On the third day of the fourth month, Li Shimin took command and was the marshal of the Longyou Road march, commanding 20,000 troops to fight Tuyuhun.
On this day, Zhang Chao, the head of the march of the right rear army, also took his 3,000 eagles to raise his troops and escorted the Minfu transport team to set off after him.
Guanzhong Sisai, the country of abundance.
This place in Guanzhong has always been very dangerous, Tongguan, Wuguan, Xiaoguan, Sanguan, four passes guard the pass.
There is the Yellow River in the east, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and Longshan Mountain in the west.
Over Longshan, out of Longguan is Longright.
The Longshan Mountains lie in the northwest of Guanzhong and are the northwest barrier of Guanzhong.
The passage into Guanzhong from Longshang is mainly the valley lowland cut by the Wei River, Jing River and other rivers.
The direction of the Wei River is more steep, while the direction of the Jing River is relatively easy.
Xiao Pass stands in the Longshan Pass, guarding the passage from the direction of the Jing River into Guanzhong.
Now Luo Yi is leading tens of thousands of horses to guard this important northwest gate of Guanzhong.
Guan Long Guan Long refers to Guanzhong and Longyou.
The highlands in the northwest of Guanzhong are very important for the safety of Guanzhong, and the Xiao Pass that Luo Yi is guarding is the key to guarding the Jinghe River passage that is easiest to enter the Guanzhong Plain.
And what Li Shimin wants to go is the line of the Wei River in the south.
Longzhou and Tianshui stand on the east and west sides of Longshan Mountain, controlling the road that crosses Longshan along the Weishui River Valley.
In the fifteen divisions of the world just completed by the imperial court, Longzhou was classified into the Guannei Road, all because of the danger of Longzhou choking Longdi, controlling Qin and Fengzhichong, and being an important town in Guanzhong.
But Tianshui was zoned into Longyou Road.
The Great Earthquake Pass has become an important pass between Longzhou and Tianshui, and it is also an important boundary between Guannei Road and Longyou Road.
Zhang Chao once heard Fang Xuanling talk about the importance of Longyou, and if he wanted to protect Guanzhong, he would first consolidate Longyou.
Guanzhong has a high-rise situation in the Central Plains, and Longxi has a high-rise situation in Guanzhong.
Longxi occupies the upper reaches of Guanzhong, and even has an upstream trend in Hanzhong and Shuzhong.
The valley lowlands formed by Weishui, Qiangshui, and Western Han water provide a passage between Longxi and Guanzhong, Hanzhong, and Shuzhong.
The terrain of Longxi is significantly higher than that of Guanzhong, Hanzhong and Shuzhong, and it is more difficult to attack Longxi from Guanzhong, Hanzhong and Shuzhong, but it is easy to attack from Longxi.
Because of this, the acquisition of Longxi is quite important, the competition of Shu Wei in Longxi during the Three Kingdoms, and the struggle of Liu Song and Northern Wei for the Di people in the Northern and Southern Dynasties are all because of this strategic thinking.
Longxi is enough to control Guanzhong.
Li Shimin's rare defeat in his life once occurred in the battle with Xue Ju's father for Longyou.
Li Shimin was defeated in Qianshuiyuan, the defeated pants were almost gone, and most of the eight chief managers were captured, and in the end, Liu Wenjing and others took the blame for him.
In the end, the Tang army united with Li Rail in Hexi and attacked Western Qin on both sides, so that it could be regarded as a victory.
At that time, the Li family was based in Guanzhong, the Xue family occupied Longyou, Li Liang was based in Hexi, and Guanlong was in a tripartite battle.
The Li family was defeated in a row at first, and later Tang and Liang joined forces to destroy Western Qin and finally capture Guanlong.
From the perspective of the entire military geography and strategy, Guanlong is in a corner, and Li Tang is like the Han Dynasty Guanzhong's basic thinking, first stabilizing Guanzhong, and then drawing the Central Plains.
