Vol 2 Chapter 2857: The Battle of Dingtao, the Power of Killing Gods (Part 2)

Chapter 2857 The Battle of Dingtao, the power of killing gods (Part 2)

Chapter 2857 The Battle of Dingtao, the power of killing gods (Part 2)

Jiyin County and Juyang County, Bai Qi’s main army is passing through here.

Juyang is a county town located slightly east between Lihu and Dingtao.

 The cavalry could easily avoid Juyang from Lihu to Dingtao, but the infantry had difficulty avoiding it. Therefore, after Bai Qi set out from Lihu, his next target was not Dingtao, but Juyang.

Juyang, like Lihu, is a small town with only two hundred county soldiers. It is absolutely impossible to block Bai Qi's army.

 Juyang's general Zhang Nai, like Ma Shouying, was also a Yellow Turban general.

 In the official history, Zhang Nai was Li Zicheng's general. He was promoted by Li Zicheng from the boy soldiers and was adopted as his adopted son because of his repeated military exploits.

After Li Zicheng was martyred at Jiugong Mountain in Tongcheng, Zhang Nai followed Li Guo into Pingjiang County, Hunan, and defended himself in the village. He was eventually surrounded and suppressed by the Qing army and died in battle.

Although Zhang Nai in this life was also valued by Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng had already died in Cao Cao before he had time to worship him as his father, and eventually surrendered to Cao Cao together with Ma Shouying, Liu Tichun and others.

Ma Shouying went to Dingtao this time. Although his main task was to surrender Liu Tichun, Zhang Nai also had great win-win value, so he also persuaded Zhang Nai to surrender when he passed by Juyang.

So Bai Qi did not waste time in Juyang. Before his army even arrived in Juyang, Zhang Nai had already sent someone to submit the surrender order in advance.

“Report to the general, there is a letter from General Deng Jiugong’s Fei Ge.”

 “Hurry, bring it up.

 After receiving the letter, Bai Qi immediately began to browse through the lines.

When he saw that Deng Jiugong, with the cooperation of Liu Tichun, had defeated Cao Ning and captured Dingtao, even Bai Qi couldn't help but smile. After all, this meant that Chen Liu's Cao army could not escape.

But when he learned from Deng Jiugong's letter that Cao Cao had mobilized all the cavalry and strong generals and was about to arrive in Dingtao in half a day, this made Bai Qi frown and think about how to break the situation.

 From Juyang to Dingtao, it would take a day and a half at the fastest for Bai Qi to march at full speed.

 In other words, if Deng Jiugong wanted to hold Dingtao until reinforcements arrived, he would have to hold off Cao Cao's 15,000 reinforcements for one day.

Dingtao can be regarded as a fortified city. The time to defend the city for one day does not seem to be long, but the cavalry of Cao's army who came to the rescue are all elite, and they have also gathered most of Cao Wei's fierce generals. Deng Jiugong, Deng Xiu and his son alone cannot be opponent.

Bai Qi immediately thought of sending cavalry to support him, but although he still had cavalry in his army, the number was not large, with less than 3,000 cavalry left.

Although most of the three thousand cavalry were from the Flying Tiger Army and could reach Dingtao before the infantry, the result of sending the cavalry to support them would be nothing more than a collision with Cao Wei's reinforcements, and a war would break out.

 In the absence of Li Cunxiao, even the Flying Tiger Army could not be an opponent of the 15,000 Cao Wei elite cavalry, so the result of sending cavalry to support would only increase casualties.

Moreover, the real dilemma facing Deng Jiugong was not a lack of soldiers, but a lack of generals.

The lineup of Cao Wei generals who invaded this time was too strong, including not only Yin Shou and Tantai Yu, but also Xia Houyuan, Cao Chun, etc.

On the other hand, the Qin army only had Deng Jiugong, Deng Xiu and his son, and the injured general Liu Tichun.

 The gap between the general lineups of the two sides is too big.

Although there are many generals in Bai Qi's army, such as Ju Yi, Han Meng, Zhu Ling, Xiao Yan, Wei Rui, Fu Youde, etc., except for Fu Youde, they are all good generals, not fierce generals. Even if they were sent to Dingtao , and it won’t have much effect.

Bai Qi probably never imagined that one day he would be faced with a shortage of powerful generals.

