After dark, the army stopped marching, set up camp, and set up for the next morning.

Deng Yulong, as he had the previous night, had his own tent to live in.

Liu Bang was kind to Deng Yulong, those generals saw it, everyone had never heard the name Deng Yulong before, and the people who suddenly appeared were actually treated so favorably by the King of Han, which made many people jealous.

That night, several generals were chatting together.

Fan Hao said: "Who is that Deng Xing? I fought with King Han from birth to death to Guanzhong, and I never saw King Han treat me so well. ”

He gestured as he spoke, and his emotions were quite agitated.

Zhou Bo said: "I asked the prime minister, and the prime minister said that he was a talent who had just defected to us. ”

Lu Juan said: "Even if you have a little ability, how about it? None of us have any ability, I think it's the Han King's eccentricity. ”

Guan Ying said: "Unless you can be like Guan Zhong Leyi and Shang Yang Wu Qi, you can be treated so favorably by the King of Han." ”

Cao Shen said: "Maybe Deng Yulong is good at flattery and makes King Han happy." How many catties and taels he has, everyone will know sooner or later. ”

Everyone is spitting on every word you and me.

The next day, the army continued to advance, and the road became more and more bumpy.

According to the scouts, there are occasional Chu army scouts.

This was specially sent by Xiang Yu to inquire about intelligence, to ensure that Liu Bang went to Hanzhong.

In ancient China, the land was sparsely populated, after the Han army marched from the Bao Slope Road, it was easy to see the wild animals on the mountains on both sides, Liu Bang also deliberately set up a hunting team, hunting by the way when the army marched, and caught a lot of good prey.

With the prey, Deng Yulong, who was valued by Liu Bang, naturally had the opportunity to enjoy it.

More than 200 kilometers of the whole slope road, it is the shortest passage in Guanzhong across the Qinling Mountains to connect Hanzhong, there is a plank road area in the middle section of the Baochuan road, this area is sometimes a plank road, sometimes it is a normal dirt road.

After another two days of marching, they arrived at the north side of the plank road, in front of which was a cliff, only the plank road built by hand-drilled holes and timber could be passed, the width of the plank road was not large, at most only horses and small vehicles could pass, and the larger cars were either disassembled and transported or had to be discarded.

Fortunately, this is not in wartime, there are no pursuers, and there is plenty of time to calmly cross the plank road.

More than 2,000 years ago, when the technical conditions were very poor, it was not uncommon for someone to accidentally fall to death to build a plank road on the cliff.

Deng Yulong dismounted and walked on the plank road, looking down, if he accidentally fell off the cliff, it would be a whimper, fortunately he did not have a fear of heights.

Fear of heights exists in a certain percentage of the population, and soldiers with fear of heights are afraid when they walk on the plank road, and some people tremble.

Among them, Fan Xu's fear of heights is more serious. As he walked along the boardwalk, his body was trembling, and he was holding on to the cliff with one hand, and the speed was very slow, and many people crossed him one after another.

"God-damn Xiang Yu, I have to take the plank road...", he scolded angrily from time to time.

The plank road area is difficult to walk, if it is only the soldiers are better, but it is even more difficult to transport supplies, often only able to advance less than 10 kilometers a day, at night, the soldiers rest in the dirt road area between the plank roads, and continue to move the next day.

It took 12 days, and all the personnel finally crossed the plank road area, and all the grain and grass baggage were transported to the south of the plank road.

Liu Bang and his main subordinates were concentrated on the south side of the plank road.

He looked north at the long plank road, and once it was burned, it would be difficult to rebuild it.

Deng Yulong saw that he was hesitating and said, "King Han, destroy this plank road, and we will have a chance to fight back." ”

The strategy has been determined, Liu Bang no longer hesitated, and said to Zhou Bo: "Zhou Bo, you send someone to burn the plank road!" He said to Chen He again: "After you arrive in Nanzheng, you will take someone to burn the Meridian Road plank road."

When they heard Liu Bang's order, all the generals were stunned.

