Chapter 2832: When news of the destruction of Daxing City spread back to the Central Plains
The Qin army attacked the Central Plains this time. A million troops were divided into eight routes, and four of them attacked Wei. The strongest offensives among the four routes were Ying Hao and Han Xin on the south route.
While Bai Qi was still blocked to the north of the Yellow River and Zhang Liao was blocked by the Guandu defense line, Ying Hao and Han Xin both invaded Yingchuan and killed all sides, with little loss.
It was thought that the South Route Army would be the first to invade the hinterland of the Central Plains and complete the great cause of annihilation. However, in order to cooperate with Bai Qi's plan, the two Qin armies on the South Route had to postpone their offensive. This allowed Xuchang City to persist until now.
Naturally, Great Qin could not directly announce it like this, so the explanation given to ordinary soldiers was that the attack was too fast in the early stage and needed to be postponed to consolidate the rear food routes.
Such a statement is naturally unconvincing. After all, everyone knows that soldiers are valuable and quick.
Many of the two Qin troops in Yingchuan were dissatisfied with this, but the emperor had already spoken. Even if he didn't understand, he could only accept it, but he still had a resentment in his heart and had nowhere to vent it.
Now the emperor finally ordered the attack on Xuchang, which gave the soldiers a place to vent their grievances. Both high-level soldiers and high-level generals asked for the battle.
"Your Majesty, I have been patient for half a month. You must use me, Huang Zhong, in this first battle."
"Brother Han Sheng, you are not the only one who can endure. Your Majesty, Zhao Yun invites you to fight."
"Your Majesty, Ma Chao also wants to fight."
"His Majesty……"
All the generals took the initiative to challenge Ying Hao, making the originally silent hall extremely noisy.
Ya originally thought that after returning with a great victory this time, he could easily ask the emperor for a main attack mission, but he did not expect that except for Dian Wei and Xu Chu of the personal guard, the other generals basically rushed to fight. I thought it was all over again, but I didn't expect Ying Hao's eyes to fall on her instead.
Arthur thought Ying Hao would click on himself, but Ying Hao still clicked on others.
"The attack on Xuchang this time is no small matter. Our army should go all out and attack Xuchang in one go. Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Dian Wei, Xu Chu, you and other five people will attack the city at the same time." Ying Hao said solemnly.
"promise."
The five generals Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Ma Chao, Dian Wei and Xu Chu responded in unison.
Directly dispatching the new five tigers shows Ying Hao's determination to quickly break the city.
"The Song Dynasty came to support Cao Wei with 30,000 reinforcements. They are less than a hundred miles away from Xuchang. Someone must hold them back to prevent them from affecting our army's attack on the city."
Hearing Ying Hao's words, all the generals looked expectant, but Ying Hao said: "This time, General Arthur did a good job in suppressing the rebels. General Arthur will lead 4,000 women's troops and 10,000 infantry. As well as three thousand cavalry, go and hold off Zhao She’s reinforcements from the Wansong Kingdom.”
Hearing Ying Hao's words, Arthur suddenly showed a look of surprise, pointing at himself with a look of surprise: "Me?"
"Um."
Ying Hao nodded, and all the generals also showed disappointment, and some even showed dissatisfaction.
Perhaps in their eyes, the women's army under Arthur was not strong, but Ying Hao knew that Arthur's army was definitely one of the most capable armies in Great Qin.
Even though the current women's army has been divided into two, Arthur's army still has a super general with a basic strength of 106, two generals with the potential of a god of war, and a large group of super and first-class female generals.
It is precisely because of the large number of high-level combat forces that the Detachment of Women can achieve low casualties in each battle.
Although Xuchang is the most fortified city in the Central Plains, it is actually very easy for the Qin army to go south. After all, Ying Hao has already left a back-up force in the city, and there are more than one.
There are hundreds of Heibingtai spies lurking in Xuchang City alone, and the spy Chen Gong is still in Xuchang City...
As long as these thunders are detonated at the right time, how can Xuchang City not be destroyed?
However, after Ying Hao persuaded Mao Sui to surrender, Ying Hao learned from Mao Sui that Cao Wei had long known that there were undercover agents inside, and had already targeted several high-level people, including Chen Gong and Mao Sui.
This time Mao Sui was sent as an envoy to plan the Yinchuan Uprising. In addition to disrupting the Qin army's rear, it actually had two deeper purposes. One was to test Mao Sui, and the other was to see Ying Hao's reaction after Mao Sui was captured.
If there was any problem with Mao Sui, it would definitely be revealed during the action, but the result was obviously no problem.
