Vol 2 Chapter 2527: The Battle between Qin and Shu at Yangping Pass

Chapter 2527 The Battle between Qin and Shu at Yangping Pass

Chapter 2523: The Battle between Qin and Shu at Yangping Pass

The four countries of Qin, Wei, Song, and Wu were all allies, and the four countries also jointly sent troops to capture the entire Japanese country.

When Zhao Kuangyin, the king of Song Dynasty, learned that Jingbei was empty, Chu's 100,000 troops marched north to attack Qin, and Qin asked Wei and Wu for help, he couldn't help but smile from ear to ear.

 After all, the Qin Dynasty, which has always been arrogant and domineering, would lower its proud head and ask for help from its weak allies. Isn't it happy?

 But then I thought about it, why did Great Qin only ask for help from Wei and Wu, but did not want to ask for help from Song, which was also an ally and was closer?

The Wei State only had Yingchuan County bordering the Qin State's Nanyang County, while the Yuzhou occupied by the Song State bordered both Nanyang Zhangling County.

Therefore, if Qin asked Song for help, the Song army would definitely provide support much faster than the Wei army.

However, the Qin State, which has always been smart, chose to ask for help from Wei at the expense of the near and far away this time. This naturally made the Song State think a lot.

“Sure enough, Da Qin still cares about that matter.”

“Lu Yuedu is not from the Song Dynasty, and the Song Dynasty has already expressed its apology. What else does the Qin Dynasty want?”

“The Qin Dynasty also wants the Song Dynasty to hand over Master Shen.”

“If we even hand over the imperial master, then what dignity will we have in the Song Dynasty? If the Qin Dynasty wants to show face to us, the Song Dynasty, shouldn’t we give it up?”

Due to Lu Yue's incident, the diplomatic relations between Qin and Song Dynasty cracked.

Emperor Qin Yinghao sent Zhang Yi as an envoy to Shouchun to question the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty. Why did they ignore the friendship of allies and send Lu Yue and Shen Gongbao into Guanzhong to make Da Qin an enemy?

In response to this, Zhao Kuangyin’s answer was that this was the personal choice of the two people and had little to do with the Song Dynasty.

Then Zhang Yi proposed that the Song State hand over Shen Gongbao to the Qin Dynasty.

 Zhao Kuangyin naturally would not hand over someone. After all, Shen Gongbao and Zhao Gongming were close friends. What would Zhao Gongming think if he handed over Shen Gongbao?

What's more, Shen Gongbao not only has superior abilities, but also has friends all over the world.

Zhao Kuangyin also wanted Shen Gongbao to help him win over the outer disciples of the Shangqing sect or some evil masters in the Jianghu to serve the Song State. How could he be handed over to the Qin State?

Da Qin prides itself on being orthodox, adheres to the right path, and cannot accept those evil heretics. Zhao Kuangyin’s Song State does not pick people.

No matter whether he is good or evil, Zhao Kuangyin can still accept him as long as he can serve him, even if he doesn't have much loyalty at all.

 Zhao Kuangyin refused to make friends and tried to protect Shen Gongbao, which brought the diplomatic relations between Qin and Song Dynasty to a freezing point. That is to say, the war in the west has not yet ended, and the Song Dynasty will definitely be beaten when he can take action.

 So, this time the Qin State looked far away from the near and asked for help from Wei and Wu, but it did not ask for help from the Song State. Many people in the Song State thought it was because of the Lu Yue incident.

 But what about actually? Guan Zhong chose to ask Wei and Wu for help because he was sure that Wei and Wu would send troops, but Song would most likely refuse.

Song State was not like Wei State, which was choked by Qin State in all aspects.

Zhao Kuangyin dared to refuse when Qin asked Song for someone, but if Shen Gongbao was in Wei and Qin went to Wei to ask for someone, Cao Cao would definitely not dare to refuse, because Wei did not have the confidence to fall out with Qin.

