The six northern counties are Tianshui, Lueyang, Fufeng, Shiping, Wudu and Yinping. Zhang Chi's plan is also very simple. It does not matter whether the northern expedition of the six counties can succeed. What is important is that he will conquer Hanzhong to control Sichuan and Shaanxi, with Hanzhong as the center, and open up a territory of his own between the mountains of Gansu, Sichuan and Shaanxi.

There are barriers here, east, west, south and north. Although the general trend is that it is facing enemies everywhere, it is actually easy to defend and difficult to attack in any direction. There are Bashan and Qinling Mountains below. Zhang Chi is a time traveler. Knowing that Zhu Yuanzhang was also in troubled times, his secret to winning was nothing more than "building high walls, slowly becoming kings, and accumulating grain."

Now, as long as he occupied Hanzhong and surrounded by mountains on all sides, this is his highest natural city wall, saving the steps of building high walls and garrisoning troops directly. When the world is in chaos, the Central Plains can be captured here and Bashu can be reached below. More importantly, the mountains here are like high walls on all sides. As long as the city gate is guarded, it will never be broken.

Of course, it would be even better if one or two of the six counties were captured.

Speaking of the Yinping Path I want to take, it has a great origin in history.

The Yinping Path is between Yinping and Pingwu. The two paths start from Yinping to the north, and cross the Motianling Ridge from Yinping to Sichuan and go straight to Pingwu. The reason why this path is so famous is because of the story of the Three Kingdoms.

During the Three Kingdoms period, the Wei general Deng Ai took this route when he attacked Shu. Jiang Wei was at Jianmen Pass and the Jianmen Pass was as strong as iron. The Wei army could only be rejected outside the pass. Deng Ai smuggled through Yinping, which destroyed Shu and made great contributions.

Now, Zhang Chi is going to follow this ancient road from Pingwu and make another achievements.

It was also the time for Zhang Chi to capture the Northern Expedition. Yao Shuode's army had just been defeated. No one expected that after the war, Shu would directly send troops to the Northern Expedition. Even Yao Shuode was not prepared, let alone the Yinping Guard.

Of course, there are still heavy troops at Jianmen Pass, but this secret passage of more than 700 miles is indeed unmanned for 700 miles. Otherwise, as long as there is a soldier and horse setting an ambush in the most dangerous Motianling Ridge in the Yinping Path, the number of people is not too large. Thousands of people are enough, and it will be enough that Zhang Chi’s tens of thousands of people will be able to come and go.

Because there are mostly steep mountains here, most of the ancient roads are plank roads.

The so-called plank road is a road made by digging holes and building bridges on steep rock cliffs. It has been disrepaired and intermittent.

The soldier climbed the cliff and walked simply to the plank road where the broken place was simply connected. The army was walking between the cliffs and valleys, as if a big dragon was hanging on the clouds. Zhang Chi couldn't help but sigh that although modern people like to travel, he himself had seen many famous mountains and rivers, when could he see such a thrilling and spectacular scene in this place?

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The Yinping Guardian was named Gu Beicheng. It was just nightfall and he was still sleeping, but he did not expect that the divine weapons suddenly fell from the sky and Zhang Chi's army had already reached the city.

When the soldiers came to report and woke him up from his dream, the two southeastern gates of Yinping had already fallen.

Gu Beicheng never dreamed that a large army would suddenly come here, and this army came from Shuzhong. Logically speaking, if Shuzhong came to attack the city, the first one would definitely be Jianmen Pass. Even if Jianmen Pass was lost, there would be a fast horse to convey information to Yinping to strengthen its vigilance. Now, why did the army come directly to Yinping City and quickly open the city gate?

Although Yinping is not as dangerous as Jianmen Pass, the city defense is not at all sloppy, and there are also many garrisons in garrison. Even if they are surrounded on all sides, Gu Beicheng has the confidence to guard the city for a month without losing it.

In fact, the fall of the two southeastern gates of Yinping is not how powerful Zhang Chi's army is, but the contribution of the "poor family" Emei.

Emei has excellent martial arts skills. After meeting Zhang Chi in Shu that day, she promised to help Zhang Chi, she went north alone. Among the "poor families", there were mostly refugees, but where did the refugees come from? All refugees in the world came from war, and nine out of ten were because of the Hu people.

The Hu people killed people like mahjong and captured six northern counties. The people were full of grievances. The "poor families" also had a foundation in these six counties. And the foundation was quite deep.

"Unpoor families" are a branch of Taoism. Since the establishment of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Taoism has been constantly governing and armed uprisings, never relaxing their ideals for a moment. Of course, the same is true now, but different schools and methods are used differently.

