Vol 2 Chapter 2747: The new Western super god, Spartacus

Vol 2 Chapter 2747: The new Western super god, Spartacus

Chapter 2747 The New Super God of the West, Spartacus

Chapter 2743: The new super **** of the West, Spartacus

As mentioned earlier, Huangyuan City requires few people and no resources. It is neither a big city nor a fortified city that is easy to defend. However, during the war, it was an important city with an extremely important geographical location.

As long as the three coalition forces of the Sui, Tuqiang and Tuqiang families could defend Huangyuan City, Li Jing's reinforcements would not be able to reach Yiniu Mountain, and Meng Tian would naturally end up with his entire army annihilated.

Once Meng Tian's entire army is annihilated, Li Jing's 50,000 reinforcements will be alone and will face the risk of being defeated one by one by the coalition relying on their strength.

Hence, the key to victory in the Battle of Bison Mountain does not actually lie in Bison Mountain, but in Huangyuan City.

 But it was such a critical place that Lun Qinling, who held an army of 28,000 men, took the initiative to abandon the city and fled without even guarding it for a day.

 As for Qinling, it has experienced three disastrous defeats and was severely hit by Li Jing, so it was completely ruined and gave up on itself?

 Of course not.

 Huangyuan Dao's three humiliating defeats had a heavy blow to Lun Qinling, even to the point of collapse, but they did not make him give up on himself.

If you are defeated just a few times and are so beaten that you can't hold your head up, then you are not worthy of being a famous general. After all, which famous general is not extremely strong in heart?

Regarding Qin Ling as the number one general in Tubo, he was also very mentally strong. The reason why he behaved so rudely before was mainly because of the continuous blows. In the end, he was tricked by Li Jing, so that his mentality completely collapsed. After he woke up, he corrected his attitude.

 The reason why Qin Ling voluntarily abandoned Huangyuan City was actually because he knew that Huangyuan could no longer be defended.

 The defeated Tibetan troops who escaped finally affected the defenders.

When Yang Ren was guarding Huangyuan City, he was able to withstand the fierce attack of 100,000 Tibetan troops with 20,000 Qin troops and persisted until Meng Tian came for reinforcements. This was because the Qin army was fearless and looked down upon the Tubo troops.

Now Qin Ling guards Huangyuan City. Although he has 28,000 men in his hands, the Qin army that came to attack was only half of the original Tubo army. However, after experiencing the tragic defeat at Huangyuan Road, the Tubo army was already afraid of Qin. The army is like a tiger.

The battle hasn't even started yet, and most of the people are already thinking about running away. If they really wait for the Qin army to approach the city, they may not even need the Qin army to attack. The frightened Tubo army may collapse on its own. , this is simply impossible to abide by.

At this time, Lun Qinling's intestines were about to turn green. He shouldn't have allowed the 18,000 soldiers who had escaped to enter the city. He should have directly transferred them back to the rear. This would at least not affect the 10,000 soldiers guarding the city. military.

If the 10,000 defenders are not affected, Lun Qinling is confident that it can delay the attack for another two or three days with its defensive advantage. However, it is too late to say anything now. The 10,000 defenders have already been affected by the defeat.

Lun Qinling knew that Huangyuan City could not be defended, so he abandoned the city and fled before the Qin army arrived, because once the Qin army besieged the city, he would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.

 How serious are the consequences of abandoning the defense of Huangyuan City?

Qinling naturally knows this, but a dead Taoist friend is not dead to a poor Taoist.

 After all, Qin Ling was the general of Tubo, not the general of Sui. He could not have killed 28,000 Tubo men knowing that he would be defeated, so he could only feel sorry for Yang Xingmi.

Lun Qinling also knew how destructive his abandonment of Huangyuan City would be to Yang Xingmi of Bison Mountain, so before retreating, he notified Yang Xingmi in advance of his defeat at Huangyuan Road and his plans to abandon Huangyuan City. information.

When Yang Xingmi received the summons from Lun Qinling, he had already fought three battles with Meng Tian at Yiniu Mountain. Although he paid a heavy price, he finally forced Meng Tian into a desperate situation.

Yang Xingmi could have completely annihilated Meng Tian's troops in the third battle, but Fu Cunshe's 20,000 reinforcements entered the battle in time, making his plan to annihilate Meng Tian once again go to waste.

Yang Xingmi was already extremely irritable when the war was going wrong, but when he saw the news about Lun Qinling, his whole face turned green. This must be too embarrassing.

 When Shu Luping proposed a plan to send troops to Huangyuan and attack Daxing in order to force Li Jing to make a detour, it was because Qin Ling felt sorry for the casualties that he took the initiative to take over the task, but no one forced him.

Yang Xingmi was a little hesitant at first. After all, the location of Huangyuan City was too important, but when he thought about Qinling's previous performance, he was stronger than himself in terms of strength and command, so he gave him this important task.

