Chapter five hundred and seventy-fifth battle for the hegemony of the Western Regions
Originally, the Polu Army seized food from the tiger's mouth. Taking advantage of the opportunity of Dayuan's attack on Gaochang, it annexed five provinces and five vassal states of Gaochang, and also obtained a population of about nine million. This was a very good result. However, Liu Ji was a little dissatisfied with this. After all, the Dayuan's gains far exceeded those of the Polu Army.
This made Liu Ji, who had always taken advantage of it and never suffered a loss, feel a little uncomfortable.
However, Liu Ji did not intend to expand the situation. Dayuan State was not ready to go to war with the Polu Army, and the Polu Army was not ready to break out of war with the Dayuan State. Therefore, both sides were very restrained and did not have any conflicts because of robbing Gaochang State's territory.
However, something that happened on March 10 immediately made the Polu Army and the Dayuan Army tense, and the smell of gunpowder on both sides immediately became strong.
On the afternoon of March 10, in the Namangan Province, the former governor's office in the northern governor's office of Gaochang State occupied by the Polu Army, a cavalry of Dayuan State suddenly appeared. This cavalry of Dayuan State attacked a small village on the western border of Namangan Province.
The Western Regions Legion had more than 50 infantry teams stationed in this small village, and only three ordinary soldiers successfully escaped to a forest and survived. All the remaining soldiers of the Polu Army were killed. In addition, more than 300 villagers in this small village were almost slaughtered, and all the young women were insulted to death.
In a study room in the Gaochang Palace in the former Gaochang City, Liu Ji asked Lian Po, commander of the Western Regions Legion with a gloomy face, “Is it sure that it was done by the Dayuan Army?”
Lian Po said in a deep voice: "Lord, the cavalry that attacked that small village is all standard dressed by the cavalry of Dayuan. However, we don't know whether they are the real cavalry of Dayuan."
Liu Ji sneered and said, "According to the three surviving soldiers, this cavalry in Dayuan has at least 500 cavalry. At this time, the cavalry troops with a population of more than 500 people can appear in the Namangan Province and have a population of more than 500. In addition to our Polu Army, only the Dayuan army can send them out and immediately issue an ultimatum to Dayuan, asking Dayuan to hand over the murderer who killed our Jin army and civilians within five days. Otherwise, our Polu Army will do it ourselves and avenge the dead soldiers and the people!"
After pausing, Liu Ji continued, "In addition, the order from this Grand Governor, all the Polu Army troops in the Western Regions Protectorate's Office will immediately enter a state of combat readiness. If the Dayuan Kingdom refuses to hand over the murderer, then our Polu Army will compete with the Dayuan Kingdom to see who is the real overlord of the Western Regions!"
At this time, in addition to Lian Po, there were Zhang Liang and the commander of the Western Frontier Legion Xue Rengui in the study. This time, Liu Ji brought four elite cavalry units, including the Tiger Ben Army, the Black Armored Soldier, the Tiger Leopard Cavalry and the White Horse Congyi, to the Western Regions Protectorate. He only brought Zhang Liang, a top civil servant, to his advice, and also brought several generals with peerless military generals and more than 100 puppet bodyguards.
Zhang Liang pondered for a moment and said, "Lord, there is no reason for Dayuan to provoke our Polu Army at this time. Will there be any conspiracy?"
Liu Ji waved his hand and said, "No matter whether this Grand Governor has any conspiracy or not, now that the soldiers of the Polu Army and the people under the Western Regions Protectorate have been massacred, someone must be responsible. If Dayuan State says it is not the cavalry of their country, then Dayuan State will find the real murderer to this Grand Governor to prove the innocence of Dayuan State!"
Zhang Liang, Lian Po and Xue Rengui looked at each other at this time, and they heard that Liu Ji was taking advantage of the situation!
Xue Rengui hesitated for a moment and said, "Lord, if our Polu Army fights with Dayuan at this time, will it be insufficient to prepare?"
Liu Ji said indifferently: "We are not prepared enough, and Dayuan Kingdom is also not prepared enough. Now our four elite cavalry of the Polu Army are all in Gaochang City. Once we really fight, our Polu Army still has a lot of advantages. At least these four elite cavalry can be quickly put on the battlefield."
As Liu Ji's power grew, Liu Ji's ambition also rose with the rise. The entire Gaochang Kingdom had long been regarded by Liu Ji as his own food. This time, the Polu Army and Dayuan Kingdom divided the Gaochang Kingdom. In Liu Ji's view, it was not the Polu Army that seized food from the mouth of Dayuan Kingdom, but the Dayuan Kingdom snatched the things of the Polu Army.
