Chapter 2772: The Battle to Show off the Beauty, Long Give VS Gao Huan


    Chapter 2769: The Battle to Show America, Long Qi VS Gao Huan


    The strongest army in Sui State was the 50,000 army in Daxing. Among them, there were not only the powerful Western Liang Iron Cavalry, but also the elite Xiaoguo Army. Even if the Qin army was fully capable of defeating it, it was not easy.


    Logically speaking, if Yang Guang chooses to defend such a strong army, even Li Jing will not be able to do anything to him if he relies on the dangers of the city wall.


    But under the influence of the general trend, Daxing City completely turned into an isolated city and a dead city, which forced Yang Guang to abandon the city and flee, and took the initiative to give up Daxing, the most powerful city in Liangzhou.


    With the combat power of the 50,000 Sui army in Daxing City, even if the Qin army tried its best, it would have to pay a huge price to eliminate it.


    But with Yang Guang''s voluntary escape and Li Jing''s ten-sided ambush strategy, three ambush battles were defeated, and the Qin army finally paid a slight price to destroy the strongest army in the Sui Kingdom.


    After the war, the Qin army suffered less than 1,500 casualties, but it achieved a total record of annihilation of 28,000 enemies and 7,000 prisoners.


    The soldiers of the Sui army were actually quite unjustly defeated. Most of them died at the hands of ambushers and did not exert their combat effectiveness at all. But this is the cruelty of the war and there is no reason to make sense.


    Li Jing ordered Huluguang to lead an army of 30,000 to support Xianmei City, while he returned to Daxing with the remaining troops and prisoners and officially took over the control of Daxing from the surrendered army.


    As the capital of the Sui Dynasty and the largest city in Guanxi, Daxing City has a population of 160,000, which is more than the total population of any two counties in Xiliang.


    Yang Chan and Yang Jing learned that Li Jing was back, so he specially pulled Cheng Gongying, Ximen Bao, Zhao Ying, Li Delin and other surrendered ministers of the Sui Dynasty to hold a city offering ceremony for Li Jing.


    Under the attention of the people of the whole city, Li Jing took over the military talismans, household registration books, and seals from Cheng Gongying, and then sent troops to officially take over Daxing City.


    The first thing Li Jing did after entering the city was to send people to take over and count the treasury, but found that there were 300,000 stones of food and grass in the city, and found that 100,000 taels of gold, 500,000 taels of silver, 200,000 pieces of silk, nearly 50 cars of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as swords, guns, swords, and halberds that were enough to equip the 80,000 army of weapons.


    Li Jing was shocked when he learned about it. He knew that the Sui Kingdom occupied the Silk Road and made a fortune, but he did not expect that the Sui Kingdom would be so rich.


    Previously, the Sui State helped the Qiang people form an army of 100,000. Li Jing also felt that Yang Guang should have paid off his family’s assets almost the same. It turned out that what he paid off was only the Haizhou’s assets, and the real big head was still prosperous.


    To put it bluntly, the capture of Daxing alone is enough to offset the expenditure of the four routes of the Great Qin Dynasty to attack the Sui Dynasty, and there is even a surplus.


    Li Jing finally understood why the court was so eager to occupy Liangzhou. The Silk Road was really profitable. The sooner it was opened, the more beneficial it would be to the Qin Dynasty.


    The Sui Kingdom was just a small country in Guanxi, and the Lianghai states were also barren land with vast land and sparsely populated areas. It was precisely because they occupied the Silk Road that they could support 300,000 troops and become the dominant one of Guanxi.


    "Yang Guang is dead, Daxing has surrendered. Next, the two Lianghai prefectures can be issued an edict, and the Silk Road will also be under the control of our Great Qin."


    Li Jing smiled and said to himself, feeling even more relaxed than ever before. After all, after opening the Silk Road, the financial resources of the Qin army in Guanxi will definitely be richer in the future, and it will be easier to go south to destroy Shu in the future.


    At this time, what Li Jing thought was not to attack the Sui Dynasty, but how to unite the forces of the four prefectures of Yongliang, Haihe, and at the same time divide and disintegrate many forces in the Western Regions, so as to prepare in advance for the future destruction of Shu Han.


    "Report to the Grand Governor, Gao Huan withdrew his troops from Xianmei City."


    "Have Gao Huan ran away?" Li Jing frowned.


    The Battle of Showing the United States is actually a key point in the Battle of Sui Dynasty.


    Long Qi led 70,000 troops to attack and capture Xianmei City, while Gao Huan, the governor of Liangzhou of the Sui State, led 70,000 troops back to the rescue, but was blocked by Long Qi''s 40,000 Qin troops.


    Why is there only 40,000 troops left in Long Qi''s hand? In fact, it is to cooperate with Li Jing''s plan to trap the dragon.


