Chapter 397: The decisive battle is imminent
The construction of the plank road began in the Warring States of Qin. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info In the third century B.C., in order to develop Sichuan, the Qin State built a plank road, as Cai Ze said: The plank road is thousands of miles, leading to Shu Han, so that the world is afraid of Qin.
Ming Yuzhen, the lord of Great Xia, led 100,000 soldiers and horses, fought and walked, and after three days of trekking, he finally arrived at the Tianmen Ghost Valley Plank Road before dawn.
The gate of heaven is precipitous, the mountain road is difficult to open, the ancients dug a cave on the cliff of ten thousand miles high, inserted it with logs, connected into a sparse foundation, laid a wooden plank on it, on it can pass people and horses, the plank road is narrow and turning, only can accommodate one person to pass. It's true: one husband is a close to ten thousand people.
Ming Yuzhen looked at it, it was the most dangerous place of the plank road, hundreds of meters of the plank road had been burned, and the smoke of gunpowder that had not dispersed was still rising. Obviously, the boardwalk was not burned for a long time.
"Send scouts to see if there is an ambush nearby, and then send the craftsmen up to see how long it will take to repair the plank road. Then send someone to look in the mountains to see if there is any other way back to Bashu! As soon as Daxia was ordered by the generals, they went to do it, but Ming Yuzhen fell into a long period of contemplation.
If the entire plank road is completely burned down, Ming Yuzhen has no other way, in order not to be caught up and surrounded by the main force of the Song army, he can only find the only way out of Bashu again, but these hundreds of miles of plank road, but only one section is damaged, it is not difficult to repair, it seems that one or two days can also be repaired.
If you take a detour in the mountains, through dense mountain forests, and around the mountains, you don't know when you will be able to return to the capital of Chongqing. Ming Yuzhen's family and the wealth accumulated over the years are all in Chongqing, and the time has been taken off for too long, and he is afraid that the Song army will break through the waterway and attack Bashu first. If the capital of Chongqing is lost, the family will inevitably not be protected, and if you want to make a comeback, I am afraid it will be even more difficult.
Chang Yuchun, Hu Dahai's twenty or thirty thousand cavalry, Ming Yuzhen is not afraid, if the plank road is repaired, not to mention that the main force of the Song army is exhausted, that is, one or two artillery thousands of households to reinforce Chang Yuchun, Ming Yuzhen will not be able to bear it.
It didn't take long for the scattered people and horses to come back to report, and the plank road would take up to two days to repair. Not a single enemy was found nearby, only horse manure all over the ground, and the killed Bactrian soldiers guarding the plank road.
Two days? The days don't seem too long.
Ming Yuzhen counted the days of encountering Chang Yuchun, and estimated that even if the infantry of the Song army marched with Chang Yuchun in Yizhou, it would be impossible to arrive within two days, and the main force of the Song army was obviously far behind Chang Yuchun, and it was impossible to arrive within two days, so Ming Yuzhen made a bold decision - camp on the spot, repair the plank road, and take the plank road back to Bashu.
At noon the next day, the plank road had been repaired halfway, and the Great Xia scouts had already come back to report that the Song army was coming, and it was Hao Ren himself who led the main force of soldiers and horses!
The rolling dust covers the sky and the sun, more than 100,000 Song troops are dressed simply, stretching out of the endless military array, there are not even a few flags, only the sparse generals of each army and the five-color handsome flags of the Chinese army, but they are extremely eye-catching.
"Your Majesty, the plank road into Shu has been burned down, and we have besieged Ming Yuzhen's main army under the plank road, just wait for Your Majesty's soldiers and horses to arrive, and then fight Ming Yuzhen!" Chang Yuchun and Hu Dahai reported to Hao Ren on the horse.
"Three generals work hard!" Hao Ren was dusty, and a satisfied smile leaked from exhaustion, and praised.
Hao Ren obviously sent the main force of the three armies of his cavalry to pursue, but now there were only two people who came to take over, he looked around, and did not find the shadow of Yu Tonghe, and a sense of foreboding arose spontaneously in his heart.
In war, how can there be immortals! Martial arts are built on a mountain of corpses, both of the enemy and your own.
Yu Tonghe, a general from the north, has a very delicate relationship with Hao Ren.
When Hao Ren attacked Shouzhou in the first battle at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Yu Tonghe, who was the tenth commander of Shouzhou Daluhua Chisu Guard, became Hao Ren's prisoner, Yu Tonghe did not surrender to death, Hao Ren did not have a war horse at that time, cherished his excellent equestrian skills, and was ready to keep him for the future when there were cavalry, and then use him, and detain him, after a long time, he actually forgot this person.
Hao Ren later sent troops to fight in Luzhou, Xiucai Mu Youcai stayed in Shouzhou, drank up the mare's milk wine in Dalu Huachi's mansion, and was afraid that Hao Ren would blame him, so he thought that Yu Tonghe in the north would brew mare's milk wine technology, so he pulled Yu Tonghe out of prison, scratched his feet and forced Yu Tonghe to make wine.
However, Yu Tonghe is a Mengyuan nobleman, and he really doesn't know how to make wine, only by truthfully revealing his identity and bringing out his uncle Yu Yanyu's ally Li Pusheng to protect himself, Xiucai Mu Youcai felt that the matter was very important, so he sent Yu Tonghe to Hao Ren's military camp in Luzhou.
Clinker Hao Ren's newly accepted Jurchen generals and disciples Shan Jun, with the hatred of destroying the country, can not see Rong Yu Tonghe. Hao Ren was weak at that time, and he did not dare to offend Li Pusheng of the Southern Ming Sect, so he could only release Yu Tonghe in order to establish contact with Chaohu Shuixiong.
When Hao Ren broke the state, Chaohu Shui Xiong returned, Yu Tonghe, as Hao Ren's personal guard deputy Qianhu, and Liu Bowen together to destroy Zhu Chong's eight feng shui, this matter is only known to Liu Bowen, Hao Ren, and Yu Tonghe, since then, Yu Tonghe is Hao Ren's cronies among the cronies.
Several people do a few good things that are known to the world together, and they may not form an irreversible relationship, if they do an unspeakable bad thing together, this relationship must be ironclad.
When Chang Yuchun was newly attached and had not fully gained his trust, Hao Ren sent Yu Tonghe to monitor him in the name of his deputy, and finally divided Chang Yuchun's soldiers and horses, formed an army of his own, charged into battle, and made no less efforts.
Hao Ren naturally cherishes Yu Tonghe, a general.
Chang Yuchun didn't know what was happening to Yu Tonghe, so he hurriedly hugged his fists and said: "The head of Yu Tonghe led two thousand cavalry, one man and two horses, galloped in double the road, burned the plank road to block the enemy's retreat route, and when the last general came to converge, he had never seen General Yu Tonghe!" ”
Liu Bowen and Yu Tonghe did bad things together, Yu Tonghe was his deputy at that time, and the relationship was relatively solid, and he was more worried about Yu Tonghe's safety, so he comforted Hao Ren and said: "Two thousand soldiers and horses, it is impossible to disappear out of thin air!" Your Majesty, don't worry, if there is no news, maybe it is the best news, General Yu will definitely return safely! ”
Hao Ren looked at the Great Xia soldiers who were rushing to work on the cliff in the distance, and suddenly knew in his heart where Yu Tonghe had gone!
Will Yu Tonghe take the only 2,000 soldiers and horses and cross the plank road directly to attack the capital of Great Xia, Yudu?
Outside the hundred-mile plank road, but in the hinterland of Ming Yuzhen in Great Xia, two thousand soldiers and horses are not familiar with the place, there is no backup, and there is no supply.
Hao Ren knew that there was no point in thinking about it, there was still something important to do, so he ordered: "Order the three armies to line up and prepare to attack Ming Yuzhen!" ”
"No!" Chen Da, the chief of the guard, clenched his fists and took the order!
"Chang Yuchun, Yu Tongyuan!" Hao Ren nodded.
"The last general!" The two generals clenched their fists and obeyed!
"Come with me to the front of the military formation, I will have this clear eye for a while!" Hao Ren said, and he had already urged the war horse forward. (To be continued.) )