I want to be emperor

Chapter 482 Longxing Escape
On the night of March [-]th, Sun Chuanting sent people back to Chang'an overnight, and asked the tribes who stayed in Chang'an to protect Emperor Longxing, and quickly evacuated to Sichuan with all the gold and silver materials and craftsmen.

The premise is that Hanzhong Mansion has not been captured by Chu thieves!
If Hanzhong Mansion is captured by the Chu thieves, then fleeing directly to the west, going to Longxi, and then going to the Western Regions is also a way out.

But if he can still enter Sichuan, Sun Chuanting still hopes to enter Sichuan.

Sichuan is not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also has fertile land in the Sichuan Basin and the Yangtze River runs through it. It is a land of fish and rice.

Although there is an embarrassing situation that it is difficult to enter Sichuan and difficult to leave Sichuan, once you enter Sichuan, you will basically give up the competition for the Central Plains and even the Shaanxi-Gansu region. .

But it is better to keep a little territory than to be lost!

In order to buy time for Emperor Longxing's transfer, he planned to continue to lead his army to fight against the Chu thieves in Tongguan.

The transfer of Emperor Longxing alone will not take much time. The key point is that it is useless for a few people to go to Sichuan alone. The craftsmen also took away together.

With money, food and guns, there is an army and the Longxing regime can be maintained.

Otherwise, if you lose your face and go to Sichuan or the Western Regions with nothing, you will be easily chopped up by the local chieftain or barbarians.

Even if they are not dealt with by the local troops, after losing a large number of craftsmen, retreating and losing a large number of guns, especially after the new artillery, it will be difficult to produce a large number of guns in a short period of time. It was able to block the attack of the Chu army.

Therefore, he needs to stay in Tongguan to continue fighting against the Chu thieves, and buy time for the transfer of personnel and materials such as Emperor Longxing and craftsmen in the rear.

Just go!
At this time, Sun Chuanting didn't know that the Hanzhong Mansion had completely fallen into the hands of the No.17 Division of the Chu Army five days ago!

Otherwise, the rear will be retreated westward.

Sun Chuanting knew that the Chu army had captured Jinzhou and launched an attack on Hanzhong. He also knew that it was impossible for the Hanzhong mansion to block the Chu army's attack alone, but he did not think that the Chu army would be able to defeat the Chu army in just half a month. Take the entire Hanzhong Mansion within a short time.

At the same time, he has dispatched tens of thousands of troops to urgently assist Hanzhong Mansion. This meeting is already on the way, and his reinforcements should be able to catch up.

In such a short amount of time, the Chu thief could barely use it to march, let alone fight all the way.

However, Sun Chuanting did not know that the No.17 Division of the Chu Army did not fight much along the way...

Almost all of their time is spent marching, and traveling light at that!
In order to fight in the mountains, the No.17 Division adopted a light-armed attack mode for several infantry regiments. They did not carry a large number of heavy artillery and baggage to delay the speed. Only the infantry advanced forward with light armor. As for the large number of artillery and baggage, these are still there. The slow shipping behind.

What Sun Chuanting did not expect was that in order to protect himself, the local officials of Hanzhong Mansion directly changed their flags and flags, resulting in the No. Hanzhong Plain area.

There is not even time for Sun Chuanting to rescue him!
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Why did the Chu army launch the Battle of Hanzhong first?It is to cut off the connection between Sichuan and Shaanxi-Gansu before the full-scale outbreak of the Western Front Campaign.

Entering Sichuan from Shaanxi has been inseparable from one word since ancient times: Hanzhong!
From ancient times to the present, the five well-known passages from Shaanxi to Sichuan all need to pass through Hanzhong Prefecture.

After the Chu army occupied Hanzhong Prefecture, especially the three cities of Xixiang, Hanzhong, and Mianxian, it was enough to completely block the passage between Shaanxi and Sichuan.

If Sun Chuanting wanted to bring Emperor Longxing into Sichuan, he had to defeat Division No.17 first.

On March 16th, the fighting in the Tongguan defense line stopped slightly. The frontal troops of the Chu army, the No.[-] Division, were not in a hurry to attack Tongguan City, but continued to clean up the various fort defenses outside Tongguan City in a calm manner. fortifications.

The No. 20 Fifth Division revolved around the No. 98 passage, while sending the 99th regiment to continue the assault to the north, and at the same time let the [-]th regiment consolidate the hilltop position in the south of Tongguan City.

The [-]th Infantry Regiment continued to launch small and medium-scale fortifications to contain the thousands of Ming troops south of the No. [-] passage.

And the busiest troops became the engineering troops of the Chu Army.

The place with the most momentum also became the No. [-] passage, where the Chu Army's engineering troops blasted to open the way.

Relying on the blasting at any cost to open the way and a large number of civilians, the Chu army managed to widen the original sheep intestines path enough to pass the carriage in two days, and re-opened some sections that were too steep. .

On the afternoon of March 20, a five-jin field artillery battalion belonging to the No. 98 Fifth Division of the Chu Army began to enter the No. [-] channel to reinforce the [-] regiment in front, preparing to detour to the rear of Tongguan City.

At the same time, a five-pound field artillery battalion and twelve eighteen-pound light howitzers were pushed by the horse-drawn people and forcibly carried to two hills south of Tongguan for deployment, and they were successfully deployed overnight.

When Sun Chuanting discovered that the Chu army's artillery had begun to be deployed on the southern mountain, he no longer hesitated, and began to retreat urgently that night.

That night, the Chu army discovered the Ming army's intention to retreat and launched an emergency attack. The No. 90 Eighth Infantry Regiment also began to make emergency detours in an attempt to intercept the enemy.

