Chapter 2523 Han Xin attacked Shangyong County in the second


    Chapter 2520: Han Xin attacked Shangyong County in the second


    As the deputy governor of Jingzhou, Han Xin naturally belonged to the Qin army in Jingzhou.


    Since the disarmament of the Qin Dynasty, the total number of troops deployed in Jingzhou has only been 100,000.


    Jingbei borders the four kingdoms of Wei, Song, Chu and Wu. A 100,000 army is more than enough to guard Jingbei, but once it explores the outside world, it will be a little more willing but not enough.


    Han Xin naturally knew this, and he was afraid that the 50,000 army would leave Jingzhou for too long, which would cause the Chu army to go north on a large scale. At that time, the general Xue Rengui, who was guarding Xiangyang, would be under great pressure. Therefore, he must fight and decide quickly this time, but this was obviously not that easy.


    This is not the first time Han Xin has fought Shangyong. During the first Guanzhong War, he had already led his army to attack Shangyong.


    At that time, Shangyong was personally guarded by Li Xiaogong, relying on the geographical advantages of Hanzhong, and the defense was not leaked.


    The overall terrain of the three counties in Hanzhong is mainly mountainous, with mountainous land accounting for 75.2% of the total land area (of which low mountains account for 18.2% and high mountains account for 57.0%).


    The two counties of Shangyong and Xincheng in the east are blocked by the Qinling Mountains, Bashan, Wudang Mountain and Wushan. The Han River is connected to the Nanhe River and Duhe River. The Jinqian River connects to the Han River, which is a network-like radiation, and is a standard four-blocked place.


    It is precisely because of this that Mengda during the period of the Three Kingdoms was able to rule over this place for a long time.


    The six counties of Shangyong and the four counties of Xincheng are all built in dangerous places, built on the mountain, which also destined that the two counties are easy to defend and difficult to attack.


    Although Han Xin''s military talent is much stronger, if the opponent has a strong attack, he will definitely suffer heavy casualties if he attacks.


    Considering that I am just a partial teacher, no matter whether I fight or not, it will have little impact on the overall situation. After all, the main battlefield is in Guanzhong.


    Therefore, when Han Xin attacked Shangyong for the first time, he only adopted the strategy of siegeing but not attacking, and dragging Li Xiaogong''s army.


    After the end of the First Guanzhong War, Li Tang was defeated and cedeed the land and surrendered to seek peace from the Qin Dynasty. Naturally, Han Xin withdrew his troops back to Nanyang.


    This time it was Han Xin''s second attack on Shangyong, and after gaining the experience of the last time, he naturally made sufficient preparations this time.


    Long before the war started, Han Xin had sent a secret spy to clearly explore the terrain and distribution of the three counties in Hanzhong and the troops. After many deductions on the sand table, he finally found a loophole in Hanzhong''s defense.


    Even if Hanzhong is rooted in the Hanzhong Basin and surrounded by mountains, it is still not perfect in defense. Li Tang cannot guard all the mountain roads.


    Li Shimin naturally knew this. In order to improve the square line in eastern central and eastern Han, he specially built three lines of defense for Hanzhong.


    The first line of defense is the two portals located on the outermost periphery. As long as these two portals are not lost, the enemy will not be able to attack Hanzhong. These two portals are newly established Shangyong and Xincheng.


    Shangyong is the southeast gate, and the new city is the northeast gate. The two counties look north and south, and each other is a support. One side is in danger, and the other side can immediately support it.


    Even if the two counties of Shangyong New City are in danger at the same time, the Hanzhong County in the rear can also give the back.


    Therefore, it is almost impossible to completely trap the two counties in death.


    The second and third lines of defense are: Fangling City and Xicheng.


    Fangling City lives behind the two counties of Shangyong New City, and is in a horn-like manner with the two counties.


    Xicheng lives behind Fangling and supports each other with Fangling.


    Originally, Li Shimin prepared to use Xicheng as the foundation, and after building several new cities, Fangling was included and Xicheng County was established.


    Unfortunately, before this plan could be implemented, Li Shimin had already died in Guanzhong.


    Although Li Shimin died, the defensive system he built for Hanzhong was preserved and inherited by Liu Yu.


    Under such a clever defense system, although the eastern square line in central and central Han does not have a strong pass like Yangping Pass, its overall defense is not much weaker than the northern line.


    It is precisely because of this that the military immortal Han Xin was defeated.


    For Han Xin, the first failure is nothing. Yue Fei attacked Jiangling three times, but Jiangling City still does not belong to the Qin Dynasty. What does it matter if he failed to defeat mediocre?


    However, Han Xin could tolerate one failure, but he could not tolerate the second time.


