Chapter 2185: Li Jing breaks Wuguan
Chapter 2185 Li Jing breaks Wuguan
Chapter 2181: Li Jing breaks Wuguan
Qin Hao, who received the system prompt, had arrived in Luoyang, but his return journey was not simple.
Originally, Qin Hao's route back to Luoyang was to enter Jizhou, pass through Wei County, go west to Hedong, cross the Yellow River in the south, and finally reach Luoyang.
But before Qin Hao left Youzhou and reached the border of Jizhou in Jiangu, he received a secret message from Heibingtai.
The spies from Shu and Chu who were lurking in Jizhou secretly contacted some Hebei aristocratic families, as well as martial arts sects such as the Songshan Clan, the Yellow River Clan, and the Iron Palm Clan, and prepared to intercept and kill Qin Hao on his way back to Luoyang.
Liu Xie is dead, and there is no one left who can restrain Qin Hao in the end. Qin Hao will definitely stand on his own behalf for the Han Dynasty when he returns to Luoyang.
As clan members of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu and Liu Ji could not remain indifferent to this, but there was no way to stop Qin Hao. They could only move dangerously and use all the forces lurking in the Qin State to intercept and kill him.
Shu and Chu thought they had a very close plan, but they didn't know that all their actions were in the eyes of Heibingtai from beginning to end, and Qin Hao changed his route back to Luo.
This assassination not only involved the Jizhou family and martial arts sects, but also involved forces from other countries, but Qin Hao still ignored it.
Although Qin Hao returned to Luo this time with light armor and few guards, Lu Bu and Sun Lingming were there. With just two of them, they were able to kill all the people involved in the interception.
Considering the situation in Luoyang, Qin Hao didn't want to be delayed too much on the way, so he agreed to change the route halfway and go west, passing through Daijun, entering Yanmen, and then all the way south, crossing the Yellow River and returning to Luoyang.
At the same time, there was another team disguised as Qin Hao and his entourage, continuing through Jizhou and returning to Luoyang. The purpose was naturally to lure the snake out of its hole and then annihilate it in one fell swoop.
After entering Jizhou, this team had a smooth journey without encountering any crisis. However, just when they were about to enter Wei County, they were attacked by three thousand bandits.
These Hebei aristocratic families and martial arts sects did not dare to blatantly intercept and kill Qin Hao, so they pretended to be bandits as a cover. However, there were a large number of first-class masters among them, and there were also a few super first-class masters, and there were even five grandmasters. Obviously It can't be bandits.
This interception is destined to be impossible to succeed, and the fate of those involved in the interception is also destined to be miserable.
After the traces of the forces involved in the interception and killing were exposed, the prefect of Julu, Tian Feng, the prefect of Qinghe, Ju Shuo, and the prefect of Zhaojun, Wen Zhong, personally came to the county soldiers to surround the opponent and cut off all the other's retreat routes.
In addition, Heibingtai dispatched a grand master, two half-step grand masters, ten masters, and dozens of first-class swordsmen to assist Tian Feng Jushou and others in the encirclement and suppression.
In the end, all the three thousand rebels who participated in the siege died under the siege of the Qin army. The Jianghu people headed by Zuo Lengchan were also killed by Heibingtai.
But not only has this storm not ended, but it has just begun.
After the siege, Tian Feng Jushu and other talents returned with their troops and launched a purge across the entire Jizhou. They labeled all the families and sects involved in the siege as traitors and directly sent troops to attack them.
Heibingtai provides a list of names and the corpses of the participants as a bid, so there is no case of wrongful killing or wrongful accusation.
These rebel forces have mobilized all their strength in order to intercept and kill Qin Hao. Now they have no resistance at all in the face of the Qin army's encirclement and suppression.
In just three days, the nine counties of Jizhou were devastated.
