Chapter 1906: Qin Qing Kai battle Wei Qing defeated
Chapter 1906 Qin and Qing start a battle and Wei Qing is defeated
Chapter 1904: Qin Qing defeated Qi Wei in the battle
After Xue Rengui, Lu Bu also advised: "Commander Su, General Xue is right. If we continue to attack with force, we don't know how many lives will be lost. Even if we can capture Yanjing City by then, my lord's side may not be in good shape." Explain.”
Sun Lingming also nodded in agreement. In the past ten days, he has fully experienced what madness is and what a flesh and blood mill is.
When he was defeated by Li Ling in Kuangping, he only lost 2,000 soldiers. Now he has lost a full 20,000 soldiers in the attack on Yanjing City, which is equivalent to the loss of ten Kuangping defeats, and he still has not been able to defeat Yanjing. Beat it down.
Sun Lingming has never been a soft-hearted person, but such a large number of casualties still shocked him. If possible, he naturally hopes that fewer people will die.
Su Lie saw that Sun Lingming on his side agreed to postpone the offensive. He knew that it would be impossible without an explanation, so after scanning the crowd, he said, "Do you think I am willing to attack by force?"
A trace of doubt flashed in the eyes of Lu Bu, Sun Lingming and other generals. Since you said you were unwilling, why do you still attack by force?
A flash of light flashed in Xue Rengui's eyes, and he quickly asked: "Is there something unexpected happening in You Beiping?"
Su Dingfang nodded. Xue Rengui is probably the only person who can guess his thoughts now.
"On the day before the moat was filled in, a message came from a flying pigeon in Youbeiping. The 50,000-eighth banner army behind the Manchu Qing Dynasty had reached western Liaoning. The Qing Emperor Nurhaci personally led an army of 320,000 troops to invade Youbeiping, and the Lord... An army of 140,000 met the enemy."
As he spoke, Su Dingfang took out the original copy of the letter from the document, handed it to everyone for circulation, and said: "The strength of the Qing army is more than twice that of our army. Although the soldiers of our Qin army are good at fighting, they also have two fists." It’s hard to beat four hands.”
After Xue Rengui read it, he handed the original document to the next person, looked at Su Dingfang and said: "So Commander Su, you ordered a strong attack just to capture Yanjing so that you can rush to the reinforcements of the Fifth Army as soon as possible?"
“That’s right.”
Su Dingfang nodded and said in a deep voice: "The battle situation in Youbeiping is not optimistic. Our army is under great pressure. Once the Fifth Route Army is defeated, everything will be over.
Everyone, we must capture Yanjing as soon as possible. "
After hearing this, the generals understood.
Does Su Dingfang not know that a strong attack will cause more casualties? He knew better than anyone else, but with the threat of the Qing Dynasty ahead, the Qin army had to make a choice.
Are you planning to capture Yanjing regardless of casualties so that you can rush to help Beiping?
Or should we fight steadily, minimize casualties, and ignore the danger of the 130,000-strong army on the fifth route?
No matter which one is chosen, it means that the other side will definitely pay huge casualties, and Su Dingfang undoubtedly chose the former.
From Su Dingfang's point of view, the Northern Han Dynasty was already a turtle in a urn and could no longer pose a threat to the Qin army. However, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was different. The 320,000-strong army was ready to attack. This force was enough to threaten the Qin army.
Therefore, even if they pay the price of labor pains, as long as they can destroy the Northern Han Dynasty and ensure that there is no threat from the rear, they can concentrate their efforts to deal with the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Strategically, it will definitely be a sure profit for the Qin army.
But if Su Dingfang was worried about the casualties and fought steadily, if the 140,000 troops in Youbeiping suffered too many casualties and the entire army was finally defeated, the loss would not be 10,000 or 20,000 elites, but hundreds of thousands.
Which one is more important or less important is clear at a glance.
After hearing Su Dingfang's explanation, the generals understood the seriousness of the problem, and naturally they would not stop the attack.
However, after ten consecutive days of strong attacks, the entire army was reduced by two-sevenths. The current Qin army is indeed very tired and must be repaired before it can exert stronger combat power. In order to allow the army to exert stronger combat power, Su Dingfang ordered the army to repair for two days and then continue to attack the city.
The Qin army repaired for two days. Although it gave the Han army a chance to breathe, it also allowed its own combat power to be restored, and what followed was a more fierce offensive.
With the Qin Army's offensive that failed to inflict casualties, Yanjing's defensive power dropped a lot, and although the Qin Army's offensive power also dropped, it was not by much and remained close to its peak level.
The Han army suffered a big defeat, while the Qin army suffered a small defeat. It was still quite a trade-off, and the gap in combat power between the two sides became even wider.
Therefore, in the subsequent siege battle, the casualty ratio between Qin and Han was further expanded, even reaching the level of 1:3 or even 1:4.
One person died when attacking the city, but three, four, or even five or six were killed when defending the city.
This is definitely not a normal ratio, but the Han army did not have reserve troops, so the people could only fill it with their lives.
Facing the Qin army, which is armed to the teeth, the common people are like lambs. Six of them can kill one Qin army. This is all because of Xue Gang's good command.
Yanjing City has reached its most critical moment, and the situation that Xue Gang least wanted to see happened.
Facing the strong attack of the Qin army, the Han army was unable to resist and could only let the people take their lives. If this continues, Yanjing will turn into a dead city.
However, due to Su Dingfang'e's plan and the large number of casualties among the recruited men, the support of the people was greatly reduced, and they were even more afraid of the Qin army. If the people were allowed to die, it would probably trigger a popular uprising.
Just when Liu Che and Xue Gang were in a dilemma, a piece of news that made them even more desperate came, that is, Wei Qing of Zhuojun was defeated.
After Huo Qubing led his army into Zhuo County, he and Bai Qi formed a two-sided pincer attack on Wei Qing, while Wei Qing abandoned one county and tightened his defense line to resist the Qin army attacking from two sides.
Wei Qing only has an army of 50,000 in his hands, but he has to face a flanking attack of 100,000 Qin troops, and the men leading the army are Bai Qi and Huo Qubing. It is not easy to deal with either one of them, let alone two of them together.
Wei Qing really tried his best. He defended Zhuo County for half a month, but he had to deal with Bai Qi and Huo Qubing at the same time. As time went by, flaws were finally exposed.
In just three days, more than ten battles broke out between the Qin and Han armies in the small Zhuo County. In the end, Wei Qing was defeated miserably by Bai Huo's coalition forces.
Of Wei Qing's 50,000-strong army, 10,000 were killed directly in battle, 30,000 were captured, and less than 10,000 were left to retreat to Zhuoxian to defend. The total casualties of Bai and Huo's armies were less than 5,000.
After the first battle, Wei Qing's main force was lost, completely out of control, and could only survive in Zhuoxian County.
After Bai Qi and Huo Qubing's victory, they did not attack Zhuoxian by force, but carried out a siege.
Bai Qi led an army of 40,000 to surround Zhuoxian County to prevent Wei Qing from breaking out, but let Huo Qubing and Zhang Liang lead an army of 55,000 to go north to support Su Dingfang in attacking Yanjing City.
After learning the news, Liu Che was shocked.
With Wei Qing's defeat, the last hope of the Han Dynasty was gone. The gap in strength between Qin and Han was already too great, and it would only be a matter of time before the country was destroyed.
The third update is here, and one chapter is still missing.
(End of this chapter)