If Mao Sui was loyal, he would never surrender after being captured. Then Ying Hao's reaction afterwards was to kill or release, which would tell if there was something wrong with Chen Gong.
If he wanted to kill him, why did he release Chen Gong alone before? Then Chen Gong obviously has a problem.
If he lets it go, then Cao Wei will gain a loyal minister without any loss.
After listening to what Mao Sui said, and after several discussions with Guo Jia, Ying Hao realized the deeper meaning. Needless to say, this must be Fan Li's strategy. He was the only one in Cao Wei who had such a strategy.
No matter how smart Fan Li was, he probably wouldn't have expected that Ying Hao was equally good at persuading him to surrender, and he actually persuaded Mao Sui, who was originally loyal, to surrender.
With Mao Sui's surrender, Chen Gong was temporarily safe, but it would not be cost-effective to expose Chen Gong in Xuchang.
Therefore, after thinking about it, Ying Hao decided to let Chen Gong continue to lurk. After the main force of Cao Wei on the western front was eliminated, Chen Gong's thunder might be activated again, which might have better effects.
At this time, after two rounds of emergency military expansion, Xuchang's military strength had returned to 50,000. However, because the additions were all new soldiers, the combat strength was actually weakened compared to before.
Due to repeated defeats in the past, the morale of the Wei army in Xuchang City was extremely low. If it were a field battle, the Wei army in Xuchang would probably be defeated by the Qin army in one battle. Only by relying on the strong defense of Xuchang could they barely fight against the Qin army. two.
But with the departure of Yuan Jiuling, Cao Bin and other generals in the city did not have much confidence. After all, after comparison, the strength gap between the two sides was too big.
The 80,000 Qin troops outside the city not only have high morale and well-equipped soldiers, but also have many fierce generals, including Zhao, Huang, Ma Dian, Xu and other brave generals.
On the other hand, in Xuchang City, only Xue Ju, Zhu Hai, and Zhang Guifang could rival him.
The only thing that made Cao Bin and other generals fortunate was that the 30,000 reinforcements sent by the Song Dynasty were far away from Xuchang City.
After Bai Qi captured Baimadu and officially entered the Central Plains from the north of the Yellow River, Zhao Kuangyin and Zhu Di both sent reinforcements in tacit understanding.
The difference is that the Ming Dynasty's 40,000 reinforcements, led by Lan Yu, entered Dongjun early, and combined with Le Yi to cause some trouble to Bai Qi.
On the other hand, it is obviously not that simple for the 30,000 Song reinforcements led by Zhao She to enter Yingchuan to support Xuchang.
If the Song Dynasty wanted to support Xuchang, the nearest road was naturally to the north, but it would pass through Baiting.
Not long ago, the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei and Song fought a great battle at Baiting. The Qin army died in a battle of five thousand, and the Wei and Song allied forces died in a battle of nine thousand.
Shortly after the war, Han Xin ordered Luo Hongxin to lead 8,000 troops to garrison Baiting. The purpose was to guard the Song Dynasty's road to Baiting from the north.
Zhao She has an army of 30,000 in his hands, so he will naturally not be afraid of Luo Hongxin's 8,000 men, but if he attacks Luo Hongxin, the garrisons from Kunyang, Wuyang, and Dingling will definitely come to support him.
These three places are not far from Baiting. Even if the reinforcements are all infantry, it can be reached in five days at most.
No matter how hard Zhao She tried, he still had no confidence that he could deal with Luo Hongxin within five days, let alone that after he dealt with Luo Hongxin, he would have to defeat Huang Tianxiang, Mi Houwang, and even Han Xin and other Qin generals before he could reach Xuchang. .
Zhao She only had 30,000 people at his disposal. It was too difficult to complete this series of feats, so he decisively chose a detour.
Detouring from Runan to Chenjun and then arriving in Xuchang is the safest way.
Zhao She felt that as long as he could enter Xuchang City, with his 30,000 elite troops, plus the tens of thousands of Wei troops in the city, relying on Xuchang's defense power, it would be enough to hold off the Qin army for several months.
It has to be said that if Zhao She is allowed to enter Xuchang, it will indeed cause some trouble for the Qin army to attack the city, so Ying Hao attacked the city before Zhao She entered the city and sent Arthur to lead his army to intercept in advance.
After Yuan Jiuling left, Cao Bin regarded Zhao She as his last savior. He begged his grandfather and grandma every day to wait for the Song army to enter the city before the Qin army attacked the city. But this was destined to be just an extravagant hope. The Qin army It is impossible to give them a chance.
