Kingdom of Heaven and Han

Chapter 850
The valleys that run through the mountains are natural paths.If a person gets lost in the mountains and goes down the river, he can usually find a settlement.During the war, the terrain in the mountains, the human settlements in the basins and valleys are like melons that can provide nutrients and water, and the valley passages that connect these basins and valleys are the vines that connect the melons.Mountain warfare is a struggle for basins and valleys, followed by the control of valley passages.

Lanzhou and Xianzhou are small mountain basins connected together. Starting from Fangshan County to occupy Lanzhou and Xianzhou is actually from the Chishui Valley to the Fenshui Valley.The Ningwuguan Passage that can attack Datong Mansion is from the Fenshui Valley to the Huishui Valley.Go upstream along the gray water and enter the Datong Basin.

Wang Xiaolie's roundabout attack on Datong Mansion from Jinzhou through Shizhou actually bypassed the Taiyuan Basin and directly entered the Datong Basin.When the Jin army assembled heavy troops on the front line of Taiyuan Mansion, it cut off its back road.

Such a big detour is not so strange to think of, the difficulty is to execute.

The more than 1000-mile road from Jinzhou to Shuozhou has to travel through the mountains.It is necessary to guarantee the supplies of tens of thousands of troops and make their attacks powerful. In this era, no one except Wang Xiaolie can complete it.Even in Jin Jun's eyes, even Wang Xiaohun couldn't complete it.

It can be seen from the map that after Wang Xiaohun passed through Lueshi Prefecture, he occupied Xianzhou to enter Ningwu Pass.Occupying Xianzhou is the first step, which means that Wei Wei's big detour strategy has officially started.

Wang Xiao hunted in Shizhou, regained Shaanxi, took back Linfu Road, and did many great things.When Wang Xiaolie was busy, what was Jiang Min doing?Could it be that he just idled there, waiting for Wang Xiaolie to get everything done?

of course not.

Jiang Min is organizing manpower and material resources to build a road from Shizhou, through Pingyi, Xichuan, Puxian, and Jinzhou.This road can not only walk, but also can drive two large vehicles side by side.The road is now almost complete and is being repaired.

Wang Xiaolie proposed the strategy, and Jiang Min was in charge of completing it.It includes not only combat, but also transportation, food collection, and troop build-up.Wang Xiaolie didn't dare to mention the big detour strategy before, so the difficulty can be imagined.Little by little, Jiang Min turned this dream into reality.

Before coming to Xianzhou, Jiang Min and Liang Xing explained Wang Xiaolie's big detour strategy in detail.Tell him clearly that the main purpose after arriving in Xianzhou is Wuning Pass, and don't care about the surrounding state troops.To enter Wuning Pass, you must first defeat the Ninghua Army.

This section of road is actually from Fenshui Valley to Gray River Valley.The mountain in the middle of the two river valleys, that is, the watershed between the two rivers, should be a natural pass.If a checkpoint is set up at the pass, it will cause great difficulties for the attacker.

But the actual situation is that this area is sparsely populated, and many places are sparsely populated.Set up a checkpoint at the pass, and it is actually impossible to resupply.Not to mention in the pass, in fact, the Jin army did not fortify all the way to Shuozhou.Liang Xing's most important task was to build roads after capturing the Ninghua Army.

Ninghua Military City is located between two mountains, with the Fen River flowing in the middle.Juncheng is located on a flat land, just blocking the north-south road.

Standing on the hillside, Liang Xing watched it with a telescope for a long time.Putting down the binoculars, he said: "The mountain roads in this area are difficult. As long as there are 200 people defending the military city, the north-south road will be cut off. It can be called a dangerous place. However, for us, it will be easy if we have artillery in our hands."

Qin Xiang, the commander of the Central Army, said: "The Ninghua Army has less than a hundred defenders, and none of them are native soldiers. Without artillery, we only need ants to attack the city, and it doesn't take much time."

Liang Xing said with a smile: "Since there are cannons, why not use them? Pay attention to sending out cavalry to completely seal the military city. Bring two cannons over tomorrow and blast open the city gate!"

