Chapter 2087 Xue Ping

If Lu Qi could quickly extinguish the rebels, the Wei Kingdom might still be able to survive for a few more years, but this fatuous decision made by the Wei Emperor would only accelerate the Wei Kingdom's defeat.

Not everyone can lead troops to win a battle. Obviously, Hou Wenchang does not have that ability.

Lu Qi was able to retake the Northwest Province and kill 80,000 rebels. He relied on his rich combat experience and superb combat skills. What did Hou Wenchang have?

He was just a lord. He was good at bribing the Emperor to ascend to the throne, eating, drinking, having fun and flattering him, but he was not good at leading troops in war.

As expected, it was not as expected by Song Yan.

After Hou Wenchang arrived and took over the military power, he immediately ordered the army to march towards Longyou Province.

In his opinion, those rebels were just a bunch of soft persimmons who could be pinched as much as they wanted.

But reality slapped him hard in the face.

As soon as they entered Longyou Province, the army led by Hou Wenchang was ambushed.

In this battle, the nearly 90,000-strong army lost 30,000.

Even Hou Wenchang almost died in the army.

That battle directly frightened Hou Wenchang out of his courage. He also understood that fighting was not a child's play, and it was not for people like him to play around.

This guy was worried that Emperor Wei would be punished, so he did another stupid thing.

Not only did they forge battle reports, they exaggerated the defeat into a great victory, and then killed good people and pretended to take credit, and killed tens of thousands of civilians and sent them to the capital to ask for credit.

There are not many civilians in the Northwest Province.

After being treated like this by Hou Wenchang, the civilians became rebellious. After all, if they rebelled, they would die, and if they didn't, they would die. Why not rebel?

So over the next month.

With the help of the new anti-civilians in the northwest, Xue Ping actually regained half of the territory in the northwest province in one fell swoop.

As for Hou Wenchang, he was frightened out of his wits and cowered in Hanyin City, not daring to fight against the rebels at all.

But after half a month.

The rebels dug a passage leading to Hanyin City. Under attack from both inside and outside, Hanyin City was finally breached.

Hou Wenchang was captured alive, and the remaining tens of thousands of troops surrendered.

For a time, the rebel army regained control of the northwest province and became powerful. At the same time, with this defeat, the five northern provinces fell into emptiness. After all, the large armies defeated by Hou Wenchang came from the five northern provinces. Drawn out.

As for why Song Yan was able to understand the situation in the northwest so clearly, it was because Wu Jingwei fled back to Liangzhou City with 300 people.

Two of the five northern provinces fell, leaving three remaining.

After a short rest, the rebel army began to attack Beimo Province again.

Beimo Province has six counties and more than 40 county towns. It is the most extensive among the five northern provinces and the richest in products.

The size of the rebel army is increasing, and the demand for supplies is also increasing. Therefore, it is imperative to attack the Northern Desert Province.

Before, most of the troops in the Northern Desert Province were taken away. How could they be the opponent of the rebel army? The speed of the fall was beyond imagination. In less than half a month, the entire Northern Desert Province actually fell into the hands of the rebel army. .

After the imperial court received news about Beimo Province, the rebel army had already begun to attack Chiyuan Province.

Once Chiyuan Province falls behind the hands of the rebels, the entire five northern provinces will fall into the hands of the rebels, and at the same time, Xiyu Pass will also be cut off.

As long as the rebels stationed 20,000 troops at Jinji Ridge, Lu Qi's 30,000 cavalry would not be able to attack them. What's more, it was impossible for him to transfer the 30,000 cavalry. As soon as he transferred the cavalry, Liang Guo would definitely take the opportunity to attack. , by then, he will be attacked from both sides.

Unable to sit still, Lu Qi took the initiative to ask for a fight.

But Song Yan knew that even if Lu Qi took action again, he would not be able to defeat the rebel army, because he had missed the best opportunity to defeat the rebel army. The rebel army now had expanded to 500,000, and after so many battles, his men People also gradually evolved from farmers into real warriors.

And what about Lu Qi?

Up to 20,000 cavalry can be mobilized.

Twenty thousand versus half a million?

Only those who can win will have ghosts.

As for the imperial court, it had long been in chaos. After receiving Lu Qi's invitation to fight, Emperor Wei immediately approved it. This time he no longer stingy about grabbing food, and directly sent people to send Lu Qi two million taels of military pay and one hundred thousand Stone grain, and gave Lu Qi the privilege of recruiting troops anywhere.

The screen switches back to Liangzhou.

After sweeping across the Tianlang Grassland, Song Yan's name not only spread throughout the Tianlang Grassland, but even the Huhuo and Black Eagle tribes knew his evil name. Less than ten days after he returned to Liangzhou, the two tribes sent out The envoy came to express goodwill to Song Yan and hoped to get along well with Liangzhou.

But Song Yan's response was extremely tough, and he would either surrender or exterminate the clan.

In the end, the Black Eagle tribe rejected Song Yan's "rude" request, but the Huhuo tribe agreed to his request.

The reason why the Black Eagle tribe dared to refuse was because they could train the Black Eagle to become their eyes. At the same time, they lived in a jungle with a large number of venomous snakes and beasts.

It is simply impossible for the Liangzhou Army to enter the jungle and destroy them.

Besides, the Huhuo tribe has the smallest population and the weakest combat power among the three barbarians, but they have a skill, which is to tame wild beasts and become a beast army.

After the Huhuo tribe surrendered.

