The Tongguan City, where the mountains and rivers are extremely steep, is already an atmosphere of high mobilization and combat readiness.

They originally planned to gather in Shanzhou and go to Hedong to attack several soldiers who were accused of establishing the Northern Han Dynasty, and they successively set up camps and returned them here.

And in the main yamen of Guancheng,

"I lost, I lost..."

As the descendant of Shannan West Road and the commander of the military commander of Tongguan, Shaanxi Province, Yan Tieshan was listening to the bad news brought by his subordinates with a serious expression.

"Whether it is Qingfeng Army, Guangping Town, or Tongzhou Governor, as well as Bashang Army and Lantian Pass..."

"It's already trapped in the banner of those Western thieves..."

"Only one of Chang'an is the outstanding one, escorting the high-level commandership and breaking through the siege."

"The last time I got the news was that it was reported that they had retreated into Taibai Mountain..."

"The Bashang Army has an envoy here..."

At this time, a report came in from outside.

"Ship Yan also asks you to send troops to help..."

Then he was covered in dust and blood, so that he could not see clearly that his face was so messenger, he knelt in front of Yan Tieshan, panting and wailing.

"The men are still fighting in Baqiao Post..."

"What's going on? Tell me quickly..."

Yan Tieshan couldn't help but look furious and walked up to him.

"Is there anyone else who survived the Bashang Army..."

Then he answered him with the flying sword light and the gushing blood fountain.

"This is a greeting to the heavy snow camp..."

After solving the case, the assassin whose arms were cut off, looked at Yan Tieshan, who covered his wounds and retreated into the guards with all his strength, roared angrily, and then hit him and was chopped into meat sauce by a random knife...

Fengxiang Mansion, known as Taibai Mountain, the eleventh Taoist cave heaven,

It lingers faintly on the mountain path in the dense forest, with corpses full of scattered bodies, of course, were mainly left by attackers who worked hard to climb from bottom to top.

In the middle of the higher mountain, a rock stall in front of the waterfall was already sitting or lying on the rocks in front of the waterfall. Their robes were torn and scrambled, and the city was ragged, and the armor was covered with blood and sludge. The remaining weapons and broken flags were also thrown away all over the ground.

At this moment, they seemed to have no strength to speak, and they were all left with the sound of compressed rations and dried meat strips they carried with them.

Sitting on a large stone beside the deep ravine, Gao Chong, the subordinate of the pass and the commander of the Xichuan army, drank the cool stream water offered by his subordinates and breathed, and began to reflect on the situation along the way.

After defending for the whole winter and most of the spring, Xiao Guan, as a major hub in the western border, still lost at his hands. Although he received follow-up support from Tongguan and Dasanguan, he still could not recover. He company the military city garrison built on the ruins of Chang'an's ancient city, and he could not defend the result of drinking.

At that time, he used the Shu army as the foundation and merged several small vassal towns and more than a dozen local troops that were invested in the pass, attracting refugees to cultivate and gather in a row. In the end, he worked hard to manage a total of 40,000 soldiers, but now he is still able to follow him.

When he led his troops westward to receive Guanzhong Road, the Guanzhong land, which was once called the 800-mile fertile Qinchuan land, was left with only the deserted and decayed everywhere, withering and scattered everywhere, although he walked for hundreds of miles, he did not hear anyone. The bones were exposed in the wild and jackals were rampant on the road.

Although he was very well-invested by the pass, because there was almost no output in the local area, most of the grain and equipment military supplies needed to come from a long distance. After the coordination of Jiangning, the food and food allowances and supplies that could be allocated were only 80% of the daily needs of his army and horses;

Moreover, this is the number on the book. After passing the usual routines such as "recruitment and consumption" and "flooding" within the national dynasty system, and then passing through the "normal losses" of transporting and transporting at distances along the way, the last one who arrived in front of the army in the pass was only 60% of the more conscientious ones left.

