On the mountain road leading from Sichuan to Hanzhong, Wu Sangui's army marched on the riverside plank road in the upper reaches of the Jialing River. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Shu road is difficult to go to the sky, the ancients for Sichuan surrounded by mountains on all sides, in addition to taking the Yangtze River route, the road from Sichuan to Shaanxi is a wooden plank road, known as Qinshu plank road. After Liu Bang entered Sichuan, in order to show Xiang Yu that he had no intention of dominating the Central Plains, he burned the plank road. Later, Han Xin's plan to repair the plank road in the Ming Dynasty and darken Chen Cang was to go out of Sichuan through the Chen Cang Trail, and Liu Bang's army entered the Central Plains to compete for hegemony.

But Wu Sangui's army wants to go out of Sichuan, whether it is to cross the plank road of the Qinling Mountains or take the Chencang Trail, it is not a way, the Qing army has already deployed heavy troops at the end of the plank road over the Qinling Mountains to block the Wu army from leaving Sichuan. At the end of the Chencang trail in Baoji, the Qing army also arranged tens of thousands of troops to garrison, and Zhao Liangdong, a fierce general from Gan and Shaanxi, was stationed in Baoji.

Therefore, if the Wu army wants to go out of Sichuan, it can only capture Hanzhong, and then take the Hanzhong road, go down the Han River, arrive at Xiangyang, and kill from Xiangyang, you can enter the Central Plains from Xiangyang.

Even if the Wu army does not have the ability to break through the fortified city of Xiangyang, but the Wu army, which has a large number of cavalry, has a way, it can bypass the area of Shangzhou without going to Xiangyang, suddenly kill it from the mountains, and enter Nanyang, and then enter the Central Plains.

However, the path taken by Wu Sangui was in conflict with the path to be taken by the camp, and the camp knew that it did not have the ability to attack Xiangyang Jiancheng, so the camp army was also preparing to go to Nanyang and enter the Central Plains. Once they broke into the camp and entered the Central Plains, they could give full play to their expertise in mobile warfare and make the Qing army exhausted.

The previous Qing army, because of the strength of the Eight Banners cavalry, continuously compressed the invasion army and drove the invasion army into the eastern Sichuan area. and compressed the camp into Sichuan, which also has a credit to Wu Sangui.

On the one hand, Wu Sangui opened the Shanhai Pass and introduced the Qing army into the pass, and on the other hand, he pursued and killed the camp.

The conflict between the marching paths of the two armies, coupled with the previous deep hatred, doomed the two armies to kill each other.

Under the city of Hanzhong, the main army of the camp is fiercely attacking Hanzhong.

"Defeated again!" Hao Shaoqi looked at Hanzhong City in front of him angrily.

This Hanzhong City is also a very strong city, Hanzhong City is three zhang high, the moat is ten zhang wide, the water depth is one zhang and eight feet, and the mountain river weir water is poured into the moat. This Hanzhong city is not inferior to Nanchang in terms of solidity.

The army of more than 100,000 people who broke into the camp was known as the 500,000 army, and after arriving in Hanzhong City, it was originally thought that the defenders of Hanzhong would inevitably be frightened to surrender in Kaesong. Who knew that the prefect of Hanzhong relied on the advantage of the city wall to resist to the end, and was not willing to surrender to the camp at all. This was not because the prefect of Hanzhong was preparing to serve the Qing court, but because he was preparing to surrender to Wu Sangui. After all, the camp is a rogue, and Wu Sangui is the real official army, so the prefect of Hanzhong is unwilling to surrender to the camp.

The city of Hanzhong is very strong, break into the camp and storm Hanzhong, the arrows at the head of the city are like locusts, the projectiles are like rain, and the moat that is ten zhang wide and one zhang eight feet deep, the soldiers and horses of the camp can not even approach the city wall, and the losses are heavy on the side of the moat.

But there was no way to break into the camp, if they didn't fight Hanzhong, they could only bite the bullet and touch the stronger Xiangyang City. Moreover, attacking Hanzhong City has a more important significance, which is to block Wu Sangui's road and prevent Wu Sangui from entering the Central Plains. In short, the blood feud between Chuang Ying and Wu Sangui should always be resolved.

