Chapter 2618: Nanzheng Offensive and Defensive Battle (Part 1) No Detoxification Scheme
Chapter 2615: The Nanzheng offensive and defensive battle (Part 1) has no detoxification plan
When the Shu army attacked again, the Qin army naturally could not be beaten passively, so Li Jing ordered Long and lead three thousand iron cavalry to fight.
After an hour of fierce battle, the Shu army composed of Qingzhuang was defeated again, and Long Geng led his troops to cover up the killing, but encountered the five thousand new forces of Kong Peng, who was responsible for cutting off the rear.
As was the case yesterday, the Qin army had been fighting for an hour and had a great energy consumption, so it failed to defeat the Shu army.
Long Qi was also stopped by Liu Er. After a big battle, he quickly fell into a disadvantage and joined forces with Ma Shanwei and Ma Chao. Only then could he barely draw with Liu Er, but he failed to maximize the results.
"Grandmaster General Long Qi has returned victoriously. In this battle, he killed five thousand Shu troops and captured five thousand prisoners, while our army suffered less than five hundred casualties."
After hearing his subordinates'' report, Li Jing remained silent and did not speak. After all, he was watching the whole of the two battles yesterday and today.
When Long Qi fought with Liu Er''s troops, Li Jing had thought of dispatching a large army again to swallow Liu Er''s troops in one bite, but he gave up after weighing the pros and cons.
The reason is no different. The Shu army''s fighting style was a bit too extreme. Nearly 20,000 people were ruined in two days and two battles, as if they were intentionally giving away their heads, which made Li Jing instinctively feel something was wrong.
"How many prisoners of Shu army were captured in these two battles?" Li Jing asked.
Wu Qi stood up and replied, "Yesterday, 6,000, today, 5,000, there are already 11,000."
"Go and interrogate these prisoners."
"No."
The next day, the Shu army invaded again, but this time it was not Kong Peng and Liu Er, but Zhang Hao.
Zhang Hao was a hidden figure in the Bronze Hundred Swordsman period during the Sixteen Kingdoms period. After being born, he was implanted into Zhang Ren''s younger brother, so he naturally also served in Shu Han.
Zhang Hao''s original surname was Gong, and the Zhao general Zhang Ping was adopted as his adopted son, and then he changed it to the Zhang family, and was from the Xuanshi County, Shangdang County (now Gaoping City, Shanxi Province).
When the King of the Former Qin Dynasty was appointed to attack Zhang Ping, he appointed Deng Qiang, the first general of the Former Qin Dynasty, as the vanguard.
Zhang Ping had known Deng Qiang for a long time, so he naturally did not dare to be careless, so he let his godson Zhang Hao, who was the most capable person under his command, go on the battle.
The two armies confronted each other and fought for more than ten days. Deng Qiang, who had an absolute advantage, could not win. Later, Fu Jian personally led his troops to come, and Zhang Ping also led the main force to meet the enemy.
The two sides lined up their formations, Zhang Hao showed off his might, and only brought a small number of elite soldiers to break into the formation, leading by example, and killed five in and five out of the Former Qin army. The Former Qin army was almost shaken under its impact.
Zhang Hao''s bravery and good fighting made Fu Jian love him when he saw him, and he gave him a heavy reward and captured him.
After the decisive battle began, in the melee between the two armies, Zhang Hao was besieged by the generals of the Former Qin Dynasty. He was almost exhausted and was stabbed by Lu Guang first, and then captured by Deng Qiang.
Zhang Hao was captured and Zhang Ping''s army was defeated. Zhang Ping had no choice but to surrender. Fu Jian also accepted Zhang Ping''s surrender, but took Zhang Hao away and appointed him as the General of the Tiger Ben.
Later, Zhang Hao followed Fu Jian, quelled the rebellion of the Five Dukes, defeated the Former Yan and Dai Kingdom, defeated Xie Shi, and together with Deng Qiang, he was called the "Eneme of Ten Thousand People" by historian Cui Hong.
Deng Qiang''s enemy is a reflection of both commander and martial arts, while Zhang Hao is a reflection of martial arts alone, and his strength naturally reaches the level of the God of War.
In the previous Yangpingguan offensive and defensive battle, Kang Anyu, Hua Xiong and Sun Chongjin joined forces, but they were still defeated by Zhang Hao and injured Hua Xiong and Sun Chongjin.
