From the departure point to the bottom of Jianmen Pass, the straight line is only more than ten miles away from the mountain.

Such a short distance seems very close. However, in fact, the army was circling the mountains for at least more than forty miles.

It is definitely not a joke to run to death on the mountain!

Liao Shanhe led three thousand engineer battalion soldiers who had been trained for a long time in special mountain warfare, dragged several 6-pound cannons and parts of Huihuan, and began to cross mountains and ridges.

The soldiers climbed the mountain at a speed that was not slower than the old hunters in the mountains. The problem was that the large components of the 6-pound cannon and the Huihuan dragged the entire team.

The 6-pound bronze field gun has a weight of more than 500 kilograms. It is easy to imagine how difficult it is to climb mountains and wade through water with such heavy artillery.

The officers and soldiers of the artillery battalion, either pushing, pulling, or pulling, carrying several artillery pieces, would be exhausted from the team of people every time they took a step forward.

Seeing the artillery team slowing down the progress of the entire team, Liao Shanhe was naturally anxious.

However, Liao Shanhe knew better in his heart that in order to break through the extremely dangerous Jianmen Pass, he had to rely on artillery and Huihuan.

However, for generals, they must judge the situation and make flexible and maneuverable arrangements.

Since the cannons moved slowly, Liao Shanhe decided to leave a thousand soldiers, and asked them to drag the cannons and Huihuans to slowly climb mountains and cross ridges.

Liao Shanhe himself led two thousand troops as the vanguard and rushed to Jianmen Pass to see if there was any chance to break the pass?

After all, Liao Shanhe also has a big killer in his hands: a simple bamboo trencher + cocktail.

The simple trencher made of bamboo is also a cocktail can, so the power of burning is naturally unparalleled.

The only drawback is that the farthest throwing distance of this simple trencher is only thirty feet. That is to say, it is about 90 meters.

In other words, if you want to use a simple catapult to smash cocktails into Jianmen Pass, the launching position has actually been lowered from Jianmen Pass.

This difficulty is definitely not very small!

Liao Shanhe knew very well that his ability to sit on the throne of the commander of the sixth wing was mainly due to Li Zhongyi's trust, and he had no special achievements in his fight so far.

According to Liao Shanhe, since the Shu army demolished the plank road and repaired it for more than a month, it should be not very vigilant.

As long as the two thousand troops can touch Jianmen Pass without knowing it, they will have the opportunity to attack at night and take advantage of the opportunity of chaos to seize this dangerous pass that is the best in the world.

After crossing another mountain, Liao Shanhe received a report from the sentry camp. There were about 20,000 Shu troops in Jianmen Pass.

Liao Shanhe couldn't help but frown, and he used 3,000 enemies to 20,000, and the enemy's army had a strong natural barrier as a support, which made him a little trouble.

According to the old rules of the Han army to formulate combat plans, Liao Shanhe summoned the senators from the Military Senate Department to gather together to discuss matters.

"Everyone, the enemy is numerous and we are few, and the enemy is stationed in the majestic pass, how can we break it?" Liao Shanhe learned from Li Zhongyi's style, grabbed the water bag in his hand, and asked the senators lightly.

"The chief executive, I thought that this battle must be carried out at night, otherwise it would be difficult to cause too much chaos to the enemy. If the enemy is not in chaos, our army's chances of victory will not be great." Senator Qin Zhong took the lead in speaking, winning Liao Shanhe's approval.

"Although the enemy is numerous, it is a newly defeated army. The morale and morale of the army will definitely be far inferior to that of our newly won army." Senator Yang Gang raised his hand and pointed at Jianmen Pass on the military map and said loudly, "Although this pass is dangerous, it is a barrier between two mountains, which gives our army the terrain that can be used."

"Master General, please look here. As long as we put the Huihui cannon here, we can smash the cocktail into Jianmen Pass. The cocktails are invincible, and the enemy will be in chaos. At the same time, we drag the cannons and approach Jianmen Pass, aim at the city gate and hit a few cannons, and the army can cover them into the city..." Senator Yang Gang's analysis made Liao Shanhe nod frequently.

As the saying goes, soldiers have no constant momentum and water has no constant shape, so you must adapt to local conditions!

Liao Shanhe wanted to continue to test Yang Gang's depth, so he took the initiative to raise a big problem and frowned and said, "The Huihui cannon can be disassembled, and the parts are on the road. However, the 6-pound cannon is too heavy, and the mountain road is rugged and difficult to walk. I'm afraid it will slow down the time to get into place?"

Yang Gang laughed loudly and said, "Master General, a certain family has already decided: people will stop, and the cannons will not stop. The soldiers who dragged those cannons can be divided into eight to ten teams. As long as they lose their energy, they will change to rest, and then drag and drag."

"Okay, okay, okay!" Liao Shanhe couldn't help laughing, but the question was still not completely eliminated. He then asked, "In order to avoid alarming the enemy, I'm afraid that the fire will not be able to light up at night?"

