"Yes."
Liu Qing respectfully took the recital and read it aloud.
At this thought, the expressions of the ministers became complicated, Qin Huan's eyes widened, and he was a little confused for a while, this note is also an urgent war report, and it is more urgent than the war report sent by Xiangfan, it is sent from Xingzhou, the Huns sent 120,000 troops to attack Xingzhou, the situation is critical, and the court is asked to send troops to help.
Although Da Chu has hundreds of thousands of troops, but the land area of Da Chu is very large, those troops have their own responsibilities and garrison places, can not easily leave, can mobilize no more than 150,000 troops, the two countries attacked Da Chu at the same time, the purpose is to make Da Chu difficult to take care of, this is a good strategy, no wonder Liang State dared to attack easily when the vitality was not restored, it turned out to be an alliance with the Xiongnu.
The reason why Qin Huan was confused was because he really didn't expect the Xiongnu and the Liang State to attack Dachu at the same time, so he would send two reinforcements, one to aid Xiangfan and the other to aid Xingzhou.
And Qin Huan originally planned to seize the quota for galloping aid, so that Zhen Jian could not make meritorious contributions, but now he obviously cannot occupy two positions, it seems that Zhen Jian is bound to lead the troops, which makes him very uncomfortable.
As soon as Liu Qing finished reading, Zhen Jian suddenly came out of the ranks, arched his hand and said loudly: "Your Majesty, the Huns and barbarians have repeatedly violated our country's land, and they are extremely arrogant, Zhen Jian is not talented, and he is willing to lead reinforcements to aid Xingzhou and break the Huns barbarians!"
” Zhen Jian was afraid that the opportunity would be snatched away by others again, so he also learned from Qin Huan, and took the initiative to ask for it as soon as possible to see who dared to come to his mouth to grab food.
The hall was quiet, Zhen Jian and Qin Huan stood side by side in the heart of the hall, one left and one right, one old and one young, the emperor looked at the two of them, and had a lot to say in his heart, but he couldn't help it, and in the end, he nodded and said: "Well, since this is the case, then Qin Huan will lead 30,000 troops, carry firearms, and gallop to aid Xiangfan, and Zhen Jian will lead 40,000 troops, carry firearms, and gallop to aid Xingzhou, in addition, add Qin Huan as the generalissimo of Dingbei, and add Zhen Jian as the generalissimo of the expedition to the west......"
In the afternoon of the same day, Zhen Jian sent people to escort a large amount of gunpowder to Sanya, sealed and loaded the truck, and sent heavy soldiers to guard it, and no one was allowed to approach.
Early the next morning, Zhen Jian and Qin Huan went to get gunpowder separately, and then set off.
The two armies left the city and marched westward.
Due to the distance of Xingzhou and the critical situation, Zhen Jian maintained a rapid march all the way, and could travel more than 70 miles a day, when did Qin Huan lead his troops to fight, he only set off for a day, he secretly complained bitterly, rode a horse all day, and his ass was about to crack, he rested more than a dozen times a day, traveled more than 20 miles on the first day, and did so on the second day, and rested directly for a day on the third day......
Qin Huan pampered and pampered, it was very hard to lead the troops to march, how could he endure this kind of hardship, it had been nearly a month, and he had only traveled half the way, and the army of Liang had already begun to attack Fancheng, fortunately, Liang failed to destroy the pontoon bridge, Xiangyang sent troops to support Fancheng, and defended the city, and the army of Liang had no way to take Fancheng for a while.
In a month's time, Zhen Jian has rushed to the distant Xingzhou, Xingzhou originally belonged to Guanzhong, but since the fall of the north, Xingzhou is on the border of Dachu, divided into Bashu, under the jurisdiction of Xingyuanfu, this time the Xiongnu army came to attack, Xingyuanfu sent troops to reinforce Xingzhou, plus the original people and horses of Xingzhou, there were nearly 30,000 people, defending the city for more than half a month, more than half of the dead and wounded, and the battle was tragic.
Fortunately, Zhen Jian arrived in time and attacked the enemy camp at night, because there was gunpowder, the night attack on the enemy camp had a miraculous effect, and the enemy was in chaos, and the Hun army attacked the city for half a month, and the loss was only 100,000 troops.
Zhen Jian led his troops to pursue a hundred miles to stop, and then entered Xingzhou City to join the army of Xingzhou.
The whole city of Xingzhou welcomed Zhen Jian, it was Zhen Jian who saved them, if Zhen Jian came a few days late, Xingzhou was only afraid of being destroyed, not only that, Xingzhou was destroyed, Xingyuan Mansion fell, after all, Xingyuan Mansion soldiers and horses have been transferred nearly half, once Xingyuan Mansion fell, the Xiongnu was equivalent to prying open the door of Great Chu, using this as a stronghold, the rear army continued to invade Great Chu, and the consequences were unimaginable.
After Zhen Jian repelled the Hun army, he sent 800 li to rush back to the capital, and asked the emperor to return to the court without a division for the time being, and he wanted to lead his troops to Xiangyang to rush to help, so as to make a plan.
Eight hundred miles of expedited is the fastest way to send a letter in this era, only a few days, it arrived in the capital, after the emperor received Zhen Jian's note, the dragon's heart was happy, and it was another big victory, can he not be happy, the emperor was happy, and approved Zhen Jian's invitation, let him lead the troops to Xiangfan to help, Qin Huan's henchmen are opposed to this, this is not to Xiangfan and Qin Huan to grab credit, but ......
