Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 1890: The Lonely City of Yanjing (Part 1)

Chapter 1888: The isolated city of Yanjing (Part 1)

Although there has never been a war in Zhuo County, the pressure Bai Qi brought to Wei Qing was no less than that of other counties.

Although Bai Qi has never launched an offensive against Zhuojun, he has mobilized troops extremely frequently.

Today, we will send five thousand more troops to this city, and tomorrow we will send three thousand more troops to that camp. Such troop mobilizations happen almost every day on the side of the Qin army.

Although Wei Qing didn't know what Bai Qi's intention was, as long as one of the ten lies was true, the Han army would suffer heavy losses.

Therefore, in order to prevent Bai Qi from really attacking, as long as Bai Qi makes a move, Wei Qing must also change his layout to deal with the Qin army that may attack.

Just to keep up with Bai Qi's pace and frequently change the layout, Wei Qing was exhausted mentally and physically.

What Wei Qing didn't know was that Bai Qi had always had only one purpose, which was to drag his 50,000-strong army in Zhuo County. As for the frequent mobilization of troops, it was just to prevent him from being idle.

Once Bai Qi does nothing here, Wei Qing, who has nothing to do, will naturally divide himself into other things, which will cause variables in other aspects of the battle. As long as he is too busy and has no free time, Wei Qing will naturally not have the energy to intervene in other matters. Wars in various counties.

Under Bai Qicun's deliberate torment, Wei Qing's eyes were always limited to Zhuo County. By the time he realized this, Yuyang County had been captured by Su Dingfang. Before he could make arrangements, Dai County was also captured. Huo Qubing was occupied.

If Wei Qing could still remain calm when Yuyang fell and Su Dingfang marched into Yanjing, the fall of the entire Dai County made Wei Qing almost lose his mind.

Yanjing is a fortified city, and there is sufficient food and grass in the city. As long as the defenders do not make any mistakes, even if Su Dingfang reaches the gates of Yanjing City, it will be impossible to break through Yanjing in a short time, not to mention the troops Su Dingfang can use to attack Yanjing City. Not too much.

 But Daijun is different.

 Daijun is the flank of Zhuojun. Once occupied by the Qin army, Huo Qubing can directly attack Zhuojun, and form a two-sided attack on Wei Qing's troops with Bai Qi.

Wei Qing was exhausted mentally and physically by blocking Bai Qi's 60,000-strong army. Coupled with Huo Qubing's 40,000-strong army, which was still in a pincer attack, how could Wei Qing's 50,000-strong army be able to defend it?

 So, after learning the news of Xue Gang's defeat, Wei Qing was shocked and furious, and cursed Xue Gang for an hour, scolding him for being incompetent and harming the country.

 In fact, Wei Qing also knew that Xue Gang did not make any big mistakes in the battle of Daijun. The defeat was not because of his lack of ability, but because the Qin army was too strong. However, this was not the reason for Xue Gang to miss the country.

Xue Gang's defeat was equivalent to directly exposing the 50,000 Han troops in Zhuo County to Huo Qubing's cavalry. The situation on Wei Qing's side suddenly became dangerous.

At this point, there is no point in blaming Xue Gang. Wei Qing can only try his best to save and remedy the situation.

While Huo Qubing's troops were still trying to enter Zhuo County, Wei Qing streamlined the defense layout of Zhuo County, voluntarily abandoned the defense of a southern county, defended the four central and northern counties including Zhuo County, and stationed additional troops on the western front.

Wei Qing didn't know whether such an arrangement could stop Bai Qi and Huo Qubing's 100,000 troops, but now he could only do his best to obey fate.

Learning that Wei Qing had voluntarily abandoned a city, Bai Qi immediately ordered Luo Cheng to lead the army to occupy it, and implemented a step-by-step strategy of pressing the Han army, gradually reducing the scope of the Han army's activities.

At the same time, Huo Qubing's troops also formally invaded Zhuojun, launched an offensive against the Han army from the west, and attacked Wei Qing together with Bai Qi.

When Bai Qi learned that Huo Qubing was coming, he immediately sent out 30,000 troops, divided into ten groups, with 3,000 men in each group. They used exhaustion tactics to constantly harass Wei Qing's troops, but Wei Qing did not tire of it.

 Since then, the Zhuojun War has officially begun. Fighting continued in Zhuo County. Xue Rengui and Lu Bu from Shanggu County also joined forces and continued to march towards Guangyang County.

When Xue Rengui first attacked Shanggu, he had a total of 30,000 troops. After occupying Shanggu, he only suffered 2,000 casualties to achieve a record of killing 4,000 enemies and capturing 6,000 prisoners.

Xue Rengui's 28,000 troops combined with Lu Bu's 17,000 troops to make a total of 45,000 troops.

After some deliberation, Xue Rengui left 5,000 troops to guard Shanggu, and together with Lu Bu, led 40,000 troops to Guangyang County.

Once Xue Rengui's troops arrived in Guangyang County, the Qin army's strength in Guangyang increased to 70,000, while the Han army only had 30,000 defenders in Guangyang.

The Han army has 30,000 troops in Guangyang. Including the 50,000 defenders in Zhuojun, the total strength has been reduced to 80,000, only half of the strength in its heyday, and nearly half of them are new soldiers.

Since the Qin Army's five-pronged army attacked Youzhou, it was less than a month since the war started. However, they had won consecutive battles. They first captured Youbeiping, then Poyuyang, and successively captured Dai and Guangyang counties.

The huge Northern Han Empire had a total of 180,000 troops in five counties and 42 cities. The Qin army defeated only 80,000 troops in nine cities. However, the casualties of the Qin army were negligible, and they almost pinned the Han army to the ground. Give Boomer a good beating.

In these great victories, the Qin army's strong national power and military power were fully demonstrated, while the Northern Han Dynasty had no power to resist, which became another stepping stone for Qin Hao to climb the ladder. stone.

Under the siege of 200,000 Qin troops, the Northern Han Dynasty was continuously weakened. Now with no external reinforcements and nearly half of its own casualties, it was obvious that it was on the verge of national subjugation.

In this regard, Qin Hao will not show mercy at all, and a more vicious and violent offensive is yet to come.

Xue Rengui led an army of 40,000 to Guangyang, but did not march directly to Yanjing. Instead, he made the same choice as Su Dingfang, capturing Guangyang and Jundu as his base. Now Guangyang has a firm foothold.

 Guangyang and Jundu are the last defensive cities of Yanjing. Once Xue Rengui successfully captures these two cities, Yanjing will also become an isolated city.

An isolated city cannot be defended. Yanjing, which has become an isolated city, will fall sooner or later.

The Han army naturally understood this, but under the threat of Su Dingfang's 30,000 troops, the Han army in Yanjing City was unable to stop it and could only watch Xue Rengui and Rengui capture the two cities.

 “Damn.”

Liu Che angrily threw the battle report in his hand to the ground and said angrily: "Can we just remain indifferent and watch Xue Li capture Guangyang?"

Prime Minister Wei stood up and said with a wry smile: "Your Majesty, Su Lie's 30,000-strong army is watching covetously outside the city, waiting for Yanjing to send troops to rescue Guangyang. Once they leave the city for rescue, they will play into Su Lie's hands."

 “Then we can’t sit still and wait for death?” Liu Che retorted.

Huo Guang, Zhang Tang, Wei Xiang and others looked at each other, but they were speechless.

The Qin army's strength has reached 70,000, while the Han army has only 30,000. The enemy's strength is more than double our own. If we leave the city, we will definitely lose in a battle. What can we do except sit back and wait for death?

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