  But what’s the result? Regarding Qinling's 40,000-strong army, they were unable to defeat Li Jing's 3,000-man army, and they were defeated three times in a row. Now, even Huangyuan City has to be abandoned.

Once Huangyuan City is occupied by the Qin army, Li Jing's reinforcements will be able to reach Bison Mountain, and the coalition's plan to defeat them one by one will be completely aborted, and all previous efforts and sacrifices will be in vain.

Yang Xingmi could not accept this in any case, so he sent a letter to Lun Qinling overnight, asking him to hold on to Huangyuan City for three days, and reinforcements would surely arrive after three days.

Yang Xinmi's tone in the letter was extremely humble. In addition to the harm caused by Chen Ming's abandonment of Huangyuan, he also repeatedly begged Lu Qinling not to abandon Huangyuan City. But what he didn't know was that Lu Qinling had already killed him first and told him later. When he heard the letter, he had already fled from the city.

After Lun Qinling saw Yang Xingmi's summons, he saw that Yang Xingmi's tone was so humble, and he was full of apologies. After all, what he did was indeed unreasonable, but Yang Xingmi asked him to persist in Huangyuan City for three days. This was completely a stand-in. My back hurts when I talk.

Yang Xingmi had not experienced the disastrous defeat at Huangyuan Road and did not know the true situation of the Tibetan army.

Given the morale of the Tibetan army in Huangyuan City, they would not be able to hold on for even half a day, let alone three days.

Fortunately, Qinling fled with 28,000 Tibetan troops before the Qin army arrived. Otherwise, once the Qin army besieged the city, the entire army would really be annihilated.

 It is impossible for Qinling to make the Tubo army pay such a big sacrifice for the Sui Dynasty, so even if he knew that he had done something wrong in abandoning the defense of Huangyuan City, he could only say sorry to Yang Xingmi.

 “I’m sorry, Governor Yang.”

Although Lun Qinling said he was sorry, his movements were not slow at all. He directly replied to a letter telling Yang Xingmi that there was no need to send reinforcements because he had already led his troops to leave Huangyuan City, so it was better to prepare for the battle at Bison Mountain. Li Jing's preparation.

After Yang Xingmi saw Lun Qinling's reply, he angrily cursed Lun Qinling as a pig teammate, but it was of no avail because Huangyuan City had been abandoned by Lun Qinling.

 Huangyuan City was occupied by the Qin army, which would undoubtedly have a fatal impact on the coalition forces, because Li Jing's reinforcements would arrive at Yiniu Mountain in the near future, and the total strength of the Qin army would also surge to more than 80,000.

Yang Xingmi led the coalition army of 180,000 troops, and defeated Meng Tian's mere 40,000 Qin troops. It was already so strenuous. If we were facing 80,000 Qin troops, and more than half of them were elites, it would be hard to say who would win and who would lose.

 In fact, at this time, Yang Xingmi and Yelu Deguang no longer wanted to continue the fight, because the probability of winning was already very low.

 But the problem now is that even if he doesn't fight, the Qin army will definitely continue to fight until they are completely defeated, and they have no retreat at all.

The Tubo army has been reluctant to fight in the Haizhou battle. That is because they are guest troops. Even if they lose this battle, it will be nothing to the Tubo army. At worst, they will retreat to the plateau. After all, Haizhou is not their territory.

 But for the Sui army and the Qiang army, once they lose this battle, they will only end up with the destruction of the country and the annihilation of the nation. For their own country and race, they have to fight desperately.

Since there is no retreat, we can only fight with all our strength.

The Sui State had already tried its best, otherwise it would not have issued an order to relieve the Qiang, and even took the initiative to help the Qiang people expand their army.

In the previous three battles with Mengtian, the coalition forces killed and injured more than 30,000 troops, 80% of which were Sui and Qiang troops, and the Tubo army only accounted for 20% of them. The casualties of the Sui and Qiang troops were mostly brave men. .

 So, despite the fact that the coalition still had nearly 150,000 troops in Buffalo Mountain, after three **** battles with Meng Tian, ​​the elites in the army suffered heavy casualties, so the overall combat effectiveness was naturally affected.

As for the 28,000 Tibetan troops who returned from Huangyuan, they were not afraid of embarrassment when it came to Qinling. They directly told Yang Xingmi that the defeat at Huangyuan Road was too disastrous and that the morale of the army was completely lost and it was no longer useful.

Therefore, after Lu Qinling withdrew from Huangyuan City, he directly transferred this army to the rear for repairs, which not only avoided contact with the Tibetan army in Bison Mountain, but also contained part of the Qin army in Huangyuan City.

Regarding Qin Ling, this was also for the good of the coalition. If he deceived Yang Xingmi and said that the 28,000-strong army was useful, but actually collapsed after facing the Qin army, then he would be cheating his teammates to death, and at least this would avoid In order to hold back the enemy, it could also contain some of Li Jing's troops.

