Warrior in Turbulent Han Dynasty

Guo Shao and his group rushed out of Binzhou, but no one was chasing them, so they gradually calmed down. Thinking about it, it wasn't that serious at this time, at least Zhe Congruan didn't dare to treat Guo Shao, what was uncertain was nothing but Li Chuyun's situation... because if he beat up the injustice, beat up the bullying father-in-law, and a general of the Imperial Army was about to be lynched by the Jiedu Envoy, Zhe Congruan probably wouldn't be able to take the position of Jiedu Envoy.

Is it worth it to have unhappiness for Li Chuyun and Zhegong? Both Guo Shao and Zuo You thought it was worth it, because they couldn't win over a general of Zhe Gong's level, and only Li Chuyun was the one he should fight for.

After driving for half a day, everyone went to the post house to rest as soon as they got out of Jingnan Township. It is reckoned that Zhecong Ruan Zhen doesn't have to wait until now to do anything.

The big post station in Guannei is a small city with walls and gates. Travelers drive local commerce, and there are usually markets around it. There are a dozen of Li Chuyun's family members and servants, including Guo Shao and others, there is enough room to live.

Li's mother's nanny also came. She was not originally from Binzhou, but moved to Binzhou with Li's family when Zhegong moved to the town. The nanny has been taking care of Li's mother for more than ten years, and now she is almost equivalent to a member of the Li family. The nanny has her own qualifications and often manages Li's affairs. As soon as he arrived at the post station, he got busy. He wanted to take the robe to wash and return it to others after it was cleaned and dried. The robe was Guo Shao's clothes that Li Shi wrapped up and went home.

Mrs. Li refused, and didn't know how to explain it. After thinking about it, she argued strongly: "Bake the clothes to pieces, and wash them after Fengxiang settles down!"

As soon as the nanny left the room, Mrs. Li took out the robe from the bundle, looked at it for a while, and couldn't help but picked it up and put it in front of her nose to smell it. It seemed to smell of sweat, and something else, or maybe nothing at all, just her imagination.

Just as she was in a daze, the door was pushed open again with a "creak" sound. Li Shi hurriedly stuffed the clothes in her hand into the bag, startled and ashamed, and her face turned red immediately.

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Early the next morning, officials from Fengxiang Town made a special trip to receive them, and asked Guo Shao to meet Jiedu envoy Wang Jing again after arriving at Fengxiang Mansion. According to this courtesy, Guo Shao guessed that the letter from Tokyo Wang Pu might have been received by Wang Jing.

Guo Shao was even more relieved. After they settled down in Fengxiang mansion and visited Wang Jing, they left Li Chuyun's family members in Fengxiang, and went out of the city to Chencang the next day, focusing on understanding the terrain.

Shi Zhangzhao, the shogunate of Fengxiang Town, personally accompanied him, and went to Chencang with Guo Shao, and then traveled to Sanguan.

The crowd set off from Chencang early in the morning. They traveled about thirty or forty li with light clothes and arrived at Sanguan in the afternoon. Along the way, there are only lofty mountains and mountains, and there is only one valley on the road, just like the traffic pipeline between the mountains.

As soon as he arrived at Sanguan, Zhang Zhao said first: "Guo Dushi can't venture out of Sanguan. The front is the territory controlled by the Shu army, and the terrain is complicated, so there may be mistakes."

Seeing the steepness of the mountains, Guo Shao couldn’t help sighing: “Is this the way of Shu? No wonder Li Bai, a poet, said that ‘the way of Shu is as difficult as the mountains and blue sky’.”

But Zhang Zhao said with a smile: "It is true that we have entered the Shu road, but the road from Chencang to Sanguan is still easy. Don't we ride horses? This road is called Chencang Road. 'Mingxiu plank road secretly leads to Chencang' refers to this road; the north end is at Chencang. There are several Shu roads, and Chencang Road is the flattest one."

Guo Shao saw that Sanguan Pass was steep and stuck in the valley, surrounded by steep mountains; except for the valley road in the middle, it was not easy for even a small team to cross the mountain, let alone a large army, so he said: "Since Chencang Road is the most flat road, it will be difficult for the Shu army to enter the pass... Is it easy for Longyou (Gansu) to enter the pass?"

Zhang Zhaodao: "Exactly, since ancient times Longyou has been condescending and controlling the pass, so Qinzhou is located in Longyou."

These general things, Zuo You can explain the truth, Guo Shao will not continue to talk about it. He was just pondering: Qinzhou is on the right side of Longyou, as long as the army rushes down, it will enter the pass plain; the imperial court is planning to recover the states occupied by Shu Kingdom, and perhaps the most concerned thing is the objective threat posed by Qinzhou.

Guo Shao and others have never been to this place, let alone walked through the Shu Road, so they can't see much except for the mountains at this time. He thought about it for a while, and felt that Zhang Zhao had stayed in Fengxiang for a long time, so he might at least be familiar with the general place. I'm going to come to the paper mill right now, and put it on the Guanlou with everyone, and then take out a wooden ruler from the luggage.

This checkpoint, which must be contested by military strategists, seemed very quiet at this time, only some soldiers were on duty on the wall, and even few travelers passed the checkpoint.

Guo Shao looked at the position of the sun for a while, then drew a circle on the paper and wrote in tiny characters: Chen Cang. Then draw a short line with a ruler on the paper in the lower right corner, and write: Forty miles. Estimated the direction and drew a curved line, with "Sanguan" written on one end of the line.

Both Zhang Zhao and Zuo You watched Guo Shao fiddle with this thing with great interest, because the operation was simple and rough, they understood it, but they thought Guo Shao's method was a bit strange.

