sweeping the world

Chapter 248 Official Raise
Tongguan was established at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is located in the east of the Guanzhong Plain and occupies the center of the three provinces of Qin, Jin and Henan.The situation in Tongguan is very dangerous. There are Qinling Mountains in the south, Forbidden Valley in the southeast, and many cities in the south of the valley;Surrounded by mountains, peaks and peaks, deep valleys and cliffs, high mountains and narrow roads, there is a narrow trail in the middle, which can only accommodate one car and one horse.Therefore, Tongguan is an important place among the important military places.

Xiaoguan is located in the lower reaches of Bashui River, with the continuous Zhongling Mountains to the north, Lantian to the west, basin to the south, and Shangluo to the east.It's hard to tell when it was established. It should have been built in the Cao Wei period. After reinforcements in the Western Jin Dynasty, it was expanded again and again in the later period of the Xiongnu Liu's Zhao State to form Xiongguan.

In fact, there is a Lantian Pass behind Xiaoguan, but because of the existence of Xiaoguan in front of it, the importance of Lantian Pass has continued to decline. After a long period of disrepair, Lantian Pass has been half abandoned.

Shi Hu asked Ran Min to bring only 20 troops, and Ran Min really brought [-] troops. Besides the troops, didn't he also need civilians?No one has stipulated that [-] troops limit how many militiamen to bring, so nearly [-] militiamen are not too much, right?

Looking at the structure of 20 civilians, about 14 are young and strong, and the rest are old and weak, women and children.Looking at the baggage carried by Ran Min's army, there are more than [-] animal-drawn carts, at least [-] shi of grain and fodder, and some ordnance, cloth and miscellaneous things.

4 animal-drawn carts, pulled by more than 4000 horses and [-] cattle, and nearly [-] horses and more than [-] cattle as backup.Needless to say, the horse is actually a part of the horse, and the reason why the horse is drawn by the horse is completely out of camouflage.

The weapons traded between Ran Min and the Han Dynasty were relatively miscellaneous. Most of them were gun heads, swords, and arrowheads, and a small amount of swords and horse spears. The total number of melee weapons reached 25, and the number of arrowheads was [-].In terms of armor, there are [-] pairs of iron armor and [-] pairs of leather armor.And this is the transaction of the next period, without counting the previous two years.

Among the transactions between the two parties, the amount of salt and salted fish is the largest, so much that Ran Min provides it to the headquarters and sells it outside. It has been an important source of money for Ran Min in recent years.

"So many were traded to us, the amount in Liu Yan's hands can be imagined." Ran Min said enviously: "In just four short years, we have grown from nothing, and it is hard to imagine how to develop to have the strength we have today."

"Exactly!" Wang Jian said slowly: "A lot of things are not rumors. Liu Yan really has tens of thousands of soldiers in his hands. That's the number at the beginning. Now there will be at least [-]. That's the number of soldiers in every country. It is difficult to do things even with the strength of soldiers. Not only infantry and armored soldiers, there are also tens of thousands of armored horses!"

There are not as many armored soldiers in Liu Yan's hands as [-], and it should be less than [-]. After all, there is no "summoning" of swordsmen in the future, but the number of unsystematic armored soldiers continues to increase.

Armored cavalry refers to armored heavy cavalry. The real number of armored heavy cavalry in Liu Yan's hands is only [-], that is, the tiger and cardinal army. The rest of the cavalry in the system only have people with armor, and the horses have no armor. protection.

Of course, only a few core personnel of that force would know how many arms any force had, and outsiders could only rely on guesswork.

"They also have strong crossbowmen and repeated crossbowmen." Jiang Gan was talking about the new troops that appeared in the Han army during the battle of Taishan County: "They were hidden before, but they were exposed during the battle with Deng Heng."

There was a sound of breathing just like that. With so many armored soldiers and armored cavalry equipment, and a considerable number of crossbowmen, they couldn't figure out how Liu Yan developed to have such a strong production capacity.

"We will also have strong crossbows and continuous crossbows." Ran Min gave his subordinates a shot in the arm: "It will be delivered in two months at the latest."

Ran Min and Liu Yan have frequent transactions, but the transaction method is a bit special. What Liu Yan needs is not money, and Ran Min's payment method is people.

In the back and forth transactions, Liu Yan obtained more than 18 people from Ran Min, most of whom were miscellaneous people.In the following transactions, the number of Jin people sent by Ran Min increased sharply, and the last batch reached [-] Jin people, but the number of young people was small, and most of them were old and weak women and children.

Liu Yan has an almost non-rejecting attitude, and he didn't say much about the large number of old and weak women and children from Jin. After all, it can be seen that Ran Min is arranging the matter of raising troops. Although he was taken advantage of, he accepted the old and weak women and children. It's like helping Ran Min prepare for the battle, which is good for everyone.

Tiaoyou asked excitedly, "How much?"

"Two thousand strong crossbows and five hundred continuous crossbows." Wang Jian said with some regret: "The arrows need to be made by ourselves."

"That's nothing!" Tiao You was very happy: "That's a crossbow! I don't know how many times stronger than a bow!"

With the ordnance that Ran Min carried, it would be no problem to arm another 6 or [-] people. He really wanted to do something big when he entered Guanzhong this time.

