Chapter 360: Attack and Defense Change

"The water... the water is too cold..."

Qian Qianyi struggled desperately after falling into the Han River.

The Han River in midsummer was still too cold for him.

It was a pity that no one wanted to save him.

Although Qian Qianyi's strategy achieved certain results, he underestimated the reaction speed of Dayu's shark troops and navy.

Jiang Qin, who was tricked, personally led his troops to pursue the fleeing Qin army with an attitude of eradicating all evil.

The smart war agent forces saw that the situation was not good and took advantage of the night to try their luck. The war agents who still hoped on the ship were eventually caught up and strangled by Jiang Qin's troops and shark troops.

In this battle, only one out of a hundred people belonging to the war agent forces survived.

The sharks who killed the most in this battle basically felt that their foundation had improved to a certain extent.

Just like Jingshan, a space soldier, killed Dong Zhuo, Tong Guan and others, and finally successfully broke through the boundary, the space soldiers such as the sharks have broken through the boundary after the inhumane transformation of Fa Zheng and others and the gift of Hou Xin; after coming to this world, they have rushed to the front line in almost every naval battle, and now after killing many war agents or generals belonging to war agents, their qualifications have finally made a qualitative leap again.

This leap is not an immediate breakthrough, but after this battle, they finally broke through the constraints of space soldiers or Dian Wei’s guards and became a new race that perfectly integrated their own abilities, and it is the kind of elite race where everyone is at least a small general.

Before this, because they were just transformed space soldiers, they couldn’t even reproduce, but now they can reproduce normally.

Compared with the initial appearance, the difference is no less than the difference between Hoshigaki Kisame and the shark summoned by Hoshigaki Kisame.

The sudden betrayal of the war agent’s troops and the seizure of all the ships to escape was no less than a bolt from the blue for the Qin army in Dengcheng.

Although Dengcheng had enough food and grass to feed the defenders for half a year because it was the core of defense and the frontier base of the southern expedition, after a series of events such as Wang He's defeat and the defection of the war agent, these food and grass were enough for the defenders to eat for more than a year, but the problem was that the morale of the Qin army was not enough to last that long.

The exhausted Wang Yue could only rely on prestige and torture to maintain the morale of the army, but he was pessimistic about whether Dengcheng could be defended.

In sharp contrast to the Qin army, the morale of the Dayu army was high.

In this battle, although Yue Fei, Zhao Yun, and Zhang He suffered heavy losses, they achieved greater results.

The Dayu army successfully completed its strategic goals, leaving only Dengcheng, which was trapped in a jar.

At this time, what Zhuge Liang and others hoped most was that the Qin army's support troops would come quickly so that they could surround and attack the reinforcements.

However, after Bai Jie led the army to Nanyang, he hesitated and had no intention of going south to support. Instead, he cooperated with Nei Shiteng to defeat part of Le Jin's army, forcing Le Jin's army, which was divided into multiple routes to attack cities and conquer territories, and Taishi Ci's army, which was plundering everywhere, to join forces.

It turned out that after the incident in Fancheng, Nei Shiteng and Bai Jie realized that Dengcheng could not be rescued.

Because if the army rescued Dengcheng, the troops in Nanyang would probably be a little empty. Of course, the most important thing was the grain road.

If Bai Jie's main force went south to support, Nei Shiteng could not guarantee the grain road for Bai Jie's army.

There were too many cavalrymen in Han. Without caring about the lives of the cavalrymen, they had messed up Nanyang County in the past few years. In addition, due to the problem of this year's harvest, Nanyang did not have much grain at all. This meant that Qin needed to maintain a grain road from Guanzhong to Nanyang and then to Dengcheng. Maintaining such a long grain road was also a problem.

Nei Shiteng had realized that Qin had made a fatal strategic mistake.

Meng Ao should not have attacked Wei first, but should have tried his best to destroy Han first.

Meng Ao's attack on Wei triggered Xinling Jun's return to Wei, and Meng Ao was defeated by the coalition of five countries under the command of Xinling Jun. Since then, the focus of Qin's eastward expansion has always been Wei, which gave Han a chance to recuperate.

After that, Qin was successively held back by Zhao and Dayu, and did not destroy Han again. Recently, Meng Ao seized the opportunity to unite with Qi to destroy Wei. Although it seemed that a country was destroyed, in fact, because Han was in the way, the area from Qin's Guanzhong to the border with Qi became a long and narrow strip, which could be cut off by Zhao and Han at any time.

That is, Qin has vigorously developed the Yellow River Navy in recent years, relying on the Navy to ensure the connection between this area and to mobilize troops, otherwise the situation in this area is really dangerous.

