Early the next morning, the Chu army lined up outside Yunguan to call for battle, and for a while, the sound of killing outside Yunguan shook the sky.

Yun Guanzhong.

Song Mo, the county guard of Shangyong in Qin, looked at the Chu army outside the pass, and said with a heavy face: "Shu is in rebellion, the Shangyong people in Hanzhong are in turmoil, and the Chu State takes the opportunity to attack, and it must want to take the opportunity to recapture Shangyong." ”

Saying that, Song Mo glanced at the number of Chu troops outside the pass, and hesitated: "I don't doubt the determination of the Chu people to seize Shangyong, but with only 30,000 people, I want to conquer the Guanyi defended by my 10,000 army, which is simply impossible." If the general had not expected to be wrong, the 30,000 Chu troops outside the pass would definitely be suspicious soldiers, and the Chu army that really came to attack Shangyong would definitely be elsewhere, ready to wait for an opportunity to sneak attack. ”

Yun Guan guard general Han You said thoughtfully: "The general is saying that the Chu army plans to sneak attack Shangyong City?" ”

"Not bad." Song Mo nodded, then looked at Chu Jun outside the pass and said with a smile: "There are only three ways to go from Chu to Shangyong, and the best way to take is naturally Yunguan." However, now that Yun is in the hands of my Qin State, this road is impassable. The remaining two roads, one of which is to take the water route, the water division of the Chu State is powerful, and now it has annexed the water division of the Yue State, and the war is on the water, I am afraid that no country in the world is the opponent of the Chu State.

And my Qin State Navy Division is all in Jiangzhou, and I have not experienced a war, so I am sure that the Chu army will definitely deceive me that Shangyong does not have a water division, and send a water division to take the waterway, and then go straight to Shangyong City on the bank of the Han River. ”

Speaking of this, Song Mo looked at the Chu army outside the pass and smiled disdainfully: "The Chu army wants to reproduce the old things of the Chu State and the Yong State in the past, this is simply a fool's dream, and now the general has arranged defenders in Shangyong City, and set up obstacles on the waterway to block the passage, and also deployed a thousand elite soldiers to defend the Qishan Pass."

Moreover, those waves of bandits in Shangyong have already been closely monitored by me by the people I have sent to monitor them, and they don't go out of the mountains, as long as they go out of the mountains to make trouble, then don't think about returning to the mountains again. ”

As he spoke, Song Mo said coldly:

"In this way, the mediocrity can be described as foolproof. Not to mention the 30,000 Chu army, even the 100,000 Chu army, they don't want to attack Shangyong. Moreover, the general has already asked Xianyang for reinforcements, and when the reinforcements arrive, I will have tens of thousands of troops to defend, and at that time, even if the Chu army has 300,000 people, what can I do. ”

"The general is wise!" When Han You heard this, he immediately gave up his hand and praised.

Song Mo smiled proudly, then waved his hand and said: "Now that the people in Shangyong are unstable, the general will return to Shangyong City to sit in the town, and this will be handed over to the general, please remember that no matter what, don't go out to meet the enemy." When the national lieutenant Sima Co pacified the Shu rebellion, the Chu army would naturally withdraw. ”

After Song Mo finished entrusting him, he left Yunguan with his guards and went to Shangyong City.

Outside the customs.

The Chu army called for a day of war outside, but saw that the Qin army had no intention of taking care of it, and stayed motionless in the city.

At sunset, Zhao Ju stood outside Yun Pass, looked at Yun Pass towering not far away, and said with a cold smile: "It seems that the Qin army is not going to go out of the pass to fight." In that case, it can only be stormed. ”

"Order, start building siege weapons tomorrow and prepare to storm Yunguan."

"No."

In the next two days, the Chu army built equipment outside Yunguan, while the Qin army only silently watched the Chu army build a high platform on the city wall, watched the Chu soldiers cut wood everywhere to build equipment, and waited for the Chu army to be ready, and then stormed Yunguan.

Day 3.

The news from all over Shangyong gathered in the hands of Zhao Ju.

"There are 10,000 Qin troops in Yunguan, 2,000 Qin troops in Shangyong, and 1,000 Qin troops stationed in the other four counties. The waterway is blocked, and there are 3,000 Qin troops to defend it, and the Qishan Trail is also defended by 1,000 Qin troops, it seems that the Qin army is well prepared! ”

Zhao Ju looked at the information in his hand, smiled disdainfully, and then left the information still on the case, and picked up another piece of information.

