The last three kingdoms

Chapter 1333 The Battle of Mang Mountain

At the beginning of Jingzhou, there were seven counties. At the end of Han Dynasty, Xiangyang County and Zhangwu County were added. All Jingzhou has the title of "Nine Counties in Han Dynasty".Jingzhou is divided into Jingbei and Jingnan regions with the Yangtze River as the boundary. Jingnan region has been governed by four counties: Wuling, Changsha, Lingling and Guiyang.

Book friends who are familiar with the Three Kingdoms are no strangers to the four counties in Jingnan. After the Battle of Chibi, Liu Bei sent Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, and Zhao Yun to fight in Jingnan in order to expand his living space, and captured the four counties in Jingnan. , the story of Zhao Yun's rejection of the beauty of Guiyang County has always been talked about.

In the late period of the Three Kingdoms period, Wu Guo frequently changed large counties into small counties. Not only were Lingling and Guiyang counties divided into Shi'an County, Linhe County, and Shixing County, but also Wuchang County, Tianmen County, and Shixing County were added in Jingnan. Hengyang County, Zhaoling County, Ancheng County, and Xiangdong County, plus the original Wuling, Changsha, Lingling, and Guiyang, in the entire South Jingzhou, there are thirteen counties, which are far more than the previous generation.

As a result of subdivision, Guiyang County, which used to be huge in size, has also been split into extremely small ones, and now only six counties remain in the more than 20 counties under its jurisdiction.However, as the gateway to Jingnan, the status of Guiyang County has not changed much. Guiyang County is located at the intersection of Nanling Mountains and Luoxiao Mountains. Zhou Chu sent Shen Ying to lead troops to garrison Guiyang in order to prevent the Han army from entering Jing.

The fall of Jiaoguang is irreversible. With Wu's current strength, Zhou Chu thinks that the possibility of sending troops south to retake Jiaoguang is zero at this moment. The Han army in Jiangbei had an opportunity to take advantage of it.

Therefore, Zhou Chu could only retreat to the next best thing, give up the idea of ​​regaining Jiaoguang, increase troops in Guiyang County, guard the southern gate of Jingzhou, and prevent Liu Yin from going north.

Jiaoguang has already fallen. If Jingnan falls again, the blow to Wu will undoubtedly be worse. Jingnan's importance to Wu is far more important than Jiaoguang. If Jingnan falls, Wu will be in Jingzhou. The strategic depth will be lost, and the Han army will attack Wu's Yangtze River defense line from the north and the south, and the consequences will be disastrous.

Liu Yin's devious and deep strategic attack made all Wu people including Zhou Chu unexpected. Jiaozhou is far away in the extreme south. If troops are sent from the Central Plains to fight Jiaozhou, the long logistical supply line will make it difficult for them. It was a headache, and Zhou Chu didn't know how Liu Yin solved this problem, but Liu Yin has always been famous for winning with surprise soldiers, and this time is obviously no exception.

The task placed on Shen Ying's shoulders is really not light, but Zhou Chu's current strength is stretched, and the 3 troops dispatched to Shen Ying are already the limit of what he can mobilize.

According to the information sent back from Jiaoguang, the Han army invaded this time, also 3 troops, but these 3 people are not ordinary 3 people, but [-] elite cavalry, so the Han army can only It took just two or three months to rush from the Central Plains to Jiaoguang.

Moreover, judging from the fact that the 3 fine cavalry of the Han army captured Jiaoguang without damage, the combat effectiveness of the cavalry of the Han army has reached a terrible level. Ying didn't think her army's fighting power could be compared with the Han army's.

To deal with cavalry, the city is the most effective in theory, but from the performance of the Han army in Jiaoguang, the world has already known that no matter how strong the city is, it cannot stop the sharp firearms of the Han army.

When Shen Ying was in Xiling, she had already vowed to Zhou Chu that she would live and die with Guiyang, but after he arrived in Guiyang, he felt great pressure. With a set of effective defense methods, it is estimated that the only thing left to survive and die with Guiyang is to die together.

After careful consideration, Shen Ying decided to move the line of defense to the south, to the front line of Mangshan, instead of defending Chen County.

Mang Mountain is a mountain range in the south of Chenxian County. It is named because of its vast forest and sea, where pythons are infested. Here, forests and greens are connected, mountains and rivers are connected, and rocks and valleys are deep and blocked. It is dangerous and natural. It is the only way to enter Jing. He led his troops into Mangshan Mountain, set up several camps in Guizizhai, Mengkengshi, Yazishi and other dangerous places in Mangshan Mountain, cut off the north-south road, and prepared to fight to the death with the Han army in Mangshan Mountain.

After Liu Yin joined forces with Fu Zhao, he went north from Qujiang and approached Mangshan Mountain.

The steepness of the Nanling road slowed down the cavalry of the Han army. The scouts quickly found out the information on Guiyang and reported it to Liu Yin.

After Liu Yin got the letter, he let out a sigh. It seems that this Shen Ying is indeed not an ordinary person. She knows that neither the field battle nor the city defense is the opponent of the Han army, so it is wise to use the dangerous terrain of Mangshan Mountain for defense. To.However, in addition to the strength of cavalry, the Han army's greater advantage lies in mountain warfare. Although the Tiger Cavalry Army has been focusing on cavalry over the years, the tradition of the Shu Army has not been left behind. It is the invincible iron cavalry army who jump off the horse, they are still the mountain elites who are alive and well, since Shen Ying wants to fight the mountain battle with the Han army, it is completely in Liu Yin's arms.

In fact, this is also Shen Ying's helplessness. Wu Jun's strength is only water warfare. Whether it is cavalry combat or mountain warfare, they are all weak. But now there are no big rivers in Guiyang, and the only Chenjiang River that exists is around the mountains. However, Qin Guan, a famous poet in the Song Dynasty later, left a well-known sentence: "For whom is the Chen River flowing to Xiaoxiang?"

Without the conditions for water warfare, Wu Jun's strengths would naturally not be brought into play. Given the choice of field warfare, urban warfare, and mountain warfare, Shen Ying reluctantly chose mountain warfare. In his opinion, this was the only thing Wu Jun could do. The tactics used to contend with the Han army, after all, have dangerous mountains as a barrier, and there is still great hope for blocking the Han army's attack.If it was a field battle or a city defense battle with the Han army in Chen County, the Wu army would have no chance of winning at all.

After the Han army came to Mangshan Mountain, the first pass to be conquered was Guizizhai. The mountain road here was steep and it was no longer suitable for cavalry to ride on horseback. Liu Yin ordered Luo Shang to lead 5000 people as the vanguard, abandoning horses and walking, and climbing rocks. .

No matter how steep and rugged the mountain road is, it will not be difficult for the Han army. The 5000 people led by Luo Shang are not an organized army, but selected from 3 people, most of them are from the original Shu army. Together with some elite men who are strong and good at climbing, let them act as the pioneers to open the way and launch an attack on the Guizizhai that Wu Jun was facing.

(End of this chapter)