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Chapter 82 Entering Qin 2

Crossing the Yellow River from Wuyuan in Bayannur in later generations, and then heading south along the Yellow River channel, you can reach Shizui Mountain, Yinchuan, Lingwu, Wuzhong and other places. Wuzhong is the place where the river is mentioned by Gui Jing. At this time, the Zhao army, who received the order to enter Qin, had already set up camp from the place where the land of Hequ, and traveled to Zhongning in later generations. Zhongning is the intersection of Qingshui River and the Yellow River. Along this river flowing from south to north, five thousand cavalrymen could cross the Qin Great Wall and reach the Yan Clan Pass.

Li Qi, the leader of the army, did not know that he and the five thousand cavalry had been trapped in a conspiracy. The order from Jiuyuan County did not explain too much except to agree to him to enter Qin immediately. However, the news from the Chu people made him incredible: the King of Chu actually entered Qin personally for a woman. The king should govern the country with peace of mind. How could he take risks for a woman personally?

The King of Chu was not wise, and Li Qi's first reaction was like this. But think about it again, how many kings in the world can be called wise? If a person has seven emotions and six desires, he will make unwise actions for lust. In this case, a king who can take risks for a woman alone can be considered sentimental and righteous. Thinking of this, Li Qi also thinks that the King of Chu is a person with temperament.

Li Qi's idea was like this, but Ye Tu, who was three hundred miles ahead of him, was very unhappy. Since the king had ordered himself to enter Qin, he should not chase him. Unlike what everyone thought, under his rough appearance, Yi Tu was a meticulous person. When others proudly claimed that he was a "minister of the country", he would rather be a minister.

It is precisely because of such meticulousness that he felt that the king's move was a big mistake: love has always been a taboo in governing the country, and even more a taboo in responsibility. Not to mention the Qin people's equipment, the Zhao people heard that the king's mind would undergo subtle changes when he entered Qin. If something unimaginable happens, what about the king's unexpected situation? With such thoughts, Yi Tu, who was walking slowly by the clear water, waited until his son returned to the camp. At this time, Li Qi's five thousand cavalry was only half a day away from him.

"Is it a fierce prince?" Yi Tu, who was not the prince's personal visit, completely let go of his heart. However, he began to be surprised why Xiong Han had such a contrary behavior. He should have been taught in the academy, rather than going out to Qin. "Why did the fierce prince come to this?"

"General Gui said that the fierce prince wanted to share the worries of the king, so he came here." Yi Zui was respectful to his father, for fear that he would shoot him with a sheath.

"Miscellaneous!" Yi Tu's face was full of ridicule, "It must be Gui Jing, Xiang Chao and others instigated him to go out of the frontier. These cavalry generals were willful and Hu Wei."

"Father, the tough prince can do this when he is young, so he is brave..." Yi Zui's words were cut by his father before he finished his words. Fortunately, the chop was not heavy.

"So quickly let them return to China." Xiong Han was still a Mao child. No matter from any angle, Yi Tu wanted him to return to China immediately.

"Father, General Gui said that he was the same as Fangqu entering Qin," Yi Zui shrunk after he slashed the sheath.

"Fangqu enters Qin?" The army Sima Yitong interjected. "Where do they come to Qin's map?"

The maps of Yi Tu and others were provided by Li Mu, not from the Grand Sima Mansion. He could only ask for help from the Zhao people. Where did Gui Jing get the maps? Could it be that they were also given by Zhao people?

"The child didn't ask about this." Yi Zui thought for a moment, "I just discussed the itinerary with General Gui, the map in his hand was very simple, not like a Zhao person, and all the characters written on it were Chu."

"Chu character?" Yi Tong looked at Yi Tu. He was worried that Zhao people would do anything bad, but now it seems that this is not the case.

"Maybe they stole it from the Grand Sima Mansion." The character Chu reassured Yi Tu. "How did Gui Jing enter Qin, and when would he enter Qin?"

