Back in late October, after receiving the transfer order from the King of Qin, Qin General Ying Bo led his army to move from "Yangquan" to "Lantian".
After the surname Ying of the Qin State continued hundreds of years ago, there were more than a dozen names including "Gaoyang", "Zhao", "Wang", "Gongsun", "Huang", "Miao" and so on. The clans branched out, but among them the orthodox "Gaoyang clan" has declined. The current Qin royal family "Ying surnamed Zhao" is said to be the descendant of the marriage between the "Ying surnamed Gaoyang" and "Ji surnamed Zhao".
Of course, this is just hearsay, and no one knows the truth. But it is undeniable that this argument cannot be completely denied. After all, even in the Qin State today, there are still descendants of the Zhao family with the surname Ji, and they are still rooted in Miaohong. The Duke of Qin.
And "Yangquanjun Yingbo" is a descendant of the royal family of the Qin State with the surname Zhao. In the past twenty years, when the State of Qin decided to expand the focus of national development to the "Eight Hundred Miles of Qinling Mountains (in a broad sense)", the Eight Hundred Miles There were still some scattered Rong tribes around the Qinling Mountains causing trouble. At that time, it was Yangquan Jun Yingbo who led his army to level the 800-mile Qinling Mountains and annihilated the Rong tribe.
At the same time, he forced the Sanchuan Jie people back to Sanchuan and the Hexi Qianghu people back to Hexi, confirming Qin's dominant position in the 800-mile Qinling Mountains.
It can be said that although Yangquanjun Yingba did not participate in Qin's war to destroy Longxi, it cannot be denied that he was a famous general with great achievements in Qin.
But later, because he fell ill during the battle with the Wubian tribe and other "Hexi United", the King of Qin asked the young master Zao Wangluo to take over Yingbo and start a war with the Wubian tribe. From then on, Yangquan Jun Yingbo returned Yangquan rested in peace and recuperated until recently, when the King of Qin received a warning letter from Gongsun Qi, Marquis of Wuxin, suspecting that Wei general Sima An might cross Xiong'er Mountain to attack Qin's Lantian, so he asked Yangquan Jun Yingbo to lead his army to Lantian to guard against Sima An. .
There are not many soldiers under the command of Yangquan Jun Yingbo, only about four to five thousand. Of course, this refers to the regular army. If he is willing, he can raise a militia of tens of thousands at any time - even if he is attacked by Mr. Wei After Run was defeated once, the people of Qin were still very eager for war. After all, for the lower-class people in the country, performing meritorious service on the battlefield in exchange for merit and improving their social status may be their only chance to become nobility.
Speaking of nobility, in fact, the definition of nobility in the Qin State is very vague, not as simple and clear as "great nobility".
The so-called "big nobles" are the old nobles with the surname Ying and Ji who have lasted for hundreds or even hundreds of years, such as Wuxinhou Gongsunqi, Changxinhou Wangjian, Yangquanjun Yingbo, etc., and they belong to the Qin State. The great nobles, also known as "principals"; and the nobles, with the prosperity of the "military merit system", have gradually become common. As long as you have military merit, even if you are born with a tattoo, you can become a noble.
On this point, Qin's policy is much more enlightened than that of Wei and other Central Plains countries. After all, in Wei, even if it is Wu Ji, Qu Cheng, Yan Mo, Zhai Huang and other distinguished generals, even if they have won honors Even with the rewards and titles, they may not necessarily be able to integrate into the aristocratic circle of Wei State. This is also true in other Central Plains countries - the more civilized the country, the more difficult it is for the lower-ranking people to be promoted to the higher-ranking ones.
At the end of October, Yangquan Jun Yingba led his army to Lantian and met "Lantian Jun Yingban".
Lantian Jun Ying was relegated to King Qin Hui's half-brother, and his talents were mediocre. However, because he was from a clan with the surname Ying, he was canonized as Lantian Jun by the previous King of Qin, and was able to guard the treasure land of Lantian.