Advance can be attacked, retreat can be defended.
However, in order to ensure the safety of Guanzhong, we must first control the backyard of Longxi, and in order to control Longxi, we must control Hexi.
It is necessary to control Hexi and pacify the Western Regions.
Today, the Western Regions are the territory of the Turks, and the Turks are attacking in large numbers.
The area around Shuofang was also a barrier to Xiaoguan, but Shuofang is now controlled by Liang Shidu.
Longyou Hexi was in the hands of the Tang Dynasty, but now Tuyuhun attacked Longxi again.
The defensive chain of Datang Guanzhong, Longyou, and Hexi is collapsing.
Li Yuan is very clear, and Li Shimin is also very clear, so Li Shimin will ask for an order to send troops, and Li Yuan will also draw 10,000 out of the only 20,000 soldiers to Li Shimin.
Li Shimin's march route was actually to march west along the Weishui River Valley.
This route is not easy to walk, and it is much more difficult than walking the first line of the Jing River Valley.
But to Longyou, this route is the shortest.
Back then, Wei and Shu competed, and Zhuge Liang came out of Qishan, and he has always been confronting each other in the Longguan area.
Now Zhang Chao and they are re-following the route of Sima Yi of the Wei army.
Chang'an to Weizhou Longxi is thousands of miles away, even if you reach Longguan, there are more than 500 miles.
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Zhang Chao rode on a horse, with his right rear army to escort grain, grass and ordnance, and 3,000 men and horses escorted nearly 10,000 people to transport grain and grass, and the team was long.
But the road is difficult to navigate, especially at this time it is early summer, and there is a lot of rain, and the road surface is muddy when it rains, just like a swamp.
The wheels often got stuck in the mud and couldn't get up, and the mules and horses couldn't pull them, so they had to help carry them.
In order to hurry, Zhang Chao had to treat his right rear army as a team of engineers.
Every day, a regiment is assigned to be responsible for opening the road, and with a group of people, it is really to open the road in the mountains and build bridges in the water.
From time to time, you can encounter a hillside that blocks the road due to a mudslide, and you have to dig the road, and when the river swells and blocks the road, you have to cut down trees and build bridges.
Those muddy and difficult roads have to be cut down to pave the way.
The worst thing is the rain.
Since Chang'an, this rain has been endless.
From time to time, there are torrential rains and hail, and even if the heavy rain stops, this drizzle does not stop, in short, it has never sunny.
Grain and ordnance are afraid of rain and blisters, so they must be wrapped and protected.
In this kind of weather, the march was wet every day, and the worst thing was that there was no dry wood to make a fire.
Basically, I ate dry food every day, but fortunately, the soldiers of the right rear army brought some fried rice when they came out, so they could save some food and still be able to hold on.
Every night, after camping, I would find a way to make a fire and make a meal.
"Chief Qiqi, there is an open field in front, it will be dark, do you want to camp in front tonight" A scout leader came over and asked Zhang Chao.
Because Zhang Chao left a good impression on Li Shimin that day, in the end, Li Shimin made an exception and gave Zhang Chao a hundred horses, which was the greatest support.
For this hundred rides, Zhang Chao is also very valuable.
He organized the 100 men into ten squads, one for each ten, and let them serve as scout cavalry for the right rear army, taking turns to go out to explore the way.
Although he was still marching in the Tang territory, Zhang Chao was most worried about an ambush by enemy cavalry.
Although his team is large, more than 8,000 people, they are either people or workshop apprentices, and if they don't accidentally step into the trap, it will be really doomed.
Be careful to make the 10,000-year-old ship, Zhang Chao is quite cautious.
Every day, the scout cavalry was sent out for twenty or thirty miles, and their own infantry reconnaissance teams were sent around the perimeter to reconnoiter all the way around.
At night, there is no hurry.
