Chapter 2000 Chiyou''s Heart
Chapter 1998: Chiyou''s Heart
Wuguan is easy to defend but difficult to attack. Even if there are only 7,000 defenders left, they will not be able to conquer them in the short term.
Therefore, if this surprise attack on Wuguan is successful, Li Jing must concentrate the elite troops of the entire army to capture Wuguan before the Tang army reinforcements arrive.
Although Li Jing took away Gao Chong, Zhang Kui and other generals, he also left Arthur, Xu Huang and other generals to Zhang Liao. After all, if all the powerful generals were really taken away, the combat power of the troops attacking Tongguan would be greatly reduced. Li Shiming would definitely be able to see at a glance, and it would be easy to reveal the situation at that time.
The next day, Zhang Liao led a 50,000 army away from Yaohan''s camp under the banner of Li Jing and headed towards Tongguan with a swagger.
After arriving at Tongguan, Zhang Liao neither called in or sent generals to fight. Instead, he formed a formation outside the pass, laid a large number of catapult cars and siege crossbows, as if he was about to attack hard.
Zhang Liao was not pretending, so he ordered the catapult to carry out several rounds of tentative attacks on the same day.
Nearly a hundred catapults were projected several times at the city gate, but only one-third of the rock bullets hit Tongguan, but failed to cause any damage to Tongguan, killing only a dozen soldiers.
Tongguan''s defense was very satisfied with Li Shimin and he was confident in the subsequent offensive and defensive battles. But what he didn''t know was that the Qin army attacked Tongguan just to attract his attention. The Li Jing he saw was not himself at all, but Zhang Liao was looking for someone to pretend. The real Li Jing had led his army to detour to Wuguan.
In order not to expose his movements, Li Jing had to take a detour to Nanyang and then go to Nanxiangjun to attack Wuguan. The marching journey was nearly a thousand miles away. Even if he marched at full speed, it would take at least ten days.
Before Li Jing''s army arrived at Wuguan, the war in Jingzhou changed first.
Nanzhong.
As the envoy of the Qin army, Lu Qinghou was sent to Nanzhong by Jia Xu as early as the beginning of the Jingbei War, lobbying the Southern Barbarian King Chiyou to send troops to attack the rear of Shu Kingdom.
After a month of long journey, Lu Qinghou finally arrived in Nanzhong successfully after many twists and turns. Unexpectedly, the Southern Barbarian King Chi You was in seclusion.
After being rejected, Lu Qinghou was not completed his mission and could only stay in Nanzhong and wait for Chi You to come out of seclusion, but he didn''t expect that this would last for a month.
"Brother Wang, in order to invite our army to send troops, the Qin army not only promised a lot of money and grain as rewards, but also promised to ced the four counties in southern Shu to us afterwards, and named you the King of Southern Central. It is full of sincerity."
Mrs. Zhurong, no, she is still Princess Zhurong. She asked her brother Chi You with confusion: "We have personal grudges with Liu Ji, so why not agree to it and take this opportunity to take revenge and avenge the previous shame."
Chiyou shook the glass filled with wine in his hand and said lightly: "Little sister, remember, hatred can be transformed into your motivation for growth, but don''t be blinded by hatred."
Princess Zhurong was silent when she heard this. She had concealed her identity and traveled to the great man from home. She killed several scums and accidentally revealed her identity as a barbarian. As a result, she was chased by many Central Plains masters. She almost died on the way back several times.
Princess Zhurong''s escape was extremely difficult, especially after fleeing to Yizhou, King Liu Ji of Shu actually sent troops to chase her, hoping to borrow her to threaten her brother Chiyou.
If Chiyou hadn''t had the attitude of starting a war directly on the border and frightened Liu Ji, Zhurong would have been captured alive.
After this incident, Zhurong completely hated Liu Ji, but he also knew that it was difficult to threaten Liu Ji, who had occupied most of Sichuan and Shu, with the poor Southern Barbarians, so he could only hide this hatred in his heart.