For example, Wu Dou Rice Dao has already publicly rebelled, but the poor family did not do so.

There are many Taoist disciples in Wu Dou Mi, but unfortunately, the most famous thing about Wu Dou Mi Tao is talismans. The method is nothing more than saying that talismans can drive away ghosts and cure diseases, and can go to battle and bewitch the people. They often use magical tricks or tricks to deceive the working people, just like Santong saw the so-called "spell" of the saint shrinking into an inch in Kuaiji.

This method is used to deceive the people, so those believers are of different quality, both good and bad. Most of the believers are poor people, and literary cannot be literary, and martial cannot be martial. They only win in large numbers. When they rise up, they will have a large scale in a very short time, which shocks the government and the people. But when the court accumulates strength and clears the army, the Five Doks of Rice Road will be defeated.

The "poor families" are different. The "poor families" enter the Tao with martial arts. I dare not say anything else, but if there are many branches of Taoism, if they are allowed to fight alone, no one can be the opponent of the "poor families"'s children.

Moreover, the "poor family" lineage has had a deep foundation in the Sichuan-Shu area since the end of the Han Dynasty. Now it has been developed for hundreds of years. Even if the "poor family" immediately rebels, it is okay. The momentum may not be much weaker than the Five Doks of Rice Road. Therefore, it would be easier to help Zhang Chi to win one pass based on the power of the "poor family".

As soon as Zhang Chi arrived at the foot of Yinping City, the fire broke out at the top of the city, and the city gates on both sides of the southeast opened. Zhang Chi's army marched straight into the city.

"Shoot the horses first, capture the thief first, capture the king." As soon as he entered the city gate, Zhang Chi ordered Du Ximing to say.

Although Zhang Chi was not familiar with military affairs, he also knew that the most urgent task was to first capture the prefect and control the supreme commander of the whole city, so that the whole city could be disarmed as soon as possible.

Du Ximing was experienced and well-organized. He ignored the chaos in the city and directly commanded the main force to enter the city.

The prefect's mansion was on the central axis of Yinping, north and south. In a blink of an eye, the Yinping guard Gu Beicheng was so scared that he was not as good as he was dressed in a hurry, so he fled out. Unexpectedly, as soon as he left the back door of the prefect's mansion, he was captured by Qin Bo, who had been caught up.

Originally, these defenders were in panic and fled everywhere. Now even the commander was captured. Unfortunately, there were tens of thousands of troops in Yinping. They were in a hurry and could not respond. In the bloody battle, they were completely controlled by Zhang Chi's army.

Before dawn, the war in the city had subsided. Because the war had just ended, the soldiers were still holding torches on the streets. In addition, there were fires everywhere due to the war, which made Yinping City look like daytime.

"We have confiscated their armor and weapons by us, and they are all under control. Please ask the young master to go to the prefect's mansion to rest." Du Ximing came to report.

Although Zhang Chi was asked to rest in the prefect's house, how could Zhang Chi rest? Because the war had just ended and there were still many things to do, everyone started discussing in the lobby of the prefect's house.

The first thing is what should be done about Gu Beicheng, the guard general of Yinping who was captured by Qin Bo alive.

Santong shouted, "The Hu people killed me Han people. Now this dog general makes cattle and horses for the Hu people, and slaughtered me Han people. I want me to say, "Should you kill such a bastard with one knife!"

Not only Santong thinks so, but most people are probably like this. Chinese people have never forgiven traitors.

However, Ding Yizhi's considerations were quite far-reaching: "In my opinion, this person may be useful. It is better to keep it for me to kill him."

"What's the use of this dog general?" Santong didn't believe it.

Ding Yizhi smiled and said, "We succeeded just after the surprise attack. If Yinping had been prepared, we would not have many troops and the damage to the attack would be very serious. Although we have captured Yinping now, what should we do when we go to other city gates? If we keep him and use it, we can let the soldiers wear Hu armor, hold up Hu flags, and trick the city gates into opening. Wouldn't that be a great charity?"

Although Zhang Chi had not spoken aside, he was already very surprised. This cousin was indeed a military advisor, who was good at planning and planning ahead.

The plan is a good plan, but Santong still hated her teeth and wanted to kill all the dog generals who defected to the Hu people: "The Hu people were defeated, how could it be that the defeated general who had not reported the news and escaped from the city? They went to other city gates to report first, and we pretended to be a big deal."

Dark Blade, who had been silent, said coldly: "You can rest assured that this is the case. Someone in our poor family had already arranged it on various passages outside the city. He would definitely shoot and kill the people who had escaped from the Hu people one by one. No one knew that Yin Ping had fallen into our hands now."

