Volume 2 Who Dominates the Ups and Downs Chapter 109 Bloody Xiongguan
In the spring of 298 BC, the Chu general Zhaoju led 100,000 troops to attack Bashu on the order of the king of Chu, and Sima Cuo led the army to meet the battle. Half a month later, Tian Wen led the armies of Qi, Wei and Han to attack Yiyang and began to attack the old land of Yiyang, South Korea, which was captured by the Qin people. The 400,000 army cut off the road to the rescue of the Qin people, while surrounding several small cities and attacking fiercely, the Han people fought bravely to kill the enemy, and in less than half a month, they even went down several cities, clearing the way for the attack on Hangu Pass, and relieved their worries.
Tian Wen led the Triple Alliance Army to camp ten miles outside Hangu Pass, and announced that 400,000 troops were crusading against the tyrannical Qin, and the Qin State was shaken, and the King of Qin took Gan Mao as the vanguard and led 30,000 troops out of the pass to meet the battle. Kuang Zhang adopted the hard-fought and hard-fought method, although the Qin soldiers were brave and good at fighting, but they could not take much advantage, the two sides fought fiercely several back and forth, and paid great casualties, Gan Mao saw that the situation was not good, so he had to retreat to the Hangu Pass, and he could not hold out.
The coalition forces set up hundreds of catapults in front of Hangu Pass, and fiercely attacked Hangu Pass for several days, but to no avail. While Kuang Zhang continued to attack Hangu Pass, he asked the Chu State to attack Wuguan from the south. Mi Yue was worried that the situation of the battle would change, so she had to transfer Sima Cuo back from Bashu. Sima Coo left Shu Changhuan to lead 100,000 troops to deal with Zhaoju, and he led an army of 50,000 to rush back from Bashu.
Sima mistakenly arrived in Xianyang, and heard that the coalition army was only attacking at Hangu Pass and Wuguan, but there was no movement in the east direction of the river, so he said to King Jianjin of Qin:
"Wuguan and Hangu Pass are easy to defend and difficult to attack, there is Lantian Pass behind Wuguan, there is Tongguan behind Hangu Pass, Kuang Zhang is a famous general in the world, and now it is easy to seek difficulty, I am afraid it is intended to be in Hedong!"
"The general is reasonable! The widow wants to send the commander to lead 50,000 troops to strengthen the defense of Hedong, what does the general think?"
"That's very good! The king can send spies to the east of the river and keep a close eye on the other party's march!" Sima said wrongly.
A few days later, the spies reported that the main force of the Wei army had been found outside the city of Anyi. Anyi is a Wei city, adjacent to Hedong, Sima Cuo expected it to be good, Tian Wen and Kuang Zhang did intend to be in Hedong. Tian Wen put all the elite Wei soldiers in Anyi City, preparing to use the Wei people to attack the hometown of Hedong of the Wei State, which was captured by the Qin people in the past.
Before the Wei army in Anyi City was dispatched, Kuang Zhang intensified his attack on Hangu Pass, intending to fatigue the opponent's defenders of the city. Late that night, Tian Wen took out the first killer weapon he had prepared, the Flying Kite Chariot. In the dead of night, ten flying kite chariots carrying 200 soldiers suddenly flew over the first wall of Hangu Pass and landed in the city pass. In the past, after the Qin people obtained the Hangu Pass from the Wei people, they built another city wall on the original basis, forming the inner and outer double-walled city pass. The first wall is actually a great wall, forming an extremely long fortification along the mountain, and the second wall is mainly used for garrisoning troops and offices, and the main defense still depends on the first wall. The Flying Kite Chariot landed in the middle of the two walls, and before most of the Qin people could react, nine of the ten chariots flew back immediately after dropping people.
These 200 soldiers were carefully selected to play the role of one as ten, and they killed the Qin soldiers who met them one by one, and immediately rushed to the city gate to kill them. Outside the city wall, there was suddenly a sound of killing, and the Qi soldiers immediately began to attack the city. The nine flying kite chariots that returned flew into the pass with a group of people and rushed towards the city gate.
The Qi soldiers were like divine soldiers descending from the sky, and the Qin people were unexpected, unable to resist the internal and external attacks of the Qi soldiers, and were soon seized by the Qi soldiers. As soon as the city gate opened, the soldiers swarmed in, and the two sides killed flesh and blood in the city, and the corpses were piled up layer after layer, and soon the Qin people were defeated, so they had to retreat to the second city wall.
