Chapter 100: The Great Disperse

Gao Favor's troops pursued Shen Feihu's remnants, these remnants had no main general, and the other Western Xia army had divine weapons, and they had long lost their fighting spirit and soon surrendered, and a partial general who was guarding the ancient camp had already put down the flag of the original Great Qi and surrendered to Gao Pet.

A part of the cavalry fled along the old road to Dasanguan.

There are more than 20 miles from the ancient camp of Shigu to Dasanguan, and there are seven or eight hundred defeated troops, but the people on the road are fleeing less and less, and when they flee to Dasanguan, there are only two or three hundred people left.

Dasanguan is located in the valley, on the Dasanling, where the tributaries of the Wei River are connected to the north and the upper source of the Jialing River in the south. Sanguan when the mountains and rivers of the meeting, choke the southwest, northwest traffic arteries hub, the big Sanguan is also called Sanguan, one of the four passes in the Guanzhong, for the Zhou Dynasty Sanguo pass, so the name Sanguan. The mountains here are steep, the mountains are stacked, and there is a tendency of "one husband is a pass, and ten thousand people are not open". Because it chokes the throat of north-south traffic, it has been the "throat of Sichuan and Shaanxi" since ancient times, and the place where soldiers must fight.

Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, took Han Xinzhi and said: "Ming repairs the plank road, secretly crosses Chencang", from Hanzhong from the old way out of Chencang and set the three Qins, through this pass; In the second year of the Eastern Han Dynasty (26 AD), Yancen led troops into Sanguan to Chencang; In the twentieth year of Emperor Jian'an of the Han Dynasty (215 AD), Cao Cao attacked Zhang Lu and passed the pass from Chencang; In the sixth year of the reign of the Shu Han Dynasty (228 AD), Zhuge Liang went out of the Sanguan to encircle Chencang. Since ancient times, there have been more than 70 large and small wars around this great dispersion. The fact that so many wars have also shown the military-strategic position of Sanguan.

Jin Wushu arranged five hundred defenders in Sanguan, the road to the south of Sanguan is rugged and tortuous, even if there is an enemy to attack, it is not possible to use troops, so five hundred people here is very enough, besides, there are 10,000 troops in the ancient camp of Shigu behind him as a backing.

Two months ago, after the 80,000-strong Jin army came out of the Great Sanguan, the defender at this time, Dutong Wulinbu, never thought that this Sanguan would also fight, and he could not wait for the marshal to return. Wulinbu is also the old man of the Golden Vultures, is the birth of the Jurchen Wulin Dabu people, he is very grateful to the Golden Vultures, the Golden Vulture also has a life-saving grace for him, and also has the feeling of recreation, back then, when the Golden Vulture was surrounded by Huang Tiandang, under the knife of the Song soldiers, it was the Golden Vulture who came to rescue him. As a result, he took the lead in every battle and became a personal soldier of alchemy. In the past four or five years, he has also grown from a small soldier to a metropolitan commander. A few days ago, news came that in the battle of Xianren Pass, Jin Jun almost broke through Xianren Pass, and he was happy for a long time.

Today he was in a good mood, so he checked the passers-by before the pass, and in addition to some local mountain people, one or two businessmen, the most of them were soldiers of the Jin Army, and each of them had their own tasks to travel back and forth to the old road.

The soldiers guarding the pass, when they saw Dutong standing at the door in person today, did not dare to take it lightly, and they all performed their duties conscientiously.

Ulimbu himself also grew up from a small soldier, and knows how difficult it is to be a small soldier, so he usually doesn't embarrass them, but you have to do a good job, if you cheat and play tricks, I'm sorry, you have to bear all the consequences yourself, so from the other side, he is a serious person. Therefore, Ulimbu's subordinates all love their commander, and they are also very afraid of him, they love him because they respect their little soldiers, and they are afraid that he will be punished harshly if he does not do well.

