"Ada, are those people singing "Welcoming the King"? Doesn't that sound right? ”

"Ke'er, what do you think is wrong with them?"

"It sounds a little frustrating, it's a great joy to welcome the king! How is it like mourning now? ”

"It seems to be a little ......"

"Hmph, these people must be Diao Min!"

"Kerr, why are you here again......"

Outside the monk's original fortress, a father and son on horseback were listening to people singing "Welcoming the King" while having a conversation. This father and son are not ordinary characters, the father's name is Luo Hu, he is the Marquis of Tongguan of the Dashun Dynasty, the general, and the envoy of the Hanzhong Festival - the leader of the children's battalion who followed the Dashun Taizu Emperor Li Zicheng to the east and west, and has now grown into a high-ranking official and dignitary of the Dashun court......

The one who talked to Luo Hu was his eldest son, Luo Ke, the son of the Marquis of Tongguan. The current Luo Ke and Luo Hu, who followed Li Zicheng back then, look almost exactly the same at first glance, both are a young man with a tiger head and a tiger brain. But if you take a closer look, you'll be able to spot something wrong.

This Luo Ke and his father Luo Hu just look alike, but they are not the same kind of person at all.

Luo Hu is a farmer's son, no matter how rich he is, he can't get rid of the true character of a farmer. Down-to-earth, approachable, and can get along with the tenants at home and the pawns of his subordinates. When he lived on his own estate, he would work in the fields with the tenants. After drinking a few more glasses, he would tell a group of Sichuan farmers how poor he was when he was a child and how he had no food to eat. If he saw the poor suffering, Luo Hu would shed tears of sympathy. When they see that others have no food to eat, they will share their own food with others.

But Luo Ke, at first glance, is a nobleman, high up, and there are no civilians in his eyes at all...... The tone of conversation with civilians is commanding, and there is no more nonsense. If a civilian does something that makes him unhappy, he will scold them for being a. And Luo Hu will never say who Diaomin is, even if he is really Diaomin, he will not scold these two words.

Because in Luo Hu's subconscious, he himself is also a Diao Min...... At least once it was a Diao Min!

In short, this Luo Ke is clearly the kind of rich young master that Luo Hu hated when he was a child...... But Luo Hu likes him very much now, because Luo Ke is his son!

Biological, exactly the same, it can't be fake, how can you not like it?

Of course, Roco is by no means a gentleman. In fact, he is much better than Luo Hu back then, with outstanding literary talent, strong martial arts, familiar with the art of war, and a top student of Yunnan Wutang. was also favored by Li Laiheng, the prince of Fujun, and became the county master of Dashun.

When Luo Huzheng didn't know how to teach his son, he suddenly saw Wang Dahu and Wang Dahu's sons kneeling.

"What's going on with them?" Luo Hu asked Wang Xi, who arrived before him.

Wang Xi is a person from Li Dingguo, the official title is a mighty general, and he is the chief military officer - the chief military officer on the Dashun side is not a particularly large official position, and he also commands a troop of three or four thousand people (this level of establishment is called the battalion in Dashun), which is a little larger than the regiment on the side of the Ming Dynasty, the superior is the Jiedu envoy, and the subordinate is the brigade commander (equivalent to the battalion commander on the side of the Ming Dynasty), and the brigade is the team (also called the department).

"Master Hou," Wang Xi said, "these people are all smugglers who sell salt to Hanzhong. ”

Luo Hu turned around and asked his son, "Ke'er, how do you say you should punish them?" ”

"You should be killed!" Luo Ke said, "What are you doing with these people?" ”

Luo Hu sighed and thought: You Lao Tzu was also a Diao Min back then, and it would be a dead end to fall into the hands of a Ming Dynasty official like you.

But sympathy is sympathy, and killing is killing heads.

Luo Hu said to his son: "You haven't killed anyone, have you?" Go ahead, see the blood, and don't panic when you go to the battlefield in the future! ”

"Howler!" Luo Ke nodded heavily, then turned over and dismounted, drew his waist knife, and strode towards Wang Dahu and the others who were kneeling on the ground......

......

At the same time that Wang Dahu and his sons were chopped off in the skulls with knives in their hands, Sima Yu, who led the troops to open the gate of the Monk's Yuan Fortress two days ago, was already standing at the head of the city of Dasanguan, looking at the raging fire that had ignited on the school field in the city—this was the fire that reported to the Monk's Yuan's army.

