Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2619 No antidote in the offensive and defensive battle of Nanzheng

Chapter 2615: No antidote in Nanzheng offensive and defensive battle

When the Shu army attacked again, the Qin army could not be beaten passively, so Li Jing ordered Long and led three thousand iron cavalry to fight.

After an hour of fierce battle, the Shu army, composed of light and strong, was defeated again, and Long Qie led his troops to cover up the attack, but encountered the five thousand fresh troops of Kong Peng, who was in charge of breaking the rear.

As was the case yesterday, the Qin army had been fighting for an hour, and their physical strength was extremely exhausted, so they could not defeat the Shu army.

Long Qie was also stopped by Liu Er, but after a battle, he quickly fell into a disadvantage. He joined forces with Ma Shanwei and Ma Chao, which barely managed to draw with Liu Er, but failed to maximize the victory.

"Great Governor, General Long Qie has returned victorious. In this battle, [-] Shu troops were killed and [-] captured, while our army suffered less than [-] casualties."

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Li Jing was silent and did not speak. After all, he was watching the entire two battles yesterday and today.

When Long Qie and Liu Er's department were at war, Li Jing also thought about dispatching the army again and swallowing Liu Er's department in one bite, but after weighing the pros and cons, he gave up.

There was no other reason. The Shu army's style of play was a little too aggressive. Nearly 2 people were killed in two battles in two days.

"How many prisoners of the Shu army were captured in these two battles?" Li Jing asked.

Wu Qi stood up and replied, "Six thousand yesterday, five thousand today, there are already eleven thousand."

"Go and interrogate these prisoners."

"promise."

The next day, the Shu army came again, but this time it was not Kong Peng and Liu Er, but Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao was a hidden figure in the period of Bronze Baizhao and Sixteen Kingdoms. After he was born, he was implanted as Zhang Ren's younger brother, so he naturally served Shuhan.

Zhang Hao's original surname was Gong, and Zhang Ping, a general of Zhao behind him, was adopted as his adopted son, so he changed his surname to Zhang, a native of Hyun's County, Shangdang County (now Gaoping City, Shanxi Province).

Fu Jian, the former king of the Qin Dynasty, took charge of the crusade against Zhang Ping, and ordered Deng Qiang, the No. 1 general of the former Qin Dynasty, to be the striker.

Zhang Ping knew the name of Deng Qiang for a long time, so naturally he didn't dare to be careless, so he sent Zhang Hao, the most capable son under his command, to fight.

The two armies faced off and fought for more than ten days. Deng Qiang, who had the absolute advantage, was unable to win. Later, Fu Jian personally led his troops, and Zhang Ping also led the main force to meet the enemy.

The two sides lined up, Zhang Hao showed off his might, and only brought a small number of elite soldiers into the formation. He took the lead and killed five in and five out of the former Qin army. The former Qin army was almost shaken by its impact.

Zhang Hao's bravery and skill in battle made Fu Jian fall in love with him and offered a heavy reward to capture him.

After the decisive battle began, in the melee between the two armies, Zhang Hao was besieged by the generals of the former Qin Dynasty. When he was almost exhausted, he was first stabbed by Lu Guang before being captured by Deng Qiang.

Zhang Hao was captured, Zhang Ping's army was defeated, Zhang Ping had no choice but to beg for surrender, and Fu Jian also accepted Zhang Ping's surrender, but took Zhang Hao away and appointed him as the general of Hu Benzhong.

Later, Zhang Hao followed Fu Jian, quelled the rebellion of the Five Dukes, attacked Qianyan and Daiguo, defeated Xie Shi, and was called "the enemy of ten thousand people" together with Deng Qiang by the historian Cui Hong.

Deng Qiang's enemy of [-] people is the embodiment of both the commander and the martial arts, while Zhang Hao is the embodiment of martial arts alone, and his strength has naturally reached the level of the god of war.

In the previous Yangpingguan offensive and defensive battle, Kang Anyu, Hua Xiong, and Sun Chongjin joined forces, but they were still defeated by Zhang Hao, and also injured Hua Xiong and Sun Chongjin.

After the battle, Zhang Hao defeated and seriously injured Kang Anyu, Li Jue and Zhang Xiu.

It is rude to say that in the offensive and defensive battle of Yangping Pass, Liu Er and Kong Peng did not have as much credit as Zhang Hao.

