The Western Route Army has not made any progress for more than a month. In recent days, the continuous winter rain in the sky has been falling, causing a fatal blow to the Wei army. Many people have fallen down due to freezing illness, and even the chief general Jing Dan has also contracted the disease.

He insisted on commanding while sick, wrapped in a bear fur, looked up at the fine snow covering the mountains of Taihang, and couldn't help but say this when he was worried.

"Is there a woman in the army?"

The place where the camp behind Jingdan is located is called "Jiang Nu Pass" (now Niang Zi Pass). It is said that it was built in the Spring and Autumn Period. There is also a "Jiang Nu Shu Temple" in the pass. Whenever a woman wears makeup and passes through the Jealous Nu Shu Temple, the local god will cause thunder and lightning, and will be jealous and rain and snow.

This area should have a dry climate, but since Wang Mang replaced the Han Dynasty, the weather has become more and more strange. The ice age was advanced and the rain and snow were no longer regular. Unfortunately, Jingdan encountered it, which made Jingxing Road east of Jealous Pass slippery and difficult to walk.

Jing Dan had to lead his army to advance one mountain after another: Wululing, Beihengkou, Mianmanshui, Liangziling. On this road, the car could not be squared, and the riders could not be lined up. The teams were pulled into a long snake to advance. After a few days of crossing the mountains and ridges, they could reach Jingxing Pass (now Tumen Pass) personally guarded by King Liu Yang of Zhending.

After arriving here, even though he was well-educated like Jingdan, he looked at the Xiongguan in front of him and wanted to curse himself.

Jingxing Guandong is bounded by the territory of Changshan Mountain in the southwest, and its southwest is filled with thousands of peaks, and it is a line of sheep intestines. The gate is surrounded by mountains on three sides, but the east is facing the plains, guarding the narrow passage between the mountains. King Zhending and the Tongma Army can guard the gate through Hebei Food Security.

When we walked here bravely in the cold and frost, the Wei army vanguard was extremely exhausted.

Even so, Jing Dan still made the forwards clamor for challenging, such as those who were carrying women's clothes and making jokes about Liu Yang's timidity, but no matter how they were tactful, the Zhending King in Jingxing Pass would not be fooled.

Liu Yang likes the cold weather and gently caresses the tumor and says, "I think I don't know how Han Xin defeated Zhao Jun back then?"

Although Liu Yang is a mediocre person, his family is in Zhending. After all, he has been staying in Changshan for so many years and knows the local story.

More than two hundred years ago, a major war broke out in Jingxing that determined the situation of Chu and Han. Han general Han Xin led his troops here. In order to stop the King of Dai Chen Yu and King Xie of Zhao who surrendered to Chu, Zhao Dai coalition forces occupied Jingxing Pass. Han Xin tempted him to take the initiative to fight. Zhao and Dai coalition forces underestimated the enemy, and Han Xin took advantage of the defeat to the Mianman River in the west, where he fought the famous "Fight against the Water"!

The situation of Wei generals Jing Dan and Liu Yang is very similar to the past. Although Zhending soldiers and bronze horses had a total of 40,000, which was at least twice that of the Wei army, Liu Yang would not be so stupid as to repeat the same mistakes.

Seeing that the Wei army failed to challenge again, they retreated to the camp of Mianman River. They had been delaying there for more than a month, and the soldiers became more and more tired, and the food had to be transferred from Taiyuan County through the Jealous Nuguan Pass for thousands of miles. The governor of Bingzhou Guo Ji sent the people of Taiyuan to win food.

"It's time to fight back."

Seeing that the Wei army had almost been consumed, King Liu Yang of Zhending and the Tongmaqu commander who was sent by Liu Ziyu to assist him, King Hejian of Shanghuai.

Liu Yang has positioned himself as the successor of Liu Ziyu after the six or seventh period. He still looked down on Tongma Qu Shuai and spoke condescendingly: "Does the King of Hejian know about Guangwu Jun Li Zuoche?"

I am ashamed that I really don’t know Shanghuaikuang, so I can only shake my head.

Liu Yang was even more arrogant: "Will General Zhao Li Mu know?"

"Li Zuoche is the grandson of Li Mu. He obtained the military strategy he taught by his family. During the Chu and Han dynasties, as a counselor of Chen Yu, he once suggested that the Han army attacked thousands of miles, the soldiers were hungry and tired, and the Jingxing valley was narrow and the ditch was long, so the chariots and horses could not run in parallel, so it was better to defend than attack. As long as you guard strictly, you could be foolproof."

