Guo Shao and the others rushed out of Pizhou, but no one came to chase them, and they gradually calmed down. Thinking about it, it is not so serious at this time, at least what does Ruan dare not do with Guo Shao, what he can't be sure of is nothing more than Li Chuyun's situation...... Because of the injustice and the beating of the son who bullied men and women, if a forbidden army general is about to be lynched by the Jiedu envoy, it is estimated that he will not be able to do the position of the Jiedu envoy.

Is it worth it to have an unpleasant occurrence for Li Chuyun and Zhegong? Guo Shao and Zuo You both thought it was worth it, because they couldn't win over a general of the rank of Zhegong, and only Li Chuyun was the candidate he should strive for.

Everyone rushed for a long time, and as soon as they got out of the quiet town, they immediately found a post house to rest. It is estimated that there is no need to wait until now what Ruan Zhen wants to do.

The large post station in Kannai is a small city, with a walled city gate, where travelers drive local commerce and trade, and markets generally arise around it. There are more than a dozen of Li Chuyun's family members and slaves, plus Guo Shao and others, there is enough place to live.

The nurse of the Li family also came, she was not originally from Pizhou, and she followed the Li family to move to Pizhou when she moved to the town. The nurse has taken care of the Li family for more than ten years, and now she is almost equal to a member of the Li family. The nurse has her own qualifications and often has to take care of the Li family's affairs. As soon as he arrived at the post station, he was busy, and he wanted to take the robe to wash it, and said that it would be cleaned and dried and returned to others; That robe is the clothes of Guo Shao, who Li wrapped himself in and went home.

Li Shi didn't comply, and he didn't know how to explain it, so after thinking about it, he argued forcefully: "The clothes are roasted, and they will be washed when Fengxiang settles down!" ”

As soon as the nurse left the room, Li took out the robe from the baggage, looked at it for a while, and then held it up and put it in front of her nose to smell it. It seemed to smell of sweat, and there was something else, or maybe it didn't smell at all, but she was just thinking about it.

was stunned, and suddenly the door was pushed open with a "creak", and Li hurriedly stuffed the clothes in his hand into the baggage, shocked and ashamed, and his face suddenly turned red.

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Early the next morning, a civil official from Fengxiang Town made a special trip to receive him, and asked Guo Shao to meet Wang Jing, the envoy of Jiedu, again after arriving at Fengxiang Mansion. According to this courtesy, Guo Shao guessed that Wang Pu's letter from Tokyo might have been received by Wang Jing.

Guo Shao was even more relieved. When they settled down in Fengxiang Mansion and met Wang Jing, they left Li Chuyun's family in Fengxiang, and left the city to go to Chencang the next day to understand the terrain.

Shi Zhangzhao, the shogunate of Fengxiang Town, personally accompanied him, went to Chencang with Guo Shao, and then traveled to Sanguan.

Everyone set off from Chencang in the morning, and the group traveled lightly, walked for about thirty or forty miles, and arrived at Sanguan in the afternoon. Along the way, you can only see lofty mountains, and there is only one valley on the road, like a traffic pipeline between the heavy mountains.

As soon as he arrived at Sanguan, Zhang Zhao said first: "Guo Duling can't risk getting out of Sanguan, the front is the territory controlled by the Shu army, and the terrain is complicated, I am afraid that there will be mistakes." ”

Guo Shao saw that the mountain was steep, and people in the valley seemed to be locked in a high wall, and couldn't help but sigh: "This is Shu Road?" It is no wonder that the poet immortal Li Bai has a saying that 'the difficulty of Shu Road is difficult in the mountains and blue sky'. ”

Zhang Zhao smiled and said: "It's true that we have entered Shu Road, but the road from Chencang to Sanguan is still easy to walk, aren't we riding horses?" This road is called Chencang Road, and the road is said to be the road of "Ming Xiu Plank Road Darkness Chencang"; There are several Shu roads, and Chencang Road is the flattest one. ”

Guo Shao saw that the pass was steep, and it was stuck in the middle of the valley, surrounded by steep mountains; In addition to the valley road in the middle, not to mention the army, it is not easy for the team to climb the mountain, so he said: "Since Chencang Road is the smoothest road, it will be difficult for the Shu army to enter the pass...... Is it easy for Longyou (Gansu) to enter the customs? ”

Zhang Zhaodao: "Exactly, since ancient Longyou condescended to control the Guanzhong, Qinzhou was in Longyou. ”

Zuo You can make sense of these general things, so Guo Shao will not continue to talk about them. I just pondered in my heart: Qinzhou is in Longyou, and as long as the army rushes down, it will enter the Guanzhong Plain; The imperial court was preparing to recover the several states occupied by Shu, and it was probably most concerned about the objective threat posed by Qin.

Guo Shao and the others have never been to this place, let alone walked the Shu Road, and at this time, they can't see much except looking at the mountains. He pondered for a while, and felt that this Zhang Zhao had been in Fengxiang for a long time, and he might at least be familiar with the general place. At that moment, I had to come to the paper mill, put it on the upper floor with everyone, and then took out a woodcut ruler from my bag.

This checkpoint where soldiers must fight for is very quiet at this time, only a few soldiers are on duty on the wall, and there are very few travelers who even pass the pass.

Guo Shao looked at the position of the sun for a while, then drew a circle on the paper and wrote the small characters on the fly's head: Chen Cang. Then on the paper in the lower right corner, I drew a short line with a ruler and wrote: Forty miles. Estimating the direction, he drew a curved line, and wrote "Sanguan" at one end of the line.

Zhang Zhao and Zuo You both watched Guo Shao tinkering with this thing with great interest, because the operation was simple and rough, they could see it, but they felt that Guo Shao's approach was a bit strange.