When Li Jing saw Zhang Hao fight, considering that many generals had already been defeated by Zhang Hao's men, he could never lose again this time, so he sent Gongsun Xuanyuan to fight.

As soon as Xuanyuan left, Wu Qi entered the tent with the interrogation report, and said with a serious face: "Great Governor, the results of the interrogation have come out, and the [-] Shu army prisoners of war captured are all from Xicheng and other four counties in Anyang. "

As soon as these words came out, the generals of the Qin army did not react, but Li Jing took a deep breath.

"It's troublesome now."

Li Jing couldn't help but mutter to himself, while thinking about countermeasures in his heart.

Now the intention of Shu Han is very obvious, that is to use the lives of Hanzhong people to consume the Qin army, but Liu Yu, who only became emperor, is afraid of Tian Tian's mouth, and he dare not do anything too ugly, so he only makes Hanzhong light and strong. To be cannon fodder.

After all, if all the young people in Hanzhong died at the hands of the Qin army, the people of Hanzhong would definitely be full of hatred for Da Qin, and even if the Qin army occupied Hanzhong, it would be difficult to win the hearts of the people of Hanzhong.

But Liu Yu's plan has a great hidden danger, that is, the people of Hanzhong are not stupid, and they will definitely not die for Shuhan in vain.

If the Qin army had used heart attack tactics and used the Hanzhong women and children in the occupied area to use heart attack tactics, they might even make these Hanzhong Qingzhuang, who were used as cannon fodder, turn their backs.

However, Li Jing is a master of heart attack tactics. The main method used to break Yangping Pass is heart attack.

In this regard, it is impossible for Liu Yu not to know, so if this problem cannot be solved, then Shu Han will shoot himself in the foot instead.

With Liu Yu's 96 points of intelligence, he still couldn't think of a solution. In the end, it was Su Qin's suggestion to solve this problem.

The strategy Su Qin offered was also very simple, that is to use the light and strong people in the occupied area as cannon fodder first.

All the people in the occupied area are old and weak, women and children, and all the food in their hands has been confiscated by the Shu army. Throwing them to the Qin army can reduce the food and grass burden of the Shu army, and secondly, it can consume the food and grass of the Qin army.

As for whether the Qin army will provide food and grass to these people?

Then it will not be under the control of the Shu army.

The Shu army even wished that the Qin army would not provide food and grass and let these Baixins starve to death, but this possibility is too low.

With the Qin army's people-oriented approach, even if it increases the burden of food and grass transportation, it will definitely provide food and grass to the people of Hanzhong.

However, this is also in line with the intention of the Shu army. The Qin army's pressure on food and grass has doubled. If they fight a protracted war, they may be able to drag the Qin army down.

Later, as long as the recruits in the occupied areas were declared, the Qin army would not provide food and grass for the people of the occupied cities.

They are definitely not willing to let these recruits die for Shuhan, but if it is to save the elders and villagers in their hometown, I believe that most people are still willing to fight to the end.

As long as they counterattack under the banner of recovering their homeland, the light and strong people in the occupied area can take the initiative to become cannon fodder.

And once the recruits in the occupied area are all killed and wounded, the feud between the Qin army and the people of Hanzhong in the occupied area will be forged.

Even if they didn't die, so many young soldiers died in battle, the people in the occupied area would be full of resentment against the Qin army, and obviously they would not be on the Qin army's side.

At that time, even if the Qin army can mobilize some of the people in the occupied areas to persuade the Qingzhuang in the unbroken city to surrender, and try to disintegrate the Shu army from the inside, it is destined to have little effect.

Because the light and strong born in the occupied area have been sent out to be cannon fodder, the rest of the people in the city are people from the unoccupied area, and the lives of the people in the occupied area have nothing to do with them, and they even still have their daily rations. Provided by Shu Han, it is naturally impossible to be persuaded by the people in the occupied area.

It has to be said that Su Qin has thoroughly figured out the darkness of people's hearts, and his strategy is currently incomprehensible.

If it really followed Su Qin's plan, the Shu army only needed to defend the city of Nanzheng, and when the city fell in the future, recruits from that city would be used as cannon fodder.

And even when there is insufficient food and grass, the Shu army can voluntarily give up, and all the cities except Nanzheng will throw all the burdens of the whole city to the Qin army and let them fend for themselves.

This can consume the Qin army's strength, reduce its own food and grass consumption, increase the logistical pressure of the Qin army, and aggravate the hatred of the Hanzhong people against the Qin army, making the Qin army's rear unstable, and fifthly...

It can be said to serve multiple purposes.

In order for Su Qin's plan to be successfully implemented, he must first consume the recruits in the occupied area as cannon fodder before the Qin army can activate the old and weak in the occupied area.

It is precisely because of this that the Shu army will frequently fight in the past three days, just to send the light and strong people in the occupied area to death.

Thinking of this, Li Jing suddenly opened his eyes and hurriedly ordered: "My eldest grandson Wuji, immediately go to the four cities of Anyang Xicheng. There are light and strong families who have been recruited by the Shu army, and their families will be invited to the front line as soon as possible."

"promise."

The eldest grandson Wuji was ordered to leave, and not long after he left, Gongsun Xuanyuan returned victorious.

Like Yang Jian and Long Qie, Xuanyuan also easily defeated the cannon fodder composed of light and strong, but due to the large number of opponents, the soldiers also consumed a lot of physical strength. , of course, the succession is also weak.

There was no accident in the battle between Xuanyuan and Zhang Hao.

Although Zhang Hao, the enemy of ten thousand people, is strong, compared with Xuanyuan, one of the three emperors, there is obviously a big gap.

The two sides fought for a full [-] rounds, and in the end Zhang Hao was defeated by Xuanyuan and fled back in embarrassment.

After the battle, the Qin army killed [-] enemy troops, captured [-], and lost less than [-].

Looking at the battle report of this great victory, Li Jing was not happy at all.

So far, Hanzhong Qingzhuang who died in the hands of the Qin army has reached [-] people, and the number of prisoners has reached [-].

Shu Han used [-] Hanzhong light and strong soldiers to defeat [-] Qin soldiers.

How much sacrifice will the Qin army pay when all the 10,000+ cannon fodder is dispatched?
Moreover, after being consumed by 10,000+ cannon fodder in turns, the morale of the Qin army will inevitably decline to a certain extent. Can it still maintain its advantage in combat power when facing the Shangshu army?
These are urgent problems that need to be solved urgently, but have no solution.

Zhangsun Wuji's work efficiency is very high. In less than a day, he found out the specific number of Qingzhuang recruited from the four counties from the officials who surrendered in the four counties of Anyang, and whose family members are still there. .

The people of Anyang, Xicheng and other four counties learned that their son, husband, and younger brother who had been recruited were fighting the Qin army on the front line, and they all rushed to the front line to persuade them to change their evil ways.

But it is obviously not something that can be done in a short period of time to invite the family members of these people to the front line.

Changsun Wuji could only register first and make arrangements after investigation.

Fortunately, during this period, the Shu army did not continue to launch a counter-offensive. Obviously, the recruits in the four cities of Anxin have been consumed.

In addition, the spies excluded by the Qin army found that the Shu army voluntarily gave up Chenggu County, and tens of thousands of people in the city were about to run out of food.

But Li Jing hesitated about whether to take over Chenggu County.

This is not acceptable. If Chenggu County is allowed to self-destruct, a large number of people will starve to death soon.

It's not that Li Jing is distressed about the food and grass, but that as long as he receives it, the Shu army will let Qingzhuang from Chenggu County come to die.

Thinking of this, even Li Jing, who has always been calm, could not help but contort his face.

Who the hell came up with this poison scheme? It's so poisonous and disgusting.

Li Jing cursed inwardly, and he didn't know why, but he always felt that this style was somewhat similar to Zhang Yi.

Like most people, Li Jing also thought that the biggest problem in conquering Hanzhong County was Yangping Pass. As long as Yangping Pass was conquered, it would be easy to follow, but he did not expect that the situation facing Yangping Pass would be even more difficult after conquering Yangping Pass.

After hesitating for a while, Li Jing decided to take over Chenggu County. After all, even if the Shu army sent Qingzhuang from Chenggu County as cannon fodder, it was impossible for all of them to die at the hands of the Qin army, and nearly half of them would still be captured. , at least the families of these people will be grateful to Qin Jun.

When Li Jing took over Chenggu County, Han Xin's vanguard troops, as well as the first batch of family members, also successfully arrived at the front line of Nanzheng.

(End of this chapter)