Chapter 442, He Bridegroom 5
After Tanma reported the news, he was so frightened that the deputy general's soul was not possessed, and the Qin army of the brigade was killed, and his more than 1,000 people could not hold Nanzheng no matter what. [Full text reading. Therefore, he hurriedly sent a fast horse out of the city and went to Xiegukou to report to Che Xingguo, so that he could quickly return to help.
Not long after the people sent left, the overwhelming Qin army arrived.
Bai Qi came to the city, seeing that there were not many defenders in the city, he ordered to attack the city immediately, and there should be no slackness, and a deputy general said: "General, the men and horses have walked dozens of miles, and they are a little tired, can you rest for a while." Bai Qi shouted: "Don't rest, the soldiers are fast, once Chenggu County is broken, the officers and soldiers already know that our Qin army has been killed, and there will inevitably be heavy troops to rush to help Nanzheng." Our army has very few cavalry and cannot withstand the onslaught of the enemy's cavalry, so we must rush to attack Nanzheng City before the reinforcements of the official army arrive. ”
He gave a death order, divided his troops into four teams, surrounded Nanzheng City, and then attacked together.
There are less than 2,000 people in Nanzheng City, and they are assigned to four gates, and each gate is only 500 people, and the city wall is more than ten miles long. The Qin army divided into four routes, surrounded Nanzheng City, and began to storm onslaught.
The officers and soldiers had already been frightened by the sudden attack of the Qin army, and saw that the Qin army was killing all over the mountains, I don't know how many people and horses, they were terrified, their fighting spirit had been weakened, and they could not withstand the onslaught of the Qin army at all.
Two thousand Qin troops opened the city gate and entered the city, and Nanzheng City immediately became in chaos.
When the official army heard that Dongcheng was lost, they immediately dispersed, and the Qin army of the other three gates also came in and started a street battle with the remaining official army, where could the official army resist at this time, most of them were killed, and the rest surrendered.
This battle lasted for more than two hours, and the entire city of Nanzheng was finally occupied by the Qin army.
Bai Qi immediately ordered to go down, ordered the Qin army to extinguish the fire in the city, and then went out to calm the people, so that the people in the city should not panic, and they should be at home and go out.
How dare the people not listen, they closed their doors one by one, hid in their homes and shivered.
Just after the people were settled, someone from the city came to report that there was smoke and dust covering the sky in the north of the city, as if a large group of cavalry was coming to the south.
Bai Qi sneered, he knew that this was Che Xingguo's reinforcements arriving, but they were already a step late, and Nan Zhengcheng was already in the hands of the Qin army. So he ordered the four gates to be closed and the city to be guarded.
It was Che Xingguo who came, he led 10,000 troops to block the mouth of the valley, thinking that he would definitely be able to block the Qin army, and when the Qin army did not continue to eat and retreat, he would chase and kill again, and he would win a big victory.
When Li Dang led the Qin army to arrive, Che Xingguo had already learned that he wanted to rush up and kill the Qin army by surprise, but he sent people to investigate and found that the Qin army had already set up a large camp, and the camp was stable and not easy to break, so he changed his mind and did not go to fight himself, just waited for a few days, when the Qin army ran out of food, and then went to chase and kill when the camp was raised.
But before this Qin army retreated, the people in Nanzheng City arrived, and they reported to him with a rolling belt, and Che Xingguo was so frightened that he almost sat on the ground.
Only then did he understand the strength of the Qin army, it turned out that it was not only these two roads, but also the third road, and this group of people and horses did not know where they came from, at this time, they had conquered Chenggu County and were besieging Nanzheng.
When Che Xingguo came out, he took most of the men and horses with him, and there were very few people left in the city, and he could not withstand the onslaught of the Qin army, so he hurriedly ordered the whole army to return to help. He let the infantry walk behind, and he himself rushed back to Nanzheng City with 3,000 cavalry.
Even if he had some ability, he didn't let everyone go immediately, but left a small number of people in the camp to contain Li Kang's men.
But how could this move be concealed from Li Kang.
As soon as the two armies faced each other, Li Kang had already expected this day, so he sent a lot of detectives to ambush around the official army camp, and carefully investigated, as soon as Che Xingguo's men and horses withdrew, Li Kang immediately knew.
Li Dang burst into laughter and immediately ordered the whole army to pull out the camp and attack forward.
The two armies were separated by thirty or forty miles, and when Li Kang's men and horses attacked in front of the official army camp, Che Xingguo had already gone out far away, and a small part of the officers and troops left behind also had to retreat.
Li Dang ordered not to care about the camp of the official army, he personally led 2,000 cavalry, fiercely pursued and killed Che Xingguo, and the 8,000 infantry behind him did not stop for a moment and drove to the city of Nanzheng. He dared to understand that Che Xingguo retreated so quickly, and it must be that Nan Zhengcheng was tight. The white men and horses have been killed.
Bai Qi only led 10,000 infantry, and Che Xingguo's men and horses were not 10,000, once Che Xingguo's men and horses returned to Nanzheng City, Bai Qi was still outside the city, and if he did not break through the city, he would inevitably be attacked from both sides, and the situation was unfavorable, so his men and horses were very important.
Therefore, Li Dang personally led two thousand cavalry and pursued closely behind.
Che Xingguo led the men and horses to run not slowly, but still a step late, and when he led three thousand cavalry to the city of Nanzheng, he looked up and saw that the city had changed its banner and raised the Xuan flag of the Qin army.
