Three Kingdoms: Peak Summons

Chapter 2619 The Attack and Defense of Nanzheng (Part 1) No Antidote

Chapter 2615: Nanzheng Attack and Defense (Part 1) No Antidote

The Shu army invaded again, and the Qin army could not be beaten passively, so Li Jing ordered Long Qie to lead 3,000 cavalry to fight.

After an hour of fierce fighting, the light and strong Shu army was defeated again. Long Qie led his troops to cover the rear, but encountered Kong Peng's 5,000-strong army who was responsible for breaking up the rear.

 Similar to the situation yesterday, the Qin army had been fighting for an hour and was extremely exhausted, so it was unable to defeat the Shu army.

Long Qie was also stopped by Liu Er. After a great battle, he quickly fell into a disadvantage. He teamed up with Ma Shanwei and Ma Chao and barely managed to draw with Liu Er, but failed to maximize the result.

 "Great Governor, General Long Qie has returned victoriously. In this battle, he killed 5,000 Shu troops and captured 5,000 prisoners. However, our army suffered less than 500 casualties."

After hearing the report from his subordinates, Li Jing remained silent and did not speak. After all, he was watching the entire battle yesterday and today.

During the battle between Long Qie and Liu Er's troops, Li Jing also thought of sending out a large army again to devour Liu Er's troops, but he gave up after weighing the pros and cons.

There was no other reason. The Shu army's fighting style was a bit excessive. Nearly 20,000 people were killed in two battles in two days, as if they were deliberately killing people. This made Li Jing instinctively feel that something was wrong.

“How many prisoners of the Shu army were captured in these two battles?” Li Jing asked.

Wu Qi stood up and replied: "Six thousand yesterday, five thousand today, eleven thousand already."

 “Go and interrogate these prisoners.”

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The next day, the Shu army invaded again, but this time it was not Kong Peng and Liu Er, but Zhang Hao.

Zhang Hao was a hidden figure in the Bronze Hundred Calls and Sixteen Kingdoms period. After he was born, he was implanted as Zhang Ren's younger brother, so he naturally served the Shu Han.

Zhang Hao's original surname was Gong. Later, Zhang Ping, the general of Zhao behind him, adopted his surname as Zhang. He was a native of Xuushi County, Shangdang County (now Gaoping City, Shanxi Province).

Fu Jian, the king of the former Qin Dynasty, was appointed to attack Zhang Pingping, and ordered the fierce general Deng Qiang, the first general of the former Qin Dynasty, to be the vanguard.

Zhang Ping had known Deng Qiang's name for a long time, so he naturally did not dare to be careless, so he asked Zhang Hao, his most capable godson, to go on the expedition.

The two armies faced each other and fought for more than ten days. Deng Qiang, who had the absolute advantage, could not win. Later, Fu Jian personally led his troops and Zhang Ping also led the main force to meet the enemy.

The two sides lined up their formations. Zhang Hao showed off his strength and led only a small number of elite troops into the formation. Taking the lead, he killed five in and five out of the former Qin army. The former Qin army was almost shaken under its impact.

 Zhang Hao's bravery and skill in fighting made Fu Jian fall in love with him and offered a heavy reward for his capture.

After the decisive battle began, Zhang Hao was besieged by the former Qin generals during the melee between the two armies. When he was almost exhausted, he was first stabbed by Lu Guang and then captured by Deng Qiang.

 Zhang Hao was captured and Zhang Ping's army was defeated. Zhang Ping had no choice but to beg for surrender. Fu Jian also accepted Zhang Ping's surrender, but took Zhang Hao away and appointed him as Huben Zhonglang General.

Afterwards, Zhang Hao followed Fu Jian, quelled the rebellion of the Five Dukes, conquered Qian Yan and Dai, and defeated Xie Shi. Together with Deng Qiang, he was also called the "enemy of ten thousand people" by historian Cui Hong.

Deng Qiang's ten thousand enemies are the embodiment of both commander-in-chief and military bravery, while Zhang Hao is the embodiment of military courage alone, and his strength has naturally reached the level of a **** of war.

　In the previous offensive and defensive battle at Yangpingguan, the three generals Kang Anyu, Hua Xiong, and Sun Chongjin joined forces, but they were still defeated by Zhang Hao, and Hua Xiong and Sun Chongjin were also injured.

After the end of the war, Zhang Hao defeated and seriously injured three generals: Kang Anyu, Li Jue, and Zhang Xiu.

To put it bluntly, in the attack and defense of Yangping Pass, Liu Er and Kong Peng did not have as much contribution as Zhang Hao.

