Chapter 206: Bai Qi attacked Chen Cang

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Cao Tian sat alone in the central army tent. For the first time, he felt that he was unable to do so. Since Zhou Shen was ambushed by the Qin army, the heavy burden of hundreds of thousands of Han troops has been pressing on Cao Tian's shoulders alone, which made him breathless. In recent years, famous generals of the Han Kingdom have withered. The three famous generals of the Han Kingdom swept across the world and were intimidating the world. But now, Fan Yi has been dead for many years, and Zhou Shen is dead, leaving only himself.

Cao Tian is nearly 60 years old. It is about to return home, but at this time, he has shouldered the important task of the entire Han Dynasty. It is really a blessing to make people.

"Kill!" Just as Cao Tian was feeling emotion, there was a shout of killing outside. Cao Tian frowned, got up, picked up his sword, walked outside the tent, but saw fires rising from the front camp.

At this time, Cao Tian's son Cao Sheng ran to Cao Tian and said, "You are the father, the Qin army is coming to attack the camp."

Cao Tian frowned and said, "What's the situation in the front camp?" In fact, Cao Tian had already prepared for the night attack of the Qin army and had already laid a large number of elite troops in the front camp, but the situation seemed to be very bad.

Sure enough, Cao Sheng said: "General Xiahou of the former camp was already fighting to the death, but the Qin army was too large and the offensive was very fierce. General Xiahou could hardly resist it. Before the boy came over, he saw Liu Quan and Zhou Bing and the other two generals had already rushed to support him."

Cao Tian thought for a while and said, "I ordered Zhang Tong and Gu Sanfeng to mobilize their troops to support the front battalion, and be sure to block the Qin army's offensive. Song Que protected the food and grass of the rear army, Guan Zhang, Fan Lu, and Cao Ying protected the central army and supported the front army at any time."

"Here!" Cao Sheng responded and turned around and left.

Just as the Mongolian Zhan commanded the army to attack the Han army camp, Bai Qi, with 50,000 elite Qin army soldiers, and Qin army generals Sheritu, and Ma Sheng quietly left the Qin army camp and entered Wu Yueshan.

Meng Zhan stood outside the Han army camp, looking at the bloody battle between the two armies in the distance, looking indifferently at the sky. Now he had been fighting blood for several hours, and it was about to dawn. At this time, Bai Qi believed that he had led the army to leave the camp and enter Wuyue Mountain, so Meng Zhan ordered the Jin to withdraw his troops.

With the sound of gold, the Qin army, which was originally fighting bloody battles with the Han army, quickly retreated, but the Han army did not pursue the Qin army's star-destroying crossbow because it was afraid of the Qin army's star-destroying crossbow.

After Meng Zhan returned to the camp, Bai Qi had already left for a long time. Meng Zhan ordered: "Send the three armies to rest for a day and prepare to detach the camp to Yumi tomorrow."

"Here!"

The next day, Meng Zhan took Bai Qi's general flag and led more than 200,000 Qin troops to head north, without covering up his whereabouts, because he could not hide it, so Meng Zhan simply left in a swagger.

Since the Qin army attacked the camp, there was no movement. Cao Tian felt very strange. At this time, the scout came to report that the Qin army led the camp to the north and the movement was unknown. Cao Tian immediately thought that the Qin army might have attacked Yumi. He was very surprised because the King of Han was in Yong County. If the Qin army captured Yumi, the King of Han would be in danger. So Cao Tian hurriedly ordered the entire army to go north to Yumi and resist the Qin army.

Along the way, scouts kept reporting the Qin army. When it came to the number of Qin army was much smaller, Cao Tian also felt something was wrong, but at this time it was almost time for Yumi, Cao Tian no longer thought so much.

In this way, everything returned to the starting point, and the two armies once again confronted outside Yumi City.

At this time, Bai Qi knew that Meng Zhan and Cao Tian had already led their troops north to Yumi, and there was no more troops on the plain, Bai Qi immediately led the army out of Wuyue Mountain and ran towards Chen Cang.

Bai Qi led an army of 50,000 to cross the Wei River at the fastest speed and headed straight to Chen Cang.

Chencang City, an important town in the south of Guanzhong in the Han Dynasty, has tens of thousands of elite troops stationed all year round, mainly to strengthen the connection between Hanzhong and Guanzhong, and also to support Hanzhong and Longguan defense line. When Meng Zhan led the Qin army to raid Longguan and entered Guanzhong, Cao Tian could only block the Qin army by mobilizing Chencang's troops. At this time, Chencang City, because the Han King mobilized troops across the country to resist the Qin army, only a few thousand people were guarding it.

