It's dangerous to let Fengxian County and Maling Pass out!

Because the north of Sanguan Road is Dasanguan, and the south is Fengxian County and Maling Pass. Among them, the county seat of Fengxian County is located in a relatively open river valley on the edge of the big scattered water...... At the widest point, it looks like it is more than two miles! Don't be too small, it's very good to have such a flat land in the Qinling Mountains. You can pile up a lot of miscellaneous things, and you can also give the army from the south to the north a place to stay.

Therefore, in the early years of the co-governance, the Dashun Dynasty treated Fengxian County as a dangerous place to operate. At the entrance of the river valley where the county seat of Fengxian County is located, a city pass was built. Many cottages were also built on the mountains on both sides, blocking all the mountain paths.

And Malingguan is even more important!

Maling Pass is a three-way intersection, along the big scattered water south to the end of Maling Pass, the official road in the south of Maling Pass is divided, all the way to the southeast, all the way to the southwest.

The road from Maling Pass to the southeast leads to the Hanzhong Basin, and you can enter the Hanzhong Basin by passing through the Waste Hill Pass, Chaiguan, Liuba, Hutou Pass, and Jitou Pass. Don't look at the many passes along the way, but the Dashun army does not have enough troops to defend them one by one. Because there are three roads that cross the Qinling Mountains and enter Hanzhong, there are three meridian roads, Bao slope roads, and Fu Luo roads, although they are all dangerous, but the continuous development of the Qinling Mountains in 2000 and the Qinling Mountains are not too dangerous (the Qinling Mountains are not too high, and there are relatively gentle slopes everywhere), so that the mountain roads are all over the period. If you want to completely block it, you have to invest a lot of troops. And the Hanzhong Basin is so big that it can't support the forces that completely block the Sanguan Road, the Meridian Road, the Baochuan Road, the Fu Luo Road and the surrounding paths! By the way, there is also a Qishan Road to the west of Sanguan Road.

If the five roads into Hanzhong (not yet into Shu, but only halfway through) were to be completely blocked, the troops required would be far greater than those deployed on the loess plateau in the southern part of the Guanzhong Plain. Moreover, the transportation between these five roads into Hanzhong is inconvenient, and it is difficult for the army to quickly maneuver between the five roads, so it can only passively divide the troops...... And there are so many mouths, and the troops needed are more than taking the initiative to attack and garrisoning Tuntian on the loess plateau of the Guanzhong Plain!

This is the main reason why the separatist regime that defended Sichuan in history was always unable to resist the enemy from the north.

As soon as Maling Pass is lost, the Sanguan Road of the five roads into Hanzhong will be completely lost. From Maling Pass to the southeast is Hanzhong, and to the southwest is the Jinniu Road, one of the four main roads from Hanzhong and Longnan to Shu. You don't have to open up the entire Jinniu Road, you only need to advance to the area of Luoyang, and the back of Qishan Road will be exposed, and the Shun Dynasty's territory in Longnan will also be lost!

At that time, the Longnan defense line, which the Dashun Dynasty had painstakingly operated for nearly 20 years, would have to collapse completely!

Without the Hanzhong-Longnan defense line, will Sichuan still defend it?

......

"What? Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun have already taken Fengxian County and are attacking Maling Pass? That's going too well, right? ”

The news that Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun's troops captured Fengxian County was transmitted back to Wu Sangui's army in Dasanguan on the 25th day of the first month of the 20th year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty.

At this time, the battle for several loess plateaus in the north of the Qinling Mountains had just ended - it was said to be a battle, but it was actually a guard war. Including Dasanguan, Monk Yuan, Chen Cangshan, Wuzhangyuan, Jinya Pass, and Xiegu Pass, all these dangers, in the past seven or eight years, have made Wu Sangui hate so much that the root of his teeth is only itchy, and whoever of the following generals can lead the troops to take one of them, Wu Sangui can protect him as an earl and viscount! However, within two days, all of them were captured by Wu Sangui's troops.

What a happy event!

But he never thought that his good luck was not over! Even Feng County, an important place that was scattered to the south of the pass, was easily captured, and it seemed that Maling Pass was also about to be obtained......

It's too easy, isn't it? If you continue to fight at this pace, the recovery of Sichuan will be a matter of Hongxing for 20 years!

And the Wu family's merits are already great, and they are a prince of the Three Kingdoms...... It's a bit of a high-tech shock!

"Will there be fraud?" Wu Sangui still kept an eye on it, not entirely because he was worried that Li Dingguo would set a trap to smear him, but because he felt that his credit was a bit too big...... He is already a national prince, and there is no room for upward movement, and the most important thing now is to keep the evening festival!