The opposition was ineffective, and the emperor insisted that Zhen Jian go to Xiangfan.
The emperor doesn't care whose credit it is, as long as he wins the battle, as long as he ensures the stability of Xiangfan, he is the emperor after all, at this time, all he thinks of is his own country.
However, the emperor didn't know that at this moment, Qin Huan had not yet arrived in Xiangfan, he was still on the way, and Qin Huan created the slowest marching speed in the history of Great Chu this time.
It stands to reason that after so many days of training, Qin Huan should have adapted to the march, but in fact, this is not the case, Qin Huan can't adapt because he is old.
Young people have strong learning ability and adaptability, but the elderly are different, the learning ability and adaptability of the elderly have degraded to a certain point, not to mention that Qin Huan is a bad old man who has always been pampered, after several tosses, he has three diseases, and every time he falls ill, the army will stop for several days.
Zhen Jian had already received the emperor's will to let him rush to help Xiangfan, and led his troops to board the boat, and rode down the Han River to help Xiangfan, at this moment, Qin Huan was still on the way, but it was not far from Xiangfan.
Qin Huan led his troops to aid Xiangfan, which was as difficult as going to the west to learn scriptures, and finally arrived in Xiangyang.
Entering the boundary of Xiangyang, the generals under Qin Huan began to send scouts to the front to inquire about the situation, and finally found out the news that this time the Liang State came to attack, 30,000 naval troops, 100,000 army troops, and now the Liang State Lu Yun surrounded Xiangyang and Fancheng respectively.
Qin Huan summoned generals from all walks of life to come to his tent to discuss countermeasures.
Although Qin Huan is a civilian official, he is a privy envoy, what does a privy envoy do, he is in charge of military affairs, and he can also be called the minister of military aircraft, which is also the most important reason why he can lead troops to fight.
There are rules in Dachu, every time there is a war, the emperor issues a holy decree, and the Privy Council receives the emperor's decree before it can issue an order, and then Sanya receives the emperor's decree and the Privy Council's troop transfer order before he can send troops.
What is a military map, that is, a group of civilian old men in the Privy Council according to the battlefield situation, talk about the troops, set a series of battle instructions, including how to set up camp, how to arrange troops, how to fight and kill the enemy, etc., in short, this military map, all the battle instructions are all stipulated, the leading marshal must do it in accordance with the military map, otherwise it will be regarded as supporting the army and self-respecting, intending to rebel.
Qin Huan thinks that he has done so many military maps, and the battle is not yet hand-to-hand, and the generals discuss the enemy's strategy together, fortunately, this time Qin Huan did not make any moths, adopted the opinions of the generals under his command, and directly attacked on a large scale, first repelled the enemy troops outside Xiangyang, although they only have 30,000 soldiers and horses, but you must know that they brought a lot of gunpowder, and there are more than 20,000 soldiers and horses in Xiangyang City, no matter how fierce the Tule people are, is it not iron, the power of gunpowder, they have seen it.
So, the next day, Qin Huan and ordered the army to attack, attacking the Liang army besieged outside Xiangyang City, the Liang army was also stunned, in their impression, the Chu reinforcements have always only watched from the sidelines, and retreated and fled when they saw that the situation was not right, and they also inquired, this time it was Qin Huan who led the troops, Qin Huan, the lord and faction, and the court ministers of Liang had heard his name, and he was notoriously cowardly, why was he so reckless today?
Qin Huan is not reckless, he has firearms to support him, and he has enough confidence, of course he chooses to be tough.
The Chu army and the Liang army clashed, and as soon as they met, all kinds of hand grenades were thrown into the enemy's formation, blooming everywhere, blowing up the most powerful cavalry of the Tule army.
The Thule cavalry had never lost against the army of Chu on the plains, and today it was simply deflated, not only was it blown up, but the most important thing was that the momentum of the explosion shocked them, including their war horses.
After all, war horses are livestock, and they have never heard of such a huge explosion, this explosion, that is okay, they were frightened, neighing everywhere, rampage, and the neat formation of the Liang army was swept to pieces, and it was trampled on countless casualties, this time, the morale of the army of Chu was even higher.
At this time, the gate of Xiangyang City was wide open, Qin Yuan rushed out with nearly 10,000 horses, and gave the Liang army a heavy blow from the rear.
When the Liang army passed through the oil zone, the army shot fire arrows and ignited the fire oil on the ground, and suddenly a wall of fire several miles long appeared on the ground, blocking the footsteps of the Chu army, and the Liang army who were defeated and fled were able to escape and get on the boat.
This battle was fought very quickly, from the battle to the end of only half an hour, so quickly repelled the Liang army, the generals were very happy, and immediately sent people to report the good news to Qin Huan in the rear, and then began to clean up the battlefield, this credit, they wanted, if Qin Yuan wanted, ask Qin Huan first.
Qin Yuan didn't care about this merit, after so many years of fighting, he was no longer interested in the merits, no matter how much he feats, he looked at the group of reinforcements who were excited to clean up the battlefield, shook his head and sighed, this battle could have been able to completely annihilate the enemy, but the reinforcements were not well deployed, just like a reckless man, he started a war without a plan, if he laid a group of men and horses in the west in advance, he could definitely leave all the enemy troops behind, and now, according to Qin Yuan's experience, although the enemy army was defeated and fled, the loss was only 8,000 men and horses, And that's counting the wounded.