Chapter 2526: Qin and Shu stop fighting, Wu and Chu confront each other
After not being able to fight for three rounds, Li Cunxiao was surprised to find that Xing Tian's power was actually a little stronger than him.
Among the opponents he encountered, only Li Yuanba was slightly stronger than Xing Tian in terms of strength.
Of course, when one's strength reaches the level of Li Cunxiao, strength is no longer the decisive factor in battle. Skillful energy, hidden energy, and the use of Qi are more important.
However, in terms of pure strength, Li Yuanba is undoubtedly the number one in the world, even if he has a broken hand, but he is not much stronger than Li Cunxiao, Xingtian and others.
In addition to strength, Li Cunxiao discovered that Xingtian's internal and external skills were also extremely powerful.
Compared to Li Cunxiao, who has not yet recovered, Xing Tian's skill is stronger, but inferior to Yang Jian.
But in the field of external martial arts? Xing Tian is inferior to Li Cunxiao.
After all, let alone Xing Tian, even Xiang Yu, who had already become a great master, was still not as good as Li Cunxiao in terms of external skills.
Li Cunxiao was in an absolutely dominant position in the field of external martial arts, that is, Li Yuanba in the field of strength.
By the tenth round of the battle, Li Cunxiao had roughly figured out the details of Xing Tian.
Xing Tian's strength is not as good as Li Yuanba's, his skill is not as good as Yang Jian's, his physique is not as good as Li Cunxiao's, and he is not at the top in every aspect, but he is better in all aspects, without any shortcomings, and his overall ability is comparable to Li Cunxiao's.
It’s no wonder that the other party was able to squeeze into the fourth seat and beat Li Yuanba and Yang Jian. This ranking was decidedly low for Xing Tian.
Although Li Cunxiao is slightly weaker than Xing Tian in terms of strength and skill, his physique and Qi quality are half as strong as Xing Tian, so his overall combat power is naturally higher than Xing Tian's.
When the battle reached the twentieth round, the balance of victory began to tilt, and Xingtian gradually fell into a disadvantage.
However, because Li Cunxiao was entangled by Xing Tian, the Qin army who ascended the tower was outnumbered. After a difficult resistance, they were finally defeated by the human sea tactics. Most of them were killed on the tower, and a few were forcibly driven off.
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Seeing that most of the soldiers who climbed onto the tower were dead, Li Cunxiao also knew that the siege was a complete failure and there was little point in continuing the attack. After all, it was impossible to break the city.
But if he just retreats like this, all the sacrifices will be in vain, so Li Cunxiao is naturally not willing to just retreat, at least he will wait until Xingtian is seriously injured.
Xingtian was not weak in strength, and he was protected by a large army. Li Cunxiao knew that it was unlikely to kill him, but he was still sure of serious damage in a one-on-one encounter, but he didn't want to think that there was still Liu Er in Yangping Pass.
Liu Er saw that after only twenty rounds, Xing Tian began to fall into a disadvantage. He thought that Li Cunxiao was indeed well-deserved, so he decisively supported him and joined forces with Xingtian to fight against Li Cunxiao.
Liu Er's route is the same as Sun Lingming's. He follows the route of both internal and external cultivation, and the external strength is stronger than the internal strength. His overall strength is not weaker than Kong Peng's, and he has no obvious weaknesses.
Liu Er from Jiwu 107 and Xing Tian from Jiwu 109 join forces, and the chemical effect produced is not as simple as one plus one equals two. The combat power they exert is not as strong as that of Li Yuanba, Wei Hu, and Gao Siji
, Li Chunfeng and the four of them teamed up to make a big difference.
Li Cunxiao tried his best but could not gain much advantage, so he took the initiative to retreat. After all, this was the enemy's home field, and there was no point in continuing to fight.
Seeing that Xingtian and Liu Er joined forces to stop Li Cunxiao, who was number one in the world, Li Siyuan became more confident in guarding Yangping Pass.
After Li Cunxiao suffered a setback in the first battle, he knew that it would be impossible to capture Yangping Pass without defeating Xing Tian and Liu Er.
Although the Qin army was killing all parties in Longxi at this time, it could not completely occupy the three counties of Longxi, so the support Li Cunxiao could get was limited.
Li Cunxiao asked for help from Chang'an and sent spies to gather information, but he learned that Liu Yu's forward army was coming.
At this time, there were only more than 10,000 defenders at Yangping Pass, which was already so difficult to attack. Once the Shu army's forwards arrived, the city would be really hard to break.
At this time, the siege equipment from the rear had also arrived, but Li Cunxiao did not have the idea of attacking again. However, Xingtian in the pass took the initiative to go out of the city to challenge Li Cunxiao. Can Li Cunxiao refuse? It just happened that he could have this opportunity to defeat again.
