Chapter 2615: Break through Yangping Pass (Part 2)


    Chapter 2612: Break through Yangping Pass (Part 2)


    "Last night, Tu Xingsun sent a letter back to Feige, saying that the task had been completed and the Xinzheng grain warehouse was successfully burned down."


    As soon as Li Jing said this, the generals present were suddenly excited. They didn''t know the plan to attack Nan Zheng.


    In addition, Yangping Pass and Xicheng were not broken, but sneaked to the rear of the enemy and burned food and grass. This seemed almost impossible for them.


    Seeing that all the generals except Wu Qi looked unbelievable, Li Jing then informed the generals of his plan in full.


    Originally, the disciples of Yuqing such as Yang Jian and Yang Ren were still a little curious. After all, it has been more than a month since Yangping Pass was opened, but they have not seen Tu Xingsun and Long and Bearded Tiger. Now it seems that it was because the commander-in-chief arranged a task early.


    But after learning about the full picture of Li Jing''s plan, the generals were worried about Tu Xingsun and others. After all, this task was too thrilling, and it would not be an exaggeration to say that it was a life-threatening death.


    The three thousand captains led by Tu Xingsun must lurk under the eyes of the 40,000 Shu troops, dig into Nanzheng City to burn the Nanjiao Depot before returning. If any of these steps is wrong, it will definitely be the end of annihilation of the entire army.


    Yang Jian, Yang Ren and other Yuqing disciples were worried about the safety of Tu Xingsun and Long and Bearded Tiger.


    Although Li Jing arranged a retreat plan for Tu Xingsun, God knows whether it will be discovered by the people of Shu Han?


    After all, he is a fellow disciple. Although he usually acts extremely disgusted, Tu Xingsun has now given Yuqing School a good face, and Tu Xingsun is not so annoying in the hearts of Yang Jian and others.


    "Last night, my governor sent someone to observe the country with a thousand-mile mirror. The fire in Hanzhong soared into the sky. The fire was so big that even the entire night sky was illuminated. It seems unlikely that something would go wrong."


    As he said that, Li Jing also smiled for a long time. After all, after the plan to burn the Sichuan Army’s ration warehouse was successful, his confidence in seizing Hanzhong soared from 30% to 90%.


    The reason why 90% rather than 10% is because the Hanzhong people still have some food in their hands. Although it is a drop in the bucket and it is difficult to support more than 100,000 Shu troops, it is barely enough for the Shu troops to support them for a period of time.


    At present, in addition to collecting grain from the people, the Shu army has only two ways to obtain food and grass:


    First, transport grain from Shu, but this method is too inefficient.


    The road to Shu is difficult to walk, and it is difficult to even come out, let alone transporting grain.


    In addition, the cost of transporting grain from Shu is also high, and it is difficult to transport food on a large scale to provide food and grass, and it is impossible to fundamentally solve the problem of the Shu army''s shortage of food.


    Second, it is to use human flesh to fill food, which is what Li Jing is most worried about and is likely to happen.


    Don’t think that the Shu army cannot do such a thing, after all, this has not happened before.


    You should know that the Shu Han did not rule Hanzhong for a long time, and the proportion of Hanzhong soldiers in the Shu army was also very low.


    But once Hanzhong falls, it will become a bridgehead for the Qin Dynasty to invade Shuzhong, and the people of Hanzhong will also become the support of the Qin army.


    If that is true, for the Shu army, massacring the local people in Hanzhong would eliminate the disaster and prevent the Qin Dynasty from growing stronger.


    Therefore, once Hanzhong falls into a foregone conclusion, the Shu army will definitely not care about the life and death of ordinary people. Even if they are burned and Hanzhong is broken into scorched earth, they will not leave a complete Hanzhong for the Qin army.


    In order not to make his vision a reality, Li Jing must conquer Xiayangping Pass as soon as possible so as not to give Shu Han the opportunity to harm Hanzhong.


    "The Nanzheng Grain Deposit was burned and caused such a big disturbance. The soldiers of the Shu army were not blind, so it was impossible for them to be invisible.


    Therefore, even if Zhang Ren and Liu Er block the news, they will definitely not be blocked for long. What our army has to do now is to let the Shu army in Yangpingguan know about this news.


