Chapter 1203 Decisive Battle between Changping (Part 1)
Chapter 1201: The Decisive Battle between Changping (Part 1)
[Dingdong, Su Lie skill ‘Yong Lie’ effect 3 is activated.
Yonglie Effect 3 Destroy the Country: When the general is the chief, the entire attribute will be permanently +1, and this effect will be activated up to 4 times.
Su Lie captured Wang Kuang alive and killed Zhang Chao, destroying two vassal states in succession, with permanent attributes +2, current five-dimensional: commander 100, force 100, intelligence 87, politics 70, charm 91. 】
Wang Shichong and Zhang Chao fell one after another, Zhang Yang surrendered, and Wang Kuang surrendered after being captured.
At this point, the four major princes who formed the Southern Alliance have now completely wiped out their entire army, and only one Wang Mang is still struggling to support it.
After Wang Kuang and Zhang Yang surrendered, Shuofang and Shangjun naturally returned to Qin Hao.
After Wang Shichong and Zhang Chao died, Xihe and Shangdang returned to Wang Mang. The four major vassal states had disappeared, and two of them died because of Su Lie. The vassal states were naturally also states, so there was nothing wrong with Su Lie destroying the two countries.
But what is most strange is that Wang Mang is just Wang Shichong''s younger brother. He is neither a prince nor a title. However, he unknowingly replaced the four princes of Bingnan and became the controller of the opportunity of the Bingnan coalition forces.
After the entire army of the four major princes was wiped out, Wang Mang also took over the military power legitimately, but the form faced by the coalition forces was even more steep.
Zhang Yang surrendered and left another 20,000 troops. After Wang Kuang surrendered, he persuaded him to surrender 10,000 old troops. In addition, the losses caused by Su Dingfang''s defeat of five major camps and the annihilation of Wang Renze''s troops...
In a whole lot, Wang Mang lost nearly 40,000 troops, and the 110,000 troops on the front line were reduced to 70,000.
In addition, the Qin army was pressing step by step in front, and the Ming army was aggressive in the back. At this time, the coalition was obviously in a desperate situation.
The corresponding Qin army not only did not decrease after the war, but instead increased from 130,000 to 160,000 due to the surrender of Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang.
The Qin army''s military strength increased instead of decline, which also greatly increased the morale in the army. The main general took advantage of the strong morale and launched a strong force with superior forces and general trend, and the result was naturally unstoppable.
In order to resist the Qin army, Wang Mang built three lines of defense in the Bingnan area.
Wang Mang''s first line of defense was to place twenty-four strong camps of all sizes at the mountain defense line that stretched across the north bank of the Yellow River in Bingnan, which was more than 300 miles long.
These big villages were built on the right location. Wang Mang personally observed each location and passed the inspection of Chen Qingzhi. His defense power was almost the same as that of the Xiong Pass.
Wang Mang originally wanted to use these twenty camps to hold on for half a year, but he did not want to have nearly half of the camps captured by the Qin army in one fell swoop in less than ten days after the war started.
Wang Mang originally thought that relying on these large camps would consume at least 50,000 to 60,000 yuan in the Qin army. As a result, the surrender of Zhang Yang and Wang Kuang made the Qin army''s strength increase instead of reducing, which instead formed an overwhelming military advantage over the coalition.
Now that the Qin army is invincible, the left and right wings of the coalition forces have been broken through, even if they continue to stick to the remaining camps, it will be of little significance.
After weighing the pros and cons, Wang Mang decided to give up the first line of defense and retreat to the second line of defense with the remaining 70,000 troops.
Wang Mang''s second line of defense is to rely on the cities in the central and eastern parts of the south to defend against the steep terrain of the mountains.
The resilience shown by the combination of the city and the terrain is also extremely strong. As long as the food and grass and troops are sufficient, Wang Mang is confident that he can hold on for a year.
As for the third line of defense, it is Huguan, which is also Wang Mang''s last retreat. If you can''t hold the first and second paths, you will definitely lose this battle with Qin Hao. At that time, Wang Mang will lead the remnants of the army to Huguan and retreat into Jizhou.
Wang Mang knew the gap in strength between him and Qin Hao, so he reserved a way out early, but no one could do as good as the sky. The Ming Dynasty''s betrayal leader Wang Mang was unexpected, and Long Gai even raided and captured most of Shangdang and Huguan.
The fall of Shangdang and Huguan not only caused Wang Mang to lose most of his food, grass and equipment, but even the way to retreat to Jizhou was completely blocked.
Originally, Wang Mang was still thinking that even if he gave it to Qin Hao this time, it would be related. As long as he had the military power, he would not be able to go anywhere in the world. After leaving Bingzhou, he would naturally make a comeback.
But even if Wang Mang could escape from Bingzhou, he would never be able to take away his troops. If he really fled alone, he would have to start a new business from scratch.
It’s not that Wang Mang didn’t play with his family from scratch. He knew the difficulty and difficulty of starting a business from scratch. Today, all the places have been divided up. None of the princes in various places are simple, and it is almost impossible to start from scratch.
Wang Mang also knew that under the attack of Qin and Ming armies, the second largest retreat was just a drinking poison to quench thirst, and it would definitely not last long.
That''s right, since the Ming Dynasty betrayed and the knife from behind, Wang Mang had no hope for this battle, but in order not to wander around the world alone, even if the opportunity was slim, Wang Mang would have to struggle to death.
Only by doing his best to protect his army can Wang Mang have a chance to make a comeback, so he chose to continue gritting his teeth and endure it.
Faced with the Qin army''s 170,000 army, even if Wang Mang wanted to stand it, he would obviously not be able to do it with the 70,000 troops in his hands.
Wang Mang wanted to defend the enemy and challenge the Qin army to fight against the Ming army at the same time. After all, according to this trend, the two families will definitely face each other, and he could survive with all means, so he ordered the recall of Chen Qingzhi and Guo Tai.
During the attack on Shangdang, Chen Qingzhi captured several cities, but he did not capture the Changzi City of the Master and Huguan, so he did not provide much help to the overall situation.
After receiving Wang Mang''s edict, neither Chen Qingzhi nor Guo Taihe did hesitate and decided to return to help Wang Mang.
They and Wang Mang are already grasshoppers on the same rope. Once Wang Mang is defeated, they will not be able to protect themselves, so they can only help Wang Mang.
On the way to attack Shangdang, Chen Qingzhi lost thousands of troops. After several days of emergency marching, the two armies met, and the coalition forces also recovered to 105,000. Relying on the mountain city and geographical advantage, we can still persist.
After the two armies met and the Southern Alliance continued to march. Their target was the junction of Shangdang and Xihe River, which was still under control. Now they had to rely on these cities to support them.
During the march, Chen Qingzhi carefully observed the surrounding terrain, and the more he walked northward, his brows became tighter and tighter.
The terrain here is the two mountains sandwiched with a basin, and the mountains are undulating and winding, which is an excellent place to defend and difficult to attack.
"General Wang, the terrain here is so steep. Where is it?" Chen Qingzhi asked with a frown.
Wang Mang was not familiar with the terrain of Bingnan, so of course he didn''t know the name of the place here, so he called a spy and asked, "What''s the name here?"
"I report to General, this is the Changping land."
This place name sounds so familiar?
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(This chapter ends)