Wei Qing originally waited for the Shu army to run out of food, and then waited for more than ten days to come to a complete end with Zhou Yafu.
The resistance was completely destroyed.
But as more and more soldiers surrendered, Wei Qing became less anxious. Li Jing's reinforcements had already set off, and he now had plenty of time to continue spending time here.
After waiting for more than twenty days, I was ready to take down Jiange, one of the most dangerous levels in Yizhou.
Thinking about the first part of the barbarian army that broke out and surrendered, coupled with the subsequent batches of serious Shu troops who rushed out to surrender, the surrendered troops in Wei Qing's hands had even soared to more than 100,000.
This is the true way of conquering the enemy without fighting. Without spending a single soldier, the opponent will fall into a complete death zone.
If there was a head-on battle, how much price would the Jin army have to pay to eliminate these more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, but now they let these Shu troops surrender voluntarily without spending a single soldier!
This credit is greater than the frontal siege of 100,000 soldiers and horses.
The same battle is won, but the gold content is also different. A victory in which one thousand enemies are killed and eight hundred self-inflicted losses is achieved, and a victory in which one thousand enemies are killed but one self-inflicted loss but zero casualties are definitely quite different. Finally, let’s talk about it.
The rewards for meritorious deeds are definitely different.
Otherwise, why is it said that Li Jing directly gave Wei Qing a piece of free work?
Moreover, after Yizhou is completely pacified, the Jin army will inevitably recruit a considerable part of the Shu army to form troops. With such a huge population, Yizhou is definitely an excellent source of troops.
Effectively increase the Jin army's strength in all aspects.
However, after integrating this part of the already well-trained Yizhou soldiers and horses, they will definitely save a considerable amount of their energy as the soldiers and horses of the Jin army to control Bashu in the future.
It is much easier to integrate and reorganize a soldier and horse that has already formed a combat capability than to retrain a soldier and horse.
In the past few days, seeing that the soldiers and horses in Shu who were willing to surrender had almost surrendered, Wei Qing was finally about to launch the final blow.
Wei Qing estimated that there should be about 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and horses in this pass. Although this number is large, it is obviously not comparable to the number of troops on their side.
Facing a starving and exhausted army that was at the end of its rope, he dispatched more than 100,000 elite Jin troops who had been recharging their strength. In Wei Qing's view, there was no suspense in this battle.
"Generals, obey the order!"
"The end will be here." All the generals stood up and responded in unison.
"Zhou Yafu was a talented person. It's a pity to die here. If there is a chance, I must capture Zhou Yafu alive." Wei Qing ordered with a serious face.
Zhou Yafu is indeed a talent, and Wei Qing also particularly admires this person. If it were a head-on battle, either Li Jing or Wei Qing would be confident enough to defeat him head-on.
But Zhou Yafu has always had a calm and steady fighting style, and after facing the many dangers in Yizhou, when so many generals of the Jin army, including Li Jing, gathered together, they were unable to do anything to the opponent.
Of course, a large part of the reason why there was nothing that could be done against Zhou Yafu was because Wang Meng and Wu Qi played very well. Li Jing had already become a cheater, so there was no need to forcefully fight the opponent.
Li Jing was not only a general, but also a marshal. A commander should have a sufficient understanding of the overall situation, and there was no need to risk the lives of tens of thousands of Jin soldiers just to prove his ability.
Furthermore, as a famous general who is famous all over the world, Li Jing no longer needs to continue to prove his ability. He will risk the lives of tens of thousands of soldiers to defeat Zhou Yafu, or wait until his teammates' strategic goals are achieved, so as to surrender without fighting.
Human soldiers, this is not even a multiple-choice question for Li Jing.
As for Wei Qing's desire to capture Zhou Yafu alive, in addition to truly believing that he was a talent, there was also an even more important reason, which was the value of Zhou Yafu's own existence.
Before and after this battle, although the Jin army captured many important generals of the Shu army, the real top general was only Chen Qingzhi.
The rest, such as Xu Shiji, were not in Bashu at all, but Dai Tuo, Chen Tang and others had died in the battle. As a foreign general, Yang Su had no influence on the Shu army like other generals.
Derby.
In this battle, Wei Qing alone had so many prisoners of the Shu army. If you add in the prisoners of the Shu army from several other generals, this would be an extremely large number.
In the future, if we want to reorganize such a surrendered Shu army into a combat-effective force as soon as possible, we will need the assistance of some Shu army generals, especially those high-ranking generals who have great prestige among the Shu army.
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Chen Qingzhi's influence was mostly within the White Robe Army, and his influence on the entire Shu Army was relatively inferior to that of Zhou Yafu. Therefore, the living Zhou Yafu was more valuable than the dead Zhou Yafu.
In addition, through Floating Water House and Wei Qing, the generals of the barbarian army, they learned that Zhou Yafu's attitude was wavering at the beginning, which created a good foundation for them to use Zhou Yafu for the Jin army.
As for the other generals except Zhou Yafu, Wei Qing didn't like anything, even if there was a god-level warrior Yu Yuan among them.
Although he didn't know much about the prisoners of the Shu army who had surrendered one after another, combined with the information obtained from them and the information obtained from the surrendered barbarians, Wei Qing also probably knew that the remaining ones were some stubborn ones.
They are all die-hard elements and it would not be a pity to kill them.
The key is that there are smart people like Lu Polou and Lu Guang among them, so if they can be recruited to surrender, the other party is very ambitious. If they choose to surrender, they will be in big trouble.
Even if the Jin army will guard against them, it cannot be guarded for several years. There will always be opportunities for slacking off. Smart people like Lu Polou and Lu Guang will really be prepared if they are patient.
I will stay with you, and if the other party comes to take advantage of you, Wei Qing will be implicated to some extent.
Therefore, since it has been determined that these people are die-hard elements, let's just kill them all!
At the same time, Yang Xuangan's troops on the other side of the Jiange also received Wei Qing's message and knew that the time for the final attack had arrived!