Chapter 1207: The Second Battle of Changping (Part II)

After Qin Yong and the others joined forces to kill back, they knew that Liang Lin had been killed by Arthur, even if he joined forces with Fan Lihua, it would be terrible, after all, Arthur was a woman, and Liang Lin was the second fierce general in the south after the giant.

The generals' eyes were full of shock when they looked at Arthur, and a trace of complexity flashed in Luo Cheng's eyes.

At the beginning, during the battle of Chaoge, Luo Cheng was severely abused by Liang Lin's younger brother Liang Fang, so he made a vow to surpass Liang Fang in the future.

Luo Cheng regarded Liang Fang as a target to pursue, but he didn't want Liang Fang to die under Huang Zhong's arrow more than a month later.

After Liang Fang's death, the younger brother's debts were repaid, and Luo Cheng shifted his target to Liang Lin.

Liang Lin is obviously stronger than Liang Fang, but it doesn't matter, it will make his decision to become stronger even stronger, but he doesn't want Liang Lin to die in the hands of Arthur now.

"Looks like I'm going to change my target again." Luo Cheng smiled bitterly in his heart.

Liang Lin was killed in battle, and Ju Wuba was defeated, which was a fatal blow to the coalition forces.

The reason why Wang Mang has such a high prestige in the coalition army is that half of the coalition army was formed by him, and the other half is the deterrence of the two top fierce generals, Ju Wuba and Liang Lin.

Now that Liang Lin was killed in battle and Ju Wuba was injured, this not only greatly reduced the morale of the coalition army, but even the morale of the army was turbulent, and the Qin army took this opportunity to attack.

With the participation of many fierce generals such as Qin Yong and Arthur, they not only easily recaptured the three mountains that had fallen before, but also moved the defensive line several miles before, further compressing the living space of the coalition forces.

Although Liang Lin died, the resistance of the coalition army did not stop, but the morale of the coalition army was discharged, and the arrangement of the Qin army was simply leaky, and it could not be broken by the coalition army's strong attack or sneak attack.

As time passed, the Qin army advanced for more than a dozen miles, and the defensive line arranged in Changping became stronger and stronger, trapping 100,000 allied troops between the two narrow mountains and unable to move.

After the coalition army lost the party, most of the grain and grass were lost, and most of the remaining grain and grass were stored in a certain city in the north, and there must not be much grain and grass left in the coalition army, so the longer the time dragged on, the more unfavorable it was for the coalition army.

The end is approaching, and the coalition forces are becoming more and more crazy.

In just three days, Wang Mang launched 17 counteroffensives, in order not to break through directly, but to seize some living space, but in the end, he only lost his troops and failed to break through even a defensive area.

After the failure of the eighteenth counteroffensive, Wang Mang was completely desperate.

When Hu Yanglin was trapped and died in Hongnong by Bai Qi, Wang Mang laughed at Yang Lin in private, and the 50,000 army was trapped to death by 60,000.

In Wang Mang's view, at least double the opponent's strength in order to completely trap the enemy.

And Yang Lin's 50,000 army was trapped to death by Bai Qi 60,000, which was a shame in Wang Mang's eyes at the time, but he didn't want to suffer the same fate as Yang Lin now.

"If it goes on like this, let alone keep this part of the army, I'm afraid I really have to take my life into it."

Wang Mang's eyes couldn't help flashing with determination, he endured the pain in his heart, and said to himself: "You have to make a choice." ”

At this moment, a soldier suddenly came to report: "The general is not good, the Qin army has launched a general attack." ”

"What?"

Wang Mang couldn't help but show a look of shock, he thought that Bai Qi would trap 100,000 allied troops until the food was exhausted like dealing with Yang Lin, and directly surrender the army without a fight, but he didn't want that now that the food was not exhausted, Bai Qi had already launched a total merit.

