Follow General Cao to mix the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 652 Fight the grass to scare the snake, all ten books are against

The strongest troops of the two dynasties in Chinese history, one Han army and one Tang army!
But if we really want to talk about combat effectiveness, the Tang army is actually still superior to the Han army. It is not a matter of morale, but a matter of the development of the times. After all, in the Tang Dynasty, regardless of smelting, tactics, and cavalry applications, it was more advanced than the Han Dynasty. forward.

And Wang Hou's current army has reached the specifications of the peak period of the early Tang Dynasty, and even some of the Ming army's equipment level, even the infantry has horses, Xianbei cavalry recruited like the Tang army recruited Turkic people to fight with the army, and the armor rate is exceptional high.

In addition, the Mo Dao soldiers with broken harnesses of Tang soldiers, here, Wang Hou replaced them with ax and spear soldiers with large axes. With the prestige of a swordsman.

The marching speed of the entire cavalry corps was not comparable to the mixed infantry and cavalry of the Liaodong Army in the past, and this time Wang Hou prepared for the war more than three months in advance, going south to Jiuyuan, passing through Bingzhou, and then followed the marching road of Xiahouyuan and Xu Huang out of Hedong.

Along the way, Guanqiu Jian, who was sent to the front station with a large amount of money and silk, had already packed it. When he arrived at the place, he fed the horses the straw that had been dried early in winter, and the army rations bought in advance were free to eat. The horse manure is gone, and the average marching speed can reach more than a hundred miles a day. It only took less than a month to cross Bingzhou vertically and go eastward in Hanoi County, thousands of miles.

It's just that when they arrived at the Hedong County Government, Anyi City, the former capital of the Warring States Wei Dynasty, new news came from the front line.

Sure enough, Wang Hou didn't pee!Ma Chao, Han Sui and others are not uneducated. They have read "Spring and Autumn" and know what it means to destroy Guo by false means. They watched Mr. Cao make a big fanfare to kill Zhang Lu from his own territory and go to Hanzhong to fight Zhang Lu. After Dong Zhuo died, the birds quietly The Guanzhong group of lords who came down is once again collectively fighting, with Ma Chao and Han Sui as the main ones, Ma Wanchengyin and other Guanzhong ten generals all rebelled.
This matter made Wang Hou overjoyed, and stepped up to urge the army to move forward faster, not much slower than Xia Houyuan and Xu Huang. In early April, he also led the army to the front of Tongguan.

Here I have to talk about the difference between Tongguan and Hanguguan. One is in the west of Taihang and the other is in the east of Taihang. It is indeed booming, which is related to the strategic form of attacking the first in Guanzhong, Shaanxi.

During the time of the Qin Kingdom, it was time to go out and compete with the six kingdoms, so at the mouth of Taihang Mountain, the people of Qin must grasp it well!Otherwise, it would be controlled and blocked by the Six Kingdoms, and the Baier Qin Pass would have to become the Baier Wei Pass or Zhao Pass. No matter how fierce and good the old Qin people were, they would be blocked in the Taihang Mountains and unable to get out.

However, after the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Guanzhong was used to rule the world, and it was changed to focus on defense. As long as the foreign thieves who rebelled against rebels did not enter Guanzhong, it was enough. In terms of geographical location, the advantage of Tongguan on the side of Guanzhong emerged. The enemy attacked, and the supply line had to stretch more than 200 miles along the Taihang Valley Road. It was extremely difficult to transport food along the way, but Tongguan could supply supplies nearby in the Guanzhong Plain, and it was much easier to defend.

To be honest, although Wang Hou's descendants have never been to Tongguan, he looked down on Tongguan at first, because in history, several battles in Tongguan seemed to have no effect. I am also on the battlefield of death.

Immediately afterwards, Li Zicheng also used Tongguan to try to resist the Qing army, but he was still beaten and cried for his father and mother. During the Anshi Rebellion, the 20 Tang troops still failed to defend Tongguan.

However!But when he got to the place and took a look through the binoculars, Wang Hou almost vomited blood.

Tongguan in later generations is not the same place as today’s Hantongguan. The water system of the Yellow River has changed, and a large riverbed has been vacated on the south bank. Therefore, Tongguan City from Tang to Qing Dynasties is located on this riverbed. But now, the agricultural population of the Central Plains is far from Such an explosion did not have the ability to unknowingly make the Yellow River shallower. The current Yellow River is still turbulent, directly scouring the Taihang Mountains on both sides. Entering Guanzhong from here, there is only a very narrow and prominent mountain road to walk!

And now the 500 Cao Jun actually haven't even seen Tongguan face to face!Because it’s just a trail on the side of the mountain, that’s all. The direction to Guanzhong from here is still a cliff, and you need to turn south to climb the second section of Huangpuban Valley, which is more dangerous. How dangerous is this place?The mountain is 10 meters high, and the narrow one in the middle can pass a carriage, and the two sides are still high platforms. No wonder there is a saying in the Qin Dynasty that if you want Wang Hou to come and put a few regiments of crossbowmen, it really doesn't matter if you have tens of thousands or tens Ten thousand people can't make it through.

But now, it is he, Wang Hou, who is blocked here.

Passing through this Huangpu board, we have not yet reached Tongguan, and we still have to walk a few miles to the Tongguan Valley. This small pass is embedded in the cliffs and comes into view. Wang Hou didn't see the place here, but he heard it. People who passed by said that it is also very prominent, and it has to climb tens of meters upwards. The pass is also at a gap in a mountain peak that was washed away by the river. Only when it is broken can you reach the Guanzhong Plain.

It is no wonder that before the Tang Dynasty, all dynasties and dynasties in Guanzhong had to settle here for the danger of Guanzhong, but after the Tang Dynasty, the political status of Guanzhong gradually decreased.

When Wang Hou came here, he still thought it was pretty beautiful. He had a cannon in his hand, and he would blast through the dangerous pass. If ten thousand pigs were not enough to pull it, then a hundred thousand pigs would pull it. But now, he has deeply realized the wise saying that the right time is not as good as the right place, and wants to bombard the pass with cannons?You first break through the Huangpu board under the hands of the enemy's densely packed archers, and then transport the cannons up!
"Hahahaha! General Wang has been gone for a long time!"

The two commanders of the Cao army are really old and young people who don't know the taste of enmity. Just when Wang Hougang arrived with his army and looked at the horses planted on the top of the mountain with binoculars. Xu Huang, who wrapped a white cloth on his forehead and didn't wear a helmet to show his bravery, rode over together with Xu Daax.

Seeing Wang Hou's frowning, Xia Houyuan bowed his hands indifferently.

"Thieves do occupy the dangerous place on the mountain, but General Wang doesn't have to worry too much! The prime minister ordered us to set up camp here, and there is no need to forcibly attack the pass city. When the old man arrives, the prime minister will plan a lot. I have my own way!"

Have your own way?What about my cannons and heavy chariots?Now that he has a deeper understanding of the importance of lightweight war equipment, with a bitter face, Wang Hou followed the two of them sadly and continued to flatter.

"That's exactly what it should be!"

shit!

(End of this chapter)