Chapter 982: Liu Xiu's expedition to Jingnan

Just as Liu Bei led the army to return to the plains and Zhuge Liang and others went to Taihang, Qin Hao also launched an offensive against Henan Yin.

Henan Yin has a total of 21 counties, namely: Luoyang, Kaifeng, Xinzheng, Chenggao, Xingyang, Pingxian, Pingyin, Gucheng, Henan, Xincheng, Liangxian, Yanshi, Wushi, Gongxian, Juan County, Yuanwu, Yangwu, Zhongmu, Yuanling, Mixian, Jingxian.

As the center of Sizhou, the center of the world, Henan Yin has many famous cities, such as Chenggao and Xingyang are famous fortified cities, Xinzheng is the capital of Korea during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and Kaifeng is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty.

If Luoyang is added, Henan Yinnei has a total of three major capitals, and absolutely other counties can have such a background.

At present, Qin Hao has only occupied Luoyang in Yin, Henan, and although the twenty counties that have not yet been occupied are large, with the defeat and retreat of the Liang army, I am afraid that now I am afraid that even 5,000 county soldiers will not be able to muster together, how can they resist Qin Hao's 40,000 elite army?

Whether it is the strength of the troops or the lineup of generals, the Qin army is almost crushing, and ten days is completely more than enough.

In fact, there were no accidents, and when the county commanders of these twenty counties saw that the Qin army was coming, and the leaders were still led by famous generals such as Bai Qi, most of them directly opened the city and surrendered.

The four-way army was like a bamboo, all the way to the city, almost did not encounter much fierce resistance, as long as a small number of die-hard elements stubbornly resisted, but because the strength was too weak, the Qin army easily broke through the city.

Qin Hao's time set was ten days, but Bai Qi and the others only took eight days to capture all the twenty counties.

And in these eight days, something big happened, and the initiator was Liu Xiu, who was also a prince who withdrew from the alliance relatively late.

Liu Xiu's threat is no less than Li Shimin's, and Qin Hao will never let him leave safely, so he has set up a net for Liu Xiu in advance.

Although Qin Hao had promised Xun Kan before that he would never send a killer to assassinate Liu Xiu, the use of the army could not be regarded as an assassination, right?

In order to prevent Liu Xiu from returning to Nanjun alive, Qin Hao just got the news of Liu Xiu's departure, so he immediately ordered Yue Fei and ordered him to secretly set up an ambush to ambush Liu Xiu on the way back to Liu Xiu.

But to Qin Hao's surprise, Liu Xiu did not return all the way to Nanyang, but took a detour to Runan, Lujiang, and Jiangxia, and returned to Jiangling after a big circle.

It is also Qin Hao's credit that Liu Xiu will be so cautious, after the Tiger Prison Rain War, Liu Xiu was really afraid of Qin Hao's calculations, and he was extremely cautious in doing anything after that, and his prudence saved himself more than once, and finally made Qin Hao's arrangements useless.

Although Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he knew that Qin Hao would not let him go like this, so his power must develop and grow, and Jingnan, which had been in chaos, was the best target, so he began to prepare to go south to pacify the four counties of Jingnan.

At the beginning, Liu Xiu united the five princes of Jingzhou to crusade against Qin Hao, but he was defeated in the first battle of Bai Qi, and almost all the entire army was wiped out, and even the four princes, including Liu Biao, were killed in battle.

After Qin Hao signed the unequal treaty, although Huang Zu and Han Xuan were released as princes, the remaining three counties of Jingnan fell into civil strife.

It has been almost a year since the original war, and the chaos in Jingnan has also changed greatly.

Han Xuan, the Taishou of Changsha, saw that the three counties were in civil strife, so he united with Huang Zu to prepare to send troops to occupy the three counties, but was repelled by the alliance of the local forces of the three counties, and finally occupied the territory of several counties.

Soon after the local forces of the three counties jointly repelled Han Xuan, they fell into infighting again, and finally the first family of Jingzhou, the Zhang family, advocated envy, defeated all aspects of the forces, and won the final victory.

Zhang Xian took advantage of the situation to occupy nearly half of the three counties of Lingling, Guiyang, and Wuling, thus leaping into the fifth prince of Jingzhou except Qin Hao, Liu Xiu, Huang Zu, and Han Xuan, but because he had been fighting, his strength was the weakest of the Jingzhou princes.

After Liu Xiu returned to Jiangling, he aimed at Zhang Xian for the first time, and this was also the best time for him to annex Zhang Xian's strength, otherwise after Zhang Xian eased up, it would not be so easy to occupy the land of Jingnan.

Although Liu Xiu wanted to occupy Jingnan, he would not lose his mind, he still had a big concern in his heart, that is, Yue Fei of Xiangyang and the 60,000 Qin army, after all, Qin Hao would never let him occupy Jingnan.

Liu Xiu was afraid that as soon as he left Nanjun on the front foot, Yue Fei would lead the army to attack Jiangling City on the back foot, and if Zhang Xian could not be eliminated this time, it would be even more difficult to occupy Jingnan in the future, so Liu Xiu was not cautious in sending troops this time.

Liu Xiu hesitated again and again and couldn't make up his mind, and it wasn't until he learned that Qin Hao had transferred 10,000 troops from Xiangyang that he really strengthened his heart to conquer Jingnan.

Qin Hao had to fight in order to occupy Sizhou, not to mention him Liu Xiu?

In order to ensure that Zhunan County was not lost, Liu Xiu decided to lead a small number of elites to the south, leaving most of the troops to guard against Xiangyang Yue Fei.

Liu Xiu's subordinates were shocked when they learned about it, and they all stood up to dissuade Liu Xiu from increasing his troops, but Liu Xiu laughed when he saw this, and said: "Zhang Xian is just a clown who jumps off the beam, and it is enough to deal with him with an army of 10,000, so you should be ready to celebrate the general's achievements." ”

Zhang Xian's army can't go down to 30,000, is Liu Xiu really confident in annexing Zhang Xian? I'm afraid it's not, but if he doesn't even have faith in himself, how can he give confidence to his command?

In this way, although Liu Xiu knew that the road ahead was full of thorns, he still led the 10,000 army south, like a dragon crossing the river into the chaos of Jingnan.

Qin Hao, who was far away in Luoyang, after hearing the news of Liu Xiu's southward journey, his first reaction was to order Yue Fei to lead the army to capture Nanjun, and never give Liu Xiu any chance to grow.

However, the current situation of the Qin army is not as good as Qin Hao imagined, most of the grain and grass in the Nanyang grain depot have been consumed, and the rest is only enough to support the 100,000 Qin army for half a year.

Due to the promotion of new grain varieties in Bingzhou, the grain storage in the grain depot is very abundant, but because there are still four counties in the south between it and Sizhou, the grain and grass cannot be transported to Luoyang at all.

Next, Qin Hao will have to compete with Dong Zhuo for Sizhou, if he can't get it within five months, the Qin army will face the risk of running out of food in Sizhou, and naturally there will be no surplus food to divide the troops to contain Liu Xiu.

"Liu Xiu is really lucky to be shitty and lucky to pick such a good time."

Qin Hao sighed helplessly, although he was also a little depressed in his heart, he still decided to give up sending troops to Jiangling for the time being.

A few days later, Nanyang's 50,000 troops arrived in Luoyang, and the offices of the Marquis of Qin's Mansion had also been relocated to Luoyang and began to officially settle down and work in Luoyang.

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