Lord of the House

Jiangxi is surrounded by mountains on three sides and the river in the north.

Shangrao is the eastern gateway of Jiangxi. When Wu, Chu, Fujian and Yue meet, it controls Fujian and Yue in the south, and leads two Zhejiang in the east. It is an important defense area in the east of Jiangxi. It is a traffic hub. The water of the Xinjiang River meets the Ganjiang River and enters the Poyang Lake, and connects to the Quzhou Basin. (Guyuan in the middle of Zhejiang), and it is connected with two Zhejiang; Nantong Fuzhou, through Shanguan, Tieniuguan, and Fenshuiguan can enter Shaowu in northern Fujian.

If Shangrao is lost, not only will the gateway to Jiangxi be opened, but the connection between northern Fujian and Jiangxi will also be cut off.

By the first ten days of November, the She family had gathered more than 30,000 troops in the east of Shangrao with Shangrao City as the center; and Huaidong, with Quzhou as the center, had increased to 50,000 troops in the west of Quzhou.

This number has already exceeded the number of soldiers set by the Privy Council for the Chongcheng Army at the beginning of the year. In addition to the main soldiers of the Chongcheng Army, it also includes the former Zhedong battalion army and the new soldiers recruited from Quzhou and other places in the later period.

By this time, the battle of Shangrao was already an arrow to the wind, and it was imperative.

The Chongcheng Army was stationed in Jiangshan County. On the tenth day of the eleventh month, they split their troops out of the city, avoided the fortresses built by the Zhejiang-Fujian Army in Litang, and advanced westward along the Fenglin River to attack the Zhejiang-Fujian Army's beacon fire pier on Guanxi Ridge. Open the prelude to the Shangrao War.

Guanxi Ridge is the division between Jiangshan County and Hengshan County, and it is also the watershed of Shangshanxi, Fenglinxi and Xinjiang branch of the Qujiang branch. It is the remnant of the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain. There are three beacon fire piers built to warn the enemy.

Li Baidao took off his saber from his waist, stood leaning on the ground, raised his brows and leopard eyes, staring at the hundreds of soldiers from the two flanks of a steep **** about a hundred feet deep, holding shields to suppress the attack.

The place where Li Baidao stood was originally a valley, with houses intertwined, and it was a small village with about ten families. At this time, the village was already empty. Both sides have each added troops to the border areas. Farmers in the deep mountains will either serve as servants for the levy, or they will leave their hometowns early and leave this right and wrong place. Where can they find people?

The beacon fire pier is built on the gap of the ridge. Although the beacon fire pier is built, the ridge road on the left and right will be cut off, but from the weeds and shrubs of the withered and prosperous, you can still see the relics of the predecessor Fanshan crossing the mountain. At this time, the beacon fire pier blocked the mouth of the ridge and became a roadblock. From the pier platform, several pillars of black smoke like pillars rushed to the clouds, and the horn sounded between the mountains and valleys, not only on the side of Guanxi Ridge, but also in Zhejiang and Fujian in the north. Beacon fire piers set up in Qingyangling, Tuozishan and other places also burned wolf smoke.

The scouts who have touched the ridge have observed the enemy's garrison in Shanxi Sai, and have sent more than a thousand reinforcements here. Before the enemy reinforcements arrived, they failed to capture a beacon fire pier and stood on the ridge of Guanxi Ridge. This attack could only be regarded as a failure.

The many attacks launched today are false elsewhere, only Li Baidao knows that this is true in Guanxi Ridge.

Shangrao is between Huaiyu Mountain and Wuyi Mountain. The mountains at the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain and the northern foot of Wuyi Mountain are the watersheds between Xinjiang River and Qujiang River. Going directly westward from Quzhou, the most spacious and easy passage is the Tongkou Valley Road at the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain. It is also the main post road connecting Zhejiang and Jiangxi all the time. After the jaw pass, there is Changshan County, an important town in the east of Shangrao.

