In March, northern Shaanxi.

Meng Qiaofang was only one foot away from capturing Wubao, but after all, it couldn't compare to the weather, just when the Jin army was about to drive Wang Guangtai's more than 2,000 remnants into the Yellow River, a large number of reinforcements, materials, and money and grain of the Ming Dynasty finally crossed the Luliang Mountains.

From mid-February, the Ming army facing the Yellow River sent reinforcements to northern Shaanxi at a rate of one or two thousand men per day, or twenty grain ships.

The situation in northern Shaanxi returned to the situation where the Ming army fought more and more, and it was impossible for the Jin army to capture the Wubao ferry, and it was possible that it would be pushed back.

At the beginning of March, the Ming army at the ferry recovered to 6,000 men, Wang Guangtai began to organize troops to counterattack, and the Jin army under the command of Meng Qiaofang was demoralized, and was forced to retreat after a few days of fighting.

At this time, Li Laiheng of Wubao and Wang Yongqiang of Suide took advantage of the situation to counterattack, and the Jin army lost more than 2,000 people, retreated to Yanchuan County, Yan'an Prefecture, and built a defense line to block the southward movement of the Ming army with Qingjian River and Pingchuan Water.

In mid-March, a garrison of more than 50,000 people, under the leadership of Zhang Wenxing, a servant of the Jin State Army, set out from Chang'an and marched north to the boundary of Yan'an Prefecture.

After Meng Qiaofang set up camp in Yanchuan, he did not dare to ask Chang'an for support, because he knew that Tongguan and other places were also in a situation of tight troops, but recently he got the news that Chang'an sent another 50,000 troops, which made him happy.

Although the Tun army is like the guard post of the Ming Dynasty, tens of thousands of people can be driven all over the ground by thousands of regular official troops, but at this moment, Meng Qiaofang is no longer picky.

On this day, he was walking back and forth in the tent, and suddenly a soldier outside the tent reported, "Lord Wang, Zhang Shilang of the military department has arrived." ”

"Come in, please!" Meng Qiaofang immediately said happily.

Not long after, a man in his forties walked in and saluted, "Your Majesty has seen the prince." ”

"Don't be polite to Zhang Shilang, did Your Majesty send you to reinforce this king?" Meng Qiaofang eagerly stepped forward, held his arm and asked, "How is the situation in Tongguan, Wuguan and other places?" ”

Zhang Wenxuan didn't answer, but took out a secret decree from his sleeve and presented it to Meng Qiaofang, "Lord Wang, it's hard to explain, this is a secret order given to you by Your Majesty, you can look at it first." ”

Meng Qiaofang took the secret decree with some doubts when she heard this, opened the wax seal and took out the inner page to look at, and her brows couldn't help frowning.

After reading it, Meng Qiaofang didn't speak, walked to the edge of the map in silence, stared at the map for a while, and then turned his head and said, "Okay!" This king knows what His Majesty means. ”

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Hanzhong, Nanzheng, Shu Wangfu.

In January, Wu Sangui once attacked Huguang in one fell swoop, intending to strike first, defeat Hao Shaoqi, change the situation of Hanzhong being attacked from two sides, and reverse the situation in Hanzhong, but his attack did not achieve the intended goal.

Although Wu Sangui plundered Yunyang Mansion, seized a large amount of supplies, and even almost invaded the territory of Xiangyang, he still did not defeat Hao Shaoqi's main force in the end, and could only retreat to Guanzhong helplessly.

The Ming Dynasty was strong, and small local defeats and material losses did not affect the overall situation.

As soon as Wu Sangui retreated, Hao Shaoqi followed to recover the entire territory of Yunyang, and then the army entered Hanzhong, and went down to the Baihe village in the east of Xing'an Prefecture.

When the time entered February, the snow in Daba Mountain had just melted, and He Tengjiao, who was gearing up, urged Ma Jinzhong to lead the Sichuan Ming army and attack Hanzhong in three ways.

