Nan'an County's county governance "Otter Road" is named, "Otter", is a ferocious porcupine, the inhabitants here in the pre-Qin period, because of the Otter as their own name, during the Warring States Period, Qin Xiaogong cut the king of the Otter in the west, and killed the king of the Otter people. This Qiang people are actually one of the ancestors of the Di people and the Qiang people; "Dao", needless to say, is an administrative unit at the same level as the county, which refers to the place where the Hu people are the majority of the residents.

As early as the Qin Dynasty in the previous dynasty, Longxi, Nan'an and other counties all belong to Longxi County,—— "Longxi", as the name suggests, Longshan (Liupan Mountain) to the west, as mentioned above, Longshan is Tianshui, Luoyang two counties slightly east of the north-south mountain, Nan'an County is set up in the last years of the former Qin, and the Wushi County of Dingxi is set up in Dingxi, the jurisdiction of this county, originally belonged to Longxi County, that is, Wushi, Nan'an land is the same county, therefore, Wushi, Nan'an two counties are not far from each other, only more than 200 miles.

Choosing Wushi as the starting point for attacking Nan'an, in addition to the distance relationship, there is another reason, that is, Wushi County is in the northwest of Shouyang County, the source of Weishui, and the Bird and Mouse Tongxue Mountain, in other words, starting from Wushi, you don't have to cross Weishui north like starting from Longxi County.

Out of the county of Wushi County, Li Liang's hometown Di Dao, thirty or forty miles west, to Wujie County.

This county is a new county, and there are not many people in the county? The county seat is also very small? However, the city walls are quite tall and strong, after all, this county is the western barrier of Didao. Dingxi disposed of a protector here? Hundreds of battalion soldiers.

Resting for the night in Wujie County? The next day, we continued westward.

Nearly 100 miles back, looking south? Looming mountains, east of the mountains? A piece of water like a belt? Running eastward. That mountain is the white stone, the same cave mountain of birds and mice, and the water is Weishui. Tianju, this is considered a revisit? When he looks at the distant mountains and rivers? It is indispensable to think of the defeat in the past, the defeat is not far away, the new battle is about to start, the Chinese army with 10,000 foot riders, his banner of "General Xuanwei"? In the sun, in the autumn wind, fluttering? seems to be full of majesty, but I don't know what kind of mood he will be in at this moment?

So far? Turn southwest to the north bank of Deweishui? Continue westward? Speeding along the Weishui? Dozens of miles away, that is, the county boundary of Nan'an County.

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Basket Road, the county hall.

Shi Ping is in her Chinese New Year's Eve, the golden age of a military general.

He was a strong man and a burly figure, and his hair grew from a young age was thick and thick, and it was tied into a thick braid, which was not wrapped around the back of his head as is usually the case with the Di people, but he wrapped the thick braid around his neck, and the braid was decorated with gold and silver flakes and various colors of silk silk, which were so colorful that if he glanced at him casually from a distance, eight out of ten people would have to mistake him for a python wrapped around his neck.

The braids are attractive, and the necklace around Shi Ping's neck is exposed under the thick braids, and the necklace he hangs is also attractive.

The necklace was made entirely of sharp teeth, dozens of them, so dense that a veteran hunter could recognize them as the teeth of a wild wolf. Needless to say, these wolf teeth were all plucked by Shi Ping from the mouths of the wild wolves he had killed in the past.

"The Long soldiers are out of Wushi County, and they are close to the western boundary of our county?"

"Report to your lordship, it's less than thirty miles away from the western boundary of my county!"

"The leader of the troops will be Tian Ju?"

"The villains and others saw that their banner was 'General Xuanwei, Tang Xingtai Shoutian'."

"How many soldiers and horses?"

"Looking at the length of its dust and march, it is probably more than thousands."

Shi Ping is a veteran general of the battlefield, although the front foot has just sent thousands of people under the tent to aid Xinxing County, the back foot suddenly heard that the enemy army is attacking the county, and the enemy situation is unknown for a while, but he sits firmly like a mountain, or relatively calm, thought for a while, and ordered: "Ordered to step Lei Gong to lead the headquarters to rush to Chiting immediately, first intercept and defend; The order is strong, do not stay in the camp outside the city; Summoning the rest of the generals to lead their troops into the city to prepare for war against the enemy. ”

Bu Lei Gong, Qiang Mo, and Gou Zhizheng, who led thousands of troops to aid Xinxing County under Shi Ping's order, are the bravest three generals under Shi Ping's account.

Shi Ping's military order was passed down, and the Qin camp outside the city suddenly boiled.

