Chapter 1236: Qin and Jin join forces
Qin Hao has been dealing with the war in Yinchuan since he returned to Hetao. He has not yet gone to meet Wang Meng, so naturally he has not met Zhuge Liang yet.
But when he heard that Zhuge Liang appeared next to Wang Meng, and that his official position was that of military advisor offering wine, Qin Hao was shocked and stunned at the same time.
Qin Hao had made an appointment with Zhuge Liang at the beginning. After Zhuge Liang finished his travels, if he wanted to become an official, he would definitely choose Qin Hao. Unexpectedly, Zhuge Liang would turn to his father in the end.
Of course, this makes no difference to Qin Hao. After all, after the division and reunification of the two states, the Qin and Jin armies will also be merged, and Qin Hao will also replace Qin Wen in charge of the Jin army. Therefore, Zhuge Liang's surrender to Qin Wen is also his surrender to Qin Hao, but he cannot do so in the future. He is from the Qin family.
The reason why Zhuge Liang became the military sacrificial wine of the Jin army is because after Zhuge Liang and his party left Taihang, they planned to go directly to Hetao to help Wang Meng. However, when they arrived at the junction of Hetao and Bingzhou, Zhuge Liang discovered that the road to Hetao was early. The road was closed and martial law was imposed.
After the fall of Zhenbeiguan, the entire Hetao was completely isolated by the Jin army. Zhuge Liang and his party were also found and captured by the Jin army due to their strange whereabouts, and were eventually taken to Jinyang.
After arriving in Taiyuan, Zhuge Liang announced his identity as a disciple of Guigu, and was immediately received warmly by Qin Wen.
Although Qin Wen had never met Zhuge Liang before, he had met Guiguzi, so he had his own way of identifying him.
After a brief chat, Qin Wen confirmed the identity of Zhuge Liang's successor in Guigu, and then sent an invitation to Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang joined the Jin army by mistake.
Zhuge Liang explained his analysis to Qin Wen, and bluntly said that Yang Ye's death was full of doubts, and that there might be other deep-seated arrangements. The new governor Wang Meng also deliberately concealed some of Yang Ye's arrangements in order to make the plan more perfect.
Qin Wen was surprised and suspicious when he learned about it. After Fei Ge sent a letter to Wang Meng and asked Wang Meng, he believed Zhuge Liang, named him a military advisor, and ordered him to go to Hetao to help Wang Meng.
Zhuge Liang's arrival was like a beacon that illuminated the way forward for Wang Meng. After the two of them learned from each other's strengths, all the previous loopholes were filled, so the subsequent three-step plan for resisting the Yuan Dynasty was formulated.
Now the first step of the three-step plan has been implemented more than half, but Qin Hao doesn't even know what the specific plan is.
All the Yuanmeng forces in Yinchuan County were also expelled, and it didn't make much sense for Qin Hao to stay, so he decided to lead the army to the Ningxia Army to learn personally all the plans of Zhuge Liang and Wang Meng.
In the end, Qin Hao decided to take 50,000 cavalry and 30,000 elite infantry, a total of 80,000 infantry and cavalry, to Ningxia, leaving 70,000 infantry and 50,000 militiamen to guard Yinchuan County.
Today's Yinchuan County is already regarded as the rear area of the Qin and Jin coalition forces. Before Yuan Meng has completely captured Yinshan and Ningxia counties, even if he breaks through the Qin army's defense and attacks again, the troops dispatched must be limited. With 70,000 The infantry and 50,000 militiamen are more than enough to defend Yinchuan County.
As for the candidate to stay in Yinchuan, between Bai Qi and Xue Rengui, Qin Hao finally chose Xue Rengui.
Bai Qi's command attribute of 105 points will naturally be fully utilized on the front line, and with Xue Rengui's ability, he will definitely be able to keep Yinchuan County as stable as Mount Tai.
"Xue Rengui listens to the order."
"The end is here." Xue Rengui responded, standing up and clasping his fists.
"I now order you to be the chief general and Ding Yanping as the deputy general. You will lead the main army of 70,000 people and the militia of 50,000 people. You must guard the seven cities of Yinchuan without any mistakes."
The reason why Qin Hao left Ding Yanping for Xue Rengui was because among the 70,000 troops left behind, there were also a large number of Liang troops who surrendered.
The soldiers of the Liang army have always been rebellious and difficult to win over, and these reorganized armies have only surrendered to the Qin army for a short time. They have already experienced several life-and-death battles. Their sense of belonging must not be strong, so a high-prestige Liang general is needed to control the situation. , otherwise it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no risk of rebellion after Qin Hao leaves.
At present, the only senior generals of the Liang Army who surrendered to the Qin Army are Yuwen Chengdu and Ding Yanping, and Yuwen Chengdu needs to command the reorganized 20,000 Xiliang cavalry, so the task of staying behind naturally falls on Ding Yanping.
"promise."
Xue Rengui and Ding Yanping responded in unison, and then Xue Rengui raised his head and said loudly: "Thank you for your trust, Lord, Xue Rengui will protect Yinchuan."
"Um."
Seeing this, Qin Hao couldn't help but nodded, then looked at the generals in the hall and ordered: "Bai Qi, Huo Qubing, Jiang Song, Gao Chong, Ran Min, Jia Fu, Yuwen Chengdu, Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Luo Cheng... "
Every time Qin Hao called out a name, one person would stand up. Soon, most of the generals in the hall had their names called out by Qin Hao, and those who were not called would naturally stay in Yinchuan with Xue Rengui.
"You will follow me and lead an army of 80,000 infantry and cavalry to Ningxia."
"Promise." All the generals responded in unison.
Ningxia already has Wang Meng's 120,000 elite Jin troops and 70,000 militiamen. If you add the 80,000 elites brought by Qin Hao, it will be a full army of 270,000, and 200,000 of them are elites. It can be said that the best of the Qin and Jin armies were gathered together.
The combined forces of Qin and Jin after the rendezvous were undoubtedly a huge force, and with the participation of so many famous figures and fierce generals, Qin Hao was confident that he would never fall behind even if he faced off against the entire main force of Yuan and Meng.
Under the leadership of Qin Hao, 80,000 elite Qin troops marched towards Ningxia in a mighty manner, and the clarion call for the decisive battle began.
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Yinshan County, Zhenbeiguan.
After Temujin led the Yuanmeng cavalry to break through Zhenbeiguan, they captured many cities in the Hetao with Murong Ke and Murong Chui inside Daru Hetao.
Each of these captured cities can be used as a command center, but Temujin placed the command center in Zhenbeiguan. There are two reasons for this arrangement:
First, the geographical location of Zhenbeiguan is the most important;
Second, Yuan and Meng had not captured any of the three counties in Hetao.
Yuan and Meng's 400,000 cavalry marched south with great momentum. How could an ordinary city be used as the command center?
The only cities that can serve as the Yuanmeng command center are the administrative offices of the three counties of Hetao, and then only Zhenbeiguan is left.
Since the three county offices haven't been taken yet, the only way to make do is to use Zhenbeiguan first. At worst, they can change it after the three county offices are taken.
Temujin made careful calculations, but he was embarrassed to find that the administrative offices of the three counties of Hetao were all difficult to chew.
The three cities of Yinshan, Ningxia, and Yinchuan account for nearly half of the development resources of the entire Hetao. They are also the cities that the Jin army focuses on development and construction. Although their defensive capabilities are not as good as those of Zhenbeiguan, they are not those that cannot be named. It can be compared with ordinary county towns.