[Damn Han! ]

Nei Shi Teng was incompetent and furious.

Now anyone with a discerning eye can see that Han has been deeply bound to Dayu, and the troops of Taishi Ci and Le Jin are actually Dayu's troops. But at this time, what can we do if we know it?

The lack of intelligence made Daqin miss the best opportunity at the beginning, while Dayu made good use of its strengths and won a series of victories.

What Neishiteng wanted to do most now was to keep Nanyang.

By keeping Nanyang, he could attack Yu State in the south or Han State in the east.

What Neishiteng wanted more was to wait for Daqin to recover and have sufficient food and grass, and then destroy Han State at all costs and completely occupy the land of Han and Wei.

But his strategy was different from that of the Daqin Central Committee, which wanted to destroy Zhao State first.

Neishiteng had no way to deal with this.

Bai Jie's idea is similar to Nei Shi Teng's.

Bai Jie is now absolutely against Zhao Ji's people. Of course, he is still far from returning home, but he is very obedient.

The secret order given to him by Zhao Ji is also to be safe and secure. If necessary, he can give up Nanyang. Bai Jie naturally knows what to do.

In fact, both Nei Shi Teng and Bai Jie are very clear that they actually have a chance to rescue, that is, to pretend to rescue, lead the Yu army in the direction of South Korea to attack, and then attack from the front and back to eat up this Yu army.

But this is too risky. If one fails, they will be eaten by the Yu army.

In short, both of them chose to be safe.

Seeing that the enemy chose to be safe, Zhuge Liang ordered Yue Fei's troops to go to Fancheng for rest and prepare to continue the Northern Expedition; ordered other generals to attack other cities in Nanjun, and General Zhao Yun led 100,000 troops to enter Fangling and threaten Shangyong; Zhang He's troops, with the cooperation of the navy, went upstream along the Han River and made a gesture to attack Xunguan.

Xunguan was established by the Qin State to defend against the Chu State's attack on Hanzhong along the Han River. It controlled the Han and Xun waterways and played an important role in defending the Hanzhong area and even Xianyang.

If you go up along the Xun River and take the erosion, you can reach the Qin capital Xianyang.

The erosion is the famous Ziwu Road in later generations.

Of course, Zhang He's troops were actually mainly feinting in order to mobilize the army in Hanzhong, so that the Hanzhong army could not rescue Shangyong and Fangling, and to further force the Hanzhong Qin army to take the initiative to retreat from Bazhong and other places.

It is not a good thing to always let the Qin army block Jiange and Bazhong.

Strategy has always been a matter of one hair moving the whole body.

Zhuge Liang used his troops cautiously. Without taking Dengcheng, seizing other cities in Nanjun, and cutting off the possibility of the Qin army going out of Hanzhong, he would not easily send troops to continue the Northern Expedition. Although this may have missed certain opportunities, it is stable enough.

However, the stability of Zhuge Liang in this time and space is completely different from the stability of Zhuge Liang in history.

The Shu Han in history could not withstand a big defeat, so it could only be stable, so "Zhuge Liang was cautious all his life"; but in this time and space, after such a long period of development, Dayu's national strength has actually surpassed Qin. The formation of many famous generals has made Dayu not inferior to or even surpass Qin in the number of elite troops. Just like this Northern Expedition, Dayu actually has a clear advantage in all aspects. In this case, why take risks?

I just need to push forward smoothly, taking risks will be inferior!

Zhuge Liang's use of troops in this time and space is somewhat like Wang Jian's use of troops in history, as stable as an old dog, and the national strength is pushed forward smoothly.

I will push forward smoothly, if you have the ability, fight me hard! If you have the ability, fight with me!

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On the contrary, Wang Jian in this time and space was forced to take risks as soon as he debuted. The stable old dog in history has become a cunning and tricky fox in this time and space.

There is no constant situation for soldiers, and there is no constant shape for water.

The same is true for famous generals.

The feint attack by Zhang He and Jiang Qin successfully tied down a large number of Hanzhong's troops, which made Hanzhong unable to rescue Shangyong. After Zhao Yun captured Fangling, he quickly swept the surrounding cities and surrounded Shangyong.

When Zhuge Liang launched the Northern Expedition, Bashu was not idle.

Gao Shun's army, which had been resting, sent out troops again to attack Bazhong and Qin's Jiameng Pass.

Although Gao Shun could not really launch a strong attack due to the terrain, he still put great pressure on the Qin army in Bazhong, Jiameng Pass and other places.

The biggest problem of the Qin army in Hanzhong was actually the problem of food and grass.