Twenty-three large and small families, including the Yuan family in Anping, the Zhang family in Jinan, and the Yan family in Bohai, and 27 large and small sects, including the Songshan Clan, the Yellow River Clan, and the Tie Zhang Clan. A total of thousands of people were arrested, and there were also related Two thousand people were implicated.
In the end, Tian Feng executed 1,300 people for rebellion, and all the remaining people were demoted as slaves. The men were sent to Bingzhou to mine, and the women were reduced to official chickens. Since then, the black and white roads in Jizhou have been clear and clear, and there are no longer any anti-Qin forces.
Back to the topic.
It was only after Qin Hao secretly returned to Luoyang that he discovered that he had underestimated the damage done to Sizhou by the Tang army.
After crossing the Yellow River, Qin Hao went south and found that a large number of fertile fields were destroyed, most of the inns he had worked hard to build were burned down, and the factories built outside Luoyang were evacuated directly.
As for the imperial capital of Luoyang, it was even worse. Not only was it besieged by Li and Tang's army for more than a month, but the imperial party even launched a direct rebellion.
This also triggered a battle among the fourteen great masters and a group of master masters in the city.
This is the battle that has involved the most experts so far. Nearly one-third of the buildings in Luoyang City were directly destroyed, and thousands of people died as a result.
Even though the government has done its best to provide disaster relief and help people rebuild their homes after the war, many people are still living in tents.
The Tang Army's attack on Sizhou this time caused not too many casualties, but it caused great losses to Sizhou's agents.
Qin Hao's preliminary estimate is that Sizhou's grain harvest this year will be reduced by at least half. As for taxes, don't even think about it. All of them may not be enough for disaster relief.
Sizhou may need to recuperate for a while if he wants to completely recover from his trauma.
“The four kingdoms of Shu, Chu, Tang, and Sui sent troops together, but all three kingdoms returned without success. Only Tang State inflicted heavy losses on Qin State. Li Shimin is indeed my king’s great enemy.”
Qin Hao sneered and was thinking about how to get back revenge, because just after returning to Luoyang, he received news that Li Jing had captured Wuguan in a sneak attack.
After the Battle of Sizhou, the offensive and defensive reversal between the Qin and Tang Dynasties, Li Jing ordered Zhang Liao to lead the army to suppress Tongguan openly, but secretly led the elite troops and generals to surprise Wuguan.
Li Shimin was only thinking about defending Tongguan, and he did not expect that Li Jing would sneak attack Wuguan. The defense of Wuguan was slightly relaxed, and Li Jing successfully attacked Wuguan.
Learning that Wuguan was lost, Li Shimin was immediately shocked and quickly mobilized his troops, hoping to take advantage of the Qin army's unstable foothold to retake Wuguan.
But with Li Jing personally guarding Wuguan, how could it be so easy to seize?
Moreover, with the restraint of Zhang Liao's army, the Tang army could not spare too many troops to attack Wuguan.
In the end, after a fierce attack to no avail, Li Shimin finally chose to give up and instead deployed heavy troops to guard Shangluo and Shang counties after Wuguan.
In addition, Li Shimin is also preparing to rebuild the long-abandoned Aoguan Pass and build a defense line in Lantian County at the end of Shangyu Road, hoping to block the Qin army's route from Wuguan to Guanzhong.
It has to be said that Li Shimin's attack on Sizhou this time caused considerable losses to the Qin army, but his own losses were also considerable.
Of the 150,000 invading Tang troops, only 80,000 returned to Guanzhong, and 70,000 elite soldiers died in Sizhou. Not only did they not gain an inch of land, but they also lost their gateway to Wuguan, which was a heavy loss.
In contrast, the Qin army successfully completed the great task of unifying Hebei and added tens of millions of people. Once this is absorbed, the national power will skyrocket to a terrifying level.
Tang suffered heavy losses and lost no territory, while Qin gained two and a half new states. As one goes and the other goes, the gap in national power will become wider and wider.
(End of this chapter)