When Huan Wen arrived at the first pass, Liu Rui's forward force had already captured four passes in a row, and Liu Rui's troops who captured the fourth pass were forced to rest and recuperate due to losses and fatigue, and they were converted from the Yellow Brigade to the vanguard to continue to open the way.
When the Cheng Han learned that the Han army had the intention of invading, they tried their best to build fortifications on any easily defended and difficult terrain that was easy to defend, usually by building a Guancheng to cut off the road and building a cottage on the mountain near the Guancheng.
The Han army did not know how many fortifications Li Cheng Han had built to block the road, they spent eleven days to conquer the four gates in a row, and naturally there were some fortifications such as cottage garrisons along the way, Liu Rui's 4,000 people were only left with 800 combat strength in the end, and the results they achieved with friendly troops were more than 6,000 enemy soldiers killed and more than 20,000 captured.
"In this way, Li Shi, the lord of Chengguo, is mobilizing young and strong people who can fight to participate in the war" Huan Wen read the report, and the more the enemy army along the way went back, the more complex the composition became, and he rhythmically tapped his fingers on the stones of the female wall, and asked: "The barbarians are on the side of Chengguo" The Nanban did not establish a state, it was scattered in a relatively primitive tribal form, and the tribal alliance that once appeared to unify the barbarian mountains was the era of Meng Xuan, and after the split, there was no strong person who could integrate the Nanban again.
Because they are tribes that do not belong to each other, the vendetta situation within the Nanban is actually very serious, just like a kind of headhunting activity of some coming-of-age ceremonies of each tribe has never stopped, resulting in the overall number of Nanban not increasing together.
When Li Shi faced the invasion of the Han army, he did send a requisition to some of the attached Nanban tribes, and it was normal for the Han army to encounter the upper Nanban.
In fact, the Han State has regarded the Li family as a dry bone in the grave, and before the Li family was destroyed, there was a corresponding solution for the Nanban, and there was a very clear national tendency, that is, not stingy or merciful, he would kill one when he encountered one, and kill the Nanban trembling and fear, so that the Nanban had a deep enough impression of the Han army, and then took other measures.
"It's been almost two months since we did."
Yuan Qiao coughed while talking, and his face looked a little pale, it was a very strange climate recently, heavy rain and light rain came in turns, coming and going quickly, and the temperature contrast between day and night in the mountainous area was large and extremely humid, giving the wind chill.
He wiped his nose with a silk scarf before continuing: "There are many mosquitoes in the mountains in summer, and we don't know where the miasma is distributed. ” After the Han army's invasion began, the pace of advance never stopped, and the Han army from Chen Cang entered the territory of Li Chenghan and had been attacking the city, but because Li Chenghan had too many defensive nodes, the advance speed was really not fast.
"The casualties of the troops are high."
Huan Wen stood on the stone wall of Guancheng and looked around, the valley was surrounded by two mountains, and he could clearly see the cottages halfway up the mountain on both sides: "There are too many similar fortifications along the way. ” Yuan Qiao had detailed data at hand, as for the Han army had lost 2,200 dead so far, the number of deaths was still increasing due to the fact that there were seriously wounded and incurable, and they had only advanced fifteen miles, and there were still nearly twenty miles away from leaving the mountainous area.
"Uncle Yan, we can only conquer the past one by one."
Huan Wen did not give the striker the right to surrender and accept the judgment, he just wanted a bloody attack to hit the confidence of the Li Cheng Han, and only the Han army showed enough toughness and combat effectiveness to minimize the will of the Li Cheng Han to resist.
He said unwaveringly: "The ruling class of Chengguo has decayed, and the best way to destroy the country is to destroy it fundamentally by breaking the will to resist at the grassroots level." ” Yuan Qiao had studied Li Chenghan more than once, and he knew that what Huan Wen said was completely correct, that is, he was distressed about the loss of the troops.
He needed to know how far Huan Wen was going to go.
"Nanzheng" Huan Wen raised his hand and clenched it into a fist, and said sonorously: "After conquering Nanzheng, it will be a turning point. ” Yuan Qiao secretly calculated that with the current level of casualties, there would be at least about 5,000 dead in the Southern Zheng Han army, and they only had 30,000 soldiers along the way, that is, one-sixth of them were killed, not counting the injuries and losses that would occur.
The Han army, which had marched south from Guanzhong, had a difficult and resolute siege of the city, and Zan Jian, who was located in Nanzheng, had gathered too much bad news.
