Chapter 1238 Wu Deqili

   "But General Zhonglang, Gaodu in the south, and Sima Division's headquarters, if the general leads the army north to the eldest son, what should I do if Sima Division comes?"

   Guarding Gaoping Pass, Wang Han accepted Wei Chang's entrustment in an emergency.

  Although Gaopingguan had been taken over by Shi Bao at this time, he still raised this question subconsciously.

   "It doesn't matter," Shi Bao said confidently, "The Central Capital Guard also sent someone to send me a message, saying that the Governor of Hedong, Mr. Jiang Fu, will come to help soon."

   "At the time of Jieshi, I will lead the Chen army and the engineering battalion to go, and the Jiangfu will command the soldiers of the Hedong Dudufu to stay at Gaoping Pass. In this way, there is no need to worry."

  The governor Wei Yan of the Hedong Dudu Mansion is now dead or alive, and his son Wei Chang escorted his father back to Chang'an.

  In addition, Guo Xun, who joined the army in the Dudu Mansion, defected to the enemy.

  For so many years, Wei Yan has lived alone, made enemies with others, and has no companions, so he can be regarded as a lonely minister.

  But he is considered a veteran in the army anyway, and he is good at raising soldiers.

   After leading troops for so many years, he still has prestige in the army.

   Especially the officers and men of the Governor's Mansion in Hedong, many of them have followed Wei Yan for a long time.

   Given the current situation, sending an outsider rashly will inevitably make the officers and men of the Dudu Mansion suspicious.

  Once they are taken advantage of by those who want to spread rumors on purpose, the soldiers of Hedong Dudufu who have just stabilized their morale may not be shaken again.

  Hedong prefect Jiang Bin is now regarded as the only remaining senior official of the Hedong Dudufu.

  Jiang Bin's temporary command of the remaining soldiers on the front line of the Hedong Dudu Mansion can be regarded as a relatively proper arrangement.

  Yu Li, there is righteousness entrusted by the Central Capital Protectorate.

  Because of love, the governor of Hedong can be regarded as a member of the Governor's Mansion of Hedong.

  With Jiang Taishou's identity and status, if he has a little more ability, he can prevent the soldiers of the Governor's Mansion of Hedong from being shaken again as much as possible.

  As for Jiang Taishou's ability...

  Not to mention the people in the tent, even if they are all big men, who doesn't know that they all have the knowledge of people?

  After all these years, anyone who was recommended by Feng Duhu was not a mediocre person.

  As for the people promoted by Feng Duhu himself, they are the best among them.

  Wang Ping was the only one who was valued by Feng Duhu without great achievements.

  But Wang Ping was the first old man to follow Feng Duhu. For so many years, he has not made any mistakes in guarding the key pass.

   This alone is enough for most people to find fault.

   "General Hu, in the previous battle, I saw that your son was brave in fighting the thieves, and he was quite general. This time, I will lead the army to the eldest son. I need a bold and careful person as the vanguard."

  Shi Bao looked at Hu Zun, "I don't know General Hu..."

   Before he could finish his words, Hu Zun already knew what Shi Bao was referring to.

  But seeing Hu Zun smiled heartily:

   "A certain person used to be a traitor and did evil before, and Mongolia and China both protected him, so he was able to abandon evil and turn to good. His Majesty later treated him as a national scholar, and asked Zun Neng to lead Chen's army."

   "A certain dog went out to war because he wanted to repay the country's favor. Zhonglang will have an order, but please order it!"

  Leading forwards can be dangerous indeed.

   But on the battlefield, where is there no danger?

   Besides, only when there is danger, there are more opportunities to make meritorious deeds.

  The reason why the Anding Hu family was valued by the Wei thieves is that one important reason is that they are a local family, and another important reason is that they are familiar with the various ethnic groups of the Hu people in the frontier.

  But in the big man, don't say that the children of the aristocratic family are superior to others.

  After the reform of the imperial examination system, it is nothing new for the children of Hanshu to surpass the children of aristocratic families to become officials.

  As for the Hu tribe...

  Is there anyone in the world who understands Hu people better than Xinghanhui!

  Do you know what a man from the Liu family is?

  Do you know what a Shi Family Lover is?

  Do you know what it means when wool comes out, desert horse thieves would rather grab wool than cattle and horses?

  The world is raging, even if it is as powerful as a wealthy family, it is just a place to sit.

  If you don't try to save yourself, how can there be long-term peace?

   Besides, An Ding has long been the domain of the big man, and it is impossible to save yourself!

   "Okay! The big man is winning every victory because of General Hu and other unselfish soldiers."

  Shi Bao spoke approvingly.

   After confirming the vanguard, we will arrange for the military march. We can start directly after Jiang Bin arrives to take over Gaoping Pass.

  Hu Zun returned to the army and told his son Hu Fen the news.

  Hearing this, Hu Fen was excited and jumped for joy.

   Seeing his son like this, Hu Zun had complicated eyes.