Since the Song Dynasty had the confidence to reject Qin, it naturally dared not send troops to aid Qin. After all, Da Qin could not do anything to the Song Dynasty.

But if both Wei and Wu sent troops to help Qin, and only Song did not send troops, Song would be worried about gains and losses again. It was worried that Qin was deliberately squeezing out Song, and it was even more worried that Qin, Wei, and Wu would reach the conclusion of the Song Dynasty. Not aware of the plot.

If the three kingdoms of Qin, Wei, and Wu form a conspiracy to carve up the Song Kingdom after the Chu army is defeated, the Song Kingdom will be in danger.

Of course, this is only the worst case scenario. A better option would be to suppress the Song Dynasty in business, which would also greatly reduce the income of the Song Dynasty caravan.

 The Song State, which was accustomed to reaping benefits from following the Qin Dynasty and its rapid development of national power, obviously did not want to live a fussy life like before.

 But everything they have now, not only all of it is because of the Great Qin, but at least half of it is because of the Great Qin. It is precisely because of this that they worry about gains and losses.

"Prime Minister, both Wei and Wu have sent troops to help Qin. Should we, the Song Dynasty, also send troops?" Zhao Kuangyin asked.

Zhao Pu, the Prime Minister of the Song Dynasty, thought for a long time and then said: "Send as many as you want. There is no need to send too many so that the Qin State cannot use this as an excuse to cause trouble for the Song Dynasty."

"Um."

Zhao Kuangyin nodded and immediately sent an envoy to Xiangyang to ask the governor Zhang Jiuling if he needed support.

Zhang Jiuling was shocked when he learned the Song envoy's intention. The Song Dynasty must have spent more money on territory and commerce than he did, but it was the first time that he took the initiative to send troops and horses to his door.

Zhang Jiuling instinctively suspected the Song State's intentions. He even suspected that the Song State had secretly formed an alliance with the Chu State and was preparing to cooperate with the Chu State in a sneak attack on the Qin army's rear area under the pretext of support.

 But whether it was the Wei army or the Song army, after entering Jingzhou, the food and grass were supplied by the Qin army. In other words, their lifeline was already in the hands of the Qin army.

If he really dares to stab the Qin army in the back, the Qin army will only need to cut off its food and grass. In a few days, the Song army will collapse without fighting due to lack of food and grass.

 The probability of a successful rebellion is too low and the cost is too high, so the Song army should be unlikely to betray.

Zhang Jiuling had difficulty making a decision and could only report it to Xue Rengui.

Xue Rengui was also a little confused about this. He couldn't understand why Song wanted to take the initiative to send troops to help Qin, but Guan Zhong did analyze the reason.

  Guan Zhong was almost certain that if he asked Song directly for help, he would most likely be rejected by Zhao Kuangyin, but he never expected that bypassing Song and directly asking Wei and Wu for help, Song would take the initiative to help.

It’s really a coincidence.

For free thugs like Song Guo, Guan Zhong naturally refused to come and take as many as he wanted, so he replied to Zhang Jiuling and asked him to agree to the Song army's entry, but he could not enter Xiangyang and could only go to Zhangling.

Guan Zhongyin had a plan to deal with the Chu army that entered Xiangyang. If Song came over at this time, it would be easy to alert the enemy. If Deng Yu noticed it, the loss would outweigh the gain.

 Zhao Kuangyin was relieved after receiving the reply from the Qin army. As long as he was not excluded from the Song Dynasty, he then ordered Yuan Chonghuan to be the chief general and Zhao Defang to be the deputy general. They led 10,000 Runan troops to Zhangling County to assist in the battle.

 “Report…to report to the king that General Zhao She is back.”

"who?"

 After hearing the report, Zhao Kuangyin was stunned for a moment, unable to react, and asked: "Who is back?"

 “Zhao She, it’s General Zhao She, he escaped alive.”

