Chapter 910: Battle of Pigao Pass

Jin Huang is a great nobleman surnamed Jin in South Korea, and he is also a general in the western part of Hedong County during the Northern Xinjiang Campaign last year. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

I remember that in the nineteenth year of Hongde, South Korea sent more than 200,000 troops to attack Hedong County of Wei. Among them, some of the Korean troops sent troops from Tianmen Pass and Mengmen Pass, while the other part of the troops went out of Jinyang County, Taiyuan County, South Korea.

The commander of the latter South Korean army is Jin Huang.

At that time, Jin Di's advance speed can be described as overwhelming, and in just half a month, he conquered the western half of Hedong County of Wei State and pushed the battle line to Anyi.

At that time, the Northern First Army under the command of Zhao Hongli, the prince of the Eastern Palace of Wei, established their only merit in the entire Northern Xinjiang Campaign: defending Anyi.

After all, the Northern First Army was an establishment of 100,000 soldiers, even if the results of the battle with the Korean army at that time were not optimistic, but after all, Anyi was held to the death, otherwise, the western part of Hedong County may have been lost.

Of course, in fact, the Wei army finally held Anyi at that time, and this was not all due to the Northern First Army. In fact, the biggest contributor should be the 20,000 Sichuan cavalry sent to Hedong County by the Sichuan Alliance.

According to the Wei Army, the Wei army in the western part of Hedong County was in an extremely bad situation at that time, and completely lost control of the suburbs. To put it simply, that is to say, the suburbs outside the city were almost all controlled by the cavalry of the Han army, and the Wei army could only shrink into the city at that time, not daring to fight.

At that time, the Korean army had no idea where the Korean garrison was and where it was plotting to attack, and even the grain convoy was frequently attacked by the Korean cavalry.

At this time, the Sichuan cavalry arrived in Hedong County, and the heroic warriors of the two tribes launched a fierce battle with the Korean cavalry.

In particular, the "Jieshan Cavalry Battle" that broke out later, in which the 8,000 Sichuan cavalry and the Korean cavalry, numbering about 10,000, broke out at the foot of the Jieshan Mountain in the northwest of Angeup.

It is said that nearly 20,000 horses were killed in that war.

Of course, in the merit book of the military department, the "Battle of Jieshan" was a rare victory of the Northern First Army during the entire Northern Xinjiang Campaign, and some generals of the Northern First Army at that time said that under their leadership, the Northern First Army achieved a key victory and severely damaged the Korean cavalry troops.

But in fact, the Northern 1st Army only sent out an infantry force of about 30,000 at that time, and attacked the Korean cavalry from the side.

What's even more ridiculous is that because the 30,000 infantry of the Northern First Army were discovered by the Korean scouts at that time, the Korean cavalry that was fighting with the Sichuan cavalry in the Jieshan area quickly retreated, so they were caught by the Sichuan cavalry and took advantage of the victory to pursue it.

Therefore, to put it bluntly, in the "Jieshan Cavalry Battle", the Northern First Army purely scared the Korean army, not to mention the protagonist of that battle, and even the supporting role was not qualified.

It was the soldiers of the Sichuan Alliance who really paid great sacrifices in the "Jieshan Cavalry Battle", and it was these allies of the Wei State who saved the unfavorable situation of the Wei army in the west of Hedong County.

At that time, it is said that dozens of teams of about 200 to 300 Sichuan cavalry roamed in the western part of Hedong County, competing with the Korean light cavalry head-on for control of the field and restoring the Wei army's grain routes and communications.

It can be said that the reason why the Northern First Army was able to survive the difficult early stage of the battle at that time was that the contribution of the Sichuan cavalry was great.

But even so, at that time in the west of Hedong County, the Wei army was still at a disadvantage, to put it mildly, it was nothing more than the Northern First Army with the help of the Sichuan cavalry, desperately to keep Anyi, as for the counteroffensive, I believe that the high-level generals of the Northern First Army at that time did not even think about it.

Subsequently, the situation of the Wei army changed significantly as the "Northern Third Army" led by General Jiang Wei, a retainer of the Wei clan in Tianshui, to support the western part of Hedong County.

If it is said that the Sichuan cavalry made the Han general Jin Huang feel tricky, then Jiang Yan's Northern Third Army made Jin Huang jealous.

It's no wonder, after all, Jiang Cong's combat method is too fierce, as if his only tactic is to be fully prepared before the war, and then press the whole army when the war is launched - Jiang Cong's attack on Quwo is like this, the Northern Third Army spent a day to build hundreds of long ladders, and then during the siege war, tens of thousands of soldiers of the Northern Third Army poured onto the city wall, and even Jiang Cong personally went into battle, so that the Korean army could not resist Jiang Cong's such a ferocious attack, and when the morale of the corporal was demoralized, the city was lost in a daze.

Momentum, this is the biggest characteristic of the Northern Third Army under Jiang Wei's command.

In fact, the strength of the soldiers of the Northern Third Army is not much more powerful than that of the Northern First Army, and even inferior to the Northern First Army in terms of the sophistication of weapons and equipment, but the bloody nature of the Northern Third Army that advances without retreating and regards death as if it were home makes the South Korean army jealous when it encounters Jiang Contempt.

It is unbelievable that the Northern Third Army under Jiang Cong's command can make the Korean cavalry go around.

As far as the infantry is concerned, the Northern Third Army is proud enough.

However, the disadvantages of this method of warfare are also obvious, for example, even during the last Northern Xinjiang Campaign, Jiang Yan won every battle, but his 50,000 soldiers, in the end, there were only 30,000 left.

