Liquan is divided into an inner city and an outer city, and the Liquan Governor's Office is the most core institution of Liquan, which is in charge of the military and political affairs of Liquan and the distribution of more than 40 million catties of quenched gold and iron produced every year. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Outside the main hall of the strict governor's mansion, there was an old man standing tremblingly, only to hear a "clang" in the hall, and then he heard Dong Chou's roar coming out of the main hall: "It is impossible for 100,000 ants to disappear here, let alone 100,000 soldiers, go and explore." ”

Immediately after that, a black-armored officer with an earth-colored face staggered out of the main hall, and then, after a short time, there was a loud roar, and dozens of war birds rose into the sky in the barracks behind the governor's mansion, and flew towards the depths of the mountain at the western foot of Qintong Mountain to the west.

After some time, hearing no other sound in the hall, the old man hurriedly summoned two clever maids, and went into the hall lightly to clean up the mess on the ground, but did not dare to ask, and fled.

During the years when Wuwei Hou Dong Liang was in retreat, Dong Chou was in charge of Hexi's military and political affairs as the son of the world, and in the past 20 years, Hexi was well organized, and in the seventy-ninth year of Emperor Yitian, he brazenly swallowed the entire county of Hechuan County, forcing the Helan Sword Sect to escape far away in the mountains and old forests, and the results were not brilliant.

Speaking in detail, all this is somewhat stained with a lot of Chen Hai's light, but since Chen Hai set up his own door and secretly confronted Hexi, the pace of Hexi's expansion has been forced to stagnate.

Tianshui County, which has been weak for many years, is not much worse than Hexiang County dominated by Helan Sword Sect, but in the past few years, Chen Hai has secretly imported a large number of Tianji weapons to Tianshui County to help it cultivate generals and solve the barbarian problems in its north, so that millions of iron horsemen in Hexi will be in the west of Tianshui County, and they will not be able to gain an inch of land for several years.

This time, Dong Chou thought that he had seized Chen Hai's death hole, and the means of uniting the Nine Domains and the Huang Clan to coerce the Tianji Academy Palace could not be described as unclever.

In his opinion, as long as they could jam the neck of the Longxiang army to reinforce Gyeonggi in Liquan, no matter how powerful Chen Hai was, it would be impossible for him to use 150,000 remnants of the army to fight against the 500,000 elite of the Su Guard.

And as long as the 150,000 remnants of Yao and Long Xiang's army in Gyeonggi were eaten by the 500,000 elites of the Su Guard led by the Inner Court, Long Xiang's army would be quite broken an arm.

Times have changed, Dong Chou believes that when the time comes, even if they don't attack Juquanling, the Tianji Academy Palace will fall apart, and it will be impossible to continue to maintain it.

There are not many disciples who will follow forces with an uncertain future and will be extinguished by other sects at any time, not to mention that these disciples have no obligation of allegiance to the Tianji Academy Palace.

In that case, Hexi will not only be able to share more of the supply of quenched iron, but also completely cut off the supply of quenched iron for the Long Xiang army.

And with the land of Yandang for thousands of miles, there is no shortage of four or five hundred thousand elite combat power of the Longxiang army, and gradually, the Longxiang army will no longer be a threat to Hexi, and it is not impossible to subdue Chen Hai again for Hexi's use when the time comes.

Dong Chou's calculations were not inadequate, but he never thought that the elite of the 100,000 Dragon Xiang Army transferred to Hengshan City would lose their traces overnight.

It is impossible for 100,000 horses to lose their traces for no reason, since Hexi is lurking in the secret room of Hengshan and cannot detect the traces of these 100,000 horses, it is very likely that these 100,000 horses have entered Qintong Mountain and are coming to Juquanling for reinforcements.

A few years ago, in order to facilitate the transportation of hundreds of millions of catties of copper and iron ore out of Qintong Mountain, Chen Hai used a large amount of manpower and materials to dredge waterways along the Tong River and build a large number of plank roads and mines in the depths of the mountains at the western foot of Qintong Mountain.

However, from Hengshan Mountain to Juquanling, the western foot of the 800-mile Jueling Mountain, the drop is three or four thousand meters high, even after the dredging river, it has to pass through twelve large hanging waterfalls more than two or three hundred meters high.

From Juquanling, from top to bottom, a large number of materials through a large number of hanging rail devices installed near the large hanging waterfall, section by section, is more convenient, but a large number of people, materials, to be transported from the bottom to the top, the difficulty will increase tenfold, and the efficiency will naturally be slowed down several times.

Even in the cold of winter, the rivers in the depths of Qintong Mountain are frozen, and people and horses can step on the river ice, but the bottleneck caused by these twelve large hanging waterfalls makes it take at least three months for 100,000 horses and a large number of weapons and horses to cross Qintong Mountain and enter Liquan.

Moreover, these twelve large hanging waterfalls, the terrain is relatively open, and they are actually exposed to the attack of the coalition war bird battalion, and the Longxiang army must take precautions, which will make the transportation of men and horses slower.

Theoretically speaking, unless the inner court dragged on in Gyeonggi for three or five months, it would not have been able to attack Yao Valve, otherwise, it would have been impossible for Chen Hai to transfer troops from Hengshan to reinforce the Tianji Academy, but Chen Hai just did it!

What is Chen Hai's reliance on?