Half an hour later, Bu Lei Gong led more than 700 people from his headquarters to go west of the camp and go to Chiting; Qiang Mo led a thousand people in his headquarters, stayed in the camp, and formed a horn with the city; The rest of the generals and colonels all led their headquarters, totaling nearly 2,000 people, into the city, plus the hundreds of Qin soldiers in the city, more than 2,300 contracts, or climbed the head of the city, or on the streets of martial law, or used as commandos and reserves, each performing their duties.

Before the gate of the city gate was closed, several horses galloped out, out of the city, divided into two roads, all the way to the southeast, to the county of Tianshui County, Ji County, all the way to the south, to Weishui. All the way before, he was ordered by Shi Ping to report to Qin Guangzong the enemy situation of "Tianju Kou Nan'an"; Later, he went to Xinxing County and gave an order to Gou Zhizheng, who had arrived in Xinxing County, telling him to immediately lead his troops back to Nan'an.

It is worthy of the veteran generals on the battlefield, and it is not in vain that Pu Mao is assigned to Shi Ping's elite soldiers of Pu Qin, and it has only been more than an hour since he heard about the enemy's situation, and less than two hours, under Shi Ping's orderly command, the four thousand Qin soldiers in Qidao County are ready to meet the battle.

Follow-up information came in one stream.

"The field is twenty miles from my western boundary."

"The infantry captain's department has arrived at Chiting to set up defenses."

"Soon after the afternoon, the Tianju Department entered my western boundary, scattered the troops in the field, and robbed the seedlings in my field."

"The people fled into Chiting, and the infantry captain Wen Tianju stragglers grabbed food, and sent scouts to investigate the situation."

"The main force of the Tianju Department has crossed the East Mountain, and the edge of the Chiting water line is close to the Chiting!"

Chiting Water is a river on the west side of the Aki Road, because there is a lot of red sand around it, and the river water is red, so it is called Chi. Dongshan, is the birthplace of Chiting water, the mountain also has a lot of red sand, exposed, as bright as peach blossoms, because it is also commonly known as Peach Blossom Mountain by the local Tanghu people.

The last piece of information was sent by Bu Lei Gong: "I heard that the people said that the Tianju Department claimed to have 5,000 soldiers and horses. ”

The previous information said that the Tianju Department was about several thousand or more, and now the next step is to report to Lei Gong, saying that the Tianju Department is known as 5,000. The two pieces of information are synthesized and quite consistent. Shi Ping was suspicious when he arrived, and said in his heart: "Just five thousand steps to ride, dare to invade my Nan'an?" "Contact Zhang Daochong, Beigong Yue and other soldiers of the three counties of Wudu, has launched a two-way attack on Tianshui County, he touched his beard, and thought, "Isn't it Tianju who is attacking my realm, not really to fight me Nan'an, but just to deal with Zhang Daochong, Beigong Yue and other Longjun to fight Tianshui?" The purpose is to contain our ministry and prevent me from sending troops to aid Tianshui County? After thinking about it, he felt that his guess might be right, but he was a little uncertain, so he made a decision and ordered, "Send this enemy situation to Ji County immediately and present it to the Qin Assassin History for reading." ”

Regardless of whether the guess is right or wrong, the enemy will attack, as a defender, Shi Ping's top priority is, of course, to hold Nan'an, and as for the rest, it will be left to Shangguan Qin Guangzong to judge and decide.

The military situation was urgent, and several knights who sent this information to Qin Guangzong, one person and three horses, and the people on the road did not stop, and after traveling thirty or forty miles, they changed to a horse to ride, and the speed was very fast, and in the middle of the night, they arrived in Ji County, went straight to the state capital, and presented this new enemy situation.

Longxi, Wudu, Yinping three road soldiers and horses, in the early morning of yesterday and yesterday afternoon, began the attack on Xinxing County, Shichang County, the two front-line battlefield military newspapers were sent to Ji County uninterruptedly, Qin Guangzong from yesterday to today, while paying attention to the battle situation on the front line, while planning with the assistants how to deal with the next, the whole two days were busy without much food, and did not rest much, smelling that Shi Ping had a new military report arrived, he paused the discussion with the assistants, and ordered to bring the military newspaper.

After reading this military report, Qin Guangzong took out the latest war situation reports in Shichang and Xinxing counties, and repeatedly compared these military reports from different sources.

After looking at it for a while, he made a judgment, rubbed his eyes that were stinging because of lack of sleep, raised his head, cheered up, and said to more than ten state and military officials in the hall: "General Shi said in the previous military report that the commander of the Long army who committed Nan'an County would be Tian Ju, and now a military report said that the soldiers and horses of Tian Ju are known as five thousand, and according to the observation of his scouts, its real strength should not be much different from this.

