Chapter 2617 Liu Yu is vicious, the battle in Hanzhong
Chapter 2614: Liu Yu is vicious, the battle in Hanzhong
Han Xin and Wang Jian jointly broke through the West City. Since then, the gates of Hanzhong and the eastern part of Hanzhong have been completely opened to the Qin Dynasty. This was originally a good thing, but there was one thing that made everyone unhappy.
"Deputy Governor Han, the warehouses in Xicheng have been burned down, and like Anyang County, all the light and strong people in the city have been summoned to the army." Wang Jian said with a serious face.
After hearing this, the generals of Jingzhou, including Han Xin, Wen Pin, Zheng Lun, Chen Qi, etc., also showed serious expressions, obviously they all knew what this news meant.
Although Xicheng did not belong to Hanzhong County, the three counties including Anyang occupied by the Qin army were all recruited in advance without exception.
This probably means that all the young and middle-aged people in Hanzhong were all incorporated into the army by the Shu army, and Shu Han’s preparations were fighting the Qin army to the death in Hanzhong.
The total population of Hanzhong County is 450,000, and the total population of Xicheng is 30,000. Among these 480,000 people, even if women, children and elderly people are removed, even if they only account for one-quarter of the 120,000 people, there are still 120,000.
Most of the Qin army soldiers thought that it would be easy to seize Hanzhong after capturing Yangping Pass.
After all, the most difficult thing to fight in Hanzhong is Yangping Pass. Even this hard bone was broken. How difficult will it be for the rest of Zhucheng?
Many people even think that in order to stop losses, the Shu army may take the initiative to give up Hanzhong after the fall of Yangping Pass.
But the Shu army''s various performances are obviously not ready to give up Hanzhong. But
The Shu Han grain warehouse was burned, and the food was seriously insufficient. It was barely enough to support one''s own army, let alone these 120,000 were so strong.
Therefore, the purpose of Shu Han is already very obvious, which is to exhaust everything from Hanzhong to consume the Qin army, even if Hanzhong is broken into scorched earth, and sacrifice all Hanzhong people will do whatever they want.
Zhang Ren, Shen Shiqi, Liu Er and others obviously could not make such a decision. They neither had the right nor dared to do this. The only person in Shu Han who could make such a decision was Liu Yu.
Before giving up Yangping Pass, Zhang Ren had already sent a letter to Liu Yu, informing Nan Zheng and Yangping Pass, and said that Yangping Pass could no longer be defended.
At this time, Liu Yu was launching a counterattack in southern Shu. After all, Chi You was injured by Houqing and could not go to the battlefield in person. Naturally, such a good opportunity would not be missed.
The Southern Army has no Chiyou, and the military''s military''s military''s growth rate has also decreased by 1 point, and its comprehensive combat power has been pulled back to the same level as the veterans of Shu Han.
However, the Southern Army had only more than 100,000 troops, while the Shu Army had more than 200,000 troops, and there were also a group of powerful generals such as Xing Tian and Lu Ya. Even Emperor Liu Yu personally went to the battlefield.
After Liu Yu became emperor, he broke his own bottleneck and his basic force reached 105, officially joining the ranks of the God of War, but among the God of War, he belonged to the weaker group.
Liu Yu''s own bravery is second, mainly because his own battle was in full force, which greatly encouraged the Shu army.
On the other hand, when the Southern Army saw that Liu Yu had participated in the war in person, his lord could not participate in the war in person, his morale would inevitably be affected.
As one goes up and down, Zhurong and Gonggong are not opponents of Xing Tian and Lu Ya, so it is naturally difficult for the Southern Army not to fall into a disadvantage.
The Southern Army captured half of the four counties of Shu Han, but under the counterattack of more than 200,000 Shu troops, the Southern Army retreated step by step and lost the entire territory of Jingxian County, Liangshan County, and the three counties in the northern part of Jianning County, which was a heavy loss.
Chi You could not participate in the war. If Gonggong was the only one, it would naturally be impossible to stop Xing Tian and Lu Ya. If Fei Lian and Ping Yi were not there, Gonggong would have been killed in battle long ago.
Fei Lian and Ping Yi are both Ying Long''s characters. After they were born, they were implanted in Nanzhong and became generals under Chi You.
Fei Lian was not Fei Lian from the Shang Dynasty when he died under Houyi''s arrow, but the star **** who was one of the fourteen stars in the middle-aged branch of ancient mythology.
Pingyi is also a **** name in ancient legends, but the records of different books are different, and he also has a variety of different identities such as the Rain Master, the Cloud God, the Thunder Master, and the Wind Master.