Song Yan ordered the Huhuo tribe to prepare an army of 100,000 beasts for him, ready to be dispatched at any time.

As for the previous sweeping of Tianlang Grassland, he did not report it to the court. He did not want them to notice him yet. He did not want to be transferred by the court to attack the rebels.

When Lu Qi set off again with 20,000 cavalry, Song Yan mobilized another 10,000 troops to go to the Black Eagle Clan.

Although the Black Eagle tribe lives in the jungle, Song Yan has a way to deal with them.

During this period, he has been preparing.

One day later.

The army led by Song Yan arrived in front of a huge jungle, which was the entrance.

"let's start!"

Song Yan gave the order calmly. It was now the turn of winter and spring, and there were many dead branches and leaves in the jungle.

"Bah bang bang!"

A large number of earthenware jars were thrown into the jungle, and the earthenware jars shattered and flowed into the black and pungent liquid.

This kind of thing is called black water by people in this world. In his world, this kind of thing is called oil. Coincidentally, there is an oil field with a very shallow mining layer in Liangzhou.

"put!"

Rockets shot into the jungle.

The fire oil ignited instantly, and soon, the jungle ahead turned into a sea of ​​​​fire, and it continued to spread.

Going deep into the jungle will cause great harm to the Liangzhou Army, but what about burning the jungle?

By then, the Black Eagle Clan would have nothing to rely on.

If you don't want to be slaughtered by him, you have no choice but to surrender.

With flames rising into the sky and thick smoke billowing, the situation here was quickly noticed by the Black Eagle tribe. Seeing the rapidly spreading fire, they began to send people to put out the fire.

Unfortunately, there is little water in the jungle, and biogas is easily hatched in the jungle. These are good combustion-supporting gases, so it is impossible to put out the fire.

The fire lasted for three days and three nights, and it was only after heavy rain came that the fire stopped.

Waited for another two days.

Song Yan led the army into the jungle that was burned to ashes.

They came to a jungle again, only to find that thousands of Black Eagles were stationed there.

"Bai Lian, take people to kill them!"

Song Yan calmly gave orders.

"As you command, Master!"

Under the leadership of Bai Lian, the master warrior, thousands of Black Eagles were quickly killed. Then Song Yan repeated his old tricks and continued to pour black water to burn the mountains.

The mountain forest where the Black Eagle tribe lives is very large, at least larger than the entire Liangzhou, but Song Yanxiao believes that as long as he advances step by step, this mountain forest will be burned to the ground in less than two months.

The second fire burned longer.

It burned for ten days and ten nights.

The Black Eagle Clan finally couldn't bear it anymore and sent someone to come for peace talks.

Song Yan's attitude is still tough, he must either surrender or be exterminated, and at the same time requires the Black Eagle clan to migrate to Liangzhou.

Everyone in the Black Eagle clan hated Song Yan's unreasonable request, but they could not refuse.

If they don't agree, Song Yan will burn down the mountains and forests where they live.

After almost two months of migration, the Black Eagle tribe finally moved to Liangzhou, adding more than three million people to Liangzhou.

At the same time, he selected a thousand people from the Black Eagle tribe to form the Eagle Eye Soldiers. Each Eagle Eye Soldier would raise a Black Eagle specifically to detect the enemy's situation.

It was during the two months that Song Yan was cleaning up the Black Eagle clan.

Lu Qi led an army into Chiyuan Province and fought many battles with the rebels.

He has rich combat experience and powerful combat skills, but the number of rebels is too large, and the court has lost the support of the people. Even if Lu Qi is possessed by the God of War, there is nothing he can do to save it.

Therefore, ten days ago, Lu Qi failed to break through and died in battle.

Chiyuan Province also fell into the hands of the rebels.

The rebel army from the five northern provinces won four, and the remaining Yunhuang Province has become the target of the rebel army.

However, Qi Ning, the governor of Yunhuang Province, was quite a figure. During the two months when the rebel army fought with Lu Qi, he actually recruited 30,000 troops for training.

really.

After half a month of repairs, the rebel army officially attacked Yunhuang Province.

Five days later.

The provincial capital of Yunhuang Province fell.

Ten days later, four of the five counties and cities in Yunhuang Province fell, and Liangzhou became an isolated city.

Three days later.

The rebel general Yu Ying led an army of 10,000 people to Liangzhou.

Less than a day.

Ten thousand rebels led by Yu Ying resisted Liangzhou City.

Before they could set up camp, the city gate opened, and ten thousand cavalry led by Bai Lian came to kill them.

There are only three hundred cavalry in this large army led by Yu Ying.

Facing 10,000 cavalry, the only fate is to be massacred, not to mention, Bai Lian is still a master-level expert.

The battle lasted only more than an hour.

Caught off guard, the 10,000-strong army led by Yu Ying was almost completely destroyed. Only Yu Ying, the commander-in-chief, escaped with a few personal guards.

When Yu Ying brought back the news that Liangzhou City had 10,000 elite cavalry, Xue Ping was very surprised. You must know that he did not take Liangzhou seriously. Unexpectedly, Liangzhou gave him a surprise.

Today's Xue Ping is no longer the original Xue Ping. After acquiring the five northern provinces, his mentality has changed greatly. It can be said that his self-confidence has skyrocketed, and his men are also planning for him to become king.

Originally, he planned to officially proclaim himself king after capturing Liangzhou.

As a result, not only did he fail to capture Liangzhou, but he also lost 10,000 people. Therefore, he immediately chopped off Yu Ying's head and planned to lead 100,000 people to attack Liangzhou personally.