Vol 2 Chapter 2631: After occupying Hanzhong, all the princes were shocked

Chapter 2631: Occupying Hanzhong, all the princes were shocked

Chapter 2627: Occupying Hanzhong, all princes were shocked

Li Yuanba's full blow would hurt even Li Cunxiao, let alone Ma Shanwei.

Li Yuanba's hammer not only shattered Mashanwei's armor, breastplate, and inner armor, but also his internal organs.

Ma Shanwei turned into a parabola, vomiting blood crazily in mid-air, and also vomited out a lot of broken internal organs, and then hit the ground heavily, but he still did not die immediately, but he was obviously not far away from death.

Looking at Li Yuanba striding towards him, Ma Shanwei, who was so injured that he couldn't even move, said angrily: "Sorry."

 When he said this, Ma Shanwei seemed to be playing a slideshow in his mind, quickly recalling his short life.

Just because of a small favor, he mistakenly thought that Wang Mang was a hero, and followed Wang Mang to help the villain.

After being captured alive by the Qin army in the Hebei War, he originally had the idea of ​​surrendering to Qin, but he was rescued by Yuan Tiangang who was in prison.

Under the deception of Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, he, who was not very determined, muddleheadedly defected to Li Tang.

But a few years later, Li Tang was also destroyed. He went around in circles, but was captured by the Qin army again, and finally surrendered to the Qin Dynasty as if resigned to his fate.

After surrendering to Qin, Ma Shanwei discovered that what Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng said, that he had repeatedly opposed the Qin army and could not be reused, that the surrendered generals suffered discrimination within the Qin army, etc., were all lies and nonsense. .

Ma Shanwei also regretted this. He regretted that he was not strong-willed and listened to Yuan and Li's lies, so that he wasted half his life and still became a surrendered general.

If he had surrendered after the Battle of Hebei and with his ability had survived until the founding of the Qin Dynasty, even if he could not become a marquis, he should still have a place among the earls and viscounts.

such a pity.

But just when Ma Shanwei put aside his grudges and prepared to show off his talents in Da Qin, he encountered Li Yuanba in a must-win pursuit battle.

　　At this point, Ma Shanwei didn't know whether God was deliberately fooling him, or whether it was a punishment for his stupidity and lack of determination.

A warrior of Li Yuanba's level has extremely keen senses. He can even easily hear the heartbeat of an enemy a hundred meters away. It is not difficult to hear Ma Shanwei's murmur.

"You regret being a traitor now? It's too late." Li Yuanba said coldly.

Ma Shanwei glanced sideways at Li Yuanba and said weakly: "I regret that I didn't surrender to Qin earlier."

As soon as he finished speaking, Ma Shanwei spat out a large mouthful of black blood, which still contained many internal organ fragments.

He knew he was going to die, but he still endured the pain and said with difficulty: "Every one of you in the Li family has no conscience. Back then, I was so blind that I would take refuge in Li Shimin..."

Before Ma Shanwei could finish his words, the furious Li Yuanba hit him on the head with a golden melon. His head was blown open and his brains were scattered all over the floor.

 After killing Ma Shanwei, the anger in Li Yuanba's heart also decreased a lot, but his eyes were still full of hatred. After all, he wanted to take revenge on Da Qin, and Ma Shanwei was just the beginning.

Li Yuanba's eyes fell on his slightly trembling left hand, which was obviously slightly thinner than his right hand.

This unicorn arm did not originally belong to him. It was cut off from Bu Jingyun, the master of Great Qin, and then reattached to himself.

Li Yuanba originally thought that even if he attached this arm, he could only use it for the most basic life. However, he did not expect that after he opened the Sanjiao Profound Gate and the meridians of the arm and the body were completely connected, as time went by, this arm would be able to The carrying power is getting stronger and stronger.

This also gave Li Yuanba a kind of hope in his heart, feeling that he might have a chance to return to the top.

 But after this battle, Li Yuanba was disappointed as much as his expectations were.

“Sure enough, no matter how well-fitted other people’s arms are, they are still not as good as my own.”

Li Yuanba whispered to himself that the Qilin Arm could not carry 100% of his strength. Perhaps refining Qi could make him stronger.

However, his Qi refining talent is not as good as his body refining talent, and I don’t know if Qi refining can bring him back to the top.

The Qin army's flank strength was not large, only 1,500 cavalry, and it was mainly maintained by the three gods of war.

But now the three war gods, one dead and two injured, naturally could not stop Li Siyuan's 30,000 army with only these 1,500 horses, so the flanks were quickly defeated by Li Siyuan's troops.

 After receiving the news that his flank was defeated and Ma Shanwei died in battle, Yang Jian was naturally shocked. Although victory was close at hand, he had to choose to retreat, otherwise he might face the end of the entire army being annihilated.

