Chapter 1067

Ding Yuan is in Taiyuan, his speed must be faster than his.

Let's see how this pass is passed.

Three days later, Chousang Plain.

The cold wind blew across the undulating Chousang Plain, and the soil accumulated by the Yellow River for thousands of years formed a huge loess hilly landscape on the turbid south bank.

The crisscrossing gullies stacked up here like a natural barrier, forming a natural and impassable wall.

The Hexi passage extending from Liangzhou to Chang'an and even Luoyang runs along the south bank of the Yellow River until the end of the Chousang Plain.

To the north is the natural danger of the Yellow River.

And if you want to cross the Chousang Plain, there is only one road, Hangu Pass.

To the north is the surging Yellow River, and to the south is the Qinling Mountains.

And Hangu Pass is just stuck on this most critical road from west to east.

The Chousang Plain formed by the erosion and accumulation of the Yellow River for thousands of years is an endless and towering loess plateau, and it is basically impossible to cross it.

The Qin State once relied on this majestic pass to block countless foreign invasions.

And the unification of the Great Qin also started from here.

On the north side of Hangu Pass is the natural danger of the Yellow River, and on the south side is another river, called the Hongnong River.

The two rivers formed a natural barrier here, one to the north and one to the east.

And Hangu Pass was built between the two natural barrier rivers and this gully running through the east and west.

It is precisely because of this that Hangu Pass can not only block enemies from east to west.

After the capital of the Great Han moved from Chang'an to Luoyang, the pass was rebuilt, thus forming a pass that could resist enemies from the west moving east.

During the Yongqiang Rebellion, this was also an important pass that blocked the Qiang people from rebelling and entering the Jingzhao area.

This pass not only has two natural dangers, the Yellow River and the Hongnong River, but also the terrain here is very narrow.

The various states once gathered hundreds of thousands of troops here to attack the Qin State.

But no matter whether attacking from the east or the west, the entrance positions on both sides of the Hangu Pass terrain are like the narrow mouth of a trumpet and cannot be deployed.

Whether it is hundreds of thousands of troops or millions of troops, the number of troops that can pass each time is only so many.

The ancient road from the west out of Hangu Pass is called the Hangu Ancient Road, with a total length of about seven miles.

The towering loess plateau on both sides is more than ten meters high from the ancient road.

Qin books record describing this place as: carts cannot have the same track, and horses cannot join reins.

In this place, the word "natural danger" is too appropriate.

Since the Great Han moved its capital to Luoyang, the role of Hangu Pass became one of the Eight Passes guarding Luoyang, and it was also the most important pass along with Sishui Pass.

Because it had to be wary of threats from the Western Qiang and Liangzhou at all times, it was repaired again and again, making it even more majestic than the Hangu Pass of the Qin Dynasty.

At this time, Duan Yu was leading his cavalry through the narrow Hangu Ancient Road.

If 3,000 cavalry were to pass through the seven-mile Hangu Ancient Road at once, it would likely block it completely.

Therefore, Duan Yu only ordered 400 personal guard cavalry to go first, then 1,800 Xiongnu volunteers, and finally 800 Flying Bear Cavalry to bring up the rear.

It was still cold, the ground had not thawed, and the horse hooves made a clattering sound on the solid frozen soil.

The horse Duan Yu was riding was the black tiger Xiao Hei.

Weapons and bows and arrows were all hanging on Da Hei's side.

The thick meat pads stepped on the ground, forming a sharp contrast with the horse hooves of the warhorses.

Duan Yu had passed through here twice before.

He had also carefully looked at the geographical environment here.

To be honest, with the current level of technology, it is almost impossible to forcefully attack and take down Hangu Pass.

This place is truly "one man guards the pass, ten thousand men cannot open it."

As long as you don't consider the problems of food and soldiers, if you have tens of thousands of troops, even if the enemy has hundreds of thousands or millions, it will be of no use.

The military strength cannot be deployed, and no one can consume grain and grass here.

In the end, they can only retreat.

The reason why his father-in-law retreated to Chang'an in history was because to attack Chang'an, one must break Hangu Pass.

And Li Ru knew this clearly, so he suggested moving the capital.

If it weren't for Wang Yun's chain scheme, his father-in-law Dong Zhuo would not have been defeated in Chang'an.

Walking to the end, without the towering earthen walls on both sides of the Hangu Ancient Road, Duan Yu's eyes suddenly opened up.

In the distance, a city wall like iron casting wound up along the mountain ridge, the moss between the gray-blue bricks was mottled, like the scales on the back of a giant beast.

The city gate, which was several feet high and covered with copper nails, hung from the arrow tower. Each copper nail was eroded into blue-green by time, and the creaking sound of the iron chain rubbing against the drawbridge came in the cold wind.

The armored soldiers guarding the city battlements gripped their long halberds tightly.

The mountain cliffs on both sides of the pass were as steep as if they had been split by an axe, and the bronze bells under the eaves of the corner tower jingled when the north wind whistled past.

Hangu Pass was right in front of him.

When Duan Yu appeared in the distance of Hangu Pass, the soldiers on the pass also discovered Duan Yu's troops.

The first wisp of blue smoke immediately rose from the beacon tower in the twilight.

The garrison quickly passed the copper gong and struck it, and the beacon fires were lit one after another.

The sound of copper gongs and thick black smoke blew the signal of the war sequence over Hangu Pass.

PS: In order to better and more intuitively reflect the importance of ancient passes to war, and because the war scenes will gradually increase, to prevent some readers who don't understand, the little author will post pictures in the "Author's Words" of each chapter to explain the importance of the pass.

Geography is not flat, walking takes time, people need to eat and sleep, although the protagonist is stronger than ordinary people, this world is still the world of ordinary people.

Here, I also ask some readers who have not read historical research to be patient. This book is not an invincible cool text, where you can walk across the country in one day, and a message or decree can be delivered and completed in one day.

If readers want to see cool ones, there is really no shortage of them on Tomato.

Learning the art of dragon slaying and selling it to the emperor's family, although the little author is a novelist, I hope many people like it, but I don't recommend everyone to read it.

Here, I would like to thank the readers who like the little author again, you are the most handsome! ===== CHAPTER 1069 =====