Although there are sporadic fights and shouts in Nanzheng City, which has successfully changed hands, it is difficult to change the fact that the jurisdiction of Xingyuan Prefecture and the location of the Shannanxi Jiedushi is already in the hands of the Taiping Army.

As the hub and key points connecting Sanchuan and the inner gates of the pass. The northwest here is the Qishan Road to Longnan, Tianxiong Army, and the gateway to the hinterland of Jiannan (East-West Sichuan) - Bailao Pass and Dingjun Mountain Village. It is also divided into the Micang Road in the south chin and the Jinniu Road to Guangyuan and Jianmen.

To the north is Chencang, Baoxie and Tangluo, three ancient roads of varying lengths. On the east is through Yangzhou, and to the south is the Lizhi Road to Bayu, to the north is Ziwu Road to enter the pass, and to continue to move east is the Xigu Road to enter the east of Shan (South).

However, Ge Congzhou, who was standing on Cheng's head, watched the figures of the horse galloping away again under the night, couldn't help but sigh in his heart. If it weren't for seeing it with his own eyes, how could he know that a person's encounter and opportunity could reach such a bizarre level? Even the officials who control the key points of the enemy's food supply are secret spies with secret communication. What kind of military secrets should be deliberately conserved?

Now, the four armies and seven capitals under the Sanguan Camp under Yang Fugong in Nanzheng City have all been destroyed or destroyed. On the contrary, Gao Renhou and others who fled north in the chaos and flee north still have a considerable number of Xichuan troops in Baocheng, and the Taiping Army in Xingyuan Prefecture is still the main opponent and threat of the Taiping Army in Xingyuan Prefecture.

At the same time, this battle also exposed many problems such as the Taiping Army's reliance on firearms too much in combat and not being closely connected with cold weapons. He also needed to reflect and summarize in time in order to make the next tactical planning more effectively. Especially the Shu Army's patience and tolerance for firearms this time also made him a little concerned.

This is obviously because of the failure to defeat the enemy with all its strength or annihilate its living forces in succession in the battles; and after reorganization, it learned corresponding experiences and lessons, made more tactical adjustments and attempts to adopt countermeasures. Therefore, in this decisive battle, although the Taiping Army killed only seven or eight hundred soldiers directly, the proportion of various injuries reached more than one-third of the Shandong Expeditionary Army.

Under the cover of night, the deputy envoy of Xingdazhi Transportation, who was running towards Bailao Pass, knew about the affairs of the Xichuan Grain Platform, guarded the Shen Ce vanguard, and the right Qianniu General Lin Shenhe, also felt a complex feeling. Once upon a time, the opportunity to return to the safe rear was just in front of him by chance, and then he gave up easily.

Because, in addition to the fact that he used to convince himself and others, and to continue to lurk in Xichuan with his current status and qualifications, he could give more superficial reasons for the Taiping Army Grand Governor's Office; he could not let go of his wife Li, who stayed in Jianzhou, and he could not let go of the children she had born in her belly; at least, he had no reason to let them down and needed to arrange a suitable opportunity to escape.

Therefore, he could only ask Ge Congzhou, the only general who knew his identity, to accompany him in such a good hunt and siege and killing scene; to remove the suspicion of the people he brought to him, or the suspects under Li Shouzhen, and then take the remaining trusted subordinates back.

Of course, in order to win the trust, he also specially used the central official who spoke for him in front of Yang Fugong and one of Li Wenge's adopted sons, Li Changwei, to rescue him as a witness after the incident from the chaos. Then, he ran into the marching Sima Hu Yanquan, a member of the camp of Yang Fugong Dasanguan.

Therefore, when the sky turned white again, Lin Shenhe and his group who had arrived in front of Bailao Pass (now southwest of Mian County, Shaanxi Province) were welcomed in without any obstacles as soon as they called the door. However, he was also careful and drained the Wei Xiaogou, one of his entourages, and now the guard team of Wei Mancang, who was a big name, and said that they would continue to gather the old subordinates who had fled back.

So in the evening of that day, more than hundreds of defeated soldiers under the banner of the Tianwu Army, one of the four armies, fled in a mess, and shouted "The Great Village of Dingjun Mountains fell" and "The Xichuan Army was destroyed". Some people claimed that they were Yang Fugong's adopted son Yang Shouji. The panic guards were hesitant and opened the door to welcome him in.

