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Without considering the flying legion that can ignore the terrain, if you want to send troops from Hanzhong to attack Hubei, there is only one passage to go, and this passage is the Shangyong Passage.

Shangyong is a county established by Cao Cao, the king of Wei at the junction of Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Chongqing provinces during the Three Kingdoms period, including Zhushan County, Zhuxi County, Yun County and the surrounding areas, and the geographical location is very important.

If the Condor Army wants to enter Hubei directly from Hanzhong, then it must pass through Shangyong County, otherwise it can only choose to make a detour from other regions.

In order to defend Shangyong County, the choke point at the junction of the four provinces, the Northern Expedition Alliance deployed heavy troops in Zhuxi County and Yunxian County to defend it, blocking all the ground passages for the Condor Army to enter Hubei from Hanzhong.

From Hanzhong to Hubei, first along the river valley through Shiquan County, Hanyin County, to Ankang.

After entering Ankang, the originally single river valley passage was suddenly divided into two, the passage from Xunyang County to Yun County to the north, and the passage from Pingli County, Zhuxi County and Zhushan County to the south.

The passage of Xunyang County to the north is not suitable for the march of large corps because of the complex terrain, as long as the enemy sends an elite army to guard Yunxian, then the army that attacks Yunxian through this passage can only look at the city and sigh.

In addition to defending against the enemy who sneaks from Xunyang County, Yunxian County can also guard against the enemy smuggled from the Guanzhong Plain, so this has always been a battleground for soldiers, and every force that owns Yunxian County will arrange an elite soldier here to prevent the enemy from stealing chickens.

Yunxian County is adjacent to the Han River in the south, the Qinling Mountains in the north, the narrowest point is only six kilometers, the terrain is extremely steep, as long as the army guarding here is not eating dry food, then it is impossible to break through here with only some smuggled troops.

It is precisely because of the existence of Yunxian, an easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack checkpoint, that the passage from Hanzhong to Hubei is actually only the passage of Pingli County and Zhuxi County.

The passage of Pingli County and Zhuxi County is actually what people often call the Shangyong channel.

Starting from Pingli County, passing through Zhuxi County, Zhushan County, and Fang County, it arrives at Transition Bay Town in the north of Baokang County.

Heading northeast from the town of Transition Bay, you can reach Gucheng County in Hubei.

Heading south from Transition Bay Town leads to Baokang County, and then eastward to Nanzhang County.

Originally, as long as the Northern Expedition Alliance held Yunxian, Zhuxi County, and Zhushan County, then the ground corps of the Condor Army would not have the possibility of entering the Hubei region at all.

However, after Ning Yuanqin led a flying army to occupy Baokang County and Nanzhang County, their defenders in Zhuxi County and Zhushan County immediately fell into an unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy.

As a local snake in the Hubei region, Li Yufeng had already understood all the situations nearby, so after learning that Ning Yuan led the flying army to capture Baokang County and Nanzhang County, he immediately thought of the safety of Shangyong Passage.

After sending messengers and scouts to find out the situation ahead, Li Yufeng immediately ordered people to carry it up to the sand table in the Hubei region, and then locked his eyes on Nanzhang County, which was occupied by the Condor Army.

After staring at Nanzhang County for a long time, Li Yufeng immediately instructed the soldiers around him: "Pass on my military order, and immediately requisition a part of the army east of the Han River to assemble in Xiangyang, Yicheng and Jingmen.

After arriving at the nearest assembly area, let the troops stand by and without my orders, all the troops are not allowed to move without permission, and all the senior generals in the army who violate the order will be executed. ”

Because Nanzhang, Xiangyang, Yicheng and Jingmen were located in the safe central region, Li Yufeng and the others never thought that the Condor Army would suddenly attack without the support of the army, nor did they expect that the 20,000 elven defenders in Nanzhang County would not hold out for even half a day.

The current situation is very passive for them, and Li Yufeng does not dare to act rashly until he thoroughly understands the true intentions of the Condor Army.

