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The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

NO.10

Tang attacked the Battle of Little Bolu

The Battle of Xiaobolu by the Tang Dynasty was a battle in 747 AD in which Gao Xianzhi, the deputy capital of the Tang Dynasty, defeated the combined forces of Tubo and the Arab Empire.

In the 24th year of the Tang Dynasty, Tubo attacked the State of Xiao Bolu, and then Xiao Bolu and more than 20 surrounding countries all submitted to Tubo and no longer paid tribute to the Tang Dynasty.

At this time, after the Arab Empire entered the west of the Onion Ridge, destroyed Persia, and occupied the area between the Amu Darya River and the lower reaches of the Syr Darya River, the confrontation between Tang and Tubo in the original western region became a dispute between the three kingdoms.

Therefore, the Arab Empire and Tubo allied together against the Tang Dynasty, gathered a coalition army of 100,000 troops, and constantly invaded the Tang Border, which made the Tang Empire very angry, and the imperial court ordered Gao Xianzhi to lead 20,000 troops to meet the combined forces of the Tubo Arab Empire.

Gao Xianzhi led a large army of Gao Xianzhi soldiers into three routes, and finally assembled at Lianyun Fort, which was built on a mountain peak in the northeast of present-day Afghanistan, with steep cliffs on three sides.

With the Pychi River as a barrier, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, Gao Xianzhi led the Tang army to cross the river overnight, over the snowy mountains, like a heavenly soldier descending to raid the Arab Empire's combined army, in one fell swoop to crush tens of thousands of Arab Tubo coalition troops, the Arab Tubo coalition army was defeated for nearly a hundred miles, had to send envoys to seek peace, this battle once again declared the hegemony of the Tang Empire!

The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

NO.9

Li Mu broke the Battle of the Xiongnu

During the Warring States period, the countries of the Central Plains conquered each other, and their strength was greatly damaged, and the Xiongnu continued to invade the Yan, Zhao and other countries when they saw the situation.

Li Mu, a famous general of the Zhao State, was well aware of the xiongnu's combat strength, so he slaughtered several cattle every day to reward the soldiers, taught the soldiers to practice archery and horseback riding, carefully guarded the beacon tower, and sent more personnel to reconnoiter the enemy's situation, and treated the soldiers well.

But there is one thing, it is strictly forbidden to go out of the city to meet the battle.

The Xiongnu thought Li Mu was timid, and even King Zhao thought he was timid.

Li Mu endured humiliation and burdens, and for several years he was paralyzing the Xiongnu.

When the time was finally ripe, 1,300 chariots, 13,000 selected horses, 50,000 warriors who dared to charge into battle, and 100,000 soldiers who were good at shooting were all organized to train for combat.

At the same time, a large number of livestock were grazed everywhere, and the Xiongnu invaded with a small group of people and horses, and Li Mu pretended to fail, deliberately discarding thousands of people to the Xiongnu, and then the Xiongnu invaded on a large scale.

Li Mubu sent down a surprise army, opened his left and right wings to encircle and counterattack the enemy, defeated hundreds of thousands of Xiongnu in one fell swoop, destroyed The Hu and defeated Dong Hu, surrendered Lin Hu, and fled alone.

In the decades that followed, the Xiongnu did not dare to invade the Central Plains.

The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

NO.8

Battle of The Tang Dynasty Baijiangkou

The Battle of Baekjeongkou was a water battle at baekjeongkou in 663 between the Tang Dynasty and the combined forces of Silla and the Uighurs and Baekje.

In the early years of the Tang Dynasty, the Korean Peninsula consisted of three countries: Goguryeo, Baekje and Silla.

The combined forces of Goguryeo and Baekje invaded Silla, and the Tang Empire sent troops to pacify it after persuading it to be useless, but the result was that Japan did not have to fight against the Tang Empire, so the Japanese gathered more than 42,000 people to lead more than 1,000 warships to Korea.

As a result, at the mouth of the Baekje Baijiang River, the Tang army encountered, although the Tang navy was only more than 170 ships, although the Tang army ships were absolutely inferior in number, but the Shipbuilding Technology of China during the Sui and Tang Dynasties was still very superb, the walls were high and strong, and the design was excellent.

The Japanese warships lagged behind by more than a hundred years, and Tang commanded Liu Renluo to change the formation of the fleet and divide it into two teams on the left and right, encircling the Uighur army, and its ships collided with each other and could not maneuver, and the soldiers were in chaos.

Rockets were fired at the Warships, and all the Japanese warships were burned.

Subsequently, the Tang army fought four battles and four victories, and the Japanese hurriedly sent envoys to admit their mistakes and seek peace.

In this campaign, the Tang Naval Army gave full play to its own advantages and defeated the Uighur Naval Army, which was several times the strength and ships of the Wu Dynasty, which was a classic water battle with fewer victories and more victories.

This battle was the first engagement between China and Japan, and the final result of the victory of the Tang Dynasty and Silla Combined Forces basically laid the dominant position of the Chinese Empire for more than a thousand years.

The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

NO.7

Chen Tang's battle against the Xiongnu

During the reign of Emperor Xuan of Han, internal contradictions among the Xiongnu intensified, and the five Shan Yu competed for the throne, and Zhi Zhidan resented the Han Dynasty for favoring Hu Han evil Shan Yu and did not help himself, so he trapped the Han Dynasty emissaries and began to humiliate them.

At this time, Chen Tang and Gan Yanshou were on an envoy to the Western Regions, and after learning the news, Chen Tang decided to issue an edict to send troops, so he alone pretended to be under the order of the imperial court to dispatch troops from various countries with towns, and the Han soldiers and subordinate soldiers combined for more than 40,000 people went to the Xiongnu to suppress the rebellion.

As a result, the Xiongnu Zhidan did not expect the Han army to be able to issue a jiaozhi to send troops, and he thought that the Han army would definitely let the imperial court decide first, during which time it would take at least half a year.

In the past six months, he had almost prepared himself, but who had thought that Chen Tang would actually use Jiaozhao, which caught him off guard, so he was defeated, Zhi Zhidan was directly destroyed in one part, and then Chen Tang wrote the most domineering piece in the history of the Han Dynasty.

That is: those who commit crimes against the strong will be punished from afar!

The Ten Great External Wars of Ancient Times (Part I)

NO.6

Wanli Korean War

At the end of the 16th century, Japan gathered 270,000 elite troops from all over the country to invade Korea again, and Korea asked for help from Daming for the second time, and Daming was very angry when he learned of it, and even dared to bully my little brother!

So he sent 40,000 Ming troops to Korea to collect Japan, and by this time the eight provinces of Korea had been lost, leaving only the north of Pyongan Province.

Faced with such a situation, the Ming army concentrated its superior forces to besiege Pyongyang and defeated more than 10,000 troops of the Japanese general Konishi in one fell swoop, directly achieving a great victory in Pyongyang.

Subsequently, the Ming army broke through the momentum, and with 40,000 Ming troops, it defeated more than 200,000 Japanese troops throughout Korea, and achieved a brilliant record of annihilating more than 100,000 Japanese troops!

The victory in this battle re-integrated the political and military forces of East Asian countries, laid the foundation for the peace situation in Asia for the next three hundred years, and once again declared that the hegemony of Daming could not be challenged!

——To be continued——

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