Chapter 1737: Unify Jizhou (Part 2) and destroy Korea
"Lord, Han Xin has been captured alive by the general. Do you want to meet him?" Li Jing asked.
Due to his special status, Han Xin was not escorted back to Yecheng by Zhang Liao with other prisoners. Instead, he was left in the army, waiting for Qin Hao's summons.
Of course Qin Hao also wanted to see Han Xin, but if he met him so soon, he would be too eager to persuade him to surrender. Qin Hao was not willing to let Han Xin think that he had to surrender.
"No, let's hang out with Han Xin for a while, and then go see him after the army enters northern Hebei." Qin Hao said with a playful look.
Han Xin still has Zhang He's 30,000 troops in northern Hebei, so he still has some capital to surrender.
Qin Hao was tired of continuing to negotiate terms. He hoped to strip Han Xin of everything and let him surrender to the Qin army without any conditions. When the 150,000-strong army marched into northern Hebei, he could also break Han Xin's final relationship with Qin Hao. Negotiate capital.
"Instruct Li Jing, Xue Rengui, and Long Qie to each lead an army of 50,000, divided into three groups on the left, center and right, and the troops will be divided into three groups to attack Northern Hebei." Qin Hao ordered.
"promise."
Following Qin Hao's order, the 150,000 Qin army quickly and orderly operated like a machine, divided into three armies and headed towards northern Hebei.
In northern Hebei, Hejian County and Lecheng County are the capital of South Korea.
Hejian County was originally part of the Hejian Kingdom, but during the Yellow Turban Uprising, Hejian An Wang Liu Li, his son Liu Bei, and their family were all killed by the Yellow Turban Army.
Since the royal family of Liu in Hejian was exterminated by the Yellow Turbans, there was no candidate to succeed to the throne, so Liu Hong changed the state of Hejian into a county and assigned Han Xin's father Han Fu as the prefect.
Later, Han Fu was promoted to the position of shepherd in Jizhou, and he also obtained the most elite Wei County in Jizhou, so he successfully moved the government seat from Hejian to Yecheng, Wei County.
It's just that Han Fu didn't live up to his expectations at all. Even if he had the most elite Wei County in Jizhou and Han Xin, the first commander of Hebei, he couldn't compete with Yuan Shao.
There are three counties in northern Hebei: Hejian, Zhongshan and Changshan.
Among them, Changshan County was strategically abandoned by Han Xin during the War in Western Hebei when South Korea's military strength shrank. Therefore, nearly half of the city was under the control of the Qin army.
In other words, in northern Hebei today, there are still Hejian, Zhongshan, and half of Changshan County, which are not under the control of the Qin army.
"Reporting... General Zhang was in trouble, Long Qie led 50,000 troops and advanced into Changshan. The magistrates of Zhending, Jiumen, Puwu, Jingxing, and Lingshou surrendered without a fight.
Although the Tang Dynasty did not surrender, it was unable to stop the Qin army. The Qin army captured the city in just one day. Now the entire Changshan County is in the hands of the Qin army. "
After hearing the report from his subordinates, Zhang He's face suddenly became extremely ugly.
The Korean army only had 30,000 troops left in northern Hebei, while the Qin army had hundreds of thousands. The difference in strength was too great.
In order to avoid being gradually killed and defeated one by one, Zhang He could only concentrate all the troops from all over the river to the river. This also made the defenders in other places extremely weak and unable to withstand the Qin army's front.
The Changshan Army had been strategically abandoned by Zhang He, and it was expected that it would be captured by the Qin Army. However, he did not expect that so many county magistrates would surrender without a fight, and what he did not expect was yet to come.
"Report... to General, Li Jing led 50,000 troops to advance into Zhongshan, and the magistrates of ten counties including Lunu, Anxi, Hanchang, Liwu, Anguo, Wuji, Xinshi, Shangquyang, Wangdu, and Tangxian were defeated without a fight. drop.
Although the three counties of Puyin, Beiping and Guangchang resisted desperately, they could not hold on for even a day before Xue Rengui broke through the city gates. Now the entire Zhongshan County is in the hands of the Qin army. "
"Damn it."
Zhang He slammed the table angrily, his heart filled with confusion and powerlessness.
