However, the so-called affects the whole body. Following this blood-stained bloody wedding in Nanzheng City, other city gates that were too late to be controlled by the official army gave the soldiers escaped one after another; the corresponding chain reaction quickly spread to Baocheng, Jinniu, which belongs to Xingyuan Mansion. Sanquan, Chenggu, Xixian, and even the surrounding Fengzhou, Lizhou, Xingzhou, Jizhou and other places go up.
Those who once belonged to Song Hao, who has now been transferred to Dongchuan Jiedu, belonged to the small part of the city where the old army of Jingnan Army was stationed, but it was okay; they directly accepted this unexpected result. However, in the cities occupied by the old Shang clan, various situations have appeared one after another.
Some immediately mobilized soldiers and horses to avenge Shang Rang, some sat and watched, or sent people to contact the officers and soldiers to pray for surrender; some were simply in the midst of Liushen Wuzhu and panic. Fled in all directions. Therefore, no matter what reaction and attitude, there will inevitably be a mess in Xingyuan Mansion.
While stationed at the border of Fengzhou and Xingzhou, which is adjacent to Xingyuan Mansion, Huang Hao, the economic envoy of Longnan, after hearing the news, beheaded the envoys, and his own troops attacked the places located in Hechi, Changju, etc. The official military ration station and strongholds along the way. He also annexed and recruited the remnants of the Shang clan in many places, and carried a large number of people and materials, and then retreated to Xi Haohao to the territory of Chengzhou in his own territory.
However, at the end of the twelfth lunar month in winter, the roads were still covered with snow and it was difficult to walk. Therefore, the entrapped civilians cried to the sky, and they were frozen to death along the way, and many dead people abandoned their corpses; local garrison officials The army is consciously lonely and does not even dare to chase or stop it, so it can only leave it calmly.
In the newly defeated Chenggu County, the Taiping Army general division leader Guo Yan, who was presiding over the consolidation of the city's defenses, waiting for backup and enemy troops to attack, received the corresponding news but was a little bit embarrassed. It was said that the side of the division attacked this way to disturb the rear of the Shu army; why didn’t I have much effort on my side, the Xingyuan Mansion first started to mess up on its own.
The next moment, one after another ran over to the defeated soldiers, and from the nearest Baocheng and Nanzheng, they represented the rebellion of the old Shang clan and the envoys of the imperial court. They were almost one after the other. In his hands, it made people a little dumbfounded; but it also made him feel a little bit of trouble.
Although Guo Yan also came from an old rebel army, he was actually not a big name or origin in the Taiping army's system. In terms of qualifications, he is no better than Chai Ping, Su Wuming, Lu Fang, Wu Xingchen, Liu Liumao and other (Stormy) Lao Ying brothers who accompanied the governor to fight all the way; even Cheng Dajiao and Guan Xiangying two guards. People of background are all inferior.
Among the “new brothers” who later defected to the rebel army, he was unable to compare with the powerful leaders Cao Shixiong, Zhu Cun, Zhang Juyan, and Wang Chongyin who led the troops halfway. He even surrendered later or the officers and soldiers surrendered, but he was professional. Those who are good at Wang Chongba, Gao Jichang, Zhong Yi, and Zhao Yingong; or the lower ranks of Ge Congzhou (Huo Cun, Zhang Guiba) and others like the three brothers, are all inferior.
And his only origin and background probably came from Yang Shigu, the chief military officer of the Governor's Mansion, Zi Yi. Because at the beginning, he was under the instruction of Yang Shigu, leading the tens of thousands of old and weak women and children who were abandoned by the Yellow King’s main formation as bait and disguised as a result, and a large number of boats and materials defected to the Taiping Army to seek refuge.
Then, coupled with the fact that he also abducted one of the concubines Shang Rang Ji who had an affair with him, it was even more impossible to look back. Therefore, it can be regarded as a sense of virtue. Therefore, in daily performance, he is also more low-key and introverted than others and is more kind to others.
It's like what the chief governor said: This is a world of great changes through the ages, and everything is moving forward with each passing day. If you can't keep learning and enrich yourself according to the times, you will inevitably be affected by the tide of the times. Submerged; and become a stepping stone for many back waves.
Therefore, although he is not highly educated, he has studied very hard in his daily life; he is willing to lower his position and accept others' suggestions and suggestions that may seem to be helpful; but at critical times and basic right and wrong. On the other hand, he can hold the position and make a decision, and let go of it to make people try their best to show and do.
