After Li Yan got the order, he lit up 10,000 horses, ordered the army to prepare more drums, trumpets and flags, and came to the west. 【Latest chapter reading. 】

After Li Yan left, Bai Qi asked Li Dang to lead 10,000 people to take the Baochuan Road, and the men and horses on this road were acting in secret, attacking at night, and they were mostly cavalry.

After these two people left, Bai Qi also made a plan to hide from the world, he secretly found a person, who was a little similar to himself, dressed up as himself, and led a team of people to Tongguan, saying that he was inspecting military affairs, and sent an order to Tongguan's Shehuai in advance, so that he could answer halfway.

After this news was made, the person who pretended to be Bai Qi led the men and horses out of the city the next day and headed towards Tongguan. Bai Qi knew that this matter would definitely alarm the officials and soldiers in Tongguan.

Then he sent 10,000 horses ordered in advance, pretending to go out of the city to participate in the military hoarding, and went out of the city with farm tools and ox carts during the day to enter the military hoarding area.

And on this night, Bai Qi secretly went out of the city, and led 10,000 horses straight to the Meridian Valley, of which 5,000 pushed carts and carried grain and grass on the road.

This trick worked very well, no one thought that Bai Qi was still in the city at this time, let alone that he had secretly led 10,000 horses into the Meridian Valley.

At this time, it was the weather in April, the Guanzhong area was neither hot nor cold, and the amount of water was not large, just after the march, after entering the mountain valley, the weather was even cooler, so the army marched, and did not suffer from the heat of summer.

Bai Qi ordered that as long as he saw pedestrians and woodcutters in the valley, they would all be caught in the army and not let them leak the news.

Rao is good weather, the Meridian Valley is also very difficult to walk, this valley has always been called the Jedi, there is no road at all in some places, you need to climb from the cliff, people can walk, it is difficult to pass the small cart transporting grain, at this time you have to unload the grain and grass to carry it over, so the march is also very tired.

For these, Bai Qi has been prepared, he has always attached great importance to this valley, as early as a year ago, he sent people to conduct a comprehensive exploration of the Meridian Valley, for the difficult places, one by one marked on the map, so a lot of unnecessary trouble was avoided. The march of the army was much faster than that of Gao Yingxiang.

Bai Qi's recruitment was divided into three ways, and he really concealed the officials and soldiers in Hanzhong.

Che Xingguo had already heard the news that the Qin army had begun to attack Hanzhong, and first a Tanma reported from Sanguan that Li Yan led an army, at least 10,000 people, to attack Sanguan. Che Xingguo was stunned when he heard this, he has been in battle for a long time, he is not a reckless general, he understands the danger of Sanguan very well, he sent 5,000 men and horses to guard this pass, because Sanguan is easy to defend and difficult to work, there is no need to send too many people, Qin Jun wants to use only 10,000 people to open Sanguan, it is simply wishful thinking. King Qin and his subordinate Bai Qi are not fools, so they can't even think of this. Or the Qin army, after a series of victories, is too arrogant and no longer takes the official army seriously.

After careful consideration, Che Xingguo immediately sent people to Sanguan, so that the guards there could not be careless, and they must defend the pass, and he sent a thousand men and horses as reinforcements.

Then Che Xingguo sent a meteor scout horse to go to Xiegu to investigate, he has been in Hanzhong for a long time, and naturally knows the story of Han Xin and Zhuge Liang, so he has not been at ease about this road.

A few days later, Tanma brought back the news, and there were indeed people and horses moving in the valley, watching the frame, no less than thousands of people and horses.

Che Xingguo sneered, he understood that this group of men and horses was the real main attack force, and while he was focusing on the pass, he killed him by surprise from the valley.

Therefore, Che Xingguo personally led 10,000 horses, blocked the mouth of the valley, set up a camp, and blocked the road to death, he guessed that when the Qin army was about to leave the valley, it must have been very tired, and at this time he would definitely defeat the Qin army if he was going to go out of the valley. Even if the Qin army is brave and unable to retreat, as long as he blocks the valley mouth, after a long time, the Qin army will definitely withdraw if it is not able to continue its food and grass. At that time, he pursued and killed, and he was sure to win a great victory.

As long as this force of men and horses is repulsed, the Qin army that attacked Sanguan will inevitably withdraw, and Hanzhong will be safe and sound.

As for Nanzheng Chengzhong, he only left one deputy general and brought more than 1,000 guards with him. Because as long as the valley and the pass are guarded, the Qin army will not be able to enter, and Nanzheng will be foolproof.

Besides, Li Yan's men and horses, after marching to the Sanguan, Li Yan looked at this Xiongguan from a distance and was taken aback. I saw that this pass is majestic, the terrain is dangerous, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pass has already been prepared, a team of strong officers and soldiers, ready for battle, although there is no cannon, but the city wall is thick, the moat is wide and deep, and it is difficult to attack the city.

He had seen the terrain and ordered his men and horses to go down to the village and not to attack rashly. Li Yan's army is mainly used as a suspicious soldier, and it is enough to attract the attention of the officers and soldiers, and rashly tackling key problems will cause huge casualties, which is not cost-effective. Li Yan was very clear about this, so after he went down to the village, he ordered a part of the Qin army to cut down wood and make siege equipment. He also sent people to mine some large stones to fill in the moat, so that the soldiers could cross the river by stepping on the stones, without climbing ladders, which was slow and easy to be shot by the officers and soldiers.

