Vol 2 Chapter 2317: The Battle of the Western Regions, Wang Ben VS Yang Su

Chapter 2317 The Battle of the Western Regions, Wang Ben VS Yang Su

Chapter 2313: War in the Western Regions, Wang Ben VS Yang Su

 Is it possible for Da Qin to send troops to help the Western Regions?

 It is naturally impossible.

Ji Xiaolan was well aware of this, so he resolutely rejected requests from various countries to send troops. However, he later said that the Western Region's warfare methods were too backward and the commanders' lack of ability were the main reasons for the defeat, and proposed that the generals of Great Qin be used to help the Western Region countries command. army.

Ji Xiaolan's words naturally caused dissatisfaction among the generals in the Western Regions, especially Ling Xiao, who was known as the number one general in the Western Regions.

 Let Han generals command the armies in the Western Regions? This is not the first time this has happened, it has happened before.

 The second emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, during the period of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty, Ban Chao followed Dou Gu to attack the Northern Huns, and was later ordered to go on an envoy to the Western Regions.

In the next thirty-one years, Ban Chao almost single-handedly conquered more than fifty countries in the Western Regions, established the Western Regions Protectorate for the Han Dynasty, proposed the strategy of using barbarians to control barbarians, and personally commanded the Western Regions Allied Forces. Defeat Guishang, Wusun and other countries.

In order to commend Ban Chao's meritorious service, the imperial court issued an edict to confer him the title of Marquis of Dingyuan, with a population of 1,000 households. Later generations also called Ban Chao "Ban Dingyuan".

 In addition, Banchao sent Gan Ying as envoy to Rome, and Gan Ying returned to the West Sea (Persian Gulf). This was also the earliest exchange between the East and the West.

Ban Chao is not only a hero of the Han people, but also deeply respected by the people of the Western Regions. However, the greater Ban Chao's achievements, the more incompetent he appears to the people of the Western Regions.

 The armies of the Western Regions cannot defeat Guishang and Wusun. Instead, they have to rely on the command of outsiders to win. Doesn't this mean that the generals of the Western Regions are incompetent?

 This is a shame that is difficult to wash away for soldiers of any country.

More than a hundred years later, the Western Regions once again encountered an opponent that was difficult to defeat, and that was Sui State General Yang Su.

Even though Ling Xiao, known as the best general in the Western Regions, commanded an army of 100,000 people and had an absolute advantage in military strength, he was still defeated by Yang Su's 30,000 Xiliang cavalry.

The envoy of Da Qin proposed to let Da Qin’s generals command the army of the Western Regions to resist the Sui army?

Regardless of whether Da Qin was well-intentioned or not, in the eyes of the generals of the Western Regions, it was a shame in itself to allow generals from other countries to command their own armies.

 It is enough that such a humiliation has happened once. How can the generals of the Western Regions accept it if it happens again? Naturally, he strongly opposed Ji Xiaolan's proposal.

As for Ling Xiao, who was known as the best general in the Western Regions, although he was dissatisfied with Ji Xiaolan's contempt for the generals in the Western Regions, and he was unwilling to let his command go out, but after he lost to Yang Su and returned home in a disastrous defeat, no one in the entire Western Regions was Yang Su. This is also true for Su's opponents.

The Western Region Allied Forces have experienced two major defeats. If they experience another major defeat, they will be completely hopeless. They may be completely annexed by the Sui Kingdom in a short time. This is what Ling Xiao cannot accept even more. thing.

 Compared to the subjugation of the country and the annihilation of the genocide, it seems that there is nothing unacceptable if the army is just commanded by outsiders.

Although Ling Xiao no longer objected, it was impossible for him to hand over the command of the Western Region Army without knowing anything about it, so he proposed to Ji Xiaolan to exchange military experience with Qin General.

Ji Xiaolan naturally would not refuse, so he asked the guard general Wang Bi, his son Wang Li, and his nephew Wang Xuance to go and exchange military techniques with Ling Xiao.

Wang Ben, Wang Li, Wang Xuance, and Ling Xiao communicated for a whole night. No one knew what they talked about. They only knew that after that night, Ling Xiao was full of praise for Wang Ben. Not only did he support Wang Ben to command the army, He even said something like, 'Whoever defeats Yang Su will be defeated by Wang Ben'.

After all, Ling Xiao is the number one general in the Western Regions. His resolute support has made many opponents change their attitudes, but there are still many people who oppose him.

However, the opposing generals this time put forward the request to compete with the Qin generals, claiming that only by defeating them could they be qualified to command them.

Ji Xiaolan naturally would not refuse this request for a beating, so he sent Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong.

After this battle, not only were all the generals in the Western Regions defeated at the hands of Meng and Ruan, they were even beaten to the point where they almost doubted their lives.

Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong were so powerful that they could match the strength of the Sui army's fierce generals.

Gao Gao, this is a name that makes the people of the Western Regions hate them with gritted teeth. No less than fifty generals from the Western Regions have died under his gun, including the first, second, and third most powerful generals in the Western Regions, and they are still working together to fight against the enemy. Died in battle under circumstances.

