Chapter 1643 Five ways to attack Qin (Part 2)


    Chapter 1641: Five ways to attack Qin (Part 2)


    After listening to Deng Yu''s suggestion, Liu Xiu felt it was very reasonable. The Chu army had just won Jiaozhou and its power was not stable. It is indeed not advisable to send too many troops to fight with Qin.


    After all, the Qin army is not an ordinary hard bone, it is a hard bone among hard bones.


    Liu Xiu had fought with the Qin army so many times, but he never took advantage of it, so he was cautious about dispatching an army of 150,000.


    The Chu army, which occupied Jiaozhou, was indeed able to dispatch an army of 150,000, but in the end, whether it was win or lose, it was a bit of a loss for the Chu army.


    Of course, the most important point is that if so many troops are dispatched, it may not be possible to successfully capture Jingbei.


    Even if the tiger''s teeth are finally pulled out, the Chu army will definitely pay an unbearable price, and will face the counterattack of the Qin army in the future.


    Therefore, for Liu Xiu, Jingbei is not only not a piece of fat, but also a hot potato.


    Instead of doing this, it would be better to give up fighting for Jingbei and instead attack Qin Hao''s solid dog-legged son Huang Zu.


    For Liu Xiu, the benefits of winning Jiangxia are not much worse than Jingbei.


    First of all, the Jiangxia army has weak combat power, so Jiangxia is better at fighting.


    Secondly, after taking over Jiangxia, Chu will suppress Wu in its overall strategy.


    In the end, Liu Xiu got Jiangxia and Liu Ji occupied Jingbei. After that, even if Qin Hao took revenge, he would not look for him Liu Xiu, but went back to find Liu Ji.


    Liu Xiu was preparing to let Liu Ji block him in front and act as a barrier between Chu and Qin, so that Chu could grow and grow with peace of mind.


    After making up the idea, Liu Xiu responded to Liu Ji''s dispatch of troops, but the troops sent were only 50,000, and the direction of the attack was not Nanjun, but Jiangxia.


    Now the Chu State has 180,000 troops nationwide, but this is not the limit. After digesting Jiaozhou and completely recapturing Baiyue, the national troops will exceed 250,000.


    Liu Xiu had an army of 180,000, but only sent 50,000 troops to attack Qin. The 130,000 troops left behind consolidated the rear, digested the results of the war, and at the same time fought against Shi Yi who had not yet surrendered.


    Liu Xiu personally led a 50,000 army to attack Jiangxia and responded to Liu Ji''s attack on Qin. At the same time, Deng Yu led 100,000 troops to Jiaozhou, rectified the Taiping surrendered army, guarded against Sun Jian from Jiangdong, and sent Cen Peng to lead 20,000 troops to fight against one army.


    With Deng Yu leading a 100,000 army in Jiaozhou, it was naturally foolproof. Seeing that Sun Jian could not find any opportunity, he took the initiative to withdraw his troops and cease to fight.


    As for the Shiyi, which occupied Jiuzhen and Rinan counties, it was not as unbearable as Liu Xiu said.


    Faced with the siege of Cen Peng''s 20,000 troops, Shi Yi persisted for half a year, and the ammunition and food were exhausted, so he finally chose to open the city and surrender.


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    Liu Xiu was the first to respond to Liu Ji''s troops and sent 50,000 troops to attack Jiangxia, while the second to respond was Li Shimin.


    The situation Li Shimin is facing is very embarrassing. Neither Yizhou nor Liangzhou are suitable for attack. The only direction of expansion is the Qin State in the East. However, Qin State is too strong, and Tang State is not an opponent at all when fighting alone.


    So, when Liu Ji''s proclamation against Qin came, Li Shimin agreed without much consideration, because this may be the only chance for Li Tang to take back Sizhou.


    Li Shimin''s efforts to attack Qin were different from Liu Xiu. The Tang Dynasty had Yongzhou, Hanzhong, Liangzhou, and 200 miles of Qiang land, most of which were wealthy places, so the total number of Li Tang''s troops in the country was as high as 230,000.


    Of course, there were quite a few troops in Li Tang that needed to stay in the country. This time, in order to occupy Sizhou in one fell swoop, Li Shimin directly dispatched 150,000 troops and divided the troops into two groups to attack Qin.


    The route was led by Li Shimin himself, with a total army of 80,000. It was led by Wuguan and Hanzhong to attack Nanxiang and Nanyang counties. If the two counties were successfully occupied, it would continue to attack Guangcheng Pass from south to north. Another route was led by Yang Jian, with a total of 70,000 troops leaving Tongguan and attacking Hangu Pass.