Li Laiheng didn't think about going over to fight Xiangyang Jiancheng, Xiangyang is so strong, it's better to leave it to the Qiongzhou army, and break into the camp to pinch soft persimmons.

But Hanzhong City is not weak, it broke into the camp and attacked for a whole day, leaving more than 2,000 corpses under the city, but it failed to fill even a small section of the moat! And the current camp is no longer as good as the camp when the flag was pulled and the Ming court rebelled, and the camp could be coerced by the people at that time, and the people who were coerced were used as cannon fodder to attack the city. What now? Every soldier in the camp is a veteran of a hundred battles, except for the adapted Qing army prisoners, the rest are veterans along the way, even the homeless people who were coerced back then are now veterans in their thirties and forties.

"It's really not cost-effective for us to fight this Hanzhong!" Dang Shousu sighed.

Li Laiheng said: "Hanzhong must be taken!" There should be a break between us and Wu Gou! If we let Wu Gou enter the Central Plains, after they become bigger, our situation will be even more difficult! ”

At Yangping Pass west of Hanzhong City, the Chuang army led by Liu Tichun and the Wu army led by Gao Dejie were engaged in a fierce battle. The army still couldn't defeat the Wu army, and after Liu Tichun came up and suffered a loss, he immediately gave up the river valley, and resolutely did not fight the Wu army in an open area to open a formation and face to face, but chose to seize the high ground and the main road, relying on the terrain to block the Wu army.

Liu Tichun seized the two peaks of Fanjia Mountain and Siping Mountain, and controlled the main road that passed through the middle.

The terrain here is very dangerous, after the mountains on both sides are controlled, the road can be blocked with rolling wood and stones, and Gao Dejie's army cannot pass through the middle avenue, so he has to give the order to launch a fierce attack on the mountains on both sides controlled by Liu Tichun.

However, the Wu army's repeated attacks were repelled by the Chuang army with rolling wood and stones, and more than 300 people were killed and wounded. As a last resort, Gao Dejie had no choice but to order to temporarily set up camp and wait for the arrival of Wu Sangui's main force.

"General, let the last general attack again!" Gao Dejie's subordinate Han Daren stood up and asked Ying to fight.

Gao Dejie said: "It's not necessary! The thieves occupy the dangerous place on the mountain, and our army is mainly cavalry, which is not conducive to attacking the mountain. In the event of a strong attack, the thieves only need to use rolling logs and stones to block our army! Or wait for the arrival of the main force of the handsome! ”

Liu Tichun blocked the Wu army and sent someone to report to Li Laiheng, saying that he had occupied the main road and the Wu army could not pass. Even if Wu Sangui's main force came, Liu Tichun would not have a problem stopping Wu Jun for a month.

After listening to the report sent by Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng nodded with satisfaction: "Okay!" General Wu Dog is so high that he has a false reputation, this thief is known as extremely brave, but now he is blocked by our army! However, the main force of Wu Dog is about to arrive! We still need to speed up the siege, as long as we take Hanzhong, Wu Laogou will be helpless! ”

Dang Shousu said: "Marshal, if our army can't take Hanzhong, and Wu Gou breaks through General Liu's defense, then we are in danger!" ”

Li Laiheng said with a solemn expression: "The progress of the siege must be accelerated!" I only hate that the water of this moat is too deep, otherwise our army can break the city by digging tunnels! ”

The Chuang army continued to storm Hanzhong, on the one hand, sending auxiliaries to push sandbags with shield carts to fill the moat, and at the same time sending another group of auxiliaries to cut down wood and prepare to build siege weapons such as large ladder carts. The Chuang army also set up artillery and bombarded the city wall of Hanzhong fiercely. The archers and the bird-bearers came up and shot their arrows at the city.

The fire on the city was fierce, arrows and projectiles rained down, and the auxiliaries who were filling the river kept falling by the moat.