Vol 2 Chapter 2774: A campaign to conquer the two states and a comprehensive inventory of the Sui D
Chapter 2774: The two states were declared to be settled, and a comprehensive inventory of the attack on the Sui Dynasty
Chapter 2770: Passing on the two states and taking stock of the Sui Dynasty
【Ding dong, Long Qie defeated Gao Huan and killed Yelu Huelu. Reward: permanent +1 to commander, +1 to permanent force;
Long Qie's current five dimensions: Commander 96 (+8), Martial Force 106 (+4), Intelligence 83 (+12), Politics 75 (+10), Charm 93 (+5); Equipment: Purple Dragon Halberd, Shadow Moon Small White Dragon;]
The Battle of Xianmei exposed one of Long Qie’s major shortcomings, that is, he was too brave but not in command;
While Long Qie was defending Xianmei, he single-handedly challenged the three war gods Gao Jineng, Yelu Shilu, and Yelu Huolu. Although he was delayed until reinforcements arrived, he was injured by the three of them.
It is precisely because of this that in the subsequent decisive battle, Long Qie, who was still injured, and his younger brother Long Yang, who had not yet reached his peak, joined forces to kill only Yelu Huelu, and took away Gao Jineng and Yelu Shilu.
Long Qie's military prowess is indeed outstanding, and his combat prowess is no less than that of Xue Rengui, but in terms of commanding, it is a bit hard to describe.
Long Qie occupies a high position in the Qin army because of his status as the first person in the Ming Dynasty. Otherwise, if he relied solely on his own ability, with his previous 95 points of commander attribute, he would obviously be far from the standard to serve as a deputy governor of a state. .
After Long Qie is in a high position, he has many opportunities to lead troops and hone himself. In addition, he works hard and strives hard enough, so his improvement in command can be the best among the heroes.
If Long Qi didn't live up to his expectations, even if Ying Hao forced him to upgrade with experience, he wouldn't be able to have such high five-dimensional attributes now.
But after all, he was only a fierce general in the past. Even though he has greatly improved in terms of command, his talent in military skills is limited after all, and he is incomparable to military geniuses such as Gao Huan and Brother Yeluxiu. Therefore, Long Qie’s command attributes In fact, there is an upper limit.
This time he defeated the three famous generals Gao Huan, Yelu Xiuge, and Yelu Xiezhen, which allowed Long Qie's command attribute to increase a little bit again, reaching a high of 96 points. This is almost the limit of command that Long Qie can achieve with his talent.
Next, if Long Qie wants to continue to improve, he cannot rely solely on hard work and ordinary merit. He must use peerless merit as a push. But it is obviously not that easy to achieve. The right time, right place and right people are indispensable.
In the Battle of Xianmei, although Long Qie defeated Gao Huan's 70,000 coalition troops with 50,000 Qin troops, the victory was difficult.
With the Qin army's combat effectiveness and general lineup, if Hu Luguang or Li Mu were to take command, it would be entirely possible to achieve a crushing victory.
But if Long Qie, commander in chief of 95, takes command, he will face Gao Huan, commander in chief of 97, and Brother Yelv Xiu and Yelu Xie Zhen, who are not inferior to Gao Huan. Even if the Qin army is superior in all aspects, Long Qie can only fight with him. Both sides will suffer losses if they fight.
This is of course not that Long Qie is incompetent, but that this time his opponent's ability is too much higher than his own. He can't possibly defeat him in terms of command, so he can only adopt the stupidest method and rely on the strength of the Qin army to compete with Gao Huan. .
So, the victory in the Battle of Xianmei was not the victory of Long Qie, but the victory that the Qin army forcibly fought for when it was strong enough.
Long Qie obviously knew this clearly, so he wanted to regain a victory in the subsequent pursuit. However, the losses in the previous battle were too great. After the war, he had more than enough to defend and not enough to enter. Without reinforcements from the rear, he would not be able to pursue Gao Huan. , so Long Qie could only resist the urge to pursue and wait for reinforcements.
After Li Maozhen incorporated Guzang, he even led his army straight to Xianmei, arriving first with Hu Luguang, and then with Hu Luguang's 30,000 reinforcements.
The four armies of Longqie, Longyang, Li Maozhen, and Hu Luguang, totaling 85,000 Qin troops, gathered in Xianmei City.
Long Qie separated all the cavalry among them, and only led 15,000 cavalry to pursue. As a result, the army pursued Zhangye County, and received news that Zhangye County Governor Ju County surrendered to the Qin Army.
"Let the army in the rear be responsible for the surrender. We don't need to pay attention to it. The top priority is to catch up with Gao Huan." Long Qie calmly ordered.
