Chapter 152: The Siege of Chang'an
Qin Hua is now encountering the biggest opportunity and the biggest dilemma since the start of the army.
Initially, during the critical period of the Battle of Yuan Cao, the Qin army defeated Yuan and Cao's armies in one fell swoop, and then they were even more powerful, constantly encroaching on the territory of Yuan Shao and Cao Cao.
However, at this time, it encountered a sneak attack from several parties at the same time.
One of the biggest crises was the battle initiated by Qin Huang and the other families within himself.
Qin Huang, as the head of the Qin family and Qin Hua's biological father, already has a very high status, plus he has always been responsible for handling the relationship between Qin Hua and the family, and he has a very high reputation in the family.
Therefore, after Guo Jing and other family leaders raised troops in the name of Qin Huang this time, many places fell directly, and most of the people in these places were children of the family.
In addition, Ma Teng was the first general to join Qin Hua, although his prestige was not as high as that of Zhang Liao, but he guarded Liangzhou all the year round, and at least had a very high prestige in Liangzhou.
Therefore, nearly half of the troops in Liangzhou fell to Ma Teng at the first time, and in less than two months, Liangzhou was almost lost.
Although there are more than 500,000 prisoners of Qin Hua and Yuan Cao, 200,000 of them have no time to be recruited, and the rest of the army has to defend against other forces, and the actual number of them is less than 100,000.
There were still tens of thousands of troops in Yuan Shao's forces, and Qin Hua had to leave 50,000 troops to resist.
Cao Cao also gathered tens of thousands of troops in Qingzhou, and Gao Shun's 50,000 troops could not move.
50,000 troops went to Bingzhou to help Han Sui defend against the invasion of the Xianbei people.
In the end, 50,000 had to defend against the possible attacks of Yuan Shu and Liu Biao and others.
The Qiang army, which was originally one of Qin Hua's sources of soldiers, cannot move now, after Beigong Boyu became king, the status of Qingyang City became even more important, and now he is an important dividing point between Beigong Boyu and Qin Hua, and 50,000 Qingyang cavalry must also be stationed near Qingyang City.
Now Qin Hua still doesn't know if Beigong Boyu is colluding with the family, and this army must not be moved.
"This old thief of the Beigong will really choose the time, if he doesn't become king at this time, the Qiang people will dispatch 200,000 troops to easily quell this rebellion."
Ma Chao said angrily.
Although Ma Teng took refuge in Qin Huang's side, Qin Hua still trusted Ma Chao and did not revoke Ma Chao's position as the commander of the Xuanjia Cavalry.
So every time he had a meeting, Ma Chao would deliberately mention other people's affairs, wanting to avoid talking about his father as much as possible, of course, other people were also very knowledgeable and rarely mentioned Ma Teng.
After all, Qin Hua still reuses Ma Chao at this time, which has already explained a lot of problems, and of course they will not be bored.
"It's not like these times, Meng Qi, you rush back to Chang'an with me, Guo Jing and they cut off the grain and grass of our army, and now the grain and grass in the army is not even enough to support three months, we must quickly quell this rebellion."
"The lord's thoughts are good, but it's a pity that this opportunity to completely exterminate Yuan Cao's forces is this time."
"It's okay, it's a long time coming. Strategist, I'll leave the matter here to you. ”
Qin Hua saluted Guo Jia.
Guo Jia didn't answer, but his brows furrowed.
"What the military advisor has to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it."
"Yuan Tan and Yuan Shang are just minor illnesses, and they can easily solve them after internal friction. It's just that Nighthawk didn't have news until now for such a big thing, and I'm worried that there might be changes on the Chang'an side. ”
"Then I bother the military division to go back with me, but it will be hard for the military division."
"Haha, the lord doesn't know that the gentleman has six arts, among which there is the royal, although Jia can't kill the enemy like the lord, but riding a horse alone does not necessarily lose to the lord."
After a period of treatment, although Guo Jia is still a weak scholar, his spirit is much better, which makes Qin Hua feel a little relieved.
"In this way, it will be tiring for the military advisor."
After arranging all the troops, Qin Hua took Guo Jia and 5,000 Xuanjia horsemen to leave first.
They will be the first to go to Chang'an to stabilize the overall situation. The remaining 100,000 troops are mostly foot soldiers, and they will be led by Zhang Liao and arrive one step later.
But what Qin Hua didn't know was that not long after they set off, Guo Jing and others, who were far away in Wuwei, had already learned that an army of 50,000 people was quietly rushing to Chang'an.
When Qin Hua entered the Luoyang realm, he also knew the news, but the news that Qin Hua received was 10,000 people, and because he was very confident in his Xuanjia cavalry combat power, Qin Hua didn't care, and still walked towards Chang'an.
However, within a few days of his entry into Chang'an, he knew that he had made a mistake, and at this time Chang'an City had been surrounded by nearly 70,000 troops.
In addition to the 50,000 troops of Guo Jing and others, there are also troops provided by various families.
Since the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Emperor Ling allowed the establishment of armed forces in the localities, so those great families have this kind of armed force similar to the autonomous militia in their hands.
Qin Hua has always wanted to abolish this force, but he was worried about provoking a popular uprising, and the bandits in various places were also prosperous at that time, so Qin Hua never took action, and now they have really become a scourge.
Not only that, Qin Hua was assassinated shortly after entering the city, and the opponent was nearly twenty swordsmanship masters, not only killing all of Qin Hua's fifty guards.
Although these people were finally killed by Zhao Yun and Qin Hua who rushed over, they still gave Qin Hua a heavy blow, and with Qin Hua's current strength, he was actually hit by three swords, but fortunately, they were not fatally injured.
But Qin Hua was also unable to go out to command because he was bleeding too much, so the task of command was handed over to Xu Huang, who came back together.
Neither Ma Chao nor Yan Xing had any opinion on this, they all admired Xu Huang's ability to command the army, and even Xu Huang could be regarded as half of their teacher.
However, the news of Qin Hua's serious injury still greatly lowered the morale of the soldiers defending the city.
After Guo Jing learned that Qin Hua was seriously injured, he immediately ordered the siege of the city, and he also discovered the strangeness of the guards guarding the city.
To be able to become the head of the great family, these people are not stupid people, they know that the forces controlled by Qin Hua are definitely not something they can resist, and only by capturing Qin Hua can they have a chance to win.
So with the help of the power of the Nighthawk, they successfully separated Qin Hua and besieged this Chang'an City.
Now they only need to take down Qin Hua, then their "big plan" will be half completed.
If Qin Hua completely cleaned up Yuan Shao and Cao Cao's forces, they would not have any more chances.
Guo Jing organized soldiers to seize the city wall several times, but these soldiers were civilian forces, not regular troops, and even if the morale of the defenders of Chang'an City was not high, they were not comparable to these people.
Now Guo Jing can only take advantage of the strength of the army and keep attacking, in order to take Chang'an and Qin Hua as soon as possible.
But too much bleeding can only be in