central Plains. Zhong Yu vowed to carry out the Northern Expedition in Jiangling City, and the elite army with a number of more than 500,000 rested and was ready to go.

　　 Only after Zhong Yu's order, he can drive to the Central Plains and completely draw the curtain of that decadent dynasty.

　　After more than half a year of finishing and dredging, the entire site south of the Yangtze River has been completely stabilized. With the big killer of enfeoffment, all the gentry didn't want to overthrow this empire that could build a country for them and glorify their ancestors.

　　 This kind of feudal system treatment, but the Han Dynasty can't give it and are not willing to give it. Then why should they abandon the bold and generous lord in front of them and go to the Han Dynasty, which is already a broken shoe, like a broken ship that will sink at any time?