In fact, there are many strong generals in the North Route Army, but Li Cunxiao, Qin Niu, and Yu Yuan all went to hunt down Lan Yu's defeated army. Wu Wenhua was sent to suppress the Dongjun uprising army, while Yu Hua was injured and was left behind. Puyang recuperates.

Each of the powerful generals had their own affairs to deal with, so that in the huge Northern Route Army, only Fu Youde, a fallen general, Huang Feihu and Deng Jiugong were left.

 Fu Youde had just surrendered not long ago, so he certainly could not take over the military power so quickly, and Huang Feihu needed to keep an eye on Yin Shou. If Yin Shou did not leave Yan County, he would not be able to leave Yanjin, so only Deng Jiugong, the **** of war, could be used.

 This is also the main reason why Bai Qi transferred Deng Jiugong from Baima to the front line.

But Bai Qi never expected that Cao Cao would be so shameless and actually gathered Chen Liu's cavalry and strong generals. This made it clear that if he could not win Tao, he would give up Chen Liu's 100,000-strong army and take the cavalry and generals with him. The posture of leading the way.

Bai Qi was caught off guard by this move. Even if he immediately sent a message to Li Cunxiao and asked Li Cunxiao to rush to Dingtao to support him, it would definitely be too late.

"If I had known that Cao Cao would mobilize the Yan County cavalry, he should have mobilized Huang Feihu as well. Unfortunately, it is too late to issue a transfer order to General Huang Feihu now."

Bai Qi couldn't help feeling sorry, and at the same time he was surprised by Fan Li, the military commander of Cao Wei. After all, daring to do this undoubtedly requires great courage, but the effect is also very obvious. He used his strengths and avoided weaknesses, temporarily eliminating the Qin army's advantage of having many powerful generals. .

"General Deng Jiugong may not be able to defend Dingtao. If he forcibly defends the city, he will suffer heavy casualties. Therefore, I will send an order to General Deng Jiugong, asking him to voluntarily abandon Dingtao when necessary to preserve his strength. However, we still have to speed up the march here. So that we can regain Dingtao.”

Hearing what Bai Qi said, Ju Yi, Wei Rui and other generals present were all shocked. After all, Dingtao was so important. It took a lot of effort to win it, but now he gave up on his own initiative? How is this possible?

"But General, General Deng Jiugong also said in Fei Ge Biography that he would imitate Li Ling's behavior in the Battle of Guangping and not give Yin Shou and Tan Taiyu a chance to climb the tower. I think it would be okay to hold on for a day. It's such a big problem, so why bother to abandon the city?" Ju Yi asked in confusion.

Bai Qi asked helplessly: "Do you really think that Li Ling can defend Guangping? Is it really as simple as not letting Sun Lingming climb the tower?" Ju Yi, Han Meng, Zhu Ling, Xiao Yan, Wei Rui and other generals heard this. , all looked puzzled. Although most of them were generals from Hebei, they really didn’t know much about the inside story of the Battle of Guangping.

Seeing this, Bai Qi explained: "In the original battle of Guangping, the reason why Li Ling was able to block the fierce attack of Sun Lingming's 5,000 army with 3,000 defenders was because of the favorable weather, location, and people.

At that time, our army was winning consecutive battles and its morale was high. Sun Lingming was eager for quick success and did not pay attention to Li Ling at all, so he went deep alone.

Li Ling took advantage of Sun Lingming's contempt for him. He first set up a large number of traps during Sun Lingming's march to frustrate his spirit, then used a trick to delay his surrender, and then deliberately exposed him to anger Sun Lingming. .

Sun Lingming originally thought that Li Ling would surrender, but was deceived into waiting for three days in vain. He was completely angered, so he attacked the city forcefully.

As everyone knows, what Li Ling wants is for Sun Lingming to do this. This not only gives Li Ling an opportunity to take action, but as long as Sun Lingming is unable to climb the tower, the morale of our army will also be greatly reduced.

Now you understand, Li Ling was able to hold on to Guangping, which was the result of continuous calculations and unintentional calculations. "

After listening to what Bai Qi said, the generals present suddenly realized that in their opinion, the Battle of Bangping was just a small battle, but they did not expect that there were so many twists and turns in it. No wonder Sun Lingming couldn't attack Bangping.

"The situation in Dingtao now is different from that in the past. Although Deng Jiugong's army commanding ability is not inferior to Li Ling's, and his own strength is far superior to Li Ling, Cao Cao will not be as unwise as Sun Lingming, and he will never be as ignorant as Sun Lingming. It’s so tough.”

