Three Kingdoms

The rain in the mountains is always unpredictable, falling and stopping for a while.

Captain Sun staggered up, groping in the dark, and put on the Taoist robe that had just been handed out some time ago. He pushed the leg of a soldier lying in front of him to the side, making some space. Walk outside the hut...

The soldier was completely unaware, as if he was still eating delicious food in his sleep. He pursed his lips, muttered something, and continued to sleep soundly.

"This bastard..."

Captain Sun couldn't help but touch his belly, and found that he didn't have the panic or cold feeling on his back that he usually wakes up in the middle of the night with hunger. Only his lower belly reminded him that it was time to do something, and he couldn't help but smile happily.

At dusk, guests came to the military village.

Looking at the behavior of that noble clan, and then looking at the big and round bodyguards following that clan, Captain Sun almost immediately gave up the idea of ​​using the knife, and sent someone to inform the old man in the back mountain while greeting him with a smile.

Sure enough, it was the Li family from Guanzhong who came, and he was an official from Jingzhao worth 600 shi!

When they saw Mr. Li taking out the black ribbon, the old man who was usually aloof and wished he could use his nostrils to look at people when talking to him all made a puckered smile, and his lips went up sticky, not to mention that Captain Sun led the people around him. The order chasing officials I had seen were just soldiers of Erbaishi's county and township officials, and almost all of them were a little at a loss.

The style of the noble clan disciples in Guanzhong is just different.

Naturally, the dilapidated huts in the army village were disdainful. Even the wooden house of the old man who greeted him so diligently was obviously disgusted. So he found a high ground in the mountain behind the army village and surrounded it with oilcloth and cloth curtains. A "cloth room" with several square rooms!

In the Han Dynasty, cloth, like grain, was a hard currency and could be directly exchanged for money or items. Therefore, in the eyes of Captain Sun and his subordinates, this kind of behavior is no different than seeing Brother Hao directly wear money on his body in later generations...

Not only that, but others, including Captain Sun, also got three wide and long strips of bacon and a whole bag of corn! The fragrant corn porridge, plus a piece of bacon with crystal clear fat, made everyone want to eat the wooden bowl together.

Not only that, the descendants of the Li family from Guanzhong also said that there are clansmen coming here later, so they asked the old Taoist and Captain Sun to lead the good students to prepare some firewood, hot water and so on. Naturally, they also thanked them.

Lao Dao and Captain Sun were naturally busy and agreed.

Looking at the posture of this Li family disciple, it was already shocking to Team Sun. It turned out that he was just the leader of the family. So when the real head of the family arrives, who knows how majestic he will be?

Although Li said that corn and wheat noodles would be sent later as a thank you gift, the people in the military village who had not seen serious food for a long time still had to add water to the big pot for cooking corn porridge three times. After drinking it in half, I felt my swollen belly contentedly and wandered back to the hut. The Guanzhong nobles were excitedly talking about the style of the clan. They chattered for more than half an hour before falling asleep one after another.

Captain Sun was a little older after all, and he did drink two more bowls of corn porridge, one thick and one thin after mixing with water. He couldn't hold it in in the middle of the night, so he lifted the straw curtain and left the hut.

The rain is not heavy, just light and drizzle.

As soon as the curtain was opened, it was floating on his face. Captain Sun snored, then took two steps to the edge of the hut. While untying his belt, he looked up at the place surrounded by a curtain not far away. One glance...

But at this glance, Captain Sun didn't see any movement in the curtain over there. Instead, he suddenly saw a strong man's face suddenly appear in the rain and fog!

This strong man seemed familiar, like the guard of the Li family of the Guanzhong noble clan, but he was now wearing two levels of armor, neatly draped, and holding a short straight blade in his hand. The cold light on the front made Captain Sun lead his pores. All of them stood up in an instant!

The strong man looked up and down, seemed to smile, and then sent the short straight blade in his hand straight forward, and it went straight into Captain Sun's chest and abdomen...

Captain Sun opened his mouth, and before he could howl out, the strong man rushed forward and covered his mouth tightly. He could only make a few "hehe" sounds, and then he felt The cold front with a short straight blade gradually froze my whole body, and I slowly lost my strength. Even when I peeed and flowed down the roots of my legs, I couldn't feel any warmth.

As the blood surged out, all the strength in Captain Sun's body quickly disappeared, and he collapsed. But at the last moment when his eyes closed, he saw a dozen more ghostly figures in the rain and mist. , all with sharp armor and agile agility, they rushed straight into the hut!

