please make me king

Chapter 841

According to the solidity of Weihan, the land of Qin has a hundred and two Xiongguan Passes. It has both armored horses and elite soldiers. It has been an important place in the world since ancient times.

Once the world is in chaos, if it succeeds, it will be the career of an emperor, if it fails, it will separate one side, and the first emperor will rule the world according to it.

Therefore, when Zhang Shunfang occupied Heluo, he had the heart to look at this place, but when the opportunity did not come, he had to send two capable generals, Cao Wenzhao and Chen Changling, to go to conquer.

Unexpectedly, several months of ineffectiveness have been achieved, and the battle situation has reached a stalemate.Zhang Shun had no choice but to ignore his physical and mental exhaustion, and led two thousand cavalry under his command and a battalion of Wang Shaoyu, the commander-in-chief, to go to Yan Township to observe the battle situation.

When Zhang Shun arrived, Cao Wenzhao was resting in the county town of Yanxiang, and Chen Changzhu was presiding over the battle at the front.

Cao Wenzhao carefully reported the battle and the current situation to Zhang Shun.

In ancient times, when using soldiers, we first talked about geographical advantages. Zhuge Wuhou once said: To be a general without understanding astronomy, geography, strange gates, yin and yang, ignoring formation maps, and military forces is mediocrity!
And Tongguan, which just blocked the passage from Henan to Shaanxi, is the "geographical advantage".

Since ancient times, the main passage between Henan and Shaanxi has been the "Xiaohan Ancient Road", and the Xiongguan Pass standing on the "Xiaohan Ancient Road" has been called "Baierxiongguan" or "Baierqinguan".

It only takes [-] horses to take the land of Qin, and it can resist the intention of a million soldiers outside the pass.

The earliest Qin Pass was located at Hangu Pass in Lingbao. Later, due to the continuous scouring of the Yellow River, the river channel was deep and the river bed was exposed. A new passage appeared on the side of the dangerous Hangu Pass, resulting in the absence of Hangu Pass.

As a result, Cao Cao had to build a new pass in the north of Tongguan County, Shaanxi in order to defend Han Sui and Ma Chao in Kansai, which is called Tongguan.

Afterwards, many relocations were abolished, but the general position was finally stabilized, and a complete defense system was formed with this as the core.

The first line of defense in this system is Hangu in front of Tongguan, which extends from Lingbao.

The letter, the quiver, was later extended to a box for holding things.

And Hangu "from Xiaoshan in the east to Tongjin in the west, there is a crack in the middle of the mountain, with thousands of cliffs, roads like troughs, and depths like letters, so it is named", its danger is obvious.

Zhang Shun traveled all the way from Luoyang, Henan Province. Although the sea has changed, the dangers of the past can be avoided.

He led his soldiers to go westward along the exposed yellow riverbed, all the way unimpeded, but there were still many cliffs and mountains, and he still couldn't help sweating and terrified when he thought about it carefully.

However, this is the appetizer. After passing through the township and heading west, Tongguan is adjacent to the Qinling Mountains in the south and the Yellow River in the north.

From east to west, there are staggered gullies in the south, which are Niutouyuan, Wangyuangou, Linzhiyuan, Jingou and Fengyiyuan respectively.

From Yan Township to the west, the first place to go is Huangxiangban, which is sandwiched between Niutouyuan and the Yellow River.

Huangxiangban is about five miles long, and its terrain is very similar to that of Tongguan.It is still surrounded by mountains in the south and river in the north. The road is extremely narrow and it is difficult for the team to deploy.

And at the end of Huangxiangban, at the junction of Wangyuangou and the Yellow River, there is a dangerous pass named Jinduguan.

After passing the Jindou Pass and proceeding along the river, we will encounter Tongguan City located at the mouth of the forbidden ditch and the river leading to the Guanzhong Plain.

The main city of Tongguan is "according to the mountain situation, [-] miles and [-] steps on a Monday, five feet high, twice as high as the south. It faces the Hong River in the north and the giant wave ring belt, crosses Qilin Mountain in the southeast, and crosses Xiang and Feng Er in the southwest. Mountains, towering and majestic, the majesty of the natural situation".

