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Chapter 762 tug of war

War is not all blood-boiling. Knights romantically call out the name of their beloved and fight to the death. The most normal part of war is the damp and dark trench, struggling with the fear written by Hades cinnabar all the time, as well as the endless loneliness.

The battle of Hanzhong should have been frozen there like this. Wang Hou was unwilling to throw his elite omen knights and well-trained Guanzhong elite infantry into the Dingjun Mountain, which was so complicated that the Shu army set traps everywhere, and Liu Bei didn't either. The strength returned to the plain to compete with Wang Hou again.

So, as Sima Yi expected, the next battle of Hanzhong turned into a guerrilla war. The Shu army conscripted a large number of border mountain people in the territory without a flying army, harassed the Hanzhong border people in the form of guerrillas, burned farmland, attacked and killed Farmers even organized Wudu Qiang to attack Longshang northward to harass Longshang.

I have to admit that it took a year to build a building, but to destroy it, dozens of catties of explosives were completed in less than a minute. The Shu army’s desperate large-scale invasion, Jian’an’s 1-year-old Hanzhong has almost no money. If the farmland can be successfully cultivated, 22+ people escaped from the crisis last year. This year, nine out of ten households were empty due to the chaos of war. Guanzhong allocated food and salaries.

But Wang Hou is not easy to mess with, he also set a historical record unintentionally!The cannons in Liaodong were transferred from the east line to the west line along with the Wang's Railway, and the Wei army artillery array under Dingjun Mountain was increased from the original 1.5 to 4000. They bombarded Dingjun Mountain continuously for twelve hours a day. A [-]-jin heavy artillery with a barrel of [-] meters has a range of [-] meters, and less than half of Dingjun Mountain is within the range of the Wei army.

This artillery battle lasted for half a year. This time, it showed the production capacity of Liaodong Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Works to the fullest. One kilogram of solid pig iron shells were thrown all over the mountain, and the mountain has been thriving for hundreds of years. The primeval forest was completely destroyed. All the trees were destroyed by artillery fire, and no one was spared. The animals in the mountains were also destroyed. An average of ten shells killed a Shu army hiding in an underground trench, and also killed There are thousands of Shu troops.

The artillery battle lasted so long that even Sun Shangxiang and Changle lost interest in cannons, leaving only Zhuge Ying, a passionate weapon fanatic, Artillery Ying still staying at the front line every day, while on the other side, he persisted until the winter of that year, and Liu Bei could no longer hold on to the army Mountain, and then retreated to Micang Mountain, completely giving up the strategic advantage that threatened the Han River.

But this time, Wang Hou did not win easily. The gunpowder he had accumulated for several years was completely consumed by the thunderous cannon fire every day. Hanoi bought part of it to barely maintain the supply of military rations.

Still not!This battle is still disproportionate to the consumption of the national power of Wei and Shu. In order to fight the battle of Hanzhong, men in Shu are already serving as soldiers and women are transporting food!But in Guanzhong, the only one who suffers is Wanghou. The government invested large-scale money into the war. First, it enriched the profiteers who participated in the Ma'anshan Industrial Center, and then purchased a large number of materials on the front line, which also promoted the development of various industries. Farewell, it really echoed Napoleon's old saying: Mild wars are pleasant, severe wars are deadly!
War is also the group event that changes the social form the most. Just like 300 years ago, the Qin Empire marched eastward to dominate the world and completely unified the entire Central Plains culture. It did not allow the East to continue. There are many small countries along the line.

This long Hanzhong War also changed Guanzhong. The knight class in Liangzhou has completely risen, and the war can be regarded as a game by them!
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The night became more and more intense. In midsummer, there was a burst of insects singing in the dense forest, as if there was a concert, and the singing was endless, but the midsummer concert had just reached its climax, and it came to an abrupt end. In the dark Daba mountain, a group of ten black shadows carefully groped down from the mountain.

After the end of this war, the military level of the Shu army will definitely be improved, because in the wars of this era, in the past, generals were more important than team leaders, and junior officers were just the mouthpieces of generals and lieutenants.

But the main army couldn't fight, and the forced Shu army had to conduct infiltration warfare and guerrilla warfare with smaller units. Commanding a small unit of ten or dozens of people became particularly important.

In the night, I saw an old man with half white beard and hair waving his hands, walking forward cautiously like the stealth skill in the ancient scrolls. Behind him, there were a dozen or so short men in commoner clothes with knives in their waists. The young men of the Shu army also rushed forward with their dull heads.

On the border, amidst the sound of clanging footsteps, a group of more than 100 Wei Army patrol brigades in full armor, carrying heavy axes and guns, patrolled majesticly and arrogantly. The big hounds domesticated by the Qiang people in this era, amidst the barking of dogs, the whole team drifted by like a dark BGM. Put it in the movie, it is a full-fledged villain.

Lying on the side of the road, not daring to take a breath, he watched the patrol pass by, and then a group of lightly armored Shu soldiers got up carefully, crossed the avenue trampled out by the border, and groped towards the Hanzhong Plain. go.

However, the group only walked two or three miles to the north in a sneaky manner. Suddenly, a certain light infantry trouser leg in the team scraped an unknown overgrown weed on the ground, and crisp bells rang. Immediately afterwards, while the leading Shu Army old man was yelling badly, a beam of light shone in midair commandingly.

Wang Hou's defense system!He didn't have so many troops who were not so strong before and built a Hanzhong Great Wall in Hanzhong, so he adopted the guard tower system, which is the same as Hanshui defense. He built a three-story masonry and concrete tower every 200 meters and stationed it. Five soldiers were in a group, and a large number of bells were buried near the small building. When the Shu army passed by, the jingling bells naturally woke up the guards.

But the core of the entire defense system is the cavalry!After being discovered, a dozen light infantry soldiers of the Shu army ran back to Daba Mountain in panic. In the bright light, the cavalry's half-meter-long cavalry tucked under their armpit was already showing a murderous coldness.

Seeing that more than a dozen cavalrymen of the Wei army had already prepared to charge, the Shu army who crossed the border unexpectedly collectively responded in the same way.

Amidst the plopping sound, led by the old Shu man, a dozen people dropped their weapons and kowtowed on their knees!

However, when this team of Shu soldiers was dejected and escorted inward, the second team of Shu soldiers was fortunate to show their heads from the side of the road again, deliberately bypassing the position where the bell touched the bell, and even followed it in. !

(End of this chapter)