Now that the two kings of Han and Zhao have been captured alive, and the Han and Zhao coalition forces have been completely wiped out, how can he stop the Qin army's hundreds of thousands of troops with only 30,000 soldiers and horses?
In addition, Zhang He did not dare to fight with the Qin army anymore. He knew that the King of Han wanted to surrender to Qin, and now that the King of Han and his eldest brother were both captured, if he still fought with the Qin army, he would completely anger the Qin army. what to do?
"Report..."
Seeing that another spy came to report, Zhang He said feebly: "What's the bad news?"
"Xue Rengui led an army of fifty thousand to attack Hejian. The magistrates of six counties, Shuzhou, Dongpingshu, Gaoyang, Muxian, Wen'an, and Yixian, surrendered without a fight."
"well……"
Zhang He did not scold these county magistrates for being disloyal, but sighed helplessly and asked, "What else?"
"Xue Rengui has divided 10,000 troops to capture Gonggao, Chengping, Zhongshui, and Wuyuan, and personally led 40,000 troops to Leping. In addition, Long Qie and Li Jing's army are also marching to Leping. Very happy Ping is about to be defeated The Qin army of 150,000 was completely besieged."
Hearing this, all the generals in the hall were completely furious. Gao Lan stood up and said: "Brother Junyi, this is not the way to go."
Gao Lan was a general of Zhao State. After the alliance between Han and Zhao, he cooperated with Zhang He tacitly in the Battle of Western Hebei, so he was incorporated into Zhang He's command. After that, he seemed to be forgotten. He was not transferred until Zhao State was destroyed. Back.
After listening to Gao Lan's words, Zhang He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "Of course I also know that if we continue, we are just drinking poison to quench our thirst. But now there are Qin troops from all directions, and the retreat to the north has also been blocked by the Qin troops. Our army is like a turtle in a urn, and again What else can be done?”
Gao Lan fell silent when he heard this, and said after a while: "At this point, it doesn't make much sense to continue fighting. It's time to consider the last step."
Zhang He naturally knew what Gao Lan meant by the last step. After being silent for a while, he said, "Waiting, waiting."
It's not that Zhang He didn't want to surrender, he actually had the intention to surrender, but he took the initiative to surrender to the Qin army and followed Han Xin's order to surrender. These are two completely different concepts.
Zhang He hoped to wait for Han Xin's surrender order so that he could surrender justifiably without having to bear the infamy, so he said he would wait.
"My lord, my lord, what are you thinking about? We are already in a state of death and no life. If we don't surrender at this time, when we successfully conquer the isolated city, we will not surrender, but beg for surrender."
Zhang He thought anxiously in his heart, how did he know that it was not that Han Xin did not want to surrender as soon as possible, but that Qin Hao did not see him at all, and he really could not open his mouth to surrender voluntarily.
In the next few days of waiting, two of the four remaining counties of Gonggao, Chengping, Zhongshui, and Wuyuan in Hejian surrendered. Two counties were captured by Xue Rengui, and Handu successfully became an isolated city. However, Zhang He still failed to wait for Han Xin's surrender order.
The three armies of Li Jing, Long Qie, and Xue Rengui have joined forces. The 150,000 Qin army will successfully surround them on three levels inside and three outside.
Looking at the huge crowds of Qin troops under the city, Zhang He was filled with despair.
Although Chenggong was the capital of Han Dynasty, most of the defensive equipment and materials were transferred to Yecheng, and the defensive materials in the city were not sufficient.
How can we fight this battle? There's no way to fight. Zhang He's heart was full of bitterness.
At this moment, Xue Rengui walked out of the army and shouted to Zhang He on the tower: "Zhang He, I will give you the last half an hour to think about it. If you don't open the city and surrender, I will personally lead the army to attack Handu." .”
As soon as these words came out, all the Korean generals in the city became anxious and all looked at Zhang He.
"General, general..."
Looking at the cowardly eyes, Zhang He couldn't help but smile bitterly and said: "That's it, surrender in Kaicheng."
"promise."
In this way, under the disapproval of the Qin army, Zhang He opened the city gate, led 30,000 Korean troops, and voluntarily surrendered to the Qin army.
At this point, Korea was completely declared destroyed, and the Qin army unified Jizhou.