As ancient gods, both of them have extraordinary strength and have been war-level generals since their birth.
Fei Lian is born with divine power and is the best in the three armies, while Ping Yi is both civil and military, and is both wise and brave.
Southern countries have backward education and lack of talents. All-round talents like Pingyi will naturally be valued by Chiyou.
Therefore, in addition to being a general in the army, Pingyi would occasionally work as a part-time counselor when Prime Minister Shi was not here.
Liu Yu hid Lu Ya''s ace, while Fei Lian and Ping Yi were Chi You''s backers.
But Chi You never expected that he would be injured by Hou Qing and was seriously injured and could not participate in the battle, so that the ace became a life-saving faction.
If it weren''t for Fei Lian and Ping Yi, Gonggong would have been killed by Xing Tian.
Once Gonggong died in battle and Chiyou was unable to participate in the war, the Southern Army would be really in danger.
The role of Fei Lian and Ping Yi is limited to saving Gonggong, and even if the three of them join forces, they can only barely fight Xing Tian and Lu Ya.
But among the Shu army, there were not only Xing Tian and Lu Ya, but also many powerful generals such as Liu Yu, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Shi Jingtang, etc.
If it is just a **** general, can it rely on the number of people or military formations to resist? But how should the God of War offset it?
Just when the Southern Army was in danger, the Southern Princess Zhurong stood up and took over the banner of the Southern Kingdom instead of his brother.
Zhurong led a thousand cavalry to attack the central army of Shu Han, and fought against the three generals Xiahou Ying, Xiao Sheng and Shi Kuanghan alone, but he was able to win the battle.
In order to ensure that the Central Army was not in chaos, Liu Yu decisively ordered Zhang Fei to go for support. When Zhang Fei arrived, the three generals had already been defeated. Xiahou Ying and Xiao Sheng fled with injuries, and Shi Kuanghan died tragically under Zhurong''s sword.
Zhang Fei is a long-standing powerful general and does not take Zhu Rong as a woman seriously. However, after thirty rounds of battle with Zhu Rong, although he avoided Zhu Rong''s flying knife, he was dismissed because his front leg was cut off. Although Zhurong''s flying knife is not as powerful as Lu Ya''s flying knife, it is also one of the best flying knife in the world. It is normal for Zhang Fei to get hit without defense.
If Liu Yu hadn''t taken action in time and stopped Zhurong with one arrow, Zhang Fei would have really died at Zhurong''s hands, and Liu Yu was forced by Zhurong to join the war himself.
Although Zhurong failed to kill Zhang Fei, he injured him. Later, he fought against Zhang Fei and Liu Yu in an injured state.
Zhurong failed to win this time, but he did not lose. In addition, the iron cavalry had attacked the central army and threatened to the hinterland of the Shu army.
In the end, Zhurong''s thousand cavalry, although only more than a hundred cavalry left, returned, killed nearly five thousand Shu troops, dragged the battle that must have been defeated into a draw, and saved more vital forces for the Southern Army.
After this battle, Zhurong became famous in the battle, and the title of the princess of the Southern Kingdom and the **** of fire Zhurong began to become louder and louder. Most Shu people knew that Yue, the sister of the Southern Barbarian King, was also fierce.
But even if Zhurong participated in the war, it still could not change the gap in strength between the two countries and the fact that the southern army was defeated.
Under the counterattack of the Shu army, the Southern Army suffered heavy losses and even had to give up all cities to gather troops in order to continue to confront the Shu army.
Of course, in the war between the Shu barbarians, Zhu Rong was not only outstanding, but Deng Qiang, the defender of the Shu Han Dynasty, was also amazing.
Deng Qiang went deep into the country with five thousand Shu troops alone and threatened the food route of the Southern Army. Chi You forced him to divide his troops to solve Deng Qiang, but instead he was trapped in Deng Qiang''s plan.
Deng Qiang adopted the strategy of siege and attacking aid, set up an ambush, defeated Meng Huo and killed Meng You in the first battle, defeated Tang Yu and Duan Siying in the second battle, and defeated Gonggong and killed Jihuo, the leader of the Chi Dong tribe of the Dong tribe in the third battle.
Deng Qiang roamed the rear of the Southern Army with 5,000 troops, won all three battles, killed more than 10,000 troops in the Southern Army and three powerful generals, setting the best record after the war in Shu, but he also lost more than half of his own, leaving only less than two thousand people to return.
