On March 20 of the second year of Xuande, the western expeditionary army of Wei successfully pulled out ten military villages of the Shu army and broke through the mighty city, and the Shu country was shaken!

The Western Expeditionary Army Fengxiang launched from the opportunity, one approached Qinzhou, and the other entered Chencang Road, encircling Fengzhou. Chen Xubu went all the way south, drove directly to Guzhen, and Guzhen defended the town on the grounds of low city walls and insufficient troops, abandoned Guzhen, and retreated to Chengzhou, dozens of miles away. The Wei army did not spend a single soldier and obtained the solid town without bloodshed.

Chen Xu, surrounded by the generals on the left and right, strode into Guzhen.

The garrison of Guzhen withdrew overnight, and the city was already empty, only some grain and grass were heavy, because the Shu army was in a hurry, leaving a lot of them, and they were cheap Chen Xu.

After obtaining Guzhen, the greater the strategic advantage of the Wei army. Chen Xu has already received news from the rear that Wang Jing's Fengxiang Town soldiers defeated the Shu army in Tangcang Town in Huanghua Valley, and recruited soldiers from Shu army strongholds such as Malingzhai, Shu was originally a part of the Central Plains, and there was not much difference in cultural traditions, and the recruitment and surrender work was relatively smooth.

Ascending the city tower and looking into the distance, Chen Xu's profound gaze looked to the south, and the field of vision was extreme, everything came to an abrupt end, turning into a slender horizon, where was the direction of Qingniling.

Under the city, the flags are fluttering, the crowds are crowded, the officers on horseback are running back and forth, commanding and dispatching, under the sound of an order, the soldiers are quickly assembled and arranged into a phalanx, the soldiers of the Hujie army are entering the city one after another in order, and a large number of people push carts and pull pack horses to transport grain to the city.

Fortunately, Guzhen was originally used as a military festival town for the use of the Shu army, and the barracks of the sergeants inside were not touched, and the soldiers could move in leisurely as long as they brought their personal belongings, and it had to be said that the Guzhen garrison had done a good thing again.

Here, Chen Xu took Guzhen as a base, and if he marched in a hurry, he could reach Qingniling, thirty or forty miles away, and carry out a blitzkrieg, and make a "half-crossing attack" to destroy the enemy's desire to march in battle.

In the distance, there are many terraced fields scattered on the vast slope, and sporadic horseback riders wander nearby, which are scouts sent by Chen Xubu. The scout is the eye of an army that extends the gaze of the army to the horse's hoof.

Eyes turned.

With a damp mist, for the green mud ridge covered with a layer of light white gauze, if a poet passing by here happens to look at this place from afar, maybe he will be full of poetry, chant a poem, praise a beautiful scenery.

The ground on the ridge grows with blue moss, and there are many clouds and rain, the road is very easy to form a mud, so it is called Qingniling, the road is difficult, but there is no smooth road to enter Shu, this road is the road that the Shu army must pass through, and there is a post house of Shu country.

At this time, on the Qingni Ridge.

"Phew!" A military general opened his mouth and spat a few mouthfuls of spit, and then stretched out his hand to wipe the mud stains off his face.

There are many clouds and rain in Qingniling, which is quite good today, the rain has stopped yesterday, but the ridge is covered with fog, and the visibility is not very bad, which does not have much impact on the march.

"His grandmother's! This green mud ridge is not only dangerous, but also rained again yesterday, the soil was very loose, and now the road is full of potholes on the rain, and it is even more difficult to walk! A general in a splendid cloak frowned.

This strange and dangerous green mud mountain range, with a radius of dozens of square kilometers, hundreds of miles of dangerous roads, thousands of cliffs, cloudy and dense rain, muddy and difficult to walk.

Later generations have a poem that says:

…… There is almost no smooth way to enter Shu, and this place is chilling. The cliffs choke the deep valleys, and the dead pine and strange rocks are born in the middle. The soul is dazzling, and the ants are attached, and the hands and feet are entwined into staggering. The ancient cold white bones have been thousands of years, and the wild man sighed to himself......

If it weren't for the danger of Qin Feng and other places in the north, everyone wouldn't have to rush to the north and hurriedly set foot on the dangerous Qingniling.

This grumbling general's name is Li Tinggui, the envoy of the Baoning Festival of the Shu State, and now he is holding the position of the commander of the Holy Control Hedu as the leader of the Northern Route Army, and the army is heading north to support the Shu garrison besieged by the Wei army.

"It's too late for us to come, Guzhen has been stolen by the Wei army!" Zhao Chongtao, the envoy of Shu Province, accompanied him as the supervisor of the North Route Army, and his face was complicated at this time.

According to the battle report from the front, the Wei army has successfully taken Guzhen, and this matter is well known.

Guzhen is a military important place, Qingniling is an important node for the Shu army to reinforce the north from the hinterland, and it is the throat of the Shu Road.

"Hey! Even Guzhen is lost! A general sighed and said regretfully, "As long as the defenders of Guzhen can hold out for a few days, and when our army arrives, the internal and external attacks may not be impossible to turn the tide of the battle!" ”

"It's a pity! Alas! The general who had just spoken thumped his chest. His name is Lu Yanke, he is the envoy of the Wuning Festival of the Shu State, and now he is appointed by the Shu State as Li Tinggui's deputy general, "The hateful and incompetent people have misled the country very much!" ”

Qin Feng and other places, although there is a large army to guard, but Zhao Jizha, who was the highest military governor of the two states in the early stage, has not arrived, the Shu army has no leader, the unification is disorderly, Chen Xu's department is even more brazenly launched an attack, caught them off guard, the Shu army can not concentrate all its forces to fight against the Wei army, so it was pulled out by the Wei army again and again.

The matter has come to this point, and no amount of complaining can change the established facts!

Helpless, but can only accept.

"Do your best to obey the destiny of heaven!" Li Tinggui, the leader of the Northern Route Army, sighed.

The army sent by Shu to the front line was divided into two parts, one was led by Li Tinggui and set off as the front army, and the other part was led by Gao Yanyu, the commander of the Left Guard Shengbu Army, and followed behind.

After the overseer sent Zhao Jiza back to the CD, the Shu Emperor Meng Chang had already realized the seriousness of the matter, and immediately appointed Li Tinggui, Lü Yanke and others, and formed the Northern Route Army to try to break the Wei army's military encirclement of Qinzhou, Fengzhou and other places.

But the Wei army's movements were too fast, and they successfully captured Guzhen before the arrival of the Shu Northern Route Army, and now, there is only one way in front of Li Tinggui and them, which is to defeat the Wei army in front of them.

Of course, they haven't encountered the Wei army in Guzhen, and if they want to retreat, they can withdraw, but a few days ago, the negative case of Zhao Jiza, who left his post without permission and escaped from the battle, is still vivid. Meng Chang, who was furious, beheaded him in a fit of anger and confiscated his entire family.

The teacher of the previous car must be learned!

The east and west sides of Qingniling are endless mountains and forests, you can't see the edge at a glance, there are no people in Liao within a radius of dozens of miles, and there are few people to visit, and there is really nothing to make the army march smoothly except for the road of Qingniling.