Just when Lian Po and Hou Sheng were discussing how to attack Pingyang City as best they could, the Qin State encountered a new crisis.

The crisis did not come from the Xiongnu, although the Qin army camp deployed outside the city of Qixian was broken by the Xiongnu after holding out for three days, the losses of the Xiongnu were not insignificant. A full 20,000 Xiongnu brave and warlike soldiers fell outside the city of Qixian, so that the Xiongnu Shan Yu was furious and ordered the heads of 10,000 Qin troops to be placed in Jingguan.

The Xiongnu threatened the defenders of Qixian County, if the defenders refused to open the door and surrender within two hours, the Xiongnu army would kill all the men and women in the city, regardless of the old, weak, women and children, after breaking the city! If he is willing to surrender, he will be rewarded with a thousand gold, a thousand oxen and horses.

Naturally, the Qin army would not be tempted by the Xiongnu's persuasion, so the response received by the Xiongnu was that the Qin army hanged the envoy sent by the Xiongnu to the head of Qixian County, and set up a demonstration of the public!

Under the order of the Xiongnu Shan Yu, the tragic offensive and defensive battle in Qi County kicked off! The 40,000 Qin army did not have any cowardice in the face of the 180,000 murderous Xiongnu army, because cowardice would only die faster. The people of the whole city will slaughter the whole city after learning that the Xiongnu have broken the city, and they also have the same hatred for the enemy, and do what they can. The men of the city, all over the age of sixteen and under the age of fifty, young and old, were incorporated into the army and were ready to ascend to the top of the city.

In the past few days, the most dangerous time in Qi County was that the Xiongnu adopted the strategy of attacking the east and attacking the west, feinting to attack the southeast corner and actually attacking the northwest corner one night! Under the carelessness of the Qin army, thousands of Xiongnu troops boarded the city, and in the end, Wang Jian led his personal guards to personally drive the Xiongnu army down.

In these few days of offensive and defensive battles, the Xiongnu lost 20,000 soldiers and horses, and the Qin army lost more than 5,000 people. Overall, the Qin army still had 40,000 soldiers and horses (5,000 of them old and weak), and although the Xiongnu outnumbered the Qin army, their morale was depressed by heavy losses. Qi County can be called thrilling!

The real danger for the Qin state came from Korea. On the 15th day of the first month, Xianyang received an urgent report from Chencang, and South Korea, with the partial general Le Cheng as the general, commanded 60,000 troops, and the troops went out to attack Chencang.

Although the Korean army has not yet captured the northernmost pass set up by the Qin State at the northernmost point of the Xiebao Road, Anping Pass. Chen Cang is also safe and sound, but with the only 5,000 defenders in Anping Pass, how long can he hold out? ! Therefore, Chencang County ordered the matter to be lenient, and at the same time mobilized 1,000 young people to quickly reinforce the pass, he quickly flew to Xianyang to know.

Almost at the same time that the news of Chen Cang's urgency arrived in Xianyang, the Meridian Pass at the north entrance of the Meridian Road also sent people to warn Xianyang, and there were 20,000 Han troops under the Meridian Pass, intending to attack the city. Although there are 10,000 Qin troops guarding the pass. However, he was afraid that there might be a hidden Korean army behind the 20,000 Korean troops, so he asked Xianyang how to deal with it.

After receiving these two news, Qin Guo almost messed up. At present, the Xiongnu still have 160,000 troops besieging Qixian, and the Qin State is mobilizing troops and horses, wanting to defeat the Xiongnu army in one fell swoop. Now, South Korea has come to join in the fun, and at least 80,000 South Korean troops have sent troops from Hanzhong. Obviously. South Korea must know the current predicament of the Qin State, fortunately. The South Korean army has not yet broken through the Anping Pass and the Meridian Pass, and has not yet attacked the pass, otherwise, I don't know how big a mess will be!

"Your Majesty! The minister thought that he should quickly mobilize the army and drive the Korean army back to Hanzhong! Wei Ran said unyieldingly.

King Qin nodded, acknowledging the threat of the Han army in a sense. A greater threat than the Huns. The Xiongnu soldiers invaded the Qin State, plotting nothing more than interests, and after satisfying their desires, most of them would leave. But South Korea is different, once they are allowed to enter Guanzhong. They will definitely go forward and destroy their own country. But if you want to drive away the Han army, Qin needs to send at least more than 50,000 troops, or even 100,000. The problem is that the Qin State has limited troops, and in order to deal with the Xiongnu, it has all been mobilized, where can the extra troops be found?!

"Prime Minister, I'm afraid the number of troops in Guanzhong is not enough, what can I do about it?" King Qin said angrily.

"Wei Wei Wang Jian has mobilized all the people in the city, and now there are still 40,000 troops, and the Xiongnu are only 160,000! These days, although the Xiongnu are desperately trying to make siege equipment, they have lost more! Therefore, for at least ten days, there should be no danger in Qi County. The king might as well use the 100,000 army led by Lang Zhongling to deal with the invading 80,000 Korean troops! Wei Ran started the idea of an army of 100,000 under the command of Duke Qi.

Originally, according to the discussion of the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State, Lang Zhong ordered the Duke of Qi to lead an army of 100,000 to rush to the aid of Qi County, the grain and grass required by the army were already in place, and the soldiers had just been recruited! Seeing that he was about to set off, Wei Ran proposed to change the target of the 100,000 army under the command of Duke Qi, obviously, in Wei Ran's opinion, Qi County was still supportable, and it would not hurt to delay the dispatch of troops for a few days.