 Can you imagine the scene where Li Cunxiao + Sun Lingming + Jiang Song joined forces to fight against the enemy, but died at the hands of one person?

Almost single-handedly, Gao Gao broke the backbones of all the generals in the Western Regions in just two battles, and no one in the Western Regions dared to dare to challenge him anymore.

Now, there are actually two people in the Great Qin envoy who can rival Gao Gao. This makes the countries in the Western Regions not shocked.

 Such a peerless warrior can only act as a bodyguard?

Has the Qin Dynasty become so overrun with powerful generals?

As soon as this idea appeared, the countries in the Western Regions were even more in awe of Da Qin. It can only be said that it is worthy of being a kingdom in heaven.

None of the countries in the Western Region wanted to be annexed by the Sui Kingdom, but their commanders were too unsatisfactory. None of them was Yang Su's opponent, and the generals were even more unsatisfactory. The top three generals joined forces but died at the hands of Gao Gao.

Now that Da Qin is helping them provide commanders and strong generals, the countries in the Western Regions will naturally not miss this last opportunity, so they all elect Ji Xiaolan as the commander-in-chief of the Western Regions Allied Forces.

 Although it is shameful to let outsiders command your own army, it is better than the destruction of the country and the annihilation of the species.

Moreover, this is not the first time that countries in the Western Region have experienced this kind of thing.

 It is new to you once, familiar to you the second time, just get used to it.

 Don’t the kings of the countries in the Western Regions know that Ji Xiaolan is a civil servant and does not know how to command an army?

  Natural knows it.

But since you know this, why do you still want Ji Xiaolan to serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces?

 It is naturally because Ji Xiaolan is the official envoy of the Qin Dynasty, and Wang Ben, Wang Li, Wang Xuance, Meng Ben, and Ruan Wengzhong are all his subordinates.

It is naturally undesirable to let Ji Xiaolan, the commander-in-chief, and let Wang Ben, the subordinate, serve as the commander-in-chief of the coalition forces.

 Besides, Ji Xiaolan's coalition commander is destined to be in name only.

Ji Xiaolan and his party only had 300 people. They could not play much role against the Sui army. The main force to fight against the Sui army was destined to be the local army in the Western Regions. Therefore, Ji Xiaolan, the commander-in-chief of the Western Region coalition forces, was destined to be only a nominal commander. After the Sui army retreated, That is the day he leaves office.

Since he is destined to be the nominal commander-in-chief, it doesn't matter whether Ji Xiaolan knows how to command the army. As long as his subordinates understand, there will be people under him to help him command the army.

Ji Xiaolan naturally knew this, so he calmly took up the position of commander-in-chief of the coalition forces, and then let Wang Ben command the army on his behalf, while Wang Li and Wang Xuance were responsible for assisting Wang Ben.

With the support of the kings of the Western Regions, there were no accidents when Wang Ben took over the command. The handover was completed very smoothly, and there was no case of disobedience to military orders after that. In this way, Ji Xiaolan became the nominal commander-in-chief of the Western Region Allied Forces, but the actual commander was Wang Bi.

Wang Jian is still just a prefect of a county, and although he can only command an army of 20,000 to 30,000 at most, as his son, Wang Ben is one step ahead of his father and has experience in commanding an army of more than 100,000.

 After Wang Ben took over the command of the coalition forces, the situation of the Western Region War also completely changed.

The main generals active in the war have all become generals of the Qin Dynasty, while the former local generals of the Western Regions have become subordinates, taking orders from the Qin generals.

However, even with the support of Qin generals such as Wang Ben, the situation in the Western Regions did not achieve a major reversal. After all, their opponent Yang Su was not simple either.

The commander-in-chief when Yang Su was born was 98 points, but after so many years of fighting and winning so many battles, it is naturally impossible for Yang Su to make no progress at all.

　In addition to the two major victories against the Western Region Allied Forces not long ago, Yang Su's foundation has improved a little.

The current five dimensions of Yang Su are: Commander 100 (+2), Force 90 (+5), Intelligence 90 (+1), Politics 96, Charisma 85 (+4);

Wang Ben and Yang Su both have a command attribute of 100. Not counting the skill increase of commander, their army command abilities are almost the same. The competition is naturally about the assistance of their generals, the bravery of the fierce generals, and the combat effectiveness of the army. .

In terms of generals, although Wang Ben has Wang Li and Wang Xuance as assistant commanders, Yang Su's lineup is not bad either, with Gao Huan and Gao Changgong as assistant commanders.

When Gao Changgong was born, his commander-in-chief was not very high, only 89 points. Obviously the system was low. However, he had extremely eye-catching performances in many battles such as the Battle of Qiang, the Battle of Hetao, and the Battle of Liangzhou. , has made great achievements, so all five dimensions are also growing rapidly.

 At present, Gao Changgong has five attributes: Commander 95 (+6), Force 102 (+6), Intelligence 84 (+3), Politics 69, Charisma 97 (+2);

  Commander 100 Wang Ben + 95 Wang Li + 97 Wang Xuance

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  Commander 100 Yang Su + 96 Gao Huan + 95 Gao Changgong

In terms of military command capabilities, the level of the two sides is actually not much different, and Wang Ben only has a slight upper hand.

