Chapter 2669: Xinling Lord Wei Wuji VS Soldier Immortal Han Xin
Cao Cao appointed Cao Bin, who was born in the royal family, to serve as the 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 an army of 100,000 , guarding the seventeen counties of Yingchuan County.
Today, the core of Yingchuan County is naturally Xuchang City, the former capital of Cao Wei.
Like the capital city of Wu, Xuchang was named Xu County before it was established as the capital of Cao Wei. It was also just a small county with a population of only tens of thousands. At that time, the seat of Yingchuan County was actually Yangdi, which was further to the west. city.
Cao Cao did not set his capital in Yangzhai, but made Xu County, a small county, his capital and changed its name to Xuchang. There are three reasons for this:
First, Yangzhai City has been invaded many times by Yellow Turban thieves. The population loss has been very serious and it is no longer as prosperous as before.
Second, Yangzhai City is closer to Daqin than Xuchang, so it can be easily detected.
The third is that Xuchang's geographical location makes it easier to radiate to the entire Yanzhou. At that time, Yanzhou was in the stage of melee among the princes. If Xuchang was used as the capital, it would be more convenient to sweep away the chaos in Yanzhou.
Cao Cao's construction of Xuchang was not as stable as Sun Jian's construction.
Sun Jian relied on relocating refugees to grow Jianye bit by bit, while Cao Cao directly relocated hundreds of thousands of people, making Xuchang one of the most populous cities in the world.
After Cao Cao defeated Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, he surrendered more than a million people under his command. One-third of them were moved to Xuchang, and the rest were scattered throughout Yanzhou.
At that time, Yanzhou had become dilapidated due to years of fighting among the princes. Cao Cao took over this mess and rebuilt homes for the people on the ruins. In less than ten years, Yanzhou was mostly restored to its original state. of vitality.
If it weren't for the millions of people left to Cao Cao after Li Zicheng's death, Cao Cao would never have been able to recover Yanzhou so quickly.
In today's Yanzhou, apart from Xuchang City, the five cities of Yangcheng, Lunshi, Kunyang, Jiaxian and Yangzhai are also extremely important.
Yangcheng and Lunshi City guarded the northwest of Yingchuan, blocking the Qin army from Xuanyuan Pass and Dagu Pass respectively.
Jiaxian County guarded the western part of Yingchuan and blocked the Qin army in the direction of Guangcheng Pass.
Kunyang City guarded the southwest of Yingchuan and blocked the Qin army in the direction of Nanyang.
Yangzhai, the former administrative center, is the last line of defense in the west of Yingchuan. Once Yangzhai City fails, the Qin army from the northwest and west will march straight in and reach the city of Xuchang.
Yingchuan is the county with the largest population and the most prosperous economy in Cao Wei. Once captured by the Qin army, Cao Wei's war potential will be greatly reduced, and the southwest of Chenliu will also be exposed to the Qin cavalry.
Therefore, for Cao Wei, defending Yingchuan County was also the key to the battle between Qin and Wei.
However, Yingchuan County and Daqin bordered on three sides, so it was still very difficult to defend it.
Cao Cao had long expected that such a day would come, so he had been strengthening the defenses of the five cities of Yangcheng, Lunshi, Kunyang, Jiaxian, and Yangdi. He also built a new pass between Songshan and Fuxishan and named it Ersang Pass.
After all, if the Qin army wanted to attack Xuchang, it would be the closest to Xuchang through Yangcheng, Lunshi City, and Yangzhai.
The Erban Pass is located to the east of Yangcheng and Lunshi, to the west of Yangzhai City, between Songshan Mountain and Fuxi Mountain. It is already dangerous, and Cao Cao built this pass according to the standards of Hulao Pass based on the mountains, so it is even more dangerous. , is also the only pass in the western part of Wei that can be used to resist the invasion of the Qin army.
In order to build Ersang Pass, Cao Cao spent a lot of resources, but what Cao Cao didn't know was that he built Ersang Pass very well.
After Ying Hao learned that Ersang Pass was so dangerous and difficult to capture, he preferred to take the long way to Guangcheng Pass instead of marching from the two directions closer to Xuanyuan Pass and Dagu Pass. This made Cao Wei do what he did at Ersang Pass in vain. So much preparation.
