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Chapter 1049: Chapter 429 Military Expedition Movement_3 Chapter 1049: Chapter 429 Military Expedition Movement_3 The Heyang Military Expedition, when it first set out on the Northern Expedition last year, was composed of one million soldiers and two million civilian workers, totaling three million people.

After more than a year of campaigning, although the expedition’s progress was smooth, the resistance of Wei people was extremely tenacious.

This was especially so in the area around Nanyang Prefecture.

The Wei people here would rather eat their children than give in, preferring death to surrender.

Their will to resist was, simply put, indomitable.

Therefore, when facing the siege by Chu forces, the Wei troops in this area launched several counterattacks.

To block these counterattacks and simultaneously to besiege the opponent to death, the Chu Army also dispatched a considerable number of troops for interception.

In this push and pull, casualties were naturally substantial.

The Wei Army in Nanyang Prefecture suffered the deaths of seven to eight hundred thousand men.

The Chu Army, too, lost five to six hundred thousand lives.

Although the resistance from the Wei Army in Henan Prefecture was somewhat lighter, under the belief of protecting their homes and country, it was still considerable.

Moreover, the number of Wei troops in this prefecture was larger, and they were backed by support from Zhao, their strength far surpassing that of Nanyang Prefecture’s Wei forces.

To take this prefecture, the Chu Army even made more sacrifices, with eight to nine hundred thousand casualties.

So, although they eventually succeeded in forcing the remaining parts of the two prefecture’s Wei troops to surrender and smoothly took control of both Henan jurisdictions,

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the sacrifices and casualties the Heyang Military Expedition paid were also significant, losing nearly half of their number.

After resting and reorganizing, the remaining troops of the expedition amounted to only one million six hundred thousand, with six hundred thousand soldiers and one million civilian workers.

Lu Yuan did not let these vacant positions remain idle for long.

After just one month of rest, by the early days of the sixth month, Lu Yuan transferred eight hundred thousand from the Heyang Military Expedition to the battlefield inside Guannei, integrating them under the command of the Hanzhong Military Expedition.

Last year, under the direct command of Lu Yuan, the Western, Central, and Eastern Military Expeditions that were part of the campaign against Liang in Qingzhou fought fiercely.

The Hanzhong Military Expedition, which fired the first shot of the Northern Expedition, engaged in a war with a significant presence against Wei in the Guannei region.

Although the sudden turn of Chu forces indeed caught Wei off guard,

even the Imperial Capital Chang’an City was encircled by Chu troops, directly leading to a siege.

But as Huang Xin initially reported, the civilian morale of Wei was martially inclined, and their potential for war was actually not weak.

The Chu forces caught them by surprise, directly storming to the foot of Chang’an City, indeed causing panic within Wei.

But after the panic, once they had a chance to react, the resistance mounted by Wei people was also extremely resolute.

Inside Chang’an City, even though Wei’s Monarch and Ministers chose a temporary retreat north, they still left behind ten thousand elite Defenders and six Inborn for the Crown Prince and other Ministers holding the fort in Chang’an.

To add to those forces, from the original inhabitants of Chang’an City, another two hundred thousand civilian workers were conscripted, assembling an army of three hundred thousand strong.

With the fortifications of Chang’an City and these defenders, it wasn’t going to be easy for the Chu Army, having traveled far, to easily take it down.

After Wei’s Monarch and Ministers evacuated Chang’an, they quickly steadied their footing in Shuofang Prefecture and immediately started planning for resistance and counterattacks.

They sent Clan Ministers to both the Western Capital Chang’an and the Eastern Capital Heyin, ordering them to prepare for defense in Heyang and inside Guannei.

At the same time, they carried out conscription in Shuofang Prefecture, preparing to assemble troops and be ready to support the front line at any moment.

Even Wei Country had sent messengers, leveraging their remnants of influence in Yan State, to go among the Barbarian tribes that had occupied Yan State, recruiting mercenaries to enhance their own military strength.

With these measures, not only did the Wei Army in Heyang grow more resistant, they fiercely clashed with the Chu Army.

Even within Guannei, aside from the three hundred thousand Wei soldiers in Chang’an City, in the Jingji region, the Wei people had also mustered five hundred thousand troops for various resistances.

In Shuofang Prefecture, after the concerted efforts of Wei State’s monarch and ministers, another six hundred thousand troops were recruited, along with three hundred thousand Barbarian troops enticed by the promises of money and provisions.

With efforts from all sides, inside Guannei along the Shuofang front, the Wei people had amassed one million and seven hundred thousand troops.

You shouldn’t worry whether these troops could fight or not, their numbers alone were quite intimidating.

Moreover, among the Chu military encampments, the one in Hanzhong was actually the weakest in terms of strength.

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The total military force was only two million four hundred thousand, of which two million were civilian workers, and the real soldiers were only four hundred thousand.

Even with this, they had previously had to dispatch troops to Helong to confound Wei Country, clashing to the death with those Western region foreign tribes, which had already resulted in significant troop losses.

By the time they fought Wei Country, the number of soldiers was even fewer.

With such strength, even if at the start there was the advantage of surprise attacks, defeating the remaining forces of Wei Country in Guannei’s prefectures and taking Chang’an City was not going to be easy.

Therefore, throughout last year, the military expedition camp in Hanzhong, led by Huang Xin, was spent sawing back and forth with the Wei Army.

Both sides around the ownership of Chang’an City had erupted in one great battle after another, each suffering numerous casualties.

Fighting until now, neither side had been able to overcome the other, and the battlefield had fallen into a stalemate.

From this situation, unless Wei Country was worn down to collapse through starvation, relying on only the Hanzhong military expedition camp would definitely not capture Chang’an.

Consequently, taking this into account, once the Heyang military expedition camp had achieved victory on the Heyang battlefield,

Seeing this camp become idle while the Hanzhong military expedition camp, also a part of Wei Country’s battlefield, had reached a deadlock, Lu Yuan naturally couldn’t just watch idly.

So he transferred half of the remaining troops from the Heyang military expedition camp to support the Hanzhong camp, planning to inject new vigor into this stalled war.

To deliver Wei Country its final, fatal blow, completely ending the fate of this empire.

“However, now it seems that it’s not only the Hanzhong military expedition camp that needs support, but the Western Route military expedition camp also requires it,”

Lu Yuan rubbed his forehead and finally sent a dispatch order to Qingyunzi, “Leave three hundred thousand men to garrison the two prefectures of Heyang, and then withdraw five hundred thousand men to be incorporated under the command of the Western Route military expedition camp.”

At the insistence of his avatar Huang Lin, he provided a second wave of reinforcements.

“After transferring a million people, and considering the troops originally there, the Western Route military expedition camp would have three million troops, whereas Zhao Army has only three million six hundred thousand.

If with this they still can’t win, then that avatar is too incompetent and should just be reforged from scratch,”

Lu Yuan whispered to himself, exhausted.

Coordinating several military encampments and dealing with affairs concerning millions of people was indeed too tiring.

So tiring that even he found it hard to keep up.

But now, the world was not yet pacified, the great war had not ceased, and even if he desired rest, he could not afford to learn to slack off.

“Uniting these Nine Provinces is much harder than I originally thought.

Indeed, replicating the grand feats of the Three Emperors of antiquity is not so simple…”

Lu Yuan sighed, then once again bent down to his desk to continue handling official duties.

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