In terms of powerful generals, Wang Ben had 105 Meng Ben + 105 Ruan Wengzhong + 101 Ling Xiao, as well as many Western Region generals to help him.

 But Yang Su has 106 Gao Gao, 104 Wu Yunzhao and Shi Wansui, as well as Li Huanzhang, Yao Gonglin and many other great generals.

Gao Gao killed more than 50 generals in the Western Region in a row. After his reputation spread throughout the Western Region, he also broke his own bottleneck and reached 106 points of force.

 So generally speaking, Wang Ben's side is at a disadvantage in terms of fierce generals.

As for the combat effectiveness of the army, although the Western Region Allied Forces have a large number of troops, because they belong to various countries and their equipment is poor, their overall combat effectiveness cannot be complimented.

On the other hand, although the Sui army was small in number, it was united, well-trained, and well-equipped. Its 30,000-strong army could even defeat the 100,000-strong Western Region Allied Forces.

Comparing the differences between the two armies in all aspects, Wang Ben found that the disadvantage of his Western Region Allied Forces was too great. Even if he commanded 100,000 Western Regions Allied Forces, he was not absolutely sure that he could defeat Yang Su head-on.

Since we can't beat him in a head-on confrontation, we can only resort to side-tracking.

Wang Ben learned Ling Xiao's lesson and did not plan to defeat Yang Su on the frontal battlefield by relying on his superior strength. Instead, he and his son Wang Li each led an army to contain Yang Su's main force while sending his nephew Wang Xuance to lead the army. Constantly harassing the Sui army's food routes.

The Sui army's troops were originally small, but they could not ignore the grain roads in the rear, so they would divide their troops to protect the grain roads. This would reduce the pressure on Wang Ben.

Even so, Wang Ben still did not fight a decisive battle with Yang Su. Instead, he continued to wear down the vigor of the Sui army by fighting generals, night attacks, poisoning, and beating drums.

As the strongest combatants in the coalition, Meng Ben and Ruan Wengzhong have fought against Gao Gao one after another. However, because they are both powerful generals, their attack speeds are relatively slow. Faced with Gao Gao who is skilled and fast, It's really not an advantage.

 Meng Ben and Gao Gao fought for 223 rounds and were defeated, and Ruan Wengzhong and Gao Gao were defeated after 252 rounds. Neither of them could defeat Gao Gao in a single fight.

After losing to two people in a row, Gao Gao began to become arrogant and arrogant. He even dared to fight two people, but he was severely beaten in the end.

With Meng Bi and Ruan Wengzhong teaming up, Gao Gao only lasted twenty rounds before being defeated. If Wu Yunzhao and Shi Wansui hadn't rescued him in time, Gao Gao would have almost died at the hands of the two of them.

After a month of confrontation between the two sides, Wang Ben clearly felt that the morale of the Sui army was declining and its combat effectiveness was also declining, so he decisively led 30,000 carefully selected elites to attack, with Meng Bi and Ruan Wengzhong as the vanguard. As a result, the Sui army was defeated in one battle. , killing more than 8,000 Sui troops.

This was the Sui army's first defeat after they invaded the Western Regions. Upon hearing the news, the Western Regions Allied Forces' morale soared and their self-confidence soared. They disagreed with Wang Bi on whether to pursue the attack.

Wang Ben felt that Yang Su's main force was not lost, so he decided not to pursue for the sake of caution. However, the generals of the Western Regions did not obey military orders and pursued without permission. As a result, they fell into Yang Su's ambush plan and lost 20,000 troops. They returned in a disastrous defeat.

This huge defeat once again wiped out the advantage Wang Ben had gained.

However, after this defeat, no one in the Western Regions generals dared to disobey Wang Ben's orders, and the Western Regions Allied Forces truly unified command.

In the subsequent confrontations, Wang Ben and Yang Su used their own methods and continued to fight. They fought for three consecutive months before the war came to an end.

 In the end, the Sui army paid the price of more than half of the casualties of the regular army and the complete annihilation of the servant army.

 October 4th, the first year of Shenwu.

Yang Su officially returned to Liangzhou from the Western Regions with the remaining troops and the looted wealth.

Under the command of Wang Ben, although the Western Region Allied Forces repelled the Sui Army, it was only a miserable victory.

The Western Region Allied Forces killed a total of 15,000 Sui troops and 20,000 servants. However, the total number of casualties among the troops from various countries reached an astonishing 120,000.

Two-thirds of the soldiers were killed in battle under the command of their own generals in the Western Regions, but three-quarters of the battle results were achieved under the command of Wang Ben.

In addition, among the thirty-six countries in the Western Region, nine countries were destroyed by Yang Su, and now there are only twenty-five countries left.

The process of the Western Region War has been simplified. If it were described in detail, there would still be more than ten chapters.

July is really a wonderful month.

The whole world celebrates.

　　

　　

 (End of this chapter)