No, the Qin army, which had been sitting still before, suddenly launched an attack on Xuchang again. Cao Bin knew that Zhao She would never be able to enter Xuchang City.
"Report...report to the Grand Governor, Phoenix Marquis of Great Qin led an army of nearly 20,000 infantry and cavalry to the east."
Hearing this, not only Cao Bin, but also the Wei army present sighed involuntarily.
east? There is no need to say anything more, he must have gone straight to Zhao She, and then Xuchang can only rely on himself.
There are 50,000 defenders in Xuchang City, and 70,000 Qin troops came to attack the city. The gap in strength between the two sides is not big, but neither Cao Bin nor the other generals have much confidence, because the new soldiers in the defenders There are simply too many.
In addition, there is another thing that pierces Cao Bin's heart like a thorn, that is, he has never found the undercover agent hidden in Xuchang. How can Xuchang City be defended with such internal and external troubles.
Even though he knew that Xuchang would be defeated sooner or later, Cao Bin could only bite the bullet and defend to the end. Who made him a general of the Cao Wei clan?
"Instruct all the generals to go up to the city wall to defend the city."
Cao Bin shouted the order, but at the same time he was a little uneasy, worried that the Qin army would be surrounded by three and one missing, and attack from three sides.
If the Qin army attacks from three sides at the same time, with such a high-intensity siege intensity, and based on the current quality of Xuchang's defenders, it may not take long for them to collapse.
However, Cao Bin was fortunate that the Qin army did not adopt the most intensive siege method, but concentrated its elite troops and strong generals to attack the west gate. This doubled the pressure on the west gate to defend the city, but also made it easier for Cao Bin to concentrate his elite troops and generals to defend the city. city.
With the suppression of the Yingchuan Rebel Army, the Yingchuan Army, which had been peaceful, once again broke out into a war, and two wars were fought at the same time, but instead the heat was suppressed by a piece of news from the northwest.
The news is: Yang Guang took the initiative to open the city and escape. The Sui capital Daxing, the first strong city in the northwest, was defeated by the Qin army without a single blow.
When they received this news, Cao Cao, Zhu Di, and Zhao Kuangyin were all stunned, because the news they received not long ago was that the Sui, Tuqiang and Qin forces were fighting fiercely at Yiniu Mountain. Meng Tian was at a disadvantage, and many Qin troops were fighting. Wounded, even veteran Sada Yanping died in battle.
Only a few days later, Daxing was captured by the Qin army without any blood?
What accident happened over at Buffalo Mountain? How could Yang Guang voluntarily abandon the capital and run away?
Although there was no specific information, the three kings of the Central Plains were not stupid. They obviously understood that there was only one possibility for Yang Guang to voluntarily abandon the capital and run away, and that was the defeat of the Sui, Tuqiang and Three Kingdoms allied forces.
This discovery made the three kings of the Central Plains even more horrified. After all, the Sui, Tuqiang and Tuqiang coalition forces could number nearly 300,000.
Qin Jun, no, it was Li Jing. What on earth did he do to reverse the situation and turn the situation upside down in an instant? This is too terrifying.
Although the three kings of the Central Plains do not know what Li Jing did for the time being, it is only a matter of time before they find out. But the most important thing now is to prevent the northwest Qin army from entering the Central Plains after destroying the Sui Dynasty.
Although the intelligence only said that Yang Guang abandoned the city and fled, and that the Sui Kingdom still had a large area of territory in Xiliang and even Haizhou, the three kings of the Central Plains obviously understood it in their hearts.
The defeat of Yiniu Mountain, coupled with the loss of the capital Daxing, regardless of whether Yang Guang could break through the encirclement and escape back to Xiliang, even if he could really escape, the Sui State would not be able to hold on for long.
Moreover, if Yang Guang died in battle, the Sui State would immediately split, and it would be even less possible to concentrate its forces to resist Qin.
At this thought, the three kings of the Central Plains felt extremely anxious in their hearts. They convened all the wise men all night to discuss countermeasures. But after all, it happened thousands of miles away, so what could they do?
The only way that can be thought of is to send a large number of envoys to the Western Regions and Haizhou to lobby local forces and major warlords, in an attempt to disrupt the Western Regions and Haizhou, thereby holding back the Qin army in the northwest.
But the effect was obviously not very good. After all, the Qin army had already gained an absolute advantage in the northwest, and it was only a matter of time before they completely occupied Liangzhou and Haizhou.