  He knows that his son is not good at martial arts, and he has a good strategy. Now that he has to show his skills, it is not surprising to have such a reaction.

  Just as a father, his son is regarded as a pioneer. It would be a lie to say that he is not worried at all.

   "Leading the army as a vanguard, to go to the eldest son, not only to open the way and build a bridge, but also to investigate the situation of the thief in time."

  Hu Zun exhorted with some anxiety:

   "According to the investigation these days, there are bandit troops stationed on the Danshui line. It seems that most of them want to use the Danshui to prevent the army from crossing the water."

   "After you arrive at Danshui, you must focus on knowing where the bandit army will deploy their defenses and where they can cross the water. If there is no military order, it is absolutely impossible to cross the water rashly."

  Hu Fen laughed and said:

   "Why should you be worried? From Chang'an to Hedong, and even Gaoping Pass, this is not the first time that you have led the way for the army, and you know the rules."

  Hu Zun originally wanted to say that this time is different, but as the vanguard of the entire army.

  If it is wrong, it will be subject to military law.

   It's just that he knows that his son has always had his own opinions, and he talks too much, and if he can't say it, it will increase the burden.

  In the end, it can only be turned into one sentence: "Be careful in everything."

   "The child knows."

   "Go get ready."

   "Here!"

  In the fourth year of Yanxi, Han and Wu agreed to attack Wei. Ji Han's troops were divided into two groups, and Sun Wu's troops were divided into three groups.

  In the first half of the year, looking at the land of China, the five armies of Han and Wu were like five ropes, trying to strangle Wei from the west and south.

   In the second half of the year, the situation of the battle has changed drastically.

  Wu returned without any success, made extraordinary achievements all the way, and finally broke through Xiangyang, one of the fulcrums that Wei State has suppressed Wu State for a long time.

  This battle can be said to be the only time since Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor that he achieved a very meaningful victory against the Wei thieves.

   On the other hand, Ji Han is much more miserable.

  Wei Yan lost the Shangdang carelessly, causing the two important counties of Hedong and Taiyuan to be under the serious threat of Wei thieves.

  Feng Yong was unable to pass the Caoqiao pass, so he was urgently transferred back to fight the fire.

   Now that the war between Wu and Wei in the south has been extinguished, the battle situation is almost settled.

  Although Guanqiujian, Hu Zhi and others in Fancheng were unwilling, they had no way to deal with the Wu army relying on Xiangyang and relying on the Han River as their defense line due to their insufficient navy.

   And Ji Han, who lost Shangdang, had to continue to dispatch troops.

  Because of the battle between Ji Han and Wei Guo, it was only possible to reach the second half.

  If you look down from the sky over China at this time, you can see that Ji Han has mobilized several armies.

  One of them was fighting fiercely with the Wei army in the pass, trying to break through Hangu Pass.

  The other two groups are constantly advancing on Shangdang.

  The Ji Han army gathered in Hedong finally had a direction.

  It can be said that although Ji Han lost the Shangdang, it caused some turmoil in Guanzhong and even Bingzhou.

  But after the Zhongdu Protectorate took over the entire battle situation, it has now begun to stabilize its foothold.

  Especially when the vicious Feng thief came to Hedong, and at the same time, a large number of Han troops continued to gather at the northern end of Zhiguan Road.

  The pressure even began to gradually shift to Wei Jun in Zhiguan Road.

  It is different from Feng who brought huge disasters when he first came to Hedong.

   With the arrival of Feng Zhong Duhu this time, the hearts of the people in Hedong immediately stabilized.

   Many people even stroked their foreheads and let out a long sigh: "You can sleep in peace!"

   "General, it's not good! Bandit Feng led the army, and there was some movement. It seems that they are coming towards Zhiguan!"

  The movement of the Han army in the east of the river was quickly monitored by the Wei army and returned to Jiang Ji as quickly as possible.

   These days, Jiang Ji, who has been staying in Zhiguan, heard the news. Although he had expected this possibility a long time ago, his expression still changed slightly:

   "Feng thief, are you really going to come here?"

  After Taifu took down Shangdang, there was no more news.

  A few days earlier, the news of Sima Division's defeat at Gaoping Pass was also delivered to him.

  Just these two points, Jiang Ji has already judged that the Tai Tuo is probably no longer in Shangdang, but has continued to go north to attack Taiyuan.

  Because if the Taifu is still in the Shangdang, the battle of Gaopingguan cannot be fought like that.

   Tai Tuo was not in Shangdang, but Feng Zei went to Hedong again.

   Originally, Jiang Ji was only used to contain the Han army in the east of the river. At first, he didn't expect to collide head-on with the western thieves, and the army of western thieves led by Feng thief.

   Do you think it can be stress-free?

   "No matter how many people are sent to investigate, we must confirm whether Feng Zei is really leading the army to come here!"

   "Here!"

   After ordering more scouts to find out Feng thief's movements as soon as possible, Jiang Ji took a deep breath, and then let it out long, to calm himself down.

