Chapter 1869: The First Victory of the Northern Han Dynasty
Chapter 1869: Northern Han’s first victory
Yuyang County is located between Guangyang County and Youbeiping County, and has jurisdiction over nine counties including Yuyang and Hunu.
However, with the fierce attack of the two Qin armies and the surrender of the Pinggu County magistrate, the four southern counties of Yuyang have belonged to the Qin army, leaving only the five counties in the central and northern parts still in the hands of the Han army.
Qin Hao led 130,000 Qin troops to take control of Youbeiping. Although the pressure on Li Guang of Yuyang County was greatly reduced, Su Dingfang's 40,000 troops were not a living wage, not to mention that Sun Lingming was also under Su Dingfang's command.
Who is Sun Lingming?
That was the fierce man who killed Yuan Hong, the most powerful general in Hebei Province. Even though he searched the entire Northern Han Dynasty, he could not find anyone who could match him.
It is conceivable that the Qin army with Sun Lingming's presence will attack fiercely, and Yuyang is the east gate of Yanjing. Once Yuyang falls completely, Su Dingfang's army can reach Guangyang County directly, and Yanjing will be in danger by then.
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Li Guang only had 25,000 troops in his hands, while Su Dingfang had 40,000 troops and the peerless general Sun Lingming.
In addition, nearly half of the territory of Yuyang County has been lost, and the strategic depth of the Han army is only five counties.
Therefore, among the four counties, Yuyang County is currently in the most crisis, even more so than Dai County.
Although Liu Che knew about Yuyang's predicament, he could do nothing about it because the Northern Han Dynasty really had no troops to mobilize and no troops to recruit.
"Report... Yuyang battle report, Su Dingfang's vanguard Sun Lingming led an army of 5,000 to attack Guangping City. They attacked fiercely for ten days but failed. Later, they were repulsed by General Li Ling. Our army killed more than 2,000 Qin troops."
"What?"
Liu Che, Zhang Tang, Wei Xiang and others couldn't help but exclaimed. After all, this was the first victory since the beginning of the Qin and Han Dynasties.
Guangping City is only a medium-sized county, and its defense is not too strong. There are only three thousand defenders, but it was unexpected that it could block Sun Lingming's five thousand elite Qin troops.
"Li Ling is indeed a descendant of the Li family. He is truly a good general. I will reward him generously." Liu Che praised with a smile.
What Liu Che and others didn't know was that Li Ling had risked his life to defend Guangping City.
In order to fight against Sun Lingming alone, Li Ling mobilized more than a thousand strong crossbowmen and all the crossbows and catapults in the city to focus on Sun Lingming alone.
Sun Lingming was indeed very powerful and had even mastered the indestructible magic skill, but he could not withstand the continuous attacks of crossbows and catapults.
In this way, Li Ling used the concentrated fire tactics of bed crossbows and catapults to prevent Sun Lingming from ascending the city and successfully defended the city.
Sun Lingming was accustomed to relying on his personal bravery and always took the lead in every battle. As soon as he climbed onto the tower, it would only be a matter of time before the city fell.
The problem now is that Sun Lingming cannot climb the tower and engage the Han army in close combat. No matter how strong his own strength is, it is useless.
In desperation, Sun Lingming could only personally command the army to attack the city, but his commanding ability was not very strong. Compared with a commanding general like Li Ling, the gap was even more obvious.
Sun Lingming attacked the city for three consecutive days but failed to successfully climb the city tower, so he personally commanded the army to attack the city, but he did not want to be defeated by Li Ling, no matter what siege tactics he used.
Sun Lingming was transferred to the fourth line to help Su Dingfang. Now Su Dingfang was winning consecutive battles, but he was hindered by a young general. This naturally made him anxious.
At this time, Sun Lingming's weakness of high force but low command was naturally exposed.
In fact, Sun Lingming's 80 points in command is not low, but facing Li Ling who started at 90, Sun Lingming, who has 80 points in command, is naturally no match.
Li Ling noticed Sun Lingming's impatience, and on a dark and stormy night, he personally led a thousand infantrymen and five hundred cavalry to attack the Qin army's camp at night.
Without Sun Lingming noticing, Li Ling successfully attacked at night and lost more than 800 soldiers.
At the critical moment, Sun Lingming woke up in time and relied on his own power to repel Li Ling's troops, otherwise the Qin army's casualties would only be greater.
After repelling Li Ling's troops, Sun Lingming wanted to pursue him personally until he killed Li Ling, but it was too dark to tell who was who. In addition, he was worried that Li Ling had an ambush, so Sun Lingming gave up the pursuit.
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After a major defeat, the morale of the Qin army declined. Sun Lingming was worried that Li Ling would attack again, so he retreated ten miles, preparing to attack the city after stabilizing the morale of the army and making sufficient preparations.
In this way, the world-famous fierce general Sun Lingming used 5,000 elite Qin troops to attack a small city with 3,000 defenders. In the end, not only did he fail to capture the city, but he lost 2,000 soldiers and lost to an unknown soldier like Li Ling.
Li Ling defeated Sun Lingming's attack and killed more than 2,000 Qin troops. This was the first victory since the beginning of the Qin-Han war.
You must know that even Wei Qing had never killed two thousand Qin soldiers during his fight with Huo Qubing. Li Ling's battle was already the best record of the Han army so far.
After winning such a great victory, Liu Che certainly had to publicize it to boost his own morale, but he also knew that two thousand casualties were nothing to the 200,000 Qin troops. The situation facing the Northern Han Dynasty remained the same.
Extremely difficult.
"Send the order and make Li Ling the General of Zhennan and the Marquis of Changting of Han Dynasty." Liu Che ordered with a smile.
"promise."
At the same time that Liu Che was rewarding Li Ling, Su Dingfang, who was confronting Li Guangtianyu, also received news that Sun Lingming was defeated and retreated.
After learning that Sun Lingming was defeated, Su Dingfang not only was not angry, but he felt relieved and said to himself: Now Sun Lingming should have a better memory.
After killing Yuan Hong, Sun Lingming gradually became arrogant and arrogant, becoming arrogant and arrogant.
In addition to the words of Qin Hao and Emperor Ming, even Bai Qi was not taken seriously by Sun Lin. He even threatened to challenge Li Cunxiao. It can be said that he has never changed.
Therefore, when the lord asked Sun Lingming to assist, Su Dingfang was not only not half happy, but also felt a little nervous in his heart, worried that this unruly god would not listen to his orders.
Sure enough, as Su Dingfang expected, after Sun Lingming came to the Fourth Route Army, he didn't take Su Dingfang seriously at all. He directly approached Su Dingfang and asked for military power, and threatened to capture Li Guang alive with only 5,000 soldiers and horses.
In this regard, Su Dingfang was not angry at all. In his opinion, this was a sign that Sun Lingming was too young and had not tempered enough. After experiencing several blows like Lu Bu's, he would naturally understand that there are people outside the world.
After several attempts to dissuade Su Dingfang failed, he appointed Sun Lingming as the vanguard and led an army of five thousand to clear the way for the main force.
Su Dingfang originally thought that with five thousand elites, plus Sun Lingming, a fierce general, he could at least capture the two cities of Yuyang. When the troops were almost exhausted, Sun Lingming would naturally bow to him for help, but he never expected that Sun Lingming would be in the first place.
There was a hitch in front of the city.
"Who is this Li Ling? He defeated General Sun Lingming with only three thousand defenders." Su Dingfang asked with a frown.