Da Wei Chun

Chapter 704 Flat Push ([-])

There was no movement before, but when Li Chengzhi suddenly sent troops to attack, Cui Yanbo was really shocked.

There is a mountain between the two armies, whether it is Qingshui County or Yueshi County, Julongguan and Xiaoguan are only forty or fifty miles away.Even on foot, it only takes half a day to arrive, Cui Yanbo was really caught off guard.

It's not that there is a shortage of soldiers and food.

You Yuanyi ingeniously used a clever trick to attract powerful and powerful families into the game, and the court suddenly became full of vitality like a flash of light.

The imperial court divided the 20 civilians recruited in the early stage into two, sent half to the six towns, and handed over the other half to Cui Yanbo for training.

With the help of the Yang family and the Guanzhong gentry, there are now more than 20 troops in Longdong, and the food and grass are piled up like mountains.

Even the oil sand produced in Jinming has been transported a lot in case of emergency.

Cui Yanbo was even more prepared for a rainy day, building and building the two gates, adding and adding.A lot of caves for Tibetan soldiers were dug in the valley.

The reason why he was caught off guard was because Li Chengzhi didn't expect Li Chengzhi to fight when he said he wanted to fight, and to attack when he said he wanted to attack.

Military spirit and morale are things that don't just come when they are said to exist.What's more, the main force under his command is all the defeated soldiers from Shanshan Town last year, so there is a shadow in his heart.

The powerful enemy is coming fiercely. If you can hold on and not retreat, or even win a small victory, the army will naturally be confident.But I am afraid that I will lose the first battle, and my morale will plummet and fall to the bottom.At that time, there is no guarantee that there will be no tragedy like last year's Shanshan Town...

The so-called hero sees the same thing, Li Chengzhi really has such an idea.

While you are sick, I will kill you.

It is also mainly because Xihai's foundation is weak, and the follow-up is weak, and he is most afraid of falling into a war of control, otherwise he will definitely end up being consumed by life and death.

Li Chengzhi had to exert all his strength...

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Human creativity is limitless.

Since even the Great Wall can be built, let alone the mere Longshan Road?
In the past six months, Cui Yanbo not only renovated Longguan, which had been abandoned for many years, but also built several dam walls in the valley road behind Longguan.

Although it is made of rammed earth, it is thick and thick, so that after the city gate is broken, the enemy army will be delayed for a while.

In addition, Cui Yanbo will build more than [-] roads and docks from Fufeng (now Baoji) to Tianshui (Fengsui and Zangbingyan) since the Later Han Dynasty.

Just near Qingshui, there are more than [-] Chen Bing.They are all like mice, hiding everywhere.In case the pass city is broken, the enemy will attack halfway after entering the valley.

The valley is so wide, and the mountains on both sides are so high, condescending, it should be able to force the enemy to retreat.

But the premise is that Li Chengzhi does not play tricks.

But right now, Huangfu Rang just fired a round of phosphorous bombs, igniting two or three isolated hills, and the terrified Cui Yanbo had to withdraw all the ambush soldiers in Daowu.

After that, you can only fight with swords and swords, and guns with guns, each according to his own ability.

Li Chengzhi made it very clear to Huangfu: No matter what tricks Cui Yanbo has, I just need to follow every step.

But when encountering obstacles, set up a cannon, and first blast a few thousand cannons.Even if they couldn't flatten Guancheng, at least the officers and soldiers who could do it were terrified and demoralized.

If there are still stubborn resistance, then don't blame me for being cruel.

This time, Li Chengzhi has distributed all the incendiary bombs in stock to each army.It is even a reminder to the generals: now it is the time of life and death, either you die or I live, and you must not be benevolent to give birth to a woman.

As for whether it is really against the harmony of heaven, we will not know until we survive.If you lose, everything will be over.

Huangfu naturally obeyed, so since Cui Guang failed to persuade him to surrender, the sound of cannons under Longguan never stopped.

Longguan Road is not wide, otherwise it would not have the name of "one man guards the pass, ten thousand men cannot pass through".

The widest one is under Longguan, the mouth of the valley is about [-] feet wide, but the flat bottom of the valley is at most [-] or [-] feet wide, which is enough to hold ten cannons for suppressing barbarians.

Even if there are only ten squats, it is not enough to be parried by officers and soldiers with swords, guns, arrows and halberds.

After the front army set up the artillery array, after two rounds of test firing, whether it was on the city or in the valley, it was already dark, and there were flying sounds and stones.

Most of the head-sized stone bombs hit the wall on the top of the mountain.And it's as far as one mile away, not to mention the city crossbow, even the newly made counterweight stone cannon can't be thrown so far.

Although the defenders are commanding, they can only look at the fire oil tanks of the stone cannons at their feet and are helpless.

