As the sun sets, on the edge of the dilapidated mountain village, Li Li is lying on a smooth stone and burping, watching the sun fades away, waiting for the alcohol to dissipate.

When the general was marching and raiding, the general actually drank? Are you wrong?

That's right. If you pass by the cobblestone, the enthusiastic lord invites you to drink. If you don't drink, you will look down on others and don't even think about the road.

"vomit!!"

On the side, Huang was drunk and vomited a lot.

The breeze blew, bringing a bad smell. When Li Li smelled it, he felt his stomach churning. He couldn't help it. He quickly got up and bent down to face the side.

"vomit!!"

After vomiting for a round, the vomiting was completely gone, and the alcohol was dissipated a lot. Li Li gradually woke up.

After drinking a glass of warm water, he sat by the stone, looking at the mountains yellowed by the afterglow of the sunset, and then looking at the lively mountain village, and felt a little dazed.

Starting from Xiangyang, follow the Han River westward to Ankang, Dongliangzhou, and pass through Xingzhou Yunxiang County, east of Dongliangzhou.

Xingzhou was a newly established prefecture in the eastern border of Dongliangzhou in the first year of Taiqing, and Yunxiang County was located on the edge of the Han River.

From there, go north, cross the mountains, and walk about a hundred miles of mountain road, you can reach the edge of a river. This river generally runs east-west and flows east into Danshui.

The intersection is dozens of miles downstream of Danshui County, an important location in Wuguan Road.

Li Li led his army to the north from Yunxiang County, and took a mountain road to the south bank of the river. Then there were three routes to choose:

First, cross the river to the north bank, then walk eastward, cross the mountains along the Mandala, and reach the west bank of Danshui and look across the river from Danshui County on the east bank.

Second, cross the river to the north bank, then walk northeast, and cross the mountains along the Mandao to reach the west bank of Danshui and look at Caoqiao Pass on the east bank.

There is a bridge connecting the two sides of the straits.

Third, log wood (bamboo) as a boat, go upstream, reach a canyon on the north bank twenty or thirty miles upstream, and then follow the valley along the barbarian road all the way north.

You can walk about 60 miles of mountain road to reach the south bank of Danshui (the Danshui flows from northwest to southeast at this time), and the other side is Wuguan Road, and the section is between Wuguan and Caoqiao Pass.

The so-called "barbarian way" is the road in the barbarian area. After Li Li's marching route this time left the boundary of Yunxiang County, he entered a mountainous area that was not managed by the governments of all dynasties. Because there were a large number of barbarian villages, it was a "barbarian area".

There are many small paths along the way called Mandala, and the villages passing along the way are all mountain barbarian villages that are not convinced by Wang Hua.

Although these villages are not absolutely isolated from the world and have merchants, so there is no shortage of guides and "communications", if you want to pass safely, you must prepare for it.

That is, the so-called "buy money".

It is all kinds of daily necessities, such as salt or small ironware. The "buy money" brought by Li Li is a large amount of iron needles and fish hooks, as well as some salt.

These things are clearing the way, and they are crowded and have good military discipline. The villages along the way are very enthusiastic. They think they are passing by caravans, and no one dares to rob them.

Also, because it crosses the barbarian area, there will be no news. Even if the news "a big team is heading north" reaches Danshui County on the Danshui side, it will probably take a year and a half.

The journey was about 200 miles long, which made Li Li and his subordinates exhausted. Seeing that the journey was about to reach the end, Li Li began to think about how to surprise his opponent as planned.

......

In the evening, it was drizzling and the mountains were hazy. On Wuguan Road, on the Danshui River, countless smoke rose from the military camps that stretched for several miles.

Departing from Guanzhong, the Wei army troops from Wuguan Road to east reinforced Shannan have already passed Wuguan Pass and are now temporarily camping. They will set up camp early tomorrow morning and continue their journey.

There is an important pass ahead - Caoqiao Pass.

In the central army tent, the chief general Yang Zhong and several generals were discussing military affairs.

Just now, they received an urgent report: Jingzhou Prefecture was under Rangcheng, but was captured by the Liang army.

Wancheng, northeast of Jingzhou, has been surrounded by the Liang army.

This news surprised Yang Zhong and the other generals: In just a few days, why is the Liang army like a god's help, and it is easy to attack the city and the ground?

Before, Jiangling and Xiangyang fell one after another, and it was also astonishingly fast!

When did Liang Jun become so brave and good at fighting? Aren’t he a bunch of candids?

"Last year, the imperial court pacified Shu and took more than half a year to do so. This was a matter of taking advantage of the situation. People in various counties and counties are unstable."

Yang Zhong looked at the others and said with a serious look on his face: "This time the Liang army attacked, in a short period of time, it conquered Jiangling and Xiangyang one after another. What does this mean?"

"Jiangling, it is the King of Liang who is guarding, and Xiangyang, it is the official army who is guarding. It would be fine if King of Liang was incompetent and lost Jiangling, but what about Xiangyang? Is the general who is incompetent?"

