Chapter 294 Tongguan

Tongguan, also known as Taolinsai.

It is said that in ancient times, the giant praised his father and died of drinking. His walking stick was lost in the area from Huayin to Hongnong, and turned into a dense peach forest, from which the peach forest got its name.

After Cao Qian took the emperor to order the princes, in order to guard against the Xiliang warlords in the customs, he built a new place of Tongguan at the other end of the Hangu Pass. It is adjacent to the intersection of Weishui and the Yellow River in the north, and the dangerous Qinling in the south. Between this high mountain and river, there is a natural area about four or five miles wide and about a hundred feet high. The platform is called Linzhiyuan, because most of it is located in the south of Tongguan City, also known as Nanyuan.

The thick top surface of the south is relatively flat, but its west, north and east sides are steep cliffs, which is a natural danger for the garrison.

Due to thousands of years of wind and rain erosion, the original surface was broken and washed out of several deep ditches, becoming a natural traffic arterie between Guanzhong and Kanto.

Tongguan City is located in the east of the South Plains. If pedestrians or troops want to pass the pass, they must first walk for about 15 miles. The car is not on the square track of the Yellow Lane to reach the mouth of the far-looking ditch, then follow the ditch to climb to the South Plains against the trend, enter Tongguan City, and then go down the north along the Jingou west of Guancheng to the bank of the Wei River, and then along the Weihe River. Only when you go west on the coast can you enter Guanzhong.

The whole route is like an inverted word "s". Among them, the gap between the far-looking ditch, the bottom of the golden ditch and the southern plain is as 70 or 80 feet, and it is extremely narrow in the middle.

On the hill, Liu Fengzheng is looking at the direction of Tongguan City, where a fierce siege is under way.

The commander of the siege is Zhang Ren, the general of Zhengxi.

Along the front line of Guancheng, Zhang Ren deployed about 300 Thunderbolt vehicles to attack Guancheng with stone bombs.

Due to the narrow and difficult to walk in the ditches of Tongguan, large-scale siege equipment could not be transported in, so Liu Feng also accompanied nearly a thousand craftsmen on this western expedition.

His army arrived at the main city of Tongguan. After forging and forging, he ordered these craftsmen to cut wood on the spot and made more than 300 Thunderbolt stone carts overnight.

This place is not far away from Tongguan. Liu Feng can even faintly see the scene when the stone bullet flying into the sky hits Guancheng Tucheng.

Tongguan, built on the mountain, is tall and extremely strong. The Thunderbolt car bombarded several rounds, just tickling Guancheng.

The bombardment did not work, and Zhang Ren launched a strong attack. Hundreds of soldiers, either carrying hook ladders or driving cars, bravely faced the locust-like arrow rain on the gate.

Soon, the hook ladders were put on the wall, and the soldiers climbed up like ants.

The defenders were well prepared. The rings and flying stones, arrows and iron water turned to attack those brave warriors.

The sound of howling came one after another. Young bodies fell from mid-air, a hook ladder was turned over by a pole fork, and countless soldiers were crushed to death by the overturned ladder.

After a long time of siege, the corpses under the city were stacked into mountains, and no soldier could successfully climb the enemy city.

After watching the battle for a long time, Liu Feng knew that there was no point in attacking again except for the loss of soldiers, so he was disappointed and ordered to stop the attack.

This is the third attack in half a month, and Liu Feng has once again learned what Tongguan Sky Insurance is.

Liu Feng suddenly figured out why Liu Bei's surprise attack on Tongguan in those years was able to stop Cao Yan's Western reinforcements army with only thousands of troops.

Counting points of war damage, the first battle just now, the loss of the elite is no less than a thousand. In this way, even if Liu Feng's family has a big career, it will soon be unyable.

Returning to the account of the Chinese army, Liu Feng's mood was not very high. He looked around the counselors and asked loudly, "Tongguan is dangerous and difficult to attack. Our army has attacked more than ten times without success. I don't know what tricks you have to defeat the enemy?"

Pang Tong wanted to preside over Luoyang's political affairs for Liu Feng as Shang Shuling. As for Xu Shu, because Liu Feng promised not to let him deal with Liu Bei, he could only stay in Beijing.

At present, the most important counselor beside Liu Feng is Lu Xun. However, there is another person, Liu Bei also took him with him.

This person is Jia Xu.

At this time, the "poisonous man" who is more than 70 years old is still in high spirits, and his eyebrows are as light as clouds.

At the beginning, because of the surprise attack on Wu County, the plan to cut off the contact between the two states of Jingyi finally failed, which made Cao Yan quite angry with him, so after that, it was rarely used again.

During the war between Lejia and Cao Xun, Jia Xu was left in Luoyang. Later, Sima Yi launched a mule, and Cao Xun ordered Luoyang. All kinds of great changes, Jia Xu was lucky to avoid the disaster until Liu Feng entered Luoyang and became the new lord of the Central Plains.

Liu Feng did not hold a lot of hatred for the "poisonous man" who almost killed him in those years. He was in charge of the government. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he was also named him a doctor of Taizhong. He was in charge of the position of speech and consultant to deal with him. He was also a senior official of thousands of ranks.

Jia Xu is really adaptable. Liu Feng did not blame him, so he generously became an official under Liu Feng, but he still maintained his style of "you don't ask, I don't say anything".

Liu Fengsu knew that Jia Xu had a strange strategy. In terms of scheming, I'm afraid it was no less than Pang Tong. Therefore, in this western expedition, he took this 70-year-old man with him.

"Tongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if our army is ten times more, I'm afraid it may not be able to attack. Now that Bingzhou has won, this western expedition has also gained something. In my opinion, if we don't collect troops, rest with the people, teach the soldiers, and choose the opportunity to fight again in the future.

Lu Xun advised Liu Feng to withdraw from the army. In fact, this young Jiangdong counselor was not in favor of sending troops to destroy Liu Bei at the beginning. In his opinion, recuperation is the top priority.

The war has been fought for this, but Liu Feng came with the belief that he will win. This time, if he does not destroy Liu Bei, he will never retreat.

For Lu Xun's suggestion, Liu Feng just smiled.

He then turned his eyes to Jia Xu and asked, "Wen He, I don't know what good strategy you have?"

Jia Xu coughed softly and said slowly, "What Lu Boyan said is indeed reasonable. Tongguan is easy to defend and difficult to attack. No matter how many soldiers and horses there are, we can't use them. I don't think it's wise to be under the city for a long time."

Liu Feng thought that Jia Xu was also in favor of withdrawing troops. When he was unhappy, the 70-year-old counselor changed his words again: "However, it is imperative for the Duke to destroy Liu Feng this time, and he can't easily give up halfway. According to the foolish opinion, why didn't the Duke follow the example of Han Gaozu's destruction of Qin?

Liu Bang destroyed Qin.

At the end of the Qin Dynasty, Liu Bang led his army to attack Guanzhong. At first, he also took Tongguan Avenue, but because of the dangerous Guancheng, it was difficult to capture. Later, he had to change his tactics, change to Wuguan, and enter Guanzhong from the southeast.

How could Liu Feng not know about this old thing? Otherwise, he would not have sent soldiers and horses all the way to attack Wuguan.

After listening to his plan, Liu Feng was slightly disappointed and shook his head and said, "Wen and this plan are not bad, but you have ignored a fatal problem."

(to be continued)