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Chapter 34 Staggered

The Chu army advanced westward to Wancheng for a banquet. Xiong Qi, a Qin envoy, sent an envoy to Xianyang on the day after he arrived. He ran from Wancheng to Wuguan for 600 miles, and the six hundred miles was rushing day and night. In two days, the envoy arrived at the city of Wuguan.

Wuguan is one of the four gates in Guanzhong, located in a mountain stream north of Danshui. The tall Guancheng is beside rock cliffs in the north and Juejian in the south. Although it is not as steep as the Guhan Valley Road, it is not an easy place to attack, especially the Sidao Ridge in front of the Guan is the most rugged. The Bai Er Qin Pass refers to the fact that the Sidao Ridge can only pass by one cavalry, and the defenders can fight against two hundred.

The famous passes are not only as simple as one pass. In addition to relying on natural dangers, it is also a complete defense system. Although Wu Pass is more than 30 miles north of Danshui, there are Jingzi and Zhulin Passes on Danshui. Wu Pass River flows from north to south into between the two passes, and Baiyang Pass is on the river. There is another Fushui Pass 80 miles east of Wu Pass and 140 miles from Baiyu City.

If you do not go north from Danshui, but go north from Linpin to the Xixiu in Jianguo (now Baihe County), then go up from Jiashui (now Jinqian River), and pass through Fengyi (now Shanyang County), you can go directly to Shangluo (now Shangluo), 180 miles behind Wuguan.

This is actually Shangjin Road, the branch road of Wuguan Road. This road already existed in the pre-Qin period, but it was overhauled in the Tang Dynasty due to the Anshi Rebellion. Because the road passed through Shangjin County, it was called Shangjin Road. However, there was Manchuan Pass on Jiashui, and this road was rugged and far. Even after the overhaul during the Tang Dynasty, once Wuguan Road was restored to traffic, the business travelers quickly turned back to Wuguan Road.

If you go around, you can't go around; if you can pull it, you can compete with a hundred. The strategic importance is, "Do you go to Nanyang and move eastward, and you will enter Lantian and be in danger at the right hand." Zhao Hai, who led the army of 30,000 lieutenants, was stationed here. Xiong Qi sent an envoy into the pass, and he immediately stopped the envoy and asked about the result of the peace.

"Report to the general, the lord asked me to bring a letter to the king, but he did not tell me what to do about peace." The envoy was a little dull and held the box of the letter in front of his chest. Zhao Hai wanted to take it over and see it, but he thought that this was a letter to the king, so he hesitated several times but gave up.

"What about King Jing? Did the Prime Minister meet?" Zhao Hai asked again.

"I've seen it." The envoy nodded repeatedly, "As soon as the lord arrived, King Jing summoned the lord to visit him, and then held a banquet for a treat."

"Oh?" The Guan Ling Mansion was not Zhao Hai alone. The doctor Ling Qi He, who shot Jing Ke with an arrow that day, was also there. Qi He and Zhao Hai looked at each other and said, "Does King Jing know that the Qin Dynasty wants to cut off the land of the two counties in Jing?"

"I know." The envoy did not want to delay Wuguan for too long. He said, "When the lord arrived, King Jing summoned him. When he heard that his uncle Mi Ren had arrived, he summoned Mi Liangren to him for a while. During the meal, he knew that I wanted to stolen the land of the two counties, but he did not believe it first, and then waited for the lord to send a map of the two counties to present the map of the two counties, but it was difficult to hide his joy. The Jing people were the same. It seemed that whenever the Jing people went to the land, they would grant land to seal the villages."

The messenger talked about what he saw in Wancheng and wanted to leave early. After he said this, Zhao Hai asked again: "What are the soldiers of Jing? What are the heavy boats and heavy cars?"

"Report to General, how do you know about military affairs?" The envoy laughed awkwardly. Seeing that Zhao Hai was still stern, he had to say, "There are all Jing people's military screens inside and outside Wancheng. When the soldiers heard that the front army benefited, they all thought about a battle. The man asked the military officials every day, saying, "Where are the Qin people today? Where are the Qin people today?"

The messenger said everything he saw and heard in Wancheng. This was the norm in Wancheng. However, he was also worried that what he saw was false, and said, "What a villain saw is like this, but the Jing people pretended to be false, so please ask the general..."

"Have you ever seen the thundering weapon of the Jing people?" A new voice heard that the messenger returned from Wancheng, and Aristotle IV and Wuji immediately entered the hall.

The messenger was Xiong Qishe. When he saw Lord Bai Di, he bowed his head and bowed, and said, "I have seen one or two."

In order to let the horses who were dragging artillery have a stable to shelter from the rain, the artillery camp was set up in the city. The young gunners of the Chu army fought and trained, so the sound of cannons could be heard inside and outside the city, and a bunch of cannons could be seen to be dragged in and out. On the day the envoy arrived, he obviously saw the cannons and also heard the sound of cannons.

"Can you explain it in detail?" Wu Ji was happy and bowed to the envoy.

"The thundering instrument must be thunder. If it is not launched, six horses will hold it, and it will be like a beam or pillar of more than a foot." The envoy did not witness the cannon fire with his own eyes, but he only heard the cannon sound, but he had seen it. "It was carried on a four-wheeled carriage and swam across the market. Every time at this time, the Jing soldiers would look around the roadside with different expressions."

"A beam or pillar of more than 100 feet?" Wu Ji translated the envoy's words. The description of artillery had long been seen in the bamboo slips of the Guowei Mansion. Although the sky was dark in the Battle of the Lishui, Zhang Han, Zhao Yong and others had Lu Li's mirrors and they looked very carefully.