Guo Shao asked again: "Qinzhou is to the west of Chencang, to the north? Can Zhang Changshi remember how far it is?"

Zhang Zhaodao: "The direction should indeed be northerly, about five hundred miles away."

Guo Shao then measured the distance and bearing as he said, and marked Qinzhou at a place far away from Chencang.

One question and one answer, Zhang Zhao is indeed knowledgeable, as long as it is a slightly famous big place, he can answer the approximate direction. So Guo Shao worked hard to draw Fengzhou, Chengzhou, Jiezhou, Xiongsheng Jungu Town, Xingzhou, Shannan West Road (Han) and other large towns... The four prefectures of Qin, Feng, Cheng and Jie should be the territory of Shu that the imperial court is planning to capture.

Cheng and Feng are on the east-west line, located to the south of Chencang. Fengzhou is the closest to Chencang, more than 200 miles southwest of Chencang; Chengzhou is 300 miles west of Fengzhou. The Xiongsheng Army of the Shu Army is located between Chengzhou and Fengzhou... Jiezhou is the farthest, nearly 300 miles southwest of Chengzhou.

Other places are not too far away, but Guo Shao seems to be outside the scope of this campaign, there are Xingzhou and Shannan West Road (Han). Xingzhou is just south of Guzhen, at the west end of the Han Plain; from Xingzhou to the east, it enters the Han Plain, which is Xingyuan Mansion, the Jiedushi of Shannan West Road.

Guo Shao knew the approximate location, and he also drew a rough schematic diagram. However, the terrain of the roads between these states and towns is not clear. Guo Shao knew that the marching route should not be based on straight-line distances... For example, the Qinling mountainous area around Sanguan in front of him is difficult to traverse unless he is flying.

Guo Shao looked at the schematic diagram in his hand and realized that he had clicked on it and had to be wired before he could make a face. So first ask about the rivers, there should be four rivers.

Weishui is the northernmost river, and the river from Qinzhou to Chencang is Weishui; Gudaoshui, connected with Jialing River, flows to the "Chencang Road" of Shu Road, from Chencang, Fengzhou, and Xingzhou to the north and south; Qiang River flows eastward through Jiezhou into Jialing River; and Hanshui flows through Shannan West Road.

Beyond the rivers, there are roads. Zhang Zhaoji is not clear, so he can only explain the Baishu Road, which is the "Chencang Road" here.

However, the general terrain is that the road from Chencang to Qinzhou is along the Wei River, which is relatively easy to walk, but the distance is very long; Qinzhou goes south to the east and detours to the Chengfeng line, which is also very flat, and the road is even further... If you go from Chencang to Qinzhou, all the way to Fengzhou, it is at least a thousand miles away.

Going directly south from Chencang to Cheng (west) and Feng (east), you have to cross the Qinling Mountains; in fact, the southern part of the Weishui line between Chencang and Qinzhou is the Qinling Mountains, with high mountains and complicated roads going south.

Guo Shao's trip was quite fruitful, at least he understood: the purpose of the imperial court's campaign was to control the front line of the Qinling Mountains; and to eliminate the threat of Longyou to the pass.

When he stayed in Tokyo before, no one would tell him these things. It was impossible for the queen, Wang Pu and others to teach him in detail. Zuo You, who is the only one who has some knowledge, has limited knowledge of these things. Zuo You is mainly familiar with Tokyo officialdom.

Guo Shao got the military power of the guard Siqian Jingbing, and he should be a stronger force in the upcoming battle to attack Shu. If the chief general doesn't know anything, if the battle goes wrong at that time, the court will pursue it, ask three questions and only listen to Wang Jing and Xiang Xun's deployment, how can he explain it?

Moreover, Guo Shao's vision is to fight with all his strength, hoping for a quick victory.

For a moment, Guo Shao was a little thankful for himself. After all, he was still a person who had lived in modern society, and he always had knowledge. Otherwise, for an ordinary low-level small school that has soared for a few months, commanding operations, like Guo Shao who has almost no convenient sources of information, I am afraid that he will really know nothing.

Then Guo Shao stayed in Sanguan and did not return to Chencang and Fengxiang. While waiting for Luo Yanhuan and Jingniang's entourage to be dispatched, he made friends with the generals guarding the pass and inquired about the nearby terrain and the deployment of the Shu army.

The soldiers stationed at Sanguan, in order to guard against the attack of the Shu army... Although the Shu army basically does not provoke wars in normal times, it is necessary for the generals of the Zhou army to routinely send out scouts to move around, and sometimes bring back a few guides.

In the past, Cheng, Feng and other places belonged to the "state", but now they belong to the Shu state. The local people don't care who rules them, they are all the same anyway, and there is no concept of righteousness, and fighting is a civil war. As long as certain benefits are given, they are willing to lead the way.

Based on this, Guo Shao drew several smaller terrain and road maps. His geography knowledge comes entirely from learning to take the exam. He has forgotten most of it, but he still remembers some methods of expressing contours by using the density of coils, but he can’t use them. Who draws so complicated? As long as the mountain has no way to go, no matter how high the mountain is? The scale was learned and used flexibly by him, and it came in handy.

Zhang Zhao and Zuo You were all amazed when they saw Guo Shao draw pictures for the first time.

Out of curiosity, Guo Shao came to Sanguan to store a map, and he immediately understood why they were surprised... He felt that the map he had scribbled was already very rough, but unexpectedly, the map used by the Zhou army was even more unbearable to look at directly. The characters are big, the mountains are scribbled, there is no concept of scale at all, a city is painted to take up half of the Qinling Mountains, how big the city is...