"What the internal history says is absolutely true. The rebels may be building the plank road deliberately to lure me. In fact, they have other plans..."
As soon as Nei Shibao finished speaking, Li Si's son Li Yu caught his father's eye and immediately came out. Although his family didn't know where the Northern Expedition's real main attack direction was, they also guessed that it was probably a false shot on the other side of the plank road.
Now that Nei Shibao had seen through the Northern Expedition'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 ten thousand of the rebels had left Nanzheng in the west. They were marching westward along the upper reaches of the Han River, advancing both by water and land, and 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 should 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 clan 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 every year to offer sacrifices.
"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. Not to mention that there are temples to the ancestors in the West Frontier Palace and West Quanqiu. 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 go, water transport 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 send thousands of people to take down the defense at most. With the county lieutenant Yao Yin here, the troops of Longxi County are enough to resist the enemy and block them outside Qishan Mountain.
, the thief will definitely not 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 cross. 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 falsehoods. In my opinion, Qishan's praise is just to mobilize our army. The rebels' real attack directions are only these two! The old way is to eclipse!"
Hu Hai asked again: "Where is the north entrance of the old road?"
"Disperse the customs."
"How far is it from Xianyang?"
Zhao Gao said: "Three hundred miles."
Hu Hai asked again: "Where is the north entrance of the eclipse?"
"It's 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 about this situation, he probably couldn't sleep at night, and no matter how Nei Shibao told the old story, the terrain was eclipsed.
"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!"
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While the monarchs and ministers of Xianyang were discussing strategies to defend against the enemy, Han Xin, the assistant general of the Northern Expedition, 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 and completely empty.
The wall of gaps made him breathless.
Although he had entered Hanzhong for several months, Han Xin still felt depressed and couldn't help but secretly said: "Such a remote and remote place cannot even station ten thousand people, but now it has become the hub for the Hanzhong Northern Expeditionary Army to launch operations to enter the pass."
Just because Ju County is where the Western Han River and the Jialing River meet.
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 southern wall of the corridor is the South Qinling and Minshan Mountains, and the northern wall is
It is the North Qinling Mountains. It is a complete journey through the mountains in search of land, with gentle twists and turns, and finally arrives at Qishan Mountain. After passing Qishan Mountain, it is equivalent to leaving the mountainous area, and the open road leads to 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 allowed it.
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 extraordinary troops from Longxi and let the Shu soldiers attack Xibei, creating a pattern of attacking Xi County from Qishan Mountain.
But as Nei Shibao said, although the Qishan Road looks flat and has rivers, it is all an illusion. The terrain in this area is quite complex, transitioning to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau in the west, the Loess Plateau in the north, and the Sichuan Basin in the south.
Three major geological zones meet here, and you can imagine how complex the terrain is.
The so-called passage is just a series of basins, valleys, mountains and hills with relatively low altitude. This kind of terrain is barely suitable for marching, but it is a complete nightmare for transporting food and supplies. Not only is the distance long, but there are many obstacles.
With trees blocking the way and the Di and Qiang moving around, it is impossible for the army to know just by thinking about it. If it were so easy to move, the ancestors of the Qin people might not have sacrificed several generations to try to expand eastward, but instead went south to Hanzhong to develop.
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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 about it, he only looked at the military order of Marquis Wuzhong sent from Wuguan, which stated the attack time of Wuguan and the two armies of Han and Zhong entering the pass together...
"June 15th..."
There is also the confidential information that the puppet emperor used 20,000 soldiers to guard Ziwu Pass and only 10,000 people to guard Sanguan Pass...
Han Xin closed the letter and 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!"
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On the tenth day of June, at the Northern Expeditionary Army base camp twenty miles outside Wuguan, Dongmen Leopard asked Heifu 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. It will be even more difficult.
Seize..."
In the past few days, Heifu had 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 what.
He had no idea of rushing to attack at all, so he just tested and waited unhurriedly until two days later, he received a piece of news.
"Your Majesty, Xu Fu has arrived in Danyang!"
He patted the paper in his hand, stood up, and laughed loudly:
“My ‘Dongfeng’ has arrived!”
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ps: Well, I’ve made an appointment with the master. It’s a good sign for my 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.
