The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 545 Sending troops to Hanzhong
The current owner of Hanzhong is Zhang Lu of the Five Dou Rice Sect. Although this person is dedicated to contributing to Taoism, if you think that this person is a Taoist and kind person, it is a big mistake!
Fans of the Three Kingdoms know that Zhang Lu is the third person in the Five Dou Mi Dao Ren Tianshi. According to legend, this person is the tenth grandson of Zhang Liang, the Liuhou of the Western Han Dynasty, so in terms of blood, he is of the same clan as the unknown Zhang Fan under Lu Heng's command.

This person is Zhang Ling, the patriarch of Taoism, Zhang Daoling, the grandson of Zhang Daoling. Because of the unclear relationship, Zhang Lu gained Liu Yan's trust.

Then Liu Yan sent Zhang Xiu and Zhang Lu to take Hanzhong together, and Zhang Lu killed Zhang Xiu to form a relationship similar to Liu Biao and Huang Zu.

Therefore, almost all games have wrong settings at the beginning. Zhang Lu is actually Liu Yan's general and then rebelled and separatist, instead of occupying Hanzhong from the beginning.

For such a person who relies on his mother to ascend to power, kills his colleagues, and rebels against his boss, if he is said to be a kind-hearted person, it is a matter of opinion.

In the original time and space, Cao Cao’s fight against Hanzhong was after the Battle of Chibi, and he had already unified the north, and then Liu Bei entered Yizhou. Maybe Cao Cao felt that Liu Bei was going to let himself go, so he personally led [-] troops to take down Hanzhong to prevent Liu Bei from becoming bigger. .

Because Hanzhong has been the barrier to the north of Yizhou since ancient times, with the Qinling Mountains in the north and Bashan Mountain in the south, everyone who reads this novel knows its importance so I won’t go into details.

However, in this time and space, Cao Cao wanted to wrestle with Zhang Lu more than ten years earlier. This time, not only Zhang Lu’s younger brother Zhang Wei felt that Cao Cao was not good, but even Cao Cao, who was in Zhang Lu’s capital, was beaten and retreated to Sili. Maybe you can rely on natural dangers and keep the enemy at the door, right?

The Battle of Hanzhong this time was different from the original time and space. In that generation, Cao Cao actually fought from west to east. After taking Liangzhou, he went down to Bian, attacked Yangping Pass, passed through Mianyang, and finally attacked Nanzheng.

And a year later, Liu Bei also fought from Yangping Pass to Hanzhong where Xiahouyuan was stationed at that time. After Liu Bei couldn't beat Yangping Pass, he transferred heavy troops from Chengdu, forced a road from Mishan, and appeared behind Xiahouyuan. Army Hill.

Everyone knows what happened afterwards. Huang Zhong beheaded Xia Houyuan, and Cao Cao personally led the army to Hanzhong to fight with Liu Bei. After two years, Cao Cao finally gave up Hanzhong and returned to the north.

But in this time and space, because Xiliang, especially Longxi County, is in the hands of Ma Teng, it is impossible for Cao Cao to argue from the bottom, unless Ma Teng is destroyed first, so he can only choose to fight Hanzhong from Chang'an.

From Chang'an to Hanzhong is from Chang'an to the south. Many people know that there are three roads on this route, the ancient road in the west, the Baoxie road in the middle, and the Ziwu Valley in the east.

That's right, it was Wei Yan's suggestion of taking the Ziwu Valley. As long as Ziwu Valley was mentioned, it would be described as Wei Yan's proposal to take the Ziwu Valley. Zhuge Liang denied this path, and those who attacked Zhuge Liang also used this to attack Zhuge Liang's use of troops as being too rigid.

Then let’s take a look at the fate of those who really walked through the Ziwu Valley. First of all, there are no successful cases of large-scale marches through the Ziwu Valley in history. You read that right, zero, not even one.

What we are talking about here is a large-scale march, not one or two people rushing on the road, which is beyond the scope of our discussion if we don't mention it.

Next, let's take a look at what happened to the 'violent men' who walked through the Meridian Valley.