    In order to completely isolate Daxing City, Li Jing sent Li Maozhen to lead an army of 30,000 to attack the ten counties of Wuwei County from east to west, and Long Geng ordered Long Yang to lead an army of 30,000 to attack Wuwei County from west to east.


    Once the ten counties of Wuwei under the Sui Dynasty were captured by the Qin army, Daxing City would completely become an isolated city.


    The two Qin troops led by Li Maozhen and Long Yang had a total of 60,000 troops. Under the attack on both sides, it was only a matter of time to capture the Wuwei County with less than 20,000 troops. However, the prefect of Wuwei of the Sui State was named Wei Xiaokuan.


    Wei Xiaokuan was a famous general during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In his early years, he participated in wars many times in the Northern Wei Dynasty and was promoted. Later, he was valued by Yuwen Tai of the Western Wei Dynasty and sent him to guard the Yubi, a military important military land at the junction of the East and West Wei Dynasty.


    Gao Huan led a large army to attack and encircle Yubi. Wei Xiaokuan''s military strength was at a disadvantage, but he used terrain and tactics to defend the city. Gao Huan used various tactics to attack the city. The Eastern Wei army besieged the city for more than 50 days, suffered heavy losses in force, and finally retreated. Gao Huan also died of illness after returning to the army.


    The Battle of Yubi was one of the key battles for the rise and fall of the strength of the Eastern and Western Wei. After this war, the Western Wei, which was originally weak, smashed the Eastern Wei''s attempt to destroy the Western Wei.


    Later, Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou, Yuwen Yong, accepted Wei Xiaokuan''s advice, and successfully defeated the Northern Qi and unified the north.


    Wei Xiaokuan was a famous general who was good at defending, and the ten cities of Wuwei in the Sui Dynasty were relied on by the Sui Dynasty and built into a fortress that was easy to defend but difficult to attack. He was specially prepared for the invasion of the Qin army. Therefore, Li Maozhen and Long Yang''s attack on Wuwei was not smooth.


    In the early days of Li Maozhen and Longyang''s attack, they relied on their high morale and rapid advancement, quickly broke through the city and captured half of Wuwei''s cities, but also gave Wei Xiaokuan the opportunity to shrink his troops and defend Guzang City to the death.


    When Wei Xiaokuan concentrated his troops to defend, Li Maozhen and Long Yang''s nightmare came. No matter how hard they attacked, they could not break through Wei Xiaokuan''s iron wall defense.


    At this time, Li Maozhen and Long Yang realized that the invincible battle in the early stage was not because they were able to fight, but because the Grand Governor Li Jing had planned and was shocked to defeat the Sui army. The failure to break through Guzang for a long time made Li Maozhen and Long Yang a little impatient, and they were so obsessed with Wei Xiaokuan''s trick of surrendering, which damaged a lot of troops and further declined morale.


    At this time, Yang Guang issued an order to resolve the Qiang Dynasty, causing the original Qiang people to return.


    The Qiang people led by Yelu Shilu, Yelu Helu, Yelu Xiuge and Yelu Xizhen fled and led 30,000 Qiang troops to officially leave Yuanmeng, return to Liangzhou, and go to Xianmei to join the war to support the Sui army.


    Gao Huan already had 70,000 Sui troops, plus Yelu Shilu''s 30,000 Qiang troops, the total force reached 100,000 after the two sides met, which made Long Qi, who had only 40,000 defenders a little unbearable.


    Guzang City could not be captured for a long time, but Xianmei City was besieged by the 100,000 Sui Qiang army. Long Qi was isolated and unable to support it. In desperation, he could only suspend the offensive against Guzang City and recall Long Yang''s 30,000 troops, allowing Li Maozhen to lead 25,000 troops to stare at Wei Xiaokuan.


    Long Qi''s approach would undoubtedly leave hidden dangers to Li Jing''s trapping dragons, and eventually caused Yang Guang to give up Daxing and flee early after the Battle of Wild Bison Mountain. However, Long Qi did not have any other choice at that time, and he could only choose the latter between Guzang and Xianmei.


    When Long Yang led the 30,000 troops back, Long Qi had been defending Xianmei City for half a month under the fierce attack of 100,000 enemy troops, and the 40,000 defenders still fought 25,000, but did not allow Gao Huan and Yelu Shilu to take advantage of it.


    The coalition of Gao Huan and Yelu Shilu is difficult to deal with. Not only the three famous generals, Gao Huan, Yelu Xiuge, and Yelu Xizhen, but also the three powerful generals of Gao Jineng, Yelu Shilu and Yelu Helu.


    It is obviously impossible to stop so many people by relying on the Dragon and his own strength.


    At the critical moment, Long Qi and the three generals Zhongli, Yu Ziqi and Ji Bu inspired the combination skills of "Five Tigers to Defeat the Enemy", which then repelled Gao Jineng and others and persisted to the arrival of Longyang''s reinforcements.