In order to stop the losses in time and minimize the losses, Yang Jian could only order a retreat. Fortunately, the Qin army had all the cavalry. If they did not entangle with the Shu army, it would be very easy to escape.

As for the Shu army, under the fierce attack of the Qin army, those who had been killed were on the verge of fear. The Qin army has now taken the initiative to retreat. It is too late for them to be happy after the disaster, so how can they still dare to persist?

Li Siyuan was naturally very angry when he saw that the Shu army did not stop the Qin army and allowed the Qin army to withdraw so easily. However, after thinking about it carefully, he understood the situation of the Shu army.

For the Shu army, it will always be unsafe as long as they do not retreat to Dingjun Mountain. Therefore, the top priority is not to pursue the Qin army, but to retreat to Dingjun Mountain first.

Although the Qin army was defeated, it did not mean that it would withdraw. After all, the Qin army still had the strength to fight again.

If the Qin army stays away from the main army and adopts guerrilla tactics, as soon as the Shu army retreats, it will pounce on them and take a few bites, which will be unbearable to anyone.

Li Siyuan hurriedly went to join Shen Shiqi. After the two sides combined, they decided to send all the cavalry to pursue. This was not to kill the Qin army, but to completely force the Qin army back.

As Li Siyuan expected, although Yang Jian ordered a retreat, he did not withdraw completely. Instead, he prepared to retreat ten miles away to rest and wait for the opportunity to fight again. After all, the Qin army still had the strength to fight again.

But when he saw the cavalry of the Shu Army and Li Siyuan Army returning after pursuit, Yang Jian knew that he had no chance and could only order a withdrawal to Nanzheng.

In order to prevent accidents and ensure that the rear troops could withdraw, Yang Jian and Xuanyuan personally stayed behind, and therefore encountered Li Yuanba who came to pursue them.

The two of them looked at each other in the distance and couldn't help but be speechless. After all, the relationship between the two was good during the time when Li Tang worked together.

Yang Jian was the first to break the silence and said indifferently: "What? Don't you accuse me of betraying Li Tang?"

As soon as he said this, Li Yuanba didn’t know how to reply.

Among the Tang officials who rebelled against Tang and surrendered to Qin, he was the only one who could not blame Yang Jian, because Yang Jian had nothing to do with Li Tang. On the contrary, it was his second brother Li Shimin who caused the destruction of the Yang family, and he could not blame Yang Jian for his sincerity both emotionally and rationally. Seeing that Li Yuanba was silent, Yang Jian stopped exchanging ideas with him and directly started fighting with Li Yuanba.

This battle did not last long. After seeing that all his own soldiers had withdrawn, Yang Jian also took the initiative to end the battle. After all, with Liu Er here, it was unrealistic to kill Li Yuanba, and his purpose was just to test Li Yuanba's depth. Now his purpose has been Naturally, it will be withdrawn when it is reached.

After Yang Jian withdrew to Nanzheng, he immediately reported Li Yuanba's affairs to Li Jing.

Li Jing also attached great importance to this and asked with a serious face: "General Yang Jian, how does the current Li Yuanba compare with you?"

Yang Jian hesitated for a moment, then said in a deep voice: "I'm better than him, but if I want to win, I'm afraid it will take 400 rounds."

Hearing this, Li Jing already had a rough estimate of Li Yuanba's strength.

After Li Yuanba's left arm was reattached, even if he has not yet returned to his peak, I am afraid that only Li Cunxiao, Yang Jian, Jiang Song, and Kong Xuan can defeat him among the Qin army. The other generals will meet the same fate as Ma Shanwei if they encounter him. .

“Li Tang was destroyed by Shu. Will Li Yuanba surrender to Shu?”

 Li Jing continued to ask, after all, if Li Yuanba sided with Shu, the high-end combat power of Yongliang Qin Army would not be enough, and he would also have to apply to the imperial court for the deployment of other powerful generals to support him.

“I don’t know about this general, but Li Shimin died at the hands of our army, and Li Yuanba had the deepest relationship with Li Shimin. I think he must hate me, Da Qin, even more.” Yang Jian replied.

Hearing Yang Jian's words, Li Jing was still not sure, but he was ready to use this as an excuse to ask the court to send fierce generals to the Yongliang army.

 Which famous general doesn’t want to have many powerful generals under his command, and Li Jing naturally does the same. Although he already has powerful generals such as Yang Jian, Xuanyuan, and Long Qie under his command, he obviously also wants more powerful generals.

Even if we can't win over Li Cunxiao this time, we must at least win over one or two among Jiang Song, Yuwen Chengdu, Lu Bu, and Gao Chong.

