Chapter 1181: Unification of Sizhou

"Report ......"

A soldier ran over in a panic and reported: "General Qiyu, Qin general Huo Bing led 10,000 cavalry to raid Yixian, and suddenly our army was not prepared, and the city was broken by the Qin army in less than half a day. ”

"What?"

Wang Mang couldn't help but lose color when he heard this.

Yixian County stored a month's worth of grain and grass consumed by 130,000 troops, which was equivalent to half of the total grain and grass of the Southern Coalition Army.

So much grain and grass was taken away by the Qin army, which was too great a loss for the Southern Coalition Army, which was already short of food.

Wang Mang was secretly distressed in his heart, but he was also very happy, fortunately the grain and grass collected from the people in advance, otherwise even if he returned to Bingnan smoothly, it would still not last long.

"How did Qin Jun know that there was food in Yi County? In addition, who is this Huo Bing? ”

Several questions struck, which made Wang Mang fall into deep thought, but he couldn't figure out the twists and turns.

First of all, there is the issue of grain and grass.

In addition to Wang Mang himself, the only people who know the location of grain storage are Yang Jian and Li Shimin.

After all, it was the aid grain sent by the Liang Army, so no matter where Wang Mang was hiding, the two people who were in charge of the Liang Army's intelligence system could definitely deduce the location of the grain storage.

But neither Yang Jian nor Li Shimin could reveal the news to Qin Hao, they wished that they and Qin Hao would lose both, and it was impossible to stab them in the back at this time.

And then the question of the selection of the Qin army.

can use the cavalry to run so sharply, and break through Yixian with cavalry in half a day, which shows that this person is powerful in the use of cavalry, and such a character can never be a nameless, but is there a famous cavalry general Huo Bing in Chinese history?

People like Bai Qi, Liu Xiu and Liu Ji, although the names of this life have become different, they can at least be distinguished by homophonic characters, but Wang Mang has no influence on the name Huo Bing.

Could it be that he is lonely and unheard?

After thinking about it to no avail, Wang Mang can only think so, after all, he is only proficient in the history of the Western Han Dynasty, and it is normal for him not to know those cold and famous generals in other time periods.

Wang Mang didn't know Huo Bing's words, so he didn't think about Huo Bing or Huo Bing's illness, and when he knew this many years later, he realized that he actually lost this battle.

Many years later, Bai Qi, Su Lie, Xue Rengui, and Huo Qubing have all become the pillars of the Qin army, and the battle worthy of these four people to go out at the same time is only to face Wang Mang once.

In addition, there were four super generals such as Jiang Song, Gao Chong, Ran Min, and Yuwen Chengdu in this battle, as well as many famous generals of the Qin army such as Zhao Yun, Huang Zhong, and Pei Yuanqing.

In this regard, Wang Mang himself did not know whether to feel honored or sad.

Back to topic.

Seeing that the Qin generals who captured Yi County by the Qin army were not famous generals such as Bai Qi, most of the jealousy in Wang Mang's heart disappeared, and he even had a plan to recapture Yi County.

"Yixian is not willing to leave here, if you concentrate on a counteroffensive, you may not be able to take back the grain and grass......

Before Wang Mang's words fell, he saw another soldier come to report and said, "Report, Bai Qi and Su Lie have raised their troops and killed our army in two ways." ”

Wang Mang couldn't help but show a solemn look, after the convergence of these two troops and horses, the strength of the army was no less than 80,000, such a force was enough to push the 120,000 coalition army, if he was entangled for the sake of Yixian, he would not be able to leave when he wanted to.

"In addition, after Yuwen Chengdu surrendered to the Qin army, he also recruited 40,000 Liang troops for the Qin army, and now he is leading 40,000 Liang troops to Hedong to kill."

"What, Yuwen Chengdu has surrendered to Qin?"

Wang Mang showed disbelief, and said in his heart: Yuwen Chengdu, Yuwen Chengdu, as a loyal and courageous Tianbao general, shouldn't you swear to the death, why did you surrender to Qin Hao?

Yuwen Chengdu surrendered to Qin Hao, adding another 40,000 troops to the Qin army, which lost the advantage of the Southern Coalition Army in terms of troops.

After learning this, Wang Mang was even more eager to return to the south, and now Sizhou was too dangerous, and he really didn't want to stay longer for a moment.

"Order the whole army to cross the river and retreat immediately." Wang Mang shouted.

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Soon after Qin Hao's army was launched, he received the news that Wang Mang had wantonly collected the people's grain, and Qin Hao's first reaction was that Wang Mang was afraid that he would run, so he decisively sent a flying pigeon to order Su Lie and Xue Rengui to pursue immediately.

After Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui received the summons, their faces couldn't help but become extremely bad for a while, they used their weak forces to resist opponents who were several times the enemy, so they naturally had to be extremely careful in all aspects, so as to prevent them from losing their troops due to the enemy's calculations.

Wang Mang and Chen Qingzhi had used similar methods before, wanting to lure them out of the city to fight to the death, so this time they naturally thought it was a repetition of the old trick, but they didn't want it to be true this time, it seems that the previous ones were the foreshadowing to confuse them.

Both Su Dingfang and Xue Rengui decisively sent troops, but it was too late.

When Su Dingfang arrived at the crossing of the Yellow River, the last group of enemy troops had all boarded the boats, and the Qin army had no boat to cross the river, so they could only watch the enemy disappear on the river.

Although Xue Rengui did not catch up with Chen Qingzhi, after defeating Chen Qingzhi's broken troops, he promptly secured Mengjin Pass and Xiaopingjin Pass, the northern gates of Sizhou.

At this point, among the eight passes in Luoyang, in addition to the Xuanyuan Pass, which was held by Yuan Shu and not returned, seven of the passes have fallen into the hands of the Qin army, plus the Hangu Pass in the west, Sizhou's defense system has become more perfect.

With the withdrawal of the allied forces of the southern princes from Sizhou, more than 100,000 Qin troops occupied Hanoi County and Hedong County in just a few days with the autumn wind sweeping away the leaves, completely unifying the four counties of Sizhou.

Unifying Sizhou was a great thing, but Qin Hao was not happy at all, because there was still a mess to be solved next.

"Lord, Wang Mang is really ruthless this time, he directly scavenged the rations of the people of the Liang army, but left a million hungry people for us."

Liu Bowen's eyes were full of anger, and he said angrily: "He wants to rely on the people of Hanoi and Hedong to consume the grain and grass of our army, so as to slow down the speed of our army's march." ”

Qin Hao couldn't help but rub his temples with a headache, of course he knew that this was Wang Mang's strategy, but this was a yang scheme, and he had to step on it even if he knew that it was a pit.

When millions of people in the two counties saw the Qin army coming, it was like seeing a savior, and this was the best time to win the hearts of the people.

But once the grain is sent for disaster relief, the Qin army is afraid that it will fall into a situation of lack of food, let alone fight across the Yellow River to eliminate the four major princes in the south.

"The food still has to be delivered, so be it......"

After Qin Hao pondered for a while, he said: "Provide rations to the people every day, but only two meals a day, porridge in the morning, lunch at noon, and ...... in the evening Just bear with it for a while, you won't starve to death if you eat less anyway. ”