The Chu army advanced thousands of miles into Guizhou, and Sun Kewang was completely unprepared, as if he had been hit on the head, and he was stunned.

A few days ago, the Chu army counterattacked for thousands of miles, Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong and others led a large army into Guangxi, and then quietly entered the ninety thousand mountains in Liuzhou Mansion, although Liu Fangliang, Dang Shousu and He Zhen tried their best to cover, but tens of thousands of troops suddenly disappeared, or left all kinds of clues, the western army of Liuzhou Mansion quickly determined that there was a large number of Western troops who did not know where to go, and reported to Sun Kewang layer by layer, Sun Kewang attached great importance to it.

Tens of thousands of troops will not disappear out of thin air, the whereabouts of this Chu army are so strange, there must be a major conspiracy, Sun Kewang repeatedly calculated on the map, this Chu army is likely to sneak attack Guilin, attack Quanzhou, in order to cut off the Lingqu grain road, or to attack Xiangzhou, flank the western army on the border between Guangzhou, or prepare to cross the Rongjiang River, outflank Liuzhou from the flank, etc., he thought of all kinds of possibilities, but turned a blind eye to Guizhou north of Liuzhou Prefecture.

Without him, the 90,000 Mountains are like a high wall, blocking between Guizhou and Guangxi.

China's provinces are basically divided according to the topography, the provincial boundaries are often lofty mountains or rivers, if each province is compared to a house, the mountains and rivers of the provincial border are the walls between the houses, the brigade wants to go from one province to another, must go to the provincial boundary fixed several passes, just like the wall opened a few doors, for example, there are two gates between Henan and Hubei, one is the three passes of Yiyang in Xinyang, and the other is the road of Xiangyang-Xinye-Nanyang.

Several provinces in the southwest developed late, sparsely populated, since ancient times, there is only one relatively large gate between Guizhou and Guangxi, that is, take the "Yelang Ancient Road" of Pu'an and Baise, although Liuzhou Mansion borders with Liping Mansion in Guizhou, but there are 90,000 mountains on the Guangxi side, there are endless Miao Mountains on the Guizhou side, there is only one small road leading to Guilin, and the army cannot pass through from Liuzhou.

After receiving the news of the loss of Wukaiwei, Tongguwei and Nandongsi, Sun Kewang knew that there was a Chu army that had entered Guizhou, but at first he did not regard them as the main force of the Chu army, which was like Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition during the Three Kingdoms period, Wei Yan proposed to take the Meridian Valley to attack Chang'an, and sent thousands of men and horses to take the small road, surprise the army, it is not without a chance of success, but tens of thousands of troops cannot all take the small road, otherwise, the road conditions and food supplies along the way will have big problems.

The moat will not become a thoroughfare by itself.

Regardless of the Qin, Han, Tang and Song dynasties, the southwest is a remote and wild place, the layers of lofty mountains and mountains are rare, the mountains are full of poisonous insects and beasts, and there is a miasma that makes people talk about it, just listen to the name of 90,000 mountains, I feel mysterious and dangerous, in most people's impressions, there is a forbidden area that human beings cannot set foot in, tens of thousands of troops over 90,000 mountains into Guizhou? This kind of thinking is too absurd, if Chu Jun tries to do this, I am afraid that before he can get out of the mountains, he will starve to death and be exhausted......

Sun Kewang's thinking is still limited by the mindset since ancient times.

What he didn't expect was that this time was no longer as good as in the past, and the moats of the past were now passable.

For thousands of years, the war in the north continued, in every turbulent era of changing the dynasty, there were a large number of Han people going south, avoiding the war, but also promoting Miao Dong Lishui and other ethnic minorities to continue to go south, and into the mountains to settle, to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the population of the southwest provinces has been quite dense, previously regarded as a no-man's land of 90,000 mountains, there are many villages inhabited by natives, there are roads between the villages, the road is lined with large farmland, the natives who used to slash and burn in the past, learned to grow rice from the Han people, It is possible to provide enough food for the passing army, even if they themselves may not be willing to take it out.

As for poisonous insects, beasts, and miasma, after the population settled in the mountains reached a certain size, with human activities such as burning forests and cutting down trees, clearing wasteland, etc., they have retreated to the depths of the mountains and no longer pose a threat.

The road in the mountains is indeed rugged and difficult to travel, but compared with the Han and Tang dynasties, it has been greatly improved, Jiuwan Mountain is located at the junction of Guangxi, Hunan and Guizhou, which was the territory of the Longwu Imperial Court earlier, the Chu army is very familiar with the road situation here, and after several months of careful preparation, the necessary light travel was carried out, and the mountains and mountains were like walking on the ground, if it were not for Tan Xiao's insistence, Qin Jianong might really be able to bring the cannon to Guizhou.

All in all, the Chu army was well prepared, and under the condition that the whole army was lightly armed, it easily crossed the 90,000 mountains that Sun Kewang regarded as a trench, and the number of people who fell behind and attrition on the way was much smaller than expected, and the combat effectiveness of the troops basically remained intact, so they could launch a series of offensives immediately after entering Guizhou, almost without giving the other side time to react.

The Chu army was connected with Ke Zhenyuan, Kaili and Duyun, and more information about the Western Expeditionary Army was sent to Changsha, and Sun Kewang realized that this Western Expeditionary Army was the Chu Army that disappeared in Liuzhou.

An army of more than 50,000 people, how did they climb over the 90,000 mountains? Sun Kewang didn't know the specific situation, so he couldn't figure it out if he wanted to.