The coalition army has now been completely trapped to death, and Bai Qi can naturally surrender without a fight, but considering that hundreds of thousands of yuan are still in trouble for the Hetao, Bai Qi would rather pay a part of the casualties, but also save time to solve the coalition army as soon as possible, and go to the aid of the Hetao after the unification and annexation of the state.

Wang Mang didn't know Bai Qi's thoughts, and was shocked when he saw the Qin army launching a general attack, and hurriedly shouted: "Order all battalions to hold the camp tightly, and never let the Qin army attack in." ”

The battle situation has fallen to this point, and the Qin army has become a general trend, and Wang Mang can stop it if he wants to.

Under the attack of Bai Qi and Xue Rengui's two armies, the coalition defense line quickly collapsed, and was soon blocked in the central basin, with no way to retreat.

Xue Rengui personally led the army and chiseled through the coalition army, followed by Qin Yong, Qin Wu, and Arthur also led an army to charge, and soon divided the coalition army into more than a dozen sections, and the coalition army could not make any effective counterattack at all.

At this moment, the Qin army shouted the slogan that those who surrender will not be killed, and the coalition forces have a weak will to fight, and now they can't escape and fight, and the vast majority of soldiers have chosen to surrender.

Those who were unwilling to surrender were Wang Mang's hardcore, or Guo Tai and Chen Qingzhi's henchmen, but under the siege of the Qin army's crossbow arrows, in the end, they also surrendered to death.

The battle lasted less than half a day, and the 105,000 allied forces were completely annihilated, including more than 80,000 soldiers who surrendered and nearly 25,000 casualties.

After the Qin army launched a general offensive, the casualties caused to the coalition army were less than 10,000, and most of the casualties of the coalition army were caused in the previous counterattack battle, while the total casualties of the Qin army were not even 5,000, and the casualties in the decisive battle were even less than 3,000.

After seeing this casualty report, a look of dissatisfaction flashed on Bai Qi's face, he was ready to control the casualties within two thousand, but he didn't want to break three thousand in the end.

Seeing that the governor had a gloomy face, all the generals didn't dare to speak all of a sudden, and whoever was the first bird at this time was unlucky.

"Qiyu Metropolitan Governor, General Xue Rengui captured Guo Tai alive, General Hua Mulan shot Zhang Shide, Wang Mang fled into the mountains with hundreds of remnants of the army led by Ju Wuba, and General Qin Yong is personally leading the troops to search and arrest."

Bai Qi's brows couldn't help frowning even tighter when he heard this, and he immediately asked, "What about Chen Qingzhi and Chen Baxian?" ”

Bai Qi didn't care whether Wang Mang would run away, but was more concerned about Chen Qingzhi and Chen Baxian, the two wise generals, in his opinion, although Wang Mang was full of wisdom, but the threat of these two people on the battlefield was much more than Wang Mang.

"These two people were not found among the prisoners of war, perhaps they fled with Wang Mang."

Bai Qi's face couldn't help but become more difficult to look at when he heard this.

The number of 100,000 troops and the Yugoslav coalition is too large, and the target is too big, even if you hide in the mountains, you will definitely be discovered.

But if hundreds of people hide in the mountains, it is like drops of water dripping into the river, and they can't even turn up the waves, and it is extremely difficult to find out.

"Continue to search for the whereabouts of Wang Mang and others, and in addition, order Xue Rengui to lead 40,000 troops to attack Xihe County, and Su Lie to lead 50,000 troops to attack Shangdang counties that have not yet been occupied by the Ming army."

After Wang Kuang and Zhang Yang surrendered, Shuofang and Shangjun surrendered without a fight, so among the four southern counties, the Qin army only needed to continue to attack the remaining two counties.

Before Qin Hao left, he told Bai Qi not to start a conflict with the Ming army, otherwise Bai Qi might have personally led an army of more than 100,000 to attack Shangdang.

A few days later, the spies came with a piece of news that shocked Bai Qi, that is, Long and the leader withdrew from Shangdang, and Su Lie directly occupied the entire Shangdang County, except for Huguan, of course.