Chapter 84: Preparing for War

Luo Yonghao perked up and said, "Okay." Let him in. ”

The dusty Luo Shifan stepped into the second hall and bowed to his head with a fist: "I have seen the handsome man and my father." Then, he saluted the generals on both sides: "Generals. ”

If he discusses with Luo Yonghao, Luo Shifan will always stand behind his father - with his father, his son cannot sit on an equal footing in public. All the generals rushed in together, of course, they could go straight to their seats, but if anyone came late, they had to go up to Guan and Luo Shili before taking their seats, Luo Shifan is a junior in this gang, and now he comes in to participate in the military meeting, so it should be like this...... These were all necessary etiquette at that time.

Guan Shengyun looked at Luo Shifan curiously and with concern, only to see that his face was tired, the hem of his dirty robe was pulled up at his waist, his shoes were full of dust, and his pants were torn with several holes...... Hurriedly asked, "Where have you been here, nephew, why are you like this?" Drink a little water, sit down and talk! As he spoke, his eyes turned to Luo Yonghao to look over.

Luo Yonghao also asked, "How did you do on this trip?" He asked, his eyes full of love and pity.

Luo Shifan replied decently: "Enlightened marshal, father." My father didn't expect it badly, and that road could indeed be walked. ”

While speaking, Guan Yehuo brought a pottery bowl filled with water and handed it to Luo Shifan, who reached out and took it, drank it all with a bang, handed it back to Guan Yehuo, and quietly thanked: "Brother Wildfire", and wiped the corners of his mouth with the back of his hand. Guan Yehuo nodded and retreated.

After listening to the conversation between Luo's father and son, Guan Shengyun understood that the military adviser in the past few days had actually sent the little master to explore the way, and said busily: "The nephew has worked hard, don't worry, sit down and talk." ”

Luo Shifan looked at his father, saw the latter nodded, and clenched his fists again: "Xie Dashuai." He retreated to the last seat and sat down, straightened his waist and spoke again: "Handsome." Before the army entered Xin'an, my father instructed me to leave the camp as a traveling bachelor to explore the way. Then he turned his gaze to Luo Yonghao, "Father, that road is indeed accessible to the army." It's just a few places that are a little too narrow, but it only needs to be cut down a little to pave the way, and it's not in the way. ”

Luo Yonghao nodded: "Okay!" Let's talk about it in detail. ”

The military advisor's personal guards tore off a piece of ink lotus hung by Cai Wenying and hung a map of Henan Province in the hall.

Luo Shifan got up again, hesitated, bowed down and confessed, took the paper fan handed by Luo Yonghao with both hands, and pointed out and explained to Yutu.

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After Luo Shifan finished speaking, Luo Yonghao asked a few more questions, and the confused generals gradually understood, and everyone discussed it word by word.

Qi Xiaoguang hadn't slept well for two or three days. However, Qi Zhifu was in a very good mood: the thieves' two attacks were repelled by Sun Fugui without danger.

Qi Xiaoguang and Cai Wenying of Xin'an Zhi County both saw a real battle for the first time. In fact, strictly speaking, Sun Fugui is too. However, after being transferred from Beijing to the post of the palace guard, he once participated in the suppression of bandits on the orders of the emperor, not only Sun Fugui himself, but also several thousand generals under his command have cut people with their own hands, and they cannot be completely regarded as rookies. Of course, suppressing bandits and rebelling are two different things. One is the absolute superiority of chasing dozens of hundreds of people called Huazi all over the mountains, and the other is a hard-fought battle in a dignified array.

Everyone understands the meaning of the emperor's order to directly participate in the local suppression of bandits, this is because he is not worried about the safety of his baby fat son, and it is just a test of the ability of the bodyguards, which is also exercise. Therefore, with the hints of the cabinet and the quiet support of the Ministry of War, not only did the Luoyang Mansion dispatch all the forces at its disposal, but even the provincial government secretly allocated considerable troops to surround it from afar. There is nothing to say about the logistical support: for the sake of those seventy or eighty bandits, the number of soldiers directly mobilized in Henan Province exceeded 2,500, and the auxiliary soldiers served as high as more than 7,000 people! Where did those bandits who had fallen for eight lifetimes of blood mold come to think that their own group of guys - even the dagger capital only had a total of thirty knives, and the others could only use hoes or sticks as blades - they were all poor like this, what the hell, what the hell, gain, sin, where, road, god, immortal! was remembered by the Son of Heaven to train the courage of his fat son's bodyguard as a whetstone?!