 “Quick, ask Zhao She to come and see this king.” Zhao Kuangyin said excitedly. Zhao She and Zhao Kuangyin were cousins. They were captured alive by Li Shimin when they were fighting against Dong. They were imprisoned for several years and had to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.

After Zhao She surrendered, he was reused by Li Shimin and made a lot of contributions to Li Tang.

Afterwards, the Qin Dynasty occupied Guanzhong, Li Shimin died in battle, and although Zhao She escaped from Chang'an, he also lost his trace.

 Zhao Kuangyin thought that Zhao She was caught up and killed by Da Qin's killers on the way to escape, but he did not expect that Zhao She actually escaped alive.

When Zhao She saw Zhao Kuangyin, her eyes suddenly turned red. She stepped forward and subconsciously prepared to hug him, but then she realized that her status was different. Zhao Kuangyin was now the king, and he could no longer be like before, so he held his fists in tears and saluted: "Brother, Zhao She is back."

 Zhao Kuangyin grabbed Zhao She's arms, looked Zhao She up and down, and said happily: "It's good to come back, it's good to come back."

 After some questioning, Zhao Kuangyin learned about Zhao She’s experience during this period.

 After the fall of Chang'an, Zhao She, Li Yuanba, Yu Wentai, Ji Fa, Gao Siji, Gao Xingzhou, Xiao Sheng, Hou Junji, etc. will escape from Chang'an one after another and prepare to seek opportunities to escape from Guanzhong.

Unexpectedly, after the Qin Dynasty occupied Chang'an, it blocked the entire Guanzhong as quickly as possible. Several important routes out of the Guanzhong were guarded by great masters. Zhao She and others could not break through at all, so they had no choice but to find a place to hide and recuperate.

The Daqin pursuit team searched Zhao She and others very closely, and they seemed to want to search the entire Guanzhong.

Just when everyone was about to despair, people from the Taoist Taiqing sect contacted them and told them that because Taoist Taiqing came down from the mountain and was preparing to go to Huashan to deal with Qin Emperor Ying Hao, all the great masters in Guanzhong would definitely go to Huashan. escort, and they can take this opportunity to escape from Guanzhong.

With the help of the masters of the Taiqing sect, Zhao She and others escaped from Guanzhong without any danger, and also captured Bu Jingyun, one of the Seven Swordsmen.

"What are you doing to catch Bu Jingyun?" Zhao Kuangyin asked in confusion.

"The Taoists told Li Yuanba that Bu Jingyun's left arm was not his own, but was replaced after it was broken. Li Yuanba also broke his left arm, so he wanted to replace Bu Jingyun's left arm with himself to get rid of The disabled body regains its strength," Zhao She said.

Zhao Kuangyin was stunned when he heard this. He never expected that there would be such an outrageous change of hands.

Zhao She continued: "As soon as we fled into Wudu County, the Shu State betrayed its alliance with the Tang State. Then the Qin State launched an attack on the three counties of Longxi, and the Sui State also sent troops to attack the three counties of the Qiang District. .

Since most of the people were still injured, they were unable to participate in the Longxi War. Only Ji Fa, who was slightly injured, returned to Longxi County.

By the time my injury was almost healed, the three counties of Longxi had been captured by the Qin army, and Li Tang had surrendered to the Shu Han. After some discussion, we decided to go our separate ways.

 Li Yuanba was taken away by the Taiqing sect’s masters.

Hou Junji and Xiao Sheng returned to Hanzhong and took refuge with Li Siyuan and Li Keyong respectively.

Yu Wentai and Ji Fa had a good personal relationship, and Gao Xingzhou was saved by Ji Fa, so they both went to Qiang land to join Ji Chang.

As for my younger brother, he neither wanted to join Liu Yu nor serve Li Siyuan and Li Keyong, so he took General Gao Siji with him back to the Song Dynasty and joined you, my brother. "

Gao Siji will choose to join the Song Dynasty, naturally not only because of Zhao She, but also because Gao Huaide, who is related to him by blood, currently holds an important position in the Song army.

