Chapter 1730: The Second Battle of the Loop

The Loop.

After receiving the news that Yang Guang, Ma Teng, and Han Sui had formed a coalition to invade Hetao, the high-level leaders of Hetao and Bingzhou all gathered together to jointly formulate a war plan with the alliance forces of the Three Kingdoms.

Wang Meng, the assassin of the state and the assassin of the Hetao, Xun Yu, are both great talents who know the soldiers and understand politics, of course they know how big the third battle of the Hetao should be.

Although the Qin army has occupied most of Jizhou and Qingbei, and can already be self-sufficient in the short term, nearly half of the grain and grass still need to be supplied by Hetao and the two places, so the war on this side of Hetao cannot be delayed for too long.

Originally, Wang Meng was ready to personally lead the army, concentrate the elites of the river and the two places, and defeat the Liangzhou Three Kingdoms Alliance army with lightning speed.

However, due to the sudden death of Emperor Yuan, the relationship between the two countries has also become tense, and before Kublai Khan succeeds to the throne, Yuan and Mongolia may move south at any time, so before the situation is stable, Wang Meng naturally cannot transfer the main force to the Hetao.

Under the joint discussion of Wang Meng, Xun Yu, and Xi Zhicai, it was finally decided that Meng Tian would be the main general, and Xi Zhicai would be the military division, leading 30,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry, a total of 50,000 to sit in Hetao, against the 100,000 Liangzhou coalition troops from afar.

Wang Meng, the assassin of Bingzhou, led an army of 30,000 and personally sat in Yanmen County, and Xun Yu, the assassin of Hetao, led 20,000 troops to sit in Yinshan County, and the two were respectively governor Yanmen Pass and Zhenbei Pass, so as to prevent Yuanmeng from suddenly going south and being caught off guard.

After Meng Tian was ordered to lead the army, although he knew that the enemy's strength was twice as large as in his own hands, he did not panic in the slightest.

The strength in Meng Tian's hands is old, but the 50,000 troops are also elite, and there are 30,000 iron cavalry in hand, and the 100,000 coalition troops in Liangzhou combined, the total number of cavalry is not necessarily 30,000.

In addition, the Qin army is united, but the three families in Liangzhou are on guard against each other, and there are a lot of discords, so it must be difficult to unite and unite with the outside world.

With these two points alone, even if he used an army of 50,000 against 100,000 in Liangzhou, Meng Tian was sure of victory.

Soon after Meng Tian's army was drawn to the Hetao, a major war had not broken out on both sides, and the four generals Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, Dian Wei, and Xu Chu were transferred from the Jizhou battlefield to the Hetao battlefield.

The arrival of Zhao Yun and other generals, Meng Tian was naturally extremely welcome, after all, with their joining, it could also greatly enhance the combat power of the army.

When everything was ready, Meng Tian did not rely on the intention of defending the city, but led Zhao Yun, Meng Yi and other generals, as well as 50,000 troops to open the front line, and actually prepared to resist the enemy outside the country, and fought with the 100,000 Liangzhou coalition army with 50,000 troops.

After the meeting of the two armies, a decisive battle was not immediately fought, but they were both tested against each other.

After some temptation, Meng Tian found that there were many fierce generals in the Liangzhou coalition army.

Yang Guang's subordinates are: Gao Gao, Shi Wansui, Wu Yunzhao, Gao Changgong;

Ma Teng has: Ma Chao, Ma Yuan, Pang De;

Han Suiyou: Yan Xing......

In general, the Qin army was on the side of the generals, but it was slightly at a disadvantage.

However, although there are many fierce generals in Liangzhou, they have no cooperation when they fight, and they basically fight their own battles.

In addition, the defense between Yang, Ma and Han ,?? It was much bigger than Meng Tian thought.

The three families of Yang, Ma and Han are obviously allied forces, but they don't even have a joint battalion, and each army has its own battalion, which shows that they look at each other and have different dreams.

After learning this information, Meng Tian basically already knew it in his heart, so he took advantage of the coalition forces to camp separately to take you to take the initiative to attack the coalition forces with superior forces, and stunned the coalition forces in the first battle.