That night, a large-scale scuffle broke out between the two sides.

Because of the darkness, not only the attacking Chu army was in chaos, but also the Ming army, which had been preparing to retreat overnight, was also in chaos.

When Sun Chuanting gathered his troops seven or eight miles west of Tongguan City the next morning, he only gathered more than 8000 people.

You know, in the entire Tongguan defense line, the Ming army deployed more than 3 main forces and more than 1 county brave young and strong.

Among the more than 4 people, apart from the thousands of people lost in the previous battles, only 8000 people managed to break through in the end, and the remaining 3 people were either separated or surrendered or died in battle.

Taking another look at Tongguan in front of him, Sun Chuanting turned his head and immediately led the army away.

Withdrawing 8000 people is much better than destroying the entire army, and when retreating, Sun Chuanting gave priority to withdrawing with the elite of the new Qin army under his command, many of whom were cavalry.

These 8000 people are enough to escort Emperor Longxing to Sichuan.

According to the news reported earlier, Chang'an has already begun to retreat urgently, and what Sun Chuanting has to do now is to follow with [-] remnant soldiers.

But the Chu army in the rear has been chasing after them, especially the two cavalry brigades hanging directly behind Sun Chuanting's troops, but there are also many cavalry withdrawn from the new Qin army under Sun Chuanting's command. Thousands of cavalry responded.

The two cavalry brigades of the Chu army will not be able to catch up for a while, and even if they catch up, they will not take much advantage.

Ever since, after chasing and fleeing, he headed towards Chang'an.

When Sun Chuanting of the Ming army fled westward with the defeated general, Huang Dingquan also led his troops to chase after him immediately. The cavalry was in front, and the No.16 Division and the No.20 Fourth Division were behind.

As for the No. 20th Fifth Division, it is one division behind, and needs to cooperate with the [-]rd Division to clean up the local remnants and accept prisoners of war.

During the melee on the night of the [-]th, [-] Ming soldiers or voluntary surrenders were forced to surrender and eventually became prisoners. Because there were so many prisoners, they could not be taken lightly, and troops had to be guarded.

At the same time, because many of these prisoners of war were soldiers from the New Qin Army, and there were also a large number of technical arms such as cavalry and artillery, the Chu Army still hoped that these soldiers could be reorganized and then incorporated into second-class divisions.

After all, after the Chu army entered Shaanxi, the main force needed to conduct mobile operations, and many tasks such as guarding the rear and important cities, even clearing them up and suppressing bandits, all required second-class divisions to do.

As for the second-class division that entered Shaanxi with the army, there is currently only one [-]rd division. It is too small to guard Tongguan with this division alone, not to mention that there is still a large area of ​​Guanzhong that needs a second-class division to guard. .

The military and political officials accompanying the army will select the elite from these prisoners of war, especially the elite of the New Qin Army, select recruits on a voluntary basis, and then transfer key soldiers and officers to form the 120th Second Division on the spot.

After the division is reorganized and established on the spot, it will be stationed in the Guanzhong area and undertake some auxiliary military tasks.

As for the other prisoners of war after the selection, they will naturally be incorporated into the prisoner-of-war camps to wait for follow-up arrangements.

But for the Ming soldiers in these prisoner-of-war camps, the war is over!

In the future, they may be arranged to enter various reclamation camps, construction camps, and transportation camps. The hard work is a bit hard, but at least they don’t have to go to the battlefield. When the situation is a little stable, the Chu army will disband these soldiers one after another. , let them go home.

Chu Jun has done this whole process many times, and it has been perfected to various degrees.

Under this set of procedures, the prisoners of war two years ago were mainly the early prisoners of war in Huguang, Jiangxi, and Jiangnan. Most of them have been released home, and a few of them were released for various reasons Those who are homeless or unwilling to go home, arrange wasteland for them to farm for a living, or arrange for them to work in many construction sites that provide relief with work.

In short, do everything possible to let these prisoners of war flow into the people without restraint, and then evolve into various bandits and rout troops, which will endanger the place.

The Battle of Tongguan ended with Sun Chuanting's initiative to break through and retreat. The whole battle process felt anticlimactic, but the process is not important, the important thing is the result.

The Great Chu Empire pried open the barrier of Tongguan and obtained a flat road from the Central Plains to and from the Guanzhong area!
On the day Tongguan was captured, a large number of artillery and four-wheeled or two-wheeled carriages loaded with supplies had already gone west along the avenue.

Their next strategic goal is Chang'an.

But before the arrival of the Chu army, Chang'an had already been directly abandoned by the Ming army. The officials and family members of the Longxing regime took the food, gold, silver and other materials in the city, as well as a large number of craftsmen, and headed towards Sichuan in a hurry.

Sun Chuanting personally led the remnants of about [-] soldiers to end the rear.

Within a few days, Sun Chuanting got the news that the Chu thieves had captured Hanzhong Mansion, and the more than 1 troops sent to reinforce Hanzhong Mansion before were ambushed by the Chu thieves.

Seeing this, Sun Chuanting gritted his teeth, and directly took Emperor Longxing and some officials and family members of the Longxing regime, turned west and headed straight for Longxi under the protection of more than 2 remnant soldiers and defeated generals.

But on the way to escape, Sun Chuanting became more and more pessimistic about the future: Even if they fled to Longxi, how long can they resist the attack of the Chu army?
After losing Longxi, where else could they escape?

Do you really want to flee to the Western Regions?

Even after escaping to the Western Regions, how should they face the local barbarians?

Moreover, Daming who fled to the Western Regions, is that still Daming?

(End of this chapter)