Chapter 436 Xuzhou-Xiliang Alliance(1/2)
The grassland in the northern desert is full of strong winds and strong grass, and hundreds of thousands of people who control strings.
Temujin returned to Mobei and convened a meeting of the kings.
In this battle, the Mongol Empire gained tens of millions of people, greatly replenishing the population in the northern desert.
But at the same time, it brings about a food crisis.
"Shanks, with tens of millions of people, there will be serious shortage of food. The northern desert is not a farming place. If you cannot feed such a population, you will be eaten up."
A civil servant took the initiative to salute Temujin, and he felt a little worried in his words.
Temujin brought back the population of Mobei to exceed the environmental carrying capacity of Mobei. In short, with the nomadic way of Mobei, it cannot support so many people.
"Leading them to expand to the southern desert, the Western Regions, and Lake Baikal, how much they can live depends on their own fortune."
Temujin also realized the food problem, but it is not necessary to feed everyone and survive the fittest.
Temujin captured the northern main city and won the hero of the northern main city.
A Khitan general followed Temujin with sharp eyes. Temujin took him as his subordinate and entrusted him with important tasks.
With iron hooves, the Mongolian Empire began to expand to the south of the desert, the Western Regions, Siberia, and the wolf competed for the deer...
In Longcheng, Chu Tian's allies, Prince Yan and Gongsun Zan, drove the population of Monan into this city. The population of Longcheng reached an astonishing 500,000, and the number was still increasing.
In the south of the desert, it is not easy to gather 500,000 people in the prairie.
"It is said that the Mongol Empire captured tens of millions of people during the national war. Now the population in northern desert may be more than in southern desert, and we will be the first to bear the brunt of it."
Prince Yan, Gongsun Zan, and Liu Hu, several big names from Monan have been developing in Monan. They felt the threat from Monan.
Due to the rise of Mobei, their goals also changed subtly.
Originally, Chu Tian asked them to build a large city in the south of the desert, with the purpose of transporting war horses to the Central Plains, but this city began to become a bridgehead to block the Mongolian cavalry from moving south.
Prince Yan looked at the north of the desert, and the north was covered with dark clouds.
"Deploy food and grass, weapons to Peiguo and Chenliu area."
Chu Tian returned to Xiacheng and transported his main forces, food, grass and weapons to several counties and states bordering Yuzhou.
Yuzhou is part of the Central Plains region. Only by taking Yuzhou can the Central Plains be considered complete.
Under Chu Tian's mobilization, resources from various prefectures and counties began to be transported to the above-mentioned places.
Not only that, when Chu Tian returned from the National War, he had already allocated 3 million people and 200,000 troops from the National War to Yanzhou.
His strategy is similar to Cao Cao in history, but the saying in Yuzhou is that Tang is an enhanced version of Zhang Xiu, and Chu Tian needs to do his best.
Cao Cao beat Zhang Xiu, and his son and Dian Wei were killed because of this, so he must not be taken lightly.
During Chu Tian's visit to participate in the National War, the number of guards and the top ten main legions gradually increased. The National War was fighting, but Chu Tian's territory never stopped developing.
"The Qingzhou Army guarded the Gaotang area, Yu Jin was the main general, and Li Kui cooperated to prevent the plains from crossing the Yellow River."
"The Iron Wall Legion guards Hulao and Xingyang area, and Man Chong cooperates to block the old Qin from Guanzhong."
"The defensive army gathered in Dongjun, and Cheng Yu cooperated to defend Zhao Long and Yuan Shao from Hebei."
"The offensive army assembled in Chenliu, the Wuzun army assembled in Qiao County, and the troops were divided into two groups to attack Yuzhou."
After all the generals rested for three days, Chu Tian convened several commanders to discuss the annexation of Yuzhou and dominance of the Central Plains.
If Yuzhou is occupied, Chutian's territory will be similar to Cao Cao's sphere of influence in the Battle of Guandu, but Guanzhong is missing.
In fact, Xuzhou in Chutian is the most fattest piece of land in the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Xuzhou has not had any war for a long time and has absorbed the surrounding population. It can be said that it is rich. Therefore, Chu Tian can let go of his hands and take the initiative to raise trouble.
He deployed five infantry corps in the Yellow River and Yuzhou area. Then there was the main cavalry corps.
"White robe, rapid, the Invincible Legion gathered in Chenliu; the Yulin Legion and the Tiger and Legion gathered in Peiguo."
"The Guards, the Saints (First Servant Legion), the Knights (Second Servant Legion), gathered in Chenliu."
"The troops in Huainan do not need to be moved and defended. It is the greatest contribution to defending Huainan."
Chu Tian's deployment was also very simple, with the Guards (subordinate Northern Army Five Schools, Hu Ben, Xuan Jia, Niangzi, Reconnaissance and other small legions), two servant corps, one infantry main legion, three cavalry main legion deployed on the Chenliu front, one horse flat; one infantry main legion, two cavalry main legion, and the Xuzhou defensive legion deployed on the Peiguo front.
It is obvious that Chenliu's front was the main attack on Yuzhou, and Chu Tian personally served as the commander, with Fang Xuanling and Xun You as military advisors, and Du Ruhui was in charge of the rear.
The strategic goal of Chenliu's direction is to regain half of Chenliu County occupied by the Tang Dynasty and capture Xu County in Yingchuan.
Chu Tian considered the issue of the halo of the entire army. Only three halos of the entire army were eaten in one battlefield. In order to ensure that both battlefields had a halo of the entire army, Chu Tian brought all talents with the halo of the entire army, except for Mulan, who is currently inconvenient.
