Vol 2 Chapter 2605: Three passes of Yunnan and Guizhou, six battles of Shuman

Chapter 2605: Three Passes of Yunnan and Guizhou, Six Battles of Shuman

Chapter 2601: Three Passes of Yunnan and Guizhou, Six Battles of Shuman

Yizhou County originally had a total of 16 counties, but after repeated battles between the Shu Han and the Nanman, plus the new cities built by immigrants from each other, it was eventually developed into 23 counties, and it was also divided into: Yizhou, Jianning , three counties in Yunnan.

The three southernmost counties of Jianning and five counties of Yunnan, a total of eight counties belonged to the Southern Barbarians, and Chi You also merged these eight counties into Dian County, set the capital in the original Changgu County, and made it the capital of Dian County. Changed its name to Kunming.

There are eleven counties in the Southern Kingdom, of which only three counties, Dianjun, Lijiang and Qiannan, border the Shu Kingdom. However, Chi You chose to place the capital in Dianjun, which shows that he never gave up his ambition to invade Shu.

The total population of the Southern Kingdom is 2.6 million, which is less than 3 million. The entire country can only support an army of 200,000.

But the Shu Han has a population of 630. Before the maximum expansion of the army, it already has an army of 250,000. After the expansion, it is still unknown how many troops there will be.

In terms of the balance of power between the two countries, it is almost impossible for the Southern Kingdom to annex Shu. At best, it can only occupy southern Shu, but it may not be able to defend it.

But this time, the Qin Dynasty took the lead in launching a war against Shu in Hanzhong, attracting most of the Shu army to the north. This was a golden opportunity for the Southern Kingdom.

Chi You naturally would not let go of such a good opportunity, so he directly dispatched an army of 150,000 troops, divided into three groups to attack Shu.

Chi You personally led an army of 100,000 people and set out from Dian County to attack Jianning and Yizhou counties;

 Gonggong led 30,000 people and set out from Qiannan County to attack Xianggao County.

As for the 20,000 troops from Dali and Lijiang counties, they were led by Duan Siping, the governor of Dali, and set out from Dali County to attack Yongchang County.

After many years, Chi You led his army to conquer Shu for the sixth time. The 150,000 elite Southern troops attacked in three directions. Their momentum was far greater than any previous one.

 However, there are also certain risks.

There were a total of 200,000 troops in the Southern Kingdom. Chi You sent out 150,000 to attack Shu, leaving 50,000 to guard the rear. Such a troop arrangement was actually a bit risky.

The national strength of the Shu Kingdom is much stronger than that of the Southern Kingdom. If the Southern Kingdom cannot win quickly, and once a protracted war occurs, the lost troops of the Shu Army can be quickly replenished, but this cannot be done with the Southern Kingdom. Even if the military strength can be replenished, the equipment and food will definitely be replenished. No.

Chi You knew that he could not fight a protracted war with Shu, but still left a full force of 50,000 troops to guard and release later. This was because of the Chu State in the east.

 The two counties of Qiannan and Qujing in the eastern part of the southern country are separated from the Yulin County of Guangzhou and Jiaozhi County of Jiaozhou in Chu State, only by a stretch of hundreds of miles of mountains and dense forests.

Chu State also knows that the Southern Barbarians are not easy to deal with, so it has never sent troops to the Southern State for so many years.

But Chu and Shu are allies. Once Liu Yu cannot survive, he will inevitably ask Chu for help.

Once the Chu State chooses to support the Shu State and send troops to the Southern Kingdom, it is obvious that the hundreds of miles of mountains, secret orders and swamps alone cannot stop the elite Chu army.

It is precisely because of this that Chi You left 50,000 defenders and distributed them to 30,000 defenders in Qiannan County and 20,000 in Qujing.

If the Chu State is really determined to send troops, it will not hold back. The two states of Jiao and Guang are likely to have 100,000 troops, and the 50,000 Southern defenders alone are obviously no match.

Chi You knew this very well, but he was not afraid.

The 50,000 Nanguo army in the field was no match for the 100,000 Chu army. However, Qiannan and Qujing counties were surrounded by mountains, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack, and Chi You had already let Liu Xiu go.

Since the alliance between Shu and Chu, Chi You was worried that the two countries would join forces to besiege Nanman. After all, the strength of the two countries was not much stronger than that of Nanguo. If they really joined forces to attack, Nanguo would probably not be able to escape the end of annihilation.

But fortunately, the internal fighting in the Shu Kingdom had not stopped before Liu Ji's death, while the Chu Kingdom was focused on the Central Plains and had no interest in the barbarian lands such as Nanzhong, Annan, and Siam.