At the beginning, some generals used their courage to visit the city, thinking that no matter how bad their luck was, it would be impossible for stone bullets to hit their faces accurately.

Seeing that the stone bullet was either embedded in the city wall, or smashed the brick skin, and said that it was nothing more than that.

It's not that it's not powerful, many ants can kill an elephant, let alone a rammed earth city wall covered with only a layer of stone bricks?

If you smash one piece at a time, you can punch a big hole if you smash it many times.

The general just lamented that the rumors were untrue: the rumored Xihai cannon could knock down half a mountain with one shot.

And like this, Guancheng, which is five or six feet thick, is at least enough for the enemy to bombard for a month.

But when ten rounds were fired and Huangfu asked his soldiers to replace them with flowering bombs and incendiary bombs, the enemy general finally felt overjoyed.

The flowering bomb fell in half of the city, and it exploded into a large area.Incendiary bombs are even worse. The tube is soil, iron or water. Once it explodes, it will burn continuously.

Fortunately, Liu Fang reminded that although Cui Yanbo was dubious, he was still fully prepared.

Longguan is on the top of the mountain, and behind the pass is a shady slope. No matter how powerful the artillery of Xihai is, it is impossible to turn around.So it was only a bit of a loss at the beginning, after the general ordered that all the soldiers be shot into the Wengcheng and Yincheng.

The general was complacent at first, thinking he could do nothing to me.But when Cui Yanbo led his cronies back down from the front mountain and walked around the trail to Longguan, he was so angry that he almost spurted blood.

The damage is not big, but the problem is that there is no one on the Guancheng, and there is no defense, and countless Xihai soldiers have touched the mountain.

As long as the enemy army wanted to take the opportunity to seize the city, Cui Yanbo was shocked but not afraid.

In order to avoid accidental injury, the artillery must be stopped when the enemy army is climbing the city, and it is enough to fight at that time.

But waiting left and right, but no enemy army climbed to the top of the city.Just as I was in shock and doubt, I suddenly felt my feet sway, and then it collapsed like a mountain and an embankment. How spectacular is the momentum?
Cui Yanbo poked his head out of the urn city and looked desperately, but the corner of his eye was cracked.

The side wall, which was still intact just now, was blown down to a thickness of more than ten feet?
And so on, five or six more times, will the wall collapse completely?
After the smoke cleared, Cui Yanbo could vaguely discern that in the mountain not far away, there were more than a hundred enemy soldiers, holding something like a bag in their arms, sneaking towards the wall.

He roared urgently: "Take the oil sand... and set it on fire..."

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This is the case at Longguan, and it is the same at Xiaoguan.It was also the artillery fire that shook the sky, and the sky was dark.Only Chencang at the southern end of Longshan Mountain, under the Qinling Mountains, is strangely quiet.

Even Cui Yanbo couldn't have imagined that he could go down the Wei River, so how could the guard of Chen Cang have imagined it?
Because of raising the height of the pass city and repairing the Wudao Road, Cui Yanbo transferred heavy troops to the Long and Xiao passes early on.Only [-] soldiers were stationed in Guancheng on the north bank of the Weishui River to guard a few narrow roads that cannot be used by vehicles or horses.

Because of the shortage of manpower, it was natural to recruit civilian husbands, and Cui Yanbo simply recruited all the mountain people close to Longshan and Qinling.

After coming and going, there are few people living on the huge south bank of the Weishui River.The "Beach Landing Operation Plan" formulated by Li Chengzhi with a lot of thought became a piece of waste paper...

It's not "three days in advance" as Cui Guang said, but more than three years in advance.

Five years ago, when Li Chengzhi led the army to quell the Yuanhuai and Yuzhong rebellions, Fang sent troops from Luoyang, and he had the idea of ​​crossing the Weihe River.He wanted to imitate the old plan of Zhang He of the Three Kingdoms who attacked Jieting by surprise.

Because Nanliang lost too quickly, Li Chengzhi didn't have a chance to ask Luo Jing for help, so he just gave up.

But since he had already turned his back on his will, and he had already sent the old department to manage Hexi, and sooner or later he would compete in the Central Plains, how could Li Chengzhi not pay attention to the military strategy of entering the customs from Hexi?
Longguan and Xiaoguan were found to be no longer familiar by him.Even the Yellow River has been inspected in case of necessity.

Don't be surprised, during the time of Emperor Taiwu, the Yuan and Wei Dynasties had dredged the west of the Yellow River, and transported grain from Jingzhou, Gaoping, Bogulu, and Bingxiazhou to Woye, Wuchuan and other towns via the Yellow River.

It was also at that time that Li Chengzhi planned to build ships and form a navy.

But at that time, there were few soldiers and fewer people in Xihai, and there was no basis for building a navy, so it had to be put on hold for the time being.

Instead, let Li Daoyuan take a good look at Jingshui and Weishui.

