In the night, several fire dragons still curved on the mountain and forest paths in southern Shonan, rolling southward.

The topography of southern Shonan is as described above, very complex, with mountains and streams, forests and small valley plains, but the terrain of the southernmost Nanling is needless to say. There are many mountains and mountains, but there are many rugged mountain trails in the mountains, which is the biggest trouble.

The young people in the mountains are familiar with geography, and the frontal fight is like an egg hitting a stone, but what if it is just an attack?

Why did Lu Qian's army gather in the southeast? Herein lies the reason.

It's like the yellow ghost catcher.

The main road from Pingyang to Hengzhou has been formed at the end of the Tang Dynasty, and the northern part of Guibei in the Qingli is entrenched by outlaws such as Huang Ghost Hunting, and this road was interrupted for a time. The reason is that this road has to pass through the Yao people's gathering area. The geographical topography has an inherent limitation on the operation of large armies.

Unless it's the army that actually controls this mountain forest! But how much effort does it have to waste, and how many soldiers and horses do you have to leave behind to garrison? It's all a problem.

Before Yang Zaili fooled all the young people in the mountainous areas of southern Hunan into the Eight Banners, he would rather attack Fujian than let the army pass through this strange mountain forest.

The march of the army involves material and logistical supplies, so once there is a move, the Qi army is a large army of 100,000 people, if there is trouble because of the poor back road, Lu Qian will be disgusted. Therefore, it is better to hit Fujian. The latter had a sea boat division and a Manichaean army of 'half a thousand'.

In order to draw out such troops, Fang La has already evacuated Hangzhou. They were all clamoring for Qin Ming to send troops to accept the defense as soon as possible. There were also Manichaean sailors, and a group of people also set off from Hangzhou Bay and Zhoushan Islands, and went south to Ryukyu.

Lu Qian was reluctant to go through Nanling to fight Liangguang. If the boat capsizes in the gutter, and does not say how much it loses, it will lose its spirit first. You know, he now has the aura of 'Destiny' on his body, and the morale of the soldiers is high. If you are defeated, the color of the aura will be weakened all of a sudden.

Of course, although there is no army in southern Hunan, there is also a garrison in the province, and there is also this white flag set up by Yang Zai. The latter has a lot of autonomy and is also eager to fight to the south. This is just like Lu Zhishen, Lu Qian did not set a very hard target for him, it was he who set the decision for the offensive against Zhuo Luocheng.

After Li Qianshun fled westward, the party members moved westward one after another, and the Xishou Baotai Military Division west of Weizhou became a place where Xia Qi clashed from time to time. It's just that the West Shou Baotai Military Division is really a headache, the latter is located in the north of Rouwolf Mountain, south of Weijing Mountain, west of Killing Niu Ridge, and east of Lingbo Mountain. At the same time, there is Quwu Mountain in the south of Rouwolf Mountain, there is Hulu River in the east of Killing Niu Ridge, and there is Douling in the south.

At the same time, there are few women and children here, and many strong soldiers are a hard bone. The brothers Yang Keshi and Yang Kesheng have raised troops to attack and kill many times, but they are trapped in the geographical terrain and are difficult to break for a while.

Lu Zhishen simply abandoned the Xishou Baotai Military Division this time, and went to Zhuo Luocheng on the north bank of the Yellow River. This is the seat of the Western Xia Zhuo Luo and the Southern Military Division, just on the other side of the Yellow River, opposite to Lanzhou City across the river. This Lanzhou is the Lanzhou of later generations.

At the beginning, Zhang Shuye made a contribution in Lanzhou City, and since then, the officialdom has been smooth sailing. Until the Zhang family sinned Cai Jing.

Zhuo Luocheng is located on the north bank of the Yellow River, if Lu Qian knows a little about Lanzhou, he should know that this place is the Lanzhou New Area in later generations, that is, the Qinwangchuan Basin. Li Qianshun's arrangement here is similar to that of the Xishou Baotai Military Division, both of whom are young women with many strong women.

The Han people are unfamiliar with the geography and topography on the other side of Lanzhou, and even those generals of the Western Army are not well aware. But now it's different, the Qi army has taken down Lingwu, Li Qianshun fled in embarrassment, and Brother Li Cha is struggling to support north of Lingwu. In such a bad situation, the party has to be strong, so there is no one who is willing to surrender?

As tenacious as the devil soldiers in World War II, there is still the Japanese Anti-War League, not to mention the party members.

If this is the case now, with party members who are familiar with the terrain leading the way, the other side of the Yellow River, which was originally unfamiliar, is like Lu Zhishen's backyard. The army of Shanwan boldly walked through it, not only did not have to worry about being ambushed by the party members, but it could not even be detected by the party members!

It's just that this journey is still a bit hard.

After all, this place is full of ravines and dirt mountains, and the party members have never known how to build bridges and pave roads, and they have always been in line with the purpose of 'there are no roads in the world, and the more people will walk, the more they will become roads', at least here in Zhuo Luocheng.

Then you can imagine how difficult this march was. There is not even a direct road to Zhuo Luo City. However, in some places, you can see dilapidated and abandoned scattered infrastructure, as well as the presence of beacons. But no one dared to guarantee that they were built by the Tangut people, and more people thought that they might have come from the Tang Dynasty.

Along the way, the soldiers of the baggage battalion were busy opening the road in front, and it was not a joke to open the road in the mountains and fill the bridge when the water met the water.

Just like the Yellow River pontoon bridge earlier, forty large wooden rafts, connected from end to end, tied with iron chains, and more than 1,000 sheepskin rafts tied on both sides, wasted two days and nights, and finally completed this pontoon bridge. It is also a loss of time to enter March, and the upper reaches of the Yellow River not only have no ice floes, Lingxun, but also no peach blossom flood. The latter has just passed. Otherwise, it would be difficult for the army to cross the river, and Lu Zhishen would not dare to take risks easily.

