Farmer of Shu Han

In fact, even without Li Liu leading the way, Jiang Wei would probably be able to find a suitable place to cross the plateau.

Because there is a ravine at the junction of Chousangyuan and Qinling Mountains.

It was near the place where Li Liu was found - the people who were originally sent out to search had almost found that place.

Climbing up along this ravine, you can directly reach the top of Chousangyuan.

Of course, with Li Liu leading the way, it must be much more convenient, at least saving a lot of time and energy.

The Chou Sang Plain in the Qin and Han Dynasties was not comparable to later generations. It was a dangerous place with deep grass and dense forests and steep slopes.

Entering the forest, you can feel the staggered branches above your head, and the dense canopy covering the sky and the sun.

Looking up, you can only see the sky dotted with stars, and the rare sunlight that is missing is like a brightly colored insect, as if crawling on the moss and the reddish withered ferns.

In the place where the sunlight is slightly exposed, many miscellaneous trees are entangled with old vines, forming a bush.

Many of these coiled vines still have barbs.

The overgrown thorns and weeds have sealed the already dense forest more and more airtight, like a natural barrier, preventing people from walking in the forest.

Therefore, it was not unreasonable for the Qin State to use the dense forest on the Chousang Plain to block the armies of the six countries in the Kanto region.

If someone who is not familiar with the terrain comes here, it is impossible to go around and get lost.

Even if you don't get lost, if you want to march in this dense forest, it will be an extremely test of the quality of the soldiers.

Not to mention being able to get out by luck, but on the other side, the wall is like a knife, how to go down is also a problem.

In case of being discovered by the Qin army, with no reinforcements in the future, it will really be sent to the tiger's mouth.

Qin Jun is called the division of tigers and wolves, that's not a joke.

"General, the villain usually hunts in this area, so he is familiar with this place."

Li Liu led the way at the front, and at the same time explained, "There is no road here. If you are new to this place, you probably won't be able to tell the direction."

Jiang Wei followed him, seeing what this man said did not seem to be a lie.

Obviously, it looked like a bush in front of him, and he couldn't get through it at all, but this person walked up to him, turned around again, and suddenly there was a gap in front of him that he could walk through.

If you are not familiar with this place, it will definitely not be so easy.

If so, in just half a day, the clothes on Jiang Wei and the others were hung with several large and small holes by branches or thorns.

But no matter what, as long as you can go to Taiwan, then everything will be easy.

After all, although the tableland is long, it is not too wide, and there are people leading the way.

Jiang Wei and his party soon reached the other side of Chou Sangyuan.

"Please take a look, General."

Li Liu took Jiang Wei and others, stood on the edge of the cliff, pointed down, and said:

"From here, there is a slight slope. If you want to go down, there is no more suitable place than here."

Jiang Wei looked down, but saw a river at the bottom of the cliff, like a white belt, winding to the north. He thought it was the precipitous stream in front of Hangu Pass.

Stretching his neck again, he probed towards the cliff.

The slope that Li Liu said was like being slashed down by a giant knife.

Jiang Wei was so surprised that he lost his voice and said:

"How does this slope differ from a steep wall?"

Then he looked to the north again, and sighed involuntarily:

"Sure enough, there are some differences..."

The cliffs elsewhere are not slanted, but straight down, like the tallest city wall in the world, without any leverage at all.

In contrast, the slopes here seem less hopeless and difficult to climb.

After all, the army brought a lot of ropes when they came here this time.

Just connect the ropes, tie them to the tree, and finally use the ropes to descend.

The hemp rope, a specialty of Nanxiang, has been tried and tested for a long time, and the quality is unquestionable.

Anyway, after Lao Li was tied to death by Nanxiang hemp rope, he wanted to escape unless he became a dead person.

"General, after going down here, the road will be much easier. The water's edge is very flat. As long as you follow the valley to the north, about a hundred miles, you will be Hangu Pass."

When the surrounding soldiers heard this, they all showed joy and were eager to try.

"General, it's not too late. Before it gets dark, let the last general lead a team to explore the way!"

Some people can't help but voluntarily volunteer.

"That's right, General, if we show up behind the thief, the thief will be frightened to death, why worry about Hangu Pass?"

Seeing the morale of the generals boosted, Jiang Wei was also happy.

It's just that he looked down the cliff, and followed the Juejian to the north, thoughtful, but he didn't immediately agree to the soldier's request.

After a while, he said:

"Hangu Pass is hidden in the valley, and it is as deep and dangerous as a letter. If we go straight down and go northward along the water, it is easy to march, but it is not the best strategy."

"Subsequently descending behind the bandits may scare the enemy, but if the bandits stay in the pass and hold on to them, waiting for reinforcements from the east, we may not be able to go down at once."

Jiang Wei's eyes showed determination:

"Is it just to frighten the enemy that we have gone through all kinds of dangers? If we want to do it, we must take down Hangu Pass."

"May I ask what the general intends to do?"

The expression on Jiang Wei's face became more determined:

"If we don't go down and continue to pass through this dense forest until the end, we can use the convenience of the terrain to attack the thieves in the valley from a high position, just like standing on a high house and building water."

