Chapter 247: Capture Gubeikou
Two days later, Han Yuqing came back with his personal guards and told Qin Guan that the things had been hidden. Qin Guan looked at the red dot on the map, nodded, and put the map into space.
"Young Master, 130,000 stones of food have been prepared, which is enough for us to eat horses for more than two months, and other materials have been prepared." Xiong Dahui reported.
"Young Master, now our soldiers are all one man and two horses, and the entire Zhao Kingdom is not as luxurious as us." Xiong Er said.
"General, he has prepared more than 50,000 kilograms of gunpowder. He has collected all the materials of Xijin Mansion and has created so many of them."
Qin Guan nodded, it should be almost enough.
The last time I attacked Xijin Mansion, I used about 20,000 kilograms of gunpowder, and there were still 10,000 kilograms left. This kind of thing is naturally the better for Qin Guan.
When Xijin Prefecture is moving forward, there is no bigger city, so it is difficult to replenish supplies, so Qin Guan plundered the entire Xijin Prefecture this time and replenished all the supplies that can be replenished.
Qin Guan had received a secret report from Jinling that the emperor was preparing to promote his father Qin Zhang, and also granted his mother and grandmother the imperial decree.
Qin Guan was quite satisfied with this reward, and I think his father and grandmother should be very happy.
In the commander's tent, all the generals were there. Qin Guan pointed to the map and said, "We have been repairing in Xijin Mansion for seven days and have all the supplies ready. It's time to leave."
"I am going to pass Tanzhou and reach the foot of the Great Wall. The Liao Kingdom also has heavy troops guarding the Great Wall. I am going to go here," Qin Guan said, pointing to a place on the map, and the name above was Gubeikou.
Rumble.
The army of Zhao Guobei North Road set off. This time, no one left, and directly evacuated Xijin Prefecture. After Zhao Yanshou learned the news, he cried with joy, "Oh my God, they finally left, and their lives have been saved."
But then he was worried again. How should the Xijin Mansion be managed in the future? He did not have a soldier or a soldier in his hands, not even a yamen runner. There were more than 100,000 people from the Liao Kingdom in Xijin Mansion, and I am afraid that some of them will be busy in the future.
When they learned that the Zhao army had evacuated, the people of Liao in Xijin Prefecture were all thankful. The Zhao army did not start a massacre in Xijin Prefecture, which was already a great kindness for them.
In fact, the biggest reason why Qin Guan did not massacre the city was that most of the people in Xijin Prefecture were Han people.
Yes, they are all Han people.
This is the territory of the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. This place was the territory of Han people a hundred years ago, and most of the people here are still of Han blood.
Those Khitans, Xi people, Bohai people, and Jurchen people were just a few.
Qin Guan felt that this reason was enough.
However, everyone in Xijin Prefecture has the same name as Qin Guan.
This day, the General of Zhao, who captured the Xijin Prefecture and destroyed the 50,000 troops of Liao, and made the general of Liao, Yelu Qicai hate him.
Tanzhou is also the Miyun of later generations.
The Liao people who had escaped from Xijin Prefecture had already passed through Tanzhou and told the officials and generals of the war in Xijin Prefecture that the Tanzhou Prefecture had only 2,000 soldiers in total, how could they stop the 40,000 troops of Zhao State?
As soon as the two of them decided to escape with the people.
Qin Guan led the Northern Army to Tanzhou and was preparing to break through Tanzhou City in a big battle, but the city gate was wide open. Qin Guan didn't believe in any empty city plan and sent people to check it out. It turned out that the entire Tanzhou City was almost empty.
Except for those who were really unable to escape, almost everyone else ran away.
I asked those who didn’t leave, but they all left three days ago and must have passed the Great Wall.
The next day, the army continued to leave and finally arrived at the Great Wall.
The Great Wall is long. Speaking of which, there are more than 2000 passes in the Great Wall. Among them, the most famous Badaguan, Shanhaiguan, Yongguan, Zijingguan, Yanmenguan, Niangziguan, Bietouguan, Jiayuguan, and Yumenguan. The remaining are some passes, the Gubeikou in front of you.
Gubeikou is the Great Wall fortress between Shanhaiguan and Yongguan. It is the "throat" of the Liaodong Plain and Inner Mongolia to the Central Plains. It has been a must-fight place for military strategists throughout history.
In modern times, Qin Guan never came here, but in the movie, he saw a video about the war in Gubeikou, "Assembly Call".
The Gubeikou Pass is not tall, probably only four or five meters high. There are continuous mountains on both sides. The Great Wall extends to both sides like a winding dragon.
Smith, the Gubeikou Gubeikou guard, had already received the war report and knew that the Zhao people would probably pass through these passes through these passes, so they had already made preparations. Gubeikou had already stockpiled 6,000 defenders and mobilized everyone from the Great Wall Pass around.
So what if the terrain of Gubeikou is narrow and there are many Zhao soldiers? He can't even expand it. He can only compete with them for the Gubeikou Pass. Smithar has received a military order. General Yelu Shi, the general of the governor, has led 20,000 imperial guards to come here. It only takes two days, as long as he can hold on for two days, the army will arrive, and at that time, it will definitely kill the Zhao army.
Smithar was wearing armor and patrolling the city, shouting loudly: "Everything is good for me. As long as the people of Zhao dare to attack the city, they will kill me hard, throw arrows, rolling woods, and stones, and throw them out with their lives. As long as we hold on for two days, when the Imperial Guard arrives, we will be a great achievement and everyone will be rewarded at that time."
Qin looked at the narrow Gubei Pass and asked Xiong Da: "How are you going to fight?"
Xiong Da looked at it and said, "Young Master, I'm going to use a small catapult to shoot the explosive packs and blow them up directly. Then the archers and machine gunners cover them, and the soldiers rushed up. As long as the first wave rushed up, we will win."
Qin Guan smiled.
Xiong Da was really smart. He learned how to use new weapons, explosives packs, heavy machine guns, archers, and cloud ladders to climb the city, but there was no sense of incongruity at all.
"Just do what you said." Qin Guan ordered.
Small catapults were pushed forward. This small catapult was not like those large catapults. Its length, width and size were very similar to ordinary cars in later generations. It also had four wheels on it, which could be pushed and run. It was very convenient. Use a winch to put on a force, and put a stone bullet in a place similar to a spoon. You can shoot it by stepping on the machine, which is somewhat similar to the Eight-Nuo Crossbow.
However, this small catapult also has a very fatal disadvantage, which is that it has a short range, with a range of only 200 to 300 meters, and is within the shooting range of the enemy's bow and arrow. Therefore, when using it, you need to pay attention to the enemy's bow and arrow shooting to protect the safety of the catapult operator.
"Start the attack."
"Run."
Hulala, the soldiers of the North Road Army were in a team, pushing a small catapult to run forward.
Chapter completed!