Cao Cao didn't know about this, but even if he knew, he still wouldn't regret it. After all, this also avoided a two-front battle and could use his troops to defend Jiaxian County to guard against the Qin army on the Guangcheng Pass line in the west.
Although Cao Bin knew that the Qin army would attack Yingchuan in two ways, he did not know which two routes the Qin army would take. After all, Xuanyuan Pass, Dagu Pass, Guangcheng Pass, and Ye County could all become the Qin Army's targets. The main direction of attack, so in the early stage of the war, defenses must be set up in all four directions.
However, Cao GUI proposed to focus on the defense of Kunyang. After all, among these four routes, the Qin army would definitely come all the way from Jingzhou, and Kunyang was the only way to enter Yingchuan from Jingzhou.
Cao Bin felt that Cao GUI's words made sense, and decisively decided to send more troops to Xue Ju who was guarding Kunyang. However, before the army could be sent out, he received news that Han Xin's 70,000 troops had made a surprise attack on Kunyang.
Whether it was Cao Bin, Cao GUI, or Chen Gong, they all thought that even if Han Xin attacked, it would only come from Ye County, so they concentrated their efforts on the direction of Ye County.
The result was not as expected by the three of them. The Qin army in Jingzhou was indeed gathering in Ye County. It was just that maybe the troops were not fully in place yet, so they stayed stationed in Ye County.
But in fact, what the three of them can think of, can Han Xin, as a soldier immortal, not think of it?
He deliberately allowed the army to gather openly in Ye County, pretending that the 30,000-strong army was a total of 70,000-strong army. However, he actually led 40,000-strong army to rush over the mountains and ridges to Jian County, and launched a surprise attack on Kunyang City from the west. .
Xue Ju, who was responsible for 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. There was not much preparation at all, so he was caught off guard for a while.
More than a dozen Wu forts to the west of Kunyang were all destroyed by Han Xin in just one day, and the Qin army easily attacked the city of Kunyang.
Han Xin originally wanted to surrender his army and pretend to be the defeated Wei army, so as to deceive the Kunyang City Gate.
However, Xue Ju, the defender of Kunyang City, was a veteran who had already become famous during the Yellow Turban period. After his rebellion against Zhu Di failed and he was forced to surrender to Wei, he did not waste these years. On the contrary, he improved a lot in the three Central Plains wars.
Xue Ju's current five dimensions are: Commander 95 (+1), Force 105 (+3), Intelligence 80 (+2), Politics 78 (+3), Charisma 80 (-1);
Xue Ju was not low in both commander-in-chief and intelligence. Naturally, he could not be deceived so easily. After seeing through the person who was pretending to be someone else, he decisively ordered all the pretenders to be shot.
Seeing that the deception failed, Han Xin decisively ordered an attack on the city, and the offensive and defensive battle of Kunyang began.
Xue Ju led 15,000 Wei troops to defend Kunyang, while Han Xin led 40,000 Qin troops to attack Kunyang, and there were 30,000 troops coming from behind.
Han Xin actually didn't like fighting sieges, because the casualties in sieges would definitely be high. He also thought that if he couldn't take Kunyang directly, he would bypass Kunyang and take Xuchang directly.
However, Cao Wei's determination to resist Qin was much greater than that of Zhao and Song Dynasties. He even implemented a strong wall and cleared the country, confiscated all the food and grass in the hands of the people, and distributed rations uniformly to prevent the Qin army from requisitioning food on the spot in Wei.
The reason why Xue Rengui dared to lead 50,000 cavalry to bypass the Tongbai Mountain guarded by Shi Bao and go straight into Runan County was because Zhao Song had not fortified the walls and cleared the country.
After the Qin army's cavalry entered Runan, they could support war with war and collect food on the spot, so they did not have to worry about running out of food.
But this kind of tactics could not be used in Cao Wei, because Cao Wei's strategy of strengthening the walls and clearing the country left the people with only food rations.
If Han Xin bypasses Kunyang and attacks Xuchang, if he cannot defeat the city in one battle, he will soon fall into a situation of food shortage. Even if he forces food requisition on the spot regardless of the people's sentiments, the food and grass in the hands of the people will not be enough for the Qin army.
