If it is in the plain area, let alone more than 7,000 Shu troops, even if it is more than 70,000 Shu troops, Li Zhongyi has nothing to worry about.

However, the problem is that the more than 7,000 Shu troops stationed at the throat of the sheep intestine trail are deadly enough to exist.

"I really didn't expect that Wang Chuhui fake Taoist priest would have two hits." Li Zhongyi looked at the map for a while, and found that the grain and grass of the entire army could not go around Changning Village left and right, and he couldn't help but sigh with emotion.

Wang Ken, the deputy commander of the accompanying Guards Army, also nodded and said: "Your Majesty, the Shu army has increased by 4,000 troops, and Changning Village is easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is difficult for our army to do." However, Changning Village is not big, and there are 4,000 more soldiers and horses out of thin air, so I'm afraid that the grain and grass will not be enough, right? ”

Li Zhongyi put his hands behind his back, circled around the spot twice, and suddenly ordered: "Order the Xiaoyong battalion to bypass Changning Village from the mountain and cut off the supply and grain route of the Shu army." ”

As the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry!

Li Zhongyi was not in a hurry at all, Changning Village attracted 7,000 Shu troops, which meant that the Liaoshan River on the other side of Luo Ning Road reduced the pressure.

Before setting out on the expedition, Li Zhongyi had already mastered the reality of the Shu army. In order to cope with the likely attack of the Qiang Han Dynasty, the Shu army stationed a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses in the Daba Mountains and the Qinling Mountains.

50,000 soldiers and horses, this is already the limit of the strength of the Shu army stationed in the Qinling Mountains. After all, relying on the food supply of Xingyuan Mansion (Hanzhong) was not enough to support the entire Qinling defense line, and it was necessary to cross the Daba Mountains from the Chengdu Plain and transport grain over.

To put it bluntly, that is, in terms of logistical pressure, Li Zhongyi is certainly difficult, but Meng Chang is actually not easy.

Shu Road is difficult, the difficulty is that one husband is the pass, and ten thousand people are not open. However, on the thousand-mile-long defensive line, it is impossible for the Shu army to garrison and defend everywhere, which gives the Xiaoyong battalion the opportunity to cross the mountains and mountains and bypass Changning Village.

To put it bluntly, Changning Village can prevent the passage of the baggage required by the brigade of soldiers and horses, but it cannot stop a small group of enemy troops from going around the mountain.

Li Zhongyi's plan was actually not complicated, after entering the Meridian Valley, he began to establish temporary logistics supply points along the way. That is, to cut down wood to build cottages, as long as it can shelter from the wind and rain, and has a certain defensive ability.

Starting from the mouth of the Meridian Valley, a temporary logistics supply point was built every thirty miles, and it was advanced step by step to the foot of the mountain in Changning Village.

The main army is piled up under Changning Village, inviting battles day and night, which can deter the Shu army and make it dare not act rashly.

The real killer move was that the Xiaoyong battalion bypassed Changning Village and cut off the logistics supply of the Shu army.

Changning Village is not big, the circumference is less than two miles, and it is too much to garrison 3,000 people, let alone 7,000 Shu troops?

The grain that was originally provided for 3,000 people to feed is now supplied to 7,000 people, and as long as the food supply is cut off, it will be in chaos before the war.

Li Zhongyi insisted on personally leading the Xiaoyong battalion, but cut off the back road of the Shu army, Zhang Sanzheng knew the emperor's temper, once he made a decision, Jiuniu could not pull back.

Unavoidably, Zhang Sanzheng insisted on accompanying Li Zhongyi over the mountains and mountains. Zhang Sanzheng's reason is very sufficient, he is the commander of the Guards, and he has an unshirkable responsibility to protect Li Zhongyi's personal safety.

Li Zhongyi understood Zhang Sanzheng's concerns, and after thinking about it, he decided to hand over the main army to Wang Ken, the deputy commander of the Guards, and ordered him to lead the army to threaten Changning Village from the front.

Wang Ken also started from the establishment of the army in Hechi, and followed Li Zhongyi's confidants, starting from the grassroots commander, all the way to the deputy commander of the capital by virtue of military merits, and he was extremely rich in combat experience.

In other words, Li Zhongyi trusted Wang Ken's military command talents, so he handed over the command to him.

It's just that, at Zhang Sanzheng's insistence, in addition to the 1,000 people of the Xiaoyong Battalion, another 2,000 officers and soldiers from the A and B Battalions of the Guards were transferred to form a 3,000-person outflanking detachment.

In the middle of the night, the outflanking group, with the Xiaoyong battalion as the advance team, quietly walked out of the military camp and soon disappeared into the vast mountains.

In the Li family's army, most of the middle and senior officers were Shu people, that is, from the beginning of the establishment of the army in Hechi, they followed Li Zhongyi's confidants.

As early as the beginning of the founding of the army, Li Zhongyi placed great emphasis on the mobile combat capability of the troops, and the cross-country march of 20 miles fully armed was already a common occurrence for the forbidden army of the Qiang Han Dynasty.

It is precisely because of this that after the army entered the mountains, the footsteps were not slow, and in one night's work, they had already gone out more than 40 miles over the mountains and mountains.

In fact, the distance in a straight line is only more than 10 miles.

There is no way, Wangshan runs a dead horse. The straight line between the two mountains may only be a few miles, but walking down the winding mountain road is more than ten miles.

Liu Wenchang, the commander of the Xiaoyong battalion, commanded more than 1,000 brothers, carrying ropes, axes, hooks and sickles, etc., to open the way for the army in front.