The battle to capture the Great Scattered Pass is fierce! Although the defenders on the Dasan Pass also fooled a little, opened the north gate, and let Sima Yusuo, who claimed to be coming for reinforcements, enter the city - the spies of the Dashun army were still very powerful, and they got the defenders' orders.

But then the defenders recognized Sima Yu when they inspected the documents, and the two armies fought in the Dasan Pass. Although there are many defenders on the Dasan Pass, these local troops in Shaanxi are not the opponents of the elite soldiers of Dashun at all when they are fighting hand-to-hand combat. After barely resisting for most of the day, Dasanguan changed hands.

After seizing the Dasan Pass, even though most of the Chen Cang Road was passed, it was not completely unimpeded. Because there is a Erliguan in the north of Dasanguan, there is a Yimen town next to Erliguan, and north of Yimen Town and Erliguan is the county seat of Baoji. After taking Erliguan, Yimen Town, and Baoji County, Chencang Road can be regarded as fully opened.

However, relying on the thousands of lightly armed troops who crossed the Qinling Mountains (Wang Xi brought 1,500 men, Luo Hu brought 2,000 men), they could not defeat Erliguan, Yimen Town, and Baoji County under any circumstances. With the vigilance of the Ming army now, it is not common to sneak attack Dasanguan......

And the Dasan Pass fell at about the same time, as well as the Chencang Mountain, Wuzhangyuan and Jinya Pass to the east of the monk Yuan - the Golden Tooth Pass is a small pass on the Bao Slope Road, guarding a fork road extending from the main road of the Bao Slope Road, leading directly to Wuzhang Plain.

After the capture of Wuzhangyuan and Jinya Pass, most of the Baochuan Road was unblocked—it was also not completely unblocked, because the Xiegu Pass and the county seat of Yixian County were also still under the firm control of the Ming army.

If Dashun wants to completely open up the passage from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, it will have to seize all the city passes such as Erli Pass, Yimen Town, Baoji County, Xiegu Pass and Yixian County.

What Zhuge Kongming didn't do back then, now he has to rely on Dashun's Sai Zhuge Li Dingguo to do it!

At this time, Li Dingguo was leading an army through the canyon of Chencang Road.

It was an army of about 50,000 men, and it was still the equipment of the mountain army, most of whom carried muskets and knives (including javelins), and less than 10 percent of the soldiers carried spears. The number of cavalry and artillery is very small, there are only about 2,000 cavalry, and it is still a one-man and one-horse formation, and there are no good horses, they are all Sichuan horses and Yunnan horses. The artillery consisted of only 12 bronze cast 3-pound cannons and 6-kilogram cannons, which were dragged by horses and rumbled north.

Li Dingguo had already been informed by Luo Hu and Wang Xi at this time, and knew that the surprise attack had been successful - what Zhuge Liang had done back then, he had also done!

But his mood was not happy at all, because before leading his troops to leave the camp of Wudu Mountain, he learned the news of Doni's defeat.

The Jianzhou Jurchen Rebellion, which had plagued the Ming Dynasty for nearly 40 years, has now been completely pacified!

The speed at which Daming pacified Doni was really fast enough to surprise Li Dingguo - in fact, it was also beyond Zhu Cihong's expectations, because Doni's fighting skills were much worse than his father Duoduo, and he thought he was Nurhachi of Sarhu, but in fact he was worse than Yang Hao. Yang Ho fought 80,000 (real number) and 60,000, but he carried it for four days, and lost almost half of it. But Doni let the young guards of more than 10,000 people fight all over the ground, and they still fled in the ice and snow, and the 70,000 army was tossed by him until there were still a few thousand left...... After Li Dingguo got the report, he had an urge to cut people!

But Doni is dead, and even if he doesn't die, it won't be his turn to cut it. What he has to think about now is that he can fight better than Zhuge Liang in Wuzhangyuan.

This time, he still has to be a real Saizhuge, otherwise sooner or later the Ming army will be blocked in Wuzhangyuan and Monk Yuan - the current Guanzhong can't be compared with the Han Dynasty, just those two plains and some surrounding slopes, even if they are planted with millet, they can't feed Li Dingguo's army!