Chapter 984 Liu Xiu conquers Jingnan


    Chapter 982: Liu Xiu conquers Jingnan


    Just as Liu Bei led his troops back to the plains and Zhuge Liang and others to Taihang, Qin Hao also launched an offensive against Henan Yin.


    Henan Yin has a total of 21 counties, namely: Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xinzheng, Chenggao, Xingyang, Pingxian, Pingyin, Gucheng, Henan, Xincheng, Liangxian, Yanshi, Qianshi, Gongxian, Juanxian, Yuanwu, Yangwu, Zhongmu, Yuanling, Mixian and Jingxian.


    As the center of Sizhou, the center of the world, Henan Yin has many famous cities, such as Chenggao and Xingyang, both famous cities. Xinzheng was the capital of South Korea during the Spring and Autumn Period and Warring States Period, and Kaifeng was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.


    If Luoyang is added, Henan Yin Nei has three capitals, and other counties will definitely have such a foundation.


    At present, Qin Hao has only occupied Luoyang in Henan Yin. Although the twenty counties that have not yet occupied are large, as the Liang army retreats, I am afraid that even 5,000 county soldiers will not be able to gather together. How can I resist Qin Hao’s 40,000 elite army?


    Regardless of the strength of the troops and the generals, the Qin army was almost crushing, and ten days were more than enough.


    In fact, no accident happened. When the magistrates of these twenty counties saw that the Qin army was invading, most of them led the army and other famous generals such as Bai Qi, and most of them directly surrendered.


    The four armies broke through the city with great force and had almost no fierce resistance. As long as a small number of loyalists resisted stubbornly, the city was easily captured by the Qin army because of their weak strength.


    Qin Hao set the time for ten days, but Bai Qi and others captured all the 20 counties in just eight days.


    And within these eight days, another big thing happened, and the initiator was Liu Xiu, who was a prince who withdrew from the alliance relatively late.


    Liu Xiu''s threat is no less than Li Shimin''s. Qin Hao would never let him leave safely, so he set up a net of heaven and earth for Liu Xiu in advance.


    Although Qin Hao had promised Xun Kan before that he would never send a killer to assassinate Liu Xiu, using the army could not be considered as an assassination, right?


    In order not to let Liu Xiu return to Nanjun alive, Qin Hao had just received the news of Liu Xiu''s departure, and immediately ordered Yue Fei to set up an ambush and ambush Liu Xiu on the way back.


    But what was beyond Qin Hao''s surprise was that Liu Xiu did not go back all the way to Nanyang, but instead took a detour to Runan, Lujiang and Jiangxia, and took a big circle before returning to Jiangling.


    It was Qin Hao''s credit for Liu Xiu to be so cautious. After the Hulaoyu War, Liu Xiu was really afraid of Qin Hao''s plot. After that, he was extremely cautious in doing anything. His caution saved him more than once, and eventually turned Qin Hao''s arrangement into useless work.


    Although Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he knew that Qin Hao would not let him go, so his power must grow and grow. Jingnan, which has been in chaos, was the best goal, so he began to prepare to go south to pacify the four counties of Jingnan.


    Liu Xiu joined forces with the five major princes of Jingzhou to attack Qin Hao, but was defeated by Bai Qi and almost wiped out the entire army. Even the four princes, including Liu Biao, were killed in battle.


    After signing the unequal treaty, Qin Hao released Huang Zu and Han Xuan as princes, but the other three counties in Jingnan were in civil strife.


    Almost a year has passed since that battle, and the chaos in Jingnan has also undergone great changes.


    Han Xuan, the prefect of Changsha, saw that the three counties were in civil strife, so he joined forces with Huang Zu to prepare to send troops to occupy the three counties, but was repelled by the local forces of the three counties, which eventually led to the occupation of the territory of several counties. Shortly after the local forces of the three counties jointly repelled Han Xuan, they fell into internal struggle again. In the end, the first family in Jingzhou, Zhang Xian, advocated Zhang from all sides, and achieved the final victory.


    Zhang Xian took advantage of the situation to occupy nearly half of the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang and Wuling, thus leaping into the fifth prince of Jingzhou outside Qin Hao, Liu Xiu, Huang Zu and Han Xuan. However, because he had been fighting, his strength was actually the weakest among the princes of Jingzhou.


    After Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he immediately targeted Zhang Xian, and this was the best time for him to annex Zhang Xian''s strength. Otherwise, it would not be so easy to occupy the land of Jingnan after Zhang Xian recovered.


    Although Liu Xiu wanted to occupy Jingnan, he would not lose his mind. He had a big concern in his heart, that is, Yue Fei and the 60,000 Qin troops in Xiangyang. After all, Qin Hao would never let him occupy Jingnan.


    Liu Xiu was afraid that as soon as he left Nanjun, Yue Fei led his army to attack Jiangling City. If Zhang Xian could not be eliminated this time, it would be even more difficult to occupy Jingnan later, so Liu Xiu was not careful when sending troops this time.


    Liu Xiu hesitated and couldn''t make up his mind until he learned that Qin Hao had transferred 10,000 troops from Xiangyang that he truly strengthened his determination to conquer Jingnan.


    In order to occupy Sizhou, Qin Hao had to fight, let alone Liu Xiu?


    In order to ensure that you live in Nanjun, Liu Xiu decided to lead a small number of elite troops to go south and leave most of the troops to guard Yue Fei in Xiangyang.


    When Liu Xiu learned about it, all the civil and military officials under him were shocked and stood up to persuade Liu Xiu to join the army. However, Liu Xiu laughed at this and said, "Zhang Xian is just a clown. It is enough to deal with his 10,000 troops. Please prepare for the achievements of our generals first."


    Zhang Xian’s army can’t reach 30,000. Is Liu Xiu really confident in annexing Zhang Xian? I''m afraid that''s not the case, but if he doesn''t even have confidence, how can he give his subordinates confidence?


    In this way, although Liu Xiu knew that the road ahead was thorny, he still led a ten thousand army south without returning, breaking into the chaos in Jingnan like a dragon crossing the river.


    Qin Hao, who was far away in Luoyang, learned that Liu Xiu had gone south, his first reaction was to order Yue Fei to lead the army to capture Nanjun, and would never give Liu Xiu any chance to grow.


    But the current situation of the Qin army is not as good as Qin Hao imagined. Most of the food and grass in the Nanyang grain warehouse has been consumed, and the remaining is only enough to support the 100,000 Qin army for half a year to fight.


    Since Bingzhou has promoted new grain seeds, the grain storage in the grain warehouse is very abundant, but because there are still four counties between Bingnan and Sizhou, the grain and grass cannot be transported to Luoyang at all.


    Next, Qin Hao will have to compete with Dong Zhuo for Sizhou. If he can''t get it down within five months, the Qin army will face the risk of food being cut off in Sizhou, so naturally there will be no surplus grain to divide his troops to curb Liu Xiu.


    "Liu Xiu is really lucky and has chosen such a good time."


    Qin Hao sighed helplessly. Although he was a little depressed, he decided to give up sending troops to Jiangling for the time being.


    A few days later, the 50,000 troops from Nanyang arrived in Luoyang, and the offices of Qinhou Mansion had also moved to Luoyang and began to officially settle down and work in Luoyang.


    (This chapter ends)