Liu Bei and Li Su secretly observed the terrain for a long time and agreed on a strategy to break the pass, and then quietly continued to return the same way.

After trekking more than 150 miles of mountain roads, we returned to Hechi County, the fork of Chencang Road and Qishan Road. The road was bumpy, and a civil official like Li Su walked for two days, and stayed overnight in the mountains in the middle, and the conditions were extremely difficult.

Fortunately, there are no mosquitoes in the Qinling Mountains in February, and if it is summer, people like Li Su, who have never been in Sichuan in two lifetimes, will not be able to survive by the scorching heat and damp mosquito miasma.

In this way, Li Su has also begun to have a slight rash and mite scars, and it is estimated that it will not be possible to fully recover after entering Sichuan for a few months to recuperate and adapt to the water and soil.

Mites are like this, there are them everywhere, whether you are used to the mites in the north and then the south, or you are used to the mites in the south and go to the north, the climate and soil in other places can toss people.

Only people with good physique can have no adverse reactions. The army brought by Liu Bei was also a little uncomfortable a few days ago, but gradually got better.

Li Su believes that this army, which was taken by Liu Bei to the south and north, is estimated to be the strongest adaptable to various infectious diseases and parasites in the country in the future, after all, from the northeast corner of China to the southwest corner, it has experienced all kinds of environments, and it is definitely not so rich in experience for individual troops.

Sharpen the knife and do not mistake the woodcutter. After returning to Hechi County, Li Su selected soldiers and asked Zhao Yun to observe and select the 1,000 soldiers who were most suitable for the water and soil of the Qinling Mountains and were in the best condition for action.

Zhao Yun originally wanted to select a thousand soldiers from the Youzhou elite cavalry, but then discussed it with Li Su, and felt that when he went to block the pursuers, he might not have the opportunity to rush along the valley to kill, and maybe he would have to take into account the battle of the complex terrain on the hillside.

So in the end, only 500 Youzhou elite cavalry were used, and the other 500 people borrowed the most elite Danyang Soldier Axe and Shield Battalion of Guan Yu's lineage. The Danyang soldiers were all born in Shanyue warriors, and they are also very familiar with the mountain warfare in the southern mountains, and I believe that they can also perform well after entering Shu - anyway, the southeast hilly and mountainous areas and the southwest Shu Mountain, the mountain warfare principles are the same.

However, these 500 Danyang axe and shield battalions are also equipped with horses and can ride on their horses. All the horses were also re-selected, not for the strength of the plains, but for the horse's strength and endurance, so it didn't matter if they were a little shorter.

In addition to the main battle weapons, 500 of the 1,000 soldiers carried bows and crossbows and a pot of arrows, while the other 500 did not carry long-range weapons, freeing up their burdens to carry two more pots of arrows.

Because Li Su knew that the next battle to lure the enemy would have to last for several days without logistical supplies, and if the bow was too much, the arrows would become a decoration after shooting, so it was better to take fewer bows and more arrows to ensure the ability to continue the war-

is like Wei Yan's "Meridian Valley Conspiracy", no matter whether the conspiracy itself is reliable or not, but at least the implementation idea of "if you really attack from the Meridian Valley, you must allocate half of the troops to ensure logistics" is correct. And Li Su is nothing more than turning negative grain into negative arrows, and his troops have a short combat time, so there will not necessarily be a shortage of food.

Of course, the lightness of rations is also very important, and Liu Bei instructed the cooking camp to cook dry food with high caloric density, all of which are dried cakes, dried meat, and pickles, in order to reduce the burden of the troops as much as possible.

At the same time, some alum (natural alum), magnets and freshly collected elm bark were also raised for the army to purify the water for the army.

Eating jerky and burning requires drinking a lot of water to balance the diet.

Everything was ready to stop, and on the tenth day of the second month, Li Su finally went south with a thousand people. If it drags on any longer, it will not be able to prepare anything, but it will increase the risk of exposing Liu Beijun's position, so it is better to set off immediately.

