Summoning the Peak of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 984 Liu Xiuzheng Jingnan

Chapter 982: Liu Xiuzheng Jingnan

Just when Liu Bei led the army back to Pingyuan and Zhuge Liang and others went to Taihang, Qin Hao also launched an offensive against Henan Yin.

Henan Yin has a total of 21 counties, namely: Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xinzheng, Chenggao, Xingyang, Pingxian, Pingyin, Gucheng, Henan, Xincheng, Liangxian, Yanshi, Goushi, Gongxian, Juanxian, Yuanwu , Yangwu, Zhongmu, Yuanling, Mi County, and Jing County.

As the center of Sizhou, the center of the world, Henan Yin has many famous cities, such as Chenggao and Xingyang, which are famous fortified cities, Xinzheng was the capital of South Korea during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and Kaifeng was the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

If you add Luoyang, Henan Yinnei has a total of three major capitals, absolutely no other county can have such a heritage.

At present, Qin Hao has only occupied Luoyang in Henan Province, and the unoccupied [-] counties are large, but with the defeat of the Liang army, it is afraid that even [-] county soldiers are not enough. How can they resist Qin Hao's [-] elite troops? Army?
Regardless of the strength of the army or the lineup of generals, the Qin army is almost crushing, and ten days is more than enough.

In fact, there were no accidents. When the county magistrates of these twenty counties saw the Qin army attacking, led by famous generals such as Bai Qi, most of them directly surrendered in Kaesong.

The four-way army broke through the city like a broken bamboo all the way, and hardly encountered much fierce resistance. Only a small number of diehards resisted stubbornly, but the Qin army easily broke through the city because of their too weak strength.

The time Qin Hao set was ten days, but it only took eight days for Bai Qi and other generals to capture all the twenty counties.

But within these eight days, another major incident happened, and the instigator was Liu Xiu, who was considered a prince who quit the alliance relatively late.

Liu Xiu's threat was no less than Li Shimin's. Qin Hao would never let him go safely, so he set up a net for Liu Xiu in advance.

Although Qin Hao promised Xun Kan before that he would never send a killer to assassinate Liu Xiu, but using the army can't be considered an assassination, right?
In order to prevent Liu Xiu from returning to Nanjun alive, Qin Hao sent an order to Yue Fei as soon as he got the news of Liu Xiu's departure, ordering him to set up an ambush to kill Liu Xiu on Liu Xiu's return journey.

But to Qin Hao's surprise, Liu Xiu did not go all the way back to Nanyang. Instead, he detoured along Runan, Lujiang, and Jiangxia, and returned to Jiangling after a long detour.

It is Qin Hao's credit for Liu Xiu to be so cautious. After the Hulaoyu battle, Liu Xiu was really afraid of being calculated by Qin Hao, and he was extremely cautious in everything he did afterwards. His caution saved him more than once, and finally made Qin Hao's All arrangements are useless.

Although Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he knew that Qin Hao would not let him go just like that, so his power must grow stronger, and Jingnan, which has been in chaos, was the best target, so he started to do it. Preparations for going south to pacify the four counties in Jingnan.

At the beginning, Liu Xiu joined forces with the five princes of Jingzhou to crusade against Qin Hao, but in the end, he was almost wiped out by Baiqi in the first battle, and even the four princes including Liu Biao were killed in battle.

After Qin Hao signed the unequal treaty, although Huang Zu and Han Xuan were released as princes, the remaining three counties in Jingnan fell into civil strife.

It has been almost a year since the first battle, and the chaos in Jingnan has also undergone great changes.

Han Xuan, the prefect of Changsha, saw that the three counties were in civil strife, so he joined forces with Huang Zu to send troops to occupy the three counties, but was repelled by the local forces of the three counties, and eventually occupied several counties.

Not long after the local forces of the three counties jointly repelled Han Xuan, they fell into infighting again. In the end, the first family in Jingzhou, the Zhang family advocated Xian, defeated all forces, and won the final victory.

Zhang Xian took advantage of the situation to occupy nearly half of the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling, thus becoming the fifth prince of Jingzhou besides Qin Hao, Liu Xiu, Huang Zu, and Han Xuan. On the contrary, his strength is the weakest among the princes of Jingzhou.

After Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he immediately aimed at Zhang Xian, and this is also the best time for him to annex Zhang Xian's strength. Otherwise, after Zhang Xian recovers, it will not be so easy to occupy the land of Jingnan .

Although Liu Xiu wanted to occupy Jingnan, he would not lose his mind. He still had a big worry in his heart, which was Yue Fei in Xiangyang and the [-] Qin army. After all, Qin Hao would never let him occupy Jingnan.

Liu Xiu was afraid that as soon as he left Nanjun, Yue Fei would lead his army to attack the city of Jiangling. If Zhang Xian could not be eliminated this time, it would be even more difficult to occupy Jingnan in the future, so Liu Xiu could not be careless in sending troops this time. .

Liu Xiu hesitated again and again and could not make up his mind. It wasn't until he learned that Qin Hao had transferred [-] troops from Xiangyang that he truly strengthened his heart to conquer Jingnan.

In order to occupy Sizhou, Qin Hao had to fight hard, let alone Liu Xiu?
In order to ensure that Nanjun is not lost, Liu Xiu decided to lead a small number of elites to the south, leaving most of the troops to guard against Xiangyang Yuefei.

All the civil and military men under Liu Xiu's command were shocked when they heard about it, and stood up to dissuade Liu Xiu from increasing his troops, but Liu Xiu laughed when he saw this, and said: "Zhang Xian is nothing more than a clown, ten thousand troops are enough to deal with him, everyone, do your best first." Get ready for the celebration."

Zhang Xian's army can't go down to [-]. Is Liu Xiu really confident in annexing Zhang Xian?I'm afraid that's not the case, but if he doesn't even have confidence in himself, how can he give confidence to his subordinates?

In this way, although Liu Xiu knew that the road ahead was full of thorns, he still led an army of [-] troops south without hesitation, breaking into the chaos in Jingnan like a dragon crossing the river.

Qin Hao, who was far away in Luoyang, when he heard the news of Liu Xiu's going south, his first reaction was to order Yue Fei to lead the army to capture Nanjun, absolutely not giving Liu Xiu any chance to grow stronger.

However, the current situation of the Qin army is not as good as Qin Hao imagined. Most of the grain and grass in the Nanyang grain depot have been consumed, and there is only enough to support the [-] Qin army for half a year.

Because Bingzhou has promoted new grain varieties, the grain storage in the grain depot is very abundant, but because there are still four Bingnan counties between Sizhou and Sizhou, the grain and grass cannot be transported to Luoyang at all.

Next, Qin Hao will compete with Dong Zhuo for Sizhou. If he can't win it within five months, the Qin army will face the risk of running out of food in Sizhou. Naturally, there will be no surplus food to divide troops to contain Liu Xiu.

"Liu Xiu is really lucky to have picked such a good time."

Qin Hao sighed helplessly. Although he was a little depressed, he still decided to give up sending troops to Jiangling for the time being.

A few days later, the [-] troops from Nanyang arrived in Luoyang, and the offices of the Marquis Qin's Mansion had also been moved to Luoyang, and they began to officially settle in Luoyang and start working.

(End of this chapter)