Chapter XXXVI Controversy
In terms of military strength, the strength of the Left Bone Marquis is slightly inferior to that of the Yiqu tribe, which is worth 15,000 people, but the left and right big households each have 20,000 troops, and they are friendly with the Left Bone Duhou, although many people think that Yiqu Hong can be promoted to a higher position, Yiqu Hong carefully conceals his ambitions.
The strength of the main tribes of the Xiongnu was as follows: the left and right Xian kings, 40,000 men each; the kings of the valleys on the left and right, thirty-five thousand men each; left and right generals, 30,000 each; The two great lieutenants on the left and right, twenty-five thousand men each. Together with the small tribes attached to it, the strength of the entire Xiongnu was more than 400,000. Among them, Shan Yu's elite soldiers are the strongest, so Shan Yu can ensure that his orders are obeyed by people from other tribes!
The Qin State has been repeatedly defeated under the suppression of South Korea over the years, and the original army of more than 800,000 has only 300,000 now! He was attached to the Huns, holding heavy troops, and Yiquhong, who had endured for a long time, realized that his opportunity for revenge had come!
Although King Qin Zhao is dead, and Empress Dowager Xuan is also dead, the so-called father's debt repayment can be understood! For the revenge of the previous king, in order to accumulate military exploits and expand strength, Yiquhong tried his best to instigate Shan Yu to agree to the matter. However, saying yes does not mean that troops should be sent immediately.
Today's Yiqu Hong is not as simple as five years ago, after five years of intrigue and intrigue, every wrong step may lead the tribe to become fish and meat, Yiqu Hong already knows how to win the greatest results with the least cost!
As long as South Korea does not disclose the news of the Xiongnu sending troops, the Qin State will never realize that the black Xiongnu army is gathering in the Saiwai grassland north of the Great Wall! Because of their understanding of the Qin State, or because the Xiongnu intended to let Yiquhong take revenge, Yiquhong and his 10,000 troops were appointed as the vanguard! This is both a good thing and a bad thing! If the Great Wall defense line of the Qin State was broken, the army that entered the pass first would naturally be able to plunder more treasures; But this is also a bad thing, if it is discovered by the Qin army, Yiquhong will face a bitter battle! The sacrifice is bound to be great. And the consequence of this is that the Yiqu tribe will be swallowed up by other tribes, and it is extremely lucky that a hero like Yiqu Hong can fall into a whole corpse!
Not only that, because of the wariness of each other, or leaving a way back, the Xiongnu tribes who sent troops this time were at the request of Shan Yu. Half of each of them! Going south with an army of 200,000 is also a rare big move by the Huns! In the past, when the Xiongnu entered the Huahua World of the Central Plains to fight in the grass valley, it was either 350,000 or 780,000, and it never exceeded 100,000! The 200,000 army made the self-confidence of each Hun soldier extremely inflated, and they were not worried about defeat, but worried about whether the Qin State would be too poor and not enough money!
At this time, the role of Yiquhong is reflected! Yiquhong did not hesitate to exaggerate. Let the nobles of the Xiongnu believe that Guanzhong is so rich, how graceful the women in Guanzhong are, and how many granaries near Xianyang are!
The Huns have never had the habit of carrying grain and grass, and what they are best at is looting for a living, and it is rare to bring out more horses in order to load more wealth! What such an army is best at is fighting a tailwind battle, and once it encounters a city that cannot be attacked for a long time, its morale will drop! So. Yiquhong knew that it was not very likely that he would capture Xianyang. But making a mess in the checkpoint is also a kind of revenge, isn't it?!
As a pioneer and a country deeply influenced by the civilization of the Central Plains, Yiqu naturally carried grain and grass, even if it was just a little grain and grass! The reason why Yiquhong did this. Naturally, there is plenty of confidence. Intelligence came from South Korea, saying that he had voluntarily abandoned the river defense line and lured Bai Qi, a famous general of Qin, into Hedong, where Qin lost at least 50,000 troops. The remaining 100,000 were busy confronting the South Korean army. Xianyang can be called an empty army. Korea hoped that the Xiongnu would seize this opportunity and inflict heavy losses on the Qin state.
Whether Korea really took the initiative to give up or was not aware of the invasion of Hedong by the Qin State for a while, Yiquhong did not care. What he cared about was leading the army to drive him from his homeland to Bai Qi, who was outside the Great Wall, and dividing the two places with the King of Qin, whom he hated the most, which gave him every opportunity to break through!
The Qin army in Shangjun had at least 20,000 or 30,000, Longxi County had 350,000, and the army within 300 miles of Xianyang was only 200,000 at most! And it's scattered to a dozen cities! With the containment of the Han army, the Qin State faced 200,000 Hun cavalry who came and went freely, and was helpless or helpless!
After learning the news, Yiqu Hong asked to see Shan Yu, and Jian YƬ sent troops south. On the sixth day of the lunar month, 200,000 Hun soldiers went south, and on the eighteenth day of the lunar month, the vanguard arrived at the Great Wall defense line carefully set up by the Qin State! Because of the lack of troops, this defense line was completely unable to cope with the Hun army that had reconnoitred the situation in advance, and in just half an hour, the defense line was declared lost! The Qin army only had time to spread the news of the Xiongnu invasion to Xianyang at an expedited speed of 800 miles!
The monarchs and ministers of the Qin State, who were originally full of longing for the war in Hedong, were completely stunned after learning the news that the 200,000 Xiongnu army was heading south! In terms of distance, Zhao's Yunzhong and Yanmen should be attacked by the Xiongnu rather than Guanzhong, which is thousands of miles away! From Henan (not the current Henan Province) to Xianyang, more than half of the roads along the way can be called deserted, such a thing that is obviously not in line with the interests of the Huns, have the nobles of the Huns been kicked in the head by donkeys? !
However, after learning that the vanguard of the Xiongnu was the Yiqu tribe, and its leader Yiquhong became the right bone of the Xiongnu five years later, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State vaguely knew the reason. The real tiger did not die but was devoured by the tiger, King Zhao Wuling attacked the Huns in the north, and drove Lin Hu and Lou Fu to the outside of the Saiwai, thinking that it was to deter the Huns! The Qin State has not beaten the Xiongnu, and the strength of the Qin State has decreased greatly over the years, so the Xiongnu will naturally think that the Qin State is a soft persimmon that is easy to pinch! And, perhaps, the Xiongnu wanted to use Guanzhong as a new horse breeding ground.
Are you a soft persimmon?! The monarchs and ministers of the Qin State asked themselves. Although he didn't want to admit it in his heart, the monarchs and ministers of the Qin State had to admit that under the great form, the Qin State was really a strong outsider! The first is the lack of food and grass, and the second is the strain of troops. After Hedong lost 50,000 troops, the elite of the Qin State was only 400,000, of which 100,000 were in Hedong, and it was difficult to draw them out for a while. The remaining 300,000 have to defend the land within a radius of thousands of miles, which seems quite powerless. In particular, South Korea must be staring at the movements of Guanzhong in the direction of Wuguan, Hanzhong, and Hangu Pass! The elite of the Qin State who can be drawn out to fight a decisive battle with the Xiongnu definitely does not exceed 200,000. With 200,000 chariots and foot soldiers against 200,000 Hun cavalry who come and go like the wind and are skilled in bows and horses, what are the odds of victory, a person who is familiar with military affairs will know!
"Zhong Aiqing, the Huns broke through the defense line of the Great Wall in Huanxian, and it is only nine hundred miles away from Xianyang! How should our Qin State deal with it, we need to make a quick decision! King Qin said anxiously. (To be continued......)
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