After the luxury family abandoned Quzhou, they built several more military fortresses around Zhekou Pass, completely blocking the Zhekou post road.

In addition to Zhekou Pass, in the northwest of Jiangshan County in the southwest of Quzhou, between Xianyan Mountain and Dayao Mountain, there is Pingyi Valley Road, which can directly reach the western border of Changshan County and the bank of Xinjiang River. There is a town named Litang between Jiangshan County and Changshan Mountain. Dabu, Hengshan, Shangrao, and other counties are connected. This branch is also called Litang Road, so that business travelers from Minjun that enter Jiangxi from Pucheng and Xianxialing can avoid going to the Baili Road from Quzhou.

The luxury family built a number of gates between Xianyan Mountain and Dayao Mountain, and closed the Litang Post Road.

These barriers and defenses, together with Changshan, Hengshan, and Shangrao Zhucheng on the inner line, constitute the Shangrao line of defense of the luxury family on the east line.

Tongkou Road and Litang Road are the only two main roads between Shangrao and Quzhou that do not need to go over mountains and mountains.

Of course, between the mountains at the southern foot of Huaiyu Mountain and the northern foot of Wuyi Mountain, there are countless dangerous trails leading to the two places. From Jiangshan County to the southwest along Fenglin Stream, before reaching Guanxi Ridge, there are also trails used by pharmaceutical farmers and mountain people in the early years to reach the southern border of Hengshan County.

The easy-to-follow gaps on the ridges have long blocked the beacon fire piers for luxury homes, creating many obstacles for people.

However, although Guanxi Ridge is dangerous, it is fortunate that the mountain is thin and thin. From this steep **** across the valley road, it is only three or two miles deep, and it reaches the upper reaches of Shanxi. There are valley passages that can directly attack the periphery of Shangrao. , The relatively weak Hengshan and Shanxi Zhuhai.

In order to spare the fortresses and fortifications that the Zhejiang and Fujian troops had built in Litang, Tongkou and other places and stationed heavy troops, crossing Guanxi Ridge was one of the options for the Huaidong Army to move westward.

No matter how dangerous the mountains are, there are also steep and concave along the mountain, and there are also rain streams that are washed down by the rain and are heavily weathered. These are often shortcuts and gaps to climb over the mountains. It's just that the gap on the front of Guanxi Ridge was blocked by a beacon tower for the luxury house, and it became dangerous and abnormal. The trees in front of the beacon fire pier were also set on fire, leaving only the bare steep **** and a few new shrubs and weeds.

The soldiers held shields to suppress the attack, and a large number of large stones and giant trees were suddenly dropped from the beacon fire pier. The stone and wood rolled down the Yuxi Road between the dangerous slopes, and rolled down together with the gravel accumulated over the years in the Yuxi Road. The momentum was terrifying, and many soldiers were unable to avoid them. The rest can only hide in the bushes and trees on both sides.

Seeing that it was extremely difficult to get up from the gap on the front of the beacon fire pier, Li Baidao asked his soldiers to use a troop shovel to dig mountain climbing holes in the dangerous places on both sides, so that people had a place to step on their feet, and climbed over a section of ten feet high, which was not easy for rolling stones. The cliff that hits directly…

The troop shovel can be used as a shovel and hoe, digging soil and breaking rocks, cutting branches and breaking trees, and in the blink of an eye, a steep plank road can be dug up for soldiers to climb on. Attack to the angle and climb to the ridge.

You can't attack directly with the rolling stone wood, even the arrows shot by the bow and bow will not pose such a big threat to the Huaidong soldiers in strong armor and shields.

Soon, about half a battalion of soldiers touched the ridge and attacked the beacon fire tower, which was more than 30 feet high.

Although the luxury family invested a lot of resources to build the defense line in Shangrao in the later stage, but ultimately limited by financial resources, it was impossible to build every beacon fire pier as a gate.

The beacon fire pier at the Guanxiling Pass is more than 30 feet high, and the surrounding area is only 20 steps. The space in the pier is very narrow, only equivalent to a small courtyard on a mountain ridge.

