Chapter 2672 Xinling Jun Wei Wuji VS Soldier Immortal Han Xin
Chapter 2669: Xinling Jun Wei Wuji VS Soldier Immortal Han Xin
Cao Cao ordered Cao Bin, who was born in the royal family, to serve as the position of the Grand Governor of Yingchuan, and led generals such as Cao Gui, Chen Gong, Xue Ju, Cao Wei, Xue Rengao, Xue Andu, Ji Ling, Yang Hong, Yuan Huan, and other generals, as well as 100,000 troops to guard the seventeen counties of Yingchuan County.
The core of Yingchuan County today is naturally the former capital of Cao Wei, Xuchang City.
Like Jianye, the capital of Wu State, Xuchang was named Xu County before it was established as the capital of Cao Wei, and it was also a small county with a population of only tens of thousands. At that time, the capital of Yingchuan County was actually Yangdi City, which was more westward.
Cao Cao did not set up the capital in Yangdi, but instead set up the small county town Xuxian as the capital and renamed it Xuchang for three reasons:
First, Yangdi City has been breached many times by the Yellow Turban Thiefs, and the population loss is very serious, and it is no longer as prosperous as before.
Second, Yangdi City is closer to Daqin than Xuchang, and it is very easy to be grasped.
The third is Xuchang''s geographical location, which is easier to radiate to the entire Yanzhou. At that time, Yanzhou was in the stage of a melee between princes. If Xuchang was used as the capital, it would be more convenient to sweep the chaos in Yanzhou.
Cao Cao''s construction of Xuchang is not as stable as Sun Jian''s construction of Jianye.
Sun Jian relied on relocating refugees to strengthen Jianye bit by bit, while Cao Cao directly moved hundreds of thousands of people, making Xuchang directly become one of the top cities in the world.
After defeating Li Zicheng, Cao Cao surrendered his subordinates for more than one million people, one-third of which were moved to Xuchang, and the rest were dispersed and scattered throughout Yanzhou.
At that time, Yanzhou had become ruined due to the long-term melee of the princes, while Cao Cao took over the mess and rebuilt his home for the people on this ruin. It took less than ten years to restore most of Yanzhou''s vitality.
If it weren''t for the millions left to Cao Cao after Li Zicheng''s death, Cao Cao would never have allowed Yanzhou to recover so quickly.
Today, in addition to Xuchang City, the five cities of Yanzhou are also extremely important.
Yangcheng and Lunshi City guard the northwest of Yingchuan and block the Qin army in the two directions of Xuanyuan Pass and Dagu Pass respectively.
Jia County guarded the western part of Yingchuan and blocked the Qin army in the direction of Guangcheng Pass.
Kunyang City guards the southwest of Yingchuan and blocks the Qin army in the direction of Nanyang.
Yangdi, the former capital, is the last line of defense in the western part of Yingchuan. If Yangdi City fails, the Qin army in the northwest and western regions will march straight into the city of Xuchang.
Yingchuan is the county with the largest population and the most prosperous economy. Once captured by the Qin army, the war potential of Cao Wei will be greatly reduced, and the southwest of Chenliu will also be exposed to the eyes of the Great Qin Iron Cavalry.
Therefore, for Cao Wei, defending Yingchuan County was also the key to the battle between Qin and Wei.
But Yingchuan County and Daqin are bordered by three sides, so it is still very difficult to defend.
Cao Cao had expected such a day, so he had been strengthening the city defenses of Yangcheng, Lunshi, Kunyang, Jiaxian and Yangdi, and also built a new pass between Songshan and Fuxi Mountain, and named it Guban Pass.
After all, if the Qin army wants to attack Xuchang, it will be the closest distance from Xuchang to Yangcheng, Lunshi City and Yangdi.
The area of ??Guban Pass is east of Yangcheng and Lun clan, west of Yangdi City, and between Songshan and Fuxi Mountain is already dangerous. Cao Cao built this pass according to the standards of Hulao Pass, so it is even more dangerous and is also the only barrier in western Wei that can resist the invasion of the Qin army.
In order to establish Luban Pass, Cao Cao spent a lot of resources, but what Cao Cao didn''t know was that he built Luban Pass so well.
After Ying Hao learned that Koban Pass was so dangerous and not easy to capture, he would rather go to Guangcheng Pass farther than march from the two directions closer to Xuanyuan Pass and Ogu Pass, which made Cao Wei make so many preparations in Koban Pass.