Guo Shao asked again: "Qinzhou is west of Chencang, northern?" How far does Zhang Changshi remember? ”

Zhang Zhaodao: "The direction should indeed be northern, about five hundred miles away. ”

Guo Shao measured the distance and direction according to his words, and marked Qinzhou at a distance from Chencang.

In the question and answer, Zhang Zhao is indeed insightful, as long as it is a slightly famous place, he can answer the approximate direction. So Guo Shao worked hard to paint Fengzhou, Chengzhou, Jiezhou, Xiongsheng Jungu Town, Xingzhou, Shannan West Road (Hanzhong) and other larger towns...... Among them, the four states of Qin, Feng, Cheng, and Jiezhou should be the territory of Shu that the imperial court is preparing to capture.

Cheng and Feng are the east and west lines, located in the south of Chencang. Fengzhou is the closest to Chencang, more than 200 miles southwest of Chencang; Chengzhou is 300 miles west of Fengzhou. The Shu army is victorious, and the town is between Cheng and Feng...... Jiezhou is the farthest, nearly 300 miles southwest of Chengzhou.

Other places are not too far away, but Guo Shao seems to be out of the scope of this campaign, there are Xingzhou and Shannan West Road (Hanzhong). Xingzhou is just south of Guzhen, just west of the Hanzhong Plain; From Xingzhou to the east, it enters the Hanzhong Plain, that is, the Shannan West Road Jiedu makes Xingyuan Mansion.

Guo Shao knew the approximate direction, and also drew a rough schematic diagram. However, the topography of the roads between these states and towns is not yet clear, and Guo Shao knows that the marching route cannot only look at the straight-line distance...... For example, the Qinling Mountains in front of you are scattered, unless you use flying, it is difficult to go rampant.

Guo Shao looked at the schematic diagram in his hand, the point is there, and there must be a wire, and then it can be formed. I asked the rivers first, and there should be four rivers.

Weishui is the northernmost river, and the river from Qinzhou to Chencang is Weishui; The ancient road water, even the Jialing River, flows to about the "Chencang Road" in the Shu Road, from Chencang, Fengzhou, Xingzhou to the north and south; The Qiangshui flows eastward into the Jialing River through Jiezhou; There is also the Hanshui River that passes through Shannan West Road.

Beyond the river, there is the road, Zhang Zhao can't remember clearly, he can only explain Baishu Road, that is, the "Chencang Road" here.

However, the general terrain is Weishui along the road from Chencang to Qinzhou, which is relatively easy to walk, but the distance is very far; Qinzhou goes south to the east, and the first line of Cheng and Feng is also very flat, and the road is even farther...... If you go to Chencang Rao Qinzhou, all the way to Fengzhou, at least thousands of miles away.

From Chencang directly south to Cheng (west) and Feng (east), it is necessary to cross the Qinling Mountains; In fact, the southern part of the Weishui line between Chencang and Qinzhou is a mountainous area of the Qinling Mountains, with steep mountains and complex roads to the south.

Guo Shao's trip was quite fruitful, he at least understood: the purpose of the imperial court's battle was to control the Qinling Mountains; And eliminate the threat of Longyou to Guanzhong.

When he stayed in Tokyo before, no one would tell him this, and it was impossible for the queen and Wang Pu and others to teach him in detail. Zuo You, who is the only one with some knowledge, also has limited knowledge of these things, and Zuo You is mainly familiar with Tokyo officialdom.

Guo Shao obtained the power of 6,000 elite soldiers from the Guard Division, and should be a stronger force in the upcoming battle to attack Shu. If the chief general doesn't know anything, if the war is unfavorable at that time, the court will investigate it, and he doesn't know what to ask, and he only listens to Wang Jing and Xiang Xun's deployment, how can he explain it?

Moreover, Guo Shao's idea is to fight hard, hoping for a quick victory.

For a while, Guo Shao was a little glad that he was still a person who had lived in modern society, and he always had knowledge. Otherwise, if you change to an ordinary low-level junior colonel, you will soar for a few months, and command operations, like Guo Shao's current situation where there is almost no convenient source of information, I am afraid that I will really not know what to ask.

Then Guo Shao stayed in Sanguan and did not return to Chen Cang and Feng Xiang. While waiting for the three Luo Yanhuan and Jingniang's entourage sent out, he befriended the generals guarding the pass and inquired about the nearby terrain and the deployment of the Shu army.

The soldiers stationed on Sanguan were in order to prevent the Shu army from attacking...... Although the Shu army basically did not provoke wars in peacetime, it was necessary for the Zhou army guards to routinely send scouts to move around, and sometimes bring back a few guides.

In the past, Cheng, Feng and other places belonged to "China", and now they belong to Shu, and the local people don't care who rules, anyway, they are all about the same, and there is no concept of righteousness, and fighting back and forth is a civil war. As long as a certain benefit is given, they are willing to lead the way.

Based on this, Guo Shao drew several smaller topographic and road maps. His knowledge of geography comes entirely from the middle school entrance examination, and he has forgotten most of it, but he still remembers some methods of using coils to express the same height, but he can't use it, who is so complicated to draw? As long as there is no road to the mountain, it doesn't matter how high the mountain is? The scale was put to good use by him.

Zhang Zhao and Zuo You were amazed when they saw Guo Shao drawing for the first time.

Guo Shao was curious, and he was about to come to the map stored in Sanguan, and immediately understood why they were surprised...... He felt that the map he had scribbled was already very rough, but the map used by the Zhou army and the military was even more unbearable to look at. The characters are big, the mountains are scribbled, there is no concept of scale at all, a city is painted to occupy half of the Qinling Mountains, how big is this city......