Chapter 13 Ten Days Take Half of the Wall
The second time I entered the river, it was much faster than the first time. From Shaanxi to Baoning Province, the road is smooth.
The road has not been built in vain in the past two years, the main road is spacious and flat, and Zhang Hongbin even used a lot of cement bought in the supermarket to ensure the life of the road.
Today, the main road from Shaanxi to the border of Boryeong Province can be walked by five people side by side. On this main road, a number of secondary roads have been derived, although they are not concrete roads, but they are also flat loess roads and are regularly maintained.
It is no exaggeration to say that from Chang'an to the area of Zitong in Baoning Prefecture, the fast horse can be reached in one day, of course, at most you have to change the horse once in the middle.
The army could not have marched so fast, but it only took three days to get here.
For this war, Zhang Hongbin dispatched 60,000 troops, that is, six divisions. These six divisions will divide their troops here into three routes, and they will kill in three places: Kuizhou Mansion, Shunqing Mansion and Long'an Mansion. Then swept all the way over, and at the fastest speed, brought Sichuan into the rule of Great Qin!
Unlike the last time he entered Sichuan, this time Daqin already has a mass base.
After more than three years of governance, Boryeong has become a paradise on earth. At least here you can eat and clothe yourself, and even have a headache about whether to eat one less fish at the end of the year. When the 'New Year' becomes a 'festival', all the troubles will only be happy troubles. I heard that there are some old people nowadays, complaining that they don't lack anything, they used to go out on the street to calculate what to buy, but now they are idle and bored on the street to see what they like to buy, every day is like the New Year, so that the New Year's flavor is lighter.
When the people's lives are better, they will naturally choose to support the forces that make them happy. Nowadays, the people of Baoning Mansion are already loyal supporters of Daqin, and now if there are spies from Sichuan who want to come over and find a way to find out the news of Daqin, they will be greeted by the brooms of those 'former fellow villagers'.
Baixin helped Daqin wholeheartedly, and the pressure on transportation was reduced a lot, and many people spontaneously came over to help transport materials and equipment even if they were not invited. Of course, after that, there was money to give them, the predecessor of the Qin Army was the Salvation Army, if it couldn't help the world and save the people, then what was the point of rebellion?
Not only Boryeong, but also the surrounding cities of Boryeong have also benefited.
The roads in Boryeong Province were opened, so merchants from outside the province not only bought what they needed in Boryeong Province, but also bought them in the surrounding areas.
Wild vegetables that are not usually eaten are dried and sold in batches, and it is also very desirable to make smoked meat or bacon from the usual game. Just last year, they got some seeds of miscellaneous grains in Boryeong Province, and this year they also got a big harvest. The nearest border cities have even learned from Boryeong Province to carry out diversified breeding and planting, not only rice and wheat, but also some cash crops or economic forests. The income of the economic forest is not reflected for the time being, but cash crops such as peppers, peppers, star anise, etc., have also been purchased by businessmen, and the village has made a lot of money.
The villagers made money, but the officials were still officials of the Ming Dynasty. All kinds of taxes, as well as the additional salaries of the army, made it seem that there was no difference between the people in these places who made money and those who did not. Naturally, they thought that the Qin army would come here quickly, and now they would rather join the so-called rebel force of Great Qin.
On this basis, whether it is intelligence or internal response, they are willing to act. As a result, in these regions, the advantages of the Ming Dynasty were compressed to a minimum, and the war was tilted in the direction of the Great Qin. Completely one-sided, to be exact.
When the artillery blew up the gates and the city walls at a desperate distance, the county towns surrendered almost without a fight. They know that there is no room for them to resist to the death, and if they don't want to die, they had better be aware of current affairs.
No one expected that it would take only three days for Long'an Mansion to capture the entire front, and the team led by Yang Hong and Niu Jinxing would go to Songpanwei in the west; At the same time, five days later, the Kuizhou government also announced that the entire line had fallen. Among them, the county commander of Kaixian refused to open the city gate and surrender, Cao Bianjiao expressed his displeasure, and directly used artillery to blast the city gate and city wall facing him into slag. After the fall of Kuizhou Mansion, Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao began to go south to attack Chongqing Mansion in the south; As for the part of Li Dingguo and Liu Ruoqi, they almost defeated Shunqing Mansion at the same time and began to kill towards Tongchuan Mansion in the west.
After more than ten days of effort, almost half of the territory of Sichuan was laid down, and the Ming army had to shrink the defense line and deploy troops and horses in the Chengdu area to deal with it carefully. The pressure on the famous general Qin Liangyu and her son Ma Xianglin is increasing, but they are helpless in the face of the terrifying Qin army.