Qin Xiang crossed his hands and said yes.

Looking at the surrounding mountains, Liang Xing sighed: "The most difficult thing for the 250 miles from Xianzhou to Chenjiagukou is not that the Jin army sticks to the dangerous point, but how the army can get there. Look at this road, there is only one road by the river. On the front line, transporting materials can only be carried on the shoulders of people, not even mules and horses. How can this work? Xuanfu wanted to send tens of thousands of troops to the front line from here, but he starved to death on the way."

Qin Xiang said, "What should we do?"

Liang Xingdao: "We are occupying Ningwuguan at this time, and we need to spend the next few months to repair the road. At the very least, we must be able to walk with carts. As long as the road can be used with carts, how many materials cannot be transported? It's just this task , very difficult."

Qin Xiang nodded and didn't answer any more.

This is the upper reaches of the Fenshui River, which connects to the upper reaches of the Huihe River.The water in the upper reaches is small, the valleys are relatively undeveloped, and it is among the mountains.One can imagine the difficulty of building roads in this kind of terrain.This section of the road is the most difficult one after a detour of more than 1000 miles.

Turning around to look, Liang Xing said, "Fortunately, we have gunpowder and can open mountains. Otherwise, how can we do it? After defeating the Ninghua army, there will be no gold army in front of us. Our most important job is to build roads. Next month, the capital will We will send the Corps of Engineers, as well as engineering teams, to find a way to repair the road.”

Capturing the Ninghua Army was not a difficult task for Liang Xing who had a cavalry regiment and an infantry regiment under him.As long as the army comes, they will trample down the military city.The question is, where did the army come from?
Going down to the river valley, Liang Xing followed the road and walked downstream.Looking at the mountains on both sides, I have a lot of thoughts.

Shizhou Prefecture Yamen, Jiang Min looked at the map on the table and frowned.

Zhang Jun held a cup of tea, glanced at the map on the table, and sat down beside him.Said: "No matter how you look at it, it's still those roads. Now except for Xianzhou to Ningwuguan, other places have been surveyed and maps have been drawn. The next work is nothing more than construction according to the plans."

Jiang Mindao: "Fighting in the mountains, to put it bluntly, is to compete for basins and valleys one by one. The valleys connecting these basins are distributed with dangers. Most of these valley passages are rivers. The so-called road construction is to make these rivers, one by one Connected one by one. Shizhou goes south, crosses Pingyi County along the Ningxiang River, turns to the water of Pushui, and goes down the river to Xichuan County. Then follow the Xinshui River to Puxian County, and then cross the mountain. Arrived in Jinju."

Having said that, Jiang Min also sat down.Dao said: "One of our tasks is to build roads along the river, and the other is to build roads over the watershed. If these roads are completed, it goes without saying that we will go to Datong by cart. It won't be easy."

Zhang Jundao: "In the south of Xianzhou, there used to be a road. Although it is narrower, there is still a roadbed. We just need to widen it. From Xianzhou to Ningwuguan, there is only a small road in the mountains, and it is difficult for people to walk. It is really not easy to change that section of the road into a road that can handle large vehicles."

"Yeah, I'm also worried about that part of the road." Jiang Min sighed. "The Jin Army's defense in that area is only one Ninghua Army. The Liao Dynasty originally had a Shenwu County near Ningwuguan, and recently I heard that the Jin Dynasty also abolished it. That section of the road, to put it bluntly, the Jin Army thought that There's no way an army can go."

Zhang Jun nodded.Said: "We are going to give Liang Xing an engineering regiment, eight thousand road repairers, is that enough?"

Jiang Min said: "Now I think, maybe one engineering regiment is missing. 250 miles, five miles a day, it takes fifty days. But can an engineering regiment build five miles in that kind of place? I'm afraid not."

Zhang Jun couldn't help frowning: "A regiment of 3000 people, with gunpowder and experience in road construction, can't build five miles of roads in a day?"

(End of this chapter)