Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2449: Land and Sea Armies, Pingnan Commander

The region of Southeast Asia, including Linyi, one of the three Southeast Asian countries, originally had an unclear relationship with the former Han Dynasty.

Therefore, in Li Xiang's view, this piece of land is the former territory of the Han Dynasty, which is sacred and indivisible.

Although due to some historical reasons, he was temporarily separated from it for a period of time, but now that the opportunity has come, Emperor Gaozu of Jin will naturally take back this land.

How can we give our ancestors' land to others?
For this southern expedition, he mobilized Bai Qi's entire Yizhou Legion in one go, a total of 100,000 soldiers and horses, and sent the entire Yizhou Legion into this battle, with Bai Qi as the main general and Yang Su as the vanguard. They took the land route out of Jiaozhou and headed to Southeast Asia as soon as the order was given.

All the materials needed for this expedition were supplied from all over the south. Wei Yang, the governor of Yangzhou, was appointed as the governor and was responsible for allocating food and fodder for the army.

The Yizhou Legion of Bai Qi was composed of either elite soldiers of the Jin Army who had fought in many battles in the south and the north, or southern barbarians or Shanyue people who were recruited after the conquest of Yizhou and the south.

Due to the original living environment, the physical fitness of these southern barbarians and Shanyue people is actually much better than that of the Han people. After all, those with poor physical fitness basically find it difficult to survive to adulthood, especially for the southern barbarians.

It is only in recent years that the living environment of the Southern Barbarians has gradually improved.

The reason why these people are inferior to the regular armies of local princes is not because of their physical fitness, but because of their equipment and military training.

But after they joined the Jin army, all the original deficiencies were made up.

Moreover, due to the living environment of the Nanman and Shanyue people, these people are naturally good at mountain warfare. In this respect, it is like the grassland people in the north are naturally good at horse riding warfare. Without acquired training, they can easily catch up with them.

No matter how hard you train, how can you easily compare to those who have been living in that environment for decades?
Therefore, judging from the composition of the troops alone, the Yizhou Legion had a very high starting point.

Among the many armies of the Jin Dynasty, the combat effectiveness of the Yizhou Army ranks among the best. This is a truly combat-capable army. From the time they planned to form it, their goal at that time was to pacify the south.

The only problem is that due to its geographical reasons, this legion is almost a pure infantry legion. The cavalry unit has only a pitiful 5,000, and they are all ordinary cavalry, without a single heavily armored knight.

However, the composition of the Yizhou Legion is indeed very suitable for fighting in the Southeast Asian environment.

Southeast Asia, like the southern region, is distributed with a large number of mountains and forests. This terrain is naturally unfriendly to cavalry units. Infantry units, especially mountain infantry units, can give full play to their functions here.

In addition to Bai Qi as the main general and Yang Su as the vanguard, this army also included many famous or fierce generals such as Gou Chen, Zhu Wen, Li Cunzhang, Fu Cunshen, Shi Jingsi, Shi Jiantang, Kou Xun, Lu Junyi, Lu Xiangsheng, and Li Dian.

Although there is only one Gou Chen in this army, Li Xiang thinks that he is enough to be a master of the god level. After all, how many powerful generals can be found in Southeast Asia?

In addition to these people, two famous strategists from the Central Plains, Cheng Yu and Miao Xun, were also sent to serve as Bai Qi's left and right advisers.

For Southeast Asia, so many elite soldiers were sent. It can be seen that Li Xiang was determined to win this place this time and did not want any accidents to happen. If he decided to fight, he must completely take this place and completely achieve the pre-war goal, so that Dajin can add another state.

Not only now, the Southeast Asian region controlled by the Southeast Asian Alliance countries, and even the part of Southeast Asian region that the Kushan Empire had conquered before, are all within Li Xiang's target range. Since we have decided to fight, then this battle must be fought in an orderly manner.

Even if targeting the part of Southeast Asia that the Kushan Empire had previously conquered would arouse hostility from the Kushan Empire, so what?

Is it the same Dajin today as it was during the three years of the epidemic?

During those three years, they suffered countless losses, both overtly and covertly, in the commercial trade with the Kushans, and they suffered all these losses in silence!

This time, it was just to collect some interest! In those three years, facing the Kushan Empire, they were very depressed.

If the other party has the guts, they can fight with us, the Great Jin. But he is afraid that he does not have the courage to go into direct war with two huge empires at the same time.

Since the other party did it on the first day that year, then Li would dare to do it on the fifteenth.

Five years have passed, and Dajin has also received certain intelligence regarding the affairs of Nanchu in Southeast Asia.

However, Li Xiang did not think that these people could become an obstacle to his sweep across Southeast Asia.

At their peak, they were not qualified enough to become his obstacles. Even before he could sweep them away, they had already been destroyed by Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Che. Those who were not qualified enough to become his enemies at their peak, let alone a group of remnants who were stranded in a foreign country and barely surviving.

For Li Xiang, this residual force could only satisfy his insignificant regret. After all, this was indeed one of the few vassal forces that he had not personally destroyed.

In addition, Xu Cheng's East China Sea Navy was sent as the second force to take the sea route and head directly to Southeast Asia.

Even, considering the lack of combat power of the navy after landing, Li Xiang ordered the mobilization of 30,000 troops from the Southern Legion, with Chang Yuchun as the main leader, to join the second route of troops to assist in the landing operation.

Chang Yuchun's Southern Legion was basically composed of captives obtained after the war in the south, local people in the south, and a certain number of original Jin army soldiers.

Almost 80% of the troops come from the Southern Corps in the south. Even though they are land troops, they are not like the land troops in the north and the Central Plains. Long-term ship voyages will greatly affect their combat effectiveness.

These young men from the Southern Legion can still basically maintain their combat effectiveness even after a long voyage.

However, this time, the commander-in-chief of Pingnan was not Bai Qi, the commander-in-chief of the First Army with great military achievements, nor was he Xu Cheng, the commander-in-chief of the East China Sea Navy of the Second Army.