In the eighth year of Jianxing, that is, in 230, Cao Zhen, the general of Cao Wei, led an army of [-] to attack Shuhan.

Sima Yi, Zhang He, Guo Huai, Fei Yao and other generals led partial divisions to advance from other roads, while Cao Zhen himself led the main force to attack Hanzhong of the Shu Han through Ziwu Valley.

As a result, before they were halfway there, it rained heavily and the road was blocked, so Cao Zhen had no choice but to retreat.

In the tenth year of Yonghe, in 354, Huan Wen, the power minister of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, led an army to the Northern Expedition to the former Qin Dynasty.

Huan Wen himself led the main force to attack the Guanzhong area along the Han River from Jiangling; Sima Xun, the clan of the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the governor of Liangzhou, went northward to attack Chang'an from Ziwu Valley, and the two armies attacked the former Qin in Guanzhong.

Let’s skip Huanwen’s road, but Sima Xun’s troops were defeated by the famous former Qin general Fu Xiong (Fu Jian’s father) because of the terrain and command problems in Ziwu Valley. They had to retreat to the fortress and could not move forward.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, in 1636, Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the peasant uprising army in the late Ming Dynasty, led the main force from Hanzhong, and went northward to attack Xi'an through the Meridian Valley.

As a result, Gao Yingxiang was ambushed by Sun Chuanting, the governor of Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty at the north entrance of the Ziwu Valley, and fell into a desperate situation because of the terrain of the Ziwu Valley.

Gao Yingxiang's peasant uprising army was wiped out, and Gao Yingxiang himself was captured by Sun Chuanting. Gao Yingxiang was then sent to Beijing Lingchi to be executed.

In modern times, in 1936, Zhang Xueliang and Yang Hucheng detained Chiang Kai-shek in Xi'an, namely the "Xi'an Incident".

Wang Yaowu, the commander of the 51st Division of the National Army stationed in Hanzhong and a general of Chiang Kai-shek's direct line, immediately led his troops northward to "rescue him" after learning of the "Xi'an Incident", and took Ziwu Valley to attack Xi'an.

However, due to the lack of terrain and preparations in the Ziwu Valley, Wang Yaowu did not leave the Ziwu Valley for three days, and the troops even ran out of water.

And Zhang Xueliang deployed heavy troops to defend at the north exit of Ziwu Valley. Wang Yaowu, who was already dying of thirst, would probably be wiped out even if he walked out of Ziwu Valley.

Cao Zhen, Sima Xun, Gao Yingxiang, and Wang Yaowu all left the Meridian Valley. They either couldn’t go on halfway because of the heavy rain in the rainy season, or they were blocked by the intersection and the whole army was wiped out. All roads are dead ends.

If this is not intuitive, let’s talk about a certain Three Kingdoms game 11. This map restoration is still relatively high. Although the Hanzhong area is a bit wrong, for example, Yangping Pass should be in the west, not in the north of Hanzhong (Yangping Pass in the game, In fact, it combines the downward Bianguan Road with Yangpingguan and Baoxie Road).

But the other two roads are basically correct. The first one on the left is the ancient road, and the trail on the far right that is sure to run out of food is Ziwu Valley. You can send a large army to walk around and try it out. As long as a military camp is set up at the intersection, everything will be over!
Therefore, our classmate Wei Yan did not set the above four people as an example. I really want to thank Prime Minister Zhuge. Of course, Wei Yan and Zhuge Liang are confused, and it is not within the scope of this discussion.

So this time Cao Cao sent troops without considering the Ziwu Valley at all, and chose to divide his troops into two groups, letting the general Xia Houyuan take Teng Jian, Teng Jian, Xu Huang and others to take the ancient road, while Cao Cao personally led the main force to take the Bao ramp, going forward in a mighty way. Depart from Hanzhong.

It's not that no one has traveled this road. When Deng Ai destroyed Shu in the original time and space, entering Hanzhong is the road Cao Cao is taking this time.

On the other hand, Zhang Lu sent his younger brother Zhang Wei to guard the ancient road, and he personally led the troops to guard the Bao ramp. The war is about to break out!
(End of this chapter)