Yang Gang sighed and said, "As the saying goes, "As the saying goes, "As a good person, you don't control the soldiers, drag the cannons at night, and you cannot raise fires to light them, so there will inevitably be casualties. However, there is a plan that can greatly reduce casualties."

"Oh, please come quickly?" Liao Shanhe was so excited that he urged Yang Gang to express his plan.

Yang Gang narrowed his eyes and said calmly: "Just tie a thick hemp rope around the waist of each tow gun soldier and tie the other end to a big tree. Although it is impossible to completely avoid injury, it can reduce the risk of falling from a mountain to die."

"Okay." Liao Shanhe's eyes lit up suddenly and he sighed, "This plan is very wonderful."

If Li Zhongyi was on the scene, he would definitely blurt out: the assembly line operation of three shifts!

A thousand soldiers, dragging a few cannons, can do ten shifts. Anyway, the team of soldiers who have been dragged down can turn to rest at any time, and then replace the team of soldiers and continue to drag.

The benefit of doing this is naturally greatly improved, and the speed of crossing mountains and ridges with artillery cannons.

While the main army was repairing the plank road and attracting the attention of the Shu army, Liao Shanhe could have played a secret crossing of Chen Cang, and took the opportunity to attack the Shu army at Jianmen Pass and caught him off guard.

Liao Shanhe is a anxious temper. Since he has already discussed it, he will do it as soon as possible and will never delay the mud.

Camping in mountainous areas is the first thing to do with fire prevention, followed by dew prevention. Tens of thousands of troops gathered in the area. If they don’t pay attention to fire prevention, they will easily be taken advantage of by the enemy, resulting in a disaster.

There is a lot of dew in the mountains. If soldiers do not pay attention to keeping warm and sleep in the open air, they will easily suffer from rheumatism.

As usual, after Li Zhongyi hurriedly finished dinner, he planned to go around and check the army's camping situation.

Just when the tent was about to be released, Liao Shanhe formulated a new combat plan and entered the Central Army camp.

Li Zhongyi looked carefully, couldn't help but smile, looked up at Yang Wushuang, and said, "Here, this is Liao Xiaoda's combat plan, you can take a look."

Yang Wushuang took over the combat plan, looked at it repeatedly several times, bowed and smiled, "Congratulations to the emperor, your hard work in cultivation has not been in vain."

Li Zhongyi nodded and said, "As the saying goes, it is easy to get a thousand troops, but it is hard to find a general. In the future, our army will inevitably attack the Khitan in the north. At that time, let Liao Xiaoda lead the army alone."

Yang Wushuang bowed and said, "Our soldiers are the best soldiers. With the command of good generals, they will surely be able to attack the Tatars in the north and conquer Shangjing."

In the General Senate Department, it was not someone else who was responsible for formulating the Northern Expedition plan, but Yang Wushuang.

To be honest, over the years, the Northern Expedition's combat plan has been in trouble with Yang Wushuang's hands.

The Shu army just occupied the dangers of mountains and rivers, and its combat effectiveness was very limited and not worth worrying about.

The real troubles of the Central Plains have always been the Khitan in the north. After destroying Shu Kingdom, the next step is to prepare for the Northern Expedition.

According to Yang Wushuang's plan, the Han army in the Northern Expedition would require at least 300,000 people. Among them, the cavalry would be at least 800,000 to 100,000. Otherwise, even if the Khitan army was defeated head-on, it would be difficult to maximize the results of the battle.

The current strategic situation is no longer the era when Chai Rong was in power. The most important difference is that the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun have returned to the embrace of the Han Dynasty.

In this way, the Han army's northern expedition could rely on Yanshan and the Great Wall as a starting position. It can attack and retreat and defend, and the strategic situation is very good.

As for the cavalry, it is actually not difficult to gather 80,000 to 100,000 people.

After all, Li Zhongyi started his business in the northwest. After cruelly suppressing the Tuoba family of the Dangxiang tribe, the Dangxiang divisions in Lingxia prefectures had been depressing for more than ten years.

According to the habit of the Han army sending troops, it is definitely impossible to mobilize cavalry from the northwest to keep the strong men of all ethnic groups in Dangxiang and give them the opportunity to invade the rebellion.

In the northwest, as long as the Han army attacks, the Dangxiang tribes must follow the old rules of drawing one digit or even one digit of five digits to attack together.

Of course, Song Yunxiang has been stationed in Lingzhou for so many years. In addition to intimidating the various divisions of the Dangxiang tribe with his powerful military power, his often do things to provoke relations between various tribes, and even secretly instigated them to fight for the fertile pasture.

As the saying goes, if one is not a person of my race, his heart will be different.

Before following Li Zhongyi, Song Yunxiang was a minor official in the Lingzhou Prefecture Office. He had witnessed with his own eyes how the various tribes of the Dangxiang tribe did evil countless times.