Hearing Jiang Wei's words, not only the surrounding soldiers were taken aback, but even Li Liu couldn't help persuading him:

"General, please think again! If you really want to follow the general's words, you will have to walk more than a hundred miles in this dense forest."

"Moreover, on the plateau, it is not all flat ground, and there are also places that need to be climbed. I am afraid that the general's tiger soldiers will not be able to bear it."

Jiang Wei heard the words, looked at the soldiers around him, and asked:

"Everyone who came here with Wei, have you ever complained about being burdened?"

Everyone burst into laughter:

"As long as you can make meritorious service in front of the battle, you don't care about your life, it's just suffering, what's the point!"

"If you can make great achievements just by being tired, what's the point of being tired?"

...

Jiang Wei looked at Li Liu again:

"You don't have to worry about matters in the military, you just have to lead the way."

Seeing the reaction of the Han army, Li Liu couldn't help but marvel:

This sincere soldier is also!

Hearing Jiang Wei's words again, he couldn't help but turn pale with shock:

"General, although the villain has some experience, he has never crossed this forest before!"

"Double! As long as you can take us out of this forest and give you something, I will give you twice as much."

"Uh..." Li Liu froze for a moment.

What the Han army gave was indeed what he needed most—it was something harder than money.

Seeing his expression, Jiang Wei continued:

"Anyway, it's impossible to let you go before we reach our destination. You have to go with us, so as not to leak the wind."

"If I were you, I would immediately agree to come down and find a way to help us get out of this forest as soon as possible. In this way, you can get the things as soon as possible, and we can leave as soon as possible."

Li Liuyi heard that this is indeed the reason, he gritted his teeth, and finally nodded:

"Little man, just try your best."

Jiang Wei smiled, turned around and said:

"Let the soldiers set up camp on the spot, take a good rest today, and continue tomorrow."

"Here!"

It was a great encouragement for the soldiers to turn over to Chou Sangyuan.

As for whether to turn down the plateau directly, or continue to walk in the dense forest on the plateau.

For them, they are all here anyway, and there is no big difference.

After all, no one would think of retreating at this time, so naturally they had to grit their teeth and move forward.

If not, wouldn't it be a failure?

When Jiang Wei led the army sneaking forward in the dense forest of Taiyuan, Liu Yin, who had been looking forward to it, finally received the first good news after Jiang Wei left.

"good!"

After Liu Yin read the secret letter sent back by Jiang Wei, he couldn't help but slapped his thigh:

"As expected of Jiang Boyue!"

After saying this, he raised his head again, looked towards Hangu Pass ahead, and shouted:

"Come on!"

"General?"

"Pass my order, the rest of the army is over, and we will continue to attack Guancheng tomorrow!"

"Here!"

Just when the beacon fire at Hangu Pass ignited again, north of Dahe, as if an agreement had been made, the battle was also renewed.

The first contact with the Wei army was not Feng Duhu, who was leading the army on the Zhiguan Road, but Shi Bao, who set out from Gaoping Pass and was about to attack the eldest son.

The eldest son's first barrier, on the east side of Danshui, the Wei army has long been ready.

"General Zhonglang, this is the thief, you have already prepared!"

Hu Zun, who followed Shi Bao to observe the enemy's situation by the water, couldn't help feeling a little worried, "Is our military strength insufficient?"

"According to the reports of the spies, wherever the water is easy to cross, the bandit army has set up camps to guard them, and along the water's edge, there are beacon fires every three miles."

"The vanguard sent by the last general tried to cross the water several times, but they were all discovered by the thieves and had to retreat."

The pioneer that Hu Zun talked about was his own son, Hu Fen.

Hu Fen was eager to make contributions. After cleaning up the Wei army scouts on the west bank, he thought about erecting a pontoon bridge before the arrival of the army.

But I didn't expect that the generals of the bandit army on the other side were not mediocre, and the defense was extremely tight, so they had to camp on the west bank to wait for the army.

Shi Bao raised his binoculars and looked towards the other bank, but seeing the camps on the other bank, he knew that what Hu Zun said was not a lie.

Thinking in her heart, Shi Bao asked:

"Go upstream from here, have you ever checked everything?"

Hu Zun pointed to the upper reaches of Danshui and asked.

"When this water goes up, there is the Danshui River Valley. There are dangerous mountains on three sides of the valley. Behind the dangerous mountains in the north, there is still a stone city pass, which is the second line of defense for the bandit army."

Shi Bao put down the binoculars, followed Hu Zun's point of view, with a dazed look on his face:

"Could it be the place where the Zhao army was gathered and wiped out during the Battle of Changping?"

"General Mingjian, that's exactly the case."

Back then, at any rate, he was also a person who tried his best to find out the way to do smuggling, so how could Shi Bao not know about the famous place of Shangdang?

The reason why Zhao Jun's hundreds of thousands of troops failed to escape back then was because of that river valley.

The valley is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there is only one narrow valley mouth to exit.