    When the Shu army in Yangping Pass knew about it, the food and grass were burned and the front line was about to be cut off, the morale of the army would inevitably be in chaos and the morale would fall, and our army would easily capture Yangping Pass. ”


    Although Li Jing''s previous reason for attacking Yangping Pass was to attract the attention of Shu Han and create opportunities for Tu Xingsun, he did not have the intention to forcibly break through Yangping Pass.


    But facts have proved that it is really too difficult to break through such a natural barrier as Yangping Pass in a short period of time.


    Even if Li Jing was disappointed, he was not discouraged. After all, it was impossible to attack the city, so he would attack his heart.


    Before, Li Jing had no chance to attack the heart before, but now he is in a good position, so he naturally cannot let it go.


    Yangping closed.


    The three generals Zhang Ren, Liu Er and Kong Peng were all on high alert. After all, the Qin army sent people to burn the grain warehouse in Nanzheng, so the subsequent offensive will inevitably be even more fierce.


    But what Zhang Ren and the three generals did not expect was that the intensity of the Qin army''s attack today was not as fierce as yesterday, and Yang Jian, Long Qi and other powerful generals did not participate in the siege.


    Could it be that the Qin army was exhausted after a fierce attack that lasted for as long as possible?


    Just when the three of them were confused, a personal soldier handed an arrow and said, "Grandmaster, look, this was shot by the Qin army, and each arrow was tied to the same content to persuade surrender."


    Zhang Ren took the paper without a doubt. After all, Li Jing has used the same trick more than once.


    The content on the letter brought by the arrow also changed from persuading the defenders in the pass to giving up resistance, to cursing Liu Yu for being rebellious and murdering the late emperor, and promoting what to do with the Qin Dynasty.


    Zhang Ren wanted to see what tricks Li Jing used again and was preparing to play.


    But after Zhang Ren finished reading it, his face turned pale and he quickly shouted: "Immediately confiscate all the letters, and the letters of persuading surrender shot from the Qin army are all words that disrupt our military morale. No one is allowed to read them. If anyone disobeys, he will be punished according to military law."


    "No."


    Seeing this, Liu Er and Kong Peng felt that Zhang Ren was a little over-examination. After all, this is not the first time that this incident has happened. Why did they react so much this time?


    But after reading the content in the letter, they understood why Zhang Ren was so extreme.


    The Qin army ran away after setting off the fire. Logically speaking, it was not known that Shu Han did not put out the fire.


    But in the letter of persuasion of surrender that Li Jing shot up, it clearly stated that the Sichuan Army''s ration warehouse had been burned down, and the entire night sky in the direction of Nanzheng yesterday was illuminated, which is the best proof. It is to advise the soldiers of the Shu Army not to make unnecessary resistance, because they will soon be out of food.


    If the news spreads throughout the army without stopping it, the Shu army will definitely be in turmoil. How could it still stand by the Qin army''s fierce attack?


    Zhang Ren''s reaction speed is very fast, and the punishment is also very heavy. It can indeed scare most people, but it is still useless. Even though most of the Shu army followed the orders and took the initiative to hand over, and did not read the contents in the letter, there were always a few thorns who read the contents in the letters driven by curiosity.


    As long as you read the content of the letter and think of the strange scenes in the sky last night, you can understand that what is said in the letter is true, not a sensation.


    In addition, the Nanzheng fire burned for more than one night, and the fire spread from the grain warehouse to the northern urban area. A large number of houses were burned down, so that the next night, the fire still soared into the sky.


    On the first day, only a small number of soldiers on Yangping Pass noticed the fire in Nanzheng, but with the reminder of Li Jing''s letter of persuasion, many people paid attention to the fire in Nanzheng the next day.


    The soldiers saw that there was really a fire in the direction of Nanzheng, and they spread it privately, and soon most of the soldiers in Yangping Pass knew about it.


    The granary in the rear was burned down and the front line was about to be out of food.


    The soldiers of the Shu army who learned about this could not be calm, after all, it would take their lives on the front line.


    Zhang Ren and Liu Er and others naturally knew about the situation in Yangping Pass, but there was no solution. After all, they could not even deprive the soldiers of their right to communicate in private.


    Zhang Ren thought about the whole night but didn''t think of a solution. In the end, he proposed a solution that was not a solution.


    Shen Shiqi proposed that it was a strange phenomenon to bite the bright sky last night, not that the grain warehouse was burned, and that the rear would first transport a batch of grain to the front line to fool the soldiers on the front line.


