Coming out of Keju Field, three horse-drawn carriages walked together to the intersection of Zhangtai Street and Xiyin Street, and one of them turned around and stepped onto Xiyin Street.

——Zhou Bo excitedly urged the groom, went straight to the city gate, and went straight to the north camp!

The other two carriages were separated near the arsenal, and the infant went to the Great General's Mansion near the left of the arsenal and sat in the arsenal in case there was any change in Chang'an.

Chen Ping continued to go north along Zhangtai Street to the Prime Minister's Mansion!

After separating from the baby, Chen Pingman, with an uncontrollable excitement, anxiously summoned the samurai outside the carriage into the carriage and asked about the relevant details.

It was only yesterday that the news came back that 'Qin Mu is still stranded in Xiaoguan', and that border army appeared on the Guanzhong Plain today;

It is indescribable with joy!

The unsettling border army finally appeared, and Chen Ping couldn't wait to draft an edict to put the word 'rebellious' (qíng) on the faces of every soldier of that border army!

"Where is the guard? How many soldiers and horses? Where is it now? ”

Seeing that the warrior's face was stunned, Chen Ping knew that he was out of shape, suppressed the excitement in his chest, and his tone calmed down slightly: "Have you ever found out, who are the people who entered the customs without edict?" ”

Hearing this, the warrior was a little ashamed and said, "My lord, I haven't found out who the people are. ”

After a moment of entanglement, the warrior said again: "Captain Xiaoguan, there is no news that there are soldiers and horses entering the pass..."

At this time, it was Chen Ping's turn to be stunned.

"Unchecked?"

After receiving the samurai's affirmative reply, Chen Ping's joy slowly disappeared, and he felt a little uneasy in his heart.

The armies of Longxi and Beidi want to enter the pass, and the nearest passage is Xiaoguan; If you don't go to Xiaoguan, you can only detour nearly 700 miles to the west and enter the pass from Sanguan.

As for going east through Hangu Pass, it is simply impossible - from Xiaoguan to Hangu Pass, the straight-line distance alone is more than 2,000 miles!

Coupled with the mountains and rivers that need to be bypassed for the actual journey, even the most elite troops of the Han Dynasty will take at least a month to arrive.

What's more, since the establishment of the Han Dynasty, Hangu Pass, as the throat of Kanto and Guanzhong, has always been strict in and out!

An armed force of thousands of people, even if there is an edict and an official document from Chang'an, it is not so easy to pass through Hangu Pass - ten days ago, the infant class was irrigated, but with 5,000 soldiers from the Northern Army, it took three days to pass through Hangu Pass!

If you don't go to Xiaoguan, it shows that the border army is not the garrison of the Longyou and Beidi generations.

Thinking of this, Chen Ping's face became solemn: "You will tell me about the military affairs over there!" ”

Even if it is calculated from the time when Qin Mu set off from Chang'an, less than twenty days have passed; The border army rushed to Guanzhong from the more north, Shang, Dai, and even the land of Yan and Zhao...

This is undoubtedly a rather dangerous sign!

Chen Ping's title and official position were all killed with one knife and one shot by relying on real combat exploits!

How could he not know that the most intuitive embodiment of an army's combat effectiveness is the speed of marching?

The local county soldiers carried out long-distance raids, and they could walk 70 miles a day, which was enough to be called 'order and prohibition'!

Even the most elite troops of the Han Dynasty, Yunzhong and Beidi, only traveled a hundred miles a day on foot during the war; As for the cavalry troops, not to mention, those who can travel forty miles a day must be Northland knights!

- But don't think that if a cavalry has a horse, it will always be ridden!

The tender hooves and palms of the war horses are already very susceptible to injury and infection, and now that the Hetao is in the hands of the Xiongnu in the north, the Han family lacks horses, and there are simply not enough horses to supply.

Therefore, at this time, if the cavalry troops want to maneuver over long distances, they are all tied to horses, carrying their own baggage, like serving the uncle, waiting for the march of war horses all the way...

Judging from the speed of the march alone, it is not difficult for Chen Ping to judge: The border army summoned by the little emperor is not good!

