bookpower Chapter 382
Chapter 382
Chapter 382 – Guazhou Cao Clan, Undercurrent!.
To the west of Suzhou City, the Jing flag is surging.
Swords and guns are like forests, and armor is like the sea.
After several days of repairs in Suzhou, Chai Hao, the son of the Great Zhou Tianzi, ordered the army to march west and continue.
Only this time, in addition to the 100,000 Great Zhou Bu Cavalry, there were also 15,000 people of the Wuwei Army adapted by the Jia Shi of the Suzhou Long Family, that is, after taking Ganzhou and Suzhou Erzhou, and sending 2,000 Zhou troops to guard Erzhou and take prisoners back to the Central Plains, the strength of the Great Zhou Army not only did not decrease, but increased.
Moreover, when he was in Ganzhou, 09 obtained the grain and grass military resources accumulated by the Khan of the Ganzhou Uighurs for many years, which was enough for the army to march thousands of miles west.
Now here in Suzhou, a batch of grain and grass has been replenished, so that the Zhou army’s troops not only marched more and more westward, but even the grain and grass military supplies were also sufficient.
In this way, even if the slow and rational fight is like this city and city, and the war is maintained, it is enough to support the Great Zhou Heavenly Army and expedition for more than a year!
Even go according to this mode, enough to hit the sky!
Therefore, 100,000 Zhou troops and 20,000 minfu craftsmen, logistics, etc., plus 15,000 Wuwei troops, and some minfu logistics brought by the Suzhou Long family.
The army of the Great Zhou Expedition to the West was said to be about 115,000 people, and if you included auxiliary soldiers and people, it was about 150,000 people. There are more than 10,000 people, and there is no boundary.
An army of 150,000, plus horses and carts, oxen and carts, etc., was an incomparably huge marching company. Taking action can be described as shaking the ground.
From a distance of hundreds of miles, you can feel it.
Guazhou is only two or three hundred miles away from Suzhou.
Therefore, on the side of Suzhou, as soon as the heavenly soldiers of the Great Zhou set out to fight, there in Guazhou, they quickly got the news. Guazhou, also one of the four counties of Hexi, was called Jiuquan County during the Han Dynasty.
The reason for the name is because there is a spring rushing under the castle, and its spring water is like wine, so it is named Jiuquan County. It’s just that with the change of the millennium.
At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, the oasis-like Jiuquan County has become a somewhat desert and desolate scene. It is no longer the grandeur of the Silk Road of the Hexi Corridor.
Of course, there are reasons why the Hexi Corridor has experienced frequent wars for thousands of years, and it is also related to climate change.
During the Western Han Dynasty, when the world was a period of rising climate, the north did not freeze for many years, and there was sufficient rainfall, making places like the Hexi Corridor and the Western Regions an endless oasis, and until the High Tang Dynasty, the climate was warm and humid.
Therefore, on the plateau in the southwest, such a nomadic empire as Tubo was born.
Because the plateau of that era, with the warmth of the climate, was not as bitter and cold as in later generations, it was sufficient to nourish the population and civilization of 557.
Therefore, Tubo can be an enemy of the Great Tang for a hundred years.
Later, as the climate became cold, the northern Hu people had a hard time surviving, so they went south. An Lushan and the Hu people also took the opportunity to cause chaos, causing the Anshi Rebellion.
The land of Hexi and the Western Regions has also become arid and barren as the climate becomes cold and precipitation decreases. This makes the people living in this land more difficult and more courageous!
For example, at this moment, the Cao clan of Guazhou, who has been in control of Guazhou for more than a hundred years, learned that in the eastern direction, the army of the Son of Heaven of the Central Plains was about to come to Guazhou, and it was also an undercurrent!.