Although Lantian is located at the northern foot of the Qinling Mountains, it is close to the rich city of Fenghao. In addition, Lantian is rich in jade, so many nobles in Qin are jealous of this not-so-rich land, and Lord Lantian Winning relegation also relied on the jade harvest to lead a comfortable and luxurious life.
At least his life is much more comfortable than that of most noble families in Qin.
And when I heard that Wei general Sima An was likely to lead the Wei army to attack Lantian through Xiong'er Mountain, Lantian Jun Yingban was really frightened. Don't think that all Qin people are not afraid of death, at least Lantian Jun Yingban, who had never participated in the war, was A timid guy, so when Yangquan Jun Yingbo asked to temporarily take over Lantian, Lantian Jun agreed to the request of his side cousin without saying a word.
But, can Wei general Sima An really know how to attack Lantian through Xiong'er Mountain?
To be fair, even Yangquan Jun Yingbao was not sure. After all, it was approaching November, the roads were blocked by heavy snow, and the temperature dropped sharply. Yangquan Junyingbao could not imagine that the Wei army would continue to fight in such a cold winter.
However, he did not dare to underestimate the enemy. After all, he also understood that the Wei army was currently in a desperate situation - if it could not defeat Qin and make its Qin army withdraw from the war, the Wei army would not be able to return to support its homeland.
Therefore, it is not difficult to imagine that the Wei army at this moment should be the most terrifying.
In the last two days at the end of October, Yangquan Jun Yingbo recruited about a thousand miners in the jade mine where Lantian Jun Ying was relegated. At the same time, he also recruited some tattoos and ordinary civilians in Lantian, and collected about two thousand people. People, let these people go up to Xiong'er Mountain with dry food and repair the sentry box and beacon tower on Xiong'er Mountain.
There were originally some guard posts and beacon towers on Xiong'er Mountain, which were set up by the Qin State when it first went to war with the Jie people of Sanchuan. However, after the Qin State conquered Longxi, the available troops increased greatly, and the Jie people of Sanchuan no longer Dare to harass Qin's border again, so these sentry boxes and beacon towers set up on Xiong'er Mountain were abandoned, leaving only 10 or 20 still in use from time to time.
At the same time, Yangquan Jun Yingbo led five thousand soldiers under his command, as well as about a thousand private soldiers who were banished by Lantian Jun Ying, and stationed at Aoguan to guard this mountain pass that connects the 800-mile hinterland of the Qinling Mountains to the west of Sanchuan.
While stationed at Yaoguan, Yangquan Jun Yingbo also recruited some Jie tribe members who had fled from the Luonan Basin Valley to the Qinling Mountains, and learned that the Jie tribe had been almost destroyed by Wei general Sima An.
In early October, Wei general Sima An led more than 10,000 soldiers and arrived in the Aoguan area with difficulty. At this time, Yangquan Junyingbo had already set up layers of defenses, sentries, and beacon towers on Xiong'er Mountain, so that Sima An The vanguard infantry sent out was noticed by the Qin soldiers guarding the mountain and was unable to advance.
At this time, there were only two choices before Sima An: either attack Aoguan Pass. As long as this mountain pass is captured, the next road for his Wei army will be easy; or, continue to cross Xiong'er Mountain.
But it is obvious that no matter what choice he makes, General Qin and Jun Yangquan will not let him cross the border easily.
On the second day of October, Sima An tried to attack Yaoguan.
It is said that it is a forceful attack on Yaoguan. In fact, it means taking the troops and horses to circle in front of Yaoguan. On the one hand, it will see if there are any defensive loopholes in this mountain pass. On the other hand, it will make the Qin army timid by showing off its force. .
But it is a pity that Yangquan Jun Yingbo was not a fledgling who set foot on the battlefield for the first time. He was not afraid of Sima An's threat of force and immediately ordered the army's crossbowmen to counterattack, so that the Wei army led by Sima An failed to frighten the Qin Dynasty.
The purpose of the army was achieved, and dozens of soldiers were sacrificed in vain.
A day or two after that, Sima An tried again, either to attack Yaoguan or to attack the hills on both sides of Yaoguan. Unfortunately, because the Qin army set up beacon towers on the mountains on both sides of Yaoguan, Yangquanjun won.
