Cheng Han Chapter 4
When Shen Yunsuo, the king of Runan, led the Badong royal division into Shuzhong and marched bravely in the direction of Chengdu, the other route of the Hanzhong royal division led by Liangzhou Thorn Shi Mao Bao also launched a fierce attack on the northern Bashu road.
Shu Dao is dangerous, not just talking. Although the Badong King Division relied on the river to swim back and successfully invaded Shuzhong, it does not mean that this waterway is all the way smooth, and no matter who can flow into Shu.
During the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Wei of the Sima clan was in power to attack Shu, when the Wei army had already invaded Shu from the north road and Liu Chanye, the queen of Shu, had surrendered. Sun Xiu, the lord of Wu, could not bear the loneliness, and sent tens of thousands of troops to march west along the river, called rescue, but in fact, he planned to take advantage of the undecided time of Cao Wei and Shu to collect the benefits of the fishermen and occupy a part of the Shu Han relics.
However, the tens of thousands of troops of Eastern Wu did not advance westward for a long time, and they were obstructed by the Shu general Luo Xian. At that time, Luo Xian used Badong Taishou to guard the Yufu White Emperor City of Yong'an, and with a small number of 2,000 people under his command, he forcibly blocked the Wu army for several months, and insisted until the Wei State dealt with the turmoil in Shu and then turned around to attack Xiling, an important town in Eastern Wu.
The Battle of Yong'an was not a large-scale battle during the confrontation between the Three Kingdoms, but it brought a lot of shame to the Soochow regime.
Not to mention the morality of this kind of behavior of betraying allies and taking advantage of the fire to rob, it must be known that the situation after Cao Wei destroyed Shu was not calm, especially the rebellion of Zhong Hui, the general of Shu, although it was almost a farce, but it also exposed serious problems within Wei at that time.
Although the Sima clan and his father and son successively stole the authority of Cao Wei, the process was not all smooth sailing, and the three rebellions of Huainan and even the power of destroying Shu were not enough to completely suppress the resistance and counterattack within the Wei State against the Sima hegemony. Therefore, although Zhong Hui's rebellion did not last long, the internal shock caused to Cao Wei was still great.
In this process, Sima Zhao not only had to stabilize the interior, but also sorted out and digested the gains from Shu, because he did not rescue Yong'an in the first place. He is already a heroic figure, and probably does not think that Shu General Luo Xian has any value worth rescuing, or because Yong'an is indeed an important fortress in the river, and Luo Xian has also proved himself with practical actions, so he sent troops to rescue.
For a few months, the Xiling defense line of Dongwu was an important town run by Lu Xun's father and son for two generations, and Yong'an was only two thousand people led by Luo Xian, and the Dongwu army launched several attacks, among which the leader even included Lu Kang, a famous general of Dongwu, but still failed to cross the Lei Chi half a step.
The result of Yong'an's battle also made Dongwu's military operation a complete joke, and only achieved Luo Xian's prestige as the last famous general of Shu Han.
In this war, aside from other factors, the geographical pressure brought about by the tracing of the Yangtze River waterway cannot be ignored. Although the starting point of Daliang's attack on Shu this time is the gateway to the Three Gorges of Baidi City, which Dongwu could not attack for a long time in the old years, Jiangzhou City and Qianwei City in the upper reaches are also dangerous passes along the Dajiang River that are not inferior to Baidi City.
The geography of Shuzhong is unique, in addition to the turbulent water flow of the south line, the north road is full of peaks and peaks, and there are countless dangers, which is a well-deserved natural danger. In the old years, when the displaced people of the six counties of Qin Yong entered Shu and passed through the Sword Pavilion, Li Teh once sighed: "Liu Chan has such a place and is bound to others, isn't it mediocre and evil!" ”
People always remember to eat or not, although the Cheng Han country name shows that whether it is the "Cheng family" of Gongsun Shu or the Shu Han of Liu Bei's father and son, they can not enjoy the country for a long time, but when the Li family of the Han Dynasty has this danger, they can also not take history as a mirror and make their own dreams of long-term separation.
Langzhong, Brazil, the city chokes the Jialing River, backed by Daba Mountain, west of the Sword Pavilion, Jiameng Pass and other Shu road dangerous passes, it is a well-deserved Bashu rush. If you want to protect Bashu, you must guard Langzhong, which is also quite insightful to the monarchs and ministers of the Han Dynasty, and half of the soldiers in the country are concentrated on this line, in order to block the Liang Wang Shi of Liangzhou Hanzhong.