"Xiangchengjun Sima Zhengdang, since the fall of Shangyong, he retreated to the mountains, and has been funded by Shangyong nobles until today, so that he has not been surrounded and suppressed by the Qin army. So it seems that he is not lying. But after all, he is just Sima left by Xiang Chengjun's father, and his predecessor Xiang Chengjun was murdered, who knows if he has a grudge?

However, it doesn't matter to me whether he remains loyal or not, what matters is that he will be the sword of Ben to conquer the mediocre. ”

Zhao Ju pondered for a moment, then summoned a deputy general, handed him a two-sided token and said: "Send someone to the vicinity of Fang County, find Sima Xiangchengjun lurking in the mountains, and ask him to come to me outside the gate quickly, I will have something important to order." Also, find the former Changli County Lieutenant near Changli County and ask him to come to see me as well. ”

"No."

"Order, immediately send someone back to Yingdu, I will need ships, please ask the king to send an additional hundred warships to deter the Qin army. In addition, it would have been useful to send people to Deng County, Xiangyang and other places in the south to ask the counties to gather all the ships. ”

"No."

Then, thinking of the reinforcements that the Qin army didn't know when, he not only frowned.

"Shangyong's 20,000 Qin troops are easy to deal with, but if this kind of thing happens, the Qin State will definitely send reinforcements. Therefore, the speed must be fast, before the arrival of the Qin army. ”

Thinking about it, he instructed again: "Send someone back to Wudang County, find Yin of Wudang County, and let him wait for Ben to recruit men in the county, Ben will give him half a month's effort, recruit as many men as possible in the county, the more people the better."

Tell Yin of Wudang County that as long as the number of people is sufficient, after this battle, Ben will ask for credit for him in front of the king. And let Wudang County Yin rest assured that there is no need to recruit men to fight with the Qin army this time, so that he can rest assured that he will send people, as long as he comes outside Yunguan, each person will be rewarded with ten yuan per day.

No matter how many people there are in the end, they will be sent to the general's camp after half a month. ”

"No."

"Pass the order, speed up the construction of siege equipment, and we will storm Yunguan as soon as possible."

"No."

Just when the Shangyong war was about to break out, on the other side, when Zhuang Ji led 20,000 Chu troops to the front line, Sima Qian, the defender of Wujun of Chu State, had already led the defenders of Wujun to recapture the Tongyi, and had already tuned the army and outside Yangguan, and was building siege equipment outside the pass.

The Chu army camp.

Zhuang Ji took a Ba man to Sima Qian's tent.

"The last general, Zhuang Ji, on the orders of the king, led the army to support the general."

"Meet General Sima at the chin calf."

When Sima Jian saw Zhuang Ji saluting, he immediately smiled and said: "General Zhuang, please get up, I learned early in the morning that the king sent a general to support, and I have been waiting for the general to arrive during this time." ”

Saying that, after Zhuang Ji got up, he looked at Ba Qian and said with a smile: "General Ba Qian, you and I haven't seen each other for more than ten years, I don't know how Ba Hou is now?" ”

In the past, the Qin State raided the Ba State, the Ba State was defeated, the Ba King died and the country was destroyed, and the people were scattered. A few years later, the younger brother of King Ba went to Chu to ask for help after seeing that there was no hope of recovering the country, and Xiong Huai took in the younger brother of King Ba and named him Bahou in order to pay attention to Badi.

Because the land of Wujun County, as well as most of the land of Qianzhong County, was taken by the Chu State from the Ba State, and there are still a large number of Ba people in the territory. Therefore, in order to prevent Bahou from making trouble in Wu County and Qianzhong County, Xiong Huai placed Bahou Rang in Shaxian County, two hundred miles east of Yingdu, on the bank of the river, and all the Ba people who fled to Wu County of Chu State were also placed in Shaxian County.

In this way, most of the Ba people who fled to Chu settled in various parts of Shaxian County, and in six years, tens of thousands of people gathered.

Later, because there were too many Ba people in Shaxian County, in order to facilitate management, they looked for another place to settle the Ba people...

At this moment, Ba Qian heard Sima Jian asking, shook his head sadly and said: "The country is ruined, there is no hope of recovering the country, Bahou sighs day and night, he died unfortunately a few years ago, and now Bahou is the son of Bahou." ”