In the first battle, the Qin army achieved the result of killing nearly 10,000 enemies, but its own casualties were less than 1,000, which can be described as a complete victory and high morale.

In the face of the weak and still strong Qin army, the Liangzhou coalition army was extremely indignant, and finally under the persuasion of Cheng Gongying, the military division of the Sui army, the Yang, Ma and Han families put down their prejudices and guards against each other, and united to camp together to prevent them from falling on their heels again.

After Yang Mahan unites and unanimates with the outside world, there are many fewer weaknesses for Meng Tian to target, but Meng Tian doesn't care about this.

There is no weakness to be found, so just defeat it with strength.

The three princes of Liangzhou, together with Li Shimin, the king of the Tang Dynasty, carved up the Qiang people, and the army is full of a large number of Qiang warriors, as long as they are strictly trained, they can become a strong army, so the combat power of the three armies in Liangzhou is not weak.

The Liangzhou coalition army is excellent, but Liangzhou is too poor, and it is divided into three families, competing with each other and attacking constantly.

Conscription, taxation, and war, under the continuous consumption of these three, also made Liangzhou poorer and poorer.

Don't look at the three families of Yang, Ma and Han, this time they dispatched an army of 100,000 to crusade against the Qin army, but the total strength of the defense left in Liangzhou is estimated to be 100,000 troops.

Liangzhou has a total population, but it has so many troops, although only one Liangzhou can barely afford it, but the army's equipment is naturally not much better.

After Meng Tian's observation, the armor equipped by the 100,000 allied troops in Liangzhou was less than half of the 50,000 Qin troops, which was the lowest among the princes in the whole world.

If the equipment is not good, even if the quality of the soldiers is high, the combat effectiveness will be greatly affected, and the Qin army not only has a high comprehensive quality of soldiers, but also has the best equipment in the world.

Relying on sophisticated equipment and a well-trained elite army, Meng Tian repeatedly defeated the Yang-Ma Han Three-Kingdom Alliance Army at Hetao with an army of 50,000.

Fighting to the back, because the casualties were too great, Yang Guang, Ma Teng, and Han Sui were distressed by the casualties, and they were unwilling to fight to the death with the Qin army, but they were not willing to withdraw like this, so they simply camped and defended the camp directly, and waited for the other armies to change.

The Qin army, which was supposed to be defending, had been taking the initiative to attack, and the Liangzhou coalition army, which had taken the initiative to come to the crusade, was beaten to passive defense.

Fighting and not fighting, withdrawing and not withdrawing, this style of Yang, Ma and Han obviously wants to drag down Meng Tian's army and prevent this strong army from being transferred back to Sizhou and Jingbei.

For this kind of hooligan style of the three families, Meng Tian was angry and helpless, and he really couldn't find a way to break the enemy in a short time, and under the advice of Xi Zhicai, he used the method of grinding water and hard bubbles, killing him 100 today, killing him 80 tomorrow, and eating away at the Liangzhou coalition army little by little.

There is no shortage of resourceful people in the Liangzhou coalition army, Gao Ying, Cheng Gongying, Yang Su, etc. abound, in order to get rid of the cannibalization, they take the initiative to challenge every three or five times, but they just don't break out into a big war, so as to control casualties and wait for the situation to change.

In this way, there were also major battles on the Hetao side, but except for the initial stage, there was no major war, but the fighting was extremely fierce.

In this war, many generals also stood out, such as Gao Gao, Ma Yuan, Gao Changgong and other generals, all of whom showed their prominence in this Hetao War.

Especially Gao, the first time he made a move, he shocked the Qin army.

Meng Yi, who fought in the first ten rounds, fled.

After that, he defeated Xu Chu in 20 rounds.

Yang Erlang, Goro, and Qilang joined forces, but they were still defeated by Gao Gao alone.

If it weren't for Huang Zhong, a sharpshooter, I am afraid that half of the above-mentioned Qin generals would have died in Gao Gao's hands.

In the end, it was Zhao Yun who made a move to curb the expensive winning streak.