Vol 2 Chapter 2889: Inventory of the first stage of the Central Plains War, Ying Hao

Chapter 2889: Inventory of the first stage of the Central Plains War, Ying Hao’s six strategies solved Cao Cao’s conspiracy

Chapter 2885: Inventory of the first stage of the Central Plains War, Ying Hao’s six strategies to solve Cao Cao’s conspiracy

 In the fourth year of Shenwu, on April 15th, Emperor Qin Yinghao raised an army of 330,000 troops by land and water, and divided them into three groups to attack the Ming Dynasty;

 On April 16, Cao Cao moved his capital to Qiao County;

On April 17, the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming allied themselves in Qiao County to form the Three Kingdoms Alliance, and the Sixth Central Plains War officially broke out;

On April 25, Emperor Qin Ying Hao raised an army of 900,000 to attack the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming simultaneously;

On April 29th, Sun Ce, who secretly returned to Soochow, launched a coup in Jianye and captured Wu King Sun Quan alive, causing chaos in Wu;

On April 30th, King Liu Xiu of Chu raised an army of 350,000 troops by land and water, and divided them into four groups to attack Wu;

 On May 2, Sun Quan fled and the state of Wu was divided;

On May 5th, the Yingzhou War broke out. The local forces of Wei, Song, and Ming Dynasties formed a coalition to jointly attack the Qin army in Yingzhou. Qin General Wang Jian was ordered to do so in the face of danger;

On May 7th, Xue Rengui, the governor of Jingzhou in the Qin Dynasty, defeated Zhao Kuangyin's 150,000 troops head-on with an army of 35,000 infantry and cavalry in Geling, Runan, and achieved the first great victory in the Central Plains War.

On May 8, King Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty, led by Yang Shuang, sent 70,000 troops to conquer the Western Regions.

On May 9, fifteen countries in the Western Regions formed an anti-Sui alliance, with Qin general Wang Ben as commander;

On May 10th, Li Jing, the governor of Yongliang in Qin Dynasty, started with a cavalry army of 300,000, and divided his troops into four groups to attack the Sui Dynasty.

On May 12, Li Mu made a surprise attack and captured Heguan, Hu Luguang captured Yuzhong, and the two major gates of Daxing, the capital of the Sui Dynasty, were lost;

On May 13th, Emperor Liu Yu of the Shu Han Dynasty personally led an army of 200,000 to attack Hanzhong. Wu Qi, the governor of Yongzhou in the Qin Dynasty, led an army of 80,000 Qin troops to defend the city. The Third Hanzhong War between Qin and Shu broke out;

On May 15th, King Songtsen Gampo of Tubo took Lun Qinling as commander and commanded 100,000 Tubo troops. They went down to the plateau to support the Sui State, and Sui and Tubo formed an alliance.

On May 16, King Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty issued an order to relieve the Qiang. Yelu Deguang was able to unite all the Qiang tribes, and the three parties of the Sui, Tuqiang and Qiang formed an alliance;

On May 22nd, the Qin army broke through Kunyang and directed its troops towards Xuchang;

On May 24th, King Maodun of the Huns was assassinated and died. Civil strife broke out between the military ministers and Yi Zhixie in order to seize the throne. They were forced to join forces because Kublai Khan launched an army to attack, and Yuan and Meng fell into civil strife.

On May 25, the Sui Governor Yang Shuang defeated the 250,000 Western Region Allied Forces led by Wang Ben with 70,000 Sui troops, and killed a total of 80,000 enemies;

On May 26th, Song King Zhao Kuangyin and Ming King Zhu Di each sent reinforcements to support Cao Wei;

On May 28th, Zhang Liao Company broke through the three major defensive lines in the west of Cao and Wei, and officially entered Guandu. Cao Cao and Zhang Liao faced off in Guandu, and the Qin-Wei War of Guandu broke out;

On June 2, Jia Fu failed to attack Puyang. On the way to withdraw from Dunqiu, he encountered Ming reinforcements led by Lan Yu. A war broke out between the two sides. The Qin army suffered its first defeat since the war began, and more than 12,000 soldiers were injured.

On June 9, Bai Qi captured Baima, and Cao Cao was forced to give up and burned Guandu to stop the enemy.

On June 11, Zhang Liao led his army to pursue Wuchao and met Cao Cao's army. The Battle of Wuchao between Qin and Wei broke out;

On June 13, Li Jing led his army to the Yiniu Mountain and completed the rendezvous with Meng Tian’s army, and the decisive battle at the Yinniu Mountain began;

On June 18, Great Qin sent three Banxuan troops to Mount Tai to besiege and kill the leader of the Demon Sect, Ming He;

 On June 20th, Zhang Liao marched into Chenliu;

On June 25, Bai Qi’s troops came to Puyang, and the offensive and defensive battle of Puyang broke out;

 On June 28, Styx "falls";

On July 1, Great Qin united hundreds of families to attack the Jade Emperor Peak of Mount Tai, and the third war between good and evil broke out;

On July 2, Li Jing defeated the 200,000 Sui, Tuqiang and Tuqiang coalition forces with 85,000 infantry and cavalry troops;

On July 3, an uprising broke out among the Demon Sect believers in Yingchuan and Dongjun counties;

 On July 5, Arthur suppressed the Yingchuan uprising;

On July 6, King Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty abandoned the city and fled, but was ambushed by Huluguang during his escape, and eventually committed suicide;

On July 7, the Sui officials, led by Cheng Gongying, surrendered to the Qin army in Kaicheng. The Sui capital prospered without a fight, and the remaining Sui forces fled into the Western Regions.

