Chapter 1144 "Two-way"
The setting sun shone on the blade, dyeing these battlefield weapons a dark red.
The ridge in the distance stood tall, like the dead giant's corpse.
The mountain road winds among the trees and rocks, twisting into a gray-brown intestine.
The long line was like a dying thousand-legged centipede, slowly squirming on the mountain path.
The wind was strong, and after blowing across the mountains, it made the willow branches, pine and cypress rustle, just like the soul-suming banner chanting on the grave.
Luo Yan gasped and sat on a big bluestone.
He regretted that he shouldn't have brought the baggage vehicle on the road.
The road conditions were too poor and uneven. There were too many abandoned ox carts and horse carriages along the way.
The most detrimental thing is that some mountain roads are too narrow and the ox carts cannot pass through, so they have to open the road temporarily, which greatly delayed the trip.
He now understands the difficulty of Deng Ai's sneak attack on Yinping and advancing for hundreds of miles.
The eight words "breaking a road through mountains and building a bridge through water" are simple to say, but when you actually do it, you just want to die.
That shitty Jin Dynasty deserves to be destroyed!
Don’t you know how to level the road when the world is peaceful? Don’t you know how to re-explorate and open up a road?
It's ridiculous to say, but most roads are actually built and dug due to the needs of war. If you really fight, even if you open mountains, stones and pavilions, you will have to pass. Once the war is over, you will not even be willing to repair the existing roads...
"Oh!" After the rest, Luo Yan, supported by his personal soldiers, continued to move forward with a wooden stick.
Behind him, the team could not see at first sight and stretched very long. And due to the limitations of the terrain, sometimes even though he heard the sound of drums there, he could not see a single figure, which made Luo Yan a little worried.
But——No way.
Just as he had to carry a large number of ox carts due to the serious shortage of service animals, if he wanted to take a small path and cut off the Liang army's food route, he had to take such risks.
When the sky gradually darkened, the entire army stopped moving forward.
Luo Yan met a White Tiger Yi chief who came to deliver food, cattle and wine in the valley.
However, the other party was not very polite. After delivering the supplies, he turned around and left. Before leaving, he added: "I haven't seen Mr. Luo today, and I will never see you later."
After saying that, the group quietly disappeared into the twilight.
All the generals looked angry. Luo Yan swept it and felt that he should encourage morale. So he called everyone to come and sit down, and smiled and said, "It's just someone who doesn't know the number of days."
The generals' expressions were slightly slowed down.
Luo Yan said again: "Thinking back then, Fan Mu recruited Jin to fight for Emperor Gao of Han. After entering Guanzhong, he defeated the Three Qin Kings and was granted the title of marquis. This is the 'destroy of the Three Marquis of Qin Fan'. After the war, Emperor Gao exempted the seven surnames from the people of the people who were rented and paid tribute. The name of Banyan Barbarians resounded throughout Guanzhong. Wherever he went, the Qin army in Guanxi fled when he heard the news."
When talking about the glorious past of our ancestors, the generals were very excited.
It was heard that earlier, the King of Qin joined Bazhong and "respected the Qin girl" in order to appease the people.
It turned out that they were so brave, even King Qin and Liu Bang had to coax them to work hard.
"In the Yongchu period of the Later Han Dynasty, the Qiang people entered Hanzhong, and the Banyan soldiers defeated them. The Qiang people were afraid of jealousy and called them divine weapons. They were taught the generations of linguistic people, so they should not travel south again."
"In the second year of Jianhe, Qiang entered the country again, and Banyan soldiers destroyed it again and again."
"If you have a small slab, then all the people of Shu will be covered with their hair and left lapel."
"The seven surnames of Banfeng have been in the Battle of Muye to the Qin Dynasty, and have made achievements, defeating the Three Qins, Tongyelang, destroying Laoshen, surrendering the Dian King, killing Qiang Hu, and defeating demon thieves. They have never fought with Qin soldiers, southwestern Yi, Qiang people, Tianshi Taoist disciples, Cao army, and Jin soldiers?"
"Now that the Liang thief has arrived again, I can't stand it, so all the generals can just attack him."
After saying these words, the generals and schoolmen of Banyan were obviously in their mood.
Since the Battle of Muye to conquer King Zhou, the monks were a powerful force, fighting south and north, east and west, and fighting the whole thing was a history of conquests. How much can the world change from the Qin and Han dynasties?
Just kill the enemy!
After resting in the valley for one night, on December 17, the army continued to move forward. At this time, the Banyan barbarian vanguard was only more than a hundred miles away from Hanfeng County.
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When the morning light was dim, people shouted and neighed in the valley.
The scouts leaped in the mountains, sometimes splitting the shrubs and vines in front of them and moving forward quickly; sometimes they climbed up and trekked with rocks with exposed roots.
The first battalion of troops has already started. These are the soldiers from the Xu family of Quren, or the Baihuyi barbarians. They are the same clan as the Banyu barbarians of Brazil. Sometimes they are also called Banyu barbarians in a broad sense, rather than the Baihuyi. The Banyu barbarians in a narrow sense are nothing but the seven surnames of Brazil.
Xu Yaozu kicked away the wild vine that was entangled in the halberd pole and looked at the Liang army scouts who were waving the flag.
The smell of sweat is everywhere in the air, mixed with the rotten and moldy smell of dead branches and leaves. When it rushes into the nose, people are "spiritually boosted".
He looked at his team again.
The total two thousand people are actually not all their own tribes, but also from their mother's family, their wife's family, and their brother-in-law's family. They must not only be able to fight, but also be familiar with the Taoist paths, and also have familiar heads in Hanfeng and even in the tribes further northwest.