"But Chen Yu didn't agree with it and did not strictly guard Jingxing. He was slightly tempted by Han Xin and went to fight, but he was defeated."

"After the war, Han Xin was shocked to learn about Li Zuoche's plan and offered a reward of a thousand gold medals to ask for this person, and finally he was invited to be a guest of honor."

The reason why I know so clearly is that Liu Yang has a set of "Guangwujun's Art of War" in his hand.

"Li Zuoche asked to lead 30,000 troops to leave behind the mountain in the north, and cut off the Han army's food and grass. In this way, he would defeat Han Xin! But Chen Yu did not take it, but Han Xin ordered Guan Ying to go through the intermittent attack and was defeated."

"From this we can see that whoever can use the middle road of the mountain will have the advantage in Jingxing. Today, the Wei army took advantage of Taiyuan, Shangdang's victory and left the country to fight far away. Jingdan once defeated Green Forest in Tongyuan, and was also considered a famous general. His strength was not acceptable. I delayed it for more than a month to make his morale slightly weak. Now those who feed grain thousands of miles away, and the soldiers are hungry, and the martial artists are not fed, and the food must be in the rear. We can use Li Zuoche's strategy!"

Liu Yang said: "I will take more than ten thousand Zhending troops, deep ditches and high bases, and do not fight with them in a strong camp."

"The King of Hejian brought bronze horse soldiers and walked lightly through the road to eliminate their baggage. In this way, Jing Dan was not allowed to fight in front of him or retreat, and the bronze horse soldiers were not allowed to escape behind him, leaving nowhere to plunder in the wilderness. If there is no more than ten days, the Wei army will be defeated, and Jing Dan can be captured!"

It's amazing!

Shang Huaikuang was also very happy and said, "Plan is a good plan, but..."

He had long been disgusted with Liu Yang's arrogance, so he raised his face and said, "You are a king, I am also a king. You have more than 10,000 soldiers under your command, and I have 30,000 soldiers. Zhending soldiers and winter clothes are also worn, but my bronze horse soldiers can only wear single clothes in summer. If you want to talk about armored soldiers, you are better. Why aren't the bronze horse soldiers guarding the pass? Zhending soldiers come out of the pass and fight?"

...

The factional struggle within the Northern Han Dynasty began again, and after who had left the seclusion and attacked the Wei army, the two sides had to write memorials to report to Liu Ziyu, and he decided.

After a few days, the weather became colder, and Jing Dan's condition became even worse. He was so weak that he couldn't get off the bed. He had to return from Mianman Water Camp to Jealous Nv. Every day before he woke up to drink medicine, he would ask: "Have the enemy troops left the pass and attacked me in the intermittent path?"

The battle of the back-to-earth battle was not a secret. Liu Yang knew, and Jing Dan knew it too. He understood that simply seducing the enemy was difficult to replicate Han Xin's miracle. He could only make plans from the food road, hoping that his long supply line could trick the enemy out and kill him.

If the other party was a quick general, he would have been trapped in Jingdan's trap. Unexpectedly, the internal conflicts of the Northern Han Dynasty were inefficient, which made the Wei army ambush wait for many days, which made Jingdan quite discouraged.

If King Zhending and Tongma made up their minds to guard the pass and not fight, then Jingdan really had no choice but to deal with the other party in the direction of Jingxing.

After a few days of this, when Jing Dan was about to write a memorial to claim the crime to the King of Wei, saying that he was indeed unable to break through Jingxing Pass, good news came.

"General, the enemy soldiers sent out of the pass secretly and came along the infernal path!"

...

"The emperor's surname is Liu after all, so he turned his elbow inward, and he was indeed partial to Liu Yang."

Although the troops were sent by the order, Shanghuai Kuang was still unhappy. The Tongma Army was quite dissatisfied with Liu Ziyu's promise to pass the throne to the Zhending Wang family in the future. He always felt that the mountain and river fruits that the Tongma had worked hard to kill were stolen by the Zhending Wang Yilian, who had nothing to do. Why? Just because he is the royal family, the big tumor on his neck?

To go to Huaikuang, he should take advantage of the large number of bronze horse soldiers and force Liu Yang to lead his troops out of Jingxing to fight the Wei army. It would be better if Liu Yang was defeated, but when he goes to Huaikuang, he would not help him and let Liu Yang die outside. In this way, he could be justified and annex the power of Zhending King.