Although Chu State was not interested in Nanzhong, Chi You had to guard against Liu Xiu's attack someday in the future. After all, once Chu and Shu jointly sent troops, Nanguo would be in danger of subjugation.

Therefore, even before Ying Hao became emperor, Chi You had been strengthening the defense of the east. Not only did he build a large number of forts and camps in Qiannan and Qujing counties, but he also selected three dangerous places in the east to build checkpoints.

These three passes were named by Chi You: Qixing Pass, Shengjing Pass, and Loushan Pass. Because they are located in Yunnan and Guizhou, they are also called the Three Passes of Yunnan and Guizhou.

The land of Nanzhong is too poor, and Nanzhong needs to devote itself to repairing war damage, so naturally it cannot allocate many resources to build new passes.

 So, even after three years of construction, the three great passes have still not been fully repaired. Only one has been built, and the other two are only semi-finished products, but they are much more defensive than those of Uburg.

Relying on the three passes of Yunnan and Guizhou in the east and the major fortifications built, Chi You was confident that he could hold off the 100,000 Chu army with 50,000 defenders. Even if he could not stop him in the end, he could hold on for a year or two.

It was precisely because of this support that Chi You boldly led an army of 150,000 men and divided the troops into three groups to attack Shu.

Since Zhang Yi accidentally exposed his identity when he was on a mission to the Southern Kingdom, Liu Yu speculated that Da Qin and the Southern Barbarians might join forces, so he had naturally expected the invasion of the Southern Barbarians.

Liu Yu not only notified the governors of the counties in southern Shu in advance to prepare for war in advance to prevent sneak attacks by the southern barbarians, but also sent Zhou Bo to lead 30,000 elite troops, as well as generals such as Zhang Fei, Liu Huang, Wu Lan, and Shi Jingtang to go south. .

In the six counties of Shunan in the Shu Han Dynasty, there are already 70,000 defenders, plus Zhou Bo's 30,000 troops, the total force has reached 100,000. Even if they cannot defeat the 150,000 Southern Barbarians in a field battle, there is still no complete problem in defending the city. of.

Liu Yu never wanted to fight the Southern Barbarians in the field from the beginning, but planned to hold on until Chi You ran out of food. The Southern Barbarians would retreat by then. After all, this was how he fought against the Southern Barbarians before.

However, the combat effectiveness of the invading Nanguo army this time is completely different from that of the previous Nanman army. Naturally, it will not work for Shu to adopt the old countermeasures.

 In the past, Nanzhong lacked iron and its metallurgical technology was extremely backward, so the equipment of the Nanman army was very crude.

In addition to an iron sword or a wooden spear with an iron tip, the soldiers of the Southern Barbarian Army basically had no other equipment, and armor was a luxury item only available to generals.

As for the unique rattan armor in Nanzhong, although its defensive power is strong, its shortcoming of being easily ignited is also fatal. After Chiyou suffered a loss from the Tengjia Army once, he never used the Tengjia Army again.

 However, since the Southern Kingdom entered into trade with Da Qin, a large number of weapons and equipment of the original Zhao, Yan, Han and other countries were purchased from Da Qin through sea trade.

Today's Southern Army not only has a steel sword in hand, but also has an armor penetration rate of 15%.

Of the 200,000 Southern troops, 30,000 were wearing armor. This was naturally incomparable with the Central Plains countries, but compared with the previous Southern troops, it was an unprecedented improvement.

In addition to the updates and iterations of weapons and equipment, the Southern Army's siege methods have also undergone great changes. The siege equipment used has become more diversified, including wells, crossbows, catapults and other equipment.

The Shu Army's impression of the Nanguo Army was still that of the Nanman Army before the Fifth Shunan War. Who knew that after more than two years of cultivation and training, the Nanman Army had been reborn and transformed into the Nanguo Army it is today.



Chi You was able to train the previously poorly equipped Southern Barbarian army into a strong army with combat effectiveness no worse than that of the Shu army.

 Now equipped with a large amount of sophisticated equipment and trained for two full years, the 200,000 Southern Army troops were naturally much more powerful than before.

Chi You personally led 20,000 vanguard troops, marched hundreds of miles in two days, and attacked the city directly without any rest. Even though the Jianning defenders were well prepared, they were still caught off guard. Four cities fell in just three days.

Wu Yi, the governor of Jianning County, learned that the other four counties had fallen. Although he was surprised by the performance of the Nanman army, he was not too panicked. While gathering the defeated troops, he asked Zhou Bo who was stationed in Yizhou for help.