The Ming army was 20,000 per road, Ma Jinzhong went out of Jinniu Road to Pingyang Pass, He Zhen 20,000 people went out of Micang Road to attack Qingshi Pass, and Bai Wenxuan took 20,000 soldiers from Lychee Road to Linzhenba County.

Nearly 120,000 Ming troops attacked Hanzhong in many ways, menacing, and the Jin army was in a hurry everywhere, but Wu Sangui did not like passive defense, and did not divide his troops to intercept, but divided 60,000 people into two parts, one with 20,000 people responsible for guarding the danger, and one with 40,000 people mainly cavalry, and gathered together, preparing who would fight whom, and each would break it.

At the end of February, Wu Sangui deliberately let go of Qingshi Pass, led He Zhen forward, and then defeated He Zhen in the middle reaches of the Laozhu River, so that the 20,000 Ming troops who entered Hanzhong from Micang Road lost more than 5,000 people, and the defeated army retreated to the first line of Qingshi Pass.

He Tengjiao was originally urging very urgently, but after seeing that He Zhen was defeated all the way, he was much more cautious, and the Ming army did not dare to go deep in the lone army, so he moved steadily and steadily.

At this time, the situation in Hanzhong, the Ming army was like a pack of wolves surrounding a tiger. Although in terms of overall strength, the Ming army was stronger than Wu Sangui's Jin army, but no one dared to go up alone, for fear of being scratched by this tiger and even killed.

However, although Wu Sangui deterred the Ming army attacking Hanzhong, the whole passive situation did not change, and the various units of the Ming army marched in a village, fighting steadily and steadily, only walking more than 30 miles a day, and the sentinel cavalry released more than 30 miles, approaching Zheng step by step to the south.

In March, Hao Shaoqi more than 50,000 people to Hanyin, Bai Wenyuan to the Sishang, Ma Jinzhong to Da'anyi, only more than 400 miles away from Dingjun Mountain, He Zhen in Qingshi Pass after regrouping, also to the south of Zheng again.

These Ming troops built forts and forts along the way, advancing slowly, and once they found Wu Sangui's main force, they immediately nested into the strong camp, while the other roads took advantage of this opportunity to advance forward.

In mid-March, as the Ming army of various divisions was about to approach Nanzheng, the wolves had already surrounded the tigers, and a group attack would be formed.

At this time, in Nanzheng, Hanzhong, in the palace of the king of Shu, Wu Sangui read a secret decree, and raised his head with a calm face, "The emperor wants this king to lead the army to withdraw from the Dasan Pass into the Guanzhong and participate in the ambush of the king thief, what do you think?" ”

"Retreat into Guanzhong?" Wu Guozhu and the other generals' faces couldn't help but change, "Isn't that equivalent to giving up Hanzhong?" ”

Many of the generals of the Wu army in the festival hall began to discuss. They withdrew from Sichuan to Hanzhong, ran Hanzhong, started from scratch, and just ran a foundation, and it was only a few years, and they had to withdraw into Guanzhong again.

Wu Sangui looked at the secret decree again, raised his head and said: "The imperial court has sent 60,000 troops to Nanzheng, and wants to replace this king with them." ”

"Lord Wang, what is the use of the tun army, as soon as we leave, Hanzhong will definitely not be able to keep it." The generals below obviously don't want to leave Hanzhong.

Wu Sangui didn't refute, but nodded, "It's true that the Tun army can't be relied on, but now that Hao Shaoqi and He Tengjiao are approaching step by step, it is not good for us to drag on the war like this, and if Guanzhong is defeated, then we will be trapped and die in Hanzhong." ”

The sad thing about the Wu army is that the fate of Hanzhong is not in their hands, but depends on the outcome of the duel in Guanzhong. Even if Hanzhong defeated the Ming army and the Guanzhong Jin army was defeated, they would still be defeated.

