readx; Chen Tiangong and Li Laiheng returned to Yiling with more than 1,000 stone of grain, and the officers and men of the whole army were overjoyed, and they had a good meal for the first time in six or seven days. Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng, www.biquge.info of the pen "Fun" Pavilion, also looked at Chen Tiangong with admiration, because no one would have imagined that such a white-faced scholar could solve the problem of grain and grass that they could not solve with 10,000 soldiers and horses.

After a full meal of the war, Li Dingguo immediately ordered: the whole army should pull out the camp and immediately march west to the Xiajiang Road.

Chen Tiangong said: "The general is slow. Naturally, the troops had to advance, but the students thought that Yiling was a strategic location, and the local defenders were too weak, so it was best to leave a few men and horses in case the situation suddenly changed. ”

The two generals were inexplicable, so they asked Chen Tiangong to explain in detail. Chen Tiangong said eloquently: "Yiling is located at the exit of Xiling Gorge, the third of the Three Gorges of the Yangtze River. The water is here and the mountain is here and the mausoleum, so it is named, and it is a place where soldiers must fight since ancient times.

"During the Three Kingdoms period, it was here that the Western Shu and Eastern Wu fought the Battle of Yiling. Originally, the Shu army was personally commanded by Liu Bei, the emperor of Shu, and the soldiers were very sharp, and the Wu army lost soldiers and generals one after another. Later, Lu Xun, the governor of Wu, retreated to Yiling, first retreated from the Zigui area to Yiling, and let the Shu army occupy hundreds of miles of mountainous areas west of Yiling.

Liu Bei lightly advanced against the enemy, and set up dozens of camps along the line of Jianping, Zigui and Yiling, known as the 700-mile company camp. Because this area is all mountainous, the camp can only be built on the mountain. Lu Xun insisted on not coming out, and the spirit of the Shu army was consumed.

"After half a year of confrontation, the Shu army went deep into the enemy's territory, the road was far away, the mountain roads were rugged, the grain and grass were not continued, and the morale began to waver. At that time, it was the height of summer, and the heat was unbearable, so Liu Bei asked all the sailors of Yiling to withdraw into the camp in the mountains to escape the heat. At this time, Lu Xun suddenly launched a counterattack, and burned the mountain with fire, killing the Shu army to the ground, and all the camps were burned down. Liu Bei fled back to Yong'an in panic, and now he is in Fengjie, and since then the vitality of Xishu has been greatly damaged, and he has never been able to take a step out of the Three Gorges. ”

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms" has become popular in this era, and Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng have also read this novel. At this time, listening to Chen Tiangong again, I have a deeper understanding of the Battle of Yiling. Because "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is emotionally inclined to Liu Bei, Li Laiheng was also deeply affected, and said hatefully: "Alas! blamed Liu Bei for not listening to Zhuge Liang, and he had to come to fight Dongwu. Let's fight, don't bring Zhuge Liang with you, and you don't even have a person to give advice! ”

Li Dingguo smiled faintly and said: "When I heard Lord Chen talk today, I felt like I was suddenly opened. Come to Heng, we are luckier than Liu Bei, and now Lord Chen is our Zhuge Liang! Lord Chen wants to leave some troops to guard Yiling, is it to guard against thieves? ”

"How dare the students compare with Zhuge Wuhou, General Li joked." Chen Tiangong said solemnly, "However, the students do think that they must guard against thieves. Think about it, the thieves are in the mountains two or three hundred miles northwest, and now the Hong soldiers are stationed in Xiangyang, and the two sides will hold each other for a long time, and the thieves will inevitably continue to have grain and grass, and they will definitely make some moves. There are no more than three ways to move here: to the northeast into Henan, to the northwest into Hanzhong, and to the south to come here. This year, there is another severe drought in the north, and I am afraid that the summer grain harvest in Henan and Hanzhong will fail, and the thieves will not be able to grab much. Therefore, the students thought that the thieves were most likely to advance south and break into the Jianghan Plain. If the thieves occupy Yiling, won't they block the road out of Sichuan? ”

When Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng listened to each other, Chen Tiangong said again: "The students and General Li Laiheng Jingzhou and his entourage have seen that the quality of the local officers and soldiers is extremely poor and they are not vulnerable at all. Although the two generals were ordered to quell the rebellion in Sichuan and Guizhou, they knew that this place was critical, and it was best to leave some troops to garrison. Presumably, the Holy One will approve. ”

Li Dingguo pondered for a moment and nodded: "Lord Chen is extremely worried. If the thieves occupy Yiling, not only Jingzhou and other places will not be protected, but even our army will have no way back. Dou fame! ”

Dou's fame came out. He was originally the commander of the infantry battalion under Li Dingguo's Second Regiment, but because he was alert and good at fighting, Li Dingguo valued him very much, and when he started the army from Shaanxi, he was transferred to the cavalry battalion, and he was also brought with him in this counterinsurgency.

"You lead the second regiment of five hundred cavalry to garrison Yiling." Li Dingguo said slowly, "You can figure out your own way for grain and grass, and there is only one task: to guard the exit of Xiajiang Road." Remember to use the flying pigeon to pass the book often, and report the movements of the thieves to the Holy Lord and the general. If the first-class thieves are so big, they must defend the gorge and the river, and they can't let the thieves easily enter Shu, otherwise the military law will be engaged! ”

Dou Mingming took the order with a bang. Only then did Li Dingguo and Li Laiheng set up camp and went west along the Yangtze River.

The army they led was the old foundation of the Qin soldiers, experienced in a hundred battles, and the military discipline was strict, and it was easy to force the army. At the beginning of this year, they rushed thousands of miles from Shaanxi to Beijing, crossing the lofty mountains of Shanxi on the way, and it took only six days.

However, when they walked on this famous Xiajiang Road, the soldiers knew that the poem "Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky" is not a casual nonsense, but a true portrayal of the road to Shu.

The army entered Xiling Gorge first. Although the river is wide here, it is very tortuous, there are many strange rocks and dangerous shoals, the river water rushes and comes, and constantly impacts the river bank and the boulder in the center of the river, and makes a thunderous rumbling sound, which makes people hear it shockingly.

Moreover, Xiling Gorge is a big gorge and a small gorge, and there are gorges in the gorge, such as the Broken Water Gorge, the Bingshu Baojian Gorge, the White Dog Gorge, the Zhenshan Gorge, the Ox Liver and Horse Lung Gorge, and the Dengying Gorge, one after the other. The mountains on both sides of the river are steep, and a plank road that is narrow enough to allow only one person to pass through is erected on the cliff, which is the ancient road of the Xiajiang River.

This expeditionary force was all cavalry, and it was like the wind in plains, but when it came to this kind of terrain, it was miserable. The people are better, but the horses are too strenuous to walk the plank road, and if they are not careful, the horse's hooves will get stuck in the gaps in the plank of the plank road, which will block the advance of the whole army, and even step on the plank road. On several occasions, the soldiers had to endure the pain of pushing the wounded war horses off the plank road to open the way, and the war horses fell into the river from a high altitude, and were washed away without a trace in an instant.

The total length of Xiling Gorge was only more than 150 miles, but on the first day, the whole army only traveled less than 20 miles. According to this way, it would take nearly ten days to cross Xiling Gorge alone, and before Wuxia and Qutang Gorge could be crossed, the military rations would be exhausted again.

Li Dingguo, Li Laiheng, and Chen Tiangong all knew the importance of "the speed of the soldiers", and after urgent discussions, they had to decide to divide the troops into three routes. The first route was led by Li Shoujun, a general of Li Laiheng and the commander of the first cavalry battalion of the fourth regiment, who left his horses and advanced lightly overnight, first going to the front to open the way; Along the way, he no longer took the Xiajiang Road, but directly crossed the mountains and traveled westward; The brigade continued to advance.

After four days of rapid marching, the army finally arrived at Zigui. Ahead, there is an even more precipitous Wuxia waiting for them!

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