When he heard that Zhao She did not come back alone, but had also kidnapped Gao Siji, Zhao Kuangyin's eyes suddenly lit up, and his heart was even more ecstatic. After all, he had heard of Gao Siji's reputation for bravery.

“Brother She, I didn’t expect that you would give me such a great gift just after you came back.” Zhao Kuangyin laughed.

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On the other side, Ji Changji thundered and shocked his son and his son. After leading his army to retreat into the Qiang land, he immediately incorporated the Tang army from the Qiang land and recruited many Qiang people into the army. The number of troops under his command skyrocketed to 30,000, but then What came was the attack of Yang Su's 60,000 Sui troops.

Facing the 60,000 Sui army with high morale and the 30,000 Tang army with low morale, it is obviously very difficult to win.

There are four reasons why Ji Chang can win this battle:

  1, the people of Qiang region supported Li Tang even more.

 2, the army left by Li Tang in the Qiang region was mainly cavalry, and the number of cavalry in the Zhou army was not small.

  3. Coupled with the timely arrival and help of Yu Wentai and Gao Xingzhou, the generals of the Zhou army were even better.

Page 4, Yang Su committed a taboo among military strategists. He underestimated his own Ji Chang, thinking that because he was a scholar and was beaten so badly by Xuanyuan, his ability to lead troops should be extremely mediocre.

 It was precisely because of these four points that Ji Chang had the opportunity to turn defeat into victory.

The great battle in the Qiang land ended with Ji Chang narrowly defeating Yang Su, killing 10,000 Sui soldiers and injuring 9,000 himself.

After the war, Ji Chang took advantage of the great victory and negotiated with the Sui State, and expressed his willingness to surrender to the Sui State.

Yang Guang saw that Ji Chang's army was so capable of fighting that if he forcibly annexed the other side, both sides might lose. In order to occupy the Qiang land at a small price, Yang Guang accepted Ji Chang's surrender and appointed Ji Chang as the governor of Yizhou County.

The Sui State had three counties in the Western Regions, namely: Tianshan County (Urumqi), Yizhou County (Hami), and Gaochang County (Turpan County);

Yang Guang appointed Ji Chang as the governor of Yizhou County, not because he really trusted Ji Chang, but because he wanted to transfer his army away from the Qiang land and completely control the seven counties of the Qiang land.

In addition, the Western Regions were also the basis of the Sui Kingdom. After Ji Chang arrived in the Western Regions, it was not Yang Guang who had the final say on how to exploit Ji Chang.

 At the same time, Yang Guang can also take this opportunity to see if Ji Chang is sincerely attached to him. After all, agreeing to the right person may not be sincere, but rejecting it must be ambitious.

 So Yang Guang’s move simply killed three birds with one stone.

But what Yang Guang didn't know was that Ji Chang was eager to leave the Qiang land and enter the Western Regions, so he cooperated in this way and voluntarily gave up the three relatively wealthy counties of the Qiang land.

In this way, Yang Guang got the three counties of Qiang as he wished, and Ji Chang also entered the Western Region as he wished. Both parties were very happy.

After Yang Guangquan took control of the seven counties of the Qiang region, he saw that Qin and Shu were fighting at Yangping Pass. Then Chu, Wei, and Wu all joined in, and his thoughts became active, and he wanted to find an opportunity to completely expel the Qin army from Liangzhou.

So, Yang Guang secretly contacted Liu Yu of Shu and mobilized troops to the front line, but did not go to war with the Qin army, but just tested the strength of the Qin army in Liangzhou.

This test really made Yang Guang test something. Although Li Jing lost 30,000 troops to Yangping Pass, he still had sufficient troops in Liangzhou, and the commander was still Li Jing, who had never been defeated.

In this regard, Yang Guang was also very helpless and could only hope that the Qin army would be defeated at Yangping Pass, and then transfer Liangzhou's army to the Hanzhong front line, so that the Sui State could benefit.

 (End of this chapter)