Above Qiziling, there are ruins and ruins, and everything is in a mess.
The traces of the battle are clearly visible. The two armies fought with their lives here for more than a month, and too many people died on the barren mountain until it changed hands again.
If we go to Qiziling and then repair Jiguan, the danger of Wangwu Mountain will be shared by the thief and me.
What price did I spend to conquer Jiguan? The Bian thieves also had to pay such a high price to fight back.
Maybe you can never go back.
The main force of the Bian army is in the east, and Heyang has insufficient troops. But Shao Shude is stationed in Longchi Palace, and the main force is in Jinjiang. It is not that easy to take it back...
In fact, he is still stepping up his offensive.
As the year is approaching, large armies will not be dispatched, but the three thousand cavalry of the Feilong Army and the two thousand cavalry of the Wuwei Army have already been dispatched respectively. Their goal is also very simple, to harass Heyang, undermine the morale of the bandit army, weaken its troops, and reserve food supplies.
Don't let them have a good year.
"Heyang City is located on the north bank of the river (15 miles south of today's Mengzhou), which is Heyang County where Mengzhou is located, less than 80 miles to the east. Jin and Du pre-built a pontoon bridge here, which is a transportation hub between the north and the south. Wei Xiaowen
Luo, the imperial capital, built Bei Zhonglangfu City on the north bank of Mengjin to serve as the rear guard of the capital. There was a sandy land in this section of the riverbed that was one mile wide from north to south, and the river divided the river into north and south streams. Therefore, the Eastern Wei Dynasty also built a city on the south bank and in the middle of Liusha, called Nancheng.
, Zhongli City, and the North City were combined into three, and the north and south echoed each other to resist the Western Wei Dynasty and compete for control of Luoyang." In Qizilingguan City, a new round of 'seminars' began again, and the speaker was the knowledgeable Qianhubu
Minister Du Honghui.
"The pontoon bridge was rebuilt during the imperial dynasty. Because the river was divided into north and south streams, the bridge was also divided into north and south bridges. With boats as legs, ten carpenters and 250 sailors were stationed all year round for maintenance. This bridge has a grand structure and is chain-linked.
The three cities are the main transportation routes between the north and the south. Crossing the bridge to the south, Linluojing is within easy reach. Crossing the bridge to the north, go straight to Tianjingguan, Qushangdang, Taiyuan. Pass Linjinguan in the northeast, reach Yecheng, Yan
From Zhao, it enters Zhiguan in the northwest and reaches Jinjiang and the middle of the river. This is the backbone of the world, the throat of the north and the south, and is the main road of the capital. It is a key point in ancient and modern times and a must-do battle for military strategists."
Du Honghui introduced a lot of them, but Shao Shude was distracted.
He now has a feeling that when the world just started to be in chaos, many dangerous passes, big cities and famous towns were almost picked up for free and undefended. But after some time, when the princes swallowed them up, they were ignored in the chaos.
important stronghold began to play its role.
When Qin Zongquan and Sun Ru left Henan Prefecture, Zhang Quanyi and Li Hanzhi had almost no strength. The two key places of Henan Prefecture and Heyang could be said to be completely blank. In the end, Zhu Quanzhong and Li Keyong fought, and Ke Yong was defeated.
, Quanzhong won and gained all of Heyang and Luozhou.
Now that these key places have been reorganized and armed, it is not easy to capture them again.
Sometimes, a good opportunity only comes once, and Zhu Quanzhong took it.
Of course, this is just from Shao Shude's point of view. If Zhu Quanzhong had invaded Guanzhong and attacked Luziguan, Qiaocheng, and the five cities of Yanzhou, and lost his troops and generals, and was beaten and cried, he would also sigh like this: Shao
The thief is really lucky, he picked up this kind of natural danger for nothing!
"Heyang has Heyangcang and Heyangyuan, which are land and water transportation centers." Du Honghui hardly needed to look through books, and all kinds of geographical knowledge were at his fingertips: "Heyang travels more than sixty miles northeast to Huaizhou, Lisuo, and Hanoi County.
.Go north from Huaizhou for fifteen miles to Yongdian, then five miles to Wanshan, then ten miles to Taihangxing, pass Kedoudian, and end at Tianjingguan."
Inside Taihang County, Qi Bizhang raised his head and looked at the deep valley, his brows furrowed.
Taihang Pass is the second of the eight passes of Taihang. It is forty miles long and only three paces wide.
The road is not short, and it is also very steep and narrow. It is called "Yangchangzaka", so why do everyone still walk here? Because there is water along the way, and the Xingdao Road runs along Danshui (today's Dan River, a tributary of Qinhe River, a tributary of the Yellow River)
) river valleys were opened to facilitate drinking by humans and animals.
If there is no water along the road, once it is blocked by the enemy and you are in a dilemma, it will be a disastrous outcome, so some roads have to be taken.
Qibizhang's three thousand cavalry were stationed at a place called Baishuijiao.