"That's great!" Zhang Chi couldn't help but exclaim. This time, the "poor family" helped him a lot.

Santong had nothing to say now and asked again: "If you don't kill that general, what should you do if those surrendered Hu soldiers? They killed me Han people with their own hands. They were useless. If you want me to tell me, kill them all."

Such a thing was normal in ancient times. Whether it was Hu or Han people, they were generally slaughtered after siege. The purpose was to intimidate people, and the second was that these surrendered soldiers were too unreliable. Although their weapons and armor had been confiscated, the number of these surrendered soldiers was large, and if there was a slight organization, it would be too great a threat.

Zhang Chi received modern education since childhood. In his opinion, he was not a hero's job. Besides, it is difficult for him to take action against unarmed people.

Seeing Zhang Chi frowning, Du Ximing said, "Young Master, we don't have many troops in the Northern Expedition this time, and we have to attack other cities. If these surrendered soldiers are not killed, it will be a hidden danger in the future."

Daoxuan is a monk, after all, he is a Buddhist, and he is compassionate: "But these people are unarmed. The Buddha said that it is the shore. Brother Zhang, if these people really surrender, give them a chance."

Santong quit: "How can you be kind to a woman?"

"I can't bear to commit more murders, how can I be called a woman's kindness?" These two people always like to quarrel and have become accustomed to it.

Santong said, "Why can't you bear to commit more crimes of killing? If you don't commit crimes of killing them, they will commit crimes of killing you from now on. The Buddha also said that if I don't go to hell, who will go to hell? You and the Buddha will go to hell, we won't go."

"Don't make a noise, don't make a noise, I'm going to tell you, it's up to Mr. Zhang to decide." Du Ximing persuaded.

Whether it was Santong or Daoxuan, they could listen to Zhang Chi's words, and they stopped arguing, and looked at Zhang Chi.

Zhang Chi is really in a dilemma now. If he kills, he can't do it; if he doesn't kill, these people will inevitably become the root of disaster in the future.

"Hey, Brother Zhang, what else do you want? Let's kill me." Santong couldn't wait to shout.

Zhang Chi didn't say anything, Daoxuan said first: "What are you quarreling about? Are you not even listening to Brother Zhang's words?"

"Of course I will listen," Santong muttered: "Brother Zhang is the person I admire the most in my life. By the way, the poem that Brother Zhang said when he entered the city gate just now makes sense."

"What poem?" Daoxuan didn't pay attention to it.

"Shoot the horses first, capture the thief first." Santong rushed to say, "How can you not kill people if you attack the city and cover the ground? Shoot the horses because horses are easier to shoot than people. If you shoot the horses and then kill them; the same is true for capturing the king. First capture the head coach and then capture the thiefs. These are not the key. The key is to put the thiefs on the spot and all of them are cracked."

Listening to Santong's wrong explanation, Zhang Chi felt funny, and then he remembered that this poem was written by Du Fu of the Tang Dynasty, and people of this era did not know it.

Zhang Chi's laughter interrupted the quarrel between Santong and Daoxuan.

"Santong, you are wrong. This poem is not only these two sentences, but also other things. The whole poem is like this," as he said, Zhang Chi slowly recited the whole poem: "To pull the bow, to pull the strong, to use arrows, to use long. To shoot a man, to shoot a horse first, to capture the thief first, to capture the king first. Killing people is also limited, and all countries have their own borders. If they can control the invasion of the tombs, how can they kill and hurt more?"

"Why are there too many killings?" Everyone couldn't help but recite this sentence.

"Yes, killing is limited. The Hu people wantonly kill our surrendered soldiers and people. If we do the same, then what is different from the Hu people? If the dog bites you, you can't bite the dog. Besides, what are the crimes of these surrendered soldiers? They are just a pawn of those in power. Even if there is a crisis lurking, I can't bear to kill the unarmed people, otherwise we are executioners, and what is the difference between us and the people we hate?"

What Zhang Chi said was reasonable, and even Santong, who hated the Hu people, had nothing to say.

Zhang Chi inspected everyone and saw tears in Dark Blade's eyes.

Although Zhang Chi didn't know the life experience of Dark Blade, after long-term contact, he knew that Dark Blade's hatred for the Hu people was not necessarily less than Santong, but Zhang Chi also knew that wanton massacre was not the best way to take revenge.

"I want to set more military rules," Zhang Chi suddenly said seriously: "We must be a benevolent and righteous army in troubled times. From now on, those who surrender will not be killed!"

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