The Huaidong Army rushed up, and dozens of kerosene tanks were thrown in one after another.

The soldiers of the Zhejiang and Fujian troops, who were surrounded by fire, tumbled from the pier and escaped, and it was only the help of the Huaidong Army that put out the residual fire. At this time, the Zhejiang and Fujian troops who came from Shanxi Village had just arrived at the foot of the west foot of Guanxi Mountain. Seeing the beacon fire pier falling, they swarmed to suppress the attack, and they were about to retake this mountain pass.

Although the western **** of Guanxi Ridge is relatively slow, the Huaidong Army's Jia soldiers have the advantage of commanding the enemy at this time, which is enough. collapse.

Li Baidao climbed the ridge for the Hu Cong, and watched as his battalion was about to organize soldiers to rush down the west **** to chase down the routed soldiers. Logging and burying the fence at the easy place, another side organized troops and horses to widen the dangerous and steep trails at the western foot of the road as much as possible, and further afield, the post and cavalry were galloping towards Jiangshan City to announce the capture of Guanxi Ridge.

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The Huaidong Army's tactics became conservative, and when they captured Guanxiling, they let go of the defeated troops and did not pursue them, making She Feixiong's ambush deployed between the Xiaxi Au on the back of Guanxiling unable to function.

In Shanxi Village, receiving the news that Guanxiling was lost and the Huaidong Army was standing in Guanxiling, She Feixiong frowned, his face was heavy, and he did not slow down for a long time.

The chief general of Shangrao was originally Sima Deng Yu, a farmer. After She Feixiong led his troops to assist Shangrao, Deng Yu was changed to the deputy commander. Other generals such as Shi Hejin and Wang Hui guarded various key points and organized logistical supplies.

"Could it be that the Huaidong Army wants to open Guanxi Ridge and turn Guanxi Ridge into the main passage to attack Shangrao from the west?" She Feixiong stared at the map on the long case and asked with a frown.

She Feixiong seemed to be muttering to himself, all the generals looked at each other in dismay, what was the reason for the Huaidong Army to give up the jaws and the easy valley road of Litang instead of taking the Guanxiling trail? It doesn't mean that the Huaidong Army occupies Guanxi Ridge, so they can directly attack Shangrao City along Shanxi River. Along the shore of Shanxi, Shanxi Village and Hengshan City are interdependent, and it is also an important place for Zhejiang and Fujian troops.

Even if Huaidong soldiers and horses can climb over Guanxi Ridge and descend along Shanxi River, how can tens of thousands of grains pass through Guanxi Ridge?

"The surrounding terrain of Shanxi Village is open, and although it is at the corner of Hengshan City, to defend it, you need to fill in more troops here," Deng Yu said, "The Huaidong Army may not be in a hurry to conquer it. Shangrao, but constantly stretched the line of defense to confront us, dragging us down!"

She Feixiong took a charcoal pen and marked a mark on the map Guanxi Ridge.

Indeed, although the passages of the jaws and Litang are much wider than the Yuling Pass, they are, after all, a valley road sandwiched between Huaiyu Mountain and Wuyi Mountain. Entering tens of thousands of elites, even if Huaidong assembled hundreds of thousands of troops, it would be difficult to deploy a superior force.

Sudden onslaught is likely to repeat the mistakes of She Feixiong's repeated setbacks in front of Yuling Pass. Opening up new channels and lengthening the line of defense will enable the Huaidong Army to exert its strength and material advantages, and make Zhejiang and Fujian more powerful. The defenders were exhausted.

The Shanxi Passage is located at the innermost side, so the terrain is more open, and once Huaidong captures the Shanxi Fortress and Hengshan City, Changshan Fortress, Tongkou Pass and Litang Fortresses can be cut apart from Shangrao. However, the Huaidong Army wanted to gather troops and horses to attack Shanxisai and Hengshan City, and first of all, it had to solve the bottle-mouth restriction of Guanxiling on the supply of grain.

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