"Gentlemen, I was already suspicious, Wudu and other three counties attacked me Tianshui, why didn't Wushi and other counties have any soldiers? Today, there is a field to live in my Nan'an! It's just that Tian Ju has only a few thousand soldiers, no more than General Shi's department, General Shi has a city to rely on, and the art of war is 'ten rules to surround it', with its thousands of men and horses, how can I be trapped in Nan'an? Based on this, I think that Tianju's Long army should not be the main force in Dingxi's Qinzhou this time, and he will at most play a role in containing my Nan'an soldiers and horses. Since yesterday, Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu have attacked Shichang County very urgently, and the offensive is very fierce, this time the Long army of Qinzhou is as I expected, and its main force must be Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu! ”

- But it was Qin Guangzong's judgment of Tian Jubu's "intention" to attack Nan'an County, which was the same as Shi Ping.

"What Ming Gong means: Nan'an, Xinxing, and Shichang, and Shichang is the main direction of attack of the three-way Longjun army in Qinzhou this time?"

Since the main force is Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu, and the Longjun and Tianju troops in Longxi are all "response troops", the three places that were attacked almost at the same time, Shichang County, which was naturally attacked by Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yue, were naturally the key offensive targets of the Longjun army.

Qin Guangzong bowed his head and said, "Not bad! ”

"Then how should we decide on the battle strategy under our army?"

"The enemy situation is completely clear, and I don't think we need to discuss it any more. It's still my previous opinion, let's first eliminate Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu, and then clean up the Long army of Kou I'm emerging and Nan'an. Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu claimed to be 20,000, according to the observation of the Shichang guards, their troops were only about 10,000 soldiers, and the soldiers were less than 10,000. Tomorrow, I will give an order to send another 8,000 troops to the south to Shichang, together with the 3,000 cavalry sent to Shichang the day before yesterday, and the Shichang guards, and fight back against Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu, and strive to defeat it in a battle! ”

A government official raised an objection and said: "Ming Gong, my Ji County garrison has a total of 13,000, and if we send another 8,000 to Shichang County, there will be only 2,000 garrisons left in this county." Ming Gong's analysis of the three roads of the Longjun is reasonable, but the situation of the battle is impermanent, in case of a change, I only have 2,000 soldiers and horses in Ji County, and Ming Gong will inevitably be overstretched due to insufficient troops. ”

"What's changing?"

"This ......, the soldiers are not tired of cheating, for example, if Tianju's soldiers and horses are not only thousands, he is to coax Ming Gong, he did thousands, and after Hou Ming Gong sent a large army to Shichang, he attacked the Dao, how should this be?"

The method of using soldiers, there is a bluff, and there are many deceitful soldiers, and in ancient times, there was also a plan to reduce the stove, and there were few deceitful soldiers. It is not easy to have more camouflage soldiers and fewer camouflage soldiers, but with the heart, it can be done.

Qin Guangzong said: "Not to mention that the soldiers and horses of the Tianju Department are not enough to capture Nan'an, even if his soldiers and horses are doubled, Tianju, Yong General, the year before last, he fought with the Baishi Mountain and the Bird and Mouse of the two generals Lu and Yao, and he was blocked for many days. You don't have to worry about this! ”

He picked up the jade Ruyi on the case, gently put it aside, and said, "After I break Zhang Daochong and Beigong Yuebu, the material Tianju will naturally take the initiative to retreat!" He also said, "If he still doesn't retreat at that time, although he is a mediocre general, after all, he is determined to be a county in the west, a general of Wupin, and he will be one of the generals of Yishi!" Fu Xu smiled and asked the officials, "You said, didn't you?" ”

The officials replied yes, and a gong-like voice was the loudest: "Yes, Ming Gong!" ”

Qin Guangzong asked the rest of the officials again, and said, "Do you think this enemy-breaking countermeasure of mine is okay?" ”

The rest of the officials first felt that Qin Guangzong's analysis of the Three Roads Longjun was very correct, and secondly, they felt that Qin Guangzong's evaluation of Tianju was also very correct, so no one had any objections, and they all said: "Ming Gong is wise, this policy is sincere and kind!" ”

The next day, the Qin soldiers in the Jixian military camp were transferred out of 8,000 and went south to Shichang.

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The Qin soldiers who went south to Deji County were out of the camp at noon.

On the morning of this day, Nan'an County, Chiting, several horses with an ox cart, to the west of Bulei Gongying, climbed high and overlooked, and inspected its camp defense.