Cheng Han stationed in Langzhong was the emperor's younger brother Li Guang. Guarding this Shu Dao Heavenly Dangerous Pass, Li Guang's talent is still secondary, as long as his people do not make any fatal mistakes, it is difficult for the Liang army to attack Bashu from Hanzhong through the Sword Pavilion Dangerous Pass.
It is true that after the Liang court determined the strategy of cutting Shu, Shen Yun, the king of Runan, as the commander of the Shu president, had not left Luoyang, as early as the beginning of the year, Liangzhou Thorn Shi Mao Bao led the army of Wang Shi to launch a fierce attack on Brazil.
However, although Hanzhong was the first to send troops, the progress was the slowest. The double walls of the big and small sword mountains are towering, and the Shuzhong army does not need to make more arrangements at all, but only needs to hold the pavilion road tightly, and the Liang army will not be able to move an inch here.
The king of Hanzhong has been trapped in the north of the pass for a long time, and his advance in the war is not even as good as that of the king of Yuman's department who came south of Longyou to attack the Qiuchi country.
However, even if he knew that the Shu Road was dangerous and easy to defend and difficult to attack, the Hanzhong Wang Division still did not dare to relax the offensive, on the contrary, he continued to attack here to maintain the strong oppression of Cheng Han, so that the Chengdu Han army stationed in Brazil did not dare to dispatch away from here and turn to other places, so as to effectively attract the living forces of Cheng Han.
Although Cheng Han is only a small country and a widow, it has the excellent geographical advantage of this dangerous pass, and its national strength should not be underestimated.
If a Hebei overlord like the Qiang State wanted to effectively control the manpower and material resources in the country, he had to forcibly relocate the people from all sides near the national capital, which gave rise to a series of control problems.
The superior geographical environment determines that the people do not need high-pressure supervision at all, and can only gather near the Chengdu Plain, which makes the mobilization of the Chenghan country very efficient.
Therefore, in the past attack on Shu, we must strive for a quick attack, and once the war is slightly delayed, many variables will arise. Regardless of whether the Hanzhong Road can be successful or not, whether the offensive is strong or not is also directly related to the dispatch of the forces in Shuzhong, and the chances of victory for the other routes to attack Shu are won.
For example, at present, due to the fierce attack of the Hanzhong Wang Division, Cheng Han has deployed nearly 50,000 armor soldiers in Langzhong, which is almost more than half of the troops in Cheng Han. In particular, there are more than 10,000 troops composed of the descendants of the original six counties, which can be said to be a well-deserved elite army in the Cheng Han Kingdom, and is the strong backing of the Han lord Li Shi to rule Bashu.
Although there is a natural danger of the Sword Pavilion and can stubbornly keep the Liang army in Hanzhong out, these Cheng Han troops on the front line are still full of a sense of crisis after seeing the strong combat effectiveness of the Liang army and the elite armament.
As the commander of the army, Li Guang, the younger brother of the Emperor of the Cheng Han Dynasty, did not dare to relax for a moment, and arranged tens of thousands of troops in the Sword Pavilion alone. And around Langzhong, the pass worth defending is not only the Sword Pavilion. There were at least three military routes between the mountains for the Liang army to attack, from west to east were Yinping Road, Jinniu Road and Micang Road.
Among them, Yinping Road connects Longyou and reaches Jiangyou under the rule of Mianzhu in Shuzhong, this route is the march route of Wei in the old years to attack Deng Ai into Chengdu, and it is also not allowed to be lost.
The current Yinping Dao is not under the control of Cheng Han, and belongs to the sphere of influence of the Yang clan of Qiu Chi State. Although Qiu Chi and Cheng Han have no subordinate to each other, they also have a deep relationship with each other.
Now, even if these old origins are not considered, Qiu Chi and Cheng Han are also in a cold relationship, if their country is destroyed by the Liang army from the south of Longyou, then the northwest side of Cheng Han will also be completely exposed to the Liang army.
And Qiu Chi Guo also took advantage of this life and death crisis related to Cheng Han, and repeatedly extorted characters from Shuzhong, just after Li Guang sat in Langzhong, he successively supported Qiu Chi Guo more than 5,000 soldiers, and the money and food were countless.
Up to now, it is said that Qiu Chiguo and the Liang army from the south are facing each other in the middle of the Minshan Mountains, and the situation is not optimistic.
Li Guang didn't know whether the Liang army intended to expel the forces of Qiu Chi to this place or by coincidence, but at the moment, even if he didn't know much about the old things, his own cadres Chen Xu took the previous rut as a warning, and arranged a part of the troops between Jinshou and Zitong as a backup strategy, in case the Liang army attacked Yinping and drove straight into Shuzhong, so that the army would lose one and the other, and repeat the old mistake of the fall of Shu Han.
