Vol 2 Chapter 2836: When news of the destruction of Daxing City spread back to the Central Plains
Chapter 2836 When the news of the destruction of Daxing City spread back to the Central Plains
Chapter 2832: When the news of the destruction of Daxing City spread back to the Central Plains
The Qin army attacked the Central Plains this time. A million troops were divided into eight routes, and four of them attacked Wei. Among the four routes, the most aggressive ones were Ying Hao and Han Xin on the south route.
While Bai Qi was still blocked north of the Yellow River and Zhang Liao was blocked by the Guandu defense line, Ying Hao and Han Xin both invaded Yingchuan and killed all sides, with little loss.
It was thought that the South Route Army would be the first to invade the hinterland of the Central Plains and complete the great cause of annihilation of the country. However, in order to cooperate with Bai Qi's plan, the two Qin armies on the South Route had to postpone their offensive. This allowed Xuchang City to persist until now.
It is naturally impossible for Great Qin to announce this directly, so the explanation given to ordinary soldiers is that the attack was too fast in the early stage and needed to be postponed to consolidate the rear food routes.
Such a statement is naturally unconvincing. After all, everyone understands the importance of military strength and speed.
Many of the two Qin armies in Yingchuan were dissatisfied with this, but the emperor had already spoken. Even if he didn't understand, he could only accept it, but he still had a resentment in his heart and had nowhere to vent it.
Now the emperor finally ordered the attack on Xuchang, which gave the soldiers a place to vent their grievances. Both high-level soldiers and high-level generals asked for the battle.
"Your Majesty, I have been patient for half a month. I must be Huang Zhong in this first battle."
"Brother Han Sheng, you are not the only one who can endure. Your Majesty, Zhao Yun invites you to fight."
“Your Majesty, Ma Chao also wants to fight.”
“Your Majesty…”
The generals all took the initiative to challenge Ying Hao, making the originally silent hall extremely noisy.
Ya originally thought that after returning with a great victory this time, he could easily ask the emperor for a main attack mission, but he did not expect that except for Dian Wei and Xu Chu of the personal guard, the other generals basically rushed to fight. I thought it was all over again, but I didn't expect Ying Hao's eyes to fall on her instead.
Arthur thought that Ying Hao would click on himself, but Ying Hao still clicked on others.
"This attack on Xuchang is no small matter. Our army should go all out and attack Xuchang in one go. Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, and the other five of you will attack the city at the same time." Ying Hao said solemnly.
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The five generals Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Dian Wei and Xu Chu responded in unison.
Sending out the new five tigers directly shows Ying Hao's determination to quickly break the city.
“Song’s 30,000 reinforcements came to support Cao Wei. They are less than a hundred miles away from Xuchang. Someone must stop them to prevent them from affecting our army’s attack on the city.”
Hearing Ying Hao's words, all the generals looked expectant, but Ying Hao said: "This time, General Arthur did a good job in suppressing the rebels. General Arthur will lead 4,000 women's troops and 10,000 infantry. As well as three thousand cavalry, go and hold off Zhao She’s Wansong reinforcements.”
Hearing Ying Hao's words, Arthur suddenly looked surprised, pointed at himself with a look of surprise on his face and said, "Me?"
"Um."
Ying Hao nodded, and all the generals also showed disappointment, and some even showed dissatisfaction.
Maybe in their eyes, Arthur's women's army is not strong, but Ying Hao knows that Arthur's army is definitely one of the most capable armies in Great Qin.
Even though the Women's Army has now been divided into two, Arthur's army still has a super general with a basic strength of 106, two generals with the potential of a **** of war, and a large group of super and first-class female generals.
It is precisely because of the large number of high-level combat forces that the Detachment of Women can achieve low casualties in each battle.
Although Xuchang is the most fortified city in the Central Plains, it is actually very easy for the Qin army to go south. After all, Ying Hao has already left a back-up force in the city, and there are more than one.
In Xuchang City, there are hundreds of Heibingtai spies lurking alone, and the spy Chen Gong is also still in Xuchang City...
As long as these mines are detonated at the right time, how can the city of Xuchang not be destroyed?
However, after Ying Hao persuaded Mao Sui to surrender, Ying Hao learned from Mao Sui that Cao Wei had long known that there were undercover agents inside, and had already targeted several high-level people, including Chen Gong and Mao Sui.
This time sending Mao Sui as an envoy to plan the Yinchuan Uprising, in addition to disrupting the Qin army's rear, actually had two deeper purposes. One was to test Mao Sui, and the other was to see Ying Hao's reaction after Mao Sui was captured.
