Unparalleled Concubine

   Chapter 490 Yinping Ancient Road

It has been a long time from Li Xin to Jingzhou City, but because there were no major incidents during this time, both sides were just waiting for Chen Bing, so Ye Shaobao didn't make any big moves, even if he wanted to. When I asked Li Xin to talk about things, I came here during the day, and there would be no urgency.

   This time, it was the first time he sent someone to look for Li Xin in the middle of the night.

From the perspective of the two sides, Ye Ming is the general manager of the southwest march this time, while Li Xin is assisting him as a general of the forbidden army. In this kind of war, what Ye Ming said is the military order, although this Ye Shaobao will not talk to Li Xin cares about these things, but Li Xin should listen to what he said.

   After thinking for a while, Li Xin couldn't come up with any clues. He went back to the room and changed his clothes. Under the guard of a few Yulin guards, he left the house at midnight.

   Jingzhou City at midnight is quieter than the capital city, except for the insects and sporadic barking in early summer, no sound can be heard.

   Li Xin rode on the horse and had no time to take care of the night scene of Jingzhou City, because it was not too far from the state and shepherd's mansion, and the group only took a stick of incense to arrive at the state and shepherd's mansion.

At the entrance of the Shepherd's House in   , a family member of the Ye family had been waiting for Li Xin for a long time. When he saw Li Xin coming, he immediately helped Li Xin lead the horse, and then lowered his head and said, "Master Li, the general is waiting for your promise."

  Li Xin nodded: "Take me to see Senior Brother."

As he spoke, Li Xin rolled over and dismounted. The Ye family threw the reins to the people beside him, and then led Li Xin all the way to the back hall of the prefecture's house. .

This General Ye has not been able to sleep well in the past few months. First, he has to ponder the situation in the southwest. Second, he has to take into account the interests of the court. In just half a year, his temples have become much whiter. It looks a little older.

  Because of the early marriage in this era, Ye Ming is actually not much younger than his father Ye Sheng. Ye Sheng should be seventy-three years old this year, and this General Ye is fifty-six years old this year.

   Fifty-six years old may not be a big deal in later generations, but in this age, especially among the soldiers, it is considered an old age, and generally you will not live to this age.

   When Li Zhijie, the first generation of Marquis of Pingnan, passed away more than ten years ago, he was about the same age as Ye Ming now.

   Like Ye Sheng, a healthy old man in his 70s, he is considered an outlier in this era, and he is also a birthday star.

   After seeing Ye Ming, Li Xin bent slightly, clasped his fists and said, "Senior brother looking for me?"

  Ye Ming was looking at the map of the southwest. After hearing Li Xin's words, he woke up like a dream. He stood up, stretched out his hand and pulled Li Xin to sit down, and sighed slightly.

   "Missing in the middle of the night, disturbing Chang'an Qingmeng."

   Li Xin smiled and shook his head: "Senior brother is the commander, whatever orders you have to do, and my brother has something to do today, and he hasn't slept yet."

Ye Ming nodded slightly, he pulled Li Xin to sit beside the table in the study, then lowered his head slightly and said, "Look at Chang'an, this is a map of the Southwest that I got for my brother, this is a scholar-bureaucrat in the old Nanhan who groped for dozens of times. It was drawn in 2008, and in terms of its degree of refinement, it can be regarded as the best in the world, whether there is any in the yamen of the Ministry of War, it took a lot of effort for my brother to get it."

   When he said this, even with Ye Ming's palace, he was a little proud.

In this era of extremely difficult surveying and mapping, it is very difficult to have an accurate map. Generally, generals rely on one or two extremely simple maps to fight wars, and basically rely on local people to lead the way, otherwise it will be very easy. get lost.

  Li Guang, the paratrooper in Li Xin's world, got lost many times.

The reason why Ye Ming stopped at Jingzhou Prefecture and refused to enter Shu is because the terrain in the Hundred Thousand Mountains is so complicated that even the locals sometimes can't figure it out. .

   Li Xin took a serious look at the map, then compared it with the Land of Abundance in his mind, and finally shook his head slightly.

   I don’t know if there is a problem with this map. The Bashu on the map has a lot of discrepancies with Bashu in his world. Maybe it is because this is a completely different world, but it is similar to the other world.

   Maybe it's because this map is... so rough.

   "Senior brother, my brother doesn't quite understand this picture. If you have something to say, just say it. If you can do it, just do your best."

   A smile appeared on Ye Ming's face.

   "I thought of a way to break Shu for my brother. If this way can be done, we don't have to spend time with Li Shen and the others here. If the plan goes well, at the end of the year, we can enter Jincheng!"

   Li was stunned in confidence.

A large part of the reason why this southern border is difficult to deal with is because of the terrain. There are many mountains here, and there are many places that are easy to defend and difficult to attack. Even if the forces of the two sides are equal, it is difficult to completely defeat them. The general has only been in Jingzhou for half a year, can he solve the problem that the Jin court has suffered for 30 years?

   Ye Ming didn't see Li Xin's surprised look, but pointed at the map with his hands.

   "Look at Chang'an, this is Jiange."

Ye Shaobao said solemnly: "More than 30 years ago, Marquis Li Zhijie hit the Jiange from Hanzhong, and was stopped by this sword gate for more than five years, and finally gnawed the Jiange down. Destroy Mianyang and enter Jincheng."

  There are several screens in the southwest. The outermost is Hanzhong and Jingzhou, and the inside is Jianmen Pass of Jiange. If Jianmen Pass is lost, the enemy can go straight to Hanzhou in Mianyang, and then reach the foot of Jincheng City.

When Li Zhijie entered Shu, there was no other way but to bite the bullet and enter from Jianmenguan all the way. At the same time, because the emperor of Nanshu at that time, Li Shi was too dazed, he changed his generals many times, which was broken by Li Zhijie. After Jianmen Pass, all the way into Jincheng was like a broken bamboo.

Ye Ming continued: "That's how the Pingnan Army entered Shu at the beginning, so Li Shen deployed heavy troops in Hanzhong and Jianmenguan. If we gnawed hard like Li Zhijie for more than five years, the court would give money to people. , most of them can be chewed off."

   "But at that time, the loss was too great."

   Ye Ming gestured on the map as he spoke.

   "There are only 140,000 people in the entire right battalion of the Forbidden Army. We are not allowed to bite the sword gate like Li Zhijie did, so we have to find another way."

   "Originally, Brother Wei couldn't think of a good way, but a man from Shu told Brother Wei some time ago that besides Jianmen Pass, there is another way to enter Shu."

   said, he pointed his finger to a hill to the west of Jiange, and his expression was excited.

   "According to the local mountain people, there is a long mountain road here, which can cross Jianmen Pass and go directly to Fuxian County."

Ye Ming took a deep breath and said: "So Weiwei brother is going to take someone to attack Jianmen Pass from Hanzhong, but someone else has to lead someone to attack Jincheng from here, so Li Shen is not prepared, at most by the end of the year, the situation in the southwest will be deal!"

   He looked at Li Xin with bright eyes.

   "Chang'an, are you willing to lead a surprise attack?"

   Li Xin's eyes stayed on Ye Ming's fingers, and he was speechless for a long time.

   This road is clearly the Yinping Ancient Road…

   This Senior Brother Ye wants to be Deng Ai!

   However, I heard that this road is extremely difficult to walk, and there are six or seven hundred miles of mountain roads.

   More importantly, there is no Adou in Jincheng who surrenders in minutes...

   (end of this chapter)