Everyone knows that the Qin State is facing threats from three directions, the 160,000 Xiongnu army in Qi County in the north, the 60,000 Han army in Chencang in the west, and the 20,000 Han army in Chang'an in the south. Although the Qin State has been defeated many times outside the Guan, in the eyes of many old Qin people, the land in the Guanzhong is extremely safe. Even if the Yiqu Kingdom took advantage of the emptiness of the Guanzhong army a few years ago to make trouble, wasn't it wiped out by the army led by Bai Qi?! If Qin had an army of five or six hundred thousand, needless to say, it would be possible to fight on three sides, and all of them would have won a big victory. But the reality of the Qin State today is that 100,000 Qin troops can't get out of Hedong, 50,000 are far away in Shangjun, 10,000 are strictly guarding Hangu Pass, 10,000 are strictly guarding Yaoguan, 10,000 are guarding Meridian Pass, 10,000 are guarding Chencang, 5,000 Dasan Pass are 5,000 Xiao Pass, and then excluding the 50,000 Qin troops sent to Qi County, Qin can only mobilize soldiers and horses There are only 150,000! This is all the soldiers that the Qin State can recruit and have already recruited!

Lang Zhong ordered the 100,000 troops under the command of Duke Qi to almost all the belongings of the Qin State, and the remaining 50,000 troops are now gathered in the cities of Xianyang and Liyang in case of emergency. The Qin State can't help but leave a soldier and horse for himself to surround the important land on the Guanzhong Plain!

"I think this is not appropriate! The 160,000 troops of the Xiongnu are all cavalry, and now Qi County is still in the hands of our Great Qin. But every day passes, the pressure on Wei Wei Wang Jian is three points greater. If we can't hold out for ten days, and our Qin State's 100,000 troops have not divided the victory or defeat with the Han army, wouldn't it make Xianyang empty?! In the opinion of the ministers, it is better to quickly mobilize at least 50,000 troops under the command of Wu Anjun and rush to the aid of Xianyang! When it is, it is still mainly to defeat the Huns, supplemented by defending Anping Pass and Meridian Pass! "Someone came up with their own building.

Many ministers have said that although the Korean army is menacing, Meridian Pass and Anping Pass are fortresses, and it will definitely take a lot of time for the Korean army to conquer them. However, the Xiongnu in the north, they did not carry much grain and grass, and this time they mobilized the army, obviously there was a huge plan. The more in the future, the more anxious the Huns must be, the so-called dog jumps over the wall, when the Huns are desperate to attack the city, who can guarantee that Qi County can still hold it? !

Take 10,000 steps back and say, if the Xiongnu take the risk and send a partial division, the number is not much, and 10,000 cavalry is enough to turn the empty Guanzhong Plain upside down! After all, the Xiongnu didn't do it now because they wanted to fight steadily, and felt that the Qin State must have set up heavy troops in Qianxian and Liquan counties behind Qi County, and they didn't think at all that the Qin army was now nervous, and the total number of defenders in the two places was only more than 5,000 people!

Mobilizing 100,000 troops, abandoning the strong camps and the Korean army's field battles, and exposing their backs to the Xiongnu was obviously the next step. While the threat from South Korea was greater, for now, it was clear that the threat from the Xiongnu was greater.

Many ministers are even secretly slandered, at least, Koreans know etiquette, even if they conquer Anping Pass, there are four or five hundred miles away from Xianyang; As for the Meridian Pass, it is close to Xianyang, not to mention that the possibility of conquering it is very small, even if it is overcome, Xianyang behind him will send tens of thousands of troops to annihilate the exhausted Korean army! And the Huns, they don't know the number of rites, they are completely barbarians, they are good at killing and looting, once they break through Qi County, and find that Qianxian County and Liquan County are vulnerable, they will definitely sack Xianyang, and their lives will be in danger! Wu Anjun must be transferred back quickly, with such a god of war in charge, the Qin State can avoid this disaster without danger!

Regarding whether to deal with the Han army in Hanzhong first or the Xiongnu army in Qixian first, the ministers of the Qin State were obviously divided into two factions. One headed by Prime Minister Wei Ran, advocated continuing to rely on Qi County, bluffing, consuming the morale and grain of the Xiongnu, and defeating the Xiongnu in one fell swoop after solving the Han army in Hanzhong. The Xiongnu came for profit, and if they found that they could not make a profit on the Qin State, they would naturally retreat!

One is headed by Zong Zhengying, who advocates that the tragedy brought by the Yiqu State to the Qin State must not be repeated. Last time, the Yiqu Kingdom burned and looted all the way, causing the Qin State to lose tens of thousands of people, dozens of stones of grain and grass, and the Qin State was short of grain and grass, and many people starved to death. This time the Huns were more numerous, more ferocious, and they couldn't take any danger! South Korea has not yet broken through the Meridian Pass and Anping Pass, and the Qin State only needs to send 5,000 soldiers to each of these two passes, which is enough to ensure half a month, and in half a month, the Qin State and the Xiongnu have also divided the victory and defeat! The Qin State could take advantage of this time to decide whether to mobilize some soldiers and horses from Hedong to return to Xianyang.

The best situation is that the Han army retreats in the face of difficulties, and the Qin State continues to follow the previous plan, cutting off the Xiongnu's return route and grain and grass, causing the Xiongnu to panic and retreat. If South Korea is not interested, then resolutely rely on the pass to defend it, and at the same time, release the news to the Xiongnu, Qin has successfully negotiated peace with South Korea, mobilized more than 300,000 troops, with Wu Anjun Bai Qi as the general, is rushing to Qi County. The Huns are suspicious by nature, and they may not be able to fall for the scheme! Even if you don't get it, you can do the art of adding oil and consume the vitality of the Huns! (First update!) (To be continued......)