Worried about being ambushed by the Shu army, the soldiers of the throat camp were spilled far away. Once encountering a police situation, the sharp brass whistle can notify the large army in a very timely manner to prepare for battle.

Like the soldiers, Li Zhongyi also had two pairs of leggings tied to his legs. The legging strap is usually a long strip of cloth that can be made of any material, but it should be strong.

One end of the gaiter strap is flat, and the other end is split into two ropes, and the fork should be strong. The width of the legging strap is 10 cm or more and the length is 1.5-2 meters.

The way to play the leggings is to wrap the flat end of the head from the top of the foot around the leg, and turn the leggings over with each or two turns to ensure that the skin is flat. Start from the top of the foot and continue to hit upwards, to the bottom of the knee, not too high, otherwise it will affect the knee bending.

After practice, it is best to stand up and fight when playing leggings. When playing, pay attention to the appropriate tightness, too tight will not be able to take a step, too loose will not work, play a good leggings should be tightly sealed at the mouth of the shoe, walking for a long time will not be loose.

During long runs or on foot, the blood vessels of soldiers will swell, and leggings can relieve fatigue and pain.

The core of cutting off the grain route of the Shu army this time is not the battle, but whether the grain is enough to support the entire battle.

Therefore, the officers and men of the advance team each carried 15 days' rations. The ration, consisting of fried rice and pancakes, is the same half.

In today's imperial forbidden army, the standard equipment of each ordinary soldier includes: a set of upper body infantry armor, a coarse porcelain bowl, a bamboo chopsticks, a hat, a set of clothes, a water hyacinth, a crossbow, fifty armor-piercing arrows, a three-pound hemp quilt wrapped in oiled paper, and many small bits and pieces.

The whole set of equipment for marching and fighting, including the rations for fifteen days, weighed about forty pounds in total.

If it is an ordinary warlord army, with an average load of forty catties per person, let alone fighting, the march will inevitably be exhausted.

However, the elite soldiers created by Li Zhongyi, after years of mobile training, can each carry 40 catties and march more than 80 miles a day. Of course, these 80 miles are plain areas, and the mountainous areas should at least be discounted in half.

Changning Village guards the throat of the Meridian Valley, thirty miles south of Changning Village, the Shu army built a small fort, the name of the fort: Zhenbei Fort.

As the name suggests, since the name is called Zhenbei, it itself has the meaning of guarding against the attack of soldiers and horses in the north.

According to the reconnaissance of the throat, there were more than 500 Shu troops stationed in Zhenbei Fort, which obviously meant guarding the back road of Changning Village.

When resting on the way, Li Zhongyi compared the map and the sand table, and said with a smile: "As long as Zhenbei Fort is taken, the back road of Changning Village will be completely cut off." ”

Zhang Sanzheng touched his chin, stared at the sand table, thought twice, and said slowly: "The Shu army should already know the news of our army's entry into the mountain, although the number of garrisons in the north fort of this town is not large, but the terrain is extremely dangerous, and it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack." ”

Li Zhongyi nodded, looked at Liu Wenchang, the commander of the Xiaoyong Battalion, and said with a smile: "Are you sure to take it at night?" ”

Liu Wenchang saw that Li Zhongyi was moving, and hurriedly bowed his hand and said: "Back to the emperor, our army has fierce fire oil and 'cocktails', if the use of fire attack is allowed, this fort will be broken." It's just that the grain stored in the fort is probably difficult to ......."

Li Zhongyi smiled and said: "Using fierce fire oil and 'cocktails' to burn the fort gate and fort wall, even if the Shu army sets fire to the grain stored in the fort, as long as our army attacks the fort, there will always be some gains, right?" ”

"The task of sneaking up on Zhenbei Fort will be handed over to the Xiaoyong Battalion......" Li Zhongyi personally ordered the general with a smile.

Liu Wenchang hurriedly handed over the order and said loudly: "Guarantee to complete the task." "He has enough confidence in the ability of his subordinates.

In this era when there is no concept of special operations, the brave battalion pioneered by Li Zhongyi has a unique combat awareness and equipment of the era.

In order to ensure the safety of food in Zhenbei Fort to the greatest extent, Liu Wenchang's planned sneak attack adopted the tactic of encircling three queyi.

As the saying goes, the trapped beast is still fighting, if the officers and soldiers of Shu have no way to retreat, one situation is to surrender on the spot, and the other is to fight to the end.

The elite of the Xiaoyong battalion plays a key role in putting the finishing touch, rather than fighting with the Shu army to the end.

In the dead of night, more than 100 elite soldiers of the Xiaoyong Battalion quietly touched the foot of the mountain in Zhenbei Fort.

Liu Wenchang gave them the task not to enter the north fort of Zhenbei, but to sneak to the fort wall as much as possible, and smash the fierce fire oil cans and 'cocktails' into the fort gate and fort wall to create great chaos.

As the saying goes, it's easy to fish in troubled waters, as long as the Shu army in the fort is in chaos, everything else is easy to say.

Behind the advance personnel of the Xiaoyong Battalion were 2,000 elite guards led by Zhang Sanzheng, whose mission was to take advantage of the fire and the chaos of the enemy army to enter the enemy fort.

Li Zhongyi did not appear on the front line, he was surrounded by the remaining 900 soldiers of the Xiaoyong Battalion, and their safety would be taken care of.

This kind of late-night sneak attack is bound to be an unpredictable big scuffle. The forbidden army of the Qiang Han Dynasty had an absolute advantage in numbers and equipment, and Li Zhongyi had no need to risk his huge life and run to the front line to die.

The big husband has something to do and something not to do, and his mind must always be clear!