After the war was cut off, Zhang Hao defeated and seriously injured the three generals Kang Anyu, Li Jue and Zhang Xiu.
To be honest, Liu Er and Kong Peng''s contribution to the offensive and defensive battle in Yangpingguan was not as good as Zhang Hao.
Seeing Zhang Hao going to fight, Li Jing, considering that many generals had already been defeated by Zhang Hao, he would definitely not be defeated again this time, so he sent Gongsun Xuanyuan to fight.
As soon as Xuanyuan left, Wu Qi entered the tent with the interrogation report and said seriously: "Grandmaster, the interrogation results have come out. The 11,000 prisoners of war in Shu army captured were all from four counties including Anyang Xicheng."
As soon as this statement was made, the generals of the Qin army did not respond, but Li Jing took a breath.
“It’s trouble now.”
Li Jing couldn''t help but mutter to himself, and at the same time he thought about countermeasures in his heart.
Now the intention of Shu Han is very obvious, which is to use the lives of the Hanzhong people to consume the Qin army. However, Liu Yu, who was the emperor, was afraid of his longing every day and did not dare to do it too ugly, so he only let Hanzhong be cannon fodder.
After all, if all the young people in Hanzhong died at the hands of the Qin army, the Hanzhong people would definitely be full of hatred for the Qin Dynasty. Even if the Qin army occupied Hanzhong, it would be difficult to win the hearts of the Hanzhong people.
But Liu Yu''s plan has a huge hidden danger, that is, the people of Hanzhong are not stupid, and they will definitely not die for Shu Han in vain.
If the Qin army used the attacking tactics well and used the attacking battles between Hanzhong women and children in the occupied areas, it might even make these Hanzhong, who were regarded as cannon fodder, turn against each other.
But Li Jing is a master of the tactics of attacking the heart, and the main thing he used to break through Yangping Pass is to attack the heart.
Liu Yu naturally could not have known about this, so if this problem cannot be solved, Shu Han will shoot himself in the foot.
With Liu Yu''s 96 intellectual attributes, he still couldn''t think of a solution. In the end, Su Qin offered his advice to solve this problem.
The strategy proposed by Su Qin is also very simple, which is to first use the light and strong people from the occupied areas as cannon fodder.
All the people in the occupied areas were old, weak, women and children, and all the food in their hands was confiscated by the Shu army. To the Qin army, they could reduce the burden on the Shu army, and to consume the food and grass of the Qin army.
As for whether the Qin army will provide these people with food and supplies?
Then it will not be under the control of the Shu army.
The Shu army even wished that the Qin army would not provide food and grass, so that these hundreds of believers could starve to death, but the possibility was too low. The people-oriented approach of the Qin army will definitely provide food and grass to the people in Hanzhong even if the burden of food and grass transportation is increased.
But this is exactly the same as the Shu army. The Qin army''s food and grass pressure doubles. If a protracted war is fought, it may be able to drag down the Qin army.
After that, as long as the recruits in the occupied areas were declared to the Qin army that the Qin army would not provide food and grass for the people who had fallen into Zhucheng, if they could not recover the lost land as soon as possible, the fellow villagers in their hometown would starve to death.
They are definitely unwilling to let these new recruits die for Shu Han, but if they are to save the villagers in their hometown, I believe that most people are willing to fight to the end.
As long as you counterattack under the banner of regaining your home, the young and strong people in the occupied areas will take the initiative to be cannon fodder.
Once the new recruits in the occupied area were killed or injured, the Qin army and the Hanzhong people in the occupied area would be defeated.
Even if there are so many young men who die in battle, the people in the occupied areas will be full of resentment towards the Qin army, and obviously they will not be standing on the side of the Qin army.
At that time, even if the Qin army can mobilize some of the people in the occupied areas and let them persuade them to surrender the unbreakable city, and want to dismantle the Shu army from within, it is destined to play a great role.
Because the young and strong born in the occupied area have been sent out to be cannon fodder, the remaining people in the city are all from the unoccupied area, and the lives of the people in the occupied area have nothing to do with them, and even their daily rations are still provided by Shu Han, so it is naturally impossible to be persuaded by the people in the occupied area.
I have to say that Su Qin has thought through the darkness of people’s hearts, and his plan is unsolvable at present.
If Su Qin really comes to the plan, the Shu army only needs to defend Nanzheng City, and if the city falls, the recruits from the city will be used as cannon fodder.
