Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2524 Han Xin's Second Attack on Shangyong County

Chapter 2520: Han Xin's Second Attack on Shangyong County

As the deputy governor of Jingzhou, Han Xin led an army of [-], which naturally belonged to the Qin army of Jingzhou.

After the Qin Dynasty cut the army, the total number of troops deployed in Jingzhou was only [-].

Jingbei borders the four kingdoms of Wei, Song, Chu and Wu, and a hundred thousand troops are more than enough to guard Jingbei, but once they open up to the outside world, they will be more than enough.

Han Xin naturally knew this. He was also afraid that the [-]-strong army would leave Jingzhou for too long, which would cause the Chu army to go north on a large scale. At that time, the pressure on Xue Rengui, the great governor who guarded Xiangyang, would be great, so this time he sent troops to fight quickly. But it's obviously not that easy.

It was not the first time that Han Xin had attacked Shangyong. He had already led his army to attack Shangyong once during the first Guanzhong War.

At that time, Shangyong was guarded by Li Xiaogong himself, relying on the geographical advantage of Hanzhong, and the defense was tight.

The overall topography of the three counties in Hanzhong is dominated by mountains, which account for 75.2% of the total land area (including 18.2% in low mountains and 57.0% in high mountains).

The two counties of Shangyong and Xincheng in the east are blocked by Qinling Mountains, Bashan Mountains, Wudang Mountains and Wushan Mountains. In the territory, there are Hanjiang River, Nanhe River, Duhe River, and Qianhe River connected to Hanjiang River. .

It is precisely because of this that Mengda in the Three Kingdoms period was able to maintain a long-term separatist rule in this area.

The six counties of Shangyong and the four counties of Xincheng are all located in dangerous places, built on mountains, which is also destined to be easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although Han Xin's ability to use troops was much stronger than Li Xiaogong's, if the opponent occupied the geographical position, if he attacked by force, he would have suffered heavy casualties.

Considering that his side is only a partial division, no matter whether he is fighting or not, it has little impact on the overall situation. After all, the main battlefield is on the Guanzhong side.

Therefore, Han Xin attacked Shangyong for the first time, and only adopted the strategy of sieging and not attacking, dragging Li Xiaogong's army.

After the end of the First Guanzhong War, Li Tang was defeated, and he ceded the territory and claimed peace with Da Qin. Han Xin naturally withdrew his troops and returned to Nanyang.

This is the second time for Han Xin to attack Shangyong, and after having the previous experience, he is naturally well prepared this time.

Long before the war, Han Xin had already sent spies to investigate the terrain and force distribution of the three Hanzhong counties.

Even if Hanzhong is rooted in the Hanzhong Basin and surrounded by mountains on all sides, it is still not perfect in terms of defense, and it is impossible for Li Tang to defend all the mountain roads.

Li Shimin naturally knew this. In order to improve the square line in the east of Hanzhong, he specially built three lines of defense for Hanzhong.

The first line of defense is the two outermost gates. As long as these two gates are not lost, the enemy will not be able to attack Hanzhong, and these two gates are the newly established Shangyong and Xincheng counties.

Shangyong is the southeast gate, Xincheng is the northeast gate, and the two counties look north and south, and are horns of each other.

Even if the two counties of Shangyong Xincheng are in danger at the same time, the Hanzhong county in the rear can also give it.

Therefore, it is almost strategically impossible to completely trap the two counties.

The second and third lines of defense are: Fangling City and Xicheng.

Fangling City is located behind the two counties of Shangyong New City, and it is at an angle with the two counties.

Xicheng lived after Fangling, and Fangling was the corner of each other.

Originally, Li Shimin prepared to take Xicheng as the foundation, and after building a few new cities, he included Fangling and established Xicheng County.

Unfortunately, before this plan could be implemented, Li Shimin had already died in Guanzhong.

Although Li Shimin died, the defense system he built for Hanzhong was preserved and inherited by Liu Yu.

Under such a clever defense system, the eastern line of Hanzhong, although there is no such majestic pass as Yangping Pass, the overall defense power is not much weaker than the northern line.

It is precisely because of this that Han Xin, the soldier immortal, can return home in vain.

For Han Xin, the first defeat is nothing, but Yue Fei attacked Jiangling three times, but Jiangling City still does not belong to Daqin.
However, Han Xin could endure one failure, but he could not endure a second time.

This time to attack Shangyong, Han Xin was well prepared. He clearly concentrated his forces, attacked Shangyong County with [-] people, and captured Weiyang County, but the real main attack direction was Xincheng County.