Cao Cao was not aware of this, but even if he knew it, he would still not regret it. After all, this would avoid fighting on both sides. He could concentrate his troops to defend Jia County to prevent the Qin army on the front line of Guangcheng Pass in the west.
Although Cao Bin knew that the Qin army would come to attack Yingchuan in two ways, he did not know which Qin army would go. After all, Xuanyuan Pass, Dagu Pass, Guangcheng Pass, and Ye County may all become the main attack directions of the Qin army, so defenses must be set up in four directions in the early stage of the war.
Cao Gui suggested focusing on the deployment of Kunyang. After all, among these four routes, there must be Qin troops going from Jingzhou to Jingzhou, and Kunyang is the only way to enter Yingchuan from Jingzhou.
Cao Bin felt that Cao Gui''s words were very reasonable and decided to increase his troops to Xue Ju, who was guarding Kunyang, but before the army could send them out, he received news that Han Xin''s 70,000 troops were attacked by Kunyang.
Whether it was Cao Bin, Cao Gui, or Chen Gong, they all thought that even if Han Xin attacked, he would only attack from Ye County, so they concentrated their men to stare at the direction of Ye County.
As expected by the three, the Qin army in Jingzhou was indeed gathering in Ye County, but the army may not have been fully in place, so they have been stationed in Ye County.
But in fact, what all three of them could think of was something Han Xin, a soldier immortal, could not have imagined?
He deliberately let the army gather in Ye County in a bold manner, and let the 30,000 troops pretend to be the entire 70,000 troops, but in fact, he had led 40,000 troops to cross mountains and ridges to Feng County, and launched a surprise attack on Kunyang City from the west.
Xue Ju, who was in charge of guarding Kunyang, always thought that the Qin army would come from the south, but he never expected that the Qin army would come from the west and did not have much defense at all, so he was caught off guard for a while.
More than a dozen Wu forts west of Kunyang were completely destroyed by Han Xin in just one day, and the Qin army easily attacked the city of Kunyang.
Han Xin originally wanted to let the surrendered army pretend to be successful and defeated, and use it to trick the Kunyang city gate.
But Xue Ju, the garrison general of Kunyang City, was a veteran who had become famous during the Yellow Turban period. After rebelling against Zhu Di and being forced to surrender to Wei, he has not been abandoned in recent years, but has improved a lot in the three Central Plains wars.
Today, Xue Ju’s five dimensions: commander 95 (+1), force 105 (+3), intelligence 80 (+2), politics 78 (+3), charm 80 (-1);
Xue Ju was not very capable of being deceived so easily, and after seeing through the person pretending to be a posing, he decisively ordered all the people pretending to be shot and killed. Seeing that Han Xin failed to cheat the door, he decisively ordered the attack, and the offensive and defensive battle in Kunyang began.
Xue Ju led 15,000 Wei troops to defend Kunyang to the death, while Han Xin led 40,000 Qin troops to attack Kunyang, and there were still 30,000 troops behind him on the way.
Han Xin actually doesn''t like to fight siege, because any casualties in the siege will definitely not be small. He also thought that if he could not take Kunyang directly, he would bypass Kunyang and take Xuchang directly.
But Cao Wei''s determination to resist Qin was much greater than that of Zhao and Song. He even implemented a strong wall and cleared the fields, confiscated all the food and grass in the hands of the people, and distributed food in a unified manner to prevent the Qin army from collecting grain on site in Wei State.
The reason why Xue Rengui dared to lead 50,000 cavalry to bypass Tongbai Mountain guarded by Shibao and directly penetrated into Runan County was because Zhao Song did not strengthen the walls and clear the fields.
After entering Runan, the Qin army''s cavalry can use war to support the war and collect grain on the spot, so there is no need to worry about the lack of food.
But this kind of tactic cannot be used in Cao Wei, because Cao Wei''s strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the fields left only food in his hands.
If Han Xin bypassed Kunyang and rushed straight to Xuchang, if he could not break the city in one battle, he would soon fall into a situation of shortage of food. Even if he forced himself to collect grain on the spot regardless of the people''s hearts, the food and grass in the hands of the people would not be enough for the Qin army to consume.
Cao Wei actually hoped that the Qin Dynasty would forcefully collect grain regardless of the lives and death of the people of Wei. After all, Cao Wei was not so popular with the local people.
