Chapter 112: No pie falls from the sky

"Do you know why you want to beat Wang Shichong?" Chen Ying looked at the soldiers of Beiwei Army in front of him with sharp eyes and shouted.

More than a thousand Beiwei soldiers were silent, and needles fell on the training ground could be heard.

The muscles on the face of the Zhaowu Captain Xunxiang were twitching. Xunxiang was originally a general of Liu Wuzhou. He and Yuchi Gong surrendered to Li Xiuning and became the corps of Li Jiancheng of the East Palace. Since the left and right Si Yusu of the East Palace was a place where the left and right Si Yusu was a family of officials. In addition, Yuchi Gong was very skilled, so he was able to enjoy it in the right Si Yusu. However, Xunxiang was not good. In terms of origin, he was a poor family. In terms of kung fu, he was only slightly stronger than ordinary soldiers. To be honest, his kung fu was only comparable to Liang Zan, the original commander of Chen Ying's personal guard.

In this way, Xunxiang's status has become awkward. Although he is the same as Yuchi Gong's rank, he is very different in power. Xunxiang is very excluded. Except for more than a dozen old troops who also sell him face, everyone else regards Xunxiang as a decoration.

When selecting the soldiers of the Beiwei Army this time, Xunxiang was recommended by Zuo Siyu to the Beiwei Army. However, it is said that the man who lost his horse is a blessing. Xun, on the contrary, became the third-rank Zhaowu Captain of the Beiwei Army by mistake. Although he only managed a regiment of more than 300 people, he was a sixth-rank military officer of the civil rank.

Chen Ying continued: "In this cold and cold air conditioner, we could have guarded the warm kang of our wife and children at home. However, in October, Wang Shichong took advantage of the opportunity of our Tang Dynasty withdrawing troops from Hedong to attack Liyang of our Tang Dynasty and slaughter our Tang Dynasty people. The tiger does not show its power. Wang Shi acts as a sick cat!"

The soldiers also felt that being beaten by others was a very shameless thing. In fact, in the early Tang Dynasty, almost all wars in the Tang Dynasty were passive defense and defensive counterattacks. The Qianshuiyuan Battle in the first year of Wude was initiated by Xue Ju, the Lingzhou Battle at the bottom of the 11th was also initiated by Liang Shishi, and the Hedong Battle in the second year of Wude was also initiated by Liu Wuzhou. The battle in Luoyang, which was about to be launched in full attack this year, was actually initiated by Wang Shichong.

"It's impolite to come but not go!" Chen Ying laughed and said, "We should thank Wang Shichong. If he hadn't taken the initiative to provoke this war, we would have no reason to go south to the Central Plains. The Central Plains is a good place. As long as we take down the Central Plains, we all present can be at least tens of acres of fertile land and marry a wife. We won't delay holding a fat boy next year. Take Hangu Pass and break into the Central Plains!"

"Catch Hangu Pass and enter the Central Plains!" The soldiers shouted.

Chen Ying said: "Yes, take Hangu Pass and break into the Central Plains, but this Hangu Pass is not that easy to get!"

Chen Ying then introduced the terrain of Hangu Pass to the soldiers. The danger of Hangu Pass is that it is a crack on a plateau - a crack on the Chousang Plateau. The north side of this Chousang Plateau is close to the Yellow River, with cliffs and a Qinling Mountain on the south side. The plateau is densely packed with pine and cypresses and mulberry forests, and it is impossible to pass through the plateau. Only in the center of the plateau, there is a crack, which is only a few meters wide, and can pass through the plateau. This crack is called Hangu Road.

The so-called "plain" is a unique landform on the Loess Plateau. It is a platform-shaped highland formed by the erosion of water flow. The top of this terrain is very flat and has a very large area, but the surroundings often have steep cliffs due to the erosion of rivers.