When he first learned that Deng Qiang''s army was in deep, Liu Yu felt that Deng Qiang''s move was too risky and was worried that Deng Qiang would ruin the five thousand troops.
But as the good news continued to be returned and the battle results became more and more exaggerated, Liu Yu realized that Deng Qiang was a hidden dragon.
Liu Yu has been vigorously trying to attract talents from the outside world, but he did not realize that there were a talented person lurking around him, so he was naturally overjoyed. When Deng Qiang returned with great victory, he immediately promoted three levels in a row, obviously preparing to reuse Deng Qiang.
Deng and Qiang won all three battles, which greatly weakened the Southern Army. Liu Yu was also preparing to pursue the victory and beat the dogs in the water, but unexpectedly he received news of the fall of Yangping Pass.
The fall of Yangping Pass was a bolt from the blue for Liu Yu. After all, it would be difficult to save Hanzhong without Yangping Pass.
Liu Yu never expected that Yangping Pass would fall so soon. After all, the Qin army had only a total of 100,000, and he arranged a 100,000 army in Hanzhong, and Li Siyuan had a total of 30,000 army, which was 130,000.
100,000 attacks, 130,000 defenses, how could the defender not be able to defend even for two months?
But the reality is that Yangping Pass has indeed failed to hold it for two months.
When Liu Yu learned that the Qin army had first burned the Nanzheng grain warehouse through the Zizi Army, which made the Shu army unstable and then broke through Yangping Pass, he was not considerate and should have said something.
Liu Yu only knows the military and knows Li Jing''s tactics of the Scout Army. On the surface, he says it is simple to start, but how difficult it is to implement it, so he does not blame Liu Zhang and Zhang Ren. After all, this plan is unsolvable and it is hard to defend against. Even if he is, he will probably fall into the trap.
Now Yangping Pass on the northern line has been broken, and Hanzhong is in danger, but the southern barbarians on the southern line have not yet been resolved. The Shu Han, who had just established the country, has reached a critical moment of life and death.
Liu Yu immediately summoned his advisers to discuss how to deal with the Qin army, but he came to the conclusion that Hanzhong could not be saved.
Liu Yu thought alone all night and finally decided to fight the Qin army to the death.
Since Hanzhong is destined to be trapped in the enemy, it cannot afford the Qin army anyway. Even if it turns Hanzhong into a white land, it will not make Hanzhong a bridgehead for the Qin army to attack Shu Han.
Liu Yu did not think that he would move all the Hanzhong people back to Shuzhong, but on the one hand, the Shu road was difficult to walk, and on the other hand, the time was too late, so it would be better to destroy it simply.
But even if Liu Yu was willing to destroy Hanzhong, it would not be cheap for the Qin Dynasty. He could not directly butcher the knife to his own people, otherwise the Shu Han would not agree, and he would definitely be despised by the people of the world.
After thinking about it, Liu Yu thought of a more absolutely and vicious way, which is to use all the light and strong Hanzhong as cannon fodder.
Just imagine, if all the young people in Hanzhong died at the hands of the Qin army, would the Hanzhong people still obey the rule of the Qin army?
The thing Li Jing was most worried about was about to happen. Liu Yu was determined to fight the Qin army to the death. He would rather turn Hanzhong into a scorched earth than to be cheaper than Daqin. If Daqin came to the forcibly, he would only get a broken Hanzhong.
I have to say that Liu Yu’s method is indeed cruel enough, which makes Li Jing a little confused. After all, the Qin army has already broken through Yangping Pass and has paid such a great price, so it is impossible to withdraw the troops.
But if we are forced, 80,000 to 90,000 Shu troops, plus more than 100,000 Hanzhong''s strongest Hanzhong, even if the Qin army can chew, there will probably be heavy casualties, and what we get is the broken Hanzhong, which is not worth the gain.
At Li Jing''s deliberate request, Han Xin and Wang Jian stayed in Xicheng for three days, left half a month of food rations for the people of the city, and led an army of 50,000 to Nanzheng. During this period, a great war broke out in Nanzheng.
On this day, the four gates of Nanzheng City opened wide. Zhang Ren led 10,000 Shu troops and 30,000 armed soldiers and thirty thousand soldiers out of the city, and rushed out of the Qin army''s camp frantically.
The Qin army was well-trained and well-equipped. Such attacks naturally did not have much impact, but they would feel tired after a long battle.
Li Jing ordered Yang Jian to lead only three thousand cavalry to easily defeat the invaders, beheading nearly 10,000 people, but he suffered little losses, but the next day the soldiers and civilians of the Shu army attacked again.
(This chapter ends)