Xiao He said: "The purpose of burning the plank road is to let Xiang Yu know that we have no heart to fight again in the pass, so that he can no longer send troops to chase us, so that we can recuperate in the pass and reinvigorate our armament." ”

Hearing this, everyone felt that it made sense.

Cao Shen asked: "King Han, Zhang Junshi's clever plan must be his plan, right?" ”

Zhou Bo said: "Yes, yes, only Mr. Zhang can come up with this plan." ”

The other generals thought so.

Xiao He smiled: "You are all wrong, it was not Zhang Junshi who gave King Han this idea, but General Deng." ”

Everyone flickered again, and their eyes moved to Deng Yulong, no wonder they could be treated favorably by King Han, it turned out that they were really a little capable.

However, no one thinks that his ability will not be great, it is just a strategy, how can he compare with Zhang Liang.

The plank road area stretches for nearly 100 kilometers, and it will take a certain amount of time to burn it all, so Zhou Bo selected a team of people to stay and began to implement Liu Bang's order the next day.

After burning the plank road, there were scouts who soon reported to Xiang Yu, who was still in the gate.

Xiang Yu was even more relieved, thinking that Liu Bang had surrendered to him, and ordered the army to pull out the camp and start returning to Pengcheng tomorrow.

The fiefs assigned by Xiang Yu to Liu Bang included Hanzhong County, Shu County, and Ba County, and the capital Nanzheng was the seat of Hanzhong County.

After crossing the plank road, you have entered the boundary of Hanzhong County.

The road to Nanzheng here, although not wide, can finally be unimpeded.

According to the normal itinerary of the army, it would take four or five days for the infantry carrying grain and grass to reach Nanzheng, and if the cavalry was sent lightly, it would be possible to arrive in one day.

That night, Deng Yulong suggested to Liu Bang that he should take the cavalry to Nanzheng to take over the governance and put into work as soon as possible.

Liu Bang felt justified and immediately accepted the proposal.

Liu Bang's 100,000 troops entered Guanzhong, including 6,000 cavalry, and when Xiang Yu wanted to reduce it to 30,000, these cavalry were naturally within the range of the army that Liu Bang wanted to keep.

The next morning, 6,000 cavalry gathered together and set off for Nanzheng under the leadership of Liu Bang, followed by Deng Yulong, Xiao He, Guan Ying, Xiahou Ying, and Lu Xuan.

The remaining troops were temporarily under the unified management of Cao Shen.

Six thousand cavalry marched all the way south, and Shen arrived in Nanzheng.

Outside Nanzheng City, the Hanzhong county guard led the officials and waited outside the city gate in advance, from the county guard to the most ordinary officials, a total of hundreds of people gathered here.

Everyone looked at the hundreds of people, they were all officials appointed by the Qin Dynasty, and they were all wearing Qin Dynasty official uniforms.

Xiahou Ying said loudly: "He is the King of Han, don't hurry up and see him!" ”

The name of the county guard of Hanzhong County is Yang Bing, and he said to Liu Bang: "Yang Bing, the former county guard of Hanzhong County, led all the officials of the county government to meet the king of Han. ”

As he spoke, he knelt down, and the other officials followed suit and bowed three times.

Liu Bang said: "Let's be even!" ”

When the officials had risen, he ordered the army to enter the city.

Guan Ying first led the army into the city, guarded the main roads, and Liu Bang entered the city again.

In Nanzheng City, on the streets where the army passed, there were many people in the middle of the road to welcome, and Liu Bang sometimes waved to the people on both sides.

After Prince Ying of Qin surrendered to Liu Bang last year, Liu Bang treated the King of Qin, the royal family, and the officials of the Qin Dynasty with kindness. Xiao He knew how to do things very well, not only took away the important classics and materials in the Qin State Mansion, but also asked the King of Qin to send officials to inform Hanzhong and Bashu of the surrender, and let the officials of the three counties perform their duties until the new court sent someone to take over.

This Yang Bing was very loyal to his duties, and in the months after the surrender of the King of Qin, Hanzhong County was still in order.