Chapter 2616 Capture the Xicheng and encircle Nanzheng


    Chapter 2613: Capture the Xicheng and encircle Nanzheng


    "Big victory, big victory..."


    Hearing this, the generals of Yongliang, including Li Jing, were all happy. After all, the result of this battle was too great.


    Although Zhang Ren burned all warehouses in the pass before retreating, the fire was extinguished by the Qin army due to the hasty situation.


    However, since the Shu army''s armed forces and materials were transported as much as they were used, the reserves in the warehouses within the pass were not large.


    Therefore, seizing materials, food, grass, etc. is secondly, mainly to severely damage the Shu army and occupy the important military brigade site in Yangping Pass.


    After the war, the Qin army suffered a total of 5,000 casualties in this battle, killed 8,000 Shu troops and captured 12,000 prisoners.


    The 35,000 Shu troops in Yangping Pass were left, and only 15,000 of them fled back to Nanzheng, and the rest were either killed in battle or captured.


    In the previous fierce attack of more than a month, the Qin army suffered nearly 35,000 casualties, of which 13,000 were killed and killed, but only nearly 20,000 Shu troops were killed and injured, and most of the Shu troops were injured rather than killed in battle.


    But now, with only 5,000 casualties, 20,000 Shu troops were destroyed and Yangping Pass was captured.


    The results of this battle alone have far exceeded those of more than a month before.


    At this point, although the Qin army successfully captured Yangping Pass, nearly 40,000 troops were killed and killed in the siege alone, of which 15,000 were killed in battle, leaving only 60,000 troops that could fight.


    In contrast, the total casualties of the Shu army reached 40,000, of which 30,000 were killed or captured, and 10,000 were injured in treatment. They were also unable to participate in the war in the short term, and there were still 60,000 soldiers who could fight.


    However, there is also Li Siyuan''s 30,000 army in Hanzhong, so the Shu army has only 90,000 troops, which is 30,000 more than Li Jing.


    Li Jing naturally knew this, but he was not afraid at all. After all, he had already conquered Yangping Pass, the biggest problem in conquering Hanzhong.


    The 90,000 Shu troops, lacking food and grass and low morale, do not pose much threat in Li Jing''s eyes, and will be defeated by himself sooner or later. It is only a matter of time before the Qin army completely occupied Hanzhong County.


    However, in order to prevent the Shu Han from jumping into a scorched earth, he would rather turn Hanzhong into a piece of scorched earth than to make the Qin Dynasty cheaper.


    Therefore, Li Jing still cannot relax at all. Even if a lion fights with a rabbit, he will do his best. What''s more, Shu Han, which still has the advantage of military strength, is not a rabbit.


    In order to capture Hanzhong in the shortest time, Li Jing left behind 5,000 defenders at Yangping Pass the next day after he captured Yangping Pass, he led a 55,000 army to continue southward and prepared to attack Nanzheng, the Hanzhong capital.


    However, before the Qin army conquered Xinzheng, they still needed to remove the Wubao and camps built by Shu Han on the ancient Hanzhong Road one by one.


    As mentioned in the previous article, Shu Han has built the entire Hanzhong into a fortress, and hundreds of Wubao and more than a dozen camps were built in Hanzhong to prevent any mistakes in the North and East lines.


    After all, if there is any problem in Yangping Pass and Xicheng, these arrangements can also delay the fall of Hanzhong and buy time for the Shu army.


    Now that Yangping Pass was captured by the Qin army, the Qin army successfully attacked Hanzhong, it was time for these Wubao camps to take effect.


    Disagree with the defensive fortifications built by Shu Han outside Yangping Pass. There are few hundred defenders in these Wubao in Hanzhong County, with a maximum of no more than two hundred, while the defenders in the camp will not exceed a thousand.


    Before attacking Yangping Pass, the Qin army captured more than 20 Wubao and three camps. Now even the rock-solid Yangping Pass has been broken, so naturally they will not take the mere Wubao and camps seriously.


    To put it bluntly, Shu Han also knew that these camps and Wubao posed no great threat to the Qin army, but they were still vigorously constructed, just to delay and warn them to buy time for the Shu army.


    South of Yangping Pass, on the thirty-mile-long Hanzhong Ancient Road, there are twenty-five Wubao and three camps, with a total force of about 4,000.


    Among them were ten Wubao and a large camp. When chasing the retreating Shu army, they were already solved by Yang Jian and Wu Qi.


