Shu Road is difficult, it is difficult to go to the blue sky, this is a sentence corresponding to the inside and outside.

For the land of Bashu, the countless mountain dangers are undoubtedly a natural barrier, with double the strength of the army can resist ten times the strength of the outside, but this other person can't attack in, but you may not be able to kill it.

There is also a saying that a majestic Qinling Mountains can protect the land of Guanzhong, and the continuous mountains of the Qinling Mountains block the way into Hanzhong, and also block the way into Guanzhong.

So on the whole, it is difficult for large-scale soldiers and horses to enter Bashu, and it is also difficult for large-scale soldiers and horses to get out of Bashu.

Most of the roads from Hanzhong to the land of Guanzhong are dangerous and difficult to travel, and they are basically small mountain roads and dangerous plank roads, and there are few big gallop roads to pass.

Of course, since the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the Qin State has gained the land of Bashu and has begun to continuously open up one road after another, and there are actually not many roads that can be allowed to enter and exit, but they are more difficult to walk.

Yangping Pass, whether it is for Hanzhong or Guanzhong, is actually a place where soldiers must fight, and whoever takes Yangping Pass will hold the road in and out of Hanzhong and Guanzhong.

Traveling west from Yangping Pass, starting from Hanzhong, you can enter the land of Sanfu through Qishan.

And in the direction of the north of Yangping Pass, there are Chencang Ancient Road, Xiegu Road, Bao Slope Road, Fu Luo Road, these are ancient mountain roads and dangerous plank roads, you can enter Guanzhong.

To the east of Yangping Pass, is the Meridian Road.

Meridian Road, also known as Meridian Plank Road, the allusion to the so-called Ming Xiu Plank Road in history is that this plank road, from Hanzhong into the Qinling Mountains, over the Qinling Valley, can go straight to Chang'an City.

After the Wu army took Yangping Pass, they immediately entered Hanzhong without stopping, and the path they chose was the Meridian Road. This is the fastest way to go.

It was the cold winter wax moon, between the heavy snow and the Songshan mountains, on a narrow ancient road, a loud sound of horses' hooves was constantly knocking on the earth, and the continuous cavalry team like a long dragon was marching.

"Lei Ding, before it gets dark today. Can our main force get out of the Meridian Road? ”

Sun Quan was wearing Xuanwu armor, holding a white tiger spear, riding a lion dragon, and walking with the army, he stretched out his hand to wipe the snowflakes on his face, and asked in a deep voice.

Although the road was not closed by heavy snow, it was too difficult to march under the wind and snow, and the weather was cold and freezing. Although they were cavalry, they walked very slowly, which made Sun Quan feel a little sad in his heart.

The essence of the surprise attack lies in a strange word.

The news of the defeat of tens of thousands of Wei troops in Yangping Pass could not be concealed for a long time, after all, Chen Cangcheng was still in the hands of the Wei army, and once they found out the news of Yangping Shutdown, they would soon send scouts to investigate.

No matter how capable the Jinyi Guard is, he won't be able to block it for long.

So, they have to be fast, but now it's icy weather. If you want to be fast, how fast can you go.

"Your Majesty!"

Lei Dingce is coming soon. He said to Sun Quan: "Our vanguard general, General Zhao Zilong, personally led three thousand white horses to Yicong at noon, he had already left the Meridian Road and taken the Meridian Town next to the Meridian Valley. Can get out of the meridian road! ”

"That's good!"

Sun Quan took a breath of hot air, raised his spear, and shouted: "Pass on my military order, all soldiers, speed up." You must enter Meridian Town before dark, you can get a night's rest, if there is slowness, military law will deal with it! ”

"Yes!"

The long cavalry began to speed forward, the sound of horses' hooves beating the narrow road as loudly as drums.

In the evening.

At this time, the wind and snow in the sky suddenly stopped, and the sun that had been missing for most of the month suddenly showed its face, although it was a sunset without temperature, but the sunset was like a glow, reflecting on the snow surface, showing a beautiful scenery.

Under this sunset, Sun Quanqin led the main cavalry out of the rugged and difficult Meridian Road, and entered the Meridian Town less than 20 miles away from Chang'an City from the Meridian Ancient Road.

"Finally out of here!" Sun Quan couldn't help but sigh.

This way, they went very smoothly, for the Wei State, there were tens of thousands of elites in Yangping Pass in front of the town guarding Hanzhong, no one would have thought that suddenly a Wu army cavalry could enter the pass.

Therefore, there were no Wei troops guarding the several passes on the meridian road, and there was no obstruction at all.

But there was no obstruction, and the cavalry of the Wu army was not having a good time, and this way was gone, even if it was Lu Bu and a few of their outstanding martial arts, the majestic and invincible generals would complain.

"This road is not for cavalry at all, even if I am killed in the future, I will never take such a rugged road again!" Lu Bu spit out a breath of heater, looked back at the dangerous road, and said angrily.

"When I attacked Bashu, I didn't feel that Shu Dao was difficult, but now I understand what Shu Dao is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the blue sky!"

Sun Ce gritted his teeth: "Fortunately, there is no one to intercept the pass on the road, otherwise even if there are only 5,000 troops, it is enough to block us on the mountain road, and we won't be able to enter for ten days and half a month!" ”

"In the future, I would rather enter Wei from Jingzhou than go to this Guanzhong land!"

Gan Ning also smiled slightly bitterly.

"Okay, the rugged mountain road along the way has tossed the soldiers and their morale is already very low, are you waiting for a few leading generals to vomit bitterness here?"

Sun Quan turned his head, looked at several generals, and reprimanded him very unceremoniously: "I will give you an hour's time, immediately go to rectify the soldiers and horses under your command, and appease the morale of the army, but the action is smaller, so you can't disturb Chang'an City. ”

"No!"