Dong Chou once again couldn't see through Chen Hai's calculations, which made him, who had always been calm, suddenly lose his sense of proportion today, and his mood became irritable and uneasy, realizing that there was something wrong, but he couldn't think through it or understand it, and he didn't know how many tea sets had suffered today.

It wasn't until the setting sun that a new spy hurriedly came to report.

After a day of searching, the whereabouts of the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Long Xiang Army were confirmed again, and as Dong Chou expected, the 100,000 soldiers and horses had already entered the depths of the western foot of Qintong Mountain-Dong Chou thought hard for two hours, and suddenly figured out a certain joint, and suddenly felt that the vest was cold.

He sat behind the long case, speechless for a long time.

Dong Chou's face was full of iron, and he asked people to summon the representatives of the eight feudal clans to come to discuss the matter, and Ge Xuanqiao and Dong Pan rushed to the Liquan Governor's Mansion from Baishiling at about the same time, and they were also shocked to see Dong Chou's words "mine cave" written on the back of the white paper on the bookcase.

Only then did they understand where Chen Hai's troop transport calculations were!

Liang Yong Miao's representatives Miao Yue and Miao Zijin almost stepped into the main hall with Huang Peiyi in front and back, and saw Dong Chou and others sitting in the hall with gloomy faces, and the atmosphere was extremely solemn.

"What's the matter, have you found out the whereabouts of the 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Long Xiang Army?" Miao Zijin sat beside Dong Pan and asked in a suppressed voice.

"The investigation is clear, 100,000 soldiers and horses appeared at Heishi Peak at noon today after a night's march!" Dong Pan said.

"How is it possible?" Miao Zijin was so frightened that he jumped up when he heard Dong Pan's words.

The Black Stone Peak is located deep at the western foot of the Qintong Mountain, two hundred miles east of Hengshan City.

For the elite soldiers, even if they don't take the royal war horse, it is easy to run 200 miles in one night, but that is the speed of marching along the flat gallop road, but from Hengshan City to the east is the undulating deep mountains, could it be that these 100,000 soldiers and horses, all of them will fly against the wind?

"Mine caves," Dong Pan told Miao Zijin about the speculation of the prince Dong Chou, "In the past few years, we all know that the Long Xiang army has mined a large amount of copper and iron ore in the depths of Qintong Mountain, and has entered Yandang Yuan along the waterway of the Tong River to build a city -- if these mining caves are not simple mining holes, but deep mountain roads that have been dug through, and Long Xiang's army can move quickly in the depths of Qintong Mountain, it can be explained! You and I both know that Long Xiangjun has been building plank roads and mining villages in the depths of Qintong Mountain in recent years, all of which have been carried out around one mine after another!"

Miao Zijin's body seemed to be stricken, and he sat there like an ice sculpture, not knowing what to say for a long time.

Dong Chou rubbed his stiff face and said, "If all the mines along the Tong River have been dug through, the 100,000 elites of the Long Xiang Army may be able to enter Liquan within ten days at the earliest—what do you think about the current situation?"

"How is it possible?" Miao Yue, the elder of the Miao clan, still didn't believe Dong Chou's speculation, and said, "If the stone mountains are completely dug through, how much manpower and material resources will be required?"

They hadn't thought of this possibility before, because they knew how terrifying it would be to dig through a ten-mile-thick rocky mountain!

They had also studied the terrain of the western foothills of Qintong Mountain in depth, and knew that if the Long Xiang army wanted to connect the intermittent plank roads built in the depths of Qintong Mountain, they needed to excavate at least ten stone mountain roads with a total length of more than 100 miles.

How could Long Xiangjun have the spare energy to do so many things in the past few years?

However, if it weren't for this possibility, why did Long Xiang's army march so fast overnight, and why did Chen Hai have such confidence to directly transfer 100,000 elites to reinforce Liquan?

"Chen Hai is used to tricking the enemy, maybe Chen Hai is bluffing again this time?" someone whispered, "In fact, they may only open one or two mines, and use this bluff to force us to retreat?"

"......" everyone felt that what this man said was extremely reasonable.

In their opinion, if the Long Xiang Army had really completely opened up the deep mountains at the western foot of Qintong Mountain, the action would definitely not be small, and their eyeliner in Liquan could not be detected at all?

"Maybe wait two more days to see, or maybe directly send the war poultry battalion to raid the mines along the way and see what is going on?" Miao Zijin suggested.

There was a dead silence in the hall, and the Long Xiang army had been extremely well defended the mines in the depths of Qintong Mountain in recent years, and there were more than 20 mines, almost every mine village had seven or eight heavy crossbows to defend, and the defense should have been further strengthened at this time.

This is not counting the fact that the Longxiang army also has a battalion of war birds, which can quickly reinforce these mines at any time, and resist the strong attacks on their side according to the strong defenses of the mines.

What's more, if it is really necessary to find out that these mines have been completely opened, what will they do next?

Do you want the lords to also send an expeditionary force to reinforce Liquan?

Even if the sect lord agreed, how could their soldiers and horses fly over the heavy pass mountain into the hinterland of Qintong Mountain?

Discussion came and went, everyone felt that if they observed for two more days, judging by the current situation, Chen Hai was more likely to be bluffing, and they couldn't mess up because of Chen Hai's small plan.