    This time, Han Xin was ready to attack Shangyong. He focused his troops and attacked Shangyong County with 50,000 yuan, and surrendered Weiyang County, but the real main attack direction was Xincheng County.


    Han Xin''s move to attack Shangyong secretly and attack the new city was so unstoppable that he would not be able to withstand it if he had not been a top star.


    Although the garrisons of the four counties in Xincheng are all good at talent, there is still a big gap compared to famous generals. Before they can react, two cities have been attacked by Han Xin.


    The third city garrison learned that within one day, the two strong cities fell, and was immediately frightened by it and did not dare to resist, so he took the initiative to open the city and surrender.


    After Han Xin accepted the surrendered army, he immediately led his army to the new city of the capital.


    Although Li Kan, the governor of Xincheng, had the intention to surrender to Qin, his family was young and did not dare to surrender, so he refused Han Xin''s persuasion to surrender.


    Han Xin was not discouraged when he failed to persuade him to surrender and then launched a siege.


    The Qin army captured three cities in two days, and its morale was at its peak. After launching the siege, it continued day and night. After a day of attack, it finally broke through Xincheng County''s New City.


    After Han Xin seized the four cities of Xincheng County, he did not stop at all and led his army to Fangling.


    Liu Yu was shocked when he learned that the four cities of Xincheng County had been lost and Han Xin''s army approached Fangling.


    Fangling, Shangyong and Xincheng are in a triangular shape, and are also the last line of defense in eastern central and eastern Han.


    Once Fangling is captured, the connection between Shangyong County and Hanzhong County will be cut off, and the Qin army will be completely trapped to death by then.


    In other words, losing one city of Fangling is equivalent to losing the six cities of Shangyong.


    But if the four counties of Xincheng County fall, it is still within Liu Yu''s tolerance. But if even the six counties of Shangyong County are lost, wouldn''t one-third of Hanzhong be taken away by the Qin army?


    If this is true, although the wealthiest Hanzhong County among the three counties in Hanzhong is still in the hands of Shu Han, the defense system on the eastern front will not be perfect.


    So, no matter what, Liu Yu must save Fangling City.


    Liu Yu summoned all the generals to discuss overnight, and finally ordered Zhang Ren as the main general, Shen Shiqi as the military advisor, and led an army of 30,000, as well as four generals Yan Yan, Mengda, Zhang Fei and Shi Jingtang to rush to Fangling City at night. "Lord, Han Xin''s army has such a fierce offensive, and the troops they have dispatched must be quite large, and Jingbei will definitely be empty."


    As he said, a smile flashed across Su Qin''s lips and said confidently: "Lord, please send a letter to the envoy to Chu to tell the King of Chu that the news of Jingbei''s emptiness.


    If Liu Xiu knew that Jingbei was empty, he would definitely send troops to Xiangyang, which would be just enough to resolve Shangyong''s danger. ”


    Hearing this, Liu Yu''s eyes lit up and he said happily: "A clever plan, just do what the military advisor said."


    Immediately, Liu Yu Feige sent a letter to Zhang Su, the envoy to Chu, and ordered him to lobby King Liu Xiu of Chu to send troops to attack Jingbei to share the pressure of Shu.


    As for Liu Yu himself, he personally led an army of 80,000, as well as generals such as Su Qin, Liu Er, Xing Tian, ??Kong Peng, Li Siyuan, Li Keyong, Lei Tong, Guan Yu, Xu Shu, etc., to personally take charge of Yangping Pass.


    After Zhang Ren led the army, he did not dare to slack off at all. In order to arrive at Fangling as soon as possible, he marched overnight, but this section of the mountain road was really difficult to walk.


    Li Tang did not have the financial resources of the Qin Dynasty and could build the road to the county and county.


    So between Hanzhong and Fangling, there is still the most difficult mountain road to walk.


    The road is difficult to walk, so the marching speed will naturally not increase.


    Han Xin also knew that the reinforcements of the Shu army would definitely arrive soon, so after leading the army to Fangling, he immediately launched an attack on the city after a little rest, and he was still a deadly attack without regard for casualties.


    In addition to Chen Qi, Zheng Lun, Gao Ming, Gao Jue and Gao Lan, Han Xin also has two war-level generals, Jintai and Mi Houwang.


    In order to capture Fangling City as soon as possible, Han Xin not only personally commanded the army to attack the city, but also sent out all the most elite 10,000 troops under his command, and ordered Jintai, Mi Houwang, Chen Qi, Zheng Lun and others to lead the team to attack the city in turn.


    The defense of Fangling City was built by Li Shimin himself, and the terrain was extremely dangerous, but it was easy to defend but difficult to attack.