Since the court cannot provide them with enough clothing and food, and they need to find land to eat by themselves, they can only rely on the mountains to eat by the mountains and waters to eat by the Eight Immortals who show their magical powers through the sea, and think of some ways to maintain and operate them.

Fortunately, among the various people in Beidi Branch, there is at least one Huai Town, which has a relatively rich foundation, and the exchange of personnel and materials between these friendly troops in neighboring towns is also the best.

Although the objects that he had to rely on himself to support and win over, after two Northern Expeditions, he has grown to a rival and even wanted to look up to him. However, it did not prevent him from acquiescing and indulging his subordinates to use this old origin and relationship to produce local materials from the other party, in exchange for the various food and grass needed to maintain the army and use the various food and grass needed to maintain the army.

As a result, the breakthrough that the state had been cautious in a long time was opened little by little. In the end, he even found that his subordinates had become human traffickers part-time jobs, using the population plundered and captured in the surrounding areas as capital to transport various canned food, rations and weapons that were rare in the army from the lower reaches of the Yellow River.

So he had to pinch his nose and admit the fait accompli. He took the initiative to use his identity and influence to cover up and confuse the public. He sent several groups of people who wanted to take the opportunity to make trouble and find Huaizhen's crimes and evil deeds, etc. He even indulged some more radical existences, and unexpected events occurred when encountering bandits on the road and dying on the road.

But he never thought that this could affect his loyalty and determination to the state. All of this was to better achieve and realize the great cause of the state, and to compromise and pay some of the price he paid by the state.

Therefore, relying on these extra money and resources to supplement cattle, livestock, farm tools and good varieties exported from Huai land, he finally built the structure of the army within the Guannei, and set up military camps and civil camps to complement farming and fighting, thus creating a pattern of two military orders, five towns and nineteen civil camps.

He even followed the popular trend of the army in the north and began to arrange and set up a man who specialized in using guns in the army.

However, all of this has now been wiped out with Xiao Guan's fall, but he did not expect that the more than a thousand muskets and more than a dozen camel's medicines brought out this time would become the last life-saving straw they fought and retreated here.

Especially as part of after-sales service and friendship, the two teams of gunmen sent by Huai Jun were responsible for training firearm arrays and escorting the transfer of traded goods on site, which played a key role in repeated emergency rescue.

When Xiaoguan was guarding the city, they used as firefighting teams and supervising teams at the city, blocked the Western Army that broke up to the city many times and further expanded their plans to achieve the results. Later, after breaking through the army, they supported them with their formation and forced them to repel several groups of pursuers on the road, and gathered more than ten times their own defeats. The damage of this team of gunmen was not even more than 80%.

Even among the brigade's wounded and fed, their spirit was also outstanding; therefore, they were mixed together by Gao Chong and his own personal guards, making key troops to cut off the rear and block the enemy.

After escaping into the mountainous areas, they finally got rid of the threat of the Western Army's iron cavalry. The dense mountain high blocked the vision and cavalry of these cavalry, and also limited their room for galloping.

The narrow and rugged mountain roads and terrain limits the men who pursue the pursuit. No matter how many people came up from the Western Army, they were shot into sieves by dangerously attacked muskets, and the gourds rolled and fell down.

Therefore, even after entering the mountainous areas, most of the achievements and achievements made by the pursuers were directly or indirectly created by these Huai Army gunmen.

With this breathing and buffering, Gao Chong can calm down and reorganize the ranks and make plans for the next step.

His ultimate goal was to pass through the forest hunting path hidden in the deep gorges and gullies in Taibai Mountain, and detour the ancient road in Lantian Valley, and finally arrived in Shangzhou where Wuguan was located before the Western Army troops, so as to accompany the remaining local defenders and make further plans.

In this way, when the pass is already in ruins and withered and it is difficult to satisfy and support most of the Western Army to eat, he may have a chance to save some situation...

PS: Please add it here. The second kitten in my family was born the day before yesterday, so I have been in the hospital these days. I have many worries and have no mood to consider the plot. I can only take the time to write a little bit,
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