    This time, Li Shimin was coming in full force, as if he would not give up until he took back Sizhou.


    After Li Shimin, the three major princes of Liangzhou were followed by Liu Ji''s call: Yang Guang, Ma Teng and Han Sui.


    Yang Guang responded that he sent troops to avenge his father. He had found out that his father Yang Jian was not killed by Li Shimin, but someone framed the blame, intending to let the Sui, Tang and Liang troops kill each other.


    At that time, Yang Guang was just trying to take revenge and couldn''t listen to anything else, but after calming down afterwards, he still found a lot of problems.


    At that time, Yang Guang''s army had already surrounded Chang''an, and Li Shimin had just succeeded in a coup, and his control over Chang''an was unstable.


    With Li Shimin''s wisdom, it is naturally impossible not to know that killing Yang Jian will only completely anger Yang Guang, so the best way should be to capture him alive and force Yang Guang to retreat.


    Li Shimin was not sure that he would kill Yang Jian at that critical moment, but Yang Jian died in the end, which made Yang Guang instinctively feel that there was a conspiracy in it.


    Although Dugu Qiubai handled it cleanly, it was not perfect. Yang Guang deliberately searched for so many years and found out something, but there was no conclusive evidence, so he could only reason based on logic.


    In the situation at that time, if Yang Guang and Li Shimin fought each other, who would be the most beneficial to them? The answer is naturally Qin Hao.


    As soon as he thought of this, Yang Guang also realized that he might have been used by Qin Hao, so he would join the Southern Han camp later.


    This time, when Liu Ji formed a bureau to deal with Qin Hao, Yang Guang thought it was a good opportunity to take revenge, so he decided to join forces with the Mahan and Han families to send troops to Bingzhou.


    Although Ma Teng was born into a bandit, he was a loyal and Han faction. He believed that Qin Hao was using the emperor to command the princes. Liu Bian from Yizhou was the orthodox Han Dynasty, and he responded that Liu Ji sent troops to attack Qin together.


    As for Han Sui, he was completely brought by Yang Guang and Ma Teng. After all, two of the three princes of Liangzhou participated. Can Han Sui not come?


    Although Yang Guang, Ma Teng and Han Sui jointly sent troops, they still checked and balanced each other. Therefore, even if the three families joined forces, they dispatched 100,000 troops to be responsible for attacking the three Hetao counties of Qin.


    Liu Ji from Chengdu chose to invite Liu Yu to send troops together, but was decisively rejected by Liu Yu.


    Liu Yu''s territory is not bound by Jingzhou. Even if he has established territory in Jingbei, it is just an enclave. Liu Yu is not stupid, so of course he cannot do something thankless.


    Liu Yu''s discooperation made Liu Ji very angry, thinking that Liu Yu was really ungrateful, so he wanted to use this to hit him.


    But Liu Ji thought again that if he was too forced to Liu Yu at this time, if he forced him to Qin Hao''s side, it would be more than worth the loss. So he temporarily suppressed his plan to beat Liu Yu and decided to wait until he returned to the army to deal with Liu Yu.


    The country of Bashu Tianfu is densely populated and rich, and Liu Ji even accounts for most of the elite areas of Yizhou, so the total force of Shu Kingdom is as high as 250,000.


    Since he had to be on guard against Chiyou and Liu Yu, Liu Ji naturally could not mobilize troops unscrupulously, and finally decided to lead a 150,000 army to attack Nanjun.


    At this point, the coalition forces against Qin were officially established:


    In the first line, King Liu Ji of Shu sent 150,000 troops to attack Nanjun from Ba County.


    In the second line, King Liu Xiu of Chu sent 50,000 troops to attack Huang Zu of Jiangxia from Changsha.


    The third and fourth lines, King Li Shimin of Tang sent 150,000 troops and 80,000 troops from Hanzhong and Wuguan to attack Dawuxiang County. Another group of 70,000 attacked Hangu Pass from Tongguan.


    In the fifth line, the Yang, Ma and Han coalition forces of Liangzhou sent 100,000 troops to attack Hetao from Liangzhou.


    The six princes dispatched a total of 450,000 troops and entered Qin in five directions. For a moment, the world was shaken and the court and the country were shaken.


    ?The fourth update is coming, and I still owe two chapters...


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    (This chapter ends)