Baishui (today's Baishui River) merges into Danshui here, and you can go up the Baishui River Valley and go northwest to Tianjing Pass. It is named because there are three Tianjing Spring in the south of Guan. Guancheng is the highest point of the mountain road, and it is in the north of Guan.
Not far away is the Taihang Mountain, twenty-five miles to Malaoguan, and another twenty miles to Jincheng County, Lisuo, Zezhou, which was also the last resting place for Qibizhang and his companions.
Taihangxing, Tianjingguan Road, is eighty miles long from front to back. It is a dangerous transportation route between Shanxi and Henan. It is an important transportation road between the north and the south. It is the first of the eight Taihang passes and a must-have for military strategists.
"No wonder Li Keyong repeatedly blocked the Bian army at Zelu. I had long heard about the dangers of the Taihang Highway, but now I have seen it." Qibizhang climbed a high slope, but could not see the scenery in the distance. He was still covered by layers of
The mountains block the view.
"General Qibi, when Kang Jun left Li Hanzhi behind, Li Hanzhi only had a few thousand soldiers, but Zhu Quanzhong had no less than 50,000 soldiers and horses stationed in Heyang. He didn't dare to go north because he was afraid of the difficulty of the mountain road." Follow us.
Xue Li, who acted as a guide, said: "Meng Fangli used to be the general of Tianjingguan Town, and finally became the Commander-in-Chief of Lu, which shows his importance."
"But Li Hanzhi didn't have many troops stationed, and they were so loose. If the Bian army made a surprise attack, Tianjing Pass might be lost." Qibizhang had previously taken the Wuling Road, Zezhou, Tianjing Pass, and Baishuijiao routes, watching all the way.
When I came here, I had only one emotion: Li Hanzhi was not a serious general. He should have been a brave general, but he lacked strategy.
Zezhou is such an important place, why don't we send troops to guard the various highways? Even if the troops are insufficient, the state and county soldiers can be recruited, and the local regiments and villagers can take turns to garrison. Could it be that the counties in Zezhou have been destroyed by you? These organizations are completely
paralysis?
"If Zhu Quanzhong guards Jinyang and Li Keyong controls Bianzhou, I don't think Li Keyong will ever be able to break into Zelu in his lifetime." Xue Li seemed to have a low opinion of Li Keyong, and his words were full of sarcasm: "Now we are trapped in
Youzhou, fighting fires everywhere, exhausted. Let’s go, I can’t bear to leave, why don’t I leave, how long will it take? Humph.”
Qibizhang laughed when he heard this and said: "Li Hanzhi is indeed nothing. If he can run a place, we can borrow some grain from him. Why bother transporting grain across the mountains?"
Three thousand cavalry and more than 7,000 horses require more than 20,000 grains and beans a month. If Zezhou can provide them locally, that would be great.
But considering that before Li Hanzhi came, Zelu Yamen often went to Xingzhou to get food. It was indeed not a wealthy place and there were many mountains, so it was normal for it not to produce food. Therefore, it was indeed too much to blame Li Hanzhi entirely.
However, both Qi Bizhang and Xue Li did not think highly of Li Hanzhi, and it was common for them to curse Li Hanzhi in private.
Thousands of native tribesmen also followed Baishuijiao, and they were all issued with weapons, such as simple spears, rifles and bows, but no armor.
They are cutting down trees to set up camp, building warehouses, and stocking up on supplies such as grain, medicinal materials, and arrows.
When the Feilong Army goes into battle, of course it must have a logistics transfer base, and Baishuijiao is the best one.
On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, Qi Banzhang led the Feilong Army southward. As for Li Hanzhi, he couldn't restrain his desire to plunder. He was arranging his troops, horses, and equipment, and planned to go to Xiangzhou. Heyang was sparsely populated, and he really couldn't grab anything.
Most of the time, he would still be hungry, so he might as well go to the prosperous Hebei Province and run away anyway. He was very alert.
…
In Hanoi County, Huaizhou, Zhao Keyu has packed his bags and left the city.
The Zhao family has lived in Heyang for a long time and was born in a military school family. When Sun Ru attacked Heyang, the Zhao family was in Huaizhou and attached to Li Hanzhi. Sun Ru retreated and Li Han was defeated. Zhu Quanzhong appointed Ding Hui as the governor of Heyang.
The Zhao family relied on it.
After Ding Hui led his troops to the south, Zhao Keyu could no longer stay in Heyang. He was transferred to Zhengzhou as the governor, where he taught farming and mulberry farming. He achieved outstanding results and attracted Zhu Quanzhong's attention.
At that time, Zhu Quanzhong successively appointed Zhang Zonghou and Zhu Chongjie as the governor of Heyang, but neither of them were satisfied with the results. In the end, he simply appointed Zhao Keyu, who was from Heyang anyway.
Heyang Jiedushi changed one after another. Zhao Keyu became the governor of a foreign state from the intermediate military academy, and then returned to Heyang to serve as Jiedushi. It seems that he has made a fortune, but if you look carefully at Heyang
If the population was sparse, we wouldn't think so.
