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Chapter 2046 Destroy Qin (4)

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    The road back to the middle is dangerous and there are many beacons at Xiaoguan.  Wuying stationed in the northern area, and tens of thousands of people came out of the Xihe River.

    The Chanyu worships the jade seal, and the emperor presses the carved Ge.  The song of the Fenchuan River is invigorating, and the autumn wind blows loudly.

    Two hundred miles to the west from Jingzhou is the historical Xiaoguan Pass of the ancient Han Dynasty.

    Xiao Pass is the fourth pass in Guanzhong, and Xiao Pass of Han Dynasty lies in Longshan Mountain, standing on the dangerous pass of Liupan Mountain, guarding the passage into Guanzhong from the direction of Jinghe River.

    Historically, Qin Xiaoguan, Han Xiaoguan, Tang Xiaoguan, and Song Xiaoguan had different locations due to different defenses against enemy forces, but they were all called Xiaoguan.  In later generations, Xiaoguan no longer only refers to a specific place, but has become a geographical term.

    Soon after Tongluo Duoer stayed in Yuanzhou, he led his army south and moved to Xiaoguan.

    The Xiao Pass at this time was still the Xiao Pass of the Han Dynasty, located southeast of Guyuan in later generations.

    Tongluo Duoer has more than 10,000 men in his hands, which seems to be sufficient strength, but 8,000 of them are new soldiers from Guanxi brought by Zhai Changsun. The only soldiers who can really fight are 2,000 old cavalry from the Tongluo tribe.

    It is not easy to defend a dangerous place with two thousand cavalry.

    Together with Luo Duoer, they had to train troops and recruit supplies from Yuanzhou.

    Fortunately, Yuanzhou is an important town in the northwest, with sufficient weapons and equipment, including crossbows, crossbows, and catapults, which can also enrich the defense of Xiaoguan.

    The entire Xiaoguan Pass is not a single pass, but consists of multiple passes, built on the basis of Danzheng Gorge (today's Watting Gorge in Ningxia).  Danzheng Gorge is a dangerous canyon north of Sanguankou and south of Guwating Gorge. It is accompanied by Jingshui River. It is said that the wind blows and the water flows, and the sound of zheng bombardment is often heard, so the place is named Danzheng Gorge.

    The most important thing about the whole Xiao Pass is Wating Pass. Wating Pass is built on Wating Mountain, high in the north and low in the south. It is surrounded by mountains and rivers and guards Danzheng Gorge.  This is the north entrance of Xiaoguan and the throat of Xiaoguan.

    There are also two passes on the south side, which together with Wating Pass form the Xiaoguan Three Passes, so later generations also called them the Three Passes here.

    Tongluo Duoer guarded the Wating by himself, and ordered Tongluo Tulu and Ajisi to guard the two passes on the south side.  In addition, some people will be left to garrison in Yuanzhou, 2,000 veterans, so divided among the four, each person can use three to four hundred people, and only Tong Luo Duoer has more, which is eight hundred people.  .

    Since Huang Mingliao left, Tongluo Duoer has been running the Xiaoguan defense line, but after waiting for almost a month, no Western Qin army has returned eastward.

    And since Huang Mingliao left, there has been no communication and no news at all.

    She was worried about Huang Mingliao's situation and couldn't sleep at night.

    As for the defenders of Xiaoguan, they were indeed nervous at first, but after such a long time, many people thought that the Western Qin army would not come back, so they became relaxed to varying degrees.

    No one knows why the war came so suddenly.

    Xue Rengao marched west from Jingzhou City and galloped continuously for two hundred miles until he reached Xiaoguan.

    Seeing that Xiaoguan had already hung the flag of the Sui army, he was even more shocked and immediately ordered the three armies to attack Xiaoguan and open the way back to the west.

    The first one to engage in battle with the Western Qin Army was Nanguan on the west side.

    In Danzheng Gorge, there are two cliffs and a narrow valley. The entire level is almost squeezed between the two mountains.  This kind of dangerous situation is simply a natural chasm.

    The Qin army carried crude siege equipment and launched an attack on Nanguan.