Hanzhong has always been an important granary for the Qin army in the direction of Bashu since Mengwu went to war to the final decisive battle of Bashu. The damage of overdrawn people's strength, and the surprise attack by Wang Ping before, has not yet recovered. Now it has to maintain the food and grass of a large number of troops on the two lines of defense from Nanzheng to Bazhong and Nanzheng to Jiange, and the garrison of the mountain fortress, which has reached the limit.

If it weren't for Qiang Wei's crazy attack on foreign races in the past two years to seize food and livestock, the two lines of defense of the Qin army would have collapsed long ago.

Now Xunguan is attacked by Dayu, Qiang Wei can only focus on the defense of Xunguan. Once Xunguan is lost, Dayu may have the possibility of entering Xianyang. Although it is almost equivalent to seeking death to enter Xianyang through the erosion, the political impact is disastrous, and Qiang Wei cannot help but pay attention to it.

Qiang Wei even ignored Shangyong and went to Xunguan in person.

Under such circumstances, the defenders of Bazhong and Jiange could only hope for the best.

Changping Jun, who defended Jiange to atone for his sins, realized that the situation was not good from the decreasing amount of military rations transported; Wang Heng, who guarded Bazhong, also realized that the problem was serious.

In fact, both Changping Jun's troops and Wang Heng's troops still had almost half a year's worth of military rations, and the mountain fortresses behind Wang Heng also had almost half a year's worth of food reserves, but the accounts were not calculated that way.

If there was no new supply of food and grass for at most three months, the army would be in chaos.

Soon after, Wang Heng received an order from Qiang Wei that his entire army should carry all military rations and weapons and withdraw from Bazhong and Daxing Road, leaving only a few castles on the northernmost side of Daxing Road, and his troops should immediately support Shangyong.

This order not only meant that Wang Jian's greatest achievement since entering Shu was no longer there, but more importantly, it made Wang Heng realize the danger of the situation.

For fear of alerting the Dayu army, Wang Heng did not even dare to destroy the city. He even did not notify the defenders of several outposts on the periphery and evacuated the main force of Bazhong City overnight.

The Qin army guarding the outer strongholds realized that something was wrong on the third day. Looking at the empty Bazhong City, they were so angry that they could only surrender to the Dayu army.

Wang Ping's troops knew that the situation had changed and began to pursue cautiously, but found that the Qin army had really retreated. All the plank roads along the way were destroyed, and those without were also damaged to a certain extent. Traps were also set in some areas.

Wang Ping's troops did not catch up with Wang Heng's troops in the end, and were blocked at the north exit of the Daxing Road by the fortifications set up by Wang Jian before, but Wang Ping was very happy because he knew that the Qin army was really in trouble.

When Dong Huang came out of the underground tunnel and came to Korea, Dayu had already fully switched to a strategic offensive against Daqin.

Dayu met with the generals of the Three Wus stationed in Korea, and met with Lian Po, Jiang Wei, Zhong Hui, Deng Ai, Luo Xian, Du Yu, Huo Yi, Xiahou Ba and others, and approved the plan proposed by Lian Po and others to destroy Yan and Donghu.

Afterwards, Dong Huang went to Yingzhou, which was loyal to him, for a tour.

He visited the wives and daughters of the "Sixth Heavenly Demon King" and others, and then returned to Haojing.

The first thing after returning to Haojing was to confer the title of God.

Dong Huang was naturally Dong Huang Taiyi, Dongjun was Yanfei, Xingzhu was Zhuge Liang, Yunzhongjun was Zhang Qiying, Hunzhu was Jia Xu, Hebo was Zhou Tai, and Xiangjun was Dong Huang's vest. The other gods were not conferred because there were no suitable people.

Those people in the Yin-Yang family did not have enough achievements and their abilities were somewhat lacking, so they were not suitable for suddenly ascending to high positions.

Other civil and military officials were conferred the title of the Moon God, and I always felt that something was wrong.

After all the miscellaneous matters were handled, the three years of Qin Wangzheng were coming to an end.

In the last few months of Qin Wangzheng's three years, there were no more fierce battles between Dayu and Daqin.

The only fierce battle was in the direction of Shangyong, where Zhao Yun's troops fought fiercely with Wang Heng's troops. Wang Heng's troops, who were demoralized, were defeated and could only let Zhao Yun's troops surround Shangyong.

By the end of the third year of Qin Wangzheng, Shangyong City surrendered.

In terms of overall grand strategy, Dayu adopted the strategy of Bai Qi in the Battle of Changping, which was to fight for consumption.

