Jia Meng Pass.

The road to Shu is difficult, and Jiameng Pass is one of the daunting links. If you want to enter Bashu, cross Chaotianmen, and then pass through Jiameng Pass, it is Zitong, and then it is the Sword Pavilion. Layers of passes stand on the narrow Shu road, guarding between the mountains, so that anyone who wants to enter Shu will talk about the color.

Perhaps this is the so-called mountain letting go of a mountain.

According to the agreement between Li Xinchen and Wei Xiaokuan, the soldiers and horses of the two sides withdrew to Jiange and Hanzhong respectively, and did not place troops at the entrance and exit of Beishu Road, so that the hinterland of both sides, Hanzhong and Langzhong, was open to each other, so as to maintain the so-called peace in this form.

It's just that Wei Xiaokuan's withdrawal of troops was not fast after that, and it was not until the civil strife in the Northern Zhou Dynasty became increasingly hot that he retreated. At the beginning, Li Xinchen's troops were insufficient, so he obediently retreated, after all, the rear also needed troops to stabilize the order, and Li Xinchen couldn't stretch the front too long.

But now, as the soldiers and horses of the Northern Zhou Dynasty are moving north one after another, Xiao Shilian, who has always been dishonest and unstable, did not wait for Li Xinchen's order to send troops to Zitong first, and then began to repair the Jiameng Pass and the camp of Chaotianmen on the Shu Road further north, and re-possessed these portals to Shu.

And now, as the smell of war smoke in the north is getting stronger and stronger, Xiao Shilian, who is training the new army in Jiameng Pass, naturally begins to gear up.

After months of adjustment and training, at this time, Xiao Shilian had more than 10,000 combatable soldiers in his hands, and the number of elite soldiers was four or five thousand, and correspondingly, the Northern Zhou army in Hanzhong had been sharply reduced to eight or nine thousand, among which there were many old, weak, sick and disabled, and the real elites had been transferred north.

No one would have thought that such a disruptive change would occur in just a few months, but sometimes things are impermanent.

In the council hall, a famous general was already standing straight, saw Xiao Shilian walk in, and bowed at the same time: "See the general!" ”

Xiao Shilian bowed slightly, the huge map had been hung, and the situation between the enemy and the enemy was clearly marked on it, and the flags on the sand table symbolizing Li Xinchen's troops and the Northern Zhou army were intertwined. Compared with the original, after such a long time of tempering in the army, Xiao Shilian's aura of the son of the family has almost dissipated, and he is more like a battle-hardened general.

A partial general took the lead in speaking: "General Qiyu, the number of scouts of the Zhou people has been maintained at the lowest level in the past month, and sometimes even the Zhou people cannot be seen for three or four days. ”

Xiao Shilian said lightly: "The Zhou people are already too busy to take care of themselves, let alone test each other with us. Now what we need to do is not to get entangled with their scouts. ”

Several generals suddenly looked awe-inspiring, and even their hands trembled slightly. They have been waiting for this moment for a long time, and no one wants to let go of such a great opportunity.

Stretching out his hand and dotting on the sand table, Xiao Shilian said loudly: "General Zhenxi has an order, from now on we will choose the opportunity to attack!" ”

After a pause, Xiao Shilian then looked at the general next to him: "It's not been a day or two since we want to capture Hanzhong, you come over and introduce the situation." ”

A general in charge of gathering information and dispatching scouts immediately said: "There are several Zhou camps in the entire southern part of Hanzhong, but these camps are now only guarded by hundreds of soldiers, so our real threat and biggest enemy is still in Hanzhong City. ”

"Hanzhong City ······" Xiao Shilian muttered and repeated, raised his head and said with a smile, "In Hanzhong City, only Wei Xiaokuan's subordinate Li Xun may be tricky, but fortunately, Wei Xiaokuan only transferred Li Xun back, and Li Xun's soldiers and horses are still in Guanzhong, so there are not many defenders in Hanzhong who are really subject to Li Xun's dispatch." ”

Since Wei Shou was killed in battle and He Louzigan was captured—even if Li Xinchen sent him back, Wei Xiaokuan didn't dare to reactivate him for a while—Li Xun should be the most powerful and only assistant by Wei Xiaokuan's side.

This is also why when Wei Xiaokuan withdrew his troops from Bashu, it was Li Xun who led the army to the palace, and later when he was ordered to support Guanzhong, it was Li Xun who was the first to lead the army out of Yangping Pass to the north.

It is precisely because of this that when Wei Xiaokuan went north, Li Xun naturally returned to Hanzhong to guard Wei Xiaokuan's rear and flanks. At the same time, Li Xun's appearance also means that Wei Xiaokuan has never completely ignored the enemy behind him.

Li Xun, who has followed Wei Xiaokuan on the battlefield for many years, has a steady personality and is good at defense, so it is not so easy to easily capture Hanzhong in his hands.

"In addition to Li Xun, General Weilie of the Zhou people and Niu Hong, the Taishou of Hanzhong, are not idle people." One of the generals couldn't help but speak, but soon his voice was quieted, because several guys who had long been unable to hold back were looking at him dissatisfied.

At such a critical juncture, it can already be said that the arrow is ready to fly, and it has to be sent, no matter whether the enemy is powerful or not, it should be directly rushed upward, this guy is talking like this at this time, isn't it to increase the morale of others and destroy his own prestige?

"Niu Hong?" Xiao Shilian pondered the name and thought of the conversation he had with Yang Su's younger brother Yang Yue in the study not long ago.

If everything is really arranged according to Yang Su's arrangement, then this Niu Hong is Xiao Shilian's help rather than resistance.

I only hope that Yang Su's arrangements are all right······ I also hope that this guy is true to his word.

But in any case, the war is not steady at every step, sometimes you need to gamble, and if there is a high chance of winning Hanzhong, then Xiao Shilian is willing to make this bet, after all, he has Xiao Maha's blood flowing in his body.

"Whether it is Niu Hong or Li Xun, since we can stand in this position, we must have something extraordinary, we must not underestimate the enemy, but we must not be afraid to move forward," Xiao Shilian said coldly, "The generals will listen to the order!" ”

The generals below shivered in unison, and at the same time promised: "The last general!" ”

"From now on, the soldiers and horses are ready to be mobilized, the grain and grass must be prepared for more than three months, and at the same time, the scouts will be widely spread in the direction of Hanzhong," Xiao Shilian said loudly, "These must be prepared before noon tomorrow, and at noon tomorrow, the army will leave Jiameng Pass, enter Shu Road, and go to Hanzhong!" ”

After a pause, Xiao Shilian's gaze fell on a general: "Tang Zhong, with you as the striker, do you dare?!" ”

"The last general commands!" Tang Zhong immediately stood up and promised, he was the head of the Tang clan in Zhongkai County, Xiajiang Tang Clan, but he was also a person who practiced martial arts and was a general with experience in battlefield fighting. Once upon a time, he had to struggle for the survival of a small family, and now he has to take responsibility for the survival of the whole group.

Compared to the former, Tang Zhong prefers the latter.

Maybe in this troubled world, every seven-foot man has a dream of helping the world.

And today, they are going to prepare to set off from Bashu to step on thousands of miles of mountains and rivers under their feet, to turn this dream into reality.