Chapter 1921: King Meng Tian fiercely defeated the Liangzhou army
Wei Qing and Zhou Yafu surrendered one after another, which made Li Guang feel a little complicated.
When Wei Qing and Zhou Yafu came to persuade them to surrender, Li Guang did not yell at them as traitors. After all, the first lord Liu Che committed suicide. Wei Qing was about to commit suicide but failed, while Zhou Yafu kept his integrity until after the Northern Han Dynasty destroyed the country.
The performance of both of them was worthy of the word loyalty. Even if they had surrendered to the Qin army, there was nothing shameful about it.
Li Guang knew that Wei Qing and Zhou Yafu would surrender because of family factors. Li Guang's family was also under the rule of the Qin army. It stands to reason that he should surrender even for the sake of his family, but he still couldn't bear it in his heart. go.
It was because he betrayed Liu Che's trust and failed to defend Yuyang that he allowed Su Dingfang to march straight into Yanjing City, ultimately causing the demise of the Northern Han Dynasty.
Li Guang believed that the Northern Han Dynasty would destroy the country, and most of the responsibility was on himself. He felt guilty towards Liu Che, so he was unwilling to surrender.
Li Guang had decided to spend his life in prison, but he could not let his son spend the rest of his life in prison like him. Therefore, although he was unwilling to surrender, he asked his son Li Gan to surrender to the Qin army.
In this way, the five generals Wei Qing, Zhou Yafu, Tian Yu, Li Ling, and Li Gan became the main persons in charge of the Qin Army's control of the Youzhou Army.
As for the second generals Han Zeng and Zhao Chongguo, as well as another Qilin Pavilion surrender minister Wei Xiang, they are currently under surveillance and ignored because they were found to be suspected of faking surrender.
After repeated investigations by Wei Yang, only evidence of Zhao Chongguo's false surrender was found, and he was indeed a spy left by Liu Che. Therefore, Zhao Chongguo and more than 20 other officials were dismissed and imprisoned, and could only spend the rest of their lives in a dark prison. pass.
Although Han Zeng and Prime Minister Wei could not be proven to be spies due to insufficient evidence, their political careers were stained because they were suspected of being spies, and naturally they were unlikely to be reused or promoted throughout their lives.
Zhang Liang stayed in Yanjing for a few days. After settling all the affairs, he handed everything over to Xue Rengui and Wei Yang. He himself was recalled to the Youbeiping battlefield by Qin Hao. After all, he would later fight against the Manchus. He also needs to make suggestions.
In the first year of Xingping (194), on August 29, the Qin army divided its troops into five groups to attack the Northern Han Dynasty.
On September 25, Yanjing Kaicheng surrendered, and the Northern Han Dynasty was officially destroyed.
In less than a month, the Qin army destroyed the Northern Han Dynasty and completely occupied the five counties of the Northern Han Dynasty.
In fact, the Youzhou War had just begun, and the battle situation in Hetao and Sizhou also changed. In particular, the Liangzhou coalition forces that invaded Hetao were completely defeated by Meng Tian and driven out of Hetao.
On May 12, the first year of Xingping, the Southern Han Alliance divided its army into five groups to attack Qin. War broke out in Jingbei, Heluo, Nanyang, and Hetao.
Jingbei, Heluo, and Nanyang mainly faced threats from the Shu, Chu, and Tang kingdoms, while Hetao, known as the "Fortress of the South of the Yangtze River," faced the three princes of Yang Guang, Ma Teng, and Han Sui. , a total of 100,000 Liangzhou troops were threatened.
On May 15th, Meng Tian completed the war mobilization. He led Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, Meng Yi, Yang Erlang, Yang Wulang, Yang Qilang and other generals to fight with 50,000 Qin troops against the 100,000 troops of Yang, Ma and Han. Liangzhou Allied Forces.
Since then, the third Hetao War has officially begun.
After three and a half months of hard work and more than thirty battles, the 50,000 Qin soldiers led by Meng Tian finally drove the Liangzhou coalition forces out of Hetao on September 5th. .