Even when food and grass are insufficient, the Shu army can take the initiative to give up and throw all the bags of the city to the Qin army and let them die.
This can consume the Qin army''s military strength, secondly, reduce its own food and grass consumption, thirdly, increase the logistics pressure of the Qin army, fourthly, aggravate the hatred of the Hanzhong people towards the Qin army, make the Qin army unstable, and fifthly...
It can be said that it can kill multiple goals in one fell swoop.
If Su Qin wants to implement this plan smoothly, he must first consume the new recruits in the occupied area as cannon fodder before the Qin army launched the old and weak in the occupied area.
It is precisely because of this that the Shu army has frequently fought in the past three days, just to send the young and brave people in the occupied areas to death.
As soon as he thought of this, Li Jing suddenly opened his eyes and quickly ordered: "Changsun Wuji, immediately go and check the four cities of Anyang Xicheng. Those families of the young and strong were recruited by the Shu army and invite their families to the front line as soon as possible."
"No."
Changsun Wuji took the order and left, and shortly after he left, Gongsun Xuanyuan was able to return victoriously.
Like Yang Jian and Long Gai, Xuanyuan easily defeated the cannon fodder composed of light and strong, but because the opponent was too large, the soldiers also consumed a lot of physical strength. When they encountered Zhang Hao''s army of broken rears, they naturally became weak.
There was no accident in the battle between Xuanyuan and Zhang Hao.
Although Zhang Hao is strong in the enemy of ten thousand people, he is obviously still quite different from Xuanyuan, one of the three emperors.
The two sides fought for a full fifty rounds, but in the end Zhang Hao was defeated by Xuanyuan and fled back in a panic.
After the war, after counting, the Qin army killed 8,000 enemies and captured 5,000, and lost less than 600 of them in this battle.
Looking at the battle report of this great victory, Li Jing was not happy at all.
So far, there are as many as 18,000 Hanzhong who died at the hands of the Qin army, and the captives have reached 16,000.
Shu Han used 36,000 Hanzhong to defeat 1,600 soldiers of the Qin Dynasty.
Then how much sacrifice will the Qin army make after all the cannon fodder are sent?
Moreover, after being consumed by more than 100,000 cannon fodder in turn, the morale of the Qin army will inevitably decline to a certain extent. Can we still maintain the advantage in combat power when facing the Shu army?
These are all urgent problems that need to be solved urgently, but are unsolvable.
Changsun Wuji was very efficient in his work. In less than a day, he found out from the surrendered officials of the four counties in Anyang to find out the specific number of people recruited by the four counties and whose families were still there.
The people of the four counties including Anyang and Xicheng, learned that their conscripted sons, husbands and younger brothers were fighting against the Qin army on the front line, and they all rushed to come to the front line to persuade them to turn against the evil.
But it is obvious that it is not possible to invite the families of these people to the front line in a short period of time.
Changsun Wuji could only register and make arrangements first, and then make arrangements after investigation.
Fortunately, during this period, the Shu army did not continue to launch a counterattack. It was obvious that the new recruits from the four cities of Anxin had been consumed.
In addition, the spies excluded by the Qin army found that the Shu army voluntarily gave up Chenggu County, and tens of thousands of people in the city were about to lose food.
But Li Jing hesitated about whether to take over Chenggu County.
If you don’t accept this, if Chenggu County lets itself die, a large number of people will starve to death soon.
It’s not that Li Jing felt sorry for the food and supplies, but as long as he received it, the Shu army would let Chenggu County’s Qingshen die.
As soon as he thought of this, even Li Jing, who had always been calm, could not help but become distorted.
Who made this poisonous plan? It’s too poisonous and disgusting.
Li Jing cursed in his heart, not knowing why, but he always felt that Zhang Yi was a bit like this style.
Like most people, Li Jing also thought that the biggest problem in capturing Hanzhong County was Yangping Pass. As long as Yangping Pass was captured, it would be easy next, but he did not expect that the situation after breaking Yangping Pass would be even more difficult.
After hesitating, Li Jing decided to take over Chenggu County. After all, even if the Shu army sent Qingzhuang from Chenggu County as cannon fodder, it would not be possible that all of them would die at the hands of the Qin army. Nearly half of the people would be captured, at least the families of these people would be grateful to the Qin army.
Just when Li Jing took over Chenggu County, Han Xin''s vanguard and the first batch of people''s families also arrived at the Nanzheng front line successfully.
(This chapter ends)