Chapter 1237 Wu Deqili
"But General Zhonglang, Gaodu in the south, and Sima Division's headquarters, if the general leads the army northward, what should I do if Sima Division comes?"
To guard Gaoping Pass, this was Wang Han's request from Wei Chang in an emergency.
Although Gaopingguan had been taken over by Shi Bao at this time, he still raised this question subconsciously.
“It doesn’t matter,” Shi Bao said confidently, “the Central Protector also sent me a message, saying that Hedong Governor Jiang Fujun will come to help in the near future.”
“At the beginning of the war, I will lead the Chen Army and the engineering battalion to go there, while the Jiang Mansion will lead the officers and men of the Hedong Dudu Mansion to stay at Gaoping Pass. In this way, there is no need to worry.”
Wei Yan, the governor of the Hedong Dudu Mansion, is now alive or dead. His son Wei Chang escorted his father back to Chang'an.
In addition, Guo Xun joined the army in the Dudu Mansion and surrendered to the enemy.
Wei Yan has been a loner for so many years, and has always been at odds with others. He has no close friends, so he can be regarded as a lonely minister.
But he can be considered a veteran in the army and is good at raising soldiers.
Having led troops for so many years, he still has a lot of prestige in the army.
Especially among the officers and soldiers of the Hedong Dudufu, many of them had been with Wei Yan for a long time.
Given the current situation, sending an outsider over rashly will inevitably make the officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion suspicious.
Once someone with ulterior motives takes advantage of them and deliberately spreads rumors, the soldiers of the Hedong Dudu Mansion who have just stabilized their military morale may not be shaken again.
Jiang Bin, the governor of Hedong, is now regarded as the only remaining high-ranking official in the Hedong Dudu Mansion.
Jiang Bin temporarily took control of the remaining soldiers on the front line of the Hedong Dudu Mansion, which can be considered a relatively appropriate arrangement.
In terms of reason, there is a great sense of justice entrusted by the Central Protectorate.
In terms of sentiment, the Governor of Hedong can be regarded as a member of the Governor's Mansion of Hedong.
With Jiang’s status and title as Grand Administrator, if he had some ability, he could avoid the military morale of the officers and soldiers of the Hedong Dudu Mansion to be shaken again to the greatest extent possible.
As for the abilities of Governor Jiang...
Not to mention the people in the tent, even the whole Han Dynasty, who doesn’t know that the Central Protector has the wisdom to know people?
After all, over the years, everyone who has been recommended by Feng Duhu is not a mediocre person.
As for the people promoted by Feng Duhu personally, they are even more outstanding among them.
The only person who was valued by Feng Duhu and did not have a great record was Wang Ping.
However, Wang Ping was the first old man to follow Feng Duhu. Over the years, he had never made any mistakes in guarding important passes.
This alone is enough for most people to find no fault with it.
"General Hu, in the previous battle, I saw that your son was brave enough to fight against the thieves and was quite capable of generalship. This time I am leading the army to the eldest son, and I need a bold and careful person as the vanguard."
Shi Bao looked at Hu Zun, "I don't know, General Hu..."
Before he finished speaking, Hu Zun already knew what Shi Bao was referring to.
But Hu Zun smiled cheerfully:
"I once rebelled against you and did evil, and the Mongolian and Central Government protected me, so I was able to abandon evil and do good. Later, Your Majesty even treated me as a national scholar, allowing Zun Neng to lead the Tu Chen army."
“I am going to war with my dog because I want to repay my country’s favor. The Commander-in-Chief has orders, but please just give them!”
Leading ahead can be dangerous.
But on the battlefield, where is there no danger?
Besides, there are more opportunities to make meritorious deeds when there is danger.
An important reason why the Anding Hu family was valued by the Wei thieves was that they were a large local family, and another important reason was that they were familiar with all the Hu people in the border areas.
But in the Han Dynasty, there is no need to say that the children of aristocratic families are superior to others.
After the reform of the imperial examination system, it is no longer a new thing for children from poor families to become officials instead of children from aristocratic families.
As for the Hu tribe…
Is there anyone in the world who understands the barbarians better than Xinghanhui?
Do you know what a Liu family man is?
Do you know what a lover of the Shi family is?
Do you know what it means that when wool comes out, desert horse thieves would rather **** wool than cattle and horses?
The world is turbulent, and even if you are as powerful as a noble family, you are just sitting there.
If we don’t try to save ourselves, how can we have long-term peace?
Besides, Anping has long been the territory of the Han Dynasty, so it’s no good if we don’t save ourselves!
"Good! It is precisely because of General Hu and other unbiased soldiers that the Han Dynasty has won every victory."
Shi Bao said something approvingly.
After confirming the vanguard, and then arranging the marching arrangements, we can set off directly as long as Jiang Bin arrives to take over Gaoping Pass.
Hu Zun returned to the army and told his son Hu Fen the news.
