Chapter 516: Baishuiguan Dilemma

After failing to persuade Xie Xun to surrender, Wang Feng was forced to choose to attack Yangping Pass, but things went against his wishes. He fought hard for a day and found nothing except for more than a thousand casualties. He could only sigh. However, Wang Feng retreated his troops back to Guanzhong in shame. Wang Feng was very unwilling to accept it. After all, he had made a promise in front of the King of Qin to defend Hanzhong County, but now he could not even enter the territory of Hanzhong County, so what's the matter? In the end, Wang Feng could only choose to stock up on Yangping Pass, hoping that there would be opportunities for war.

Just when Wang Feng failed to attack Yangping Pass, Xie Xun's deputy general also spread the news that Qin army was in Yangping Pass to Murong Chui.

After receiving the news, Murong Chui immediately summoned all his generals to discuss matters.

"Everyone, General Xie sent a message to the Qin State to send General Wang Feng to lead 50,000 elite troops to Yangping Pass. General Xie hopes that this general can make an idea." Murong Chui said.

"General, but Old General Xie feels it is difficult to resist the Qin army. I hope the general can send troops to reinforce?" Military advisor Lu Meng said with a frown. Xie Xun sent someone to send a message and hoped Murong Chui would make an idea. Lu Meng's first reaction was whether Xie Xun felt that he could not stop the Qin army. He hoped Murong Chui could send more reinforcements?

Murong Chui shook his head and said, "No, what the old general Xie said in the letter is that Yangping is as stable as Mount Tai. The Qin army has no opportunity to take advantage of it. He did not ask this general to send troops to reinforce. He just said in the letter that Wang Feng can replace Bai Qi to take charge of the military power of Qin. In order to prevent it, I hope that I will prepare early in case, in case of emergency."

"That's good, but General Xie has 10,000 elite troops under his command. With the benefits of Yangping Pass, there is no problem with the Qin army. The subordinates thought that the general only needed to prepare a group of troops to deal with the unexpected, so we still had to focus all our energy on seizing Nanzheng City. After all, General Yue has issued an order to let our army go south to Baozhong, Nanzheng, and clean up all the remnants of the Qin army outside Chenggu and Baishui Pass." When he heard that Xie Xun was not here to ask for reinforcements, Lu Meng was relieved.

In the view of Lu Meng, there are 10,000 elite troops guarding Yangping Pass, let alone just 50,000 Qin troops, even 100,000 will not get any benefits in front of a powerful pass like Yangping Pass. As long as Xie Xun can't stand, the Qin army will have no chance at all. It would be better to focus on how to seize the prize and Nanzheng.

However, not everyone is as optimistic as Lu Meng, especially Ren Ping, a general who was born in Chen State like Xie Xun. He saw Ren Ping leave and said: "General, General, the general, should not be taken lightly. General Xie has always been steady. If he was not really worried, he would never ask for help from the general easily. General thought it would be better to send another unit of troops to support Yangping Pass. This would not only strengthen the defense of Yangping Pass, but also if the Qin army saw our army increase its troops, they might feel that it would be inadvertent to take advantage of it. If this is true, it would also be beneficial for our army to seize the various places in Hanzhong. Moreover, Nan Zheng is already in his pocket and does not require too many troops. Our army can completely draw a unit of troops to reinforce Yangping Pass."

Murong Chui analyzed the words of Lu Meng and Ren Ping, and felt that they were all very reasonable, so he thought about it and said, "General Ren is right. Anyway, there are not many Qin troops in Nanzheng in Baozhong, and even if there is one missing, it is not harmful. Since this is the case, General Ren led his troops to reinforce Yangping Pass, and the rest of the troops seized Baozhong and Nanzheng with all their might." Murong Chu thought about it, but still felt that he could not take it lightly. Anyway, except for Chenggu and Baishui Pass, the remaining Qin troops in various parts of Hanzhong had only a few thousand people. Abandoning ten thousand elite troops was not a big problem for him, and it could not affect his mission of cleaning up the remnants of the Qin army.

"Here!" everyone responded.

After solving the Yangping Pass, Murong Chui focused on seizing Baozhong and Nanzheng, and asked Lu Meng, who was in charge of intelligence, "Military advisor, I wonder how many Qin troops in Baozhong and Nanzheng are there?"

Lu Meng replied: "When the Qin army was in Hanzhong, the army was divided into two parts, one in Nanzheng and the other in Baishui Pass. Now most of the troops in Nanzheng were brought to Chenggu by Wei Song. There were less than 5,000 Qin troops in Baozhong and Nanzheng, and they were stationed in Baozhong, Nanzheng, Mianyang and Guixu respectively. Except for the three thousand soldiers in Nanzheng, there were only a few hundred defenders in other places."

Murong nodded and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that the Qin army was so weak. It was really a war of war from heaven to my Shenwu Guard. Since that's the case, we cannot miss such a god-given opportunity, sending orders, the army packed up, leaving two thousand people to guard Anyang City, and Mali obeyed the orders!"

"The last one will be here!" Marley responded.

"I will order you to lead 5,000 troops as the vanguard to attack Baozhong." Murong Chui said.

"Here!"

"Ling Rong obeys the order!" Murong Chui said.

"The last one is here!" Ling Rong replied.

"I will order you to lead three thousand troops to attack Guixu!"

"Here!"

"The rest of the troops are led by this general himself. Within five days, we will win the established target and meet in Nanzheng City!" Murong Chui said.

"Here!" everyone responded.

