Prosperous Tang Blood Blade

Chapter 394
Chapter 96 Crown Prince Shao Bao

Taking down Hangu Pass is not just talk. The difficulty of Hangu Pass is that it is not an independent pass city, but because the 140-mile-long valley is full of places that can be ambushed. In terms of the danger of the pass city, Hangu Pass is not weaker than Yanmen Pass at all.

Since Qin Xiaogong established Hangu Pass, Hangu Pass had only one chance to be breached.

In the third year of King Min of Qi (298 B.C.), Lord Mengchang Tian Wen returned to Qi as his prime minister and initiated a joint attack on Qin by Qi, Wei and Han. Guan, stationed a large army, blocked it, and then Zhao and Song also joined, and finally broke into Hangu Pass, forcing Qin to seek peace.

After the Three Kingdoms period, the establishment of Tongguan, the status of Hanguguan began to decline.Between Tongguan and Hanguguan is a narrow passage, 140 miles long, winding through the mountains, as deep and dangerous as a letter, so it is called Hangu.The east end of Hangu is called Hangu Pass, and the west end is Tongguan.

For pure defense, defending Tongguan or Hangu Pass has the same effect, both of which can cut off the passage for the enemy from the east to invade Chang'an.Tongguan is closer to Chang'an, so it is convenient to supply and easy to defend, but to defend Hangu Pass, the supply from Chang'an needs to pass through Hangu.Therefore, after the Eastern Han Dynasty, Tongguan replaced Hanguguan.

In fact, because Tang and Zheng belonged to two camps, and the Tang army attacked Wang Shichong in Luoyang, Hanguguan was not the only passage. In history, Qin Wang Li Shimin led the main force to attract the attention of Wang Shichong's army. The Ministry attacked Wang Shichong from west to east along the Luoshui River from Xuanyang.

General Liu Dewei of Zuo Wuhou attacked Luoyang from northeast to southwest through Huaizhou (now Jiaozuo) in the north of the Yellow River from Hedong.Huang Junhan, the general manager of Huaizhou, crossed the river from Heyang (now Mengzhou), and was attacking Luoyang from the north to the south.And the troops of General Youwuwei Wang Junlang attacked Luokou.

In fact, this battle was Li Shimin's eight-line general manager, who divided his troops into five groups, and swept down from Yinzhou in the northwest, Hongnong Xin'an, Huaizhou, Heyang, and Luokou, almost surrounded by three sides.The battle of Hangu Pass has not been recorded in detail in history. It is very likely that Li Shimin did not storm Hangu Pass, but Wang Shichong retreated without a fight.

The current history has changed. Once Chen Ying becomes the deputy commander of the marching army and assists Li Shimin in attacking Luoyang Wang Shichong, it is very likely that Li Shimin will also hand over this difficult task to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying sighed and said, "Hangu Pass is not easy to fight!"

A dangerous pass like Hangu Pass has a canyon as long as 140 miles before it closes. There are mountains on both sides, and stones can be thrown from above to the bottom. More than half of them died before closing the gate. How to break through the closed door?It must be filled with human life.

Even in later generations, during the Anti-Japanese War (1944), the Japanese invading army formulated a combat plan under the command of Neiji Okamura, commander of the North China Front Army.The main force of the Japanese army preparing to participate in the battle was about 63 people from the 110rd Division of the First Army and the Inagaki Battalion of the Attached 3th Division.Neiji Okamura dispatched the third tank division and two tank squadrons under the command of the First Army, equipped with more than 90 tanks, more than 250 armored vehicles, more than 160 artillery pieces of various types, and more than [-] aircraft.The Japanese army launched an attack at dawn on June [-], which lasted seven days. The Battle of Hangu Pass ended with the Japanese army retreating. This battle killed more than [-] Japanese soldiers, more than [-] chariots, and more than [-] armored vehicles. The Japanese Army Lieutenant General Honmura Chiyota was also killed by a landmine.

At that time, not only was the fighting quality of the Japanese soldiers much higher than that of the Chinese defenders, but the equipment was not at the same level. Especially because the defenders did not have anti-tank guns and anti-tank mines to deal with tanks, they could only use cluster grenades to kill them with flesh and blood. Initiating a counterattack against the Japanese army, the Chinese defenders were able to repel the Japanese army's aggression under the circumstances of overall inferiority in artillery, firepower and air strike force, which fully demonstrated the precipitousness of Hangu Pass.

Let Chen Ying go to seize Hangu Pass, unless the Zheng Guo defenders at Hangu Pass retreat without a fight, otherwise this will be a road of flesh and blood.

Looking at Chen Ying's silence for a long time, it's not that Li Jiancheng doesn't understand military affairs, he knows that he is a little bit overpowering.Li Jiancheng was silent for a long time, then sighed slowly and said, "If you can't capture Hangu Pass and Hongnong County before Erlang strikes, I'm afraid the distant water won't be able to quench your thirst..."