Long Qie simply chose to turn a blind eye to the eight counties of Zhangye who had voluntarily surrendered, and continued to lead the cavalry in pursuit. Only after they reached Jiuquan County did they discover Gao Huan's traces.
This also inspired the entire Qin army, and they accelerated their pursuit. They marched 120 miles a day and crossed the 500-mile territory of Jiuquan County in just four days. However, they lost track of Gao Huan.
"Brother, Gao Huan's army is a mixture of infantry and cavalry, and its marching speed is far slower than our army. According to common sense, we should have caught up long ago. But now we are almost chasing into Dunhuang County, but there is still no trace of Gao Huan's army." Long Yang said with a puzzled look.
“Bring me the map.” Long Qie shouted.
After the soldier brought the map, Long Qie stared at the map. After observing it for a long time, he showed a look of surprise.
“After Gao Huan arrived in Shatou County, he probably did not continue to flee west to Dunhuang, but retreated north to the vassal state of Zhangye, so he escaped our army’s pursuit.”
After hearing Long Qie's words, Long Yang showed a solemn look: "If Gao Huan escapes into Zhangye's vassal country, it will be difficult to find him."
Liangzhou originally had two major vassal states, and the current Zhangye vassal state is the Zhangye vassal state and the Juyan vassal state. It is the administrative division of the two major vassal states after the merger.
Yang Guang was actually planning to reorganize Zhangye's vassal state into Juyan County, but before he could implement it, the Qin army had already attacked, so the plan to transform Zhangye's vassal state into a county was shelved.
The area of Zhangye County is equivalent to the three counties of Zhangye, Jiuquan and Dunhuang combined, and is larger than the entire Guanzhong. However, there are only five counties within the territory, with a population of less than 30,000, and the terrain is quite complex. , mountains, rivers, grasslands and deserts intertwined.
If the Qin army did not know Gao Huan's whereabouts and rushed deep into Zhangye's vassal state, they would probably run the risk of being ambushed by Gao Huan.
After discussing with Hu Luguang, Long Qie finally decided to pursue Zhang Ye's vassal state. After all, he was not afraid of the risk of an ambush. He even expected Gao Huan to set up an ambush, which meant that he had caught up.
Not long after Long Qie pursued the Zhangye vassal state, he found traces of Gao Huan again. According to his marching trajectory, Gao Huan should have used the Zhangye vassal state to lead the Qin army in a large circle, and then circle back after completely getting rid of the Qin army. The territory of Dunhuang was withdrawn from Yumen Pass into the Western Regions.
Since Long Qie discovered Gao Huan's traces, he naturally would not let him escape again. Since he was mainly marching in grasslands and deserts, Long Qie was not afraid that Gao Huan would set up an ambush, and his marching speed was as fast as one hundred and thirty miles. .
After five days of continuous pursuit, Long Qie's troops pursued Dunhuang County from Zhangye's vassal state, and finally caught up with Gao Huan's troops before they entered Yumen Pass. Gao Huan was naturally frightened when he learned that Long Qie was chasing him. In order to get rid of Long Qie's pursuit, he did not hesitate to detour through Zhangye's vassal country and made such a big circle, but he did not expect to be caught up by Long Qie.
The pursuers were approaching, and Gao Huan did not dare to escape anymore, so he could only lead his army to fight.
But the long march also consumed a lot of the coalition forces. The Sui and Qiang coalition only had 60% of their combat strength. How could they stop Long Qie's 15,000 cavalry?
After the two sides fought fiercely for only two hours, Gao Huan's 50,000 Sui and Qiang coalition forces were defeated by Long Qie's 15,000 cavalry.
Long Qie led his army to pursue them all the way to Yumen Pass, killing 8,000 enemies, capturing 20,000 prisoners, and suffering less than 2,000 casualties. The remaining Sui troops fled into Yumen Pass.
Yumen Pass is the west gate of Liangzhou and is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Therefore, Long Qie did not attack by force. Instead, he led his army to wander outside the pass and blocked Gao Huan's retreat to prevent him from escaping. He waited until the rear army arrived before launching a general attack.
What Long Qie never expected was that on the second day after he surrounded Yumen Pass, what was waiting was not his own army, but Yang Shuang's army who came to meet Gao Huan.
“Why did Yang Shuang’s army come to meet Gao Huan?”
Long Qie was also puzzled by this, but then he thought of a possibility: "Have the Western Region Allied Forces been defeated?"
For this point, Long Qie was unable to seek battle for the time being, but regardless of whether Yang Shuang defeated the Western Region Allied Forces or not, he had already led his army to meet Gao Huan at this time.
