Yang Rong's guess was right, Wang Xian did not appear under Juyong Pass at all As the former commander of the three armies of the Ming Dynasty, he knows very well that the defense of Juyong Pass is strong and unparalleled in the world. otbnkotgt Therefore, after passing through Zhangjiakou, he divided his troops and asked Liu Sheng to continue to advance towards Juyong Pass with a large group of men and horses, making a feint posture, and he was ready to take 20,000 cavalry, under the cover of night, quietly passing through Zhuoxian County and rushing towards Bauhinia Pass.
When they broke up, Liu Sheng was worried, although he knew that this was the only choice now, but Wang Xian's move was too risky.
"Grandpa, let's let my subordinates take people to Bauhinia Pass."
Liu Sheng looked at Wang Xian and said in a deep voice: "20,000 horses is too few, even if you break through the Bauhinia Pass, you still have to face hundreds of thousands of troops in the pass."
"How can there be hundreds of thousands, and a full dozen is counted as 300,000," Wang Xian smiled, as if he was talking about a trivial matter.
He is naturally well aware of the distribution of the Ming army, originally there were 400,000 forbidden troops in the capital, but Zhu Zhanji continuously sent troops to Dawangcheng, and also reinforced Xuanfu and Juyong Pass, and now in the capital, there are almost 200,000 soldiers and horses, and 50,000 in Daxing are used to defend the direction of Shandong.
In addition, Zhu Zhanji is likely to withdraw the 50,000 troops stationed in Liaodong, and the three guards of Duoyan have become history, and there is no need to send heavy troops to garrison them.
"That's not hundreds of thousands" Liu Sheng was messy in the wind, and Wang Xian could still laugh.
"Alright, you're not a good job, I don't want to trade with you."
Wang Xian smiled and waved his hand, and said, "In my opinion, your side is really dangerous." ” "Hey" Liu Sheng couldn't refute it, because what Wang Xian said was very reasonable, once his army reached Juyong Pass, it would be equivalent to entering a cage.
But they had no choice.
They have tried every means to collect military rations, and even looted the military rations in Huailai City, Dushi City, and these auxiliary cities, and there is only one month's military rations when they are full.
If Wang Xian can't solve the battle within a month, the army will only run out of food.
When the time comes, the fun will be great "Then at least, bring more people" Seeing that Wang Xian's mind had been decided, Liu Sheng knew that it could not be changed, so he took another step back. "20,000 people is already the limit, and there are too many troops with me, so there is no way to hide their whereabouts."
Wang Xian shook his head categorically and said: "In addition, in the next tough battle, we can only use loyal and elite old troops, and we can only use cavalry."
As he spoke, he sighed and said with some sadness: "After a series of battles on the grassland, we only have less than 40,000 cavalry left, and this is not counting Wu Wei's 10,000 who have never been on the battlefield." ” Saying that, he smiled embarrassedly at Liu Sheng and said, "Actually, I have taken away all the troops that can come in handy, and what I left for you is a clay-footed giant who is strong on the outside and strong on the inside."
You don't ask me for someone, and I'm thankful. ” "Just rely on Zhu Yong and Xu Jingchang's goods, if Lao Tzu doesn't beat them, they will burn high incense, do you want to get someone with your grandfather" Liu Sheng grinned, looking like he had picked up a big bargain.
But in fact, Wang Xian knows that the pressure on his side is not less than his own.
Not to mention that it is necessary to contain more than 200,000 elite officers and soldiers, but only to rely on less than 20,000 cavalry in hand, plus more than 20,000 infantry who have never been on the battlefield, it is already very difficult to control those 80,000 soldiers and make them honestly obey orders.
Therefore, except to gather a large army to bluff outside Juyong Pass, there is no other way to attract the 200,000 elite border troops of the imperial court.
"Grandpa, don't worry," Seeing the worry on Wang Xian's face, Liu Sheng laughed and said, "It's not okay to be old and rotten, it's no problem to train those little cubs to be obedient."
Liu Sheng's words are definitely not bragging, when it comes to leading troops to train soldiers, in front of him, even Wang Xian is willing to bow down.
The three major battalions of Emperor Yongle back then, as well as the four guard battalions of Wang Xian's main force now, were all trained by him and became loyal elite forces.
"Don't hold on."
Although he had confidence in Liu Sheng, Wang Xian still advised: "If the progress on my side is not smooth, or you judge, the army is about to be unable to withstand it, you must not hesitate to break through to the west, with Xu Jingchang and Zhu Yong's two pieces of material, you will definitely not be able to stop you."
"Don't worry, Grandpa, I know what to do."
After Liu Sheng finished speaking, he smiled and said: "Alas, I was worried about my grandfather, how can I talk about it, but my grandfather is worried about me."
"Forget it, let's not worry about it, we both do our own business, the victory must belong to us" Wang Xian also laughed, hugged his fist towards Liu Sheng and said: "Take care, there will be a period later" "Take care, there will be a period later" Liu Sheng's expression was solemn and he gave a big gift to Wang Xian.
The atmosphere became very solemn, and both of them knew very well that there were all kinds of difficulties and dangers here, and if they were not careful, they would lose all the games However, since he embarked on the road of rebellion, he originally pinned his head to the waistband of his trousers, and there was no way back at all, so he could only go all the way to the dark 。
In the end, Wang Xian only took 20,000 cavalry and disappeared into the canyon of Taihang Mountain.
Taihang Mountain stretches for thousands of miles, hundreds of mountains are interconnected, thousands of peaks are towering, and thousands of ravines are deep.
Bai Juyi Shiyun Taihang Road can destroy cars, and cars can travel on Taihang Road, such as floating seas and sailing the Yangtze River, and they are in a dangerous situation.