At that time, Li Daoyuan served as Sima under his command, so Li Chengzhi naturally would not let go of the opportunity to pluck the wool of professionals.Just when Lien Chan was victorious, Li Chengzhi was at the height of his power, and his prestige was unparalleled for a while, so Li Daoyuan naturally lived up to his trust.

And he bluntly said that the east end of the Weishui River is acceptable, that is, the section from Chencang to Tongguan, and the boat is safe.

But from Chencang to Qinzhou, especially the section that flows through Longshan, it is not easy to transport troops by ship.

Not impossible, but impossible.

Because of the different depths of the Weihe River, the depth of the shallow water is less than half a foot, so it is impossible for a large ship to sail.However, if the ship is a little bigger, it will run aground. Therefore, it is better to take more small boats. Whether it is marching or transporting food, the gain is not worth the loss. It is better to go by land.

The second is the intersection of Longshan Mountain and Qinling Mountains, that is, the section near Chencang, where the current is very fast and the water is extremely deep, seven or eight feet deep.And no matter how long it is, there is no such a long oar, so it can't hold back the momentum, let alone turn, and can only let the boat drift with the current.

However, since the boat cannot be used as a big boat, the boat can only be regarded as a light boat, so it is natural to go faster and faster.It just so happens that both sides of the bank are full of strange rocks and cliffs, and there is no shoal, so if there is a little carelessness, the ship will be destroyed and people will die.

At that time, Li Chengzhi was only dispensable, but he was not disappointed.

Later, it was also a coincidence that he wanted to frame Chang Yizhi and Pei Sui, and interrogated the soldiers of Nanliang.

After that, he was extremely bored, and when he asked Uncle Zu, Li Chengzhi found out that he was not only a mathematician with a long history, but also an inventor.

Not to mention the rest, but the thousand-mile ship improved by the Mengchong small ship made Li Chengzhi ecstatic.

In fact, it is a wooden ship that does not need haggards or sculls.Whether it is to control direction or speed, paddle wheels are used.

To put it bluntly, the Weishui River is fast-moving, wouldn't the sailors step on the wheels backwards?

It was also at that time that Li Chengzhi paid attention.After defeating Chang Yizhi, he selected some craftsmen who could build ships and soldiers who could fight in water from the surrendered army, and let Li Song take them to the West Sea.

It was originally a shot with jujube or no jujube, but I didn't expect it to be used last year?

Li Liang occupied Hexi, Huangfu Rang occupied Bugulu, and Li Chengzhi confronted Yuan Yao at the western foot of Langshan Mountain.At that time, Li Chengzhi thought about sending a surprise soldier to board the ship from Longxi, go up to the north of the Yellow River, and raid the three western towns of Xiazhou and Woye.

He did what he said, and Li Chengzhi then appointed Daxi as the commander of the navy, responsible for shipbuilding and naval drills.

Isn't it strange to hear that Daxi was born in Xianbei, where did he learn the method of water warfare?

Don't forget that although Xi Kangsheng started from Six Towns, he led the army in Lianghuai during the Southern Qi Dynasty.At that time, Emperor Xiaowen was not yet in power, and Xi Kangsheng was only a battalion commander, with only one thousand soldiers under his command.

Afterwards, he fought in Nanqi and defeated Nanliang. He was invincible and invincible. His reputation gradually became louder, and then he rose steadily.

Afterwards, although he also led the army in Beidi and Six Towns, and repeatedly defeated Rouran, most of the time, Xi Kangsheng led the army in Lianghuai and Shandong.It can be said that 80.00% of his name as a famous general came from the Southern Dynasties.It was not until Zhongli's defeat that Xi Kangsheng was moved to be the governor of Huazhou and the governor of Guanzhong Road.

When Daxi started his family, he accompanied Xi Kangsheng around, and he was no stranger to water warfare.

In this way, there will be no shortage of generals, no shortage of soldiers, and no shortage of shipbuilding craftsmen.

If it wasn't for the lack of gunpowder, maybe Daxi would have sailed a fleet to compete with Xi Kangsheng in Beizhen.

Although the trip did not take place, many ships were built, and the navy was put on the agenda.

Although there are not many soldiers, there is only one guard, and most of them are descended from Nanliang.But Li Chengzhi is famous for his love of soldiers like his son, and he knows the truth of buying horse bones with thousands of dollars. Therefore, this group of Nanliang soldiers are treated very well, and their monthly salary is exactly twice that of infantry.

Who will let people not get dizzy when boarding a boat, and not choke when entering the water.

In addition, Daxi has a good way under the imperial court, and he has given both kindness and power. Although it has been less than a year, his practice has improved quite a bit.

So when he decided to counterattack this time, Li Chengzhi decided to pull out the monkey to see if it could be used...

(End of this chapter)