Chapter 1871: Northern Han's first victory
Chapter 1871 The First Victory of the Northern Han Dynasty
Chapter 1869: The Northern Han Dynasty’s first victory
Yuyang County is located between Guangyang County and Youbeiping County. It has jurisdiction over nine counties including Yuyang and Hunu.
However, with the fierce attack of the two Qin armies and the surrender of the Pinggu County magistrate, the four southern counties of Yuyang have belonged to the Qin army, leaving only the five counties in the central and northern parts still in the hands of the Han army.
Qin Hao led 130,000 Qin troops to take control of Youbeiping. Although the pressure on Li Guang of Yuyang County was greatly reduced, Su Dingfang's 40,000 troops were not a living wage, not to mention that Sun Lingming was also under Su Dingfang's command.
Who is Sun Lingming?
That was the fierce man who killed Yuan Hong, the most powerful general in Hebei Province. He searched the entire Northern Han Dynasty and could not find anyone who could match him.
The Qin army with Sun Lingming's presence can imagine how fierce the offensive will be, and Yuyang is the east gate of Yanjing. Once Yuyang falls completely, Su Dingfang's army can directly reach Guangyang County, and then Yanjing will be in danger. .
Li Guang only had 25,000 troops in his hands, while Su Dingfang had 40,000 troops and the peerless general Sun Lingming.
In addition, nearly half of the territory of Yuyang County has been lost, and the strategic depth of the Han army only remains in five counties.
So, among the four counties, Yuyang County is currently in the most critical condition, even more so than Dai County.
Although Liu Che knew about Yuyang's predicament, he had nothing to do about it because the Northern Han Dynasty really had no troops to mobilize and no troops to recruit.
"Report...Yuyang battle report, Sun Lingming, the vanguard under Su Dingfang's account, led an army of 5,000 to attack Guangping City. They attacked fiercely for ten days but failed. Later, they were repulsed by General Li Ling. Our army killed more than 2,000 Qin troops."
"What?"
Liu Che, Zhang Tang, Wei Xiang and others all exclaimed. After all, this was the first victory since the beginning of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Hangping City is only a medium-sized county, its defense is not too strong, and its defenders only have 3,000 troops. However, they did not expect that they could block Sun Lingming's 5,000 elite Qin troops.
"Li Ling is indeed a descendant of the Li family. He is truly a good general. I will reward him generously." Liu Che praised with a smile.
What Liu Che and others didn't know was that Li Ling had risked his life to defend Guangping City.
In order to fight against Sun Lingming alone, Li Ling mobilized more than a thousand strong crossbowmen, as well as all the crossbows and catapults in the city, and focused on Sun Lingming alone.
Sun Lingming is indeed powerful, and he has also practiced the indestructible magic skill, but he cannot withstand the continuous attacks of crossbows and catapults.
In this way, Li Ling used the concentrated fire tactics of bed crossbows and catapults to prevent Sun Lingming from ascending the city and successfully defended the city.
Sun Lingming was accustomed to relying on his personal bravery and always took the lead in every battle. As soon as he climbed onto the tower, it would only be a matter of time before the city fell.
The problem now is that Sun Lingming cannot climb the tower and cannot engage the Han army in close combat. No matter how strong his own strength is, it is useless.
With no choice, Sun Lingming could only personally command the army to attack the city, but his commanding ability was not very strong. Compared with a commanding general like Li Ling, the gap was even more obvious.
Sun Lingming attacked the city for three consecutive days but failed to successfully climb the city tower, so he personally commanded the army to attack the city, but he did not want to be overwhelmed by Li Ling's tactics. No matter what siege tactics he used, it would be difficult to conquer the city.
Sun Lingming was transferred to the fourth line to help Su Dingfang. Now Su Dingfang is winning consecutive battles, but he is hindered by a young general. This naturally makes him scratch his head and head anxiously.
At this time, Sun Lingming's weakness of high force but low command was naturally exposed.
In fact, Sun Lingming's 80 points of command is not low, but facing Li Ling who started at 90, Sun Lingming, who has 80 points of command, is naturally no match.
Li Ling noticed Sun Lingming's impatience, and on a dark and windy night, he personally led a thousand infantry and 500 cavalry to attack the Qin army's camp at night.
Without Sun Lingming noticing, Li Ling successfully attacked at night and lost more than 800 soldiers. At the critical moment, Sun Lingming woke up in time and relied on his own power to repel Li Ling's troops, otherwise the Qin army's casualties would only be greater.
After repelling Li Ling's troops, Sun Lingming wanted to pursue him personally until he killed Li Ling, but the sky was too dark and he couldn't tell who was who. In addition, he was worried that Li Ling had another ambush, so Sun Lingming gave up the pursuit. .
After a major defeat, the morale of the Qin army declined. Sun Lingming was worried that Li Ling would attack again, so he retreated ten miles, preparing to attack the city after stabilizing the morale of the army and making sufficient preparations.
In this way, the world-famous fierce general Sun Lingming used 5,000 elite Qin troops to attack a small city with 3,000 defenders. In the end, not only did he fail to capture the city, but he lost 2,000 soldiers and lost to a nobody named Li Ling.
Li Ling defeated Sun Lingming's attack and killed more than 2,000 Qin troops. This was the first victory since the beginning of the Qin-Han war.
You must know that even Wei Qing had no record of killing two thousand Qin soldiers during his fight with Huo Qubing. Li Ling's battle was already the best record of the Han army so far.
After such a great victory, Liu Che certainly had to publicize it to boost his own morale, but he also knew that two thousand casualties were nothing to the 200,000 Qin troops. The situation facing the Northern Han Dynasty remained the same. Extremely difficult.
“Send the order and confer Li Ling the title of Zhonglang General and Changting Marquis of Han Dynasty.” Liu Che ordered with a smile.
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At the same time that Liu Che rewarded Li Ling, Su Dingfang, who was confronting Li Guangtianyu, also received news that Sun Lingming was defeated and retreated.
When Su Dingfang learned that Sun Lingming was defeated, not only was he not angry, but he was relieved and thought to himself: Sun Lingming should have a better memory now.
Since he killed Yuan Hong, Sun Lingming gradually became arrogant and arrogant.
In addition to the words of Qin Hao and Emperor Ming, even Bai Qi was not taken seriously by Sun Lingming. He even threatened to challenge Li Cunxiao. It can be said that he was extremely crazy.
Therefore, when the lord asked Sun Lingming to assist, Su Dingfang was not only not half happy, but also felt a little nervous in his heart, worried that this unruly **** would not listen to his command.
As expected, Sun Lingming did not take Su Dingfang seriously after arriving at the Fourth Route Army. He directly approached Su Dingfang to demand military power, and threatened to capture Li Guang alive with only 5,000 soldiers and horses.
Su Dingfang was not angry about this. In his opinion, this was a sign that Sun Lingming was too young and had not tempered enough. After experiencing several blows like Lu Bu, he would naturally understand the truth that there are people outside the world.
After several attempts to dissuade him failed, Su Dingfang appointed Sun Lingming as the vanguard and led an army of five thousand to clear the way for the main force.
Su Dingfang originally thought that five thousand elites, plus Sun Lingming, a fierce general, could at least capture the two cities of Yuyang. When the troops were almost exhausted, Sun Lingming would naturally bow to him for help, but he never expected that Sun Lingming would be in the first one. There was a hitch in front of the city.
"Who is this Li Ling? With only three thousand defenders, he defeated General Sun Lingming." Su Dingfang asked with a frown.
“General, he is from the Li family.”
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