Yes, the battle was won, but the casualties of the troops reached 20,000, which was comparable to the losses of the Northern First Army, which had hardly won any battles on its own during the entire Northern Xinjiang Campaign.

Of course, such a huge loss of troops has a lot to do with the weapons and equipment of the soldiers of the Northern Third Army, after all, this army was the only army in the Wei State that still used bronze weapons and equipment at that time, and even this year, bronze weapons and equipment still accounted for the majority of the Northern Third Army, and the other part was the iron weapons that the Northern Third Army took from the Korean soldiers they defeated.

Yes, the Korean armies faced by the Northern Third Army, like the other armies of the Wei State, were almost all armed with sophisticated iron weapons.

And in this case, the Northern Third Army can still gain an advantage, which is really surprising.

Therefore, in the Wei state, Jiang Wei's reputation gradually rose, and he was gradually respected by many Wei people as the fierce general of the world.

Even Jin Di, who was known as one of the "Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains", was a little confused by Jiang Contempt at that time, so that the advantage that the Han army had achieved in the western part of Hedong County at that time was gradually equalized by Jiang Contempt.

In this regard, Jin Huang felt very uncomfortable.

You must know that Jiang Di defected to Wei from the far west with the Wei clan in Longxi, and he is unknown in the Central Plains, but Jin Huang is a Han general known as the "Ten Heroes of the Northern Plains".

Therefore, a while ago, when Jin Di learned that the Wei general Jiang Cong was attacking Pingyang, he had prepared to send troops out of the leather prison and attack Linfen, the rear defense of the Northern Third Army under Jiang Cong, but when he learned that there was another army of Wei that was rushing towards the west of Hedong County, Jin Di immediately dispelled the idea of sending troops.

Unlike Jiang Cong, a Wei general who was unknown before the first Northern Xinjiang Campaign, the commander of the Wei army who recently came to Hedong County to participate in the war was a well-known Wei man in the Central Plains, Wei Gongzi Ji Run!

Don't look at Zhao Hongrun, he has never participated in the war between Wei and Korea so far, but his reputation in Korea is not low, after all, the Sichuan cavalry that fought evenly with the Korean cavalry in the "Jieshan Cavalry Battle" was built after this Wei prince Ji Run conquered Sanchuan.

Defeating the Sichuan Rong people, who had lived there for nearly a hundred years, in Sanchuan County, and inflicting heavy losses on the cavalry, this battle alone was enough to make Korea jealous of this Wei Gongzi.

What's more, this Wei Gongzi Ji Run was also one of the two lieutenant generals appointed by King Lu Xi of Qi during the "Four Kingdoms Expedition to Chu" last year, and I have to say that that battle shocked the entire Central Plains.

Afterwards, the world was spreading that if Lu Xi, the king of Qi at that time, was not sick during the war against Chu, whether Chu might have perished because of this, it is conceivable what kind of desperate situation Chu was in at that time.

In the eyes of the Wei people, Zhao Hongrun, the king of Su, first became famous when he was fourteen years old, he led the army to repel Xiong Tuo, the king of Xucheng, who invaded Yingshui County of Wei, but in Korea, the Koreans learned that the name of Ji Run, the son of Wei, was in the "Jieshan Cavalry Battle", after all, the Sichuan cavalry at that time participated in the battle as "the allies of the Wei State", "the friendly army of the Su Wang's line", etc., which surprised the Koreans: it turned out that the Wei State had surrendered to the Yin Rong of Sanchuan.

And just when they gradually began to pay attention to the Wei Gongzi Ji Run, the "Wei Qin Sanchuan Battle" broke out, the Battle of Hangu, the Wei Gongzi Ji Run wiped out more than 200,000 Qin troops, which not only frightened the Qian people in Sanchuan County to surrender in a hurry, but also frightened the Korean fine work to quickly send the news back to their own country, so that the Han army, which had already had logistical problems at that time, finally decided to temporarily suspend the army.

And now, the Wei Shuai who killed more than 200,000 Qin troops in the Battle of Hangu, Wei Gongzi Ji Run, led his elite soldiers to the west of Hedong County, even if it was Jin Huang and other figures, he also felt great pressure.

He would not underestimate the other party because of his age, after all, that Wei Gongzi Ji Run was not Jiang Cong's kind of person who was unknown in the Central Plains.

Therefore, as early as when the Su Wangjun army entered Tang County, the scouts of the Han army had already sent the news of the arrival of this army to Jin Huang.

And Jin Huang also made corresponding preparations when he guessed that Ji Run, the prince of Wei, was trying to lead the army to attack his Pigao Pass.

At this time, Jin Huang did not have many troops in his hands, only about 20,000 people, but because of the steep terrain of Pigao Pass, which was easy to defend and difficult to attack, he was confident that even if 100,000 Wei troops attacked this pass, he could hold it safely and steadily.

Therefore, he looked forward to the Wei army attacking Pigao Pass from the mile-long sheep intestine valley road on the west side of Pigao Pass every day, and looked forward to turning this sheep intestine valley road into a cemetery where Wei troops were buried.

However, after waiting for three days, the Wei army stationed in Tang County never moved into the army, on the contrary, the defenders he deployed in Yishan and Wangwushan were killed by unknown people one after another.

This caused Jin Huang to speculate: Could it be that Ji Run, the prince of Wei, did not plan to march from the Yanggu Valley Road, but was preparing to find a breakthrough from Yishan Mountain and Wangwu Mountain?

After realizing this, Jin Huang immediately sent additional garrisons to Liangshan, and after hearing about this, Zhao Hongrun also sent two elite thousand-man teams to infiltrate Yishan and Wangwushan.

The Battle of Wei Han Pi Pass began with the Battle of the Two Mountains Scout.