Dragon map of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 506
"A fight to the death, is it going to this point?" Cai Yong's heart moved slightly.

He raised his head, squinted his eyes, his eyes were as sharp as a knife, and stared at Hu Zhao: "Kong Ming, if the other cities we abandoned gather the main force in Nanxiang, then the success or failure of Nanxiang will be the success or failure of Minghou Mansion, you can be sure." If we can defend Nanxiang City, if Nanxiang is breached again, we will have no way to retreat?"

"It's absolutely no problem to hold on to this winter, but it's hard to say whether they can hold on for half a year. Once spring starts and the ice and snow melt, whether they will increase their troops is even more of a problem!"

Hu Zhao thought for a while and said, "But Cai Shangshu, we have no choice at all!"

At this time, no matter what, they must not disturb Mujing's plan to attack Hanzhong. After all, Hanzhong is where they will gain a foothold in the future, so whether they can defend it or not, they must defend it.

"I agree!"

Liu Jin stated: "Although it is difficult to abandon other cities, the only way to reassure the lord is to keep the Minghou Mansion. The troops are scattered and will be attacked one by one. We don't have so many troops to defend. Only Gather your forces in Nanxiang, and you will be able to fight!"

Everyone looked at each other.

"That's the only way!"

"It's just a pity, I have to let down many people!"

"No one thought that things would be so serious!"

"It is absolutely impossible to ask the lord to withdraw his troops, then I will have to fight to the death!"

"Don't let the lord be distracted. It's a good idea for Mr. Changshi to gather troops and horses to gather in Nanxiang and fight back!"

Everyone nodded and agreed to the plan.

Then Hu Zhao and Liu Jin started to move.

It is not a simple matter to gather troops to fight in Nanxiang. First of all, we must fortify the walls and clear the fields, move the people outside the city in, and then store sufficient grain and grass in the city, and prepare rolling logs, tung oil, and stones. These large numbers of defensive weapons can finally hold on to the city.

Now the Minghou Mansion has begun to see its scale, each performing its duties, and it is running like a war machine. After a few days, it has already been prepared.

All the Violent Bear troops returned to Nanxiang one after another.

The current leader of the Violent Bear Army is Zhou Cang, and the deputy general is Chen Nan, the lieutenant of the Yangshan Camp under Liu Jin. This is Liu Jin's confidant and favorite general. Originally, the Yangshan Camp was almost dismantled and scattered in various counties as county soldiers. , but now also aggregated.

The generals began to discuss countermeasures.

"The Violent Bear Army has been damaged successively, and the whereabouts of the soldiers and horses of the Pioneer Battalion are unknown. Even if there is a supplement of troops from the Yangshan Battalion, the number of troops we can use is only about [-]. Of course, if we forcefully gather the young and strong to defend the city , can gather [-] to [-] young men, but the lord once said that bringing young men who have not undergone systematic training to the battlefield will be sent to death in vain. Horse, guard Nanxiang!"

Hu Zhao, Liu Jin, Zhou Cang and others gathered in the main hall of the Beiwu Hall, facing the marching map to discuss, Hu Zhao was the first to speak: "I plan to divide the troops!"

"Divided troops?"

Zhou Cang squinted his eyes and said, "What does Master Changshi mean?"

"Look!"

Facing the huge marching map, Hu Zhao pointed at one of the locations: "This is Nanling Mountain. The mountain is getting steeper and steeper, but it is also a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The most important thing is that it can intersect with the county town. If we deploy some troops here, it will greatly limit the opportunity for the enemy to gather the main force to attack the city and put huge pressure on the city wall!"

"Nanling Mountain?"

Liu Jin glanced at it: "It's at least twenty or thirty miles away from the county seat, how to deal with it is a problem!"

"My lord, I agree with Master Changshi's idea!"

Chen Nan said in a low voice: "It looks like there is a distance, but its location is quite special, in the east or north, it is not counted as blocking the enemy army in the middle, the enemy army can step over if they want, so the enemy army will not waste too much The strength is here, and if we stick to it, it is equivalent to giving the enemy a check and balance, which will greatly hinder their attack on the city, and if they echo from beginning to end, we may even be able to fight back!"

Liu Jin is good at government affairs. Although he is Liu Jin's subordinate, he knows military affairs better than Liu Jin.

"You've already said that, then I have no objection!"

Liu Jin asked: "But who will guard it?"

"I go!"

Zhou Cang stood up, cupped his hands and said.

Yangshan Camp has been separated from the Violent Bear Army for too long, and now the Violent Bear Army can't command Yangshan Camp, and the defense of the city, I am afraid that only the main force of Yangshan can take it in. The main force of Violent Bear, pressing Nanling Mountain is also a good choice.

"General Zhou, why don't I go!" Chen Nan thought for a while, he is now Zhou Cang's subordinate, there is no conflict between the two of them, but if they want to thoroughly cultivate tacit understanding, they still need the tempering of war, but the boss is the boss, He needs to be sensible.

"No!"

Zhou Cang shook his head: "The main force of the Yangshan camp must stick to Nanxiang, and I still lack a tacit understanding to command the Yangshan camp. At this time, there is no time for us to run in, so you are still in command of the Yangshan camp, and you are also needed to stick to Nanxiang. And leave it to me from the outside, although the Flying Cavalry Battalion is fragmented and there are less than a thousand soldiers and horses left, but I still have the Bow and Crossbow Battalion with [-] soldiers and horses, which is enough to defend Nanling, unless they attack with all their strength, I don't think they dare After all, if they attack Nanling with all their strength, the county can catch them all by surprise!"

