Chapter 1149 Stirring
When Huan Wen and others arrived in Xuanhan, it was the 21st day of the first lunar month, and it was the day when Duan Liang left Dangqu and headed south to Dianjiang.
Governor Duan was not here, Huan Wen was not polite at all and took over the command directly.
The first order he issued was to send Chen Chite, the general of Feilongshan Town (son of Chen Wu, the former general of the town) to lead his headquarters to go north along the Dangqu water to take Hanchang.
There were not many soldiers in Feilongshan Town arriving in Xuanhan. Apart from casualties, illnesses and falling behind, there were less than 2,000 people. Huan Wen assigned an additional 500 people to him and asked him to rush to Hanchang as soon as possible.
The purpose of this order is to seek comfort.
Hanchang (now Bazhong area) is already a hilly area, but there are quite a lot of local areas. The Gong family has a familiar tribe and has sent people to surrender. Huan Wen is providing help to the children of the Gong family.
Once the recruitment is successful, not only will the situation change drastically, but you can also obtain food and equipment supplies, which is crucial.
The second order was to send Badong County Commander Wuqiu Yan to lead 900 troops and 600 civilians to Dangqu to take over it, and to stabilize Duan Liang's retreat - after all, he still couldn't fully believe in Gong.
He led Xiangyang to transport troops and He Lun's personal soldiers to about a thousand people, defending Xuanhan, and at the same time, he used the Gong family's children to collect food, grass, livestock and equipment from nearby tribes.
As for Xu Yaozu himself, he had brought hundreds of civilians to take over the prisoners from friendly forces and escorted them back to Badong. By the way, he asked his military advisor He Lun to send reinforcements and follow the path to enter Dangqu County.
After entering the hinterland of Shu, Huan Wen felt that more than 10,000 troops were really not enough. Unless he ignores his mistakes, he doesn't want any way out, he just robs and rushes to Chengdu. He goes straight to the city if he wins, and loses, and the whole army is wiped out. However, Duan Liang refuses.
As for the news about Luo Yan and Luo Gu, he also knew it. After the two of them escaped from Dangqu, they only took hundreds of people and rushed to Langzhong. It seemed that they were going to recruit troops and prepare to counterattack.
Just think about it, if you can't defend Dangqu, you can't give up and do nothing, right?
From his position, we must find a way to collect troops and resources from Brazil, Dangqu and other places, do everything possible to counterattack, and eliminate the flank threat of the Jiangzhou army.
Although the Jiangzhou army was mixed with fish and dragons and had uneven combat power, the number was very considerable. There were more than 20,000 children from six counties, 10,000 Banyan soldiers from other than the seven surnames of Dangqu, 10,000 county people, and 10,000 strong Yao people, totaling more than 50,000.
Once lost, to be honest, the southern Sichuan department will suddenly open up, which will likely allow Liang army to eat several counties in one breath, then calmly rest the troops, collect food and grass, use war to support the war, and then go north to attack Chengdu directly.
The Luo family has received the favor of the country. At this critical moment, we must rack our brains and try our best to save the situation.
There is actually not much time left for Luo Family and even Li Cheng...
Outside Yang Pass, the battle is underway.
Looking down from a high place, the river water turned a corner here, flowing from normal east-west direction, and then turned back to the northeast. Yangguan is located at this corner.
To the north, there is a north-south longitudinal mountain range, with deep and dense forests making it difficult to pass through a large group of people. Only in the south, near the north bank of the Yangtze River, there is a narrow passage at the entrance of the gorge, facing the mountains up and the riverside down, building relevant cities.
When Ba State was resisting Chu State here, it was sometimes resisting the three passes of Chu, which is one.
During the Shu Han Dynasty, Deng Zhi, the governor of Jiangzhou, was not in Jiangzhou City, but in Yangguan.
Yangguan is not a big city, it is built completely according to the goal of military defense. On weekdays, there are almost no normal people except for defenders and tax collectors. Now during the war, the city is filled with 3,66 counties of soldiers, which almost covers them. This city is very narrow in the north and south, and only two miles long in the east and west, and only one direction can attack in the east.
Since the Liang army's troops arrived nearby one after another in the late twelfth lunar month, the siege began, and it lasted for more than 20 days and failed to conquer.
At the beginning, Shao Shen was full of confidence and devoted himself to the elite mansion soldiers and silver spear troops, attacking for two consecutive days.
He once attacked the city, but failed to gain a foothold.
There were too many people on the city and there were enough guarding tools, which resulted in ineffective siege. Therefore, the style of fighting was changed, and Hu soldiers and Ding Zhuang were transferred to battle, consuming the enemy's army.
During this period, he also organized people to cross the dense forests in the mountains and detour to the rear of Yangguan. But it is still the same old problem. The forest is too dense, the mountains are too high, and there are no mountain paths that have been opened since ancient times. There are not too many people in the past, and there are not enough weapons and armor. In the end, Ban Yanman discovered it and surrounded it everywhere.
The Black Army was powerful in combat and was able to fight back.
At this point, we returned to the siege of the city honestly.
But around the 25th day of the first lunar month, Shao Shen received news from Nanpu that the military advisor He Lun sent his generals to walk around the path, and won several battles on the way, approaching Xuanhan, and the recovery of the Dangqu is just around the corner.
Shao Shen, who was extremely upset by the news that the navy defeated Yu Cheng's army in Huanggexia and fled back to Badong, was overjoyed and immediately ordered to strengthen the offensive and not give Yangguan's defenders a chance to breathe. At the same time, the news spread was spreading, saying that Dangqu and Brazil had lost, and the barbarian tyrants led by Gong Zhuang and Qiao Xiu returned to justice...