Li Chenghan built so many Guancheng and cottages, they were optimistic that they would block the Han army in the direction of Guanzhong on the side of the plank road, even if the Han army was really able to fight, it should be able to hold out for the last two or three years.
"Wrong, wrong."
Zan Jian's right arm slammed heavily on the desk, with a hideous expression: "The previous estimate was that one Guancheng could hold out for at least three months, but the Han army conquered four Guancheng in eleven days, and the cottages along the way did not play a big role."
For Zan Jian and others who were in the rear, they could only extend more imagination from the text of some reports, and it was impossible to have enough understanding of the process of the war, and the only thing that was clear was that the Han army relied on strong attacks to achieve results.
In this way, they already know the result, that is, the Han army is advancing with a devastating posture, and they will inevitably have a feeling that the Han army is far more powerful than they imagined.
Wang Yi was Li Shi's attendant, and he was sent to Nanzheng to supervise the war.
Knowing that the Han army going south from Guanzhong would take the plank road, in fact, there was a sound of burning the plank road inside the Li Cheng Han, and it was Zan Jian who advocated leaving the plank road and building Guancheng and cottages in the direction of the Han army's march.
This is also the main reason why the Han army's offensive is far more fierce and faster than Zan Jian imagined, which makes Zan Jian angry and ashamed.
Zan Jian's idea in advance was very simple, the Han army was not only nested in Guanzhong, Yuzhou and Jingzhou also had the territory of the Han State, so the Han army could not only come from the direction of Guanzhong if they wanted to attack Li's Chenghan.
Compared with Hanzhong's attack on Li's Chenghan, you can only take the plank road, and the Han State can attack Li's Chenghan in the territory of Jingzhou, so why doesn't Li's Chenghan fight with the Han army in a war zone that is more advantageous for his own side, and fight in those places that do not occupy too much terrain advantage "Former general, don't be impatient."
Wang Yi is a very gentle-looking person, not only does he look Sven, but his voice is also unhurried, and his voice is slightly magnetic: "The general chose to fight in a place that is favorable to us, which is naturally correct." ” There is indeed nothing wrong with it, many people echoed Zan Jian's strategy before, and even thought that even if the Han army did not take the plank road, they should do everything possible to attract it, just because the terrain over there really had an absolute advantage over the Li family.
If there is anything wrong, then it can only be said that the defenders who are responsible for defense are really too useless, occupying all the time and geography, and it can even be said that they also have a comprehensive advantage in people and above, that is, the Han army is far more capable of fighting than imagined.
Everyone knows the identity of Wang Yi as a supervisor, but what he is now playing is not the role of a supervisor who is opposed to the general, but more like a comforter who comes to encourage the generals on behalf of the king, and says with encouragement: "There are also eight fortresses, there are also cottages and forts along the way, and there is also terrain that has an absolute advantage over defense, and we can firmly resist the enemy." ” The valley is very long and curved, out of the valley there is only a small basin, even out of the basin there is a roadblock of the chicken head pass, even after the chicken head pass there is also a valley, even if the valley is gone, there is also a Yangping pass.
Zan Jian has studied the relevant terrain more than once, and there are so many passes and dangerous places that can block the Han army, and there is really no battlefield with more advantages for Li Chenghan.
Even the loss of that side is not absolutely fatal to the Li family Chenghan, and Nan Zheng can be fortified, to put it mildly, if Nan Zheng is also lost, if you want to enter Shu, you have to pass the sword pavilion.
Do you know what it means to be a husband, and the Sword Pavilion is such a terrain existence.
Therefore, no matter what other roads the Han army is from the Baochuan Road, Lianyun Plank Road, Camel Valley Road, Meridian Road, or other roads, as long as it is from north to south, it is absolutely impossible to ignore the existence of the Sword Pavilion, and only by conquering the Sword Pavilion can it be regarded as really opening the door to enter the Shu Land.
Wang Yi is not only a Sven person, but also a very eloquent reader, and after a series of truths, not only Zan Jian calmed down, but also regained confidence with many generals.
Zan Jian regained his composure, but some things could not be reversed by ideological stability, and he had to tell another bad news: "The front sent back a battle report, and it has been found that the Han army has appeared bed crossbows, car crossbows, stone throwing vehicles and other siege equipment. ” "How could it be" Wang Yi was surprised and felt completely confused, and said in surprise: "No matter where you go, unless the Han army can fly, the narrow plank road can't transport those siege equipment."
