My life skills in Daming Liver

The fact that copper coins of the Ming Dynasty are known in this village shows that it is not isolated from the world.

After chatting with the woodcutter, Xiong Kuang was pleasantly surprised to find that there was indeed a way!

The woodcutter said:

"There is a mountain road in the village that leads down the mountain. After going down the mountain, walk for a while and you will reach Jiangyou."

Hearing what the woodcutter said, Xiong Kuang was overjoyed and said:

"We are business travelers from Hanzhong. Because there is a war in Hanzhong and the trade routes are cut off, we went into Yinping Mountain to dig a trade route. If we can know the way to Jiangyou, we will be very grateful in the future!"

Hearing what Xiong Kuang said, the simple woodcutter said:

"This road is not easy to walk."

"According to our ancestors, this road was the passage used by Deng Ai, the general of the Wei Kingdom during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, to conquer Shu. The village calls it Deng Gongdao. The most dangerous part of the road can only be climbed with bare hands, and there is no way to carry goods. .”

"When we sell mountain goods in our village, we have to roll the goods down the cliff first, and then people go down the mountain to find the goods frames, and the goods down the mountain cannot be transported back to the village at all."

Upon hearing this, Xiong Kuang's enthusiastic expression disappeared.

If this road is so dangerous, then there is no way to accommodate the passage of a large army, which makes no sense at all.

But having already arrived here, Xiong Kuang naturally refused to give up and asked the woodcutter to take him to Deng Gongdao to have a look.

Xiong Kuang took out the matches and soap he had with him and showed the woodcutter how to use them. The woodcutter was very interested in the convenient matches.

Xiong Kuang immediately exchanged a large bag of matches, and the woodcutter led them toward the mountains.

After detouring through several not-so-rugged mountain roads, everyone saw an extremely steep mountain road.

Xiong Kuang looked at the traces of artificial excavation on the mountain road. It was really possible that this was the passage for Deng Ai to conquer Shu.

Before Xiong Kuang came, he also read the records about Deng Ai's conquest of Shu in the Chronicle of the Three Kingdoms:

"In the tenth month of winter, Ai traveled more than 700 miles from Yinping Road to uninhabited land, carving mountain passages and building bridges and pavilions. The mountains are high and the valleys are deep, making it extremely difficult and dangerous. Food transportation is also running out, so it is often in danger. Ai wraps itself in felt, Push and turn down. The soldiers all climbed up the wooden edge of the cliff and filed forward."

What is said is that when Deng Ai reached the last steep mountain road, he wrapped himself in felt and rolled down the mountain road. All the soldiers followed him over Yinping Mountain.

This mountain road is so steep that you will tumble down the mountain if you are not careful.

The woodcutter walked to a stone and said:

"In our village, we will throw the goods down from here, and people will go down the mountain road to pick up the goods."

"But the rocks are steep, and only one or two out of ten goods can slide down the mountain safely."

Xiong Kuang saw a slope that was steeper than the mountain road. The stone on this slope was a whole piece and very smooth. From here, it could slide down the mountain.

Xiong Kuang looked at the rock and said, "How far is this mountain road?"

"About five miles."

Xiong Kuang looked at the mountain road and already had some ideas in his mind. He asked the woodcutter to take him down the mountain from the trail. The group of people carefully circled down the mountain. It was almost dusk when they reached the bottom of the mountain.

As expected, this trail is very difficult to walk, and there are several places where you need to bend down to pass, which means that except for the few items you carry with you, you cannot carry goods down the mountain.

Xiong Kuang's staff were a little discouraged. They had found the mountain road, but did they really want to imitate Deng Ai and roll down the mountain?

Deng Ai's attack on Shu was quite brutal. Most of his troops were killed or injured. The independent regiments were all elites who had been cultivated with great difficulty. It was really not cost-effective to lose them here. It would be better to attack Jiange directly and die on the battlefield.

Moreover, the current army is different from the army in the Wei and Jin Dynasties. The current army needs a stable supply line even more.

The musketeers had no supplies and the muskets could only fire a few rounds.

The artillery was unsupplied and the artillery was useless.

This mountain road cannot provide stable supplies to the army, so even if soldiers enter Jiangyou, they will still need muskets and artillery to fight.

After the survey was completed, Xiong Kuang was very excited. He then asked the woodcutter to take him to Jiangyou.

Sure enough, the road after going down the mountain was much easier. It only took three days for the group to walk out of the Yinping Mountains and see Jiangyou City, the important town of Shu in front of them.

Jiangyou is the gateway to Shu. From here you can go south to Mianyang, and Mianyang is the supply transit point for Chengdu and Langzhong.

Now Jiang Dongchen, the governor of Sichuan, has moved his base from Chengdu to Langzhong. Material supplies from Chengdu will be transported to Mianyang, and then from Mianyang to the Jiange front line.

Jiang Dongchen's order to govern Chengdu will also be sent to Chengdu through Mianyang, and he will conduct remote control from Langzhong.

As long as he can bypass the Yinping Road and directly cut off Mianyang, he can completely cut off the Sichuan army on the Jiange front line. At that time, the initiative on the battlefield will be in the hands of Southeast.

Xiong Kuang did not go directly to Jiangyou City, but returned to the ancient village with the woodcutter. They climbed back to the village again from the steep mountain road. Xiong Kuang left a lot of copper coins behind, indicating that his caravan would soon come over.

After leaving the ancient village, Jin Zhan asked:

"Captain, this Yinping Road cannot accommodate the passage of a large army. It is difficult to transport our supplies. Do we really rely on swords to capture Jiang You?"

The staff officers under his command looked at Xiong Guang. Not only was it difficult to transport supplies, but the narrowest part of this ancient road could only accommodate one person. It would take too long for the five thousand people of the independent regiment to pass.

With such a long time and such poor supplies, it would be easy for the news to leak out. If Jiang You increased his defense, it would be difficult for five thousand people to attack.

If they cannot attack Jiangyou quickly, then as long as the Sichuan army blocks the gap in Mianyang, it will be difficult for Xiong Kuang to achieve much success.

Therefore, Xiong Kuang's subordinates believed that this ancient Yinping Road was of little significance, and it would be better to attack Jiange directly.

But Xiong Kuang doesn't think so.

After he returned to his camp from Yinping Mountain, he immediately called the engineers accompanying him.

"The Grand Governor once designed this kind of zipline. Can you build it?"

Several engineers accompanying the army looked at Xiong Kuang's sketch, frowned and said:

"I heard that Nanjing already has a steam-driven rebar machine that can wind elongated steel wires into steel cables. The strength of that material should be enough to build this kind of zipline."

"The zipline can indeed transport people and cargo, and it can indeed meet logistical needs. However, whether such a zipline can be built requires on-site inspection of the conditions."

Xiong Kuang was overjoyed and asked: "If this kind of zipline can be built, how long will it take to complete it?"

One of the engineers said:

"It's not difficult. Just throw the steel cable down the mountain and fix both ends into the mountain. This distance does not require a bracket in the middle, and you can complete the zipline."

"The biggest project is to dig the fixed end of the zipline in the mountain, which can be completed within a few days."

Xiong Kuang said immediately: "I will report to the brigade commander and ask him to ask Nanjing for those high-strength steel cables! We will pack the supplies immediately and prepare to enter the mountain!"

Xiong Kuang prepared the supplies and the people, and immediately followed the last route and transported the camels to the vicinity of the ancient village in the mountains.

Then, as the leader of the independent group, he recruited the adults of this ancient village as guides and gave them a large salary.

The men in the mountain village were not very loyal to the Ming Dynasty. They had lived in this isolated mountain village for hundreds of years to escape war and taxes. After seeing the supplies brought by the independent group, this mountain village was very He soon became Xiong Kuang's loyal guide.

The next step is to transport the steel cable to the mountain.

Engineers fixed the steel cable supports on the cliff and put pulleys on the steel cables. After fixing the steel cables at the bottom of the mountain, a simple zipline was built.

The zipline can hoist supplies and slide directly down the mountain through gravity, and then the civilians above use ropes to pull the zipline up.

This greatly improved the efficiency of transporting supplies, and the independent regiment quickly transported most of the supplies to the foot of the mountain.

Immediately afterwards, Xiong Kuang began to divide the soldiers into two parts. One part walked down the mountain from the mountain road, and the other took the zip line down the mountain. Even some war horses and livestock were transported down the mountain through the zip line.

After half a month of hard work, Xiong Kuang finally gathered at the foot of Yinping Mountain in October.

He looked at the well-equipped independent regiment that had gathered at the foot of the mountain. Xiong Kuang waved his hand and the army went straight towards Jiang You.

In the next battle, Xiong Kuang completely copied what Deng Ai had done when he conquered Shu.

In fact, when Deng Ai conquered Shu, he also copied what Liu Bei had done when he entered Shu.

In the land of the Central Plains, the war has reached its extreme, and almost all marching routes have been tried by predecessors.

Jiangyou was called Jiangyou Pass in ancient times. Since it is called a pass, it naturally means a dangerous pass. Taking it is equivalent to opening the side gate of the Sichuan Basin.

Once you capture Jiangyou, you can take the existing road down the Fushui River to Fucheng (this road is called "Zuodang Road"), then copy the route Liu Bei used to win Shu, and seize Mianzhu Pass to the south and enter the Chengdu Plain. .

The Sichuan army's defense in Jiang You was as weak as expected.

The Sichuan Army was the latest to be established among the new armies of the Ming Dynasty. Because Sichuan was generally war-weary, Jiang Dongchen spent a lot of effort to reach a compromise with the wealthy families in Sichuan and form the Sichuan New Army.

The Sichuan New Army was prepared late and had poor equipment. Jiang Dongchen also inspected Jiang You. He judged that the Southeast New Army could not cross the Yinping Mountains, let alone carry out logistical supplies through the Yinping Mountains.

After confirming this, Jiang Dongchen left behind all the old troops of the Ming Dynasty in Jiangyou.

Xiong Kuang's army quickly defended Jiangyou, used explosives to break down the city wall, captured Jiangyou, and directed his troops towards Chengdu!