However, these are Xiong Jing's guesses. In my explanation, the relationship between Ba and Shu is far more complicated than he imagined. The people living in Ba are divided into at least eight branches, one of which is closely related to the State of Chu.

During the reign of the ancestor Wu King, "Bazi sent Hanfu (wearing the clothes of Zhou people) to tell Chu, asking for a favor with Deng. Chu Zi sent Daoshuo to hire Bake to attack Deng. Deng Nan despised the people of the yōu to seize the coins, killing Daoshuo and Ba people. This is the cause of the Battle of Zhen (703 BC). At the time of the ancestor Wu King, Chuba had formed a military alliance to deal with the countries of the Ji surname in the Han River Basin;

During the reign of King Wen of the ancestor Wen, the Chu-Ba coalition forces attacked Shen (Wancheng). King Wen disturbed the Ba army. Later, the Ba army rebelled against Chu and attacked that place. The two countries began to get into evil. In 677 BC, King Wen was defeated by the Ba people in Yujin (now Zhijiang County) and returned to Ying. When the yacht Yuquan heard that King Wen was defeated and refused to open the door, King Wen had to lead his army to attack Huang, defeated Huang army in Guiling (now Huangchuan) and returned to Ying. However, when he walked to Qiu (Yicheng, Hubei), he died of illness.

During the reign of the ancestor Zhuang King, due to the internal powerful ministers, Yongren (now Zhushan, Hubei) rebelled and attacked Chu. The Chu army was defeated in several battles. Zhuang King joined forces with the Ba people and the Qin people, and the Three Kingdoms destroyed Yong (611 BC). After hundreds of years of relations between the two countries were sometimes good and sometimes bad. During the reign of King Hui, the son of King Zhao, Ba army attacked Zheng, and was defeated by the Chu army. He was expelled from the Han River Basin.

Later, the Ba people retreated to Yishui, Zhidi (now Fuling, Chongqing), and fought with Chu on the Yishui line. During the reign of King Xiang, Chu destroyed the Ba people. The palace of Yingdu was a tiger seat and a bird mount. The phoenix was tall and majestic, looking at the sky, but the tiger was short and lingered on the ground, symbolizing the Chu people's overall victory over the Ba people. Unfortunately, Bai Qi took Ying immediately, so Su Dai persuaded King Zhao of Yan to say: "Chu got Zhi and the country was destroyed, Qi got Song and the country was destroyed."

The Ba people who have close ties with Chu State are called Linjun Zhiba. They came from the Han River, but they were actually Pu people. The Langzhong Ba people who should not let me say are not Linjun Zhiba. The Ba people in Langzhong were actually Peng people when King Wu defeated Zhou, which is what the Qin queen said (Zhi, cong, is a tax that was carried out in the southwest natives, and the head tax can be paid for 40 yuan per year), or it is called Banyan Man. In later generations, some Tujia people were descendants, and these people originally lived in the Qushui area of ​​Langzhong.

King Wu defeated Zhou and obtained soldiers from Yong, Shu, Qiang, Wu, Wei, Lu, Peng, Pu and other tribes, among which Ba (Peng) was the most powerful. Legend has it that, "The Ba (Peng) master was brave and fierce, and he sang and danced to defeat the Yin people, and his former disciples turned against each other." The Ba (Peng) master was good at singing and dancing, and overwhelmed the Yin people in all momentum. Then the Ba (Peng) master attacked the Yin people's army formation, and the Yin people in the front row turned against each other and left.

The Qin people destroyed Bashu, and Linjun Ba rebelled. ‘At the time of King Zhaoxiang of Qin, there was a white tiger, which... hurt more than a thousand people. King Zhao recruited those in the country who could kill tigers, and rewarded tens of thousands of families in the town and hundreds of taels of gold. At that time, there were Yi people from Langzhong, Ba County who could make crossbows of white bamboo, so they climbed the tower and shot and killed the white tiger.’

The so-called white tiger (Wenjun died, and his soul was a white tiger in the world. Ba clan drank human blood with tigers, so he sank him) is just a metaphor for the Linjun Ba people not obeying the rule of the Qin people to initiate a rebellion. The Ba people in Langzhong were greedy for the bounty and used Qin minions to suppress the rebellion of the Linjun Ba people.

