Five Dynasties River Mountains Fengyue

chapter 71
At the beginning of June, Shi Congyun led his army out of the pass, and he also saw the pass in the "Guazhou Ferry in the Night Snow, Iron Horse and Autumn Breeze" with his own eyes.

The legendary Sanguan was not so special at this time, it was so important, and it was not the main point of confrontation between Jin and the Southern Song Dynasty.

Then along the valley all the way to the south, the mountains and rivers on both sides are towering and magnificent, the green and green mountains and rivers are endless, and the view is greatly limited in the mountains with overlapping peaks.

The sparkling Jialing River runs through the valley, and the road is much higher than the river surface.

The part of the road that just left the Sanguan is very easy to walk. There are enough seven or eight people on the avenue. The soldiers are marching in line on the side of the mountain.

The soldiers of the Control Crane Army passed the clearance, and they brought a suit of things, but the armor was still pulled by carts and pack animals for the time being.

Shi Congyun had already received information. In March, the lord of the Shu Kingdom reacted immediately after hearing that some people had come to Daliang to petition and sent more than [-] troops to Fengzhou.

[-] soldiers and horses, this number made Shi Congyun's heart beat wildly, and even his feet were weak. For a moment, he was shaken by the idea of ​​continuing to play forward.

With more than 2 people plus the existing local garrison troops, the strength of Shu's troops on the ground around Fengzhou may exceed 5000, but he only has [-] in his hands.

But soon Shi Congyun calmed down.

One is that due to the limitation of the mountains, the forces of the Shu Kingdom must be scattered all over the place, and it is impossible to concentrate troops.

The second is that if the Kingdom of Shu dares not fight, how will he mess around in the future!
The State of Shu has not known soldiers for ten years, and the soldiers of Shu are not good at fighting. They are already the best soft persimmons.

Marching along the road of the Jialing River, the soldiers were still talking and laughing, and then they set off without fighting, and no one died. Looking at the green mountains and green waters, and hearing the fragrance of birds and flowers, they were naturally relieved.

After more than 20 miles out of Sanguan, Wang Zhong's scouts reported that they had seen the Shu army camp ahead.

The Shu army set up camp along the valley, stretched for more than ten miles along the bottom of the valley, and went all the way to the southwest, which is probably a traditional art.

They didn't know how many camps the Shu army had, but the Shu soldiers had already discovered them, so they didn't dare to investigate further.

On that day, the army camped on the bank of the river, and starting early the next morning, Shi Congyunren started digging horse pits outside the barracks, making horses, antlers, etc., in a posture that he had to stand for a long time and confront the Shu army.

In fact, that night, all the sergeants were already wearing their armor and preparing their weapons, just waiting for the order to attack.

The river water roared, and the soldiers were ready.

At night, the night wind is swaying, the sky is cloudless, the moon is hanging high, and the white moonlight sprinkles on the river, which is particularly charming.

Night battles are the biggest test of the quality of the soldiers. The vision at night is not good, and it is difficult to communicate.

This is the time to test the quality and ability of every soldier and general.

Courageous, highly skilled in martial arts, strong will to fight, dare to fight and fight hard, even if they fight each other, they will not be timid.

If you are flustered and timid, you will definitely be in a mess.

What Shi Congyun gambled was that the Great Zhou Imperial Army had experienced hundreds of battles, and they were all elite soldiers, and their fighting qualities were much higher than those of the Shu soldiers.

Night battles and sneak attacks can magnify this gap several times.

Of course, these are just thoughts, and he admits that there is an element of gambling.

As for the actual situation, I don't know. I can only see the real chapter after playing it. I am also very nervous when I start playing Shi Congyun.

Of course, Shi Congyun will not do the stupid things like being led by soldiers on the battlefield of Gaoping again.

At that time, he was just a commander, with more than 300 soldiers under him, completely obeying orders. Now he is the commander of a [-]-strong army, so he can't do that.

So Shao Ji was ordered to supervise the battalion and the platoon envoy to command the two battalions of the former army for him to attack.

Dong Zunhui was the vanguard of the battalion, leading a small number of cavalry in charge of the side response, and if he encountered a tricky idea, he would be able to provide reinforcements at any time.

Wang Zhong is still in charge of organizing scouts to investigate the military situation and report the battle situation ahead.

Luo Yanhuan led more than 1000 auxiliary soldiers and militiamen from Fengxiang Mansion to follow them to the south to ensure the smooth flow of food roads in the rear and take care of the wounded evacuated in the front.

The military order was issued, and everyone followed the order and began to execute it.

In the middle of the night, the screams of killing suddenly resounded through the valley, overshadowing the rushing water, and the birds in the mountains were awakened, and they took off in terror in the middle of the night.

Shi Congyun led [-] personal guards, draped in two layers of armor, and stopped on the east bank of the Ma Jialing River, overlooking the south.

