Chapter 37 Soldiers Approaching Huangxi Pass

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Ziying ascended the throne as the emperor in the South China Sea, and crowned Meng Tian as the general and captain of the world's soldiers and horses, Meng Yi as the left prime minister, and the dead Ren Huan as the right prime minister. Meng Tian, Meng Yi and Ren Huan, although the status of the Montessori brothers in Daqin is not as good as that given by Nanhai Ziying, it is definitely impossible to come. And the veteran Ren Huan is already a dead entry.

Therefore, after Zhao Tuo returned to Panyu after inspecting the five major fortresses, Zhao Tuo immediately took the position of the imperial historian and concurrently served as the right prime minister of Ren Huan, and could not deprive Meng Tian of the position of general and captain, Ziying thought of a way to crown Zhao Tuo as the general of the South China Sea and lead all the Southern Qin troops in the three counties of the South China Sea.

Meng Tian and Meng Yi are only in name, and Zhao Tuo, who has held several important positions after becoming the general of the South China Sea, is already the de facto first entry of Southern Qin. A veritable one-in-ten thousand-in.

Of course, Zhao Tuo, who is above all the enters, is only nominal. Everyone understands who is the real master of Nanqin.

In all fairness, Zhao Tuo has not had the slightest idea of coercing the princes of the Son of Heaven until now. Of course, what Zhao Guang and Su Yue think about these things is not something that Zhao Tuo can control.

Therefore, in half of the Southern Qin Dynasty meetings, Zhao Tuo rarely spoke. Most of them were Zhao Guang, Su Yue, and some other officials who suddenly jumped into the small court of Southern Qin from the South China Sea because of speculation.

Among these officials were the Meng clan, the officials of the South China Sea, and some minor officials in the shogunate of Ren Huan and Zhao Tuo.

Nan Qiao Ni is only a new person in the imperial court, and most of the ministers in the imperial court are not very old.

Not to mention Ziying, even Zhao Tuo, who is now actually in control of Southern Qin, is only a year after his establishment. As for Zhao Tuo's younger brother, Zhao Guang, who is Lang Zhongling and the Marquis of Panyu, is even two years younger than Hu Hai, but he is just nineteen years old, no matter what happens to Nanqin in the end, at least the two brothers Zhao Tuo and Zhao Guang have enjoyed all the glory in the vast land of the three counties of Nanyue.

The court discussion began in the morning, and it has been nearly an hour now, but many courtiers in Southern Qin still have not discussed a more appropriate way to deal with the Baiyue barbarians who started the riots and how many soldiers to transfer back to Panyu from the five major fortresses.

Bi Jing, in the current situation of the riots in Baiyue Barbarians, the strength of Southern Qin has directly dropped to about 250,000.

This number is not even comparable to the Jiuyuan Army led by Meng Tian. What else to overthrow Hu Hai? To capture Guanzhong? To fight for the world?

What's more, losing the support of Baiyue barbarians will cause far more consequences than that. The riots that have left Ziying and Zhao Tuo anxious are just one of the many consequences.

Now, more than three months have passed since Ziying ascended the throne. Although Zhao Tuo closed all the main roads in and out of Southern Qin, no one could guarantee that there would be news that had reached Guanzhong and was learned by Hu Hai.

The edict that Hu Hai had sent to South Vietnam was no secret in the South Vietnamese court. Although the edict only sent Zhao Tuo's army from Qin, Chu and Yuechi to the north to assist the imperial army to quell the rebellion in Chudi, there was no reaction in the South China Sea until now, and Hu Hai was already wary of the South China Sea even if he was stupid.

If Hu Hai learns the news of Ziying's proclamation as emperor, then Daqin's million-strong army will immediately flock to it.

If the soldiers of the five major fortresses are transferred at this time, the number of defenders of the five major passes will inevitably be reduced, and once the Huhai army comes to attack, sleep cannot guarantee that the fortress with some soldiers can block the Qin army, not to mention whether the five fortresses are all transferred back or only one or two fortresses?

