In order to rescue Yang Ren in Huangyuan City, Meng Tian decided to take the risk and implement the strategy of suspecting soldiers, which naturally had considerable risks.
If Yang Xingmi or Yang Xiong finds out, the 25,000 Qin troops led by Meng Tian will face the 70,000 Sui troops head-on.
If the Qin army were all elites, then Meng Tian would naturally not be afraid. After all, the elites of the Qin army were recognized as being able to defeat ten of them.
But the problem is that only part of the 25,000 troops under Meng Tian, including the 80,000 troops on the south road, are regular main forces, rather than elites who were fought out by mountains of swords and seas of blood. Naturally, it is impossible to defeat nearly three times as many troops as himself in a head-on battle. Sui army.
Today, the combat effectiveness of Qin army soldiers can be roughly divided into five levels, namely: garrison soldiers, regular recruits, regular veterans, regular main force and main elites.
The weakest ones are naturally the garrison soldiers left behind, which actually include county soldiers, county soldiers, catchers, reserve soldiers, retired soldiers, etc. Before being trained, they can only be used for public security and city defense, and cannot go to the battlefield for field combat.
The next four levels actually belong to the regular army, but the regular army is also divided into three, six, and nine levels. After all, Da Qin's regular army has a total of 1.55 million soldiers, and it is normal for the quality of soldiers to be uneven.
The weakest combat effectiveness among the 1.55 million Qin regular army was naturally the 750,000 new soldiers recruited in this large-scale army expansion, and this group of soldiers also accounted for the largest proportion in the Qin army.
In addition to the new recruits in the regular army, the remaining three levels belong to the veterans in the regular army, and the total number of veterans is a full 800,000.
In Da Qin, not all veterans who have been in the army for more than three years have seen blood. Even if they have seen blood, it does not mean they have killed someone. Therefore, veterans are divided into three, six and nine grades.
Those veterans who have been soldiers for more than one and a half but less than three years, but have never been on the battlefield, or who have been on the battlefield and seen blood, but have never killed anyone. With their rich military and training experience, their overall quality and combat effectiveness are better than those of the new recruits of Da Qin. , and the regular armies of various countries, but they are weaker than the elite main forces of various countries.
Among the 800,000 veterans in Da Qin, the total number of these veterans is approximately 200,000. In addition, those veterans who have been in the army for more than three years and have killed at least one enemy army account for the largest proportion among the veterans of the Qin Dynasty. The total number is about 500,000, and they are the well-deserved main force of the Qin army. and pillars, and also the reserve source of troops for the main elite battalion.
As for the most powerful army in Great Qin, they are naturally the elite elite camps such as the Breaking Army Camp and the Falling Camp. According to statistics, Daqin currently has: Pojun Camp, Falling Camp, Nine Dragon Guard, Iron Guard, Tiger Guard, Flying Tiger Army, Euphorbia Soldiers, Xianden Dead Soldiers, Flying Bear Army, Beiwei Army, Wolf Cavalry Army, White Horse Rebels There are eighteen elite elite battalions including Cong, Dragon Cavalry, Tenglong, Qin Wuzu, and Women's Army, with a total number of nearly 100,000 people.
It is quite remarkable for other countries to have one or two ace elite battalions, but Great Qin already has eighteen. It is precisely because of these elites that the Qin army has an invincible record of being undefeated in a hundred battles. .
Among the 1.55 million regular Qin troops, there are 750,000 regular recruits, 200,000 regular veterans, 500,000 regular main forces, and 100,000 elite elite battalions.
The largest number of Da Qin's regular armies is the new army, accounting for 48.3%, nearly half of the total. The addition of so many new armies will inevitably lead to a decline in the Qin army's overall quality and combat effectiveness.
In fact, these new recruits of Da Qin are excellent in all aspects. After all, they were selected through many layers of selection and then trained by famous generals for more than a year. Coupled with the sophisticated equipment of the Qin army, even if they have never been on the battlefield, Even if he has never seen blood, his fighting power will not be weak.
But you must know that the real elites are never trained, but are killed in mountains of swords and seas of fire.
If elites could be trained through training alone, there would not be only 100,000 ace elites among Da Qin's 155 regular armies.
Although Da Qin's new army is inexperienced, it has a good foundation and equipment advantages. As long as it goes to the battlefield and experiences life and death and the flames of war, it can be quickly promoted and transformed into veterans.
Now these two wars are going on. Whether it is the Eastern Front or the Western Front, the new army of Great Qin is participating, and there are quite a few participants.