On average, there were thousands of people in a county, and life was miserable. It was difficult to raise five thousand soldiers, and they had to rely on Henan Prefecture for support.
But Henan Prefecture has been besieged by Shao thieves for two or three years, and the land has been almost completely destroyed. How can there be money and food support? So we can only rely on Zheng and Hua Prefectures to send money and food support. There are more than 400,000 people in these two prefectures. If you collect a little money and food, you can
Coupled with the little foundation in Heyang itself, we can make do with it.
Zhao Keyu knew very well that when he left Heyang, he had to make achievements. Not only in the military field, but also in local production, and he had to work even harder.
But he was unlucky. Li Keyong led his army south and beat Heyang into a mess. After Keyong was repulsed, Li Hanzhi came twice more, and the local damage was more severe, especially in Huaizhou in the north.
The counties are almost the same as the white land.
This is actually not his fault. But there is no way, luck itself is a part of life, you have to accept it.
He has been dismissed from the post of Heyang Jiedushi and moved his family to Bianzhou. As for what he will do next, we will have to go there to find out.
Bad luck, misfortune, and discomfort with a glimmer of hope, that's how Zhao Keyu feels now.
After the convoy left Hanoi City, it headed southeast toward Wuzhi County, where it planned to cross the river to Heyin and then go to Bianzhou.
The convoy traveled for half a day, and it was getting a little dark. Zhao Keyu looked anxious and kept urging the coachman to speed up and rush to the station before nightfall. It was cold and freezing, and it was not comfortable to sleep in the wild.
The coachman was obedient and did not dare to say anything. But at this moment, the sound of rapid horse hooves came from the northeast.
Zhao Keyu was shocked. He was also a martial artist. How could he not know what the sound meant?
It was relatively sparse at first, and the pace was a bit slow, as if aimlessly. But it soon became denser, and the pace suddenly accelerated, and it kept getting closer to them. It was obviously aimed at them.
The Heyang garrison was originally concentrated in Hanoi, Heyang, and Mengjin. However, after the battle at Wangwushan suddenly became fierce, a large number of garrison troops in the Huaizhou area were transferred westward to support Jiyuan, Zhiguan, Heqing and other places.
Today's Huaizhou, except for the state city, can be said to be extremely empty. If there are bandits going south, they can basically only stick to the state and county cities and abandon all the wild areas.
Li Hanzhi is here to fight against the autumn wind again! Zhao Keyu cursed bitterly, took out his iron lao and said: "Ring the chariot into a formation, hurry up! Most of the thieves are cavalry, which is not good for close combat, so don't panic."
There were about 200 people in the convoy. Except for the escorting state soldiers, they were all generals of the Zhao family, and their combat effectiveness was not weak.
The melee combat capability of the cavalry has always been a major flaw. If the cavalry formed a formation, armed with powerful crossbows and long swords to defend, the cavalry would probably retreat if they saw that they were not easy to deal with.
The Huaizhou soldiers and Zhao family generals soon became busy. Women and children cried in unison, which made Zhao Keyu's head hurt.
The sound of horse hooves gradually became louder.
Zhao Keyu looked around, and then his eyes widened.
The thieves dismounted, but were still putting on their armor and stringing their rifle bows. After a while, an officer directed them to form a formation, with the sword and shield bearers in the front, the riflemen behind them, and the strung rifle bows hanging around their waists.
.
This is mounted infantry!
Zhao Keyu's eyesight went dark, he was finished!
There are a thousand thieves. If there are a thousand cavalry, they may not be able to defeat these two hundred infantry. But a thousand mounted infantry, with all their armor, is no good.
The other side is still busy. Some people gather their horses, some disperse to monitor, and some even remove their propaganda equipment from the pack horses. This is really fucking infantry!
"Dong dong dong!" The sound of war drums sounded, as if it was beating in Zhao Keyu's heart.
A thousand soldiers marched up the wall.
"Woo!" The swordsmen and shieldmen in the first row knelt down on one knee, and the riflemen in the second and third rows moved forward with their guns in hand, half-kneeling on the ground. The riflemen in the following rows lowered their long swords here and launched.
A round of projectiles.
Damn it, this is really infantry style!
A dense rain of arrows fell inside the car formation, and the unarmored state soldiers screamed in agony.
In order to defend themselves against the cavalry, they formed a circle around their chariots and were almost out of formation. How could they fight?
The drum beat started again, and the soldiers on the opposite side quickly approached within thirty steps and launched another volley.
The arrows are like a strong wind, harvesting human lives wantonly.
Zhao Keyu's arrow hit an arrow and he suddenly fell to the ground. Before he fell to the ground, he saw that the archer on the opposite side had already grabbed a long spear and ran over quickly.
With skilled combat skills, sophisticated equipment, and high morale, this is an army of economic control, and it’s over!
"Kill!" The raging wave of infantry rushed up and soon swamped the small convoy.
I went back to my hometown today. I didn’t have time during the day, so I stayed up late to finish coding and sent it all.