"Be quick with your hands and feet! Go two people and unbolt the door! Open the gate of the village! Raise the fire and give the signal!"

Gong Jun whispered instructions while pulling out the short straight blade, and casually wiped the blood on Captain Sun's body.

Amidst the muffled hums that sounded in the hut, there was finally a long and short scream of someone, but it soon subsided. A person came out of the hut and came to Gong Jun, while cleaning the blood on the short blade. Shaking it off, he reported with a smile: "Junhou... Hehe, it's too easy. They are all a bunch of idiots... Everything is done inside... By the way, this short blade is really good. It goes in and out very smoothly. That's it. It's a little shorter...it would be better if it were thicker and longer..."

Gong Jun snorted and said: "You know nothing! If you like big things, why don't you get a ring-shou knife? You bastard, in a place like this, you can't use a spear or a sword at all! Only a king like this specially lets the workshop The forged short blade is the most practical! Go back and check again, and if you have any doubts, just add another knife!"

The man responded, chuckled, and got back into the hut.

Accompanied by his own guards, Li Guan looked at the murderous Gong Jun. Although he was wearing a big cloak, Li Guan still felt a little chilly. These people in front of him were the real killers on the battlefield!

Relaxation and freehand expression are extremely natural. To them, killing someone is not much worse than killing a chicken or a sheep!

The defense force on the Tangluo Road in Hanzhong was so lax and dilapidated, which was somewhat beyond Li Guan's expectation. After all, this is an important passage into Hanzhong, and it should have some appearance, but everything in front of me is unexpectedly easy.

This wave of people were almost like lambs waiting to be slaughtered, dying with their hands tied...

I don’t know what he was thinking about, maybe he was worried about Li Guan’s future fate, maybe he was timid about the group of murderers in front of him, or for some other reason, the guard beside Li Guan whispered: “… Lang Jun, there are still two military camps... they may not be so smooth... Although Hanzhong is unprepared, Lang Jun sees that this mountain road is difficult even for light troops. How can they transport food and grass? Come here? If so...you still have to be careful..."

Li Guan was silent for a moment, but only sighed slightly and said: "Don't mention this again. Now that you have come here, there is no reason to give up halfway..."

"Mr. Lang," the guard continued in a low voice, "there is no siege equipment prepared in the Western Army... Although these are elites in front of us, they can naturally attack these crude outer military strongholds with ease, but if we want to attack The city...this..."

"...What you said makes sense..." Li Guan whispered, "...but since you can also see it, General Zhengxi is naturally prepared...perhaps Zhengxi has already made arrangements...let this matter go. Let’s mention it again... Well, looking at the fire on this mountain road, it seems that General Zhengxi is about to come up, and Sui came forward to greet him..."

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The mountain road is extremely difficult to travel, and it is even more difficult at night.

If Gong Jun hadn't left many marks along the way and warned those behind him, they might have missed the mark and fallen into the mountain stream if the torch couldn't shine. At the corner of the rock, along the rugged mountain road, one person is almost holding the other person's belt, moving step by step.

Fei Qian stood on a rock beside the mountain road, looking at the situation in front of him and frowning.

This is the first military stronghold!

There are two more to come!

And from here, we enter the most difficult part of the Tangluo Road, the Tianpan Road known as the eighty-four bends!

Li Ru stood next to Fei Qian, coughing from time to time, perhaps because of the cold night.

"Wen You, I seem to have forgotten to calculate something..." Fei Qian looked at the mountain road in front of him with a little embarrassment, frowning and said, "... Now when we enter Hanzhong, the dry food we have prepared is enough, but Hanzhong The food and grass... If this is transferred, such a mountain road..."

When he decided to go south to Hanzhong, Fei Qian brought almost all the dry food stored in Pingyang. This way he could ensure that he would not need to carry too much food when walking on the winding mountain road, which would increase the difficulty of traveling and delay the journey. But the problem is The dry food in Feiqian Pingyang was fine compressed flour cakes, but the food in Hanzhong was not!

Even if Fei Qian wanted to reprocess these grains and grasses in Hanzhong, without Huang's workshop's day and night water mills and a large number of equipment, how could he successfully transform the grains and grasses into compressed noodle cakes?

There is no way to change the form. Such bags of grain and grass are transported from Hanzhong. Not to mention taking up space, the transportation cost on this mountain road alone is many times higher than on the flat land!

If we really take this tangluo road, if ten pavilions of grain and grass can be transported to one pavilion, it will be considered good!

