The strongest troops of the two dynasties in Chinese history, a Han army and a Tang army!

However, if you really want to talk about combat effectiveness, the Tang Army should actually be above the Han Army, not a matter of morale, but a problem of the development of the times, after all, in the Tang Dynasty, regardless of smelting, tactics, and cavalry application, it must be more advanced than the Han Dynasty.

And Wang Hou's current troops have reached the specifications of the peak of the early Tang Dynasty, and there are even some of the equipment levels of the Ming army, even the infantry has war horses, like the Xianbei iron cavalry recruited by the Tang army to recruit the Turks to fight with the army, and the armor rate is exceptionally high.

In addition, the Tang soldiers' horse harness is broken Mo knife soldiers, here, Wang Hou replaced them with axe spearmen with big axes, three meters long rich and strong, and exceptionally well-trained elite infantry lined up in a row, neatly slashed down, and it can also be very majestic with a Mo swordsman.

The marching speed of the entire cavalry corps is not comparable to the mixed infantry and cavalry of the Liaodong Army in the past, and this time Wang Hou also prepared for the war for more than three months in advance, went south to Jiuyuan, passed through Bingzhou, and then followed the march road of Xiahou Yuan and Xu Huang's troops out of Hedong.

Along the way, carrying a large amount of money and silk was sent to the front station of Wu Qiu Jian was already well tied, to the place, the winter had already dried the straw to feed the horses, the military food bought in advance everyone let go of the belly to eat, after eating a place of horse manure to leave, the average marching speed can reach more than 100 miles a day, vertically through the state, go Hanoi County to the east, thousands of miles, only took less than a month.

It's just that when I arrived at the Hedong County Administration, Anyi City, the former capital of the Warring States Wei Dynasty, there was new news from the front line.

Sure enough, Wang Hou's urine is not out! Ma Chao Han Sui and others are not uneducated, they have read "Spring and Autumn", they know what it means to destroy the false way, and they watched Mr. Cao want to kill him from his own territory with great fanfare, and go to Hanzhong to fight Zhang Lu, Dong Zhuo hung up after the bird quietly came down The Guanzhong group of lords is once again collectively hairy, with Ma Chao and Han Sui as the mainstay, Ma Chengyin and other Guanzhong ten generals all rebelled, and they didn't follow your treacherous old Cao thief to play with the flag rebellion!

This matter made Wang Hou overjoyed, and stepped up to urge the army to move forward faster, not much slower than Xiahou Yuan Xu Huang, and at the beginning of April, he also led the army to Tongguan to kill.

Here we have to talk about the difference between Tongguan and Hangu Pass, one is in the west of Taihang, one is in the east of Taihang, the distance between the two is almost more than 200 miles, the reason why Hangu Pass gradually declined after Qin, and Tongguan is indeed rising after Qin, which is related to the strategic form of attacking the head in Shaanxi Guanzhong.

When the Qin Kingdom was in power, it was necessary to go out of the customs and compete with the Six Kingdoms, so the Qin people must grasp the pass of Taihang Mountain! Otherwise, this place will be controlled by the six countries and blocked, and the one hundred and two Qin passes will have to become one hundred and two Wei passes or Zhao passes, and no matter how fierce and good the old Qin people are, they will have to be blocked in the Taihang Mountain and cannot be beaten.

However, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, the rule of the world in Guanzhong was changed to defense-oriented, as long as the rebel thieves did not enter the Guanzhong, geographically, relying on the Tongguan advantage on this side of the Guanzhong appeared, the enemy attacked, the supply line had to be pulled more than 200 miles in the Taihang Valley, and it was particularly difficult to transport grain along the way, but Tongguan could be supplied nearby in the Guanzhong Plain, and the defense was much easier.

To tell the truth, although Wang Hou has never been to Tongguan in later generations, he looked down on Tongguan at first, because in history, several major battles in Tongguan did not seem to have played a role, and the famous Sun Chuanting resisted Li Zicheng's army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and he himself died on the battlefield.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zicheng also used Tongguan to try to resist the Qing army, but he was still beaten crying and crying for his mother, and when the Anshi Rebellion, the 200,000 Tang troops still did not hold Tongguan. All right

However! But when he really arrived at the place, he took the telescope and looked at it, Wang Hou almost didn't vomit blood.

Tongguan in later generations and today's Hantongguan is not a place, the Yellow River water system has changed, and a large area of riverbed has been vacated on the south bank, so Tongguan City from Tang to Qing Dynasty is on this riverbed, but now, the agricultural population of the Central Plains is far from being so explosive, and there is no ability to unconsciously make the Yellow River shallow, and now the Yellow River is still turbulent, directly washing the Taihang Mountains on both sides, from here into the Guanzhong, there is only a particularly narrow and dazzling mountain road to go!

And now the 60,000 Cao army actually haven't even seen Tongguan! Because it's just a mountain trail, the direction from here to Guanzhong is still a cliff, you need to turn south to climb the second section of the more dangerous Huangpu Valley bottom, how dangerous is this place? Go up the mountain four or five hundred meters high, the middle is narrow enough to pass a carriage, and then there are still high platforms on both sides, no wonder there are one hundred and two Qin Guanzhi said, if Wang Hou comes to handle it, put a few crossbowmen, it really doesn't matter if you have tens of thousands of people or hundreds of thousands of people, you can't pass.

But now, it's him who is blocked here.

Passing through this Huangpu board, this has not yet reached Tongguan, you have to walk a few miles of Tongguan Valley, this small pass is embedded in the cliff and comes into view, Wang Hou did not see here, but I heard people passing by here say that it is also extraordinarily prominent, climb dozens of meters upward, the pass is also in a peak gap that has been washed away by the river, break here, this can reach the Guanzhong Plain.

It is no wonder that before the Tang Dynasty, the danger of Guanzhong was determined here in all dynasties, but after the Tang Dynasty, the political status of Guanzhong gradually decreased.

When he came, Wang Hou still thought about it very beautifully, what is the dangerous pass of Xiongshan, he has a cannon in his hand, and he will bombard it with a crackle, 10,000 pigs will not be enough to pull 100,000 pigs, and no matter how dangerous the pass can be blown open, but now, he has deeply realized the wise saying that the time is not as good as the place, and he wants to use the cannon to bombard the pass? You first break through the Whampoa board under the command of the enemy's dense archers, and transport the cannons!

"Hahahaha! General Wang hasn't seen him for a long time! ”

The two commanders of the Cao army really called an old man who didn't know what it was like to be revenged, just when Wang Hougang waved his army and arrived, holding a telescope and looking at the horses planted on the mountain, Han and other flags were worried, the bearded Xiahou Yuan and the old man were willing to learn from the Qiang people, wrapped a white cloth on their heads, and did not wear a helmet to show their bravery.

Looking at Wang Hou's frowning appearance, Xiahou Yuan didn't care about it again.

"The thief does occupy the dangerous place of the mountain, but General Wang doesn't have to worry too much! The prime minister ordered us to camp here, there is no need to forcibly attack the city, and when his old man arrives, the prime minister is full of plans, and when the time comes, his old man has his own way! ”

Own way? What about Lao Tzu's cannon and heavy chariots? Now that he has a deep understanding of the importance of lightweight war equipment, with a bitter gourd face, Wang Hou is sad to follow them and continue to pat their ass.

"That's how it should be!"

Fart!