Hanbo

Chapter 226 A Series of Orders
The army rested for a day in Longxi, and set off again in the early morning of the [-]th.

Wang Fu has also come to the army, not only he came, but also Tian Zheng and Li Cheng.

Huo Shan heard that one of them was a member of the Northern Army, and the other was familiar with the terrain and route of the Hehuang area, so he stayed.

Huo Shan didn't plan to summon guides this time. In this area, no guides can compare to the scouts from the Huqiang Station and Huangzhong Yicong.
Although the terrain complexity of the Hehuang area is dozens of times that of the Xiongnu Desert, the situation is different now.

There is Xiao Hei in the general direction, don't worry, if you send the wolves out to wander in this area for a while, no guide can stand up to them.

The map of this area must have detailed records at the Huqiang Station, but it is also possible to get lost while holding a map.

The wolves played the role of leading the way to find water sources and the whereabouts of the enemy, no different from guides.

With the cooperation of the scouts from the Huqiang Station and Huangzhong Yicong, Huo Shan was able to perfectly control the army.

Ambush, ambush, cut off the retreat from the rear, figure out the whereabouts of the enemy and more!
At noon on the [-]th, the army arrived in Jincheng. When they arrived, Jincheng's [-] cavalry had already set off yesterday.

So after staying here for half a day, the army continued to march in the evening, and did not go north to Lingju, wasting time.

Instead, walk westward along the big river. After walking for a certain distance, divert from the estuary where the Huanghe River joins the big river, and follow the Huanghe River to the west to the Huqiang Station.

On the [-]-mile road, rushing back and forth in a hurry, He Huqiang Station once a day reported the specific situation on the front line.

And Huo Shan also sent many eight hundred miles to Wudu and Wuwei counties, ordering them to seal off the frontier and strictly guard against the enemy.

According to Huo Shan's news after he set off from Jincheng, Huang Zhongyi had already set off and was retreating to the Qiang Hu Station.

And Xian Lingqiang, who was the closest, noticed their actions and harassed them a few times on a small scale, then all retreated, and then there was no movement.

After Huo Shan heard the news, he immediately smiled and said a word:

"The storm is coming!"

.........

After another three days of rushing, at noon on the 22nd, the army finally arrived at the Qiang City guarded by the Qiang Hu Station.

"The final general will wait to meet the Great Sima, the Great General Habayashi, and the Champion."

Huo Shan glanced around at the school lieutenants, captains, military marquises, and military commanders of the guarding Qiang school lieutenant's department, and then nodded lightly:

"Well, is the barracks properly arranged?"

"Back to the general, the [-]-strong army and the [-]-horse barracks have been arranged properly, and they are just to the east of the city."

Huo Shan nodded and said:
"You did a good job. From now on, I will call this Marquis the Great Governor, Lu Bode."

"The end is here."

"Arrange Huben's Colonel's Division and the Northern Army's Colonel's Division to set up camp."

"The last general takes orders!"

"Zhong Gan, Han Zeng, Huo Guang, Sima Qian."

"The minister is here."

"Lead the two military judges to inquire in detail about the number of soldiers at the Qiang Guard Station, the number of logistics auxiliary soldiers, and the number of horses.

Weapons and armor, bows and crossbows, arrows, grain and grass and other logistics materials are mainly investigated. I will get a detailed number before dark tomorrow. "

"The minister takes orders!"

"Lieutenant Lieutenant Qiang, Lieutenant Lingju, Captain Jincheng, and the leader of the Huangzhong Yi Cong Department, you and others will send people to cooperate, report the number of troops in each headquarters, and lead the military judge to record the amount of supplies. There should be no delay."

"The last general takes orders!"

After finishing speaking, Huo Shan got off his horse, and just when the guard Qiang Xiaowei was about to speak, Huo Shan blew a whistle, and there was an eagle howling in the air, and Xiao Hei fell down and stood on Huo Shan's shoulder.

Huo Shan touched his head, then said:

"Go!"

Xiao Hei fluttered his wings and flew high to check the enemy's whereabouts. After a while, he rushed into the sky and disappeared.

Huo Shan shouted at the army behind him again:

"Cangye!"

After a while Cang Ye ran over with brisk steps, Huo Shan squatted on the ground and whispered something into his ear, then looked at him and asked:
"understand?"

Cangye nodded, got it, got it, ready to occupy the territory, let's check the situation first.

Then he howled into the sky, and the howls of wolves sounded one after another on both sides of the army, and the horses in the army were a little restless.

Then countless big white wolves ran towards the west in all directions, and then a female wolf brought two and a half big wolf cubs over and lay down at Huo Shan's feet, Cang Ye and the female wolf also ran forward.

Seeing this scene, everyone in the Huqiang Captain's Department swallowed their saliva.

Huo Shan glanced at the two little wolves:
"Little Li, take it down."

"promise."

"Wang Wei."

"The minister is here."

"Lead the craftsmen of the Mohists to the Xiaowei's Mansion to get the map and make a sand table, and make it before dark tomorrow, and send the craftsmen of the public loser to the workshop in the city to build and repair the armored equipment."

"The minister takes orders!"

"Sun Shang."

"The end is here."

"Choose a team of Tiger and Ben Qingqi, and replace them with the armor of the Qiang School Lieutenant's Department and stand by."

"The last general takes orders!"

"Leader Qiang guards and selects two scouts, and Huang Zhongyi selects two warriors from the head of the Ministry to stand by."

"The last general takes orders!"

After Huo Shan gave the order, he looked around, looked at the leader and guard Qiang Xiaowei and others and said:

"Give me two quarters of an hour to give you the order."