Fortunately, with the excessive development of the Western Han Dynasty, the Chousang Plain had already been in name only, which made Hangu Pass become useless. It turned out that the Chousang Plain was densely packed with mulberry trees and could not be passed through at all. However, with the Western Han Dynasty and Northern Wei in Guanzhong, at this time, the mulberry trees on the Chousang Plain had not been preserved and became a bare soil plate. In this way, Chen Ying could directly attack from the broken plateau on both sides of the Hangu Road, which became possible.

"Each school captain sees their mission clearly, and sets off immediately after an hour!"

With Chen Ying's order issued, the Beiwei Army Captains discovered that Chen Ying's huge sand table suddenly turned into four pieces. Each of them was responsible for a beacon tower or a fort on one piece, while the left and right guards and the left and right officials led the main troops to be divided into two groups and follow up from the top of the two plateaus.

At this time, the Beiwei Army not only had to undertake reconnaissance tasks, but also had to be responsible for eliminating the enemies ahead. Of course, this was not the most important thing. The most important thing was that Chen Ying could avoid being ambushed by the Zheng army.

...

Shan Xiongxin stood in Jingou (now Jingou River), looking at Tongguan City in the night. At this time, Tongguan was like an ancient giant beast, crawling on the southern plateau.

"Damn, I finally arrived!" Guo Qing cracked his mouth and gasped, "It's so damn. This is more than a hundred miles away, which is harder to walk than a thousand miles."

"At least, it's worth it!" Shan Xiongxin smiled and said, "Tang Jun would never have thought that we have touched their noses now."

Although I touched the foot of Tongguan, there was no way to take down Shanxiongxin of Tongguan. Hangu Pass and Tong were built on the plateau, Hangu Pass was built on the Chousang Plateau, while Tongguan was built on the southern plateau. The north side of the southern plateau was close to the Yellow River, and the river water flowed directly against the plateau. On the east side, there was a deep ditch called "Yuanwanggou", with flowing water in the ditch. There was also a deep ditch on the west side, called "Jingou", and there was also flowing water in the ditch, called "Jingou Water" (now called "Jingou River). The deep ditch on the east and west sides were washed by the flowing water, with steep cliffs and extremely steep. The southern side of the plateau was connected to the Qinling Mountains.

In this way, this southern plateau, which is six or seven hundred meters high, has the Yellow River in the north, Qinling Mountains in the south, Jingou, Tongshui in the west, Yuanwanggou, and Yuanwanggou in the east, completely blocks the traffic between the Yellow River and Qinling Mountains, forming a natural barrier. Therefore, if you want to pass here, you must climb to the top of the plateau. But it is not that easy to climb to the top of the plateau. To reach the top of the plateau, there is only one road to access, that is, there is a road on the edge of the Yellow River, called "Huangxiangban". You can imagine the situation when you see the word "光" in its name. Here, close to the river bank on the south side of the Yellow River, it is a high cliff that suddenly rises, and next to it is the wall of the South plateau. Between the wall of the plateau and the high cliff, it is a road, which is the only road leading to the top of the plateau. This road is only a few meters wide and about fifteen miles long. It can be said that one man can pass by ten thousand men.

However, not long after, a blood-stained school suddenly ran to Shan Xiongxin. When he saw this school, Guo Qing's face blew up and opened his mouth and cursed: "It's so fucking embarrassing, I've thrown it to my grandma's house!"

This school was no other person, but Guo Qing was the seventh-rank general of the Sui Dynasty. This school was Guo Qing's personal soldier at that time. When Guo Qing was promoted to the general manager of Guanzhou by Wang Shichong, the school also rose to prominence and became a scout.

Shan Xiongxin stepped forward and asked with concern: "What's going on?"

"The Tang army is dispatched!"

The school's dark face turned purple and red, and she knelt on the ground to salute Shan Xiongxin.

"Who is the other party? How many people have you brought and how much have you lost?" Shan Xiongxin saw that the more than ten whistle cavalry escaped back in a very embarrassing manner, most of them were injured, and they must have been attacked by the Tang army.

"Report to the general, we are equating to an enemy outside Tongguan City, which is ten miles away, and the opponent should be an army of about 300 people, with infantry and cavalry mixed together..." Xiaoqi replied.

