Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 2617 Capture the West City and encircle Nanzheng

Chapter 2613: Capture the West City and encircle Nanzheng

"Great victory, great victory..."

Hearing this, including Li Jing, the generals of Yong Liang were all happy. After all, the results of this battle were too great.

Although Zhang Ren burned all the warehouses in the pass before retreating, the fire was extinguished by the Qin army because of the haste.

However, since the military's ordnance and materials were shipped as much as they used, the reserves in the warehouse in the customs were not large.

Therefore, the seizure of supplies, food, and grass is the second most important thing. The main reason is that they severely damaged the Shu army and occupied the important military place of Yangping Pass.

After the counting after the war, the Qin army had a total of 5000 casualties in this battle, beheaded 1 Shu troops, and captured [-] prisoners.

Of the [-] Shu troops in Yangping Pass, only [-] remained and fled back to Nanzheng, and the rest were either killed or captured.

In the previous month's onslaught, the Qin army killed and wounded nearly [-] troops, of which [-] were killed in battle, but only nearly [-] Shu troops were killed and wounded, and most of the Shu troops were injured. rather than die.

But now, with only [-] casualties, [-] Shu troops have been defeated, and Yangping Pass has been captured.

The results of this battle alone far exceeded the previous month.

So far, although the Qin army successfully captured Yangping Pass, in the siege alone, nearly [-] troops were killed or injured, of which [-] were directly killed, leaving only [-] capable troops.

On the other hand, the Shu army had a total of [-] casualties, of which [-] were killed or captured, and [-] were injured and were being treated.

However, Hanzhong still had Li Siyuan's army of [-], so the force of the Shu army was [-], which was [-] more than Li Jing's.

Li Jing was naturally aware of this, but he was not afraid at all. After all, he had already conquered Yangping Pass, the biggest problem in Hanzhong.

In Li Jing's eyes, the [-] Shu army, who lacked food and grass and had low morale, did not pose much of a threat at all. Sooner or later, he would be defeated by himself.

However, in order to prevent the Shuhan side from jumping over the wall, they would rather turn Hanzhong into a piece of scorched earth than Daqin.

Therefore, Li Jing still can't relax in the slightest, even if it is a lion fighting a rabbit, he will go all out, not to mention that the Shu Han who still has the military advantage is not a rabbit.

In order to capture Hanzhong in the shortest possible time, Li Jing led [-] troops to continue southwards, preparing to attack Nanzheng, the place where Hanzhong ruled, the day after he captured Yangping Pass.

However, before the Qin army attacked Xinzheng, it was necessary to eliminate one by one the Wubao and camps built by the Shu Han on the ancient Hanzhong Road.

As mentioned earlier, Shu Han has built the entire Hanzhong into a fortress, and built hundreds of Wubao and a dozen camps in Hanzhong to prevent mistakes in the northern and eastern lines.

After all, if there is any problem in Yangpingguan and Xicheng, these arrangements can also delay the fall of Hanzhong and buy time for the Shu army.

Now that Yangping Pass has been broken by the Qin army, and the Qin army has successfully invaded the territory of Hanzhong, it is time for these Wubao camps to play their role.

I disagree with the fortifications built by the Shu Han outside the Yangping Pass. In these Wubao in Hanzhong County, there are rarely hundreds of defenders, and the maximum is no more than 200, while the defenders in the camps will not exceed a thousand.

Before attacking Yangping Pass, the Qin army had broken through more than [-] Wu Forts and three camps, and now even the rock-solid Yangping Pass has been broken. .

To put it bluntly, Shu Han also knew that these camps and Wu Forts did not pose much threat to the Qin army at all, but the purpose of building them vigorously was just to delay and warn the Shu army to buy time for the Shu army.

To the south of Yangping Pass, on the 25-mile-long Hanzhong Ancient Road, there are [-] Wubaos and three camps, with a total force of about [-] troops.

Among them, there were ten Wu Forts and a large camp. When they were chasing down the retreating Shu army, they were easily solved by Yang Jian and Wu Qi.