    No matter how strong the city is, if the defending generals and soldiers are not strong enough, they still cannot defend the city.


    Under Han Xin''s fierce attack, Fangling City persisted for a day, and the guard Li Hua was killed by Jintai who climbed the city tower.


    The deputy general and the defenders saw that the main general died in battle, their morale suddenly declined, and their resistance became weaker, and they were soon forcibly captured by Jintai.


    After Han Xin captured Fangling City, the celebrity immediately cleaned the battlefield and ordered Gao Lan to guard Fangling, while he himself prepared to continue attacking Xicheng and completely disintegrate the defense system in Hanzhong.


    Before Han Xin''s army could be dispatched, he received news from the Black Ice Platform that the reinforcements living in Zhang Ren had passed through Xicheng.


    After learning about this, Han Xin quickly changed his combat plan. He ordered Jintai and Gaolan to lead 4,000 soldiers to set up an ambush on the road leading to Fangling.


    The reason why I don’t send more people is naturally because I am afraid that too many people will expose the whereabouts of the army.


    At this time, Zhang Ren did not know that Fangling had fallen, so he still led his army to Fangling City at full speed.


    In Zhang Ren''s opinion, although Fangling''s defenders are not large, they are only three thousand, but the city is easy to defend but difficult to attack the city. Fangling''s defender Li Hua is quite capable and can hold on for two or three days.


    Zhang Ren probably never thought that Han Xin could break through Fangling''s strong city that was easy to defend and difficult to attack in just one day.


    Although Zhang Ren did not know about Fang Ling, nor did he know that Han Xin set up an ambush for him, he still instinctively felt a sense of crisis when he led his army to the Zhushan territory.


    Zhang Ren is best at ambushing battles. In the Romance of the Romance, he set up an ambush on Luofengpo, shot Pang Tong, who was standing side by side with Zhuge Liang, and defeated Liu Bei''s army''s offensive.


    In this life, Zhang Ren was loyal to Liu Yan first and then to Liu Yu. As Liu Yu''s most trusted general, Zhang Ren''s record was actually very poor, and overall he was in a state of losing more than winning.


    Of course, this cannot be blamed on Zhang Ren. After all, before completely defeating Liu Ji, Liu Yu himself also lost consecutive battles.


    But even after so many defeats, Zhang Ren''s confidence and fighting spirit have not been destroyed, and he still fought repeatedly and has achieved great growth.


    Today’s Zhang Ren: Commander 98 (+3), Force 103 (+7), Intelligence 89 (+2), Politics 60 (+2), Charm 88 (+2);


    Among the famous local generals at the end of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Ren''s growth rate was not the largest, but the largest.


    After all, in addition to many famous Han generals such as Peng Yue, Cao Shen, and Zhou Bo, there are also Chi You, Gonggong and others. After the show, we will take turns to fight Zhang Ren to provide him with experience.


    If you still can''t grow up, Zhang Ren will not be able to live until now.


    Zhang Ren is a stranger among the local famous generals who can survive one after another and grow to the point where he is today.


    Zhang Ren is best at ambushing, so when facing terrain that may set up an ambush, he is naturally very cautious.


    Although he couldn''t wait to go to Fangling, he could not bring his 30,000 reinforcements into the dangerous land.


    Seeing that Zhang Ren''s army did not enter Zhushan, but carefully investigated the surroundings, Jintai and Gao Lan also realized that they were afraid they were exposed, so they tacitly broke out together.


    Jintai and Gaolan each led 4,000 Qin soldiers, totaling 8,000 Qin troops, and launched a great war with the Shu army in Zhushan.


    After two hours of fierce battle between the two sides, the Qin army lost 3,000 troops while the Shu army lost 4,000.


    Jintai and Gao Lan saw that the Shu army did not retreat in four battles and their fighting will remain tenacious. Considering that the enemy was large and we were few, they took the initiative to withdraw and drag.


    The Qin army had just withdrawn for more than ten miles, and Zhang Ren personally led the elite troops to catch up and severely damaged Gao Lan.


    If Jintai had not rescued him in time, Gao Lan would have been killed by Zhang Ren.


    After Jintai rescued Gao Lan, he asked him to lead a large army to go. He led more than a thousand dead soldiers to leave behind the rear.


    After an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides, the Jintai army cut off the rear, and only 300 people remained, they killed 1,500 Shu troops.


    As for Jintai, he first defeated Shi Jingtang and then fought against Zhang Fei and Ren alone. Although he did not win, he did not lose again.


    Seeing that the army had run away and would not be caught up again, Jintai began to lead the army to break through.


    When he retreated to Fangling, there were only 233 people left by his side.


    (This chapter ends)