Cao Wei actually wished that the Qin Dynasty would forcefully collect grain regardless of the life and death of the Wei people. After all, Cao Wei was actually not that supported by the local people.
Although Yanzhou was able to recover in such a short period of time because of Cao Cao, it was only a recovery. The people at the bottom were actually not doing well. In the final analysis, the burden of Wei's military service was too heavy.
More than 4 million people have to support an army of 330,000 people. The people at the bottom of Wei State are overwhelmed by the burden of the army. They are limited to living but starving to death. How can they support Cao Wei?
In addition to military service, Wei State was once in a food shortage situation due to drought. It relied on Da Qin's grain and grass assistance to survive the food shortage.
Cao Cao was afraid of Da Qin, so he naturally would not publicize it to the outside world. Food was provided by Da Qin, but Da Qin would not fail to publicize it.
The people of Wei State ate the food of Da Qin and did not starve to death, so they were naturally grateful to Da Qin.
Therefore, many people in the Wei State did not actually think that Da Qin was an invader, and even wished that Wei State would be destroyed by Da Qin so that they could be freed from the heavy military service.
The high-level officials of Cao Wei hoped that Da Qin would forcefully collect grain regardless of the lives of the people, in order to arouse the hatred of the people of Wei towards the Qin army.
Some people even suggested pretending to be the Qin army, slaughtering one or two small towns, and then blaming the blame on Da Qin, in order to arouse the hatred of the people of Wei against Da Qin, but they were unanimously rejected by Cao Cao, Fan Li and other high-level officials.
It's not that Cao Cao is kind. If it is really useful, with his unscrupulous character, he may not give it a try. However, the Qin army has never committed an act of massacre. The army is extremely upright, and even if it does, it will be blamed. If it doesn't reach Da Qin, it would be easy to expose oneself, which would really be more of a loss than a gain.
Due to food supply problems, 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 best troops to attack the west gate.
Under Han Xin's precise command, less than an hour after the battle began, Qin general Mi Houwang led his troops to attack the city wall and took the opportunity to occupy positions for more Qin soldiers to board.
Xue Ju saw that all the people sent over were killed and more and more Qin troops climbed onto the tower. He knew that there must be masters among the Qin troops.
If the opponent had not climbed onto the city tower, Xue Ju could still rely on weapons and focus fire to make the opponent retreat. But now that the opponent had climbed onto the city, it would not be so easy to defeat him.
Xue Ju decided to take action personally. After handing over the command to Wei Wuji, he personally led his guards to surround and kill Mi Houwang.
Wei Wuji, the lord of Xinling in Wei during the war period, together with Huang Xie, lord of Chunshen of Chu, Tianwen, lord of Mengchang of Qi, and Zhao Sheng, lord of Pingyuan of Zhao, were called the Four Young Masters of the Warring States Period.
Among the four princes of the Warring States Period, Huang Xie, the first to appear, was implanted as the son of Huang Zu. After Huang Zu died at the hands of Liu Xiu, he led Huang Zu's remaining troops to join the Qin Dynasty.
Zhao Sheng was implanted in the Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, during the battle to conquer Japan, he was killed by a broken mast due to a violent storm.
Tian Wenze was implanted into the farmhouse and currently plays for Shu Han, while Wei Wuji is the last person to appear.
Wei Wuji's commanding ability was not weak. After taking over the command from Xue Ju, he immediately stabilized the defense of the west gate and quickly dispatched troops from the city gate.
Wei Wuji's decision was very correct. He may not be able to defend Kunyang. The key is not on him, but on whether Xue Ju can defeat Mi Houwang.
Xue Ju and Mi Houwang are both war gods of Jiwu 105, but the difference is that Xue Ju is a historical figure, while Mi Houwang is a mythical figure.
Generally speaking, mythological characters are blessed by legends and their overall strength is stronger than historical characters, but there are some individual cases, such as Xiang Yu and Li Cunxiao.
When Xue Ju's Jiwu was 104, he dared to fight Guan Yu, the God of War, who was 105. Although he was defeated, he escaped unscathed. Now he has been promoted to the God of War, and his strength is obviously stronger than that of the ordinary God of War.
The Great Sage of Ventilation of the Seven Saints VS the Overlord of Western Qin, this battle is destined to be exciting and fierce, and it is obviously not that easy to decide the winner.
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