    Long Yang returned, and Long Qi''s pressure was greatly reduced. The two brothers defended Xianmei City to the death, and the materials that defended the city were exhausted. In the end, they had to take the initiative to fight the Sui and Qiang coalition forces.


    Long Qi personally led 50,000 Qin troops, including the two elite troops of Tenglong Army and the Wolf Cavalry Army, as well as many powerful generals such as Longyang, Zhongli Crown, Ji Bu, Yu Ziqi, Guan Hai, Liao Hua, etc., to fight against Gao Huan and Yelu Shilu''s 70,000 Sui and Qiang coalition forces.


    The Sui and Qiang coalition also gathered elite soldiers and generals. Not only were there three famous generals and three war gods, but there were also two elite troops, Piss Army and Tielin Army.


    The two brothers Long Qi and Long Yang joined forces to inspire the combination skills of "wife and feet are the same", and coupled with the increase of "Five Tigers to Defeat the Enemy", this blocked the three war gods of Gao Jineng, Yelu Shilu and Yelu Helu, but it was obvious that they could not defeat the Sui and Qiang coalition forces by relying solely on this.


    The two sides fought fiercely for a whole day in this battle. The Qin army killed nearly 15,000 troops. Many generals such as Long Qi, Long Yang, Zhongli, Ji Bu were injured, and seven generals including Gong Du, Liu Shi, Li Damu were killed.


    In contrast, in addition to nearly 25,000 troops killed in the Sui and Qiang coalition, Gao Huan, Gao Jineng, Yelu Shilu and other generals were also injured one after another, and a large number of generals were killed in the battle.


    Yelu Helu, the leader of the twenty-one heroic officials, was also killed by Long Qi after being injured by Long Yang, becoming the only **** of war that fell in this battle.


    In the Battle of Xianmei, from the battle to the field, the Qin army sacrificed a total of nearly 35,000 troops, and the Sui and Qiang coalition forces also fought only 45,000 troops from the 100,000 troops. Both sides fought to the loss.


    After this battle, although Long Qi only had 35,000 troops in his hand, the supplies behind him were transported by Li Maozhen, so he could still continue to defend.


    On the other hand, although Gao Huan had more troops, the war was too heavy, and more than half of the casualties in the entire army were injured and killed, so he was obviously unable to continue to fight.


    Before the war, Gao Huan wanted to retake Xianmei City to break Li Jing''s isolation of Daxing, but after this battle, he no longer had too many extravagant expectations, nor did he dare to continue to attack Xianmei City. He could only stare at Long Qiong and wait for the changes in Ye Biaoshan and Daxing. Anyway, he did not have the ability to fight Daxing.


    But what Gao Huan did not expect was that Yang Xingmi''s defeat at Ye Niushan forced Yang Guang to give up Daxing and fell into a stumbling ambush on Li Jing''s way back.


    Before Yang Guang retreated, he sent a message to Gao Huan and Wei Xiaokuan in advance, asking the two to be responsible for the transfer on the way, but Yang Guang was simply unable to reach the transfer location.


    Gao Huan and Wei Xiaokuan were both ready to take him in, but Yang Guang was not here for a long time, so naturally he realized that Yang Guang could no longer come back.


    Wei Xiaokuan decisively gave up Guzang City and led 5,000 defenders to retreat to Xianmei City, went to meet with Gao Huan, and directly handed over the city that could not be captured by the 60,000 Qin troops to Li Maozhen.


    As for Gao Huan, after realizing that Yang Guang was dead, he knew that the Sui army could no longer stay in Liangzhou. Next, the Sui army had no choice but to retreat into the Western Regions, so he ordered the materials and population of the four counties in Xiliang to move to the Western Regions.


    The four counties of Xiliang are Zhangye, Jiuquan, Dunhuang, and Zhangye vassal states.


    The total population of the four counties in Xiliang is less than 300,000, but because they are directly located on the Silk Road and caravans frequently travel, they are still wealthy. A lot of supplies have been accumulated in the kufu mansion, but if they want to move completely, it is obviously not possible to move in a short while.


    What Gao Huan can do now can only move away as much materials and population as possible, but Da Qin obviously won''t give him this time.


    Li Jing ordered Huluguang to lead an army of 30,000 to Xianmei City to support Longji.


    Once Huluguang arrives, Long Qi will have an army of 65,000. If Li Maozhen''s 20,000 army, it will be an army of 85,000. It will be difficult for Gao Huan to run away.


    Gao Huan was frightened and didn''t care about anything else. He fled directly to the Western Regions with his 35,000 remaining troops, Wei Xiaokuan''s 5,000 troops, and Yelu Shilu''s 10,000 Qiang troops, a total of 50,000 troops.


    After Long Qi learned about it, he personally led 15,000 cavalry to pursue him. It was obvious that Gao Huan could not escape so easily.


    (This chapter ends)