Liu Bei and Guan Yu personally sent Li Su to the banks of the Western Han River to say goodbye, and their army had to be stationed in place, and they could not show the slightest sign of going south.

All the behavior patterns have to be played like the posture of "attacking the Tianshui County of Han Sui's army with Yu Fuluo", and the details of the acting skills do not need to be repeated, it is nothing more than to increase the number of troops and reduce the focus as much as possible here in the Hechi camp, and the Yu Fu Luo station over there in the lower and middle areas will increase the number of stoves, and all the things that can be played will be played.

When Liu Bei said goodbye, he confirmed with Li Su's last care:

"Brother Xian be careful all the way, even if you cross the front of Yangping Pass late tomorrow night, let Zhang Wei find out during the day after tomorrow, and on the third day, Zhang Wei's main force will all pursue south.

And my side will also march with Yun Chang and the main force at dawn on the third day, rest halfway through the night, and arrive at Yangping Pass before noon on the fourth day, and cut off Zhang Wei's way back to the pass. ”

Even if the army marches in a hurry, it will definitely not be able to run 150 miles a day in a normal state. But Liu Bei and Guan Yu can not bring grain and grass when the time comes, first only bring the rations with them to cut off the road, and after the break, the rear army will slowly carry the grain to supply the siege troops in front of Yangping Pass.

"Don't worry, brother, you can't go wrong with this schedule." Li Su agreed.

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Li Su and his entourage went out day by day and night, day by day, and night by night, alternately, and passed Yangping Pass safely.

On the afternoon of the second day after departure, the calculation distance has not only passed the Yangping Pass, but also the Yang'an Pass that blocked the Jinniu Road in later generations, and is about to enter the Ma Mingge Road, and the right side of the marching team also saw the river of the Western Han River again, and Li Su then ordered to find a village nearby to rest.

He had already left Yangping Pass for at least forty miles, and it seemed that Zhang Wei did not know that he had secretly crossed.

Therefore, at this time, it is necessary to act realistically and take the initiative to ensure that the "leaked news" is carried out, otherwise everything will be in vain.

As we all know, the Yang'an Pass in later generations was completely repaired during the Zhuge Liang period, and now it is only a relatively dangerous mountain pass, and there is no city defense building.

However, because the Jinniu Road in front of the Yangping Gate only rejoins the Western Han River here, as a traffic point, there is still a small market town here.

Li Su didn't want to kill innocent people indiscriminately, so he secretly observed and prepared to find a village with more rice thieves and believers to slaughter and slaughter.

It has been a few days since the army entered the Qinling Mountains, and the intelligence work is still doing well, so Li Su knows the manifestations of the rice thief believers:

It is said that Zhang Lu's rice thief, if he wants to join the club, he must first pay five buckets of white rice, and then promise that the thieves can help each other, and use ghosts and gods to scare people so that they dare not cheat.

In addition, "sacrificial wine" will be set up in various places, and "righteous houses" will be set up on the main trade routes, which look similar to the post stations of the imperial court, and even some are changed from the post stations originally built in the Han Dynasty. If you dare to take more and eat more, you will be punished by the ghosts and gods.

It is said that if you make a mistake, you can be forgiven twice, and the third time you will be beheaded if you commit fraud, and after the first two times you are discovered, you will be punished for building a road and 100 steps to atone for your sin.

Li Su did not study Zhang Lu's theory in depth, but with his vision of seeing so many Ponzi schemes in later generations, he can also roughly see that the reason why Zhang Lu's capital chain will not be broken is entirely because his ghosts and gods are scary and temporarily effective for foolish people.

This kind of thing is very simple to deal with, just like cracking other MLM organizations to induce a run, and Zhang Lu's credit will immediately go bankrupt.