Xia Tianliang has the halo of the whole army to cooperate with Chu Tian, so this time Chu Tian took Xia Tianliang to fight, which is also the first time Chu Tian brought his wife to fight...
Chenliu, the ones that provide the halo of the entire army include Chutian, Xiatianliang and Leyi.
Chu Tian suspected that Joan of Arc, as the most popular hero in France, also had the halo of the entire army, but he could not see Joan of Arc's panel.
The direction of Pei State was Wei Qing as the head coach, Cao Cao as the deputy head coach, Guo Jia and Lu Su as military advisors, and the combat goal was relatively simple to prevent the Tang Dynasty from splitting its troops to attack Xuzhou, and at the same time to attack Liang and Chen State in Yuzhou. In the end, the two legions met in Runan County, attacking Runan County, which had been running for the longest time in Tang Dynasty, and captured the entire Yuzhou.
The aura of the entire army in the direction of Pei State was provided by Wei Qing and Cao Cao. The aura of the two entire army was not much different.
Cao Cao was a surrendered general, and with Wei Qing, the great god, he could not cause any storm. Moreover, Cao Cao could not command other troops except the Tiger and Leopard Legion.
The local legion used to defend Xuzhou was transferred to Wei Qing for command by Chu Tian, and was mainly used to defend the city.
Chu Tian estimated the number of people, among which Chenliu's troops were not many for attack, only 300,000. It was said that Tang was already very kind...
The army used for attack in Peiguo direction was around 100,000...
A total of 400,000 troops!
There were probably not many princes in the Eastern Han Dynasty who could afford such a large amount of capital.
Even in the Youzhou War, no prince who participated in the war could bring out an army of 400,000.
However, it takes time for the 400,000 army to assemble.
There are 400,000 troops, as many as one million pack horses, mules and donkeys used to transport grain, and as one million people transport grain.
So the war is about comprehensive strength.
After listening to the strategy, Wei Qing, Le Yi, Zhou Yafu, Cao Cao and other commanders went down to make arrangements after listening to the strategy.
"Lord, Xu Fengnian from Longxi is here to visit."
Chu Tian was busy gathering troops in the Yuzhou area, and officials came to report to Chu Tian.
"He's finally here, invite him in."
Soon, Xu Fengnian, the most powerful person in Longxi, arrived.
Before attacking Yuzhou, Chu Tian needed someone to restrain the old Qin.
As the second prince, the commander of the lord is like a cloud of powerful generals. Only Xu Fengnian, who is comparable to the King of Xiliang, can restrain the lord of old Qin.
Xu Fengnian and Chu Tian have a close relationship, but it is not very close. If it is not close or accurate, it is more like a relationship similar to a trading partner.
If you have common interests, you can cooperate.
Xu Fengnian came to the lord's mansion and seemed to be in a heavy mood.
"The brave and old Qin generals destroyed the stone tablet in the main city in the east and obtained Qin general Wang Jian. Who would have thought that by breaking the stone tablet, he could get a powerful general. Before the National War, he had recruited 200,000 troops and stationed troops in Youfufeng, preparing to attack Longxi."
Xu Fengnian took the hot tea and as soon as she sat down, she complained bitterly.
He was ready to deal with the Guanzhong Legion, but as a result, the old Qin Dynasty won Wang Jian, one of the four famous generals of the Warring States Period, and suddenly disrupted Xu Fengnian's plan.
Chu Tian asked: "What generals have you obtained from the national war?"
"Dugu Xin, the general of the Northern Zhou Dynasty."
"Dugu Xin? Not the emperor level?"
Chu Tian remembers this man, a handsome guy from the Southern and Northern Dynasties, and Li Shimin's ancestor Li Hu was the eight pillars of the Northern Zhou Dynasty. Because Dugu Xin's genes were so good, he had three daughters as the queen... Among them, Dugu Jialuo, the seventh daughter, married Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian, and Li Shimin had the genes of Dugu Xin's fourth daughter...
In addition to being the coach, Dugu Xin is also a good player in war.
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"My ranking cannot be obtained from the imperial-level generals. Liangzhou has not been completely pacified yet. Qiang people and horse thieves, I am under a lot of pressure and need a lot of gold and silver. To put it bluntly, I need your funding."
Xu Fengnian was straight to the point. He needed Chu Tian’s support to stop the old Qin.
"Yes, I need more high-quality war horses here."
Chu Tian took this opportunity to buy a batch of war horses from Xu Fengnian.
Liangzhou was one of the best war horses in the Han Empire, and Chu Tian was greedy for the tall and big horses in Liangzhou.
Xu Fengnian needed money to fight, and Chu Tian needed horses, and hit it off.
Xu Fengnian sold the war horse to Chu Tian at a lower price.
Chu Tian ate 20,000 war horses in one go, plus the 50,000 war horses he ate from Catherine, and the locally farmed war horses in Xuzhou and Yanzhou, Chu Tian believes that there will be no shortage of war horses within two or three years.
Chu Tian conspired with Xu Fengnian again and finally signed the Xuzhou-Xiliang Alliance.
When necessary, Chu Tian could even teleport his troops to Longxi through the teleportation array to help Xu Fengnian fight.
Each soldier needs 15 taels of silver to teleport from Xuzhou to Longxi, and each soldier needs 150,000 taels of silver to teleport 10,000 taels of silver. If Xu Fengnian's expenses for the teleportation array are paid monthly for military pay and food, Chu Tian can consider sending an expeditionary army to block the old Qin for Xu Fengnian.
To be continued...