The 20,000-strong Qian army rushed towards the Xiliang Allied Forces. The Xiliang Allied Forces were frightened and had no ability to resist at all. Facing the rushing large-scale Qian army, they could be said to be defeated at the first touch! The battle process completely turned into a process of accepting prisoners of war. process.
The Qiang people in the coalition even used black gunpowder as the weapon of the gods, and regarded Lei Gong as a god. Instead of running away, they dismounted and knelt down, begging God to forgive themselves, and did not resist in the face of Daqian's army. , but knelt on the ground and raised his hands high, surrendering to the Daqian Army!
Only Han Sui led the army behind. Seeing that the situation was not good, he broke out with his six or seven thousand troops. Although Daqian's army wanted to completely annihilate the Xiliang army, there were too many prisoners, which hindered their way forward. .I could only watch helplessly as Han Sui and the others broke through.
Jia Xu looked at the battlefield that had just begun and ended with a telescope and sighed: "Han Sui is indeed the most old fox in Xiliang. He can escape in this situation!"
After the glass was manufactured, Xu Wei immediately instructed the craftsmen in the glass factory to create a batch of telescopes.
Of course, the effect is not very good, it can be magnified four or five times, but it plays an extremely important role in the command of the generals on the battlefield.
The reason why the two-to-five system of commanding officers in this era is because people's vision is limited. In fact, in a dusty environment like the battlefield, it is difficult to see things that are more than one mile away, and 5,000 people are almost one An officer uses his eyes to observe the limits of commanding an army on the battlefield.
Beyond this range, the commander can only judge the situation on the battlefield through his own messengers and receiving reports from the most junior officers on the battle situation!
Therefore, in this era, a battalion of 5,000 soldiers was generally used as an independent command unit in the army! Only a captain with 2,000 shi has the right to command the army alone!
It can even be said that the real war is fought by them, and their quality directly determines the success or failure of a war.
Because they didn't even know the situation on the battlefield, it was impossible for the generals of the Han Dynasty to issue too specific offensive plans to the captains. They could only give vague orders such as attack, defense, and retreat.
The specific tactics have to be formulated by the captains and captains themselves. The general only cares about whether these captains and captains can complete the tasks they have set! They will then judge the situation on the battlefield based on the situation reported by the captains and captains.
But having a telescope is completely different. The field of view on the battlefield is broadened, and the army that an officer can directly command will be several times larger. Just like in this war, Xu Wei can observe the entire battlefield with a telescope. This is how the army was formulated. Tactics are faster and more convenient.
On the battlefield, relying on other people's oral descriptions to reconstruct the battlefield conditions is completely different from seeing the battlefield conditions with your own eyes. The popularization of telescopes has at least helped Daqian's army increase its combat effectiveness by more than 30%.
So now telescopes are beginning to be matched with officers of Sima and above in the Daqian Army!
Xu Wei also looked at the fleeing Xiliang army with a telescope and said: "The one who is leading the escape is Han Sui?"
Jia Xu nodded and said: "That's him! The Xiliang rebels have changed their leaders in three groups. He is the only one who is still active in Xiliang. But no matter if he escapes, if the government wants to quickly pacify Xiliang, Han Sui is indispensable. Old fox, the rebellion in Xiliang has been going on for ten years. During these ten years, Han Sui has been at the top of Xiliang. His connections are all over the Han and Qiang people in Xiliang. Most of his troops are Qiang people. Soldiers, Han Sui is a big tree with deep roots in Xiliang. If the ruler recruits Han Sui to surrender, the war in Xiliang can be quickly settled!"
Xu Wei hesitated and said: "Is this Han Sui really so important?"
Han Sui had multiple identities. He was both a famous person and a powerful person. This kind of identity was someone who needed to be defeated in Daqian.
It is impossible for Daqian to manage the place through powerful nobles like Han Sui. If you really do this, it will be equivalent to digging up the foundation of Daqian. Soon, Daqian will become an enhanced version of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Xu Wei's attitude towards the gentry was even more radical than that of the Western Han Dynasty. He believed that gentry would have no place in the future political map of the Qian Dynasty, because in Xu Wei's view, the gentry was the most decadent and backward part of the Han Dynasty, and was the biggest enemy. The political force that should be eliminated most!
But Jia Xu said: "The ruling Liangzhou army has never been a whole. We use horse thieves to describe them, which is not an exaggeration at all. Xiliang is vast and sparsely populated. In terms of area, Liangzhou is almost larger than the entire Central Plains. It would be even larger if added one piece, but the population of such a huge area is less than one million. If you want to survive in Xiliang, the main conflict is not the land, but the harsh environment here, the numerous alien races, and the greedy bureaucrats.
The powerful clans and the Qiang tribes live together in the land of Xiliang. Usually they are enemies and have many conflicts. They want to draw swords against each other. But when dealing with foreign enemies, they will unite to resist the enemy. In the past, the Han Dynasty They are the enemies of Xiliang, and now that we Dagan are here, we Dagan are still the enemies of these people."
"My subordinates know that according to my policies and laws, Han Sui and other Xiliang tycoons must be defeated, and all the Qiang tribal leaders must be killed!"
"But if the government really does this, it will completely mess up the situation in Xiliang. The Han people in Xiliang can only survive by relying on the strong and powerful families to unite with each other. A single family like the one in the Central Plains cannot survive at all. Yes, if the government cuts off these powerful people, then the influence of the local Han people in Xiliang will be greatly reduced. This will actually benefit the Hu people in Xiliang. In the land of Xiliang, we only need to expand the power of the Han people. It should be done!
If we want to implement the Daqian policy in Xiliang, the powerful people inside Xiliang may not be able to be cleaned up even after two or three years in power, let alone the Qiang tribe among them."
"These leaders who are in power and want to kill the Hu people are not that simple. They not only live inside Xiliang, but also live in the grassland and desert thousands of miles away from Xiliang. The Qiang people live in a territory that is several times larger than Xiliang. times, it can even be said to be not much smaller than the desert.
Although their strength is not as strong as the Xianbei people, it is precisely because they are scattered that it is difficult to destroy them. If the government really wants to destroy them all, it will take only four to five years, which is simply impossible.
But now it is not cost-effective for us to spend four or five years in this barren Xiliang, especially when the various tycoons in the Central Plains have been preparing for war in the past few years and thinking of ways to expand their armies. .
By then, I am afraid that after the ruling party has pacified Xiliang, the princes from all walks of life in the Central Plains will want to counterattack Hebei.
The subordinates think that for us, Dagan, as long as Xiliang maintains basic stability and prevents them from harassing Bingzhou, it will be considered a victory for us. In this way, we will have time to solve the various princes in the Central Plains, and the problems of Xiliang can wait for us. We will solve this problem after we unify the Han Dynasty.
In this case, Han Sui is particularly important. He can help us contact the powerful forces, large and small, in Xiliang, and he can also help us contact the strength of the barbarians around Shi Niang.
Regardless of whether we want to use these barbarians or eliminate them, we cannot do without the help of Han Sui, a local snake.
My subordinates think that we, Dagan, should unite with the powerful people of Xiliang to deal with the barbarian forces around Xiliang and let them fight with each other, so that Dagan can benefit from it."