If there is a problem with Mao Sui, it will definitely be revealed during the action, but the result is obviously no problem.
If Mao Sui was loyal, he would never surrender after being captured. Then Ying Hao's reaction would be to kill or let go, which would tell whether there is something wrong with Chen Gong.
If he wanted to kill him, why did he release Chen Gong alone before? Then Chen Gong obviously has a problem.
If he lets it go, then Cao Wei will gain a loyal minister without any loss.
After listening to what Mao Sui said, and after several discussions with Guo Jia, Ying Hao realized the deeper meaning. Needless to say, this must be Fan Li's strategy. He was the only one in Cao Wei who had such a strategy.
Even if Fan Li was so smart, he probably wouldn't have thought that Ying Hao was equally good at persuading him to surrender, and he actually persuaded Mao Sui, who was originally loyal, to surrender.
With the surrender of Mao Sui, Chen Gong was temporarily safe, but it would not be cost-effective to expose Chen Gong in Xuchang.
So, after thinking about it, Ying Hao decided to let Chen Gong continue to lurk. After the main force of Cao Wei on the western front was eliminated, Chen Gong's thunder might be activated again, which might have better effects.
At this time, after two rounds of emergency military expansion, Xuchang's military strength had returned to 50,000. However, because the additional troops were all new soldiers, the combat strength was actually weakened compared to before.
Due to repeated defeats in the past, the morale of the Wei army in Xuchang City was extremely low. If it were a field battle, the Xuchang Wei army would probably be defeated by the Qin army in one battle. Only by relying on the strong defense of Xuchang could they barely fight against the Qin army. two.
But with the departure of Yuan Jiuling, Cao Bin and other generals in the city did not have much confidence. After all, after comparison, the strength gap between the two sides was too big.
The 80,000 Qin troops outside the city not only have high morale and sufficient supplies, but also have many fierce generals, including Zhao, Huang, Ma Dian, Xu and other brave generals.
On the other hand, in Xuchang City, only Xue Ju, Zhu Hai, and Zhang Guifang could rival it. The only thing that made Cao Bin and other generals fortunate was that the 30,000 reinforcements sent by the Song Dynasty were far away from Xuchang City.
After Bai Qi captured Baima Crossing and officially entered the Central Plains from the north of the Yellow River, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Di both sent reinforcements in a tacit understanding.
The difference is that the Ming Dynasty's 40,000 reinforcements, led by Lan Yu, entered Dongjun early and combined with Le Yi to cause some trouble for Bai Qi.
On the other hand, looking at the 30,000 Song reinforcements led by Zhao She, it is obviously not that simple to enter Yingchuan to support Xuchang.
If the Song Dynasty wanted to support Xuchang, the nearest road was naturally to the north, but it would pass through Baiting.
Not long ago, the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Song fought a great battle in Baiting. The Qin army lost five thousand people and the Wei and Song allied forces lost nine thousand people.
Soon after the war, Han Xin ordered Luo Hongxin to lead eight thousand troops to garrison Baiting. The purpose was to guard the Song Dynasty's road to Baiting from the north.
Zhao She has an army of 30,000 men, so naturally he will not be afraid of Luo Hongxin's 8,000 men. But if he attacks Luo Hongxin, the garrisons from Kunyang, Wuyang, and Dingling will definitely come to support him.
These three places are not far from Baiting. Even if the reinforcements are all infantry, it can be reached in five days at most.
No matter how hard Zhao She tried, he still had no confidence that he could deal with Luo Hongxin within five days, let alone that after he dealt with Luo Hongxin, he would have to defeat Huang Tianxiang, Mi Houwang, and even Han Xin and other Qin generals before he could reach Xuchang. .
Zhao She only had 30,000 people at his disposal. It was too difficult to complete this series of feats, so he decisively chose a detour.
The safest way is to detour from Runan to Chenjun and make a circle before arriving at Xuchang.
Zhao She felt that as long as he could enter Xuchang City, with his 30,000 elite troops, plus the tens of thousands of Wei troops in the city, relying on Xuchang's defensive power, it would be enough to hold off the Qin army for several months.
I have to say that if Zhao She is allowed to enter Xuchang, it will indeed cause some trouble for the Qin army to attack the city, so Ying Hao attacked the city before Zhao She entered the city and sent Arthur to lead his army to intercept in advance.
After Yuan Jiuling left, Cao Bin regarded Zhao She as his last savior. He begged his grandfather and grandma every day to wait for the Song army to enter the city before the Qin army attacked the city. But this was destined to be just an extravagant hope. The Qin army It is impossible to give them a chance.
