Chapter 20 Tongguan continued

Standing outside Chang'an City, this mixed team of Han and Mongolian was very arrogant looking at the huge ancient city from a stone's throw away. The gate of Chang'an was closed www.biquge.info pen & fun & pavilion, and the defenders of the city were waiting for it, but they did not attack.

Chang'an was the imperial capital of the Central Plains during the Qin and Han dynasties, and later reached its peak during the Tang Dynasty, where it was once a heroic city inhabited by millions of people.

It's a pity that the vicissitudes of time, the current Chang'an City looks much more dilapidated, since the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the center of activities of the Han court has gradually moved to the hinterland of the south of the Yangtze River, the north and northwest of the huge flowers and rivers have fallen into the hands of foreign people, Chang'an is no exception, the former glory is gone, but through the mottled city wall and the tall city gate can still feel its pride and dignity.

Zhang Wuji looked at Chang'an City and sighed, and ordered the army to bypass it and continue to move forward, Chang'an is a heroic city, and his own people are enough to break it, but it is very troublesome after breaking it, even if Chang'an City is dilapidated, the population living in it is definitely more than 100,000 people, once such a large number of people lose order, how many people will die on the streets is really unknown.

The current goal of the Ming army is in the east, and it is impossible to garrison troops here, so it is better to leave it to Yang Zuo to solve it.

The Tartars in the city watched the thieves slip away from under their noses but there was nothing they could do, and their teeth and cheeks hurt, but the military order was difficult to disobey, so they could only watch. A simple soldier with a pair of small slit eyes looked at the back of the Ming army, the corners of his mouth showed a gloomy smile, turned around and walked to the city, looking at his dress, it was a Tartar army in the commander, this person is the only remaining commander in the Shaanxi garrison - Wuen, as his name suggests, he is honest and simple, but those who know him know that he is the smartest and most cruel commander in the Shaanxi garrison.

I saw 10,000 elite cavalry neatly lined up on the streets of Chang'an City, and the knights stood next to the war horses, holding the reins and waiting quietly. All the doors and windows on both sides of the street were closed, and people looked at the Tartar army in the street through the cracks in the windows and doors, wondering what was going to happen to the Tartars so tightly.

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After Chang'an, there are more and more mountains, and the road is getting steeper and steeper, and the road is becoming more and more difficult to walk.

The four columns slowly became three columns, three columns became two columns, and by the time they arrived outside Tongguan City, they had already become one column.

On both sides are towering mountains, and the mountains are already lush and intoxicatingly green, but unfortunately this is not really a tour of the mountains and rivers.

The team stopped two miles away, Zhang Wuji and Wei Yixiao walked on a one-person wide path to the bottom of Tongguan City, which was no more than three zhang high but more than six zhang, and the city wall was covered with crossbows and artillery.

Tongguan, located at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, when the city was built on the loess plateau, the Sui Dynasty moved south for several miles, and the Tang Dynasty moved north to the bottom of the plateau, forming today's Tongguan City. Because Tongguan is located at the crossing of the Yellow River, it is located in the three provinces of Jin, Shaanxi and Henan, and it is the key to enter and exit the three Qins, so it has become the necessary place and key to the Central Plains in the east and the central and western regions in the west since the end of the Han Dynasty.

There are Qinling Mountains in the south, there is the forbidden valley in the southeast, there are 12 cities in the south of the valley, there are Wei and Luoerchuan in the north, and the Yellow River hugs down the pass, and the west is close to Huayue. The surrounding mountains are even mountains, peaks are even peaks, the valleys are deep and the precipices are exclusive, the mountains are high and the roads are narrow, and there is a narrow sheep intestine path in the middle, and only one car and one horse can be allowed to go back and forth. People often compare the danger of the terrain here with "the danger of the road and the ape" and "the danger of the road stopping at Tongguan in the world". Du Fuyou, a famous poet of the Tang Dynasty, also had a famous poem of "Tongguan Officials" after that, "the father-in-law sees the important place, the narrow and narrow bicycle, the hard work of the halberd, and the eternal use of a husband".

How many celebrities have been through the hardships and steeps of Tongguan in ancient times, countless examples of war in the past have made this a famous choke point in the world, although the Tartar court occupied the huge Central Plains, for such a hinterland in the country, the Tartars still sent heavy troops to guard, and equipped with crossbows and artillery, which shows the importance of it.

As far as the eye can see, on the three-zhang wide city wall, two cannons are placed in the center, flanked by six giant bed crossbows one meter wide, one bed crossbow is equipped with twelve giant crossbow arrows with a metallic luster, about the same length as a throwing spear.

Tongguan guard Agula was dressed in the clothes of ordinary soldiers, mixed in the military columns, and looked at the approaching two people with complicated faces, a tall young man, a middle-aged man of medium stature, both of them were dressed in strong suits and defenseless, but he believed that this was the Ming Sect person explained by the county lord, this is the kind of person who set off a monstrous wave in the Western Regions, the military chief of the Western Regions Mandu Ratu was killed in battle, and the military chief of Shaanxi Hadan Batel was killed in battle, and more than 40,000 imperial warriors have died in their handsCan you force the regular army of the imperial court to such a point?

Zhang and Wei walked forward slowly, and they were already within the range of the artillery, but the tartars on the city wall did not fire the cannons, and Zhang and Wei continued to walk forward.

In fact, it's not that Agoura doesn't want to fire the artillery, but he knows that the accuracy of the artillery is too much worse than the speed of the people in these martial arts, and no matter how good the weapon is, it must hit the person's body in order to cause damage to him.

Zhang Wuji's divine sense poked forward, step by step, Wei Yixiao did not have his perverted spiritual power, he could only use his divine sense to envelop the five meters around him, just like this, he didn't feel sorry for his spiritual power, and arranged his divine sense, because once he encountered an emergency, his divine sense was much more effective than his eyes, and he could react and respond in time.

Zhang Wuji's divine sense formed a straight line, and he could already detect the distance of three hundred meters away, and suddenly, he stopped moving forward. He laughed, but after two laughs, his brow furrowed.

Wei Yi also stopped with a smile and looked at him, not understanding what he meant.

Zhang Wuji pointed to Tongguan City in front of him and said: "Bat King, it seems that in this battle, a few of us will not only be responsible for attacking the city, but also have to work part-time porters." ”

Wei Yi smiled and said, "I don't understand, what do you mean?"

Zhang Wuji said: "Behind the city gate, there are huge boulders, Tongguan City has been completely sealed, and the work of carrying the boulders is estimated to be done by us." ”

"Hahaha......" Wei laughed and said: "Okay, happy, happy, just do it, let the Tartars look up to us so highly, and it is also my Holy Sect that has face, when I have such a face, how long has my old Wei not experienced it, for this reason, I am willing to carry stones." ”