Its city area is larger than that of Luoyang City, which is [-] paces in eight miles around the city.

Since the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, Tongguan guards have been set up here.According to the quota, there should be [-] people stationed here.

Although the system of the guards was ruined, the guards were too many to use.

But now Zuo Guang, the general soldier of Shaanxi, led more than [-] elite guards to defend the city, and Tongguan guards assisted him, so it was really difficult to conquer easily.

Zhang Shun pondered for a moment, then asked again: "Can we take a detour? In the past, how could we defeat Ma Chao when we fought at Tongguan Pass in Weiwu?"

After Cao Wenzhao came here, he had already inspected the terrain and asked the guides, and he was very familiar with it.

He replied in a deep voice: "Tongguan is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and it is the danger of the world."

"To the south, you can break through Jindou Pass, go to Wangyuangou, turn over Linzhiyuan, and then bypass Tongguan through Jingou."

"However, twelve cities were set up in the forbidden ditch, condescending, and carrying dangers to block the way. In the past, Huang Chao led the crowd to detour around this road, attacking back and forth to break through Tongguan."

"There is a crossing between Beijindouguan and Tongguan, which is called Fenglingdu."

"In the past, Wei Wu confronted Han Sui and Ma Chao here, but in private, he sent Xu Huang and his elite to smuggle into Puban."

"When Xu Huang successfully crossed the river, Wei Wu then crossed the river from the ferry to the north and entered Guanzhong from Pubanjin!"

"Oh?" Zhang Shun was taken aback when he heard the words. Did Cao Mengde, who was killed in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" until he had his beard cut off, beat all the generals in Guanzhong so cleanly?
From Zhang Shun's point of view, this is obviously a typical tactic.It seems that it is really not advisable to read the history of novels.

He couldn't help asking strangely: "I wonder if General Cao has heard of Yang Guo's name?"

"What Yang Guo?" Cao Wenzhao was taken aback, a little bit confused by Monk Zhang Er.

Well, it seems that you don't know what it means to "meet at Fengling Ferry for the first time, and see Yang Guo for life".

Zhang Shun never imagined that the famous scene in the martial arts novels of the previous life actually took place across the battlefield river.

Gossip less, after Zhang Shun listened to Cao Wenzhao's report, his complexion was a bit ugly.

Since Cao Wenzhao brought up both the south and north of Tongguan, he must have tried it, but failed to achieve any results.

So what to do?Are you going to return without success!
Time, time, when the rebels urgently need to stabilize their heels!
Once the imperial court took a breath and besieged from all sides, Zhang Shun didn't believe that he could defend Heluo's foundation with just this few troops.

Zhang Shun thought for a long time, and was about to decide to go to the front to see the progress of the battle before making a decision.

I just heard a soldier come to report: "Dudu Zhang heard that King Shun is here, so he came to see him specially!"

"Oh? Please!" Zhang Shun put the matter aside and did not talk about it until he met Dudu Zhang.

Not long after, Dudu Zhang hurried over with a few people. After the two parties had a hasty meeting, Zhang Shun was about to say a few polite words.

Unexpectedly, Dudu Zhang opened his mouth and said: "Zhang is incompetent. He led his people here for many days. The ten-thousand-jin Hongyi cannon has repeatedly failed and failed, and it is difficult to continue."

"I remember that when King Shun traveled across Shanxi, he was also quite good at making cannons. A certain person came here to inquire about it, hoping that King Shun could give me some advice."

Hehe, I was also a second-hand knife at the time, what advice can I give you?
Zhang Shun smiled wryly, intending to refuse.But he changed his mind, since the rebel army defeated Fu Zonglong, Governor of Henan, and Zhu Dadian, Governor of Water Transport and Governor of Fengyang, he looked at Kaifeng Mansion and sighed.

Now that the soldiers are under the fortified city of Tongguan, it is obvious that the rebel army's siege skills need to be improved urgently, and they can no longer turn a blind eye.

He nodded and said: "One person counts the disadvantages, and two people count the strengths. Although this king is not good at this kind of thing, I will go and have a look and see if I can come up with some ideas!"

(End of this chapter)