Although there are hundreds of miles of Pingchuan but it seems very barren outside Longde City, a large army is slowly heading towards this small county seat.

Five miles west of the county seat, Sun Yucai, Wang Stork, and Zhang Lin watched the army coming on horseback.

The three of them rode horses and stepped on an open field.

Because of the military disaster, most of the people around Longde County have abandoned the winter wheat harvest, so the surrounding area of this county town looks much more barren.

Sun Yucai and others, who were the parents of the official, also shook their heads again and again when they looked at the scene in front of them. When he first came out of the county, Sun Yucai was still thinking: If the Rong people did not advance eastward this time, then this year may be a bumper year.

This damn Rongdi.

Under the exposure of the summer sun, Sun Yucai and the three of them were also a little dizzy from the sun. But this time, it was the middle school that came in person, and the three of them were also the first time to see such a big official, so they were both excited and a little frightened, where would they dare to slack off.

Especially Wang Stork, after his backer Zhao Zhize fell, he has long lost his former spirit, and these days can only do some things in the county.

And Sun Yucai didn't fall into the ground, he was too tactful, and he knew that these things in officialdom were nothing more than falling and standing up, standing up and falling.

It's just that the attitude towards the king stork is naturally not as polite as before.

Only Zhang Lin changed his attitude towards Wang Stork, and during the time when Zhao Zhize fell, he re-sorted out the unjust, false and wrongful cases over the years, beheaded and arrested several members of the Wang family.

Wang Stork naturally hated him to the core, but he was helpless. After all, those unjust cases were at fault with himself, Zhang Lin just received a complaint from the sufferer and handled it impartially.

The three of them had their own concerns, standing in front of the thousand people led by Jiang Qiyu, looking forward to the direction of Zhao Zhihai's army.

Seeing that the army was approaching, the three men dismounted and stood on the side of the road.

Not long after, when the army had approached the three men, one of the wagons of the army stopped in front of them, and the soldier asked in a loud voice, "Who is on the side of the road?" ”

The three of them looked at each other and slammed to the ground.

I only heard Sun Yucai bow his head and say: "The lowly Longde County ordered Sun Yucai to bring the county Cheng Wang Stork, the county lieutenant Zhang Lin and the county Youjiao, the three elders, Youzhi, and Mrs. Si to welcome the general.

After speaking, Sun Yucai lowered his head again and quietly waited for the echo in the car.

After waiting for a long time, I only heard an "um" sound from the car, and there was no movement.

The soldier said in a loud voice: "Sun County Order, lead the way in front of my army." ”

Sun Yucai and the others hurriedly responded, immediately turned around and got on the horse, and followed the carriage in the direction of Longde City.

And Jiang Qiyu also waited for the army to pass through, and the whole army followed behind the army.

Although the soldier said to let Sun Yucai and the others lead the way, where did the three of them dare to really run to the middle and bigger people to walk in front of the car, even the carriage accompanied by the middle and bigger people was enough to make the three of them extremely satisfied.

You must know that in addition to the monarch of this Great Qin State, the people in this carriage and Fang Yuanheng and Yongluan are not the ones who can see them if they want to.

In summer, it is always dark, and although it is dusk, there is not a single light in the full hall of Longde County.

In addition to Zhao Zhihai at the top of the room, Yin Fang, Wu Meng, Ma Yuan, Zhu Lihua and others sat on the right side, and on the left side were naturally Sun Yucai and other local officials.

I saw that after Zhao Zhihai looked at the people on the left and right, he asked Sun Yucai: "Sun County Order, our army has traveled hundreds of miles here, and we will rest in your county in the next few days, you should prepare grain and grass for the use of the army." ”

Sun Yucai hurriedly stood up, put his hands together and said, "Oh", and was about to sit down again. But Zhao Zhihai continued to ask: "Tell me the information about the soldiers and horses in your county and the surrounding passes." ”

Sun Yucai hurriedly put his hands together again and said: "General, Longdecheng has 5,000 soldiers, and these days to support General Zhao Zhiliang 3,000 men, and then according to the military order of the General Administration, 4,000 troops were sent to Yuxiao Pass to assist in guarding the pass.

However, Ohara will also send 3,000 reinforcements to our county, and it is expected that they will arrive in our county the day after tomorrow.

My Longde County is under the jurisdiction of Mishen, Musashi, Yuxiao three passes, at present, except for Musashi Pass has been occupied by the Rong people, the remaining two passes have been strengthened troops. Originally, he was going to wait for Ohara reinforcements to come, so he worked with the soldiers of Yuxiao and Yajin to recapture Musashi Pass. ”

Since Sun Yucai received the news that Zhao Zhihai was coming to Longde at noon, he had rehearsed this remark several times in his heart in the past half a day, and he knew that Zhao Zhihai would definitely ask about Longde's current situation, how could he not prepare carefully.

Fortunately, only Musashi Pass was broken in the passes under the jurisdiction of Longde County, unlike the four passes under the jurisdiction of Wushi County in the north, except for the Mugao Pass, the remaining three passes were all broken by the Rong people.

Otherwise, I really don't know how to tell Zhao Zhihai today.

Sure enough, I saw Zhao Zhihai nodded, and he didn't want to pursue his intention of losing Musashi Pass, which made the big stone in Sun Yucai's heart finally fall.

I saw that Zhao Zhihai asked Yin Fang on the right about the military situation of Zhao Zhiliang's department, Sun Yucai slowly sat down, he looked at the next Wang Stork and Zhang Lin, but saw that the two of them were also looking at him nervously, so he nodded lightly and signaled to the two that the crisis had passed.

