The Rise of History’s Most Powerful Empire

In the seventh year of Emperor Yuan, at the beginning of October.

The 500,000 troops of Chu State in the south have completely set foot on the land of Wu County, Yue State.

The Vietnamese army mobilized the whole country, barely pulled out 250,000 troops, and all of them were crushed in Wanling County and Qu'e County. A place not to be missed.

The Chu army and the Vietnamese army fought continuously, and both sides suffered heavy casualties.

However, in February, when it completely entered December, the two sides were already extremely cold due to the weather, and it was difficult for the soldiers to fight any more, so the fighting gradually stopped.

However, in just two months of this mere 500,000 Chu troops, a total of 150,000 died in battle, a loss of nearly 1/3. The loss was quite large, and the morale of the Chu army fell into a slump.

Although the Vietnamese army on the opposite side has a geographical advantage and is on the defensive, it has an advantage in the terrain of the battlefield. However, the Vietnamese army on the opposite side really couldn't support the wall, it was just a puddle of mud.

Most of the Vietnamese army consisted of farmers who had just entered the battlefield. They had no effective military training at all, and the Vietnamese army had no money to train them.

When the Yue State was first established, money was needed in many places, and there was a shortage of a large number of basic non-commissioned officers.

And training the army requires money, a lot of money.

Don't say anything else, let's just say that you train soldiers to consume energy quickly, right? Then you have to fill their stomachs, and you have to have a meal of meat every three to five times, so that the soldiers can have the strength to train.

But with such training, there are so many soldiers, and the Vietnamese army has a full 300,000. How can they spend so much money and so much food on them?

Even if they only trained them for three months to let them know a little bit about what the army was like, the Yue Kingdom couldn't afford the huge consumption.

Besides, the country of Yue does not have so many low-level coaches and non-commissioned officers to lead and train these recruits.

So the matter of training, even though the Yue Kingdom was always clamoring to carry it out, it ended up being nothing.

In the end, it only trained an army of about 30,000 King Yue, who served as the capital of the country together as the king of Yue, deterring the forces of all parts of the country.

As for the others, except for some veterans who had fought several defeats with the rebels and became veterans, they barely had some war experience.

The others have just entered the battlefield, leaving the farmland as a farmer and becoming an honorable and responsible soldier.

It's just that the morale of these soldiers, their proficiency in war, and their loyalty to the King of Yue are hard to say.

Ever since, after two months of fighting, batch after batch of recruits from the Yue Kingdom were drawn to the battlefield, and then they were defeated after a few minutes of fighting.

So back and forth, several reincarnations, until the time was delayed until the night came, a war barely allowed the Vietnamese army to persist.

It can be said that this war lasted to the end entirely with the lives and morale of those recruits.

However, because of this, the number of recruits in Yue State was greatly reduced, and the number of troops decreased sharply. Even though Yue State had a defensive geographical advantage, the number of deaths in the end really reached the same number as that of Chu State, 150,000 troops.

As for the remaining 100,000 Vietnamese troops, after these two months of fighting, they have shown a lot of energy. With the appearance of some elite troops, they can barely be called a brave and capable army.

It's hard to say what the final result will be.

The Yue State sacrificed a large number of young and strong, and every family in the whole country wailed, and white cloth was hung on all the places where people lived.

In addition to the remaining 100,000 troops, there are still 100,000 males over the age of fourteen in the country of Yue. I don't know if we can get 100,000 of them together.

That is the last planting on the land of the remaining three counties of the Yue Kingdom, and it is the hope of the future of the Yue Kingdom, the hope of all the families in this land.

They pointed out that these 100,000 people could give them more children, so that the countless families in the land of Yue would not really become extinct, and how could it be possible for the king of Yue to take them away and use them as cannon fodder.

I am afraid that even if King Yue wants to do this, his subordinates will not agree. It is really urgent. I am afraid that even his 100,000 elite will rebel, kill him, and surrender to Chu directly.

Therefore, with these fears, the king of Yue who had just taken office did not dare to recruit strong men anymore, and could only rely on the remaining 100,000 elites to resist the attack of the Chu army.

But fortunately, now that the severe winter has entered, the grain harvested by the Chu State this year is slowly being consumed, and it is no longer possible to maintain the remaining 350,000 troops.

This made Yue Guo breathe a sigh of relief and had a little chance to breathe.

A great war in the south has come to an end. The new round of war will not continue until half a year later when both countries have accumulated some supplies.

However, in the seventh year of Emperor Yuan, in the north of Chu State, the war between Tao State and Wei State was in full swing just like Chu State and Wei State.

First of all, the Wei army dispatched 300,000 people, which is already all the troops that the entire Wei State can produce. Except for the maintenance of law and order in some places and some defensive troops at the border, all forces were used to deal with this war with Tao.

The Tao country was not to be outdone, and 100,000 troops from all over the country were stationed at the border, guarding every city and town to resist the country's aggression.

At the beginning of the battle, the army of Wei State was relatively elite. The army was filled with many veterans who had fought many battles. Their strength was quite strong, far superior to the army of Tao State, which was composed of many new recruits.

Therefore, at the beginning of the war, Wei State even destroyed five cities of Tao State. All the way on the rampage, the momentum is like a broken bamboo, and Tao Guo looks at the top and bottom, and there is an unstoppable trend.

But then, in Tao Kingdom, on a rather majestic city, the 20,000 defenders in the city, relying on the solid city defense, severely dampened the spirit of Wei Guo's vanguard.

The 100,000 pioneers of Wei State lost 30,000, and it was difficult to win the city. Although the defenders in the city also lost more than 10,000, there were only more than 6,000 left, and the defense was quite difficult.

But because of this, the 100,000 pioneers were delayed for a full thirteen days under this small city, and they were given a lot of time to pay back, and they were able to slowly integrate their strength and prepare for war again.

After nearly a month of war, there are still about 50,000 Tao troops left. Except for the 10,000 people left on guard in the capital, the remaining 40,000 are all distributed to the remaining strong cities, and the people are organized to build city defenses. In the end look.

There are only seventeen cities in the entire Tao Kingdom, and now five of them have been lost, and there are still twelve cities left, and more than 40% of their strength has been lost.

Therefore, although Tao State seemed to fight Wei State to the end, in fact, if there was no external intervention, with Tao State's national strength and military strength, at most two or three months, the country would be ruined and its family would be destroyed, and the army would be completely defeated.

Therefore, in order to avoid the crisis of the country's destruction, the Tao country asked for help from outside.

Emperor Yuan seven years, July.

Qi State sent 100,000 troops to Tao State and confronted the 200,000 Wei army on the opposite side under the city of Dingtao, the capital of Tao State.

The war has fallen into a quagmire, and the outcome is unpredictable.