Chapter 3201 Round Machine Beads Lively
Compared with the large-scale wars, refugees and population migration in Guanzhong, Longyou, and population migration, the Hanzhong area is relatively stable. In history, it was not until Lao Cao moved the population of Hanzhong that it caused a relatively heavy blow to the foundation of Hanzhong.
Humans are land-based animals, so they are born with a certain preference for the land. Of course, some people will also like the sky or the sea, but most people still like to be on land, rather than empty and nothing under their feet.
The same is true for Li Dian. He would rather keep what he has in his hands and feet, and would never think about what else is in the sky or in the deep water. This determines that Li Dian is definitely a very qualified general of the territory, but he will lack in external development. In history, Li Dian was posthumously named Marquis of Min, and "Worrying in the country" is enough to prove this.
When a general does not strive for achievements and does not have too strong ambitions, he will naturally be very calm.
In the camp under the night sky, noise gradually arose.
Li Dian's soldiers and horses in Hanzhong woke up from their sleep amid the short whistle, and began to tidy up their sleeping gear, lined up to wash, and then lined up to eat.
No one will chatter and make noise, because once they are caught by military discipline officials, they will be hungry at the least, and punished at the worst.
Early dried jerky is usually very simple, steamed cakes and heated soup.
In Li Dian's camp, in addition to some of the veterans who had previously sneaked into Sichuan with Fei and some of the soldiers left behind by Zhang Liao in the late period, there were also some newly recruited soldiers, and about half of the new and veteran soldiers accounted for half.
Many of them are Di people.
The Di people are widely distributed.
Relatively speaking, the Di people in Nanzheng were more closely connected with the Han people than the Di people in Shangyong area.
The recruits were a little nervous when they entered the battle, but looking at the old soldiers around them looking indifferent, eating steamed cakes on their own and drinking soup in big mouthfuls, the tension in the recruits seemed to relax, and they also bite the steamed cakes for a few bites, as if they were cheering themselves up.
Everyone finished their meal silently. Soon after, the assemblies at the camp sounded, and the soldiers stood up one after another, arranged according to Wu Shi in their own teams.
After the small team is finished, the leaders of each team will start to check the team's equipment.
The focus is on the equipment and dry food carried by each soldier.
In the early days, there were cases where new soldiers could not control themselves, secretly ate the dried food they were given, and then were hung up and beaten.
Dry food itself is for emergency response, and is distributed at a fixed time, not as snacks for soldiers.
The soldiers checked each other, pulled the silk ribbons of the armor to see if it was tight, whether it was tied properly, then pulled out the battle knife to see if it was well maintained and rusted. Finally, they would check the soldiers' dry food bags. If there was no problem, they would pat the soldiers' shoulders...
If there is any problem, it is not a slap on the shoulder, but a slap on the head.
After the inspection is completed, if there is no problem, you will stand in front of your queue and raise a small triangle red flag.
Generally speaking, under the cavalry, the configuration of the infantry queue is mixed in teams, rather than like Cao's army, where a team has shields and archers.
Such a team-based combination has its pros and cons.
However, it is a promotion for cultivating grassroots military academies.
After the inspection of the Geshi queue, the soldiers of the same team had to listen to the team leader's gathering and training.
Some teams can't make a few nonsense, while others can master this skill. In this process, the teams who get the growth rate will be qualified to be promoted to higher positions...
"Cao army is like a wolve! They want to enter our garden, eat our food, seize our property, and harm our relatives!"
"Think about what kind of life you lived ten years ago! Now who gave you the equipment and the stability of your family!"
"Whether the land can be preserved depends on whether we can defeat Cao's army!"
"The Cao army caused trouble in Shandong. It was massacred in Xuzhou. Tens of thousands of people were killed and the entire county town was burned out! Do you want the Cao army to kill our family?"
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Although these lectures are often very simple and even repetitive, they are just right for these ordinary soldiers, and most soldiers will nod and agree with each other.