On July 8, the Demon Sect officially joined the Three Kingdoms Alliance and formed rebel armies in various places;

On July 13, Bai Qi captured Puyang, and Le Yi, the governor of Cao Wei, committed suicide. Bai Qi then led his army to attack Dingtao;

On July 15, Ying Hao captured Xuchang, Cao Bin was captured, and Cao Wei fled with the remaining troops;

On July 16, Deng Jiugong occupied Dingtao, and Cao Cao led his cavalry back to support;

On July 17, Cao Cao recaptured Dingtao, Deng Jiugong died in battle, and the Qin army suffered its second defeat since the beginning of the war.

On July 18, Cao Cao took the initiative to retreat after fighting with Bai Qi, and Bai Qi seized Dingtao;

On July 25th, after the three armies of Bai Qi, Zhang Liao and Zhao Yun captured the counties of Chenliu and Jiyin, they joined forces at the foot of Chenliu City;

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 It has been three months since the Central Plains War started.

Li Jing's 300,000-strong army took only two months to defeat nearly 300,000 Sui troops, but also 200,000 Tibetan and Qiang troops. He was very domineering and powerful and destroyed the Sui Kingdom.

But switching to the Central Plains, among the eight 900,000 troops dispatched by the Qin Dynasty, four 420,000 troops were used on the Yanzhou battlefield. However, they fought for three full months and still failed to defeat Wei. country.

 Are Bai Qi, Han Xin, Zhang Liao, and Ying Hao combined not as good as Li Jing?

 Of course not.

The State of Wei was much stronger than the State of Sui. Even though the total strength of the three parties of Sui, Tuqiang and Qiang reached 500,000, they were by no means a match for the main force of Cao's army of 300,000.

 Cao Jun not only has strong combat power, but also has high overall quality, and is extremely united internally. Facing the fierce offensive of the Qin army, he showed great resilience.

Under the targeted attacks of the Qin army, although Cao's army was defeated repeatedly, it was defeated but not defeated. It was not until after two major defeats in Xuchang and Puyang that Cao's army lost nearly 100,000 troops in the two battles, and then it was completely unable to bear it. Hence the current Chenliu siege.

The four-pronged Qin army fought fiercely for more than three months. Although they failed to completely destroy Wei, they also achieved considerable results. Bai Qi, Han Xin, Zhang Liao, and Ying Hao's four-pronged army totaled 420,000 troops. After three months of fighting, they have now occupied: 8 counties in the east of Henan, 15 counties in the east, 17 counties in Yingchuan, and 16 counties in Chenliu. , Jiyin 11 counties, a total of four and a half 67 counties.

There are eleven counties in Wei State, among which the most populous and richest elite areas are Yingchuan, Chenliu and Dongjun.

Including Jiyin County, the four counties and 67 counties occupied by Da Qin accounted for 55% of Wei's population, 50% of its grain production, and 60% of its tax revenue.

Among the four counties, Edong County and Yingchuan County have the strongest resistance, so they have suffered the greatest war trauma. Moreover, there are still sporadic Demon Sect rebels that have not been wiped out. It will be more troublesome to resume production in the future. .

 Chenliu and Jiyin counties suffered less damage, especially Jiyin county. Except for the city of Dingtao, Da Qin encountered almost no effective resistance and basically took over completely from Cao Jun.

Therefore, as long as the 100,000 Cao troops in Chenliu City are eliminated, Chenliu and Jiyin counties can resume production at any time, and then become the logistics base for the Qin army to attack the Central Plains.

Of course, it will take time to resume production and harvest, and the expenses before that will naturally need to be borne by Da Qin himself.

Under Cao Wei's centralized system during the war, all the food rations of the people under his rule were plundered. Now Cao Cao took the initiative to abandon the people under his rule and threw the hungry people as a burden to the Qin army, thereby exacerbating the Qin army's food consumption, and this has caused Ying Hao and Bai Qi were alert.

It is precisely because of this that Bai Qi did not advance further towards Shanyang County after he ordered Xiao Yan to occupy the ten counties in the east of Jiyin.

 Before preparation is made, accepting too many hungry people will really overwhelm the Qin army's food routes.