Although Long Qie's army was composed of all cavalry, it had just experienced a long march and a big battle, and the whole army was extremely exhausted.
If a war started with Yang Shuang at this time, it would be too much of a disadvantage for Long Jun, so he decisively chose to avoid the edge temporarily.
Yang Shuang was secretly relieved when he saw that Long Qie did not start a war. After receiving Gao Huan's 20,000 Sui troops, he decisively led his army back to the Western Regions, allowing Long Qie to occupy Yumen Pass without spending a single soldier.
At this point, the Sui Kingdom no longer had an inch of land in Liangzhou, and its power was completely reduced to the Western Regions.
After Long Qie captured Yumen Pass, he ordered Long Yang to lead an army of 3,000 people to go south and capture Yang Pass, another gateway to Xiliang.
Although Yangguan and Yumen Pass are juxtaposed, and they are both gateways to Xiliang, the garrison inside the pass has been transferred away by Gao Huan long ago, leaving only more than a hundred miscellaneous soldiers to maintain order. Naturally, Long Yang did not dare to confront the Qin army. Come to the active switch and surrender.
On the third day after Yang Shuang and Gao Huan escaped, the Qin army did not need to take the initiative to send troops to attack. The Dunhuang prefect of the Sui Dynasty took the initiative to submit a surrender form.
Subsequently, the governor of Zhangye's vassal state also submitted a petition for surrender.
Long Qie took over the four counties of Xiliang with almost no effort, and Mengtian in Haizhou also went smoothly.
After Meng Tian relied on a surprise attack to defeat Lun Gongren's 30,000 Tibetan troops, there was no resistance in Haizhou. The army almost always surrendered wherever it went. Except for Xining, all the six counties of Haizhou took the initiative to surrender. Up and down table.
At this point, eleven counties in Liangzhou and seven counties in Haizhou have all fallen into the hands of Great Qin.
In addition to Si, Yong, You, Ji, Bing, He, Qing, Jing, and Ying Jiuzhou, Great Qin directly harvested the land of two states, and the national territory also reached eleven states. In addition to the three states of Jingqing and Ying, Great Qin The remaining eight states are still full territory.
The next thing the Qin army has to do is to guard the two major gates of Yumen Pass and Yangguan, and then clean up Liangzhou and Haizhou to completely eliminate the remaining power of the Sui State in the two states.
With Heibingtai's strong investigative capabilities, it would probably take several months to carry out a large-scale purge of Liangzhou and Haizhou, and many people in the two states would definitely die as a result. state must go through.
【Ding dong, the war between Qin and Sui Dynasty is over, the inventory begins...
The ‘Qin-Sui War’ lasted a total of one month and twenty-eight days, starting from the Qin army sending out troops to attack the Sui Dynasty in four directions, and ending with the death of Yang Guang and the complete withdrawal of the Sui forces into the Western Regions. The battles included:
Battle 1, Battle of Heguan (surprise attack, ambush, camp attack)
The Qin Army’s 50,000 troops (the actual investment was 15,000) VS the Sui Army’s 12,000 troops
Result: The Qin army won, killing 4,000 enemies, losing 1,000, and capturing 7,000;
Battle 2, Battle of Yuzhong (surprise attack)
The Qin Army's 100,000 troops (actual investment is 10,000) VS the Sui Army's 5,000 troops
Result: The Qin army won, killing one thousand enemies, damaging three hundred, and capturing four thousand prisoners;
Battle 3, Battle of Jincheng (siege)
Qin Army 20,000 VS Sui Army 5,000
Result: The Qin army won, killing two thousand of the enemy and losing three thousand to itself;
Battle 4, Battle of the Wolf Territory (Field Battle)
Qin Army 20,000 VS Sui Army 8,000
Result: The Qin army won, killing 6,000 enemies, losing 1,500 to themselves, and capturing 1,500 prisoners;
Battle 5, the battle for the East Gate of Daxing (capture the gate, encounter)
The Qin Army's 50,000 troops (the actual investment was 15,000) VS the Sui Army's 50,000 troops
Result: The Qin army was defeated, killing 5,000 enemies and losing 4,000 troops;
Battle 6, Battle of Xining (surprise attack)
The Qin Army’s 80,000 troops (actual investment was 15,000) VS the Sui Army’s 3,000 troops
Result: The Qin army won, killing one thousand enemies, damaging two hundred, and capturing two thousand prisoners;
Battle 7, the battle of surprise and beauty (surprise attack)
Qin Army 70,000 (actual investment is 10,000) VS Sui Army 5,000
Result: The Qin army won, killing two thousand enemies, losing one thousand, and taking three thousand prisoners;
(End of this chapter)