Chapter 1631: Li Jing defeated Wang Mang and settled Qingzhou
Chapter 1631: Li Jing defeats Wang Mang and conquers Qingzhou
Qin Hao had long expected that Li Jing would win, but he did not expect that he would win so cleanly.
Qin Hao originally thought that even if Li Jing would win, it would probably be a disastrous victory, but he did not expect that after just experiencing a huge defeat, Li Jing could defeat his opponent head-on with 40,000 against 80,000, and achieved 30,000 kills and self-loss.
Ten thousand results.
This also shows that Li Jing's control over the overall battle situation is absolutely terrifying.
Naturally, war is not as simple as having more people. Sometimes more people will not help, but may have the opposite effect.
Although the number of Wang Mang's troops is large, there are only more than 40,000 elites after all, and the remaining 40,000 are weak troops.
Nearly half of the 80,000-strong army are weak troops. These people will definitely hinder the coordination of the Union Army. The mixed command of the two phases will make the Union Army look bloated.
Among Li Jing's nearly 60,000 Beihai Qin troops, there were also nearly 20,000 weak Liangshan surrender troops. However, he took the initiative to abandon this army and only led 40,000 main troops to fight Wang Mang.
The reason why Li Jing did this was to ensure the overall quality of the entire army as much as possible, because he knew that the uneven quality of soldiers would definitely hinder the mobilization efficiency of the entire army.
In an intense war, mobilization orders are extremely frequent. Elites can complete the orders perfectly, but weak armies obviously cannot adapt to such high-frequency dispatching. Once there is a mistake in any link, the entire army will be exposed.
Li Jing's bet was that Wang Mang's mixed army of 80,000 strong and weak could not keep up with the speed of mobilization of the army under his command, and if he fell behind in one step, he would fall behind every step.
After reading this thousand-word battle report, Qin Hao couldn't help but clapped his legs and applauded. This battle was indeed so beautiful. If any link went wrong, Li Jing might not be able to replicate the record of 40,000 men defeating 80,000 men head-on.
In fact, this battle was far more dangerous than what was written in the battle report.
Among the Northern Han Allied Army, there were four senior commanders, Chen Qingzhi, Zhou Yafu, Zhu Tianpeng and Shajuan Lian. Didn't they all know the shortcomings of the Allied Army?
No, they all know.
It's just that they don't think that this small flaw will ruin the entire army. Instead, they think that as long as it is done properly, it will be fine.
Facts prove: A thousand-mile embankment collapses in an ant nest!
Wang Mang was cautious enough, but under Li Jing's deliberate and repeated targeting, the weaknesses of the Northern Han United Army were magnified tenfold, which ultimately led to such a disastrous defeat.
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Qingzhou is the junction of Beihai and Liangshan.
Li Jing personally led the army to pursue Wang Mang, and once again defeated Wang Mang, killing more than a thousand enemies and capturing 20,000 prisoners. Wang Mang led nearly 20,000 troops and continued to flee.
"Report... to inform the prefect, General Zhou Yu, that Liangshanbo has been captured, and Wang Mang's remnant army has no home."
"here you go."
Li Jing shouted excitedly, and then ordered: "Send the order to the entire army to continue the pursuit."
"promise."
How could Zhou Yu appear in Liangshanbo? Let me tell you slowly.
Wang Mang was also frightened by Li Jing's scheme, so he fought this battle very cautiously. He listened to Chen Qingzhi's suggestion and divided the 70,000 infantry into three groups, with 30,000 in the center and 20,000 in the right.
Twenty thousand Liao troops were given to the left and right armies, while all twenty thousand Zhao troops remained in the central army, trying to balance the overall combat strength of the army as much as possible.
In addition, Wang Mang also asked Chen Qingzhi to lead the left army and Zhou Yafu to lead the right army. He and Shajuanlian Zhu Tianpeng were in charge of the central army. This arrangement was perfect and basically guaranteed that there would never be any wrong orders.
But what Wang Mang didn't expect was that there would be no use if they didn't make mistakes. They had to make sure their subordinates didn't make mistakes either.
After the decisive battle began, Ju Wuba was blocked by the Liangshan Five Tigers, Xia Luqi faced off against the brothers Huang Tianhua and Huang Tianxiang, and Shajuan Lian and Zhu Tianpeng joined forces to fight against Jintai.
The Qin army has one god of war left, Huang Feihu, who is in an unstoppable state.
Under Li Jing's repeated maneuvers, the Northern Han army, which could not keep up with the speed, suffered some command confusion.
Huang Feihu took advantage of the chaos in the enemy's mobilization and led his cavalry on a rampage, disrupting the enemy's central army in one fell swoop, thus establishing the victory of this battle.
Seeing that the battle situation was getting worse and worse, Zhu Tianpeng immediately prepared to mobilize the navy, but the Qi navy was blocked by Zhou Yu's Yellow River navy. Only then did Zhu Tianpeng know that Zhou Yu had not returned to Sizhou.
The two sides fought a battle with each other's navy, with each winning or losing, but the situation on the road was getting worse and worse.
In the end, the Chinese army was defeated first. Seeing that the situation was not good, Wang Mang decisively chose to withdraw his troops. However, the two sides had already become a group. It was not easy to withdraw.
In desperation, Wang Mang had no choice but to cut off his tail to survive, abandoning an army of 30,000 and only then able to save an army of 40,000.
It is difficult for soldiers to retreat, but even more difficult for generals to retreat.
Ju Wuba was almost killed by the Five Tigers of Liangshan, and he escaped with his life after several close calls.
Xia Ruqi was even worse. He was entangled by the two gods of war and couldn't even run away.
If Wang Yanzhang, the 'Iron Spear', hadn't arrived in time and the two of them had activated the combination skill 'Four Divine Spears', Xia Ruqi would have died directly in the battle.
Zhu Tianpeng and Shajuanlian also had combo skills, and after they were activated, they completely suppressed Jintai. However, Jintai was not an ordinary god of war. Although he was always at a disadvantage, he still resisted tenaciously until the end.
In the end, although the Qin army killed 30,000 enemies, it also suffered 10,000 casualties, and several generals were also killed in the battle.
Zhang Shun was shot to death by Qi general Jing Yanguang with an arrow during the battle with Zhou Yushui;
When Cao Zheng was fighting between Wang Yantong and Tai Shici, he was about to attack Wang Yantong but was discovered instead. As a result, he was shot to death.
Hu Yanzan was even more unlucky. He was the first to bump into Xia Luqi, and was killed with two shots.
This time Qin Hao summoned a total of four Liangshan generals, and except for Shi Wengong, the other three were all killed in the battle.
In addition, Huang Feihu's four sworn brothers, Huang Ming, Zhou Ji, Long Huan and Wu Qian, joined forces to kill Ju Wu Ba. However, only one of the four was a god general and he had no combination skills.
In the end, Juwuba killed two of them alone.
The super-level Huang Ming and Zhou Ji died directly at the hands of Ju Wuba, while Long Huan and Wu Qian were rescued by Lu Junyi and Guan Sheng.
In this battle, although the Qin army defeated the enemy with a small victory and a large defeat, five generals were killed in the battle, and the enemy generals also suffered many casualties.
General Yang Shihou of Qi was a famous general of the Later Liang Dynasty during the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties period. He had a surprise attack on Chang'an, defeated Liu Zhijun, defeated Li Cunxu, etc. He was the best even among the great generals.
Unfortunately, Yang Shihou faced off against Huang Feihu, and within three rounds, he was directly killed by Huang Feihu.
Yan general Xun Zhi, a general during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, was killed by Tai Shi Ci with several shots.
Chen Youren, the younger brother of Chen Youliang who had taken refuge with Wang Mang, shot Huang Feibao, the younger brother of Huang Feihu, with a hidden arrow, and was later killed by the furious Huang Feihu and Huang Tianlu.