As long as the ruling class does not have cramps in its head and does things that are angry and resentful, most of the time, local defense will have a certain advantage.
So now, Fei Qian, or Hanzhong under Li Dian's management, is the heaven angry and the people resentful?
To put it another way, did Shangyong cause resentment in the hands of Shen?
Where is the Shandong area over Cao Cao?
Or, what is the loss of people's hearts and resentment in people's livelihood?
"Prepare to set off! Go to Mulan Pass to change defense!"
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The sky gradually became brighter.
Although spring is beginning, the temperature is still not high, especially in the valleys and roads, which is a bit colder.
Although there has not been heavy snow in the past two days, there is a lot of snow on the top and the hillside. Some melted snow water flows down the rock walls of the mountain, adding a little coldness and making the mountain road look extremely wet and slippery.
Cao Zhen walked step by step along the mountain road with his men.
The difficulty of walking on the mountain road exceeded Cao Zhen’s original expectations.
Especially in this kind of weather, when you walk fast, the sweat in your body and the moisture from the outside are mixed together, and then it will soon penetrate all the warm clothes. It feels like wearing a wet quilt on your body. Not only will it not keep warm, but it will also tremble with coldness. If you walk slowly, let’s not talk about the distance. If you walk slowly, you will get blowing and getting frozen in the mountain road. Who likes to stay longer?
Since Mulan Stop is called Stop, it naturally has its own name.
If you want to bypass the Mulansai, the gate between the two mountains, you must climb the surrounding winding Qinling remnants.
Although the tallest brother in the Qinling Mountains is not in the Shangyong area of ​​Hanzhong, his younger brother is enough for Cao Zhen to eat. And the most important thing about climbing the mountain is to have a guide. If he loses his direction, the whole army may be able to do anything.
Cao Zhen left a camp in front of Mulan Pass, set up a flag, and then took his people around.
There was no way, he had to come in person.
If you walk this kind of mountain road, even if ordinary soldiers can walk, they will be abandoned after they finish walking. If Cao Zhen is asked to hand over the elite soldiers in his hands to others, if the person and others are a little less powerful and lead the lame, then Cao Zhen will be abandoned by the Di people and Shen soldiers. Take one of them, and Cao Zhen would rather control his destiny in his own hands than wait passively.
In addition, if people are living together, one is that time is too late, and the other is that there is a problem with the number. The Cao family has not yet wanted to get along with the Shen family, but has to turn against the Shangyong people completely. In history, Lao Cao also endured his life until he was about to evacuate Hanzhong, and then migrated the population of Hanzhong on a large scale. This is the same principle.
If the war is really unfavorable, then the Cao army will definitely not be able to go in vain. No matter what you say, it will completely empty the Shangyong area and turn it into a blank land. It will not be cheaper for the cavalry. However, in this situation, it is still necessary to stabilize the local gentry and not to completely turn against each other.
This was still the honeymoon period between the Cao family and the Shen family. Shen Dan also knew that if he fought against Mulan Stop, the casualties would be very serious, and a large part of the casualties would be Shen's soldiers. Therefore, after Cao Zhen proposed the detour strategy, he was also very cooperative. Not only did he contribute a lot of food and grass, but he also acted as much as possible outside the Mulan Stop to cover up Cao Zhen's movements and create more time for Cao Zhen.
But this mountain road is really hard to walk on.
It was so cold at night that I hope the sun would come out during the day, but when the sun came out during the day, the melting snow water not only made the temperature in the mountains unable to rise, but also caused fog to spread around the top and the hillside, and going in and out is a huge test.
In such an environment, let alone humans, even the ponies in Sichuan and Sichuan were in a mess. They nodded their heads with difficulty, moved step by step, spitting out loud, and squirting all the mouth and nose with white frost.
If you happen to encounter a mountain mist blowing down, the people and horses will shook like sieves when they penetrated in the wind.
Fortunately, Cao Zhen came, they were all elite Cao's army, and they were directly under the ranks. They were stronger and stronger than ordinary Cao's soldiers. They were always fed and fed, but they couldn't stand this kind of hard work. At the beginning, it was fine, but gradually they couldn't suppress their emotions and low complaints spread.