The closer the soldiers and horses got to Zhuo Luo City, the more excited Lu Zhishen became. He was also born in the Western Army, and he was even more hateful and hateful than the Khitans. And Weicheng, which was guarded by Xiaozhong that day, was Weizhou to the north, how far was it from Zhuo Luocheng?

"How can the general see that it is more difficult to press than when the spirit martial arts are restored?" Wang Jin looked at Lu Zhishen's excited face, and felt quite funny.

On that day, the army restored Lingwu and broke Xiping, such as Xingqing, and I didn't see Lu Zhishen so uncontrollable.

The big hand rubbed on the shiny bald head, and Lu Zhishen said with a little embarrassment: "The head of the sect is smiling." Lu Zhishen regarded Shi Jin as a brother, and he was more solemn to Wang Jin. He is not called by his name, nor by his official position, but only by the head of the sect.

"But His Majesty has said today, the most ruthless revenge is not to kill the other party cleanly, but to make it live and suffer, and life is better than death."

"Back then, in Shuibo Liangshan, when we talked about killing Gao Kan, His Majesty once said, saying that he slaughtered Gao Kan with a knife, and it was too cheap for him. The vultures should remove his root of right and wrong, and let him enter the palace to be the eunuch, who has the heart but is powerless, and only then is it right. ”

Wang Jin, Li Yanxian, Wang Yuan and others will laugh when they hear it. Niu Gao said: "Could the general mean that the thief in the west?" ”

Lu Zhishen said: "It's not like this. Last year, he broke Xiping, entered Xingqing, and it was a pity that the Li thief fled early, but today I want to come, and I want him to live a period of exile, all day long, the grass and trees are soldiers, honest and fearful, and endure all the hardships, in order to solve the hatred in the hearts of millions of people in my northwest. ”

The surrounding generals nodded together, thinking of the frightened bird, thinking of the wind and the sound of the grass and trees, they all thought it was true.

In unison, he said, "That's exactly how it should be." ”

"Before you catch the thief, kill his brother, so that he may know the pain of breaking his hands and feet; Then he took his wife captive and killed her, so that he might know what it means to ruin his family and his death, and even if he is in pain. Zhi Yanzhi gritted his teeth when he spoke, and he couldn't wait for Li Qianshun to taste the pain of the world, which was happy. The family and the party members have a deep enmity in the sea of blood for 200 years, and this enmity is not shared.

Zheyan said this, so that everyone in Luda and they could listen to it happily, "The Sprinkler family was happy to hear this." "It's like drinking a pot of ice water in the summer, refreshing!

Lu Zhishen turned his head and confronted Zhi Yan: "General Zhe Mo Ruo, please transfer to Longxi." Your Majesty has a lofty vision and a broad heart, and he will not talk about the Western Regions, but the Western Thieves must first be completely exterminated. General Zhe came to Longxi, which is where it comes in. ”

His bottom line this year is to take Xiliang Mansion, that is, Wuwei County in the Han Dynasty, which was named after Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty to highlight the martial arts and military might of the Han Empire's army. The "Jin Wuwei, Silver Zhangye" on the Silk Road is here.

In the hands of the Tangut people, it is a prosperous place, the western capital of the Tangut and one of the two major economic centers. Countless Uighur merchants traded here, buying porcelain and silk from the Central Plains from the Tangut people, and since ancient times, it has been the central city controlling the three major plateaus [Loess, Qinghai-Tibet, and Mengxin] and the Western Regions. It is also one of the nodes of the Belt and Road of the Super Muscle Rabbit in later generations.

Li Qianshun fled straight to Xuanhua Mansion earlier, that is, Zhangye in the Han Dynasty. But he wanted to be embarrassed, and after settling down, he returned to Xiliang Mansion, which calmed the panicked hearts of the party members a little.

"After taking Zhuo Luo City, Xiliang Mansion will not be far away."

Therefore, Lu Zhishen must attack Zhuo Luo City. It was the core of the Western Xia Zhuo and the Southern Military Division, and it was also an important stronghold used by the Western Xia to control the north bank of the Yellow River. Whether to the east or west, if Zhuo Cheng is not controlled, and Zhuo and the Southern Army Division are not bulldozed, the grain road and the back road may be cut off at any time.

Then it can directly threaten Xiliang Mansion.

"After laying Zhuo Luo City, we traced the Kaluo River north to Hongchi Ridge. The West Thief has a village under Hongchi Ridge [Wusheling Ridge], named Jisang. After here, you can see Xiliang Mansion. ”

Since ancient times, Wusheling has been the gateway and throat of the Hexi Corridor, the key point of the ancient Silk Road, a military location, and the geographical location is very important. In later generations, the Lanxin Railway and the Ganxin Highway (312 National Highway) all passed over the mountains from Wusheling. At the same time, it is also the dividing line between monsoon and non-monsoon areas.

Zhuo Luocheng has still been won, Lu Zhishen is thinking about Xiliang Mansion, this ambition is not small.

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Night covers the land.

A delicate crescent moon hangs on the tops, and the dense moonlight shines through the leaves and sprinkles on every piece of the earth. In that dark sky, countless sparkling stars are unwilling to be lonely to show their charm. A transparent gray cloud gently obscured the moonlight.

The Karo River, which flows from the northwest, glows silver in the moonlight, and the bright moonlight falls on the water, reflecting the hasty army on the riverbank.

Lu Zhishen stood by the water, his whole person was like a rock, and his eyes were staring intently at Zhuo Luocheng, which could already be seen dimly with a black outline. The furrow in the corner of his eye is the wind and frost of the years, and what has always remained the same is his shiny bald head.