Of course, there was no suspense in the whole battle from the beginning to the end: the officers and troops of all walks of life first drove these unlucky ghosts to a Jedi where birds did not and could not be defended, and then besieged but not attacked. The unlucky ghosts were so hungry that they couldn't stand the risk of breaking through to death, and the officers and soldiers neither let out arrows - bows and arrows were still not to be underestimated against the unarmored - nor attacked, but only stabbed with spears through the fence! Poke it, just stab it, but avoid the key point and only stab the arms and thighs! When the morale of the bandits is completely gone, they will not pursue! Many wounded bandits who thought they were going to die were lying in front of the officers and soldiers and humming, and the officers and soldiers just stared at each other and never took a step, and in the end, many guys slowly crawled back under the noses of the officers and soldiers!

Until there was no movement for three or four consecutive days, it was estimated that they were so hungry that they couldn't get up, so Henan Wei commander Yang Zhongguo, deputy general Jiang Shide, Hongnongwei commander Tongzhi Li Chao and others went to Sun Fugui's camp under the leadership of Xue Xiaowen, then the envoy of Henan Province: "General Sun, we are ashamed, the thieves are extremely fierce, and the officers and soldiers have been fighting for a long time, but they are barely supporting, and I implore General Sun to help him......

Sun Fugui has long been idle, although he has never really killed anyone, after all, he has blood in his bones, and he lacks a string in his brain...... Then, before he woke up, how could these guys not even be able to escape for their lives, and the saint had already received a six-hundred-mile expedited: a great victory!

Then, the Holy Heavenly Dragon Yan Dayue: Xue Xiaowen was directly promoted to the political envoy of Nanzhilibu, Yang Zhongguo was promoted to the commander of the capital, Jiang Shide opened the town, and Li Chaosheng was the commander of the envoy...... Sun Fugui received a reward of five hundred taels of silver, became the commander of the palace guard, and gave his son who didn't know where he was at all to get a hundred household jobs - at this time, Sun Fugui was still a bachelor!

Therefore, Sun Fugui, whose actual combat experience only stopped at this battle, did not completely see that Guan Shengyun was conducting fire reconnaissance: he could see that the thief must not have done his best, but he was completely ignorant of Guan Shengyun's true strength. It seems that the menacing Guan Shengyun army, in the eyes of the civil and military personnel of the Shouhan Valley Pass, is not enough. Of course, if you break Shaanzhou, you must have been caught off guard by the bastard Ma Wensheng - then a bastard deserves it!

Therefore, after repelling the second attack of the thieves, Qi Xiaoguang ordered Luoyang to send five hundred soldiers and Ding Zhuang Qianwu as an auxiliary. Adjutant General Kou Zhizhang, I heard that he had repelled two attacks by thieves, and in order to correct his reputation and status, he personally led reinforcements to arrive! In this regard, everyone has no objection: as long as the thieves are kept out of Hangu Pass, Luofu will of course sit back and relax. The current Hangu Pass, plus the original defenders, has more than 2,000 soldiers, and the auxiliary soldiers are twice as many.

The thieves are bound to hit their heads and bleed in front of this impregnable wall.

Until this time, neither side knew the true strength of the other. Although Guan Shengyun did not have a perspective and eyes, he could not see through the wall that the officers and soldiers were coming to reinforce the troops, but he hid all the soldiers in Xin'an County, and used most of the unarmored and a small number of leather armor individual officers and half-armor auxiliaries as the main force of the feint...... They couldn't guess that the fat Guan Shengyun soldiers were almost 100% armored, of which the iron armor was as high as seventy percent - not to mention that compared to ordinary officers and soldiers, even the palace guards were beyond reach, but the whole Daming, that is, the holy Jingying, could be stronger than them in terms of equipment (combat effectiveness was much worse)!