Jinniu Road in and out of the pass is the Sword Pavilion, although Cheng Han stationed here tens of thousands of troops, but due to the ferocious attack of the Liang army, although Cheng Han has its own natural danger to be trusted, the two sides every time the battle to the end, casualties even reached one to one, equipment, morale, combat effectiveness and other all-round gap, even with the help of the Sword Pavilion natural danger, the Cheng Han army still can not have an absolute advantage.
Although the Micang Road is not as dangerous as the first two passages, it is also a shortcut connecting Hanzhong and Bashu. In the old years, Wei general Zhang He followed this into Shu, went straight to the Brazilian ditch, and fought a big battle with Shu general Zhang Fei. Dingjun Mountain Huang Zhongli slashed Xiahou Yuan, and the battlefield was located in Micang Road.
Although these two battles were won by the Shu people, the question is how many people in the entire Chenghan Kingdom can have the courage of Zhang Fei and Huang Zhong? Once the Liang army followed this and entered Bashu in a big way, the situation was still worrying.
However, the defense of the Cheng Han army has been running for a long time, and it is already a rare vigilance to be able to fortify the first two main roads, and this rice cang road has completely lost its military-related defenses.
But this shortcut has not been abandoned, on the contrary, because there is not so strong military color has become an important channel for communication between the people and the outside world, many of the Bashu tribes organized to go over the mountains and go straight to Hanzhong through this road, and trafficked many Tianzhong products to the interior of Bashu, and reaped their benefits.
After Li Guang settled in Langzhong, he also wanted to completely block the Micang Road, and sent the general Zan Cheng to lead 5,000 troops to be stationed at the starting point of the road, prohibiting all people from coming and going.
However, after a few months, the results are really small, one is that after years of trampling and opening, Micang Road is no longer a lonely road, and the roads between them are intricate, and there is almost no place for Xiongguan.
The second is that the wealth is attractive, there are many camellia miscellaneous between the mountains of Micang Road, and they are everywhere, and in Hanzhong on the other side, these mountain tea leaves distributed all over the mountains are of high value, so that even many garrison guards ignore the national danger duties, and the mountains and fields pick tea and sell it to Hanzhong, and even the guard general Zan Chengdu personally organized soldiers to carry out these tea trades.
At present, the war between the two countries is in full swing, even if Li Guang is only a hostage of the Chinese, he also understands that Hanzhong's high-priced purchase of Bashu mountain tea must be ill-intentioned, not to mention whether the Liang army in Hanzhong will follow this to attack, just those soldiers to transport goods back and forth, I am afraid that the Han army's defense at the southern foot of Daba Mountain will have long been known by the Liang army!
Although Li Guang was furious about this, he was also a little helpless against Zan Cheng. From the perspective of generation, Zan Cheng is the maternal brother of his grandmother Zan family, from the perspective of power, Zan is the head of the army among the displaced people in the six counties, it is because of the help of Zan and other forces that his father Li Shou can reverse the Lord Li Period, so that Cheng Han Guozuo transferred to their branch of the Li family.
However, Zan Cheng is so disregarding national difficulties and seeking personal gains, and the harmfulness of this cannot be ignored. Therefore, Li Guang could only frequently send envoys to Chengdu to impeach Zan Cheng, hoping that Emperor Li Shi could severely punish Zan Cheng.
In addition, due to the division of troops in many ways, the strength of the headquarters of Langzhong gradually lacked, once an accident occurred along the way, after seeing the fierceness of the Liang army's combat effectiveness, Li Guang did not have the confidence to be able to calmly respond, so he hoped that the country could send some reinforcements here.
As September wore on, the war in the north did not improve in the slightest, and the only consolation was that it did not go any worse.
The main force of the Liang army in Hanzhong was still forcibly blocked outside the Sword Pavilion, and the Yang army of Qiu Chi and the Liang army of Longyou were still facing each other in the middle of the river, and the army of Zhan Cheng on the side of the rice warehouse was temporarily closed due to the restrictions of the festival.
But this is not worth rejoicing, not to mention how much Han military affairs the Liang army has discovered in the course of more than a few months of trade. Zan Cheng, a greedy and short-sighted national thief, did not know how to restrain at all, probably his people also felt Li Guang's increasingly dissatisfied attitude towards him and had the intention to show off, and the Han military degree of the rice warehouse department became the most abundant of the armies on the North Road, and the soldiers had already changed into winter clothes to swagger before the late autumn, so they aroused the envy of the armies.
Chengdu finally responded, but the result was very different from what Li Guang had envisioned, and the lord Li Shi sent Li Ji, the son of Li Yi, the Taibao Protector, to the north to investigate Zan Cheng's crime, but did not directly announce the punishment of Zan Cheng.
