At midnight, Jianwei was in the city, and the Qin army in Jianwei City at this time had already imposed a curfew. The whole city came out of the county guard's mansion, and it was extremely quiet.

At this time, a group of Qin generals drank together in the real mansion. Originally, after listening to Deng Ai's plan, Zhao Tuo was worried that it would be difficult to climb the monkey cliff. When he saw Deng Ai's nine-claw hook, Zhao Tuo's troubles were like a breeze, and he disappeared in an instant.

Zhao Tuo, who was overjoyed, even let people build seven thousand pairs of nine-claw hooks. Then he left the people behind, and drank and ate together. At the banquet, Deng Ai was named a lieutenant general, commanding 7,000 men.

But Deng Ai was not in a hurry to accept it, but asked Zhao Tuo for his life, and this time he smuggled into Hanshui, led by himself! Zhao Tuo was also overjoyed when he heard this, and immediately invited him to take a seat.

At the banquet, Deng Ai drank a lot of wine because he was happy. And the problem of his speech disappeared without a trace after drinking. After drinking, Deng Ai's tongue is as clever as ordinary people. During this period, Zhao Tuo also learned about Deng Ai's origin and experience.

It turned out that Deng Ai moved from Xianyang to Yizhou with his parents when he was three years old. He grew up in Yizhou since he was a child, and because his parents were farmers. Deng Ai has been running around in the mountains since he was a child.

Later, when he grew up, there was an old man who claimed to have fled from Xianyang, saying that Deng Ai was different from ordinary people, and personally accepted him as an apprentice. Teach Deng Ai to read and read. During this period, the old man also personally took Deng Ai to almost all the mountains and rivers in Yizhou.

After teaching Deng Ai for three years, the old man said that his family was in trouble and left. When the old man left, he also left two military books and told Deng Ai to study hard. said that Deng Ai will one day be able to worship the marquis.

Soon after the old man left, Deng Ai's parents also died of hunger and plague due to the perennial wars everywhere. After the death of both parents, Deng Ai stayed at home for three years, during which time Deng Ai studied military books and visited famous hermits for hundreds of miles around.

And the nine-claw hook in Deng Ai's hand was also given to Deng Ai when the old man was leaving. The nine-claw hook is meticulously crafted and has a button on the chain. Just grab something, if you don't press that button. Nothing will fall out of it!

It wasn't until a year ago that Deng Ai heard about the tragedy at Yanmen Pass and the inaction of the Han army, so he was furious and went south to defect to Zhao Tuo.

After listening to Deng Ai's experience, Zhao Tuo appreciated Deng Ai in front of him even more. Determined to temper Deng Ai well and temper him into a general, even a handsome talent!

In the next few days, Deng Ai personally selected 7,000 elite soldiers from the military camp and personally taught these more than 7,000 people how to climb.

Within three days, Deng Ai actually taught these 7,000 people a rare climbing ability. In the Qin camp, no one admired Deng Ai's ability to govern the army.

Every time I saw Deng Ai, I praised him for his ability to govern the army. Deng Ai, who was praised, just smiled. All of this was naturally seen by Zhao Tuo.

During the period when Deng Ai was training soldiers, Zhao Tuo was not idle, and at the suggestion of Jia Xu, he continued to harass the Han army in Chengdu. In addition, Gongsun Zhan was sent to constantly launch onslaught against the Han River, in order to make Wei Yan think that he wanted to force the Han River, so as to give Deng Ai a chance.

Three days later, on the night, after ordering 7,000 soldiers and horses, Deng Ai set off towards the Monkey Cliff. The 7,000 men, all dressed in black, armed with large knives, carrying a bow and quiver, none of them rode on horseback, and went straight on foot to the Monkey Cliff, which was twenty miles away.

Of course, Zhao Tuo also took 50,000 people at the same time and set off towards Hanshui. Go and attract the attention of the Han army.

After several days of offensive by the Qin army, the Han army stationed in Hanshui increased significantly. From the original 5,000 people, it has directly increased to more than 10,000 people.

After a few days of fighting, the Qin army had already lost no less than 40,000 men and horses under the Han water.

However, the Qin army did not care about this at all, and still repeatedly launched attacks on Hanshui.

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Chengdu, in the county guard's house.

"Gongtai, do you think this Qin army is really going to force the Han River? Or do they have other plans? Wei Yan looked at Chen Gong on the side and asked.

I saw Chen Gong shake his head and said, "General, to be honest, I can't figure out what Qin Jun thinks. This Han water relies on natural hazards, easy to defend and difficult to attack. And we are deployed on both sides of it, so to speak, impregnable.

It stands to reason that Zhao Tuo, the old fox, would not know that he was working in vain. But in the past few days, he has been attacking Hanshui. I can't figure it out! ”

"What the public platform said is extremely true, this Han River is extremely steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack. And the east leads to Mianzhu, and the west leads to Zitong. It has always been a battleground for soldiers.

As long as you cross this Han River, you can go straight to Mianzhu, which is precisely the grain line of our army. It is impossible for Zhao Tuo not to know, but judging from the current form of our army's defense on the Han River, even if he presses all the 200,000 troops, he may not be able to break through the Han Water defense line! ”

"Yes! Even if he can succeed in taking Hanshui, then our army can set fire to the bridge. Let all his previous efforts be in vain! I really can't figure out why he is so persistent. Chen Gong frowned and said.

"No, Zhao Tuo is by no means an idle person, he must have another conspiracy!" Wei Yan said firmly.

But what other plots does he have? Now Chengdu and Hanshui are in our hands, and if he wants to enter, he must take these two roads! Could it be that he can still fly over? ”

"Nope! There's definitely a conspiracy in this! Gongtai, in addition to Hanshui, is there any other path in Yizhou that can cross Chengdu and go directly to the rear? ”

"No! When I came, I visited the hunters and the elders of Yizhou. There is no other way to cross Chengdu or the Han River other than this Han River. Chen Gong said without thinking.

After all, when the Han army had just arrived in Yizhou, Chen Gong personally went to the local old hunter's house in Yizhou in order to familiarize himself with the terrain, and visited them one by one. Even walked through the mountains around Chengdu. Among them, no one mentioned at all that there were other roads leading directly to the city in the rear besides Hanshui.

After all, the terrain of Yizhou is steep, and it is not so simple to open a road. Most of the avenues in Yizhou were opened up by Yingzheng when he unified the six countries.

Wei Yan listened to this, and also fell into deep thought. Wei Yan naturally knew Chen Gong. I know that Chen Gong has always been steady, and no matter how small things are, they will not be sloppy.

Wei Yan now feels that he is too young! After fighting for so long, he still hasn't figured out Zhao Tuo's thoughts and goals.

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Just when Wei Yan and Chen Gong were deep in thought, constantly guessing Zhao Tuo's purpose. Deng Ai had already taken 7,000 people and began to climb the Monkey Cliff, directly attacking the Han army's grain road and Mianzhu City.