 Mighty generals are a scarce and sought-after resource, and all major military regions are vying for them. Without the threat of Li Yuanba, Li Jing really may not necessarily fight for other military regions. After all, the Yongliang Military Region already has a lot of strong generals.

Just as the Qin army was cleaning the battlefield and counting the results of the battle, the Shu army also retreated to Dingjun Mountain, with only 20,000 troops left.

The three thousand baits that attracted the attention of the Qin army were defeated by Kang Anyu's one thousand iron weapons, and only nearly three hundred people fled back to Jiange.

As for Shen Shi, more than 7,000 soldiers were killed in the battle.

As for the casualties of Li Siyuan's army, they were naturally much smaller, with only more than a thousand soldiers lost.

 But after the Shu army cleared the battlefield, they only found 1,500 corpses of the Qin army.

In other words, although Yang Jian failed in this pursuit, he only lost 1,500 cavalry, but he caused 11,000 losses to the Shu army. Although he was defeated, he was victorious.

This is just a pursuit battle, and the greater results are still in Nanzheng, but they have not been completely counted.

After Wang Jian received the news of the attack on Nanzheng, he also accelerated the attack on Wubao in various places. At the same time, he sent people to lobby the remaining counties to surrender.

The remaining counties that had not yet been conquered did not make any resistance after learning the news of the fall of Nanzheng. They took the initiative to open the city and surrendered to the Qin army. However, there were no Shu troops in the city, and the remaining ones were composed of strong men. Just the new army.

On the contrary, the Shu troops in Wubao did not believe the news of the fall of Nanzheng, and still chose to resist stubbornly.

 For such die-hard Shu Han faction, Wang Jian naturally sent them directly to the West.

 Soon, the results of the Nanzheng offensive and defensive battle were also tallied.

 Li Jing and Han Xin used 80,000 Qin troops as the attacker, while the Shu army had 60,000 defenders, 80,000 young and strong, and more than 100,000 civilians to assist in defending the city, but they still failed to stop the Qin army's offensive.

 In this battle, the Qin army killed a total of 45,000 Shu troops, including 15,000 main Shu troops and 30,000 young men, and captured 65,000 prisoners, including 15,000 main Shu troops and 50,000 strong men.

  The Qin army achieved such great results, but naturally it also paid a very heavy price.

After the war, the Qin army suffered 40,000 casualties, including 18,000 direct battle deaths and 22,000 serious injuries.

Fifteen thousand of the soldiers were able to be cured and returned to the army, while the number of soldiers who were unable to be cured and disabled was as high as 7,000.

 In other words, the Qin army lost a total of 25,000 troops in this battle.

As the attacker, the Qin army suffered fewer deaths than the Shu army. On the surface, the Qin army made a profit, but in fact it still suffered a small loss.

 After all, the Qin army was all elite, and the Shu army only used the light and strong men of Hanzhong to consume many veterans of the Qin army. This was naturally very uneconomical.

Although Li Jing's commander attribute is high, he doesn't have much room to display in this kind of siege battle, so casualties are inevitable.

These casualties are also the price that has to be paid for a quick victory, otherwise Hanzhong Qingzhuang will really be consumed by the Shu army.

Although the Qin army captured Nanzheng City, its strength was reduced to 40,000, but Li Jing and Han Xin didn't care. After all, the Qin army had just experienced military expansion and had sufficient troops in the rear. If the front line was not enough, they would just transfer them over.

Li Jing had already transferred 30,000 troops from Yongzhou, but they were still on the way and could not catch up with the battle. Nanzheng had already been conquered by him, so he was not worried about the strength of the troops.

After Li Jing learned about the frequent mobilization of Li Siyuan and the Shu army, he immediately led an army of 40,000 to Dingjun Mountain without completely stabilizing the situation in Nanzheng. However, after arriving, he discovered that there was only an empty stronghold.

The Shu army voluntarily abandoned Dingjun Mountain and all retreated into Jiange. After all, the defeat of Nanzheng meant that Hanzhong had been completely lost, and there was no point in defending Dingjun Mountain.

After Li Jing left three thousand defenders at Dingjun Mountain, he continued to lead his army to attack Li Siyuan's two western counties. As a result, Li Siyuan also fled westward into Haizhou, leaving only two empty cities for the Qin army.

At this point, Hanzhong County has completely fallen into the hands of the Qin army.

 The four kingdoms of Sui, Wei, Song, and Ming were shocked when they learned that the Qin army had quickly occupied Hanzhong.

 After all, if Hanzhong is in the hands of the Qin army, there will be no worries whether they attack the Central Plains to the east or pacify Liangzhou to the west.

 (End of this chapter)