The Qin soldiers attacked from both ends of the first city wall to the middle, and the Qi soldiers who came up lined up with shields and spears at both ends to meet them. Qi soldiers poured up to the wall in a steady stream, and some of the Qi soldiers below climbed up from the siege ladder, and some shot arrows at the bottom, and the Qin soldiers were defeated and retreated step by step. Kuang Zhang mobilized the Han crossbow soldiers to the first city pass wall that had been captured, and fired a rain of arrows at the Qin soldiers on the second city wall of the other party, killing and wounding countless Qin people, and corpses were piled up all over the wall.
At dawn, the Qi army seized the second pass of the city wall, and the corpses inside and outside the city were piled up, and the blood flowed like a river, which was unbearable.
Hangu Pass was broken, Xianyang City was shocked, and King Qin was anxious to reinforce Hangu Pass. The Qi army occupied the Hangu Double-Wall Pass, killing from the mountain roads on both sides and the narrow Hangu passage in the middle on the other, but it was difficult to march and could not march on a large scale regardless of the mountain roads and passages. The Qi people could not march on a large scale, and the Qin people could not reinforce on a large scale, and the two sides formed a tug-of-war on several narrow roads.
The two sides fought until the fifth day, but it was still difficult to move an inch. When the brave wins on the narrow road, both sides understand this truth, and when they are helpless, the king of Qin has to ask his mother to use the wolf eagle warriors in an attempt to kill the Qi people back.
The Wolf Eagle Warrior took the lead in attacking the Qi people from the canyon passage. The four wolf eagle warriors held a bronze landing shield in one hand and an all-iron spear in the other, which was exactly the same as the offensive formation of the Qi people. The attack power of the spear is mainly reflected in the "long", the spear of the Qin people during the Warring States period was the longest, the longest reached more than five meters, but there was no iron spear with an all-iron body, because the all-iron spear was not stable for ordinary soldiers, and it was even more difficult to wield. The all-iron spear of the wolf eagle warrior was hard and heavy, and it formed a great impact on the shield of the Qi soldiers, and under one blow, the Qi soldiers and their shields were pushed to the ground, and the Qi people could not resist at all, and retreated. Seeing that the little results that took many days of hard work were about to be taken away by the Wolf Eagle Warriors, Tian Wen sent a second killer weapon - the Great Spine Warrior.
The big spine warrior rushed into the narrow road, holding the big square vertebrae in one hand, not even a shield, and it was also a row of four, and threw the big iron spine in unison ten meters away from the Qin people. Four hundred pounds of square vertebrae hit the four wolf eagle sharps holding long shields, and the wolf eagle sharps were smashed to the ground with a shield, and the formation immediately revealed a flaw. The rows of Han crossbowmen in the back immediately aimed at the opponent's body and shot bows and crossbows, and the wolf eagle sharps, who had been smashed half to death by the Dafang vertebrae, were shot one by one. Iron ropes are tied to the iron spine, and once you leave your hand, you can quickly retract it, and you can hit the opponent again. The Great Spine Warriors and Han Crossbowmen attacked each other in turn, and the Wolf Eagle Warriors suffered countless casualties and retreated. Occasionally, the spear of the wolf eagle warrior stabbed at the big spine warrior, and the big spine warrior slammed the tip of the spear with the large square spine, and directly pushed the spear back, but injured the wolf eagle warrior's own people. There are also wolf eagle sharps who throw spears from afar to attack the big spine warriors, but they are also blocked or shot down by the big spine. Since the big spine warriors dare not hold shields, they are naturally fearless, and the artists are bold. Only one of the three thousand Qin soldiers can be selected from these Qin people's wolf eagle warriors, but the Dazhi warriors are not ordinary warriors, but the top masters of the rivers and lakes. As the saying goes, the brave wins when they meet on the narrow road, and the courage of the sledgehammer warrior is far above the wolf eagle sharps, and the distance between the two sides is too great to be compared at all.
The big spine warriors advanced quickly in the narrow passage, and after more than an hour of hard fighting, the Qi people crossed the narrowest section of the passage and entered a relatively wide canyon. Qi soldiers followed the big spine warriors and rushed into the canyon, and the two sides fought together. The Qin people resisted desperately until dark, and the corpses were piled up all over the canyon, causing both sides to be unable to advance, and a stalemate was formed in the middle of the canyon.