Wu Qi had only [-] soldiers and horses in his hands, and he had just experienced a major battle. The soldiers were already a little tired, so when they attacked the second camp, after failing to persuade them to surrender, they did not want to pay too many casualties, so they were destined to suspend the offensive and stay where they were. Stationed to rest and recover.

After resting for a day and a night, Wu Qi also received an order from Li Jing to continue to advance, so he led an army of [-] to launch a fierce attack on the camp of the Shu army, which had only the previous defenders, and occupied the camp with only a stick of incense. , captured more than [-] Shu troops, and suffered less than [-] casualties.

Soon after Wu Qi occupied the second block, Yang Jian led another [-] reinforcements to arrive. After the two sides converged, the strength was nearly [-]. As a vanguard, he came to clear the way for the main force in the rear and clear all obstacles on the ancient Hanzhong road.

With the joint efforts of Wu Qi and Yang Jian, it took less than three days to capture the entire [-]th Fort [-] battalion. Among them, seven Fort Wu voluntarily chose to surrender, and their casualties were less than [-].

After clearing all Wubao and camps, Wu Qi and Yang Jian's vanguard army also reached the last line of defense in northern Hanzhong, Anyang County, and as long as they captured Anyang, the Qin army could enter the Hanzhong Basin.

But in such an important place, the Shu army not only did not leave a heavy defense, but also evacuated all the defenders, and also removed the food and grass, leaving only more than a hundred county soldiers, and they escaped from the front line one after another. of hundreds of soldiers.

Yang Song, the magistrate of Anyang County, obviously knew that he could not stop the Qin army, so when the Qin army arrived at the city, he chose to surrender without saying a word.

Seeing that Yang Song was so flattering, Yang Jian didn't seem to be a person with backbone, and Anyang County was really powerless to resist the Qin army, so he was about to lead the army into the city to rest, but was stopped by Wu Qi.

Yang Jian was a little puzzled, but Wu Qi explained: "Be careful and not wrong." Then he sent someone into the city to check.

Not long after, only half of the soldiers sent into the city for inspection escaped and brought back to the city where there were ambush, and there were firelights everywhere, and the rest died at the hands of the ambush soldiers in the city.

"hiss……"

Yang Jian suddenly gasped and felt a chill in his heart. The Shu army was really ruthless, and they wanted to burn them and millions of people in the city to death.

Once the Qin army enters the city and there is no defense, Anyang City will turn into a fire city, engulfing all the Qin army in the city.

Unlike Yang Jian who was frightened, Wu Qi didn't seem surprised. After all, Li Mu had used this trick on him during the Great War in Guanzhong.

At the beginning, Wu Qi was not in the scheme, and naturally he will not be in the scheme now.

Yang Jian hasn't spoken yet, but Yang Ren on the side can't bear it anymore, grabbing Yang Song's collar and saying angrily, "So you are a fraudulent surrender."

Yang Song's face turned pale for a while. Although he was the magistrate of Anyang, he had only just taken office. He really didn't know that the trial was laying a trap, so he explained tremblingly: "Injustice, injustice, it's really not small. Know."

"Do you think we'll believe it?"

After Yang Ren sneered, he did not give Yang Song a chance to speak, and directly stabbed Yang Song to death with his sword.

Wu couldn't help frowning because of this. After all, although Yang Song's official position was not high, he was a member of the Yang family in Hanzhong. to kill.

But since everyone was dead, Wu Qi naturally couldn't blame Yang Ren, so he could only pretend he didn't see it.

Seeing that Wu Qi didn't hold him accountable, Yang Ren secretly breathed a sigh of relief. He killed Yang Song with a bit of personal emotion.

Yang Ren is the conferred god Yang Ren merged with Hanzhong Yang Ren. He was originally from Hanzhong. He knew how much Yang Song had done over the years, and the people of Hanzhong could not wait to swallow him alive.

But because of the Yang family in Hanzhong, neither Li Tang nor Shu Han were held accountable.

Yang Ren didn't want to let this great villain continue to go unpunished, and wanted to seek justice for the elders in Hanzhong, but if he didn't kill him at this time, it would be more difficult to kill him after Yang Song surrendered to Qin, so he pretended to be angry. Under the killer.

After that, Yang Jian and Yang Ren brought only a few personal soldiers into the city. Although they killed all the spies lurking in the city, they still failed to prevent the other party from setting fire.