"All right!"

Hu Zhao waved his hand: "Zhou Cang, you are here to defend Nanling Mountain. Now hurry up and prepare. I have prepared all the food and grass for you. After arriving at Nanling, set up a camp to attack and defend according to the mountain. There is no military order. Even if the enemy retreats, Don't attack either!"

"As ordered!"

"And Chen Nan, you don't have much time. When the enemy army is approaching the city, you must set up the defense line of Nanxiang County as soon as possible. If Nanxiang is lost, the lord will lose his foundation, we will die without regrets, but we must not implicate the lord's great cause, otherwise we will have no face to face the entrustment of the former lord!"

"Yes!"

Everyone has solemn faces, resolute expressions, united as one, and united as one

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Five days later, the time has begun to enter the middle of December, and the coldest moment of the first year of Chuping is coming. Even in Nanyang, the sky is covered with heavy snow, making it difficult to walk half a step.

Nanxiang County.

Fifty miles away from the county seat, in the wind and snow, a troop was marching with difficulty.

"Nanyang hasn't had such a heavy snowfall for many years!"

"If you have to march in such cold weather, you will die!"

"What kind of fight? Can't we fight after the spring?"

"..."

The soldiers stepped into a snowdrift and complained a lot, but people in this era are very obedient. Although they complained, they did not stop and continued to march.

"How far is it from Nanxiang?" Even the chief general Chen Lan, who has extraordinary martial arts skills, was shivering from the freezing weather at this time. He rubbed his hands, looked at the endless snow field ahead, and asked road.

"Estimated at least thirty miles away!"

"The journey that was supposed to take two days has already been gone for five days, and there are still fifty miles left, hey!" Chen Lan sighed.

Marching in snow is too difficult. Not to mention walking on snow, you have to be careful of what is under the snowdrifts. You have to let people explore the road ahead. The mountain road is rugged, and the snowdrifts are like mountains. Nearly thirty soldiers.

"General, we found traces of the enemy [-] miles ahead!"

A scout rode back and handed over the report.

"Is there an enemy army twenty miles ahead?"

Chen Lan heard the words, quickly tightened the reins, raised her hand, pressed it, and ordered the whole army to suspend the march: "Send my military order to suspend the march!"

"March map!"

He jumped off the horse, waved his hand, and sent a marching map to the left and right.

"Here!" The left and right guards took out the marching map inside a bamboo tube and spread it out in front of Chen Lan.

Chen Lan brushed away the falling snow, stared at the terrain on the marching map, and said: "Twenty miles ahead, there are no soldiers approaching the city, it's just a mountain, a valley, and the valley is not considered steep, why are they stationed like this? "

"The last general doesn't understand, but the scouts have checked twice, and it is indeed the enemy's camp!"

The Marquis of the Scout Army clasped his hands and said, "Nanling Mountain is still twenty or thirty miles away from Nanxiang County!"

"How many soldiers and horses did they station?"

"Based on preliminary inquiries, we will never send five thousand troops!"

"They are stationed here. It's not like a sneak attack, but a bit of support for the city wall..." Chen Lan thought for a while. After entering Nanxiang, the terrain became more and more rugged, and the mountain road ahead was difficult to walk. It can be broken open: "Send the order, set up camp on the spot!"

"promise!"

The generals took orders and began to look for a place to camp.

Two days later, Lei Bo led the main force into Nanxiang County, joined Chen Lan's vanguard, a total of [-] elite troops, and established three camps, connected with each other.

"Chen Lan, what is the situation of the Mujun in Nanxiang now?"

After Lei Bo set up camp, he immediately summoned the vanguard Chen Lan to inquire.

"Report to the captain, there should be about [-] soldiers and horses in Nanxiang County, but they have divided the troops, and some of them are in this position, which is Nanling Mountain, which is less than [-] miles away from us!"

"In addition, we found that the surrounding area is solid and clear, and we can't see the people, nor can we see a grain of food. They want to fight us to the end!"

"I tried to attack Nanling Mountain, but their counterattack was too fierce, so I had to withdraw."

Chen Lan's report was very careful.

"Two points and one line, left and right support, good strategy, this is going to fight us to the end!" Lei Bo narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Captain, they didn't escape in this situation, they are already going to fight us to the death!"

said a general.

"Before attacking Shunyang, there was no resistance. I thought they fled to Hanzhong and gathered the main force of the Mu army, but I didn't expect them to be so courageous. They gave up the rest of Nanyang's counties and gathered all the main forces of the Mu army in Nanyang. Xiang will fight us to the death, what a courage!"

Three days ago, Lei Bo had been able to receive reports from various counties and towns. Facing the move of the Mu army to shrink its troops, he was a little worried. In addition to the current weather, it is not a good idea to storm Nanxiang .

However, Yuan Shu issued a death order to take Nanyang back before Mujing conquered Hanzhong, so he had to attack in the snow.

"But anyway!"

Lei Bo said coldly: "We must take down Nanxiang in the shortest possible time and drive them out of Nanyang!"

"Pass my military order, take a rest for a day, and start attacking Nanxiang at noon tomorrow!"

"promise!"

The generals took the lead.

(End of this chapter)