In fact, what Li Jiancheng said was very reasonable. Although Chen Ying and Li Daozhen had an ambiguous relationship, Li Daozong was Li Daozhen's brother. The relationship between the two was very close. Will sell to Li Daozong face, at most to do business and make a lot of money.

Li Jiancheng can't count on Lingzhou's financial resources and materials for the time being, but he wants to obtain the resources of Hongnong County, especially the gold mines in Taolin County.

In later generations, the output of gold mines in Lingbao City was [-] tons per year (Lao Cheng did not find out the gold output of Taolin in the early Tang Dynasty, and took [-]% of the value of later generations, which is [-] catties)

Li Jiancheng knew that the gold mine in Taolin had an annual output of [-] jin.This is a very large amount of wealth. Once it falls into the hands of the imperial court, it will undoubtedly greatly relieve the almost exhausted financial resources of the imperial court.But once this gold mine falls into Li Shimin's hands, it will definitely be a meat bun beating a dog, and there will be no return.

With Li Shimin's character, he would definitely reward the soldiers under his command with the gold he got without hesitation, so as to attract people's hearts. At that time, the imperial court would not be able to look down and deduct the money from the bitter soldiers.

Wang Gui asked without giving up: "Is there really no other way?"

Chen Ying pondered: "There is no way..."

When Li Jiancheng heard this, he was ecstatic: "What way?"

Wei Zheng also looked at Chen Ying expectantly.

Chen Ying pondered, but did not answer immediately.

Li Jiancheng said: "These are all my confidantes, and they are all worthy of entrustment."

Chen Ying took the teacup on the table, dipped his fingers in water, and drew a sketch on the table, while explaining to Li Jiancheng and others: "Only in terms of terrain, it is not impossible to storm Hangu Pass, but it will lose money." It's a terrible situation, absolutely unacceptable, if you want to take Hangu Pass, you can only take it out of your wits."

Li Jiancheng thought for a while and understood what Chen Ying meant, but he still said modestly: "I would like to hear more about it."

Chen Ying said with confidence: "From Tongguan along Hangu all the way to the east to attack Hangu Pass, the difficulty lies in the ambushes on the canyons on both sides. If the enemy's ambushes on the top of the mountain are cleaned up in advance, naturally there will be no surprises. As long as you pass through the 140-mile-long Hangu smoothly, Hangu Pass will be nothing to worry about!"

Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "This plan is very clever. Based on Chen Qing's plan, how many troops will be needed to capture Hangu Pass?"

"Soldiers are not many, but quality is the most valuable!" Chen Ying missed the old Dingyuan Army Department he formed very much. If there were six Zhechong Mansions in the old Dingyuan Army, one Zhechong Mansion on the left and right wings would be responsible for attacking along the ridge, and two The Zhechong Mansion escorted the supplies from the bottom of the valley, and they should be able to smoothly transport the soldiers and horses to the city of Hangu Pass.

Li Jiancheng nodded and said: "The rate of the prince's left and right guards, the crown prince's left and right ministers, and the prince's left and right Qing Dao rate are 24% off and 3 people in the palace. Whatever troops you need, I will transfer them all to you!"

"Except for His Royal Highness, the left and right Siyu rate stay, the left and right guard rate, and the left and right Qing Dao rate, there are a total of eighteen mansions, and all of them will be transferred to the ministers!" Chen Yinghao said dryly: "If you have this [-]% off Chongfu people and horses in your hands, the minister can't do it. You can give it a try."

Li Jiancheng almost didn't think about it and said: "I will go down to the palace now, and ask my father for an order, and use Chen Qing as the crown prince Shaobao to lead the four expeditions!"

Hearing this, Chen Ying was inexplicably surprised.

In the Tang Dynasty, although the three masters and three young masters had become honorary official positions.Chen Ying's grandfather, Hou Mo Chen Chong, held the highest official positions as General of the Zhu Kingdom, Grand Sikong, and Prince Taibao.Now that Chen Ying has not been crowned, he has been promoted to the crown prince and Taibao, which is almost the pinnacle of being a minister.

Chen Ying thought for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and refused: "His Royal Highness, Chen Ying is very grateful, but how can Chen Ying, He De, be added to the post of the Prince's Shaobao! Please take back the order, and the minister can hold the festival and hang up the collar." Four rates, attack Hangu Pass!"

Hearing this, Wei Zheng was visibly relieved.

He was really afraid that Chen Ying would accept it calmly. Although the three masters and three young masters of the East Palace were high-ranking, they were really a fire pile. If Chen Ying became one of the three young masters, he might become the target of public criticism.For Chen Ying, it was really not a good thing.

Anyway, Chen Ying is young at this time, and he has a lot of opportunities, so why rush?
In fact, Chen Ying also wants the position of this flashy Prince Shaobao. He even wants to have the power to start a government and build his own shogunate. In this way, Chen Ying can open the door, recruit staff, and pick up things for him. fill a vacancy.

(End of this chapter)