Now Liu Ji's dissatisfaction with the Dayuan Kingdom was completely detonated by the sudden attack.
In the palace of Dayuan City, the capital of Dayuan Kingdom, the king of Dayuan Kingdom, Yeman, slapped the book case in front of him, and then shouted angrily: "The army of Polu bullies too much! He dared to threaten our Dayuan Kingdom. Not to mention that the cavalry was not from our Dayuan Kingdom, what could it do if the cavalry troops of our Dayuan Kingdom do it?"
The Prime Minister of Dayuan Kingdom Shafeig said with a serious expression: "His Majesty the King, according to the investigation of various cavalry corps of our Dayuan Kingdom around the Namangan Province, it has basically been ruled out that this matter was done by our Dayuan Kingdom cavalry troops. I am now worried that this is a conspiracy organized and directed by the Polu Army, in order to take the opportunity to start a war against our Dayuan Kingdom."
King Yeman snorted coldly: "Does Liu Ji think that our Dayuan Kingdom is really afraid of the Polu Army by watching the Polu Army annexing the five provinces and five vassal states of Gaochang Kingdom? Since the Polu Army is going to fight, then our Dayuan Kingdom will definitely be with us this time, just to drive the power of the Jin people out of the Western Regions!"
Prime Minister Shafeg pondered for a moment and said, "His Majesty the King, if the Polu Army really intends to provoke trouble, then our Dayuan Kingdom will not be able to escape this war with the Polu Army. It is best to mobilize wartime across the country now, and in addition, we need to send some troops to the provinces and vassal states of the former Gaochang Kingdom."
King Yeman frowned, "Our Dayuan army, in the eleven provinces of the former Gaochang Kingdom and the 17 vassal states, currently has a total of twelve cavalry corps and twenty-two infantry corpses, with a total force of more than 3.4 million, accounting for almost half of our Dayuan army. In addition, the 1.7 million Gaochang army, that is, 5.1 million troops, isn't the force enough to deal with the Polu Army?"
The standing army of Dayuan Kingdom has always maintained the size of twenty-four cavalry corps and forty-eight infantry corps. After the last war between the four powerful countries in the Western Regions and the Polu Army, Dayuan Kingdom felt deeply that its cavalry strength was insufficient, so it expanded the organization of each cavalry corps from 50,000 to 100,000, while the organization of Dayuan Kingdom's infantry corps always maintained a group of 100,000.
When Prime Minister Shafig heard King Yeman calculate the number of Dayuan troops in the original Gaochang State, he couldn't help but smile awkwardly and said, "It's really a very famous name for the Polu Army. I'm a little out of my composure. Our Dayuan army does have enough troops to deal with any enemy provocations in the eleven provinces of the original Gaochang State and the seventeen vassal states!"
King Yeman suddenly remembered something, so he asked Prime Minister Shafig: "Our Dayuan Kingdom gave Mandra a huge sum of gold to let Mandra kill Liu Ji, the commander of the Polu Army. But why is Liu Ji still jumping around now?"
Prime Minister Shafig immediately said: "Report to His Majesty the King, Mandra has produced all the elites in order to assassinate Liu Ji, but they all failed, Mandra has suffered heavy losses."
"The gold in our Dayuan Kingdom was not blown by the strong wind. Since Mandala cannot kill Liu Ji, what does Mandala have to explain to our Dayuan Kingdom?"
"His Majesty the King, Mandra has not given up on the business of assassinating Liu Ji. Mandra's people have promised to their ministers that if they do not kill Liu Ji within three months, Mandra will compensate us Dayuan Kingdom twice the gold."
"If Mandala can really kill Liu Ji, resulting in the leaderless dragons of the Polu Army, it will be very beneficial to our Dayuan Kingdom!"
Facing the accusations of the Polu Army, Dayuan did not admit it, and Dayuan was very tough and did not fear the threats issued by the Polu Army.
Seeing that Dayuan was so tough, Liu Ji did not indulge Dayuan. He directly sent four elite cavalry units, including the Tiger Ben Army, Xuan Armored Soldiers, Tiger Leopard Cavalry and White Horse Congyi, as well as a large number of troops from the Western Regions and the Western Frontier Legion, to launch a comprehensive attack on the Dayuan Army, which was entrenched in many provinces and vassal states of the former Gaochang State, and a war to compete for the hegemony of the Western Regions began.
