Qin Official

"What the internal history said is absolutely true. The rebels may have deliberately tried to lure me when they built the plank road. In fact, they had other plans..."

As soon as Nei Shibao finished speaking, Li Si's son Li Yu caught his father's look and immediately stepped out. Although their family didn't know where the Northern Expedition's real main attack direction was, they also guessed that there was probably a false shot on the other side of the plank road.

Now that Nei Shibao had seen through the Northern Expeditionary Army's strategy, the Li family simply muddied the waters, so Li Yu presented an urgent report:

"The Lieutenant of Longxi County sent someone to report that a group of 10,000 rebels had left Nanzheng and marched west along the upper reaches of the Han River, advancing both by land and water. They were attacking Xiabian County of Longxi County (Chengxian County of Gansu Province). Perhaps seeing the tight defense in Guanzhong, we want to seize Longxi in one fell swoop, so we need to quickly send the lieutenant army to rush for reinforcements! Next, we may take the Qishan Road, and the army will be directed towards Xi County!"

"Xixian!?"

Now Hu Hai couldn't sit still. Although he was uneducated and incompetent, he also knew that Xi County was the Xi Frontier, the place where the Qin Gong family originated. There is still the Xi Frontier Palace there and the temple of Qin Xianggong is built there. , people have to be arranged to go back to offer sacrifices every year.

"How can we teach the rebels to humiliate the temple of my ancestors? Send people to support quickly!"

"His Majesty."

Nei Shibao spoke again: "I think there is no need to send troops to Longxi."

Li Yudao: "Why did the internal history say this? If Longyou is lost, there will be no peace in Guanzhong. For example, there will be a tiger on the side couch. What's more, there are temples of the ancestors in Xiqiao Palace and Xiqiu Qiu. How can we abandon them?"

Nei Shibao laughed and said: "Li Yushi is thinking too seriously. I was once a county captain in Longxi, and I know very well the reality of the Qishan Road. Although this road is flat and has rivers, it is surrounded by Rong, Di, Di and Qiang. It is extremely difficult." If we leave, water transportation is blocked. Even if we use donkeys and horses to transport them, the losses along the way will be as high as four-fifths. The rebels can at most send thousands of people to take down the defense. With the county lieutenant Yao Yin here, the Longxi County soldiers are enough to defend the enemy and block them outside Qishan Mountain. , The thief will definitely not be able to reach Xi County."

"So I thought that there are also suspected rebel soldiers on the other side of Qishan Road, so I don't need to pay attention to them."

Taking a step back, Longxi is far away from Guanzhong, and is separated by Longban. It is difficult for a large army to overcome it. Even if the thieves take Longxi, there is no way to directly attack Guanzhong. And among the roads in Hanzhong, there are more than one that pose a greater threat to Guanzhong. ah……

"The rebels have always been cunning and like to use illusions and truth. In my opinion, Qishan and Baoxie are just trying to mobilize our troops. The rebels' real attack directions are only these two! The old way, eclipse!"

Hu Hai asked again: "Where is the north entrance of the old road?"

"Dismissal."

"How far is it from Xianyang?"

Zhao Gao said: "Three hundred miles."

Hu Hai asked again: "Where is the north entrance of Eclipse?"

"It is at Ziwu Pass in the south of Du County (Qujiang Township, Yanta District, Xi'an City), less than a hundred miles away from Xianyang."

"No...less than a hundred miles? Can we reach Zhangtai Palace in two days?"

Hu Hai's complexion suddenly changed. After learning this situation, he probably couldn't sleep at night, and he didn't care how Nei Shibao described the old road and the eclipse terrain.

"Does this need to be said?"

The wise and powerful second emperor slapped his thigh: "The lieutenant's army is divided into two, 20,000 guard Ziwu Pass and 10,000 guard San Pass!"

…

While the monarchs and ministers of Xianyang were discussing strategies to defend against the enemy, Han Xin, the Northern Expeditionary Army general, was currently at the south entrance of the old route: Ju County, Hanzhong County (Lueyang County, Shaanxi Province).

Ju County is a small town in the mountains. The terrain here is really unfriendly to Han Xin, a young man from Huainan Water Town:

The county town has a circumference of more than 500 steps, with only one northwest gate and a fortress outside. It is like a simple military fortress, surrounded by mountains. In Han Xin's view, the surrounding area seems to be towering into the clouds and completely empty. The wall of the void made him breathless.

Even though he had been in Hanzhong for several months, Han Xin still felt depressed and couldn't help but secretly said: "Such a remote and remote place cannot even garrison ten thousand people, but now it has become the hub for the Hanzhong Northern Expedition to launch operations."

Just because Ju County is the intersection of the Western Han River and the Jialing River.