Under the moonlight, Yin Yue could see the soldiers of the Zhou Army wearing this heavy armor in the distance, and under the cover of the night, they rushed towards the Shu army camp like a tide.

Shi Congyun clenched his fists nervously, watching the situation change in the distance without saying a word.

The soldiers of Shu were slow to respond, and were too slack, without the awareness of fighting.

The Zhou army was about to cross the outer fence and shouted to kill, only to be discovered by the sentries in the camp, and then there was a loud metal beating sound, and the Shu soldiers in the military tent did not respond immediately. Light up the fire.

In this way, Shi Congyun was overjoyed, it was too late!
The Zhou army quickly rushed into the camp and was still asleep. The Shu soldiers who were too late to put on their armour met the Great Zhou Imperial Army, which was well-armoured. Even if they were far away, the consequences could be imagined.

The screams subsided completely after about half an hour of shouting and killing, and the Shu soldiers collapsed too quickly.

Shi Congyun breathed a sigh of relief, the first night attack he arranged was surprisingly smooth.

In addition to being happy, I also understood that the soldiers of Shu were completely unsuited to the rhythm of war and had no fighting consciousness.

Thinking of the sayings he heard along the way, the Shu Kingdom has not seen beacon fires for ten years, and has not heard of war.

But I didn't think about it carefully, the Central Plains are still eyeing, and the soldiers of the Shu Kingdom are unprepared, and Da Zhou will not give them a chance.

According to Shi Congyun's order, after the first camp was captured, the two battalions who were in charge of the first wave of the attack were replaced and rested, and the next two battalions made up, and continued to take advantage of the night and the high morale of the first battle to kill towards the south. go.

In the night, the wind was getting stronger, and the shouting and killing became louder and louder, resounding through the valley, ups and downs.

That night, Shi Congyun followed the army all the way, the valley was full of corpses and the smell of blood, and many captured Shu soldiers unloaded their armor, confiscated their weapons, and detained them on the side of the road.

Seeing him kneel down again and again begging for mercy.

Shi Congyun ordered that it was strictly forbidden to kill prisoners. If he didn't do this, these Shu soldiers would be in bad luck.

In fact, China's sense of identity comes from civilization and cultural identity rather than ethnicity.

Nationalism arose after the rise of the modern West in order to integrate the people and strengthen their sense of identity. Even the concept of "Chinese nation" was only put forward by Liang Qichao in the late Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, the people of this era are not like him. They have a sense of identity with China and regard the people of Shu as their own.

For the Zhou soldiers at this time, killing a few Shu soldiers had no psychological burden, and it was probably not much different from killing the Khitans. The subsequent war to destroy Shu also proved this.

So along the way, Shi Congyun continued to emphasize that it was strictly forbidden to kill prisoners indiscriminately.

It was not until the sun rose and a thin mist filled the valleys that Shi Congyun asked the messengers around him to go to the front to give orders to stop the attack.

When the sun rose, ten conductors and Shao Ji came to see him together, and everyone had a smile on their faces.

Shi Congyun settled in a farmhouse in a valley, surrounded by peach trees, and behind the house was a large bamboo forest. The moss in front of the house was green on the steps, the grass was green, and the peach trees outside the house were very well formed. Rather green.

Shi Congyun asked the soldiers not to destroy the Taoyuan of their fellow villagers.

Shao Ji reported to him excitedly, "It's all like a god!
Last night, the soldiers of the battalions went into battle in turn, the offensive continued for a moment, and they advanced 800 miles in one night, pulled out four Shu army camps, beheaded more than [-] people, and captured more than [-] people.

The first two Shu troops still dared to resist, and the latter two camps were already timid, thinking that I had thought about the tens of thousands of troops, and they did not dare to fight, some surrendered, and some fled to the south valley. "

Shi Congyun was also very excited, slammed the table and stood up, "Damn, if I had known that someone would not have called you back, they went all the way to Fengzhou."

Everyone laughed after hearing this, and several commanders handed over to him to fight.

Shi Congyun raised his hand and said forcefully: "No need, since we have already been exposed, we can't fight any sudden attack.

It's better to take a good rest, recharge your batteries and fight them in an upright manner, then Shu will still not be my big Zhou Erlang's opponent.

Besides, you and the sergeant have worked hard all night, and have a good rest. There will be battles in the future. "

Everyone obeyed the arrangement. Obviously, after the battle last night, Shi Congyun's prestige in the army has been established, and all the generals are willing to listen to him.

Shi Congyun thought about it for a while and said to the soldiers beside him: "Find someone who can talk and report victory to Commander Wang Jing!"

After two days of rest, the army continued to advance south along the road along the bank of the Jialing River.

Things still went according to Shi Congyun's expectations. The Zhou Junjun was well-trained, well-equipped, and experienced in warfare. Coupled with the morale of the previous consecutive victories, the Shu army was defeated all the way.

The camps north of Wuwei City, the important defense town of the Shu army, were removed one after another by the Zhou army.