Qin''s initiative sent envoys to seek alliance, which made Princess Zhurong see hope for revenge, so she kept instigating Chiyou and the Qin army to join forces.
But Chi You was in a common interest in the couplet of Qin and directly refused Qin''s envoy''s request for advice on the grounds of retreat. It has been more than half a month since he still had no intention of seeing Qin envoy. Princess Zhurong was silent for a while and said, “Brother Wang, my little sister was not blinded by hatred, but was analyzed rationally.
Our Southern Barbarians live in a corner and jointly attacked Shu with Qin. One can avenge revenge and the other can expand their territory. It can be said that they kill two birds with one stone. It will be beneficial to our Southern Barbarians without any harm. ”
Chi You shook his head and said, "Although Qin State has no disadvantage in Hebei, the situation in Jiangnan is not good. Now the Southern Han is the overlord of the south.
After Jiangxia was occupied by Liu Xiu, Chu and Shu joined forces to attack Jingbei, and it would be great that Qin could defend Jingbei.
My younger sister, I naturally want to avenge Liu Ji, but now is not the time to avenge.
The princes such as Shu, Chu, Tang and other groups formed the Southern Han court. If they sent troops to attack Liu Ji at this time, it would be equivalent to being an enemy with the entire Southern Han alliance.
The losses from the last defeat in the war have not been completely restored so far. It is really not appropriate to go to war with Shu. If you send troops now, you will only serve as a gun envoy for the Qin army. ”
Zhu Rong didn''t expect these two points. She knew that the Nanman suffered a lot of losses last time, but she didn''t expect that she had not recovered completely yet.
The southern barbarians and southern central areas are far away from the Central Plains, and Liu Ji can block the Central Plains and flow into the Southern Central, so there is little knowledge of the situation in the Central Plains.
If Zhurong hadn''t brought back new grain seeds from the Central Plains and increased the output of the Southern Barbarians several times, I''m afraid the Southern Barbarians would not have known about new grain seeds until now, and the problem of shortage of grain would have definitely continued to this day.
Now the Southern Barbarians are no longer short of food, and the people are no longer worried about hunger, and their productivity has increased greatly. Why hasn’t the trauma of war been restored?
What Zhurong didn''t know was that Chi You looked calm on the surface, but he was under great pressure in his heart.
The national strength of Shu Kingdom has far exceeded that of the Southern Barbarians, and has been blocking the Southern Barbarians. They want the Southern Barbarians to continue to fall behind, which shows that Liu Ji''s intention to destroy the Southern Barbarians is not dead.
It is precisely because of this that Chi You tacitly allowed Zhurong to go to the Central Plains to bring back the advanced things in the Central Plains.
Chi You was afraid that Liu Ji would not compete for the Central Plains, but instead competed with him for the remote area of ??Nanzhong. After all, although the Southern Barbarians were poor, no matter how small the mosquitoes were, they would still be meat. If they really beat them, they could enhance a lot of national strength.
Now that Liu Ji takes the initiative to invade Jingbei, this means that Shu Kingdom’s strategic policy is in the north or in the south, and he does not have the intention to covet the southern center for the time being, then Chi You will naturally not provoke Liu Ji.
Now the most important thing for Chiyou is to seize all the time and strive to recover and grow as soon as possible. Only when you are sure or the time comes will you send troops to Yizhou again.
After listening to her elder brother''s words, Zhu Rong knew that she could not convince her brother.
Chiyou is a very opinionated monarch. Anything he makes up his mind will be difficult to be shaken by the outside world''s remarks.
At this moment, Gonggong ran in with excitement and shouted: "King, good news, the Qin army''s 100,000 reinforcements have reached Jingbei, and the Jingzhou war may enter the stalemate stage again. Liu Ji''s army will definitely not be able to return in the short term."
Hearing this, a glimmer flashed in Chi You''s eyes and he said in a deep voice: "Let the Qin envoy come to see me. Forget it, I''ll be neglecting me for so long, so I''ll go to see him in person."
(This chapter ends)