The troops directly under Cao Zhen are not bad. After all, the whole family is following Cao Zhen for dinner. If Cao Zhen dies, they will be unforgivable to live alone. So now Cao Zhen is walking ahead, and as long as they have a breath, they must follow him.
But the other elite Cao army is different...
Some of these elite Cao troops came from Qingzhou, some were from Yanzhou, and some were selected by Cao Ren and Cao Zhen in Jingzhou. Although they became troops directly under Cao Zhen's command, the military service was more generous, but it did not mean that they could completely obey Cao Zhen.
『…Isn’t it just a military camp? Isn’t it a battalion or a military camp in the early years? Why do you have to take a careful detour this time? Wouldn’t you just do it?”
"This mountain of Shangyong is really fucked. I climbed one or another, endlessly..."
"I didn't have such a miserable past when I was fighting Jizhou!"
"Not that, at least there is still some hot soup rice in the military camp, now..."
These complaints and complaints are not big or small.
Of course, Cao Zhen heard all these complaints in his ears, but he was calm and did not turn back and scold the soldiers. To convince these veterans of the Cao army, it is useless to just say what military laws are, but to rely on the true ability of the general.
But the question is, how many "fighting records" can Cao Zhen come up with?
So Cao Zhen did not move, and he didn't even look back, but just walked forward silently step by step.
After a long time, I continued to complain.
Walking in a peaceful ground is different. Climbing mountains and ridges is really tiring. If no one cares about complaining, then it would be better to just say a fart.
It is better to keep your energy and walk without saying anything.
Is Cao Zhen really uncomfortable listening to it?
Actually, not.
So Cao Zhen also wanted to make a breakthrough, and he would eat meat. Can't he get through...
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Under the Mulan.
The war drums roared.
According to Cao Zhen's instructions, Shen Dan drove some civilians and some Cao's soldiers to attack Mulansai.
Do nothing, it's almost obvious that there is something wrong...
As for the civil servants?
Shen Dan didn't think there was anything wrong with driving these people in Sandian County.
On the one hand, the main forces of the Shen family were concentrated in Shangyong, and there was not much direct asset connection for small places like Jian County. On the other hand, the small gentry around Jian County was not very proud of Shen Yi, which made Shen Yi unable to collect food and grass at that time, and then the incident of the Di people occurred. So now Shen Dan came to avenge Shen Yi. What's the problem?
Shen Dan felt that there was no problem at all.
What's more, food and grass are not unlimited. Reducing some population can also make daily consumption less.
The war drums of Cao's army roared, and the chaotic civilians were forced to attack Mulansai.
The slippery blood flowed down the mountain path.
Shen Dan frowned and stared at Mulansai.
The Shen brothers actually have the same problem. They look down on martial arts and Fei Qian, so they naturally look down on Zhang Liao and Li Dian even more. As children of the gentry who have been influenced by Shandong Confucianism for many years, they have never quite understood why they have been repeatedly frustrated by these martial arts who mean stupid and barbaric.
The Shen brothers were not unaware of the achievements made by Fei Qian, Zhang Liao, Li Dian and others, but they were subconsciously exempted.
People are born with this ability. The brain will automatically block what they want to see, what they want to hear, what they don’t want to see, what they don’t want to hear, what they don’t want to hear, what their brains will automatically block.
"It's impossible to lose." Shen Dan said to himself.
He previously believed that the reason why the Shen family was suppressed was just because of insufficient troops. Now that they attracted Cao's army, they were enough to compete with Li Dian, so how could they lose?
Moreover, in the minds of the Shen brothers, he always felt that the martial arts man was like Dong Zhuo, neither understanding the economy nor the peace of the people. More importantly, they did not know how to manage the land, so Shen Dan felt that Li Dian must have relied on his troops to suppress the Nanzheng area. Now, with the arrival of Cao's army, Li Dian had to lead his troops to defend at Mulan Pass.