This made Qin very uncomfortable.

If it weren't for the killing of more than 2,000 war agents, the autumn harvest in Guanzhong would be good, and Qin would really not be able to hold on.

What Qin wanted was to hold on until next year.

However, the fourth year of Qin Wangzheng was a big pit for Qin.

At the beginning of the year, Dengcheng, which had no hope of seeking help and had run out of food and soldiers, mutinied, and the defending general Wang Yue was killed, and Dengcheng surrendered.

So far, all of Nanjun was incorporated into Dayu's territory.

In April, Qin suffered a severe drought.

After a severe drought, there must be a large locust.

In July, Qin, which was full of starving people, suffered a plague.

Qin had no choice but to sell official positions and buy grain from the only country that could speak for it, Qi.

The lack of food made Qin's military counterattack plan come to nothing again.

The drought and locust plague this time actually had a significant impact on other countries, and even affected the grasslands for a time; and the outbreak of a major epidemic in Qin also forced Dayu to close its borders for fear of being infected with the plague.

The main task of Dayu's cavalry in Nanyang, Han and other places has also become to prevent Qin people from crossing the border illegally. Anyone who crosses the border will be killed without mercy regardless of the reason.

Dayu knew that sending grain to Qin at this time would only make Qin's military-first policy send it to the army, or it would be sold at a high price in the hands of the powerful, and it would hardly reach the hands of the people.

Dayu's greatest kindness was to sign a ceasefire agreement with Qin, and both sides stopped fighting, and allowed Qin to buy grain and grass from Qi.

Fortunately, half of the Qin population in Nanyang and other places had been looted by Dayu, so Dayu could be considered to have saved people.

However, although Dong Huang was a bit soft-hearted, he was also a king who should be domineering.

Although Dayu did not fight with Qin, it was free to deal with Qi.

When Qin was tied up and could not take care of itself, Qi would not have any reinforcements.

The reason for attacking Qi was also justified: Qi betrayed its loyalty and supported Qin.

Qi was actually still fighting with Zhao.

Qi did not want to give up the land of Hebei. After defeating Pang Nuan, Qi thought it was time to cross the river and conquer the land of Hebei occupied by Zhao.

Qi still had a lot of troops in this land. Before, the main force of Zhao was busy rescuing Handan and did not take care of it. It was not until Meng Ao and Wang Jian withdrew their troops that the King of Zhao remembered this matter.

But the King of Zhao did not dare to let Li Mu leave at that time, so he sent General Qing She to go, but the result was not satisfactory.

The King of Zhao finally sent Li Mu over, but even Li Mu needed time to fight a siege. For example, Nanpi, a strong city heavily guarded by the Qi army, Li Mu had no good solution.

He could only let the space soldiers who were war agents as cannon fodder to fill the gap.

As a result, Tian Sheng, the general of Qi who had won a great victory over Pang Nuan and occupied the plain, crossed the river with his army at this time.

Li Mu keenly realized that this was a good opportunity to capture Nanpi.

He used the strategy of luring the enemy deep into the depths, commanding the troops to lose battle after battle, allowing Tian Sheng to drive to the vicinity of Nanpi, and then launching an ambush and winning in one battle.

Tian Sheng died in the battle, and the Nanpi defenders who lost hope surrendered.

At this point, Zhao, which had suffered heavy losses in recent years, actually occupied the entire Hebei Province and most of Youyan, and its territory was even wider than when it was victorious.

However, Zhao, whose energy was tied up by Qi and Qin, did not notice that Yan was completely destroyed by a group of people under the banner of Korea. This group of people not only destroyed Yan, but also defeated the Hu people such as Linhu and Donghu, and coveted the Youyan land of Zhao.

At this time, the focus of the Zhao court was whether to move the capital.

After so many things, the king of Zhao really didn't want to stay in Handan, a broken place, and he wanted to move the capital to Jicheng.

Of course, the face-loving king of Zhao did not want to give up Handan, but said that he would set Jicheng as a secondary capital and then inspect the secondary capital.

It was normal for a country in this era to have multiple capitals. Chu was addicted to moving its capital, and Qi also had five capitals.

The king of Zhao's relocation of the capital even received the support of Song Ji.

Although Li Mu wrote a letter to explain the pros and cons, he could not change the situation in the court after all as he led troops outside.

So, the king of Zhao happily took the harem and dignitaries to Jicheng.

Because of Li Mu's efforts, Qi is now at its most depleted.

If you don't take what God has bestowed upon you, you will suffer the consequences.

The long-prepared Dayu attacked Qi from three directions, officially kicking off the process of destroying Qi.

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