With such a toss, the officers and soldiers did not dare to be careless, and the new 1,000 reinforcements also arrived, and they were strictly defended every day and night, preparing to deal with the attack of the Qin army.

Besides, Li Kang's side, he led his men and horses in the sloping valley, and walked very fast along the way, because Bai Qi repeatedly told him that Li Dang did not dare to be careless, and sent a lot of scouts to listen to the news in front of him along the way, even dozens of miles away.

After walking for a day, Tanma reported that forty miles ahead, it was already the mouth of the valley, where a large group of officers and soldiers were encamped, and it seemed that they were waiting for the Qin army to come.

Li Dang sneered, ordered the men and horses to stop, and also set up a large camp to prevent a sudden attack by the officers and soldiers.

After the camp was set up, several adjutant generals came to ask for battle, these people had not fought for a long time, and they were all uncomfortable, and at this time they had already faced the officers and soldiers, and they all wanted to fight.

Li Dang listened to these generals say that they wanted to fight, and smiled slightly, at this time Li Dang was no longer a reckless general, and when he followed Bai Qi and Wang Jian for a long time, he also learned a little about the way of using troops for these two people, so he said: "Don't be in a hurry, let's come all the way, the saddle horse is tired, it is not appropriate to start a war with the official army, and wait for a few days first, rest well, recover your energy, and then fight again." ”

When several lieutenants heard that they were right, they stopped saying anything.

In fact, Li Kang's real idea was to wait for Bai Qi to enter Hanzhong, and the official and military fronts would be scattered, and the officers, soldiers, and horses blocking the mouth of the sloping valley would immediately retreat to block Bai Qi.

At present, this army is waiting for work, and he must not act rashly.

At this time, Bai Qi had already led the army to approach the valley mouth of the Meridian Valley, and the journey was very smooth, most of the men and horses of the official army were concentrated in Sanguan and Xiegu, and they were defenseless against the Meridian Valley, and they never dreamed that the Qin army would actually kill from here.

Moreover, Che Xingguo had already received the news that Bai Qi was in Tongguan at this time, Wang Jian returned to Jingbian, and several generals were not in Xi'an, except for Li Yan and Li Dang who led the army to come, and there were no other people, so he was so relieved.

Bai Qi led the army to burst out of the Meridian Valley, and after waiting out of the valley mouth, Bai Qi saw that there were no officers and soldiers around, and he looked up to the sky and shouted: "Hanzhong is already in the bag of my Qin army,"

The 10,000 Qin troops walked in the valley for twelve days, two days longer than expected, because after all, it was a large army operation, and it was also transporting food, which was somewhat inconvenient, but this did not affect the progress of the entire campaign.

After coming out of the mouth of the Meridian Valley, it was only two hundred miles away from Nanzheng.

The 10,000 people in Bai Qi did not have cavalry, but were all infantry, so his top priority was to get the war horses first. After Bai Qi left the valley, he did not march immediately, but camped at the mouth of the valley and waited until dark.

After dark, Bai Qi ordered the whole army to be fed, and then lightly armed, burned all the carts transporting grain, and distributed the rest of the grain. The road in the Meridian Valley is difficult, and it is inevitable that some will be lost on the way, so the original twenty days of food is only enough for fifteen days.

The soldiers of the Qin army hung dry food on their waists and carried them behind their backs, and the whole army abandoned the superfluous things, only carrying weapons, and began to march towards Chenggu County.

Chenggu County is in the east of Nanzheng, only forty or fifty miles away, at this time Chenggu County, without the slightest preparation, the guard never imagined that the Qin army would descend from the sky like a divine soldier, killing him under the city.

When it was almost dawn in the second half of the night, the Qin army came to the city wall of Chenggu County, Bai Qi looked at the city, and did not feel secretly sneering, it turned out that there were no soldiers patrolling the city, and it seemed that they were all asleep, so he waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to climb the city wall with hooks, and then open the city gate.

Dozens of soldiers climbed the city wall without much effort, killed the city patrol officers, and then opened the city gate, and 10,000 Qin troops entered the city like tigers descending from the mountain.

The guard general heard the chaos in the city in his sleep, and he didn't know what was going on, when he came out of the house to see, the street was already in flames, and the Qin army had already killed in front of him, and before the guard general got on the horse, he was rushed up by the Qin army and chopped to death with a knife.

As soon as the defender died, the officers and soldiers in the city scattered and fled, Chenggu County was not large, and the officers and soldiers in the city were few, only less than a thousand people, so without the Qin army sweeping, only one hour, the Qin army completely occupied Chenggu County.

Bai Qi immediately ordered to collect horses, but it took a long time to find only more than 500 war horses, Bai Qi knew that the soldiers were fast, and he could not stay in this small county town for a long time at this time, he collected grain and grass in the city, and then rushed to Nanzheng non-stop.

As soon as the county seat of Chenggu was lost, it was immediately reported by the officials and soldiers, and it was reported to Nanzhenglai, but at this time Che Xingguo was not in the city, but led 10,000 horses to the mouth of the valley, and there was only one deputy general in the city, with more than 1,000 officers and soldiers guarding.

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