Again, this is a difficult problem. Because I didn't know which one or two or even several roads the Qin army would take if they wanted to go south. This is related to the lives of all the people up and down this little Xianyang Palace.

Didn't dare to jump to conclusions.

"Ahem!"

Zhao Tuo glanced at Ziying, who was sitting on the main hall and frowned, obviously much more haggard and emaciated than when he first met, and knew that if he didn't speak, this court discussion might drag on until Baiyue Barbarians beat Boluo down, and there would be no result.

With Zhao Tuo's cough, the originally noisy hall suddenly could be heard.

In this case, Ziying, who had just been shocked by Zhao Tuo's voice, couldn't help frowning, and the displeasure in his eyes flashed.

Although Zhao Tuo has always been respectful, after putting Ziying on the throne, Zhao Guang is not so respectful to Ziying. Of course, Zhao Guang has not been respectful since he saw Ziying at the beginning, Zhao Gang dared to treat Ziying like that, let alone Zhao Guang? It's just that with the power of the Zhao brothers in the Southern Qin Dynasty skyrocketing, Zhao Guang is now more obvious.

is also a young man of one or twenty years old, and it is very rare for the child to be able to endure it without having a seizure until now.

I am afraid that no emperor will tolerate his courtiers being more prestigious than his own. It's just that the look on Ziying's face flashed away, and Zhao Tuo, who was bowing down to speak, naturally wouldn't arrive.

However, if Zhao Tuo can't get in, it doesn't mean that he can't get in.

"Your Majesty, the subordinates thought that the guards of the two closest fortresses to Panyu, Shimen and Huangxi Pass, were all transferred, and only some soldiers were left to garrison immediately, these two fortresses are deep in the territory of the South China Sea, even if there is a change, there are three passes of Hengpu, Xupu, and Yangshan to guard the main road, and we can also calmly arrange it, so that there are 100,000 troops in the hands of the ministers of Panyu......"

"Your Majesty, Longchuan General Zhao Gang has returned from Chudi, and there is an urgent military intelligence report!"

Outside the main hall, a guard walked quickly, knelt on one knee and clenched his fists and said loudly.

The child ascended the throne, and the chicken and dog ascended to heaven as soon as he entered the Tao. Zhao Gang was also named General Longchuan.

"Xuan!" Ziying glanced at Zhao Tuo and said in a deep voice. "The matter of transferring troops is according to what Aiqing said, and Aiqing will do it after the court discussion."

"Your Majesty obeys!" Zhao Tuo bowed in response.

A moment later, the disheveled Zhao Gang walked into the main hall under the leadership of the guards.

When he arrived at the Southern Qin ministers in the full hall, Zhao Gang was stunned for a moment, and then reacted. Obviously, this is the discussion of the barbarian rebellion that is now growing in the South China Sea.

"Please also ask Your Majesty to send you back to the Great Entry, and the last 100,000 urgent troops will play!"

This was the first sentence that Zhao Gang said after saluting Ziying.

Zhao Gang, as Zhao Tuo's henchman, is obviously not a mediocre person who can single-handedly lead more than 100 dead soldiers to infiltrate Xianyang to save Ziying. It's just that his expression at the moment, whether it is Ziying or Zhao Tuo, is the first time he has seen it.

Ziying and Zhao Tuo glanced at each other, and they both received a touch of worry in each other's eyes. Although Zhao Gang didn't say anything about the military situation, his look told everyone that this military situation would obviously not be a good thing.

"Everyone, stand down! The prime minister is in to stay! Ziying took a deep look at Zhao Gang and shouted.

…… On the seventh day of November in the first year of Great Qin II, Zhang Han's 150,000 tiger army crossed thousands of miles all the way safely and arrived at Yangshan Pass, which guarded the Bayue Ancient Road.