The soldiers of the Wu army have been operating in Hanzhong for many years and have settled down, and now they are about to abandon their families and businesses, and everyone is a little reluctant, and they are silent one after another.

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In mid-March, outside Tongguan.

Under the reflection of the remnant sun, the city wall of Tongguan was beaten to a thousand holes, the old wall collapsed everywhere, and the new wall was also bombarded by heavy artillery at the collapse of the old wall, and many wall buttresses were knocked out by shells.

In the past few days, all units of the Ming army have taken turns to go into battle, like waves of the sea, launching attacks on Tongguan again and again. Although they did not capture Tongguan, they had already put the Jin army in danger, and it was a matter of time before they broke through, which the generals of the Ming army did not doubt.

On this day, Li Yuanyin came to Wang Yan's tent and asked the guards, "Is the prison in there?" ”

"I'm going to see the wounded!" The guard replied, but then suddenly pointed to the distance, "It's back!" ”

Li Yuanyin turned around and looked, only to see Wang Yan riding back, he hurriedly stepped forward and saluted: "The minister will see the prison country!" ”

Wang Yan restrained the war horse, turned over and dismounted, and nodded, "Did Uncle Yuan come to wait for Gu on purpose?" ”

Li Yuanyin followed him, and while walking into the tent, he said: "The minister does have something to do to find the prison country. ”

Wang Yan entered the tent, took off the golden helmet, untied the sword, handed it to the guards, and then sat back on the handsome case, before replying: "Do you have any thoughts on tackling key problems?" Yuanbo can say it directly. ”

Li Yuanyin immediately said: "Jianguo, the attacks in the past few days can be described as fierce, Zhongyong Town even completely occupied the old wall for a time, but in the end it was all in vain, the minister thought that the key was that the Jin army blocked the gate, and our army failed to open a gap in the new wall, so that the army could rush into the pass." ”

Wang Yan poured himself a glass of water, took a sip, motioned for Li Yuanyin to sit down, and then nodded, "Gu remembers that Yuanbo said this before. What, what do you have to do? ”

Li Yuanyin quickly took out a picture from his chest and laid it out in front of Wang Yanshuai's case, Wang Yan glanced at it, it was the customs defense map of Tongguan, he immediately became interested, put the teacup aside, and looked at it carefully.

Li Yuanyin pointed to the drawings, "Prison country, please see, we thought that there were two walls in Tongguan, the old wall was blown up, and there were new walls, and the blasting of the old wall in front was not successful, so the plan to bomb the city was terminated." ”

The Ming army had only a few ways to fortify the city. The soft way is to surrender and disintegrate the enemy from the inside, and the hard way is to bombard with artillery, and then dig tunnels to blow up the city.

Wang Yan frowned, "That's the case." It was bombed once at the end of last year, but Tongguan was reinforced by the Jin army, and the explosion was not successful, plus the old wall was blown up, and there was a new wall, so the digging of the tunnel stopped. Wang Yan raised his head and looked at Li Yuanyin, "What, Yuanbo still wants to blow it up again?" ”

Li Yuanyin knew that the previous blasting made Wang Yan lose confidence in blowing up Tongguan, and hurriedly explained: "Prison country, the minister really wants to blow up again, but not the old wall, but the new wall." Li Yuanyin hurriedly pointed to the drawings, "The old wall has collapsed in many places, and there is no need to bomb it again, Zhongyong Town completely occupied the old wall yesterday, which also shows that the old wall is not a problem, the key is the new wall behind, he has not suffered direct bombardment from artillery, so the wall is still relatively complete." ”

Wang Yan took a sip of the water cup, was silent for a while, and asked after half a sound: "Tongguan is extremely strong, and the effect of blasting the old wall in front is not obvious, can the new wall collapse?" ”