Li Jing saw Zhang Hao going to battle. Considering that many generals had already been defeated by Zhang Hao, and they could not be defeated again this time, he sent Gongsun Xuanyuan to fight.

As soon as Xuanyuan left, Wu Qi entered the tent with the interrogation report and said with a serious face: "Grand Governor, the interrogation results have come out. The 11,000 Shu army prisoners of war are all from Anyang Xicheng and other four counties. "

As soon as these words came out, the generals of the Qin army had no reaction, but Li Jing took a breath of cold air.

 “Now we’re in trouble.”

Li Jing couldn't help but mutter to himself, while thinking about countermeasures in his heart.

Now the Shu Han's intention is very obvious, which is to use the lives of the people of Hanzhong to consume the Qin army. However, Liu Yu, who had just proclaimed himself emperor, was afraid of Tian Tian Youyou's words and did not dare to do anything too ugly, so he only let Hanzhong Qingzhuang Come be cannon fodder.

After all, if all the young people in Hanzhong died at the hands of the Qin army, the people in Hanzhong would definitely be full of hatred for the Qin Dynasty. Even if the Qin army occupied Hanzhong, it would be difficult to win over the people of Hanzhong.

 But there is a huge hidden danger in Liu Yu's plan, that is, the people of Hanzhong are not stupid either, and they will certainly not die for Shu Han in vain.

If the Qin army had used the psychological attack tactics well and used the women and children of Hanzhong in the occupied areas to use psychological attacks, they might even make these Hanzhong young men who were used as cannon fodder defect before the battle.

Li Jing happened to be a master of mind-attack tactics, and the main method used to conquer Yangping Pass was mind-attack tactics.

It is naturally impossible for Liu Yu not to know about this, so if this problem cannot be solved, Shu Han will just shoot himself in the foot.

With 96 points of intelligence attribute, Liu Yu still couldn't think of a solution. In the end, it was Su Qin's advice that solved this problem.

Su Qin's strategy was also very simple, which was to first use the young people in the occupied areas as cannon fodder.

The people in the occupied areas were all old, weak, women and children, and all the food in their hands was confiscated by the Shu army. Throwing it to the Qin army would not only reduce the Shu army's food burden, but also consume the Qin army's food and grass.

 As for whether the Qin army will provide food and grass for these people?

Then it will not be under the control of the Shu army.

The Shu army even hoped that the Qin army would not provide food and grass and let these hundreds of believers starve to death, but this possibility was too low. Given the people-oriented approach of the Qin army, even if it increases the burden of grain and grass transportation, it will definitely provide grain and grass for the people of Hanzhong.

However, this is exactly what the Shu army wanted. The Qin army's food pressure has doubled. If they fight a protracted war, they may be able to defeat the Qin army.

After that, just declare to the new soldiers in the occupied areas that the Qin army will not provide food and grass for the people in the occupied cities. If they cannot regain the lost land as soon as possible, the folks in their hometown will starve to death.

They are definitely not willing to let these recruits die for the Shu Han, but if it is to save the folks in their hometown, I believe that the vast majority of them are still willing to fight to the end.

As long as we counterattack under the guise of regaining our homeland, the young and strong people in the occupied areas can take the initiative to become cannon fodder.

Once all the new soldiers in the occupied areas were killed or injured, the Qin army and the people of Hanzhong in the occupied areas would also be enmity.

Even if there are not all of them dead, so many young people died in the battle, the people in the occupied areas will still be full of resentment towards the Qin army, and obviously they will not stand on the side of the Qin army.

By then, even if the Qin army can mobilize some of the people in the occupied areas and ask them to persuade Qingzhuang to surrender in the unconquered city and try to disintegrate the Shu army from within, it is destined to not have much effect.

Because the young and strong people born in the occupied areas have been sent out to be cannon fodder, and the remaining people in the city are people from the unoccupied areas. The life and death of the people in the occupied areas have nothing to do with them, and they even have daily rations. Provided by the Shu Han, it is naturally impossible to be persuaded by the people in the occupied areas.

I have to say that Su Qin has thoroughly understood the darkness of people's hearts, and his strategy is currently unsolvable.

If Su Qin's plan is followed, the Shu army only needs to hold on to one city in Nanzheng, and any new city that falls will be used as cannon fodder.

Even when there was insufficient food and grass, the Shu army could voluntarily abandon all cities except Nanzheng and throw all their baggage to the Qin army, leaving them to fend for themselves.