And with such a huge consumption of food and grass, what is paid is not proportional to what is received. How can we provide more food and grass to the refugees in Guanzhong?

Li Ru's eyes flashed and he said: "General, there is no need to worry... The way to transport food, Youruo's intention is probably to take the Baoxie Road... But there is another way. Although the distance is longer, it is better than the Baoxie Road. In other words, it is convenient for the present and can relieve immediate worries..."

"Huh? Is it better than Baoxie Dao?" Fei Qian couldn't help but asked with some doubts.

"The Baoxie Road goes up against the Baoshui River and down along the bank of the water. The mountain road in the middle is transported by human power without stopping. It is enough to transport grain to Guanzhong... However, the Baoshui Plank Road was burned down and will eventually need time to be repaired..." Li Ru said, "Instead of taking the Qishan Mountains, we can take a detour to Longxi. Although it is far, it will be much more convenient since we don't have to cross mountains and ridges..."

"Qishan?" Fei Qian pinched the beard on his chin.

Although this place name is very familiar, is it really good to go to Qishan?

This circle is not a little round...

"To the west of Hanzhong is Mianyang, and to the west of Mianyang is Yangpingguan..." Li Ru explained with a confident smile, "To the southwest of Yangping is Jinniu Road, and to the northwest is Qishan Road... "

"The road to Qishan Mountain has gentle mountains and roads between the mountains, which are convenient for transporting grain and grass. There are also Jushui, Donghe, Xihe, Baihe, Donggou, etc., which can be slightly transported by ship. Traveling northwest, there will be a place a hundred miles away, surrounded by Surrounded by mountains and the intersection of three rivers, it can serve as a relay..."

"During the Xiping period, Yu Shengqing, the prefect of Wudu, dredged water conservancy and opened the Qingni River canal. As a result, the area was rich in salt and rice, ten times more than before... It was the rainy season at this time, and the river was high and deep. It was a good time to go boating, and you could reach Xiabian "Tao!" Li Ru continued, "But if it is autumn and winter, and the mountains are high and the water is dry, boats are not allowed to sail..."

"What?" Fei Qian couldn't help but repeat.

"Exactly, you can go down the Weishui River to Chencang in the east, and you can go to Tianshui in the north..." Li Ru nodded and said, "When you go down to the mountain, you have already left the mountains, and the road is smooth... It's about a hundred and five miles to the northwest. Ten miles away is Jianwei, with mountains on both sides, gentle terrain, fertile land, and many wealthy households..."

"Huh?" Fei Qian became more and more confused as he listened. Why did he feel like he was going further and further away? When would he be able to return to Guanzhong?

Li Ru seemed to see Fei Qian's doubts, and said with a smile: "The food in Hanzhong can be transported here... A certain person has sent people to Jianweixiabian, in the name of the general, to negotiate with the local big family to exchange food for food." , it should not be difficult... In this way, we can deal with the urgent needs first..."

"So that's it..." Fei Qian suddenly realized.

Xun Chen's plan was indeed good. He took the Baoshui River and the Xianshui River, and then used people to transport them in between. However, after all, the plank road in the Baoshui River was burned down, so it would definitely be delayed for a while in the early stage. But after Li Ru's addition, the entire strategy The structure was immediately perfect.

From Hanzhong to Jianwei, and then from Jianwei around Qishan to Longyou back to Guanzhong, it seems like an extra distance, but in fact it is equivalent to finding the big merchants in Jianwei first to borrow grain and grass, so overall, , it is more convenient and faster than taking the Baoxian Road in the early stage!

The key is to shorten the vacuum period for Hanzhong grain and grass to help the refugees in Guanzhong, which is more conducive to Fei Qian's resettlement and subsequent population arrangements in Guanzhong...

"Wen You really has a detailed plan!" Fei Qian thought about it and felt that Li Ru's arrangement was indeed good, so he praised, "By the way, I wonder who Wen You sent to build Wei?"

"My surname is Jiang, and my given name is Zhongyi. I am from Tianshui... He is also a civilized and military man. I can be considered a general..." Li Ru said, "Because the army is marching and time is tight, I can't meet with the general..."

"Jiang Ji, Jiang Zhongyi?" Fei Qian couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

This name seems familiar...

Okay, the problem of grain and grass transportation has almost been completed... The author also admires himself very much. He actually sets up difficult problems for himself, and then finds a way to solve it... As for whether there are any mistakes... I don't care, even if there are Just treat it as invisible... It can be said that after taking Hanzhong and having food and grass, we are basically about to enter the fast lane... Well, we are about to...