Chapter 263: Civil Strife (3)

"Kill!"

"Ahh

In the night, the continuous Later Qin cavalry formed a long fire dragon, and suddenly smashed into the camp of the Later Shu army from the rear.

"What's going on?"

"The Later Qin army has rebelled!"

In a daze, the soldiers of the front battalion of the Hou Shu army were scattered by the surging Hou Qin cavalry before they had time to react.

The roar of war horses and the screams of battle resounded throughout the camp, and a steady stream of Houqin cavalry began to pour in, slaughtering the Houshu soldiers they encountered along the way.

"Run!"

"The cavalry is coming!"

The front camp of the Later Shu army quickly collapsed.

"What's going on?"

Later Shu Emperor Meng Zhixiang stepped out of the camp tent and shouted angrily as he looked at the flaming front camp.

This great war is about the survival of the Three Kingdoms, and hundreds of thousands of Triple Alliance troops are gathered here, and once defeated, they will all be over.

"Back to Your Majesty, it's the Later Qin Army, they have rebelled!"

As soon as Meng Zhixiang's cheers fell, a general rushed to the outside of the tent of the Chinese military camp and reported to Meng Zhixiang with a sad and angry face.

In just over ten minutes, the front camp of the Houshu army completely collapsed, and tens of thousands of troops fled with their deaths.

"What about the Shu Han Army?"

Meng Zhixiang heard that his body shook violently, and he hurriedly spoke up.

"Back to Your Majesty, I didn't see the figure of the Shu Han army, but I didn't see any traces of large-scale battles on the Hou Qin army that was killed!"

The general shook his head, then added.

"What?"

Hearing this, Meng Zhixiang finally couldn't help but take a few steps back and lost his voice.

The meaning of the general's words was very clear, although the Shu Han army did not participate in the attack on the Hou Shu army, but the Shu Han army was separated between the Hou Qin and Hou Shu armies, and the fact that the Hou Qin army could appear silently outside the camp showed that the Shu Han army must have changed.

"Gather Yulinwei and break through with me!"

Meng Zhixiang's face turned pale, and after being silent for a few breaths, he immediately gave a decisive order to the flag officer.

The Qin army's camp was only 30 miles away from here, and it could be reached in less than an hour at the speed of cavalry, and the defeat was decided.

At this moment, if you continue to entangle with the Later Qin army here, you can only be annihilated, and you can only escape alone with 20,000 Lin Wei or have hope.

"Kill!"

Before the elite of Shu Yu Lin Wei was fully assembled after 20,000, Meng Zhixiang had already led them to break through.

In the early morning of the second day, the smoke of the war in the camp of the Three Kingdoms Alliance had dissipated, and the camp where the original Shu Han army was located suffered little loss in the battle, and the dense Qin soldiers were driving into the camp one after another.

"Report! General, the major general has led the army to cooperate with General Yao to completely defeat the Houshu army, only the Houshu Emperor Meng Zhixiang led part of the Yulinwei to escape, and the major general and General Yao are leading the troops to pursue! ”

In front of the tent of the Chinese army camp that was temporarily erected, a herald rushed over and happened to meet Wang Qian, the commander of the Qin army, who had returned from inspection, and hurriedly bowed down and reported.

"Good! Let's go down! ”

In the camp tent, Wang Qian, the commander of the 500,000 Qin army, stood in front of the sand table, and quietly waved his hand when he heard the words, and said indifferently.

"Whoa!"

The herald answered the call and left.

Wang Jian was not surprised by the results of this battle, for this battle, he has been preparing for more than a year, although the first battle annihilated 150,000 Hou Shu troops, but still unexpectedly let nearly 200,000 Shu Han troops escape.

As one of the four generals of the Warring States Period, Wang Jian drove hundreds of thousands of Qin troops to fight in the Six Kingdoms several times, and the war of annihilation he commanded was also one of the best in the entire ancient history of China.

This time he led the Qin army to attack Sichuan and Shu, and while attacking the front line and consuming the combat power of the Three Kingdoms Alliance, he never gave up his efforts to disintegrate the Three Kingdoms Alliance from within.

At the beginning of the war, Wang Jian had already selected Later Qin Yao Chang as the breakthrough point.

