"But General Zhonglang, Gaodu in the south, and Sima Division's headquarters. If the general leads the army to the north, what should he do if Sima Division comes?"
Guarding Gaoping Pass 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 Jiang Fujun, the governor of Hedong, will come to help in the near future."
"At the beginning of the war, I will lead Chen's army and the engineering battalion to go there, and the Lord Jiang 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."
The life and death of Wei Yan, the governor of the Hedong Dudu Mansion, is unknown, and 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, has always been at odds with others, and has no close friends. He is considered a lonely minister.
But he is still considered a veteran in the army and is good at raising soldiers.
After leading troops for so many years, he still has prestige in the military.
Especially the officers and soldiers of the Hedong Dudufu, many of whom had been with Wei Yan for a long time.
Under the current circumstances, sending an outsider over rashly would inevitably make the officers and soldiers of the Governor's Mansion suspicious.
Once someone deliberately spreads rumors, the morale of the officers and soldiers of the Hedong Governor's Office who have just stabilized may not be shaken again.
Jiang Bin, the governor of Hedong, is now regarded as the only remaining senior official in the governor's office of Hedong.
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 meaning in the appointment of the Central Protectorate.
As a matter of fact, the Governor of Hedong can be considered 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 Governor Jiang’s abilities...
Not to mention the people in the tent, even if they are all big men, who doesn’t know that the Central Protector knows how to recognize 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 himself, 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 the important pass.
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 traitors and was quite capable of generalship. This time I am leading the army to the eldest son, and I need a brave 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 heartily:
"In the past, a certain person had rebelled and committed evil, and the Mongolian and Central Governments protected him. Only then was he able to abandon his evil ways and turn to good deeds. His Majesty later treated him as a national scholar, allowing Zun Neng to lead the 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 the way 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.
One of the important reasons why the Anding Hu family was valued by the Wei thieves was that they were from a large local family, and another important reason was that they were familiar with the various ethnic groups of the Hu people on the frontier.
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 barbarian tribe...
Is there anyone in the world who understands the barbarians better than the Xinghan Society?
Do you know what a Liu family man is?
Do you know what the Shi Family Lover is?
Do you know what it means that once wool comes out, desert horse thieves would rather snatch 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, Anding has long been the territory of the Han Dynasty, so it’s no good if we don’t save ourselves!
"Okay! It is precisely because of General Hu and other unfaithful soldiers that the Han Dynasty has won every victory."
Shi Bao said approvingly.
After confirming the vanguard and arranging the marching strategy, we can set off directly just waiting for Jiang Bin to arrive 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 little talent for martial arts and had a long history of planning, and now he had to show off his skills. It was not surprising that he reacted like this.
It's just that as a father, his son is being used as a pioneer. To say that he is not worried at all would be a lie.
"As the vanguard, leading the army to go to the eldest son not only has to open a road and build a bridge, but also check 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 have deployed their defenses and where they can cross the water. Without military orders, you must not cross the water rashly."
Hu Fen laughed 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 Zun wanted to say that this time was different, he was the vanguard of the entire army.
If something goes wrong, you will be subject to military law.
It's just that he knew that his son had always had his own opinions, and he talked too much. If he couldn't say anything, it would only increase the burden.
In the end, it can only be reduced to one sentence: "Be careful in everything."
"The child knows."
"Go 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.
The two Wu forces returned in vain, but made extraordinary achievements along the way, and finally broke through Xiangyang, one of the fulcrums that Wei State had used to suppress Wu State 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.
On the other hand, Ji Han was much miserable.
Wei Yan accidentally lost the party, which put the two important counties of Hedong and Taiyuan under serious threat from Wei thieves.
Feng Yong failed to 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 situation of the war 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, which relied on Xiangyang and used the Han River as its line of defense.
Ji Han, who lost Shangdang, had to continue to dispatch troops and generals.
Because the battle between Ji Han and Wei Guo ended 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 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 Shangdang.
And Ji Han's 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 battle, 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.
It is 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 they are 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.
When Jiang Ji, who had been staying in Zhi Pass these days, heard the news, even though he had already expected this possibility, his expression still couldn't help but change slightly:
"Thief Feng, are you really coming here?"
After Taifu captured Shangdang, no news came from him.
A few days earlier, the news of Sima Division's defeat at Gaoping Pass was also sent to him.
From these two points alone, Jiang Ji had already judged that the Taifu was most likely no longer in Shangdang, but had continued his march north to capture Taiyuan.
Because if the Tutor was still in the Party, the battle at Gaopingguan would not have been fought like that.
The Tutor was not in Shangdang, and Feng was 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 Western bandit army led by Feng bandit.
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 here!"
"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 he muttered to himself:
"Thief Feng 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 Tie really wanted to take advantage of Taifu's absence to capture Hanoi, then no matter how you look at it, attacking Taihangxing would be 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 Master Sima?
Thinking of this, Jiang Ji frowned.
This is totally unreasonable!
Damn Thief Feng, what is his real purpose?
Jiang Ji couldn't help but feel a little irritated because he couldn't figure out Feng Thief's intentions.
Just when Feng Du was leading the Hedong army and was preparing to attack Zhi Pass, 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, because of the incision of the river, a large river bed is exposed, and Tongguan can be bypassed directly.
The focus of the Wei army's defense was also 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 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 Xiaohan Road.
Fortunately, the Han army had the advantage of bows and crossbows, especially the Tiger Infantry Army led by Jiang Wei. Many of the soldiers came from the former Prime Minister's Army trained by the Prime Minister.
The Yuan Rong crossbowmen in the former Prime Minister's Mansion army once forced Sima Yi away through martial arts skills. They were rare elites among crossbowmen.
It was under the cover of elite archers and crossbowmen that the Han army was able to fill in the trench.
Even so, the Han army still paid a heavy price.
Over the past few days, the water flowing back from the ditch to the river has been mixed with thick or light blood.
In addition to blood and water, there are also broken arrows, broken blades, even certain pieces of armor, and floating corpses...
The rushing river dispersed the blood, 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.
Or it may be washed up on the shore in a certain river section, and then be discovered by someone at a certain time.
Liu Yin stood on the filled trench, looking at the dense antlers in front of him, his face was livid, and he almost cursed in his heart:
Enter his mother's!
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 they really want to continue the offensive, even if the Tiger Infantry 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 strength of 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, Xiuran, come and see."
Jiang Wei pointed to the antlers array in front of him, and then pointed to the high plateau stretching to the south, with a thoughtful look on his face:
"Hangu Pass is originally focused on defending against the east rather than the west. No matter how 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 Antler Formation, "and the thieves have 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 high plateau will attack us from high altitudes, and the casualties will only be more."
It has to be said that the bandits at Hangu Pass are indeed well-defended.
Liu Yin sighed: "If the engineering camp is here, why should we be afraid?"
such a pity!
Leaving a good engineering camp in 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 the army and continue to attack the Antler Formation. I will divide one part and find another way."
The Weihan Ancient 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 in such a long plateau, the Wei thieves could cover everything and guard it without a single enemy!