However, due to Yang Jian's preparations, the fire did not spread, but it also burned three streets and killed several people, but it also saved the lives of tens of thousands of people in the city.

Since then, Anyang, one of the ten counties in Hanzhong, was officially under the rule of Daqin.

After Wu Qi occupied Anyang, he did not continue to advance, but stationed in place, waiting for the arrival of the large troops.

After all, if we continue to go deeper, what Wu Qi has to face is 1 Shu troops, and it is obviously not enough for them to have less than [-] people.

Li Jing received Wu Qi's summons, and after learning of what happened in Anyang, he immediately accelerated the marching speed.

After all, Shu and Han were planning to use tens of thousands of people in Anyang as bait to burn the people of the whole city together with the Qin army to death. They were ready to do this kind of unconscionable thing.

Therefore, the longer the ensuing war dragged on, the greater the trauma to Hanzhong.

Li Jing had to fight quickly, but he only had [-] troops in his hands, which was not as large as that of the Shu army, and it was difficult to quench his thirst from Yongliang, but Shangyong's Han Xin was closest to him.

Although Han Xin's department was blocked by Xicheng, Li Jing had already broken through Yangping Pass and entered Pengdi in Hanzhong, so the Eastern defense line of Shuhan naturally lost its meaning.

The Qin army could completely split a side division, detour from the north, go straight to the rear of the west city, and attack the west city with Han Xin on both sides, thus completing the reunion with the [-] Qin army in Jingbei.

After Li Jing conquered Yangping Pass, it was only a matter of time before he completely captured Hanzhong, but if he wanted to make a quick decision and capture Hanzhong in a short period of time, he had to cooperate with Han Xin of Shangyong.

Li Jing ordered Wang Jian to lead an army of [-] to Xicheng, and he himself led an army of [-] to Nanzheng, and two of the three counties along the way surrendered voluntarily.

But when Li Jing took over the city, he found that the food and grass in the hands of the people in the city had been confiscated, and the strong men had also been recruited away, leaving only an empty city that was short of food, and the whole city was given to the Qin army. Obviously, he wanted to. Use this to consume the Qin army's food and grass.

In this regard, Li Jing knew it was a plan, but in order to win the hearts and minds of Hanzhong people, he had to take the initiative to step in.

Li Jing didn't want the Shu army to stay in the city all the time, but in order to lead the Shu army to fight, he divided the army into four, deliberately pretending to be arrogant, but even if he completed the reunion under Nanzheng City, he could not lead out a single one. Support the Shu army.

Just when Li Jing's troops approached Nanzheng, Wang Jian had already captured Xicheng.

Wang Jian led his army all the way to the east, and he turned a blind eye to Wubao along the road. Unless there was no way to bypass it, he would launch a strong attack. In the end, it took only two days to reach Xicheng.

The Shu army also knew the importance of the West City, so they arranged [-] defenders in the West City, and ordered the defender Yang Ang to stick to it for half a month.

But in the face of Han Xin's 5000 Qin army, Wang Jian's [-] Qin army, and a full [-] Qin army's two-sided attack, even Bai Qi might not be able to defend the west city with [-] people, let alone Yang. Angry.

It was only an hour after the start of the battle, and the Jingbei Qin army in the east, recharged and recharged, took the lead and entered the city one step at a time, followed by Wang Jian's army in the west also ascended the tower.

Xicheng was officially broken, but the defender Yang Ang would rather die than surrender, and resisted in the city master's mansion, and was finally shot and killed by the Jingzhou general Wenpin.

The Qin army captured Xicheng, which meant that the entire Xincheng County was occupied by Daqin.

Hanzhong County originally consisted of one county and nine counties. After years of management and development by Li Shimin, it became Hanzhong, Shangyong and Xincheng, three counties and twenty counties.

Today, the six counties of Shangyong County and the four counties of Xincheng County have all belonged to Daqin.

As for the ten counties in Hanzhong County, three counties were occupied by Daqin, and the two western counties were owned by Li Siyuan, which means that only five counties, including Nanzheng, were left in the territory that really belonged to the Shu army.

(End of this chapter)