The news of the fight between the Polu Army and the Dayuan Kingdom soon spread throughout the Western Regions. In a chamber of the Holy Fire Church in Dayuan City, Pope Fei Ke, the Holy Fire Church, said to Os, the Bishop of the Oriental Diocese of the Holy Fire Church and the Bishop of the Northeast Diocese, with excitement, "The war between the Dayuan Kingdom and the Polu Army has officially broken out. The Pope has been waiting for this day for too long!"
Now the Eastern Diocese and Northeast Diocese of the Chronicle have been in name only. These two holy places of the Chronicle have become the territory of the Polu Army. The homeless bishop of the Eastern Diocese, Os, Bishop of the Northeast Diocese, Behayi of the Northeast Diocese, and other members of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle of the Chronicle.
Bishop of the Eastern Diocese, Os sighed and said, "Now the strength of the Polu Army is getting stronger and stronger. I think this time, even if the Dayuan Kingdom puts all its strength, the outcome between the two will be unpredictable. It is not easy to drive the Polu Army out of the Western Regions."
Bishop of the Northeast Diocese, Behayi, immediately said: "I think the power of the Polu Army in the Western Regions is likely to be uprooted by the Dayuan Kingdom. You should know that the last battle between the four powerful countries in the Western Regions and the Polu Army, Dayuan Kingdom did not try his best. This time it is different. Because of the common division of Gaochang Kingdom, Dayuan Kingdom had a huge conflict of interest between them, and Dayuan Kingdom had to fight desperately!"
Pope Feko suddenly asked Os, bishop of the Eastern Diocese: "Is there any news coming from Mandala? Mandala has received so much gold from our Holy Fire Sect, why is Liu Ji, the commander of the Polu Army, still alive?"
Bishop of the Oriental Diocese said: "Report to the Pope, Mandala said that in order to assassinate Liu Ji, two groups of elite killers have been sent, but these two groups of Mandala killers have failed."
Pope Feko snorted coldly: "What does that mandala mean? Do you want to be greedy for the large amount of gold from our Holy Fire Cult?"
Bishop Os, the bishop of the Eastern Diocese, shook his head and said, "Mandala dared not greedy for the gold of our Holy Fire Cult. Mandala has promised that if he does not kill Liu Ji within three months, Mandala will compensate us with double the gold."
Pope Feko was very persistent in killing Liu Ji. After all, his only descendant, Gayasi, the former leader of the Holy Land Guard of the Holy Fire Church, died at the hands of the Blade Army. Most of the revenge of Pope Feko's killing son was counted on Liu Ji's head.
Pope Feike then said: "As long as Mandala is not trying to make a debt, it's good! In this war between Dayuan and Polu Army, our Holy Fire Sect must do our best to support Dayuan. If we don't drive the Polu Army out of the Western Regions for a day, our Holy Fire Sect will be in peace for a day!"
Bishop Os, the bishop of the Eastern Diocese, and Bishop of the Northeast Diocese, Behayi, had no objection to the full support of the Dayuan Kingdom. If the Dayuan Kingdom could really drive the Polu Army out of the Western Regions, the two bishops could bring the personnel from their respective dioceses to return to the holy land occupied by the Polu Army.
In a small oasis about 300 miles west of the Namangan province, hundreds of cavalrymen from Dayuan are resting here. These hundreds of cavalrymen are the real murderer who attacked the small village on the western border of the Namangan province.
"Vissue Kahnde, our plan has been successful. The people who sent out to inquire about the news have returned. The Polu Army has taken the initiative to attack the provinces and subordinate states of our Gaochang State occupied by Dayuan. These two murderers who destroyed our Gaochang State finally began to kill each other." A general in armor sighed and said to Kahnde, the captain of the cavalry guard under the former Prime Minister of Gaochang State Younus.
It turned out that these hundreds of Dayuan cavalry were just fakes, and their real identities were the cavalry guards of the famous general of Gaochang State Younus.
"Beguchi, since the Polu Army has started war with Dayuan, we have completed the entrusted task of General Yunus on his deathbed. Next, what should we do if we hundreds of people do?" Guard Captain Kaend asked his deputy Beguchi in a deep voice.
"Vissue Kahnde, now Gaochang has been destroyed, General Yunus has also committed suicide. There may be only our team in the entire Gaochang Kingdom. Why not... let everyone disperse themselves!"
Kahnde then lowered his voice and said, "I'm worried that someone will leak our secrets after they disperse."
Begucci's face changed, "Do you want... Viscount Karnd, many of these cavalry have followed us for many years!"
"I believe in myself except for you." Kahnder said in a deep voice.
Chapter completed!