   Then muttered to himself:

   "Feng Thief neither led the army to Shangdang, nor took advantage of the victory to win the capital, but went to Zhiguan. What is his intention?"

  If Feng Thief really wants to take advantage of the absence of the Taifu and take the opportunity to attack Hanoi, then no matter how you look at it, attacking Taihang Xing is far easier than attacking Zhiguan Xing.

  After all, Sima Division was leading the army for the first time, and suffered a new defeat.

   Can't you say that in Feng Zei's eyes, he is easier to deal with than Master Sima?

  Thinking of this, Jiang Ji frowned.

   This doesn't make sense at all!

  Damn Feng thief, what is his real purpose?

  Unable to guess Feng Thief's intentions, Jiang Ji couldn't help feeling a little annoyed.

   Just when Feng Duhu led the Hedong army and was about to attack Zhiguan, the Hangu Pass, the most important dangerous pass in the former Qin Dynasty, on the south bank of the river, the soldiers of both sides were fighting red-eyed.

  In the north of Hangu Pass, there used to be an extremely turbulent river as a natural barrier, but now because of the incision of the river, a large riverbed is exposed, which can directly bypass Tongguan.

  The focus of Wei Jun's defense is also on this riverbed north of Hangu Pass.

  They not only dug an artificial deep trench there, but even managed to divert the river water into the deep trench.

   At the same time, behind the deep trench, a large number of repelling antlers were arranged, and behind the repelling antlers, a thick barrier was built.

   Such a strict defense was naturally not made temporarily, but it was built by Sima Yi's people over the past few years.

   It can be said that Sima Yi seems to be trapped in Hanoi, Henan these years, but in fact he has already secretly made sufficient preparations for this battle.

  Although today's Hangu Pass is no longer as good as it used to be, it is still extremely difficult to capture the well-prepared Wei army camp on such a narrow Weihan Ancient Road.

  Fortunately, the Han army has the advantage of bows and crossbows, especially the tiger infantry army led by Jiang Wei, many soldiers come from the former prime minister's army trained by the prime minister.

  The former Yuanrong crossbowman in the Xiangfu army once forced Sima Yi back through the water of martial arts, and he is a rare elite crossbowman.

   It was under the cover of elite crossbowmen that the Han army was able to fill up the trench.

   Even so, the Han army still paid a lot.

  These days, the water flowing back from the trenches back to the great river is mixed with thick or light blood.

  In addition to blood, there are broken arrows, broken blades, and even a piece of armor, and floating corpses...

  The river rushes to disperse the blood, envelops the objects that cannot be dispersed, and continues to rush eastward endlessly.

   They will settle somewhere, or settle down, be buried by sand and never see the light of day again.

  It may be washed to the shore in a certain section of the river, and then discovered at a certain time period.

  Liu Yin stood on the filled ditch, looked at the densely packed antlers in front of him, his face was a little livid, and he was about to curse in his heart:

   into his mother's!

   Wei thief's defense is more careful than when he guarded the street pavilion and Tongguan.

  What the hell!

   It hasn't captured Hangu Pass yet, and the Tiger Army has suffered so much.

   If you really want to continue the strong attack, even if the Tiger Army can take Hangu Pass, they may not be able to continue to advance.

   "As the Central Guard said, if we want to take this path to attack Luoyang, unless we use the power of the whole country, otherwise, with the strength we have, it is almost impossible."

  Jiang Wei, who was standing beside Liu Yin, nodded, agreed and said:

   "That's right, we can't fight like this anymore."

  But, if you don’t fight like this, how should you fight?

   "Come on, Xiu Ran, come and see."

  Jiang Wei pointed to the antler array in front of him, and then pointed to the plateau stretching beside the guide, with a thoughtful expression on his face:

   "Hangu Pass is originally focused on defending the east rather than the west. No matter how prepared the thieves are, there will always be omissions."

  Liu Yin followed what Jiang Wei pointed out, and subconsciously lowered her voice:

   "What does the general intend to do?"

   "This is the direction where the thieves are heavily defending." Jiang Wei pointed to the plateau south of the antler array, "and the thieves are sitting on a favorable location, condescending, and echoing the thieves below."

   "Even if we can break through the antlers, once we reach the barrier, the thieves on the plateau will flank us from a high place, and the casualties will only be more."

   I have to say that the bandit army at Hangu Pass is indeed well-defended.

  Liu Yin sighed: "If the engineering battalion is here, why should we be afraid?"

such a pity!

   Handing over a good engineering battalion to Wei Yan is really a waste of money.

   "If you need an engineering battalion to attack a city, what do you need us to lead the army?"

  Jiang Wei stared into the distance, "Shuo Ran, you stay here to form an army and continue to attack the antler formation. I will divide one part and find another way."

   There is a big river in the north of the Weihan Ancient Road, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and the undulating plateau in the middle.

  He didn't believe it, such a long plateau, the Wei thief can cover everything, and guard it like a fool!

  (end of this chapter)