This can firstly consume the strength of the Qin army, secondly, reduce its own consumption of food and grass, thirdly, increase the logistical pressure of the Qin army, fourthly, intensify the hatred of the people in Hanzhong towards the Qin army, and make the Qin army's rear unstable, and fifthly...

It can be said that it achieves multiple things with one stone.

For Su Qin's plan to be implemented smoothly, he must consume the new soldiers in the occupied areas as cannon fodder before the Qin army mobilizes the old and weak in the occupied areas.

It is precisely because of this that the Shu army has frequently fought in the past three days, just to send the young people in the occupied areas to die.

At this thought, Li Jing suddenly opened his eyes and quickly ordered: "Changsun Wuji, immediately go and investigate the four cities of Anyang Xicheng. Those young and strong families have been recruited by the Shu army. Please invite their family members to the front line as soon as possible."

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Changsun Wuji took the order and left, but not long after he left, Gongsun Xuanyuan returned victorious.

Like Yang Jian and Long Qie, Xuanyuan easily defeated the cannon fodder composed of light and strong people. However, due to the large number of opponents, the soldiers also consumed a lot of physical strength. When they encountered Zhang Hao's army that had broken off the rear, , naturally the follow-up is also weak.

 The battle between Xuanyuan and Zhang Hao was without any surprises.

Although Zhang Hao is strong against ten thousand enemies, there is obviously still a big gap between him and Xuanyuan, one of the three emperors.

The two sides fought for fifty rounds, but in the end Zhang Hao was defeated by Xuanyuan and fled back in embarrassment.

 After the war, an inventory was conducted and it was found that the Qin army killed 8,000 enemy troops and captured 5,000 prisoners, with less than 600 self-inflicted losses.

 Looking at the battle report of this great victory, Li Jing was not happy at all.

So far, the number of Hanzhong Qingzhuang who died in the hands of the Qin army has reached 18,000, and the number of prisoners has reached 16,000.

The Shu Han used 36,000 Hanzhong Qingzhuang to defeat the 1,600 soldiers of the Qin Dynasty.

How many sacrifices will the Qin army make when all the hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder are dispatched?

Moreover, after being consumed by hundreds of thousands of cannon fodder, the morale of the Qin army will inevitably decline to a certain extent. Can it still maintain its combat advantage against the Shu army?

These are all urgent problems that need to be solved urgently, but there are no solutions.

Changsun Wuji worked very efficiently. It took him less than a day to find out from the officials who surrendered in the four counties of Anyang, the specific number of young men who had been drafted away from the four counties, and whose family members were still there. .

　　People in Anyang, Xicheng and other four counties learned that their sons, husbands, and brothers who had been drafted away were fighting with the Qin army on the front line, and they all rushed to the front line to persuade them to correct their evil ways.

  Inviting the families of these people to the front line is obviously not something that can be done in a short time.

Changsun Wuji can only register first, conduct an investigation and then make arrangements.

 Fortunately, during this period, the Shu army did not continue to launch a counterattack. Apparently, all the new soldiers in Anxin's four cities had been exhausted.

In addition, the spies eliminated by the Qin army found out that the Shu army voluntarily abandoned Chenggu County, and tens of thousands of people in the city were about to run out of food.

 But Li Jing was a little hesitant about taking over Chenggu County.

 Don't accept this. If Chenggu County is allowed to destroy itself, a large number of people will starve to death in a short time.

It’s not that Li Jing feels sorry for the grain and grass, but as long as he accepts it, the Shu army will let Qingzhuang from Chenggu County die.

 At this thought, even Li Jing, who had always been calm, couldn't help but turn his face into a distorted expression.

Who came up with this poisonous plan? It is too poisonous and disgusting.

Li Jing cursed secretly in his heart. He didn't know why, but he always felt that this style was a bit like Zhang Yi.

Like most people, Li Jing also thought that the biggest difficulty in capturing Hanzhong County was Yangping Pass. As long as Yangping Pass was captured, it would be easy. However, he did not expect that the situation he would face after conquering Yangping Pass would be even more difficult.

After some hesitation, Li Jing decided to take over Chenggu County. After all, even if the Shu army sent Qingzhuang from Chenggu County as cannon fodder, it was impossible for them all to die at the hands of the Qin army, and nearly half of them would be captured. , at least the families of these people will be grateful to Qin Jun.

Just when Li Jing took over Chenggu County, Han Xin's vanguard troops and the first batch of family members of the people also successfully arrived at the Nanzheng front line.

 (End of this chapter)