Chapter 1183: Uni-President Sizhou
Chapter 1181: Uni-Sizhou
"Report..."
A soldier came over in panic and reported: "Report to the general, Qin general Huo Bing led 10,000 cavalry to raid the county. Suddenly, our army was not prepared. In less than half a day, the city was captured by the Qin army."
"What?"
Wang Mang couldn''t help but lose his color when he heard this.
The county stores the food and grass consumed by 130,000 troops in one month, which is equivalent to half of the total food and grass of the Southern Union Army.
So much food and grass was taken away by the Qin army, and this loss was too great for the Nanyang Alliance Army, which was already short of food.
While Wang Mang felt secretly distressed, he was also very grateful. Fortunately, the food and grass collected from the people in advance, otherwise even if he returned to Bingnan smoothly, he would still not last long.
"How did the Qin army know that there is food in Zhuang County? Who is Huo Bing?"
Several questions came, causing Wang Mang to fall into deep thought, but he could not understand the twists and turns.
First of all, there is a problem of food and grass.
Apart from Wang Mang himself, the only people who know the location of the grain storage are Yang Jian and Li Shimin.
After all, it was the aid grain sent by the Liang army, so no matter where Wang Mang was hiding, the two people who were in charge of the Liang army''s intelligence system could definitely calculate the location of the grain storage.
But neither Yang Jian nor Li Shimin could reveal the news to Qin Hao. They wanted to fight with Qin Hao to lose both sides, and they would never stab him in the back at this time.
Then the issue of Qin army’s candidates.
The cavalry can use such a fierce attack and use cavalry to break through the county within half a day, which shows how powerful this person is in the use of cavalry. Such a person is definitely not an unknown person, but is there a famous cavalry general of Huo Bing in Chinese history?
People like Bai Qi, Liu Xiu and Liu Ji have different names in this life, but at least they can be distinguished by homophones, but Wang Mang has no influence on the name Huo Bing.
Could it be that I am ignorant?
After hard thinking without success, Wang Mang could only think so. After all, he was proficient in the history of the Western Han Dynasty. It was normal that he did not recognize the remote generals in other periods.
Wang Mang didn''t know Huo Bing''s name, so he didn''t think about Huo Bing. But after many years he knew about this, he realized that he actually lost in this battle.
Many years later, Bai Qi, Su Lie, Xue Rengui, and Huo Qubing have all become the pillars of the Qin army, and the battle worthy of these four people''s dispatch at the same time was only one time facing Wang Mang.
In addition, four super gods including Jiang Song, Gao Chong, Ran Min, Yuwen Chengdu appeared in this battle, as well as many famous Qin army generals such as Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Pei Yuanqing.
Wang Mang himself didn’t know whether he should feel honored or sad about this.
Return to the theme.
Seeing that the Qin general who captured the Qin army was not famous generals like Bai Qi, Wang Mang''s fear was mostly eliminated, and he even had the intention to retake the Qin general.
"Zhangxian is unwilling to leave here. If we concentrate our efforts on counterattacks, we may not be able to take back the food and grass..."
Before Wang Mang finished speaking, another soldier came to report and said, "Report, Bai Qi and Su Lie all raised their troops and came to our army in two directions." Wang Mang couldn''t help but show a solemn look. After the two troops merged, the force was no less than 80,000. Such a force was enough to push the 120,000 coalition forces. If he was entangled for the purpose of siege, he would not be able to leave at that time.
"In addition, after Yuwen Chengdu surrendered to the Qin army, he also recruited 40,000 Liang troops for the Qin army, and is now leading 40,000 Liang troops to kill Hedong."
"What, Yuwen Chengdu surrendered to Qin?"
Wang Mang showed an incredible look and thought to himself: Yuwen Chengdu, Yuwen Chengdu, as a loyal and courageous general, shouldn''t you be willing to surrender to death? Why did you surrender to Qin Hao?
Yuwen Chengdu surrendered to Qin Hao, adding another 40,000 troops to the Qin army, which lost all the advantages of the Biannan Alliance Army in terms of military strength.
After learning this, Wang Mang was even more eager to return to Bingnan. Sizhou is really too dangerous now, and he really doesn''t want to stay for a moment.
"Tell the entire army to cross the river and retreat immediately." Wang Mang shouted.
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Shortly after Qin Hao''s army set out, he received news that Wang Mang had confiscated the people''s food. Qin Hao''s first reaction was that Wang Mang was afraid of running away, so he decisively issued a letter from Fei Ge to order Su Lie and Xue Rengui to pursue him immediately.
After Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui were sent to the letter, their expressions became extremely bad for a moment. They used their weak forces to fight against opponents that were several times more than the enemy. Naturally, they had to be extremely careful in all aspects to prevent them from being trapped by the enemy and losing their troops.
Wang Mang and Chen Qingzhi used similar methods before, wanting to lead them out of the city to fight to the death, so they naturally thought it was a re-user of the same trick, but they didn''t expect it to be true this time. It seems that the previous things were the foundation that confuses them.
Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui both decisively sent troops, but it was too late.
When Su Dingfang arrived at the Yellow River Ferry, the last batch of enemy troops had all boarded the ship. The Qin army had no boat to cross the river, so they could only watch the enemy disappear on the river.
Although Xue Rengui did not catch up with Chen Qingzhi, he defeated Chen Qingzhi''s troops who had cut off the rear, and promptly protected Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass in the Beidamen of Sizhou.
At this point, among the eight passes in Luoyang, except for the Xuanyuan Pass that was detained by Yuan Shu, seven passes have fallen into the hands of the Qin army. In addition to the Hangu Pass in the west, Sizhou''s defense system has become more perfect.
As the coalition forces of the Biannan princes withdrew from Sizhou, more than 100,000 Qin troops occupied Henei County and Hedong County in just a few days with the autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves, completely unifying the four counties of Sizhou.
It was a great thing to unify Sizhou, but Qin Hao was not happy at all because there was a mess to be solved next.
"Lord, Wang Mang is really too cruel this time. He directly plundered the food for the Liang army people, but left millions of hungry people to us."
Liu Bowen''s eyes were full of anger and said angrily: "He wants to rely on the people of Hanoi and Hedong to consume our army''s food and supplies to delay our army''s advance."
Qin Hao couldn''t help but rub his temples with a headache. Of course he knew that this was Wang Mang''s plan, but this was an open plan. Even if he knew it was a pit, he had to step on it.
When millions of people in the two counties saw the Qin army coming, it was just like seeing the savior. This was the best time to win over the people.
But once food is released to provide disaster relief, the Qin army may fall into a situation of shortage of food, let alone fighting the Yellow River to eliminate the four princes in the south.
"The food must be given, so that''s it..."
After a little contemplation, Qin Hao said, "Provide food to the people according to the day, but only two meals a day are allowed. Porridge is served in the morning and lunch is eaten. As for the evening... let''s bear it first. Anyway, you won''t starve to death if you eat less."
(This chapter ends)