Hangu Pass was broken, and then the Hangu Pass was almost opened by the Qi people, and the news spread to Xianyang City, both the King of Qin and the Queen Mother were shocked, and the soldiers of Qin State couldn't believe that all this was true. Empress Dowager Xuan Miyue and King Qin convened their ministers overnight to discuss countermeasures.
"Hangu Pass is broken, this is a great shame for my Great Qin, what do you think?" Mi Yue asked with a calm face.
"Hangu Pass hasn't been broken yet, we can still take it back!" King Qin said.
"How do you take it back? Isn't my son going to send thousands of wolf eagle warriors to battle?"
King Qin was silent. The Wolf Eagle Ruishi is led by Bai Qi, and only obeys the orders of the Queen Mother Miyue, and they will not be used in a normal war.
"Tian Wen has good intentions this time, and he actually invited the masters of the rivers and lakes to help, which is really hateful!" Wei Ran said.
"Once the Hangu Pass is broken, although there is still Tongguan to defend, Hedong will face a greater threat. Once the allied forces divide their troops from Hangu Pass to attack Hedong, Hedong will be difficult to defend!"
"Does the general have a way to deal with it?" Mi Yue asked.
Sima Coo shook his head.
"At this time, Hangu Pass has not been broken, so we can only increase our troops to defend it first!" Gan Mao said.
"The king can mobilize chariot troops from Hedong to form a strong barrier in Hangu Pass, once the Qi people break through the pass, our chariot troops can push them back, so that the Qi people will not return!" Wei Ran said.
"The chariot unit can block the Qi army, but it is also the best type of army to block Wei Wushu, this move needs to be cautious!" Sima said wrongly.
"At this time, the battle situation in Hedong is unclear, no matter what, hold Hangu Pass first!" Gan Mao said.
"The world is unpredictable, and it often does not develop according to someone's will; those who think they are smart often cocoon themselves, this is an eternal truth! I don't understand the matter of war, it is all up to the king!" Mi Yue said unhurriedly.
When King Qin heard this, he knew what his mother meant by saying this, and although he was unhappy in his heart, he didn't dare to contradict it again, so he said:
"The child has caused a big disaster, please punish the mother!"
"If the Qin State dies, there is no need for Mother to punish you anymore! There are some mistakes that can be made in a person's life, even if they are made ten or eight times, it doesn't matter, but some mistakes cannot be made once!"
"Mother has taught me a lesson, and the child has written it down!" King Qin said.
"I urgently transferred the general back to the capital, and I relied on the general! People are not as good as heaven, although the general uses troops, if there is any mistake, I will take responsibility for the general!" Mi Yue said to Sima wrongly.
"Empress Dowager Xie trusts Weichen! Weichen should act cautiously and repel the incoming enemy!" Sima said wrongly.
Gan Mao was displeased when he heard this, thinking that Sima was wrong but a martial artist, I, Gan Mao, am an all-round talent in civil and military affairs, and the Queen Mother should entrust me with full authority for the overall situation.
Sima Coo transferred the heavy cavalry to the Hangu Pass to defend it, and sent heavy armor soldiers to surround the pass, preparing to fight the other side to the death.
After three days of bloody battles, the Qi army, with the help of the Dazhi warriors, finally opened the Hangu narrow road and marched to the Hangu Pass. The Qin soldiers surrounded the pass, and the two sides fought to the death for many days, and the Qi people were never allowed to break through, and they were always blocked in the narrow road, unable to enter in large numbers.
Tian Wen saw that the time had come, so he resorted to his third killer trick - Lu Maoshou. Tian Wen borrowed Lu Maoshou from Zilan Gongzi, and had already secretly let Lu Maoshou and others infiltrate Hedong County, just waiting for Tian Wen to send a signal. At this time, Lu Maoshou's ability to use the mind has improved a little, and he can send his consciousness to within a radius of 100 meters.
On the night of this day, dozens of rockets were fired into the city from outside the city, and the buildings in the city caught fire, but they were quickly extinguished by the Qin people, and there was no movement since. In the early morning of the second day, the Qin people in Hedong City were still asleep, and Lu Maoshou quietly approached the city gate with Fei Deng, Chi Youdao, Xing Tianqi and others.