When Hu Fen heard this, he was excited and excited.
Seeing his son like this, Hu Zun had a somewhat complicated look in his eyes.
He knew that his son had always been good at martial arts and had a good strategizing skills, and now he had to show off his skills. It was not surprising that he reacted like this.
As a father, his son was chosen as a pioneer, so it would be a lie to say that he was not worried at all.
“Leading the army as a vanguard to go to the eldest son not only has to open a road and build a bridge, but also detect the situation of the traitor in a timely manner.”
Hu Zun warned with some worry:
“According to the investigation these days, there are bandit troops stationed along the Danshui River. It seems that they mostly want to use the Danshui to prevent the army from crossing the water.”
“After you arrive at Danshui, you must focus on understanding where the rebels will deploy their defenses and where they can cross the water. Without military orders, you must not cross the water rashly.”
Hu Fen smiled and said:
"Why should you worry, sir? From Chang'an to Hedong, and even Gaoping Pass, this is not the first time that the child has opened a way for the army, and he knows the rules."
Hu Zunben wanted to say that this time it was different. He was the vanguard of the entire army.
If there is any mistake, you will be subject to military law.
It’s just that he knows that his son has always had his own opinions and talks too much. If he can’t say anything, it will only increase the burden.
In the end, it can only be reduced to one sentence: "Be careful in everything."
“The child knows.”
“Go and get ready.”
“Here!”
In the fourth year of Yanxi, Han and Wu agreed to attack Wei. Ji Han's troops were divided into two groups, and Sun Wu's troops were divided into three groups.
In the first half of the year, looking at the land of China, the five armies of Han and Wu were like five ropes, trying to strangle Wei from the west and south.
By the second half of the year, the war situation had already changed drastically.
Wu's two routes returned without success, but they made extraordinary achievements along the way, and finally broke through Xiangyang, one of the fulcrums that Wei State had used to suppress Wu for a long time.
This battle can be said to be the only time since Sun Quan became emperor that he achieved a very significant result in opening up territory and expanding territory against the Wei thieves.
Looking at Ji Han, it was much more miserable.
Wei Yan carelessly lost the party, which put the two important counties of Hedong and Taiyuan under serious threat from Wei thieves.
Feng Yong could not attack Caoqiao, so he was urgently transferred back to fight the fire.
Now the war between Wu and Wei in the south has been extinguished, and the war situation is almost settled.
Although Guanqiu Jian, Hu Zhi and others in Fancheng were unwilling to give up, they had insufficient naval forces and had no way to deal with the Wu army relying on Xiangyang and using the Han River as a line of defense.
Because of the battle between Ji Han and Wei, it was only in the second half.
If you look down from the sky above China at this time, you can see that Ji Han has mobilized several large armies.
One of them was fighting fiercely with the Wei army at the pass, trying to break through Hangu Pass.
The other two groups are constantly advancing towards the Shangdang Party.
The Ji Han army gathered in Hedong finally had a direction.
It can be said that although Ji Han lost Shangdang, it caused certain turmoil in Guanzhong and even Bingzhou.
But after the Central Protectorate took over the entire war situation, it has now begun to stabilize its footing.
Especially when the notorious Feng thief came to Hedong, and at the same time a large number of Han troops continued to gather at the northern end of Zhiguan Road.
The pressure even began to gradually shift to the Wei army in Zhiguan Road.
Different from Feng who brought huge disaster when he first came to Hedong.
With the arrival of Protector Feng Zhong, people in Hedong immediately stabilized.
Many people even touched their foreheads and let out a long breath: "Sleep well!"
“General, it’s not good! Thief Feng is leading the army. There is movement. It seems that he is heading towards Zhiguan!”
The movements of the Han army in Hedong were quickly carefully monitored by the Wei army, who reported back to Jiang Ji as quickly as possible.
Jiang Ji, who has been staying in Zhiguan these days, heard the news. Even though he had already expected this possibility, his face could not help but change slightly:
“Thief Feng, are you really coming here?”
After the Taifu captured Shangdang, no more news came.
A few days earlier, the news of Sima Division's defeat at Gaoping Pass was also delivered to him.
With just these two points, Jiang Ji had already judged that the Taifu was most likely no longer in Shangdang, but continued to march north to capture Taiyuan.
Because if the Tutor was still in Shangdang, the battle of Gaopingguan would not have been fought like that.
Taifu is not in Shangdang, and Feng Thief has arrived in Hedong again.
Jiang Ji, who was originally just to contain the Han army in the east of Hedong, did not expect to collide head-on with the Western bandits, and the army of Western bandits led by Feng Thief.
Do you think it would be less stressful?
“If we send more people to investigate, we must confirm whether Thief Feng is really leading the army this way!”
“Here!”
After ordering more scouts to be sent out to find out Feng Thief's movements as soon as possible, Jiang Ji took a deep breath and then let it out for a long time to calm down his mood.