But the crisis belonging to Sun Yucai has passed, and the crisis belonging to Wang Stork has just begun, but this is only a later story.

Zhao Zhihai was a little worried that Zhao Zhiliang had not won the Sumeru Pass for more than a month, and he heard some military reports from Yin Fang that he had only gotten today, so he immersed himself in thinking alone.

After a long time, he looked up at the generals on his right, and said slowly: "Marquis of Zhuli, what good plan do you have?" ”

When Sun Yucai and Yin Fang told Zhao Zhi's poster about the military situation, Wu Meng, Zhu Lihua and others were also listening carefully.

Seeing that Zhao Zhihai pondered for a long time before asking himself, he already knew that the general must have a plan, so he stood up and said with confidence:

"General, in my humble opinion, the top priority now is to let General Zhao withdraw his troops and horses and seize the Wooden Prison Pass as soon as possible." After speaking, he sat down slowly.

As soon as these words came out, everyone was shocked, and even Sun Yucai and others were taken aback.

They didn't understand why Zhao Zhihai's high position was asking the opinion of this young general who looked like he had not dried up. What's even more surprising is that this young general's official words are amazing, and he wants Zhao Zhiliang to seize the wooden prison pass.

The wooden prison pass was not lost, why did you send troops to take it, could it be that the wooden prison pass was also lost?

However, Yin Fang and Wu Meng were shocked by the fact that Zhao Zhiliang was asked to withdraw from the army, and the subconscious meaning of people sounded was that they were dissatisfied with Zhao Zhiliang's unsuccessful seizure of the lost land in January.

The generals in the army, the last thing they want to hear is that others deny their martial arts, if Zhao Zhiliang listens to this, is there still a good fruit to eat?

Zhao Zhihai also frowned slightly after listening to what Lu Lihua said, he originally wanted the General Government to send another 10,000 soldiers to quickly recapture the Mujiao Pass, so that the Yinyan Ditch Chidao was garrisoned by Wang Min, and the lost passes south of the Mugao had Zhao Zhiliang's army, and Musashi Pass had Longde soldiers and his own 10,000 horses, which could block the eastward advance of the Rong people.

After Xijing sent reinforcements, he would be able to pull out the teeth of the Rong people into Daqin one by one.

But what Fang Cai Lihua said surprised him too, giving up the South Passes of Sumeru meant that the door was wide open, but he knew that Lihua was not without a purpose.

So he said to Zhu Lihua: "Tell me why you should give up attacking the rest of the passes. ”

Zhu Lihua stood up again and said to Zhao Zhihai: "The general found out that all the troops in Mugaoguan had surrendered to the enemy eleven days ago, but this news is still unknown to all counties, which means that the Rong people are still hiding the matter of Mugaoguan.

The day before yesterday, the general's men repelled the pursuing Rong soldiers, and the time for the defeated and retreating Rong soldiers to return to Xiaoguan to report the news is expected to be about eight to ten days, so at most ten days later, Mujiao Pass will become the first choice for the Rong soldiers to advance eastward.

At that time, it is very likely that the Rong people will go north from the eastern part of Mugao Kanto to attack General Wang Min's army.

Therefore, the time left for us is only ten days, and only the army of General Zhao Zhiliang has time to go north to capture Mujiao Pass in these ten days. ”

Speaking of this, Zhu Lihua looked at Zhao Zhihai, who was listening and thinking, and slowly sat down again.

Zhao Zhihai pondered for a moment and then muttered: "If the Rong people can't go out of the east of the Mugao Pass, then there will be the other four passes in the south that can send troops to the east." ”

At this time, Wu Meng got up and said: "General, what the Marquis of Zhuli said is the right way, Mujiaoguan is about 100 miles away from the nearest Wushi County, but most of the garrison soldiers in Wushi County have been transferred by General Zhao. However, Yuanzhou is more than 200 miles away from Mugao Pass, although it can be reached within ten days, but most of the soldiers of Yuanzhou are recruits recruited in the past half a month, and it is difficult to undertake the important task of attacking the city, only General Zhao Zhiliang's soldiers and horses can be worthy of this great task. Please go to the general. ”

Seeing that Zhao Zhihai was still silent in thought, everyone stopped talking and waited for Zhao Zhihai to issue an order.

Sure enough, after a short time, Zhao Zhihai seemed to have thought about it, and then summoned the pen-holding soldier and said to everyone:

"Order, Zhao Zhiliang immediately led 10,000 foot soldiers to the north to Chen Bingmu Pass, and the remaining 20,000 soldiers and horses continued to attack the three passes of Mica Pass, Qixia Pass, and Bitan Pass.

Jingyang and Chaona each sent 3,000 soldiers, and after receiving the order, they rushed to the direction of Mugaoguan to aid Zhao Zhiliang.

Longde County ordered Sun Yucai, after you wait for the arrival of Dayuan reinforcements the day after tomorrow, send 5,000 troops to seize Musashi Pass.

The soldiers and horses of our headquarters rested in Longde for three days, and after three days, they went north to Wushi County. ”

After listening to Zhao Zhihai, everyone in the hall stood up and responded in unison, only Zhu Lihua wanted to say something, but was stopped by Wu Meng with his eyes.

Afterwards, everyone exited the hall. It's just that Lu Lihua didn't notice that in the crowd that left one after another, Wang Stork secretly glanced at him, and hurriedly walked out of the conference hall.

But Zhu Lihua looked full of worries, and was about to leave the city to go to his military camp, but was stopped by Ma Yuan and said, "The general wants to see you alone, so I will let you go." ”

Lu Lihua was slightly stunned, then turned around and followed Ma Yuan to the back hall of the county government.