Wang Xian led the army into Taihang, although it was difficult and dangerous, but he could use the cover of the vast mountains to avoid the eyes and ears of the officials and soldiers, and he could go along the canyon until he reached Puyin, one of the eight Taihang mountains, and thus came out of Taihang.
The so-called Taihang Eight Mountains, is the river in Shanxi for hundreds of millions of years, impacting the eight east-west horizontal valleys that come out of Taihang, has always been the throat passage of the three provinces of Shanxi, Hebei and Henan through the Taihang Mountains, and is the important military pass of the border of the three provinces, known as the Taihang Eight Mountains.
Among them, the seventh is the Yin of Benpu, there is the Bauhinia Pass on the Shan, the peaks and peaks of its place are steep, and the inside of the mountain is passed, it is the military pass of Shanxi Datong leading to Zhili.
In addition, the eighth is the military capital, and the upper part of the mountain is Juyongguan.
Puyin as the throat of Datong to Zhili, is naturally the top priority of Datong town garrison, on Puyin, all over the enemy tower, beacon tower, as soon as there is a wind and grass, the two guards and horses stationed in Wei County and Laiyuan, will be killed by the fastest degree.
The focus of defense on Puyin Pass is naturally still on the Bauhinia Pass, which is located in the Bauhinia Ridge, strangled above the Puyin Pass, and there is a husband as the pass, and there is a danger in front of the ten thousand people, and similar to Juyong Pass, there are also the Great Wall and five castles that form the Bauhinia Pass defense line.
Normally, the difficulty of leading an army to attack Bauhinia Pass, although it is smaller than fighting Juyong Pass, is not much smaller.
However, no matter how dangerous Xiongguan is, no matter how perfect the system is, no matter how sound the system is, it must be implemented by people.
The reason why Wang Xian dared to take the risk and led 20,000 people to raid Zijing Pass was largely because its supreme commander was Xu Jingchang, the chief soldier of Datong Town and the Duke of Dingguo.
For the only remaining fathers of the Ming Dynasty, Wang Xian naturally knows everything about it, and the British public Zhang Fu can fight well, govern the army rigorously, and have the ability to catch up with the famous generals.
Chengguo Duke Zhu Yongyong is not brave enough, even if he is not a qualified general, but at least he can lead troops and fight.
As for this Dingguo Grandpa, he is completely a waste snack with wine, wealth, and skill, courage and strategy.
Due to the withering of famous generals, there are not many nobles in the Ming Dynasty who can lead troops to fight, and there are even fewer who are completely trustworthy, so Zhu Zhanji had no choice but to order his cousin's general and let him go to Datong to sit in town.
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If he was temperamental, Xu Jingchang would definitely not want to leave the comfort zone of the capital, but if he didn't take this errand, he wouldn't want to restore the title, so he had to go to Datong with reluctance.
Xu Jingchang took office at the same time as Zhu Yong and Wang Tong, and in any case, the latter two did their best to repair the defense line and dispatch troops to prevent Wang Xian's arrival.
However, after taking office, he spent all his energy on rebuilding his official residence, dispatching troops, and transporting the furnishings and singers and maids in the Duke's palace in his capital to Datong.
He even used the post transmission system to transport his daily food and drink, quite a style of the ancients who rode the red dust and smiled and no one knew that it was lychee.
In the past month, Grandpa Xu has been busy with how to make his life more comfortable, how can he still care about the city defense of Datong's soldiers, and received orders from the imperial court to let them do it themselves.
The army of the Ming Dynasty has been slacking off for many years, the commander is like this, the people below are up and down, where will they prepare for war with their hearts, so the laxity of the defense line of Bauhinia Pass is simply to the point of fingering.
Xu Jingchang also had a word for this, he said to the left and right, even if Wang Xian comes back, he will only go to Xuanfu, it is impossible to go around to Datong, we don't need to be too nervous If people can be resurrected after death, his grandfather, the great military strategist Xu Da, will definitely jump out of the grave and strangle this grandson to death, saving him from embarrassing the old Xu family. 。
As soon as he received the warning from Xuanfu, Xu Jingchang panicked, according to the emperor's will, he must reinforce Xuanfu as soon as possible, and gather Xuanda forces to surround Wang Xian under Juyong Pass.
It is absolutely impossible not to go, then you can only bring as many troops as possible in order to protect yourself in case of emergency.
But the emperor's will did not say that he would not be allowed to take care of Bauhinia Pass, and as a result, Xu Jingchang almost exhausted Puyincheng's troops, and took 10,000 people from Bauhinia Pass, and raised 100,000 troops to protect himself to support Xuanfu.
In Grandpa Xu's opinion, his life is expensive, and taking away 100,000 troops is not too much.
As a result, Wang Xian's army passed through two hundred miles from the defense area of Datong Town, and there was no exposure of their whereabouts Of course, there was the sheltering effect of Taihang Mountain, and there was the cautious factor of Wang Xian's night travel, and there were even more advanced Jinyi Wei masters, who pulled out the enemy towers and outposts along the way, but if Xu Jingchang had not transferred his troops, the masters of Jinyi Wei were all like Xianyun Dao Chang, and it was impossible to even go down to eighteen beacon towers, which did not cause trouble.
Three days later, in the middle of the night, Wang Xian led his army through many canyons and finally arrived at Puyin.
I saw the path on the mountain gorge, taking the road between the cliffs and rocks, and the road was cut and ridden.
The right wall is steep and inserted into the sky, and the left is hundreds of zhang of the absolute stream, and there is an angry turbulence under the foot with clear thunder: