"General, the front is Shouyang County, Shouyang County is geographically important, it is the only place for our army to enter Taiyuan in the west, and Shouyang is rich in buds, millet, sorghum and beans, although the output is not the most in Shanxi, but it is not low, and another product here is coal, and the quality is good. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info" Li Chengjiu said, pointing ahead.

The winding mountain road is endless, and there are mountains everywhere and valleys everywhere.

At this time, the official road, compared with later generations, was at most a forest path.

The local government compacted the slightly flatter places, and then it became an official road.

After all, the mountains and forests on both sides are dense, and if it rains, you also need to worry about falling rocks from time to time, blocking the road is a trivial matter, and the most afraid is to hit people.

Therefore, there is an unwritten rule in Shanxi, once it rains, almost no one goes out, and even some caravans, most of them will choose some flat and empty places to wait for a while, and wait until the rain stops before continuing to travel.

Fortunately, the sky is strong along the way, and the sky is clear along the way.

But following the direction of Li Chengjiu's fingers, Wu Yang did not see the shadow of Shouyang County.

Compared with the unreachable Shouyang, Wu Yang's mood was even more depressed at this moment. It had been almost a day since the troops had left the camp, and according to the current season, it would be dark in about an hour and a half.

At this time, they hadn't even seen the shadow of Shouyang.

And Shouyang is only less than a hundred miles away from Yangquan, which is obviously unacceptable for the army that has been recuperating for a long time.

But the mountain roads here are even more unacceptable, and even the troops can't get up fast even if they want to. They had to tow long supply trucks. In addition, those professional surveying and mapping staff officers need to leave the team from time to time to observe the terrain and draw maps.

There wasn't much food on it, most of it was weapons and ammunition, and silver for nothing.

In this battle, Wang Sirui did not prepare too much food for the army, but gave a lot of silver. This forced the army to occupy a county town as soon as possible and obtain a certain amount of supplies there.

"How far is it?" Wu Yang asked in a serious tone, if it is too far away, then you can only find a place to camp today, and then go to attack the city tomorrow.

"About ten miles to go." Li Chengjiu said.

Ten miles? If you march in a hurry, it will take about half an hour to walk ten miles, and the remaining two and a half hours will be enough time for the siege.

"Order Yang Gen's 30th Division to send two regiments of troops to march lightly and hastily immediately, before dark, Shouyang County must be captured, and the army will spend the night in Shouyang tonight." Wu Yang immediately ordered.

Wu Yang's position is in the middle of the whole team, if he is ten miles away from here, then the 30th division that is at the forefront will be five miles away from Shouyang at most, and when the order is passed, the battle will start in half an hour at the latest.

Walking in the canyon all day, although the scenery is beautiful, no one likes to stay here all the time.

As the commander of the army, Wu Yang had to consider something more comprehensive, what if the army could not reach Shouyang after dark, what if it camped at night and it rained heavily? And Li Chengjiu also told Wu Yang bluntly that there was basically no place for the troops of the four divisions to camp on this road.

The 30th Division and the 32nd Division needed to divide their troops south to Yuci in Shouyang, so along the way, except for the 22nd Division, which had been separated, went north to Lujia Village, and the 23rd Division that went south to attack Xiyang, the rest of the troops were still together.

According to the plan, the troops will be formally divided tomorrow.

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At the front of the team, a guide was telling Yang Gen about some folk customs in Shanxi, and through the understanding along the way, these guides also found that the Han army seemed to be very easy to contact, and was not as vicious as imagined.

Just as the two were chatting happily, the herald of the military headquarters rode a war horse and galloped from the rear.

"Division Commander Yang, the army commander ordered the 30th Division to send two regiments of troops to advance lightly, and Shouyang must be captured before dark." The herald said, handing a letter to Yang Gen.

After reading the contents of the letter, Yang Gen put the letter directly in his pocket.

"Go back and tell the army commander that if you can't capture Shouyang before dark, I, Yang Gen, will take the brothers of the 30th Division to wash the socks of the brothers in the whole army for a month." Yang Gen responded to the signal soldier, and then instructed the signal soldier beside him: "Go and ask the commander of the first brigade and the commander of the 301st and 302nd regiments to come over, damn it, after walking all day, I can finally relax my muscles." ”

After a while, the commanders of the 301st and 302nd regiments and the commander of the first brigade ran all the way to Yang Gen's side.

Nowadays, the degree of mechanization of the Han army is equal to zero, and in addition to the logistics troops, there are only 100 war horses in a division, and these war horses are also used for communication.

Therefore, even on the march, the division commander has no horses to ride, and in order to be ready to give orders at any time, the signal corps also walks on the road to lead the war horse when marching.

Although they now have a radio, unfortunately there is no one to generate electricity during the march, so their radio is not available at this time.

"Commander, do you have meat to eat?" The commander of the first brigade walked up to Yang Gen and said with a thief smile, in fact, this is not to blame him, the 301 and 302 regiments called by Yang Gen are the troops of his first brigade, which can make the 2nd brigade very red-eyed.

"So what do you think? If you don't have meat to eat, what did Lao Tzu ask you to come over? Xian Lao Tzu is bored and makes fun of you, isn't it? Yang Gen looked at his brigade commander angrily, and secretly scolded in his heart for being so angry, when there is meat to eat, he is more anxious than anyone else, he can't make you die if he can't make you feel good, and when he has no meat to eat, he has a dead face all day long.

"Ma Laosan, Lao Tzu told you, what about this cowhide, Lao Tzu has already blown it out, the army commander ordered us to take Shouyang County before dark, I told the army commander that if you can't take it before dark, our 30th division will wash the socks for the whole army for a month." Yang Gen said.

"Don't worry, division commander, if you can't take Shouyang before dark, you don't need the help of the brothers of the second brigade, we have a brigade to cover this work, and we are adding a month to our division." Ma Laosan patted his chest and abdomen and reassured.

"Okay, that's what you said, don't blame Lao Tzu for not reminding you when the time comes. In addition, Lao Tzu will add one more to you, no one can run if you don't run in the city, if you dare to let those people go, see how Lao Tzu cleans you up. Yang Gen continued.

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! Ma Laosan saluted, and led the two regiment commanders to discuss the battle plan.

The three of them even said as they walked, and in about a few minutes, the combat mission had been issued. So, the three of them couldn't help but speed up their pace and trotted all the way back to their troops.

"The 301st regiment, each battalion with only one heavy machine gun, accelerated forward, and the four battalion commanders came over."

"Of the 302nd Regiment, one battalion brought a heavy machine gun, and the other three battalions advanced lightly."

"Company commander, what's the situation? The defenders of Shouyang are going to wrestle with us? Wang Tan listened to the regiment commander's order, and while ordering his soldiers to prepare for battle, he walked towards the company commander.

"Who knows, the past knows."

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Shouyang County, as the only passage from the west to Taiyuan within a radius of dozens of miles, this county is full of merchants on weekdays, and the goods coming and going can be piled up in those large and small inns.

I have to admire that although it is located in a mountainous area, this mountain has also brought a lot of development to Shouyang.

As a necessary place to go west, Shouyang's economic situation is still very good, in the city, but anyone who is willing to work hard, barely supporting a family is no problem.

And those officials stationed at the city gate are even more fat, and the caravans coming and going, regardless of whether he is hard in the background or not, if you want to enter the city quickly, you have to give some benefits.

Therefore, the officials guarding the city gate are still relatively wealthy, and they can get about three or four taels of silver every month on average, and if it is a petty official, it will be even more.

Sometimes, if you encounter some small caravans with no backstage, and there is something hidden in the car, these people will directly detain the goods, either take the money to redeem them, or they will sell them directly.

On this day, there was only less than an hour left before the gates were closed.

However, the officials guarding the east gate were a little puzzled, according to the past, there must have been at least four or five caravans entering the city on this day, but today I don't know what's wrong, there is not even a caravan, and the people who enter the city are some people who don't have much oil and water.

Although the people had to pay the city tax, they could not get the money, or at most, each person took enough to drink a sip of wine.

"What's the matter, why don't you even have a caravan today?" The official guarding the city gate said with a frown. Obviously, if there is no caravan into the city today, then tomorrow they will have to go to the city on duty, and they will not be able to come back until the day after tomorrow, and they will not get a penny a day, which is obviously not in everyone's interests, and the officials can't help but complain.

"My lord, do you want to wait any longer? Maybe there was some delay on the way, and there should be a caravan entering the city before dark. A soldier said.

"My lord, look, there are people on the official road." I don't know who suddenly pointed to the official road and said.

The official looked up, and sure enough, he saw that there were quite a few people walking towards the city gate. However, the distance is a bit far, and there is no way to see how many people there are, but looking at this scale, the number of people in this caravan should be quite a lot.

"Well, that's right, there is such a large caravan in front, and the caravan behind can't overtake them even if they want to. Later, the eyes will be bright, and the penny that should be collected should not be less. The official nodded in satisfaction and ordered. I secretly said in my heart, such a large caravan, why do you have to give a reward of one or twenty taels of silver, right?

"Big ...... Big...... Adult, military ...... Army! "On the tower of the city gate, the soldier in charge of the lookout finally saw the origin of the opposite side clearly, which is the fucking caravan? The dense crowd behind was all the army, so he shouted in a hurry. (To be continued.) )