    Wu Qi had only five thousand soldiers and had just experienced a big battle. The soldiers were already a little tired, so when he attacked the second camp, after failing to persuade the surrender, he did not want to suffer too much casualties, so he was destined to suspend the offensive and stationed on site to rest and recover.


    After resting for a day and a night, Wu Qi also received the order of Li Jing to continue his march, so he led 5,000 troops to launch a fierce attack on the Shu army camp, which had only had the former defenders. He occupied the camp in just one stick of incense, captured more than 400 Shu troops, and suffered less than 100 casualties.


    Shortly after Wu Qi occupied the second seat, Yang Jian led another 5,000 reinforcements to arrive. After the two sides merged, they had nearly 10,000 troops. As a vanguard, they came to open the way for the main force in the rear and cleared all obstacles on the ancient road of Hanzhong.


    Under the joint efforts of Wu Qi and Yang Jian, all the first battalions of the Fifteen Forts were captured in less than three days. Seven of the Wu Forts voluntarily chose to surrender, with less than a thousand casualties.


    After clearing all Wubao and camps, Wu Qi and Yang Jian''s vanguard army also arrived at the last line of defense in northern Hanzhong, Anyang County, and as long as the Anyang Qin army was captured, they could enter the Hanzhong Basin.


    But in such an important place, the Shu army not only did not leave heavy troops to defend, but also withdrew all the defenders and moved all the food and grass, leaving only more than a hundred county soldiers and hundreds of defeated soldiers who fled back from the front line one after another.


    Yang Song, the magistrate of Anyang County, obviously knew that he could not stop the Qin army, so when the Qin army arrived at the city, he chose to open the city and surrender without saying a word.


    Seeing that Yang Song was so flattering, Yang Jian didn''t look like a backbone person, and Anyang County was indeed unable to resist the Qin army, so he prepared to lead his army into the city to rest, but was stopped by Wu Qi.


    Yang Jian was a little puzzled, but Wu Qi explained: "Be careful, there is no big mistake." Then he sent someone to the city to check.


    Not long after, only half of the soldiers sent to the city for inspection escaped and brought them back to the city to ambush, and there were fire-burning objects everywhere, and the rest were killed in the hands of ambush soldiers in the city.


    “Hiss…”


    Yang Jian immediately took a breath of cold air, and his heart felt cold. The Shu army was so cruel that he wanted to burn them to death with millions of people in the city.


    Once the Qin army enters the city and is not prepared, Anyang City will turn into a fire city, swallowing up all the Qin army in the city. Unlike Yang Jian who was frightened, Wu Qi looked like he was not surprised. After all, Li Mu used the trick of burning the city during the Guanzhong War.


    Wu Qi was not trapped at the beginning, and naturally he would not be trapped now.


    Before Yang Jian could speak, Yang Ren on the side couldn''t bear it anymore. He grabbed Yang Song''s collar and said angrily: "So you are a fool to surrender."


    Yang Song''s face turned pale. Although he was the magistrate of Anyang County, he had just taken office for a while. He really didn''t know that Shen Shiqi had set up a trap, so he explained tremblingly: "It''s unfair, it''s unfair. I really don''t know."


    "Do you think we believe it?"


    After Yang Ren sneered, he did not give Yang Song a chance to speak, and directly pulled his sword to stab Yang Song to death.


    Wu Qi couldn''t help but frown when he saw this. After all, although Yang Song''s official position was not high, he was a member of the Yang family in Hanzhong, which was of some use to the Qin army. He also thought about how to use Yang Song, but Yang Ren killed Yang Song.


    But everyone was already dead, so Wu Qi naturally couldn''t blame Yang Ren, so he could only pretend that he didn''t see it.


    Seeing that Wu Qi did not pursue the matter, Yang Ren felt relieved in his heart. He killed Yang Song with some personal emotions.


    Yang Ren was the **** Yang Ren merged with Hanzhong Yang Ren. He was originally from Hanzhong. He knew very well how many evil Yang Song had committed over the years, and the people of Hanzhong wanted to swallow him alive.


    But because of the Yang family in Hanzhong, neither Li Tang nor Shu Han held him accountable.


    Yang Ren did not want this evil man to continue to be free and wanted to seek justice for the elders of Hanzhong, but if he did not kill him at this time, it would be even more difficult for Yang Song to kill him after surrendering to Qin, so he pretended to be angry and killed.


