The Qin State went to war with Yiqu, the Three Jins and the Western Chu State, and it had reached a critical moment of life and death. Fortunately, the Western Chu State was also defeated by the Huai State and could no longer support it, so it summoned a large army to return reinforcements.
If the Qin State continues to entangle with the Western Chu State, the Qin State will be severely damaged this time even if it is not destroyed.
King Qin sent envoys and successfully negotiated peace with Zhao, and immediately liberated a hundred thousand troops. King Qin immediately sent these troops south to attack the coalition forces of South Korea and Wei.
The allied forces of South Korea and Wei had no idea that Qin and Zhao were negotiating peace, and had no defense against the north. After Qin and Zhao negotiated peace, Zhao State reduced its troops, and a gap was immediately opened on the left flanks of South Korea and Wei.
The newly liberated Qin State immediately moved south from this gap and launched an attack on the two countries.
South Korea and Wei were attacking Yin Jin with all their strength. The Yin Jin Qin army was already crumbling and was about to lose its support. At this time, Qin's reinforcements suddenly launched an attack from the side.
The soldiers of South Korea and Wei became exhausted from attacking the city. The Qin army was waiting for work and launched a surprise attack. The army of South Korea and Wei were defeated, with tens of thousands of casualties and casualties, and they were completely defeated.
After defeating the allied forces of Han and Wei, the Qin army did not continue to pursue and expand the results. Instead, they gave up when they were ready and mobilized their troops to return. Just when Qin and Han and Wei were fighting, tens of thousands of Yiqu troops in Xianyang of Qin were besieging the Qin army.
Yiqu State practiced half farming and half herding. It can be said that all the people are soldiers. All the soldiers in the country are proficient in riding and shooting. It can be said that they can come and go like the wind. They are extremely mobile and the infantry of the Qin army cannot catch up at all. It is not flexible enough, and the initiative on the battlefield is completely controlled by Yiqu State.
The Qin army was harassed by the Yiqu State and was in a panic, and did not dare to pursue it at all. The Yiqu State did not dare to fight with the Qin State, and it was deadlocked for a while.
Western Chu State, Jiangzhou.
After seeing that Jiangzhou City was difficult to capture, Sun Bin did not attack again. Instead, he defended the key roads in Jiangzhou and then used trebuchets and crossbows to attack every day. The army began to attack the cities of Western Chu.
These cities were originally depleted of a large number of soldiers and lacked troops. Huai State used trebuchets and crossbows to suppress them, and then sent soldiers to take advantage of the opportunity to attack. One city after another was captured by the Huai Kingdom.
After defeating all the reinforcements that came to King Qin, the morale in Jiangzhou City plummeted. After Sun Bin captured all the surrounding cities, Jiangzhou City would become an isolated city. By then, even a siege would be able to consume Jiangzhou City to death.
At the same time, in the Hanzhong Plain, after Wei Zong occupied Shangyong City, he continued to march towards Hanzhong. Hanzhong mobilized the army twice, but the troops were exhausted. After consecutive defeats, the troops were dwarfed.
After Wei Zong learned that the Hanzhong army had left Baoxie Road to attack Qin but had not returned, he immediately led five thousand Tengjia troops, bypassed the Hanzhong prefecture and governed Nanzheng, and went directly to Baogukou. Baogukou is the starting point of the southern section of Baoxie Road. The army needs to go north from Baogu and cross hundreds of miles of plank roads, mountain roads, and river valleys to reach Yi County.
The army of the Western Chu State invaded the north of the Qin State. Once the Baoxie Road was blocked, tens of thousands of the army of the Western Chu State were blocked in this river valley.
Although Wei Zong only has 5,000 people, if these 5,000 people are blocked here, the tens of thousands of troops from the Western Chu Kingdom will be unable to move even an inch. If Wei Zong had been more ruthless and directly burned down the plank road of Baoxie Road, the tens of thousands of people from the Western Chu Kingdom would really have been blocked in it.