Therefore, he could only dispatch his troops while waiting for the scouts to bring him back some more detailed information, and then determine what kind of military action to take next based on that information.

After arranging all the things that could be thought of, Li Yufeng waited quietly in the conference hall.

Seeing Li Yufeng's serious expression, the soldiers who had been following him didn't dare to say much, they could only keep pouring out the cold tea, and then replace it with freshly brewed tea.

In this way, Li Yufeng kept drinking tea cup after cup, and went to the toilet after feeling the urge to urinate.

I don't know how many cups of tea he drank and how many times he went to the toilet, but when it was getting dark, several flying scouts returned one after another, bringing him back a series of detailed information.

"Your Majesty, Transition Bay Town is still under the control of our army, and the enemy has sent troops to attack Transition Bay Town, but because there are relatively few people who have come, they have not succeeded.

Immediately after the attack on Transition Bay Town, our allied forces stationed in Fang County sent 30,000 men to rush to the aid of Transition Bay Town.

After the second wave of the enemy who had attacked the town of Transition Bay saw the arrival of our reinforcements, they did not attack again, and all of them retreated to the county seat of Baokang. ”

"Your Majesty, at noon today, a large number of boats and countless mermaid armies appeared on the river south of Yichang.

The merfolk armies immediately rushed to the riverbank and launched a fierce assault on our stronghold along the river.

After more than two hours of fierce fighting, our troops defending the river bank were outnumbered and had to retreat to the city behind.

Now the enemy has successfully landed on the north bank of the Yangtze River and established several large camps.

When we arrived in the Yichang area, the vanguard sent by His Majesty Zhao Guangfu to support Yichang was already on the road, and it was expected to arrive there at noon tomorrow. ”

"Your Majesty, the enemy's troops stationed in Pingli County suddenly launched an attack on Zhuxi County, where our allied forces are stationed, at noon today.

Although the enemy did not launch a large-scale siege battle, they used trebuchets to bombard Zhuxi County indiscriminately for an entire afternoon.

In the face of the enemy's trebuchet attack, our allies immediately retaliated with a tooth for a tooth.

According to the spies, apart from the loss of hundreds of trebuchets each, the losses of the soldiers were negligible. ”

"Report, Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the Shangnan County area.

At noon today, an army of 100,000 men of the Condor Army marched straight to Shangnan County, and the enemy had already set up a company camp five kilometers away from Shangnan County. ”

"Report, Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Luoyang.

At noon today, the Condor Army suddenly sent troops from Tongguan to attack Hangu Pass, where our allies were stationed.

After a fierce trebuchet battle between the enemy and us, the Condor army retreated to a place ten kilometers away from Hangu Pass and set up camp, and the enemy and us temporarily stopped their troops. ”

"Report, Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from Zhengzhou.

At noon today, the orc army of the Dashi Kingdom in Heze suddenly launched a fierce attack on our allied defense line stationed in the Kaifeng area, and the orc army has now captured Lankao County in the east of Kaifeng. ”

"Report, Your Majesty, there is an urgent report from the Shangqiu area.

At noon today, a large number of suspicious troops suddenly appeared in the southern part of Shangqiu, and those armies under different banners, ranging in size from a few hundred to a few thousand.

After they appeared in the southern part of Shangqiu, they did not attack our Allied defenses, but continued to attack the villages on the outskirts of Shangqiu, whether it was people, livestock, or food.

Our allies stationed in Shangqiu have taken the initiative to annihilate the bandit army several times, but those bandit armies are all cavalry, and they are not in line with our allies head-to-head.

Under the harassment of that bandit army, the common people on the outskirts of Shangqiu all fled in the direction of Kaifeng and Xuchang, and now a small wave of refugees has initially formed. ”

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After listening to the more detailed information brought back by the scouts, Li Yufeng's face became even heavier, and he took several sips of the empty teacup in his hand, but he didn't notice that there was no tea in the teacup.

Staring at the sand table in front of him, Li Yufeng's brows were squeezed together, and his eyes were wandering.

