Chapter 248

Tongguan was located in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. It is located in the east of Guanzhong Plain and occupies the important place of Qin, Jin and Henan provinces. The situation of Tongguan is very dangerous. There are Qinling Mountains in the South and forbidden valleys in the southeast. There are many cities in the south of the valley for a long time; There are two rivers of Wei and Luo in the north, the Yellow River embracing the pass and down, and Huayue in the West. It is surrounded by mountains, peaks, deep valleys and steep cliffs. The mountains are high and the road is narrow. There is a narrow sheep's intestines path in the middle, which can only accommodate one car and one horse. Therefore, Tongguan is an important military area.

Xiaoguan is located in the downstream of bashui, with continuous Zhongling mountain in the north, Lantian in the west, basin in the South and Shangluo in the East. It is difficult to tell when it was established. It was first set up in the Cao Wei period. After the reinforcement of the Western Jin Dynasty, it was expanded again and again in the later period of the Hun Liu's state of Zhao to form a Xiongguan.

In fact, there is another Lantian pass behind Xiaoguan. However, because there is a Xiaoguan in front, the importance of Lantian pass continues to decline. After it is in disrepair for a long time, Lantian pass is already in semi abandonment.

Shi Hu asked ran min to take only 10000 troops. Ran min really took 10000 troops. Don't you want civilian men in addition to the troops? No one has stipulated that the 10000 troops should limit the number of civilian soldiers. Isn't it too much to take nearly 200000 civilian soldiers?

Look at the structure of 200000 people, about 140000 young and strong, and the rest are old, weak, women and children. Look at the luggage carried by ran min's army. There are more than 30000 animal drawn carts, at least 70000 stones of grain and fodder, as well as some ordnance, cloth and miscellaneous things.

Thirty thousand animal drawn carts were pulled by more than 40000 horses and 20000 cattle. As a reserve, there were nearly 10000 horses and more than 4000 cattle. Needless to say, the horse is actually part of the war horse. The reason why the war horse pulls the car is entirely out of disguise.

The weapons traded between ran min and the Han Dynasty were quite miscellaneous. Most of them were gun heads, swords and arrowheads, and a small number of swords and horse names. The combined number of melee weapons reached 80000 and the number of arrowheads was 250000. In terms of armor, 1800 pairs of iron armor and 3000 pairs of leather armor. This is the transaction in the later period, not counting the previous two years.

In the bilateral transactions, the number of salt and salted fish is the largest. When ran min provides it to the headquarters, he can also sell it abroad. It is an important source of wealth for ran min in recent years.

"We can imagine the number of transactions in Liu Yan's hands." Ran Min said with envy: "in just four years, it's hard to imagine how to develop to have today's strength."

"Exactly!" Wang Jian said slowly, "many things are not rumors. There are really tens of thousands of warriors in Liu Yan's hands. That's still the number at the beginning. Now there will be at least 20000, which is difficult for all countries to do. There are tens of thousands of soldiers and cavalry equipment!"

Liu Yan doesn't have as many as 20000 warriors in his hands, which should be less than 5000. After all, there is no "summoning" swordsmen in the back, but the number of non systematic warriors continues to increase.

Armor mounted cavalry refers to heavy mounted cavalry. The number of real heavy mounted cavalry in Liu Yan's hand is only 1500, that is, the Huben army. The rest of the system cavalry are only people with armor, and horses have no armor protection.

Of course, the number and arms of any force, even if it is the force, only some core personnel will know, and the outside can only rely on speculation.

"They also have strong crossbow soldiers and crossbow soldiers." Jiang Gan said about the new arms of the Han Army during the war of Taishan County: "they were hidden before and were exposed only after fighting with Deng Heng."

The sound of breathing appeared. There were so many armour and armour riding equipment, and a considerable number of crossbow soldiers. They couldn't figure out how Liu Yan developed to have such a strong production capacity.

"We will also have strong crossbows and crossbows." Ran min gave his subordinates a tonic: "it will be shipped in two months at the latest."

The transactions between ran min and Liu Yan are very frequent, but there are some special transaction methods. What Liu Yan needs is not money, but ran min's payment method is people.

In the previous and subsequent transactions, Liu Yan obtained more than 180000 people from ran min, mostly some miscellaneous Hu. In the later transactions, the number of Jin people sent by ran min soared, and the last batch reached 40000 Jin people, that is, the number of young people is small, most of them are old, weak, women and children.

Liu Yan almost refused to come. He didn't say much about a large number of Jin people, old and weak women and children. After all, it can be seen that ran min is arranging to start the army. Although he was taken advantage of, receiving old and weak women and children is tantamount to helping ran min prepare for war, which is good for everyone.

Tiaoyou asked excitedly, "how much?"

"Two thousand strong crossbows and five hundred crossbows." Wang Jian said with some regret, "we need to make arrows ourselves."

"That's nothing!" TIAOYU was very happy: "that's a crossbow! I don't know how many times stronger it is than a bow!"

There is absolutely no problem arming another 50000 or 60000 people with the weapons carried by ran min. he really wants to do great things when he enters Guanzhong this time.