Although Yanzhou was able to recover its vitality in such a short time because of Cao Cao, it was just to restore its vitality. The people at the bottom were not doing well, and in the final analysis, the burden of military service in the Wei State was too heavy.
More than four million people have to support 330,000 troops. The people at the bottom of Wei State were so overwhelmed by the burden of the army. They were limited to the degree of being alive but not starving. How could they support Cao Wei?
In addition to military service, Wei State was once in a state of shortage of food due to drought, and it was through the food shortage with the help of Daqin food and grass.
Cao Cao was afraid of the Qin Dynasty and naturally would not publicize it to the outside world. The food was assisted by the Qin Dynasty, but the Qin Dynasty would not not publicize it.
The people of Wei State did not starve to death by eating the food of the Qin Dynasty. Naturally, they were grateful to the Qin Dynasty.
Therefore, many people in the Wei State did not actually think that the Qin Dynasty was an invader, and even wanted Wei State to be destroyed by the Qin Dynasty, so that they could be freed from the heavy military service.
The senior officials of Cao Wei hoped that the Qin Dynasty would forcefully collect grain regardless of the lives of the people, in order to arouse hatred from the people of Wei State towards the Qin army.
Some people even proposed to pretend to be the Qin army, slaughter one or two small cities, and then blame the Qin Dynasty to inspire the hatred of the people of Wei State towards the Qin Dynasty, but it was unanimously rejected by senior officials such as Cao Cao and Fan Li.
It’s not that Cao Cao was kind-hearted. If it was really useful, with his unscrupulous personality, he might not have tried it. However, the Qin army had never done a city massacre, and the army was extremely upright. Even if it was done, it would not be able to blame the Qin Dynasty. On the contrary, it would be easy to expose itself, which would really be a loss.
Due to the food problem, Han Xin had no way to bypass Xuchang, so he could only attack Kunyang first, so he took advantage of the lack of preparations in Kunyang City and concentrated his elite troops to attack Ximen.
Under Han Xin''s precise command, less than an hour after the war started, Qin general Mi Houwang led the team to attack the city wall and took the opportunity to occupy a place to allow more Qin soldiers to come up.
Seeing that all the people sent to the past were killed and retreated, Xue Ju had more and more Qin troops climbed the city tower, and knew that there must be masters among the Qin army.
If the other party has not climbed the city tower, Xue Ju can still rely on equipment to make the other party retreat by focusing fire, but now that the other party has climbed into the city, it is not so easy to repel.
Xue Ju decided to take action himself. After handing over the command to Wei Wuji, he personally led his personal guards to siege and kill Mi Haohong.
During the war, Wei Wuji, the king of Xinling, the king of Wei, was also known as the fourth prince of the Warring States Period, Huang Xie, the king of Chunshen, Tian Wen, the king of Mengchang, and Zhao Sheng, the king of Pingyuan, of Zhao.
Among the four young masters of the Warring States Period, Huang Xie, the first one, was implanted as the son of Huang Zu. After Huang Zu died at the hands of Liu Xiu, he led the remnants of Huang Zu to surrender to the Qin Dynasty.
Zhao Sheng was implanted in the State of Song, but unfortunately, during the Battle of the Japanese, he was killed by a broken mast due to storm and rain.
Tian Wen was implanted in a farmer''s home and currently works in Shu Han, while Wei Wuji was the last person to appear.
Wei Wuji has a good commander. After taking over the command from Xue Ku, he immediately stabilized the defense of Ximen and quickly dispatched troops from the city gate.
Wei Wuji''s decision was very correct. He might not be able to defend Kunyang. The key lies in him, but in whether Xue Ju can defeat Mi Haohong.
Xue Ju and Mi Houying are both gods of war in Jiwu 105, but the difference is that Xue Ju is a historical figure, while Mi Houying is a mythical figure.
Generally speaking, mythical characters are blessed by legends, and their overall strength is stronger than historical characters, but there are also some individual cases, such as Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao.
When Xue Jujiwu was 104, he dared to fight Guan Yu, the 105th God of War. Although he was defeated, he escaped unscrupulously. Now he has been promoted to the God of War. His strength is obviously stronger than ordinary God of War.
The Seven Great Saints of Ventilation VS The Overlord of the West Qin, this battle is destined to be exciting and intense, and it is obviously not that easy to decide the outcome.
(This chapter ends)