In this way, Nan Zheng will inevitably be empty...
'There will definitely be someone...' Shen Dan said to himself, 'But why haven't you heard any news yet? Could it be that Nan Zhengzhen is stable? Impossible, how did this be done?
Shen Dan's eyes were patrolling back and forth on Mulan Pass, as if he wanted to use this to find out the flaws in Li Dian's army.
But the more he looked, the more he became less confused...
The clouds in the sky gradually dyed a golden halo, the sun was about to set, and Shen Dan gradually felt the invisible pressure.
Strictly speaking, he has played well in the past two days of attack.
The physical strength of the defenders and a large amount of wood and stone were consumed. Two trenches on the mountain road were filled with, and two layers of horse resistance were destroyed.
But not enough.
Far from enough.
Moreover, I have consumed a lot of civilians in the past two days, and some of them in Sanyan County are not enough...
what to do?
If we continue to fight according to the current intensity, we will need to replenish a certain amount of cannon fodder, but Sandian County has basically been vacant. If we want to replenish manpower, we have to go further away, that is, we have entered the area controlled by the Shen brothers to allocate the population.
The flesh on Shen Dan's cheek twitched.
never mind……
It’s better to save some money and delay a few more days.
『Ming Jin to withdraw his troops!』
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On the Mulan block, Li Dian looked at the Cao army at the foot of the mountain and retreated with bloody waves as if the tide was receding.
The defenders couldn't help but cheer.
Li Dian frowned slightly.
Ma Zhong was standing aside, looking at Li Dian's expression, and couldn't help but ask: "General, you are..."
Aren't the guys fighting pretty well?
It has resisted the attack of Cao's army for several days, and has not destroyed many defensive facilities by Cao's army.
The Mulan Sect does not look big and cannot accommodate many soldiers. However, in fact, Li Dian adopted a dual defense system of one light and one dark. The Mulan Sect on the mountain was exposed on the surface, and there were not many soldiers. The military camp at the foot of the mountain could replenish its troops at any time. However, due to the mountain's sight, Cao's army could not find the military camp behind the Mulan Sect.
So if you continue to fight like this, Cao's army may not be able to get Mulan Sect even if it lasts for a few months. But why does Li Dian seem to be unhappy?
Ma Zhong looked down the mountain, then looked at the Han River water in the distance, and said incomprehensible: "General, are you worried that Cao's army will come from the river water? Don't we have a sentry tower to monitor it day and night, and there are no Cao's boats?"
Although there is water passing through the Shangyong land in Hanzhong, it is not easy to walk. There are too many turns, resulting in the water flow not being smooth. In addition, although it snows in the Qinling Mountains, it did not affect the flooding of rivers, which made it difficult to march through water. In addition, most of the boats and ships in Jingzhou are concentrated in the southern part of Jingzhou and Hefei. In fact, there are not many ships in Jingbei, so it is already very difficult to use them to transport food and grass to the Cao army and reduce the burden of land transportation. There are no ships available to transport soldiers.
Moreover, Li Dian took some precautions, and what he was worried about was not the waterway problem...
Li Dian also looked at the Han River, nodded slightly and said, "The spring flood of Han River is fierce, and Cao's army has a few boats in Jingbei... Cao's army wants to pass here, but can only overcome this village... I just feel that Cao's army seems a little weak...
"Weak?" asked Ma Zhong.
Li Dian nodded.
Li Dian had been in Cao's army before. He knew what it would be like if Cao's army really wanted to attack and expel the people to fill the pit...
But now it is obviously not strong enough.
Li Dian suddenly looked up at the surrounding mountains, "Cao Jun, could it be a detour?"
Ma Zhong was startled, "No way? This big circle of mountains...there is no water source in the surrounding mountains!"
Li Dian nodded, but shook his head again, "But... it snowed a few days ago..."
『It's snowing?" Ma Zhong was stunned, 『No, General, you mean...』
Chapter completed!