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Chapter 831 Zhuge Liang’s Northern Expedition

Cao Pi dispatched an army of 20, and he had to join the [-] sailors of the Huai River generation to supply millions of civilians along the way. The scale of the war was extremely magnificent. Although he set off in May, in fact, he could reach the Ruxukou battlefield in August. Soon!
Compared with him, Zhuge Liang's advancing speed is much faster. In June, I got the news that in July, 12 troops had already pressed down on the gate of Tianshui County, outside Chencang Road, at the Qinling Gap!
After all, while doing business, Zhuge Liang also took special precautions against Wang Hou. After Liu Bei died in Jingzhou, the Shu Han deployed 1 troops in Wuling to guard against Soochow, but as many as [-] troops could be stationed in Hanzhong. Later, after the crusade against Nanzhong , the war was tight, and he was transferred back to the southern battlefield, but the war rarely improved. He mobilized [-] northern Hanzhong troops back, and then recruited a large number of troops in Nanzhong, and he continued to recruit barbarians from Nanzhong to station. Hanzhong increased the Hanzhong troops to [-].

Moreover, the trading station is located in Hanzhong, with a large amount of grain storage, and there is no need to carry any heavy equipment. Zhuge Liang directly led the main light soldiers to set off from Chengdu, and joined the garrison in Hanzhong to form an army and launch an attack.

The Wei army in Guanzhong has not grown much in strength for so many years. It is still the two major corps built by Wang Hou to control the two states when he entered Guanzhong, plus the third mixed brigade and cavalry regiment stationed here in Liaodong for a long time. There are only [-] troops in total, but In three years, the number of local troops has more than tripled!
It has become a general industry. There are 1 to [-] Kansai cavalry who have served Cao Pi for a long time, but Wang Hou can still mobilize more than [-] elite soldiers of landlord knights and knight retinues.

The difference in troop strength is close to [-].

However, there are only more than [-] people stationed at the Chencang crossing. The Liangzhou Corps, more than [-] landlord cavalry, and even the mixed brigade and knights are not here, but no one thinks that Zhuge Liang's [-]th army is superior. The morale of the army was exceptionally high.

During this expedition against Nanzhong, Zhuge Liang also added a lot of special units to his army, including Nanban infantrymen who wore leather armor and exposed their chest muscles, and had exceptionally strong muscles. A war elephant with a dagger.

In the narrow valley of Chencang Road, the 26 vanguard troops lined up in a slender and thick olive shape. At the front of the battle line, [-] armored war elephants lined up at the front like wild beasts, carrying narrow leather jackets on their backs. Made of chest protector, a large piece of toned skin is exposed, covered with ocher red spots, and the face is also colorful. He grinned ferociously and roared at the front.

The southern barbarian soldiers are still at the level of cannon fodder. Behind the elephants, the southern barbarian infantry stand scattered in groups, carrying axes and wearing leather armor that is so thin that it can only protect the chest and the vital parts between the thighs. His muscles were moving forward slowly with disdain.

A regiment of 600 people, a total of more than a dozen regiments, behind these scattered infantry, just now are the Shu army infantry wearing iron-inlaid khaki leather armor, wearing a helmet, holding guns and swords, neatly arranged in five rows, seemingly pressing the formation, The meaning of supervising the army is probably more intense.

The cannon fodder in the front row is probably not very trusted barbarian soldiers, and there are also trusted Nanzhong Wudang flying troops who have been reorganized by the Shu army. These people wear iron armor and helmets, but There is nothing under the iron armor, and the arms and thighs are also exposed without armor. This is to reduce weight on the one hand, and on the other hand, Nanzhong people are not resistant to extreme heat, which is conducive to cooling down.

He also held a Zhuge Liannu in his hand, and an ax on his waist, a steel axe with a strange shape, like an octopus's legs turned upside down, and an extra wide machete with alien characteristics, arranged in two large horizontal guards In the middle of the Chinese army, it is estimated that they are responsible for the assault missions of the two wings after the war.

The central army is the elite of Sichuan that Zhuge Liang trained himself. I guess the Tiger Army is talking about them. They are similar to Wang Hou’s Wei army. There are four rows of one hundred people in each row, a phalanx like an iron block, and with their steps, the ground can't stop making dull sounds.

But Zhuge Liang did not have Wang Hou's financial resources, so the number of such well-trained elite infantry was only about [-] in nine square formations.

Finally, there is the fat and bloated rear army. Zhuge's command of the army is extremely strict, but there are some characteristics here. In addition to the wooden ox and horse heavy Zhuge crossbow cart I saw last time, an extra fifty Wang Hou was pushed behind him. I don't know where to get the structure, modeled on the medium-sized return guns, each one is like the arms of a giant, swaying with murderous intent.

In this medieval era, the Shu army was well-equipped and well-trained, but it was a pity that they were fighting against a cheater, Wang Hou. At the end of the canyon, a black flag with the characters of Wei was flying proudly, and the front ranks of the army crouched on the ground. There are more than 2000 small tiger crouching cannons densely packed, followed by two Wang's Liannu.

Wang Hou's heavy infantry formation has been seen many times, so there is no need to repeat it. This time, there is also the Wei army's fortress fixed on Taibai Mountain, facing the old road of Chen Cang.

Steel bars are mixed with cement to build a towering fortress on the steep mountain. It looks like a medieval castle in the West. A towering garrison building is built next to the mountain. Three walls are equally towering, and there are two hundred gates, large and small. Garrison artillery, the dense muzzle aimed at every corner of the narrow mountain road.

Zhuge Liang's army is equivalent to the equipment level of the early Crusades, while Wang Hou's army is equivalent to the equipment level of the late Middle Ages and the late Ming Dynasty.

In fact, Zhuge Liang also wanted to imitate the artillery, but Wang Hou established the Eternal Fire Dao Group, and first gathered most of the alchemists and magic sticks in the country. The power is revealed. Without these veterans, Zhuge Liang is really a clever woman It's hard to cook without rice, and the gunpowder hasn't penetrated at all in three years.

Seeing Prime Minister Zhuge who was being pushed by someone in a small wheelchair, shaking a feather fan pretentiously, but with his brows tightly furrowed, and his handsome face looking worried like a bad artist who will be banned in later generations, Wang Hou once again had something special to say. The factory superintendent was sitting in a chariot with eight people on his shoulders, and greeted him arrogantly.

"I haven't seen you for three years, Prime Minister Zhuge still has the same demeanor! But the stubbornness of the prime minister is still the same! The prime minister is not in Chengdu to enjoy the leisurely scenery, but he has to come here to meet this iron lump head-on. Why bother?"

Sitting on the tall chair of the same style as Mr. Cao in Dongchang, looking down at Zhuge Liang who was sitting in a wooden cart, Wang Hou shook his big head with a bitter face on purpose, but in his words, the taste of ridicule was full Hearing that, Zhuge Liang couldn't help laughing wryly, shaking the goose feather fan, and he was right.

"A few days ago, Daxingtai encouraged a group of scholars to go west. On the platform of Didao Station, a sentence made Zhuge remember deeply!"

Still standing up, his eyes met Wang Hou and the army of Tielin behind him, and he drifted straight to Qinchuan eight hundred miles away. Zhuge Liang's originally handsome and energetic eyes gradually narrowed and became extraordinarily narrow. Sharp and greedy.

"People! You have to have dreams, don't you?"

(End of this chapter)