The envoy quickly came down from the hall to Xianyang. Zhao Hai, Qi He and others were happy. According to the envoy's description, the Chu army had no intention of attacking Wuguan for at least a short time. They had to face hundreds of thousands of Qin troops who rescued Nanjun from Gongyi; Wu Ji and Aristotle IV still had nothing. Not only did they not see the appearance of the thunder weapon when it was fired, they also did not know what the black particles in the grenadier were.

Just as the two were discussing whether to enter Wancheng controlled by the Chu army as an envoy and witnessing the coming decisive battle between the Chu and Qin armies, the fast horse rushed from the east of Wuguan. This was the Qin army's cavalry, and he did not shout "report--" loudly. As soon as the war horse stopped before the pass, the scout fell off the horse, without any sound.

"What do you mean by reprimanding the cavalry?" It was getting dark, and Zhao Hai did not dare to open the door at all, so he just asked questions on the city.

"Report to General, this person is shot and is dead," the military officer at Guancheng was replying, and the short-soldier stationed beside Zhao Hai suddenly pointed in a direction and shouted: "Jing people!"

A general wearing a leather crown and a red robes suddenly flashed out of the valley. The redness was dazzling, and everyone was only concerned about his bright coat and the tall dragon horse behind him. He did not notice a string sound. A carved feather arrow broke off the string and flew towards Zhao Hai's face.

"General, please be careful..." Someone witnessed the shouting, and Zhao Hai's short-soldiers rushed forward and wanted to help him block arrows. But the light arrow shot from the twelve stone bows was as fast as lightning. As soon as they moved, the arrows had already flew not far in front of Zhao Hai.

‘Swoosh!’, no one could have thought that another arrow would fly from the side. Although this arrow seemed to want to collide with the flying light arrow, it still missed. However, it did not intend to shoot the arrow body, but wanted to shoot the white arrow feather at the end of the light arrow. The arrow body was slender, but three arrow feathers were stuck to the tail of the arrow, more than three inches long and one inch wide, and the most important thing was that the arrow feathers were very conspicuous.

"Squeak", a sound that was not heard by people, the two arrows intersected in an instant. The arrow that came horizontally did not hit the arrow feather, but its arrow feathers flew past the light arrow feathers. Although the eagle resistant to the wind, this method of intersecting still deflected the arrow. The double-winged arrow left a blood groove on Zhao Hai's cheek, and then a "bang" punch nailed to the eaves behind him. The arrow that came horizontally shot directly into the head of a short soldier. The man did not die immediately, and he let out a few screams before he gradually lost his life.

‘Dongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdongdong…’ The moment Zhao Hai was hit by the arrow, the drummers on the city of Guancheng beat the police drums, and more Chu cavalry emerged from the valley. They did not shoot the chief generals of the Qin army like Cheng Kui, but all Qin soldiers were their targets.

Cheng Kui was slightly surprised that his arrow was destroyed by Qin General in this strange way. He was facing the sunset, squinting his eyes to find the archer, but unexpectedly a black dot appeared in the sight. As soon as he flashed, an arrow shot at the place where he was standing just now. At this time, he saw a Qin general wearing a crown standing on the city with a bow.

"General, go quickly!" The Chu Qi beside him was a little stunned when he saw Cheng Kui, and immediately reminded him loudly.

The main task of the cavalry was to stop the Qin cavalry, but Cheng Kui insisted on coming to Wuguanguan City. He chased the Qin army scouts a mile away from Guancheng, and then shot the scouts to death. He thought that the cavalry could only lead Qin generals like the captain, but he did not expect that the Qin army was the chief general standing on Guancheng. Unfortunately, the arrow he was determined to win was eventually lost.

"General..." Douzang saw Cheng Kui still in a daze and pulled him away. At this time, the Qin general on the city tower had shot out the second arrow, the third arrow, the fourth arrow, the arrow among the arrows. Cheng Kui was dragged away by Douzang without a single arrow.

"The last general asks to lead troops and search and kill the Jing people." Several commanders and the captain immediately asked Zhao Hai for his orders.

"No." He spoke in unison, and Zhao Hai and Qi He both opposed it. Zhao Hai said: "It's too late, and the people of Jing are good at shooting, how can they search?" After he refused, he bowed to Qi He, "Zi Cheng's kindness to save his life, Zhao Hai will be rewarded later."

The arrow just now was shot by Qi Qian. When Cheng Kui's arrow left the string, he raised his bow. "This arrow is really a lucky one." Qi Qian was not at all beautiful. He did not shoot Cheng Kui's arrow, but relied on the arrow feathers to get in the way, which saved Zhao Hai's life.

"Zhao Hai has heard of the name of Zi Brown's magic arrow." Zhao Hai said again. "I guess Cheng Kui couldn't shoot such an arrow."

"The name of Ruoao cannot be underestimated." Qi He is not Qi, he is just a Qi person. Dongyi is good at shooting, so there is a saying that Houyi shot the sun. "I heard that during the war, Ruoao was used to shooting and killing enemy generals to disrupt his army. Now Cheng Kui wants to shoot and kill the generals, but Jing people want to attack me."

The Chu cavalry suddenly appeared under Wuguan Pass and almost shot him to death. Zhao Hai was sweating all over his body unconsciously. Now Qi He talked about the Chu army's intentions again, and he felt even more cold. "Zi Hei thought that the people of Jing wanted to attack Danyang?"

"I thought the people of Jing should attack Jingzi Pass." Qi Qiandao. "Walking against Dan River, you can go to Shangyi."
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