    Later, Yang Jian and Yang Ren only brought a few personal soldiers into the city. Although they killed all the spies lurking in the city, they still failed to stop the other party from igniting the fire.


    However, because Yang Jian was prepared for a long time, the fire did not spread, but it also burned three streets and burned several people to death, but also saved the lives of tens of thousands of people in the city.


    Since then, Anyang, one of the ten counties in Hanzhong, has officially been under the rule of the Qin Dynasty.


    After Wu Qi occupied Anyang, he did not continue to march, but instead stationed on the spot, waiting for the arrival of the large army.


    After all, if you continue to go deeper, what Wu Qi has to face is 90,000 Shu troops, and it is obviously not enough to rely on their less than 10,000 people.


    Li Jing received a message from Wu Qi and immediately accelerated the marching speed after learning about what happened in Anyang.


    After all, Shu Han was preparing to use the tens of thousands of people in Anyang as bait to burn the people of the whole city and the Qin army to death. He was ready to do such a careless thing, which shows that he was already anxious and did not care about the hearts of the people in Hanzhong.


    Therefore, the longer the war will be delayed, the greater the trauma to Hanzhong.


    Li Jing must fight and decide quickly, but he only has 60,000 troops, not as many as the Shu army. It is difficult to quench his thirst from Yongliang to move troops from far away. On the contrary, Han Xin''s troops from Shangyong were closest to him.


    Although Han Xin''s troops were blocked by Xicheng, Li Jing had already broken through Yangping Pass and entered Pengdi in Hanzhong. The eastern defense line of Shu Han naturally lost its significance.


    The Qin army could completely separate a partial division from the north, go straight to the rear of Xicheng, and attack Xicheng with Han Xin on both sides, thus completing the meeting with the 40,000 Qin troops in Jingbei, and the Qin army will also restore its military advantage.


    After Li Jing broke through Yangping Pass, it was only a matter of time before he completely captured Hanzhong, but if he wanted to fight quickly and conquer Hanzhong in a short period of time, he had to cooperate with Shangyong''s Han Xin.


    Li Jing ordered Wang Jian to lead a 15,000 army to head straight to the Xicheng, and he himself led a 40,000 army to head straight to Nanzheng, and two of the three counties along the way surrendered voluntarily.


    But when Li Jing took over the city, he found that the food and grass in the hands of the people in the city had been confiscated, and the strong men were summoned, leaving only an empty city with shortage of food and the old and weak city to the Qin army, obviously trying to use this to consume the food and grass of the Qin army.


    In this regard, Li Jing knew that it was a plan, but in order to win the hearts of the people in Hanzhong, he had to take the initiative to step in.


    Li Jing did not want the Shu army to huddle in the city. In order to lead the Shu army to fight, he divided the army into four and deliberately pretended to be arrogant. However, even if he completed the meeting at the city of Nanzheng, he could not lead out a Shu army.


    Just when Li Jing was approaching Nanzheng, Wang Jian had already captured Xicheng.


    Wang Jian led his army to the east, and he turned a blind eye to Wubao along the way. He would only launch a strong attack unless he could not get around it. In the end, he only took two days to arrive in Xicheng.


    The Shu army also knew the importance of the West City, so they arranged five thousand defenders in the West City and ordered the garrison Yang Ang to hold on for half a month.


    But facing Han Xin''s 40,000 Qin troops, Wang Jian''s 15,000 Qin troops, and a total of 55,000 Qin troops, even Bai Qi would not be able to defend the West City with 5,000 people, let alone Yang Ang.


    Only an hour after the war began, the Qin army in Jingbei, who was raising energy in the east, took the lead in attacking the city, and then Wang Jian''s army in the west also climbed the city tower.


    The Xicheng was officially broken, but the defending general Yang Ang would rather die than surrender, and resisted stubbornly in the city lord''s mansion, and was eventually shot by Jingzhou general Wen Pin Sanshu.


    The Qin army captured Xicheng, which means that all Xincheng County was occupied by the Qin Dynasty.


    Hanzhong County was originally one county and nine counties, but under the years of governance and development of Li Shimin, it became three counties, twenty counties, Hanzhong, Shangyong and Xincheng.


    Nowadays, the six counties of Shangyong County and the four counties of Xincheng County have all belonged to the Great Qin.


    As for the ten counties in Hanzhong County, three counties were occupied by the Qin Dynasty, and the two western counties were owned by Li Siyuan. In other words, only five counties that truly belong to the Shu army were left, including Nanzheng.


    (This chapter ends)