The three families of Yang, Ma, and Han probably never imagined that their strength was twice that of the Qin army, but in the end they were defeated by the 50,000 Qin army and fled back to Liangzhou in embarrassment.
The three families of Yang, Ma and Han all suffered heavy casualties in the battle with the Qin army. They were extremely afraid of Meng Tian and focused all their energy on dealing with Meng Tian. However, they did not expect that Wang Meng would lead 20,000 fresh troops from Bingzhou. Came around secretly.
Previously, Wang Meng led an army of 30,000 to Yanmen, and Xun Yu led an army of 20,000 to Yinshan to guard against Yuanmeng in the north. However, as Kublai Khan returned to Longcheng and ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor, the internal conflicts between Yuanmeng and Yuanmeng became more intense. .
Under Kublai Khan's political suppression, Maodun's power continued to shrink, and there was a possibility of rebellion at any time.
Yuanmeng was on the verge of civil strife and had too much time to take care of itself. Naturally, it was impossible to send troops to attack Qin. The Qin army did not need to use so many troops to defend Yuanmeng.
After some deliberation, Wang Meng left 15,000 troops to guard Yanmen, but he personally led 15,000 troops. He also transferred 5,000 troops from Xun Yu's command in Yinshan, and led a total of 20,000 troops to Hetao to support Mengtian.
The attention of the three coalition forces of Yang, Ma and Han was attracted by Meng Tian's main force. They did not know that Wang led 20,000 fresh troops and detoured to the flank of their army.
By the time the Liangzhou coalition forces discovered it, it was obviously too late. Wang Meng's army was less than thirty miles away from the coalition forces, and together with Meng Tian, they formed a pincer attack on the Liangzhou Liang army. Even if they wanted to withdraw, it was too late.
Long before Wang Meng's reinforcements arrived, Meng Tian secretly secretly sent Huang Zhong, Meng Yi, Yang Erlang, and Yang Qilang out of the city and joined Wang Meng's army to prevent Wang Meng from running out of generals.
When Wang Meng's 20,000-strong army marched thousands of miles forward like divine soldiers descending from the sky and suddenly appeared on the flank of the Liangzhou Allied Forces, Meng Tian decisively led an army of more than 30,000 to dispatch and teamed up with Wang Meng to attack the Liangzhou Allied Forces.
The Liangzhou Allied Forces rushed to fight. Although their strength was superior to the Qin Army, they were attacked from two sides by the Qin Army and fell into a disadvantage immediately after the confrontation.
In the battle, Dian Wei and Xu Chu defeated and wounded Gao Gao, the most powerful general of the Sui army, after activating the combination of lion and tiger.
Zhao Yun failed to defeat Gao Gao, but was defeated by Dian Wei and Xu Chu. If Gao Changgong had not rescued him in time, Gao Gao would have died at the hands of Dian and Xu.
As for Zhao Yun, the strongest among Mengtian's troops, he faced off against three fierce generals, Shi Wansui, Wu Yunzhao and Ma Yuan. The four of them fought for thirty rounds, and there was no winner until the Liangzhou coalition was defeated.
Meng Yi faced Ma Chao in the chaos. Meng Yi had defeated Gao Gao in ten rounds before. He wanted to compete with Ma Chao to save face, but he didn't want to be beaten by Ma Chao again because he was not strong enough.
After Yang Erlang beheaded Sui general Hou Jing, he saw that Meng Yi was defeated by Ma Chao, so he decisively came to support, and soon after Yang Wulang also came to support.
If it weren't for the timely support of these two Yang family generals, Meng Yi would have become the first time traveler to fall under Qin Hao's command.
Meng Yi, Erlang and Wulang joined forces. It stands to reason that even if they cannot defeat Ma Chao, they can at least draw. However, the situation of imminent defeat actually stimulated Ma Chao to break through before the battle.
When Ma Chao broke out, it could be said that he performed at a super level. Even if Meng Yi and the three of them joined forces, they were still no match.
If Huang Zhong hadn't arrived in time and repelled Ma Chao with one blow, one of the three would have died.
