In the night, a fire dragon that is dozens of miles long is still winding and rolling on the mountain road in southern Shaanxi.

This is the army led by the governor of Daming Sichuan and Shaanxi, the envoy of Hexi Jiedu, the protector of Anxi, and the Duke of Liangguo, Wu Sangui, when he went south from Dasanguan, it was a Chinese army plus the army stationed in Shaanxi Hexi and the army stationed in Anxi, a total of more than 45,000 people. But by the time they passed through Maling Pass in Fengxian County, the number had already exceeded 60,000!

The reason why Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses will become bigger and bigger is because after the army entered Feng County, there were constantly people who had been oppressed by the landlord class of Dashun Prefecture and Ding Zhuang, a local person in Feng County, to join the Wang Division!

With their joining, it was much easier for Wu Sangui's army to march on the narrow and rugged Sanguan Road, and there was no need to worry about being ambushed by the enemy - Liu Maoyao and Wang Youwen selected a group of brave men from the Fengxian Ding Zhuang who had joined the army, and let them lead the warriors under Wu Sangui's command to search and guard in front of the army and in the mountains and forests on the left and right. If Li Dingguo really ambushed the army there, he couldn't hide it from them.

After confirming that there were no ambushes ahead, Wu Sangui's courage also strengthened, and in order to rush to Luoyang as soon as possible to go to Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun's former army division, and also to drive the troops to the Sichuan Basin or the Hanzhong Basin, where there was relatively sufficient food, as soon as possible, so as to reduce the pressure on logistics and transportation. Wu Sangui ordered his army to march south day and night.

Sanguan Road is also much easier than Wu Sangui imagined, the wooden pavilion plank road has long been replaced by the stone road, not only the roadbed is solid, but also the traffic capacity is also very strong, can be parallel two sedans and four horses. It can't be compared with the open stone official road in the southeast, but compared with the rammed earth official road in the Guanzhong Plain, it is almost the same.

"Dashuai, this waste plank road to change the road was first started in the Tang Dynasty, and the great work is this dynasty. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was still a wooden pavilion plank road in the north of Sanguan, and in the Wanli period of this dynasty, there was no plank road in the north of Caolianglou in Fengxian County, and all of them were changed to the road that could parallel four horses. After the Liukou entered Shu, they spent a lot of effort to build the road, and forcibly recruited the people to build the road every year, more than hundreds of thousands, less than hundreds of thousands, and there was no pause in thirteen or fourteen years. Nowadays, there is no plank road in Sanguan Road, and it is all a road. As for the Golden Bull Road, it is easier to travel than Sanguan Road, and it has been continuously constructed for thirteen or fourteen years, and it has been built into a thoroughfare...... Liukou spared no effort to build a large number of roads, originally for the Northern Expedition to Guanzhong, and did not want to facilitate the southward movement of the marshal soldiers and horses today, it was really a cocoon! ”

Talking to Wu Sangui was Liu Maoyao, who was now in charge of managing the people and the righteous people together with Wang Youwen, and he also investigated the situation in the Shun Dynasty with the help of his work, and made it even more certain that the Liukou had lost the hearts of the people.

"Chu Xuan," Wu Sangui asked, "There are so many Ding Zhuang righteous people coming to vote these days, there will be no fraud, right?" ”

Wu Sangui has also fought a lifetime of war, but it is the first time that he has encountered a situation where the army is fighting more and more!

He thought for a while and said, "Even if the people have been suffering for a long time, they won't compete to join the campaign, right?" In the past, when Ben Shuai was in Ningyuan, he didn't see how many Liao people were enthusiastically joining the army! ”

Yes, there were 2.7 million Liao people who followed Xiong Tingbi into the customs back then! Later, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Chonghuan engaged the Liao people to defend the Liao land, but they only mobilized more than 300,000 people to build a city in Ningyuan. There are even fewer Liao people who are willing to join the army and fight hard with the Tartars, and the Liao people who serve in the army all receive the first class salary of the Ming Dynasty.

And now these strong men and righteous people who are following Wu Sangui south don't have a copper plate......

"The handsome don't know," Liu Maoyao said with a smile, "This is also a rogue who is cocooning himself!" The Sichuan people were not good at fighting, and they were not proud to be in the army. However, after entering the Sichuan, the Liukou made a hole, and the government soldiers were respected, and if they did not enter the government, they could not be officials, and they could not be raised, and they could only work hard, and they would never come out. Therefore, in the past 20 years, Sichuan people have been proud of serving in the army, and they can't ask for it. ”

It turns out that the 20-year rule of the Great Shun Dynasty in southern Shaanxi, Sichuan, Yunnan and other places has changed the folk customs and values to a certain extent.