Guanzhong is a good place. Even if Zheng guoqu is destroyed and abandoned, it still can not change the fact that Guanzhong is a granary.

Because of the state policy of Zhao state in Shijie, the elite of the Qiang and the di nationality were all in Xiangguo, which gave him an opportunity to occupy Guanzhong. They have all thought about it. After entering Guanzhong, they immediately control Tongguan, Xiaoguan and Lantian pass, which is tantamount to locking Guandong's throat into Guanzhong. There is great potential in the interim.

When ran min wanted to enter Guanzhong, apart from 10000 reorganized troops and 200000 civilian men, there were also people who spontaneously followed the relocation.

How could the Fu family not be nervous when the huge team arrived in Mianchi? You should know that the army and civilian men are not so clear these days. The young and strong can be put into the battlefield with a little armed. Therefore, the reason Fu Jian gave after stopping ran min was that the people's Congress led by ran min greatly exceeded the number given by Shi Hu and refused ran min to enter Guanzhong.

"Seven days!" Ran min raised his hand and held it in a fist shape: "seven days is the deadline. If Fu Jian doesn't get out of the way, he will attack directly!"

Fu Jian probably wanted to scare ran min to the greatest extent. Should there be about 30000 Di soldiers?

Although Zhao state of Shijie attaches importance to the two players of the Qiang and the Di people, the restrictions on the two ethnic groups are also very serious. For example, the elite of the Qiang and the di nationality are restricted to be monitored near the Xiangguo area, and the number of soldiers of the two ethnic groups is strictly restricted.

There are definitely more than two million Qiang people living in the northwest. Due to the limitation of stone tiger, the number of Qiang soldiers is only about 80000. It's a joke to say that there are no more clan soldiers in private, but they are too restricted to be reorganized publicly. In addition, it is difficult to build weapons. The quality of clandestine clan soldiers must be much worse than those in public.

The situation is similar for the Di people. Shi Hu allowed the Di people to recruit 50000 troops in Guanzhong. It's hard to calculate privately, but Fu Jian brought 30000 here, which is tantamount to giving ran min a good opportunity.

"Most of the main soldiers are here. As long as they are defeated, it is difficult for them to gather troops again in a short time." Wang Jian paused and waited for the people to digest the information before saying, "the more troublesome thing is that the di nationality must fight with us wantonly, and the reaction of Xiang country should also be taken into account."

Jiang Ganle said, "it's very simple to say that the Di people want to oppose. No matter whether Xiangguo believes it or not, it's not wrong to confuse the situation first."

There are people everywhere in the state of Zhao in Shijie. Some time ago, Shengqiang in the northwest still made a lot of chaos, so why can't Di people make a mess?

Because there are riots everywhere, it is estimated that the center of the state of Zhao in Shijie has long been used to it? It is just a little bit difficult to fabricate the people in Guanzhong. After all, all of them have stayed in Xiang state. The essence of the tribe is also in the vicinity of Xiangguo. As long as the stone tiger can look it up a little, it will be able to know whether Hong Hong really needs to be reversed, so it can only be mixed with dishes and audio-visual, and strive for more time.

Seven days passed quickly. Ran min made many preparations during this period, including controlling Mianchi and reorganizing 30000 young people.

Speaking of it, ran min Tongjun definitely has a set. Although the young and strong have been trained before, it is really not so easy to improve the integration of 30000 people in a short seven days.

"I asked Fu Jian to meet. During this time, I led my army to charge the Qiang army. The central army took Fu Jian's head directly. You can deal with the rest of the enemy." Ran min wore heavy armour and rode on Zhu Longma. He had a horse in his hand, two halberds in his back, a sword hanging from his waist, and a riding bow and arrow bag on one side of the horse: "destroy 30000 Qiang soldiers in World War I!"

All the people, even the scribes, were fully armed. Everyone had a armor for riding and fighting, that is, the mount had no armor.

Mianchi city is full of soldiers ready to fight. The closest to the city gate is nearly 1500 armor and riding gear, followed by at least 3000 infantry wearing leather armor, and then some infantry only holding weapons.

Don't pay too much attention. Ran min's army has no uniform uniform. It looks colorful and miscellaneous. The truth is that the uniform of the whole Shijie state of Zhao is the Dragon Guard. Only the pro guards of various big people will wear a uniform. There is no uniform for the rest, whether they are County soldiers or anything.

Armour and riding gear are considered to be the essence of a country. How many armour and riding gear represent how strong the power is. Previously, ran min also saved a lot of heavy armor, but he can't be exposed, but now he doesn't have much so-called.

The knights in armor and riding gear under ran min's command are basically members of various families. Only those who can ensure sufficient and abundant food can have a strong physique.

In fact, that's also the case. The competition on the cold weapon battlefield is the system. After all, only enough physique can put on heavy armor and wave weapons, so that skinny people can wear heavy armor of 70 or 80 kilograms. They don't know how to fight without taking two steps?

Seeing Fu Jian impolitely leading nearly 20000 troops outside Mianchi City, ran min first looked at the city tower for a while, and finally sneered: "gentlemen, seize Guanzhong in this battle!", Then he took the lead in getting off the city gate. LISO turned over and got on his horse and shouted, "open the city gate!"