"Ada, are those people singing "Welcome the King of Chuang"? Why does it sound a little wrong?"
"Ke'er, what do you think is wrong with them?"
"That sounds a bit depressing. It's such a great joy to welcome King Chuang! Why do you feel like you're mourning now?"
"It seems a bit..."
"Humph, these people must be unruly people!"
"Ke'er, why are you here again..."
Outside the monk's original fortress, a father and son on horseback were listening to someone singing "Welcome the King of Chuang" and having a conversation. This pair of father and son are not ordinary people. The father's name is Luo Hu. He was the Tongguan Marquis of the Dashun Dynasty, a general, and the Jiedushi of Hanzhong - the leader of the Boy Camp who followed Emperor Li Zicheng, the ancestor of Dashun, to conquer the east and west. Now he has grown into a high-ranking official in the Dashun court...
The person talking to Luo Hu was his eldest son, Luo Ke, the prince of the Marquis of Tongguan. The current Luo Ke looks almost exactly the same as the Luo Hu who followed Li Zicheng back then. They are both tough-headed young men. But if you taste it carefully, you can spot something wrong.
This Luo Ke and his father Luo Hu just look alike, but they are not the same kind of people at all.
Luo Hu is the son of a farmer. No matter how rich he is, he can never escape his true nature as a farmer. He is down-to-earth and approachable, and can get along well with his family's tenants and his subordinates. When living in his own manor, he would work in the fields with the tenants. After drinking a few drinks, he would tell a group of Sichuan farmers how he was poor when he was a child and how he had no food to eat. If he saw the poor suffering, Luo Hu would shed tears of sympathy. When he saw that others had no food to eat, he would share his own food with others.
But Luo Ke, at first glance, looks like a noble son, he is aloof, and there is no common people in his eyes... His tone of voice when talking to common people is commanding, and he doesn't say a word of nonsense. If a civilian did something that dissatisfied him, he would call them a troublesome person. And Luo Hu would never call someone a cunning person. Even if they really were a cunning person, he would not curse them with these two words.
Because in Luo Hu's subconscious mind, he himself is also a troublesome person...at least he used to be a troublesome person!
In short, this Luo Ke is clearly the kind of rich young master Luo Hu has hated since he was a child... But Luo Hu likes him very much now, because Luo Ke is his son!
It's the same as your own, it can't be fake, how could you not like it?
Of course, Luo Ke is by no means a playboy. In fact, he is much better than Luo Hu back then. He has outstanding literary talent, strong martial arts, and is familiar with the art of war. He is a top student in the Yunnan Military Academy. He was also favored by Li Laiheng, the prince of Fujun, and became the commander-in-chief of Dashun.
When Luo Hu was wondering how to teach his son, he suddenly saw Wang Dahu and several of Wang Dahu's sons kneeling.
"What's going on with them?" Luo Hu asked Wang Xi, who arrived before him.
Wang Xi is from Li Dingguo. He has the title of Mighty General and serves as the general military officer. The chief military officer in Dashun is not a particularly big official position. He only commands an army of three to four thousand people (this level is organized in Dashun). This side is called the battalion), which is a little larger than the regiment in the Ming Dynasty. The superior is the Jiedushi, the subordinate is the brigade commander (equivalent to the battalion commander in the Ming Dynasty), and the subordinate of the brigade is the team (also called the department).
"Master Marquis," Wang Xi said, "these people are private salt traders who sell salt to Hanzhong."
Luo Hu turned around and asked his son, "Ke'er, how do you think they should be punished?"
"The head should be beheaded!" Luo Ke said, "What are these unruly people doing?"
Luo Hu sighed and thought: You, too, were a ruthless man back then, and falling into the hands of a Ming Dynasty official like you would be a dead end.
But sympathy is sympathy, beheading is beheading.
Luo Hu said to his son: "You've never killed anyone, have you? Go ahead and see the blood. Then you won't panic when you go to the battlefield!"
"Okay!" Luo Ke nodded heavily, then turned over and dismounted, drew out his sword, and strode towards Wang Dahu and others who were kneeling on the ground...
...