Later Tujia people, they had two tit-for-tat beliefs: one was to respect the white tiger, and the other was to drive the white tiger. The former was naturally the descendant of Linjun, and the latter was the descendant of the Ba people in Langzhong. The reason why Langzhong Ba people appeared in the western Hunan and western Hubei was that they lived here as the minions of Qin people, rather than integrating into Linjun's Ba people (Liu Bang attacked the Sanqin and quelled the Qiang Rebellion in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and this Ba people were also this Ba people).

Bashu seems to be another world, between Chu and Qin and Bashu, between Zhuba and Shu, between Shu people, and between Shu people and Yelang people in the Dian people. Don’t let me read the complete report. The Chu army also robbed all the information from Qin, so I came up with a little clue, but the long-lasting and more detailed content can only be guessed.

After hearing that Xiong Jing asked a lot of questions after hearing that Wang Zhou was driving to Qisi, he roughly understood the ruling order of the Qin people in the Bashu area and the political situation of the Bashu people. He suddenly had some doubts about the correctness of the strategy of Li Qi's approaching westward from the Han River. Going up from the Han River, he would encounter the Bashu people who shot the white tiger. If he went westward from the Yi River, he would be the former ally of the Chu people, Linjun Zhiba. Although the Chu State destroyed the Bashu State (Zhi), it now promised to help them restore the country.

"The King is wrong." Xiong Jing's War Department has discussed it for a long time. "The Han River moves westward or the Yi River moves westward, both of which are limited to the season. Now it is July. After another month, the Han River will be shallow and the boats will not be able to pass. If you move to the Yi River, the war may be delayed until next year."

"Next year?" Xiong Jingruo realized that time is indeed a factor that needs to be fully considered.

"That's right." Li Qi said. "There is no comparison between Zhidi and Hanzhong. From Guanzhong to Bashu, it is necessary to pass through Hanzhong. Hanzhong is the center. You can cut off the right arm of Qin. Zhidi is the end of Bashu. You can only protect the old Ying."

There are Qin people's Hanzhong County between the Bashan Mountains of Qinling Mountains. The entire Hanzhong County looks like an elongated gourd. The large gourd ladle at the bottom is the Hanzhong Basin, and the small gourd ladle at the top is the Ankang Basin. The gourd mouth is the counterpart of the Han River and Dan Water. Thinking that the Qin army had blocked the Han River, Xiong Jing asked: "The Han River has been blocked, how should our army?"

"The Han River has been blocked, but the blockage is only a few dozen miles away, and the workers can pull it out." Li Qi replied. "Our army has huge power and a floating box to raise a sinking boat, which will achieve twice the result with half the effort. Unfortunately, there is insufficient gunpowder, otherwise the reefs on the mudflats can be removed."

Danshui is a tributary of the Hanshui River, and the Hanshui above Danshui is not wide. The blockages that are difficult to clean must be large ships filled with mud and sand. Most of the small rivers sink by less than ten tons. No matter how many such ships sink, they are easily pulled up.

Li Qi's lack of gunpowder made Xiong Jing look gloomy. He was worried that the soldiers who suffered too many casualties in Bacheng were a loss that the Chu State could not bear at this time. What he did not expect was that there was no shortage of smart generals and soldiers in the Chu army. With the familiarity with artillery and gunpowder, they became more and more good at using this weapon.

"The bad guy Lu Gao, today..." A few days later, under Yunyang City, amid the rumbling of steam engines, Lu Gao walked towards the artillery barracks to reveal his identity. Who knew that before he could express his intention, the officers of the ** camp laughed.

"The only thing is Lu Gao who will go west when the King of Qin goes west? Shan, great kindness, if it weren't for the first time, how could we make military achievements?" Amid the laughter, Lu Gao's face turned red in an instant, and Lu Zi, who was accompanying him, became unhappy.

Lu Gao was unable to stop the Qin King from escaping the west because he was not careful and did not receive any punishment. He was just that others kept making fun of him and embarrassing him.