"No, you are not with me for a day or two. Can 300 people eat you 300 people?" Guo Qing raised his whip and wanted to whistle the cavalry school: "Did you have suffered a defeat? Hu Kuo the enemy to relieve your sins?"

The school said in panic: "I dare not be a humble position, I dare not be a humble position!"

"Bizhi was following Hangu Road to Tongguan to investigate the situation. When approaching Huangxiangban, Dongcheng, Tongguan, he encountered an ambush on both sides of the left and right wings. A rock rolling stone was killed and eighteen of our troops, and they were shot in a burst of arrows..."

Hearing this, Shan Xiongxin was shocked.

Not far away, there were crackling sounds on the beacon tower three miles away.

Shan Xiongxin felt nervous and hurriedly looked towards the direction of the beacon tower. As a result, the sound of the beacon tower stopped after not taking two hundred steps. Shan Xiongxin thought that the Tang army had retreated without a single attack, but in fact it was not the case. If there was an attack, the Zheng army's beacon tower would definitely light two bonfires at night to convey information to the back.

But now this beacon tower is as quiet as death.

"What's going on?" Shan Xiongxin was puzzled.

From the beginning of the battle to the end of the entire battle, it only took two incense sticks? Isn’t this too fast?

The Zheng army's beacon towers were arranged in front and lightly behind. The closer they were to Tongguan, the more defenders were, especially the beacon towers that had just heard the sound of fighting, which had more than 100 people, which was actually equivalent to a whistle fort.

This beacon tower built with rammed earth is as high as three hundred feet high and only has a door on the front. It is not easy to attack the beacon tower, but the facts are beyond Shan Xiongxin's expectations.

Because it was too dark and his vision was limited, Shan Xiongxin did not notice the murderous intent in this endless night.

"The enemy situation is unknown, the entire army shrinks, and they hide their tracks in the forbidden ditch. There is no order, and no one dares to fight back!"

...

Although Shan Xiongxin saw the real situation clearly, in fact, Chen Ying couldn't see it clearly, but he knew what was going on. Unlike the Tang army in the past, the Beiwei Army should be a light infantry, with no steel armor, and all members were wearing only leather armor.

In addition, they also equipped with an epoch-making equipment, a powerful crossbow flying hook. The flying hook is actually a weapon of this era, also known as the iron penis. It is shaped like an anchor, with four sharp claw hooks tied with iron chains, and then continued with ropes. When the enemy ants gather at the foot of the city, they accidentally jump into the enemy group. It is said that two or three people can be hooked at one time.

However, after seeing this thing, Chen Ying immediately discovered that if he took off the flying hook head, reduced the proportion, installed it on a special crossbow arrow, and used a high-strength rope to tie the tail, wouldn't it be the flying hook used by later special forces to climb?

As for Yu, under the guidance of Chen Ying, this kind of flying hook came into being. However, the effect of this kind of flying hook is not very good. The longest distance is only thirty steps. When facing a dangerous place in a city wall or a pass, you can use the flying hook to remove the ropes, which helps climb.

The soldiers of Beiwei Army lurked forward in groups, quietly approached the Zheng army's beacon towers, and took advantage of the night to approach the sentry forts of the beacon towers and climbed up with flying hooks. When the defenders discovered that the Tang army was attacking, they had already fallen into the siege of the Tang army soldiers.

The Beiwei Army was only responsible for opening the road. As long as the opening was opened, the soldiers led by the left and right guards and the left and right guards carried the ladders and flocked to the sky.

In addition to the fact that when he first left Tongguan, several beacon towers and sentry forts encountered some resistance, but as time went by, Chen Ying suddenly felt something was wrong. The attack was too smooth. He rushed to seize twenty-eight beacon towers in a row without any effort. Although he annihilated more than 500 enemies, this made Chen Ying very uneasy.

Chen Ying is different from others. He always insists that human nature is evil and insists on believing that there will be no pie falling from the sky.
Chapter completed!