While Wang Dahu and several of his sons were having their heads chopped off with knives, Sima Yu, who had led his troops to coax open the gate of the monk's original fortress two days ago, was already standing on the top of Dashanguan, watching the burning of the school grounds in the city. A raging fire started - this was the fire that reported to Monk Yuan's army.
The battle to capture Dashan Pass was fierce! Although the garrison at Dashun Pass was deceived and opened the north gate, allowing Sima Yu's troops (about 300 people) who claimed to be reinforcements to enter the city - the spies of the Dashun Army were still very powerful. The command came to the defenders.
But then the defenders discovered Sima Yu and them when they checked the documents, and the two armies started fighting in Dashan Pass. Although there are many defenders at Dashun Pass, these Shaanxi local troops are no match for Dashun's elite soldiers in close combat. After barely resisting for most of a day, Dashan Pass changed hands.
After capturing Dashan Pass, most of Chencang Road was cleared, but it was not completely clear. Because there is Erliguan to the north of Dashanguan, there is Yimen Town next to Erliguan, and Baoji County is located to the north of Yimen Town and Erliguan. After Erliguan, Yimen Town, and Baoji County are all captured, Chencang Road can be completely cleared.
However, relying on the thousands of lightly-armed troops who crossed the Qinling Mountains (Wang Xi brought 1,500 people and Luo Hu brought 2,000 people), they would not be able to capture Erliguan, Yimen Town and Baoji County in any case. With the current vigilance of the Ming army, surprise attacks on Dashan Pass will not happen often...
Also falling at about the same time as Dashanguan were Chencangshan, Wuzhangyuan and Jinyaguan to the east of Heshangyuan. Jinyaguan was a small pass on Baoxie Road, guarding a branch road extending from the main road of Baoxie Road. , leading directly to Wuzhangyuan.
After capturing Wuzhangyuan and Jinya Pass, most of the Baoxie Road was unblocked - it was also not completely unblocked, because Xiegu Pass and the county seat of Xixian County were also still firmly under the control of the Ming army.
If Dashun wants to completely open the passage from Hanzhong to Guanzhong, they must seize all the city passes such as Erliguan, Yimen Town, Baoji County, Xieguguan and Xixian County.
What Zhuge Kongming failed to accomplish back then now has to be done by Zhuge Li Dingguo, the leader of Dashun!
At this time, Li Dingguo was leading an army through the canyon of Chencang Road.
This is an army of about 50,000 people, and it is still equipped with mountain army equipment. Most of the people are holding muskets and swords (including javelins), and less than 10% of the soldiers are carrying long guns. The number of cavalry and artillery is very small. There are only about 2,000 cavalry, and they are still composed of one man and one horse. There are no good horses, just Sichuan and Yunnan horses. There were only 12 3-pound cannons and 6-pound cannons made of bronze, which were dragged by horses and rumbled northward.
Li Dingguo had already received notifications from Luo Hu and Wang Xi, and knew that the surprise attack had been successful - he had also done what Zhuge Liang had done back then!
But his mood was not happy at all, because before leading his troops to leave Wudushan Camp, he learned the news of Duny's defeat.
The Jianzhou Jurchen Rebellion that plagued the Ming Dynasty for nearly 40 years has now been completely put down!
The speed with which the Ming Dynasty defeated Duni was beyond Li Dingguo's expectation - in fact, it was also beyond Zhu Cixi's expectation, because Duni's fighting skills were much worse than his father Duduo, and he thought he was Saar Hu Nurhachi is actually worse than Yang Hao. Yang Hao fought 80,000 (real number) against 60,000. He managed to carry it for four days and lost almost half of it. However, Doni let the young guards of more than 10,000 people beat them to pieces and fled in the ice and snow. He tortured the 70,000-strong army until there were only a few thousand left... After Li Dingguo received the report, I have the urge to kill people!
But Donnie is already dead. Even if he doesn't die, it won't be his turn to chop. What he has to consider now is to fight better than Zhuge Liang in Wuzhangyuan.
This time he has to be a real Sai Zhuge, otherwise he will be blocked by the Ming army sooner or later at Wuzhangyuan and Monk Plains - Guanzhong now cannot be compared with that of the Han Dynasty, just those two plains and some surrounding slopes , even if you plant millet, you still can’t feed Li Dingguo’s army!