Stimulated by the policy of benefiting from a hole, the martial and belligerent atmosphere of the government soldiers and households inevitably affected the common people - after all, the Dashun Empire was built on the basis of the Ming Dynasty, where "all servants under the Son of Heaven were servants". Although there were untouchables and nobles in the Ming Dynasty, the number was very small, and the rest of the farmers, artisans, merchants, military households, etc., were actually relatively equal. Moreover, in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, all kinds of households could make a fortune in the same way, in the imperial examination, and in the army.

Therefore, the Sichuan people who were ruled by the soldiers of the Dashun Prefecture were unwilling to admit that they were inferior to the soldiers of the Prefecture...... and the concept of "rather having a kind" could not be changed in just 20 years.

However, the atmosphere of being good at military affairs began to permeate the territory of the Dashun Empire!

Especially the generation that grew up under the rule of Dashun felt that joining Wang Shi was an opportunity to change their own class!

Wu Sangui nodded and said with a smile: "It's indeed a cocoon...... I don't know how to educate the people, and I don't allow the people to seek wealth and officials, but I only know that if you oppress by force, you will be attacked in the end! It seems that the general trend of wandering has gone! ”

As he was saying this, a horse with a lantern galloped over, found Wu Sangui's Chinese army, and shouted on horseback: "Good news!" Good news...... The Kawabian Army broke through Luoyang! ”

Wu Sangui laughed when he heard this: "Okay, good! After a little yang, Qishan Dao and Hanzhong are all under control...... The number of rogues is gone! ”

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"Uncle, the defeated soldiers of the Liukou have all retreated in the direction of Yangping Pass! It seems that they are ready to give up the territory of Hanzhong and Qishan Road and stick to Yangping Pass. ”

In Lüeyang City, Kong Tingxun, who had pursued the Dashun army for an afternoon, returned with his cavalry after dark and returned to Lüyang City, which was occupied by the Sichuan border army in the morning.

Lüyang is the hub of southern Shaanxi, and to the south is Yangping Pass! Anyone who knows a little bit about history and geography knows what that place is. To the west is the Qishan Road, how the Qishan Road is controlled by the Ming army, then the Ming army can advance to the Sichuan Basin through the Yinping Trail or the Songpan Heights. To the east is the gateway of the Hanzhong Basin, and Li Dingguo's Dingjun Mountain camp is in the county, which can be said to be the base camp of the Great Shun Northern Expedition!

"You said that Liukou would give up Hanzhong?" Shang Kexi was a little incredulous, "There are Micang Road and Lychee Road from Hanzhong to Shu, and Hanzhong is also located behind Yunyang, once you give up Hanzhong, Yunyang can't keep it, plus the south of Gongchang Mansion where Qishan Road is located, you have to lose two and a half mansions!" ”

Kong Tingxun smiled: "I don't think it's possible, but the current situation is like this!" The Liukou cavalry who withdrew from Luoyang all went south and retreated towards Yangping Pass...... The cavalry sent by the little nephew to search for the county side walked 50 miles southeast before returning, and did not find any signs of the passage of the Liukou army. ”

"Did you really give up on Hanzhong?"

"It must have given up!" Kong Tingxun said, "Yesterday, I received a military report that Marshal Wu also divided his troops to go down from Maling Guandong, and also ordered the divisions of the three guards to take the Meridian Road, the Baochuan Road, and the Fu Luo Road to enter Hanzhong...... If you divide all the way east from Luoyang, that is, the five armies will march together, how will Hanzhong defend? ”

"Maybe the Liukou ambush soldiers are in the Hanzhong Basin?" Shang Kexi hesitated.

"How is that possible?" Kong Ting said, "Liukou is good at mountain warfare, and the Hanzhong Basin is all flat land, which is conducive to the rush of war horses." They left the mountains and did not ambush the soldiers, but ran to the plains to ambush the soldiers, didn't they kill themselves? ”

"That's what I said......"

"Uncle," Kong Ting said, "we might as well select 15,000 elites and go down to the county from the east of Luoyang, if we can lay down Dingjun Mountain, it will be a great achievement!" At that time, the uncle can be crowned the prince of the country, and the little nephew can also have a marquis. ”

Shang Kexi thought for a while and said, "Search carefully for 100 miles from Luoyang to Chuxian, if there is really no ambush, then let's go east!" ”