However, according to his conscience, Zhang Lu's practice of "everyone pays grain locally, but can eat for free in other places with conscience" also has certain benefits in combination with the environment of Shu at that time. Because the Shu Road is difficult, the transportation loss is very large, and if everyone carries their own dry food like other places, the loss will be very large.

Zhang Lu has a set of credit system, which is equivalent to "non-local deposits", you pay five buckets of rice in your hometown for tourists from other places to eat, and you go to other places to eat the local rice, so you don't have to waste transportation.

It's just that this thing doesn't have a passbook system endorsed by the central government, and it will definitely not last long to rely on ghosts and gods. The first generation of believers may be temporarily suppressed by the prestige and magic of the divine stick, but they will definitely be eroded in the future, and ultimately they will rely on the rule of law and a perfect financial access and credit system.

Li Su secretly observed the report through the scout, and found that the village further ahead, the "Yishe" was not very easy to find, and there was still a "Yishe" in the village in front of him, so he knew that he had reached the edge of the area actually controlled by Zhang Lu and Liu Yan, and at present, this village was obviously still a believer in the "rice thief".

Li Su quietly instructed Zhao Yun: "Let's take these rice thieves, pretend that we don't know that they are rice thieves, think that we have walked out of the control area of the rice thieves, treat them as obedient citizens of the imperial court, and show our identities to ask for grain." ”

Zhao Yun was careful and knew how to act, so he looked arrogant, walked to the door of the "righteous house", kicked the courtyard door and entered, and immediately rushed out of a sacrificial wine, Zhao Yun also pretended not to know that he was a sacrificial wine, and recognized him as a villager of the imperial court.

"So that Zhonglang will hold the festival here! I'll finally cross the border of the rice thief realm to patrol Yizhou, and quickly provide us with food! ”

Li Su's role was done very well, and at this moment, he put on a villainous posture, which made the Zhonglang General's festival shine out, and even brightened the Huang Yue that Liu Bei temporarily lent him.

He even allowed the soldiers to explain his mission arrogantly: "Our family is going to ask Liu Yan if he has overstepped!" If it is found that there is a transgression, His Majesty will summon Liu Yan to Beijing as a young master! ”

Everyone knows that Emperor Han Ling is not in good health now, but he is not dead yet, so the master who is looking for counseling for the young master should be a young master rather than a too master.

Calling Liu Yan as a young master is nominally a promotion, so there is no need for Liu Yan to be really resentful, as long as he seems to be a little suspicious, he can be promoted and secretly taken away like this, just like Cao Shuang dealt with Sima Yi. said this with a nose and eyes, and also showed Huang Yue's hint that "if Liu Yan dares not to go to the capital to be a young master, then Huang Yue will serve him for the crime of disobeying the order".

Seeing this, the local rice thief Xiaojiu was directly stunned: how could there be a Han envoy arriving so deep this time? It's almost Ma Mingge said, didn't he usually kill him directly outside Yangping Pass?

"What to do? Stabilize them first, find someone to find a way to report to General Zhang, and let General Zhang lead his troops to chase and kill, but General Zhang has given a strict order, and anyone who leaks the Han envoy and does not report it is a serious crime, and he must sue the ghosts and gods to kill the whole village. ”

The sacrificial wine and cold sweat came down, and he could only stabilize Zhao Yun first: "General Shaosin, you can take the rice and grain in this post house, if you want meat, I will prepare it." ”

It's a pity that at this moment, a clever colonel next to Zhao Yun exclaimed according to the lines he was instructed to do: "Huh? Wait a minute! General be careful. Look at the layout of this post station, how can it be different from Hechi County, and there is no account for taking grain?

Not good! I heard that the rice thief 'Yishe' never keeps accounts, and it is all because of the ghosts and gods that people dare not deceive and take more, this will not be the village of the rice thief, but the house uses the old things of the imperial court station! ”

Zhao Yun pretended to be stunned: "It's not good! This is still the territory of the rice thief! We haven't gotten out of the village controlled by the rice thieves yet! Surrounding this museum, the chicken dog does not stay! After killing, take the food and leave! ”

They pretended to realize that this was the jurisdiction of Zhang Lu at this moment, and they drew their swords one after another, killing all the rice thief clergy in the righteous house like wolves.

