The scenery outside Jiangling Mansion (now Jingzhou) is very pleasant, with large rice fields on the endless plain verdant and green; Village houses can be seen everywhere, and in the sparse smoke, the peach and plum trees have bloomed, and the red and white colors are particularly beautiful in the vibrant green.

Guo Shao was looking at the scenery in the distance at the head of the city. He had repeatedly forbidden his soldiers to disturb the people, and it would be a pity to spoil this rare scene of prosperity. Jingzhou has been a strategic place since ancient times, not because of its treacherous terrain, but on the Jianghan Plain; However, its position as a water and land transportation hub connecting the north and south and east and west is very important, and the terrain is flat and rich in products, which is convenient for rule, and it is a good place to garrison and raise troops.

Now Guo Shao plans to use Jingzhou as the base camp of the Eastern Route Army, where there are food and people, and the transportation is convenient, and it will become the rear center of the army. Luo Yanhuan led 20,000 Hujie troops to the left wing of the army, and they were also heading south, and they would be stationed here with elites to firmly control the rear of Jingzhou's stable Eastern Route Army.

Horses' hooves rattle on the road below the city, and soldiers are happily running their horses on the road between the fields. Someone nearby found Guo Shao standing at the head of the city, and some people waved their weapons and shouted to the city, and the army was in a hurry.

"Everyone's morale is very high!" Zuo You said next to him.

Wang Pu said: "It's easy to occupy such a good place, the soldiers are eating and drinking every day, running and playing, just like that, and there is money, who is not happy?" ”

Guo Shao looked to the west after hearing this, and said casually: "The good days won't be too long." ”

On a sunny afternoon, everything was so bright and bright, and peace and pleasure shrouded in the city and beyond. But Guo Shao's tone and eyes suddenly made the atmosphere a little gloomy.

Zuo You and the others followed his gaze to the west, and it was still an endless and open wilderness scenery...... However, everyone knows that as long as you keep going west, you will soon enter the treacherous mountainous area of Songshan Mountain, Xiling and Bashan are heavily blocked, as if adding layers of heavy armor to Shudi.

At this moment, Guo Shao suddenly smiled and said, "We will trek hard, but we will definitely win." ”

"The Shu army is unbearable, and it will definitely not be able to stop the elite soldiers of the Great Zhou." Wang Pu also agreed, and for a while, everyone gradually recovered their ease.

Guo Shao didn't affect everyone's mood anymore, but this kind of psychology of pinning the hope of victory on the weakness of the opponent really made him not very steady. But what can be done...... From Tokyo to Jingzhou, Guo Shao had a detailed understanding of the terrain and terroir around Shu, and believed that as long as Shu could really try its best to defend, almost no ancient army could fight it at once! So most of the time, the rapid invasion of Shu relied on their own internal problems; For example, the former Shu emperor liked to worship Buddha everywhere and abandoned the military and politics.

What if Meng Chang Junchen suddenly stopped being stupid?

If the war drags on, the various problems and contradictions of the Zhou Dynasty itself will intensify and ferment.

On the contrary, as long as the victory over Shu, one of the great powers at this time, the prestige of Guo Shao and even the Fu Jinzhan regime will rise rapidly, and the victory will be like a shot in the heart of the Zhou Dynasty, and it will also give a substantial increase in national strength, and all hidden dangers can be solved......

Guo Shao turned around and walked down the city wall, returning to the Chinese army not far from the city gate. Suddenly from the warm sunlight into the shade, I felt the residual chill of spring, a little cold.

He asked Lu Chengyong to find Aunt Sun's people to come over, several leaders of the merchant gang, people who often run the road of Shu and Jingnan. Before the war, the Privy Council and the Imperial Department had already sorted out a lot of things on the road to Shu, including road maps, and some articles written by officials; However, Guo Shao still wants to talk to the people who have actually walked by.

Guo Shao talked to him, and the people of the Shang Gang were very excited to speak, and the truth of the two or three people who were bold showed their faces in front of Guo Shao.

"To sail against the current, it is better to use wheels, water wheels and oars to be faster, but it also requires more boatmen. It is best to avoid going against the water and the wind, and when the wind is downwind, Zhang Fan ......""The river is generally in a narrow place, and the oars and sails are not very effective, so you have to use a slender man. The most important thing in walking the Three Gorges is to avoid dangerous shoals and reefs, because if you hit it, the ship will be destroyed. ”

Guo Shao listened very carefully, and asked carefully: "Do you know the location of those dangerous shoals and reefs?" ”

A man said: "There are also dangerous beach maps in the shops of Jiangling Mansion, and the small ones will be asked to go back and bring them to Guo Dashuai." ”

"That's a good idea." Guo Shaoxi said.

The man took the initiative to ask for his life again: "It's not accurate to have a picture, Guo Dashuai brought me, I am familiar with this waterway, and I can recognize it in many places; I also know how to find a familiar guide along the river, we have walked many times, but we still have to find a guide every time. ”

Guo Shao didn't take a shelf, and asked gently: "Starting from Jiangling Mansion, can you go straight to Kuizhou by land along the river?" ”

One person rushed to say, "Yes! However, in many places such as Qutang Gorge, there is no road to the cliffs on both sides, so you have to take the plank road, which is very treacherous. ”

"There is a picture of the plank road?" Guo Shao asked.

Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads. Guo Shao turned his head to Zuo You and said, "You have to send someone to go first and find out the specific location of the plank road." He unfolded the map in his hand and looked at the lines on it, "It is mainly the plank road from the eastern part of Kuizhou to the confluence of Wuxi, and this part is under the control of the Shu army." There is no need to ask about Gui, Xia, and other prefectures, and in the hands of the Jingnan garrison, there will be no resistance. ”

Guizhou and Xiazhou (near Yichang City) are also treacherous throats, which used to belong to Shu State, but now they are under the control of Jingnan State. Guo Shao hadn't figured out the historical origin for a while, but he felt that Shu was really bad...... Shu is also a big country, and it is understandable that Jingzhou did not occupy Jingzhou in the east to form an offensive situation, but the territory of Guizhou and Xiazhou in the mountainous areas that originally belonged to Shu can also be lost, shortening the depth of defense, which should be regarded as a strategic mistake of the Shu regime.

So much so that now Guo Shao only needs to break through to one place: the Three Gorges. Then he directly threatened Kuizhou, the throat of Shu State.

The two words Kuizhou on this picture have been blurred, and the ink has been touched by Guo Shao many times, and it is not clear what is written. Kuizhou, a city in this ravine, became Guo Shao's dream at this time.

At this moment, there was a noise at the door, and I saw a group of generals walking in with a smile. When the people of the merchant gang saw the general, they were all frightened and hurriedly avoided the wall...... Guo Shao is also a military general, but they don't seem to be so afraid of Guo Shao.

When Guo Shao raised his head to look, a military general shouted at the man in cloth by the wall: "Where did you come from, why did you come up to the lobby of the Chinese army?" One of the men bent down and said, "Guo Dashuai called us here." ”

"Meet my lord." The generals clasped their fists very casually and saluted Guo Shao. The generals are very familiar with Guo Shao and feel his temper, as long as it is not on the occasion of formal generals, Guo Shao never punishes generals for private matters, and even scolds very little, so everyone is usually very casual...... Zuo You also persuaded him to take an opportunity to kill chickens and monkeys, so that the generals would have a sense of awe, but Guo Shao couldn't do it and felt that it was unnecessary.

Shi Yanchao was even more stressed, and without saying a word, he found a chair and sat down by himself. He immediately looked at a military general and said, "Yo, what's wrong with Li Dazhu today, he walks with his legs between his legs." ”

Luo Mengzi suddenly laughed and said to Guo Shao: "Big brother, I was about to tell you about this, Li Dazhu went to drink flower wine a few days ago, and he had a lot of fleshy bumps on his thing......"

The commander of the Second Army made Li Dazhu look embarrassed. This guy turned out to be just a commander, because he fought with Guo Shaonan in the north and formed the Tiger Ben Army. He looked at Luo Mengzi with very unhappy eyes, but he couldn't say anything disrespectful...... Luo Mengzi is higher than him, and everyone knows that Luo Mengzi is Guo Shao's brother.

"Flower willow disease, flower willow disease." The generals coaxed for a while, and said gossipingly, "General Li has a lump of flesh, but I also heard that there is a ...... with pus" Some people said that the flower willow disease is not a big deal, and some people coaxed that it is not easy to treat, and that thing will be abolished.

Guo Shao rolled up the map and asked Li Dazhu in a good way: "Have you found Lang Zhongzhi?" ”

Li Dazhu said sullenly: "It's cured, but it hasn't been cured for a while." ”

Guo Shao turned his head to look at the leaders of the merchant gang, "Is there a famous Langzhong in Jiangling Mansion with good medical skills?" "These people have been in the shop in Gangneung Province for a long time and are familiar with the local area.

"Gangneung Province...... I've never heard of anything powerful. However, the fame and medical god must belong to the 'Wushan White Grandma'. A man said.

"What does Wushan Bai Mao do? Sounds like the name of a god stick. Guo Shao said, "Where is she?" ”

The man said: "Wushan Bai is in Wushan." It is reasonable that Guo Dashuai has not heard of it in Tokyo, and this person's reputation has just been spread for less than two years. But if you've been to Jingnan or Dongchuan before, you've probably heard of her. ”

Guo Shao pondered for a while, and said casually: "Wushan is so far away from Jiangling Mansion, and it is blocked by lofty mountains and mountains, and its reputation has spread so far in a year or two, there should be something extraordinary." ”

"Of course, this person also has a name called 'Wushan Holy Hand', as long as the person still has a breath, there is no disease that she can't cure! It is said that she has also saved the person who died and put it in the coffin......" The man said that he was rising, and his eyebrows flew and he blew loudly.

Of course, Guo Shao didn't believe it, although he did see miraculous things...... A Taoist priest's elixir revived Fu Jinzhan , but Fu Jinzhan was not seriously ill in the first place, and it was estimated that it was some kind of illness caused by heat stroke.

If it is a real terminal disease, let alone any holy hand in ancient times, even modern more developed medicine does not dare to claim to cure all diseases, such as leukemia and the like can be easily cured? This man must have an element of boasting, but it sounds like Wushan Bai Mao may be really clever, after all, if there is no case of curing incurable diseases, others will not spread her reputation, let alone spread it quickly thousands of miles away.

Guo Shao became very interested for a while, but he didn't care about Li Dazhu's flower willow disease...... He suddenly remembered Wang Pu, who was half-dead in Tokyo.