It must be said that Cao Cao's "scorched earth" conspiracy, which is not considered scorched earth, is simply more vicious than directly implementing scorched earth. It also forced the Qin army to suspend the offensive and prepare in advance to receive a large number of hungry people.

When the Qin army captured Jiyin County, they did not capture any grain or grass. Cao Cao took away whatever they could and burned whatever they could not take away.

When the Qin army captured the sixteen counties of Chenliu, especially the three major granaries of Yongqiu, Suanzao, and Fengqiu, although they seized millions of stones of grain and grass, apart from the daily consumption of the Chenliu people, they could provide The Qin army did not have much food and grass at their disposal, which was a drop in the bucket compared to subsequent expenditures.

 The grain and grass seized in Dongjun and Xuchang could only barely supply the local area. Chen Liu

Both Ying Hao and Bai Qi wanted to force Cao Ren and 100,000 Cao troops to surrender, but if Cao Ren really led 100,000 Cao troops to surrender, the first thing the Qin army would have to face was the problem of feeding the surrendered troops. After all, 100,000 surrendered troops are 100,000 mouths open. The surplus captured by Chen Liu is definitely not enough.

 The Qin Army in Yanzhou mainly relied on Jizhou, Sili, and Jingbei for food supply.

 In the past, the three places only needed to provide food for 400,000 Qin troops, but now, in addition to the Qin army, they also need more than 100,000 prisoners of war, hundreds of thousands of hungry Yanzhou people, and 100,000 Cao Wei's surrendered troops.

 The food supply pressure in the three places can be said to have nearly doubled.

In order to win the Central Plains War and completely destroy the three kingdoms of Wei, Song and Ming, Ying Hao prepared enough 900,000 military rations for a year's campaign.

 But even based on the current consumption, leaving aside the rest of the Fourth Route Army, the Fourth Route Army in Yanzhou can only fight for another five months at most, and will face the dilemma of running out of food and grass.

It is easy to destroy Cao Wei in May, but it is not easy to destroy the Ming and Song Dynasties. Moreover, if we continue to march eastward and take over the hungry people of Cao Wei, the consumption of food and grass will further accelerate.

 Therefore, if he wants the four Qin armies in Yanzhou to continue to have food, Ying Hao must give priority to solving the food problem.

In this regard, after some discussions with Guo Jia, Ying Hao came up with six ways to solve the food and grass problem.

 1. Let the 68 counties in the four counties of Yanxi resume production as soon as possible.

The four counties of Dongjun, Yingchuan, Chenliu and Jiyin have a population of one million and 5.68 million acres of fertile land. As long as Daqin's high-yielding grain varieties can be planted and production resumed, the local output alone can offset nearly 60% of food and grass expenditure.

  Second, transport all prisoners of war on the front lines back to the country for centralized detention;

There were quite a few prisoners of Cao's army detained in the Qin army's prisoner-of-war camps. Therefore, the prisoners of war in Yingchuan and Chenliu were escorted back to Sili, and the prisoners of war in Dongjun and Jiyin were escorted back to Jizhou. They were fed with local grain and grass. Naturally, Reduce local grain and grass consumption in Yanzhou;

 Three, transfer grain and grass from Yongzhou and Bingzhou to meet emergencies;

Yongzhou and Bingzhou were originally to supply food to Li Jing's army in the northwest, but now that the Sui Kingdom has been destroyed and Lianghe Prefecture has been conquered, naturally there is no need for the two states to supply food, so the grain from the two states' grain depots can be given priority to the Central Plains. supply.

4. In Sili, Jizhou, and Jingbei, 50,000 civilians were temporarily recruited to transport grain;

 Fifth, before the food and grass problem is completely solved, reduce the activities of large corps and divide the troops into various cities to reduce the consumption of food and grass;

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Although Cao Cao's burdensome plan is difficult to deal with, if all six of Ying Hao's methods are implemented, the food problem that troubles the Qin army will be solved, and the most important one is naturally the first one.

In order to resume production in the four counties of Yanzhou as soon as possible, Ying Hao must choose a governor who is strong enough and understands military matters. After all, the war in Yanzhou is not over yet, and there may be wars while resuming production. Naturally, the governor will not fight if he only knows how to govern. no.

After some screening, Ying Hao found that Guan Zhong, Wu Qi, and Wen Zhong were all suitable candidates for the governor of Yanzhou in his mind, but in the end he chose Guan Zhong.

Wu Qi is suitable for politics and military affairs, and Wen Zhong is slightly less suitable for military affairs. However, both of them are now guarding Hanzhong and confronting Liu Yu who personally leads 200,000 Shu troops.

Although Li Jing could support Wu Qi at any time after defeating the Sui Dynasty, and the Qin army in Hanzhong no longer had any pressure, as long as the war was not completely over, Wu Qi and Wen Zhong were not suitable to leave, so they still had over 100 points in all four categories in the five dimensions except force. Moreover, Guan Zhong, who was a special commander in Jingzhou, was more suitable to serve as the governor of Yanzhou.