Guanzhong is a good place. Even if the Zhengguo Canal is destroyed and abandoned, it still cannot change the fact that Guanzhong is a granary.

Because of the national policy of Zhao State in Shijie, the elites of Qiang and Di were all in Xiang State, which gave Ran Min a chance to occupy Guanzhong.They have already figured it out. Immediately controlling Tongguan, Xiaoguan, and Lantianguan after entering Guanzhong is equivalent to locking the throat of Guandong entering Guanzhong.

When Ran Min wanted to enter the customs, in addition to the 20 reorganized troops and [-] civilians, there were also people who spontaneously followed and relocated one after another.

The huge team arrived in Mianchi, how could the Fu clan not be nervous?You must know that the army and civilians are not so clear these days, young and strong can go to the battlefield with a little armament.Therefore, the reason Fu Jian gave after stopping Ran Min was that the number of people led by Ran Min greatly exceeded the number given by Shi Hu, and he refused to allow Ran Min to enter Guanzhong.

"Seven days!" Ran Min raised his hands and clenched them into fists: "Seven days is the time limit, if Fu Jian doesn't move out of the way, he will attack directly!"

Fu Jian probably wanted to scare Ran Min as much as possible, so there should be about [-] soldiers from the Di tribe?

Although the Shijie State of Zhao attaches great importance to the two thugs of the Qiang and Di people, the restrictions on the two groups are also very serious. The number of clan soldiers of the clan.

There are definitely more than 200 million Qiang people living in the Northwest. Due to the restrictions of the stone tigers, there are only about [-] Qiang soldiers in formation.It is a joke to say that there are not more clan soldiers in private, but because the restrictions are too rigid, they cannot be reorganized publicly, and it is difficult to build ordnance. The quality of the clan soldiers in secret must be much worse than the public ones.

The Di tribe had a similar situation. Shihu allowed the Di tribe to recruit [-] troops in Guanzhong, which was a bit difficult in private, but Fu Jian brought [-] troops here, which meant he gave Ran Min a good chance.

"Most of the main soldiers are here. As long as they are defeated, it will be difficult for them to gather troops again in a short time." Wang Jian paused, waiting for everyone to digest the information, and then said: "The more troublesome thing is later, the Di people will definitely be with them." We fought wantonly, and Xiangguo's reaction should also be taken into consideration."

Jiang Ganle snorted, and said: "It's very simple, just say that the Di people are going to rebel. No matter whether Xiangguo believes it or not, it's not wrong to confuse the situation first."

There are people rebelling everywhere in Zhao State of Shijie. Some time ago, the Shengqiang people in the northwest were still wantonly rioting, so why can't the Di people be in chaos?
Because there are riots happening everywhere, it is estimated that the center of Zhao State in Shijie has long been used to it?It is difficult to fabricate the rebellion of the Di people in Guanzhong. After all, Fu Hong has always stayed in Xiangguo, and the essence of the Di tribe is also near Xiangguo. Shihu can find out if Fu Hong really wants to rebel if he does a little research. Maybe it's just audio-visual confusion, buy more time.

Seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and Ran Min used this period of time to carry out various preparations, including controlling Mianchi and reorganizing [-] young men.

To put it bluntly, Ran Min's commanding army definitely has a way. Although those young men have been trained long ago, it is really not that easy to perfect the reorganization of 3 people in a short period of seven days.

"Ask Fu Jian to meet, Jie Shi, I will lead the army to charge the Qiang soldiers in the middle and take Fu Jian's head, and you will deal with the rest of the enemy." Ran Min was wearing heavy armor, and his horse Zhu Longma was also wearing armor.He holds a horse lance, two hooked halberds in his back, a battle sword hanging from his waist, and a riding bow and quiver on one side of the horse: "In the first battle, thirty thousand Qiang soldiers were wiped out!"

A group of people, even the scribes, were fully armed, and everyone had a piece of armor for riding and fighting, but the mounts were not armored.

In Mianchi City, there are soldiers ready to fight everywhere. The closest to the city gate are nearly [-] armored cavalry outfits, followed by at least [-] infantry wearing leather armor, and after that are some soldiers who only armed with armor. Weapons of infantry.

Don't pay too much attention to it, Ran Min's army does not have a uniform uniform, it looks like a motley patchwork of colors.The real situation is that the uniform uniforms of the entire Shijie State of Zhao are the Longteng Guards, and only the personal guards of the big shots wear uniforms.

Armored riding gear is considered the quintessence of a country, and how many armored riding gears there are means how powerful the power is.Before that, Ran Min also accumulated a lot of heavy armor, but he couldn't expose it, but it doesn't matter much now.

The knights in the armored riding gear under Ran Min's command are basically members from various families, and only those who can ensure sufficient and abundant food can have a strong body.

In fact, the same is true. The competition in the cold weapon battlefield is the system. After all, only enough physique can wear heavy armor and wield weapons. Let a skinny person wear a heavy armor of seventy or eighty kilograms without taking two steps. How to fight then?
Seeing Fu Jian unceremoniously leading an army of nearly [-] troops to the outside of Mianchi City, Ran Min first looked at the city tower for a while, and finally sneered: "Masters, this is the battle to capture Guanzhong!" Li Suo got on his horse and shouted, "Open the city gate!"

(End of this chapter)