Chapter 1203 The Great Qing Falls
Apart from annoyance and regret, Dichen will also face a more difficult situation. This time he has returned from the conquest of the Great Jin without success, how will he deal with the attack of the Great Xia in the next Great Zhou? !
"Six Nations Alliance, it's time to show sincerity."
Di Chen looked thoughtfully at the map of Huaxia district hanging on the wall. Under the circumstances that Da Zhou could not fight against Da Xia alone, only by strengthening the alliance and holding each other for warmth can they survive.
Although aggrieved, it is the only feasible way at the moment.
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On August 13th, the same day that the Great Xia Guards bypassed Handan City, Han Xin led the Leopard Army and formally marched into the Great Jin Dynasty, only one day away from Luofeng City.
After getting the news, Lian Po didn't dare to stay in the Fengbao Canyon anymore, and hurriedly withdrew eastward with the imperial forest army with lost soldiers and generals.
Unexpectedly, the infantry of the 10,000 Great Xia Guards who had been abandoned on the outskirts of Luofeng City suddenly rushed out, fearlessly blocking the way of the Imperial Forest Army going east.
Immediately afterwards, under the leadership of Meng Tian, the Imperial Guards of the Great Jin Dynasty stationed in Fengbao broke out forcefully and encircled and suppressed the Imperial Forest Army. The vanguard of the Baotao Army also arrived on the battlefield soon to participate in the encirclement and suppression operations.
At this moment, the Great Zhou Yulin Army was immediately besieged on all sides.
Lao Lian was sweating on his brow, and he didn't dare to entangle the enemy army too much. Once the Baotao army rushed up, the Yulin army would have to confess all of them here. Lian Po had no choice but to be cruel, abandoning his car to save the commander, and arranged for a legion to be in the rear, and withdrew eastward in embarrassment with the remaining 200,000 troops.
After this battle, the Great Zhou Yulin Army was reduced by nearly half of its personnel, and its muscles and bones were shattered.
In view of the destruction of food and grass, the heavy losses of the Yulin Army, and the strong intervention of the Daxia Baotao Army on the battlefield of the Jin Dynasty, Wu Qi decided that it was impossible to attack the Jin Dynasty after judging the situation of the entire battlefield, and requested to withdraw his troops.
Dichen got the reward, but nodded in agreement.
The disastrous defeat of the Imperial Forest Army made Dichen realize that in the Great Jin battlefield, the Great Zhou Army could no longer take the initiative, and if it dragged on, even the main force would not be able to return home smoothly.
The army is the pillar of a country, and it is also the biggest weight in Dichen's hands. Once the army suffers heavy losses, the foundation of a country will be shaken.
Dichen dared not take this risk.
Especially in the current war situation of Boyun treacherous.
But before withdrawing his army, Wu Qi still organized a wave of strong encirclement and suppression against the Raging Flame Army, and once again killed nearly 70,000 members of the Raging Flame Army, and then he withdrew from the battlefield contentedly.
Wu Qi is worthy of being a great general. He not only focuses on the battlefield, but also knows how to think about problems from a strategic perspective. He knew very well that when Da Zhou was unable to attack Da Jin, greatly weakening the Da Jin army could also serve the purpose of protecting Da Zhou in disguise, making Da Jin unable to launch a war of revenge against Da Zhou.
This kind of strategic vision is what Lian Po lacks.
Otherwise, after the Great Xia Imperial Guard broke through, Lian Po should have led the Imperial Forest Army to leave the canyon, or retreat to the border, or join up with Wu Qi's troops, so that he would not have suffered a big somersault at the last moment.
If it wasn't for Lian Po's decisiveness, the Imperial Forest Army would have suffered a catastrophe.
The reason is that Lian Po underestimated the courage of the 10,000 Great Xia Forbidden Army, and dared to block the way of the Imperial Forest Army with only such a small force. As everyone knows, the Great Xia Imperial Guard never lacked the courage to fight to the death.