Therefore, in the chaotic battle in Chang'an City, as a partner with Wang Yanzhang, he attacked and defended. Although the results achieved were not as dazzling as Wang Yanzhang who was in charge of the offense, he could only be regarded as quite satisfactory and not bad, but he was in charge of the south of the city. At the front line Xinghua Gate, the corresponding battle damage and consumption are also the least.
Therefore, after giving him the task of sneaking into the heart of Shanxi Daoxin with a light army from a partial division this time, he also took a sigh of relief and wanted to make some merits. However, after getting used to the orderly use of troops, faced with the sudden chaos in Xingyuan Mansion, he felt a little too weak or lost his heart.
Fortunately, he also had a high-ranking officer with the army-guest general Li Hanzhi, who dared to fight and dared to take risks; in addition to routinely sending out additional troops, they soon lowered the green flag of the Taiping Army again. And the banner of the original Chenggu Tuanjian was raised at the top of the city.
Then Li Hanzhi led two groups of elite soldiers with camping equipment, squatting and ambushing in the fields near the South Gate and West Gate respectively, and constantly arrested and intercepted the stragglers who came by, making the vicinity of Chenggu County change. Become a blind zone where you can only get in and can't get out of the news, in order to gain some time buffer.
Therefore, they waited in Chenggu City until noon the next day before welcoming the first army team to crusade/take over. However, this army of more than a thousand people was so slack and lacking in vigilance, so it went to the west gate of Chenggu to call the door; under the division of troops outside the Li Hanzhi subordinates, they were beaten when they met each other. Great collapse.
But after this victory, there is no longer any way to delay and block the news. With a steady stream of people from Nanzheng, Chenggu County, surrounded by Tuan Tuan, is home to more than 5,000 Taiping soldiers, and it will usher in a truly arduous and fierce battle.
In the south of Shannan West Road, a military horse from Yuzhou is also heading north along the upper reaches of the Fujiang River. This is an ancient road called Litchi Road by literati and inkmen in the past. It is also one of the three main roads to cross Bashan to Bashu (Tinniu Road in the west, Mi Cang Road in the middle, and Litchi Road in the east).
It can be traced back to Sima Yi's invasion of Shu during the Three Kingdoms period, and it was an eastern route formed by the opening of the road from Xicheng's Chu Mountain. Later, it was very famous because the concubine Yang Guifei who was transported from Bazhong to the north was addicted to lychee, and reached its peak during this period and was renamed as Lychee Road. However, after the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty turned from prosperity to decline, and declined in an all-round way.
Among them, it is divided into two sections: the north and the south. The north section is the Zi Meridian Road, which is one of the three roads from Guanzhong to Shu. Duan is also known as "Yangba Road", and because it passes through the Bashan Mountains, it is also called "Minibus Intermediate Road", "Bashan Middle Road".
Lai Chi Road is the shortest route for Bashu to enter the customs, but because of the folds and fissures of the mountains, it requires multiple sections to pass through the Daba Mountains; the roads in it are particularly difficult and narrow. This road is either the Panchang Mountain Road, which is cut out of the rocks in the mountains, or the steep plank road winding between the high walls and deep gorges along the river.
As one of the two semi-heavy military clusters in the Taiping Metropolitan Government House, it is located in the westernmost area of Yuzhou, which is called a semi-heavy military cluster (the upper limit of daily logistics transportation maintenance is like this). In fact, it has gathered a lot of manpower and material resources as early as six months ago. And prepared for the corresponding local war;
It was just to prevent the relatively well-fighting Shu army under Nishikawa Gao Renhou from falling into a kind of meaningless seesaw quagmire and staying behind; the focus is on the suppression, expulsion, and division to disintegrate the brutal forces in Luzhou, and at the same time open up the tea and horse road to Guizhong Road. , So as not to be threatened by these local forces in the rear when entering Sichuan to use troops in the future.
Nowadays, the situation of Qianzhong Road has been opened, and the Ancient Tea Horse Road has been restored for some time. Therefore, with an order from Jiangling, the corresponding Yuzhou cluster was finally able to draw hands and open up new fronts in a different way with the mode of west defense and north attack. In order to implement the basic strategic deployment of the so-called "no matter how many paths the enemy has come, I just go all the way".
Therefore, the business traveler (spy) who completed the basic mapping and surveying and mapping during the many visits led the way. Seven mountain camps and several engineering groups composed of mountain miners from Lian, Gui, Chen and other places in the Wuling area, after more than half a year of transitional environmental adaptation, also set foot on this deserted day with a full set of equipment. For a long time, and many ancient roads collapsed and silted; and the leader in charge was the first officer of the army, Zhong Yi, the third general of the First Army. (End of this chapter)