Then murmured to himself:
"Feng Thief neither led the army to Shangdang nor took advantage of the victory to seize Gaodu City. Instead, he went to Zhiguan. What was his intention?"
If Feng Thief really wants to take advantage of Taifu's absence and take the opportunity to capture Hanoi, then no matter how you look at it, attacking Taihangxing is far easier than attacking Zhiguanxing.
After all, Sima Division was leading troops for the first time and suffered a new defeat.
It can’t be said that in Feng Thief’s eyes, he is easier to deal with than Sima Shi?
Thinking of this, Jiang Ji frowned.
This is totally unreasonable!
Damn Thief Feng, what is his real purpose?
Unable to figure out Feng Thief's intentions, Jiang Ji couldn't help but feel a little irritated.
Just when Feng Du was leading the Hedong army and preparing to attack Zhiguan, on the south bank of the river, at Hangu Pass, the most important dangerous pass in the former Qin Dynasty, the soldiers on both sides were fighting furiously.
To the north of Hangu Pass, there used to be a raging river as a natural hazard. Now, due to the downward cut of the river, a large riverbed is exposed, allowing one to bypass Tongguan Pass directly.
The focus of the Wei army's defense was precisely on the riverbed north of Hangu Pass.
Not only did they dig a deep artificial trench there, they even managed to divert river water into the trench.
At the same time, a large number of deer antlers were arranged behind the deep trench, and a thick barrier was built behind the deer antlers.
Such a tight defense was naturally not made temporarily, but was continuously constructed by Sima Yi's people over the past few years.
It can be said that Sima Yi seemed to be trapped in Hanoi, Henan these years, but in fact he had already secretly made sufficient preparations for this battle.
Although today's Hangu Pass is no longer what it used to be, it is still extremely difficult to capture the well-prepared Wei army camp on such a narrow ancient Weihan Road.
Fortunately, the Han army had the advantage of bows and crossbows, especially the Tiger Infantry Army led by Jiang Wei. Many soldiers came from the former Prime Minister's Army trained by the Prime Minister.
The Yuan Rong crossbowmen in the former Xiangfu army once forced Sima Yi away through martial arts. They were rare elites among crossbowmen.
It was under the cover of elite archers that the Han army was able to fill in the trench.
Even so, the Han army still paid a lot of price.
These days, the water flowing back from the ditch to the river is mixed with thick or light blood.
In addition to blood and water, there are also broken arrows, broken blades, even a piece of armor, and floating corpses...
The rushing river dispersed the **** water, wrapped around the objects that could not be dispersed, and continued to rush eastward endlessly.
They will settle somewhere, or they will settle down, be buried by the sand, and never see the light of day again.
Perhaps it will be washed up on the shore in a certain river section and then discovered by people at a certain time.
Liu Yin stood on the filled trench and looked at the densely packed antlers in front of him. His face was livid, and he almost cursed in his heart:
His mother’s wife!
The Wei thieves were more diligent in their defense than when they were guarding the street pavilions and guarding Tongguan.
What the hell!
Even before Hangu Pass was captured, the Tiger Infantry Army suffered so much.
If we really want to continue the offensive, even if the Tiger Infantry Army can capture Hangu Pass, they may not be able to continue to advance.
"As Zhongduhu said, if we want to take this road to attack Luoyang, unless we mobilize the whole country, it is almost impossible with the troops we have on hand."
Jiang Wei, who was standing next to Liu Yin, nodded and agreed:
“That’s right, we can’t continue fighting like this.”
However, if we don’t fight like this, then how should we fight?
“Come, Xiuren, come and see.”
Jiang Wei pointed to the antlers array in front of him, and then pointed to the rolling plateau to the south, with a thoughtful look on his face:
“Hangu Pass focuses on defending against the east rather than the west. No matter how well prepared the thieves are, there will always be omissions.”
Liu Yin followed what Jiang Wei pointed out, and subconsciously lowered his voice:
“Then what does the general want?”
“This is the direction where the thieves are heavily defending,” Jiang Wei pointed to the high plateau to the south of the deer horn formation. “The thieves are sitting on a favorable location and are condescending, echoing each other with the thieves below.”
“Even if we can break through the antlers, once we advance to the barrier, the bandits on the plateau will flank us from high altitudes, and the casualties will only be more.”
I have to say that the bandits at Hangu Pass are indeed well-defended.
Liu Yin sighed: "If the engineering camp is here, what should we fear?"
such a pity!
Handing a good engineering camp into the hands of Wei Yan was really a waste of natural resources.
“If an engineering battalion is needed to attack a city, what else do we need to do to lead the troops?”
Jiang Wei stared into the distance, "Don't worry, you stay here to reorganize your army and continue to attack the Antler Formation. I will divide one part and find another way."
The ancient Weihan Road has a large river in the north, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and undulating plateaus in the middle.
He didn't believe that the Wei thieves could cover such a long plateau and guard it without a single man!
(End of this chapter)