If you can't figure it out, you don't want to think about it, the matter has come to this point, Sun Kewang can't care to investigate the reasons, after the Chu army successively captured Shi Bing, Zhenyuan, Kaili, Duyun This series of prefectures and counties, the situation in Guizhou deteriorated rapidly, and it had a huge impact on the overall situation, and it had reached a grim point related to the life and death of the Western Army.

As early as the Tang and Song dynasties, the Qingshui River is an important trade route for Yunnan and Guizhou provinces to transport timber outward, and now it is a very important supply line for the Western Army, the Chu army occupied a series of prefectures and counties along the coast such as Duyun, Kaili, Shibing, etc., and controlled the Qingshui River waterway in this section of Guizhou, not only cut off the supply line of the Western Army, but also greatly enhanced its own mobility ability, going back and forth freely on both sides of the Miao Ridge, almost not affected by the mountains of Guizhou.

The loss of Zhenyuan, Kaili and Duyun means that southeast Guizhou has fallen into the hands of the Chu army, and among these prefectures and counties, Duyun is the most important.

Duyun is located in the middle of Guizhou, can be called the waterway rush, the north and south hub, in addition to the Qingshui River waterway, Duyun is also the intersection of the two most important land official roads in Guizhou, these two official roads are the big roads that can be driven and run horses, one is the "East Yunnan Road" that connects Hunan and Yunnan, and the other is the "Yelang Ancient Road" that connects Sichuan, Guizhou and Guangxi, the Chu army occupies Duyun, you can continue to march to the west of Guizhou by land, and even go north to Sichuan, south to Guangxi, and west to Yunnan......

A son falls, and the plate is full of life.

The Chu army advanced thousands of miles into Guizhou, three fists and two feet opened up the situation, first of all, it posed a direct threat to the main force of the Western Army in Huguang, they not only cut off the supply line of the Qingshui River, but also could return to attack Hunan at any time, forming a two-sided attack on Changsha and Hengyang, if the Chu army captured the provincial capital Guiyang, several supply lines through Guizhou or cut off, or the transportation capacity was greatly affected, such as the supply line of Lingqu, which could also bypass Guiyang and pass through Guangxi, but in this way, it would be necessary to bypass thousands of miles of land routes, Consumption on the road will increase dramatically.

The Yangtze River is a golden waterway, but it is a pity that the Western Army does not have a naval division and cannot use the Yangtze River to transport grain from Sichuan, and the reason why Li Dingguo's troops are making slow progress is because they only rely on people to carry military rations on their backs, and the supply lines on the land route of Hubei have been stretched to the limit.

In addition, Guizhou happens to be in the center of the southwestern provinces, the Chu army occupies here, the territory of the Western Army is divided into several pieces for their own battles, the Western Army of 30,000 converges in Huguang, Yunnan, Sichuan and Guangxi The provinces are very empty, and they are seriously threatened by the Western Expeditionary Army, no one can guess where Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong are going next, and it seems that they can go anywhere, they can attack anywhere they want, whether it is Yunnan, Sichuan or Guangxi, it will cause irreparable heavy losses to the Western Army.

"It's a pity that our army doesn't have a water division on the Yangtze River, otherwise, it wouldn't be so passive."

Sun Kewang muttered to himself: "I used to think that Wang Kefan used his soldiers to blindly go off the rails, working small but neglecting the general trend, but now it seems that he underestimated him." He marched into Guizhou with tens of thousands of horses, and immediately reversed the general trend, thinking that his predecessors did not dare to think, and that his predecessors could not do it, and his courage and courage were all heroes among the people. ”

His family knows his own affairs, although in the eyes of outsiders, Sun Kewang is the supreme commander of the Western Army, far more dazzling than Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu, but Sun Kewang is still self-aware, in terms of military talent alone, he is more than one grade worse than Li Dingguo, and even slightly inferior to Liu Wenxiu, so he is often suspicious of Li Dingguo, afraid that his prestige is too high and threatens his status.

The only thing worth being proud of is that Sun Kewang thinks that he is stronger than Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu in terms of strategic vision, in other words, he is a handsome talent with the overall situation in mind, Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu are just generals, but the Chu army advanced thousands of miles into Guizhou and regained the strategic initiative at once, which made Sun Kewang very shocked and depressed.

After making trouble for a long time, Wang Kefan is the real strategist, if he doesn't make a move, he will go straight to Sun Kewang's waist as soon as he makes a move, but Sun Kewang, a second-rate strategist, is defenseless, and he was taken half of Guizhou by the Western Expeditionary Army before he came back to his senses, which shows that the gap between the two is not a little bit.

"For today's plan, we can only suspend the Huguang offensive, divide our troops to return to Guizhou, and first destroy Tan Xiao, Zhou Guodong, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun, otherwise, our army will be like a thorn in the back and unable to move." Sun Kewang discussed with his confidants: "I intend to transfer the King of Shu back to Guizhou, what do you think?" ”

According to the most optimistic estimates, before the summer harvest next year, the Huguang front line will definitely not be able to launch a large-scale offensive, and Sun Kewang intends to take advantage of this time difference to first eliminate the Chu army's western expeditionary army and restore stability in the rear.

Although he was unable to attack, but he couldn't spit out the meat in his mouth, Sun Kewang weighed the pros and cons, and felt that although the current situation was dangerous, it was not time for the whole line to retreat, Changsha and Heng ** have important political and strategic significance, and they could not give up easily, he finally made a decision to stay in Changsha and send Liu Wenxiu, the king of Shu, back to Guizhou.

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