There was still some time before it got dark, and Zhang Chao had to find a suitable terrain selected by the scouts to camp for the night.
"Let's get off the road and get to the camp early" Sitting on a horse in a raincoat is not a very comfortable thing, and even though you have a raincoat, you are actually very wet.
The war horses were all listless in the rain and blistered.
After a day of trekking in the rain, everyone was so tired that they just wanted to rest and boil a pot of boiling water and cook a hot meal.
The camps for the cavalry scouts were good, and those were seasoned veterans.
The place was bordered by a river in front and a mountain in the back, like a small plain delta jutting out.
They are camped there, and now that the river is full, it can be said that it is very safe as long as they hold both ends.
However, Zhang Chao was not careless, good terrain does not mean that he can relax.
Getting closer and closer to Longxi, Zhang Chao is becoming more and more demanding.
"Hurry up and move the chain camp" The chain camp that Zhang Chao said is a camp he created himself, and the biggest feature of this camp is that it is divided into many camps. 5,000 people, one battalion for each 1,000 men, formed a circle with baggage wagons, and then unloaded all the grain and baggage and placed them in the center of the cart formation, and covered with tents.
The tents of the people surrounded the perimeter of the supplies.
The five battalions of the Men all maintained a distance of tens of paces wide.
Zhang Chao's 3,000 right rear army was divided into three battalions with battalions as units, distributed on the three corners of the five Minfu battalions.
"Outside the car formation, dig a ditch, dig some horse pits, and cut down trees to keep horses away" Although he was tired and hungry after a day of walking, Zhang Chao would not slack off, he would ask the people to set up camp, and dig a ditch outside the people's carts and soldiers' gun cabinets and horses, and if it was early, he would cut down some trees to keep the horses away and dig some horse pits.
Although I was busy and hard for half a day every time, after one night, I stayed again.
But Zhang Chao insisted every time.
Some of the people were camping, some were cutting wood, and some were leading the mules and horses to drink water and feed the mules and horses.
The soldiers of the right rear army were still on guard and defending all around under Zhang Chao's request.
Da Niu and Er Niu and Ke Xiaoba and Ke Thirteen are helping Zhang Chao set up a tent, Zhang Chao's tent is bigger, the materials are better, not afraid of wind and rain, but it is heavier, and it has to be pulled by two mules.
Tents are being erected, and the soldiers' tents are relatively formal, with a tent for ten people.
But many of the people did not have such good equipment, they were conscripted to transport food, there were no tents at all, they were all brought by their own families, and many of them were quite rudimentary.
There are even some people who don't have tents at all, and at night, if it doesn't rain, they lie down on the ground, and if it rains, they have to find a way to get through, some take a felt cloth and sit all night, and some take tree branches to build a simple shed.
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Later, Zhang Chao set up a rule, every time he camped, the people helped each other cut trees and cut firewood, and first set up a shed for ten people.
In early summer, spending the night in the wild is already easy to get sick, and if you catch a cold in the rain, it is even more troublesome.
Illness became an injury, and he couldn't transport supplies, so Zhang Chao had to find a way to take care of them and let people help and pull them, which was even more troublesome.
There were Zhang Chao's personal soldiers who loudly preached the procuratorate everywhere in the battalion.
"It is forbidden to drink raw water, and all water should be boiled before drinking" It is forbidden to drink raw water, and every time you set up camp, you should first fetch water and boil it.
Every 50 people must dig a toilet first, etc., and there are many rules.
But this is the case in the army, there are no rules, how can this bring more than 10,000 people.
The same is true of grain, which is distributed only after the camp is set up every day, and it is distributed at one level.
The army is issued to the battalion, the battalion is issued to the regiment, and the regiment is issued to the team.
The team is re-issued with a group of ten people who eat together and take turns cooking.
Although they were still wet, they quickly brought back the branches left over from the cabinet horses they had just made to cook.
The convoy had dry firewood in the car, well protected, some pine needles and some hay.