Xing Tian was punished to dampen the morale of the defenders inside the pass.
In the previous battle at the city tower, Xing Tian was obviously defeated, but why did he challenge Li Cunxiao again?
The reason is also very simple. The battle on the city tower was a foot battle, and Xing Tian was better at riding a battle. One setback could not convince him, so he had this second challenge outside the city.
Li Siyuan strongly disagreed with Xingtian's plan to leave the city. In his opinion, he only needed to hold on and hand over Yangping Pass to Liu Yu, so he naturally did not want to create any complications.
But who is Xingtian? He is the most powerful general of the Shu Han Dynasty. He was not willing to submit to Liu Yu in the first place. If his temper really got worse, he would not even listen to Liu Yu's words, let alone the words of Li Siyuan, the surrendered general.
Liu Yu also loves and hates Xingtian. He loves his bravery and hates that he can't completely return to his heart. However, Xingtian still serves the Shu Han instead of defecting like Chen Ping, Fan Kuai and Cao Shen. Then he still has a chance to completely take over Xingtian.
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Xing Tian directly ignored Li Siyuan and insisted on going out of the city to challenge Li Cunxiao.
Neither Li Siyuan nor Liu Er could stop him, so they could only send Liu Er and other generals with three thousand elites to accompany Xing Tian out of the city to ensure that Xing Tian could come over safely.
The next day, in front of Yangping Pass, Li Cunxiao also led three thousand soldiers to fight.
In front of the two armies, Li Cunxiao and Xing Tian rode out on horseback. After a while of trash-talking each other, the two agreed to fight one on one, and then officially fought.
It has to be said that Xing Tian dared to challenge a second time because he did have his own merits, and his level of riding combat was indeed higher than that of foot combat.
When fighting on foot against Li Cunxiao, Xing Tian only lasted twenty rounds before falling into a disadvantage. However, when fighting on horseback, he was able to fight Li Cunxiao for fifty rounds without deciding the outcome.
After fifty rounds, although Xing Tian began to gradually fall into a disadvantage, he could still remain undefeated. However, if he had no helpers, he would definitely lose if he persisted for a maximum of 150 rounds.
Liu Er saw this and rushed out decisively. Although he had some disagreements with Xingtian, he couldn't bear to see Xingtian being unconvinced by his elder brother. But after all, they both belonged to the Shu Han Dynasty. Naturally, he could do anything and watch Xingtian lose to Li Cunxiao.
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If Xing Tian, the most powerful general of the Shu Han Dynasty, was defeated by Li Cunxiao in public, it would definitely affect the morale of the Shu army. Although it violates the principle of fairness to defeat the few with more, at least it will not affect the morale of the army.
Xing Tian was unhappy with Liu Er's help and became angry. He had made a one-on-one appointment with Li Cunxiao before the war, but Liu Er intervened in the middle, making him seem like he couldn't afford to lose.
Do you believe it?
Xing Tian is not a person who cannot afford to lose, so he is naturally extremely dissatisfied with Liu Er's behavior.
Liu Er was obviously kind-hearted to help, but his efforts were thankless. Xing Tian didn't thank him, even if he didn't thank him, he complained about him, making him a human being, but he didn't regret his decision.
There is a huge difference in national power between Qin and Shu, so sacrificing his reputation to reduce the losses of Shu was a good deal in Liu Er's eyes.
After hearing what Liu Er said, Xing Tian let go of his grudge, and regardless of the one-on-one agreement, he just wanted to defeat Li Cunxiao, but this was obviously not that easy.
Xing Tian was good at foot combat, and Li Cunxiao was equally good at it, and his riding skills were even better than him.
If fighting on foot, Xing Tian and Liu Er can suppress Li Cunxiao together, but if fighting on horseback, they can only draw with him.
Just when the three parties were in a stalemate, another general emerged from the Shu army camp. It was Kong Peng who had been defeated by Gongsun Xuanyuan.
Although Kong Peng had the experience of being attacked by Xuanyuan due to his restraint, his overall strength was still very strong, otherwise Liu Yu would not have taken him so seriously.
Xing Tian, Liu Er, and Kong Peng joined forces, and the fighting power they unleashed far exceeded that of Li Yuanba and Li Yuanba in the Chang'an battle.
Even Li Cunxiao, who is number one in the world, cannot withstand the combined efforts of Xing Tian, Liu Er and Kong Peng.
The four of them fought for only ten rounds, and Li Cunxiao fell into a disadvantage.
If Li Cunxiao regains his full strength, he will naturally be able to defeat the three people's joint efforts, or at least draw with them, but at this time, he has not yet recovered and is indeed no match.
Li Cunxiao knew that he would lose if he continued to fight, so before he was defeated, he directly ordered the army to attack directly.