Although Sun Lingming had resigned and headed west, he still had a very high prestige among the Qin army. Few people in Da Qin dared to say so, except Bai Qi.

"Deng Jiugong wants to use Li Ling's method to deal with Sun Lingming to deal with Cao Cao. This will definitely not work. Since we are destined to be unable to defend Dingtao, it is better to give up the defense of the city as soon as possible and destroy the city defense while abandoning the city to reduce the risk of our army to recapture it again. How difficult is it to make pottery?"

After saying that, Bai Qi immediately wrote two letters in code words and delivered them to Deng Jiugong through flying pigeons. Unfortunately, both letters were robbed by Yin Shou, so Deng Jiugong did not receive them.

 In other words, Yin Shou didn't know the meaning of the code word, so he didn't know the content of Bai Qi's letter. Otherwise, it would be even more impossible for Deng Jiugong to guard Dingtao.

At the same time, the remaining forces in Xuchang City were wiped out and completely wiped out by the Qin army. Ying Hao decided to enter the city in person and meet with the major families in Yingchuan.

After receiving the news that Ying Hao decided to enter the city, the Yingchuan family headed by Xun Chen Zhonghan breathed a sigh of relief. After all, this meant that Ying Hao had let them go and decided to accept them, so they naturally had to behave well and try to let Ying Hao stay. A good impression.

Yingchuan family mobilized collectively, planning to hold a grand welcome ceremony and mobilize half of the hundreds of people in the city to welcome Ying Hao into the city.

Cao's army was killed and injured in the battle of Xuchang, but there were many locals in Xuchang. However, compared to Cao Bin's propaganda, the Qin army would massacre the city after it broke the city. After the people of Xuchang saw the Qin army who had committed no crime, they naturally Realizing that they had been deceived, they naturally hated Cao Bin for deceiving them.

Coupled with the vigorous publicity of the Yingchuan family, the resistance to the Qin army naturally dissipated, and they all followed the guidance of the wealthy family and participated in the welcome ceremony.

 Under the protection of tens of thousands of troops and Kong Xuan and others, Ying Hao and Guo Jia mounted their horses side by side and slowly entered the city.

But when they saw the people standing on both sides of the street to greet them, and the cheers like a roaring tsunami, both Ying Hao and Guo Jia couldn't help but feel a little dazed. After all, it didn't look like they had just experienced a war.

After all, many people's family members died in the war with Qin and Wei, so although the people of Xuchang were shouting, they could not hide their sadness on their faces.

Ying Hao's face gradually became gloomy. He hated this kind of formal ostentation, but the Yingchuan family also wanted to please him, so it made it easier for him to get angry.

Ying Hao smiled throughout the whole process, suppressing his dissatisfaction. After insisting on the welcome ceremony, he received the four major families of Yingchuan and the thirteen major families in the Wei palace.

As for those small families, there was actually no need to meet them, and they were not qualified to meet Ying Hao. However, in order to ensure that the Yingchuan family would feel at ease, Ying Hao decided to meet them. After all, meeting the four families and the seventeenth family did not mean much to him. No difference.

Ying Hao calmed down all the family heads with gentle words to dispel their concerns. Then the banquet began, and the dancers and singers from the major families also took turns to perform on the stage.

Ying Hao doesn't like to watch singing and dancing. In his eyes, ancient singing and dancing are far less beautiful than sword dancing. However, even though the rich and powerful people of this era like it, he can only follow the local customs and conform to the trend.

After the banquet, the Yingchuan family not only presented various treasures, but also hundreds of beautiful maidservants to Ying Hao to take care of and serve Ying Hao in his daily life in Xuchang.

Ying Hao used the system to check and found that ten of them had a charm value of over 90, and they were all eldest ladies from major families. Xun Kui, who had a charm of 97, was Xun Yu's niece.

In order to please Ying Hao, the Yingchuan family went to great lengths, and even let these ladies become Ying Hao's maids.

Although Ying Hao was not prepared to touch any of them, he still accepted them all. After all, this was the only way to make them feel at ease. However, he planned to reward the unmarried generals in the army as wives afterwards.

As for the ten eldest ladies of Yingchuan, they were all returned by Ying Hao. He neither wanted to marry into the Yingchuan family nor did he have any plans to accept any more women.

"Fengxiao, why do I feel that dealing with these aristocratic families is more tiring than commanding an army to fight." Ying Hao said with a helpless look.

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