Their family actually ran back from Shu. They originally lived in Zhi County, Ba County, and were the family of the Quren Xu family in Badong County.
In the 13th year of Yanxi (250), the great surname Xu Ju rebelled. Deng Zhi, the general of the chariot and cavalry, fought against him, and then moved his 5,000 families to Shu to serve as hunting officers.
After Li Cheng entered Sichuan, Xu Yao's father and his subordinates ran back to his hometown in Zhixian County and defected to Luo Shang, the governor of Yizhou in Jin (the nephew of Luo Xian).
The army came to Ba County. Seeing that it was impossible to fight, he went to Badong to join his relatives, and today.
Xu Yaozu's entire teenager was spent in Shu, and now he is nearly 50 years old and misses the youth that exudes his energy.
"Bang!" A crisp sound sounded in front of him, interrupting his memories.
Xu Yaozu looked up and saw a knife player accidentally hitting a stone while cutting the thorns, breaking a hole in the ring-headed knife, and suddenly felt very distressed.
He sighed and said nothing. The ranks of the people are poor!
Most people wear straw sandals or hemp shoes, and some of them are almost worn out and are wrapped with things.
A well-made ring-headed knife is really valuable in the tribe. I guess that guy feels so distressed that he can't help it.
There was a noise behind him.
A moment later, dozens of people rushed over with a young general.
"Prince Huan." Xu Yaozu immediately saluted.
Huan Wen was very polite, and replied with a bow, saying, "Mr. Xu."
During the greetings, he looked at Xu Yaozu's troops.
The most conspicuous one is the pack teams composed of ponies. In addition to food, the one they carry the most is the arrow box.
The slinger is good at shooting crossbows.
During the Han Dynasty, the Chijia Army used the sects as soldiers. During the Shu Han Dynasty, Zhuge Liang sent 3,000 families from Fuling to Hanzhong, thinking that they were crossbow soldiers.
In the early Jin Dynasty, the crossbow men of Ba County were sent to the Lianshao guarding Fengyi County.
The Ba people in Guanzhong were formed by generations of conscription and migration since the Han Dynasty.
Dong Wu, the commander of Hedong Ba people, is one of them, and Xu Kupeng, the chief of Guanzhong Ba people who was once suppressed by Liu Han, is also like this.
They use a wide variety of crossbows.
During the Qin Dynasty, bamboo crossbows were still used. As generations of mercenaries were used for the Central Plains dynasty, there were more and more types of crossbows and became more and more sophisticated. Even the huge Yuanrong crossbows were available, but I didn't take them when I went to the expedition.
The only thing that still retains the tradition of Baba is probably the medicine crossbow, which is also their standard weapon.
In short, this is a militia unit composed of swordsmen, halberds and crossbows as the main forces, but I don’t know how powerful it is.
If it is OK, Huan Wen suggested that the emperor recruit some people to garrison Liangzhou, Shazhou, Hezhou, Dai Kingdom and even western Liaoning. At least they fired a crossbow in succession when they defended the city, which was effective.
"How long will this place be left Hanfeng?" Huan Wen asked.
"It's over seventy miles." Xu Yaozu said.
"The entire army has only 20-year-old grain, and Hanfeng does not have much grain reserves. After going there, may he raise it on the spot?" Huan Wen asked again.
When Xu Yaozu heard this, he thought to himself that this person was too anxious.
You are the prince consort, you are so gambled and you are still so eager to make contributions, why bother?
However, he still said, "This is why I use it."
When Huan Wen heard this, he laughed and felt a little relieved.
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On the 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, it was getting late and Hanfeng City was already far away.
The weather is not very good, it is cold and humid.
Moreover, why is there so much fog in this ghost place? Is it a fog city?
Huan Wen stood on a high slope and looked back at his troops who were struggling to hesitate in the mountains.
It was the sixth day after entering the mountain, and the whole team was in a state of no good.
The clothes were ragged by branches, and some people were thorns on their cheeks, and blood beads penetrated into the military uniforms with salt frost.
A lot of mules and horses were lost during the march, as well as equipment, food and jerky carried on their backs.
Fortunately, I didn't bring a carriage, otherwise I wouldn't be able to reach Hanfeng at all. But I don't know if there are so many mules and horses in the army. If not, I would probably have to bring a ox carriage and a carriage, but that would seriously slow down the marching speed.
Along the way, Huan Wen also saw many human bones that had been washed by the rain, mostly scattered among the cliffs.
Or the damaged vehicle will overturn the mountains and forests and slowly decay.
Among the rock peaks, there are occasionally rusty clusters of arrows. I don’t know which ancient war is left behind.
Too difficult!
You can walk dozens of miles a day on the flat ground, but you can only walk more than ten miles a day on such a mountain road. This is really hard to get.
"Quagu..." Several crows flew up from the forest, circled around, and quickly flew northward, blending into the deep twilight.
That night, two thousand vanguards led by Xu Yaozu entered Hanfeng County.
On the afternoon of the 23rd, a total of 1,500 soldiers from the main force of Xiangyang's troops and He Lun's personal soldiers arrived.
In the evening, a part of the Right Cavalry Guard arrived.
On the 24th, follow-up troops successively entered Hanfeng.
On the 25th, this time, He Fen and Huan Wen, who had been resting for two days, were the pioneers. One thousand and five hundred people left the west gate of Hanfeng and advanced along the curved and hovering mountain road.
At this time, the vanguard of Chengjun was only more than twenty miles away, just a day or two away.
On the 26th, the scouts from both sides discovered the army opposite each other without meeting each other, and the battle was about to break out.
After Huan Wen learned about it, he immediately sent someone to notify Duan Liang, and then - to advance quickly.
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