In Nanzheng City, which has successfully changed hands, although there are still sporadic fights and shouts, it is already difficult to change the governing place of Xingyuan Mansion and the fact that the Jieya of Shannanxi Jiedu Envoy is already in the hands of the Taiping Army. .
As a hub and key point connecting Sanchuan and Guannei. The northwest direction is Qishan Road to Longnan and Tianxiongjun, and the southwest is the gateway to the hinterland of Jiannan (East and West Sichuan)-Bailaoguan and Dingjunshan Dazhai. It is divided into Mi Cang Road in the South Chin and Jin Niu Road to Guangyuan and Jianmen.
To the north, there are three ancient roads of different lengths: Chencang, Baoxie, and Zhuangluo. After crossing the territory of Yangzhou to the east, going south is the Litchi Road to Bayu, going north is the Meridian Road entering the customs, and continuing east is the Xiegu Road entering the mountain (south) east road.
While Ge Congzhou, who stood on Cheng's head, watched the line of figure riding a horse galloping away in the night, he inevitably sighed in his heart; if he hadn’t seen it with his own eyes, how could he know a person’s fate and life? The opportunity dictates that it can reach such a bizarre point? Even the elders who have the key to the enemy’s food avenue are all secret spies of the secret pass, so what kind of military secrets can be deliberately protected
Now the four armies and the seven capitals in Nanzheng City under the control of Yang Fugong’s Sanguan Xingying camp have all been destroyed or; on the contrary, Gao Renhou and others, who fled north during the chaos, still have a considerable amount of Xichuan in Baocheng. Soldiers and horses, but still the Taiping Army in Xingyuan Mansion, the main opponent and threat.
At the same time, this battle also revealed that the Taiping Army relied too much on firearms in combat, and was not closely connected with cold weapons in combat. It also requires him to conduct introspection and summarization in time to make the next step more effective. Tactical planning. Especially the Shu army showed patience and tolerance to firearms this time, which also made him a little concerned.
This is obviously the result of not being able to fully defeat the enemy or annihilate its active forces in a large number of battles; and after regrouping and regrouping, it has learned the corresponding experience and lessons, and made more tactical adjustments and tried to adopt countermeasures. Therefore, in this decisive battle, although the number of soldiers killed directly by the Taiping Army was only seven or eight hundred, the proportion of various injuries reached more than one-third of that of Shandong's other troops.
Under the cover of night, the deputy envoy of Xingzai Duzhi, who ran towards Bailaoguan, knew about the affairs of Xichuan Food and Taiwan, supervised the pioneering soldiers and horsemen of the gods, and General Lin Shenhe, the general of Youqianniu, was also full of complexity in his heart. Of emotion. Once upon a time, the chance of being able to escape with suspended animation and return to the safe rear was just presented before him by mistake, and then he gave up easily.
Because, besides what he used to persuade himself and others, to continue lurking in Xichuan with his current status and qualifications, he can play more superficial reasons for the Taiping Army's Metropolitan Government; he really can't let go of staying in Jianzhou. His wife, Li Shi, even put aside the children conceived in her stomach; at least, he has no reason to let them down and needs to arrange a suitable opportunity to get away.
Therefore, he can only ask Ge Congzhou, the only general who knows his identity, to accompany him in such a good show of hunting and siege; among the people he brought around, those who belong to The eyeliner who walked in the area or the suspects under Li Shouzhen's command were cut off one by one, and the rest of the trusted followers would be taken back.
Of course, in order to win the trust of others, he also specially selected the middle official who spoke for himself in front of Yang Fugong and one of the adopted sons of Li Wenge, Li Changwei, from the chaotic war in the city. He was rescued from the chaos as a witness afterwards. Then, outside the city, he ran into Sima Hu Yanquan, a marching army under Yang Fugong's Dasanguan Camp.
Therefore, after the sky turned white again, Lin Shenhe and his party, who had arrived in front of Bailao Pass (now southwest of Mian County, Shaanxi Province), greeted them almost without hindrance as soon as they called the door. However, he left an eye on him and retreated to one of the Wei Puppy, and now the guard team of the big character Wei Mancang will be shed, saying that he wants to continue to gather the old ministries that fled back.