However, Wei Zong would not use this method until the last step. After burning the plank road, the tens of thousands of troops from Western Chu had no choice but to surrender to Qin if they did not want to die.
This is unacceptable to Huai State.
If tens of thousands of elite Chu troops surrender to Qin, Qin's strength will greatly increase. Huai's idea of weakening Qin was completely shattered. Therefore, the best way is to force the tens of thousands of Western Chu troops to surrender.
The Huai State army bypassed Nanzheng. When the Nanzheng defenders saw it, they immediately understood what they wanted to do. However, Nanzheng was also short of troops and worried that this was Huai State's strategy to lure the enemy. He just wanted to lure the Nanzheng defenders out.
The Chu army in Nanzhengxi was hesitant. At this time, the follow-up troops from Huai State had also arrived. Huai State's attack on Western Chu mobilized 200,000 troops and 200,000 civilians.
The most difficult thing in attacking the Western Chu Kingdom was not to attack the city, but the roads. The roads from the Western Chu Kingdom to the Huai Kingdom were basically mountain roads, which were rugged and difficult to navigate and required a large number of people to dig the roads. Just like the road from Yicheng to Jiangdu, plank roads are often built.
In order to attack the Western Chu State, the Chidao that was being built by the Huai State also temporarily stopped, and the craftsmen who were building the Chidao were sent to Hanzhong and Yicheng to build roads.
If you want to control places like Jiangzhou and Hanzhong, transportation is very important. If transportation is inconvenient, it will easily lead to local separatist forces. If you want to attack, the mountain roads are difficult to travel, which will cost a lot and cause countless casualties.
Of course, this can only be done after conquering the Western Chu Kingdom.
Wei Zong's army blocked Baogu Valley, and then the follow-up army surrounded Nanzheng, and then began to build engineering equipment to attack.
The land of Hanzhong is not small. It is surrounded by dangerous mountains and rivers, and there is a plain in the middle. Coupled with the irrigation by many rivers such as Hanshui, Hanzhong can easily support hundreds of thousands or even millions of people.
The Huai State army surrounded Nanzheng and built various siege equipment to attack. Nanzheng City has insufficient troops and is no match for Huai State.
A columbine several feet high was erected. Dozens of archers fired, suppressing the city head of Nancheng. The trebuchets continued to throw fist-sized stones. For a time, rocks fell like rain on the city head of Nanzheng, and arrows Such as forest.
The soldiers of the Western Chu Kingdom raised their shields to resist. As a result, the shields were hit by falling rocks and were quickly smashed. Stones weighing several kilograms fell. Even the iron armor could not withstand it and was directly smashed. Headache and bleeding.
The defenders of the Western Chu State were originally second-line troops, and they simply could not bear the casualties. If it were not for the parents, wives, and children in the city, these people would have collapsed long ago.
The Huai army advanced rapidly, and soon a columbine approached the city wall. The ten-foot-long baffle in front of the columbine instantly fell down, just setting it on the city wall.
In addition, there was an iron hook at the end of the baffle, which hooked the city wall. For a while, the soldiers of the Western Chu State could not push away at all. As the baffle fell, the Huaiguo warriors who had been waiting for a long time immediately rushed forward. Go up and fight with the Western Chu army on the city wall.
The first warriors of the Huai Kingdom were all elites. They were all wearing rattan armor and holding crossbows and crossbows. They slashed left and right and soon cleared an open space on the city wall. Then a steady stream of Huai troops rushed up. .
Nanzheng City only held out for three days under the attack of the Huaiguo army before it was completely defeated. The army captured Nanzheng, and almost all of Hanzhong was returned to the Huai Kingdom.
Just when the Huai State captured Nanzheng, tens of thousands of troops from the Western Chu State had already marched towards the exit of Baogu. Seeing that the exit was blocked by the Huai Army, the Western Chu State army was shocked, and its commander even led an elite attack.
(End of chapter)