Han Xin's move to attack Shangyong secretly attacked the new city, if it were not a top star, he would not be able to hold it.

Although the guards of the four counties in Xincheng are all very talented, there is still a big gap compared to the famous generals. Even before they can react, Han Xin has already attacked the two cities.

The defender of the third city learned that within a day, two fortified cities had fallen, and he was immediately embarrassed and did not dare to resist, so he took the initiative to open the city and surrender.

After Han Xin accepted the surrender, he immediately led the army to the new city of the government.

Although Li Kan, the defender of Xincheng, had the heart to surrender to Qin, but because his family was in Xinzheng, he did not dare to surrender, so he refused Han Xin's persuasion to surrender.

The attempt to persuade surrender failed, but Han Xin was not discouraged, and proceeded to siege the city.

The Qin army went down to three cities in two days, and the morale was at its strongest. After launching the siege, it continued day and night. After attacking for one day, they finally broke the Xincheng, the county seat of Xincheng.

After Han Xin captured the four cities of Xincheng County, he led his army straight to Fangling without any pause.

Liu Yu was shocked when he learned that the Sicheng of Xincheng County had fallen and Han Xin's army was approaching Fangling.

Fangling, Shangyong and Xincheng form a triangle, and it is also the last line of defense in the eastern part of Hanzhong.

Once Fangling is captured, the connection between Shangyong County and Hanzhong County will be cut off, and the Qin army can completely trap Shangyong defenders.

In other words, losing one city of Fangling is equivalent to losing six cities of Shangyong.

If only the four counties of Xincheng County fell, it would still be within Liu Yu's tolerance, but if even the six counties of Shangyong County were lost, wouldn't one-third of Hanzhong be taken away by the Qin army?

If this is the case, although Hanzhong County, the richest of the three Hanzhong counties, is still in the hands of Shu Han, the defense system of the Eastern Front will not be perfect.

Therefore, in any case, Liu Yu must save Fangling City.

Liu Yu convened all the generals to discuss it overnight, and finally appointed Zhang Ren as the chief general and tried him as a military advisor, leading an army of [-] troops, as well as the four generals Yan Yan, Meng Da, Zhang Fei, and Shi Jingtang, and rushed to the aid of Fangling City in the starry night.

"My lord, the offensive of Han Xin's army is so fierce, and there must be a lot of troops dispatched. If so, Jingbei will be empty."

As he said that, a smile flashed across Su Qin's mouth, and he said to himself: "The lord can fly a pigeon and pass a letter to the envoy stationed in Chu, and let him inform the King of Chu Jingbei of the emptiness.

If Liu Xiu knew that Jingbei was empty, he would definitely send troops to Xiangyang, just to resolve the danger of Shangyong. "

Hearing this, Liu Yu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he said with great joy, "It's a good idea, just do as the strategist said."

Immediately, Liu Yufeige passed a letter to Zhang Su, the envoy stationed in Chu, and ordered him to persuade King Liu Xiu of Chu to send troops to attack Jingbei in order to share the pressure of Shu.

As for Liu Yu himself, he personally led an army of [-] troops, as well as generals such as Su Qin, Liu Er, Xing Tian, ​​Kong Peng, Li Siyuan, Li Keyong, Lei Tong, Guan Yu, Xu Shu, etc., and personally sat at Yangping Pass.

After Zhang Ren led the army to set off, he did not dare to slack off in the slightest. In order to get to Fangling as soon as possible, he even marched overnight, but this mountain road was not easy to walk.

Li Tang did not have the financial resources of Daqin, so he could repair Chidao to the county and county.

Therefore, between Hanzhong and Fangling, it is still the most difficult mountain road.

The road is not easy to walk, and the marching speed is naturally not fast.

Han Xin also knew that the reinforcements of the Shu army would definitely arrive soon, so after leading the army to Fangling, after a short rest, they immediately launched the siege, and it was still the kind of deadly attack that did not count casualties.

In addition to Chen Qi, Zheng Lun, Gao Ming, Gao Jue, and Gao Lan, Han Xin's subordinates also had two war god-level generals, Jin Tai and Mi Houwang.

In order to capture Fangling City as soon as possible, Han Xin not only personally commanded the army to attack the city, but also dispatched the most elite [-] troops under his command, and ordered Jintai, Mi Houwang, Chen Qi, and Zheng Lun to lead the siege in turn .