No, the Qin army, which had been sitting still before, suddenly launched an attack on Xuchang again. Cao Bin knew that Zhao She would never be able to enter Xuchang City.
“Report...to the Commander-in-Chief, Duke Fenghuang of the Qin Dynasty led an army of nearly 20,000 infantry and cavalry to the east.”
Hearing this, not only Cao Bin, but also the Wei army present could not help but sigh.
To the east? There is no need to say anything more, he must have gone straight to Zhao She, and Xuchang will have to rely on himself next.
There are 50,000 defenders in Xuchang City, and 70,000 Qin troops came to attack the city. The gap in strength between the two sides is not big, but neither Cao Bin nor the other generals have much confidence, because the new soldiers in the defenders There are simply too many.
In addition, there is another thing that sticks in Cao Bin's heart like a thorn, and that is that he has never found the undercover agent hidden in Xuchang. How can Xuchang City be defended with such internal and external troubles.
Even though he knew that Xuchang would be defeated sooner or later, Cao Bin could only bite the bullet and defend it. Who made him a general of the Cao Wei clan?
“Call all the generals to go up to the city wall to defend the city.”
Cao Bin shouted the order, but at the same time he was a little uneasy, worried that the Qin army would be surrounded by three and one was missing, and attack from three sides.
If the Qin army attacks from three sides at the same time, with such a high intensity of siege intensity, and based on the current quality of Xuchang's defenders, it may not take long for them to collapse themselves.
However, Cao Bin was fortunate that the Qin army did not adopt the most intensive siege method, but concentrated its elite troops and strong generals to attack the west gate. This doubled the pressure on the west gate to defend the city, but it also made it easier for Cao Bin to concentrate his elite troops and generals to defend the city. city.
With the suppression of the Yingchuan Rebel Army, the Yingchuan Army, which had been peaceful, once again broke out into a war, and two wars were fought at the same time. However, the heat was suppressed by a piece of news from the northwest.
This news is: Yang Guang took the initiative to open the city and fled. The Sui capital Daxing, the first strong city in the northwest, was defeated by the Qin army without a single blow.
When they received this news, Cao Cao, Zhu Di, and Zhao Kuangyin were all stunned, because the news they received not long ago was that the Sui, Tuqiang and Qin forces were fighting fiercely at Yiniu Mountain. Meng Tian was at a disadvantage, and many Qin troops were Wounded, even veteran Sada Yanping died in battle.
How many days have passed since then, and Daxing was captured by the Qin army without any blood?
What accident happened over at Buffalo Mountain? How could Yang Guang voluntarily abandon the capital and run away?
Although there is no specific information, the three kings of the Central Plains are not stupid. They obviously understand that there is only one possibility for Yang Guanghui to voluntarily abandon the capital and run away, and that is the defeat of the Sui, Tuqiang and Three Kingdoms allied forces.
This discovery made the three kings of the Central Plains even more horrified. After all, the Sui, Tuqiang and Tuqiang coalition forces could number nearly 300,000.
Qin Jun, no, it was Li Jing. What on earth did he do to reverse the situation and turn the situation upside down in an instant? This is too terrifying.
What Li Jing did is unknown to the three kings of the Central Plains for the time being, but it will only be a matter of time before they find out. But the most important thing now is to prevent the northwest Qin army from entering the Central Plains after destroying the Sui Dynasty.
Although the intelligence only said that Yang Guang abandoned the city and fled, and that the Sui State still had a large area of territory in Xiliang and even Haizhou, the three kings of the Central Plains obviously understood it in their hearts.
The defeat of Wild Niu Mountain, coupled with the Dadong Daxing, whether Yang Guang could highlight the siege and fled back to Xiliang, even if he could really escape, Sui Guo couldn't persist for long.
Furthermore, if Yang Guang died in battle, the Sui State would immediately be divided, and it would be even less possible to concentrate its forces to resist Qin.
At this thought, the three kings of the Central Plains felt extremely anxious, and they convened all the wise men all night to discuss countermeasures. But after all, the incident happened thousands of miles away, so what could they do?
The only way that can be thought of is to send a large number of envoys to the Western Regions and Haizhou to lobby local forces and major warlords, in an attempt to disrupt the Western Regions and Haizhou, thereby holding back the Qin army in the northwest.
But the effect was obviously not very good. After all, the Qin army had already gained an absolute advantage in the northwest, and it was only a matter of time before the Qin army completely occupied Liangzhou and Haizhou.
(End of this chapter)