"Lay down your weapons and open the gates!" Lu Maoshou issued one command after another, and Fayden immediately released a signal arrow.
Seeing the signal, the Wei cavalry immediately rushed to the city gate, followed by the Wei warriors. When the cavalry rushed to the gate of Hedong County, the Qin soldiers actually opened the gate by themselves, and the Wei army swarmed and rushed into the city.
The Qin army hid a large number of Mojia chariots in the city, which could go out of the city to meet the enemy, and second, even if the city was broken, it could still win the battle in the street battles in the city. However, before the Qin army's chariots could be dispatched, a large number of Wei cavalry had already arrived.
After the cavalry, a large number of Wei soldiers poured into the city, and before noon, the city of Hedong was broken by the Wei people, and the Qin army was all slaughtered, and the whole army was annihilated.
The Wei people broke through Hedong in half a day without warning, which puzzled the Qin people and shook the city of Xianyang. Relying on Hedong City, the Wei people continued to advance, and at the same time divided a line of troops and horses to attack the rear of the Qin people in Hangu Pass.
After three months of hard fighting between the two sides, the combined forces of Qi, Wei and Han forced Puhanjin on the front line of Hedong, and had already marched down to Lintong Pass on the front line of Hangu. After several months of hard fighting, countless casualties on both sides, and the soldiers were miserable, both the Qin people and the coalition army had reached the limit of physical strength and combat power at this time.
In addition to Tongguan and Puhanjin Guandu, a Great Wall of Qin stretching north and south is the last line of defense of Xianyang City, and Kuang Zhang knows in his heart that with the current strength and supply of grain and grass, they will not be able to reach Xianyang City. For the Qin people, if they wanted to form a counteroffensive against the 400,000 army, Sima Cuo also knew in his heart that the Qin people had to fight almost all of their families to achieve their goals. The war reached such a point that the bloody nature of the military strategist needed the rationality of the politician to balance, so the politicians on both sides began to appear on the stage to discuss the truce of peace talks.
Miyue released rumors that the Yiqu people had led an army of 100,000 to the south to fight for peace talks. The Three Kingdoms Alliance also bluffed, saying that 100,000 reinforcements were about to enter Qin, preparing to fight all the way to Xianyang.
As the commander of the coalition forces, Tian Wen is already the big winner of this war at this time, and the kings of the three kingdoms are naturally also winners, as long as they can meet their respective expectations, no one wants to continue this war that has already been won, so they each set conditions. As the supreme leader of the losing side, Mi Yue has also achieved her goal. In order to let her son learn a lesson, Mi Yue blocked the national fortunes of the Great Qin State, and now that the Qin State has been defeated, her goal has been achieved.
The three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Chu got the cities that were seized by the Qin State in the past, and the Qi State got 100,000 taels of gold, and they got the support of the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Chu, and they did not suffer losses. As the defeated side, Miyue ceded dozens of cities and returned them to the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Chu, and compensated for gold in exchange for peace. These cities were all taken from the three kingdoms of Han, Wei and Chu after Mi Yue married into the Qin State, and they were originally other people's cities, and it was not a big deal for people like Mi Yue;
The victory of the war against Qin led by the Qi State made the Qi Wei Han and Chu people happy, and Su Qin, who was a Yan person, was even more happy, because he knew that the ambition of the King of Qi had been satisfied, and the greed for money of the King of Qi had also been satisfied, and the originally rich Qi people were even richer, and Tian Wen, who was originally arrogant, was bound to be even more arrogant! Tian Wen didn't know that his victory actually made a wedding dress for people, paving the way for Su Qin to ascend to the throne of Qi; his victory made the ambition of the king of Qi more and more inflated, laying the foundation for Su Qin's next plan; and what he didn't expect was that the victory of Qi actually sowed the root of the overthrow and even the final destruction of Qi.
At the time of the War of the Five Kingdoms, the Zhao State on the side of the peace took the opportunity to attack Zhongshan and seized most of the territory of Zhongshan Kingdom, leaving only Lingshou, the capital of Zhongshan Kingdom, not breached. The combat power of the Zhao State after the Hufu cavalry shooting is no longer the same as in the past, but although the Qi State is in the limelight, although it has just gone through a big war, it can't watch the little brother Zhongshan Guo being bullied.