So in the evening of the same day, there were more than hundreds of defeated soldiers under the banner of Tianwu Army, one of the four armies under the Sanguan Xingying Camp. They fled in embarrassment and shouted "Dingjunshan Dazhai is lost" and "Xichuan army is exhausted." "Exit" news, when someone claimed to be Yang Fugong's adopted son Yang Shouji. The guardian officer in panic, hesitated and opened the door to welcome him in.
However, when hordes of Taiping troops armed with sticks in open flames came in hot pursuit again in the darkening night; these Tianwu troops, who were resting and eating, rushed up to the city wall with loud noises, claiming to help defend. Thieves. As a result, the generals in Guancheng found that their defense officer had disappeared, and there was nowhere to ask for countermeasures.
As a result, with the group of dragons without a leader, they could only watch these "Tianwu Army" and yelled to open and close the door to take the initiative to fight; then they all welcomed these thieves into the city. As a result, Bailaoguan, the first gateway to Dongchuan in the southwest of Shanxi, changed hands easily.
—I am the dividing line —
And outside the festive atmosphere of Gangneung City, the fleet of cars and ships that drove across the river and upstream to the Gorge River Road has once again become a local spectacle. In particular, it was mixed with a lot of throughput and dragging long strips of gray smoke, and there was also a rumbling noise of strange vehicles and boats, and there were many sections of covered flat-panel boats of different lengths behind, let alone to mention. What an eye-catcher.
This is one of the achievements accumulated by the Taiping Army’s industrial manufacturing; when the steam engine power, which further reduces the size and increases the power, is combined with the water-wheel vehicle and ship, it is no longer as simple as the efficiency superimposition of one plus one equals two, but It represents the great leap of the entire water transportation and transportation system under the control of the Taiping Army, and the era of explosive growth in the circulation of personnel and materials has arrived.
After all, compared to traditional boats that require humans and animals to pull fibers to travel upstream, self-powered steam vehicles and ships are sufficient to overcome and surpass the shipping restrictions that were originally restricted by rapids, vortexes, winds and waves, and seasonal upswings. Expansion of power to further, more remote river basin branches and ends.
This also means that for thousands of years have plagued the courts and people for generations, the various dangers of the Yangtze River, the Yellow River and the Cao River in the Huai River will be turned into history one by one under the powerful navigability provided by mechanical power; More population and resource output restricted by backward transportation and communication methods will be further incorporated into the Taiping Army's dominant order and economic system.
Just like today’s large-scale troop transport and cross-regional transfer of men’s services from outside the ridge, as long as a one-time transfer of boats and boats in the Lingqu section of Guizhou, they can be reached by boat through the waterways of the north and south of Wuling. Outside the city of Jiangling, it only took five days. If it is a light-armed march under special circumstances, even three days are enough.
Of course, leaving these long-term expectations aside, the current strategy for Jiannan Sanchuan is this steam car and ship. After accumulating enough cultural and water information and navigation experience, the system is the biggest beneficiary of surface transportation; there is no one. Because even the original quota of vehicles and ships in the southeast was diverted first to assist in the transportation of troops and luggage.
In Yuzhou, on the upper reaches of the Xiajiang Road, several battalions of mountain soldiers under Wang Zhongba’s preparations for a long time also rushed across the riverside amidst the rumbling noises from the surface offensive destroying and blasting those barriers and water villages. The front line of defense and buffer zone formed by the rolling hills and terraces and many tutuanzhai fortresses seems to have once again entered the territory of Luzhou where the rivers are striving for flow.
At this time, whether it was the many mountain and river barriers set up by Gao Renhou along the water in the southern part of Xichuan, or the local barbarians and barbarians who had fallen into civil strife; they were no longer able to become their decent obstacles. Therefore, Hejiang and Wanshou sank in a blink of an eye, and the land and water advancing directly encircled the state city Luchuan, which eventually became an isolated island.
Since then, whether it is along the Zhongjiang River in the north, upstream ** Rongzhou (now Zigong, Sichuan), Zizhou (now Ziyang, Sichuan), Jianzhou (jianyang, Sichuan), Hanzhou (Guanghan, Sichuan); or straight to the northwest. Wenshui, passing through Rongzhou (now Yibin, Sichuan), Jiazhou (now Leshan, Sichuan), Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan), Shuzhou (now Chongqing, Sichuan);
Just like a woman in full dress who had no choice but to be stripped of her skirt and revealing her fragile inner lining, the two smooth routes into the hinterland of Xichuan/Chengdu Plain were opened. (End of this chapter)