The generals ordered to quickly stabilize the morale of the soldiers, seven cavalry divisions, the Overlord Iron Cavalry and the White Horse Yicong two cavalry regiments, more than 80,000 soldiers, it is not easy to pacify them.

"Your Majesty!"

At this time, Zhao Yun, the pioneer general who was already preparing in the town, personally greeted him.

"Zilong, has this town been cleaned up?" Sun Quan looked at Zhao Yun and asked.

"Report to Your Majesty, it has been completely cleaned up, within a radius of ten miles, all the people are under house arrest, my scouts have been planted around Chang'an City, Chang'an City has no reaction now, it seems that we have not alarmed them!"

"This place is less than twenty miles away from Chang'an, and our cavalry movements are not small, so they have not been alarmed?" Sun Quan squinted.

"The wind and snow helped us a lot. Heavy winds and snow obscured our movements! ”

Zhao Yun smiled and said: "Chang'an City originally didn't have many soldiers and horses, and now they have Cao Xiu blocking Yangping Pass, they are very safe, and all the scouts have not been released!" ”

"God help me!" Sun Quan laughed.

Zhao Yun looked at Sun Quan's face and turned white from the cold. Hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I have prepared a brazier, you can warm it up first!" ”

"Good!"

Sun Quan nodded, walked into the hall of a small town, and roasted his cold hands with a brazier, but he kept complaining in his heart: "His grandmother's, Shu Road is really difficult to walk, I really don't know how Zhuge Liang's Northern Expedition fought in history?" ”

Southern Wu and Northern Wei, East and West can clash. But the road to the west is much more difficult to walk than the east, whether it is from Xuzhou, Yangzhou Jiujiang, or Jingzhou Nanyang to the north, there is no rough road from Hanzhong to Guanzhong.

Sometimes he admires Zhuge Liang very much, through such a rugged mountain road, he fought the Northern Expedition ten times and eight times. What a man.

"Your Majesty, I'll remove your armor for you. It's a little warmer to bake this way! ”

Lei Ding walked up and said.

"Off-the-!"

When Sun Quan heard this, his amber eyes glared at him and said, "Now is wartime, horses do not take off their saddles, and people do not leave their armor. From the bottom of the self, who dares to remove the armor, the military law will deal with it! ”

"No!"

Lei Ding retreated.

As night fell, the heavy snow, which had been dormant for several hours, fell again, and the wind became more and more intense. Wind and snow shrouded the small town of Meridian Town, and the sky suddenly became even colder.

In a large hall in Meridian Town, the lights were bright, and the generals gathered.

Under the light of the oil lamp, Sun Quan personally spread out a detailed march map in front of the generals, which is a march map of one in 100,000, which can be regarded as a relatively detailed map of this era.

"The first step of the surprise attack, we must take Chang'an first!"

Sun Quan took the lead and said: "The Wei army is cool, the soldiers in Guanzhong, Chang'an City is now only a few thousand, as long as you quickly take the city gate, you can take Chang'an City in a moment, it is not difficult for us to take Chang'an, but once Chang'an City is taken, Luoyang City will be alarmed, the closest to Chang'an is the Chencang Wei army, but it is only more than a hundred miles, the cavalry can arrive in one day, which is very unfavorable for us!" ”

"Your Majesty, is it feasible for us to bypass Chang'an City, not to alarm Chang'an, and enter Luoyang from Hongnong?" Lu Bu said.

"We are cavalry, and when the horse's hooves sound, we can't hide our tracks at all, and we have to replenish grain and grass, so Chang'an must be taken!" Sun Quan's eyes were sharp: "And we still have to hold on, this is also a retreat for us!" ”

"Your Majesty is worried about the reinforcements from Liangzhou?"

Zhao Yun narrowed his eyes and said, "Once the Wei army from Liangzhou comes back, it will inevitably cut off our original route back!" ”

"Hmm!"

Sun Quan nodded: "Liangzhou is now dominated by hundreds of thousands of Wei troops, if they turn around, we will be cut off from the back road, not considering victory, first considering defeat, if this battle can be defeated and Cao Mengde alive, it is good, but what if you can't take Luoyang?" Or let's say we took Luoyang, or rather, we took Luoyang City, but Cao Mengde was a little stronger, a bandage strangled himself, and we still have to break through! ”

"It's very likely!"

The generals nodded, Sun Ce stood up, and said: "There is the main force of the Wei army in Nanyang, Yuzhou, and if you want to break through, you can only return the same way, and this Chang'an City really can't be lost!" ”

"From Chang'an to Luoyang, the gallop road is smooth, with the foot strength of our cavalry, you can enter in three days, but now that the snow is closed, it may take five days!"

Gan Ning stood up and pointed to the map: "Even if it is the worst plan, now that Luoyang has known the news, issued the Qinwang Order, the Wei army will come back, and the most elite cavalry will take ten days, we should be able to take Luoyang!" ”

"Zilong!"

Sun Quan thought about it and shouted.

"The last general!"

"After taking Chang'an City tomorrow, you will immediately lead 10,000 light cavalry as the vanguard, and within three days, you must come to the city of Luoyang, I want to scare Cao Mengde first, and see how he reacts!"

There are also heavy cavalry and light cavalry, heavy cavalry in combat effectiveness, and light cavalry in speed.

"No!"

Zhao Yun nodded and took the order.

"Gan Ning, if I give you 10,000 soldiers and horses, how long can you hold Chang'an City?" Sun Quan thought about it, but he still left a member of the army to guard Chang'an City in the future......

"If 50,000 Wei troops attack, and I have enough food and grass, I should be able to hold it in a month!"

Gan Ning said: "But if the Wei army has 100,000 soldiers and horses, it will be defeated in ten days!" (To be continued.) )