"The last general takes orders."

"Zhao Ponu, Xu Ziwei, Shangguan Jie, Zhao Chongguo, Lieutenant Linghu Qiang, Captain Lingju, Captain Jincheng, Chief of the Yi Cong Department in Huangzhong, Zhang Anshi, Tian Qianqiu."

"The end is here."

"Two quarters of an hour later, ten of you will follow me to inspect the frontier fortresses and fortresses."

"The last general takes orders!"

Huo Shan took a deep breath, then waved his hands:

"It's all gone!"

Looking at the bustling crowd, Huo Shan squinted his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

It has to be said that Huo Shan issued a series of swift and unquestionable orders, which made the worry and restlessness in the hearts of the generals such as Hu Qiang Xiaowei disappear without a trace.

At the same time, everyone cheered up and tensed up.

Huo Shan's series of orders was to tell them clearly and plainly that the war has come!
.........

Two quarters of an hour is up in the blink of an eye.

In addition, one hundred and two people from Huo Shan left the city and headed west. As for the extra person, Sun Shang was naturally there. Wherever Huo Shan was, he would be there.

On the plain built by the Huqiang station, although it is not an inevitable traffic route for the Qiang people to go to the Han Dynasty, it is not much different.

Because this place is stuck on the main traffic artery in the Hehuang area.

On the north side of the city are all big mountains one after another, and the terrain gets higher as you go north, because there are Qilian Mountains over there.

And the south side of the city is not much different. They are also big mountains. Although they are all earthy mountains and there are no cliffs, the mountains are also very steep.

The overall mountain trend is in a north-south direction, stretching from Huqiang City to the Bayan Mountains, which is later known as Mayin Mountain.

The Qiang people are in the west, and the Han people are in the east. The east and west sides of this mountain are very steep, and the cavalry can't climb it at all. If they jump over, it will seriously slow down their speed.

Moreover, the Han Dynasty set up beacon fortresses and fortresses on the tops of these mountains, with a beacon fortress every five miles, and a total of five army fortresses were set up on the north and south sides of the fortress Huqiang City.

One is set up in the direction of the Qilian Mountains on the north side of the city, and the other four are all set up on the south side.

However, if the Qiang attacked from the west, the terrain was steep and the cavalry could not perform well, so they could only be beaten down by the military fort on the top of the hill.

And if they go up the mountain from the north and south sides and attack the fort all the way along the top of the mountain, they can be seen from a distance in the military fort.

Moreover, it is impossible for them to have many troops. The width of the top of the mountain is only so wide. If there are too many troops, they will not be able to stand up. The soldiers of the military fortress can easily resist them.

This is the same as the offensive and defensive state of Yixiantian Canyon, except that one is protruding and the other is concave.

And the direction of the north-south mountain range is only an approximate direction. If you study it carefully, the situation is complicated.

Therefore, if the Qiang people marched from the valley road between the two mountains and tried to bypass the military fort on the top of the mountain, the fortress on the top of the mountain and the beacon fortress with one every five miles would be able to find them immediately.

Then light the beacon and notify all places, and the rear will send cavalry to stop it, and the military fort will roll logs down the mountain.

Therefore, both sides could not attack, and the Qiang people could only attack the city of protecting Qiang on the small plain in the middle.

And these five military fortresses, together with the guards of Qiang City, are able to support each other.

Each military fort can store [-] soldiers, and Qiang City can store more than [-] troops. These six locations plus [-] troops are the steel defense line for the Han against the Qiang people, and it is also the last line of defense for the Han.

Huo Shan didn't go around these fortresses either, and he couldn't get down for three or four days, so he just sent Zhao Puonu to go around later.

What Huo Shan wanted to see was the defense line in front of Huqiang City. After leaving the Huqiang City, there were still many defense lines within [-] miles in front.

Probably the situation can be divided into two parts. The second line of defense is close to the big man. There is no fortress in the mountain, only the beacon. This is an empty period.

There are three forts in the first road near the Qiang people. The soldiers of these three fortresses are not distributed from north to south, but from east to west.

There is one on the top of the mountain two hundred miles, 250 miles, and three hundred miles away from the last line of defense.

The beacon fortress mainly serves as a warning. Starting from the Qiang City, there are one every five miles to the west for three hundred miles.

The distribution of the beacon fortress is not a straight line, mainly because the distance between the two mountains is too large, longer than five miles, and if a straight line is placed on the north side, the situation on the south side cannot be detected.

So it travels by complicated routes, sometimes Z-shaped, sometimes arc-shaped, densely covered in these three hundred miles of mountains.

The front line of defense is not just three large fortresses with 2000 people, each fort is surrounded by eight small military forts, far or near.

As for why there are small forts, it is because these three forts are distributed from east to west, not from north to south as the last line of defense, so they are isolated forts, which cannot be horns with the other two, and are very easy to be surrounded and eaten by the army.

And these 24 scattered small forts are external forces, connecting these three big forts together.

And these three lines in the mountains, or in other words, the two lines of defense can store [-] troops during the war, which is prepared for Lingju's [-] troops.

Their task is to prevent the Qiang people from taking the mountains to make a surprise attack to the rear, and to serve as a reserve force for the plain cavalry on the north side, and they are not considered front-line combatants.

And it wasn't them that Huo Shan wanted to patrol, they just sent Zhao Puonu to patrol around afterward.

And what Huo Shan wanted to inspect was the area on the north side, the [-]-mile defense line on the small plain that was washed out by the Huanghe River and could allow cavalry to cross.

(End of this chapter)