This clearly shows that he does not trust Li Guang's one-sided attitude, which inevitably makes Li Guang even more embarrassed. Li Guang knew that Li Shi, the imperial brother who was raised in Chengdu, did not trust him at all, especially after he took the initiative to ask to be the prince, although Li Shi was forced to agree due to the situation, he was still wary of him.
Especially after Li Guang took charge of half of the first class in the country, Li Shi was only afraid that Li Guang's army would return to Chengdu than the Liang army would attack Shuzhong. Although Li Guang bitterly stated the interests and harmed Zan Cheng and completed the crime, in order to prevent Li Guang from dominating the northern Xinjiang, he still refused to take Zan Cheng, who openly sold the national fortune.
Taibao Li Yi is also the head of the veteran army of the six counties, and because of his clear opposition to Li Guang as the prince, he has been deeply valued by Li Shi in recent years, and he is arranged as a candidate to balance Li Guang in Fucheng, north of Chengdu.
Fucheng is located in the north of Chengdu, not in contact with the border dangers, is the Cheng Han Dynasty since the founding of the country, the country used to guard against the frontier generals. Li Shi made such an arrangement, and allocated 30,000 armor soldiers in the country to Li Yi, the purpose is self-evident.
Li Yi's son, Li Huan, did not take Li Guang, the nominal prince, in his eyes at all, and did not even come to meet him after going north, but only sent a messenger to give a short notice, and he went straight to the headquarters of Zan Cheng.
If these can still make Li Guang endure when the national disaster is imminent, then the arrangement of reinforcements directly breaks through his limit: the country did not send a single soldier to the north to reinforce it, but only sent five drums!
According to the Chengdu envoy, this five-sided drum is not a vulgar thing, but the artifact that Prime Minister Fan Ben invited from Qitian in Qingcheng Mountain, claimed to be not inferior to the Yellow Emperor's war drum made when he cut down the Chi You, only need to stand in the Sword Pavilion and fight to beat, the sound is like thunder, the enemy army is afraid to flee when he hears it, and his army is brave and forgetful!
This may sound a little funny, but both the speaker and the listener have a solemn demeanor, and even when the war drums are handed over, several generals under Li Guang's command are already impatient and excited, and they are quite eager to try, obviously there is no doubt.
Fan Ben is the son of the late Prime Minister Fan Changsheng, and Fan Changsheng is known as one of the Eight Immortals in Shu, and is also the master of the Bashu Heavenly Master, with countless believers in Shu, and after persuading Li Xiong, he was crowned as the master of heaven and earth by Li Xiong. Fan Ben has his mantle, and the Shu people are convinced that the Fan family must have supernatural abilities!
But in fact, the real vision has reached a certain level, as long as it is not that the person is too stupid, how can he believe this kind of nonsense? The five-sided drum can forcibly block tens of thousands of Liang soldiers, why didn't Fan Ben create more to go out of Shu to conquer the world?
No matter what the soldiers thought, Li Guang was already completely disappointed, so he simply turned his heart on the sidelines and led the elite of his headquarters to kill the Zan Cheng battalion!
Not to mention that he is not the lord of the Han Dynasty now, even if he has been honored, this hegemony in Shu is not exclusive to him, and now everyone is ignoring the national disaster, why is he guilty alone? Zan Cheng, a dog thief, he must be killed, and he also has to see if the imperial brother Li Shi dares to kill him in the critical situation of the siege of the Liang army and destroy the Great Wall!
Li Guang had just made a move here, and Zan Cheng of Micang was already alert, and his people gathered to climb the heights and shouted: "Li Guang, a national thief, disregarded the difficulties of the ancestor to start a business, and forced the king to regard him as his heir!" The thief not only wants to blackmail the king, but now he is even more treacherous and has the courage to kill the minister. The Holy Lord of the Great Liang rules the world, the grace is widely cold, all my warriors, all inherit the grace, life and death, at ease, do not fight at this time, but when! ”
Taibao Li Yi's son Li Jian has not been in the camp for a long time, and Zhengxi is diligently looking for Zan Cheng to discuss how to divide the huge profits of trade with Hanzhong, but unexpectedly, Zan Cheng has already been fattened by Hanzhong and bred against his heart.
At the time when Li Guang and Zan Chenghuo were merging, the department of Yu Man, the king of Longyou, who was supposed to fight with Qiu Chi Guo in the middle of the war, had already secretly crossed the Yinping Road under the guidance of the Yang family, and went straight to Jiangyou, and the troops were sent to Mianzhu!