Qin in the Warring States period as the northwest of the Zhou Dynasty a vassal state, its prestige in the hearts of the people of the northwest has always been very high, when the Qin Mugong period has destroyed the West Rong people established 12 countries, to the west of the land for thousands of miles, this for the rise of the Qin State laid the foundation of a great power, the Qiang people and the Qin State for more than 170 years of war, and finally for the Qin State gradually integrated.

Therefore, in the hearts of the Qiang people, the sense of identity with the Qin people has always been very high, which is why Yao Chang later established the country as Qin.

Since the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, although the Qiang people have gradually developed agricultural production, but with the Han people must be very primitive, the productivity is not high, in the Qiang people-dominated Hou Qin State, its agricultural economy is extremely weak, Wang Jian expected that it will not be able to withstand large-scale war attrition.

In the three years of the Great War, before Sima Yu established the Chinese state, the entire rear economy of the Later Qin Dynasty had basically collapsed, and at that time an agreement had basically been reached between Yao Chang and Wang Jian secretly.

Unfortunately, with the defeat of Wang Ben in Changzhou and the sudden raising of the sword of Wu Han's army in Chongzhou, Wang Qian's army in the land of Sichuan and Shu fell into a situation of lack of troops, and had to temporarily put on hold the plan to attack the Later Qin army inside and outside.

In the first year of the emperor's reign, due to the large-scale invasion of Zhurong in the northwest, Qin had to raise the strength of the country to resist millions of Zhurong cavalry, and in the long waiting time of more than a year, it has been relying on the support of Shu Han and Hou Shu, as well as the secret help of Qin, Hou Qin survived with difficulty.

However, the original plan was to be able to swallow all the 350,000 allied troops gathered in Jianzhou, but they didn't want to break the secrets because of Zhang Fei's rash beating, so they had to launch in advance.

Now Wang Qian's eyes have gathered on Suizhou, which is the key to whether the Qin army can successfully take the land of the Three Kingdoms and Five Prefectures.

At the beginning of May of the second year of the emperor's reign, when the war between the Three Kingdoms Alliance and the Qin State was about to break out, the Later Qin army in the Three Kingdoms Alliance suddenly rebelled, and led the army to raid the unsuspecting Houshu army camp, and the 130,000 Houshu army collapsed under the front and rear attacks of the Later Qin army and the Qin army, and the army was almost wiped out, and the Later Shu Emperor Meng Zhixiang was also caught up by the Qin army led by Wang Ben in the process of fleeing, and died on the spot.

The 200,000 Shu Han troops who retreated in advance returned to Suizhou safely under the leadership of Liu Bei, and stationed their troops in the three cities of Hengshan City, Dongchan City, and Yufeng City in the north of Suizhou to guard against the invasion of the Qin army.

After this battle, the situation in the entire land of Sichuan and Shu took a sharp turn for the worse, and the original confrontation between the Three Kingdoms and the Qin army collapsed, and it was only a matter of time before Jianzhou, Anzhou, Meizhou, and Dezhou, which were based on the Later Shu, Later Qin, and Shu Han Kingdoms, were included under the rule of Qin.

For a time, the situation in the entire Sichuan-Shu region was agitated because of the Qin army's troops.

Luzhou, at the foot of Xigangzhai Mountain, 120,000 Nanban tribes formed a long queue and were passing by the avenue in a steady stream.

This is a Nanban tribe that was pre-settled by Sima Yu in the northwest of Yongzhou, and Su Dingfang had just played the banner of Huaguo in Luzhou, and Sima Yu had ordered it to be transferred to Luzhou.

This is only one tribe reserved in the northwest of Yongzhou, and they set out at the same time as 3 Qiang tribes, 10 Shanyue tribes and 1 Xiongnu tribe, with a total population of nearly 900,000 people immigrating to Luzhou.

Although the Luzhou Governor's Mansion has been established, the total population of only more than 300,000 is too thin for a state, and the transfer of these tribes can quickly enrich the population of Luzhou and completely control Luzhou in the hands of Sima Yu.

"Report! Your Majesty, the battle report from Jianzhou! ”

Halfway up the mountain in Xigangzhai, Sima Yu, who was watching the migration of the Nanban tribe accompanied by Hu Sanniang, received the battle report handed by a messenger.

"Command the armies, prepare for battle!"

After silently reading the battle report in his hand, Sima Yu shook it together with his hand, raised his head and said in a cold voice.

The horn of war has sounded!