Not to mention where that mysterious army entered Guanzhong, just Chen Ping still doesn't know the origin of that army, which is enough to prove that the army is not small!

With a slight wording, the warrior told Chen Ping the news he had received today.

"Today, Xinfeng ordered someone to send someone to report: Yesterday afternoon, the villagers found a dense forest in the cliff stream, and there seemed to be people in it who had been stationed, more than 1,000 people."

"At the time of the dynasty, the captain of Baqiao went to the Prime Minister's Mansion in person, and under the Baqiao, there seemed to be traces of someone wading through at night, counting no less than five hundred."

Looking at Chen Ping's gradually solemn face, the warrior took a breath cautiously, and then said: "In the afternoon, Guangming Chengxiang Sifu reported the internal history, saying that a man went out from Xuanping Gate, passed Guangming Chengxiang without entering, and went straight into the mountains and forests, and his appearance was quite suspicious. ”

"The villager suspected that this person might want to cause trouble, so he sent the young man from the village to the mountains and forests to investigate, but the man was nowhere to be found."

As the warrior's words fell, Chen Ping's brows completely condensed together.

"You didn't misremember? Is it really Baqiao? ”

Seeing that the warrior shook his head affirmatively, Chen Ping's face turned completely dark, and the joy he had before was gone.

First to the vicinity of Xinfeng, and then cross the bridge, and then someone from the direction of Guangming Chengxiang out of the city to answer...

Judging from the route of the march, this group of men and horses clearly came from the east!

But east of Chang'an, that's Hangu Pass...

It was the end of the Qin Dynasty Xiang Yu and Gaozu Liu Bang competition, 'the first to enter the pass is the king of Hanzhong', Liu Bang did not dare to attack directly, but to the west detour to Wuguan, in order to successfully enter the Hangu Pass in the pass!

What kind of sacredness can enter the pass from the direction of Hangu Pass, and appear near Chang'an almost silently?

The more he thought about it, the more Chen Ping felt that the situation was not quite right.

The situation was unclear, but Chen Ping decided to be safe and deal with it as originally planned.

"Thou shalt immediately report to the internal history: Your Majesty's edict and send out the thieves to inspect the hidden places in the pass; If there is an attempt, you can do your best to ask for theft in the county and township (2)! ”

The warrior surrendered his promise and was about to retreat, but was stopped by Chen Ping: "Go to the north camp again to inform the captain: Chang'an grain prices are unstable, the people are uneasy, and the troops should be increased to the city wall." ”

"Especially the Xuanping Gate, Qingming Gate, and Bacheng Gate!"

The warrior received the order, looked at Chen Ping cautiously for a moment, and after confirming that Chen Ping had no other instructions, he quietly left.

Xuanping Gate, Qingming Gate, and Bacheng Gate are the three gates of the east city wall of Chang'an; Chen Ping calculated that since the border army came from the east and appeared in the mountains and forests outside Guangming Township, it would inevitably put pressure on these three city gates.

Arrange things properly, Chen Ping held his forehead with his hand, and couldn't help but fall into deep confusion.

"Who the hell is it? Where did you get into the customs? ”

"Qin Mu has not gone, how did the little emperor pass on the message to him?"

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PS: 1. 黥, one of the ancient punishments, the punishment is to engrave words on the face of the prisoner, and then apply the charcoal ash to make the wound heal with the charcoal ash, which is said to be permanent; From the point of view of the present, it can be understood as a classical tattoo. However, in that era of 'parents who suffer from the hair and skin of the body, and are not filial piety', no one would want to get a tattoo, let alone tattoo insulting words on the face.

According to historical records, among Liu Bangfeng's different surnames in the early Han Dynasty, Huainan Wang Yingbu was called 'Tu Bu' because he had been punished by the Qin court in his early years, which shows how much impact this punishment has on a person.

2. Seeking thieves, one of the grassroots management in the Western Han Dynasty, belongs to the hands of the township husband, if the thief is similar to the township chief, then the thief is probably the militia, but there is a special duty: to fight bandits.

Regarding the topography of Guanzhong, the layout of Chang'an City, and the geographical location of Yousifu Ya, it is from the 1996 edition of "Xi'an Historical Atlas" of Xi'an Map Publishing House.