"Reported to my father, General Gui will enter Qin in three days, based on his itinerary." Yi Zui came back and told him that he had entered Qin, "General Gui said that the two armies may meet Qi County."

"Qi County?" Yi Tu snorted. The Malian Water merged with the Jing River and flowed south. It had to pass through Qi County (now Bin County, Shaanxi) to reach the Wei River. However, before arriving at the Wei River, no matter how you go, there were two passes blocking you: one was Ganquan Palace, and the other was the valley entrance. Gui Jing had few people, so he could only break one of these two passes with him before he could enter Xianyang.

"Report to the Marquis of Yi, Li Qi is asking for a meeting." Yi Tu was disdaining Gui Jing's cleverness, so Zhao general Li Qi came to the door.

"When will the general enter Qin?" The generals and soldiers of both armies were already familiar with each other, so Li Qi asked about the time they had spoken.

"This is only two hundred miles away from the Yan clan. You will enter Qin in three days." Yi Tu's answer surprised Yi Zui. He thought his father would ask him to go to Gui Jing again and ask him to return to Chu immediately.

"Good." Li Qi was worried that Yi Tu was going to wait for the King of Chu who was chasing him from behind. It was October and he dragged it down to the ice and snow outside the border, making it difficult to return.

"It's just that I am deeply worried about the pass of Qin. People all say that there are Ganquan in the north of Qin, the solid Gukou, the fertile Jing in the south, the fertile Jing in the south, the fertile Wei in the south, the ramen in the Han, the ramen in the right Long, the mountain in Shu, the left Guan, and the dangerous Zhuang. We are equal to entering Qin in the north, outside the Yanshi border, and we pass through Ganquan in the valley, and we don't know how the general breaks it?" Li Qi said again. "If we cannot break it, the movement will be slow. If we walk slowly, the Xianyang equipment will be in place and we will not be able to kill the King of Qin."

"In three days, there will be a way to break the barrier." Yi Tu said.

"Can you get a plan to break the pass?" Yi Tu was very nervous, but whether he broke the pass or not was related to the success or failure of the attack on Qin, Li Qi had to ask.

"No." Yi Tu not only refused, but also shook his head. "I promised it when I was ordered by the king, and the strategy of breaking the barrier cannot be described to others."

"Since that's the case..." Li Qi smiled awkwardly. "How dare you ask what the itinerary?"

"It is correct to the previous discussion. Enter Qin in three days, arrive in Qi County in two days, and then break the Gukou to Xianyang one day." The marching route was chosen to be Gukou Pass rather than Ganquan Palace. "Walking 800 miles in three days, I don't know that Zhao army..."

The Chu army had a thousand-mile horse, and there was no difficulty in running 800 miles in three days, so Yitu had this question.

"It's no danger to travel 800 miles in three days." Li Qi replied. Although the Zhao army did not have a thousand-mile horse, one man and two horses were at the cost of a dead horse. It's not impossible to travel 800 miles in three days. "I'm only worried about the jagged mouth of the valley."

Ganquan Palace is 150 miles northwest of Xianyang. In the past, Queen Mother Xuan of Qin lured and killed King Yiqu here, which is an extremely important palace in the north of Xianyang. The Qin Ganquan Palace and the Han Ganquan Palace are the Linguang Palace of Qin, which is north of Ganquan, and the Gukou.

The reason why the Qin Ganquan Palace is important is that it goes south along the Jingshui River Valley and after passing Qi County, there are two roads. One is through Ganquan Palace (now Kongtou Village, Qianxian), and then through Qianxian to Xianyang; the other is still along the Jingshui River Valley, and the Jingshui River enters Jiuji Mountain in the north of the Wei-Standard Plain, and then winds out of the valley (now Wangqiao Town, Jingyang County, namely Hukou). The valley entrance is where the Jingshui River flows out of the valley, and it is also where the Zheng State Canal diverts water. The valley entrance is steep, and the merchants and travelers pass through Ganquan Palace, rather than following the Jingshui River to the end.