It is distributed with the food every day.
On such a rainy day, without this dry fire, there would be no fire and no food.
Erniu skillfully struck the flint and ignited the dry pine needles.
After blowing a few breaths, the flames were stronger, and Erniu carefully put the fire into the dug marching stove kang, which was dug in the ground, but two oblique holes were dug on both sides, and the stove in the middle was opened from below.
In this way, the pot is placed on top, and the firewood below will burn better, not easy to extinguish, and not easy to smoke.
The big cow put the folded wet fine firewood on the rack, although the firewood was wet but relatively fine, and it was dried and burned after a while.
Erniu took some large wet branches and put them aside to roast.
"San Lang, you change your clothes, I'll bake them here for you."
Da Niu did his duty as a service soldier.
Zhang Chao sat on a small pony, and said a little tiredly, "I'll just come by myself, you also take off your wet clothes and bake them, wet clothes are easy to catch a cold and get sick after wearing them for a long time." ” Rack the pot and fill with water.
Erniu put some tea brick foam in it, added some ginger powder to it, and then added some ghee.
Zhang Chao took off his clothes, took a spear and put it on, and then set it up on two branches nailed to the ground.
The big bulls also quickly took off their wet clothes, and the spears became clothes poles at this time, and they all gathered around the stove.
Zhang Chao didn't bother to change his clothes again, so he sat in front of the fire.
"What to eat at night" As Zhang Chao, who escorted the grain and grass baggage, he was not short of food.
However, during the march, the conditions were limited, and it was impossible to make anything delicious.
The fried rice is almost gone, and it is not easy to eat such delicious dry food all the way until now.
"Let's make some knife noodles and eat them", and I don't have the time and leisure to do anything else.
He was grumbling with hunger, and he just wanted to eat early.
Making knife-cut noodles is much more convenient than making steamed buns, and it doesn't take too long to ferment.
Take two catties of noodles, add six taels of water, beat into ears of dough, and then knead into dough.
Take a damp cloth and let your face rise.
When the noodles are awakened, the butter milk tea in the pot is ready, and the butter tea with ginger powder and salt is considered to have a unique taste.
If it was usual, Zhang Chao would not eat such a thing if he was killed.
But now, in this humid ghost weather, it would be nice to have a bowl of hot butter tea to drink.
There is ginger, salt and ghee in the tea, which not only repels cold but also replenishes nutrients.
After drinking two bowls of tea, Zhang Chao felt that he was in good spirits.
After drinking the tea, the noodles also woke up, and the big cow continued to knead the dough, kneading it very evenly, softly and lightly.
After the noodles are kneaded, the boiling water in the pot is also boiled.
Holding the dough directly in one hand and the horizontal knife in the other, smacking into the pot, knife after knife, the dough slice one after another, drawing white light in the air, falling into the soup pot, tumbling, exuding a good smell.
Zhang Chao took out a handful of wild vegetables, which he picked on the side of the road during the march, and had already washed them, twisted them in the middle with his hands a few times, and then threw them into the pot.
"Oops, it seems that I ate knife-cut noodles today, but I caught up."
With the sound of words, Ma Zhou, Cen Wenwen, and Sun Fujia walked in together. followed by Cui Shanfu.
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"Hey, I've just made milk tea, are there any, bring me two bowls, this weather is really terrible."
Cui Shanfu took off his raincoat and said to Zhang Chao very unceremoniously.
Zhang Chao took a spoon and stirred the knife-cut noodles in the pot, added lard and salt to it, and said casually, "I knew that you would definitely come to eat my big family again, and there was still half a pot of milk tea left over there, so I went to fight it myself." ” Ma Zhou was pulled by Zhang Chao to accompany the army, as for Cui Shanfu, he was the Kuzhen of the Qin Wangfu, and he was sent by Li Shimin to Zhang Chao's right rear army and became a Sima, which is simply inexplicable.
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