Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2229 Strong walls and clear fields, Xiao Guan is in an emergency

Chapter 2225: Strong walls and clear fields, Xiaoguan is in a hurry

Although Shangluo is not as good as Wuguan, it is undoubtedly a strong city, but it only lasted for more than ten days before being broken by the powerful Qin army.

In order to break through Shangluo County, Li Jing's troops also paid a high price, and the total casualties reached [-].

You know, Qin Jun broke through Wuguan with a sneak attack, and the casualties had already reached [-].

And the casualties of Shangluo's strong attack reached [-], which shows how tragic Shangluo's offensive and defensive battles were.

Of course, not all of the 1 casualties were Qin soldiers, at least [-] were prisoners of war from the Tang army.

After the end of the Sizhou War, the Qin Army captured nearly [-] Tang Army prisoners, and these people who fought with the Tang Army were naturally the best cannon fodder.

Naturally, Li Jing was reluctant to spend all the elite of the Qin army on the siege, so he decided to use the prisoners of the Tang army to attack the city, so as to consume the combat power of the Tang army.

After Li Jing broke up all the prisoners of war of the Tang army, he reorganized into an army alone, and promised them that as long as he invaded Chang'an, he would not only let them recover their freedom, but also give them the same treatment as the Qin army. The POW army was able to obey orders.

That is to say, in addition to the 13 main force of the Qin army on the Shangluo line in Lantian, there was also a reorganized army of [-] prisoners of war, totaling [-] troops.

In the battle of Shangluo, the prisoners of the Tang army cooperated with the Qin army to attack the city, which greatly reduced the casualty rate of the Qin army.

In the end, the Qin army captured the fortified city of Shangluo with only [-] casualties, and achieved a record of killing [-] enemies and capturing [-] prisoners. Li Shimin and Yang Jian led [-] remnant troops to flee to Raoguan.

"General, before the Tang army withdrew, all the warehouses were burned down, and all the young and strong were transferred to Xiuraoguan. What we captured was an abandoned city." Xu Huang reported with a serious face.

"Li Shimin, the dog day, is really despicable. He deliberately left a city of old and weak to consume our army's food and grass, what, bah." Zhang He cursed angrily.

Before Shangluo broke the city, Li Shimin had already burned the food and grass, so that now the people in the whole city have no food to eat, and there will be famine soon.

If the Qin army does not provide food and grass to relieve the disaster, the people in the city will starve to death sooner or later, and Qin Hao will also be blamed for this infamy.

But if food is provided for disaster relief, it will undoubtedly increase the burden of food and grass for the Qin army.

You must know that the food and grass pressure of the Qin army is already very high, and it can only support the frontline army for two months at most.

If Li Jing sent food to the victims, it would undoubtedly shorten the time for the Qin army to fight.

This is Li Shimin's blatant conspiracy. Regardless of whether Li Jing provides relief or not, Tang will benefit from it, but the people in Lantian will suffer.

After realizing Li Shimin's sinister intentions, Li Jing felt troubled in his heart, and immediately asked, "How many people are left in Shangluo City?"

"The young and strong have been forcibly taken away by the Tang army, and now there are [-] old and weak left in Shangluo City." Xu Huanghui reported.

Fifty thousand old and weak, that is, fifty thousand mouths, is not too much, but it is not a lot. The Qin army can naturally afford it, but this will undoubtedly increase the burden of food and grass for the Qin army.

"Pass down the order to give food to the people in disaster relief."

Li Jing chose disaster relief in the end. After all, now that the lord is proclaiming emperor, the lord's reputation must not be damaged.

"However, you can't put too much. Use the method of giving out porridge to ensure that the people have enough food and clothing. In this way, the pressure on our army's food and grass will be much smaller."

After the Battle of Sizhou and the Battle of Xiangyang, the food and grass in Sijing and Jingzhou were not rich. If the battle could not be ended in two months, Li Jing would have to retreat, so it was natural to save the remaining food and grass.

This incident also gave Li Jing a reminder, if Tang Jun continues to do this, how should Qin Jun respond?

For the offensive side, it is really an unsolvable problem to strengthen the wall and clear the field.

Li Jing decided to write a letter to Ying Hao, asking Ying Hao to increase the supply of food and grass in order to deal with the tactics that Li Tang might adopt.

Where does the extra food come from?Then Li Jing can't control it anymore, he believes that the lord must have a way, anyway, he doesn't believe that a country as big as Qin will really be reduced to the point where all the food and grass will be exhausted.

After receiving Li Jing's letter, Ying Hao was so angry that he wanted to curse.

Qin State does have surplus grain, but it is in Jizhou and Hetao, thousands of miles away from Wuguan, and it will be a few months before it is transported there.

At present, there are only two places in Sijing that can directly supply food to the front line of Wuguan, but because of the previous two wars, the grain reserves in these two places are really going to be exhausted.

Ying Hao couldn't change the food, so he could only urge Li Jing to end the battle before the founding ceremony, otherwise no matter how great the victory was, he would have to suspend the attack on Tang and save his strength for later.

Ying Hao's response made Li Jing feel a lot of pressure. The lack of food and grass in the rear also meant that once the Tang army was strong and cleared the field, the Qin army had no other way to deal with it except to consume the army rations.

Li Jing was extremely disturbed by this, but there was no way to avoid it. He could only hope that Li Shimin would still have some humanity, not to transfer the transition of the war to the common people, and end the Guanzhong War as soon as possible.

Just when Li Jing was about to enter Raoguan, he received news that Gao Chong and Yuwen Chengdu had been defeated.

After defeating Shangluo, Gao Chong and Yu Wencheng were ordered to hunt down and kill Li Shimin's defeated army, but they were caught by Sima Yi's trick to lure the enemy.

Li Jing had heard about Sima Yi for a long time. The second son of Sima Fang, a veteran of the Jin Dynasty, was also one of the few survivors of the imperial party in the Luoyang coup.

Regarding Sima Yi, Li Jing only had two words of comment in mind, that is: cheating.

Sima Fang, as the elder of the Jin family, should have a loftier future, but he was implicated by Sima Yi, the son, and had to commit suicide to apologize.

What a family misfortune!
Li Jing sighed inwardly, he had a good sense of Sima Fang, but he didn't expect it to end up like this in the end.

On November [-]th, Li Jing led his army to arrive at Gaoguan. He thought that what he saw would be a dilapidated scene, but he did not expect that the renovated Gaoguan had begun to take shape.

If the Tang Army is allowed to repair for another month or two, it may really restore the Tang Army to the grand occasion of Guyaoguan.

"How did Tang Jun do it in such a short period of time?" Zhang Yun asked with a puzzled expression.

"The Tang army gave up building the city wall, but adopted the method of setting up a fortress to build a fortress on the former site of Gaoguan. Although this reduced the defense, it saved time and gave full play to the geographical advantages of Gaoguan."

Li Jing said with admiration, he was a little curious about who could build such a city from scratch in such a short period of time.

Relying on the geographical advantages of the ancient pass, the defense of the fortress in front of us, although not as good as Wuguan and other powerful passes, is not inferior to that of Shangluo.

This is bound to be another tough battle.

Li Jing thought to himself, but he didn't have the slightest fear.

After the capture of Lantian, the Qin army captured another [-] Tang troops, bringing the number of prisoners of war back to [-].

With more than [-] elite Qin troops and [-] cannon fodder, it is only a matter of time before this mere Raoguan Walled City is taken down.

Inside the Gaoguan.

Li Shimin helped Sima Yi who was saluting, and said, "General Sima, I didn't expect you to finish the task on time, but it's a pity that the Qin army's offensive was too fierce, and Shang Luo couldn't hold on for longer, otherwise there would definitely be an attack on the Guanguan side." Stronger."

After finishing speaking, Li Shimin showed a look of shame on his face. Sima Yi completed the task of rebuilding Raoguan as promised, but he lost the strong city of Lantian before even arriving for a month. The final barrier.

But how long can this newly built city be able to stop the Qin army?
"Immediately send an order to the eldest grandson Wuji to lead Chang'an's [-] troops to Rao Pass. This king will fight Li Jing at this pass. If the pass is closed, the pass will be destroyed." Li Shimin said with a determined expression on his face. ordered.

"promise."

"Report...to my lord, there are a large number of Qin troops in the west, and Xiao Guan is in a hurry."

"what?"

Li Shimin, Sima Yi, Yang Jian and others turned pale with shock.

(End of this chapter)