    Zhang Ren had no other way, so he could only do what Shen Shiqi said. As for how long can this method fool the soldiers? I can only say that I can fool you as long as I can.


    Li Jing''s fire instantly turned the originally impregnable Hanzhong defense line into a broken ship full of loopholes.


    Zhang Ren and Shen Shiqi are the papermakers of this broken ship. They are doing their best to delay the sinking speed of this broken ship, but unfortunately they are destined to be futile.


    If they face ordinary generals, they might be able to be forced by the two, but unfortunately, they met Li Jing this time.


    Li Jing obviously would not give them any chance to turn things around.


    On the third day of burning the Nanzheng Grain Deposit, taking advantage of the shocking morale of the Yangping Pass and the whereabouts of morale, the Qin army launched a fierce attack on Yangping Pass again, and this time the intensity was unprecedented.


    Yang Jian, Long Qi, Gongsun Xuanyuan and other famous generals were personally involved in the siege under the command of Li Jing, and the morale of the Qin army also returned to its peak at this moment.


    In contrast, the Shu army had a turbulent morale and a decline in morale. How could it block the Qin army''s offensive as one rose and the other fell?


    "Report to the Governor, the Qin army has come to the city in the East Third District."


    After hearing the report, Zhang Ren decisively ordered: "Sorry General Kong Peng to lead a thousand elite troops over and be sure to kill all the Qin troops in the East Third District."


    As soon as he finished speaking, another soldier came to report.


    "The governor is not good. Qin troops have also arrived in the West Fourth District, among which Yang Jian is there."


    "Let General Liu Er lead his army immediately and be sure to block Yang Jian and Qin army."


    "Governor, Qin troops appeared in the East Sixth District..."


    “Governor, West Second District…”


    “…”


    The defenders were still the original army, and the guards were also at the same level. They were still facing the previous enemies, but the performance of the Shu army was completely different.


    The reason for this is not that the Qin army has become stronger, but that the Shu army has become weaker.


    Zhang Ren commanded the army from morning to afternoon, and countless defenders were killed in the battle, but the number of Qin troops on the city wall was increasing, and they could not be expelled at all.


    At this point, no matter how unwilling Zhang Ren was, he had to accept the fact that Yangping Pass could no longer defend. Now what he could do was not to keep the pass but to stop the loss.


    Zhang Ren ordered the burning of the grain warehouse, armory and material warehouse, and then issued a retreat order, leaving Liu Er and Kong Peng to lead 10,000 soldiers who had not participated in the war to cut off the rear.


    Li Jing was also worried that Yangping Pass would be burned to ruins, so after entering the pass, most people asked to put out the fire first, but he cleared out the back door first and ordered Yang Jian to lead 5,000 cavalry to pursue him, and soon collided with Liu Er and Kong Peng''s army of behind-the-back.


    The Shu Road was narrow, which was not conducive to the cavalry charge, and the impact of the Qin cavalry was difficult to exert. However, after half an hour of fierce fighting between the two sides, Long Qi led 10,000 reinforcements to arrive in time.


    In the end, under the siege of five thousand Qin cavalry and nearly ten thousand Qin troops, the ten thousand Shu troops, who were responsible for cutting off the rear were defeated after two hours of persistence. Only less than a thousand people fled back to Nanzheng with Kong Peng and Liu Er.


    Yang Jian led his army to continue to chase Liu Er and Kong Peng, but after chasing for thirty miles, he was hit by the ambush set up by Zhang Ren and Shen Yi in a valley, and hundreds of elite cavalry and thousands of infantry were damaged before he had to retreat.


    After Wu Qi learned about Yang Jian’s hiding, he immediately spoke to Li Jing: “Zhang Ren’s ambush has already come out, and there will be no ambush after the ambush. If another army is sent to pursue him at this time, he will definitely win a great victory.”


    Li Jing nodded in agreement, and then appointed Wu Qi as a general, and brought Gongsun Xuanyuan and Yang Ren under his command, leading a five thousand army to continue pursuing.


    Shen Shiqi did not expect that Yang Jian and Long Qi would have a third pursuer afterwards, but Wu Qi beat him up and was beaten up so hard that the five thousand ambush soldiers were completely lost.


    In this way, Li Jing attacked fiercely for more than a month, with nearly 30,000 troops killed and killed. However, he failed to break through Yangping Pass, but broke the city within two days after completing the food burning and attacking the heart.


    (This chapter ends)