Through a series of information brought back by the scouts, Li Yufeng could conclude that the Condor Army should not be playing tricks this time, and they must have planned it a long time ago.

The attack on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau should be a move by the Condor Army to divert the tiger from the mountain, and its purpose is to transfer the main force of the Northern Expedition Alliance away from the area north of the Yangtze River.

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The Condor Army first made Ye Ziqing and others think that they were going to open up the passage between the Sichuan Basin and Vietnam County through the illusion that the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau was bound to win, and after forming a joint encirclement of Guangxi and Hunan, they launched a full-scale attack on those two areas from the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau and Vietnam County.

After the loss of Shanxi and Shaanxi, the territory of the Northern Expedition Alliance was only Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Guangxi.

If Guangxi and Hunan lose, then they will face the embarrassing situation of being attacked by the Condor Army on three sides.

Therefore, in order to prevent this from happening, they will definitely fully support the Ten Thousand Beasts Alliance, and strive to help the Ten Thousand Beasts Alliance defend the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

Ning Yuan knew that the army that the Northern Expedition Alliance could support the Ten Thousand Beasts Alliance must be dominated by the player army, so he simply didn't do anything, and used the Tenglong Army as a bait to lure a large number of player troops of the Northern Expedition Alliance to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau.

After all the main players of the Northern Expedition Alliance have reached the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, the Condor Army will immediately cut off the waterway of the Yangtze River, cut off the connection between the north and south banks of the Yangtze River, and then launch a full-scale attack on Hubei and Henan, taking advantage of the absence of the main players of the Northern Expedition Alliance, to conquer these two areas in one fell swoop.

As early as when the Condor Army did not send many main legions to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, Li Yufeng and Zhao Guangfu guessed that there must be fraud in this, because if the Condor Army was really bound to win the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, they would not hide so many elite legions.

Although he has only fully woken up now, it is somewhat an afterthought, but Li Yufeng is still secretly glad that he did not follow Li Yufeng and others to the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, otherwise in the case that he is not in the lair, the Condor Army's plan to divert the tiger from the mountain and attack the west is really likely to succeed.

However, although Li Yufeng stayed, the current situation was still very unfavorable to them, because the current offensive of the Condor Army was very abnormal.

After carefully analyzing all the information brought back by the scouts for a while, Li Yufeng locked his eyes on the two places of Zhengzhou and Xiangyang.

Don't look at the Condor Army's current multi-point flowering tactics, the troops have launched a full-scale attack on the area controlled by the Northern Expedition Alliance in multiple ways.

However, in Li Yufeng's view, the Condor Army does not yet have the strength to make all attack lines the main attack point, so the Condor Army is most likely to use the strategy of virtual and real.

Counting the orc army of the Great Stone Kingdom and those various bandit cavalry, the Condor Army is now a seven-way army that has launched a full-scale attack on the defense line of the Northern Expedition Alliance.

Regarding these seven offensive routes, Li Yufeng was the first to rule out Hangu Pass to the east of Tongguan.

Hangu Pass is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and it also has a forbidden air domain, and the Northern Expedition Alliance has heavy troops there, even if there are millions of Condor troops attacking Hangu Pass, they can't think of conquering it in a short time, so it must be a fake attack route for the Condor Army.

Next is Shangnan County, southeast of Tongguan.

Although Shangnan County is not as steep as Tongguan, it is also a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

After the Condor Army captured the Guanzhong Plain, the Northern Expedition Alliance began another round of heightening and reinforcement of Shangnan County.

Ye Ziqing and others arranged more elite troops in Shangnan County than Hangu Pass, hoarded food in the city that could be eaten by those troops for two years, and dug a large number of deep wells, so they were not afraid of the enemy's siege at all.

Therefore, it is basically impossible for the Condor Army to break through Shangnan County in a short period of time, because the Condor Army that rushed out of Tongguan should also belong to a feint.

After excluding these two places, there are actually only two main attack points left for the Condor Army, one is the Hubei region located on the east side of the Shangyong Pass, and the other is the Henan region located on the west side of the Dashi Kingdom.

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