The calm of this road made Zhang Han couldn't help but be frightened. The expected attack of the Baiyue barbarians, who would collude with Ziying after entering Nanhai County, did not happen at all, and even before reaching Yangshan Pass, the Tiger Ben army did not have any trace of the Baiyue barbarians.

The scouts who went out only found empty villages that had been abandoned for at least a month.

Zhang Han's army did not directly enter the Yangshan Pass, but stopped twenty miles away from the Yangshan Pass.

Late at night on the day Zhang Han arrived at Yangshan Pass, Zhang Han used a perfect night attack to capture Yangshan Pass, which was laxly guarded by Southern Qin soldiers, and swept away the first obstacle to the south. And the more than 100 dead soldiers of Longwei Mansion who followed Zhang Han to the south played a great role in this night attack.

If it weren't for the more than 100 dead soldiers of the Longwei Mansion who climbed the city wall in the dark and threw down the ropes and held on until the Tiger Ben Army boarded the city wall, then even if Zhang Han could quickly capture Yangshan Pass, the casualties of the Tiger Ben Army would definitely not be too small.

In this battle, the Tiger Ben army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and more than 100 dead soldiers of Longwei Mansion, who were the first to climb the city wall of Yangshan Pass, were all wiped out. Of the 40,000 soldiers guarding Yangshan Pass, more than 10,000 were killed on the spot, and more than 10,000 were captured. The rest of the remnants fled from Yangshan Pass in panic under the leadership of Zhao Yu, the general guarding the pass.

If it weren't for Zhao Tuo's personal order to completely block the gates of the three major gateway fortresses of Hengpu, Yupu and Yangshan with boulders before March, if the city gates were opened by the dead soldiers of Longwei Mansion in this battle, it is estimated that none of the 40,000 Southern Qin defenders in Yangshan Pass would be able to escape.

After taking Yangshan Pass, after leaving 20,000 troops to garrison Yangshan Pass, cleaning up the sealed city gates, guarding the captured Southern Qin soldiers and protecting the wounded Tiger Ben army, Zhang Han led the remaining 130,000 troops out of Yangshan Pass and went straight to Huangxi Pass, a fortress in the middle of the South China Sea, more than 200 miles away.

Five days later, that is, on the twelfth day of November in the first year of the second year, Zhang Han's army came to the Huangxi Pass.

Under Huangxi Pass, Zhang Han first encountered not the Southern Qin army guarding the pass, but more than 100,000 Baiyue barbarians who were besieging Huangxi Pass. The more than 10,000 Southern Qin troops who had fled from Yangshan Pass were blocked by more than 100,000 Baiyue barbarians under Huangxi Pass, and they were surrounded and killed.

Seeing so many Baiyue barbarians, Zhang Han did not hesitate at all, and the 80,000 tiger army attacked head-on.

The reason why the Baiyue barbarians were able to rampant in South Vietnam was actually that most of the Qin army was not very adaptable to the climate of Lingnan, and more importantly, they had no fixed residence, were familiar with the terrain, and they hid in the primeval jungle and constantly harassed the Qin army, so that Tu Wei's first southern expedition failed.

In a frontal battle, the Baiyue Barbarians could not be the opponent of the Qin army at all, let alone the well-equipped Tiger Ben Army from the Bashang battalion.

More than 100,000 people surrounded Zhao Yu's more than 10,000 Southern Qin troops, and the Baiyue barbarians were wiped out by the 80,000 Tiger Ben Army in a battle. More than 60,000 prisoners were captured, and more than 30,000 were killed. And Zhao Yu, who was besieged by the Baiyue barbarians, escaped from the army, and less than 1,000 people were captured, and all of them were wounded.

After the connection between Hu Hai and the South China Sea was cut off for nearly three months, Zhang Han learned for the first time about the current situation in the South China Sea from Zhao Yu, the captured Southern Qin soldiers! (To be continued)