Before the deployment, Qin Liangyu and his son Ma Xianglin were in the border area to deal with Zhang Xianzhong's troops that had begun to assemble. This guy doesn't know why he has a soft spot for Sichuan, or if he has the guidance of a master, he just wants to enter Sichuan. Because the speed of the assembly was faster than that of the Qin army, and Great Qin had no intention of fighting for a long time, Qin Liangyu could only transfer the main force to the border and deal with Zhang Xianzhong's troops at any time.
Who knows that there has not yet been an attack on that side, but the north side has lost cities and territory one after another. However, in about ten days, the enemy has begun to gradually encircle Chengdu, and I am afraid that it will launch an attack on Chengdu in the near future.
Qin Liangyu has only just arrived here, and he is naturally not very clear about the combat effectiveness of the Qin State. As for her son Ma Xianglin, the memory of Daqin is still stuck in the last time, but she doesn't want the times to progress, and the combat effectiveness of the Qin army is also improving. Perhaps for them in the feudal era, purely in terms of the limits of the human body, in Ma Xianglin's consciousness, even if Qin Jun became stronger, it would not be much stronger than before. After all, there is always a degree of proficiency in the soldier's strength, after all, people have limits, and it is impossible to improve infinitely if they continue to train.
Therefore, at this moment, he still felt that as long as he was given enough stage to perform, even if he couldn't defeat the Qin army in one go, he could at least defeat them.
He is no longer the same person he was three years ago, and he has not only white pole soldiers under his command, but also a fire gun army. Mountain warfare is harassed by white-pole soldiers, and in flat-bottomed warfare firearms are used for duels. He had seen these firearms, and it was this kind of firearm that the Qin army used back then, so the range of the two sides should not be too different.
"Lin'er, I know that you were very unconvinced by your defeat to the Qin army last time. But now that three years have passed, in the past three years, the Qin army has been fighting hard for so long, and it will not be easy to deal with. I once heard that Zhang Hongbin, the puppet king of Qin, has always emphasized that the Qin state is a military industry, so they will not relax in the preparation of the army for three years. We don't know how their firearms have changed in the past three years. The only thing that can be known is that according to the information stored now, it is concluded that the opponent's artillery is more powerful and has a longer range. But in fact, as long as this is done, even if the range of the firearm is not enough, it is enough to make up for it. Seeing that Ma Xianglin looked like he was about to move, Qin Liangyu, as an old lady, naturally wanted to dissuade him.
"Mother, if the other party hadn't abandoned the pawn to protect the car last time, I'm afraid that I would have been killed a long time ago. This time they dared to come, and they had already penetrated into the hinterland of Sichuan. With Niang's appeal, not to mention our part, just talk about those toast Miao people, it is enough for them to drink a pot. Ma Xianglin disagreed.
"Lin'er, many times, we can't take things for granted. Especially for such a major event as war, the grandson of the soldier also said, 'soldiers, the major affairs of the country, the place of death and life, and the way of survival, must not be ignored', as a general of one party, it is related to the safety and survival of Sichuan, and we cannot take it lightly. Qin Liangyu said to him sternly.
"Mother, why don't you do this...... I took 5,000 people to test the water, and if the other party was unusually strong, I would just retreat. If the other person is no different from before, how about I find a chance to eat the other person? Ma Xianglin's eyes rolled and he came up with a compromise solution.
"Anyway, we do need the specific combat strength of the Qin army. But you have to know that you can go, but you can't take risks. At the very least, don't let me, an old woman, experience the experience of sending a white-haired person to a black-haired person. Qin Liangyu sighed and said to Ma Xianglin.
"Mother, I'll be careful...... With my son's force, more than 30 people on the other side surrounded my son and me, and they couldn't stop me! Ma Xianglin hammered himself in the chest.
"Be careful!" Qin Liangyu couldn't say anything at the moment.
With Qin Liangyu's permission, Ma Xianglin immediately mobilized 5,000 men and horses, quickly escaped into the forest, and quietly touched towards the Qin army.
But they didn't know that as soon as Ma Xianglin set out on the expedition, the internal guards in Chengdu quickly reported the situation to the front line, and Li Dingguo, as the coach, got the news of Ma Xianglin's dispatch as soon as possible.
"Brigadier Cao, your chance for revenge has arrived!" Li Dingguo turned around and shouted behind him.
In the middle of the team, Cao Bianjiao clenched his fists.