"Tick tock...... Rustle of falling leaves, snow and rain...... Whoa, whoa, whoa......"

In March 273, when Sima Yan finally made up his mind to make adjustments. The army of Eastern Wu, on which he pinned his great hopes, was struggling to move forward in the continuous rain of Jihan Qiqi County.

The area of Jihan's Qiqi County is basically the same as that of Guizhou Province in later generations. This place is the concentration of China's karst terrain. Not to mention the undulating mountains, the rocks that make up these mountains are mainly limestone, which is highly susceptible to rainwater. Therefore, this land is known as "no three feet flat".

Most of the whole province of Guizhou is located on the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, but it is at the shorter end of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau. The water vapor of the Pacific Ocean slowly climbs along here in the direction of Yunnan. Not to mention the abundant rain that brings abundant rain to this place when passing by. If the water vapor power is insufficient, it will not be able to climb halfway up and then retreat, and rain will form again. Therefore, in the news of later generations, I often see the drought in Yunnan, but I basically don't hear reports of drought in Guizhou - after all, this place is also known as "the sky is sunny for three days".

Now, the 150,000 troops of Soochow are slowly moving forward inch by inch in this place.

For the main force of the country to go out on a large scale, and then Soochow may take advantage of the possibility of a sneak attack. Ji Han is up and down, and he has ambitions together. But when Dongwu really sent troops, Huo Yi, Guan Suo, Wang Ji and others who were responsible for staying behind were also good. Or Guan Yi, Jiang Wei and others who are fighting outside. They all shook their heads disdainfully.

Hey, this Soochow is really getting less and less ambitious. Actually came to Ji Han's Qiqi County? Do you still have the courage and dignity to be one of the three great powers of the world?

That's right, we really don't have a heavy group to defend in Qiqi County. We didn't build any fortresses there like Yong'an and Pheasant Pass. You have 150,000 people, and we really have no strength to stop us. However, that place seems to have a large area, but in fact there are only four counties in total. The population on the government's civil register, even after so many years of restoration by Guan Da Sima, is still less than 40,000. You say what's the use of you taking down the entire county?

Well, that's right. After taking the county, go southwest to Jianning County. This is the core of the seven counties of Nanzhong, and the seat of the governor of Nanzhong is in Jianning County. However, can you really get out of the reckless mountains of Qiqi County and still ensure the smooth flow of grain roads?

"Khooth! Sonorous! Sonorous sonor~! "In a slightly flat clearing, a military general in official robes struck a pile of dry wood with a flint and a firestone. Flint sputters out a large number of sparks. However, when these sparks fell on the firewood, which seemed to be relatively dry, it was never able to ignite the so-called dry wood.

"Hey~~~" The general sighed helplessly and looked at the sun in the sky that was rare for half a month. He simply gave up hitting the flint, but took off his clothes in front of the public, and directly called a guard to come over, set up a pole, and hung the clothes.

I took off my shoes and vigorously rubbed the itchy toe seams, and soon rubbed off a large pile of dead skin that had been soaked white by continuous moisture. He let out a pleasant groan, but a trace of pain suddenly appeared on his face: the movement of his hand was a little larger, and the dead skin between his toes was completely broken. The flesh between the toes was exposed.

But now it's more itchy. He frowned, but continued to rub his toes vigorously against the intermittent pain. Only in this way can he say goodbye to the unbearable itch for a while.

"Zhong Si, you're picking your toes again. It's all said that you should bear with it, if you go on like this, sooner or later you will break your toes! ”

"Hey, brother, don't you know that if you continue like this, you will eventually become disabled. But, it's really itchy. ”

The two people who talked to him were both sons of Liuping, the general of the Eastern Wu Zuo. The one who picked his feet was the second son Liuping Liuzhongsi, and the other was the eldest son Liuping Liubering.