The Western Han River is the source of the Han River. Along the river, there is a relatively wide channel that leads directly from Hanzhong to Longxi. This is the Qishan Ancient Road. The south wall of the corridor is the South Qinling Mountains and the Minshan Mountains, and the north wall is the North Qinling Mountains. It is a complete journey through the mountains, twists and turns, and finally reaches Qishan Mountain. After passing Qishan Mountain, you are out of the mountainous area. The road is open and you can reach Xi County, the birthplace of the Qin people.

Previously, Lu Jia evaluated the three roads to enter the pass from Hanzhong. Because Lao Lu was not familiar with the Qishan Road in the remote Diqiang land, he ignored it. Thanks to the captain from Shu, Han Xin was allowed to noticed.

Therefore, in addition to Heifu's proposal of "cutting the plank road openly, harassing Ziwu, and secretly attacking Chencang", Han Xin also added the strange troops from Longxi and asked the Shu soldiers to attack Xia Bian, creating a trend of attacking Xi County from Qishan Mountain.

But as Nei Shibao said, although Qishan Road looks flat and has rivers, it is all an illusion. The terrain in this area is quite complex. It transitions to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, the Loess Plateau in the north, and the Sichuan Basin in the south. The three major geological zones meet here. You can imagine how intricate the terrain is.

The so-called passage is just a series of basins, valleys, mountains and hills with relatively low altitudes. This kind of terrain is barely suitable for marching, but it is a complete nightmare for transporting food and supplies. Not only is the journey long, but there are many trees blocking the movement of the Di and Qiang. It is impossible for the army to know just by thinking about it. If it were so easy to travel, the ancestors of the Qin people might not have sacrificed several generations to try to get there. Extension, and went south to Hanzhong to develop.

Therefore, the route that Han Xin really favored was the old route, which was the Chencang Road. There was the Jialing Valley here, which was the birthplace of the Jialing River. After passing Ju County, the Jialing River went south to the center of Shu and merged into the river.

In other words, if there are enough ships and trackers, Shuzhong's supplies can be transported directly from the Jialing River waterway to Juxian without detouring to Hanzhong to support the Northern Expedition.

In this era, the four regions of Bashu, Hanzhong, Qishan, and Longxi were completely connected, the logistics was extremely smooth, and the old road could also be marched.

What Han Xin didn't know was that more than twenty years later, a major earthquake would hit Ju County, completely changing the direction of the rivers here. The West Han River and the Han River were blocked and captured by the Jialing River, and the old route was almost destroyed. It is difficult to march.

This has to be said to be Han Xin's luck. Although he didn't know this, he only looked at the military order of Marquis Wuzhong sent from Wuguan, which stated the attack time of Wuguan and Hanzhong armies to enter the pass together...

"June 15th..."

Also, the puppet emperor used 20,000 soldiers to guard Ziwu Pass and only 10,000 soldiers to guard Sanguan Pass...

Han Xin closed the letter, his eyes were so sharp that he seemed to be able to see through the layers of Nanshan and Qinling Mountains, and see Guanzhong, the land and sea, and the great city that he had never been to but was already famous for!

"Go tell Wu Chen of Eclipse Road to start!"

…

On the tenth day of June, at the Northern Expeditionary Army base camp twenty miles outside Wuguan, Dongmen Leopard asked Hei Fu for a fight again.

"Taiwan Chief!"

Dongmen Baohu has been enduring this for a month: "Wancheng has been ordered to prepare 200,000 iron cluster arrows."

"The last batch of grain in Nanjun has been delivered to the camp by servants using wooden oxen and horses."

"Han Xin of Hanzhong County is also ready to cross Chencang secretly."

"Luyang Pass, Ye County, and Fangcheng have been fortified. The bandits from the Six Nations will never dare to step into Nanyang!"

"Even the equipment made by the Mohist has been prepared and placed outside the city."

"Everything is ready. We need to take advantage of the high morale of the soldiers to attack Wuguan in one go. If we don't attack for a long time, I'm afraid the master's energy will weaken. Then the puppet emperor will send more people to guard the pass. I'm afraid it will be even more difficult. Seize..."

In the past few days, Heifu only let Dongmen Bao lead people to test it out a few times, but they were all superficial, which made Ah Bao very unsatisfied.

"Yes, everything is ready... all we need is the east wind."

But Heifu was unmoved, frowning, still staring at the military reports coming from various places. There were 100,000 troops, and hundreds of miles behind, there were 150,000 servants transporting food and supplies. There were so many things going on, it was not a good idea. No matter.

He had no idea of ​​rushing to attack at all, so he unhurriedly tested and waited until two days later, he received a piece of news.

"Your Majesty, Xu Fu has arrived in Danyang!"

Patting down the paper in his hand, Heifu stood up and laughed:

“My ‘Dongfeng’ has arrived!”

…

ps: Well, I’ve made an appointment with the master. It’s a good sign on the first day out. Good night.

In addition, in order to adapt to the time difference, starting tomorrow, the update will be changed to the afternoon and midnight.