At that time, as long as the Qin army followed behind, quickly blocked the mouth of the valley, and then took advantage of the high mountains on three sides, it would be enough to surround the Zhao army in the valley.

Zhao Kuo wanted to fly out with double threats and wings, and he was afraid that he would be shot down by the Qin army.

And because of the special terrain of the valley, even if the Zhao army on the periphery wanted to come to reinforce it, it would not be easy.

As long as Bai Qi's deployment speed is fast enough, and he can dispatch partial divisions in time to occupy a favorable location, he can easily stop Zhao Jun's reinforcements.

The main force of the Zhao army in the valley had no choice but to starve to death.

It can't be said that Bai Qi deliberately starved Zhao Jun to death, at least so hungry that they had no strength and could not move, so it took so long before they finally accepted Zhao Jun's surrender.

Anyway, if it was Shi Bao himself, he would do this.

After all, it must be dangerous to accept the surrender of hundreds of thousands of enemy troops whose morale has not fallen and their physical strength is still there.

But if it is replaced by hundreds of thousands of enemy troops who can't stand up, but also kill each other and eat human flesh, even the robes can't believe it, and even have to be on guard against each other, wouldn't it be much easier?

As for why Zhao Kuoming knew that the Qin army was at the lower reaches of the river valley, why he led hundreds of thousands of troops into this apparently pocket trap, probably only the parties involved in the matter knew.

Shi Bao himself definitely did not dare to lead the army inside.

Therefore, although Danshui is long, the most suitable place to cross the water at the moment is really only the downstream of the valley mouth.

Hundreds of years ago, Qin Jun probably faced Zhao Jun across the water here, right?

Shi Bao can think of this, and the general of the Wei army on the opposite side can naturally think of this too.

Therefore, the two sides tacitly stationed a team of troops at the mountain passes on both sides of the valley mouth to monitor each other.

"Order the whole army to cut wood and make a raft immediately. I'm going to test it out today to see how prepared the thieves on the other side are."

When Hu Zun heard this military order, he couldn't help feeling a little worried:

"General Zhonglang, the soldiers rushed from Gaoping Pass, and they were a little tired all the way, why don't they rest today..."

Shi Bao raised his arm, stopped what Hu Zun said, and explained:

"General Hu, I told the soldiers to hurry along this way, just to let the bandits Wei know that I want to recover Shangdang in a hurry."

"Now that we're here, if we don't act a little more eagerly, how can we convince Thief Wei that we are going to cross the water in a hurry?"

Hu Zun came to a sudden:

"General Zhong Lang is planning to confuse the thief?"

"No, not just confusion."

Hu Zun is the chief general of the Tuchen Army, and the Tuchen Army is the main force in this battle. Naturally, Shi Bao wanted to explain clearly to Hu Zun some plans.

"What I have to do is to mobilize as many thieves from Shangdang as possible."

"So the way we confuse the thieves must be to really fight, so that the thieves dare not spare any energy."

"Really fight?" Hu Zun became more and more puzzled when he heard the words:

"General Zhonglang, please forgive me for speaking bluntly, even if we are in a hurry to cross the water, it is best to plan ahead..."

Obviously, when General Zhonglang was at Gaoping Pass, he planned well and had the style of a general.

How come here, but it makes people feel a little reckless?

Shi Bao laughed:

"General Hu, I'm not in a hurry to cross the water. As I said, I just need to attract the thieves as much as possible."

"If they don't come over, then we will really fight over there and take the opportunity to forcefully cross the Danshui. If they come over, there will be someone on the side of Huguan to cut off their escape route."

"Anyway, it's not us who are in a hurry, but them."

When Hu Zun heard this, he suddenly realized:

"General Zhonglang means that we create opportunities for General Zhendong?"

"Of course."

General Zhendong is his nobleman, how dare he fight with General Zhendong for his great contribution to recovering the Shangdang?

After regaining the Shangdang, it is time to show your talents.

Eagle claws must have the consciousness of eagle claws.

Shi Bao considers herself to be the minion of the Zhongdu Protector, so naturally she has to consider issues from the standpoint of the Zhongdu Protector in order to be worthy of Zhongdu Protector's cultivation.

Those aristocratic families in Shangdang had no chance to deal with them before.

Now they dare to collude with thieves and cause chaos, they simply don't know how to live or die!

Hu Zun naturally didn't know what Shi Bao was thinking, but when he heard Shi Bao's plan, he couldn't help feeling admiration:

The Zhongduhu is really a master!

If it were someone else, would there be any reason not to take credit?

However, under the command of Zhongduhu, although the generals are separated by thousands of miles and unable to communicate, they can cooperate in such a way. Not only do they not have the slightest intention to compete for merit, but they take the initiative to humbly give up merit. It is rare!

No wonder the big man has won many battles and victories over the years.

The soldiers are elite and brave, and the generals are united as one, so why not worry about the great cause?

Thinking in this way, Hu Zun saw that Shi Bao couldn't help licking his lips, salivating like a jackal, and for some reason, he shuddered suddenly.