In the next few battles, Shi Congyun put on three layers of armor every time, and went to the front line to "command" under a dozen pro-military guards.

In fact, the actual tactical arrangements are made by Shao Ji. Shi Congyun's role is more to hold the banner, let the soldiers see him there, and arrange the deployment of various armies, change personnel, ensure logistics, and let the army fight every day. After the battle, there is food to eat.

At the same time, all day long, he stared at the recorder of the war in front of him, and promoted those who could fight to the top, and those who couldn't and didn't dare to fight down.

It was such a move that he didn't pay much attention to himself, but unexpectedly caused the soldiers of the Crane Control Army to explode with astonishing combat effectiveness!
Soldiers and soldiers scrambled for each other, and even several commanders did not sit in the rear, and directly led their troops to rush up to cut people.

Faced with such a Zhou army, the Shu soldiers were even more unable to parry and retreated south along the Jialing River.

After a day of storming, they once again broke through the fifth camp of the Shu army north of Wuwei City.

The Zhou army led by Shi Congyun was unstoppable and broke five Shu army camps in a row.

After another five days of fighting, the Zhou army had broken through eight camps of the Shu army, and advanced along the valley to Huanghua Valley, which is a dozen kilometers away from Wuwei City!

During the period, more than 670 Shu troops were beheaded and more than 400 were captured. The Zhou army itself had only a reduction of more than 200 people.The most damage to the Shu army was caused by the first night attack.

The successive victories made the commander and the soldiers high morale and extremely proud, shouting that the kingdom of Shu is worthy of being a country of rats, they are all a group of rats, and none of them can fight.

At this time, it was Shi Congyun who was sensible. He was also very inflated at the beginning. Thinking about the combat power of the Shu army, it would not be easy to go directly to Wuwei City with everyone.

However, he quickly thought of the lesson he had learned after entering Daliang City, and also thought of the famous generals in history that he remembered in his mind, such as Bai Qi, Wei Qing, Huo Qubing, Li Jing, Su Lie, Yue Fei, Zhebie, etc.
Compared with others, what is the small victory of killing hundreds of people?

Sure enough, people are more popular than dead people, and after such a comparison, my head calms down.

Problems were also found.

Although they have been winning consecutive battles, the logistical forces in the rear have gradually been unable to keep up because of the speed of their advance. Luo Yanhuan has already reported this situation to him, but they were winning all the time. Food and grass, do not take it to heart.

Only after returning to God did I feel shocked, food is the lifeblood of the army.

So in Huanghua Valley, Shi Congyun ignored the opinions of the congregation and demanded the army to stop and rest. Although the people were a little dissatisfied, they still obeyed the order.

The terrain of the river valley is shaped by the Jialing River. Some places are narrow and difficult to pass, and it will become a place where the army is stationed. In some places, there will be villages and towns.

Near the Yellow Flower Valley, the Jialing River has a large S-shaped bend, the water flow slows down, and the valley becomes wider, but the mountains on both sides of the river are still towering, but the slope is not so steep.

This is also the reason why Shi Congyun has to rest here. The wide river valley allows the army to gather together instead of lining up to camp in a line, which is safer.

Second, from this place to the south to Wuwei City, the river valley becomes wider and wider as the flow of the Jialing River slows down.

Even some slow-flowing river beaches can be a mile wide.

If he dared to advance, it might be dangerous. Shi Congyun was not very courageous, and was very afraid of dying. He always remembered that the Shu army in this area had [-] troops.

In a narrow area, they still have the confidence to win more with less. If they collide in an open area, the opponent's army can be spread out, and they can be surrounded by the number of people.

So from the Huanghua Valley to the south, he chose to be cautious.

In the evening of the same day, Shi Congyun, Wang Zhong, Shao Ji, Dong Zunhui and others climbed the east hillside and looked at the terrain.

Huanghuagu is a three-way intersection. There is a small road to the west to Tangcang Town, and to the south is the important town of Wuwei City.
The more Shi Congyun looked, the more he felt that this place was very important. He began to imagine that the Shu State would persecute him so much, and he thought about the sudden chill of the chrysanthemum.

"Yeah" Shi Congyun said to Shao Ji and Wang Zhong who were beside him: "What if we continue to go south and Shu State sends troops from Tangcang Town to come here to copy our back road and cut off the grain road?"

After listening to this, everyone looked at each other, and then a commander said: "Shu people don't have the courage, they will lose when they see us, how dare they fight so boldly."

"Let's go all the way to Fengzhou, and we're afraid that they will make small moves behind." Dong Zunhui interjected.

Shi Congyun didn't make a statement after hearing this, and continued to look down at the three-way intersection in the distance.

However, Shi Congyun did not know that in the south of the river valley, behind the important town of Wuwei, the Zhou army was so powerful that it broke eight Shu army camps in a few days and what kind of shock and terror it brought to Hou Shu.
(End of this chapter)