Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 739

Chapter 737: Bai Qi and Jingzhou

There are seven counties in Jingzhou, three counties in Jingbei, namely: Nanyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia; and four counties in Jingnan, namely: Changsha, Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang.

Most of the essence of Jingzhou is concentrated in Jingbei, and the two counties of Nanyang and Nanjun occupy [-]% of the essence of Jingbei, and the remaining five counties can only be comparable to one of the two.

Originally, Nanyang's overall strength was only slightly better than that of Nanjun, but after Qin Hao's efforts in the past few years, Nanyang has completely surpassed Nanjun in terms of population and economy.

Today's Nanjun has more territory than Nanyang, but it must be known that Nanjun only has 36 counties, while Nanyang has [-] counties. It can be seen that although the total population of Nanjun is not as good as that of Nanyang, the average population of the counties is even higher than that of Nanyang.

The total population of Nanjun is nearly 200 million, the smallest of the 20 counties under its jurisdiction is [-] to [-], and the population of big cities such as Jiangling and Xiangyang is more than [-].

After Qin Hao captured Xiangyang, he ordered Bai Qi to continue the attack, and after Bai Qi got the help of Wen Ping, the army was even more deadly.

In just half a month, Bai Qi captured nearly half of the land in Nanjun. So far, Qin Hao has added seven new counties under his jurisdiction, and the population has also expanded by more than 80.

Later, because of the obstruction of the Jingzhou family, Bai Qi was temporarily blocked under Jiangling City.

In addition, Huang Zu and other five major princes of Jingzhou also all sent troops to grab the territory.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bai Qi decided not to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, but stopped attacking and sticking to the newly occupied land, and waited for the five princes to fight due to disputes over interests.

Common sense, the five princes will definitely fight because of the uneven distribution of spoils. From this point of view, Bai Qi's decision is not wrong, but he made a mistake, so Liu Biao and Liu Xiu brothers also waded into this mess. water.

Shortly after the five princes sent troops, the Jingzhou family led Liu Biao to take control of Jingzhou, and as Liu Xiu led [-] Jingliang coalition troops to Jiangling, most of the remaining ten counties in Jiangling belonged to Liu Biao.

After Liu Biao and Liu Xiu entered Jiangling, the division of labor was very clear.

Liu Biao obtained the full support of the Jingzhou family by marrying the daughter of the Cai family, and stabilized the interior of Nanjun in the shortest possible time.

As for Liu Xiu, he showed his fists outside, and was responsible for sticking to the territory under his command and resisting the five major princes who invaded from outside.

In just one month, Liu Xiu fought against the five major princes more than ten times, winning every battle.

Huang Zu and other five princes also realized that the new state shepherd is not easy to mess with, and they all had the idea of ​​​​letting it go.

But at this moment, Liu Xiu sent Kuailiang and Kuaiyue as messengers to lobby the five princes, saying that Qin Hao was the biggest threat to Jingzhou, and everyone should work together to drive Qin Hao back to Nanyang to say something else.

Under the persuasion of the messenger Liu Xiu, the five princes finally reflected that the most powerful prince in Jingzhou is Qin Hao, and this time he has captured nearly half of Nanjun. Hao annexed.

In the end, Liu Xiu reached a reconciliation with the five princes, and the six parties formed an alliance.

Among the six great princes, Liu Biao sent [-] troops, Huang Zu sent [-] troops, Han Xuan and Zhao each sent [-] troops, and Liu Du and Jin Xuan each sent [-] troops.

The coalition forces have a total of 20 troops, while the external announcement claims that there are [-] troops. Under the leadership of Liu Xiu, they marched towards Xiangyang in a mighty manner, preparing to drive Qin Hao's forces back to Nanyang.

From the battle between Liu Xiu and the five princes to the formation of the coalition, Bai Qi neither sent troops to sneak attacks nor sent messengers to destroy his alliance, but just let his alliance succeed.

The abnormal behavior of Bai Qi's inaction all the time made all the Qin army generals anxiously turn around, but Bai Qi still did not respond at all, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

"General Bai, you said something, the coalition forces are about to kill you." Wen Pin said anxiously.

Wen Pin had only joined the Qin army not long ago, so he didn't know much about Bai Qi. If he hadn't known that Bai Qi was the lord's confidant, Wen Pin would have even thought that Bai Qi had secretly joined Liu Xiu.

Seeing Wen Pin taking the lead, the rest of the generals also persuaded one after another, but Bai Qi took a sip of tea and said lightly, "No hurry, no hurry."

"Aren't you in a hurry? Do you have to wait until the troops are under the city, Lao Bai, before you start dispatching troops?"

Li Cunxiao was also impatient. Seeing that Bai Qi was still not interested, he immediately said loudly: "Old Bai, this is not your style of military use. If you have any plans, please tell everyone quickly. There are no outsiders here."

Bai Qi raised his brows, looked at Li Cunxiao, and said lightly, "General Li Cunxiao, you can call me whatever you want in private, but in the army, you have to call me general."

When Li Cunxiao heard the words, his teeth itch with anger, but who let the first-level official crush him to death, he could only be discouraged: "Yes, General."

Seeing this, Bai also breathed a sigh of relief.

Li Cunxiao is the number one general of the Qin army, but he is deeply loved by the protagonist Qin Hao. In addition, he is upright and forthright, and his connections among the generals are also very good.

In fact, Bai Qi was also afraid that Li Cunxiao would fight against him, so that he would really not be able to come down to the stage. Fortunately, Li Cunxiao knew the difference between generals and commanders, and did not really favor him.

Originally, Bai Qi was going to disclose the reasons for his inaction before the war, but because Li Cunxiao's reaction made him very satisfied, Bai Qi decided to tell some of the generals in advance.

"I would have known that the inaction during this period made everyone very anxious, but it should be noted that sometimes inaction is also an action."

Is inaction an action?
Although the generals could not understand the meaning of Bai Qi's words, it was obvious that Bai Qi did it on purpose, not the arrogance they thought, and they were finally relieved.

"Old... General, you said it earlier, you'll scare everyone." Li Cunxiao complained.

Bai Qi glanced at Li Cunxiao and said indifferently: "Our army is far ahead of the Jingzhou armies in terms of source of troops, equipment, and training. If we take the initiative to attack, the opponent will not be able to defend, and our army will inevitably suffer heavy casualties. If the other side were to attack, the situation would be completely different."

Qin Hao also assigned Jiulongwei to Bai Qi this time, and Zhou Yu, who was standing at the end, suddenly lit up when he heard it, and said excitedly: "The reason why the general did not act is to let the other party take the initiative to concentrate its forces, our army is good Total annihilation in one battle?"

Bai Qi glanced at Zhou Yu in surprise. This young man had guessed his intentions so quickly. He was really a good seed. Nine Dragons Guards really did crouching tiger and hiding dragon.

Standing behind Li Cunxiao, Huang Zhong frowned and said solemnly: "General, you have ordered the division of troops to be stationed in various counties in advance, and our troops together are less than [-] troops. Want to call back the scattered troops?"

(End of this chapter)