Three Kingdoms Strong Army System

Ziwu Road is the longest road among the three roads from Guanzhong to Hanzhong. It crosses the Qinling Mountains, surrounded by high mountains and cliffs, narrow at both ends, and not very open in the middle.

Moreover, the Meridian Road is relatively long, and it takes ten days for the army to pass.

The original Ziwu Road was very bad. Zhang Qin led two thousand elites to go ahead and repair and widen the road.

Xu Lai led 2000 people, followed behind with carts to carry luggage, and set up several supply points in the middle of the road.

In this way, soldiers do not need to carry so much luggage when they move forward.

As a pioneer, Zhang Qin's marching speed was not fast. It would have taken him [-] days to travel, but he actually walked for [-] days. However, it was easier for the follow-up troops to march.

When Zhang Qin's 2000 people appeared at the exit of Meridian Road, there were already enemy troops waiting there.

Zhang Qin led troops to attack, but the opponent waited for work at leisure and occupied a favorable position. It was difficult to break through the opponent's defense line for a while, so he could only lead the defeated army back ten miles.

Zhang Wei did not pursue, but continued to station at the exit of Meridian Road, and sent someone to pass the battle report to Nanzheng in the rear.

Zhang Lu received his younger brother Zhang Wei's battle report, and after reading it, he summoned his confidants, and then passed the battle report to everyone.

He was just about to be proud when a messenger rushed in from outside.

"Report, Yangpingguan urgent report!"

Yangping Pass is an important pass in the south of Hanzhong. Zhang Lu entered Hanzhong County from Yangping Pass.

He panicked immediately.

"Quick, submit it!"

The little official beside Zhang Lu immediately rushed to take the urgent report from the messenger and sent it to Zhang Lu.

"You bastard, you are deceiving people too much, you are deceiving people too much!" Zhang Lu threw the urgent report on the ground.

Everyone looked at Zhang Lu furious, it must be an urgent report, only Yan Pu took a few steps forward and carefully picked up the bamboo slips on the ground.

"My lord, Yizhou sent 1000 troops to attack Yangping Pass. There are only [-] defenders at Yangping Pass. It will not last long. We must send reinforcements!" Knowing the seriousness of the situation, Yan Pu immediately reminded.

"I only have 9000 troops in Hanzhong. Now we have sent 6000 troops to defend Guanzhong. Now there are only [-] troops in Nanzheng City. How many reinforcements can we send?"

"My lord, now my lord is spreading benevolence, and the people of Hanzhong love it. As long as the pass is in hand, Hanzhong can hold it. This Nanzheng city does not need many troops. I think it is enough to send 4000 people to reinforce Yangping pass." Yan Pu thought for a while.

"In this way, there are only 2000 defenders in Nanzheng, just in case"

Before Zhang Lu finished speaking, Yan Pu knew what he was thinking, "The military situation at Yangping Pass is urgent. Once Yangping Pass is captured, Zhao Wei will be able to drive straight in and attack Nanzheng. I suggest sending General Yang Bo to lead the troops to reinforce and distribute From the 5000 people in the rest of Hanzhong, [-] people were transferred to Nanzheng, and civilians were recruited to transport food for the army."

"Okay, let's do it this way!" Zhang Lu thought for a while, and felt that there was no other way, so he turned his head and looked at Yang Bai below.

"Yang Bo, you immediately lead 4000 people to the south for reinforcements, and you must defend Yangping Pass!"

"The last general takes orders!" After Yang Bai saluted, he left the prefect's mansion and went to the barracks to transfer troops.

Zhang Lu organized other officials to form a grain transport team, and then transported grain to Yangping Pass.

The entire land of Hanzhong is mountainous, and only the vicinity of Nanzheng is a plain. This is the Hanzhong Plain, which feeds 26 people in Hanzhong.

Zhang Lu has 26 people in Hanzhong and 2 soldiers, which is not too light.

Zhang Lu's order was quickly passed down layer by layer. When Yang Bai led an army of 4000 to Yangping Pass, the Yizhou army was storming the pass.

In the pass, the original 1000 defenders lost more than 300 people in just a few days.

Yangping Pass was built on the mountainside, with high mountains on both sides. It was very difficult for the army to pass through, and it was very difficult for people to cross it.

The Yizhou army could not spread out in front of the pass, so it could not give full play to its superiority in strength, and it was difficult to carry siege equipment, so it could only use local materials to make simple long ladders.

If you want to break Yangping Pass, you must either fight a war of attrition, or use tricks to lure the defenders in the pass to go out to fight, or make them surrender, but these are very difficult.

After Yang Bo came, he immediately rectified his morale. He asked the original guards to go to the pass to rest. He personally led the troops to guard the pass wall and sent people to patrol day and night.

If the Yizhou army came to attack, he would let the soldiers resist.

For several days in a row, the troops of both sides were depleted, and Yangping Pass was still in his hands.

Besides, in the northern part of Hanzhong, Ma Teng led an army of [-], set off from Chang'an, walked through Chencang, passed Sanguan and entered the old road.

This old road is also difficult to walk. There are many cliffs along the way. Above these cliffs are plank roads.

After going through a series of plank roads, climbing over high mountains, and then reaching the foot of the mountain, walking through a section of flat road, going up and down the mountain through the plank road, and repeating this, you can reach Mianshui.

Once there, the road will be easier to walk.

It took Ma Teng's [-] troops half a month to stop and go, before reaching the border between Wudu County and Hanzhong County, which is also the east bank of Mianshui.

As long as you go south along the east bank of Mianshui for ten miles, and then go east for thirty miles, you will enter Mianyang County in Hanzhong.

However, Yang Ang had already led 3000 people to wait on the east bank of Mianshui. When Ma Teng's vanguard, Pang De, was about to cross the river from the west bank, he came halfway across and attacked him.

Pound's vanguard lost 600 men and retreated to the west bank.

Mian River is a branch of the upper reaches of Han River, first running north-south, and then flowing east-west to join the main Han River.

In the north-south direction, most of them are in mountainous areas, and there are not many places that can be used as ferry crossings.Ma Teng sent people to garrison while sending people south to find a new ferry.

He knew that the enemy had few soldiers and it was impossible to hold every ferry.

However, Ma Teng's strategy is good, but he overlooked one of the biggest problems.That is his army, mostly barbarians, good at horse fighting but not good at foot fighting.

In order to cross Mianshui to the east, he fought fiercely with Yang Ang for several days, but he still could not cross the river successfully.

Although this Yang Ang is not well-known, he is a famous general in Hanzhong, and he is familiar with the terrain of Hanzhong and the important crossings of Mianshui, how could he not know.

Yang Ang stationed a team of soldiers and horses at each crossing, and as soon as he saw a large group of people crossing the crossing, he would immediately light up the smoke.

Although 3000 people are small, they can barely do it by supporting each other.However, Ma Teng has the advantage in numbers after all. After a long time, Yang Ang's subordinates are running back and forth, and their physical strength is still a little too much.

Besides, Liu Chang led the army into the Baoxie Road, and encountered the same problem. The Baoxie Road was shorter than the old road and Ziwu Road, but the road was also extremely difficult to pass.

When they managed to leave four-fifths of the way, at the last moment, they were stopped by Hanzhong General Yang Ren.

Although Yang Ren has few soldiers, he can't use as many soldiers in Baoxie Road.

He played more with less, and actually won a few games.