After another two days, except for the daily rangers patrolling and scolding outside the gate, the thieves on the opposite side did not make any big moves. Qi Xiaoguang and the others were very happy: the reinforcements had traveled more than 100 miles, and the overall strength had recovered in the past two days. At the same time, there is also some incomprehension: time is the enemy of thieves, thieves are conducive to quick battles, and the longer it drags on, the more officers and soldiers will come to help, and when the officers and soldiers from all over the country converge, it will be the end of their rope. This truth, thieves will not understand - the thieves are not many dead and wounded, at most they are just scratching their skin, why is this?

Well, maybe the thieves of the rabble encountered the Xiongguan powerhouse and were at a loss for a while. Whatever, it's good for us anyway!

On the third day, as soon as the sky was bright, the Wangzi on the Hangu Pass sounded the alarm. The sleepy-eyed officials hurriedly ran to the wall and looked west, only to see that the east gate of Xin'an City outside Li Xu was wide open, and the dark doorway was like a big mouth, and the thieves' brigade of men and horses came out of it, crowded in a chaotic manner seventy or eighty zhang away. In addition to the ladder cars I have seen, there are three or five rushing cars this time.

"It's finally here!" Everyone silently recited in their hearts.

There were about four or five thousand thieves. Under the light of the rising sun, a small place in the thief formation flashed from time to time with a dazzling light, and the light flowed in the queue: this was the reflection of the iron armor!

Ha, the thieves' generals and guards also ran out!

Is it true that the thief is going to make a desperate gamble today?

Well, almost. No matter how stupid the thief is, he can think that all the officers and soldiers are gathering towards Hangu Pass, and if they don't run for their lives desperately, they will wait to be killed!

After the formation of the thief brigade was completed, more than 100 large and small vehicles were lined up in the city, blocking the two wings tightly, leaving only one official road.

The south of the city of Xin'an is a big river, called Gushui (also called Jianshui), the north of the North Creek water flows into the road to the east, after passing the Hangu Pass, there is Cixi in the south to inject, and then close to the official road, straight to Luoyang. At this moment, more than a dozen small boats also sailed in the valley, and they were moored in the river next to the thieves' army.

Looking at the Xin'an East Wall again, the thief's banner is gone!

That's right, the thief has to fight to the death!

The baggage should be in the cart behind the battle, and there will be some in the boat, and most of it is loaded with gold and silver, along with the robbed female dependents! Wait for the Great Thief Army...... Hey, hey, hey.

There is no longer even a banner at the head of the city to direct the attack - it seems that the thieves are really desperate! Hmph, with your little possessions, how long can you be arrogant? Not to mention the Luofu with high walls and deep moats, this Hanguguan in front of you is the place where you are buried!

Fighting a war is about the right time, place and people. In the past few days, the morale of the officers and soldiers is booming, and the towering and majestic pass is condescending, and even the sky is extremely favorable today: the sun is rising, and the thieves have to attack eastward against the dazzling sunlight all morning, while the officers and soldiers can see any movement of the thieves clearly!

Qi Xiaoguang and Sun Fugui gave the order almost in unison: Reserves, all go to the wall to prepare for battle!

For a time, the drums of war were excited, and the defenders of the closed were wound and unsheathed. The new reinforcements looked with envy at the heroic strength of the veterans who had been baptized in battle, full of desire for victory...... Well, and the salivation of bounties.

A drum beat also sounded on the opposite side: the big battle had begun.

This knowledge point: map.

Ancient maps were called maps. Because at the beginning, the mapping of mountains and rivers was completely dependent on the amount of walking on the legs - Shenzhou is so big, how can you walk by legs? Besides, can the legs on Chang Yao Ming and the pair on Chang Pan Changjiang be the same? So there were two new technologies: one hardware and one software.

The software is called "Jili Drawing Square", and the inventor is called Pei Xiu, from the Jin Dynasty. It is to draw a square with a side length of one inch on the paper. Each inch represents a hundred miles of land. That's the scale. Shen Kuo of the Song Dynasty drew a more accurate one: two inches represent one hundred miles.

The hardware is a drum car. The car has two floors, each with a wooden figure. Calculate the circumference of the wheels in advance, one mile per row, and the lower wooden figures will beat the drum, ten li per row, and the upper wooden figures will strike a gong (or bell). This is truly high-tech!

In ancient times, the car was called "Yu", and the map drawn by the mileage measured by the car was called Yutu.