Lun Qinling also promised Yang Xingmi that although the 28,000 returned troops could not participate in the battle, he would select 5,000 soldiers who were still capable of fighting, as well as generals such as Yang Youji, to rush to the Buffalo Battle to support the coalition forces.

From the perspective of Qinling, being able to do this for the Sui Dynasty was considered to be the most benevolent and righteous act.

If the defeat at Huangyuan Road had not been too disastrous and embarrassing, and the abandonment of Huangyuan City had indeed cheated his teammates, making Lun Qinling feel a little guilty, plus he also wanted to defeat Li Jing to wash away his shame, he would not have Will you fight to this extent?

Even if the Tubo people in Qinling worked so hard, it would be a little unreasonable for the Qiang people, who are also the hosts, to hide and tuck them away.

Yelu Deguang decisively expressed his stance to Yang Xingmi on behalf of the Hidden Sect and the Sinicization Sect. The Qiang troops of these two factions could participate in the decisive battle, and his statement also transferred the pressure to Yelv Lage and Yelu Dila of the Qiang Traitor Sect. .

The other two leaders of the Qiang traitor faction, Yelu Yindishi and Yelu Anduan, died at the hands of Meng Tian and Muzha respectively in previous battles with the Qin army.

After their death, the soldiers and horses under their command did not return to Yelu Deguang's command, but were absorbed by Yelu Lage and Yelu Diela.

Yelu Deguang could actually take advantage of the death of the two men and take the opportunity to forcibly recruit the two soldiers, but he was afraid that his intention to seize military power would be too obvious and would irritate Yelu Lage and Yelu Dila.

If the two of them were forced to go to Da Qin directly, everything would be over.

 That's why Yelu Deguang let Yelv Lage and Yelu Diela go, and absorbed the military power vacated by the deaths of Yelu Yindishi and Yelu Anduan.

Yelu Deguang's move was quite correct. After the deaths of Yelu Yindishi and Yelu Anduan, Yelu Lage and Yelu Diela were originally a bit sad.

All four of their brothers were betrayed by Abaoji. Now two brothers have died in the battle, and they are competing for military power but cannot win against Yelu Deguang. Naturally, they are worried that Yelu Deguang will liquidate them after he takes back military power, so they are all ready to rebel. Qin is ready.

However, they did not expect that Yelu Deguang did not forcefully withdraw his military power. Instead, he allowed the two of them to recruit the other two brothers' troops. Only then did the two brothers completely let down their guard against Yelu Deguang and believed that Yelu Deguang had really put aside his father's hatred. , naturally gave up the plan of rebelling and surrendering to Qin.

Looking at the eyes of everyone looking over, both Yelu Lage and Yelu Diela knew that it would be impossible not to express their stance now, nor to fight tooth and nail, so they both stated decisively that all their troops would also participate in the decisive battle.

When Yang Xingmi and Yang Xiongguan saw this, they were secretly relieved. The three major Qiang factions all decided to support him, which meant that there would be 50,000 Qiang reinforcements.

 The decisive battle at Bison Mountain in the near future will also pit 230,000 coalition troops against 890,000 Qin troops.

To be honest, even if the coalition still occupies an absolute advantage in strength, Yang Xingmi does not have much confidence.

 Because among the 230,000 troops, there were nearly 28,000 Tibetan troops who had been completely frightened by the Qin army and could only be used to contain them, but could not directly participate in the battle.

As for the 200,000 troops that can participate in the battle, most of the 50,000 Qiang reinforcements are new soldiers, and their combat effectiveness is not strong.

Although the coalition forces have a large number of troops, their composition is too complex, and they all have their own plans. People are not unified and they are not united enough.

On the other hand, although the troops of the Qin army are small, they are well-trained, equipped as much as possible, have high morale, and are united, which cannot be compared with the coalition forces.

In addition, Yang Xingmi is not the best among famous generals, but he has to command an army of 200,000 people with such a mixed composition to face the 890,000 elite Qin troops commanded by Li Jing, who has never been defeated. How can this battle be done? It doesn't look like he can win.

But there was no way, Yang Xingmi had no way out, he had to fight this battle without fighting, so he had no choice but to bite the bullet.

Not only did Yang Xingmi know that the probability of winning this battle was low, Yelu Deguang also knew it, but because he had no way out, he could only go to the end with Yang Xingmi.

Yang Xingmi originally had no chance of winning this battle. After all, his opponent Li Jing was too strong, and the power of the Qin army's large-scale coordinated operations was not something he could defeat with a mob of twenty. However, because of a person outside the battlefield, The existence of , on the contrary, caused some twists and turns in this battle without any suspense.

And this person turned out to be the new super general of the West, Spartacus.

 (End of this chapter)