Chapter 1499 Going north to save my father
This disaster in the northwest was so severe that it was the first time from Dakang in the previous dynasty to Daning in the new dynasty. The people in the two northwest states had ten houses and nine empty houses, making the already poor people in the northwest even worse.
They suffered so much. They had just experienced natural and man-made disasters before this, and then they were plundered by the army of the Western Regions!
Buried on this land are white bones and countless dead heroic souls!
As the Emperor of Daning, he wants to avenge these dead people and soldiers who died in battle!
Just wait!
This day will always come!
Guan Ning swore in his heart that he had never had such a strong desire for revenge as now!
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The next few days were spent cleaning up the battlefield, recovering all usable arrows and weapons, and burning all the corpses.
This time, the army of the Western Regions was brought to bear in one fell swoop. There are no foreign warriors from the Western Regions in the area northwest of Daning!
The war can be declared over.
Maybe there will be another attack in the Western Region, but before that, they will face Daning's attack.
After the last battle, statistical calculations showed that, excluding battle damage and casualties, the number of Anxi Army soldiers who could still fight was 21,352.
One hundred thousand Anxi troops set out from Shangjing, and nearly 80,000 people died in the battle. This was due to proper planning and the cooperation of reinforcements, otherwise the entire army might have been annihilated.
The victory in the battle of Nanyi Gudao was a turning point, and this war will surely go down in history...
At the end of the war, the Anxi Army's establishment will continue to be retained. This is a heroic army. Those who can survive to this day are all brave soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles and are unparalleled in their bravery!
They have gone through the experience of blood and fire, and are no longer the new recruits they once were before the expedition.
Anxi, stabilize the northwest!
After the war, Guan Ning issued two decrees:
The combat mission of the Anxi Army is over, and a new mission is ushering in, stationing troops on the spot, reclaiming wasteland for farming, and rebuilding the northwest!
There is also a second decree, which is to build a monument so that the dead people and soldiers who died in battle... can be paid tribute to all the people with lofty ideals who defended the country.
Their names should be engraved on the monument and their spirit should be preserved forever.
The war in the northwest is over, and there is only one last battlefield left in the war that Daning has encountered, and the last enemy... the Beiyi Wuliang tribe!
After settling the affairs in the northwest, Guan Ning continued to go north.
The Anxi Army stationed troops on the spot, and Guan Ning only led the remaining Zhenbei Army. However, with the end of the southern border war, there will be more troops to support, but right now, the Kelie tribe is facing a crisis...
There is a vast land in the north of Daning, where a nomadic people live. According to the north and south regions, they are divided into Northern Yi and Southern Barbarians.
After a long civil war, the Northern Yi finally defeated the Asote tribe under the leadership of the Northern Yi King Wu Liangbao and completed their unification!
He was only injured in the war, and Wu Liangbao did not last long before he died on the bed.
His son Wu Liangmu was ruthless and cunning by nature. He concealed the news of Wu Liangbao's death and made a conspiracy in Daning with the intention of attacking the Central Plains.
But he didn't want his plan to be discovered by the black-robed king of the Klei tribe, so he prepared and devised a deception plan in advance.
Wu Liangmu is a capable person. Although the Northern Yi is unified, the tribes are numerous and complex, and people's hearts are unstable. He uses the barbarians' hatred of the Central Plains people and uses the benefits gained from marching into the Central Plains as bait to win over all the tribes to serve him!
He overturned his father Wu Liangbao's policy towards the Central Plains, and even the marriage between Princess Duoyan of Northern Yi and Emperor Daning was forgotten!
Wu Liangmu wants to attack the Central Plains, and the first thing he faces is the Klei tribe!
However, he did not take it seriously. Although the Klei tribe unified the southern barbarians, it was not at the same level as the northern barbarians. Moreover, the Klei tribe also provided Daning with the help of 300,000 elite cavalry.
These 300,000 troops are approximately the entire main force of the Kled tribe. The Kled tribe is already empty and can be easily captured!
Wu Liangmu was so confident that he first sent his most trusted brother Wu Liangjiu to lead an army of 300,000 to attack the Kelei tribe.
But he didn't expect to fall into the trap of the Black Robe King. In fact, the Klei tribe did not have an army to support Daning, it was just a false shot.
Wu Liangjiu fell into the trap and an army of 300,000 was ambushed and the whole army was destroyed!
This kind of loss is heavy even for the powerful Beiyi. The most important thing is the loss of opportunity!
After knowing the result, Wu Liangmu was extremely angry. The black-robed king was so insidious. He clearly sent troops to support Daning, but it turned out to be a lie!
He quickly gathered his troops, mobilized additional troops from various tribes, and once again gathered an army of 400,000!
Uliangmu hates it!
It was originally a must-win war, but according to his plan, Wu Liangjiu led an army of 300,000 to destroy the Kele tribe, and then he led his troops south to attack Daning!
One wrong step, one wrong step.
Due to the defeat in the first war, his own absolute military superiority was lost. He led the army to attack the Kled tribe, but the progress was not smooth.
The black-robed king did not fight him head-on, but built fortifications and dug ditches to block the attack.
He used a large amount of manpower to dig many gullies along the path that the army must pass through to attack, and these gullies also became the biggest obstacle to the cavalry's advance!
This move is really cruel.
War horses cannot cross the ravine, otherwise they will fall into the ditch and be overturned.
The cavalry could not move forward and could only take detours, and the black-robed king Agula set up an ambush on these paths. He was familiar with the areas of the southern barbarians and the northern barbarians, and knew the routes that the cavalry could choose to advance.
This allowed the Black Robe King to take the initiative, and Wu Liangmu was very passive. The Black Robe King did not respect martial ethics. According to the rules of the grassland, the cavalry should fight head-on, but he did not want to use such despicable means.
There are many ravines, and if the cavalry wants to pass through, they must first fill them with soil and pave them. This seriously affects the progress of the war and is not easy.
The main reason is the lack of handy tools. This is the shortcoming of the nomadic tribes and what Wu Liangmu resents.
The Klei tribe was able to do this because they received support from Daning, which provided them with large quantities of iron tools.
In the ensuing war, the methods used by the Kled tribe also had many traces of the Central Plains countries.
Build fortifications, and even build earthen walls... to avoid frontal battles, with the purpose of blocking the enemy, in short, to prevent their attack as much as possible.
These methods work.
Even though Wu Liangmu was anxious, he could only keep going like this. He knew that he might be consumed to death in the end!
During this period, Princess Duoyan returned. As the most favored princess of the Ulliang tribe, she had high prestige.
Wu Liangmu also dotes on this sister, but in comparison, he prefers power and status.
No one can stop him from marching into the Central Plains. He already knows the situation Daning is facing. This opportunity is once in a lifetime!
The attack was unfavorable, and the beauty disturbed the morale of the troops. Even many people within the Wuliang tribe were shaken in their fighting spirit.
Chapter completed!