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There is no Jiazi in the mountains, and I don’t know the year after the cold is over.
On the 26th day of the first lunar month, Qiao Xiu, who was preparing for spring plowing, frowned and looked down at the foot of the mountain.
This is a mountainous depression, not big, and it can only accommodate dozens of families.
There are clear springs in the mountains, which are endless all seasons, and can be used for drinking by people and animals, and can also be used to water the land.
Qiao Xiu lived here for a long time, and the Jin and Cheng dynasties repeatedly conquered and failed.
The relatives were puzzled, so Qiao Xiu told them the truth: The world is going to be in chaos, and people are going to be in danger. Don’t come to see me in the future, just let me live in seclusion in the mountains. The consequences were chaotic. After a little calm, Li Xiang and Li Shou heard that Qiao Xiu was famous and both came to hire him with generous gifts, but he refused them all.
As for the matter of filial piety and honesty in the county and scholars in the state, they are even more unsuccessful.
Qiao Xiu refused many times in his life when he was unable to get an opportunity to become an official.
He seems quite satisfied with his life today.
He is not rich, and even his clothes are a little worn, but he is farming and raising chickens, chopping wood and carrying water, working from sunrise to sunset, and teaching the young boys who live next to him to read and recognize words, or weaving some bamboo utensils or making some lacquer utensils to ask people to go down the mountain to sell. It is actually not bad.
And because of this, his fame became increasingly great, and more and more people asked him to come out to be an official, but so far he has not agreed.
It turns out that his choice was right.
At the foot of the mountain several miles away from where Qiao Xiu was standing, the soldiers of the Right Cavalry gathered up the only hundred war horses and distributed them.
In an instant, more than a hundred cavalry mastered the horses skillfully and rushed to a panicked grain transport convoy.
There were many ships loaded with food on the river parallel to the convoy, and they were turning around in panic and heading towards the wide area of the water.
Amid the sound of horse hooves, Tuoba Sigong raised his hand and shot a military officer who was commanding loudly to the ground.
Amid the screams, two arrows shot rapidly, and Tuoba Sigong had already lay on the horse's back after shooting the enemy. This instinctive action saved his life, and both arrows shot past his body.
Tuoba Sigong took out the arrow biting in his mouth and slung his side.
"Swoosh!" The arrow broke through the air and shot the enemy archer on the right to the ground.
The horse continued to gallop and flew past the convoy.
Tuoba Sigong took out an arrow again, recalling the place where another enemy archer was standing just now, putting his hands behind his back, and "fidelity shot".
"Swoosh!" The arrow flew for a short distance of thirty steps, hitting the enemy's chest.
Now both sides of the enemy and us were stunned!
It is normal to hit the enemy in front of you - it is actually not that easy to go on the galloping and bumping horseback.
Using the lying shooting skill to shoot the enemy on the side is extraordinary.
After passing the enemy, it is very rare to lie on the horse's back and use back shooting to kill the third person without looking back.
Bow left and right, side shot, lying shot, back shot...
What else does he not know?
Of course, Tuoba Sigong is just the "best in the game", and in fact, more than a hundred other people are also good.
After charging, except for a few unlucky people who were shot to the ground, most of them rushed to the front, and the first wave shot the few enemy archers to the ground.
After the horse turned around, the second wave of shooting shots were shot down by shooting all the melee soldiers who were carrying food and grass.
In the third wave, there was a volley. The groom, coachman, and civilians fled in scattered, cried and shouted at her parents, and threw the food truck down.
This is the classic tactic of the grassland cavalry: first lure the enemy into depth, lengthen the food route, and then send light cavalry to intercept it, causing the Central Plains army to cut off food and eventually collapse.
To deal with this tactic, there is only one way to deal with it, except building a city or transporting grain by water every dozens of miles: send more regular troops to guard it, and this kind of regular army is best to be in three battles. All members will fight in close combat and all members will shoot archery, that is, flower teams, pure teams are too dangerous.
It is impossible for Li Cheng to have an escort team of this level. All those who can fight are on the front line, what kind of crooked melons and jujubes behind?
So naturally, the grain transport team was defeated. In addition to the dozens of people who jumped into the river and escaped, they were almost wiped out, and more than 100 ox carts and 7,000 hu of food were also lost.
Qiao Xiu saw the whole process and finally sighed.
The Liang army had crossed the difficult mountainous areas and entered the hinterland of Brazil, which could be said to have entered the flock of sheep. If the Li Cheng court still wanted to save the situation, it might have to send troops from Chengdu to aid, but can the temporary recruitment of soldiers be better than the county soldiers and civilians at the foot of the mountain?
But no matter what, war is inevitable, and Brazil may become a battlefield. He is a secluded place, but he can not know how long it will last...
Since the 26th day of the first lunar month, the Right Cavalry Guards killed 400 and obtained 7,000 hu of grain, they continued to work hard and intercepted a grain team on the 28th, killed a thousand enemies, and obtained more than 10,000 hu of grain.
On the first day of February, the entire army rushed straight to Dianjiang and burned down a large number of food and grass military funds piled up near the river bank. The civil and military officials who were in charge of guard fled in scattered and panic began to spread rapidly.
It was also on this day that Emperor Cheng Li Xiong read the troops in the suburbs of Chengdu.
(This chapter ends)