Seeing a group of remnants retreating, the people in the pass were already like a great enemy, the gate was closed, and the soldiers all gathered automatically.

After disarming these people, Ulimbu also knew that something big had happened in front of him, and he would face an attack from the Western Xia army.

He immediately sent a communication soldier to report the situation here to Jin Wushu, gathered personnel, and locked up the two or three hundred people who retreated into the pass.

Ding Li led the cavalry to pursue the Jin army that had retreated to the old road, and on the way he continued to capture many Jin army's surrendered troops, but there were still two or three hundred people, who fled into the Dasan Pass.

Chased to the front of the pass, the door was closed, many arrows were shot out of the arrow tower in the pass, and the bed crossbow was a super powerful weapon to defend the city, Ding Li led the men and horses too late to retreat, and several soldiers were shot through the heavy arrows of the bed crossbow and fell to two steps away, and the military horse that was shot, such a large weight was also shot over, which shows the power of this bed crossbow. It can be said that don't be touched by this crossbow arrow, the middle can be said to be a mortal situation.

In pursuit of the Jin army, the second battalion of Ding Li's cavalry brought two companies, and the others had withdrawn from the old road, and the two companies entered the old road with more than 300 horsemen. Seeing the bed crossbow in the pass, Ding Li commanded his men to retreat beyond the range of the bed crossbow in Dasanguan, and when they retreated, there was also the ridicule of the Jin army of the Great Attack Arrow Tower. After a while, five people and six horses died, which shows that this crossbow is a sharp weapon for guarding the pass.

Ding Li reconnoitred the terrain of Dasanguan again, let Chen Jialuo be in charge of the scene, and he rode back to the headquarters. If you want to attack, it will take time, and the cavalry of Fengxiang City has not been wiped out, and the Jin army still has 10,000 people. The first is whether to attack Sanguan, and the second is what method to use to tackle the problem, he wants to ask Gao Pet to decide again.

The big attack is actually a small square city, about 200 steps long from north to south, a rectangle of only 50 steps from east to west, the west is a mountain, the east is facing the water, this pass lies across the old road. On one side of the river valley is a steep cliff and on the other side is a city wall near the water, people with good feet can pass through the river valley, but they are all within the range of the bow and arrow on the city wall, and on the west side is the steep Dasan Ridge, which is impossible to pass through the troops, otherwise the Dasan Pass would not be so famous. The last time the Golden Vulture attacked the Great Scattered Pass, it cost a lot.

Gao Zhong guarded the ancient military camp in Shigu Town, and there were several aspects that he did not think about attacking Fengxiang City. First, Feng Xiang, who has a regular army of 10,000 people and an unknown number of guards guarded by the people, has no certainty of winning at a relatively small cost in attacking the city, and his own strength is still very weak, and he can't afford to spend it, and second, the impact of the political attack on the important military town in Guanzhong is too great, and Li Qianshun's side may not be able to withstand it, and third, his main purpose is just to not want Jin Wushu to get the support of 20,000 cavalry, and to eliminate the living force of the Jin army as much as possible. More than 200 miles, the cavalry could rush from Fengxiang to Huixian in one day. The purpose of Gao Pet is to make the Jin army not have enough strength to invade Xihe through this battle, so that Xihe has time to grow. Fourth, once Gao Pet wants to attack Fengxiang, this stone drum must also leave troops, and if you stay less, you will not have the strength to attack, and you may be attacked by the enemy on the way. Gao Pet thought about it, and the reason for attacking Feng Xiang was untenable. Gao Zhong welcomes Wanyan to attack this, he is not afraid of field battles, as long as he does not divide his troops, there is not too much problem in dealing with 10,000 cavalry.

Da Tu Pass can be captured, so that once the Jin army retreats from the old road, it will have a good defensive position. If it is not captured, the Jin army will be killed and the net will be broken, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

So when Stilwell came to ask for instructions, Gao Zhong asked him to bring two Thunderbolt God Thunder Cannons and explosives to support, and attack Sanguan.