However, Liu Ziyu did not fully trust the bronze horse. He wanted Zhending to check and balance it. If he killed himself at this time and forced Zhending to surrender to the fifth relationship, it would be a way to perish itself. To settle the country, he would first resist foreign powers. Liu Ziyu still understands that the Xindu city on the eastern front has been lost recently, and there is no progress in the middle road. There is no loss on the western front!

What's more, when fighting in the mountains, the copper horses were indeed light and convenient, and under Liu Ziyu's order, King Zhending reluctantly asked his subordinates to give their winter clothes and shoes to the copper horse army.

The middle road of this mountain is still very narrow, and it is even more dangerous than the main road of Jingxing. After leading troops on this road, Shanghuai Kuang deeply doubted that Liu Yang's "Guangwujun's Art of War" was unreliable at all.

"Can you walk 30,000 people through this broken road? Can you walk cavalry?"

Shanghuai Kuang only brought five thousand, and had already dragged his long tail in the mountains, and could not correspond to each other. The cold night made the copper horse soldiers tremble. When they passed by a spring called Luquan, they were frozen. They had to break the ice to get water. The cold water poured into their stomachs, making them even more uncomfortable.

The next day, when they wade through the Mianman Water, many soldiers' feet were frozen and they were hard to walk, so they could only stay for a rest. After crossing Niuma Mountain, all the members were panting and could no longer walk. The copper horse soldiers' feet were already strong, but they still had to rest on the road for a night before they could go around from this Jingxing road to the rear of the Wei army and attack their granary Xingshan Post.

"If the troops are truly determined to leave, it may take an extra day."

When Xingshan Post was finally in front of him, Shanghuai Kuang was relieved. He lay on the mountain and could see carriages loaded with grain transported from Taiyuan County to the west, gathered here, and then transported them to the Wei army outpost dozens of miles east.

Shanghuai Kuang called on the bronze horse soldiers who had suffered severe reductions to gather. With his roar, thousands of bronze horses rushed out of the forest and rushed to Xingshan Post!

However, after the panicked Wei soldiers withdrew and the Tongma occupied Xingshan Post, Shanghuai Kuang happily cut open the grain bag with a knife and was about to let the brothers eat hot rice first, but found that the sack was not filled with corn, but all of dry grass and sand.

The Wei army withdrew food and fodder to this extent?

Before Shanghuai Kuang was surprised that something was wrong, he led his troops to retreat. The Wei army ambushed around Xingshan Post rushed out. Jing Dan predicted that King Dingzhen Ding would not come out from the front to face the battle. The so-called outpost was left with only a few thousand people, and the large army was besieged in the rear, waiting for the bronze horse for a whole month!

A few hours later, the Wei army's food and fodder was really hoarded, and Jing Dan on the sickbed finally received good news on the front line.

"Beheading three thousand people, only the thief leader fled back with more than two thousand people!"

After waiting for more than a month, the Western Route Army had a good start. All the captains were very happy and felt that the King of Wei could explain it, but Jing Dan was very disappointed.

"The copper horse did not come out in full swing, only a few thousand people came, and it was not completely wiped out?"

He thrashed his chest with some hatred. He was unable to come to command due to illness, and the result was still different.

The King of Wei will not care about how much he annihilated the enemy or how much he lost. The King of Wei only needs Jingxing!

"In this way, it disturbed the enemy's army, and King Zhending and the Tongma would never come out of seclusion again!"

Jing Dan was excited, coughed violently a few more times, and finally reached out and said, "Map!"

The subordinates presented the map, and Jing Dan's hands trembled and groped on him. Taihang was like a natural barrier, isolated from Bingzhou and Youji. There were only narrow thin passes in the mountains, and eight were large.

Jingxing is located in the central location, and north of Jingxing, there are indeed several roads, called Puyin and Feihu...

The entrance to these two roads is not in Taiyuan, but in the remote Dai County, where there is currently the three-way area between Hu Han, Wei and Northern Han, and it is in chaos. The exit of Puyin and Feihu is the northern part of Changshan and Zhongshan counties.

However, when the King of Wei was approaching Jingxing, considering that this battle was not successful by hard work, he made a temporary decision and sent a side army of more than a thousand people to venture into Dai County. On the one hand, he contacted Geng Kuang, the prefect of Shanggu, and asked him to follow the Fifth Relationship Policy to send the "Northern Army" southward to attack Guangyang King. At the same time, he tried to go south from Pu** to circumvent Jingxing and disrupt the enemy's rear.

Unexpectedly, the King of Wei's son, now became the only hope for the Western Route Army.

"At this point, we can only rely on this surprise weapon!"

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ps: Chapter 2 is at 23:00.
Chapter completed!