"That day, the King of Qin turned into our army and carried canned food and fodder on the big stead. Who would have known that he was the King of Qin?" That day, he helped the King of Qin but did not find the King of Qin. Lu Gao privately hated himself.

"This military thief Jing Hua is the fault of us, what does it have to do with us?" Lu Qi's voice was justified. He was not at the scene at the time, and the person he hated the most was Jing Hua. According to the Qin people, without Jing Hua's suggestion, the King of Qin who wanted to run away until dark had long been arrested.

"The military thieves are hateful!" The officers were not smiling. They hated Jing Hua as much as Lu Qi.

"Come today..." Lu Gao came to the artillery camp for something, "it was for the attack of the city."

"Ask the city?" The artillery officer looked at Lu Gao a little puzzled, and looked at Lu Gao again. "After the order of General Dou?"

"No." Lu Gao did not hold a feathered edict in his hand.

"Is that the order of General Fengcheng?" The artillery officer asked again, and had some doubts about Lu Gao. The artillery battalion had a very high level of confidentiality, and suddenly he ran over and said it was for the purpose of siege, which was very strange.

"It's not true." Lu Gao felt the other party's suspicion. Only by expressing his own opinions can he eliminate their doubts. "The evil people think that the old method is a fool to destroy the city. Digging the soil and burying medicine, raising fire and blowing it up is time-consuming, and it's still possible..."

When Lu Gao heard the specific details of the city being broken, the officer couldn't listen to the words afterwards. He thought that he did not observe the Qin King's request to cross the Feng River to the west, and immediately shouted: "Come here! This is a Qin man, a spy, quickly tie him up."

Lu Gao was here to offer advice, but he didn't expect that the artillery battalion officer would arrest people before he could hear him. Lu Chuang behind him drew his sword and shouted: "Dare you!"

Two honorary soldiers followed the two servants. When they heard the officer shouting from the artillery camp, they rushed out and surrounded Lu Gao and Lu Zi at the entrance of the artillery camp. In addition to the simple artillery bars, the artillery bars also had spears that specifically guarded the artillery bars. Seeing the cold light shining, hundreds of barbarian spears aimed at him, even Lu Zi, who was about to fight to the death, felt cold.

"How could a bad person be a spy? Wait..." Lu Gao explained anxiously, but he didn't expect that the commander of the spear had already shouted: "Do not surrender? Do you surrender?"

"Fight!" Lu Qi turned sideways and lowered his body. He regretted not wearing a shield.

"Subdued, you've surrendered." Before Lu Qi finished speaking, Lu Gao threw away the sword in his hand and surrendered. Following him, the two servants also abandoned the sword, but Lu Qi looked at him in confusion.

"What's the shame of surrendering to your army?" He knocked off Lu Qi's sword before he finished speaking. At this time, several soldiers rushed out of the spear and tied up a group of people in a few seconds.

"The honorary scholar Lu Gao, Lu Qi is suspected to be a Qin marquis. He has been detained by Xianzhe, but his words can prove his innocence." An hour later, Gui Jing, who was in the cavalry camp, saw a Xianzhe. Xianzhe looked at Gui Jing with a little suspicious eyes. As soon as he opened his mouth, he said that Lu Gao was arrested for spying on the artillery battalion secretly, staring at him, paying attention to every expression of his expression.

"How could he be a spy from Qin!" Last year, he relied on Lu Gao's plan to go into Qin, and Gui Jing knew him well.

"If General Gui can protect him, Xianzhu will release him immediately." Xianzhu's suspicion soon disappeared, and Gui Jing could not be a spy.

"Why did he come to the cannon camp?" Gui Jing was still sorting out the whole story, but he had taken out his seal from his arms. Everyone has a private seal, which is a personal certificate. All major matters are based on the seal.

Xianzhu took Gui Jing's seal with both hands, and after he covered the seal with the seal on the Chu paper coated with sealing mud, he returned the seal with both hands to Gui Jing. He said, "Xianzhu immediately released the two of them, and ask the general to ask them personally."
Chapter completed!