On the historical plane, in 272 AD, due to dissatisfaction with Sun Hao's rule, Liuping and Wan Yu teamed up to launch a coup d'état to get rid of Sun Hao. After Sun Hao found out, he invited the two to dinner, and then poisoned the wine. Wan Yu is an old minister of his own mansion, and before the poisonous wine was served, Sun Hao asked people to change Wan Yu's wine. But Liuping was not so lucky, and he immediately experienced various discomforts after drinking poisoned wine. Fortunately, it was rescued at the time. However, after this toss, he died soon within a month after the incident.

History has changed a lot because of the time-travelers. Because Zhong Hui came to Sun Hao's side, he added brake pads to the irascible emperor. At the same time, because Shu Han did not lose the country, Eastern Wu swayed left and right between the two major powers of Ji Han and Jin, enjoying various benefits. Therefore, Sun Hao did not govern as radically as in history, which caused widespread dissatisfaction among his subordinates.

Note that it did not cause widespread dissatisfaction among subordinates. There are still dissatisfied people. For example, the Huiji families who marched this time.

This time, Soochow sent 150,000 troops, of which 50,000 were formed by the family. Among these 50,000 people, the quota given by the imperial court to the Huiji family is 30,000.

Yu Wei Kong Xie, Huiji four surnames. The eleven brothers of the Yu family were all wiped out by the three clans and completely wiped out. The remaining three surnames, under Sun Hao's urging and pressure, had no choice but to make up 20,000 private soldiers. The rest are the other big families of Huiji: Liujia, Hejia, Zhonglijia, etc., who have gathered 10,000.

In January 273, the military horses of all walks of life met in Jiangling, Jingzhou. Lu Kang directly appointed Liuping as the vanguard, and led 30,000 Hui soldiers from Wuling County into Jihan's Qiqi County.

Naturally, such an arrangement was strongly opposed by the family of the Liuping Society. But you've all come out of the meeting, what do you want?

Although Lu Kang oppressed people with power, the soldiers had to be pioneers. But this compulsive nature and the attitude of "Lao Tzu is fixing you" are clearly displayed. Naturally, the soldiers were filled with a negative attitude. Then, two months later, the army was still grinding in the eastern part of the county.

At the beginning, Lu Kang didn't care much about the slow progress of the Huiji army: the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu were not fools, and they all knew that Qiqi County was not a good place to march. The reason why he chose to march here was for three main purposes: first, to take down a few county towns so that he could give an explanation to the Jin State, so as to receive Shouchun City. Second, through the attack on the weakly defended Qiqi County, the remaining troops of Ji Han in various fortresses were mobilized - the Han army that came out of the fortress, well, there was still some confidence in fighting more and less in Eastern Wu. Third, by borrowing the hands of the Han army, a group of Huiji people were cut off.

The idea is beautiful, but the reality is cruel.

In late January, Liuping led 30,000 Hui soldiers along the Yuan River to smoothly enter Qiqi County. Soon he took the almost undefended county of Qiqi County, where the county seat was located. However, Ji Han's remaining officers did not react at all except for sending a small number of troops to help the people of the remaining three counties transfer.

In February, under the constant urging of Lu Kang, Liuping and others left Qilan County and continued to advance westward. On the one hand, the terrain here is really difficult to walk, and on the other hand, the morale of the army is extremely low. Therefore, for a whole month, it is only more than 100 miles to stay in peace. came to the area of Guiyang City in later generations.

But Ji Han still didn't have any reaction. The news from the school in Soochow is very clear, whether it is Ma Yi in Wei County, Sun Gang in Yong'an, Guan Suo in Fuling, Wang Ji in Pheasant Pass, or even Huo Yi in Chengdu, they have not moved.

In March, the weather became warmer and the rain increased, and the Huiji army fell into a moldy grain, and the clothes could not be dried through, because of the long period of rain and a small amount of altitude sickness, the whole army fell ill in a large area. So now, on March 27, the Huiji army is still stuck in the camp they had built more than a month ago, and has not taken another step to the west.

However, with the change of the war situation in the north, there was no need for the Jin State to urge, and the monarchs and ministers of Eastern Wu had already felt the pressure like a mountain. Therefore, this detachment will soon face tremendous pressure from Jianye and Lu Kang, who is sitting in Wuyang County at this time.