Chapter 1532: Sweeping Jizhou (I)

After Qin Hao transferred the troops of the two states of Jing to the north, there were 450,000 troops in the Hetao of Bingzhou, even if 350,000 were transferred into Hebei at one time, there were still 100,000 troops left in the two places to guard.

If this was before the outbreak of the Battle of Hetao, the 100,000-strong army would naturally not be enough to hold the two places, but now the form of northern Xinjiang is completely different.

After the army left, Jizhou in the east became a battlefield, and Qin Hao's jurisdiction in the south, and all the only directions that could threaten the two sides of the river were the north and west.

The only threat to the north is Yuanmeng, and Kublai Khan, the son of Tuolei, is still a hostage in Luoyang, and it is absolutely impossible for Tuolei to go south unless he wants this son to die.

In addition, Yuan Meng first suffered a fiasco in Hetao, and then fought with the Manchu Qing Dynasty for two years, which can be said to have beaten the essence to a fine light, and has not yet recovered, and it is simply unable to invade the south and merge the state.

Therefore, even if Tuo Lei really didn't care about Kublai Khan's life or death, and really gritted his teeth and sent troops to fight over, with the national strength of Yuan Meng, he couldn't dispatch many troops, and he was simply unable to break the heavily guarded Zhenbei Pass and Yanmen Pass.

In addition to Yuan and Meng, the only threat faced by the Qin army in northern Xinjiang was the Liangzhou princes in the west, but they fought on their own, and the direct contradictions were extremely high, and the possibility of uniting to unite with the outside world was extremely low.

Therefore, in Qin Hao's opinion, leaving more than 100,000 troops is Zhuo Zhuo, if it weren't for the fact that the number of Jizhou Ming troops exceeded his expectations, he was even ready to leave only 50,000 defenders.

Regarding the task of guarding the annexed states and the Hetao, Qin Hao naturally handed it over to Meng Tian, who had shined in the battle of the Hetao, and he is still the leader of the Jin family, and it is suitable for him to be responsible for guarding the two places.

Regarding the news of the surrender of the Ming army, Qin Hao is not ready to make it completely public for the time being, although this matter cannot be concealed at all, as long as the army passes the pot pass, it will be immediately detected by the enemy's spies, but Qin Hao still has to try his best to cover up until the army enters Jizhou.

The 350,000 troops are not just walking, even if the gates of Huguan are all open, so that the army can pass through without interruption, it will take several days to pass through.

The general of the Ming family who was responsible for guarding Huguan was Long Yang, the younger brother of Long Ji, and he was also very satisfied with Qin Hao's brother-in-law, so he had no resistance to surrendering to Qin.

Long Ji had already greeted Long Yang and asked him to hand over control of Huguan to the Qin army after the Qin army arrived.

After all, after the war is over, all the grain and grass will be transported into Jizhou through this, so it is not an exaggeration to say that Huguan is the throat of the Qin army, and how can they continue to let these newly surrendered troops control it?

Long Yang's political attributes are invincible, and he naturally understands the key to it, so he doesn't dare to slack off in the slightest.

As soon as Zhang Liao arrived with his army, Longyang let go of the city defenses and let the Qin army take over the Xiongguan of Huguan, while he prepared to lead the army to follow Zhang Liao to the land of western Hebei.

"Our army's movement this time is so big, it will not be able to hide the spies of Han and Zhao, at this time, presumably Yuan Shao and Han Xin already know, so we must take advantage of the fact that they have no time to deploy defenses, and feel that the border will interrupt the arrangement of Han and Zhao as soon as possible."

Guo Jia looked calm and said unhurriedly: "However, Huguan is also very important, and it must be in the hands of our army's descendants, and I also ask General Zhang Liao to select the candidate for the guard as soon as possible." ”

Zhang Liao nodded solemnly and said, "The lord has already decided to sit in Huguan himself, so the people who stay will not stay for too long, just wait until the lord arrives." ”

Hearing this, all the generals secretly breathed a sigh of relief, after all, only by going to the front line can they make meritorious contributions, and no one wants to stay behind.

For the candidate who temporarily stayed to guard Huguan, Zhang Liao's eyes first wandered on Hu Luguang and Zhang Han, but finally fell on Zhao Yun.

"Zilong, you will guard Huguan first, and when the lord comes over, you will lead the army to catch up."

"No." Although Zhao Yun was a little reluctant, he still took it happily.

Hu Luguang and Zhang Han glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but secretly breathe a sigh of relief in their hearts, they didn't want to stay.

Zhao Yun temporarily took over Huguan, Zhang Liao and Guo Jia led the army into Jizhou first, and 80,000 cavalry passed through Huguan for a day.

Another day later, Qin Hao's guard generals, Xu Chu and Xiong Kuohai, led the Tiger Guard and the Iron Guard respectively, and arrived at Huguan one step ahead of Qin Hao.

After Zhao Yun handed over the city defense to the two of them, he immediately took thousands of elite horsemen under his command and quickly went to chase Zhang Liao's army, and at this time Zhang Liao had already joined forces with Long You.

Zhang Liao briefly observed the cavalry under Xialong, but found that the equipment of the Ming cavalry was exactly the same as that of the Qin army.

The same armor, the same weapons, the same crossbows, and even the same types of horses.

If he hadn't known that this was a continuous surrender of the army, Zhang Liao would have even thought that this was the Qin army.

"Long and see General Zhang Liao."

Seeing Long He saluting himself, Zhang Liao hurriedly dismounted and helped, and said: "General Long He is not more polite, you are the one who has made the marquis, and I, Zhang Liao, am just a viscount, how can there be a reason for the marquis to want the viscount to salute." ”

The six ranks of the title are: king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male;

There are five people in the Qin army who are marquis, plus the three people of the newly sealed Ming family, although there are only eight people in total, but there are still a lot of people with the three titles of earl, viscount and baron.

Zhang Liao is the viscount, Xue Rengui, Li Cunxiao, and Zhao Yun are earls, and they are only one step away from being a marquis.

"The ceremony cannot be abolished, Long's title is higher than that of the general, but the general is the main general of this battle, so he naturally deserves Long's gift." The dragon is the right color.

Seeing that Long's words did not seem to be fake, Zhang Liao was also secretly relieved in his heart.

Although Zhang Liao is the main general in this battle, Kelong is also one of the two deputy generals, if the deputy general disobeys him as the main general and opposes him everywhere, it will inevitably have an unwanted impact on the war.

Zhang Liao had heard of it before, and he was arrogant and not a good person to get along with.

Zhang Liao was prepared to endure if he could endure it, and let him let him go, but he didn't expect that after seeing Long He himself, his performance was so humble, and there was no rumored domineering at all.

Seeing that Long He was so reasonable, Zhang Liao had a good sense of him, and immediately drove towards the border after the two armies converged, and Zhao Yun also caught up a day later.

"General Zhang Liao, General Long and Yuan, Yuan Shao is crooked to guard against the Ming Dynasty, uh, no, it's our army."

A hint of embarrassment flashed on Guo Jia's face, and then he continued: "Sixteen strongholds and eight Dazhai have been set up on the border.

As for Han Xin, although there is not as much defense as Yuan Shao, there are also nine strongholds and three camps.

The number of cavalry in our army is huge, and if we concentrate on the action and destroy them one by one, it will inevitably be a little too slow, which will also give them a chance to react.

Therefore, Guo thought that he could divide his troops and take advantage of Yuan Shao and Han Xin's reaction to destroy all their arrangements on the border in one fell swoop. ”