Therefore, Li Zhongyi consciously arranged for Song Yunxiang and his son to take charge of Lingxia, with the purpose of making him try every means to weaken the strength of the various departments of the Dangxiang.

To reduce the male population of the Dangxiang clan as much as possible, and to continuously migrate the Han people in the Central Plains to go to the northwest to cultivate land and cultivate land in the border areas. This has always been the highest border policy implemented by the Han Dynasty for a long time!

In layman's terms, the more Han people are scrambling to farm with swords, the more stable the border areas are!

When the Han army launched a large-scale northern expedition, a large number of barbarian cavalry were drawn from the various departments of the Dangxiang department and sent them to the battlefield, taking the opportunity to consume some of the strong Dangxiang barbarians. Then the Khitans and Dangxiang people were both weakened. Wouldn't it be beautiful?

In the forest, Liao Shanhe held a small tree with one hand and wiped the hot sweat from his face. He sighed secretly in his heart that climbing a mountain was indeed very exhausting.

After a whole night of trekking between the mountains, the entire vanguard had 3,000 people. Except for one thousand people responsible for dragging the cannons, the remaining two thousand people had penetrated into the mountains less than five miles from Jianmen Pass.

Liao Shanhe took a short rest for a while, continued to climb up the top of the mountain, held up a monocular lens, and carefully observed the terrain near Jianmen Pass.

Although Liao Shanhe has studied countless times on the sand table and map, the field investigation of the terrain is still irreplaceable.

After a while, Liao Shanhe slowly lowered his monocular lens and was secretly shocked. What a majestic and dangerous obstacle!

Due to the unique terrain between two mountains and one pass, Liao Shanhe could see it very clearly. It was obviously unlikely that the entire vanguard army would cross mountains and ridges to bypass Jianmen Pass.

The two high mountains at Jianmen Pass were piled up into the sky, almost perpendicular to the ground. Moreover, according to preliminary observations, there were no less than two thousand troops on the two mountains.

Obviously, the Shu army had learned the failed lessons of the fall of Yangping Pass and controlled the two peaks of Jiaguan as the focus of defense.

Liao Shanhe thought about it for a long time and finally concluded that no matter how difficult it is, he must send a death squad to capture the two peaks in Jiaguan. At least, one peak needs to be captured.

As long as there is a mountain in hand, even if you don’t need the Huihui cannon and artillery, the cocktail thrown by a simple catapult is enough to burn the Jianmen Pass into a sea of ​​fire.

The problem now is how to climb a mountain that is hundreds of feet smoothly. This is indeed a headache!

If you have any problems, you will find a senator. This has become one of the most basic combat principles in the entire Han army.

Liao Shanhe summoned the senators together again, and everyone gathered on the grass and sat in a circle.

"Everyone, I believe everyone has seen it. Jianmen Pass is worthy of being the most dangerous pass in the world. In front of you, the terrain between two mountains and one pass is indeed very difficult. I thought that you must take down at least one of the two peaks. I wonder what you have to think?" Liao Shanhe was anxious and could not learn Li Zhongyi's slight weight, so he simply shook all the difficulties straightforwardly.

In fact, in the backup plan formulated by the Senate Department, there is a plan to secretly send people to climb two peaks. However, Liao Shanhe is not very clear about the real combat effectiveness of the mountaineering officers and soldiers, which requires the knowledgeable senators to be responsible for explaining.

Seeing that the senators were looking at Yang Gang who had always been as stable as Mount Tai, Liao Shanhe couldn't help but turn his head and stare at Yang Gang very seriously.

Yang Gang said with a smile: "To be honest, when the emperor chose the officers and soldiers of the special operations camp, he was one of the first batch of officers to be trained. The chief officer may not know that ten years ago, the emperor specially trained a large number of soldiers who were more elite than the old hunters in the mountains, and was waiting for the day of attacking Shu."

"The difficulty of Shu Road is as difficult as climbing to the sky. If we rely solely on manpower to attack the various passes of the Shu army, even if we finally take down Chengdu Prefecture, our army's casualties will definitely not be too small." Yang Gang looked at Liao Shanhe with a smile and explained in detail, "The three thousand engineer battalions that the emperor gave to the Grand General are all experts in climbing mountaineering. From a certain family's perspective, it is hard to say that they are walking on flat ground. At least it cannot be considered a particularly difficult task."

Liao Shanhe suddenly realized, patted his forehead and smiled, "I said, the emperor insisted on sending these 3,000 people to me. It turns out that he had already made preparations."

Yang Gang smiled slightly, and the emperor ordered him to secretly assist Liao Shanhe in making achievements, and what he was waiting for was the good time now.

The emperor once said, times have changed, and war weapons have also changed. Generals must learn new war models and cannot be self-confidence.

Yang Gang deeply agrees with this. Specifically, he fights whatever kind of weapon he has.
To be continued...