"A general is worried about the blockage of the valley, so it is better to worry about the blockage of Yan first." Yi Tong suggested this. "If you can break the blockage of Yan, you can break the blockage of the valley, but if you can break the blockage of Yan, you can break the blockage of the valley, you can't break the blockage of the valley. Do you agree?"

"Of course." Yi Tong's statement is indeed reasonable. The Yan clan pass has been operating for hundreds of years, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is as solid as a god. If the Chu army can defeat the Yan clan pass, it will naturally be able to break the valley entrance pass. However, what will the Chu army use to break the Yan clan pass? Li Qi returned to Zhao camp with this question, and was in the heart of the shogunate, and the strategists could not guess how the Chu people broke the pass. The only thing they could do was to quickly catch up with the Chu army and walk with it, and wait and see in three days.

Two days later, outside the Qin Great Wall, Chu and Zhao had already merged into the shogunate with the same tent and promoted the tent, and officers above the lieutenant were summoned to the shogunate. This was not so much a military order, but rather a count of supplies and rectifying the ranks of soldiers and horses. Especially the Zhao army, because the Zhao army did not have horseshoes, there were many people who were damaged along the way. One man and four horses, more than 23,000 horses were set off, and more than one-quarter of the horses were injured. Most of these horses could only eat grass along the way, and the march was very anxious and Yu died. After counting the disease, there were less than seven thousand military horses that could be used. According to the standard of one man and two horses, only about three thousand people could enter Qin.

"If you don't have to enter Qin, you will not be allowed to enter Qin without a single man and two horses." Li Qi looked at the Zhao army captain who was eager to face and ordered it. "Those who do not enter Qin will return to the country immediately and hand over the beans and wheat they carry to the soldiers who entered Qin."

"The general is unfair." Several red-faced lieutenants said anxiously. "Soldiers can enter Qin if they have horses."

"How can Yima return to China?" Li Qi shouted. "You can't retreat quickly."

"Report to the general, the soldiers only want to kill the enemy, not to return to the country." The lieutenant looked even more anxious. According to the standard of one person and two horses, many people could not enter Qin. The lieutenant wanted to argue, but Li Qi had ordered the shogunate soldiers to set up these lieutenants.

"It made Yihou laugh." Li Qi said that his subordinates did not accept the orders of the army during the war, which was a taboo for the Zhao army.

"Why do you laugh at me?" Yi Tu not only did not laugh, but also praised it in his heart. The Chu army system is different from the Zhao army. It is common for people to disobey orders and act recklessly. For example, Xiong Han, Gui Jing, Xiang Chao, went north to the frontier, which is a typical disobedience, and many people are proud of it.

"Our army can travel 800 miles in three days," Li Qi said. "By horse power, those who have not arrived in Qi County and their horses are broken should withdraw from Qin; those who have passed Qi County and their horses are broken should go as soon as possible; those who have passed the valley entrance should not be sure to follow the central army and enter Weinan."

"Yes." After walking 800 miles in three days, someone must have fallen behind. Li Qi's arrangement was not opposed to Yi Tu.

"The valley entrance is broken and the Jing River will be crossed. If the Jing River is easy to cross, it is Wangyi Palace." The march plan has been discussed long ago, and Li Qi mentioned Wangyi Palace in order to arrive in Weinan earlier. "The last time we think that Wangyi Palace should cross the Jing River..."

The exit from the valley is east of the Jing River. This section of Jing River flows to the southeast and converges with the Wei River more than 80 miles east of Xianyang City. The Jingwei River is clearly divided. The Zhao army must cross the Jing River and then cross the Wei River to reach Weinan, while the Chu army must cross the Jing River.

"I think I look at each other from afar, but it is not easy to cross the city." Yi Tong opposed it. "And where and when to cross the Jing River has been decided long ago."

"If we could cross the Jing River from Wangyi Palace at night, we could seize the Wei River Chang Bridge before Ming Dynasty..." Li Qi said. "We would definitely be able to block the King of Qin from Zhangtai, Weinan."
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