"What can there be?" Wu Yinglin circled Fengxian and Maling Mountain with a red brush on a map, "Li Dingguo ambushed troops on the mountains on both sides of Sanguan Road at most...... However, most of the hills on both sides of Sanguan Road are steep and steep, and it is inconvenient to go up and down, and it is impossible to ambush the soldiers at all. Now more than 10,000 people from Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun have arrived in Fengxian County, occupying the danger, and without 30,000 or 50,000 people slowly grinding, it is impossible for Liukou to take Fengxian. ”

"How much military rations do Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun have?" Wu Sangui is still not at ease.

"It's enough to eat for twenty days, and if the war horses are slaughtered, it's enough to last for a month." Someone on the left and right immediately answered.

"Why are there so many?" Wu Sangui was stunned.

"They got a lot along the way, and they were all food and grass discarded by the rogue...... These grains and grasses are all hard-won, and if they are discarded casually like this, the rogues are obviously defeated! ”

"It's really a bit of a defeat!" Wu Sangui nodded, thinking: It seems that the Liukou's qi is exhausted!

Wu Yinglin interjected at this time: "My lord, let's also enter the Sanguan Road!" Now is the time to chase after you...... You can't let Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun take all the credit! ”

"Yes! Dashuai, this troubled world is coming to an end, if we don't hurry up and make meritorious contributions, we won't have a chance! ”

"Dashuai, our Hexi and Anxi are bitter and barren places, and we will live by the credit of Pingchuan in the future......"

Wu Sangui's vassal deserves a loss, and his generals don't make money! The Wu family has Emperor Zhu as the back, and they are not afraid of losses. But the 80,000 military households who followed Wu Sangui were all poor, and seeing that Sichuan was about to be taken, of course they had to make a profit!

And they can get more than just military merit...... Sichuan is Tianfu, and the Liukou plundered Tianzhu again, and the gold and silver mountains were transported back!

"Dashuai, even if there is fraud in the rogue, we have nothing to fear...... They just set up an ambush on both sides of the mountain road, and there was no way to set up artillery on the mountain road on both sides of the Sanguan Road. We just need to be careful, take the battalion as a team, form a dense formation, and march in armor, even if we are in the middle of the ambush, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

Wu Sangui's henchman Wu Guogui put forward a suggestion that looked good at this time, Wu Sangui turned his head and looked at Liu Sheng again, Liu Sheng said: "Commander, the soldiers below are all meritorious, we must always give them a chance...... Many of them have followed the big handsome and the old handsome for three generations, so they can't let them suffer poverty in the future, right? ”

Wu Sangui nodded, "That's what I said...... There are not many opportunities left for meritorious service, and it is time for the brothers to eat more meat. Fourth brother, you lead the troops first. This commander led the Chinese army to lead the team in the center. Lao Liu, you postpone! ”

Wu Sangui's so-called fourth brother is Wu Guogui, Wu Xiang's own son is three sons and two daughters, and there are many adopted sons, among which Wu Guogui and Wu Guoyong are considered to be outstanding, so they are called the fourth and fifth brothers by Wu Sangui. And Lao Liu is Liu Sheng, who has followed Wu Sangui for more than 20 years, and has changed from Xiao Liu to Lao Liu.

"Marshal, what about the three divisions of the Guards?" Liu Sheng asked, "They are the soldiers of the Son of Heaven, and they are particularly capable of fighting." ”

"You can let them take the Meridian Road, the Bao Slope Road, and the Fu Luo Road to enter the army to take Hanzhong." Wu Yinglin said, "Each of the three divisions has an Old Guards Regiment, and those men are the most daring to take risks and fight tough battles on rugged terrain." Even if the Liukou set up ambushes in the Meridian Road, the Bao Slope Road, and the Fu Luo Road, they couldn't stop them. ”

If the soldiers of the Guards were all fighting for wealth and wealth, and if they could not get the opportunity to enter the Lecture Hall and become an officer before the end of their service (usually between the ages of thirty-five and forty), then their dreams of fighting for them since childhood would be shattered, and they would have to take a pension to become ordinary people.

Therefore, the older the Guards, the more fierce they will become, and any team that is named the Old Guards is simply unstoppable!

"Okay, that's it!" Wu Sangui nodded, "Wealth and danger are begging...... Hanzhong will give them a fight! Let's take the Malingpo and go straight to the Taurus Road! ”

(End of chapter)