Second, Lian Po underestimated Han Xin's ability to capture fighters. It was really surprising to Lian Po that the vanguard of the Leopard Tao Army arrived on the battlefield so quickly and did not give the Imperial Forest Army a chance to breathe.
In the final analysis, Lian Po underestimated the enemy.
The price of underestimating the enemy is to cause heavy losses to the army that Di Chen relies on the most.
With the withdrawal of the Great Zhou, which lasted nearly a month, the Battle of the Great Jin finally came to an end.
After paying a heavy price, the Jin Dynasty finally managed to hold on to the country. After this battle, the Lie Yan Army was completely disabled, with more than half of the casualties; the Guards also suffered heavy losses, with nearly 100,000 dead.
After this battle, the Jin Dynasty reduced its personnel from an elite army of more than 600,000 at its peak to less than 400,000. In terms of military strength, it is even inferior to Qin, Tang, Song and other countries, falling from the ranks of powerful countries in one fell swoop.
In addition to the casualties of the army, under the baptism of war, the territory of the Great Jin Dynasty is already riddled with holes, the people are in dire straits, and bandits are everywhere, causing direct or indirect economic losses of no less than fifteen million gold coins.
The dynasty's economy is bound to experience some labor pains, even regression.
Considering the new pattern of the Huaxia District, the future Huaxia territory has no chance for the rise of the Great Jin.
A dynasty is in decline.
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Although Da Jin was disabled, Da Zhou himself was not having a good time.
Millions of troops went out to fight, not to mention consuming countless food and supplies, and losing more than 200,000 soldiers. In the end, they got nothing, and it was just bloody.
To make matters worse, Di Chen had to keep his promise.
As soon as the news that Da Zhou was about to withdraw from the Jin Dynasty came out, Song and Ming sent envoys to Handan to urge Da Zhou to fulfill its pre-war promises, that is, to cede Jingchu Province to Song Dynasty and Donghai Province to Ming Dynasty.
Di Chen defended, saying that Da Jin hadn't been won yet, and the fulfillment of the promise would be postponed.
The Song and Ming dynasties did not agree, and said with certainty, "We have already done it to guard the border for the Great Zhou. As for whether the Great Zhou won the Great Jin, that is the Great Zhou's own business, and has nothing to do with fulfilling the promise."
Dichen was speechless and wanted to defend himself again, but the envoys of the two countries directly issued an ultimatum, "Your country is limited to complete the evacuation within a week. If not, don't blame us for not thinking of the alliance and forcibly occupying it."
This is not a verbal threat.
At the same time as the envoy issued the ultimatum, the imperial army of the Song Dynasty had surrounded Danyang City; the imperial army of the Ming Dynasty who stayed behind in Jianye also sent 50,000 troops to Chixue City.
The situation in the Central Plains suddenly became tense.
Whether it was Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin or Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, they all knew that under the current situation, Dazhou had become unreliable, and if they wanted to continue to gain a foothold in the wilderness, they had to have enough territory.
In order to win the land of a province, the two countries are willing to fight.
Dichen was rewarded, although he was gnashing his teeth angrily, but he didn't dare to explode.
Now is the time when Great Zhou is at its weakest, its soldiers are exhausted, and the territory of the dynasty is entirely guarded by the armies of Song and Ming. Once they turn their faces, Great Zhou has no power to resist.
Even if the Great Zhou army successfully returned to Handan City, Di Chen did not dare to take the risk and sent the army to Danyang City or Chixue City to start a war with the Song and Ming dynasties.
If you really want to do that, it will only benefit Da Xia.
After calculations and calculations, Dichen had to swallow this bitter fruit no matter what.
In the end, after a lot of busy work, Da Zhou didn't get anything, and even went to two provinces with him. This deal is really a big loss. Di Chen could only hope that he could use this opportunity to strengthen the connection of the Six Nations Alliance.