Of the 1.2 million troops that Da Qin and the four kingdoms of Wei, Song, Ming, and Sui fought, a full 550,000 were new troops, and the remaining 600,000 were veterans, leaving 15 veterans and 200,000 recruits to guard the homeland.
There were also 150,000 new troops among the 30 armies on the Western Front that defeated the Sui Dynasty, accounting for half of the total force of the Sui Dynasty. From this, it can be seen that there must be new troops in the three armies that defeated the Sui Dynasty.
Among the 80,000 troops on Mengtian South Road, the ratio of recruits to veterans is about half, that is, 40,000 recruits and 40,000 veterans. However, they have to defend three places to resist the 170,000 Sui and Tu coalition forces, so the distribution of troops is naturally also Be smart about your budget.
Among the 25,000 armies led by Yang Ren and Fu Cunshen, each had 10,000 veterans, while the other 15,000 were new recruits.
As for the 30,000-strong army led by Meng Tian, there were 20,000 regular main troops and 10,000 regular recruits. After all, Xining City was the most important among the three cities and faced the greatest pressure. However, the Sui-Tu Allied Forces adopted the strategy of cutting expenses first and then cutting dry strategy.
If Meng Tian wants to rescue Yang Ren, he can only bring 25,000 troops at most and leave 5,000 new troops to guard Xining. After all, if there are more, Xining will be in danger.
But if this is the case, he will have to use 25,000 Qin troops to fight against the main force of 70,000 Sui troops. Meng Tian was not a coward. If he had even an elite battalion at hand, he would dare to fight the 70,000 Sui army head-on with an army of 25,000. However, he only had 20,000 main troops and another 5,000. They are all new recruits.
Although the main force of the Qin Dynasty was stronger than the main force of the Sui army, even with the equipment advantage, it was impossible to offset the three times its own strength advantage.
At this thought, Meng Tian couldn't help complaining about Li Jing. He had done it too hard to force the weak branches, so that he was so passive now.
Why did the two armies in the middle go so smoothly? In addition to the largest number of people, there are also the Flying Bear Army and the Dragon Cavalry Army. Long Qie on the North Road also has the Tenglong Army. Only Meng Tian does not have an elite battalion.
This is also the main reason why Meng Tian has been waiting for Fu Cunxuan, because there is no elite elite battalion. Without the 20,000 reinforcements from Fu Cunxuan, the 20,000 main force alone cannot really defeat the 70,000 Sui army. .
But as Huangyuan City was in danger, Meng Tian had to send troops in advance. However, he could not defeat the 70,000 Sui troops standing in front of him, so he was forced to take the risk of using the suspicion tactics.
"Report...to the Deputy Governor, a large number of Qin troops appeared outside Xining City, and they were fighting
"The banner with the word "talisman"."
"What? How could Fu Cunshen arrive so quickly?" Yang Xiong stood up with a shocked look on his face. According to his estimate, Fu Cunshen should have two days to arrive at the extraction team, but it turned out that he was two days ahead of schedule. God, there are only two possibilities for this: First, this Qin army is a suspicious soldier.
Second, Fu Cunshen had already led his army before the Sui-Turkish coalition took action. The first and second options are both possible in Yang Xiong's opinion, and the second option is even more likely. After all, the opponent he is facing now is Meng Tian.
When Meng Tian was the governor of Hetao, he defeated the three coalition forces of Yang, Ma and Han. Later, the governor of Liangzhou also suppressed the Sui State and succeeded repeatedly. Basically, all the major generals of the Sui State suffered losses at his hands.
It seems normal that such a tough and difficult Meng Tian could predict the movements of the Sui and Tu coalition forces in advance.
Meng Tian's prestige in Liangzhou is still very high, and it is precisely because the leader of the Qin army is Meng Tian that Yang Xiong is so hesitant. Otherwise, the suspicion strategy will not succeed at all.
Meng Tian has already taken action, and the pressure has shifted to Yang Xiong. Should he withdraw his troops or continue to stare at Meng Tian?
If it is Fu Cunchen who comes, the 35,000 Sui troops in Yang Xiong's hands will definitely not be the opponent of the 40,000 to 50,000 Qin troops, and Yang Xingmi's headquarters is fifty miles away from him. If the two sides start a war, if Yang Xingmi cannot be in time If he provides support, he may even run the risk of his entire army being annihilated.
But is it really Fu Cunshen who came? Yang Xiong still had some doubts in his heart, but Qin Jun's next actions dispelled all his doubts.