 Before Wu Yi could wait for Zhou Bo's reinforcements, Chi You led the vanguard to the city.

Wu Yi was stunned when he saw the appearance of the Southern Army outside the city.

The weapons and equipment of the Nanman army are so sophisticated, and they even use catapults and siege crossbows. Is this still the poor Nanman?

Wu Yi immediately realized that the situation was not good, and quickly sent a message through flying pigeons, urging Zhou Bo to come for support. At the same time, he also mobilized the people in the city to defend the city, and the people in the city naturally responded in droves.

Wu Yi was the first to seek refuge with Liu Yu, but later he defected to Liu Ji because Liu Yu was weak. After that, he continued to oppose Liu Yu, and even sent his clan brother Wu Ban to surround and kill Liu during the palace coup. Yu.

But in the final infighting between the Shu and Han Dynasties, Liu Yu survived to the end and became the final winner of the Shu Kingdom.

After Liu Yu completely took power, in order to reassure the original Shu clan, he did not personally account for those who had betrayed and offended him. After all, he could even accept Xing Tian who killed his brother Liu Daolian, let alone Wu Yi. Where is this traitor?

Although Liu Yu did not directly kill Wu Yi, he obviously would not reuse Wu Yi. However, considering that Wu Yi's ability was not bad, and the Shu Han Dynasty was in desperate need of talents, he transferred him from Chengdu. , was demoted to Jianning as the prefect.

Wu Yi knew that Liu Yu didn't want to see him, and he didn't have the shame to continue to be by Liu Yu's side. For him, being sent to Shunan was good, at least he no longer had to worry and be afraid, so he worked very hard in governing Jianning County.

In the two years before Wu Yi became the prefect of Jianning, the population and economy of the five counties of Jianning had increased a lot. The people of Jianning loved this prefect, so when Wu Yi mobilized the people to defend the city, there would be so many people. response.

At this time, there were 8,000 defenders in Jianning City. With the addition of 10,000 responding civilians, a full 18,000 people could participate in the defense of the city.

Wu Yi thought that with these 18,000 men, it would not be a big problem to hold on until Zhou Bo's reinforcements arrived, but he was soon slapped in the face.

[Ding dong, Chi You's skill 'Soldier Master' effect 1 is activated. When he serves as the commander-in-chief, all generals under his command will have +1 command, and the entire army's force will +1; when participating in the battle in person, the entire army's force will +1, and when more than half of the casualties are lost, the entire army's force will be +1. +1 again;

 The current Southern Army commander +1, force +1;

Chi You’s commander-in-chief increased to 103, and his force increased to 113;

 Duan Siping’s commander-in-chief has increased to 96, and his military force has increased to...

 Gonggong Commander increased to 95…

　　…]

This is the main reason why the previous Nanman army was obviously much worse in equipment than the Shu army, but their combat effectiveness was not weaker than that of the Shu army.

Chi You single-handedly forcibly increased the combat effectiveness of the entire Southern Barbarian army.

Chi You did not personally participate in the siege, but commanded the 20,000 vanguard troops under his command. However, the offensive of the 20,000 troops was too fierce. In the first round of siege alone, some people boarded the city and then rushed up. There are more and more people.

Wu Yi personally led people to surround and kill the barbarian soldiers who came up, but this time the barbarian soldiers were too difficult to deal with. He fought for two hours but failed to kill them all. Instead, the barbarian soldiers came up from several other places.

Wu Yi wanted to lead his army to break out, but Chi You was outside the city, and there were cavalry beside him. Going out of the city at this time was tantamount to seeking death, so he could only retreat to the city and engage in street fighting to support himself.

Chi You saw that the army had invaded the city, but was unable to capture the Shu army in the city, so he personally participated in the battle, which added a little more force to the Nanguo army. They resisted so stubbornly that the Shu army could no longer hold on, and they began to flee in groups. But where can you escape?

 In the end, nearly 8,000 people laid down their weapons and chose to surrender to Chi You, and Wu Yi was captured by Chi You who had no other skills.

"Wu Yi, I know the grudge between you and Liu Yu. It is impossible for Liu Yu to reuse you. You don't want to waste time in Jianning. I wonder if you would like to submit to me and serve my southern country?"

Chiyou Lixian's corporal recruited Wu Yi to surrender. After all, Wu Yi was the head of the Wu family in Yizhou. Subduing him would be equivalent to subjugating the Wu family.

But Wu Yi said with a look of disdain: "You want me, Wu Yi, to work for you barbarians? It's just a dream. Being captured today is just a death. There is no need to say more."

 (End of this chapter)