It was winter, the north wind was howling, and the cold wind was as sharp as a blade and hurt people's faces, but no one felt cold.
In front of Hangu Pass, a military formation composed of chariots, cavalry, and infantry rumbled forward from the road. Carts of cattle and horses loaded with grain, grass and baggage also crunched past the official roads and country roads. Countless scouts were like birds. They shuttle like birds on the south bank of Menshui.
Smoke and dust filled the air, flags fluttered, war horses neighed, and horns echoed. There were rumbles and thunder rolling on the ground within a radius of four to five hundred miles day and night, and the choking smell of earth drifted day and night.
Within ten days, a series of military camps of various colors were set up in the Sanchuan wilderness. This military camp is unprecedentedly vast, from Mianchi Fortress in the west to Hulao Pass in the east, from the river in the north to Ru River in the south, more than 300 miles from east to west, and more than 400 miles from north to south, and Jufan Pass A large number of military camps were stationed in the strategically contested areas for military strategists such as fortresses and beautiful mountains and rivers.
As soon as I came out of Hangu Pass, I saw that there were many banners and tents all over the field. It was difficult for ordinary soldiers and horses to fly over even with their wings.
If the Qin army detours to Chang Hao Mountain again, it will only plunge into the coalition camp, and eventually be surrounded and strangled to death by the coalition forces.
Pang Nuan stood on the chariot and looked at this mammoth scene. Although the coalition forces had a bad start some time ago, all those troublesome things were forgotten at this moment.
"nice!"
Pang Nuan took a deep breath, but it was not because she was nervous, but because she wanted to suppress the blood in her heart.
He is over eighty years old, but he doesn't want to see such a scene, and he will be as excited as those young people.
The coalition commanders, who had previously been at odds with each other, couldn't help but feel emotional at this moment.
If such a large army can destroy Qin, no, it only needs to drive Qin back to the west border valley grassland, the fertile land of Guanzhong, thousands of miles of Hexi, and six hundred miles of Shangyu, as well as the galloping horses of Longxi County, Shangjun, and Beidi County. The land is all theirs!
"Jun Chun Shen, thank you for your work."
Pang Nuan looked at Chun Shenjun who was on the horse beside him, clasping his fists to indicate.
"My king is the commander of the coalition, and I am the chief of the coalition. I naturally shoulder the responsibility." Chun Shenjun said with a smile on his face.
The six-nation coalition shocked the world, and Pang Nuan, as the commander of the coalition, took the initiative to hand over the attack on Hangu Pass to him, and he naturally accepted it happily.
Of course, he also knew that Pang Nuan gave him the important task of attacking Hangu Pass and gave him this opportunity to shine because he wanted to do another thing - sneak into Puban!
When Pang Nuan came to the Chu Palace to lobby for this plan, both the King of Chu and him were shocked.
It is always easy for people to fall into a narrow circle, making it difficult to break out.
Not to mention the alliance, since the founding of the Qin Dynasty, those who attacked the Qin State have always attacked Hangu Pass or attacked Wuguan in the south. No one has ever thought of other ways.
And by crossing Pubanjin, you can directly bypass Hangu Pass and attack the hinterland of Qin Guanzhong!
Such a plan was earth-shattering. Lord Chun Shen had already imagined how surprised Ying Zheng in Hangu Pass would be when Qin learned that Pang Nuan had led an army to capture the hinterland of Qin.
However, Chun Shenjun did not intend to let Pang Nuan monopolize this great achievement.
At his insistence, the partial division led by Pang Nuan included not only the 100,000 Zhao army's cavalry, but also the 100,000 infantry of the Chu army, and the 100,000 army of the Yan state.
Those who seek a country must naturally count ten steps at a time.
If Qin is driven back to the west or perishes in the future, Han and Wei will have nothing to worry about, but Zhao will become a powerful enemy of Chu.
Therefore, the Chu army must make the greatest contribution with the least casualties in this battle, so as to obtain the greatest benefits when the territory is divided in the future.
The eyes of the Chu State are not only that the Yanying, Shangyu, Qianzhong, and Hanzhong lost by the Chu State, but also the Lantian of Bashu and even the Qin State must be returned to the hands of the Chu State!
Pang Nuan naturally knew Chun Shenjun's thoughts.
But what does it have to do with him?
He was already old, and his lifespan of more than eighty years was already an advanced age for military generals like them who had left countless wounds on their bodies. He didn't know how many years he could live.
He came out just for a stage where he could demonstrate what he had learned in the past eighty years and display his ambitions, not for Zhao's struggle for hegemony.
After all, he is not from Zhao.
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As a ray of warm sunshine in the early morning shines on Hangu Pass, a thin golden-red line is approaching.
In a moment, the golden-red thin line under the morning glow turned into a raging red tide. Thunder rumbled on the ground, flags flew, trumpets resounded in the sky, and the coalition soldiers came overwhelmingly.
As soon as the sound of war drums came, Wang Ye stepped onto the city.
Next to his pale beard, there was a hideous smile that was excited and bloodthirsty.
"Bang the drum!"
The thumping sound of the war drums was not inferior to the sound of horns coming from a distance, and the drummers of the Qin army beat the war drums as if competing.
At this time, the army in the distance had already condensed into one piece.
Suddenly, the rumble of war drums was heard passing over the field, and there were three huge infantry phalanxes pushing cloud carts and carrying ladders, rolling like angry clouds towards this small pass in the mountains. Behind the square formation, there are three large banners on three sides, and the three big characters of Wei, Wei and Han can be seen very clearly at the top of the city.
Wang Yan smiled coldly at the large banner with the word "guard" in it: "How can a small country named Wei be the vanguard of the coalition forces?"
Weiguo, if the people of Qin had not thought of it as the mother country of Shang Jun, it would have been destroyed countless times.
The Qin people not only did not destroy Wei, but treated him favorably, but they did not want Wei to not only surrender to Wei, but also participate in the joint attack on Qin, and even took the initiative to ask for orders to be the vanguard to attack Hangu Pass.
When Shang Yang recovered part of the land in Hexi and recaptured Hangu Pass, he personally presided over the repair and reconstruction of Hangu Pass.
Hangu Pass was jointly designed by Xianglizi and Shang Yang of that generation. Except for Guancheng, all the walls were built with bricks and stones, and the walls of Guancheng were extended for more than ten miles to the mountains on both sides of the bank. A small Great Wall at the center of the axis.
On the Little Great Wall, the crenellations of the female wall are connected with the masonry wall. They are densely covered with arrow holes but extremely strong. Every three feet, there is a neatly stacked hill, which is full of smooth and smooth thick rolling logs and hammers made into various shapes. There are stones of different sizes; every five feet, there are strong crossbows fixed on huge wooden frames, and there is also a stone room dedicated to storing strong crossbow arrows.
Between the hill and the stone house, there is a continuous stretch of weapon racks. But when there is a war, in addition to the weapons in the hands of soldiers, the weapon racks are also filled with all kinds of handy weapons. There is no chance that the swords will curl up and have nowhere to go. exchange situation.
Under the city, there are trebuchets that have been built in advance, and stone bullets and kerosene are also stored in the arsenal under the city wall.
There are also two beacon towers set up at the top of the Great Wall at both ends, but there is an enemy situation. The two lonely pillars of wolf smoke soaring into the sky from the top of the mountain can be clearly seen even in Lantian Camp.
"In this way, let the guards experience how majestic the Hangu Pass designed by Shang Jun was!" Immediately, Wang Ye sternly ordered with a sneer, and a hail of arrows covered the guard formation.
At this point, the largest battle in the Warring States Period officially began.
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