"Report...to the Deputy Governor, after Fu Cunchen's troops arrived in Xining, Meng Tian led his army out of the city. After the two armies joined forces, they came towards our army." After hearing this, Yang Xiong no longer had any doubts or hesitations in his heart. After all, if it wasn't Fu Cunchen who came, with Meng Tian's meager military strength, it would be too late to hide, so how could he dare to fight with him?
Therefore, it must be Fu Cunshen's arrival that gave Meng Tian enough confidence. Now the Qin army has a total of 40,000 to 50,000 troops. With only 35,000 troops on its own, it is definitely no match.
Therefore, Yang Xiong hardly hesitated and decisively ordered: "Send the order, the whole army retreats, go to join the governor, and do not give Qin a chance to defeat our army one by one."
"No." The 30,000 Sui troops retreated in an orderly manner under Yang Xiong's command, and this move made Meng Tian secretly relieved.
If Yang Xiong is stubborn and refuses to retreat, then he can only directly fight Yang Xiong with 25,000 Qin troops. After all, retreat will only expose the truth, and Yang Xiong will never let him escape back to Xining.
Once Meng Tian and Yang Xiong fight in a decisive battle, if they cannot be defeated in one fell swoop, the Qin army may really be wiped out by the time Yang Xingmi's reinforcements arrive.
Therefore, Yang Xiong took the initiative to retreat and clear the way, which was the optimal solution for Meng Tian. Next, Meng Tian's 25,000 men, disguised as an army of 50,000, marched westward at full speed, as if they could not wait, but this dispelled Yang Xingmi's suspicion.
Yang Xingmi originally didn't believe that Meng Tian could predict their actions in advance, but Yang Xiong vowed that Meng Tian could do it, which made Yang Xingmi waver in his judgment, and then Meng Tian looked like he couldn't wait to fight him. .
If Meng Tian only had 20,000 to 30,000 troops, how could he dare to fight against his 70,000 troops?
That's why I believe that Meng Tian predicted their actions. Now there are only two choices before Yang Xingmi: One is to directly fight Meng Tian. But with 70,000 Sui troops fighting 50,000 Qin troops, Yang Xingmi always feels that he has no advantage and may even lose.
The second is to suspend the encirclement and suppression of Yang Ren, join forces with Lun Qinling, and then fight Meng Tian to defeat the Qin army with absolute military superiority.
After much thought, Yang Xingmi still felt that option two had a better chance of winning, so instead of stopping him, he allowed Meng Tian to go to Huangyuan City.
When Meng Tian led his army to Huangyuan, the Tubo army, led by Lun Qinling, had already gone to join forces with Yang Xingmi. After all, if they did not leave, the Tubo army might not be able to withstand the internal and external attacks of 60,000 to 70,000 Qin troops. ah.
Looking at the damaged walls of Huangyuan City and the broken limbs scattered everywhere outside the city, Meng Tian didn't need to think about it to know how fierce the battle to defend the city was.
After all, Huangyuan City is just a small city. Apart from the city wall, there are almost no defensive facilities, so it is not easy to defend. It is only a matter of time before it falls.
But Yang Ren relied on only one city wall to withstand the fierce attack of 100,000 Tibetan troops for three days, and naturally he paid a heavy price.
In just three days of defending the city, the Qin army suffered casualties of 7,000 troops, while the Tibetan army suffered about 7,000 casualties.
Meng Tian's rescue was very timely. If it had been a day or two later, Huangyuan City might not be able to survive.
Therefore, Yang Ren was very excited when he saw Meng Tian. Meng Tian not only saved him, but also saved the lives of all the soldiers in the city.
But when he saw that there were only more than 20,000 reinforcements behind Meng Tian, Yang Ren was completely dumbfounded. Meng Tian didn't bother to explain to Yang Ren and decisively ordered: "Yang Ren obeys the order."
"The end will be here."
"Abandon Huangyuan City immediately and retreat to Xining with the governor."
"What? Give up Huangyuan City?" Yang Ren looked in disbelief and asked quickly: "But if we give up Huangyuan, what will happen if the Sui and Tu allied forces enter Liangzhou and go to support Daxing City?"
"Don't worry, Governor Li Jing has led the reinforcements as quickly as possible. If the Sui and Tu allied forces enter Liangzhou from Huangyuan City to support Daxing, they will only run into Governor Li Jing head-on." After hearing this, , Yang Ren felt relieved. After all, Li Jing had two elites, the Flying Bear Army and the Dragon Cavalry Army. If they really collided head-on, it was not certain who would hit whom.