The defense of Fangling City was built by Li Shimin himself, and the terrain was extremely dangerous, but it was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

But no matter how strong the city is, if the defenders are not strong enough, they will still be unable to defend the city.

Under Han Xin's onslaught, Fang Lingcheng persisted for a day, and Li Hua, the defender, was beheaded by the golden platform on the tower.

The lieutenant general and the defenders saw that the main general died in battle, and their morale plummeted, and their resistance became weaker and weaker. Jintai quickly forcibly broke the city.

After Han Xin captured Fangling City, he immediately cleaned up the battlefield with celebrities, and then ordered Gao Lan to guard Fangling, while he himself planned to continue to attack Xicheng, completely dismantling the defense system of Hanzhong.

Before Han Xin's army was dispatched, he received news from Heibingtai that the reinforcements living in Zhang Ren had passed through Xicheng.

After learning about the incident, Han Xin quickly changed the battle plan. He ordered Jintai and Gao Lan to lead [-] soldiers each to set up an ambush on the road leading to Fangling.

The reason why they didn't send more people was because they were afraid that too many people would reveal the whereabouts of the army.

At this time, Zhang Ren didn't know the news that Fangling had fallen, so he still rushed to Fangling City at full speed.

In Zhang Ren's opinion, although the number of Fangling defenders is not large, but only three thousand, but the city is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Fangling defender Li Hua's ability is not bad, how can he persist for two or three days .

Zhang Ren would never have imagined that Han Xin could break through a fortified city such as Fang Ling, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Although Zhang Ren didn't know the news about Fang Ling, nor did he know that Han Xin had set up an ambush for him, when he led his army to the border of Zhushan, he instinctively felt a sense of crisis.

Zhang Ren is best at fighting ambush battles. In Romance, he set up an ambush at Luofengpo, shot and killed Pang Tong, a young Fengchu, who was side by side with Zhuge Liang, defeating the offensive of Liu Bei's army.

In this life, Zhang Ren was loyal to Liu Yan first, and then to Liu Yu. As Liu Yu's most trusted general, Zhang Ren's record was actually very poor. On the whole, he was in a state of losing more battles than winning.

Of course, Zhang Ren can't be blamed for this either. After all, before he completely overthrew Liu Ji, Liu Yu himself had a losing streak.

But even after losing so many games, Zhang Ren's confidence and fighting spirit have not been destroyed.

如今的张任：统帅98（+3），武力103（+7），智力89（+2），政治60（+2），魅力88（+2）；
Among the local famous generals at the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ren's growth rate was the largest, if not the largest.

After all, in addition to Peng Yue, Cao Can, Zhou Bo and many other famous generals in the early Han Dynasty, there are also Chi You, Gonggong and others. You have finished singing and I will appear, and you will take turns to fight with Zhang Ren to provide him with experience.

If this has not grown up, Zhang Ren will not be able to live until now.

Being able to survive defeats and grow up to where he is today, Zhang Ren is also considered a wonderful flower among local famous generals.

Zhang Ren is best at ambush, so he is naturally cautious when facing terrain that may be ambush.

Although he couldn't wait to go to Fangling, he couldn't bring his [-] reinforcements into the dangerous area.

Seeing that Zhang Ren's army did not enter Zhushan, but cautiously probed around, Jintai and Gao Lan also realized that they were afraid that they were exposed, so they rushed out together.

Jintai and Gao Lan each led [-] Qin troops, totaling [-] Qin troops, and fought against Shu troops in Zhushan.

After the two sides fought fiercely for two hours, the Qin army lost [-] troops, while the Shu army lost [-].

Jintai and Gao Lan saw that the Shu army would not retreat in the four battles, and their will to fight was still tenacious. Considering that the enemy was outnumbered, they chose to withdraw.

The Qin army had only withdrawn for more than ten miles, but Zhang Ren led the elites to chase after him, and severely damaged Gao Lan.

If Jintai hadn't rescued him in time, Gao Lan would have been killed by Zhang Ren.

After Jintai rescued Gao Lan, he asked him to lead a large army forward, and he himself led more than a thousand dead men to stay behind.

The two sides fought fiercely for an hour, and Jintai's broken army was reduced to only 300 people, but they killed [-] Shu troops.

As for Jintai, he first defeated Shi Jingtang and then singled out Zhang Fei and Zhang Ren. Although he did not win, he did not lose again.

Seeing that the army had run far away and would not be caught up again, Jintai began to lead the army to break through.

And when he returned to Fangling, there were only 230 people around him.

(End of this chapter)