Two days later, the Deng army divided the troops to attack and captured Baozhong, Guixu and other places. On June 21, the 24th year of Qianyuan, the troops arrived at Nanzheng City and attacked fiercely for three days. At this time, Murong Chui learned that the Yongning Guard led by Lu Feng also captured Mianyang and was preparing to go south to Baishui Pass to attack Baishui Pass with the Longwu Guard and Jinwu Guard in the south. Murong Chui felt that such a battle was indispensable, so he left behind 5,000 elite troops and general Ling Rong to guard Nanzheng, and claimed that 20,000 elite troops and Yongning Guards joined the south to Baishui Pass.

On June 27, the 24th year of Qianyuan, Deng's army arrived at Baishui Pass. At this time, Baishui Pass was in a panic. There were the Longwu Guard of Deng's Kingdom, the 100,000 elite troops in Jinwu Guards, the Yongning Guard of Deng's Kingdom, and the 70,000 elite troops in Shenwu Guards, and only 20,000 elite troops in Baishui Pass. Under normal circumstances, if 20,000 elite troops were guarding a powerful pass like Baishui Pass, it would be difficult for 170,000 enemy troops to take down Baishui Pass, but when it was deadly, there was already a shortage of food in Baishui Pass.

Since the Qin State obtained Baishui Pass, it has been equipped with heavy troops. At first, there were only 5,000 people. Later, after Deng Qin turned against him, in order to strengthen the defense of Baishui Pass, Bai Qi took the initiative to increase the defenders of Baishui Pass to 20,000. Later, after Wei Song was in charge of Hanzhong County, due to his lack of prestige, in order not to allow the 20,000 elite troops of Baishui Pass to escape from his control, he has been strictly controlling the food and grass in Baishui Pass. He sent people to transport food and grass to Baishui Pass every month. Therefore, there has been not much food in Baishui Pass. Now that Nanzheng has been captured by Deng's army, Wei Song is trapped in Chenggu, no one cares whether Baishui Pass has any food. Besides, even if someone takes care of it, there is no food to support Baishui Pass. So when Yongning Guard and Shenwu Guard arrive at Baishui Pass, Baishui Pass had been out of food for three days.

The Qin general who was in charge of guarding Baishui Pass was named Gong Yi. At this time, Gong Yi was meeting with the chief clerk of the army with a sad face and asking about the situation in the army.

"Zhengzhu Li, I wonder what the situation is in short supply of food in the army?" Gong Feng asked.

Li Zhubu replied with a bitter face: "Return to the general, it is logical that the military rations of Nanzheng should have been sent to Baishui Pass ten days ago, but now all parts of Hanzhong County are destroyed by Deng's army, and the food in Nanzheng was transported to Chenggu by General Wei Song. No grain of food was sent to Baishui Pass. Our army had no food as early as three days ago. Now we can only live by collecting the food of the people. But even so, we can only collect five days of food. If we have gone there for three days, the food in the army has been in less than two days."

"Damn it, if Wei Song had not been too selfish, and was afraid that I would have been able to compete with him for control of Hanzhong County, how could I have been able to fall into such a land?" Gong Qing said angrily. In Gong Qing's opinion, the reason why he fell into this land was that Wei Song had too selfish, and was afraid that he would have fought with him for the dominance of Hanzhong County, so he deliberately detained food. Now, Nanzheng is gone, and Mianyang is gone. Even Wei Song himself was trapped in Chenggu by Deng's army. He and the 20,000 elite troops in Baishui Pass can only sit and wait for death.

If there is plenty of food and grass, Gong Feng is confident that with Baishui Pass and 20,000 elite troops, he can block Deng Jun for at least a few months, or even a year. However, now he is out of food so quickly, and he has no food, and he is even fartful.

Gong Feng held his forehead and said, "Zhengbu Li, you go back first and notify the head army to reduce the supply in the army, and try to make the grain stored in the army last longer. Rong Ben will think of a solution."

"Here!" Chief Li responded and left.

After Li Zhuzhu left, Gong Feng began to think hard about countermeasures, but at this point, how can he break through? What a joke, the Deng army besieged Baishui Pass was 170,000, and he only had 20,000 people. How to break through? Besides, even if he could break through, the entire Hanzhong County, except Chenggu and Baishui Pass, all fell into the hands of Deng's army. Where can he break through? Could it be that he went to Chenggu to find Wei Song? At this time, I'm afraid Wei Song would be unable to protect himself unless he surrendered.

Surrender, these two words flashed through Gong Rui's mind and suddenly became out of control. Gong Rui found that he seemed to have no way out except surrender, and Gong Rui found that he had no resistance to surrender.

Gong Qi was Bai Qi's confidant. When Bai Qi returned to Guanzhong, Qin ordered Gong Qi to guard Baishui Pass. However, as soon as Bai Qi returned to Chang'an, he was beaten by the King of Qin. If it weren't for the busy fighting for power and profit in the court, he had not had time to liquidate Bai Qi's old subordinates, he would have either fallen or been dismissed from office and returned home. Qin treated his heroes like this, Gong Qi really couldn't think of a reason to fight for Qin. Besides, Deng's country has always treated surrendered generals very favorably. Don't you see that Lu Feng, who had wiped out 30,000 elite troops in the past, has now become a general of the guard after surrendering to Deng. At that time, Jing, Han, Chen, Wu, and Qi, the surrendered generals who surrendered to Deng were all valued. He surrendered with 20,000 elite troops, and he should have a good position.
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