    For Xue Rengao, time is life, and he doesn¡¯t have much time left.  Therefore, facing the steep and towering Nanguan, Xue Rengao could only use the stupidest siege method and sacrifice human lives.

    Because the pass was narrow, the army could not attack at the same time, so Xue Rengao divided ten thousand people into ten teams, each team was responsible for three hours of attack, continuously and never stopped.

    Rows after rows of soldiers approached the city wall carrying ladders, and were either shot into sieves by the crossbows at the critical moment, or burned to coke by the kerosene, or even worse, smashed into flesh by the rolling logs at the critical moment.  cake.

    But these Qin troops are almost crazy and don't stop for a moment.

    The Qin army was also feeling uncomfortable, but there was nothing they could do.

    Xue Rengao told them that the Sui army had strict military discipline and prohibited plunder, so all Qin soldiers who were captured were killed.  If they want to go home, they must break Xiaoguan.

    The officers and soldiers of the Western Qin Army knew their own affairs, and no one had been robbed or taken prisoner. If the Sui Army did not give them a way to survive, they had to beg for a living.  So even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, we still have to grit our teeth and move forward.

    If a person works hard, the power he can unleash is amazing.

    The Sui army originally had few soldiers.

    Ajiesi was guarding the first pass with only 400 veterans and 2,000 recruits.

    These eight thousand new soldiers were all prepared by Zhai Changsun for Xue Rengao.  Although they are all Kansai men, they should have been??That's true, but the whole of Guanxi has been plundered by Xue Ju and his son for a long time. The army has been depleted and the 8,000 recruits that Zhai Changsun has tried so hard to get are just a bunch of crooked melons and cracked jujubes.

    There are white-haired old men in their fifties and sixties and young children of thirteen or fourteen everywhere.  There are also dwarfs less than five feet tall, fat men who can't even walk, cripples with broken arms and legs, and fools drooling. Anyway, the requirements when catching a young man are that they only need to be men.

    There are very few people in Kansai as a whole.  In the fourth year of Daye's census, the seven counties in Guanxi combined had a total of 134,300 households.  What is this concept? Each county such as Pingyuan County, Hanoi County, Jiyang County, and Pengcheng County has more than 130,000 households.

    Not to mention the years of chaos in Kansai and Yang Guang¡¯s corvee work, Xue Ju and his son alone recruited nearly 100,000 troops. It can be imagined to what extent the men in Kansai have been exhausted.

    Therefore, this group of new recruits cannot be counted on at all.

    The crossbows were useless and few people knew how to use them, so Ajisi could only let his veterans watch the new recruits throw rocks and hit people.

    This group of new soldiers could not dodge, and many of them were shot by stray arrows from the city.

    But with soldiers from the Tongluo tribe supervising the battle team, I had to bite the bullet and go.

    The two sides fought tooth and nail as soon as they came up. The entire mouth of Danzheng Gorge and before the South Pass became a Shura field. The corpses of both sides were scattered all over the pass.

    The corpses under the pass were piled like a hill.

    After all, the Western Qin Army's human wave tactics worked. On the third day of the attack, the entire Nanguan finally couldn't support it, and a large number of the Western Qin Army reached the critical moment.

    The Sui army fought without sleep for three days, and even gods could not withstand it.

    Seeing that Nanguan could not be defended, Ajies ordered to abandon Nanguan and headed for Zhongguan with his Tongluo soldiers.

    As for the new recruits, those who can run will run away, and those who can¡¯t run can¡¯t be controlled.

    Ajies put the war horse behind the barrier. At this time, everyone mounted their horses and galloped, while the group of new soldiers were chasing after them.

    From Nanguan to Zhongguan, about 1,700 steps (2.5 kilometers) westward is Zhongguan.  It is slightly wider after Zhongguan, but the further west you go, the narrower the road becomes.  On the south side of Zhongguan, there is a hilltop seven or eight feet above the ground. It is commanding and guarding the dangerous point.  Tongluo Tulu set up an archery tower here to form a cross-protection with the Guan wall.

    And the front of the pass is extremely narrow, which is not conducive to attack.

    This Zhongguan is more difficult to fight than Nanguan.  (Remember the website address: www.hlnovel.com
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