"Okay, even if the Xiangyang guards are incompetent, the Suicheng defenders, the Xinye defenders are weak and cannot stop the Liang army's fierce attack, but what about Rangcheng? Rangcheng did not defend them, and it will be over in a few days!"

"The Liang army must have a lot of troops, so the Jingzhou army could not resist and could only defend the city. The other party must have extraordinary siege skills, so that they can break the city so quickly."

"Now that Rangcheng is lost, Wancheng may not last long. Our army entered Shannan and faced the Liang army occupying Rangcheng. The opponent must have a lot of troops, and the troops in Sizhou have also participated in the war."

"The other party's purpose is not only Jiangling, Xiangyang, but also Shannan. Therefore, we have sent people back to Chang'an to report the emergency to the Prime Minister, and we want to mobilize more troops to advance eastward."

This is a matter of course, and the generals have no objection.

Their expedition this time was to deal with the "Xiangyang Emergency", so they wanted to assist the Jingzhou army in breaking the siege of Xiangyang.

As a result, before they arrived in Shangluo, they learned that the Liang army crossed the Han River and invaded a large number of invasions, the Jingzhou army was defeated one after another, and Shannan prefectures and counties fell one after another.

Now that I have passed Wu Pass and the journey has been halfway, I learned that Rangcheng has been lost and Wancheng is in danger.

From this we can see that the Liang army will have a short force and have different siege techniques, which can sweep across the southern part of the mountain in such a short time.

In this way, the army that only aims to "relieve the siege of Xiangyang" is unable to fight the Liang army in Shannan. The court must send more troops to regain the lost territory.

Shannan is very important. Once it is lost, the opponent can go straight to Guanzhong along the Wuguan Road. At the same time, he can also send troops to advance west along the Han River to pass Ankang and attack Hanzhong.

Therefore, the generals of the Wei army found it strange that the Liang State, which was originally worried about internal and external troubles, could have put together such a large army to go north and compete with the Wei State for Shannan Prefectures and County?

Where did the opponent have such brave and warlike soldiers and horses that carry out such a large-scale attack?

The lame man Hou Jing could attack Jiankang and besiege Taicheng with only a few remaining troops entering Liang. In just a few years, the Liang army was really so capable, how could Hou Jing be rampant?

Yang Zhong has been in Liang State for a few years. He does not think that according to the Liang army's previous performance, he can have such a sharp offensive. Therefore, either the king of Liang State promoted some unknown generals to take on important tasks, or...

"When it comes to siege, I have heard a few rumors."

Yang Zhong said slowly, looking at the map, frowned: "Some people in Liang State are extremely good at siegeing the city, and this person captured Hou Jing alive."

"The Liang General who captured Hou Jing alive?" The generals looked surprised. They did not think that the Liang General who captured Hou Jing alive had real ability, and was just lucky.

"Yes, that person is good at siegeing the city. I think this time the Liang army attacked and broke the city one after another, this person must have done a lot of efforts."

The generals present had fought for many years and knew that siege was not easy, and it took several months or even more than one year. Therefore, it was hard to imagine that there were strange people in this world who mastered the siege technique of breaking the city within a few days.

A few years ago, Wei Xiaokuan, the guard of Yubi, fought against Gao Huan's army alone, and relied on Yubi City to siege for nearly two months, causing heavy casualties in the Eastern thief. Gao Huan had to withdraw his troops in disgrace and finally died of depression.

Therefore, the generals felt a siege technique that could conquer Jiangling, Xiangyang and Rangcheng in a few days, how powerful was, and the generals just thought about it.

"In any case, our army cannot slack off. The cavalry set out tomorrow, pass through Danshui County, enter Shannan, and disperse the Liang army, so as not to block the Wuguan intersection."

"Our army must guard the intersection so that after the imperial army comes, they can enter Shannan smoothly and fight the Liang army with the decisive battle."

"No matter how powerful the siege technique is, it will be useless if it cannot be defeated in the field." Yang Zhong said this, his frown brows relaxed, and a confident smile appeared again.

"The terrain in the south of the mountain is flat and the wild land is in war. Our army has no reason to be afraid of them, so we don't believe that Liang State can create many cavalry out of thin air!"

Yang Zhong was quite familiar with the Shannan area. He had guarded Jingzhou more than ten years ago, and even said in a few words that he would surrender the goalkeeper of Rangcheng and seize Rangcheng within one day.

The two years ago, he led his troops to the eastern Han area, and it can be said that he is very familiar with the tactics of the Liang army.

At that time, Liu Zhongli, a famous general of the Liang State, was defeated and captured by him with two thousand cavalry. Now, even if the Liang army invaded north in large numbers, in Yang Zhong's view, it was just a surprise attack on his own side.

The other generals also came back from the initial shock. Indeed, if they could not win the field battle, no matter how powerful the siege technique was, they would not be able to use it.

If you want to win the field battle, isn’t it just a cavalry?

How many cavalry can be pieced together from the Liang army?
Chapter completed!