Li Yuanyin saw that Wang Yan was obviously moved, and hurriedly said: "Please see the prison country, the new Guancheng was built by the Jin Kingdom in the past two years, he is taller than the old Guancheng, but it is much narrower, and the minister thinks that he can give it a try." The minister thought that in such a short construction period, the Jin State would build such a fortress, and the strength would inevitably be less than that of the old Guancheng, and the new wall was built behind the old wall, so it did not have to bear the shelling, and I believe that the Jin State did not think about how strong it was to build him. ”

Wang Yan thought about it, anyway, there are many Ming soldiers and enough material resources, so why not give it a try? Thinking of this, Wang Yan couldn't help but nodded, "Okay, then Uncle Yuan will blow it up again." ”

After Li Yuanyin received the order, the Ming army began to dig the ground again, and during this period, the Ming army's attack on Tongguan did not stop.

The Five Loyal Army, the Wuwei Army, and the Zhenwu Army were all trained troops, attacking in turns, and exhausting the Jin Army in the form of wheel warfare.

On March 25, the Ming army continued to attack the city, and together with the war drums, nearly 10,000 soldiers carried equipment and rushed to Tongguan under the cover of artillery.

At this time, Li Yuanyin had already dug the tunnel to the foot of the new wall and buried the gunpowder.

Just when the Ming army and the Jin army were fighting to the death on the battlefield, an earth-shattering explosion sounded under the new wall, and the violent explosion raised billowing smoke and dust, and the rubble flew sideways, which made people feel heartbroken and terrifying.

The morale of the Ming soldiers was greatly boosted, and before the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, they rushed over the old wall to the explosion, but after rushing closer, they found that the gap was not big, only about three zhang.

The Ming army and the Jin army fought to the death here, and Tang Tong, Bai Guangen and other generals personally went into battle and blocked the Ming army that had rushed to the new wall.

The Jin army barely held the pass, but although the Ming army did not break through the Tong Pass, it was also the closest to breaking the pass, which really frightened Tang Tong.

After the war, Bai Guangen, who was covered in blood, followed behind Tang Tong and returned to the big tent.

"It's not going to go on like this, it's too dangerous, and the casualties are too great." Bai Guangen threw his helmet on his seat, "If the Ming army comes like this again, we may not be able to withstand it." ”

Tang Tong put his helmet aside, supported Shuai Case with both hands, buried his head between his arms, was silent for a while, and suddenly raised his head, "Your Majesty's plan should have been almost executed, let's hold on for a few days, and when the order comes, we will withdraw immediately······"

The Ming army's attack was thwarted again, but the Ming army was not discouraged, but became more and more courageous, they had already smelled the breath of victory, and sensed that the Jin country was about to be unable to withstand it.

After the attack on the 25th, Wang Yan convened the generals to discuss the matter, summed up the experience, and when he was preparing for the next attack, he made the final decision and kicked through the Tong Pass.

Liu Fangliang was the first to speak, "If the gap is a little bigger today, we will rush in." Chen suggested that the tunnel could continue to be dug and blew up one or two places, and it would definitely be able to rush into Tongguan. ”

Zhang Mingzhen also said: "There are many of us, and the minister suggested that several tunnels can be dug together, as long as one tunnel is successful, it will not be discovered by the Jin army, and then it will be blown up, and it will definitely break into the pass." ”

Wang Yan listened to what everyone said, and most of them felt that this tunnel was well dug and agreed to continue to bomb the city, "Since this is the meaning, then Yuanbo will continue to dig the tunnel, but the attacks of the various departments should not stop, but the intensity of the attacks can be reduced." ”

"Wait for you to understand!" All the generals took the command together.

Wang Yan bowed slightly, and then asked, "By the way, has the grain and grass sent from Jiangnan arrived?" ”

"Back to the prison country, a new batch of military rations is already on the way, and it will arrive in Luoyang within five days." Li Suiqiu stood up and saluted.

Wang Yan nodded, "Guanzhong is in a grain panic, and after we enter the customs, if we want to gain a firm foothold, we have to send food relief." ”

"Food is the hearts of the people, and the minister knows the importance and must ensure that the food is delivered on time."