Che Xingguo shouted a plan, his eyes were so angry that he burst into flames, and immediately ordered an attack. The 3,000 cavalry had no siege equipment, so they had to fire arrows around the city, and after fighting for an hour, the infantry behind finally arrived, and the thousands of infantry were already out of breath, but Che Xingguo did not let them rest and ordered them to attack the city immediately.
As soon as these infantry were assembled and were about to attack, they heard the sound of killing behind them, and the sound of horses' hooves shook the earth.
Che Xingguo gritted his teeth, he knew that this was not the time to attack the city, and he should first defeat the army chasing behind him, so he personally led three thousand cavalry to meet him.
Li Kang's 2,000 men and horses did not show weakness, and the two sides immediately started a melee under the city of Nanzheng.
The cavalry was like this, and the infantry army was not idle, Che Xingguo commanded 7,000 infantry, surrounded Li Kang's 2,000 cavalry, and cooperated with his own cavalry to completely annihilate Li Kang.
Bai Qi was at the head of the city, and he had already seen the situation under the city, and he gave an order, and the six thousand Qin army infantry opened the city gate, shouting that the killing will come out. Start attacking outside.
The men and horses under the city of Nanzheng were killed into several layers, the innermost was the cavalry led by Li Kang and Che Xingguo, the outside was the official infantry, and then the outside was the Qin infantry.
Che Xingguo's cavalry had a slight advantage, but the infantry could not kill the Qin army, and they were already a little timid, but at this time, Li Kang's 8,000 infantry also arrived, and as soon as these people arrived, the situation was completely changed.
At this time, under the city of Nanzheng, there were Li Kang's cavalry and 13,000 Qin infantry, surrounding 10,000 people from Che Xingguo. Killed in the dark.
Bai Qi left 4,000 Qin troops in Nanzheng City, and when he saw the opportunity to win, he led 3,000 infantry to fight out of the city to help the battle.
These 3,000 Qin troops were a new force, and after resting for a few hours, they were all in good spirits and killed like tigers. The officers and soldiers had been fighting under the city for nearly two hours, and their physical strength was exhausted, and the Qin army had a large number of horses, especially the white ones, which were regarded as waiting for work, so they gradually could not support it.
Che Xingguo looked at the surrounding battlefield and knew that the general trend had gone, his 10,000 people had been surrounded by the Qin army, and his corpses were killed all over the field, and if he continued to fight, there would be a danger that the entire army would be wiped out, so he gritted his teeth and ordered him to retreat south.
At this time, there were nearly 2,000 cavalry left around him, Che Xingguo gathered these cavalry together and rushed southward, Li Kang's cavalry was not many, and they were scattered in all directions, so he could not stop the official cavalry, and was rushed by Che Xingguo.
The infantry of the Qin army was also fighting in a melee, and did not form a battle formation, so they could not stop Che Xingguo's cavalry, and the entire battle group was broken open, and Che Xingguo fled from the battlefield with men and horses.
Li Dang was in hot pursuit.
As soon as the officers and soldiers saw the commander fleeing, the army immediately had no heart to fight, threw swords and guns one by one, and fled with their legs. The Qin army began to chase and kill the officers and soldiers all over the mountains.
Bai Qi looked at the direction of Che Xingguo's escape and knew that he was going to retreat into Sichuan from this time, and at this time, there were still many officials and troops in Hanzhong scattered in various counties, so he could not chase into Sichuan, so he sent someone to immediately chase back Li Kang.
The battle of Nanzheng ended like this, Bai Qi sneaked through the Meridian Valley, raided Nanzheng City, killed the officers and soldiers in fear, fled in embarrassment, this battle Qin army only lost more than 2,000 people, killed more than 4,000 officers and soldiers, and collected thousands of horses.
The Qin army pursued and killed the fleeing enemy for a while, and then collected the men and horses and returned to the city of Nanzheng.
Bai Qi knew that at this time, he should take advantage of the victory to attack, take the Sanguan in one fell swoop, and bring Li Yan's men and horses in, Li Dare was escaped by Che Xingguo, and he was holding back his anger, after listening to Bai Qi's words, he immediately asked for battle, asked to bring a cavalry, and rushed to Sanguan in the starry night. Bai Qi selected 5,000 of the most elite soldiers in the army, commanded by Li Kang, and went straight to Sanguan.
Li Yan did not launch an attack at Sanguan, and the officers and troops had already received the news of the loss of Nanzheng, and the guards were immediately frightened. Nanzheng is lost, the Qin army will be killed from behind, his Sanguan has become a lonely city, will be attacked from the front and back, there is no point in staying here, so as soon as he heard the news that Li Dang led the army to kill, the Sanguan guards will immediately abandon the city and flee, take a detour, and flee to the middle of the river.
In this way, Li Dang and Li Yanbing were bloodless and won the Sanguan.
Li Yan and Li Dang came to Nanzheng with their men and horses, and met Bai Qi, who had already divided his troops and conquered the rest of the county towns in Hanzhong, where the officers and troops had almost no resistance, and as soon as the Qin army came, they abandoned the city and left. The whole of Hanzhong is almost effortless.
After taking Hanzhong, Bai Qi went to the King of Qin, and the King of Qin praised him greatly, and asked Li Yan and the Red Lady to stay there with Li Kang and the three of them to appease the people, and the general Bai Qi returned to Xi'an.
At this point, the entire Shaanxi belonged to the Qin army, and the black Great Qin Xuan Banner once again fluttered high on the land of Shaanxi. It is also showing the world that the Qin State, which has disappeared for nearly 2,000 years, will rise again on the land of China.
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