Of course, maybe it should be called the Five-Nation Alliance now, because the Qing Dynasty is only a day or two away from its demise.
On August 15th, Huo Qubing led 200,000 imperial troops, recklessly passed through the capital province, and officially set foot on the land of the Qing Dynasty.
What happened next was neither surprising nor surprising.
The 200,000 imperial guards, in cooperation with the 210,000 Yingyang army led by Li Mu, completed the encirclement of the 200,000 Eight Banners cavalry wandering outside the capital city.
Two against one, the Eight Banners Army was completely defeated.
That battle lasted for three full days and three nights, with more than 600,000 troops engaged in a life-and-death confrontation in the vast wilderness. For a radius of ten miles, the sound of rumbling horseshoes and the clash of swords could be heard.
The war horse neighs, and the hero is late.
By the afternoon of the third day, more than 70,000 of the 200,000 Qing troops had been killed, and the rest were exhausted, their morale was low, and their spirit was lost.
Seeing this, Huo Qubing persuaded Li Mu to surrender together.
In the face of the general trend of the world, it cannot be reversed without manpower. Since Daxia gave the step down, the 130,000 Qing army did not make a fearless resistance, and simply chose to surrender.
Some diehard members of the Qing army had their heads cut off by their companions to claim credit.
In the early morning of the next day, Huo Qubing's department stayed behind to take the prisoners of war, while Li Mu's department turned their guns and headed for the capital in a mighty manner. The imperial guards have been raiding for so long, it is indeed time to rest.
On the contrary, Li Mubu has been recharging his energy, eager to fight.
Huo Qubing is still very good at being a man. Knowing that the imperial guards have won the limelight and gained enough military exploits, if he rushes to attack the capital city again, he will be a little bit incapable of being a man.
Such domineering will be disgusting.
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Qing Dynasty, Kyoto city.
Knowing that the 200,000 troops were destroyed, the Qing court was shaken and people panicked. As early as a week ago, the main force led by Li Jing had blasted through the city walls of Kyoto, entered the city, and started street fighting with the Qing army.
The army wandering outside the city is the last hope of the capital city.
"Now that hope is gone."
Emperor Kangxi collapsed on the dragon chair, indescribably exhausted.
Since he appeared in the wilderness, Kangxi has not lived a single day of comfort because of the presence of a neighbor like Daxia. He has been worried all day long, thinking about how to keep his ancestral foundation.
But the rules of the game in the wilderness are extremely unfair to emperors like them.
Gaia gave Wangcheng a powerful military force, but did not give it the territory and authority to match the military force. After finally getting through enough to be able to intervene in the wilderness hegemony, the Huaxia District has been shrouded in the shadow of Daxia, and there is no room for development.
"It's difficult."
Kangxi expressed the same emotion as Dichen.
As the Great Xia Army marched into the city, the people in Kyoto looked at the nobles in a different way than usual. It was so sinister that it made people feel flustered.
"Non-my family, its heart must be different!"
Thinking of this sentence in "Left Turn", Kangxi felt very uncomfortable.
Historically, Han people's dissatisfaction and resistance against the Manchus had been cleaned up as early as the Shunzhi period, and it was not Kangxi's turn to worry. The wilderness right now is dominated by the Han people, and the situation of the Manchus can be imagined.
Once Daxia captures the city of Kyoto, the people of Kyoto may set off firecrackers to celebrate.
Just when Kangxi was at a loss, the time soon came to August 20th. On this morning, Li Mu led nearly 200,000 Yingyang troops and appeared in the western suburbs of the capital.
The city of Kyoto fell into an embarrassing silence, and the ruling and opposition parties were dead silent.
Kangxi was rewarded, gave up the last trace of fluke, unwilling to drag the entire Manchu royal family into the abyss, and surrendered to Daxia on the same day, ending the short-term rule of Kyoto County.
Huaxia District, another country will be destroyed.