After listening to this, Wang Yan was basically satisfied, he had more soldiers and enough food, and there were no new problems. After the agreement was made at the moment, Wang Yan ordered everyone to go back, and only waited for another bombing, and then concentrated his forces to capture Tongguan in one fell swoop.

Li Guo and the others came out of the tent, but when they just walked to the gate of the camp, a cavalryman outside with an urgent flag galloped to the front of the Chinese army camp and shouted: "The urgent military situation must be immediately informed of the prison state." ”

Li Guo and the others who walked to the front of the camp were stunned for a moment, and couldn't help asking, "What military situation?" ”

"Sun Dudu crossed the river from Pujin Pass and has entered Guanzhong!" After the soldier said a word, he was taken away by the officer in front of the camp gate to Wang Yan's tent.

"What about Sun Shou law-abiding entry?" Everyone was in an uproar, and the uproar turned back to Wang Yan's handsome tent.

In the tent, Wang Yan watched with the military newspaper, the soldier who delivered the message knelt on one knee in the tent, and many generals around him held their breath and waited for Wang Yan to finish reading.

The 300,000 Ming troops in Henan did not enter the pass, and Sun Shoufa of Pujin Pass only had less than 20,000 feints, how could he enter the pass? It's fucking incredible, it's so surprising.

Wang Yan quickly looked at it, waved his hand and asked the soldiers to retreat, "You have worked hard all the way to deliver the message, go down and rest first." ”

As soon as the soldiers retreated, Wang Yan immediately said to everyone: "Sun Shoufa has crossed the river from the pontoon bridge, occupied Zhaodu Town and Jixintan on the west bank of the Yellow River, and is about to go south to capture the mouth of the three rivers, cross the Weishui, and outflank Tongguan. ”

This should have been a happy thing, but the faces of the generals in the tent were not good-looking, they had been attacking head-on for so long, how could the credit in their hands fly to Sun Shoufa's hands?

"Jianguo, how did Sun Dudu cross the Yellow River?" Li Guo couldn't help frowning and asked.

Wang Yan could sense the emotions of the generals, "After Li Laiheng occupied northern Shaanxi, Meng Qiaofang gathered 50,000 troops to counterattack and transferred 10,000 people from Tongzhou. We stormed Tongguan, Tang Tong could not withstand it, and the Jin State sent another 6,000 men from the Pujin ferry to support Tongguan. Sun Shoufa found that the Jin army on the other side of the river was reduced, so he asked people to cross the river from the upper reaches on sheepskin rafts, and he led the main force to raid the Jin army on the other side of the pontoon bridge at night, and defeated the 4,000 Jin army at the ferry, and the army immediately crossed the Yellow River. ”

The momentum of everyone is leaked, if this is the case, it is really possible, the Jin army is fortified everywhere, the troops are scattered, and there will always be problems when the east wall is demolished to make up the west wall.

It's just that everyone thought that the duel was in Tongguan, but they didn't expect that there were key changes elsewhere.

"Jianguo, if that's the case, then we can't wait for the tunnels to be dug well, we have to attack immediately, and even storm day and night." Li Guo was silent for a moment, and suddenly hugged his fists.

Wang Yan reacted, "I am afraid that Tang Tong will run!" ”

"If Sun Shoufa captures Sanhekou, crosses Weishui, and outflanks Tongguan, Tang Tong will definitely flee when he gets the news!" Liu Fangliang also agreed with Li Guo's opinion.

Wang Yan nodded, and was about to speak, when the curtain was suddenly raised, and a member of the Ming General suddenly entered the tent to report: "Prison country, there is a change in Tongguan!" ”

When Wang Yan heard this, he couldn't help but bang his fist on the table, "The two armies of Zhongyong and Zhongzhi immediately organized an attack, don't leave Tangtong!" ”

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