"You can disassemble it first, and then assemble it by skilled craftsmen when you get to the ground."
Zan Jian felt that he was finally a little smarter than Wang Yan, and said solemnly: "The Han army is far more cunning than we thought, which is enough to show that their will to attack is strong. ” Wang Yi was stunned for a while when he heard this: "" It was a good idea to dismantle and transport it to the ground and reassemble it, but because of Liu Yan's existence, the Han army had a more convenient method, that is, the system farmers could build buildings for production, which was equivalent to cheating.
The Han army in the south of Guanzhong is 30,000, and some of the auxiliary personnel accompanying it are only 7,000, waiting for the relevant siege equipment to join, the speed of the siege and the village suddenly accelerated, it took eleven days to conquer four passes, and then it became one day to uproot a pass, counting the necessary march took thirteen days for the first Han army to arrive at the Jitou Pass.
Jitou Pass was actually built during the perennial fierce battle between Shu Han and Cao Wei during the Three Kingdoms period, which took place in the Second Battle of Qishan, and was built as a permanent pass for the Shu Han army against Cao Wei's army.
"His ancestors'."
Liu Rui couldn't help but scold his mother: "Not to mention the dangerous terrain, there is still a key river" The location of Jitouguan is very special, it is not only the exit of the slope road, but also the connection of the Lianyun plank road, which is equivalent to the combination of two plank roads.
Jitou Pass, located in the north of Baocheng Town, has a big stone like a chicken head at the pass, so it is called Jitou Pass.
There is a poem that says: "Qin Shu is the throat, and the land is the Han family; Fengyun protects the ancestral hall, and Lingzhao Pavilion Dao passes".
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In the Han Dynasty, in the present Shaanxi Baocheng Jitou Pass under the plank road, through the stone wall that stands on the south bank of the Baohe River, called "Baoping", once used the fire calcining stone method to open the tunnel of 14 meters long, 395425 meters wide, 4475 meters high, is the famous stone gate, there are stone carvings in the stone gate song, the stone door inscription chronicles.
The ancient name of the Baohe River is Heilongjiang under the Jitou Pass, and the Baoxi plank road is under the Jitou Pass, and passes through the stone gate along the Baohe River.
The wife of the palace of Zhou Youwang among the princes of the Beacon Fire Opera, Bao Xi grew up under the chicken head pass, by the water of the Bao River.
Liu Rui and the others not only saw the Baohe River, but also saw the stone gate, and even looked at the towering cliffs, and there will be no shortage of strange rocks on the mountain.
The arrival of the Han army made the defenders of Jitou Pass blow the horns of the sheep and beat the wooden drums in a desperate manner, and the sound continued to echo in the canyon, probably because the sound was too loud, and the stones kept rolling down from the mountain, and they smashed into the turbulent river and caused waves of water.
After replenishing the source of troops, Liu Rui's department once again became the vanguard of the whole army, from 4,000 to 5,000, and the figures of the soldiers were located on the plank road and some places where they could stand, almost all of them were stunned to look at the extremely steep terrain.
The direction from which the Han army came did not need to cross the turbulent and swirling Bao River, and they even had a number of roads to choose from to charge towards Jitou Pass, but except for the one at Shimen, the rest of the roads were very complicated and all of them were exposed to the range of arrows at the pass.
"The cliff is almost upright" Liu Rui was subconsciously swallowing his saliva, they were not less than smashed by stones dropped from the mountain along the way, which was called a miserable.
He squinted his eyes and tried to observe, saying as he said, "There are only a few that look like strongholds for people."
The cliff near the Jitou Pass is not easy to climb, this makes the Jitou Pass have enough garrison value, unless there is enough technology to excavate or it is difficult to make people stand firm, the Han army observed for a while, there is the figure of Li Cheng Han soldier on the cliff, but the number is not much.
The sound of sheep's horns and wooden drums was still being drummed, and the shouts of a large number of soldiers of the Li clan were added to the back, but it was not clear what the hell was being shouted.
"Rest, rest" Liu Rui did not dare to launch an offensive this time, he called the military marquis who came to the scout camp, and ordered: "First explore the surrounding terrain, focus on investigating whether there is a road that can go around the back of Jitou Pass, find out how many enemy troops are on the cliff, and the number of stones collected is the most important thing." ” Junhou Lin Feng nodded heavily, especially when he heard the stones, he subconsciously shook his cheeks.
To tell the truth, this group of Han troops was really smashed out of the psychological shadow by the stones thrown from the mountain: