Chaos of the Three Kingdoms Summons

Chapter 2571 Qin General Surrenders to Jin, Captures Youbeiping

In fact, the Li Tang navy was by no means weak. At least in terms of overall strength, neither the previous Youzhou navy nor the previous Qinghan navy could match the Li Tang navy in terms of comprehensive level.

Previously, Li Shimin sent his navy to Qingzhou to plunder, and Sima Cuo's Youzhou navy planned to double-cross them. Despite being prepared, they failed, which was not entirely without reason.

The two types of warships currently in service with the Li Tang navy—turtle ships and ironclad ships—are products of the Ming Dynasty. This is precisely the greatest advantage of the Li Tang navy.

The early Tang Dynasty navy, like the Yellow River navy of the Han Dynasty, the Qingzhou navy of the Qing Han Dynasty, and the Youzhou navy of the Qin Dynasty, maintained a force of 30,000.

During the period when the Jin army launched the Central Plains War and the Southern War, the Li Tang army had just undergone its first expansion, reaching a scale of 50,000.

However, in Li Shimin's view at the moment, a navy of 50,000 was still far from enough for the Li Tang dynasty, after all, the sea area that the Li Tang needed to defend was too vast.

Therefore, Li Shimin decided to carry out a major expansion of the navy in the next few years.

If the navy is weak, then the Tang Dynasty will be weak!

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Li Shimin thought that by using his own life as bait, Yue Yi had burned most of Qi Jiguang's grain supplies. Even if it didn't affect Qi Jiguang's subsequent grain transport, it would still allow him to stay safe for a month.

Or rather, almost everyone thinks so.

However, reality slapped them in the face.

In just over ten days, Qi Jiguang suddenly launched an attack, catching the already weakened Qin army off guard and capturing Youbeiping in one battle.

Indeed, Qi Jiguang's vital grain supply base was burned down by Yue Yi.

At this time, Qi Jiguang was already facing a shortage of food and supplies.

With his current supplies, it will be difficult for him to continue fighting, let alone maintain the war, until more supplies arrive.

In other words, Qin Zheng's forces are currently depleted, and although Yue Yi burned Qi Jiguang's supplies, he also lost his own life in the process. Otherwise, if the Qin army still had any ability to resist, Qi Jiguang, who is currently short of food, would be in a critical situation.

At this time, Qi Jiguang himself was out of food.

However, someone managed to get him some grain.

In Ji Province, there were many who wanted to surrender, and in the early stages, Lian Po was simply taking over cities while fighting.

On the Qinghan side, although the situation was not much better than that in Jizhou, thanks to Liu Bei's damned charisma, resistance forces emerged one after another.

However, it wasn't that there were absolutely no surrenderers left. When they did emerge, they were either important figures, descendants of sages or members of the Han imperial family.

Meanwhile, in Youzhou, a bombshell dropped: the person who had defected was none other than Peng Yue, a former general under Liu Bang.

As one of the earliest generals to emerge in history, Peng Yue was already over fifty years old at this time. With age came the loss of his youthful vigor and fighting spirit. Similarly, he no longer had the unrealistic ideas he had in his youth.

Youzhou is clearly on the verge of collapse!

Therefore, Peng Yue chose to stand on the side of the winner. Even regarding the betrayal of Qin Zheng, even though it was a betrayal in his back, Peng Yue felt no guilt whatsoever.

Not to mention this time, he had no psychological burden when he surrendered to Youzhou last time either.

The last time was many years ago.

At that time, he was, after all, one of Liu Bang's most important generals, second only to Yue Yi. Liu Bang valued him highly, so he always served Liu Bang faithfully. Only after Liu Bang's downfall did he finally agree to surrender to Youzhou. Therefore, he naturally had no psychological burden at the time.

After all, at that time, he believed he had done right by Liu Bang, having given away everything except his own life.

This time, however, while seeking refuge, a traitor also appeared.

However, in Youzhou, Peng Yue was just an ordinary general and did not receive the same treatment he had received when he was under Liu Bang.

After all, Youzhou has produced many famous generals. Although Peng Yue is powerful, there are many other famous generals in Youzhou whose abilities surpass his, and even more whose abilities are similar to his.

The small state of Youzhou has gathered so many talented people that it is naturally a surplus of talent.

Therefore, outsiders like Peng Yue naturally cannot enter the core power system, nor can they grasp real power.

Having been sidelined and sidelined for so many years, Lu Lu Wuwei believed that he had not wronged Qin Zheng in terms of defecting to the enemy.

Qin Zheng hadn't shown him any favors, and Peng Yue felt there was no need for him to offer any loyalty.

It can only be said that compared to other people in the world, Peng Yue's moral bottom line is indeed more flexible, and he will even convince himself to be more flexible when appropriate.

It was Peng Yue's defection to the Jin Dynasty that allowed Qi Jiguang to obtain the Qin army's provisions in Youbeiping. Although the Qin army's provisions in Youbeiping were not much, they were invaluable to Qi Jiguang at that time.

Although he knew that even if his subsequent supplies had not yet arrived, and given the current shortage of supplies, the Qin army was not in a position to threaten him.

However, when it comes to actual warfare, having food in hand is essential to remain calm and composed.

With this portion of supplies, at least his last weakness has been temporarily repaired.

Furthermore, during this process, Qi Jiguang also captured the entire Youbeiping.

Moreover, Wang Dan, the governor of Youbeiping Commandery, Yue Yang, the garrison commander, and Gongsun Shu, a fierce general, all perished at the hands of this general.

Prefect Wang Dan was killed by Peng Yue himself as a pledge of loyalty to the Jin army.

Peng Yue, once he started, he was determined to do it thoroughly. Although he and Wang Dan had been colleagues for many years, they were just colleagues and had no personal relationship. When he took action, he did so without leaving himself any psychological burden.

As for the fierce general Gongsun Shu, when he was first born, he was indeed a rare and powerful general in the world. With a basic martial strength of 105, he was at the peak of his strength and was once very famous. It was precisely because of this strength that he was able to survive when he fell into Youzhou.

However, time waits for no one. Gongsun Shu is now in his fifties, almost sixty, and his basic martial prowess has dropped to 103 points. His physical strength is also much worse than it used to be.

Ultimately, he was decisively killed by Sha Juanlian, a fierce general of the Yangtze River Navy.