Zhao Yun was still merciful, and did not kill all the innocent villagers, but only killed the clergy and their attendants.

But in fact, Zhao Yun saw it before he started, and there was a young man who had just been sent by the sacrificial wine to report the news and had already climbed over the wall. Zhao Yun deliberately didn't see him, so he let this live mouth go back to report the news.

Li Su and his entourage robbed all the supplies in this righteous house, replenished the troop attrition, and immediately hurried south again.

However, this time they were not in a hurry to run too far, but ran all the way to observe the terrain, preparing to be caught up tomorrow, so that they could pretend that because they "didn't have time to escape, find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack", so as to seduce more pursuers.

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Half a day later, that is, in the evening of the same day, the young man who reported the news next to the sacrificial wine ran back to Yangping Pass out of breath, and was received by Zhang Wei, the general guarding the pass.

"General Zhang! No...... Oh no! This time, the Han envoy learned smartly, and I don't know how to bypass the road in front of Yangping Pass last night, and quietly touched Xiguan Station! Fortunately, the guards around him admitted that they were wrong, recognized our righteous house as a post station of the imperial court, and asked us to collect grain, so that our identities were exposed, otherwise we would have rushed all the way to Baishui Pass.

Our village tried its best to stop and report the news, I saw with my own eyes that the sacrificial wine was killed by the Han general, begging the general to spare the lives of our whole village, our whole village did its best, as soon as we found the Han envoy, we came to report, and I didn't dare to stop for a breath! ”

"What? I said that the small school on duty last night was closed, how could I report that there seemed to be a whole team of people before the pass, and it was actually the Han envoy who was killed twice and learned to be obedient. It's not good, if the envoy really arrives at Baishui Pass, Liu Yuanjun will be furious, and the eldest brother is too afraid of Hanzhong and has no use value......

Zhang Wei was shocked and angry, paced back and forth a few steps, and hatefully ordered: "Someone! Immediately prepare some troops, gather all the cavalry in the army first, and immediately chase south! Just want to bite the enemy army quickly! By the way, how many people are in that mission? ”

He had already talked about the transfer of troops, and only then did he remember that he hadn't asked about the size of the enemy's army, so he hurriedly picked up the collar of the young man who reported the news and tortured him.

"There are always hundreds of people, maybe nearly a thousand, I don't dare to take a closer look."

Zhang Wei's eyes rolled, and he secretly thought in his heart: "The Han envoy guards must be more elite than our soldiers, and there are only more than 2,000 horses in the pass, so I am afraid that if we catch up, we may not be able to kill them all." They can only be expected to entangle the enemy first, take advantage of the familiar terrain to make a detour and block the road. Then the infantry brigade took the path and climbed the mountain to keep up. ”

So he ordered the horsemen to chase and entangle tonight, and the infantry could not walk at night when they climbed the mountain, and then rested for half the night, and then went out of the pass tomorrow on the fourth watch to catch up.

When he came, he didn't forget to order: "Torture the little colonel who was on duty on the wall last night, and all the rewards that remind me that there is a horse team passing through the gate, and all those who mistakenly think that they are passing by and do not report it, are all tied up!" After the war, if he escaped from the Han envoys, he beheaded all the negligent colonels to show the public! ”

The military judge in charge of military justice reminded the trouble: "General...... General, according to the decree of the master, all offenders can be forgiven twice, and three offenders can be beheaded, they are only guilty of negligence......"

Zhang Wei smashed a tiger talisman on his head and face: "You know a fart!" This time and that time! Their negligence today, but it is possible to threaten the position of the eldest brother's Taishou, and they still expect to be beheaded for three crimes? Those who dare to intercede will be beheaded together! ”