Bo's assistance came in time every time, forcing the Wei army to retreat temporarily.
Sima An didn't care much about the loss of troops during this period. After all, when he led his army across Xiong'er Mountain, he lost more than this number of soldiers along the way. Some of them accidentally slipped off the cliff and fell to death, and some were frozen during the night.
They died, and some were snatched away by hungry wolves, tigers and leopards in the mountains.
I believe that the Dangshan soldiers under his command will not be afraid of dying on the battlefield for the country.
The problem is that Yangquanjun Yingbo has defended the Aoguan area impregnably, which gives Sima An a headache.
At this time, Sima An didn't know that King Su Zhao Hongrun had used a horse-drawn sleigh and chariot to get rid of Wu Xinhou Gongsun Qi's army in Taolin, creating a feat of "attacking 700 miles in ten days and capturing three cities of Qin".
He also hopes that he can break the stalemate in this war.
After thinking carefully, Sima An came up with an idea.
That night, he asked his general Bai Fangming to lead 3,000 infantrymen and climb over the hills on the north side of Aoguan Pass while holding torches.
Three thousand Wei soldiers held torches and climbed over the hills on the north side of Aoguan in the dark night. The Qin army on the north side of the hill was not blind, so how could they not see it.
As a result, the beacon tower on the hill on the north side quickly lit up.
Yangquanjun Yingbao had no doubt that he was there, so he immediately led his troops to support him.
But after they climbed up the hill on the north side of Yaoguan, Bai Fangming's three thousand Wei soldiers holding torches suddenly disappeared under the dark night. The three thousand Wei soldiers held the torches in their hands.
Press it on the snow and it goes out.
At this time, there was a sound of fighting on the hills southwest of Yaoguan.
It turned out that it was Sima An's heroic general Pang Meng who led three thousand Wei soldiers to attack the southwest hills in a slanderous manner.
Seeing this, Yang Quanjun Yingbo immediately realized that he had fallen into Sima An's "Sound in the east and struck in the west" and secretly screamed: Oops, I've fallen into a trap!
So he immediately led his army to support the hills southwest of Yaoguan.
As a result, as soon as he left, three thousand Wei troops from Bai Fangming's tribe launched a surprise attack on the northern hill, and conquered the hill in one go.
It turned out that Bai Fangming's three thousand Wei soldiers just pressed the torches in their hands to the snow to extinguish it, but the soldiers themselves did not move. They waited for Yangquan Jun Yingba to leave and launch a surprise attack. It was not an attack from the east to the west. In fact, the north
The hills were the target that Sima An really wanted to capture. The southwest hills that Wei General Pang Meng attacked were just a cover.
After Wei general Bai Fangming captured the northern hills of Yaoguan, Sima An immediately sent reinforcements to seize the top of the hill. Because he lost the opportunity, Yangquan Jun Yingbo organized several attacks in an attempt to recapture the mountain, but ultimately failed.
After gaining control of the hills north of Aoguan, Sima An ignored Aoguan and let his soldiers climb over the hills in an attempt to attack Lantian County.
Seeing this, Yangquanjun Yingbo could only retreat to Lantian County and surrender Aoguan Pass to the Wei army.
On the fifth day of November, Wei general Sima An used Yoguan as a stronghold and besieged Lantian County. However, due to lack of siege equipment, the Wei army tried to attack the county for two days, but ultimately failed to capture it.
On the seventh day of November, Sima An changed his mind and decided to adopt the tactic of "siege the city for reinforcements" and sneak attack the Qin army who came to support Lantian.
However, after waiting for two or three days, the Qin State did not wait for the Qin Army to send support to Lantian County. Instead, they waited for reinforcements from his side - the Wei Army sent by King Su Zhao Hongrun to support him.
When they saw the reinforcements from their own side holding up the word "Wei", Sima An and his generals were all shocked, as if they had seen a ghost in the daytime.
What are you doing! Didn’t we agree that our army will be the vanguard?