Chapter 737: Bai Qi fights Jingzhou

Jingzhou has a total of seven counties, three counties in Jingbei, namely: Nanyang, Nanjun and Jiangxia; The four counties of Jingnan are: Changsha, Wuling, Lingling and Guiyang.

Most of the essence of Jingzhou is concentrated in Jingbei, and the two counties of Nanyang and Nanjun occupy eighty percent of the essence of Jingbei, and the remaining five counties together can only be comparable to one of the two.

Originally, Nanyang's comprehensive strength was only slightly better than Nanjun, but after Qin Hao's vigorous efforts in the past few years, Nanyang has completely surpassed Nanjun in terms of population and economy.

Today's Nanjun is more than Nanyang in terms of remaining territory, but you must know that Nanjun has only 17 counties, while Nanyang has 36 counties, which shows that although the total population of Nanjun is not as good as Nanyang, the average population of the county is even higher than Nanyang.

The total population of Nanjun is nearly 2 million, and the smallest of the 17 counties under its jurisdiction is 670,000, and the population of large cities such as Gangneung and Xiangyang is more than 200,000.

After Qin Hao captured Xiangyang, he ordered Bai Qi to continue the attack, and after Bai Qi got the help of Wen Ping, the army was even more bloodless.

In just half a month, Bai Qi captured nearly half of the land of Nanjun, and so far Qin Hao has added seven new counties under his jurisdiction, and the population has also expanded by more than 800,000.

Later, because of the obstruction of the Jingzhou family, Bai Qi was temporarily blocked under Jiangling City.

In addition, Huang Zu and other five princes of Jingzhou also sent troops to grab territory.

After weighing the pros and cons, Bai Qi decided not to care about the gains and losses of one city and one place, but to stop the strategy and stick to the newly occupied land, and wait for the five princes to fight due to interest disputes.

It stands to reason that the five princes will definitely fight because of the uneven distribution of spoils, and from this point of view, Bai Qi's decision is not wrong, but he miscalculated, so Liu Biao and Liu Xiu brothers also waded into this troubled water.

Soon after the five princes sent troops, the Jingzhou family introduced Liu Biao into Jingzhou, and with Liu Xiu leading 30,000 Jingliang coalition troops into Jiangling, most of the remaining ten counties in Jiangling also belonged to Liu Biao.

After Liu Biao and Liu Xiu entered Jiangling, the division of labor was very clear.

Liu Biao relied on marrying the daughter of the Cai family to obtain the full support of the Jingzhou family, and stabilized the interior of Nanjun in the shortest time.

As for Liu Xiu, he raised his fists outside and was responsible for holding on to his territory and resisting the five major princes who invaded from outside.

In just one month, Liu Xiu fought with the five princes more than ten times, winning every battle.

Huang Zu and the other five princes also realized that the Xinzhou Mu was not easy to mess with, and they all had the idea of accepting it when they saw it.

But at this moment, Liu Xiu sent Kuai Liang Kuai Yue as an envoy to lobby the five princes, saying that Qin Hao was the biggest threat to Jingzhou, and everyone should work together to drive Qin Hao back to Nanyang.

Under the persuasion of Liu Xiu's envoy, the five princes finally reflected, the strongest prince in Jingzhou was Qin Hao, and this time he seized nearly half of the southern county, if they could not be expelled, they would be annexed by Qin Hao sooner or later.

Eventually, Liu Xiu reconciled with the five princes, and the six parties formed an alliance.

Among the six princes, Liu Biao sent 30,000 troops, Huang Zu sent 20,000 troops, Han Xuan and Zhao each sent 15,000 troops, and Liu Du and Jin Xuan each sent 10,000 troops.

The coalition army totaled 100,000 troops, and the external propaganda said that the army was 200,000, and under the leadership of Liu Xiu, they slaughtered Xiangyang in a mighty way, preparing to completely drive Qin Hao's forces back to Nanyang.

In the more than a month from Liu Xiu's war with the five princes to the formation of the coalition army, Bai Qi neither sent troops to attack or send envoys to destroy his alliance, but just allowed his alliance to be successfully formed.

Bai Qi's abnormal behavior of inaction made all the generals of the Qin army anxious, but Bai Qi still did not react at all, as if all this had nothing to do with him.

"General Bai, you should say something, the coalition army is going to kill you." Wen Ping said anxiously.

Wen Ping had only joined the Qin army for a short time, so he didn't know Bai Qi, if he didn't know that Bai Qi was the henchman of the lord, Wen Ping even thought that Bai Qi had secretly taken refuge in Liu Xiu.

Seeing Wen Ping taking the lead, the rest of the generals also persuaded one after another, but Bai Qi took a sip of tea unhurriedly and said lightly: "Don't worry, don't worry." ”

"Not in a hurry? Do you have to wait until the soldiers come to the city, Lao Bai, before you start to dispatch troops? ”

Li Cunxiao is also an anxious child, seeing that Bai Qi still doesn't care, he immediately said loudly: "Lao Bai, this is not your style of using soldiers, if you have any calculations, just tell everyone, there are no outsiders here." ”

Bai raised his eyebrows, looked at Li Cunxiao, and said lightly: "General Li Cunxiao, whatever you call me in private, but in the army, you have to call me a general." ”

Li Cunxiao was immediately angry when he heard this, but who let the official level crush people to death, so he could only say in discouragement: "Yes, general." ”

Seeing this, Bai Qi also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.

Li Cunxiao is the first fierce general of the Qin army, but he is deeply loved by the lord Qin Hao, coupled with his righteousness and boldness, and his connections among the generals are also very good.

Bai Qi was actually afraid that Li Cunxiao would fight against him, so he would really not be able to get off the stage, but fortunately, Li Cunxiao knew the difference between generals and commanders, and he was not really spoiled.

Originally, Bai Qi was preparing to disclose the reason for his inaction before the war, but because Li Cunxiao's reaction was very satisfactory to him, Bai Qi decided to tell the generals part of it in advance.

"Ben will know that the inaction during this period of time makes everyone very anxious, but you must know that sometimes inaction is also an action."

Is inaction also an act?

Although the generals couldn't understand the meaning of Bai Qi's words, looking at the situation, Bai Qi obviously did it on purpose, not as arrogant and reckless as they thought, and they were finally relieved.

"Old ...... General, you said it earlier, look at it scares everyone. Li Cunxiao complained.

Bai Qi glanced at Li Cunxiao and said lightly: "Our army, whether it is the source of troops, equipment, or training, is far above the armies in Jingzhou. But if the opponent comes to attack, the situation is completely different. ”

Qin Hao also sent Jiulongwei to Bai Qi this time, and Zhou Yu, who was standing at the end, suddenly lit up when he heard it, and said excitedly: "The reason why the general didn't do anything was to let the other party take the initiative to concentrate his forces, and our army would be annihilated in a battle?" ”

Bai Qi glanced at Wen Ping in surprise, this newcomer had guessed his intentions so quickly, he was a good seedling.

Huang Zhong frowned after hearing this, and said in a deep voice: "General, you have ordered the division of troops to garrison the counties in advance, and the strength of our army is less than 30,000, do you think you want to recall the scattered troops before the decisive battle?" ”