When Bai Qi led 50,000 Qin troops to appear under Chencang City, the guard general Chencang was shocked and hurriedly sent people to Yong County to report to Yu Mi, and at the same time ordered the entire army to prepare for war. As for Kaicheng surrender, the guard general had never thought about it. Because Chen Cang was Zhou Shen's old subordinate, Zhou Shen died tragically by the Qin army. The guard general wished to go to the battlefield and fight against the Qin army in person, how could he open the city to surrender?

Bai Qi looked at Chen Cang Shoujun and looked like he refused to surrender, and smiled disdainfully, saying, "You are overestimating your ability when you are a chariot with your own arms, Ma Sheng obeys your order!"

"The last one is here!" Ma Sheng replied.

"I will order you to lead your troops to attack the city. Within two hours, I will stand at the top of Chencang City!" Bai Qi said.

"Here!"

"Kill!" Ma Sheng led the Qin army to lead the army and the guards of Chen Cang were also calmly commanded the defenders to counterattack. However, Chen Cang City, which had only more than a thousand people, could it be the opponent of tens of thousands of elite Qin troops? In less than an hour and a half, the Qin army blasted open the Chen Cang city gate under the leadership of Ma Sheng, and tens of thousands of Qin troops rushed into the city. Seeing that the city was lost, the guards of Chen Cang were not to do anything, so they faced Yong County, and left tears in sorrow, and committed suicide to the country.

After Bai Qi led his troops into Chencang City, he sent several fast horses to Yumi, asking Meng Zhan to send reinforcements to support him. He himself only stayed in Chencang for half a day before leading his troops north. Because before Chencang lost, he had already sent people to Yumi and Yong County to report the news, so Bai Qi is now racing against time. In order to gain time, Bai Qi left Ma Sheng and 30,000 infantry to rush to Yong County, while he and Shelitu led 20,000 cavalry to attack Yong County.

Just when Bai Qi led 20,000 cavalry to gather in Yong County less than a hundred miles, the Han King of Yong County had already learned that Chen Cang had fallen, and the officials with him were shocked. Many people suggested that the Han King evacuate Yong County quickly and retreat to Mei County or even Meiyang, but was opposed by the Han army's military advisor Zhang Hong, because after the Qin army captured Chen Cang, they must have come to attack Yong County. Moreover, from the Chen Cang defenders, they learned that the Qin army had a cavalry of more than 10,000 people. If the Han King left Yong County, it would probably be caught by the Qin army soon, so it would be better to stay in Yong County.

The King of Han finally obeyed Zhang Hong's words and stayed in Yong County. At the same time, he ordered the gate of Yong County to be closed and sent people to Yu Mi to report the news.

Less than half an hour after the Han army envoy who had gone to Yumi to report the news, Bai Qi led 20,000 cavalry to the city of Yong County. When he saw Yong County with the city gate closed, Bai Qi knew that there was no chance, so he left Shelitu and 5,000 cavalry here to monitor Yong County and the 30,000 infantrymen who were supporting Ma Sheng, while he brought 15,000 troops to set up traps and ambushes.

When Cao Tian learned that Bai Qi appeared in Chen Cang, and captured Chen Cang and rushed to Yong County, he was shocked. He finally understood why the number of Qin soldiers was so fewer along the way. It turned out that he was going to sneak attack Chen Cang. Cao Tian immediately sent general Guan Zhang to lead 50,000 troops to rescue Yong County.

Just when Guan Zhang's army left Yumi, Meng Zhan already knew about it, so he quickly ordered a fierce attack on the Han army camp outside Yumi City. At the same time, the people sent by Bai Qi had already seen Meng Zhan and told him that Bai Qi was raiding Chen Cang and rushing to Yong County. Meng Zhan also sent general Wang Feng to lead 50,000 cavalry to go south by Chen Cang to support Bai Qi. After Wang Feng led his troops away, he could find Ying Huai to lead 50,000 infantry south.

After doing all this, Meng Zhan simply set up a star-destroying crossbow formation and slowly advanced towards the Han army camp. As soon as the Han army came out, it would become the target of the Qin army.

Outside Yong County, Guan Zhang led 50,000 Han troops here, but was ambushed by Bai Qi. Faced with 15,000 Qin cavalry, the 50,000 troops were instantly beaten to pieces, with more than half of the casualties, and Guan Zhang had to retreat to Yumi.

After defeating the 50,000 Han army under Guan Zhang's troops, the 30,000 infantry led by Ma Sheng had already arrived in Yong County, and Bai Qi surrounded Yong County.

On the tenth day of September of the 15th year of Qianyuan, the Qin army besieged the King of Han in Yong County. Cao Tian felt the crisis in Yong County, so he had no choice but to order the entire army to retreat to Yong County. When he retreated, he was attacked by the Qin army's crossbow formation, killing and injuring tens of thousands. When he retreated to Yong County, there were only 310,000 Han troops, with only 250,000 left. Less than half a month after the war started, the Han army lost 100,000 people.
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