Three thousand Qin troops and three thousand Shu troops started a melee outside Yangping Pass.
Li Siyuan originally thought that the three thousand elites outside the city could at least hold on until Xing Tian and others defeated Li Cunxiao, but he did not expect that the situation after the fight turned out to be one-sided.
The three thousand Qin troops led by Li Cunxiao were his ace flying tiger army, and ordinary Shu army elites could not stop them.
Seeing that the army outside the city suffered heavy casualties, if they continued to fight, they might even be defeated by the Qin army. Although Li Cunxiao, who was under siege by Xing Tian and his three men, was at a disadvantage, he did not show a defeat.
At this time, there were only two roads facing Li Siyuan:
The first is to increase troops.
However, the number of Qin troops outside the city was far greater than that of the defenders. If he increased his troops, the Qin troops would definitely increase their troops. This would be a war of attrition, which was obviously not what Li Siyuan wanted to see.
The second is to retreat, which is also the way to minimize losses.
Li Siyuan chose the second option and directly called for gold to withdraw his troops. Although Xing Tian and the three people outside the city were unwilling to do so, they could only choose to obey orders. After all, if they stayed outside the city, they would be surrounded by the Qin army.
Generals Xing Tian, Liu Er, and Kong Peng led their troops to fight and retreat, while Li Cunxiao led his troops to pursue them all the way to the city gate, killing two thousand Shu troops with less than two hundred casualties, and then returned to camp victorious.
In the battle at Yangping Pass, although Li Cunxiao was not defeated, his trump card was exposed, making the Shu army realize that he was not invincible.
No one can be invincible forever, and the same goes for Li Cunxiao;
If Xing Tian and Liu Er join forces, they can draw a tie with Li Cunxiao.
But if Xing Tian, Liu Er, and Kong Peng join forces, Li Cunxiao will definitely lose.
After experiencing these two battles, Li Cunxiao no longer showed bravery, but took advantage of Liu Yu's army to calmly attack the city before Liu Yu's army arrived.
Li Cunxiao mobilized 100 catapults, 30 catapults, and 5,000 crossbows of various types. He divided his 50,000-strong army into five groups and began to attack the city day and night.
Li Cunxiao knew that Yangping Pass was easy to defend but difficult to attack, and the losses would be too great if he attacked by force, so he did not attack by force, but planned to rely on the power of ordnance to consume the defenders in the city bit by bit.
Li Cunxiao's calculations were very good, but his own commander-in-chief attributes were not enough.
At that time, Li Cunxiao's commander-in-chief attribute was 95, while Li Siyuan's was 98. The difference in commander-in-chief between the two was a full 3 points. How could his wishful thinking succeed?
Li Cunxiao's company attacked Yangping Pass for ten days, until Liu Yu's army entered the pass and Wu Qi's reinforcements arrived, but they still did not cause serious damage to Li Siyuan.
Ying Hao's first reaction after learning about this was that Li Cunxiao's command was still low.
Li Cunxiao's reactions at Yangpingguan were all correct, but he still did not achieve any results. This was the gap in ability.
If he had Bai Qi as commander, how could Li Siyuan be able to defend Yangping Pass?
"What's going on over there at Yangping Pass now?" Ying Hao asked.
"Your Majesty, five generals, Wu Qi, Wang Jian, Long Qie, Li Maozhen, and Fu Cunshen, each with 10,000 troops, totaling 50,000 troops, have arrived at Yangping Pass one after another.
The total number of Da Qin's troops outside Yangping Pass has now reached one hundred thousand.
Liu Yu also led 80,000 Shu troops to garrison Yangping Pass. Currently, the number of Yangping Pass defenders is as high as 90,000, and the number of troops is still increasing." Jia Xuhui reported.
Ying Hao nodded and said: "In this war between Qin, Shu and Chu, Yangping Pass is no longer the main battlefield. The real focus is on Jingzhou.
An order was sent to Li Cunxiao and Wu Qi, telling them not to attack Yangping Pass by force for the time being, but the army could not withdraw.
From now on, these 100,000 troops will be permanently stationed at Yangping Pass to contain most of Shu's troops in Hanzhong."
"promise."
"By the way, Yang Guangxin has won Haizhou. In the land of Guanxi, there are no longer any constraints. I am afraid that he will take advantage of the war between Qin, Shu and Chu to fish in troubled waters and plot Liangzhou."
At this point, Ying Hao ordered again: "Immediately send an order to Li Jing to be vigilant about Yang Guang and not to allow the Sui army to take advantage of him."
"promise."
Following Ying Hao's order, the Qin and Shu countries in Hanzhong temporarily stopped their troops and made a truce, but the Chu and Wu countries on the other side of Jiangxia were at war.