However, when the Taiping Army, which was carrying sticks in open flames, was chasing again under the darkness of the night, the Tianwu Army, who were resting and eating, rushed up the city wall and claimed to help defend the bandits. As a result, the generals and officials in the city found that their defense officers were missing and had nowhere to ask for advice.

As a result, the leaderless group of dragons could only watch these "Tianwu Army" and shouted loudly to open the door and take the initiative to fight; then they welcomed all the thieves into the pass. So, as the first gateway to Dongchuan in the south of Shanxi, Bailao Pass, changed hands easily.

——I am the dividing line—

Outside Jiangling City, which has a festive atmosphere, the fleets of vehicles and ships sailing across the river and flowing up the Xiajiang Road have once again become a local scene. Especially, there are many rushing and dragging long gray smoke marks, and there are also rumbling and rumbling monster prototype vehicles and ships, and behind them are large roof-covered flat-panel ships of varying lengths, which is not to mention how eye-catching it is.

This is one of the achievements accumulated by the Taiping Army's industrial manufacturing; when the steam engine power that further reduces the volume and increases the power is combined with the water wheels and ships, it is no longer as simple as the superposition of the efficiency of one plus one equals two, but represents the arrival of the era of the huge leap in the entire water transportation, transportation system and explosive growth of personnel and material circulation under the control of the Taiping Army.

After all, compared to traditional boats that require humans and animals to pull up to the current, the steamed car ships with their own power are enough to overcome and surpass those. They are originally restricted by the shipping restrictions restricted by rapids, whirlpools, whirlpools, and the four seasons of dying, and expand the circulation of materials and power to the farther and more remote river basin branches, and go to the end.

This also means that the various obstacles that have plagued the courts and people for thousands of years have been plagued by generations of imperial courts and people. The Yangtze River and the Yellow River and Huai River will become history one by one under the powerful navigation capabilities provided by mechanical power; and more population and resource outputs limited by backward transportation and communication means can be further incorporated into the ruling order and economic system cycle led by the Taiping Army.

Just like the large-scale troop transport and cross-regional mobilization of husbands from outside the ridge, as long as you transfer boats in the Lingqu section in Guizhou, you can take a boat outside Jiangling City in one go through the waterway routes north and south of the Wuling River, and it only took five days to go. If it is a light-handed march in special circumstances, it will be enough to only three days.

Of course, let alone these long-term expectations, the current Jiannan Sanchuan strategy is the biggest beneficiary of steaming car ships. After accumulating enough cultural and water data and navigation experience, it has become the biggest beneficiary of the establishment of surface transportation; no one is because even the original southeastern car and ship quotas have been embezzled to assist in transporting troops and transporting baggage.

In Yuzhou, upstream of the Xiajiang Road, several camps of mountain soldiers under Wang Chongba, who were ready to go for a long time, also rushed to destroy and explode the obstacles blocking the river from the surface offensive. With the rumbling sound of the water village, they successively climbed across the undulating mountain terraces and many Tutuan villages on the river, forming the front line and buffer zone formed by the river. The rivers were rushing into Luzhou again, where the mountains and rivers flowed through.

At this time, no matter how many mountain and river defenses set up by Gao Renhou along the waters in southern Xichuan, or the mountain and barbarians who were surrounded by civil strife and were in chaos, they could no longer be their decent obstacles. Therefore, Hejiang and Wanshou fell into a blink of an eye, and the water and land advance directly surrounded the city of Luchuan, which finally became an isolated island.

Since then, whether it is along the Zhongjiang River in the north, it goes against the current and goes straight to Rongzhou (now Zigong, Sichuan), Zizhou (now Ziyang, Sichuan), Jianzhou (Sichuan Jianyang), Hanzhou (Guanghan, Sichuan); or it goes straight to Wenshui in the northwest, passing through Rongzhou (now Yibin, Sichuan), Jiazhou (now Leshan, Sichuan), Meizhou (now Meishan, Sichuan), Shuzhou (now Chongqing, Sichuan);
Chapter completed!